• Format
  • Publications (documents)
• Type
  • Text
• Source institution
  • Western Carolina University
• Identifier
  • HL_WesternCarolinian_1986-10-09_Vol52_No11_10

Sports Audibles Volleyball The Western Carolina University women's volleyball team ran its record to 8-5 with two wins in its three matches last week. The Lady Cats will see action again this weekend when they participate in the East Tennessee State University Invitational in Johnson City, Tenn. Also entered in tournament are teams from Appalachian State, Marshall, Tennessee Tech, Guilford, USC-Spartanburg, UT-Martin and the host school, East Tennessee State. In last week's action, WCU defeated Georgia Tech in Atlanta, lost to Tennessee Tech in Cookeville, and bested UT-Chattanooga on the road. The Lady Cats disposed of Georgia Tech in quick order Tuesday evening in Atlanta as they won the match with lopsided scores of 15-3, 15-8, 15-1 In a rematch with Tennessee Tech Friday j evening, Western fell to the Lady Eagles 13-15,15-12, 5-15, 10-15. Earlier this season coach Trish Howell's team downed Tech in Cullowhee. The Lady Cats won their second Southern Conference match of the season Saturday in Chattanooga, Tenn. as they handled UTC in four games, 15-10, 9-15, 15-10, 15-7. Notes After their 55-6 thrashing by Auburn, a team out of most other teams' class, the Western Carolina Catamounts come back to the world of Division 1- AA this week witha a game here Saturday against East Tennessee State. If it sounds easy and after Auburn, anything does it really is not. The Buccaneers, who lost to Western 13-3 here last year and didn't win a game the rest of the way, defeated Furman, 25-13, Saturday night in Johnson City, Tenn. Furman, which last year finished second in the NCAA Division 1-AA playoffs and a few weeks ago tied Georgia Tech, was ranked second in the nation entering the game. Following the East Tennessee game, the Cats will play at Furman the next week, host VMI October 25 and The Citadel November 1st, then travel to Tennessee-Chattanooga the same day, return home for a game against Marshall November 8th and finally end up the season against North Carolina State on November 15th in Raleigh. Western's defeat at Auburn was not surprising when one considers the two schools' football budgets. The Tigers, of the Southeastern ' Conference, operate on a football budget of more than $9 million a year. The Catamounts, who have the lowest budget in the Southern Conference, work on something like $400,000 a year. Said Western quarterback Willie Perkins following Saturday's loss: "It was pretty bad. Infact.it was terrible. Auburn was so much bigger and stronger than anybody we're used to playing against. They didn't do anything we weren't expecting. Theyjustdid it better than we hoped they would." Perkins, who had enjoyed excellent showings in his first three games, passing for six touchdowns, should get back on track this week against the Bucs (2-2). Western Carolina coach Bob Waters said after the Auburn game: "If we're going to play good football teams like Auburn or South Carolina, we've got to make them play hard for all they get. We put Auburn in too many easy situations." Despite the showing down in Alabama this weekend, there were two bright notes to be reported. First, late in the fourth quarter, as the Cats were being throttled, the gracious folks at Auburn put a message on the scoreboard indicative of the Southern hospitality they claim to have. "In the face of adversity, we wish you the best," the scoreboard said. The second was the cooperation The Western Carolinian recieved from The Plainsman, Auburn's student newspaper. Our thanks to Chuck Cole, the paper's sports editor, and Cary Estes, the assistant sports editor, whose byline appears elsewhere in this section. Since The Western Carolinia n Wasn't able to attend the game, Cole and Estes cooperated with us to get a story in this week's issue of our paper. Many thanks, guys. David Mayfield, who quit the team two weeks ago, has returned to the squad again after discussing the matter with coach Bob Waters. Mayfield, a junior who had scored twelve touchdowns over the last two years, was sharing the tailback spot with Milton Beck, a senior. Mayfield gained 32 yards on seven carries Saturday as Beck nursed an injured ankle. Four former Western stars are now playing in the National Football League. Defensive back Tiger Green is with Green Bay, defensive ends Louis Looper and Clyde Simmons are with Kansas City and Philadelphia,respectively, and kicker Dean Biasucci is with Indianapolis. -Chris Gels Chris Gels, Billy Graham - Editing and Design Oops Auburn 55 Western 6 By Car V Estes Special to The Western Carolinian AUBURN, Ala., Oct. 4 - Western