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the clarion
Tuesday, March 4,1980
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Brevard Upsets
Hiwassee 73-71
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by Frank Moody
The Brevard College Tennis
Team has started to gear up for
hopefully a top notch season. The
team will face a seventeen match
schedule including two tour
naments, one being the B.C.
invitational in early April.
The team consists of seven
players Baker Heard, Masa Yone
Mura, Jeff Gold, Dave Schad,
Johnny Madden, Scott Plem-
mons, and Bill Hester. Also
ranking high on the ladder would
have been Bob Stiers, lost for the
season due to an injury, and
Mark Gibbson who won’t be , ^ ^ ^
returning this semester.
The team is expecting tough ^
play in the conference from
Anderson, and Lees-McRae, and / , s.-,/-s".//'J
will also be playing two four year >, ^
schools Milligan, and Emory and
Henry, in tough non-conference
play. ' - ' ■ - * '
According to Coach Maynor, Don’t Miss Our Women’s Tennis Team preview in our
“If there are no further injuries March 14th issue
and our new comers can play
match tough, we should have an
outstanding team. I am op
timistic that we will, as are the
players,”
The team will begin their
schedule today at Milligan with
the next two matches being
against Anderson, and Sand Hills
Community College, on the road.
The team will return home on
March 11th against Western
Piedmont and will also be home
March 13th against Spartanburg,
both matches beginning at one-
thirty.
by Ray Duckworth
Brevard finished up the regular
season on February 23 with a 73-
71 victory over ninth ranked
Hiwassee. The victory gave BC a
10-13 record for the year.
David Horner made four
crucial free throws in the last
1:41 of the game that gave BC the
winning points.
It was the final regular season
home game for Brevard’s five
sophomores, Scott Harper, Kevin
Herron, David Horner, Bobby
Summers, and Moose Tim-
berlake. Harper finished with six
points while Herron tallied nine.
Horner closed with eight as
Summers scored twelve. Tim-
berlake responded with 21 points
and 12 rebounds. Also, everyone
on the team scored in the game.
In other recent games, Brevard
defeated North Greenville and
Wilkes College while losing to
Spartanburg Methodist and Lees-
McRae.
The North Greenville victory
was by a 96-81 score on Feburary
16. Five players scored in double
figures for BC. David Horner led
the way with 26 points followed by
Scott Harper’s 16. Kevin Herron
finished with 12 points followed
closely by Moose Timberlake and
Robert Campbell with lo points
each.
Brevard defeated Wilkes by a
final score of 90-67 on February
19. The game started in an
unusual style Moose Timberlake
had been called for a technical
foul for dunking during warmups.
Four players scored in double
figures for BC. Horner tallied 18
points followed closely by
Moose’s 17 and Scott Harper’s 16.
Bobby -Summers completed the
game with 12 points.
In the 51-48 loss at Spartanburg
on February 12, Moose led the
way for the Tornados with 18
points.
In the game at Lees-McRae,
Brevard lost 84-61. Horner led the
way again with 16 points followed
by Timberlake’s 12.
B.C. Meets Title IX Standards
F ox, George
Qualify For Nationals
Tim Cook was fourth in the 60
yard dash with 6.6 seconds. Rob
Craig placed fourth in the 880 in 2
min. 58 secs., with Rob Kendall
fifth in 2 min. 59 secs. In the mile
relay, Brevard’s A and B team
placed second and third with
times of 3 min. 44 secs, and 3 min.
51 secs, respectively. The open
mile was won by Mark Kennard
.o |yv,.o«..o. V,. ^ min. 21.1 secs., followed by
in the shot, placing fourth Wentworth in 4 min. 21.7
secs., Ronnie Treadway
The Brevard track team put on
their best performance of the
season at the U. of Tennessee
Indoor Invitational last Saturday.
George Fox produced one of the
best individual performances by
running 51.2 seconds in the 440,
placing second. This is his own
personal record as well as a new
school record; Wilbert Carter
threw his personal record of 51.2
feet
overall.
One of the highlights of the
meet was the invitational two
mile. Mark Kennard, running
unattached, won in 9 min. 3.6
secs., followed by Jeff Went
worth, finishing third in 9 min. 10
secs, and John George who was
fourth in 9 min. 13 secs.
Bobby Sufridge placed fourth
in the long jump with a leap of 21-
the triple jump with 44-0',4 feet.
8'4 feet and later placed third in season.
was
third in 4 min. 28.4 secs, and
Nivaldo Masson was fifth in 4
min. 32 secs.
