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  • Sports The Western Carolinian Page 14 (continued) Win Over Winthrop Breaks Losing Streak For Lady Cats By LAURA GOFF Carolinian Staff Writer Western Carolina's women's basketball team evened its record at 9-9 Monday as the Lady Cats defeated Winthrop 72-67 at the Ramsey Center. The victory broke the Lady Cats 3 game losing streak in which Dr, Tony Baldwin's crew played well defensively, but struggled on the offensive end of the court. WCU lost last Wednesday at Georgia Tech, 69-46, and last Friday to Marshall, 67-54. WCU's head coach Dr. Tony Baldwin said, "I don't feel like we're playing full 40 minutes each game.. .our defense is doing a pretty good job. At Georgia Tech, we may have played the best defensive game since I've been here, and the defensive efforts against Marshall and Winthrop, also." Their only problem has been a matter of consistency on the offensive end. "We're just not doing as good a job as I think we can of putting the ball in the basket," commented Coach Baldwin. Toback up Baldwin's concerns about offense is statistical evidence of only one of the Lady Cats averaging in double figures. Junior forward Shirley Shannon, who led WCU against Marshall with 17 points and Winthrop with 24, has been inconsistent and is averaging 12 points per game. The Lady Cats will continue searching for their first conference win Wednesday night as they host Furman at 7:00pm; then face Marshall at the Ramsey Center Sunday at 3:00pm. Kim Mclnturff scored 13 points against Winthrop Thursday, February 9,1989 Brad Kimzey Photo Maurice "Mo" Johnson shoots over ASU player during Saturday night's game Baseball Cats Open Season With Losses To Florida; Will Travel To Auburn This Weekend Clint Fairey; the Southern Conference Player-of-the-Year the last two seasons Western Carolina University's baseball team, winners of the Southern Conference championship crown for the past four years, found an ample opponent to open its 1989 season against this past weekend. WCU, the team that has also advanced to play in the % NCAA tournament for four consecutive seasons, started their quest for number five with a humbling experience in Gainesville, Fl, as the Catamounts dropped three games to the nationally-ranked University of Florida. In last Saturday's dou- bleheader against the ninth- ranked Gators, Western showed strong pitching and surprising hitting, despite losing the twin- ball 5-3 and 14-9. Senior righthander Stewart Keyes turned in a six-inning, six-hit performance in the first game to keep it close, while senior first baseman Clint Fairey, the Southern Conference Player of the Year for the past two seasons, notched the Cats' first home run of the season. In the second game, WCU displayed some unexpected power with home runs from Fairey, freshman third baseman Matt Raleigh and junior designated hitter Mark Poarch. Raleigh's shoot highlighted his four-of-five performance, including four runs batted in, while Fairey and Poarch both went two-of-four. WCU trailed only 9-8 in the sixth inning before a breakdown in pitching allowed Florida to pull away. The Cats were never in Sunday's game, as Florida scored eight runs in the first inning and went on to win 18-1. "Florida is as explosive a hitting team as you'll find anywhere," praised WCU's seventh-year head coach Jack Leggett. "I thought we played some pretty good balL" especially in the first game. We seemed to be in good shape with pitching, we hit the ball much better than expected, but we did make some young mistakes. In the second game, we didn't pitch nearly as well as I thought we would. Overall, I saw enough to know that we're going to be all right; it's just going to take some experience." Western Carolina will have another opportunity to get some early experience this weekend against another impressive opponent when they travel to Auburn. The series opens with the first game on Friday at 3:00 p.m., followed by a 1:00 p.m. doubleheader on Saturday and a single game on Sunday at 12:00 noon. The Tigers have six starters returning from the last season's 39-16 team that finished fourth in the tough Southeastern Conference. WCU took one of four Baseball Coach Jack Legget games in last year's meeting with Auburn. "We will have to play very well to win this weekend," said Leggett. "Auburn doesn't have as explosive hitting as Florida does, but they are solid and have good pitching. It's going to be another tough week end," he added. Following the weekend at Auburn, the Catamounts will return to Cullowhee for their first homestand of the year when they host Carson-Newman for four games Feb. 17-19. Tennis (continued from page 13) Whiting, a freshman from Naples, FL. "While we do have young squads on both sides, we do have several players with a year's experience under their belts," said Johnson. "As a result, they should have a better grasp of what to expect and I look for this year's results to be reflective of that. We may surprise some people in both conference and non- conference matches." Saturday's season opener will put WCU up against Winthrop, one of the Big South conference's stronger teams, on a neutral setting. Johnson feels the early date will help his team. "With the season starting a little earlier than in the past, it gives us some good competition to play against and will hopefully give us some idea of things to follow, both indi- Bucs (continuedfrom pg 12) vidually and as a team," he said. After the Winthrop match, WCU's women's squad will travel to Davidson, NC on Feb. 16 to play matches against Peace College and Davidson, while the men's team will not see action until Feb. 19- 21 at Charleston, SC, where they have dates with the College of Charleston, Baptist College, and The Citadel. a chance to redeem himself. "The win feels great," commented Johnson, "After the ASU game, I got down on myself. My teammates and coaches told me to keep my head up, that we would have another chance...and that's what happened. My family was here tonight and I wanted to play a good game," he concluded. As a team, Western forced 14 first half turnovers and stole the ball nine times. As inspiring as the defense looked, the Cats' offense was simply awesome. Leading the cause was Keith Gray, who pumped in 19 before half time. Gray used a variety of unbelievable jump shots that left the Bucs scratching their heads. "Keith played the first half like an all-conference player," stated Possinger. "He was simply unstoppable." Adding fuel to the first half fire were Dave Donerlson's 11 points and Bennie Goettie's 10 points. The second half was not any less impressive than the first twenty minutes. The Cats dominated and the game was never in doubt. The Bucs predominantly put on full court pressure the last half in an attempt to get back in the contest, but according to freshman guard Dave Donerlson the Cats were well prepared. "We expected them to come out in full court pressure," stated Donerlson. "We went over their press in practice and just had to handle it as soon as it came up." The ease with which the Cats were able to handle the ETSU press led to easy baskets and dunks which kept the Ramsey Center crowd in a frenzy. The Cats constantly made the Bucs pay by turning the full-court press of ETSU into fast breaks, thanks to the passing of Maurice Johnson. At the 18:33 mark of the second half "Mo" fed Robert Hill for a layup with a beautiful behind-the-back pass. Later Johnson hit a wide-open Donerlson with a length-of- the-court pass from then on the Cats kept the R.A.C. rocking with monstrous dunks by Goettie and Terry Miller. Reserve freshman Doug Schultz put the icing on the cake with a spinning jumper in the lane with 0:33 remaining. For the Cats, Dave Donerlson finished the game with a career high 28 points, 17 in the second half, and Keith Gray dropped 23 through the basket. Bennie Goettie and Terry Miller added 14 and 12 poin$e respectively. The Bucs trio of Greg Dennis, Keith Jennings and Chad Keller managed just 13 points each in a losing effort.
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