SEORHIS
FebruRpg 18,1998
Women's Basketball defeats Mt. Olive
by Mel Collins
The Lady Knights’ basketball
season has picked up of late. They
ended a nineteen-game losing streak
with a victory against Mt. Olive on Feb
ruary 5. The victory was also significant
as it came against a CVAC opponent.
The game against the Lady Tro
jans started off well with Cristie
Patterson winning the tip and Mary Kate
McGowan scoring the first two of her
sixteen points. Patterson, Beth Larson,
Tonia Zehr, Freda Schlaman and Farah
Allen put strong defensive pressure on
the Lady Trojans for the first several
minutes of the game. Jennifer Franklin
aided the offensive effort with a three-
point basket immediately before
McGowan converted a three-point play.
At the first time-out, the Lady Knights
held a nine point advantage over Mt.
Olive. Despite a strongly balanced at
tack after that, the lead dwindled to a
mere point at the half.
Schlaman restarted the team in the
second half She got the defensive re
bound, assisted an Allen basket and
added two points to her scoring total.
Larson quickly joined the fi^y with back-
to-back threes, sandwiched between
four points from the foul line. Each mem
ber of the team continued to work hard
to get the job done, but a last-second
basket by Mt. Olive pushed the game
into overtime.
Patterson won the tip again, and
McGowan added the first two baskets.
A strong series of defensive plays kept
the Lady Knights ahead by one. But
they were dealt a severe blow when
Patterson jumped for the ball and fell to
the court in agony. The injury was diag
nosed as a tear in her anterior cruciate
ligament, and she was assisted off the
court to the applause of the crowd and
her teammates. The remaining scoring
for the team came from free throws by
Larson and Emily Rogers. As time ran
out, the Lady Knights met near midcourt
and celebrated their 72-69 victory.
The Barton Lady Bulldogs ar
rived on February 9 to do battle.
Schlaman won the tip, and Larson added
the first basket. Rogers and Franklin
each had a pair of threes in the half.
Contributions in scoring came from ev
eryone, but the Lady Knights were down
33-26 at the half Schlaman opened the
second half scoring and Larson followed
with two baskets of her own. Larson
added a three to compliment the two hit
by Franklin. McGowan, Franklin, and
Rogers added steals to a strong defen
sive effort. Unfortunately the combina
tion was not enough, as the Lady
Knights fell to the Lady Bulldogs by a
final score of70-56.
Men's Basketball also defeats Mt. Olive
by Me! Collins
The Knights have contin
ued their dominant play in
CVAC, posting a 9-4 conference
record and a 15-6 record over
all. TTie recent games have been
high scoring affairs, but the ex
citement has remained.
The men faced off against
the Trojans of Mt. Olive on Feb
ruary 5. A win would secure first
place in the conference. The
crowd was still buzzing from the
women’s overtime victory as
the men took the court. Ken
Evans began the game by
blocking a shot, and Anthony
Rollins had three defpisive re
bounds before scoring the
Knights’ first points. The team.
seeming just a little off their
game, found themselves behind
quickly. Despite steals by Steve
McCorkle, Joe Jessen, Ryan
Alexander, Nick Mitchell, Brian
McCollum, Deon Wingfield md
Evans, the Trojans managed to
maintain their lead. The
Knights’ offense was not silent
and let off a series of threes by
Wingfield, Alexander, Evans,
Mitchell and McCollum. Yet at
half-time, the Trojans were still
ahead 43-36.
Being down by seven is
not a big problem at half-time,
but the Knights were con
cerned after coming off a one
point loss to Queens. They re
turned in the second half ready
to prevent consecutive losses.
McCollum started the half with
the third of his four steals.
Rollins scored two possessions
later to get the offensive game
back on track. Mitchell, Evans,
and McCollum scattered tlwees
around some more traditional
scoring. With a strong team ef
fort, the Knights pulled off a 90-
81 victory over Mt. Olive.
The game against the
Barton Bulldogs on the ninth
was significant for several rea
sons. Team pride in avenging
an earlier season loss, fu-st place
in CVAC on the line, and facing
the former coach were all moti
vating factors. Rollins opened
the scoring with the first of his
nine points. Evans then got the
first of his four steals for the
evening. McCorkle, McCollum
and Alexander each added
threes in the half to aid the of
fensive effort. Evans, while not
hitting a three in the half,
seemed to. be hitting from ev’
erywhere else on his way to a
twenty-seven point effort. The
team forged a 47-39 lead at the
half
Mitchell started the sec
ond half scoring, and the
Knights found a groove.
Wingfield, Alexander and Evans
each hit threes to contribute. In
perhaps the best series of the
game, Evans stole the ball and
got it to Jessen. Jessen then
completed an over-the-head-
no- look pass to Evans for the
dunk. That was the beginning
of the end of the Bulldogs. The
Knights never let up, even send
ing a baseball-length-pass on
an in-bounds to an open
McCollum, who put the ball in
for two. Moments later, Rollins
added a monster slam, which so
upset Bulldog’s coach Ron
Lievense, that he was called for
a technical. Jessen converted
the free throws to increase the
SA lead. The crowd was fired-
up and pleased to see Larry Yon
and Fred McGhee each add a
basket to the score. As the
teams left the court, the
scoreboard had the home team
victorious, 93-81.
Correction
The women's basketball article
in the last issue of the Lance was
inadvertantly cut off in the
middle.
The final score of the game was
60-53, with St. Andrews losing to
Pembroke.
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