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The Western Carolinian Page 8 Thursday, February 25, 1993 Sports Volume 58 Number 21 Spring break may be coming, but that isn't going to slow down WCU sports one bit. The men's and women's basketball teams will finish up their seasons, while baseball and tennis start shifting into high gear. Since Head Coach Greg Blatt's resignation, themen'sbas- ketball team is 2-2 and has beaten conference foes ETSU and VMI handily. Last night's game against UNC-Asheville will probably be the last breather the team gets this season. The Cats will finish up the regular season this weekend with twohome conference games. Georgia Southern comes to Cullowhee on Saturday. The Eagles blew open a close game in the second half to win by more than two dozen. The Citadel topped the Cats by ten earlier this season in Charleston. After running out to a big lead, the Bulldogs nearly let it slip away. Western has a chance to claw their way out of the large cellar with two wins this weekend. Virginia Military is presently one game up on the Cats. The Southern Conference Tournament is March 4-7 in Asheville. The opening round will pit the lowest four seeds against each other (#7 vs.#10and #8 vs. #9). The winners will take on the top two seeds in the tournament. UT-Chattanooga has already clinched the top seed in the tournament. The championship game will be televised by ESPN live. The lady Cats basketball team also finishes up their season with home games this weekend. East Tennessee State comes calling on Saturday and the Mountaineers of Appalachian. State will pay the Cats a visit Sunday. After this weekend's games, the lady Cats get a two- week rest before the conference tournament. This year's conference tournament is March 11-13 in Johnson City, TN. The men's and women's tennis teams hit the road for spring before opening their conference schedule. This weekend, the Cats take a tour of Charleston as they play USC-Spartanburg, Charleston Southern, and the College of Charleston on Saturday and Sun day. The Cats start their conference schedule soon after. Both teams begin their conference season with the Georgia Southern Eagles. Over the remaining two weeks the Cats play Wofford, Furman, and UNC-Asheville, among others. Over the next three weeks, the Western Carolina base- ball team will play 16 games and open it's conference schedule. WCU concluded its sea son opening home stand with a winning record and started on an eight game road trip yesterday afternoon. This weekend they travel to Charleston to take on Citadel in an important three game conference series. The Bulldogs were picked to finish third in the conference this season. Western was picked to finish second. After that, the Cats travel south to Florida for a pair of two game series. WCU takes on the Jacksonville Dolphins on March 1-2, before traveling to Deland for a two game series against the Stetson Hatters. Stetson was one of the teams at the South II Regional with the Cats last May. The Cats return home after that for a three-game series against Davidson. The University of Georgia, will be the Cats' next opponent. ETSU comes to Cullowhee for a weekend three game series on March 13-14. The Bucs were one of the top teams in the conference last season. Women place second, men fourth at SC meet David Driscoll Sports Writer The WCU women's track team placed second and the men placed fourth, their highest ever, in the Indoor Track and Field Championships at Cormick Fieldhouse last Friday and Saturday. The women's track team came in first place at the end of the first days competition, Friday, but was overtaken by Appalachian State on the final day of competiton. "I couldn't be more proud of the way our women performed from the on-set to the end of the meet." said Head Coach Danny Williamson. Final Women's SC Championship Meet Results 1. Appalachian St. 154 2. WCU 91 3. Furman 64 4. ETSU 46 5. UT-Chattanooga 41 6. Marshall 37 7. Davidson 1 The Lady Cats got in front of the five-time defending champion Mountaineers by a score of 34-26 on the first day. On the second day, ASU won five events to overtake the Cats. In the women's triple jump Von Ross leaped a distance of 39' 61/2" to get her first place. Joy Davis placed in the fifth spot with 35' 5". Susie Gardner took second place in the high jump with a height of 5'6". The women's 400- meter dash was won by Joy Davis with a time of 1:00.9 and just over a second behind her was Kim Authur in fifth place. Von Ross, who will be competing in the United States Indoor Champion long jump Feb. 