Friday, March 1. 1968
maroon and gold
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fighting christian wrestling team winds up fine initial season of mat sport
I
SPORTS
SPOTS
By EDDIE OSBORNE
This is the weekend
when the Carolinas Con
ference baskerball are
sweating it our to see
which of rhe C^onfercnce
cage teams will take home
the trophy and reign as
the top team in the fast
•small-coilege circuit.
The tournament got un
derway on Wednesday of
this week and will contin
ue through tonight and
■''aturday night, with the
action taking place in the
huge Winston-Salem Coli
seum and certainly we who
support the various teams
in the tournament can en--
jiiy much better accom-
modarions that have been
offered in the much
srnalier gymnasium at
Lexington in recent yea rs.
As this issue of rhe
Maroon and (ioid hits the
campus and brings this
column to the readers,
two nights of thebigtour--
nament will have already
heen played, and four of
the eight teams who won
I'erths in the annual meet
will have bitten the dust
of defeat.
1 here’s one satisfac-
ti^on, however, and that is
that our Fighting Chris
tians were there in the
‘‘rst round to put up a
*>8ht for the laurels. Re
sults of that first game
unknown at this writ-
'fS. hut let us hope that
o still have the Ma-
roon and (iold bucketeers
f" ,"-ind for the semi-
‘tnals tonight.
Our friends, the (juak-
^s of C.uiiford, entered
c tournament as the fav-
in for the title, hav-
S displayed tremendous
oring and rebounding
throughout the sea-
by such stars
Bob Kauffman, Pat
oriarity, Kd Fellers and
In fact, the (^uak-
■ have been ranked a -
'tig the top ten reams in
I he Flon C.ollege wrestling squad, first in the history of the school, has just com
pleted its initial season with a successful mark of four wins and three losses. The
wins were over Guilford twice, Methodist C-ollege and N. C-. State, while losses were
to Duke, Pembroke and Carolina Freshmen. The Christian wrestlers shown left
to right above are as follows; Assistant C^oach Paul Sebo; (jary Dean , of Charlotte;
David Oliphant, of Mooresville; Phil Larrabee, of Virginia Beach, Va„; Bobby Hughes,
of Madison; Fernery Moore, of Schenectady, N.Y.; Ralph Moore, of Schenectady, N.Y.,
Bill Franks, of Wilmington, Del.; Mike Hughes, of Madison; Tom Jernigan, of Fay-
ettevillc; Buster Alston, of Newport News, Va.; and C/Oach Mickey Brown* Members
of the squad not present for the picture included .lack Shirley , of Sterling, Va.;
Roger Norman, of Elkin; .lohn Goins, of Winston-Salem; and John Rorhano, of
Virginia Beach, Va.
the national small-col-
lege ranks and have
brought much attention to
our c;onference.
Other teams which bat
tled for first division
spots through most of the
season have been c:ataw-
ba. Western Carolina,Le
noir Rhyne and Atlantic
t^hristian, and as this col--
umn was written it was
still undecided as to which
three of the group would
join with (’.uilfordromake
the top four teams in the
tournament pairings.
I he High Point, Appa
lachian and Flon squads
were already in rhe tour
nament as the final week
of regular-season play
began, but there had been
a lime during the season
when it appeared that our
Christian cagers might
miss the tournament for
rhe first time in history.
They dropped seven in a
row to C.onferencc oppon
ents before they could ger
started, but they then put
together six wins in sev
en starts to move into
the select eight teams that
entered the tournament e-
liminations.
As a matter of tact,
only the first and second
spots in regular season
a rc‘ of value as the tour
ney starts. The two top
teams automatically SO
into separate upper and
lower brackets, and the
other teams had to draw
for positions at the pair
ings meeting held last
Sunday. ,
['he third and fourth
teams had to draw to see
which would be bracket
ed with the first ranking
team and which would
into rhe bracket with the
second club. Once the top
four teams were placed,
the other four teams were
drawn to determine first-
round pairings. Under
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Elon Loses To Catamount ‘5’
In Loop Battle At Cullowhee
Matmen Lose In Final Meet
rhe l-;ion C'ollege wrest
ling team dropped a hard-
fought 21 to 15 decision
to the Carolina Fresh
men in Flon’s Alumni
Memorial Gymnasium on
Saturday afternoon, Feb
ruary 17th, closing out
Flon’s first mat season
with a record of four wins
and three losses.
Buster Alston and Fm-
ery Moore each won de
cisions for the Christians,
and Gary Dean and David
Oliphant got forfeits for
Flon’s other wins. Ihe
Carolina outfit, with one
of its strongest teams in
recent years, gained three
falls and two decisions.
I'his meet marked the
close of a campaign dur
ing which the Christian
matmen chalked victor-
ies over (Juilford tw'ice,
over the Methodist Col
lege team and over N.C.
State. Losses were to
Pembroke, Duke and the
Carolina Freshmen.
The summary:
123 POUNDS; Dean (F)
won by forfeit.
130 POl'NDS: Alston
(F;> decisioned Mertry.
I H7 POl'NDS: Bennings
(C. F) decisioned Shirley.
145 POUNDS: Oliphant
(F) won by forfeit.
152 POL'NDS: Long
(C.F) pinned Franks.
150 POLINDS; Murdoch
(C.F) decisioned Jernigan.
167 POUNDS; Wynne(C
F) pinned M. Hughes.
177 POUNDS; Ball (CF)
pinned B. Hughes.
UNLIMITFD; K.Moore
(F) decisioned Tate,
rhe Flon Christians,af
ter winning four straight
games and grabbing six
wins in their last seven
starts, found themselves
ambushed by a pack of
hungry Catamounts up in
the c;ullowhee hill coun
try on Saturday night,
February 17th, and the
Maroon and Gold cagers
went down before the
Cats’ sharpshooting as
sault by a 103 to 73 count.
The Catamounts start
ed early in rhe game ind
moved out to a 46 t' 31
margin at the halftim' in
the Saturday night g.ime,
with Western’s I lenr\ o-
gan personally matching
the Christian scoring lut-
put for that first ' ilf.
Logan’s twelve field g als
and seven of seven ee
throws for a persona' ro-
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ELON BOASTS GREAT SET OF BACKCOURT PERFORM RS
-TV. ... .rp no three finer guards on any team in the Carolinas Conference
hJmnn combination of Bobby Atkins (left), Nobel Marshall (center) and Tom Me
the , .Qve pictures. Atkins, who is a senior from Mount Airy, rejo
f hri tian squad this year after being out of school last year. Marshall.
I ^ Roanoke Va., and McGee, who comes from Deer Park, N.Y., are
hails from , points in single games this >.
^nffhU equally wdl from outside and on driving shots.
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