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PAGE FOUR THE LANCE Wrestlers Host DIAC Tourney this Weekend After a very slow start, the St. Andrews wrestling team has managed to obtain four wins a- galnst live losses. Much of the grapplers’ trouble has been with Inexperienced personnel and the absence of two stalwart team members, Ed Bartlett and Jim Gaskin, who were vacationing during the winter term. Al though the Knights have not yet had a full team, they have still managed to capture the regular season conference crown and have high hopes of being the first St. Andrews var sity team to win a Dixie con ference tournament three years In a row. This Saturday Is the big day for the matmen. The tourna ment semifinals will begin at 10:00 and the finals will tenta tively start around 2:00. The team Is ready after being hand ed a calcuable defeat last Sa turday by an always - strong Wilmington. Skutch Leads Powerful Keglers The St. Andrew's bowling team, perhaps the strongest team In the school’s history, travels to Charlotte tomorrow to participate intheUNC-Char- lotte Tournament. The Knights stand a close third In the very strong Dixie Conference, but hold a hl^ 175 average per game. In the Lynchburg match last Monday the Knights amassed a whopping 799-985-915-2699 series which fell four pins short in the second game of break ing the school single game work. Pacing the starting five against Lynchburg was senior Ralidi Nesbit with a 184-216-172-572 series followed by junior Jcto Bryan’s 168-198-190-556 set. The season is half over and a record five Knights boast averages over the 170 mark. Rich Skutch leads the pack at 181 followed closely by Tom Byrd, Ralph Nesbit, Chuck Hardesty, and Margaret Li- gon. No previous SA team has had more than three men over the 170 mark, thus indicating the strength of this year’s squad. The team’s next match is Monday against N. C. Wesleyan. Also participating in the tour nament are co-favorites Lynch- burg, Methodist and North Carolina Wesleyan. The SA tabglers will have five in dividuals who are seeded first in their divisions: Buddy Creech, 142 lbs, Denny Dod son, 150 lbs., or 158 lbs., Marty McIntyre at 167 lbs.. Mac Johnson, 177 lbs., and Mark Goodnough at 190 lbs. The other wrestlers are Car ter McKelthan, 118 lbs., Jim Gaskin, 126 lbs., Wesley Camp bell, 134 lbs., and finally, wrestling in the unlimited weight division will be big Ed Bart lett. The tournament promises many surprises, so try to make both the morning and afternoon sessions. Without your support the Knight grapplers will hardly have “a leg to stand on.” WRA NEWS During the month of January the WRA provided athletic en tertainment for the bored coed by sponsoring bowling and ping- pong tournaments. The bowling tournament was won easily by powerful Albemarle as Yvette Smith and Karo Moore supplied the extra punch for the Albe marle keglers. Suzie Moyers of Wilmington captured her se cond straight ping-pong title as she l>eat Pat Briar of Flo rida Presbyterian College in the finals. For the girls who did not participate In bowling or ping- pong, the WRA sponsored a bas ketball clinic during January in order to Introduce the SA coeds to five-girl basketball. The present basketball tourna ment, which will run from Feb ruary 11 to March 10, Is an extension of the clinic. ,L tm-r. TONY FERNANDEZ 142 LB. sophomore grappler BUDDY CREECH appears to be manuverlng for a backward pinning combination against Wil mington’s Freddy Kee. "Off Again On Agains Face NC Wesleyan /1 The record complied by Coach Boyd’s hoopsters is a poor indicator of their actual potential. Overall, we’re 5-11 and 4-6 In conference play good for a fourth place standing. Teams usually play better at home although our home and away records are almost equal: 3-6 here and 2-5 on the road. From January 27 to February 3, the Knights played their best brand of ball all season. After a tough 86-85 loss to NC Wesleyan on January 27, SA met LynchlMirg Janaury 29. Minus leading scorer and re- bounder Craig Hannas, benched for disciplinary reasons, the hoopsters gallant upset bid fell short by ten seconds. Wayne