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Western PamiiniWNnx/ember 18,1982 Appalachian Rivalry "Intense' Pride, Winning Season On Line Former ASU player Kristy of Appy State. (Photo by Kiser and the rest of the Cats will be in Boone Saturday for the annual stomping Mark Haskett) by Russ Randolph A winning season, braggin rights and pride. That is part of what will be on the line for Western Carolina University's football team Saturday afternoon in Boone where the Catamounts and Appalachian State's Mountaineers will renew their intense rivalry. Both teams were knocked out of the Southern Conference championship picture by losing in their last outings, but that should not detract from the 47th meeting between the mountain rivals. "The war is over for both of us, but you can bet that not a player on either team knows anything about a truce or cease fire or taking prisoners," is how Bob Waters, Western Carolina's head coach, sees the game. Western Carolina, 5-5 overall and 3-2 in conference play, is playing for a winning season after experiencing back to back losing records and for a third place finish in the conference standings. Appalachian State, 4-6 and 3-3, cannot avoid its second straight losing season, but a win could help restore pride, assist recruiting efforts and make the coming winter warmer for the Mountaineers. Both teams got off to slow starts this season and then turned their seasons around with mid-season win streaks and were very much in the league's championship race until their last appearances. The Catamounts put together three straight wins and four of five before suffering a controversial 24-20 Lady Cats Seeded Second In Tournament by Karen Ashe On Wednesday, November 9, WCU's Lady Cats traveled to Chattanooga, to end their regular season with matches against UT-Chattanooga and Maryville. WCU took both matches. Against WCU, UT-Chattanooga fell, 15-9, 15-2 and Maryville was dropped with scores of 15-8, 15-5. Coach Howell is "pleased with the season, weupped our competition, playing stronger teams. It feels good coming out with as few losses as we did against the competition. We had some really tough matches." The Lady Cats finished their season 31-10 and will be seated second in the Southern Conference Tournament to be held November 19-20 in Johnson City. Appalachian State is seated number one. And Coach Howell believes that "if something doesn't happen to surprise either team then WCU will play Appalachian in the finals."The finals match will be played at 1:00 on Saturday. Howell stated that during the ^2 season "all of the players improved, they worked extremely hard this year. I feel confidence in playing any and all of the team. Just some girls have played more regularly than others, it's a credit to all the way they play and allow their individual talents to be expressed." The Western Carolinian congratulates WCU's Lady Cats on their ^2 season and their achievements and wishes the team good luck in the Southern Conference Tournament. Featured Cat by Karen Ashe An all-round athlete, Judy Green, is this week's featured Lady Cat. Green, ajunior P.E. major and a minor in Economics, plans to coach and teach high school. The 1980 Tuscola High School graduate came to WCU primarily for two reasons. One, WCU was close to her hometown, Waynesville. Secondly, WCU's P.E. department's good reputation. Since she was six years old when her Dad was playing fast-pitch softball, Green has been interested in sports. Also, the self-confessed introvert developed a love for softball, basketball and volleyball. Considered by some to be one of the greatest female athletes to play on WCU courts Green is a highly competitive player. However, she always, according to Coach Howell, "is a team playing using her abilities and she always gives credit to others." During the summers, Green works in basketball camps, sometimes volleyball. Green confessed, "1 love to work with kids of the smaller age because of the rewards and seeing more improvement. However, I want to work with older kids later on."Judy's philosophy of working in sports camps during the summers is that "campwise, if the kids get something for themselves that means the most." Green expressed that WCU's volleyball move from AIAW II competition to NCAA II competition "was a big difference, the quality of schools had more talent and better competition. But we have proved ourselves in NCAA II competition. The highlight of this year for me was beating Chapel Hill, an ACC team. Green has been named to the 1982 all-tournament College of Charleston team and to the all-tournament team at the USC tournament, and to the James Madison Tournament team. Green stated that "sports is my whole life, it's all I think about. It's a challenge to me to do my best in sports and in academics." upset at the hands of the Citadel two Sa^f^^ controversy arose when game o^^^Pf"3'12^"1"" 15 yards for having 12 men on the field but film and tapes of the game revealed only 11 C.»«nou» s were on the field. The penalty set up The C.tadel s second ""AppTchian State got off to a 0-3 start then reeled off four wins in its next five games only to have its defense roughed up in losses to UT-Chattanooga (50-7) and VM1 (31-14) the last two weeks. The game shapes up to be a matchup of balanced but explosive offenses and that will be nothing new as the rivalry has produced an average of nearly 800 yards per game over the past six seasons. Western has a pair of prime candidates for the conference's player of the year award in quarterback Ronnie Mixon and tailback Anthony James. Mixon is the conference's top passer (1,915 yards) who is looking to go over the 2,000 yard mark and move into second place on Western's career passing list. He will enter the game with 5,012 career yards and needs 277 yards to surpass Don Dalton's (1966-69) 5,288 yards. James leads the conference in scoring (13 TDs) and all-purpose yardage (109.3 per game) and is second in rushing (68.9 per game). Appalachian State will counter with versatile quarterback Stan Goodson who has passed for 1,592 yards and accounted for 14 