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The Western Carolinian 7 Thursday, November 20,1986 Audibles • VOLLEYBALL WRAP-UP • SO. CONFERENCE FOOTBALL • NATIONAL l-AA RANKINGS • SO CONFERENCE SOCCER WRAP—UP Catamounts Clinch Second With 33-20 Win VOLLEYBALL TEAM Appalachian State Western Carolina Tenn. Chattanooga Furman East Tennessee State Marshall Conference W L Pet. 4 1 .800 4 1 .800 2 3 .400 2 3 400 2 3 .400 1 4 .200 All Matches W L Pet. 22 9 .710 24 8 .750 17 7 .708 15 14 517 18 19 486 17 15 531 1986 ALL-SOUTHERN CONFERENCE TEAM (Selected by the league's head coaches) Michelle Barrett, Western Carolina Angela Haas, Appalachian State Stephanie Lewis, Tenn.-Chattanooga Donna Smith, Western Carolina Kristen Smith, Appalachian State Crystal Sullivan, Western Carolina SOUTHERN CONFERENCE VOLLEYBALL COACH-OF-THE YEAR (Selected by the league's head coaches) Toni Wyatt, Appalachian State SOUTHERN CONFERENCE ALL-TOURNAMENT TEAM (Selected by the league's head coaches) 'Michelle Barrett, Western Carolina Angela Haas, Appalachian State Stephanie Lewis, Tenn-Chattanooga Kristen Smith, Appalachian State Crystal Sullivan, Western Carolina Janine Turner, Furman SOUTHERN CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT MVP (Selected by the league's head coaches) Michelle Barrett, Western Carolina SOUTHERN CO. FOOTBALL x-App. St. 6-0-1 8-1-1 W. Carolina 5-2-0 64-0 Marshall 33-0 64-1 E. Tenn. St. 3-3-0 5-5-0 Furman 3-2-1 6-2-2 AJT-Chatt. 24-0 3-7-0 VMI 14-0 1-9-0 Citadel 0-5-0 3-7-0 Davidson 06-0 0-9-0 x-cllnched championship Saturday's Games Next Saturday s Games WCU 33, Marshall 20 WCU at N.C. State Catawba 51, Davidson 28 N.C. AStT at App. St. App. St. 19, VMI 6 Citadel at Furman E. Tenn. St. 35, Citadel 9 VMI at E. Tenn St. Furman 21, Tenn. Chart. 10 Tena-Chatt. at W. Kentucky NATIONAL RANKINGS i. Nevada-Reno (10-0) T10 T2. Arkansas State (7-1-1) 12 T2. Holy Cross (9-0) 13. 4. Eastern Illinois (9-0) 14 5. Georgia Southern (7-2) 15 6. Pennsylvania (8-0) 16 7. APPALACHIAN STATE (7-1-1) 17. 8. William & Mary (8-1) 18. 9. Tennessee State (9-0-1) 19 T10 Jackson State (8-2) 20 Akron (7-2) Delaware (7-2) North Carolina AST (8-1) Eastern Kentucky (6-2-1) Sam Houston State (7-2) Cornell (7-1) Nicholls State (8-2) Northern Arizona (7-3) Delaware STate (7-2) New Hampshire (7-2) SOUTHERN CO. SOCCER Furman Appalachian State Davidson The Citadel Marshall VMI Furman Appalachian State Davidson The Citadel Marshall VMI W L T Pet. PF PA 5 0 0 1000 26 1 1 0 2 0 3 0 4 0 5 0 W 13 9 5 6 5 2 L T 4 2 8 1 14 1 11 1 11 2 15 0 .600 5 3 .600 11 6 .400 11 10 .200 4 19 .000 3 21 Pet. PF PA .736 57 10 .527 20 31 .275 27 55 .361 35 29 .333 32 44 .117 15 52 RETRACTION The Western Carolinian Sports staff apologizes for naming Trish Ho well 'Coach of the Year' without letting anyone else in the conference know about it. In order to make us look bad, Toni Wyatt, Appalachian State's coach, was chosen. Also in last week's paper, Chris Geis Was credited for an article which was in fact a Sports Information release. Once again, we apologize. Carolinian Victory Over Herd Revives Playoff Hopes by Chris Geis Associate Sports Editor Western Carolina concluded the Southern Conference portion of its 1986 football schedule Saturday afternoon by whipping Marshall, 33-20, in Whitmire Stadium and assuring itself of a winning season. The Cats finished the league season 5-2 and ended in second place for the third time in four years. The Marshall victory avenged a bitter 10-10 tie last year in Huntington, W. Va., and gave the Cats a 6- 4 record with one game to play. Western takes on North Carolina State this weekend in Raleigh. The Thundering Herd, which ended the year 6-4- 1 overall and 3-3 in the conference, took a 20-16 lead late in the second quarter but lost it when Western tailback David Mayfield scored his second touchdown of the game with 55 seconds left in the half and helped put the Cats up by 23-20. Beck rushed 15 timesfor a game-high 121 yards. Itwas the second year in a row that Beck, a senior, rushed for 100 yards or more in the season finale at home and the second time this year that he has rushed for over 100 in a game. Beck said: "I'm glad we ran the ball so well; the running backs are only as good as the line that blocks for them, and there were some big, big holes this week. We even missed a few. The line - Jay