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Friday, March 5, igji THE LANCE ni^t games SAINT ANDREWS S P OR T S Knights Host Rose-Hulman All-American candidate- Will Petersen By DWAYNE SNOWDEN The second season, the NCAA playoffs, begins tonight for St. Andrews as it takes on the Rose-Hulman Fightin’ Engineers (17-9)- These teams met last year in the Southern Regional con solation game, with the Knights winning 84-80. The Knights are putting their 25 game home winning streak on the line, along with a chance to host a national quarter-final game next weekend. St. Andrews (26-2) is com ing off an impressive perfor mance in the DIAC Tourna ment in which it overwhelm ed opponents by an average margin of 24 points and destroyed Virginia Wesleyan in the championship final, 90-58. Tournament MVP Clayton White was joined on the All-Tournament Team by guards Will Petersen and “J.R.” Sutton. The 17-9 record of Rose Hulman is quite deceiving taking into consideration that the Engineers have lost four overtime games by a total of ten points and after a mediocre 8-8 start, have won nine of their last ten games. Senior guard Keith Oehlman leads Rose Hulman with a 17.8 scoring average while shooting 51% from the floor. Playing opposite him is 6’1” sophomore Robert Ewing (12.1 ppg). The Engineer frontline features 6’5” senior forward Paul Wagner (13.6 ppg, 9.7 rpg and a 50% shooter), 6’8” sophomore center Dean Stanley (11.5 ppg and 7.1 rpg) and 6-4” senior Jeff Chandler (8.3 ppg). Knight junior starter A1 Gibbs, who played effective ly well against Rose-Hulman last year and suffered a knee injury in last week’s semi final contest against North Carolina Wesleyan, will be out of action for tonight’ contest. Either Bert Joseph or T.C. McCollum will start in Gibbs’ absence. St. An drews will need the same ag gressive play off the backboards it had against Virginia Wesleyan to reciprocate for Gibbs’ injury and to counter the size of the Rose-Hulman frontline. The winner of the St. Andrews-Rose Hulman game will battle the Capital College-Virginia Wesleyan winner in tomorrow night’s championship contest. A Player For All Seasons By KICK HANNA Anyone who has attended a St. Andrews volleyball match or women’s basketball game is sure to associate with the name of Eva Pittman. Many an opponent has seen the bottom of Eva’s shoes as she reached for a spike or a rebound. Hva, the modest, soft- spoken sophomore from Lumberton, was a tri-letter athlete last year, but said, “I don’t think I’ll play three sports this year. 1 need a rest terribly. 1 have more skin on the gym floor than most peo ple have on their entire body.” Eva participated in volleyball, basketball and track during her high school career. Basketball and track received three years of her attention, while she only played volleyball for her senior year. Looking back on this year’s volleyball squad, Eva commented, “When Coach Williams asked me to play I told her that I didn’t enjoy volleyball. Afterall, the only reason I played in high school was so I could win a special award. But, I told her I would try it and I liked it.” Eva was very impressed with the volleyball team. There were only two juniors and the remainder of the team was composed of freshmen and sophomores. Eva said, “I didn’t think we could win with such a young tedm, but we had a good season with a 14-17 record. I will play volleyball again next year. We should win the conference next because we will have the same team plus the new freshmen.” “Basketball is my second life,” says Eva, who must be having a wonderful second life with a 23 point and 13 re bound average per game. “When I play basketball I feel like I’m in control of the world. I love the competi tion. This year was my best season. I’m not concerned with my personal rankings. It takes five to win a game and I couldn’t have done it without my teammates. I’d like to credit the whole team. The team has done a tremen dous job. We had a new coach and it took some get ting used to,' but we did it. Like every team, we had our good and bad points. We got an NCAA bid, so we must be doing something right. Eva is a strong candidate for a position on the All- American roster. But, as she said earlier, “This doesn’t in terest me.” Like many athletes, Eva creams of playing profes sional sports. Instead, she thinks she will get a physical education degree from St. Andrews and return to Lumberton to coach. “I don’t want to limit my coaching to basketball. I will coach anything they let me. I always want to broaden my horizons.” The broadening of one’s horizons is certainly an ad mirable aspiration, but Eva’s opponents hope she does not broaden her athletic prowess. m From The Locker Room By TONY DIAZ Recently, there has beet talk in and around the nation of the NCAA proposing to vote on the use of a twenty- four second clock in men’s basketball. The women’s team already uses the clock in their games. Although unlike the pro leagues, the women use a thirty second clock in stead of a twenty-four se cond clock. The issue has stirred na tional debate, with coaches, split on the subject. Tk purposes for using the twenty-four second clock art to eliminate the stall game, prepare collegians for the pro game, and to present a faster tempo game which would cats to the crowd. Fans would soon miss the old boring stalls which caus ed frustration so many times. For example, the Carolina “Heels”, who have patened the well known stall-Foffl Corners-were sitting on a sij point lead over their oppo nent with ten minutes left in the game. They resorted to the Four Corners stall. Tht Heels held the ball until onlj two minutes were left in tjf game which they eventually won. Critics say that the clock would make college basket- ball into a run and gunshot But, the point needs to k made that a college pW' will not be able to rely on IB' stall once he is in the pr®- “Basketball is my second life”-E\a Pittman Presenting a .faster _ the public would boost atten dance. Most fans ' a team stalls the ball. Dr. Naismith invented t game, he organized bas £ ball from volleyball. In , way he wanted to , j boring volleyball game examine a continuous and score game-basKew“
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