Knights Wind Up Season,Next Year Seen As “Dynamite”
By CHUCK BOOKER ^
The St. Andrews Knights baseball squad charged into the
Dixie conference showdown with Methodist College last
week, but they died with their boots on in the first game and
sadly bade a farewell to arms in the second.
Needing two wins to capture the conference title outright
and just one victory to share the top spot, St. Andrews
dropped the Methodist doubleheader, 6-2 and 5-4. Then the
team lost to Gardner-Webb to settle for a 13-13 fmal mark and
second-lace 6-6 conference record.
The doubleheader collapse culminated an end-of-the-
season swoon for the Knights, who less than a month ago
were ranked 16th among all Division III teams in the country
with an impressive 8-1 mark.
“Things just went downhill from here,” says hard-hitting
right fielder Bob Harwood. “Our hitting went bad, but in only
one or two games we didn’t took that good pitching.”
One of those rare poor pitching perfdrmances cam ein the
second game of the Methodist doublehader. After the
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Restaurant Review
by GREYTON FLANAGAN
This is the first in a series of
reviews of eating
establishments starting off
with the Cardinal Food Ser
vice of St. Andrews Cafteria
fame. On the night of April
29 the selection included:
meat patties, beef stew, com,
peas- Hce. -?rid dessert.
We’ll start with the rice. To
me the rice seemed a little
hard", not from under cooking
but from overexposure. It’s
taste was equally forgetable.
The peas were on par with
any eating establishment.
The com was fresh, yellow
peppered witn tan colored
keriiels. They were juicy yet
most of the flavor seemed to
be boiled out.
One of the main courses
that night was the beef stew.
Although it looked good it
seemed to have a somewhat
repelling odor. It also was
Jones
do it, along with the aid of
students expressing an in
terest in helping out. There is
an acute shortage of assistan
ts.
‘In fact, Id’ pay them $50 a
day-plus lunch and tran-
sportation~in addition to
havint their names appear on
the report. Essentially, all
they’d have to do would be to
take notes and commentary.
A knowledge of Latin is good,
but any other foreign
language will do. Preferably
French or German.”
Overall Jones feels con
fident about the science
program at St. Andrews.
“Look at what the other
schools put out as an
educated person,” said
Jones. “As far as graduate
and medical schools go, an
“A’ there equals a ‘B’ or a ‘C’
here. The science courses
here are probably the har
dest, followed by the politics
courses. Look at STMS; I
don’t mind admitting that I
teach a hard course.
“Last year, fourw eeks
were spent teaching the
module of genetics. In my
opinion, continued Jones,
“those four weeks of STMS
were the equivalent of nine
weeks of iq>per levl genetics
courses at Pembroke. Mike
(Torres) teaches graduate
level genetics. I’t a lot of
work and a lot of reading, but
it’s worth it. Tliat’ why I ac
cept the complaints in ST
MS.”
Tom Jones underscored the
importance of speaking one’s
mind, he stated, “If you’re
not willing to have your
opinion in writing, it’s not
worth it.”
Jones believes one of the
best ways to change school
policy is for students to ac
tively challenge it-be it the
creation of freshmen dorms,
or the hiring of a professor.
He has strongly encouraged
students to participate in the
selection of his successor,
specially by meeting the ap
plicants whenever they are
on campus, and by gathering
vital feedback. Jones has
faith in the person who will
be chosen, a gut-level feeling
that his successor will be suc
cessful.
Tom’ attitude towaru life is
the belief in the basic “good
ness’ of humanity. To him
life is a series of
meaninglyful experiences,
from which one leams.
“The beauty of a thing is
its uniqueness.” —
We were
just too
psyched
up for
Methodist.'
KNights literally booted away the first game with seven
errors,their pitching arms went sour facing the primed
Methodist bats.
What happened? “We were just too psyched up for
Methodist”, says Harwood. “Everybody was jumping out of
their socks getting ready for them.”
The late season willie nothwithstanding, the Knights had
their share of outstanding indivdiual performers. The
durable starting pitching staff of Jim Worley, Eric St. John,
Joe Cornelius, and Doug Pearson tossed a total of 19
complete games, while shortstop Rick Scott garnered team
MVP honors for the third year in a row. St. John, one of the
teams’ four seniors, was recently presented the prestigious
Athletic Academic Award for outstanding scholarship with a
3.85 grade point average among all St. Andrews athletes.
According to Cornelius, the Knights expect to have a fine
team next season.
“We have some great talent coming in,” he says. “We
ought to have a dynamite team next year.”
stringy and contained large
amounts of grease.
For looks and taste the
hamburgers would’ve made'
good frisbees for Wednesdays
exhibition. The cafteria must
of lost money in steak sauce
and ketchup. These two
condiments were used in a
vain attempt to drown these
torlorn patties.
The salad, normally a 1
highlight of the meal was not
fresh this evening. The edges
of the lettuce were tainted
brown.
There was one cultured
drink that night. In fact it was
the milk and it had a little two
much culture—bacteria
culture!
The best part of the meal
was the desert. Among the
standard fare was strawberry
shortcake. It was a treat.
For the students of this
college the mftl is free and
worth every penny. On a scale
of 1 to 5 (5 being best) I give
this cafeteria a 2.
Photo Courtesy of Rooney Coffman
This Week
SUNDAY:
FRIDAY:
-Putnam County Pickers; 8:00 p.m. Belk Patio
-Senior Voice Recital; Syble Tummire and Terri Jones;
8:00 p.m. Vardell
-Bacchanalia Final Race; 5:30 p.m.
SATURDAY:
-The Launching; 9:00 p.m. DeTamble Terrace
-Nothing Scheduled
MONDAY:
-Play reading of New Scripts by SA Students; 8:00 p.m.;
Vardell
TUESDAY:
-Nothing Scheduled
WEDNESDAY:
-Student Reading; 8:00 D.m.; Belk Center
Photo Courtesy of Rooney