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Sports ~ Five Wins Sweep Catamounts to Familiar Heights Cats Dog Two Sets of Dogs, Blackmail Christians Davidson Visits For Important Series This Weekend The Western Carolinian 11 Thursday, March 26, 1987 Western Carolina University's baseball team has returned to a familiar station — first place in the Southern Conference's south divison standings. The Catamounts regained the top spot last weekend with a three- game sweep of The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina. Coach Jack Leggett's team will meet its closest pursuer in the coming weekend when Davidson College's Wildcats visit WCU's Ronnie G. Childress Field for a doubleheader Saturday (12:00 noon) and a single game (1:00 p.m.) Sunday. Davidson and WCU have dominated the conference's south division the past few years. The Wildcats won the division title in 1985, and the Catmounts finished first in 1984 and 1986. WCU has won the Southern Conference Championship Tournament the past two years and advanced to NCAA Tournament play. The Catamounts, who have won eight of their last 10 games, enter this weekend's important series with a 5-1 south division record and were 17-12 going into Tuesday's non-conference meeing with UNC- Asheville. Davidson is second with 4-2 division record followed by Furman (3-3) and The Citadel (0-6). The north divison race is a two-team affair at this time with perennial power Applalochian and surprising Virginia Military Institute sporting 6-0 records. Marshall and East Tennessee State are struggling with 0-6 records. The Catamounts put it all together — good pitching, hitting and fielding — in the three game sweep of The Citadel. Western's pitchers allowed only five earned runs in 26 innings while the Catamont hitters were driving in 32 runs with 39 hits. In addition, Leggett's fielders committed only two errors in the three-game series. Saturday's opening game, the Cats jumped on The Citadel's pitching early with three home runs inthefirsttwo inningsfora 7-0 lead en route to all 11-2 win. Skip Nelloms had a two-run home run, Mike Carson had a three-run shot, and Tony Myers added a solo homer. Jackie Slaughter (4-2) went the distanceforhisfourth complete game of the season. Freddie Hailey s two-run home run in the 10th inninq provided the winning edge in the 3-1 victory in Saturday's second game. Stewart Keyes pitched six and two-third innings, and sidearm Ward Withrow pitched the last three and one-third innings in relief to pickup his second win of the season. In the seies finale on Sunday, WCU rocked the Bulldoqs' pitchers see BASEBALL next page Mike Carson, with a .327 average and a team-leading seven homers, Is one reason the Catamounts have won 10 of their last 12 games heading Into this weekend's series with Davidson. Thinking Ahead Springtime Football Bob Waters (left), head football coach at Western Carolina University, and his defensive coordinator Steve Hodgin (middle) and offensive coordinator Don Dalton are looking for a big play for WCU's spring football game, April 8. Send your Big Play to the WCU Football Office and If it is selected as the best play, you will win two tickets to the WCU-Clemson football game to be laved at Clemson, September 5. When Western Carolina University holds its annual spring football game Wednesday, April 8, football fans will have a chance to see the Catamounts run their favorite play and win two tickets to the WCU-Clemson football game. The entry process for the WCU Spring Football Game Big Play Contest is simple. Draw your play on a 3" x 5" card or sheet of paper and mail your play with your name, address and telephone number to Big Play Contest, WCU Football Office, Cullowhee, NC 28723. Coach Bob Waters will choose a play from the entries and the winner of the Big Play Contest will be announced and the Catamounts will run thewinningplayimmediatelyprior to the spring football game at 7:00 p.m. on April 8. The contest winner will receive two reserved seat tickets for the Catmounts 1987 season opering football game at Clemson University, September 5. Entries will be accepted through Mondcv. April 6. Western Carolina head football coach Bob Waters, a former San Francisco 49er quarterback, probably wished he had this man on his team in his playing days. Lynn Swann, here talking to Waters about an ABC "Good Morning America" feature that Swann is doing on Waters, was a great Pittsburgh Steelers receiver in the 1970s and early '80s, and was Instrumental In the Steelers' tour Super ■owl championships. BASEBALL This Week's Schedule Mar. 26 MAR. 28 MAR. 29 MAR. 31 Apr. 1 (Thurs) (SAT) (SUN) (TUES) (Wed) USC- Spartanburg DAVIDSON (2) DAVIDSON UNC-ASHEVILLE Carson-Newman 3:00 pm 12:00 noon 1:00 pm 3:00 pm 2:30 pm ALL CAPS DENOTES HOME GAMES Golfers Place Eighth at Citadel Invitational Western Carolina's golf team improved 24 strokes in the second round to move up three places for a ninth place finish last weekend at The Citadel's Bulldog Invitational. The 36-hole tournament was played on the Patriot's Point Golf Course in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina. The Catamounts had their problems in Friday's opening round as they shot a five-man score of 328 for an 11th place tie in the field of 18 teams. However, they cut their second round score to Track Teams Battle Furman; Johnson C. Smith, Samford Tag Along Western Carolina University's track and field teams hosted a four-way meet last Saturday afternoon and came away with a first and second place finish. Western's women's team, led by a tremendous effort by Mary McKoy, outlasted Furman to win the women's title. WCU fnished with 49 points to Furman's 42. Samford University of Alabama was third with 20 points, and Johnson C. Smith University of Charlotte scored 15 points. Furman edged out WCU to win the men's title. The Paladins totaled 73 points to the Catamounts 71. Johnson C.Smith scored 19 and Samford fnished with 15. McKoy won four events and ran a leg on a winning relay team to personally total 21 Vi points for WCU. The sophomore from Rockingham won the long jump (19'2"), the triple jump (39'6"), the 100 meter dash (:12.70), and the 200 meter run (:25.97). She also ran