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  • January 24. 1980/THE WESTERN CAROLINIAN/ PaRc 15 WESTERN CAROLINIAN SPORTS WCU drops to sixth place Keydets cancel Cats'comeback When a basketball team plays well on its home court, it expects to win. The Cats played before a packed, vocal house in Reid Gymnasium Saturday and Monday nights and, despite their best back to back performances of the season, a split of Southern Conference basketball games was the best Coach Steve Cottrell's young Cats could do. The Cats got back into the fight for a first division spot in the Southern Conference standings Saturday night with an impressive 76-67 upset of Marshall then suffered a blow to those first division chances Monday night when VMI came back for a 72-71 win. A first division finish is all-important as the top four finishers in the Southern Conference's regular season play will host the fifth through eighth place finishers in the first round of the conference tournament, February 23. The winners of the four first round games will advance to Roanoke, Virginia for the semi-finals and championship game, February 29 and March 1. WCU is now 3-5 in the conference (10-7 overall) and in sixth place in the standings. Ronnie Carr pumped 'in 28 points in the first 27 minutes of the Marshall game to help the Cats to a 15 point lead. However, Marshall's full court press paid off and the Thundering Herd came back to within two points with five minutes to play. The Cats then hit 14 of 15 free throw attempts to pull away to a comfortable lead in the last minute of play to defeat the conference's second place team. Point guard Larry Caldwell threw in the clinchers, two with 10 seconds left, and a pair with three seconds left to ice the cake. Western led at the half, 30-27, on the strength of 18 points from Carr, and some interesting strategy by the Catamount coaches. Leading 20-19, with 10:46 to go in the half and in possession of the ball, the Cats took the ball out to midcourt trying to force the Herd out of their zone defense. The Cats didn't shoot again for nearly six minutes until Carr shot from the top of the key and missed. Marshall, however, turned the ball over setting up a jumper from Carr with 4:20 left for a 22-19 lead. Marshall and Western then traded points to end the half. The Cats came out hot in the second half and pushed a seven-point advantage, 44-37, to 15 points, 56-41, in just four minutes, on eight points from Greg Dennis, land baskets from Carr and Kevin Young. Then Marshall came back, using a pesky full-court press and narrowed the lead down to the slim two-point margin, on two Greg White free throws with just 5:57 left to play. But the young Cats kept their composure and held off the Herd with the clutch free-throwing. White, the senior point guard for Marshall, had a super game, tossing in 22 points, 8 of 10 from the floor and 6 of 8 from the line. He added 9 assists and gave the Herd a gutsy 38 minutes of floor time. James Campbell and 6'8 post Larry Watson added 10 points to Marshall, who fell to 5-2 and 10-7 overall with the loss. Marshall shot 51 percent from the floor, but only 65 percent from the foul line. Western shot 53 percent from the floor and hit on 22 of 27 from the charity stripe in recording their third conference win of the season and first at home. Carr's 28 points led WCU, with Dennis chipping in 15. Senior center Harry Dolan. playing one of his best games ever, added 10 points and 7 rebounds. Kenny Trimier gathered 11 rebounds and 9 points in playing all 40 minutes of the contest. Carr's shooting, the rebounding of Dolan and Trimier, the floor play of Young and Larry Caldwell, and the all around performance of Greg Dennis drew praise from Cottrell. "This was our best all around game of the season," said Cottrell following the Marshall game. "We shot well, rebounded well and played pretty good defense. The key was our ability to execute our offense and defensive game plans," he explained. <v';-'.'«TrjV;'»*rr«vr.\-v; ttsWKi '■v.-V.v. Unlike Saturday night's game, the Cats were not able to convert their free throws and made only three of 13 shots from the floor in the last eight minutes. Western took a one-point, 32-31, halftime lead on two free throws from Dennis with three-seconds left, in an exciting first period that had 7 ties and 13 lead changes. The Cats scored the first six-points of the second half,- on a jumper by Carr and two baskets from Greg Dennis, to go up by seven. 