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PAGE FOUR THE LANCE THURSDAY, NOV. H, 197J View From The Bench Looks At Soccer And Cross Country BY RICHARD FOX Being through two sports and starting the winter season, we move from outside to inside the four long walls of the St, An drews Gym. But before we move Inside, let’s glance briefly through the window. Soccer started early, even before the freshmen arrived. I With sixteen (16) returning let- termen, we were at least going to have enough to play-then our number swelled and new faces and new names were attached; Mackee, Cat, Latshaw, Little Rod, Prem, Little Henry, and Woodstock. Practice went well and the first Sunday scrim mage became a Trainer’s night mare. We emerged with sprains, bruises, a broken wrist and a bent goalpost. As the Freshmen became oriented with the campus, the last few strag glers arrived and we began to mesh into a team from fourteen (14) states and two (2) foreign countries, (depending on what you call the Virgin Islands.) The first game came and went, we were 0-1, what hap pened? Simple, we lost, down 1, but not out, we began a stag gering come-back to score forty-three (43) goals in the next seven (7) games. Quite a credit to our front line, Cooper who finished the seasonwith9goals, 11 assists; Daniels 13 goals, 5 assists; Catmur 13 goals, 7 assists, and Prem 9 goals, 4 assists. While our defense let only three goals pass and recorded five shutouts, John Rhoderick, Dave Dufek and freshman Mac Asbury who is blind without his glasses, did a remarkable job. The goal was guarded this season by Jeff Beales and Bob Buffington. Both of whom find condolence in the fact that they didn’t work hard all season. Meanwhile in the middle of the field, Chris Johnson, Henry Freeman, and Bob Vakos stood around stealing the ball from our opponents, and virtually dominating the game. This brought us to October 18, 1971 - “The Day” Camp bell arrived and with our as sistance proceeded to shut us out 5-0. From here, the season took on an erratic personality, with wins under the worst conditions and another loss in near per fect weather. Winding up the re gular season, 11 wins, 3 loss es, our great and mighty Blue Bus limped into Rocky Mount for the DIAC Tournament at North Carolina Wesleyan. Af ter beating Methodist on Fri day, 7-1 we fell victim to the sun on Saturday, and lost to our rival Lynchburg, 1-Zip. Having gone thru 3 or 4 miles of tape and about a ton of ice, the St. Andrews Soccer Team came to a grinding halt. A total record of 12 wins, 4 losses, scoring 61 goals and allowing only 17. With two Player of the Week awards, and a team de voted to hard work, Coach Rob Kinne (known as the “Magical Mustache”), had done his job well. Only a few members of the team knew of his sleepless nights worrying about to morrow’s games. “Will the hat- trick work, the Laurlnburg Shuffle? How are we physically? How Many World Cups do we have? Is it'ralnlng? Did Cat mur get enough bread? Gee, It’s daylight, I better get some sleep.” The other fall sport is named Cross-Country, and is so called W-S^s ‘‘Green Machine Takes Football Title BY RILEY ERWIN Winston-Salem, rising far above the rank of underdog after several years of humiliation, fi nally captured the intramural football championship this sea son with a convincing win over Orange 27-0 to wind up the sea son 8-0. In running up 8 wins Winston Salem's defense provided the margin allowing a combine to tal of 17 points. Leadingthe de fense was middle linebacker Riley Erwin, who also did an excellent job at quarterback. Providing the pass rush were Rex McGulnn and Toby Vos- burgh. The defensive ends and backs were excellently played by David Allred, John Bush, Steve McAllister, Paul Finger, David Cox, and Mr. Football, Marty Martin. On the offense John Chew and John Harlow ably filled the guard positions. Bill Saunders and Paul Finger pro vided the sure hands at ends, and Steve McAllister and John Bush were at half backs. This Friday afternoon at 4; 00 the “Green Machine” will take on UNC in an aimual post-sea son game. Joining the W-S team team will be five all stars(?) from Meek and Kings Mt, They are Dorman Fawley,PeteFick- en, Jim Lutz, Ken Mehrlingand Jim Lawson. As for next years W-S team? Player-coach Marty Martin would like to remind the other dorms that this years champs have no graduating seniors. Marty also commented, “I don’t think any of the other dorms are potentially capable of competing with next years W-S team." because a group of 5 to 8 men attempt to race the clock over a 5 mile course. This is not a spectator sport, unless you watch them start or finish. Very few people know of the puddles that look like lakes, and weeds, rocks, hills, sands, and rain that you can encount er in thirty minutes. For some one to run five miles and fi nish, this is an Individual award in itself. Not all the band-aids, A-Balm and tape in the world can stop that slow building ache in your chest as you grimly stare ahead at the ground, so as to avoid any sudden pit falls. Roll call for this team is taken at 6:00 a.m. “Ban ning Ingram, Here; Ed Graves, Here; Richy