the third leg on Western's 308 as four of the five golfers scored in the 70's. Pat McGuire led WCU's effort with a 36 hole score of 156. Kelly Leonhardt and Kim Cowan totaled 158 strokes. Greg Young and Brett Miller followed with scores of 161 and 164, respectively. Western's golfers traveled to Burlington Sunday for the Max Ward Spring Intercollegiate Tournament at Alamance Country Club. The 36-hole tournament with more than 20 teams entered was played Monday and Tuesday. The Shoe Factor, and Other Important Methods of Prognostication Did you know that teams wearing Nike shoes have won two of the last three national college basketball championships? Or that four times in the last five years the team that played the easier semifinal game in the Final Four has been the one to win the national championship? Or how about the fact that the winner of the East Regional playoff has won only one national title in the past decade? Those are some of the interesting tidbits that can be found in looking more closely at the recent history of the Final Four, the college basketball spectacle that will be played this weekend in New Orleans. So you think Indiana is going to win the natonal title this year? Well, the Big 10 Conference hasn't even had a team in the Final Four, much less a big- prize winner, since the Hoosiers did so in 1981 — when this year's seniors were in 10th grade Nevada-Las Vegas, you say? Could be. Vegas wears Nikes, and if the Rebels win, they'll make it three of four for the shoe with the swoosh. The Rebels, incidentally, are appearing in their first Final Four since 1977, when they lost in the semi*"""."" Carolina by one point and enu< >.., in the tournament. How about Syracuse-' Well, I,,ere ore mixed signs for the Orangemen, whose las! dance at Ihe biggie was in 1975, when il wound up fourth. See. !!••; Orangemen are from the Big East Conference, and two of the last three champs (Georgetown in 1984 and Villanova in '85) hailed from that league. But the Orange also won the East Regonal playoff, and the representatives from that region have won just one title in the last 10 years — North Carolina's in '82. And finally, Providence — another Big East team, but one with more history on its side than Syracuse. The Friars came out of the Southeast Region, which has produced, like the West and Midwest regions, three of the last 10 winners. But only one team in the history of the tournament — Villanova in '85 — has won the NCAAs with out winning its conference tournament (that is, for those conferences that have had tournaments). The Friars were blown out of the Big East semifinals three weeks ago by Georgetown. Here are some more nuggets of information that might be cyclical or just coincidental: — Last year's champion was Louisville, and the Cardinals also won the tournament in 1980. The Cardinals' title in '80 was followed by an Indiana championship in 1981. That sets up Indiana for this year, right? — The biaqest upset in tournament history came in see SHOES next page Rogers Chosen Academic All- America Cat Forward Makes Third Team Richard Rogers, a forward on Western Carolina University's basketball teams for the past four seasons, has been named to the GTE/CoSIDA University Academic All-America Team. Rogers was a third team selection after being one of only twelve players named to the honorable mention team last year. A total of sixteen players were named to the three teams in nationwide balloting of over 1,400 sports information directors. The team is sponsored by the GTE Corporation. Rogers has posted an overall 3.70 average out of a possible 4.00 in seven semesters at Western Carolina Universityasa chemistry/pre-dental major. He has been accepted by the University of Florida's School of Dentistry and has been nominated for an NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship. On the basketball floor, he established a new WCU record for games played in a career (113) and started in over half of those contests. He averaged 8.5 points per game over four seasons while shoot- winning 4 x 400 meters relay team. Alicia Williams accounted for 7Vi points with a second in the 400 meters, third in the 800 meters, fourth in te 200 meters, and the anchor leg on the 4 x 400 relay team. WCU's men's team took first place in eight of the 17 events, but Furman's depth proved to be the difference in its two point win. Earl Bates and Tony McKennie were double winners for the Catamounts. Bates captured the title in the 200 and 400 meters runs while McKennie was first in the high and intermediate hurdles and ran leg on WCU's winning 4 x 400 meters relay team. Western's other winners were Todd Cates in the pole vault; James Morris in the shot put; Maxi Doster in the 100 meters; and McKennis, Bruce Titus, John Montague and Andy Schultz on the 4 x 400 meters relay team. Both WCU's women's and men's teams wil participate in a meet at Emory University in Atlanta ♦his Saturday. Rogers ing 48 percent from the floor and 75 percent from the free throw line. His best season was the the 1985-86 campaign when he averaged 11.4 points and, 4.7 rebounds jwhile shooting 52 percent from the floor and 83 percent from the free throw line. He was named to the Southern Conference All-Freshman team in 1984. Rogers is a two-time first team selection on the GTE/CoSIDA District III All-Academic Basketball Team. He is a product of Choctawhatchee High in Ft. Walton Beach, Rorida. Rogers is one of two Southern Conference players on the list of sixteen academic All-America players. Davidson guard Derek Rucker was a second team selection. The first team was composed of Dave Butler, California; Arne Duncan, Harvard; Shon Morris, Northwestern; Mike Smith, Brigham Yound; Harold Jensen, Villanova; and Patrick Whiting, American University. Named to ithe second team were Steve Frick, George Washington; Chad Kessler, Georgia; Jeff Harris, Illinois State; and Rucker. Joining Rogers on the third team were Keith Balderston of Oregon, Bret Holmdatz of Manhattan, Paul Crawford of Texas AcVM, and Scott Zanon of Montana.

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: 1987-03-26
  • Date digitized: 2019-04-09
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