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Page A4 Wednesday, February 18, 2009 Sports Lady Bulldogs gdt revenge on UNC-A By Lanny Newton Pilot sports editor The Gardner-Webb women’s basketball team overcame an icy start Monday to defeat fellow Bulldogs, those from UNC Asheville. When the teams met ear lier in the season, UNC- A won 67-59. Margaret Roundtree collected her 500th career rebound in the 74-61 vic tory. Laura Povilonyte had a double-double and the point guards had a field day against Asheville. “We didn’t start off very well, but as the game went along we got better,” said Head Coach Rick Reeves. , “The kids are playing really hard and they’re getting better all the time. If our point guards play well, we play well.” Coming off of a school record 11 -assist- and-eight-tumover effort on Saturday against High Point, Dominique Hudson had eight assists and two turnovers against Ashe ville. Meranda Burnett also had a 3/1 assists-to-tum- over ratio. Hudson had three steals and Burnett had two as the duo ran the team very effectively. Although it took until the 15:44 mark for Gard ner-Webb to get on the board, once GWU fired up its offense it outscored Asheville 33-23 for the rest of the first half to take a 33-28 lead into the half. Though the score was tied six times and the lead changed three times in the first half, a layup by Roundtree with 1:28 left Carolina>Duke game was a snapshot of the ACC Temperamental artiste and Pilot sports editor Lanny Newton requested that his former column title, “Newton Knows, ” become "Lanny's Logic." The Duke vs. North Carolina game Feb. 11 didn’t disappoint for the 20 minutes that Duke ac tually kept the game ex tremely competitive, hav ing the lead at the half. UNC’s superior talent and depth prevailed in the end, though, in one of the more anti-climactic games in the rivalry. It also provided a picture of what the ACC looks like this season. UNC has arguably one of the most talented teams in the program’s history. The rest of the ACC has several very good teams that could compete with almost any in the na tion, night in and night out. With the graduation of or going to the NBA of such players as Derek Rose, Michael Beasley, 0.1. Mayo and Greg Oden, college basketball overall is down this year. Despite the ACC not being as good as in past seasons, it is still in the top three, if not the top conference, in the NCAA. This can be seen as the latest version of Brack- etology on ESPN.com. It shows the ACC with eight bids and the Big East with seven tournament bids. This has been seen in such upsets as Miami over Wake Forest or Boston College over Duke. While UNC is almost unquestionably the best team in college basket ball, the question remains: Can it consistently sustain the level of play it is ca pable of? Or will it go cold as it did against Georgetown two years ago, or just not show up to play as in the inglorious exit from last year’s NCAAs? The rest of the ACC also has consistency is sues, such as Harvard up setting Boston College, and Virginia upsetting Clemson. However, through quality wins such as Bos ton College over UNC and Clemson over Duke have proven that they can play with almost anyone. As my final comment, I would like to mention a GWI team that has not had consistency issues: The women’s swim team wilt go for its fifth conference title in six years starting Thursday in Athens, Ga. The meet will go through Saturday and hopefully result in the team’s first Coastal Colle giate Swimming Associa tion title after moving into the conference last year. The team recently got its 100th win since mov ing to Division I in 2000. Women’s tennis off to good start with trio of winning competitions By Blake DuDonis Pilot Editor in Chief After facing ACC powerhouse’s Wake For est and North Carolina, the Gardner-Webb wom en’s tennis team pulled off three wins in four matches before falling to Winthrop on Monday. The Lady Bulldogs had won two matches in a row before the loss. The first of the consecutive wins came at Wofford, while the other came at home against Erskine. In the Wofford match, the Lady Dawgs swept the doubles matches but it took some work to do it. Laura Kreitt and Rita Gouveia took the maxi mum amount of games to win, edging out the Terri ers team 8-7(8-6). The other two tan dems for GWU, Kasey Ellis/Amy Beavers and Tavenner Black/Jenny Gomez, won 8-5. In the singles matches, only