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Friday, November 21, 1969 Conference Basketball Preview quay, and 6-5 Charles Lynn of Salisbury." In addition to that size, Moir will have the services of a mem ber of the football team, defen sive end Bill Griffin who is listed on the football roster as 6-5, 255. Moir hopes to trim Griffin down to around 240. With Durante gone it is dif ficult to determine what kind of offensive attack Moir will choose. For the last four years it was pretty much of Durante bringing the ball down court and Durante shooting. That will all be changed this year, but McDougall may step into Durante's playmaking role and expand on it somewhat. Elon ELON --- Losing players like 6-7 Henry Goedeck, one of the very few players ever to make all-conference four times, and 6-8 center Bill Bowes is enough to make any coach pull out the crying towel. Coach Bill Miller of Elon is not crying very loudly. The reason is the presence on an almost unbelievable group of newcomers. And, it is even better than bring in a good crop of first-year men. What Miller has done is recruit five players either from junior colleges or freshmen from the rigors of service ball. There is plenty of reason for thinking that Elon may do better than its second-place finish of last season. Elon started slowly in 1968-69, winning only seven of its first 13 games. The Fight ing Christians. then closed the regular season with 12 consecu tive triumphs. Returning from that team is 6-5, 220-pound Richard Mc- George, an all - conference selection last year in both foot ball and basketball. McGeorge is an unmovable mountain under the backboards. Other key returnees are 6-3 guard Tommy Cole, guards Tom McGee and Noble Marshall, and 6-7 center Pat Berry. Among the newcomers who may move into the starting lineup is freshman Larry Trautwein, 6-8, 210 pounds. Trautwein was sought by approximately 100 col leges while in high school in Richwood, N. J. The other new faces are 6-6 Ron Graham, the best leaper at Elon since Jesse Branson, Gary Brown, a trans fer from Davis-Elkins, guard Mike Meacham, and 6-3 Bob Pingley, a transfer from Fred erick. High Point HIGH POINT lt won't seem right this season to watch High Point without Gene Littles. And, High Point probably won't be as "right" without Littles, who is now a member of the Carolina Cougars' ABA basketball team. In addition to Littles, who averaged 23.3 points a game, High Point also lost 6-11 Jim Picka, 6-5 Steve Tatgenhorst, Ron Korney and Ron Loewenthal. Coach Bob Vaughn cannot ex TOM BOONE*™ Formal Wear Rentals Hp 112 W. Sycamor* PliO 273-4612 pect to make up for the loss of Picka and Littles, but he does harbor some degree of opti mism for the season. Danny Witt and Joe Colbert are the only re turning starters, and both are guards who work well together in Vaughn's fast-break offense. The Panther roster is dotted with freshmen, many of whom will have to play this year, and play well if High Point is to defend its conference championship. Among the freshmen are 6-9, 210-pound Steve Allen of Arlington, Va.,and 6-9, 190-pound Bill McGhee of Wheaton, Md. The roster also in cludes five other freshmen, none taller than 6-4. The only other lettermen re turning for High Point 6-5 sopho more John Kirkman, a hometown boy, and junior Bill Webb of Beltsville, Md. That leaves Vaughn with the most inex perienced team since he came to High Point for the 1966-67 sea son. Most of the High Point players are from the metropolitan Wash ington, D. C., area which is recognized as one of the most productive basketball recruiting section of the country. Kirkman and freshman Phil Butler are the only players on the roster who are not from the D.C. area. Lenoir Rhyne LENOIR RHYNE --- The play er-personnel situation at Lenoir Rhyne presents a pleasant re versal of 1969 for Coach Mel vin Ruggles. Last season, Rug gles started the year with one returning starter and four new comers. This year he has four returning starters and only one newcomer. Despite that less-than-exciting prospect of success, Ruggles molded Lenoir Rhyne into a team which won 16 games and lost only 10 decisions. Lenoir Rhyne de feated every other team in the conference at least once except High Point, which won both the regular season and tournament championships. Ruggles is confident that the Bears will have a stronger team this year and that they should definitely be contenders of the league title. "We are not as tall as we would like to be," Rug gles says. "The tallest man in the starting lineup as it stands now is only 6-6, and the starting five averages only 6-2." The returning starters are 6-3 John Davidson, who led the team in scoring with an 18.5 -point scoring average; 6-1 Dana Olson who averaged 11 points; Gerald Mills who averaged 8.7 points and 8.2 rebounds; and Vernon Long who averaged 7.2. Dale Abernethy, who played only the last half of last season after transferring to Lenoir Rhyne, is most likely to capture the other starting position. Depth should be a problem for the Bears, but Ruggles has brought in some outstanding freshmen and has 6-8 transfer Danny Williams available. Wil liams is expected to see exten sive action as a reserve center, THE GUILFORDIAN and by the middle of the season it is possible that he will move into the starting lineup. One