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THE LANCE Tennis Team 7-2 Tennis action before and af ter the break saw the Knights capture four wins and drop one match to a fine N.C. Wesleyan squad. SA avenged a 6-3 loss to UNC-G’s Spartans last year, edging them 5-4 March 22 at home. Albert Khanlarian and Jim Costa made the going tough for SA, winning one and two singles and number one doubles with ease. However the Knights showed their strength in the lower singles, losing only one set. Ager and Mitchell lost number two doubles, but John Gillingham and Steve McAlister com bined to play just well enough to take the decisive third doubles match in three sets. Luck did not rest with the Knights in their journey to Rocky Mount. The Bishops continued their long history of plaguing the SA team, this recording a 9-0 shutout. This match, between the schools that shared the DIAC tennis crown last year, was never in doubt as only number 2 dou bles went to ftree sets. Finger dropped two tiebreakers and Mitch Mitchell one in the team’s best singles play. UNC-W came to Laurinburg and absorbed a second pasteing by the Knights. Tom Ager and John Gillingham led this triumph. The visitors took only no. 2 doubles in losing 8-1. Saturday the Knights showed the effects from a trip to Lynchburg and posted a 7-2 win. Finger, Gray Fox, Steve Barber and Gillingham took singles wins and all three Thursday, April 11,1974 doubles combinations pickea up the pace. Back home SA overpowered Francis Marion 7-2 Tuesday. Number 3-6 singles and the doubles trio once again per formed very admirably. Parker Shines Three SA trackmen competed in a meet Saturday at Camp bell. Billy Parker, a triple jumper, managed the highest Kni^t finish, getting second place with a leap of 40’6” af ter overcoming a slow start. Jimmy Thwaite made a fine tab at a javelin win, taking fourth with a throw of 155 feet. This is a very fine effort for Thwaite’s (and St. An drews’) first competition of the year. Thwaite should get better as the season progresses and will un doubtedly improve upon his best marks of last year. Tom Dux covered the 220 m 25.4 seconds to take fifth place. PAGEfouj GLANCING AT SPORTS QJLLWILMOT Golf Team Settling Down? St. Andrews has been playing very steady golf since Spring Break, with three players-Dave Cox, -Mm, ^fcive^, and Dixon Williams-- shoofuig consistently in the low 80’s and high 70’s. Never theless, the team loss three of four matches against non conference competition last week. Tuesday, April 2, at Scotch Meadows, the team split two matches, shooting a 430 again st U. N. C.-Wilmington’s 410 and Methodist’s 439. The win against Methodist raised the Knights’ Conference record to 3-0. Previously, Lynchburg and N. C. Wesleyan had fallen to St. Andrews. In the match against U. N. C.-W. and Methodist, Dave Cox was low mSn for the Knights, coming in with a fine 81. Givens shot 83, Williams 84, Jim Barrick 87, and Bob Latshaw 95.-' Last Thursday, the Knights journeyed to Pembroke and recorded their best team score of the season in the relatively easy course there. St. An drews’ 409 total was easily beaten by Francis Marion’s 337 and Pembroke’s 382. Dixon Williams was St. Andrews’ medalist in this round, with a 79. This was Dixon’s first com petitive round under 80 in his St. Andrews career. Givens followed with 80, Cox 81. Barrick 82, and Stu Hunt, 87. SA didn’t fare nearly as well in the N. C. Collegiate Tournament Monday and Tuesday in Oiariotte. The Knights finished 14th among 16 teams, after encountering great difficulities with miserable weather and the tough,, hilly Forest Pawtucket course. Dave Cox again led the team with 88-84-172. Williams was next with 87-88-175. John Givens shot 92-89-181, Jim Barrick 92-94-186, and Hunt 103-86-189. Two members of St. Andrews’ soccer team, Mackay A h and John Averell, participated in regional qualifying ttl for the U.S. Olympic team in Baltimore last weekend playing only one game against extremely tough competit neither was chosen to attend the final tryouts for the naf team. Of the 120 players at the tryout, only 14 advanced toTh' nationals. ® Asbury was nominated by Coach Kinne for the tryn Averell, who hardly played last year as a junior, asked th selection committee for a tryout; the Committee was willing t give a tryout to anyone who requested one (obviously) Qearl Averell was going just to be able to say he’d been. Asbury th Knights’ two-time All-South fullback, certainly desemn serious consideration for advancement to the final tr t Whether he got it or not is. a question which must go mL swered. Asbury’s team was superior offensively to its opponent (they won 5-1), and its fullbacks didn’t get much action Thi along with the politics involved in the selection committee and the reputations of some other All-District and All-American players, made it extremely difficult for a relative unknown to be selected. The tryout was held at Baltimore’s Catonsville Communitv College on a single field, which Asbury called “the worst field this side of Campbell.” Rain shortened the competition so that each player could play in only one game, thus making the selection of the best 14 very arbitrary. The rain also messed un the field badly. All in