Kreitt and Beavers were unable to find a vic tory, as GWU cruised to a 5-2 win. Just a day later, GWU hosted Erskine and con tinued its wiiming ways. After winning the doubles point with victories by the duos of Black/Gomez and Ellis/Beavers, the Lady Bulldogs notched 5 points in singles in route to a 6-1 victory. f The Erskine win brought the ladies to 3-3 on the season, but are now 3-4 after the unfortunate stumble against Big South preseason number one Winthrop. The ladies.will return to action Saturday as the team travels to Myrtle Beach to take on confer ence foe Coastal Caro lina. in the first half gave Gard ner-Webb a lead it would not relinquish. Reeves achieved his 70th career Big South conference win as Gard ner-Webb moved to 14-11 on the year. It was also Gardner- Webb’s 11th home win which established a new school record, with one home game left to play March 5 against Coastal Carolina. It was accomplished with a good inside-out- side combination as GWU dominated Ashevij^^in points in the paint This came with a 51-36 rebounding advantage and 14-7 edge on second chance points. This was , despite UNC-A forward Lindsey Montgomery, a Shelby native, scoring 28 points Pilot Staff photo GWU player Laura Povilonyte goes around High Point player Amy Dodd Saturday in Paul Porter Arena. The Bulldogs won 63-60. and grabbing 11 boards on 10^^15 shooting in just 3d^®utes of play. Roundtree led Gard ner-Webb with 19 points on 9-10 shooting, as Hud son put up 17, and Povilo nyte scored 15. Povilonyte grabbed 11 rebounds and Roundtree brought in 9 as her first of the night was her 500th of the career. Hudson, Sherika Montgomery and LaTroya Pope each also garnered seven boards. Courtney Epps led the Bulldogs with two blocks, while Teonika Webb put up to steals. The Bulldogs leave friendly confines next and travel to Presbyterian on the start of a three-game road trip. GWU is now 6-6 in conference play and tied for sixth place with UNC Asheville, but it is only one game out of second place. With one more win Gardner-Webb would tie for the most wins in the program’s D1 history. Swimmers excel in classroom and pool By Lanny Newton Pitot sports editor One week after finding out that the men had the top GPA among men’s swim teams in the nation, and the women had the second best GPA in the nation,, the GWU men also dominated in the pool. They topped VMI 109-65, while the women beat Campbell 104- 79. Both the men and women took Swimmer of the Week awards for the Coastal Collegi^^ Swimij||^ Association confereHR Cory Hughey took women’s honors while Patrick Elerding re ceived it for the men. “It’s kind of a fun format. It’s not the normal format that we do, it’s different events and for once they get to do different distances,” said Head Coach Mike Simpson abo’ut the VMI/Campbell meet. The men finished with a com bined 3.33 GPA, just edging out Georgetown University. The wom en finished second behind Marshall University by just .M|SPApoiiV« 3.64. The combinelBims finiHI with a 3.475 GPA for the fall 2008 semester. “I’m really proud of them, the guys went from last year barely in the top 40 to this year being first in the nation. [In spring of 2005] the girl’s team finished first in the nation, but this team had a better GPA.” Both also had over a 3.0 in the fall semester to contribute to a swim team that finished combined to first in the nation in academics. Hughey and Elerding each won three races, as Hughey took the 50 butterfly, 50 backstroke and swam the anchor position in the 200 med ley relay, while Elerding won the 50 breast, 100 IM and the 50 butterfly. GWU domination started early The men finished with a combined 3.33 GPA, just edging out Georgetown University. The women fin ished second behind Mar shall University by just. 02 GPA points at 3.64. as the first event Sarah Steadman, Hillary Leonard, Stephen! Stadnik and Hughey won, and were closely followed by Victoria Bryant, Ve ronica Case, Rachel Warkentin and Elizabeth Ketterer in the 200 med ley relay. Lyndsey Roka followed it up with a victory in the 400 fly. In the 50 free Kelly Gueltig, Ketterer and Leonard went 2-3-4. Stadnik posted in new Gardner- Webb record in the 50 butterfly in the process of winning in 30.75. Bryant and Steadman took first and second in the 400 back. Warken tin set a new Gardner-Webb record in the 100 IM while Steadman took second in both the race and tying in