26, placed first in the long jump with a distance of 20' 3 1/2". She also placed second in the triple jump with a jump of 39-6 1/2 and tied for second in the 55-meter dash with a time of 7.21. In the shot put competition, the Cat's Zondra Johnson took first place with a 40'11", Debbie Evans placed third with a throw of 39' 11 1/2", and Ericka Crawford was fourth with a 38- 10 1/4. The women came second in the mile relay Saturday (4:08.59) after coming in fourth on Friday's two mile relay at 10:17.7. ■ Final Men's SC Champi onship Meet Results l.VMI 133 2. ETSU 105 3. ASU 79 4. WCU 59 5. UT-Chattanooga 57 6. Marshall 46 7. The Citadel 16 8. Davidson 0 more bodies," said coach Williamson, "we pulled together and gave them a run for their money." The women finished in second place at the end of the meet. Danny Wiliamson was named women's coach-of- the-year. "I don't think that it was an award for just me," said Williamson. "Ithas to be accepted by all of the women, because they worked hard too." The men's team finished the meet with a score of 59 points for their fourth place finish. VMI won the men's competition with 133 points, with ETSU second, and ASU third. Western Carolina's Shawn "The other teams had Miller was named men's outstanding performer. He won events in the long jump (23' 10 1/2"), the high jump (6'9 3/4") and finally, the triple jump (48' 2 3/4"). Reggie Allison came second in the triple jump at 47' 8 1/4". In the men's pole vault Jeff Capps won with a height of 14'6". The men's team placed (hird in the mile relay with a time of 3:27.64 and fifth in the two mile relay with a time of 8:08:0. "Fourth is the highest! that we have ever finished in the indoor competitions," said ccjach Williamson. "notalotofthings\!vent right and that hurt us as far as final score." ; The track team is now getting ready for the outdoor competitions. ; "We are excited about the outdoor competitions," said Williamson. "WCU is stronger put- door because we have the necessary equipment to practice on that' we didn't have indoor." Baseball team splits doubleheader David Driscoll Sports Writer Last Saturday, the chilly weather kept Western Carolina's baseball team cold in the first game, but they exploded at the plate during the second game to split a double header with Wright State. As a team- the Cats had twelve strikeouts out of 25 at bats. The only score they had was off a single by left- fielder Rob Doherty that drove in first baseman Marc Striker. The Cats had five hits in the game due to the pitching of Brian Anderson. Philip Grundy threw for the Cats. In his seven innings, he threw nine strikeouts. He gave up only two walks and six hits, which was just enough for the Raiders to score three runs in the 6th inning, to win the game 3-1. Game two proved the Cats to be a different team. Centerfielder Mike Tidick started things off early for the Cats with a long ball hit back to the left field track, which moved Lyman H ABRBIR HRAvd 11 22 2 9 0 .500| Connolly 5 12 3 3 0 .417 Hennon 10 25 5 5 0 .400! Tidick 8 2213 7 3 .364 Strieker 7 20 3 5 1 .350 Whitson 7 22 3 6 0 .318 iHurst 6 22 2 5 0 .273 (Grundy 5 20 7 5 2 .250 1 WLERASOBB IP Pilgrim 0 0 0.00 1 0 2 Grundy 0 1 3.60 14 4 15 Beverlin 2 0 3.65 12 9 12.J Hearrell 1 0 5.76 4 6 8.2 rightfielder Scott Lyman, who walked earlier, to scoring position at third base. Next up to bat was Grundy who was offered a pitch that he took deep to the center field fence for a sacrifice fly that scored two runs. On that same play, Wright State's centerfielder, Doug Lowe, in the attempt to reach Grundy's fly ball, ran into the fence. Lowe fell to the ground, but quickly came to his feet contributing to the play that almost threw Tidick out at home plate. Lowe took himself out of the game one inning later because he hurt his arm when he hit the fence. The Cats scored again in the 2nd inning. Doherty got on base on a base error when the leftfielder dropped the pop up. Two batters later, shortstop Stephen Pritchard hit a shot to centerfield, scoring Doherty. He was caught in a run down between firstbase and second base later to end the inning. In the bottom of the third Lyman came up to the plate. He hit a long fly ball to left field. Grundy stepped up to the plate next and hit a homerun over the left field fence,which scored Lyman and gave Cats a 5-0 lead. In the fifth inning the Catamounts teed off against the Raider's pitcher Jayson Smith. Lyman, the second batter of the inning hit a hard ground ball that bounced past the shortstop. Tidick followed up with a long homerun, over the left center