Mulwee, Steve Hall, Kevin Sowell, John Martin and James Davis - did just a super job. They deserve plenty of credit. And Jay Nix did a great blocking job at fullback; he was hitting linebackers constantly." But Beck also said: "I'm really disappointed in the crowd support for a team that finished in second place in the conference and has a shot at a national playoff berth. We've played before lousy numbers (crowds) all season. Fifty-eight hundred fans just doesn't cut it." Beck combined with Mayfield, who had 91 yards on 27 attempts, lead the Western offense on a day that Willie Perkins, the senior quarterback, wasn't at his best. Perkins, head coach Bob Waters said, has had better days. He was 14 of 32 with two interceptions for 152 yards. Waters especially praised the defense, which held Marshall to 187 yards total offense and registered six sacks of Herd quarterbacks. "Wedida very good job against a fine offensive football team," he said. "Wekeptthemfromdoingwhatthey wanted to do. Cedric Hitchcock had a solid football game, and Chris Spach certainly had a fine day." SPORTS Chris Gefe, Asaodate Editor, Copy Billy Graham, Associate Editor, Design Gordon Grant, Features We encourage all submissions! If you'd like to write sports give us a call at 7267. Western Carolina defensive tackle Steve Foster attempts to stop Mar shall running back Jerry Harris in Saturday's 33-20 Catamount victory. Linebacker Everett Spellman is falling to the ground. Mark Haskett photo Western intercepted four Marshall passes, including two by senior cornerback Fred Davis. It was the Catamounts' own interceptions that put them in jeopardy. Reggie Giles returned a Perkins interceptions for 84 yards to cut the Western lead to 16-14 with 7:35 left and prompted Waters to later say his offense was going to work on tackling later in the week. Another interception return, of 53 yards, set up a Jerry Harris one-yard run several minutes laterand helped Marshall take the lead, 20- 16. Roach had a 46-yard field goal to open the game's scoring and was followed by a five-yard run by Mayfield. Marshall cut the lead to 10-7 with a 32- yard pass to Bruce Hammond from Tony Petersen on a fourth-and-one play, and scored again when Harris scored on fourth-and-goal from the one and Giles had the return. In between Roach had field goals of 37 and 38 yards, the latter setting a Southern Conference record for mostfield goals in a single season. Roach added a 35-yarder in the third to increase his season numbers to 20 of 24. Catamounts Beat Irish by Chris Geis Associate Sports Editor The Western Carolina men's basketball team put on the game uniforms for the first time last night and defeated the Irish nationals, 91-76, in an exhibition game at the Ramsey Center. The Catamounts, who open the season Dec. 2 at florida and play their first home game Dec. 6 against North Carolina State, played a sluggish first half but put on a late-game spurt to take the victory, which does not count against its record. Leroy Gasque, a junior forward who was all- Southern Conference last season, led the Western scoring with 21 ponts. He shot 8 of 16 from the floor and had a game-high of 15 rebounds, but fouled out late in the game. Juniorforward Andre Gault was 4 of 7 from the field and also got into a bit of foul trouble. "I'm expecting them to get in foul trouble a lot," Western head coach Steve Cottrell said. "I don't want to take anythinq away from the aggresiveness. They're going to pick up a lot of fouls. The Cats also received solid performancesfrom senior forward Chris Tipton, who was 4 of 6 from the field, and junior college transfer John Cunningham, a guard who had 10 points oh 5-of-10 shooting. But they shot just 38 of 87 (43 percent) as a team, and according to Cottrell played poorly overall. "I'm a little dissapointed with the way we played," he said. "We didn't perform like I thought we would. There are areas I thought that we were strong in, but I guess we're leallynot. We're going to have to take another look at things. Maybe ti was a first-game situation forus, I know we'll shoot better than we did tonight. Offensively we were very poor, although we had a few good performances." The Irish team, the Cork Blue Deamons, were led by a 34-point performance from York Gross, who fouled out. He helped the Blue Deamons to several first-half leads; the Blue