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GW pitcher Dale Gant serves up a fastball during a recent game at Nanney Field.
5 carry lofty averages
’Dogs bats blasting away
Five Gardner-Webb
players are boasting lofty
batting averages of .400 or
better as the Bulldogs have
gotten off to an impressive
6-1 start.
After seven games the
Bulldogs have unleashed a
powerful hitting attack and
have been backed by excel
lent pitching from the
mound staff.
Outfielders Frank Cau-
then and Bill Salyers are the
leading batters with .500
averages. Hitting from the
leadoff slot, Salyers has col
lected 11 hits in 22 bat bats.
Among his totals are five
doubles and seven runs
batted in. Cauthen is nine
for 18 with three doubles
and six RBI s.
Shortstop Eddie Tyndall
and third baseman Rick
Young are next with .458
and .454 averages, followed
by first baseman Jim Fitts’
.400 mark.
Designated hitter Mark
Rivens is ji^st under the .400
level with a .391 average and
second baseman Robbie
Moore is carrying with a
.388 percentage.
Young has emerged as the
team’s power hitter with
five home runs and 13 runs
batted in. Rivens is second
in homers with three and
Tyndall is pushing for the
RBI leadership with 11.
Righthander Tim Huff
and southpaw Larry Irvin
have turned in sparkling
performances while winning
two games each. Huff has
not allowed a run in 13 inn
ings, allowing only six hits
over the span. He has struck
over 24, tops on the staff,
and walked five.
Irvin has worked eight
a 1-1 record and earned run on balls.
average of 3.79.
Rick Hord pitched seven
innings and picked up the
victory in the ‘Dogs’ 13-6
win over New York State.
As a team, G-W is batting
.382. The pitchers have a
combined ERA of 2.52 with
63 strikeouts and 14 bases
Heavy rains forced some
cancellations and re-schedul-
ing last week. This week the
Bulldogs meet Lenoir-Rhyne
in Hickory on Wednesday
and play High Point at home
Saturday afternoon. It will
be the ’Dogs last home game
before the Easter holidays.
Sports Scene
April 5 Tennis vs. Catawba 2 p.m.
Track at Catawba (Davie Co.) 2 p.m.
Golf at Elon Tournament
April 6 Tennis vs. Lenoir-Rhyne 2 p.m.
April? Tennis at Warren Wilson 2:30 p.m.
Baseball at Lenoir-RhjTie 3 p.m.
April 9 Tennis at Wofford 2 p.m.
April 10 Tennis vs. Warren Wilson 2 p.m.
Track at Davidson Relays 1 p.m.
Baseball vs. High Point 3 p.m.
April 13 Tennis vs. Mars HiU 2 p.m.
Track—GW Invitational 2 p.m.
(Lenoir-Rhyne, Presbyterian, Elon
Catawba, Francis Marion)
Baseball at High Point 3 p.m.
April 15 Tennis at UNC-Asheville 2 p.m.
Track vs. Presbj^terian & Wofford 2 p.m.
Bormann named
to NAIA squad
Dave Bormann has been named to the third-team of the
NAIA All-America squad.
The 6-7, 190-pound junior earlier had been named to the
District 26-All-District team, and recently received the
Shelby Chamber of Commerce Certificate of Merit for his
achievement during the past season.
“I’m very happy for Dave because he deserves the
honor,” said head coach Eddie Holbrook. “He worked very
hard this season to improve himself as a player and I’m glad
he received this recognition for his determination and dedi
cation.
“Dave had a great season as an individual, but he never
forgot the importance of teamwork and a total team effort.”