Carolina's opening kickoff went out of bounds. That should have told the Catamounts something right there as their mismatch with Auburn, the nation's seventh- ranked team, got under way here Saturday afternoon. Like Custer at Little Big Horn and Napolean at Waterloo, the Catamounts entered hostile territory and did not stand a chance. The Tigers, from the Soutneastern Conference, built up a 34-0 lead with nine minutes left in the first half and rolled to a 55-6 victory over the Cats in front of an estimated 63,000 at Jordan Hare Stadium. It was the most lopsided margin of defeat ever for a team coached by Bob Waters, who had led the Catamounts since 1969. Two other plays highlighted the Catamounts' problems. First, when Aubum scored its second touchdown, the Cats had only ten men on the field, and were still a man short when the Tigers kicked the extra point. Second, when the Cats' only true chance for a touchdown came up, they scored, but thetouchdown wastakenaway bya delay-of-game penalty, and they were left to settle for a field goal. The Tigers' domination was total throughout the contest as they improved to 4-0 on the year and did nothing to hurt their national rankings. In fact, Auburn probably would not have broken a sweat, it appeared, if the game-time temperature had not been close to 100 degrees on the field. The Tigers had 449 yards in total offense compared to 227 for Western Carolina. The Cats did not have a first down until the second quarter, and by then the score was already 17-0. Six times the Catamounts turned the ball over, resulting in 28 Auburn points. Quarterback Willie Perkins threw three interceptions and had two fumbles to contribute to the Auburn totals. "I'm disappointed we didn't make a better showing," said Western's Waters. "Wehadtoo many turnovers and they came in bad spots. Auburn might have scored that many points anyway, but I would like to have made them earn them. We put Auburn in too many easy situations." There had been speculation that Auburn would not t)ave been mentally prepared for the game since it was coming off an emotional victory of 34-8 over Tennessee a week earlier. The Tigers quickly put that idea to rest. They scored the first six times they had the ball, including a 21-yard run by tailback James Joseph and a one-yard run by quarterback Reggie Slack. The scores were the first of the season for the two freshmen. Starting quarterbackJeff Burger completed nine of sixteen passes for 118 yards and a touchdown to wide receiver Lawyer Tillman before retiring for the day in the second quarter. The halftime score was 41-3, with Western kicker Kirk Roach accounting for the points with a 28-yard field goal in the second quarter. Roach, who missed his first field goal of the year later on in the game, also had a 21-yarder in the third. It wasn't nearly enough to prevent Aubum coach Pat Dye from earning his 100th career victory. W. Carolina: - 0 3 3 0 - 6 Auburn: - 17 24 0 14-- 55 AU Knapp 24 FG AU Joseph 21 run (Knapp kick) AU Ware 1 run (Knapp kick) AU Tillman 19 pass from Burger (Knapp kick) AU Slack 1 run (Knapp kick) AU Knapp 27 FG WC Roach 28 FG AU Hill fumble recovery in end zone (Knapp kick) WC Roach 21 FG AU McCrary 25 pass interception return (Knapp kick) AU Joseph 4 run (Knapp kick) Art. - 63,000 WC AU 14 26 21/144 47/224 183 225 4 80 26-51-4 15-27-1 Conference Standings Conference Overall Appalachian State 34 4-1 Furman 2-1 3-1-1 Marshall 1-1 3-2-1 Tenn.—Chattanooga 0-0 1-3 E. Tennessee St. 1-1 2-2 Citadel 0-1 2-3 Western Carolina 0-1 1-3 Davidson 0-2 0-4 VMI 0*2 0-4 LAST WEEK'S RESULTS: Aubum 55, Western Carolina 6 Appalachian State 63, Davidson 6 Clemson 24, Citadel 0 Marshall 16, VMI 9 East Tennessee St. 29, Furman 13 THIS WEEK'S GAMES: East Tennessee St. at Western Carolina Appalachian State at Tenn.—Chattanooga VMI at Citadel Bucknell at Davidson FIRST DOWNS RUSHES/YARDS PASSING YARDS RETURN YARDS PASSES ■ PUNTS 6-35 1-49 FUMBLES/LOST 2/2 1/1 PENALTIES/YARDS 4/28 4/40 TIME OF POSSESSION 31:03 28:57 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS: RUSHING WCU: Mayfield, 7-32 Jones, 5-23 Nix, 2-6 Aubum: Joseph, 14-114 Harris, 6-40 Fullwood, 9-33 PASSING WCU: Perkins 23-47-3,165 Edwards 2-3-1, 115 Auburn: Burger 9-16-0,118 Slack 6-11-1,107 RECEIVING WCU: Nowell, 7-72 Carmichael, 5- 40 Washington, 5-36 Auburn: Tillman, 3-56 Gainous,4-47 Bolt, 2- 37 Vincent Nowell, a 6-0", 178 pound Catback caught 7 passes for 72 yards in a losing cause against Aubum. Intramurals 1. SOFTBALL SKILLS RESULTS Sorority League Champion Marianne Carper Alpha Xi Delta Sorority League Runner-up Lisa Pruett ' Alpha Xi Delta Independent League Champion Beth Edwards Slammers Independent League Runner-up Debbie Morrow Slammers Number of female