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three wins and no losses
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jere Saturday morning in their
debut.
The match was also the third
;ia^htathomeand three more
Bush, 6-1, 6-3.
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Atlantic Christian swept
jingles competition
prevailed in the top two doubles
matclies. John Bush and Ed
Taylor prevented a shutout for
’ s. Andrews by winning the No. 3
joubles match over ACC’s
K'arrenWesley-Phil Hurd, 6-3, 6-
‘ 1.
Otherwise, only No. 2 Bill Kent
encountered slight difficulty,
Kent, slowly overcoming
sickness, turned back Gray Fox,
M, 6-1, 7-5.
Top-seeded freshman Pat
Taylor breezed past Mitch
itchell, 6-0, 6-1 while No. 3
Claries Wickizer, a senior,
iilanked Steve Barber, 6-0, 6-0.
Sophomore Rocky Peed, No. 4,
ireezed past Steve McCallister,
W.6-2 and No. 5 Robert Wells, a
freshman, shutout John
WRA
Highlights
Girls intramurals are in full
swing, according to Debbie
Purvis, president of the
Women’s Recreation
Association. The Purple Pistols
captured the basketball title,
followed close behind by the
tough competition of Caldwell
Hall and Sigma Sigma Sigma,
Commenting on the recent
competition in basketball,
Purvis explained, “Everybody
has improved greatly from last
year. A lot of good talent was
displayed, making for an in
teresting season. We hope that
the participation and com
petition will increase even more
next year.”
Any woman student can still
join WRA for this semester by
paying 50 cents. Games are
played at 5.00 and involve 6
teams: Delta Zeta, Harper Hall,
Caldwell Hall, New Dorm,
Purple Pistols, and Sigmas.
Events remaining to be played e
table tennis, lawn tennis, ar
chery, and badminton. Thee will
be a picnic at the end of the year
for WRA members.
WRA offers a challenge, en
joyment, and the satisfaction of
doing your best in a team effort.
FIVE
Members of the 1974 tennis team are as follows: Pat Taylor, Charles Wickizer, Kobert Wells, Charles
V\ ooteii, Rocky Peed, Bill Kent, Bob Easter. The coach is Tom Parham.
ACC Place Second in Tourney
Softball To Begin
The Intramural Softball
season has been scheduled to
start Monday, March 18. All
games will be played at Toisnot
Park.
Six teams have entered the
league this year. They are
Sigma Pi, Alpha Sigma Phi,
Sigma Phi Epsilon, Delta Sigma
Phi,Hackney I, and Hackney II,
The season will be composed of
two rounds of round-robinplay,
and will be topped off with a
angle-elimination tournament
between the four top teams.
Alpha Sigma Phi and Sigma Pi
tied lor first place last season.
Sigma Pi was the champion the
previous two years. These two
teams, along with the Sig Epgs
are the overwhelming favorites
with the oddsmakers. However,
all six teams should provide stiff
competition, a close pennant
race, and a hell fired tour
nament.
Monday’s opening day action
is as follows;
4:30 Hackney II vs Sigma Pi
Hackney I vs. Delta Sig
5:30 Alpha Sig vs Sig Ep
Games are also scheduled for
Wednesday and Thursday of
next week.
BUIES CREEK - Atlantic
Christian College finished a
distant second in the annual
Campbell Invitational Tennis
Tournament here Friday and
Saturday behind Carolinas
Conference power High Point.
High Point swept all six
singles and three doubles
championships in amassing 90
points while Atlantic Christian
managed 44 points.
Other scores were St. Andrews
28, Pembroke State 23, host
Campbell 22 and UNC-Wil-
mington 15.
“We played poorly,” com
mented Bulldogs’ coach Tom
Parham. “However, High Point
does have a fine team. But, I was
pleased with the improvement of
Rocky Peed.”
Peed, a sophomore from
Washington, N.C., was the only
ACC singles performer to reach
the finals while three doubles
teams lost to High Point College
opponents in the finals.
Peed lost a marathon struggle
to High Point’s Hector
Villarroel, 2-6, 6-2, 6-1.
and
6-1,
In the doubles, Peed
Charles Wickizer dropped
6-0 decision to Peter Ranney-
Villarroel of High Point; Pat
Taylor-Charles Wooten lost 7-6,
6-3,to Bill Ashley-Kim Dillard of
High Point and the Bulldogs'
Bob Easter-Robert Wells were
downed, 6-0, 6-1 by High Point’s
Robert Goode-Jim Ratcliffe.
Other singles champions for
High Point were Ranney,
Ashley, Dillard, Goode and
Casey. Atlantic Christian was
without the services of probable
No. 1 ranked player Bill Kent
who remained at home because
of sickness.
The Bulldogs will be home for
three dual matches this week,
entertaining UNC-Charlotte
Wednesday afternoon. West
Liberty, W. Va., Friday and St.
Andrews at 10 a.m. Saturday.
The St. Andrews match launches
ACC's NAIA District 29 slate.
ACC Golfers Eye
Winning Season
Salisbury Chills Bulldogs 2-0
By ALLEN STALLINGS
Both the weather conditions
Slid Salisbury State chilled the
Bulldogs here Monday afternoon
<is the return of head coach
l^rry Thompson seemed to be a
gloomy one.
Wie Bulldogs put up a violent
efct with the conditions being
to of rain and wind and tem
peratures that stayed in the 40’s.