the record books with Taylor Simp son. Hughey’s time in the 50 but terfly established a new record as Warkentin took second in the event and Gardner-Webb history. In the 400 breast, Kiah Bellows, Mallory Baxtor and Sarah Stokes took sec ond through fourth. With Hughey’s third win in the 50 back, Bryant came in second but as with many GWU scores on the, day her time didn’t count so as to keep the score closer. * The men also opened up with the win as Samuel Woods, Travis Gibson, Saxon Simpson and Clay ton Vickers took first in the 200 medley relay. Abram Miller finished with the top time in school history in the 400 fly and Michael Roka took second in the race. George Partin finished first in the 50 free. Elerding’s first win in the 50 breast established a new school re cord at 27.06. Collin Burchins took second and Casey Brutus finished third, but Brutus’ time was dropped as well. ' Derek Gore established a new record in the 400 back while Woods, Chris Musco and Simpson rounded out the top four though all three of their times were dropped. Elerding’s second win, the 100 IM, was the only GWU scored to count despite finishing one through nine in the event. Elerding’s final win was in the next event, the 50 fly and set an other school record in the process. Steven Caudill took second in the event also breaking the old school record. Burchins won the 400 breast in near-record time. Woods won the 50 back, setting yet another school record. In a fit ting end to the day, the GWU teams went 1 -2 in the 200 free relay. Musco, Burchins, Caudill and Miller took first while Elerding, Gibson, Simpson and Vickers fin ished second. “Our focus as always is on what we can control, which is ourselves, and going there to swim fast which 1 think everyone is ready to do,” said Simpson about the upcoming con ference championship. The swim teams travel to Ath ens, Ga., for the conference champi onships, which last from Thursday through Saturday. The women will attempt their fifth conference title in six years, once again with the impediment of not having a dive team. Wrestlers come up short, finish 2-2 in regional duels By Lanny Newton Pilot sports editor The wrestling Team traveled to Duquesne Feb. 7 to finish off regular-sea son conference play at the East Regional duels in Pittsburgh. Gardner-Webb took down Delaware State and Wagner College but was felled by Duquesne and Millersville. They finished conference play with a 2-4 record. “1 was really proud of the way we wrestled. We had three backups in the lineup, and had a forfeit,” said Head Coach Scott Shipman. “Our injury report is about two pages long, no college wrestler gets to February and is 100 per- ceiW but all the starters s'^Bd be as close to 100 percent as they’ve been all year by the time we get to regionals.” Rob Tate and Dustin Porter once again head lined, going 4-0 on the day while Jonathon Velazquez went 3-0 and Matthew Featherston picked up his first collegiate victory, Velazquez has been in jured for most of his first two years of college, and is recovering from a knee injury and a broken fin ger. The Bulldogs started out the day with a 20-19 victory over Delaware State. Courtney Roberts and David Pelsang picked up major decisions, while Velazquez and Porter took decisions. Tate won by forfeit at the 141 weight class. In their next match up, GWU came up short, fall ing 25-21 to Millersville. Roberts, Austin Reece and Velazquez achieved decisions over their op ponents as Tate pinned his opponent. Porter won by forfeit in the heavyweight division. Gardner-Webb domi nated their next opponent winning 40-13 against Wagner. The grapplers put on a show as Tate, Justin Guthrie, Pelsang, Dave Sweeney and Porter pinned their opponents. Reese took a 15-3 major decision while Roberts picked up a forfeit win. In their final match the Bulldogs competed with Duquesne but were un able to overcome home match advantage losing 22-21. Featherston won 8- 4 at the 133 weight class for his milestone victory. Velazquez and Swee ney also picked up deci sions as Tate pinned his opponent again. Porter also picked up another forfeit victory. Gardner-Webb trav els to Carson Newman Thursday and The Citadel Tuesday before returning home for the East Region al Championships. The championships will be March 7 in Boil ing Springs to determine births for the NCAA tour nament. 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