38-31. The Catamounts lead was just eight points, 56-48 with 9:34 left and VMI playing tough, when Forrest Callaway blocked a Keydet shot that started a fast-break basket, ending in Trimier's electrifying one hand stuff. After a VMI miss and Catamount rebound, Dennis gave the Cats the 12 point margin at 60-48 and just 8:40 to play. VMI took advantage of Western's problems with the press and quickly out-scored WCU, 12-4, in three minutes to close to within 2, 64-62. Bill Nivison's two free throws gave the Keydets a 66-65 lead with 5:20 to go and a bucket by Steve Wagner gave the VMI a 70-67 lead with 4:19 to play. A missed lay-up by Andy Kolesar and a charging call on Nivison gave the Cats two chances to regain the lead after Carr cut the margin to one, 70-69, on a 20-footer with 3:41 to play. Carr had a shot blocked on the first occasion, and after the foul by Nivison, a player control call that gave WCU no foul shots, the Cats set up for one shot, getting the ball with 56 seconds to play. The Cats worked the ball down to 12 seconds with Dennis taking a shot that bounced off the rim, and a rebound and follow by Trimier also missed. In the battle under the boards, the Cats' center, Harry Dolan, was called for a push, and VMI's Dennis Johnson sank both ends of a 1-and-l to ice the game. Kevin Young added an uncontested layup at the gun to end the game. Dennis led Western with 23 points, with Carr adding 18. The Cats shot 51 percent (29 of 57) from the floor. Kolesar led VMI with 24 points with teammates Johnson canning 13, John Goode 12. and Geoff Hinshelwood 10. Western dropped to 10-7 overall, 3-5 in the league, with VMI improving to 8-6 overall and 4-4. "We had our shots, but they just wouldn't fall," said Cottrell. "We played hard, but just couldn't pull it out. I cannot fault the effort of this team...they are learning and growing," he added. "The loss to VMI was a severe blow to our chances for a first division finish, but we still have a shot at it. We are going to have to win the close ones though, noted Cottrell. "I like the way our youngsters are playing. They are going to make crucial mistakes against the more experienced conference teams. We must remember that as going onto the floor with the youngest team in the Southern Conference against several senior oriented clubs , experience is the difference in most close basketball games," said Cottrell. The road will not get any smoother for the Catamounts in the next week as they are scheduled to face three more Southern Conference opponents in succession. The current homestand will continue this Wednesday when The Citadel pays a visit to Reid Gymnasium. The Cats will travel to Johnson City. Tennessee Saturday to face the Southern Conference's newest member, East Tennessee State, in ETSU's 12,000 seat mini-dome. Davidson College will be in Reid Gymnasium Monday for a 7 p.m. game. The Cats will be making their first trip ever to East Tennessee State's Mini-Dome. "Everyone says that it is a very tough place to play the first time because of its physical characteristics." said Cottrell. Davidson will bring what most conference coaches label the best front line in the Southern Conference into Monday night's game. The Wildcats feature the league's top scorer in 6'7 Rich DiBenedetto and one of the top rebounders in 6'9 Jamie Hall. Photo By Mark Stewart Catamount Harry Dolan goes up for the block in Monday nights' game against VMI. The Keydets edged Western by just one point with seconds left to go in the game. Lady cats split two games- set new scoring record Western Carolina's women's basketball team won one of their two games this past week but one of those, a 110-43 romp over UNC-Asheville, January 16 in Cullowhee, will be long remembered by Lady Cat fans. Against the Lady Bulldogs, Coach Judy Murray's team established a new single-game scoring mark for WCU women's basketball, erasing the old record of 109 points set in 1978 against Elon College. Whatever phase of basketball you can name, the Lady Cats excelled in it in the UNC-A game. Shooting a sizzling 55 percent on 46 of 84 shots and out-rebouna- ing UNC-A 58-38, the Lady Cats ran out to an early lead and just kept adding to it. Ahead 49-22 at the half, Western blitzed UNC-A 61-21 in the second period. The Lady Cats took advantage of 31 turnovers by the 'Dogs,'(18 of those on steals) and held Asheville to just J9 field goals and a 29 percent shooting percentage. Beth Crisp led the Lady Cats with 24 points while freshman Cindy Curtis had her second fine game in a row with 22 points and eight steals. Four other players for Western hit in double figures, with Cindi Saltz scoring 16. Glenda Harris 13 (and 14 rebounds), with Daisy Thompson and Rhonda Fox adding 12 apiece. Western's record improved to 9-5 with UNC-A dropping to 2-9. Saturday was a different story with the Lady Cats. Trailing by only one at the half, 37-36, Eastern Kentucky took advantage of their rebounding to pull away late in the contest. Saltz scored 27 points to lead all scorers and was aided by 11 points from Sandra Julian and 10 from Beth Crisp as Western shot just 43 percent from the floor. Western lost Glenda Harris early in the game with a sprained ankle and had trouble on the boards, gathering only 25 rebounds and only 2 of those coming off the offensive boards. "I was happy with our play to halftime." says coach Judy Murray, "but we just seemed to run out of steam later in the game."
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