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Monday, January 23, 1961 MAROON AND GOLD PAOE THREK ChriMian Cagers Trounce High Point In Loop Tilt Maroon And Gold Quint Tops Catawba 64 To 59 SEEN AS CHRISTIANS TR,\MI'I,E1> HU;il l> iM’ The Fighting Christian cage squad, proving that the enemy courts hold no terrors for them, «k»lked their second road win over a North State Conference foe with in three nights, gained an early lead and held on tight to defeat the Catawba Indians 64 to 59 in Salisbury on Saturday night, Jan uary 14th. The win came barely three nights after a close one over Fighting Christian basket- Atlantic Christian in Wilson. bailers broke away early and It was a rough-and-tumble con- home with the reserves as test all over the floor, with thej^*^®^ defeated Pembroke State 85 referees bearing down on their v i^^ Alumni Memorial Gym whistles all the way in calling a total of fifty fouls during the Elon Downs Pembroke On Local Court game, 29 of the infractions being committed by Catawba and 21 by Elon. This rough play reacted against Catawba, since the Christians gained their margin and held it on some fine shooting at the free throw line. The home-standing Indians led Elon by a 19 to 15 margin on field goals, but the Christians were accurate on 34 of 44 attempts at the foul line to gain the victory. The Christians led most of the way, moving out in front in the first half and hold a close 34 to margin at the break. The Ind ians pushed the Christians all the Way, moving within a single point' at 60 to 59 with three minutes re maining in the game, but Elon held the ball at that point and forced the Indians to foul for pos session. Elon hit on four consecu tive free throws during these final moments for the 64-59 win. Once more it was Jug Irvin and Ken Smith who led the way for the Christians in the North State win. for Irvin racked 18 and Smith 16 as the only Elon players in iContlnued on P»ge Four' Marine Stmr Scores High In Tilt Here here on Thursday night, December loth. Captain Ken Smith poured in 22 points and Eddie Burke bucketed 21 as four of the white-jerseyed Christians hit double figures. The Christians were truly sen sational in their shooting hitting 35 of 55 shots from the floor for a 64 per cent average, with Burke showing the way in sinking ten of twelve shots. The line-ups: PCS. Elon (85) F—Smith (22) F—Irvin (17) C—Burke (21) G—Miller (15) G—Morningstar (5) Half-time: Elon 50, Pembroke 42 Elon subs—Hawks 2, Andrew'2 Conatser 2, Teague, Myers. Pem broke subs—Lynch 8, Caradonna 3. Freeman 6, Hornsby, Acrotelli, Brewington. Pembroke (80) Winfree (6) Pugh (17) Smith (8) Sweet (13) Morgan (14) Jug Irvin And Ken Smith Pare Red-Hot Elon Drive Just as the ChrisUans were “up ’ in their play in posting their overwhelming 94 to 72 win over High Point here last Monday night, Jauiary 16th, so Herbie Hawks and Gary Teague went up and still up in their play on the floor. Hawks (20), Elon senior forward, is pictured left as he leaped high to take a rebound away from High Point’s Tommy Skidmore; and Teague (30), Christian sophomore guard, is shown right as he went high to cut loose with a shot that meant two more points toward victory. Talking Sports With DAVID ‘PROPHET’ MARSHBURN Elon Consolation Winner In Lejeune Tournament The Fighting Christian cagers Captain Ken Smith paced Elon Riding on the crest of the finest individual shooting exhibition ever ieen in Elon’s Alumni Memorial jymnasium, the Camp Lejeune Marines defeated the Elon Christ ians 74 to 79 here on Friday night, December 16th. Jack Sullivan, a rugged Leather neck lieutenant, who won All- American honors at Mount St. Mary’s and then went on to an American Olympic cage berth last summer, exploded like an atomic scoring machine as he bucketed 55 points for a new scoring record tor the Elon floor. The 6-4 crew-cut scoring ace hit 24 field baskets in 29 tries, Most of them coming from around or beyond the keyhole and added seven of eight from the free-throw line. So brilliant was his exhibition that he even had the home fans pulling for him at the finish. Jug Irvin, Eddie Burke and Ken Smith joined forcsd to keep the Elon team well up in the scoring niost of the way, with the Marines holding only a 44-40 edge at the half, but Jack Sullivan’s 29 points in the final half was toe much as the Leathernecks pulled away. Irvin hit 27 points to pace the Elon quintet, while Burke counted 18 and Smith 16 for the night, •lack Whelan and Derek Dickerson eay^h had 11 points to trail Sullivan ‘fur I,’’® Marines. The iline-ups: Pos. EloM •F—Smith (IS ^ F-Irvln 127) O-Burke (18) G—Miller (5) G-Teague (6) Dickerson (ID Halft-time: Lejeune 44, Eton W Elon subs—^Bowman 2, Morning- «tar 1, Conatser 8. Gttthrie 2, And rew, Hodg?. Lejetme subs—Coaney \ Bailey 4. Lejeune (94) Sullivan (55) Whelan (ID Spirits are exploding. Yes, that seems to be the word to describe the exploding happiness on our Elon campus. Not only are we