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Volume 57 Number 16 Sports The Western Carolinian Page 6 Thursday, January 30. 1992 Robert M Robertson Out of Bounds My kingdom for a ref eree!!! Pardon me, is there a referee in the house? All the others are comatose! Where the hell does the Southern Conference get those damn referees? I think they crawled out of a toilet. Clemson did not beat Western Carolina last night, the referees did. If I had a dollar for every missed inside foul, or trav elling, I'd be a very rich man by now. And what about that technical foul? Is it against the rules to have school spirit? I don't think so. Just look at Cameron Indoor Stadium, home of the Duke Blue Devils. Everything from condoms, to pizza boxes, to hair combs have been thrown in that place. And no, I've never seen a technical called when the rubber flew. But that was the ACC, and their refs have I.Q.s greater than those in the amoebic Southern Conference. The Refs, who shall remain nameless, must have had serious Oedipus Complexs growing up that they acted upon. In other words, their family trees don't branch. It's time to begin that inquisition that I mentioned ear Her. In other important matters...The Southern Conference Referees haven't been able to see a damn thing for quite a while now. The Citadel practically beat us up with their full court press and I think they've never heard of over-the-back. I was beginning to think our team had to be molested before a foul was called, but we still beat the five players and three refs who were against us. AtETSU Rodney "Mister" English got a slam, hung there for five minutes, and looked like he was doing frigging pull- ups on the rim. Of course the crowd went wild, but those dim- witted referees must have thought the exercise was good for his arms and declined to call the technical. Still, I'm not going to say anything about Greg "Mister StovePipeHead" Dennis, the ETSU center who would be only 5-11 if it weren't for his hairdo. However, life is not all bad. My head doesn't look like an accessory to a wood stove, the WASHINGTON REDSKINS are WORLD CHAMPIONS, and theThundering Turds of Marshall are still winless in Southern Conference Basketball. In other important matters...The UNLV of the Southern Conference is coming to Cullowhee this Saturday. I'm talking about UTC, the illiterate, hardcourt juggernauts from this season and last season. In June, USA Today rated the Mocs as graduating the lowest number off their basketball team, of any team in the S.C. UTC graduated a whopping 14 percent of their men's basketball teams from 1980 through '84. The Mocs were far ahead of seventh-place ETSU, who managed to get rid of 27 percent of their team. This reminds me of a joke...Question: What did the UTC graduate say to the WCU graduate? Answer: "Welcome to McDonald's. May I take your order please?" In other impotent [sic] matters...Mr. Mead really should stop making predictions. I know that Monday night he was 50-50 on his predictions, but it's not too difficult to see that Duke would pound Clemson, and who really cares about UNC-A and Winthrop? What Doug "Mister Negative" Mead really screwed up on was the point spread of our game versus the Citadel and the NCSU/UT game. See "jerkweeds and inbreds" page 7 'Team effort' lifts Western over Citadel 88-77 Starters score in double figures, led by Robert Gaines' 26 Robert M. Robertson Sports Editor Five Catamount players scored in double figures Monday night as WCU downed the Citadel Bulldogs 88-77 in the Ramsey Center. "We had an outstanding team effort...," said WCU head coach Greg Blatt. "This was an important game and a much needed win." "What was particularly pleasing was our good offensive flow. We also played good defense in the last eight minutes." "But give them credit for being a scrappy group," Blatt added. Western Carolina junior guard Robert Gaines led all scorers with 26 points while pulling down nine rebounds. Gaines was followed by senior guard Terry Boyd, who contributed 17 points and 12 rebounds. Boyd and Gaines were followed by Greg Dates, with 14 points, junior guard Maurice Williams', 11 points with six assists, and sophomore BJ. Thompson's 10 points, 10 rebounds, and seven assists. Williams started at point guard position, a question-mark po sition as of late. Freshman Scott Bradley relieved Williams when he needed a rest. "We had solid point guard play tonight," said Blatt. "We'll go with it as long as it's solid." The Citadel was led by Andre Harris