Harris, District 29 leading scorer at the time, hit the win ning basket with time nmnlng out for a 80-78 comeback vic tory for the Hornets. Freshman Bruce Taylor did an excellent defense job on Harris. Blanket ed by Taylor, Harris turned in a 7 for 26 sub-par performance. This was our outstanding game and best team effort of the year. SA’s balanced attack was paced by Gary Gredleln’s 23 points and five assists. Gary Linn turned in a superb perfor mance with twenty points, 8 assists and 10 relxiunds. Tony Fernandez and Ven Johnson also had fine games with 16 points, 10 rebounds, and 14 points respectively. On February 1, SA dropped a hard fought contest 85-79 to physical UNC-Wilmington. Gary Gredleln’s freethrows In the final seconds were the margin of victory In a 82-81 squeaker over conference foe Methodist. SA earlier beat Methodist 81-78 in Fayetteville. Five Knights are presently averaging ten points or bet ter a great tribute to our team balance. They are: Hannas 19, Liim 18, Fernandez 15, Gred- lein 14, and Johnson 11. Junior Gary Linn has blos somed into a triple threat as a fine playmaker, deadly shoot er and good rebounder to com plement defensive ace Gary Gredleln in the backcourt. Linn’s 4.6 assists per game nears the school record of 5.0 set in 1964-65. In the pivot, Tony Ternandez has been the teams steadiest player and erratic senior Craig Hannas is having another great season as the statistics show. At the other forward position sophomore Ven Johnson pro vides offensive punch while frosh Bruce Taylor relies on aggressive defense and reboimding The football tactics of freshman Hudson Rogers has sparked several SA rallies. Hustling Richie Robinson is a prospective playmaker and al ways good for 110% effort. Any thing can happen when Miles Weaver enters the line-up. February 12 - NC Wesleyan away February 13 - Va. Wesleyan away February 18, 19, 20 - DIAC Tournament Rocky Mount Rodgers ABC Store FINE WINES THURSDAY, FEB. n, W-S AND Faculty Capture Titles Basketball dominated the Men’s Intramural Actlvllles this Winter Term. The close race between Mecklenburg and Winston-Salem for the Intra mural crown was continuea through yet another sport with both teams posting 7-2 records at the end of regular season play. Their identical records were the result of an upset of Mecklenburg by Orange led by Steve Litchford. This upset put Winston-Salem into the tie with Mecklenburg although they had a one win and two loss record against them. The cham. pionshlp was another example of the closeness of the two teams with Winston-Salem win- nlng 61-59 as Meek missing a shot at the buzzer. Both teams were very good examples of team playing with Orange the only team dominated by one player, Steve Litchford, The top five scorers in the league were Steve Litchford (Orange) 35 point average; BUI Mustard (W-S) 22 point average' John Bush (W-S-) 21 point a- verage; Tersh Whiteside (Meek) 20 point average; and Irv. Nort- ham (Meek) 17 point average. King’s Mountain forfeited about half its games due to Injuries to key players. This Winter Term also saw the introduction of a “B” Lea gue in Intramural Basketball. The purpose of this league was to allow everyone to play in stead of just the best five or six players from each dorm. Meek showed the most Interest by filling three full teams, while the other dorms had one apiece. The faculty even got to show Its wares In this league and pro ceeded to dominate it. Led by Dr. Melton the faculty went un defeated and filled the spot left vacant by Kings Mountain In the post-season tournament. The tournament is again a rematch of regular season play with both Mecklenburg and Wln- ston-Salem advancing to the finals defeating the Faculty and Orange respectively. Meek edged arch-rival Wln- ston-Salem 65-63 in the champ ionship tilt last night. Irv Nr- tham canned 21 and Tersh Whiteside tallied 16 for the victors. Orange overcame a 17 point deficit and beat the Facul ty 72-71 in overtime for third place. Ray Killian tossed In 42 points (36 in the second half) to pace the winners. MeColl, S. C. 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