Robinson, Here; Anyone else? Nope - still asleep O. K., let's go.” But there are more on the team. Banks Gar rison, Dave Andrews, Rogan Allen, and Charles Whittle. Some are Freshmen, some sen iors, all are runners, all have a spark somewhere that keeps them going and giving that extra 100 percent. Finishing the season, 5 wins, 8 losses, and third in the DIAC, is a fine commendation for Coach Blackwell’s team of Har riers. In sports such as this, there is a lot of work involved and accolades are few and far between, and lots of times when you cross the finish line, your Coach and teammates are the only ones there to pat you on the back and say "Good Run!” Concord B Wins Volleyball Game BY CAROLINE WARREN Women’s volleyball came to a tense, exciting end Monday ni^t when Concord B and Albemarle battled imtll Concord finally won. Both teams played hard and strong with the score being tied at many points during both games. Concord B beat Albe marle C in two strai^t games to win the 2 out of 3 match. These same two teams met last week, Albemarle C being undefeated and Concord B having lost one game. When Concord won that game it placed them in a tie for first place with Albemarle. After the play-off Monday ni^t, a proud, happy Concord team walked away with grins, tro phies, and bruises. Members of the Concord B team were: Bina Gehres, cap tain, Mary Ann Merritt, Sue Hunting, Suzanne Denham, Jean Noland, Mollye MacLeod, Con nie Smith, Judy Blckett, Shelia McLean, and Judy McLean. Members of the Albemarle team were: Marsha Waters, captain, Lynn Moore, Hutch Me- gee, Dickie Depkin, Jane Mont- eith, Janie Megee, Trish Terry, (Cootinued to Page 3) Soccer action is sometimes tense on the S. A. campus. Inside Viewer Saw Change Of Attitude BY DAVE MILLS Since “Foxy” was kind enou^ to relieve me of the pressures of statistical inform ation about last week’s soccer tournament, I would like to fo cus this article on something more subtle than reporting sta tistics and team play. Having been a member of the soccer team for four years, I would like to talk about the changes that seem to have taken place among the members of the team. In the past, I have often wonder ed if the team was really a team at all. It appeared to be what I would term as Individual fac- tionism. Then, the “team” was composed at a few talented indi viduals whose personal pride (or hybris) and obstnacy para doxically held the team together. These individuals quite often played for seU-glory, and in doing so often brought positive results in terms of winning. Their cockiness nibbed off on many of us and inspired some of us to play for self-glory as well. Consequently in the past, winning was considered top priority. However, this is not to say that this year’s team did not play to win. Nothing could be further from the case. But this year’s team (and I think the sta tistics prove it) was not com- 'posed of any superstars like it had been in the past. This year’s team was composed of players who were all very decent soccer players, but no individual was fantastically outstanding. Since this was the case, the individual cockiness that had prevailed in the past, greatly siibslded. De pending on how one looks at it, this had both good and bad effects. First let me begin with an ef fect that may have hurt us. Per sonal pride has its merits when it comes to winning. An indivi dual who displays a passionate desire to be a winner, strug gles to win, has a personal ta lent to arouse him to keep on when things aren’t going well. When games are really close and competition stiff, a persMi that displays this type of char acter can often be the key to victory. As I said, this year we didn’t have this type of leader to really drive us when the chips were down. Therefore, it may have cost us a couple of games. At the same time, I can’t regret not having a team lead er like we had in the past. The factions and overall discontent, disharmony, and discord that are often aroused by person of this nature, (}id not exist this year to the extent it did in the past. In past years, players spent much of their time (both on and oft the field) defending or acuslng the team leader or lead ers. Thank God, this year we didn’t have thatagain. Ibelievel can truthfully say, that this year we finally had a team, one that was unified and much different from those of the past. Since there is noway to prove that individual obstinacy helped us win games in the past, I sup pose it wouldbe very easy to say that my arguments are ridicu lous. Indeed, they might be. Nevertheless, even at the cost of losing a covple of games, I think that most of this year’s team would c^t for the type d unity we had this year, rather than winning one or two more games at the risk of general discord. Me ikrtif ^/wpp^ {aeross the slrmet^') ^00 the dfSQtrnin^ Consomet-^ outstsnc/inj \/sluc- 3i>u,crt^ -fmest , Tbhaccos /n -thfS psrt of 'Hte ujorfd . 'HiS sel^cMcns not 3s pro-fvse BS )n 3baue ^ UJe sre. able "to ^ood sh>cjk3 d/ tvLunchQblG-S ^ -foy~ -Fi^rs of Bl-hroisir^ , soMe OPEN ll’.bo mohoay TyfywtH
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