—" THE LANCE
A St. Andrews Presbyterian College Student Publication
Men's Baseball Season i^^HH
Ends, 23-17 Record
Pitcher Sean Hassel and the Knights finished their most successful season
the college is now 18-9.
Randy Marsh, the team’s catcher
from Asheboro, NC, also proved to be an
important factor later in the -season. He
captured the college’s doubles record, with
eight. He batted .396 for the year.
“It was a good season for us,” said
Swanson.
NAIA Means Stiffer Competition
LAURINBURG —When Gary
Swanson came to St. Andrews Presbyte
rian College from the University of North
ern Iowa, he came to coach baseball and
build a winning tradition.
In his single season at the NCAA
Division III college (soon to become a
member of the NAIA), Swanson has cre
ated a winning team with a 23-17 record.
And in the process, his Knights broke 41 Sl
Andrews baseball records.
Records ranging from most games
played in a season (40) and most wins ever
(23) to the most stolen bases (159) and the
best team batting average ever (.340)
belong to the 1988 version of St. Andrews
baseball.
“Going into this season, we did
not want to make any predictions about
what kind of year we would have,” said
Swanson. “I knew we had some good
players with some strengths, but at the
same time I knew we had some weak
nesses.”
Though the Knights finished with
a2-10 record in the Dixie Conference, they
defeated Methodist College (ranked No. 2
in the nation in the NCAA Division III at
the time) for the first time in the 1980s.
They also had an early season win against
nationally-ranked NCAA Division n
Longwood College of Farmville, VA.
Some of the season’s stars for
StAndrews include Kent Smith on the
plate, freshman Jim Isenharton the plate
and the basepaths, and Sean Hassell on the
mound.
Smith, a Canadian, was the power
hitter for the Knights for most of the season,
batting .403. In 39 games he had 31 runs, 56
hits, five doubles, a triple, five homeruns
and 33 RBIs (a St. Andrews record).
Isenhart, from Dallas Center,
Iowa, really came on late in the season to
capture six St. Andrews records. He was at
bat the most times ever (146), he had the
mostrunsever(39), themosthits ever (59),
the most sacrifice bunts ever (7), the most
stolen bases ever (31) and the most at
tempted stolen bases ever (32).
Hassell, a sophomore from Troy,
NC, is the winningestpitcherin the history
of St. Andrews. He went 11-4 this season,
with an ERA of 2.96. His career record at
Carolyn Moore
Everything changes, even ath
letic programs and athletic divisions. “To
sit tight would result in being left in the
dust,” Athletic Director Gordy Scoles said
Monday, after a department meeting
discussing the National Association of
Intercollegiate Athletics.
The talk about change at St.
Andrews these days has been in reference
to the switch from Division III to the
National Association of Intercollegiate
Athletics. St. Andrews currently belongs
to the Dixie Conference of Division III, but
next year the college will belong to the
Carolinas Conference of the NAIA Divi
sion.
How will this change effect the
women’s athletic program? According to
Scoles, this change will entail stiffer
competition for all women’s sports.
The change will also mean that
more games or matches will have to be
played during a shorter season. The Dixie
Conference is compiled of seven schools,
but the Carolinas Conference has a total of
ten, including SL Andrews.
“The schools that are currently
members of the Carolinas Conference are
happy to have St. Andrews joining them
because it will mean less travelling be-
See NAIA page 10
Campus Stress:
You Are Not Alone In Your Misery
Deborah Kelly
He darts everywhere at once,
mostlyadistantblurrushing around the Art
Studios and zipping along-on his bicycle
across the causewalk. Stopping to rest a
moment, several transient emotions flash
across his face: stress even distress. He
heads for the senior art show in the Vardell
Building. There he spies across the room
his latest creation, a plaster skull piece.
The object becomes a victim of his
unmitigated stress as it is snatched up and
banged down in its correct place on the
display shelf in the comer.
This senior has spent many weeks
organizing the senior art show “And One
Token”, now on display in the Vardell Art
Gallery. He recalls spent many sleepless
nights trying to balance his academic load
and extracurricular activities. “Igettothe
point of hyperactivity and it prevents me
from going to sleep. As soon as I hit the
pillow, I think of all the things I have to do.
I can’t keep a one-track mind with too
many things going on at once. Guilt and
frustration set in because when I’m trying to
rest I feel that I should be doing something,”
he said.
What happens after he gets his
work completed? “After being wired for a
few days, I crash.”
A fellow senior raves about a
paper, a newspaper article and an oral pres
entation due the next morning. He rushes
across the lake to the computer center.
There he stuffs a wad of tobacco in his
mouth, turns his walkman on at a deafening
level and sits down to do what he calls an
“insurmountable task.”
Spring is the time of the year when
stereos blare from open windows, winter
clothes get packed away in trunks and hours
are spent, lying in the sun on Granville
beach. Springtime also happens to be
highest season of stress for both students
and faculty members.
A booklet “About Stress and
CoUege”, distributed byChanningL.Bete
See Stress page 14
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Jo Frost Interview
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Robeson County Outlook
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