and Lamar Wright, who had 16 points each for the Bulldogs. Wright also dished out five assists. The Catamounts trailed 8-4 early on before Dates and Thompson scored on consecutive possessions to tie things up at eight apiece. Western quickly took the lead and extended it on a 9-0 run starting at the 16:55 mark, and never again looked back. The closest the Bulldogs came was 31 -27 with 7:12 remaining in the first half. The Cats went up by 11, their biggest lead of the first half, with 2:47 to play. The Bulldogs cut the lead to seven going in, on two scores by Wright and Augustus McDowell. Western came out with a 10-2 run in the first 7:43 of the second half to take a 15 point lead. The Catamounts biggest lead of the evening, 16 points, came first on a free throw by Bradley. The lead hovered around the 14-point mark until with 3:51 to play, Gaines scored on a steal and a dunk to give the Cats' their last 16 point cushion. The Citadel then went on a quick 11-4 spurt that pulled them to within nine with 2:15 to play. The 'Dogs cut it to eight on a 3- pointer by Wright with 1:48 to go. Gaines answered with a slam, while the Catamounts hit five of their last eight free throws to ice the victory. The Catamounts finished shooting 47.6 percent from the field, and hit 74.3 percent of their free throws. The ironic low-spot for Western was in 3-point field goal percentage. The Cats hU only 14.3 percent from outside the arc, off from their 52.6 percent mark. "We've been in the top five teams in the country in 3-point field goal percentage. As long as the right people are taking those shots, it's all right," Blatt said. "In thepast when we didn't shoot well from 3-point range, we struggled, but tonight we won." The Citadel shot 38 percent from the field, with a 43 percent effort from the arc. Western (2-4, 6-10) also out rebounded the Bulldogs (1-4,6- 10), 49-42, and led in steals, 6-3. Each team had 11 turnovers. Carolinian photo by Hunur Pape 6-10 freshman Jeff VandeMark rips down the goal against the Citadel Bulldogs. Poor Catamount shooting gives Clemson 81-71 edge Carolinian photo by Hunter Pape Senior guard Terry Boyd, #30, shoots over Clemson defender, #4, Eric Burks. Robert M. Robertson Sports Editor Clemson outscored WCU 26-10 in the first 12 minutes of last night's game, and held off several Catamount rallies to take the win, 81-71, before a cheering,Ramsey Center mob of 4,193. "Well, certainly we didn't shoot well tonight, but I couldn't be more proud of our effort," WCU head coach Greg Blatt said. "At first it seemed like a blowout, but we regained our composure and made some runs at them," Blatt added. "If we'd shot the ball well, we could have won this ballgame." The Cats did not score until the 14:16 mark, when junior guard Maurice Williams layed the ball in, to make it 7-2, Tigers. The crowd then threw rolls of toilet paperonto thecourt, resulting in a technical foul being call on Western Carolina. New rules state that throwing objects onto the court no w result in an immediate technical without warning. "In a way, I wish this would happen at every game," said Blatt. "The crowd was fantastic. I hope that we can see more of it. This is the first time that we've really had the home court advantage, and we couldn' t have made those runs in the second half without it (the crowd)." The Tigers extended their lead to 16 with 7:50 left in the first half, before Western began a rally. Clemson owned an 11 -point lead with 3:03 left in the half, when WCU freshman guard Scott Bradley scored on a 3-point jumper. Bradley scored the next two Catamount field goals to cut the lead to seven, with 1:06 to go iq the half. Clemson went back up by eight on a Kevin Hines free throw, and took an 11 -point halftime lead on Chris Whitney's three pointer with :03 seconds remaining in the first. Bradley led WCU scorers in the first half with nine, as the Tiger defense smothered the Cats' leading scorers Terry Boyd and Robert Gaines. In the first nine minutes of the second half, the Tiger lead hovered between nine and 12 points. Clemson's lead was 10 with 11:30 remaining, when junior guard Robert Gaines scored on a driving layup to make it 46-54. Gaines scored again on a slam to cut it to six, with 10:40 to play. The score was 56-50 when the Tigers went on a 8-0 run to take a 14 point lead. The Cats cut it back to single-digits on a 3-pointer by Williams, before Clemson jumped back out on another 8-0 run to take their biggest lead of the evening, 72-55. Western clawed back