participants: 29 All Campus Champion John Felty Theta Xi All Campus Runner-up Todd Rollins Braves Independent Champion Todd Rollins Braves Independent Runner-up Burt Howard Braves American League Champion David Boykin Purple Haze American League Runner-up Lester Green * Jerry's Kids Fraternity League Champion John Felty Theta XI Fraternity League Runner-up Mike Peek Lambda Chi Alpha International League Champion Toda Sain Pi Kappa Alpha "B" International League Runner-up Jeff Parker Lambda Chi Alpha Continued, pg ^ The Western Carolinian 10 Thursday, October 9, 1986 File Photo QUOTEBOX coach Bob Waters E.T.S.U. Preview Western Carolina University's football team is going through one of those good news - bad news weeks as it prepares for its Saturday night meeting with East Tennessee State. The good news for the Catamounts this week is that they will not have to play Auburn again. The bad news is that their next opponent upset previously unbeaten Furman, the nation's No. 3 ranked division l-AA team, in convincing fashion last Saturday night. The Catamounts will host ETSU's Buccaneers in E.J. Whitmire Stadium in a crucial Southern Conference game this Sturday at 7:00 p.m. "The South Carolina and Auburn games are behind us and now we can concentrate on getting back into the Southern Conference race," said Bob Waters, WCU's veteran head coach. Western Carolina iscomingoff a 55-6 loss to an Auburn team that Waters labels "as good as there is in the nation." Both Western and East Tennessee have lost one See ETSU, pg. 11 Cross Country Western Carolina University's cross country teams traveled to Charlotte last Saturday to participate in the UNC Charlotte Invitational. WCU's men's team finished 10th in a field of 13 teams and Western's women's team was ninth ina field of nine teams. Sophomore Shawn Leatherwood paced WCU's effort with a 15th place finish among the 75 runners. He ran the five-mile course in 27:27. Mike Fitzgerald of Georgia State claimed the individual title. Old Dominion University won the men's team title followed by Furman, UNC Charlotte, Pembroke State and Georgia State. Old Dominion made it a cleam sweep by claiming the women's team championship. Furman was second followed by UNC-Wilmington, Davidson and Winthrop. Cheryl Roberts was WCU's top finisher in 34th place. Coach Finn Esbensen will take WCU's team to Greenville, SC this Saturday to participate in the Furman Invitational. "I knew going in that Aubum would be the finest football team we've ever played. They were even better than I expected and might be in the nation I this season. I've watched the other top rated teams on TVand none is better than Aubum right now. I was as impressed with the way they conducted themselves as I was with their size, talent and execution. There was no finger pointing and no running off at the mouth. A classy, well-coached football team." "For a l-AA team to play a l-A team close, the l-A team has to play its very best footbll. On a given day, we can play good enough to win one of these big games. As long as I am here, we are going to play some l-A teams and keep trying to beat them." "At leasf we didn't get beat 127-0 like the clown from j the Orlando, Florida paper said we would. I would say more about him, but newpaper people like him are not worth the time it takes to respond." "I am sure East Tennessee is going to be on an emotional high here Saturday. They will be playing with a lot of confidence. That was a very big win for their program and cold be just what they needed to get them on the right track again. A win Saturday night ocukt put us back on the right track." Chris Geis Thanks and Sorrow For Sports In several respects, the summer past has been a difficult and sorry one for sports fans all over the country. The sports world has taken its share of beatings in recent years, with scandals involving drugs, cheating, and, on the college scene, academic fraud becoming more and more freguent. But this summer was especially trying because of the tragic cocaine-related deaths of basketball star Len Bias and football star Don Rogers. Those who are involved in sports, those who play sports, and those who write about sports were shocked to learn of these two early-summer deaths, for they were sad and abrupt endings for two men in the prime of their lives and seemingly on top of the world. It was further ammunition that those who disdain sports and its influence could use to belittle sports' importance among its participants and followers. I, for one, was even ready to swallow the pride I had for one of my loves, and admit that yes, maybe sports was out of hand and the importance we place on these "little boys' games" was ridiculous. I was prepared to say I was disgusted