FEBRUARY 7, 1974
THE COLLEGIATE
f^GEFOUR
Bulldogs Overpower Wesleyan, 106-70
Hj MIKK TAYi-OK
KOCKY MOUNT — It was
inevitable from the start — the
only real questions to be an
swered was when and by how
many.
The answer to the first
question came early in the
second half when Atlantic
Christian College put on a surge
that left North Carolina
Wesleyan reeling.
After eight minutes in the final
half of the Bulldogs-Bishop clash
here last night only the second
question remained unsolved.
That answer came at the gun,
106-70 ACC’s favor.
The outclassed Bishops made
it interesting for a while.
ACC built up an early 10-point
lead only to see a determined
Wesleyan squad trim the margin
to four.
The Bulldogs built that margin
back up to nine at the half but
then Wesleyan came steaming
back in the early going of the
fmal half to trim the margin
back down to four.
That was it though for the
Bishops.
They missed a chance at
cutting the lead down to two
points and then from there it was
ACC all the way.
The Bulldogs of Ben Pomeroy
outscored their host 10-2 in the
next four minutes to put this
contest away — the first road
win of the season for ACC.
The win boosts the Bulldogs to
7-12 overall this year and 4-2 in
the district.
The offesnive output of the
night, by far the most productive
for the Bulldogs, showed all five
ACC starters in the double
figure column.
Steadily improving Ron
Bowen knocked in 20 points,
most of them on a “for-sure”
Hackney II Triumphs
In intramural basketball
games of Wednesday, January
30, Hackney II beat Sig Ep 44-42,
Day I topped Sigma Pi 79-44,
Hackney I defeated Waters II 47-
42, Waters I routed Day II 83-71,
and Delta Sig beat Alpha Sig 41-
:i(>.
The Hackney II Sig Ep game
ended with a 40-40 score, but
Thurmond Hobbs scored four
points in the overtime period to
put the game away for Hackney.
Hobbs finished with a total of 18
points. Rick Babyak led Sig Ep
with 22 points.
Day I had five players in
double figures: Spencer Eakes
Intramural Basketball
Top Ten Scorers
Tommy Butts, Waters I 28.0
Ricky Babyak, Sig Ep 20.6
Jimmy Elliott, Day II 17.0
Spencer Eakes, Day I 16.0
Ray Wilkins, Alpha Sig 16.0
Jimmy Cobb, Hackney I 15.5
Skeeter Whitlow, Day I 14.6
John Dutton, Waters I 13.8
Rich Glover, Delta Sig 13.2
G.W. Gentry, Sigma Pi 13.0
(18), Skeeter Whitlow (14), Mike
Harrison (12), and Don Holt and
David Babb with 10 apiece.
George Wallace Gentry hit 18
points for the Pi's.
Hackney I was sparked by
Mike Kinlaw with 16 points. Jim
Farthing led Waters with 15.
Tommy Butts led Waters I
with 25 points. John Dutton
chipped in 18 points. Jimmy
Elliot led Day II with 17 points.
The Delta Sigs rode to victory
behind Rich Glover and Bill
Anderson. The pair scored 17
and 14 points respectively. Poot
Wilkins tallied 13 points to lead
Alpha Sig.
Next week's action is as
follows:
Mon., Feb. 11
6:30 Sigma Pi vs. Day II
Alpha Sig vs. Sig Ep
7:45 Hackney II vs. Waters I
Delta Sig vs. Hackney I
9:00 Waters II vs. Day I
Tues., Feb. 12
6:30 Hackney I vs. Hackney II
Waters I vs. Waters II
7:45 Sig Ep vs. Delta Sig
Day I vs. Day II
9:00 Sigma Pi vs. Alpha Sig
short jumper he has perfected
along the baseline.
Forward Robbie Cook added
16 more points, most on outside
jumpers, while center Allen
Searson and guard Russell
Eaves both had 14. Jimmy Nixon
chunked in 12 more to round out
the starting five.
Bill Manson, whose early
shooting antics kept the Bishops
in the contest, finished with 30 to
lead all scorers.
It was just a case of too much
firepower.
ACC opened fast on the attack,
hitting almost everything they
threw towards the hoop.
And, to go with that attack the
Bulldogs’ pressure defense
forced the Bishops into mistakes
galore in the opening minutes.
The Bulldogs scored the first
six points on buckets by Eaves,
Cook and Bowen before the
Bishops cracked the scoreboard.
That margin jumped up to 22-
10 with just 14:20 gone in the
match.
Eaves had six of those points
to lead the early surge.
The only thing to stop the
Bulldogs now was the Bulldogs
themselves. A rash of fouls sent
Wesleyan into the one and one
situation with 12:30 left and most
of the rest of the first half the
steady sound of the official’s
whistle stopped AC’s attack.
Wesleyan could not take ad
vantage of their chances at the
line or the game would have
been closer in the early going.
But, while Wesleyan could not
rally at the line they did on the
floor and trimmed the lead down
to 27-24 with 7:40 to play. Dave
Hummer and Manson sparked
the rally.
The Bulldogs’ pressure
managed to spread the Bishops’
offense out but the Wesleyan
club penetrated frequently to get
the high percentage shot.
It fell for a while and Wesleyan
made a game of it.
But, the close contest was
short-lived.
Bowen knocked in a short
jumper to make it 29-24 before
Larry Russell hit on a jumper to
send AC up 31-24 with 5:33 to go.
Cook added a basket to send the
margin to 33-24 before Wesleyan
could stop the streak.
That surge lifted the Bulldogs
to their nine-point 45-36 halftime
lead.
Dana Wade joined Manson in
bringing the Bishops back in the
early going in the final half.
