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Western Carolinian Volume 45 Number 25

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  • 1H1 Wl SI I RNCAROL|NIAN/March 27 1S80 Hdne 19 WESTERN CAROLINIAN SPORTS Ball play mixed in weekend action Western Carolina's young and sscather-plagued baseball team, still looking for tsso good class of weather in a row, put together a split of college baseball games this weekend. The baseball Catamounts lost to Ohio State University, of the Bin Ten conference, 10-2 Saturday, but came back to whip West Virginia State 21-5 Sunday. Both games were played at Ronnie G. Childress Field in Cullowhee. Against the Buckeyes. Western stranded X hascrun- ners in the first four innings while OSU built a 5-0 lead. The Buckeyes throttled four Catamount pitchers for 14 hits with right-fielder Kirk Dixon collecting four and secondbaseman Jim Andiroff three. Ohio State's biggest innings came in the second and sixth when they scored three runs. Two-run singles by Robert Cobb, in the second and Rick Worthington, in the sixth, keyed the big innings. Western scored its runs on doubles by Matt Thrasher and Billy Boyd in the sixth, and doubles by Chet Greeson and Mel Kinsey in the seventh. Catamount catcher Jim Reinicker added two singles to the team's eighth hit attack. Mark Dempsey, an All-Big Ten pitcher last season for OSU, started and went six innings to record his first win of the season. Randy Sims, the Western starter, was charged with the defeat, giving up one run in the first inning before leaving the game with an injury. Western bounced back Sunday to rattle four West Virginia State pitchers for 19 hits, enroute to the 21-5 victory. After spotting the Yellow Jackets a run in the first inning, the Cats exploded for a four run second inning that set the tone for the rest of the game. Chet Greeson led off the inning with his first home run of the season, and was soon followed by Matt Thrasher's single, a walk to second baseman Dave Hill, and Clen Mattocks' three run home run. The blast by the freshman from Jacksonville. NC, was his first collegiate home run and the first three of six runs batted in he totaled for the da\. The Cats struck again for a lug inning in the fourth when they pul together foui more runs. Mattock's again triggered the explosion ssith a two-run triple, Western added Use runs in the fifth, ssith Kyle Radford, another freshman, contributing ■ two-run single. Senior Willie Carpenter's two-run double capped oil the third big inning ol the das lor Western. And the Calx still weren't through. In the seventh, Ihe Cats Crossed home plate eight more limes, in a truly bizarre inning. Western used seven ss.ilks by West Virginia Stale pitcher, plus isso errors in Yellow Jacket fielders to score the eight runs. Carpenter added the lasl of his five-runs batted in ssith a two-run single. West Virginia Stale added Isso runs in seventh and eighth to end the scoring. Lin Stadler pitched eight innings for Western, allowing eight hits and three earned runs, while striking out seven Yellow Jackets. Stadler. another one of the Cats' many freshmen, raised his record to 1-2 with the win. The win raised the Western record to 6-6. Don Dent (0-1) took the loss for West Virginia State, now 1-2 overall. Bad weather had a definite effect on the Cats' schedule, however. One game was cancelled with Ohio State due to the slow-drying condition of the field, and Monday's rematch with West Virginia State was washed out by rain. And. the Southern Conference opener at Furman, originally scheduled for Tuesday, was moved to Wednesday afternoon due to bad playing conditions in Greenville, South Carolina. The Cats, after traveling to Furman, will visit Georgia State in Atlanta Thursday, and will return home for a Saturday Southern Conference doubleheader with Davidson College. The important league home opener will begin at 1 p.m. at Ronnie G. Childress field. Photo By E. S. McDaniel Women's basketball recruits star player Judy Green, a 5'4" point guard from Tuscola High and the Most Valuable Player in the 1980 Blue-White Girl's All-Star Basketball game, has signed an athletic grant-in-aid to attend Western Carolina University, women's basketball coach Judy Murray announced today. Green, who played women's volleyball, softball, track and basketball at the Waynesville, NC high school plans to participate in three sports, volleyball, softball, and basketball at Western. She is the school's first signee of the recruiting season. Green has excelled in any sport she's ever played. In volleyball and softball she garnered many school honors and made the All-Conference teams her sophomore and junior year. She was also the MVP in '73 and '74 of the North Carolina State Midget girl's softball tournament. In basketball Green was an honorable mention All-Western North Carolina selection her junior season and made the squad this year. Her season scoring average of 18.1 points a game, 9.4 assists and 6.7 steals made her one of the area's more complete players. She also set single-game school records this season in assists (15) and steals (13). Green's play in the Blue-White game was most impressive. She earned MVP honors by tossing in 18 points and adding numerous steals and assists late in the game to give her Blue team (schools from counties surrounding Buncombe County) a 74-67 win, their first in four games. Her overall athletic ability and her prowess at point guard on the basketball court are what impress Western's coach Murray. "She has the natural ability to be a tremendous addition to Western's women's athletic program. And after observing her play this season, I'd say she has everything a coach wants in a point guard—penetrating ability; balanced, smooth jump shot; court sense and the ability to run a fast-break well. She hustles on defense and can quarterback a team with confidence. Judy has the kind of attitude we look for also. And. she represents what we look for in a student athlete at Western Carolina," coach Murray says. Judy has compiled a grade point average of 3.7 on a 4.0 scale at Tuscola in her academic career and was a junior marshal at the 1979 graduation excercises. She has been inducted into the National Honor Society and is listed in Who's Who Among American High School Students. Her basketball coach at Tuscola, William Kanos says of her, "I consider her the best girl athlete by far at Tuscola, and I believe that she will be picked as the outstanding guard in Western North Carolina. She has an excellent attitude and very desirable personal qualities." She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Green of Lake Junaluska, North Carolina. SOUTHERN CONFERENCE Baseball Standings Davidson Conference W-L 4-0 All Games W-L 8-6 The Citadel 2-0 10-3 Furman 1-1 4-6 UT-Chattanooga 1-5 2-8 East Tennessee State 0-0 9-2-1 Western Carolina 0-0 6-6 Marshall 0-0 0-2 VMI 0-0 0-4 Appalachian State 0-2 4-10
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