Netters improve
after slow start
After losing its first five Senior Randy Alexander
matches of the year, Gard- has been G-W’s most consis-
ner-Webb’s tennis team won tent player in the singles,
three of four and finished the winning six of his first nine
month of March with a 3-6 matches,
record. Alexander teams with
We lost severa early Brimberry in the No. 1
matches that we elt we ^^^^les. That combination
should have won, said u j j
, T mi ^ has produced seven wins,
coach James Taylor. What
we needed was that first win “Bert and Randy have
to give us some confidence pl^yed well as a team,” Tay-
and get us going. I believe said. “They’re evenly
we can have an excellent sea- matched in ability. Randy
son over the rest of our especially is off to an excel-
schedule.” should win 15
The Bulldogs’ first vie- to 17 matches this season.”
tory came at Lenoir-Rhyne, The Bulldogs have three
9-0. Gardner-Webb followed home matches scheduled for
with an 8-1 win at Belmont this week playing Catawba,
Abbey then lost at Lime- Monday, and Lenoir-Rh50ie,
stone, 7-2. The netters de- Tuesday at 2 p.m. Warren
feated USC-Spartanburg, 7- Wilson visits the campus
2, last week for their first Saturday for a 2 p.m. match,
triumph at home. Earlier the Gardner-Webb plays at
Spartans edged the’Dogs, 5- Warren Wilson Wednesday
4. and Wofford on Friday.
Bulldogs sign first
basketball recruit
Cjirtis Odom, a 6-3
basketball standout for
Bandys High School in
Catawba, has become the
ference season and to the
semi-finals of the state 3-A
playoffs, where the Trojans
were beaten by Washington,
first high school player to 70-55. Bandys finished the
sign with the Bulldogs.
Listed on several all-state
teams, Odom led Bandys
through an unbeaten con-
Against nation’s best
Golf team 12th at Furman
A 12th-place finish may not i
eyebrows, but when it comes in the Fur
man Invitational golf tournament. No. 12
is a good place to be.
“Not many people realize how weU we
played at Furman,” said coach Garland
Allen. “Finishing 12th against that kind of
competition is like finishing first anywhere
else. We were playing some of the best golf
teams in the nation.”
Wake Forest breezed to a 34-stroke win
over Georgia Southern in the 54-hole
innings without allowing a Demon Deacons posted an 854
run. He has surrendered two total, 10-under-{>ar on the 6,714 yard, par
72 course. Georgia Southern’s 888 was one
stroke better than third-place Georgia.
East Tennessee finished fourth with an
893 and Tennessee was fifth at 895.
The Bulldogs and Eastern Kentucky
finished in a tie for 12th with 906 scores,
just one stroke behind North Carolina.
season, 28-1.
As a senior, Odom aver
aged 22.3 points and 12 re
bounds a game. In four
years, he scored 1,940
points. He was selected to
the all-conference team and
was named player-of-the-
week several times by the
Charlotte Observer.
Used primarily inside ^
Bandys, Odom will be
Alabama, Clemson, Duke, Furman and moved to wing in the Bull-
hits while fanning seven and
walking four.
Dale Gant has been the
workhorse—pitching 19 inn
ings in three outings. He has
Appalachian rounded out the top 10.
Zim Zimmerman was Gardner-Webb’s
leading golfer with a 221 total, five strokes said coach Eddie Holbrook,
over par and seven strokes behind the indi- “He has the potential to be-
vidual winners—Bill Chapman and Jay come an outstanding college
Hass, both from Wake Forest. The co- ’ -
medalists tied with 216s.
Other Gardner-Webb scores were Rod- face,
ney Morrow, 226, Tommy Franklin, 232, “For 6-3,
Wayne Myers, 233, and Dan Phillips, 236.
The Bulldogs wiU compete in a 16-tea]
tournament Monday and Tuesday of this ing with his back to the*bas-
week at the Alamance Country Club in ket, and playing for us he’ll
Burlington. Elon College is the host team.
The Alamance course is also the site of
this year’s NAIA national tournament,
scheduled June 1-4.
dogs’ offensive scheme.
“Curtis has great ability,”
player. His talent has just
begun to scratch the sur-
he’s a great
jumper,” Holbrook con
tinued. “He’s used to play-
have to become accustomed
to facing the bucket. We’ll
just have to see how fast he
can make the transition.”