ex ploding into a good basketball team, but also in such things as good cheerleaders and a cheering section which helps to make better teams here and everywhere. All are beginning to come td life and let us, the students, know that such good things do exist here on our campus. We are all beginning to feel that once more we have a varsity bas ketball team which can represent us well in the North State Onfer- ence. We all know that the Christ ians are not going to win all games, but neither will they lose them all. One might say that we're in a happy medium, and just a little something extra at times could set us on victory road and keep us there. Of course that "something extra” is what we are all looking and waiting Jor, here’s hoping that it comes our way by tournament Ume, when the North State title is settled. Whether you caS that something extra” by the name of luck” or “breaks” or whatever, it will be mighty nice when it leans or falls our way. So many times that "something extra” has seemed to hide from us and go the other way, and certain ly our time will come, and we’ll find our Christians just exploding with it at the right time. In one incident of this, I give you the East Carolina cage game here, when the Pirates exploded with that ex tra spurt at just the right time to win a one-poiiit victory as the clorfc exploded its final seconds. That was a tough way to lose, |y>r theiw wrore times when it seemed that game was aU ours— and it could have been so easily. However, it was a thriller and a game worth seeing or hearing and rememberiHg. Then came the Ap palachian game, when it seemed that the Mountaineers could do no wrong. It was just that thing” exploded that g)ave the Apps'fourteen baskets in their first eighteen shots and closed them out with that 50 per cent average for the game. It was still beauti ful to see the fight our boys made after being down 14 points at the half, but with the "something extra” in their game the Apps could probably have taken Ohio State that night. Looking at the other side of the picture, there naust surely have been "something extra” on the Elon bench down at Atlantic Christian, for our Fighting Chirst- ians would not be denied as they came from behind to win by a single point on Jug Irvin’s dead- eye bucket in the final seconds. No doubt the Bulldogs felt just as bad about that loss as we did in a similar loss to the Pirates. * * * grabbed off the consolation cham- Dionship in the annual Christmas Holiday Tournament at Camp Lejeuce, posting consecutive vic- •ories over Georgia Southern and Catawba after dropping a first round game to the powerful Pike- ille basketeers from Kentucky. The Pikeville outfit, which went on to win the championship hon ors over the high-scoring Lejeune Leathernecks, proved just too hot for the Elon cagers and won the first round game by an 89 to 66 count, but Elon rebonded to de feat Georgia Southern 89 to 62 and topple Catawba for consolation honors by a 72 to 57 margin. Pikeville 89, Elon 66 Four of the Pikeville sharpshoot-1 ers were in double figures as they rolled for their lop-sided 89 to 66 win over the Christians in the opening game of the tournament on Wednesday, December 28th. Dennis Butcher racked 32 points to pace the Kentucky squad, while with 23 counters. Other Elon boy who scored well wnrs .Tui; Irvi- with 15 and Dewey Andrew with 10 points. Continued on Page Four) Fired to fever pitch in one of the hottest exhibitions staged by an Elon basketball squad in many moons, the Fighting Christians be gan knocking the bottom out of the basket Parly and Often as they trampled the High Point Panthers 94 to 72 here last Monday night, January 16th, It was a sweet victory for the Christians, who once more stamp'd I themselves as a team to be watch ed in the battle for North State 'Conference honors. The win was Elon’s fifth against three defeats ' in loop play and strengthened the Christian grip on a spot in the top I half of the Conference standings. ! Jug Irvin and Ken Smith, the pair of sharpshooting Kentucky colonels, paired up for 48 points in the Elon attack. Irvin, who bag ged 11 of 12 from the charity stripe, added eight field goals for ? night’s total of 27 jwints. Smith, ^who was deadly accurate from both floor and free throw mark, chipped in 21 markers The Elon cagers held a slim 22- 18 margin midway the first half, ■’ut they ct loose with one of the hottest streaks ever seen on the local floor to roll out a 51 to 35 edge at intermission. Coach Bill Miller’s boys hit 56.9 per cent of their floor shots during that first half and made good on 31 of 66 tries for 47 per cent for the entire game. MIeanwhile, High Point could hit only 25 of 70 floor tries for 35.7 per cent for the night. Although the Christians were red-hot from the floor and led in field goals by a substantial margin, It was their blazing performaace at the foul line wihch rolled up the overwhelming margin of victory. The Elon lads hit 32 