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Page 4, THE PILOT Monday, January 19, 1976 G-W’s Carl Martin gets tangled up while battling for a rebound in the Carolina Classic against Johnson C. Smith. Stats Back G'W Record The statistical record on Will Franklin, the 6-10 Gardner-Webb’s Bulldogs is low post man, has been one as impressive as the 15-2 re- of the more consistent per- cord that has earned the formers in building a 12.2 ’Dogs a No. 4 national rank- scoring average. Soph Nor ing. man Mukes’ average has Currently five players are dipped slightly to 11.8. averaging in double figures Scoring 10.1 points per as the team has been scoring game is 6-11 Lester Stinson 87.2 points per game. Junior who has been a key figure in Dave Borman tops the list the Bulldogs’ success since with a 21.1 mark—well the WBTV Carolina Classic, ahead of second-place Carl Injuries kept Stinson side- Martiri who is scoring at a lined during first semester, 14.5 clip. but in eight games he has displayed a flair for excite- Lady Bulldogs Fall in Overtime Caldwell Community Col lege overcame a nine-point deficit in the second half Tuesday night and defeated the Lady Bulldogs, 81-78, in overtime. The game was the first of 'Dogs Up To No. 4 Gardner-Webb jumped two notches into fourth place in the nation’s small college rankings last week. The Bulldogs received 205 votes from the Asso ciated Press panel of writers and trailed No. 3 Grand Canyon by one vote. Alcorn State, 13-0, ranked first by a five-vote margin over Kentucky State, 7-1. Small College Top 10 1. Alcorn State 2. Kentucky State 3. Grand Canyon 4. Gardner-Webb 5. Tennessee State 6. St. Marys (Tex.) 7. Fairmont State 8. Nebraska-Omaha 9. Marymount 10. North Dakota the season for the Lady Cavaliers. Gardner-Webb dropped to 1-3. The Lady Bulldogs played UNC-Ashe ville Thursday afternoon. Tomorrow night at 7 p.m., the ladies play host to Lenoir Rhyne in Host Gym nasium. Caldwell’s Speck Spain- hour led all scorers with 34 points. Teammates Henri Gettys and Adonna Hick man followed with 16 and 13. 60-57 advantage. The lead exchanged hands four times down the stretch before time ran out with the two teams knotted at 71. In the overtime, Gardner- Webb started the scoring by taking a 73-71 lead and held a 75-74 edge with 2:22 re maining. Six straight points by the Cavaliers put the visi tors in command, 80-75. CALDWELL-Hickman 13, Spainhour 34, Robinson 9, Gettys 16, Sherrill2, Story 7. GARDNER-WEBB-Bane 10, Albus 20, Johnson 15, Watkins 1, Nantz 7, Cody 16, Barkley 4, Hel- Bolick Named To All-America Team Four Gardner-Webb players scored in double figures. Wing Rachel Albus National Football League draft will be held Feb. 3-4. ment. An intimidating figure under the basket, Stinson has connected on 59.2 per cent of his field goal attempts and 80.9 per cent of his free throw tries. While alternating with Franklin, he has grabbed nearly six re- bovmds per game. Four starters carry im pressive shooting creden tials. Mukes is shooting 55.8 per cent from the floor while the soft-shooting Borman is at 54.9. Franklin is success ful 54.8 per cent of the time and Martin makes good on 53.3 per cent of his attempts. From the foul line, Mitchell is the leader with Bob Bolick, a four-year starter for the Bxilldogs foot- ball team, has been named ^ senior, Peppers cent. Pait .is next with an topped the list with 20 to the second team of the ^he ’Dogs most valuable 81.6 mark, followed by Stin- points. Center Linda Cody NAIA All-American squad defensive back as a sopho- son and Martin at 79.7. and defensive back William more and junior. He led the Overall, the ’Dogs are one of Self Defense Instruction Available Instruction in the martial arts of self defense is avail able to Gardner-Webb stu dents this semester. The newly-formed Martial Arts Club will meet Tuesday and Thursday evenings, 7- 8:30 p.m. in the Bulldog Room of the Charles I. Dover Student Center. Teaching the Karate (Hakoryu)-type skills will be John Gimbel, southern re gional director of the Ameri can Karate Association. Mr. Gimbel holds the Black Belt in judo, jujitso and hakoryu and is a qualified instructor in wu shu kenedo and kendo. Charge for the instruction is $3 per week for the two classes. Additional information may be obtained from Mr. Gimbel at the classes. finished with 1'6, 12 coming in the second half. Sherwin Johnson had 15 and Yana Bane popped in 10. After trailing most of the first half, the Lady ’Dogs rallied from five points be hind to grab a 35-34 lead at intermission. Despite being outshot from the floor, G-W stayed in contention by sinking 15 of 19 attempts from the foul line. Three quick baskets by Cody padded the Gardner- Webb lead early in the se cond half. The margin reached nine on three occa sions, the final time coming with 11 minutes to play when Albus put the Lady Bulldogs out front, 55-46. At that point Caldwell came to life, outscoring G- W, 14-2, and streaking to a Intramural Cage Season Opens Tonight The GWC Intramural bas ketball season begins to night and will continue until the week before the Spring , Break. There will be 26 teams participating in both men and women’s leagues. The 22 men’s teams will be divided into an A and B division. Their champion ship will be decided in a round-robin playoff with the top teams for each division qualifying. The four women’s teams will play a regular schedule ending in a playoff for the championship. Peppers has been named an honorable mention All- American. Both were also selected to the All-South Atlantic Con ference and AU-District 26 teams. Voted to the AU-SAC-8 second team by the league coaches were sophomore running back Po Rogers and sophomore defensive end Monte Walker. Bolick, 6-4, 260, is an of- team in interceptions this the better foul shooting season with four and picked teams in the school’s history off 14 during his career. with a 70.8 percentage. Rutherford, Lee Sign with ’Dogs Greg Rutherford, a 6-3, 255-pound defensive tackle fensive tackle who has at- from Morganton, has signed tracted the interest of seve- a grant-in-aid with Gardner- ral professional teams. The Webb. He is the first high school recruit to sign with the Bulldogs. Rutherford was an all-con- ference performer at Mor- ganton’s Freedom High where he was twice named player-of-the-week in North Carolina. The Patriots, 11-1 this past season, won the Western 4-A Conference championship and was elimi nated by East Forsyth in the quarterfinals of the state playoffs. “Greg ranked at the top of our list,” said assistant coach Jim Gudger. “We feel he is one of the most out standing defensive tackles we have ever seen. He has a very good chance of playing for us as a freshman.” Rutherford is the second recruit to be announced by the Bulldogs. Earlier head coach Oval Jaynes an nounced the signing of Alvin Lee of Shelby, who played free safety this past season as a freshman at Western Carolina. Lee, a former running back at Crest who was heavily recruited by the Bulldogs as a high school senior, Lee is 6-2, 180- pounds. A 9.7 sprinter, he is Greg Rutherford becomes a member of the Bulldogs while capable of playing as a run- Games will be played at Freedom coach Ralph Wilson and G-W’s Jim Gudger ning back, defensive back or 6:30 and 7:30 each evening. approve. wide receiver.
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