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Page 18/THE WESTERN CAROLINIAN /January 17, 1980 Surles on sports Basketball a natural for Saltz by Steve Surles Despite the current slump in conference play, The Catamounts figure the upcoming homestand to be one of the most important and exciting since the Cats have been in the Southern Conference. Marshall visits Saturday with VMI coming in Monday, finishing up with the Citadel on Wednesday. The Cats will play six games in two weeks—five of those being important conference match-ups. In the four games losing streak Western did not play that much bad basketball-they just seemed to fall prey to experience. Furman, Georgia Tech, The Citadel and UT-C are all junior-senior dominated teams..what trie Cats need more than anything else is a home crowd that can help relieve the "downer" of a six-day, 1,200 road trip last week... Speaking of crowds, it's too bad the students weren't on campus for the Furman game Jan. 7th-on a bad night with foul weather the Cats drew 2,915 fans-without the students. That night could have been a record crowd with the kids... Next week's trio of conference games should be real "fans" games... WCU started 3 freshmen against UT-C--Carr, and Simmons. Just to show you how young Western is, the freshman are logging 85 minutes a game [out of 200 minutes a game.] trimier Leads the club with a 33 minutes per game average. Talk about on the job training! In the last three games Kevin Young has hit 11 of 15 field goals—Larry Caldwell, his counterpart at point guard is 18 of 36 in the last six games...Greg Dennis hit 33 straight free throws-one shot of a WCU record set In 1964 by Danny Tharpe. H The team of the future in the Southern Conference? One would have to include the Cats and the Cats opponent for Saturday, Marshall. The Thundering Herd has six sophomores and three freshmen in their current roster and are already in second place in the league behind Furman...Don't forget the Herd will have no trouble getting psyched for the Cats—not after the 67-50 loss to WCU in the tournament first round in Cullowhee last year... Western has improved in a couple of very important statistics- in '78-'79 the Cats averaged 68.9 points a game...this season they're scoring at an 81.0 game clip, and the team field goal shooting is up from last year .448 to .476. For those of you who didn't get the chance to follow the Cats over the holidavs as closely as you would have liked here's a WESTERN CAROLINIAN capsule highlights.... Dec. 15 at Boone: Kevin Young's jumper with 2 seconds left gave the Cats a stunning 77-75 upset win over defending conference champ ASU, the second time in two seasons the Cats have stunned the Apps in Boone. Dec. 17 at Furman: WCU fell behind to a torrid shooting Paladin team early and were behing as many as 24 points late in the game, but came back to pull to within 6 points in a 96-90 loss. Greg Dennis, playing despite a nasty cut on his chin, scored 30 points in that fame Jan. 3 in Cullowhee: WCU slowly shook off the effects of the holidays for a 77-66 win over a sturbbom UNC-Greensboro team. Dennis scored 22 in that one to lead the scoring. WCU defeated Baptist 75-60 in Charleston, Jan. 5. Jan 7 at Cullowhee: In the rematch with Furman the Cats played one of their best games of the season before losing to the Paladins 92-83. Kenny Trimier hit 27 points in super effort. Jan. 9 at Georgia Tech; The Cats fell behind to Tech and with just four minutes remaining the game seemed lost with GA Tech ahead by 15, but a furious comeback cut the margin to four before TEch went to the foul line effectively for a 70-60 verdict over Western. Jan 12 at the Citadel: WCU again fell behind early, 45-29 at the half, before playing the Bulldogs even enroute to a 85-73 loss to the Citadel on NBC regional TV. Monday night Western lost another road game to UT-C, 84-71, after falling behind 50-37 at the half. The LaDY Cats lost to ASU DEcember 17 88-83 in their last action before the hokidays. Jan 5 at home they whipped Wake Forest 73-58 and on Jan. 9 they lost to Elon 75-62. They split a weekend set of games in Charleston Jan. 11-12, whipping Baptist 91-58 before losing to the College of Charleston 76-46. Monday night the Ladies defeated Gardner-Webb 82-59 to pull their record to 8-5 overall. JJ'MIIII llllllllllllltllMIIIIIIIlllllllllllllMIIIIIIIMIIIlllllllltlilllllllllll 11 IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIII IIIIIIIIIIMIIIII II MIIIIIIMIMIIIMII'^ I Top of the Stairs | Restaurant Come Try Our New Gourmet Sandwiches for 1980 "The Stairtopper" The Middle East Feast The Vegetarian Dream | Also New for 1980: Soup and Salad Bar CombinationSpecials Open for lunch 11:30-1:30 Open Evenings Thursday Monday thru Friday thru Saturdays 5-8:30 Located 3rd Floor University Center