Deamons were down by just 44-43 at halftime. But a couple of slams by soph more wing Floyd Showers and Gasque and a few inside moves from Gault helped wear the Blue Deamons down. Western Attacks Pack Waters - Sheridan Rivalry Continues Western Carolina and North Carolina State, a pair of football teams that are the surprises of their respective conferences, will face each other Saturday afternoon in Raleigh with post-season play on their minds. The regular season final for both teams is scheduled for 12:15 in State's 53,500 seat Carter- Finley Stadium and will mark the first meeting on the football field between the schools. WCU was thought to be out of the NCAA l-AA playoff picture following its loss to UT-Chattanooga November 8, but last Saturday's upset win over Marshall combined with an upset of nationally ranked N.C. State would put the Catamounts back into the running for a l-AA at-large bid. The Catamounts closed out their home schedule last Saturday with a 33-20 win over , Marshall and clinched second place in the Southern Conference standings. WCU, now 6-4 overall and 5-2 in conference play, turned in a perfect 5-0 season on Bob Waters Field and has not lost on the field named for WCU's head football continued, pg. 8. Cullowhee Black Belt Claims Championship Randy Peterson, owner of the Ren Bu Kan karate studio here in Cullowhee, had a very successful weekend competing in a tournament in Knoxville, Tenn. Peterson claimed first place in the black belt weapons division at the Stroh's Tennessee Championship on Saturday, and then went on to defeat other black belt divison specialists to claim his first ever grand championship. "It's my first major grand tournament championship," Peterson said. "I've had a lot of first place division trophies before, but this is my first major. "It meant a lot, because some of the people I was competing against I've been competing against for several years and had never beaten them before." Peterson has been training in karate for 15 years and teaching for another six and a half. In touma me nt competition Sunday, four of his students finished one, two, three, and four. Peterson said he enjoyed competing in Tennessee. "They have a very good quality karate there," he said. "It's very traditional, and I've always liked being in tournaments in Tennessee." t — Chris Geis Randy Peterson, Stroh's Tennessee Karate Tournament Champion. NEXT BASKETBALL DEC. GAINESVILLE 2 VS. FLORIDA IN Western Carolina vs N.C. State Football Fact Sheet 1986 Results/Remaining Games Western Carolina (6-4-0 overall; 5-2-0 SC) L 13-17 at Appalachian State* L 2445 at South Carolina W 34-24 Newberry I 6-55 at Auburn W 43-16 East Tennessee State* W 19-13 at Furman* w34-0 VMI* W 27-12 The Citadel* L 7-34 at UT-Chattanooga* W 33-20 Marshall* Nov. 22 at N.C. State N.C. State (7-2-1 overall; 5-2-0 ACC) W 38-10 East Carolina T 14-14 Pittsburgh W 42-38 Wake Forest W 28-16 at Maryland I 21-59 at Georgia Tech W 35-34 at North Carolina W 27- 3 Clemson W 23-22 South Carolina L 16-20 at Virginia W 29-15 Duke Nov. 22 Western Carolina 'Denotes Southern Conference Game COACH BOB WATERS ON THE UPCOMING GAME WITH N.C. STATE: "As It turns out, this is going to be a big game tor both teams. State, from what I read and hear, is supposed to be going toa bowl. The outcome of this game might have a bearing on which bowl invites them. Awinlor usoverState would put us back intheplcturefora I- AA playoff spot. "We have yet to beat a major team and haven't played well against the two we played (South Carolina and Auburn) earlier this season. Thesituationisallttledlflerentthlstimearound. Ithlnk our team, which was still very young when we played South Carolina and Auburn, knows more of what it takes to play well against a major team. "There are plentyof incentives for us inthls game, the possibility ot a playoff berth.proving we can play well against a major team this season...the thoughts of what a win over a team ol State's caliber could do for us...setting a very positive tone tor next year. "I personally think it is going to be a very Interesting tootball game. "I want to repeat what I said in the locker room last Saturday. I will be back as head football coach at Western Carolina next season."

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: 1986-11-20
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