OCTOBER 18,1996 — THE DECREE — PAGE 7
Sports
BUSY AT HOME — Toni Ninni goes up for a spike in a recent
volleyball game. (Photo by Karolyn Braun.)
Volleyball team drops
three recent matches
The Battling Bishops volley
ball team lost three matches over
a recent weekend,
The losses evened out their
record at 11-11.
The team lost to Ferrum, 3-1
(5-15, 15-8, 8-15, 12-15), fol
lowed by Greensboro, 3-1 (17-
15, 10-15, 4-15, 11-15), and
Guilford 3-0 (6-15, 2-15, 12-15).
“I am pleased with our contin
ued improvement but we came
up against some strong offense
this weekend,” said head coach
Michon Lubbers.
Toni Ninni leads the Battling
Bishops in kill average with 2.3
per game.
Womens’ soccer
extends win streak
The Battling Bishops women’s
soccer team pushed their winning
streak to seven games with a 5-0
win at Ferrum and a 7-0 Home
coming victory vs. Villa Julie.
The Bishops controlled both
games from the outset, out-
shooting their opponents 17-2 and
30-1 respectively.
Senior Allison Patrick scored
two goals in each game and leads
all Bishop scorers with 14 goals
and two assists for 30 points.
Freshman forward Alexa Kap-
tanakis added three goals and an
assist to raise her point total to 23
(seven goals, nine assists).
“Aiyson and Alexa both play
up front and compliment each
other very well,” said Head Coach
Rob Donnewirth. “They take ad
vantage of their opportunities and
are able to put teams away.”
Aiyson Patrick has now moved
into second place on North Caro
lina Wesleyan’s Career Point List
with 71 points (30 goals, 11 as
sists).
ACC season shapes
up just as predicted
By JAMES BELL
Every year at the beginning of
the Atlantic Coast conference’s
(ACC) football season a script is
said to be written.
As the script goes, the Florida
State Seminoles will walk through
the ACC schedule on their way
to a possible National Champi
onship and everyone else is play
ing for second place. Well, so far,
this season is playing out exactly
how it is supposed to.
After starting fast with early
victories against ACC rivals Duke
and North Carolina State, Florida
State secured first place with a
defensive victory over the Tar
Heels of North Carolina, who
were the only team with a real
chance of upsetting the powerful
‘Noles.
North Carolina’s schedule is
as difficult as they could have
made it this early in the season.
They started by shutting out
Clemson at home and then trav
eling to Syracuse to beat the
Orangemen 27-10. North Caro
lina followed that victory up with
another shutout handed to the
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets be
fore being shutout themselves at
the hands of Florida State.
The Virginia Cavaliers, the last
ACC team that actually beat the
Seminoles, have also started im
pressively by racking up a 4-0
record with wins over Central
Michigan, Maryland, Wake For
est, and Texas. They have a strong
running game and an adequate
passing game. With a game
against Florida State on Oct. 26,
a win could guarantee a major
bowl appearance.
Even though Georgia Tech lost
an early game to rival North Caro
lina, the Jackets are a team that
may be able to sneak up and win
some conference contests. This
would give them much needed
confidence and hope. They have
a decent defense and an offense
that is capable of putting big num
bers on the score board. The Yel
low Jackets are a team that just
needs to put all of the elements of
winning together.
The five other teams in the
ACC will once again have to suf
fer another season full of losses.
North Carolina State has suffered
devastating losses to two confer
ence teams and the Wolf Pack is
destined to finish near the bottom
of the ACC. Wake Forest and
Duke have also failed to get into
the win column.
Clemson and Maryland have
yet to get a win within the con
ference but both have won out
side of the ACC. With some luck
and maybe some divine interven
tion, these two programs can tum
their season around.
These five teams, even though
they have substandard records,
could easily surprise a team that
makes the mistake of looking past
them. They have plenty of talent
and may be on the road to future
winning seasons.
So far the ACC season has
been, for the most part, predict
able. Florida State has quickly
established its early dominance
over the rest of the conference.
The Heels have shown that if the
‘Noles slip they are ready to as
sume the ACC crown. Virginia
knows that they can win, and the
rest are just trying to tum the cor
ner.
However, there is still a long
season to be played out. At the
end only one team can claim the
Atlantic Coast Conference title,
but with a decent record many of
the ACC teams can make it to a
post season Bowl Game.
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Campus
Activity
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Men top St. Mary’s Hot Line at
a.
The men’s soccer team re
bounded from another tough 3-2
loss against Randolph-Macon
with a 4-0 Homecoming victory
vs. St. Mary’s.
The Bishops dominated St.
Mary’s, outshooting them 12-6.
Junior Scott Kennell scored two
goals and leads Bishop scorers
with nine on the season.
Senior Rob Simn picked up
the Bishops’ first shut-out of the
season.
“This is the most consistent
we played ail season,” said head
coach Greg Vogel. “This is a sure
sign that a young team is grow
ing.”
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