Wade scored the first our
points of the half and then
Manson hit three straight shots,
his final bucket made it 50-46
with 16:28 to go.
But, that was as close as the
host could come. Searson got a
bucket to make it 52-46 and 30
seconds later Cook connected to
make it 54-46 with 15:30 to play.
Neal Chambers got two for the
Bishops but then ACC got eight
straight points on two buckets by
Bowen and baskets from . ,
and Eaves to make it 62I
Eaves to make it 62-48.
The only question left
whether a Wesleyan
only eight players could
^Quad of
"’ore than
finished
With
nuie
out the night before
three fouled out.
The Bishops were hit with tt,.
fouls that final half and i j
up with three of their S
s.M,ng.„ the benchalto,.5
The offensive firework<i
not just limited to the first fi,*
this night. “Miive
Reserve Greg Killingsworth
hit three straight jumpers in t),e
‘0 help the Bulldogs 0“
to that nine point bulge at
half and 8 at the
points.
Reserve Richard Battle a
Rocky Mount native, got eishi
^ints for the home fans
Gilbert Turner came in to score
seven more.
ACC which had the hot hand
all night from the floor, finished
with a blistering 59 per cent
shooting mark.
The Bulldogs also held a 43.25
rebounding edge.
Searson hauled in 18 to pace
the Bulldogs while Bowen had
ten more.
The Bulldogs get back into the
Carolinas Conference wars
Thursday night when they travel
to High Point. The Bulldogs beat
High Point by three points
earlier in the season.
Dream Match Ends In Forfeit
In intramural basketball
action Monday, the so-called
‘ ‘dream match ’ ’ ended in victory
for Day I as the Waters I squad
forfeited the game in the third
quarter. Waters called it quits
after about a minute had been
played in the third quarter. At
this point Day I was leading 39-
18. Skeeter Whitlow led the
scoring with 11 points.
In other action Day II beat
Hackney I 46-44, Sigma Pi
defeated Delta Sig 44-40, Sig Ep
whipped Waters II 47-40, and
Hackney II knocked off Alpha
Sig 43-37.
Bill Kent and Charles Finch
led Day II with 11 points each.
Jimmy Cobb scored 16 for
Hackney I.
The Sigma Pi team was led by
G.W. Gentry’s 14 points. Rich
Glover led Delta Sig with 16
points. Sig Ep Rick Babyak
scored 22 points while Jim
Farthing’s 17 points was tops for
Waters II.
The Alpha Sig’s, despite Ray
Wilkins’ 22 points, bowed to a
fired up Hackney team, led by
Thurmond Hobbs and David
Blackman, who scored 11 and 10
points respectively.
The standings as of today is as
follows:
1st
2nd
tie
tie
5th
6th
7th
tie
tie
10th
Day I
Day II
Hackney II
Waters I
Hackney I
Sigma Pi
Waters II
Sig Ep
Delta Sig
Alpha Sig
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4-1
4-1
4-1
3-2
2-3
14
1-4
1-4
0-5
Bulldogs Mystify Methodist Monarchs
By ALLKN ST.\l>LIN(iS
The Atlantic Christian College
homecourt mystery once again
seemed to be working for the
Bulldog team here last Thursday
night.
For the Methodist Monarchs
they were another victim to the
Bulldogs, who by far plays its
best basketball on its own court.
For the mighty Bulldogs, their
spurts against the Monarchs
were just too much for them as
ACC ended up taking the win 87-
81 in this District 29 play.
The Bulldogs knew what to do
Thursday night and to the inside
they went. The inside play of
center Allen Searson and for
ward Ron Bowen was very ef
fective when ACC went to this
play.
For Searson, scored ten
straight points in one two-minute
stretch in the first half to keep
the pace moving the pace
PI
Two On One; Ron Bowen fights alone against two Methodist players
Bowen's baskets counted heavy in the 87-80 Atlantic Christian victory
moving for the Bulldogs.
But for some unknown reason
the Bulldogs stopped going in
side as much and Methodist
came back to tie the game 42 all,
at the half.
Like “Smoking” Joe Frazier
coming out smoking, so did the
ACC Bulldogs at the start of the
second half. They pushed the
margin to 48-42 before the
Monarchs could buy a basket
and that lead held up.
The Bulldogs, played a very
effective zone during the final
half, that pushed the margin out
to 12 at one point before the
Monarchs tried to rally back
With 11:00left, Methodist got a
quick ten points, to cut the
Bulldogs’ lead down to four with
nine minutes left to play.
But, for the Bulldogs, their
cool, calm, collective, head
coach Ben Pomeroy called a
time-out in order to regroup.
After the time-out, the clutch
shooter Jim Nixon came back to
nit eight points in the final
minutes to give the Bulldogs the
victory.
The Bulldogs had a great
shooting night, hitting for 55 per
cent from the floor, while
Methodist hit 53.
The players, well what can I
say, except they played fan
tastic.
Center Allen Searson had
excellent inside moves for tS
evening and finished wSi n
field goals to be top scorer with
22 points.
Forward Ron Bowen, who
could not miss the baseline
jumper, hit for 17 along with an
impressive 13 rebounds.
Co-captain guard Jim Nixon
who got into early t
ul trouble, came back in the
second half to do his thing with
14 points. While the other co
captain Russell Eaves hit for
five.
Both forwards Richard Battle
and Robbie Cook hit for 11 points
to help boost the Bulldog victor;'.
The Bulldogs gave a great
home performance for those
fans that missed it, but wait ■■
this Saturday night the mighp
team plays host to Pfeiffer, so be
their to see another home vic
tory.
Ron Bowen and Allen Searson work hard to get open for a pass 1
a tough Methodist defense.