fence, which was his third of the season. Grundy then hit a single to right centerfield, giving him his firstmultiplehitday of the season. The Raiders then switched pitchers from Smith to righthander Marc Galan. More, who was pinch runner for Grundy, made his way to third by way of a sacrifice fly from Striker and a single to center by Doherty. He scored on a pass ball shortly after the pitching change. The Raiders scored two runs in the seventh inning to add to their score, but fell short of the win. Even though the Cats wentthrough several pitchers with Jason Beverlin, Brad Tweedie, Joe Sellers, and finally Mike Manning all seeing action, the Cats still maintained the lead and won 8-4. B?"«l » ♦ ■ » 1 am** Carolinian flit photo. Jeff VanDemark tries to slam the ball over two Marshall defenders in recent action. Western tops Bulldogs 82-69 behind Gaines' 35 point performance Curtis Metzger Sports Writer Robert Gaines scored 35 points in a non-conference contest as Western beat UNC-Asheville 82- 69 Wednesday night in the Ramsey Center. Gaines scored his 1624th career point, which moved into the number six spot on WCU's all-time point scoring list. He is also WCU's all- time three point shooting leader. The Catamounts engaged their full- court press in the opening minutes of the game and their defensive play forced ten turnovers, including five steals in the first half. UNC-A took an early 5-0 lead, but WCU came back with seven unanswered points to go ahead 7-5. There were six lead changes in the next seven minutes before B. J. Thompson's four foot baseline jumper put the Cats ahead for good at 24-22. The teams headed to the locker with the Cats leading 42-38. Gaines led all players in scoring in the first half with 16points. Ramon Brown scored eight points in only ten minutes in the first half. He finished up with nine points in the game. Men's SC Standings Through games of 2/23 _¥ L S_ L UT-C 14 2 21 6 GSU 11 5 17 7 ETSU 11 6 15 9 Marshall 10 6 15 9 Davidson 8 8 11 if ASU 8 9 12 13 Furman 7 9 9 15 Citadel 7 9 9 14 VMI 3 13 5 19 WCU 2 14 6 75 from inside the three-point arc, and hit three of eight three point attempts. Some of the games' highlights included Tim Ford's of f-the glass block of a UNC-A lay-up attempt and B.J. Thompson's alley-oop pass to Robert Gaines for a slam dunk. "As the game went on Robert just took over the game offensively," Head Coach Greg Blatt said. In a game marked by four lead changes and 46 three-point attempts, WCU lost to first place UT- Chatanooga 85-66 Saturday in the UTC Arena. Both WCU and UTC shot over 50% from the floor for the game and the teams deadlocked the score seven times in the first 29 minutes of play. 'This was no 20-point ball game," said Blatt. During the first half, Western led by as many as ten points (21- 11) before heading in to the locker room with the score tied 37-37. UTC's Chad Copeland led the first half scoring by sinking five out of ten three-pointers for 15 points. In the second half, Anguell McCoIIum nailed a 3-pointer to put the Catamounts up 60-59 with just over nine minutes left to play. The lead went back to the close trailing by only two (63-61) points with 7:58 left in the game. Then UTC, led by the shooting of Chad Copeland, went on a 22-5 run to bring the final margin to 85-66. "For 31 minutes we went head to head with die best team in the league," said Blatt.. Gaines led WCU with 16 points and McCoIIum fol lowed with 15 points. Thompson ripped down a game high 10 rebounds and Maurice Williams led all players with 11 assists. Jeff Vandemark went a perfect 5 for 5 form the free throw line. "Despite their pulling away in the last minutes, this is a continuation of our good play," said Blatt. Copeland went 7-12 from three point land and was the game Gaines hit 12 of 13 shots Moccasins (61-59) but the Cats hung high scorer with 25 points. UTC (21r 6, 14-2) clinched the number one seed for the Southern Conference Tournament with their victory over WCU Saturday. Western still has a chance to climb out of the conference cellar for the season. For them to do so, they nee^ to win at least one of their two conference games this weekend. » I 0:t ALPHA KAPPA PROFESSIONAL SUSINESS FRATERNITY %.' JOIN US NOW, OR WORK FOR US LATER! SCHEDULE OF EVENTS: MARCH 16TH, TUESDAY: SMOKER; FORSYTH AUDITORIUM AT 9:00 P.M. MARCH 17TH, WEDNESDAY: COOKOUT; CAROLINA VILLAGE AT 6:30 P.M. MARCH 18TH, THURSDAY: BOWLING; MEET AT FORSYTH AT 9:00 P.M. FOR RIDE TO FRANKLIN LANES. AKf

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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