Atlantic Christian College
simply could not master up any
ftlense against the pitcher
%ers, who was not over
powering, but did very ef-
iectively mixed his pitches well
moved the ball around very
Pfofessionally in stopping the
Mldogs with only one sin^u hit
Siven up.
Tliat single came when senior
Itft fielder Larry Moser pailed a
clsan single into left field with
***> out in the bottom of the
Winters for the day
fourth,
nine^i^”!?^ struck out
opener for
pilhw as starting
fifst fll! struggled
^>^n c ed th"T^-
fikerightl ^ Wilson
relief pitcher Dallas Ar
thur walked four and struck out
three in the remaining four
frames.
Lady luch must have been
shining bright on the Bulldogs
that afternoon by lose by 2-0, For
Salisbury State leftll2 runners
stranded and ended the inning
with the bases loaded both in the
fourth and sixth frames.
Salisbury’s only two runs came
in the second inning.
Hobgood walked two, struck
out three and also hit two op
posing battecs. Several of the
hits off of Jerry were not-too-
well-hit shots that went to the
opposite side where the ball just
was out of reach for the leaping
and lunging Bulldog defenders.
Over half of Salisbury’s hits
came with at least two strikes
against the hitter.
Jerry escaped jams both in the
fourth and fifth innings. Singles
by Myers and Giznninoto and
Torrillo filled the bases with one
out in the fourth. But, Hobgood
got Muchly to foul out and
retired Don Krug on a fly to
center field.
A hit baseman, walk and an
error left Hobgood once agains
in trouble in the fifth, but the
Bulldog pitcher struck out two
batters and also picked off the
first base runner.
Relief pitcher Dallas Arthur
being in fine form after a shaky
sixth inning came onhin the later
innings to bring the contest to a
close. His throwing error and
successive walks loaded the
bases with one out. Then he
retired Handy on a foul pop to
catcher Donnie Koontz, while he
came up with a fine play on a
roller in front of the plate to pick
off Frishel at first base.
The Bulldogs only baserunner
came in the opening inning when
center fielder Mike Harrison led
off by getting on by an error and
reached third by stolen bases.
But to no avail did it help for
Winters quickly fanned off the
next two batters.
But the Bulldogs did have
other base runners, as Larry
Moser singled, Donnie Koontz
who walked to open the fifth, will
Flowers who walked to open the
seventh and once again Koontz
who reached first on an error to
lead off the eighth.
My congratulations goes to
Larry Moser who singled and to
both pitchers Jerry Hobgood and
Dallas Arthur who pitched a
good game, but did not succeed
in winning the opening debut.
By TOM HAM
Every since Atlantic Christian
College athletic teams gained
admission to the NAIA District
29. the golfers have been un
successfully chasing Campbell
College.
The Bulldogs’ linksters of
veteran coach Ed Cloyd did stop
Campbell during the 1973
regular season but finished
second in the District Tour
nament. Cloyd admits repeating
even those feats will be difficult
this season.
He contends his ACC crew is
rebuilding after last season's
banner 12-2 regular season
campaign. The Bulldogs launch
their season at St. Andrews
College Monday and stage their
home debut at Wedgewood
Country Club Wednesday af
ternoon against Carolinas
Conference rival Elon.
Cloyd hints his golfers may be
a year and two strong golfers
away from a championship
season but assures he an
ticipates another winning record
in 1974.
Atlantic Christian will be
paced by its No. 1-No. 2 punch of
junior Carey Pittman of
Scotland Neck and junior Tom
Barnes of Wilson. Pittman oc
cupied the Bulldogs’ No. 1 slot
last season while Barnes is a
transfer from the University of
North Carolina where he was a
member of the golf team.
But, the Bulldogs return just
three performers off last
season’s strong outfit and Cloyd
assures the question mark is the
squad’s strength down the line.
Starting at the No. 3 post
Monday will be first-year senior
Hatch Hammond of Virginia
while sophomore returnee Butch
O'Briant will be No. 4. Junior
I^e Taylor, a Tidewater Junior
College. Va. transfer, will be
playing as the No. 5 performer
with sophomore Dennis Eason of
Macclesfield probably drawing
the No. 6 berth.
However, Eason has been
locked in a stern battle with
senior Martin Hagwood in spring
qualifying. Other squad
members are senior letterman
Phil Fulghum of Wilson and
junior Joey Bright.
During 72 holes of spring
qualifying, Barnes and Pittman
both posted 292 totals or a 73
average over the various Wilson
layouts. O'Briant and Taylor
averaged 80, Hagwood 83, Eason
and Fulghum 84, and Bright 88.
The ACC mentor insists his
team's fortunes could revolve
around the play of Hammond
and O’Briant in the middle of the
lineup. O’Briant and Fulghum
alternated at the No. 6 slot most
of last season. Four frontliners
departed via graduation,
Pittman, Barnes and Ham
mond are all described as ex
tremely long hitters and Cloyd
expects Pittman and Barnes to
contribute to the points total
“They both have strong
overall games,” he contended,
"and they have a good chance of
beating anybody they play —
even Campbell’s top two
players"
Elon and defending tourney
champ Catawba are considered
the Carolinas Conference title
threats and Cloyd assures
Campbell ranks as the definite
District 29 title threat.
"I don’t think we can stay with
Campbell," he frankly observed,
"but we should finish above .500.