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Sports Civil £ Baseball Coach Gary Swanson congratulates Second Team All American-All Academic, Jonathon Val Reneslacis. ^ ' - % §-*♦ Jf Riders Get Caught In Last Week's Storm John Davis and the Knights play a homegame against Wingate on Saturday. Pam Whitfield It was a wet, blustery night. Dusk was quickly falling, and with it, the intensifying snow. In a St. Andrews College van, six students huddled against the chill, while coach John Conyers drovt; detennined!'/ on through the thick flakes of treacherous ice. Trying to keep their hopes up, the small group sang country songs. t^indy Denny, Dave Kennerly, Colleen McAndrews, Richard Sneed, Pam Whitfield, and Susan Yeaman had represented the coliyge well at the Southern Sem Intercol legiate Horse Show in Buena Vista, Virginia on Friday, Febmary 17th. The team members were headed home with visions of the bell tower speeding the van, when the snow began thirty miles north of Roanoke. As Coach Conyers later commented, "It only took us an hour to go twenty miles." As the storm worsened near the North Carolina A/irginia border. Kennerly said, "Ifs a real toad- strangler; we should have gone north." But Conyers bravely steered the crawling van until the team finally reached civilization, the Greensboro Shoney's, where he was rewarded for his persistence with several well-aimed snowballs. The seven equestrians were not sure if they could make it down 220 South, but the team's faith in Coach Conyers was great. Passing stalled motorists and jack-knifed 18 wheelers at speeds seldom over 35 mph, the van trudged on with ice crusting on its windshield wiper blades. Fortu nately, the storm lessened outside os Sanford, and eventu ally the sleet gave way on 15-501. It was a weather-weary, but thankful, group which cheered when the van turned into Dogwood Mile sometime after midnight, and carried their boots and hard-earned ribbons to their dorms.
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