touchdowns while adding 40 more points on 25 extra points and five field goals. Sports Shorts Western Carolina University head basketball coach Steve Cottrell will serve as honorary regional chairman again this year for the Basketball Shoot-Out for Easter Seals. It is Cottrell's third straight year as honorary chairman for the Blue Ridge Region which covers 20 western North Carolina counties.The Shoot-Out for Easter Seals is a statewide project to help provide medical equipment, loan equipment, special camping, hearing screenings, speech therapy and other important services to physically handicapped children and adults. The student raising the most contributions in the Blue Ridge Region will be the guest of the Catamounts at the WCU-Davidson College basketball game on Monday, Feb. 28, 1983. "Coach Cottrell's donation of the top regional prize for most contributions has proven to be a tremendous incentive for young basketball enthusiasts in WNC to help Easter Seals help the physically handicapped,"said Fran Thigpen, senior field representative for Easter Seals. For more information about the Shoot-Out, contact the Easter Seals office at (704) 258-0782. The fifth annual Western Carolina University women's basketball alumni game will be played this coming Saturday (Nov. 20) at 2 p.m. in Reid Gym. The game will feature former WCU Lady Catamount standouts playing the eight members of the 1982-83 squad not involved in the Southern Conference volleyball tournament. Alumni players will tentatively include such names as head coach Judy Stroud, Cindi Saltz, Sheila Barker, Beth Crisp and Crystal Sharpe. The game will have two 20-minute halves but no 30-second shot clock. The 1982- 83 Lady Cats will open the regular season Dec. 1 against Milligan College in a 7 p.m. game at Reid Gym. Sophomore guard Quinton Lytle pitched in 19 points in the exhibition with Marathon Oil. (Photo by Mark Haskett) WCU's soccer team ended the 1982 season with a 3-0 overtime loss at The Citadel Sunday (Nov. 14). The Cats, who ended the campaign 3-15-1 overall and 1-6-0 in the Southern Conference, battled the Bulldogs (7-8 and 3-4) to a 0-0 deadlock in regulation lay. The Citadel got its three goals in the overtime on two penalty kicks. David Hovey hit the first one and then Pete Dennen hit the second. After that WCU was forced to play with 10 players and Tom Shearer ended the scoring with a goal near the end of the contest. The shutout loss by Western was the 12th of the season for the team. A lack of offense plagued the club all season as they scored just 14 goals the entire season Intramural Results Judy Green Results of Intramural Activities for the week of November 8-11 are as follows: Sorority Bowling: All Campus Champion, Sherry Bean of Alpha Xi Delta with an average of 134. Results of Intramural Activities for the week of November 8-11 are as follows: Sorority Bowling: All Campus Champion, Sherry Bean of Alpha Xi Delta with an average of 134. Runner Up, Lori Cline of Alpha Xi Delta-average 130. Independent Bowling (Women's): All Campus Champion, Cindy Hampton with an average of 150. Runner Up, Stephanie Howell, average 144. Arm Wrestling (Men's): 150 lbs and under: All Campus Champion, Andy Keesler. Runner Up, Paul Martin. 151 lbs.-175 lbs. All Campus Champion: Sam Patterson. Runner Up, Mike Garrett. 176 lbs.-199 lbs. Ml Campus Champion: Jimmy Wilmoth. Runner Up, John Karr. 200 lbs and over: All Campus Champion: Mike Ruff. Runner Up, Mike Cooper. Arm Wrestling: (Women's) 110 and under: All Campus Champion, Vanessa Parker, Bosom Buddies. Runner Up, Jacqueline Adams, Bosom Buddies. All Campus Sorority Champion: Melissa Poteat, Delta Zeta. Sorority Runner Up, Pam Medlin, Zeta Tau Alpha 111 lbs.-130 lbs.: Independent All Campus Champion: Sarah Lowell, Rowdies. Runner Up, Teretha Coe, Bosom Buddies. Sorority All Campus Champion: Joanna Sanderson, Sigma Kappa. Sorority Runner Up, Betsy Jones, Sigma Kappa. 131 lbs-150 lbs. Independent All Campus Champion, Karen Mears, Rowdies. Runner Up, Melissa Phelps, Bosom Buddies. Sorority All Campus Champion, Debbie Egan, Phi Mu. Runner Up, Lora Cline, Alpha Xi Delta. 151 and up Independent All Campus Champion, Nancy Jo Barbee, Lucky Losers. Runner Up, Donna Williams, Lucky Losers. Sorority All Campus Champion Lori Ellis, Sigma Kappa. Runner Up, Patricia Frisome, Sigma Kappa. Football and Floopball All Campus Playoffs will begin Wednesday, Nov. 17. Schedules can be picked up in the Intramural Office late Tuesday afternoon or early Wednesday. All Football and Floopball unit managers should turn in their All-Stars. These should be your best players, as they will not be voted on. Your All-Stars will represent your team on the All-League Allstar Team. Procedure for All-Star selection will be as follows: Teams with the following records will submit the specified number of all-stars according to their winn-loss record. Leagues with 5 teams submit one more all star than number of games won. Six or seven teams submit same number of all-stars as number of games won. Eight teams submit one less all-star than number of games won. This is the last week for the intramural "art"contest. The intramural department is still looking for a new logo for their handbook and awards. Prizes will be awarded to the top three entries. Come on, time is running out. Be creative and help us with Intramural Logo. Deadline is Friday, November 19 at 3 p.m.

The Western Carolinian is Western Carolina University's student-run newspaper. The paper was published as the Cullowhee Yodel from 1924 to 1931 before changing its name to The Western Carolinian in 1933.

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  • Date original: 1982-11-18
  • Date digitized: 2018-11-19
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  • Dimension: 15" x 11.5"
  • Pages: 12 pages
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  • Cullowhee (N.C.) -- Newspapers
  • Universities and colleges -- North Carolina -- Cullowhee -- Newspapers
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  • Cullowhee (N.C.)
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