on free throws by Gaines, Boyd, and a slam dunk by junior center Greg Dates. Boyd's 3-pointer with :57 remaining to play, cut the Clemson lead to eight. The Tigers hit their last six free throws to seal the victory. Boyd led all scorers with 17 points. Williams followed with 16, and Robert Gaines had 12. Sophomore B.J. Thompson led the Cats in rebounds with nine. As a team, the Catamounts shot 37.9 percent from the field, and' 21.7 percent from outside the arc. Clemson put five players in. double figures, led by Eric Burks': 16. Harris followed with 14, Kevin Hines, 13, 6-10 freshman Sharone; Wrightaddcd 12,andChris Whitney, 11. The Tigers shot 57.4 per-, cent from the field as a team, hit 16.7 percent outside the arc, and hit 54.5 percent of the free throws. "We knew it'd be a tough game," said Clemson head coach Cliff Ellis. "If we had not kept it in double figures most of the game, it would have been interesting toward theend." "I gotta give Western a lot of credit. They pulled out all the stops, and we were fortunate enough to pull it out. They made us play." The loss dropped WCU to 6-11 overall, while staying at 2-4 in the conference. The Catamounts next, game is at home this Saturday against league-leading UTC. Lady Catamounts lose to App 76-66, and UTC 100-78 Derek Smolik Sportswriter The WCU women's basketball team squandered aninepoint halftime lead and lost to Appalachian State University 76-66 last Thursday night in Cullowhee. The Lady Mountaineers controlled the tempo of the game early in the first half, taking a 26-19 lead after outscoring the lady Cats 14-5. The Cats came right back though, going on a 22-6 run to close out the first half leading 41-32. Early in the second half, the Lady Mountaineers began cutting into Western's lead, closing to as little as four points at the 13:53 mark. The Mountaineers used a full-court press to disrupt the Cats offense and outscored them 15-0 over the next 6:45. WCU tried to come back, but were able to make only one three-point shot out of eleven attempts in the second half, after making five of eight in the first half. The Lady Cats were only able to shoot 32 percent overall from the field in the second half. Western was led by Lori Lyons and Charlene Penland's 11 points and had four players in double figures in scoring. The loss was the Cats third in a row after winning three in a row. "I was very pleased with the kind of effort we put forth against Appalachian, what we are looking for is that kind of consistency in every game," commented Coach Janet Cone. "We were in the game both physically and mentally. I hate to say it, but there have been several instances this season where we were not in the game mentally and when that happens, we just are not a good team. "On the other hand, when we have our heads together, we are as good a team as any in the Southern Conference," Coach Cone also said. The next home game for the Lady Cats will be on February 8 against Marshall. Sports Information Office In Sunday afternoon's game at UT-Chattanooga, Cone's crew had troubles of a different sort against the league-leading Moccasins, who blew away WCU by a 100-78 count. It was the worst loss of the season for the Lady Cats, who previously had not lost any game by more than a 14-point margin. WCU and UTC were ucd at 20-20 with 8:06 left in the first half, but the Lady Moccasins poured it on from that point to take a 45-29 edge at the half and were never threatened afterwards. Western Carolina committed a season-high 30 personal fouls and sent UTC to the free throw line 45 times. The Lady Mocs converted 32 of those opportunities into points. WCU point guard Amy McEntire turned in a career game with 21 points and nine rebounds, both personal bests, to lead all scorers. On photoM country Mark HamUtt Amy McEntire Cook added her first double-double of the season with 18 points and 12 rebounds. Western as a team hit on 11 of 25 three-point baskets, breaking a school record for treys made. Several Lady Cats continue to rank among the Southern Conference's statistical leaders. Lyons lists as the league's fifth high est scorer with her 15.3 average, plus is third in both field goal (53.3) and free throw (77.1) percentage. Center Regina Brown ranks third in rebounding (8.4) and second in blocked shots (2.1). Cook leads the league in three-point field goal percentage (30 of 60 for 50%) and is fourth in steals (1.9).

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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