flllllinlllllllllllllllllllNllllllllllllllllllllllltlllllMlimillllllimiHMIIHIinillHIl iiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimihiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii? By STEVE SURLES Sports Editor Western Carolina's women's basketball nlaver Cindi Saltz grew up playing the roundball game on the playgrounds and in the gyms of Clay County, North Carolina, around her Hayesville home. Basketball was a natural thing to Cindi-the game, after all, had always been in her family—her father, Russel Saltz, being a coach at Hayesville High with the sport a common topic of discussion and activity for the family. So when Cindi took to those backyard pickup games and her father's practices, she more often than not found her competition to be bigger and stronger boys who cut her little slack. She learned how to shoot, dribble and pass in such a situation, developing her skills and court sense in what many--either the less enlightened or traditionally bound-would consider an impossible situation. But through or traditionally bound-would consider an impossible situation. But through it, Cindi Saltz learned to put the ball in the basket and hold her own against any competition-man or woman. "1 always worked out with guys all the time- ever since I've been playing competively (the seventh grade)," she says, adding, "I guess I had to learn how to play without getting my shot blocked-I guess I did." And the result is interesting. Right now Cindi Saltz is one of Western's most exciting basketball players. Her patented shot is a running, lay-up hook-a definite product of her hours of practice and playing against the potential "rejectors". Her dad has also had a strong hand in developing the basketball player that Cindi is today. Her running hook is not her only shot; she can be deadly from the 15-18 foot range, and she can take to ball straight on to the hoop. Resulting is her team-high 16.6 scoring average, 45 Vi shooting percentage and 97 foul shots. "We used to play a lot of horse. Dad always seems to beat me with his hook shot and I picked that and other shots up from him," she says. The first impression one might get is that Cindi Saltz was pushed into the game-remember her father is a basketball man and all the four Saltz children are or were active in the sport at some time or another. But says Cindi, that assumption is not true. "Dad helped me with fundamentals and techniques a lot. 1 used to j>o to a lot of his practices and we'd talk about the game often, but my parents have never pushed the game on me. They have encouraged me a great deal, and I've always just wanted to play," the 5-8 sophomore says. The Saltz family, father Russell and their mother Scottie and often the rest of the family (one sister, Melissa is a student at WCU) all come to the Lady Cat games. Actually it is a rare day when they are not watching Cindi play. Needless to say they are some of the best Catamount sports fans around and when Cindi helps the Cats make a good play their pride is quietly evident. And they should be proud. The fruits of Cindi's work and dedication go all the way back to her Hayesville High days. She was Player of the Year in her conference and in her senior year was Western North Carolina women's basketball I-A Player of the Year. Hayesville, coached by Micki Powell, and led by Saltz and current Lady Cat teammate Cindy Curtis went all the way to the state finals in 1978. At Western, Saltz contributed greatly to the 13-12 season last year, coming off the bench to score 6 points a game. So far in Western's 9-5 season she's been the leading scorer in four of the games and has had only on game scoring less than ten points. But she is not satisfied. "I wanted to start at the first of the year-that was ny goal. I'm enjoying it and learning a lot but I've still got a lot to learn. And the team hasn't really reached our full potential yet. We haven't really beaten a super team yet so we're still a long way away." Yet the »most important appraisal of Cindi comes from the Lady Cat coach first year mentor, Judy Murray. . I'm really pleased with her performance in all phases of the game. She can take it to the basket, shoot from outside and she's a vital cog in our fast break. She does a good job on defense, too." Coach Murray says, adding, "But I really like her consistency and the fact that she gives 150 percent every game and practice. She has helped keep this team together." Basketball is her game and she's done well at it, and looking back, those pitiless boys on the Hayesville playgrounds did all the Catamount fans a big favor when they tried to block Cindi Saltz' shots.

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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: 1980-01-17
  - Date digitized: 2018-09-21
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