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Guilford Baseball Team6—o
The Guilford College Base
ball team has jumped off to an
outstanding 6-0 record this
spring.Combiningfine pitch
ing, powerful hitting, and
sharp fielding, the Quakers
have scored 67 runs while
allowing opponents only 17.
Guilford opened with two
victories over Wake Forest
8-2, 12-6, and since has
defeated Dickinsonri 14-3.
Otterbein 9-0, Hampden-
Sydney 16-5, and Upsula 8-1.
Larry Jackson and Ray
Cooke have been effective
starting pitchers for the
Quakes with Rod Trivette as
the number one backup man.
Guilford has been devastat
ing offensively. Randy Black is
leading the wrecking crew
with three home runs,
including a grand slam. Stan
'Smith, Paul Halfmann, Bruce
March 25 Catawba College Home
March 27 Elon College Home
March 28 Univ. of Massachusetts Home
March 29 Albany State University (Doubleheader) Home
March 31 John Hopkins University Home
April 1 John Hopkins University Home
April 4 Atlantic Christian College Away
April 5 A&T State University Home
April 7 Atlantic Christian College Home
April 9 Catawba College Away
April 12 Davidson College Away
April 15 Pfciffcr College Home
April 17 Lenoir Rhyne College Home
April 19 A&T State University Away
April 20 High Point College Away
April 22 Pfciffcr College Away
April 24 Mars Hill College (Doubleheader) Home
April 27 High Point College Home
April 29 Elon College Away
Regular weekday single games begin at 3:00 -- Sat. and Sun
single games, 2:00 Doublcheaders begin at 2:00 -- Head coach
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Baden, Chris Paphites, and
Pella Stokes have all joined
the home run parade for a
total of eleven blasts in six
games.
The Quaker infield of
Halfmann, Stokes, Paphites,
and David Green has given
strong support to the mound
staff. The excellent defensive
play has been highlighted by
the brilliant glove work of
rookie second baseman "Ma
gic" Stokes.
Crucial conference games
with Catawba and Elon will
take place on the Quaker
diamond on Tuesday March 25
and Thursday March 27.
Friday, the University of
Massachusetts will be here for
a single game followed by a
Saturday afternoon double
header against Albany State
University.
The Guilfordian
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Wait 'Til Next Year!
by David Scott
There was no way that
Guilford was not going to get
to Kansas City. The year had
been too successful. It was a
foregone conclusion that the
Quakers were going to breeze
through the Carolinas Confe
rence and District 26 Tourna
ments, and then take to
Kansas City a ranking that
would probably seed them in
the top four. If something
unusual happened to top
seeded Kentucky State, the
Quakers would have become
one of the favorites to win the
National Championship.
Kentucky State did lose in
the first round. Unfortunately
Guilford was not around to
take advantage of it. Winston-
Salem State was.
The Rams eventually ad
vanced to the quarterfinals,
and then hung around to
watch Grand Canyon (Arizo
na) win the title.
But what happened to
Guilford, the team that had
won 22 out of 24 games during
the regular season and was
ranked 6th in the NAIA? The
Quakers had gone into the CC
Tournament with a District
berth already in the bag, and
were soundly beaten by High
Point. The loss could have
been taken two ways. Some
folks saw it as a warning not to
get too complacent or
over-confident, others felt that
the Quakers had played a bad
game, and thus had gotten it
out of their systems.
Neither turned out to be
completely true. The Quakers
struggled by Pfeiffer at
Grimsley High School, and
then, with many High Point
players looking on, Guilford's
hopes for a second National
Championship in three years
came to a gliding halt at the
hand of Bighousc Gaines'
Winston-Salem State team.
Things just weren't the
same after the regular season
ended. The Quakes played the
last half of the season as if
they should have been in the
same league as the Celtics,
and maybe that is what the
problem was. Guilford could
have shot their wad, and
peaked too early. Who can
say, though? Whatever, the
forces that worked so well just
weren't there in tournament
play.
Guilford's ishaky / play
continued as they met Pfeiffer
in the first round of the
Districts. The Quakes had
beaten Pfeiffer by 30 earlier in
the year, and realistically
weren't expected to be any
trouble. But...they were. As
a matter of fact, if college
basketball games
minutes, the Falcons would
have won, because they were
ahead by five with 6 minutes
left in the game. Luckily for
Guilford, games last forty
minutes, and they won by 10,
71-61.
Ray Branch and Sam
Kennedy led the comeback,
combining for 28 rebounds.
For once, Lloyd Free's
shooting from the floor was
not a factor, but his free throw
shooting was; he hit several
important shots from the line
in the closing moments. Free
and Kennedy both finished
with 20-points.
At the same time, Winston-
Salem State was barely
defeating Barber - Scotia.
Guilford had beaten the pants
off Barber Scotia in January.
So what?
The Rams did not respect
that statistic, and after an
opening surge by Guilford and
some mdmentum killing
tactics by Bighouse, WSU was
off to KC.
It did not appear that way at
first, as the Quakers broke
from the gate and started to
look as if they were going to
get that ticket west.
But then Coach Gaines
decided that he had had
enough. After demanding to
examine the perfectly legit
ball Guilford had furnished
(Guilford being the designated
home team), Bighouse argued
and argued about whether or
not the ball should be used.
These shenanigans went on
for five minutes, and the
momentum that the Quakes
March 25. 1975
Women's
Track
The new Guilford College
Women's Track team will be
having their organizational
meeting tomorrow (Wednes
day) on the track. Karen
Hartsoe, who is organizing the
group, states that this will be a
rather informal but necessary
meeting, and urges all
interested women to come on
by the track at 2 and see what
it's all about. At the present
time, Guilford is the only
college in the area to have
Women's track. But this
should not deter anyone from
joining up. The group, which
now numbers 11, would like to
have anyone join who is
interested in any sort of track
event - anything from hurdles
to distance track.
had worked up was in the
wind.
Things never got as good
after that, and while the
Quakers went cold, the Rams
continued to can shots that
were closer to midcourt than
to the top of the key.
Guilford still seemed to
have things under control,
though, as they went into
halftime with a 45-41 lead.
The second half was even
for the first 14 minutes.
Guilford was scoring impres
sively as Free was knocking in
everything that he put up.
Leading by 5, 62-57, things
started to change. There were
5-1 /2 minutes left in the game,
and no one could hit a basket -
on either team. WSU got the
ball, missed their shot,
Guilford rebounded, turned it
over. This went on for 6
possessions each.
Somebody had to get hot. It
wasn't Guilford. Led by Don
Helton, WSU pulled ahead
finally at 4:05, and it was
"wait 'til next year", or at
least 'til Baton Rouge.
The Quakes finished with
probably the most disappoint
ing 24-4 record possible...But,
do wait 'til next year.
You.can
speed up
the pace...
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are forever.
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