tuiiRSDAY. may 23,1968
MAROON AND GOLD
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Letters Go To Spring Teams
Four Elon Athletic
CHRISTIAN SCORERS IN CONFERENCE TRACK MEET
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Foster Paulette (left) and Claes Alexanderson (right) turned in fine performances
1. ®e EaK!" and mile In the Conference Track Meet at Boone on
With Paulette winning the half in 1 59.8 seconds and w^^^^
finishing third in the mile. Paulette hails from Char o rnVilace in the track
anderson is from Fristad. Sweden. Only °*er Christian to place in the track
meet was Ron Bolton, of Greensboro, with a second in th- pole vau t.
Christian Cinder Team Sets
Five New All-Time Records
The Elon cindermen
concluded a fine season
by placing three men in
the scoring in the an
nual Carolinas Conferen
ce track meet at Boone on
May 11th, with Foster
Paulette, fine sophomore
middle-distance star,
bringing home the indivi
dual championship in the
half-mile.
Paulette, who has run
steadily better all sea -
son, wound up the year
Netters Close
Winning Year
With Sandy Carrington,
Jim Ellington and Don
Brown winning their first-
round matches in the Con
ference tournament.theE-
*on College tennis team
wound up last week its
iinest season since 1950.
•he Christians won six
lost four dual mat-
^ '^°P
•JW mark in eighteen
years.
The Christians topped
^reensboro College 9 to
Guilford 6 to 2 and
to 2, High Point 5 to
‘ and 7 to 2 and UNC-G
0 0, while losing dual
engagements to Atlantic
1 a 7 to 0 and 6 to
of 4 ^eiffer by counts
7 to o. ^ to 2 1/2 and
by racing a great 880
yards in 1 minute 59.8
seconds to pace the finest
competition the Confer
ence could offer. He be
came the first Elon man
to break the magic 2-min
ute mark since HorstMe-
vius turned a half in 1
minute 59.5 seconds back
in 1955. , .
The other Christian
trackmen who placed in
the Conference meet were
Ron Bolton, who pulled
down second spot in the
pole vault; and Claes A-
lexanderson, who finished
third a fine mile race.
The three Elon place men
totalled 13 points to give
Elon sixth spot among
the nine teams entered.
This performance top
ped off a season in which
the Christian cindermen
won two of six dual meets.
They defeated Guilford 90
to 55 and turned back At
lantic Christian 98 to 42
for the two wins.
Other meets were lost
to Campbell 70 1/2 to 69
1/2, to Appalachian 86 to
59, to Presbyterian 85 to
60 and to Catawba 99 to
46, but there were very
fine individual perfor
mances for Elon m all
’^The'^'chkstian track
meet set no less than
five new all-tim'
records during this 1968
The award of forty-four
varsity letters to spring
sports teams at Elon Col
lege has just been an-
I BASEBALL
BASEBALL SCORES
(Final for Season)
Elon
2,
Guilford,
7.
Elon
5,
High Point
6.
Elon
4,
Catawba
3,
Elon
0,
Campbell
5.
Elon
6,
Rennselaer
0.
Elon
6,
At. Chris.
1.
Elon
5,
High Point 11.
Elon
4,
W. Carolina
7.
Elon
4.
W, Carolina
8.
Elon
0,
Guilford
9.
Elon
9,
Lenoir Rhyne
7.
Elon
12,
Appalachian
11,
Elon
0,
Ga. Southern 1.
Elon
0,
Ga. Southern 5.
Elon
3,
Oglethorpe
8,
Elon
1,
Pfeiffer
6.
Elon
6,
Newberry
5,
Elon
15,Newberry
12.
Elon
9,
Campbell
3.
Elon
0,
Pfeiffer
1.
Elon
1,
Lenoir Rhyne
2.
Elon
5,
At. Chris.
2.
Elon
4.
Catawba
10.
Elon
10,Pembroke
12.
Elon
8,
Appalachian
2.
Elon
1.
Pembroke
4.
season and tied another
all-time mark. Don Crews
set a new mark of 22
seconds for the 220-yard
dash in the Atlantic
Christian meet, and he
several times broke 10-
flat in the century.
Ralph Moore set a new
Elon discus mark with a
throw of 142 feet 8 1/2
inches against Appala
chian, and he later bet
tered the javelin mark
but could not set a rec -
ord because he did not win
first place.
Ron Bolton, who fin
ished second in the pole
vault in the Conference
meet, set a new Elon
mark of 12 feet against
Campbell and later bet
tered that mark in the
Davidson Relays but did
not win first place.
