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Baseball Coach Gary Swanson congratulates
Second Team All American-All Academic,
Jonathon Val Reneslacis.
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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.