cBinAY. FEBRUARY 7, 1969
maroon and gold
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Christians Roll Over Indians
Tthategy^^v^^j^orse^^ Catawba
At Salisbury, 88-66
Coach J3111 Miller, pictured left above, is shown as he talked strate^ with his
Fighting Christian cagers during the second battle with Catawba, which netted
an 86 to 66 victory for the Elon quintet. The pictures which Coach Miller was
drawing on the floor must surely have been good ones, for tte Maroon and Oold
cagers completely outclassed the Indian outfit, holding Catawba s Dwight uurant
to a scant five points for the night. The Catawba ace had gotten only two points
against Elon on the Christian floor two weeks earlier.
The Christian cagers
were redhot and on the
warpath as they trampled
the Catawba Indians by
full twenty points for a
second time this season,
winning over the Red Men
at Salisbury on Saturday,
January 25th, by a pleas
ing 86 to 66 margin.
This victory came on
the heels of an earlier
Elon win over Catawba
on the Elon floor, the
Christians having tramp
led the Indians 97 to 74
two weeks earlier, and the
second victory boosted
the Elon cagers ahead
of Catawba in the fourth
spot in the Carollnas Con
ference rankings.
Not in many years had
an Elon cage squad won
two such decisive tri-
umps over a Catawba
hardwood squad, and the
two victories were ren
dered even sweeter by the
fact that the Christians
held Catawba’s Dwight
Durante to a total of ex
actly seven points in the
two games, two points at
Elon and five at Cataw
ba. It avenged the 45 and
58 points that Durante
scored against Elon last
year.
The fine defensive ef
fort against Durante, who
has been leading the Con
ference In scoring with
an average of better than
28 points per game, prov
ed a big factor In Elon’s
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McGeorge Is Tops
In Win From Apps
COLE SCORES ACAINST CATAWBA
With Richard Mc
George playing his finest
game ever In an Elon
page uniform, the Fight
ing Christian cagers
turned in a tremendous
78 to 64 victory over an
"PP team that handed High
joint’s Panthers their
only defeat of the year.
Playing basketball with
the
same rugged power
tnat earned him All-A-
™erican rating in foot-
Dall, McGeorge pumped
29 points in the scor-
ng column and also stole
away from the
Mountaineers and raced
®wn floor for easy lay-
“Ps. He hit several re-
layups that appear-
1 nothing short of magic.
ihe Mountaineers, who
Med out of the Caro-
inas Conference this
6ason to play as an in
dependent team, held a
cant 33 to 30 margin at
® half-time Intermls-
the two teams
. r, l^attled tooth and toe-
f ™roughout the first
twenty minutes of action.
However, the Elon
rhFJ® came back after
3 , °^6ak with a new drive
A caught up with the
PPs after four minutes
play, with McGeorge
sinking the basket that
tied the count at 40-all.
Less than one minute la
ter McGeorge bucketed
a score to put Elon ahead
42 to 40, and the Chris
tians never trailed again.
The Christians were
paced by McGeorge,Goe-
deck, Bowes and Cole as
they ran out a fifteen point
lead with seven minutes
left In the game, and they
held a comfortable mar
gin during the closing mo
ments of play as the Apps
fouled in seeking posses
sion of the ball.
There were four Elon
players in double figures
for the game, with Mc-
George’s 29 points tops
for both teams. Goedeck
hit 17, Cole 11 and Bowes
10 for Elon, and Allen
Price topped the Apps
with 25 points.
The Christians hit an
amazing 30 of 51 shots
from the floor, scoring
even higher percentage on
floor shots than from the
free-throw line, and Bill
Bowes led Elon on the
backboards with 11 re
bounds for the night.
With Appalachian out oi
the Conference, the game
had no bearing on the loop
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CACF GAMES
Elon 79, L.M.U. 78.
Elon 104, Cumberland 117
Elon 79, Wofford 63.
Elon 74, High Point 87.
Elon 94, A.C.C. 76.
Elon 56, L. Rhyne 59.
Elon 73, L. Rhyne 65.
Elon 72, Campbell 66.
Elon 83, A.C.C. 89.
Elon 97, Catawba 74.
Elon 106, Guilford 94.
Elon 75, Campbell, 97.
Elon 81, High Point 94.
Elon 76, Wofford 60.
Elon 65, Pfeiffer 68.
Elon 86, Catawba 66.
Elon 78, A.S.U. 64.
(Remaining Games;
Jan. 30 - Presbyterian(A)
Feb. 1 - W. Carolina (A)
Feb. 5 - Appalachian (A).
Feb. 8 - Presbyterian(H).
Feb. 12 - Pfeiffer (A).
Feb. 15 - W. Carolina (H).
Feb. 20 - Newberry (A).
Feb. 22 - Guilford (A).
Feb. 26-30 - Conference
Tournament
Grid Squad
Gets Indoor
Conditioning
Preparations for the
1969 football season are
already underway, with
Coach Red Wilson having
between 45 and 50 Chris
tian gridders at work for
the past two weeks on
conditioning exercises
and drills in the gymnas
ium. Several boys miss
ed the gym work due to
absence from the short
“Mini-Term.”
Coach Wilson states
that full-scale outdoor
workouts will get under
way on Monday, F ebruary
17th, with 65 or more
players taking part in the
winter workouts. The
winter drills will continue
until about March 15th,
with from 16 to 20 dally
sessions. A few days work
in shorts Is planned for
May.
The Christians lost
only four seniors from
the 1968 team, but there
are some academic cas
ualties, and Mike Over
ton will be lost from foot
ball permanently due to
a shoulder injury, for
which he has just had
surgery. Overton will
work as a student assist
ant to the coaches for
the next two seasons.
Wish I’d Said
That
Tommv Cole, Elon's fine freshman guard, almost
.oel" orbit’as he goes up for a layup basket in
F^n^s 86 to 66 victory over Catawba at Salisbury.
C atawba’s Bullock also goes high trying to block the shot.
Kindness is the language
which the deaf can hear and
the blind can see.— Madge
Sheline, Hessville-Woodmar
(Ind.) Lite.