Other new marks in
cluded a record of 60
seconds flat for the 440-
yard hurdles by Joe Freve
against Atlantic Christian
and a mark of 44.3 sec
onds for the 440-yard re
lay set by Tom Jernigan,
Joe Rinaca, Don Crews
and David Oliphant a-
gainst Presbyterian.Lar
ry Raines tied the old
mark of 42 feet 2 in
ches in the triple jump
and later bettered that
mark and missed a better
record by not winning
first place.
Friesinger Is
Top Batter
For '68 Season
Jimmy Friesinger, a
sophomore second base
man for the Elon Chris
tians, recovered from a
slow start to lead the
Christians in hitting with
a 2.292 average in a sea
son which showed the Elon
nine with a 10-16 overall
record and an 8-10 mark
in Conference play.
Joe Byrtus and Alan
Colenda topped Friesing
er in the averages, but
neither was a regular,
and the closest competi
tion for Friesinger came
from Mel Cliborne with a
.289 and Joe Rinaca with
"a .260 average. The Elon
squad batted .214 for a
total average for the sea
son, while the opponents
batted for a .211 aver
age, attesting to the ex
cellence of the Elon
pitching.
Don Brady, regular
catcher, who batted only
188 topped the squad in
RBI’s with H runners
batted home. Trailing him
were Cliborne and Col
lins with 11 and John
Austin with 10 RBI’s for
the year.
Brady also led the team
in homers with 4;while
Friesinger, Cliborne and
Collins led in triples with
2; and Friesinger topped
the team in doubles with
three.
John Austin, Burgin
Beale and Dewey Capps
all appeared in ten of
the Elon scheduled gam as
as a pitcher, with Austin
finishing with a 4-6, Beale
with a 3-4 and Capps with
a 1-3 record in wins and
losses.
nounced, with the last in
cluding 13 awards in
baseball, 14 in track and
6 each in golf and ten
nis.
These spring sports
monograms swells the to
tal number of Elon let
ter awards to 95 for the
year in seven sports, for
announcements made pre
viously this year included
36 letters in football, 7
in basketball and 9 in
wrestling.
Two Elon stars won
letters in three sports
this year, marking the
first three-sport winners
at Elon since 1961. Da
vid Oliphant lettered in
football, wrestling and
track, and Tom Jernigan
lettered in football,
wrestling and baseball.
Eight other Christian
athletes won two letters,
including Burgin Beale,
Dempsey Herring and Joe
Rinaca in football and
baseball; Richard Mc-
George in football and
basketball; DonCrewsand
Larry Raines in football
and track; Emery Moore
in football and wrestling;
and Ralph Moore in
wrestling and track.
Eighteen letter winners
in baseball included John
Austin, Greensboro; Bur
gin Beale, Danville, Va.;
Don Brady, Bennett; Ron
Brown, Baltimore, Md.;
Bob Bulla, Asheboro;Joe
Byrtus, Virginia Beach,
Va.; Dewey Capps, Myr
tle Beach, S.C.; Larry
Collins, Jacksonville,
Fla.; Mel Cliborne,South
Boston, Va.; Alan Colen
da, Oxford; Jim Friesing
er, Greensboro; Bob God
frey, Greensboro; Demp
sey Herring, Whiteville;
Tom Jernigan, Fayette
ville; Jerry Midkiff,Gret
na, Va.; Joe Rinaca,Shen
andoah, Va.; Richard
Smith, Greensboro; and
Mike Spillane, Levittown,
N. Y.
Fourteen lettermen in
track included Claes A-
lexanderson, Fristad,
Sweden; John Austin,Vir
ginia Beach, Va.; Ron
Bolton, Greensboro; Don
Crews, Greensboro; Den
nis Everette, Ahoskie;
Joe Freve, Virginia
Beach, Va.; Scott Hill,
Courtland,Va,; Dan Link
er, Greensboro; Ralph
Moore, Schenectady, N.
Y.; David Oliphant,
Mooresville; Foster
Paulette, Charlottesville,
Va.; Larry Raines, Me-
bane; Rusty Roberts.Ral-
eigh; and Bill Robey, Be-
thesda, Md.
Six lettermen in golf
included Ricky Bray, Rob
bins; Mickey Combs,Bur
lington; Clyde Pritchett,
Greensboro; George
Watts, Wadesboro; Frank
Webster, Madison; and
Charles Woody, Roxboro.
Six letter winners in
tennis were Don Brown,
Jacksonville, Fla.; Sandy
Carrington, Lynchburg,
Va.; Jim Ellington, Gra
ham; Melvin Pierce, Win
ston-Salem ; George Ror-
rer, Madison; and John
Walton, Burlington.