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6 Western Carolinian/March 3, 1983 Sports Lady Cats Look to the NCAA Tournament by Karen Ashe WCU's Lad) Cats ended their regular season of play on Mondav. February 28, against Duke University. ITie next challenge for 1982-83 lady Cats of WCU is the Southern Conference Tournament, which is to be played in Huntington. West Virginia at Marshall University. WCI *S Lad) Cats will enter the first round of tournament plav on Friday, March 4, against UT- Chattanooga at 9:00 p.m. Ihe Southern Conference tournament begins Thursday, March 3 and ends on Saturday, March 5. The victor of that single elimination competition will have a hope of going to the NCAA tournament. The Southern Conference has only five schools instead ot six participating, therefore, the winner is not allowed an automatic qualification to the NCAA tournament. Seated in the number one position is Fast Tennessee State University, at number two is U 1 -Chattanooga, at number three is our own Lady Cats ol WCU, Marshall took the number four spot, followed by Appalachian. Coach Stroud feels confident that WCU's Lad) Cats has a good chance at beating UT-Chattanooga and advancing in tournament play. "We have a good shot at UT-Chattanooga, they have beat us two times this season and they sav the third time is a charm." she stated. Also Stroud stressed, "We have nothing toloseand everything to gain. We are eager to take on the challenge." However, the Lad) Cats have been playing in a non- cohesive manner. According to Stroud, "the perimeter and the inside plav has not been combining to our advantage." Against East lennessee State University on February 24. the Lad) Cats really put on a great first half. Coach Stroud cited the reason of the turn-around to the game was the team possessed an awe of ETSU. When they sav they were ahead and they wondered how they got there, they changed their play because the school has such as well-established program in comparison to WCU's recent splash in NCAA Division I play. "It's a whole new ballpark," added Stroud, "1 was pleased with the play; we had the game but we let it slip." Fast lennessee took the victory. 67-55. The high scorer for ETSU was Marsha Cowart with IS points and Teresa Braswell was WCU's leading scorer with 12 points, followed by Emily Holiday, Anna Wike, and Judy Green each having contributed 10 points. Next came the challenge of North Carolina A & T on Saturday, February 26. The game was marked by extenuating external factors, which a frustrated lady Cat team overcame to take the victory. 66-61. According to Stroud, "they showed their poise and class," and came out on top. In their last regular season game against Duke the Lad) Cats started out bad and according to Stroud, "continued to dig our grave." Ihe game was played Mondav, February 28, in Durham and the Fadv Blue Devils took WCU'S Fadv Cats, 77-67. Duke's leading scorer was Jennifer Chesnut. who totaled 24 points during the evening. Double-figure scorers for WCU were led by Emily Holiday with 15 points, followed by Braswell with 13 points, and both (iinger Eichhorn and Serena Surratt contributed II points each. In the closing six minutes WCU did have a comeback, however, it was not Strong enough to overtake Duke. Stroud commented, "we were not shooting well; we have been shooting poorly in terms of our opponents, and we have been struggling." 1 his week's player of the week is leiesa Braswell, who is from Asheville, N.C. Ihe six-foot junior has turned in a consistent 50' < shooting from the floor in the last three games. At NC A.& I she was hitting 75'( from the floor and at FISl and Duke she turned in 50%. Braswell is recovering from a severe jammed I ingei injury incurred at the NC A & 1 game. Final Game at Chattanooga Sports Information A revitalized and loose Western Carolina basketball team, looking forward to next week's Southern Conference Championship Tournament, will end regular season play Saturday against the University of lennessee at Chattanooga, the nation's 17th ranked team, in the Moccasin's new 11,200 seat Roundhouse arena. The Catamounts rebounded from last week's losses to East Tennessee State and UT-Chattanooga with a resounding 92-74 win over Davidson College, Monday evening in their last home game of the season. The victory over Davidson clinched fourth place for Western in the conference s regular season standings and set up a rematch with Davidson, the fifth place finisher,in next week's conference tournament. The Catamounts will face Davidson for a third time this season next Thursday, March 10 at 2:30 p.m., in a conference tournament first round game in Charleston, West Virginia's Civic Center. However, coach Steve Cottrell's team is also looking forward to their last regular season game with the league's regular season champion, the UTC Moccasins. The Catamounts will take a 9-6 conference and 16- 10 record into the locally televised game in Chattanooga. Despite last week's 74-62 loss to UTC, Cottrell is eagerly anticipating the rematch with the Moccasins. "This is a great game to end the regular season," he says. "We'll be playing a super team and that's a great wav to to tune up for tournament. I'm looking forward to playing over Were and hope we get another shot at them next week in the tournament." WCU has never beaten UTC in eight previous games played in Chattanooga. The defending conference champions are 14-1 in league play, 22-3 overall, and ranked 17th in the U PI poll and 19th by the Associated Press. "Their ranking is well deserved,"says Cottrell. "lt is good to See the rest of the nation finally recognizing this team." Reflecting on the win over Davidson, Cottrell says his team needed a win in the style of Monday night's success. "The second half was as good as we have played in a long time. We shot well, played good defense and really worked hard on the boards," he offered. "It was one of those nights when we shot extremely well and when we shoot well and play that kind of defense, we are going to win," explained Cottrell. "I think the emotion of the last home game helped," he added. Cottrell also lauded the play of Greg Young, Pat Sharp and the Catamounts' bench. "Greg