FRIDAY, MAY 16,1969
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Golfers Win InNAIA District
W INS INDIVIDUAL TITLES
Bick Long, Elon senior from Burlington, who
grabbed the double individual honors as champion of
both the Carolinas Conference and NAIA District 26
in golf, brought Elon her fourth such title. Dave
Mondy won in 1949 and 1951, and Freddie Lloyd
won in 1959. Long’s score of 148 was the second
best score ever posted by an Elon player in the
Conference tourney.
Pfeiffer Grabs 4-0 Victory
In Final Elon Baseball Tilt
Doom mg uripie by Rick
Blackwood. Later the
Falcons added one run in
the fifth and another in the
seventh.
Elon finally threatened
in the ninth when a walk
and two singles loaded the
bases with two out, but
Anthony bore down and
retired Mel Clibume on a
fly to center to end the
game.
By JIM HODGES
The Pfeiffer Falcons
evened up the seasonal
series with Elon at one
game apiece when they
grabbed a 4-0 win over
the Christians in a game
at Pfeiffer on May 3rd,
avenging an earlier 5-1
triumph by Elon.
Stuart Anthony, Pfeif
fer moundsman, proved
quite a match for the
Elon bats, holding the
Christians to but four
hits; and Criggy Porter
proved him self the ruina
tion of the Christians with
three hits for the Falcons,
all directly related to the
Pfeiffer markers,
i^fieffer scored enough
to win in the first when
“e Falcons plated two
runs on two singles and a
Elon Wins Individual Crowns;
Tea mTo Play In National Meet
With Bick Long, Elon’s
fine senior golfer from
Burlington, winning the
individual championship
in both the Carolinas Con
ference and the NAIA Dis
trict 26 when he posted a
fine score of 73-75-148
over the Sapphire Valley
course on May 5th and 6th,
the Elon Christians also
grabbed off the team
championship in the Dis
trict 26 competition.
The Presbyterian Blue
Hose golfers topped Elon
for the team title in the
Carolinas Conference
with a team score 619,
compared with the Chris
tian team score of 632
strokes, but the Fighting
Christian linksmen were
a comfortable 19 strokes
ahead of their nearest
competition in the NAIA
District.
Trailing Elon in the
District tourney were Ca
tawba with 651, Pfeiffer
with 659, Guilford with
663 and High Point with
678 strokes. Other teams
in the Carolinas Confer
ence play who were notin
the NAIA District 26 were
Western Carolina with
667 and Newberry with
699 strokes.
Bick Long, in grabbing
Elon’s first individual
Conference title in ten ■
years, also had a com
fortable lead with his 148
score, for his closest
competitor was Presby
terian’s Ashton Blount
with a 154 score. Long
had three birdies and
seven bogles in his final
day of the two-day tour
nament.
Other Elon golfers who
contributed to the Elon
team victory were
Charles Woody with 77-
83-160, George Watts
with 75-87-162 and Frank
Webster with 81-81-
162 for the two days of
play. The Elon team vic
tory in the District 26
entitles the Christians to
play in the national NAIA
tournament to be held in
Fort Worth, Texas, in
mid-June.
In carrying Elon colors
into the NAiA national golf
tourney at Fort Worth,
the Christian golfers of
1969 become Elon’s fifth
sports team to make the
nationals. The others
were the Christian bas
ketball teams of 1952,
1956 and 1957 and the
Christian baseball team
of 1958,
In winning the Confer
ence and NAIA individual
titles, Bick Long became
Elon’s fourth Individual
winner in Conference
play. Dave Mondy won
the Conference crown in
1949 with a 154 score and
grabbed his second loop
title in 1951 with a 151
score, Freddie Lloyd won
the individual title in 1959
with a 147 score, and
Long’s 148 this year was
the best score since that
(Continued on page 4)
BASEBALL
(FINAL FOR SEASON)
Elon - Methodist (Rain).
Elon
Elon
Elon
Elon
Elon
Elon
Elon
Elon
Elon
Elon
Elon
5,
2,
3,
1.
2,
4,
6,
3.
5,
10,
Campbell 6.
W. Maryland 0.
Otterbein 0.
W. Carolina
W. Carolina
Catawba
Methodist
Wilmington
Lynchburg
Wilmington
5, At. Christian
3.
4.
7.
0.
6.
6.
7.
2.
(Remaining Games)
Elon
Elon
Elon
Elon
Elon
Elon
Elon
Elon
Elon
Elon
Elon
Elon
Elon
Elon
1, Campbell 5.
7, Guilford 3.
6, Methodist 1.
1, Guilford 2.
2, Newberry 1,
1, Newberry 5.
1, High Point 13.
5, Lenoir Rhyne 1.
2, Lenoir Rhyne 10.
5, Pfeiffer
1, Catawba
3, At. Christian
1,
0,
High Pt.
Pfeiffer
1.
0.
4.
6.
4.
High Point Trounces Elon
By 6-1 In Tilt On May 2
By JIM HODGES
Frustration has to be
the key word to Elon’s
athletic endeavors a-
gainst High Point this
year, for the Christians
suffered three losses in
basketball and a shellack
ing in baseball.
The final gameinbase-
ball at High Point offer
ed Elon one more chance
to regain lost prestige,
but no such luck, for High
Point hurler John Euyler
(Continued on page 4) , ^ ^
FJf HTING CHRISTIAN NET SQUAD FOR 1969 SEASON
^ ^ u f Pinn Pnlleffe tennis team tor the 1969 season are pictured
S'r £ a”‘*Bry.n Wall, of Mebane. Jack Welch, ot
above.
Walton, of Burlin^on; Tom Bell, of ^ wiggins for the first
o„lv*o„/®w,„ ,or .he ,ear.
proved more than ade
quate to the situation in
spacing six hits over nine
innings and pitching the
Panthers to a 6-1 win
at High Point on May 2nd.
High Point’s Don Mit-
chum hit a solo homer in
the second for the first
run, and there was an
other marker in a wild
third frame, and then the
Panthers hammered
home four added runs in
the eighth to finish off
the Christians.
The Elon nine averted
a whitewash in the eighth
when Joe Rinaca walked,
stole second and scored
on Mel Cliborne’s single
down the left field line.
(Continued on page 4)