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  • THE WESTERN CAROLINIAN TUESDAY FEBRUARY 5, 1974 PAGE 3 After Four Close Losses Hartbarger: "We Seem To Be Snakebit" The Western Carolinian's Elin Dickins pops in the winning basket over WCAT while other members of the winning team, Dwight Sparks, Bill Drury, and Hank Komodowski, stand ready to gather in any rebound, (photo by Danny Hirt) Grapplers Defeated Saturday By Pembroke State Indians 23-16 Western Carolina University's wrestling squad put out a valiant individual effort here Saturday afternoon, but failed in the team attempt to overcome Pembroke State University. The match ended 23- 16 with the Cats on the short end. After dropping a decision and pin in the 118 and 126 weiglrt classes, Western gained afoot- hold when Tom Miller (134) scored a hard fought 11-8 decision over Pembroke's George McFadyn. John Simpson (142) recorded a draw and Steve I*- Prad of Pembroke decisioned Mark Atwood (150) to set the team score at 15-5, Pembroke. The Cats drew closer on two straight decisions by John Joyner (158) and Din Iverson (167). Iverson upped his season total to 6-2-1, the best on the squad. The Cats were only four points down at this point, but a pin by Jim Turner (177) of Pembroke over Western's Henderson Gilleland, and a draw in the 190 class between Wells of WCl' and Mike Edwards of Pembroke widened the gap, 23- 13. Some last minute heroics by heavyweight Felix Setzer, who won his match 4-3 with a fin;il second takedown in the third Carolinian Staff Takes Big Win by Hank In the biggest sporting event of the year for Western Carolina University, the staff of the Western Carolinian TROUNCED, THRASHED, THROTTLED, DESTROYED, and just gener- alyy beat the fire out of the lackluster basketball squad from WCAT by a score of 6-4 last Thursday night. The game was played at half- time of the regular basketball contest with Belmont Abbcyand served as the first meeting in what may prove to be an annual clash for the two organizations. (The challenge came from WCAT, the losers.) As far as the particulars of the game go we (The Carolinian) tried "hard as hell" to keep WCAT in the ball game, but when you're the cream, you just naturally float to the top. This sports editor for example, tried to start the disc jockeys off on the right foot, by taking the opening tipoff for the Carolinian and dribbling it out-of- been Kmdwski bounds. It must have opening game jitters. When that failed, however, news editor Dwight Sparks grabbed a beautiful rebound, just so he could GIVE it to a WCAT player, Rick Thierrlault who turned it into an easy basket, We still looked like we were going to run away with it though, so this writer started to put in a couple shots, 0-for- 5 to be exact. A touch as soft as a brick walL It was more than compensated for, however; by the mortar shots thrown up by "The Doctor" of WCAT. It takes guts to shoot a 35-foot shot that doesn't even hit the backboard. The Doctor does have guts. Leading socrers for the newspaper were Dwight Sparks (2), sportswriter Nicky Walker (2), and for all you women's lib enthusiasts, graphic artist Elin Dickins (2). period, failed to influence the final score, Setzer's opponent Bob Hudkin has been the North Carolina Collegiate wrestling champion for the pa st two years. The Catamounts, now 3-6 on the year, must now gear up for the final five contests of the season against some tough opposition. The next two contests arc at home, with the University of South Carolina visiting the WCU campus Tuesday night at 8:00 p.m., and the University of Georgia from the strong Southeastern Conference here on February 12, The Cats then round out the season with a three game road Irip: February lo against Livingstone College, February 16 at Campbell College, and February 19 at UT-Chattanooga. Each of these matches is a must for the grapplers if they arc to salvage a winning season. Don't be surprised if you see Western Carolina University's basketball team wearing four- leaf clovers, rubbing rabbit's feet and looking for pennies this week, The Catamounts will try anything Ui change their luck and are open for suggestions from anyone, i-ast Friday night's i;t-(>i; loss In Elon College is the fourth game In the past three weeks that Western has lost by three points or less. "We seem to be snake bit," said WCU coach Jim Hartbarger. "Those four losses could have been victories if we could have had a break go our way," Judgement calls b.\ the officials went against the Cats In three of those four losses and a few more seconds of playing time could have mude the difference in the other, The Cats were leading Elon by two points, 64-62, with less than two minutes to play when the latest in the series of "questionable" decisions went against the purple and gold, Kirby Thurston put the ball up on the backboard and Elon's Diffy Ross pinned the ball between the board and the rim, players on the bench jumped to their feet when the official did not call defensive coasten- did not call defensive goalten- ding against Ross. The official, Dick llayninie, then called a technical foul on the WCt bench. Elon came with three points as a result and that impetus seemed to carry the Christians to their sixteenth win of the season. Thurston played an outstanding game as he pumped in 23 points and claimed 18 rebounds, most of which came off the defensive board. Forward Albert Toomer was the onlj other Catamount in double figures «s he added 14 points, I>ast Thursday was a different story. Western Carolina University -54 Belmont Abbey College-59. The low score in Thursday night's basketball game at Reid m tells the story. Defense'? Not exactly. Slowdown? More likely. Faced with a superior team and playing on an unfamiliar court, the Crusaders of Belmont Abbe} scored the first basket of the game and then proceeded into another style of plav, The Visiting Crusaders went into a semi-stall for the next five minutes, slowing the pace to almost a standstill, before the Catamounts were able to break the developing mold and change the tempo, When the game did change the result was not much better. A pressing defense b> the Abbey and sloppv plav by both teams resulted in a total of 46 turnovers, 19 for Belmont Abbey, 27 miscues for WCU, When the end did come, the statistics were about as exciting as the game, After a 36- 27 WCl lead at the half, things even got slower scoring only 60 combined points in the second period. WCC's Albert Toomer led both teams with 22 points and 14 rebounds, the only spark of the night for the Catamounts, The Cats will be looking for a change in luck during the next eight days when they take the floor for rematches against three opponents that dealt WCU defeats earlies in the sea- Western, now 8-11 on the season, travels to Mars Hill to- CONTINUED PAGE 4 .... . SUMMER JOBS Guys & Gals needed for summer employment at National Parks, Private Camps, Dude Ranches and Resorts throughout the nation. Over 50,000 students aided each year. For FREE information on student assistance program send self-addressed STAMPED envelope to Opportunity Research, Dept. 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