just seemed to be destined for a game like that," he said of Young's 25 point performance in his first Powerlifting Championships by Russ Randolph The North Carolina Powerlifting Championships will be held in Greensboro this weekend, and Western Carolina will be ably represented by its two best lifters. Kevin Kaga will be first up lifting in the 148 lb. class. Kaga was the 1982 State Champion and is a solid favorite to win again this year. Kaga recently did three repititions with 500 lbs. in the squat, so he is looking especially forward to this lift. Kaga's long-time weakness is the bench press, but with a strong squat and deadlift. he Baseball Team Begins Badly should bring home a victory. Ross Depencier will be the other Catamount lifter. Depencier is vying for his third consecutive state title, but his first and hardest fought in the 198 lb. class, North Carolina's toughest. Depencier's competition comes from Greensboro's Randy Reittenger, and mainly from Fayetteville's Alex Greyard. Depencier's big weapon is his bench press, as he usually tops his weight class. But as with Kaga, he will need big squats and deadlifts to be victorious Saturday. Good Luck to these lifters! The beginning of Western Carolina's baseball season was not auspicious for first year head coach Jack Leggett as the Cats lost its first three games this past weekend. Western was drubbed handily in all three games— losing to Georgia Tech 14-5 Friday and 16-9 Saturday and then falling to Georgia, 19-1, in Athens, Georgia. Sunday. But all eyes will be on the Cats home opener this coming Saturday (March 5, 2 p.m.). The Cats will host the nation's seventh ranked team. South Carolina, for a two game series Saturday and Sunday at Ronnie G. Childress Field. The Cats will play one more road game (Friday, March 4) at Wake Forest before the home opener against the powerful Gamecocks. Last season South Carolina made their second straight appearance in the College World Series and won 45 of 58 games. They won the East Regional championship and placed seventh in the College World Series. Saturday's game with South Carolina will begin at 2 p.m. The Sunday (March 6) matchup will begin at I p.m. Both games will be nine-inning games. The early season homestand for Western will continue Tuesday. March 8. as Tennessee comes in for a 3 p.m. game. Later in the- week, Austin Peay State University will come to Cullowhee for a two-day, three- game series. Friday, March 11. Austin Peay will play the Cats a doubleheader starting at I p.m. Saturday (March 12) will have AP taking on the Cats in a I p.m. single game. In all, the Cats will play 19 home games in the month of March. LADY CAT GYMNASTICS TEAM TO END SEASON — Western's women's gymnastics team will end the 1983 season regular season schedule this Saturday in Raleigh, NC. v The Lady Cats will compete in a four-way meet on the North Carolina State campus and will be hosting Duke and North Carolina in addition to the Lady Cats. The quadrangular meet will start at 7 p.m. The Lady Cats could be up for a bid in the Southeast NCAA Division II regionalstobe held March 11-12 at Radford University in Radford, Virginia. ILaVST MINUTE mi PRODUCTIONS Leisure Classes Ballet - Tuesday from 6-7 Jazzercise - Tuesday from 7-8 Registration - March 1 & 8 Classes will be held for eight weeks $5.00 per person WCU Students Only! start ol the season. "Pat was as aggressive on the backboards as I have ever seen him," he said in reference to Sharp's nine rebounds and 14 points, all coming inside the paint. Cottrell remembered last season when his Catamounts ended their conference home schedule with a win over Ihe Citadel and drew the Bulldogs for the first round of the conference tournament and were upset. "I hope we don't run into a case of deja vu," says Cottrell. "Davidson played very well in last season's conference tournament, going all the way to the championship game, and has an experienced, tournament tested team." Despite four conference losses in the last two weeks. Cottrell is very pleased with what has happened this season. "Regardless of what happens in the next week to ten days, this has to be one of my satisfying experiences as a basketball coach. This team exceeded all of my expectations as well as those of everyone else in the Southern Conference," he noted. The Catamounts were picked to finish seventh in the conference pre-season poll of coaches and sports information directors and sixth by the league's media association. By finishing fourth, WCU is the only team in the league to significantly finish higher than the prognosticator's predictions. Cottrell's previous three teams posted 17-10, 18-10 and 19-8 records, but a break-even season or less was foreseen for the '82-'83 Catamounts as the league's leading scorer and two-time all-conference Ronnie Carr had his career prematurely ended in an automobile accident last summer and another two-time all- conference selection Greg Dennis, and three-year starter, Kevin Young, graduated. Western Carolina is the only team in the Southern Conference that has not experienced a losing season over the past five years. Teresa Braswell, player of the week, (photo by Mark Haskett) mi 1 ■ 1 7Wf Greg Young scored a career high in his final home game, (photo by Mark Haskett) The Western Carolinian is pleased to announce its 1 Ad Giveaway Bonanza the Western Carolinian will draw from a list of advertisers and give away a free % page ad every week for 5 weeks All parties that use Western Carolinian display advertising areeligable To insure a place for your ad, call Mr. Stewart or Mr. Sosnik today at 227- Westem Carolinian ads 3/ll/g: / Good business sense for today's busy world. This week's lucky winner is Towne & Country Florist

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: 1983-03-03
  • Date digitized: 2019-01-31
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  • Pages: 16 pages
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  • Cullowhee (N.C.) -- Newspapers
  • Universities and colleges -- North Carolina -- Cullowhee -- Newspapers
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  • Cullowhee (N.C.)
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