with sports and that I should maybe grow up and disassociate myself from something which has given me relief from the real world for years. But, as the summer months unfolded and the stories of Bias's death and his years playing basketball and neglecting school at the University of Maryland came out and brought from out of the woodwork the almighty reformers, something else happened in the world of sports. It was another disturbing and upsetting development, but it gave me a fresh and different perspective of my attachment to sports. The news was this: Dick Howser.the manager of baseball's world champion Kansas City Royals, had a brain tumor. Doctors at the time didn't know if the tumor would be fatal or not, and an operation to remove itwas scheduled immediately. It isn'tfair, I saia to myself. It just is not fair. "Dick Howser's one of the game's finest people," I wrote down that night after hearing the news. "I can't explain what he means to the sport, but he's a role model for all people -- not just in the game of baseball. He exemplifies not only what a baseball man should be, but what a human being should be." I looked at myself and thought. I was distraught over hearing this news, deeply upset enough that a few days later, I would go out to the store ana spend a half an hour picking outa card that I could send him. I didn't even know the man, and I was feeling for him as if he were my next-door neighbor. Then I realized what was going on. This is what being j sports fan does to me. It brings me to know the personalities and to feel that I'm one of their friends. Spending hours at games or watching them on television, reading the newspapers and magazines - all give me a unique tie to this world of athletics. And it hurts too much to describe when one of them is shot down out of his prime - as Len Bias was two days after he was made one of the top picks in the National Basketball Association draft, or as Dick Howser was about to be, it seemed. I sat through all the special newscasts that night in June after Bias had died, and I cried-quietly, alone, but unmistakably. And tears formed in my eyes that night a month and a half later when I learned that Howser had been diagnosed. I turned to my brother and said, "It's been a pretty crappy summer for sports, Matt, you know?" And then I went upstairs and prayed for the man - probably the first time I had prayed all summer. What other tragedy of a person I don't know, except perhaps a President or important world leader, could make me cry like that or feel like that? I felt a part of what Bias's family went through, what Howser was going through. Sports has done such things to me, and I suspect the same it true for millions of others across the country. I rarely cry, I rarely feel like that - especially for a stranger, as it were. It was almost as if a loved one was taken away, or wasabout to be taken away. I hurt because of their plights. (It was refreshing to Know that thousands of others felf the same way. Both Bias's family and Howser and his family received hundreds of cards and sympathies every day; the Howsers even thanked my brothers and me with a not for sending them a card and telling them that our thoughts were with them.) From the illusion that sports has created for me, I have come to regard people like Len Bias and Dick Howser as good people, almost heroes, whether they are or are not (in this case, I thing so), and as friends, even though I don't know them. Whether this is good or See Geis, pg. 11 WORRIED ABOUT BEING PREGNANT? The Western Carolina Medical Clinic is a facility for performing therapeutic abortions in problem pregnancies. WE CARE! FREE PREGNANCY TESTING Call for answers...ACTIOR on • Pregnancy • Blood Scrum Pregnancy Test • Birth Control' Herpes & VD Testing • Abortion ' Annual GYN Physical Hours 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Fri. 7:30 d.m. -1:00 p.m. Saturdays 900 Hendersonville Road-P.O. Box 5952 Asheville, NC 28813 Telephone 704/274-7460

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.

• Creator
  • Western Carolina University
• Format
  • Publications (documents)
• Type
  • Text
• Date
  • Date original: 1986-10-09
  • Date digitized: 2019-03-29
• Extent
  • Dimension: 22.75" x 15"
  • Pages: 12 pages
• Subject - Topic
  • College student newspapers and periodicals
  • Cullowhee (N.C.) -- Newspapers
  • Universities and colleges -- North Carolina -- Cullowhee -- Newspapers
• Location
  • Jackson County (N.C.)
  • Cullowhee (N.C.)
• Source institution
  • Western Carolina University
• Source Collection
  • WCU Students Newspapers Collection
• Identifier
  • HL_WesternCarolinian_1986-10-09_Vol52_No11
• Repository
  • Western Carolina University Hunter Library