of the freshmen from whom Rug gles expects some help this sea son is Andy Anderson, 6-5, from Gastonia. Newberry NEWBERRY The Indians surprised pratic&lly everyone in the Carolinas Conference, with possible exception of Coach Nield Gordon, with their performance last season. It was a "runner up year." Newberry was runner up in the Rome (Ga.) Invitational tournament, the Carolinas Con ference tournament and theNAIA District 6 tournament, pulling several upsets along the way. Things could be different this season. "On paper," Gordon says, "this could be one of the best Newberry teams in history. We lost John Smith and Tommy Martin, but we have four return ing seniors and four other let termen plus transfer Mike Barb and four fine looking freshmen." In the conference tournament, Newberry, which had finished in sixth place during the regular season, upset Atlantic Christian and Elon in the first two rounds before losing to nationally-rank ed High Point in the champion ship contest. In the district tournament, Newberry humbled South Carolina State, ranked sixth nationally in the NAIA at the time, before losing to Asheville- Biltmore in the finals. Gordon believes that 6-9 Buddy Moore, who sat out last season, will be a huge asset this year. Moore plays center or forward and is an "above-average" de fensive center. With Moore at :enter, Gordon will be able to move 6-2 Charlie Gilroy back to his normal position at for ward. In 35 games which he started at center, Gilroy con trolled the jump 32 times. Steve Hollingsworth, who averaged 18 points a game last year, will man one of the other forward positions. Charlie Neal, Tommy Miller and Kevin Howard will battle for the starting guard berths. Other lettermen are 6-6 Mark Thompson and 6-4 Ernie Chambers. The top freshmen are guards Barry Foy and Kim Bode and forwards Bill Ellis and Bill Sullivan. Pfeiffer PFEIFFER - Basketball, more so than any other team sport, demonstrates the approach which a coach takes toward ath letics, and, in some cases, toward life. Even when his personnel dictates a running offense, a coach weaned on deliberate basketball will still manage to in corporate facets of Iba-ism. The case is probably more prevalent with a coach who likes a running team but doesn't have a running team. It is difficult to say, then, just what will happen at Pfeiffer this season with a new coach. Tom Childress, who was an assistant Greensboro's Finest For over 20 Years HAM'S KOSHER FOODS ALL KIHDS OF SANDWICHES 201 N. AYCOCK at Appalachian for two seasons, has succeeded Francis Essie who has joined the administrative offices of the Carolina Cougars of the American Basketball Asso ciation. "A new coach in'a new sit uation can never fully know what to expect." Childress says. "I do know that Pfeiffer has suffered through several long years due to lack of experienced personnel. We have licked this problem and look forward to competing with a well-seasoned ball team. If attitude is truly a determining factor, we are taking a step in the right direction." Childress, who rates his de fense as average, says he hopes to place greater emphasis on this phase of the game as the boys adjust to his new style of play. Pfeiffer permitted 78.8 points a game last season. He says the team speed is fair, although Pfeiffer, this year as tra ditionally, has the quick indi vidual player. He considers the team's shooting ability "av erage." "This must improve if we are to have a successful sea son," he said. "We shot 42 per cent last year (from the field) and still set a school scoring record." The only category in which Childress considers Pfeiffer ''good" is rebounding. "John Banner (6-7), Dwight Kincaid (6-5) and Jim Burkhart (6-3) give us excellent board strength, and Bob Engebretsen (6-5) and Jim Stillwell (6-5) give us depth on the front line." Presbyterian PRESBYTERIAN "lf the saying is true that competition brings out the best then our team this year should play at top efficiency. 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"Three of our starters could be freshmen, so a great deal de pends on how fast these fresh men can adjust to college com petition," Robinson says. The only sure starter appears to be Donnie Kuhn, a 6-2 sopho more who broke into the start ing lineup last year. Among the personnel losses were 6-9 Jim Kiser, 6-7 Doug MacLeod, 6-6 Dave Hudson and Woody Car ter. The returning lettermen are all between 6-1 and 6-4, George Dickerson, Dave Kerch ner, Chuck Baker, KuhnandDan ny Yarborough. The newcomers include Steve Crowe, Fred Melson, Jerry Owens, Howard Bean and Martie Tiller, all 6-5 or 6-6, and Mike Lovell, Bobby Whiteside, Bill Clayton, Cliff Wilson and Artie Maxwell. Robinson used a very delib erate offense last season, prob ably his best strategy under his personnel restraints. As a re sult Presbyterian stayed inmost of their games and seldom was beaten too badly. The quickness of his freshmen may make the strategym more fruitful than last season's 8-18 record. ★★★ HIGH POINT - High Point College pulled ahead after the first three minutes and stayed ahead to register a 97-53 win over Greensboro College Thurs day in the opening basketball game for both teams. Danny Witt scored 26 points for High Point to lead the Pan ther attack.
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