Friday, October 17,1969
COLUMNS
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Merritt Wins Powder-Puff
Championship
Merritt Hall, led by Susan
Bauhofer and Nancy Rains,
scored impressive victories over
Kenan and Wright to win this
year’s Powder-Puff champion
ship.
The games were played
under the “no contact” rule
with the only exception that a
pass could be made at any
point on the field.
Susan Bauhofer opened the
first game against Kenan with a
45 yard kick-off return for a
touchdown. This play set the
pattern for the entire game.
Merritt put up a strong defense
led by ^nhofer and Mary Ann
Markey, so that Kenan really
never got going. Later in the
game, Bauhofer unloaded a
touchdown pass to Nancy
Rains, which iced the victory.
Debb Webb, Lou Lockhart,
and Beverly Lewis turned in
impressive performances for
Kenan. Webb made several fine
runs, while Lockhart and Lewis
DEBB WEBB PREPARES FOR A PASS
each intercepted a pass.
The final score was 12-0,
but this was just the beginning
for Merritt.
Two days later, Merritt
rolled up an 18-0 victory over
Wright to capture the cham
pionship. Susan Bauhofer start
ed it off with a 25-yard touch
down run. The remainder of
the first half was a defensive
struggle. Ernie Land and Joan
Longstroth of Wright were
standouts on defense. Land
came up with two intercep
tions, while Langstroth was ef
fective against the running
plays.
Midway through the second
half, Nancy Rains broke loose
on a 30-yard touchdown run.
Only minutes later. Rains
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RETURNING CHEERLEADERS LEFT TO RIGHT, JANE KELLY, LINDA DITCHBURN, PAM LEWIS
Cheerleaders To Be Chosen October 23
This year twenty-seven
people turned out to try to
become cheerleaders for the
1969-70 season. Thare were
seven boys and twenty girls
interested. On September 24 at
6:45 p.m. the twenty girls had
a meeting which was not a
tryout but an organization
meeting designed to stress to
the girls the importance of
good cheerleading and to ex
plain how valuable a cheer
leader was to the underlying
success of her team. Out of the
entire twenty-seven only six
will be chosen, three boys and
three girls. With these six new
members added to the cheering
squad, the total number of
cheerleaders for the 1969-70
season will be nine. These in
clude the three returning
veteran cheerleaders-Jane
Kelly, Linda Ditchburn, and
Pam Lewis.
When asked about the
quality of the prospects, the
veteran cheerleaders all agreed,
that they were very impressed
with the turnout and the
quality.
The prospective twenty-
seven cheerleaders will each be
taught two cheers. They will
practice these every Monday
and Thursday until October
20, when the best three boys
and three girls will be chosen.
The next afternoon the cheer
ing squad will pick a captain.
The three veteran cheer
leaders stated that they can
now only hope that this year
will be a very prosperous one
in both cheerleading and sports
activity.
By Jim Shell
threw a pass to Banhofer, who
in turn threw it to Elizabeth
Rhodes for the final touch
down.
The players say credit must
be given to Sharon Pullen, the
women’s athletic director, for
an outstanding job of organiza-
Phil Spears
Woodard Captures
Tennis Crown
Millard Woodard emerged as
champion of the Men’s Single’s
Tennis Tournament played
during the week of September
29 through October 2. The
event was sponsored by the
Recreation Department under
the guidance of Coach Lanier.
The first round of play saw
Win Babson eliminated by Bill
Benton, Donald Moore was de
feated by Scott Honeycutt,
Gary Smith won over David
Ellis, and Frank Heacox was
stopped by Millard Woodard.
Larry Frayser lost to Rick Um-
bui^er during the second round
while Moore was defeated by
Benton and Smith was eluni-
nated by Woodard.
Benton defeated Umburger
on Wednesday and won a spot
in the final round with Wood
ard. Due to rain, the final
round was postponed until the
following Monday. Woodard
capped the crown by defeating
Benton 6-3, 6-0.
A series of tournaments are
planned by the Recreation De
partment this year with the
possibility of a trophy for the
winners at the end of the year.
However, as it stands now the
winner must settle for the pres
tige and self-satisfaction of be
ing the best in his respective
field.
By Frank Jones
Lanier Begins First Year
As Golf Coach
Bright Outlook For Baseball Team
How does the golf team
shape up for this year? Even
Coach Jim Lanier is uncertain
how our team will perform.
Dave Stamper and Rick
Green are the only returnees
from last year’s team. But
Stamper vras one of the top
finishers in last year’s con
ference tournament. New
comers Billy Biggs and Jimmy
Brown are expected to provide
a considerable amount of hdp.
About eight other boys are
interested and have turned in
scores of rounds played this
fall. Coach Lanier has not been
able to see his players perform
yet; therefore, there has been
no evaluation of their abilities.
Chowan is picked as the
team to beat this year. They
have several boys back from
last year’s team and have al
ways been noted for ha^ng
strong teams.
The home matches are
played at Green Hill Country
Club hare in Louisburg. It is a
short, well-trapped course that
requires r»"ifer to control
his shots.
Coach Lanier emphasized
the fact that the team is by no
Recently the Louisburg Col
lie baseball teem went into
action, in an exhibition game
against the freshman baseball
team of East Carolina. The
meeting of these two teams
resulted in a split of a double-
header. Louisburg took the
first game 1-0 but dropped the
means already picked. He urges
that interested boys should
contact him about trying out
for this year’s team. There will
be a meeting shortly after the
Christmas holidays to make
plans for the ^ring.
By Phil Spears
second game 4-0.
Coach Russd Frazier, head
baseball coach, was very
pleased with the encounter. He
had some question as to how
the pitching was going to be
but his fears were soon elimi
nated.
Frazier said, “This is a re
building year. The difference
between this years teem and
last years is experience. Most
of the experienced players left
last year but over all the team
looks real good both defen
sively and offensively. Mistakes
are expected from an inex
perienced team but things
should look better as the year
goes on.”
Back from last year are Bus
ter Sanderford, Tommy Cox,
Junior Montoya, Bill Andrews
and Jimmy Rivers. This year’s
new playras are Ricky Richard
son, who was drafted by Kan
sas City, Jim Garby, who has a
batting average of .288, Bob
Becker, who is probably the
hardest thrower on the pitch
ing staff, Wayne Ceiren, who
has proven to be a good hitter,
Doug Donald from Ralei^, N.
C., Dave Johnson from North
ern Durham, and Bill Morran
firom Norfolk, Virginia.
See BASEBALL TEAM Page 4