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CXDLUMNS
March 1982
Batter Up!
Baseball
By Barry Eagle
Well, it's that time of the year
again. The baseball season is just
around the corner. The Hurricanes
start their season off March 10. The
-team will be off on a five-game road
trip and will return the fifteenth for
their first home game.
During the first five games,
Louisburg will play teams such as
Clemson and the University of North
Carolina at Charlotte. The Hurricanes
will play 43 games before tournament
time, and they should have a good
chance to go back to the world series
like last year.
The Canes are rated third in the
Junior College preseason polls, and
they hope to finish number one. The
returning players from last year are Al
Murray, Jabo Fulghum, Kevin Korpi,
Charles Canady, and Matt Whimmel.
Good luck Canes!
Softball
Excited about the new coming
softball season? Coach Sheilah
Gotten really is. Yes, this is the first
season for women's softball and it
should be an exciting one.
The Lady Canes start their season
off March 17 against Mt. Olive. Miss
Gotten said, "Peace, Mt. Olive and
Chowan should be our toughest
opponents." The Canes play 15
games before the tournament. The
tournament will be held here at
Louisburg April 24.
Some of the key players on the
team are Courtney Lancaster, The
resa Taylor, Tammy Kearney, and
Sue Barrett. All of them are
sophomores and should show great
leadership throughout the season. So
let's all back the softball team and
hope they have a great season!
Do You Know
who was the first
woman to be inducted into the ECU
Sports Hall of Fame? Well, if you
don't know, she is a teacher and
coach here at Louisburg College.
Sheilah Cotten is the answer.
Miss Cotten is a graduate of East
Carolina University, where she was
the first female basketball player to
score over 1000 points. Although
Miss Cotton didn't start playing
organized basketball until her fresh
man year in high school at
Fuquay-Varina, she played every
position on the ECU team. She began
as a center in her freshman year and
she finished up as .a guard in her
senior year.
"The game I remember the most is
when we beat Tennessee Tech in
1973 regional championship that sent
us to the national championship."
Miss Cotten said in that game she
scored 39 points which continues to
hold the school record for the most
points scored in a game. She also
holds the record for most field goal
attempts in a game. She said, "We
are the only North Carolina women's
basketball team to ever make it to the
national finals.
^ Miss Cotten has been at Louisburg
for five years where she is coaching
softball and teaching health.
Barry Eagle
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Clara F aison sinks L ay-up
guarded by Regina Miller and Deborah Evans.
Living Legends
By Lorraine Walker
The Lady Hurricanes are 26-1 since
last calculated February 23. They are
Divisional Champions and are ranked
second in the nation. They have been
on television several times and have
officially put Louisburg on the map.
It appears promising that again this
year the Lady Hurricanes will bring
the NJCAA award home - although
they do have a few more stepping
stones before crossing into victory
land. First, they have regionals in
Spartanburg, SC, March 3-4. The
winners of these games will then
qualify for the National Preliminaries
March 9; there, they will play the
champions of Region 5. The place
where the National Preliminaries will
be played will be decided by the
coaches. The winners will then go to
Overland Park, Kansas and play in the
NJCAA March 16-20.
Regina Miller, Daisy Williams,
Cornelia Howard and Robin Graves
are our four living legends who went
to Kansas last year and brought back
with them the NJCAA, making the
first time Louisburg College had won
the NJCAA.
Whe(i I asked Robin Graves about
being a living legend, she smiled and
said, "It's alright." As far as being
second in the nation, she said, "1
think it's wonderful." These ladies are
not sure what they are going to do as
an encore after this season. It is
understood that they have all
received letters from different
schools, yet no final decisions have
.been made as yet.
My prediction is that the Lady
Hurricanes v\/ill go all the way again
this year. Three of the top scorers for
the team are: Regina Miller, sopho
more, averaging 22 points per game;
Gladys Best, freshman, averaging
16.2 points per game, and Clara
Faison, freshman, averaging 10.8
points per game. Clara also controls
the highest in rebounds (216) as
recorded after the twenty-fourth
game.
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK,
LADIES!!
Miss Sheilah Cotten
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Deliverance
Never Mind the Score
You can catch me if you run-
Hold on to the back of my leg .
While I lay up
FOULED
You're angry-
trailing by four points
You've crowed me
While 1 made a point.
Blocking what I do best.
I will stop you-
Bring you down '
And gift you
With a nonconfident state of mind
Yes, and Devour you-
UNTIL YOU ARE NO MORE