all, it was a shoddily planned tryout The U.S. has never been noted for Olympic soccer excellence and _ apparently doesn’t want to be. ’ The reason why there’s no women’s tennis article on this page is that the team has not played yet. It’s first two matches were rained out. Coach Jo Ann Williams’s squad will try to get under way today at Coker. First home match is Thursday April 18. against Campbell. Miss WilUams has named Lee Morgan, Beth Bransford, Missy Springs, JuJu Murphy, Trish Bodle and Shawn Lynch as her six iiarters, with Morgan- Spnngs, Bransford-Murphy, and Bodle-Lynch teaming for doubles competition. Barnes Hurls Knights Past Hornets k M A J .A 1. St. Andrews rode the six-hit shutout pitching of left-hander Bill Barnes to a 4-0 victory over defending conference champion, Lynchburg, in the first game of a doubl^eader here Saturday. The Knights dropped the second game 5-0 as Lynchburg’s Owen pitched a one-hit shutout. Coach Julian Smith commented, “Both games were about as well as we’ve played. We played real well in the second game, except for one inning. But that kid (Owen) pitched a beautiful game.” Owen struck out 12 in the seven-inning game and gave up only a scratch single to Jay Xanthos BUTLER BICYCLE SHOP BIKES FOR ALL AGES. Repairs, Services Open Six Days a Week 9:00 A.M.-6:00 P.M. CRONLEY STREET drive in % MILE FROM ST. ANMKWS COIUOE New DINING KOOM ■UrFn LUNCH AND ICE CREAM PARLOR CUM SERVICE DINNERS SANDWICHES SHAKES 276-2467 in the first inning. He retired the last 20 Kni^ts batters, as S. A. could knock only two balls out of the infield. The big story, thou^, was S. A.’s win, it’s first after eight losses. “We played like we have to play to win,” said Smith. “That is, we didn’t make any mistakes in the field. Of course the key was Bill (who) just did a real fine job. He kept the ball down. He kept them popping the ball up and hitting it in the dirt.” Bar nes does not have an ex ceptionally strong arm and must rely on his control. Against Lynchburg, Barnes walked two, hit a batter, and "God commc toward Us We were ndeth His love n that while yet Sinners Christ di ed for Us. Praii e Him! THE MUS 125 A 7OSPEL C STORE AIN STREET Weekends are More Fun When you Shop Across the Street. the party SHOPPE 276-9987 didn’t strike out a man. He was helped immensely by a tight defense which reeled off two double plays and com mitted only one error. One double play came with run ners of first and second no body out in the fourth inning. Lynchburg rapped two hits in each of the last two innings, but Barnes managed to get out of each inning. A double and a single put men on first and third with two outs in the six th. First-baseman Bob Lat shaw then made a diving stop on a hard-hit ground ball and ran to the bag for the third out. In the sevenOi, the first two batters reached on singles, but failed to advance as Barnes enticed three Hornets to ground out. S. A. scored three runs in the bottom of the second with the benefit of three Hornet errors. With one out, Andy Crowell and John Hendrickson reached on infield miscues. After Tom Barker struck out, Joe Roberts singled down the first base line, scoring Crowell and sending Henderickson to third. Roberts stole second, and when the shortstop drop ped the throw, Hendrickson scored St. Andrews’ second run. Barnes helped his own cause with a hard single scoring Roberts. Barnes was picked off rounding first to retire the side. Rights added a run in the sixth when Crowell walked, advanced to third on a single by Barker, and scored happy EASTER FROM THE BOOK INN 107 McKay St. on a squeeze bunt laid down by Joe Roberts. In previous action, S. A. was bombed by Coker, 15-5, April 4. Coker knocked out 16 hits against Knight hurlers Ray Andrews and Richard Massey (who pitched extremely well in the second Lynchburg game). The visitors took a 4-0 lead in the first inning on a triple, singles, a walk, two more singles sandwiched around two passed balls and three stolen bases. S. A. scored in the first, Andrews sacrificing as Xanthos crossed the plate. They pulled to within 4-3 with two third- inning tallies. Shortstop Mackay Asbury singled and Jay Xanthos walked, Jim Haddix doubled, scoring As bury. Andrews walked to load the bases, but Crowell grounded to third base, with Xanthos being forced out at homeplate. Haddix scored on John Hendricksons’s sa crifice. Coker padded its lead with two runs in the fourth on a monstrous home run over the 400-foot sign in center field by Brockington. They added four in the sixth on four hits and sloppy S. A. defensive play. The Knights committed five errors in the game. The Knights were soundly beaten by Campbell College under the lights of Buies Creek Tuesday. The score was 10-1. Jay Xanthos pitched fairly well for St. Andrews but was hurt by inept fielding. St. Andrews lost several balls in the lights and allowed them to drop for cheap base hits. St. Andrews scored on a walk to Haddix, Andrews’ single, and Crowell’s RBI hit. The team collected only four hits in the contest, compared to 14 for the Camels. The Knights play twice at Va. Wesleyan Saturday, then return home to take oh N. C. Wesleyan in a Wednesday doubleheader (1:00 p .m.)
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