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  • nil WESTERN CAROLINIAN February 14.1980 Pane 15 WESTERN CAROLINIAN SPORTS Cats lose two on the road, tie for 4th In conference Western Carolina's basketball team, on their last road trip of the 1979-80 season, fell prey to two fired-up Southern Conference opponents and some problems in the last stages of the game, to come away with two losses over the weekend, with a 86-75 defeat to Marshall University and a 78-73 loss at VMI Monday night. The Catamounts, who left on the trip in a tie for second place in the conference, came away with a 15-9 overall mark and 7-7 fourth place tie in the league with the two losses. The Cats host East Tennessee State Wednesday night and UT-Chattanooga Saturday in games that will decide whether the Cats earn a coveted first division league finish. Against Marshall the Cats forged out to an eight point, 32-24 lead, with 7:34 left in the half on a 20 loot jumper by Kenny Trimier, but could not deliver a knockout punch as the reeling Herd regrouped and outscored the Cats 17-7 the rest of the half for a 41-39 lead. James Campbell and Robert Price led the Herd in the first period, turning in 14 and 10 points respectively. In the second half the two clubs traded baskets until the Herd pushed back out to a six point, 55-49 lead with 14:21 left. Western came right back with three unanswered baskets, one by Kevin Young and two by Greg Dennis to tie the score. A three-point play by Ken Labanowski at 11:11 gave Marshall a 62-57 lead and then a jumper by Young and two baskets by Ronnie Carr gave the Cats a 63-62 advantage with 9:45 left to play. The Cats still led 67-66 at the 5:53 mark on a 25-footer by Carr. From then on, however, the Herd outscored the Cats 20-8 on superb foul shooting and effective play in their delay offense, as the Cats lost Kenny Trimier to fouls with 4 minutes to play. With freshman reserve Si Simmons out with the flu. the under-manned Cats just couldn't keep up with the Herd's momentum as Marshall improved to 13-10 and 8-5 in the league with the win. shown on a NBC-TVS regionally televised broadcast. Carr led the Cats with 21 points, Greg Dennis added 16 and Kenny Trimier 12 points and 8 rebounds. Senior Harry Dolan goes up for two in last night's thriller in Reid Gym. The Cats held a precarious see-saw lead to edge East Tennessee State in the last seconds of play. Photo by E.S. McDaniel. Campbell finished the game with 22 points with Labanowski adding 19, and a new conference record. 13 of 13 from the foul line. Labanowski also had 12 rebounds. Price, who didn't start, chipped in 18 points and 10 caroms. Western shot 47 percent from the floor and was 15 of 24 from the line, only 11 of 20 in the first half, when the Cats' foul shooting could have given them a big lead. Marshall shot 48 percent from the floor, and was 26 of 32 from the line. Monday night, an aggressive VMI team shot the eyes out of the basket in the first half, hitting 14 of 22 shots and played their /one defense to near perfection as they took a 41-33 halftime advantage after holding a 13 point, 39-26 lead. But the Cats regained their intensity in the second half, and riding on a super 18 point second half by Greg Dennis, caught the VMI with 15:28 left on a three-point play by Trimier to tie the score at 49-49. After trading baskets until the 9:23 mark, Ronnie Carr gave the Cats a 63-61 lead on two foul shots. VMI then used sensational foul shooting and several crucial misses by the Cats to regain the uppcrhand at 72-69 with 2:48 left. On the Cats' next two trips down the court, Western missed four shots and the Keydets, not letting the opportunity pass, foul shot their way to a 77-69 lead with 11 seconds left. Dennis Johnson gave the Keydets a super effort, scoring 24 points, with Andy Kolesar contributing 20 to VMI who hit on 24 of 38 field goal attempts and 30 of 39 from the foul line as thev improved their record to 6-7 in the league, 11-12 overall. Larry Caldwell looks for an opening during last night's action against E.T.S.U. The Cats managed to squeak by the Bucks by two points. Western goes against UT-C Saturday night in their final conference match-up of the regular season. Photo by E.S. McDaniel. Gymnasts win Duke University's gymnastic team never made it to the big State AIAW II gymnastics meet at Reid Gym Friday night, but the Lady Cats gave a good performance anyway, totalling 117.05 points in the forfeit win over the Blue Devils. A good crowd saw the Lady Cats put together some fine individual performances with several of the girls scoring individual bests in some excercises. Beth Myers led in individual scoring with a 30.70 mark as the Lady Cats tallied team totals of 29.95 in vaulting. 29.85 on the uneven bars, 28.90 on the beam and 28.35 in floor excercises. The win raised the Lady Cats record to 2-4 overall with their next meet coming at East Tennessee State February 19. March 1st the Lady Cats will host the state championships at Reid Gym. Lady Cats win Western Carolina's women's basketball team put together a good weekend of play as they won two of three games in the Winthrop Tournament at Winthrop College in Rock Hill.SC. The Lady Cats, behind 33 points from Beth Crisp, downed USC-Spartanburg 76-60 in their opening contest on Thursday, before losing to old nemesis, the College of Charleston Friday. 73-59. In the game for third place, the Lady Cats bounced back for a 79-71 win over host Winthrop College. Lady Cat coach Judy Murray was pleased by the team's effort in the tournament. "We played our best all-around ball of the year and we had a good tournament. Our team play and lots of individual play was outstanding. Sheila Barker played excellently, as did Beth Crisp and Cindi Saltz. Sandra Julian also gave us good play. And Rhonda Fox. just a freshman, was super on the boards, defense and showed some good moves on offense." Coach Murray said. Crisp, who was named to the all-tournament team, led the Lady Cats in scoring in all three games, following her 33 points in the first round with 19 against the College of Charleston, and 23 against Winthrop. The eventual tournament champion was the College of Charleston. Monday the Lady Cats traveled to Gardner-Webb and defeated the Lady Bulldogs 77-71. Crisp tallied 28 points in that win as Western improved its overall record to 13-10 with the win. The Lady Cats led 49-36 at the half, but G-W cut the margin down before Western prevailed. Cindi Saltz added 24 for the Lady Cats with Carolyn Dewberry leading the Lady Bulldogs with 34 points. Tournament tickets If the Catamounts defeat UT-Chattanooga Saturday and earn a spot as one of the top four teams in the Southern Conference regular season, a first round tournament game will be held in Reid Gymnasium, Saturday night, February 23. Should Western defeat UT-C Saturday, tickets for the tournament first round will goon sale at the main ticket gate of Reid Gym immediately after the game. Student ID cards will not be used for admission for the game. Reserved scats are $4 with general admission seats selling for $3. WCU students can buy general admission scats for $2. The Athletic Ticket Office will have tickets available from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. all next week at the Jordan-Phillips Field House. Arledge retires Western Carolina University will honor one of the all-time great women's basketball pla> ers in WCU historv Saturday night in ceremonies at Reid Gym. To be honored is the top scorer in WCU w omen's basketball historv. Jayne Arledge. who graduated alter last season. Arledge, a native of Candler, scored 1.928 points in her four year career at Western and averaged 19.5 points a game. She had been a high school standout and was the first women's basketball grant-in-aid performer when she arrived in Cullowhee. Her number 25. which she wore throughout her career, will be retired in ceremonies at halftime of the WCU-UT-Chattanooga game Saturday night.
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