of 36 charity tries tor a game mark of almost 89 per cent. Joining with Irvin and Smith in topping the Elon assault as Gary Teage, a third Kentuckian, who racked 11 markers during the bat- le Joe Guzlnski, Phil Garrison and Larry Nolan each had 13 Elon Cage (^uiiies Elon 74. Pfeiffer 66. RIon 69, Entktne 76. Elon 70. Wofford 75. Elun, 59. Relmoni Abbey 64. Elon 8.3. Wofford 71. Elon 87. Gilford 63. Elon 57, Lenoir Rhyne Elon 85, Pembroke 80. Elon 79, CamJ Lejetme 94. Uon 66. Pikeville 89. Elon 89, Ga. Southern 62. Elon 72. CaUwha 57. Elon 88, Pembroke 84. Elon 77. East Carolina 78. Elon 66. Appalmrhian 89. Elon 77, A.C.C. 76. Elon 64, Catawba 59. Elon 94. IliKh Point 72. (Kemalninic Games) Jan. 28—Catawba, home. Jan. 30—Pfeiffer, away. Feb. 1—Hlxh Point, away. Feb. 4—West Carolina, away. Feb. 6—A.C.C.. home. Feb. 8—Appalachian, away. Feb. 10—Erskine, home. Feb. ll^East Carolina, away. Feb. 13—Camp l^ejeune, away. Fefc. 16—l^nolr Rhyne, home. Feb. 18—Guilford, away, Feb. 22-M—North SUte ToumameBt. IKFIV LEADS ELON SCORING points to feature the Panther scor ing drive. The line-ups: Pos. Elon (94) F—Smith (21) F—Irvin (27) C—Andrew (9) G—Teague (11) F—Morningstar (4) HUh Paint (72) Guzlnski (13) Garrison (13) Nolan (13) Unger (121 Short (S) Half-time: Elon 51, High Point 35. Elon subs — Hawks 8, Burke 6, Miller 6, Myers 2, Maidon, Cheek, Hodge. High Point subs — Skid more 6. Daniel 3, Buchanon 2, Sechrest 3, Bartlett 2. If one cannot exactly define that "something extra”, there is one thing that Elon’s Christians need Pos. Elon (66) If—Irvin (15) F—Smith (23) Pikeville (89) Campbell (J’PJ Btcher (82) C—Andrew (10) Horn (4) G—Teague (9) Woods (18) Mt as (5) Setser (23) Half-time: Pikeville 43, Elon 34. Elon sbs—Burke 4, Myers 5, Hawks, Onatser, Hodge. Pikeville That one thing is experience for the newcomers in the Maroon and Gold uniforms. No matter how much ability a newcomer has, he must also have a certain amount of game experience before he can put his knowledge and ability to best use. We feel that Elon has as many outstanding youngsters as any team in the North State Confer ence, and they are learning a lot in these early-season battles. May be that experience is exactly the “something extra” which will ex plode out there on the coart one of these nights to carry our Christ ians right down to the wire, mak ing us, the student body of Elon proud that they are our team. And let’s remember that part of that "something extra” has to hit us, the student body, just as it does the team if it is to do the most possible good. Let’s all get out there every night and lend our siwjort in pushing the team (Continued on Page iTaar) subs—Francisco 2, Hunt, Presten Ga. Southern (62) Patton (8) Lewis (17) Hobbs (7) Rivers *23) Long (1) Pos. Elon (89) F—Irvin (28) F—Smith (20) C;—Andrew (15) G—Teague (18) G—Morningstar (4) Half-time: Elon 44, Ga. South ern 36. Elon subs—Burke 1, Hawks, My- _ 3. Georgia Southern subs — Rowe, Grooms, Maybohm, Bono- vitch, Thomson. Pos. Elon (72) F—Irvin (14) If—Smith (19) C—Andrew (12) G—Teague (15) G—^MomingsUr (t) Half-time: Elon 37, CaUwba 28 Elon subs—Myers 2, Bown»an 1. Catawba subs—Wade 5, Garrison 1, Moss 2. Catawba (57) Snow (9) Johnson (8) edford (17) Dew (7) ChUdren (8) 1..B Irvin the dead-eye shooter from Burkesville, Ky., was top- Elon Cagers Win Thriller (her A,C,C, It was up and in with the buzzer as the Elon Christians turned back the Atlantic Christian Bulldogs 77 to 76 in a North State Conference thriller at Wilson on Wednesday night, January llth, for Jug Irv- ^ In’s jump shot was good with less ihan two seconds on the clock to give Elon the victory. The homestandlng Bulldogs had gained the lead in the first half and led by a 37 to 34 margin at intermission, but the Christians Dattled hard all the way and came t>ack from an elght^polnt deficit and was down by barely three pcints with two minutes remain ing. , Captain Ken Smith hit with a set shot to cut the Bulldog lead t« I a single point as the final minute I -tarted ticking aay. Eddie Knox " was bringing the ball down when Jug Irvin stole the ball and drove into the forecourt with barely 55 seconds of playing time left. The Christians elected to hold the ball for a single shot, and Irvin was tagged for the shot. He jump ed from just left of the foul line and ripped the cords for the two- pointer which netter the decision. Eddie Knox topped all scorers for the night as he bagged 21 points for Atlantic Christian, but Ken Smith had 23 to lead the Elon cagers In their winning assault. The line-ups: Po«. Elon (77) A.C.C. (78) F—Smrth (23 Fritz (14) F—Irvin (15) Eakew (8) 0—Andrew (18) Oden (5) G—Teague (12) Knox (28) G—Mjomingstar Boyd (19) ahead of Dee Atkinson’s all-time Elon season average points per contest. Half-time: Atlantic Christian 37, Elon 34. Elon s«bs—Hawks 1, Maidon 2, Miller 8. Bcrke, Hodge, \^ers. AtlanVc Christian subs—FUUag- ame 2.
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