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Western Carolinian Volume 59 Number 20 (19)

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  • Western Carolinian February 17, 1994 Sports Catamounts win one of two on the road Derek Smolik StaffReporter Frankie King continued to soar high above the competition, but it wasn't enough to get the Cats two victories last weekend as VMI topped the Cats by three Monday night. Saturday night was a much happier occasion for Western as they were able to overcome a four point Marshall half-time lead and win by four, 73-69. King led the Cats with 36 points and also had seven rebounds. The Cats overcame 19 turnovers by shooting 48.1% in the game, with 54.2% in the second half. The win gave the Cats their highest league win total since the 1985-86 team won eight games. ANQUELL MCCOLLUM (OPI photo by Mark Haskett) Anquell McCollum scored 13 points in the game, including three crucial three-pointers. He also dished out four assists. B.J. Thompson also hit double figures with 13 points. Tim Ford had a team-high eight rebounds. But in Monday's game the Cats were the ones who lost the first half lead as the Keydets scored 51 points in the second half after only scoring 28 in the first. The win was only the Keydets (last in the SC) second conference win of the year. Lawrence Gullette led a balanced VMI attack with 19 points. Four other Keydets scored in double WCU loses in 13 innings Derek Smolik Staff Reporter Western was finally able to solve the ^lemson pitching staff Sunday afternoon, ™t the Tigers were able to get to WCU's We"' ^d the result was a wild, 13- mH, 6-5 victory for the Tigers. After four innings of dodging bullet Jter bullet the Cats finally got into a jam Dal C1?u,dn't 8et out of. Relief pitcher a'e Pilgrim led off by walking Mike JJJfPton, then hit Gary Burnham. A and £'tCh moved the runners to second riehth w*th no outs. Pilgrim came 8 back though, striking out Dexter way 0r^1OOked *° have WriSS,ed hiS onth )am when he went UP °"2 Wag e"extbatter,Seth Brizek. ButBrizek deep t0 P°P the next Pitch into fairly chancT16^ and Jody Henson had no *to gun down Hampton at the plate. 'e did a lot of good things," Head !,th LeClair said afterwards. "But, I'm disappointed mat we didn't win a game." "This was one of the best games I've ever been involved in," said Clemson Coach and former WCU coach Jack Leggett. "They made unbelievable defensive plays. Western's going to have a great team this year." Early on the game looked to be in the bag for the Cats as transfer junior Kevin Rexrode shut down the Tigers for six innings, allowing only five hits and one run and left with a 4-1 lead. Freshman Clark Maxwell came in to start the seventh but apparently was the victim of some first game jitters as he walked two straight batters and was pulled by LeClair. "Clark's going to be a great pitcher for us one day," LeClair said in defense of his freshman's first outing. Joe Jack Sellers came in for Maxwell and tried to hold the Tigers but allowed a Please. Srf. 'Extra Innmob' pp. 14 better STYLING... live and breathe. as we REDKEN "CLEAN AIR" Styling Formulas Five versatile performers br^S^^ So you can look sensational and breathe easier. FANTA"5Tir HAIR Long Branch Rd Cullowhee 293-3125 REDKEN figures. Virginia Military shot 51.7% in the second half after only shooting 37% in the first. For the Cats, it was the same old story with Frankie King leading the way with 37 points and 11 eleven rebounds, team highs in both categories. Tim Ford and Anquell McCollum were the only other Cats to finish with double figures in scoring. The loss dropped the Cats to 9-13 overall and 6-8 in the conference and severely hurt the Cats' chances of avoiding the play-in round of the SC Basketball Tournament. King does it again Derek Smolik StaffReporter Frankie King did it again. For the third straight week King was named Southern Conference player-of-the-week. This is the first time in SC history that the same player has been named player-of- the-week three straight times. King is now averaging 26.1 points per game and is currently ranked number six in NCAA Division I scoring. Over the last seven games King has averaged 34.0 points and 8.4 rebounds a game. "There is not a better small player in the southeast," Head Coach Benny Dees said of King. "He is special and is carrying us right now. He makes the people around him better players." King scored a total of 73 points against Marshall and VMI last week (36.5 per game average) and pulled down 18 rebounds as well. He has also won the player-of the- week award four times this year, which ties a record for the most times in a season. If King is able to maintain his average for the rest of the season, he will have the fifth highest season scoring average ever and the best since the Cats joined the Southern Conference. Terry Boyd's average of 23.7 points per game in 1990-91 is currently the best. Henry Logan has the four highest per season averages in WCU history with averages of 36.2 (1968), 30.2 (1967), 29.1 (1966) and 26.7 (1965).
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