George Fox and John George
qualified for nationals. Brevard
now has four athletes who will
take part in nationals. The team
has improved with every meet,
and if the team continues to
improve the way they have been,
Coach Witek can look forward to
his team having a great outdoor
Choral Concert
Thursday, March 6 |
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8:15 p.m./Dunham I
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“Brevard College
believes in women’s athletics.
Though final Title IX policy in
terpretations have been issued
only within the past two and one-
half months, the college has
moved, over the last few years, to
strengthen and extend women’s
intercollegiate athletics. In
tercollegiate teams for women in
volleyball and tennis have been
added, and another competitive
sport for women is planned for
the 1980-81 school , year.
Scholarships have been
established for women’s
basketball in an amount larger
than for men’s soccer which has
a greater participation level. In
our judgment we are in accord
with preliminary Title IX
provisions, and we fully intend to
continue complete compliance
with the most recent policy
statements.”
“Because the December 1979
guidelines have been fairly and
equitably drawn, with ap
propriate sensitivity to public
opinion, Brevard College does not
plan to increase the athletic
budget beyond compliance
levels. A disproportionate in
crease in spending for in
tercollegiate athletics over
academic programs and other
areas of college life clearly would
be inappropriate.”
“Nevertheless, if the students
of Brevard College feel that more
of our athletic budget should be
spent on women’s athletics, the
college would find it necessary to
redistribute available funds.
Such a move would, however,
inevitably serve to reduce
current levels of com
petitiveness. We must question
whether this approach would be
in the best interest of Brevard
College or all concerned.”
Getting back to some of the
issues raised in the previous
editorial, poor and unequal
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strongly coaching for women was claimed
partly because women’s
basketball coach Don Scar
borough has too many duties to
perform to be able to “truly
promote women’s athletics as
needed.” Admittedly, it would be
nice if each member of the
faculty at Brevard College had
only one specific function to
perform. However, Brevard
College is a private school with
limited funds and like many other
schools has felt the effects of the
economy. One thing is for certain
- Coach Scarborough is not the
only faculty member of Brevard
College with multiple duties. For
example, Coach Corky Maynor is
Athletic Director, Men’s Tennis
Coach, P. E. Instructor, and
Director of Intramurals at
Brevard.
Another problem mentioned
dealt with the recruiting of
female athletes. As it has been
earlier stated, more scholarships
have been delegated to women’s
basketball than men’s soccer, a
team which has consistently been
highly ranked nationally in the
past few years. It would be nice if
each year thenation’stop recruits
were divided up equally among
all schools arbitrarily. Un
fortunately, the top recruits tend
to go to the well-established,
nationally ranked schools in their
particular sport. Much patience
and hard work is necessary for
the development of a solid,
winning program, and in due
time female ath'-^tes at Brevard
College will he j their spotlight
in the winner’s circle.
they played in four
doubleheaders with the men in
Boshamer Gym and played no
earlier than 2:00 p.m. or no later
than 7:00 p.m. The women
roundballers played 20 games, 9
of which were played at home. Do
these times not “promote sup
port?” The men and women play
in the same gym and the price of
admission is the same to see each
team play. The administration
has taken steps to provide equal
time and facilities for both men’s
and women’s basketball. The
problem of support lies with the
students, not the administation
and athletic department.
Not only does Brevard College
comply with Title IX, it exceeds
the national average in per
centage spent for women’s
athletics from the total athletic
budget. According to figures
released by HEW less than a year
ago, 18% of the total collegiate
athletic budget dollar is spent on
women. Brevard spends 26%,
which is 8% above the national
average. In the last four years,
Brevard College has increased
the percentage spent on women’s
athletics by two and one-half
times of what it spent in 1976.
Title IX is a very controversial
and emotional issue. However,
before criticism is levied against
Brevard College in regards to
Title IX, a close look at the facts
should be made. After a careful
and deliberate look at Brevard
College’s record, it appears that
Brevard is in compliance with the
spirit as well as the letter of Title
IX.
T,. „ • 1 1 . Title IX does not recognize a
fhlf nnhf'. f" mentioned school’s religious or non-religious
that publicity IS unequal between affiliations as a factor of com
ine men s and women’s athletics pjiance. The interjection con
cerning Brevard College’s
religious heritage in the previous
editorial on Title IX seems to be
quite irrelevant and misplaced
when considering the subject
discussed.
and that “an effort can be made
to schedule women’s games,
especially basketball, at time
whicn wouia promote support.
Upon looking at this season’s
women’s basketball schedule