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The Compass - page 4 SPORTS Basketball season underway ECSU men’s basketball 1986-87 season has gotten un derway with new head coach Claude Mackey preparing the squad to compete for the CIAA crown. The Viking’s schedule in cludes the Spartans of Nor folk State, led by All-CIAA and All-American Ralph Tally, who was the leading scorer in the CIAA last sea son. The Vikings will also go one-on-one with a an excellent 'team from Richmond, Va., the Panthers of Virginia Union University. The Panth- .-ers will be led by All-CIAA player Jamie Waller. Two starters and two re serves from last season, along with ECSU’s All-CIAA I^ayer, 6-foot-7-inch senior -T'imothy McDaniels, will lead .l^e Viking squad. McDaniels ^pd 6-foot-3-inch Jamie Xurner will start at forward, ’past season McDaniels led 'the team in scoring with a 22.3 Ipoint average and Turner had a 16.7 point average. McDa niels also added 6.3 rebounds per game. Both men have su perb outside shooting abilities and can produce under pres sure. Also returning is 6-foot-2- inch senior guard Kenny Hil ton. A newcomer, Lydel Mitchell, a 6-foot-9-inch De troit native, will fill in the middle with his aggressive rebounding skills. Vikings fall in OT; Lose 106-102 to Shaw The Vikings of Elizabeth City State University had to play quest to the Bears of Shaw University without their point guard, 5-foot-8- inch Brandom James. Andre Towe, a reserve guard for the Vikes started out well, but fouled out with 12 minutes left in the contest. Despite 23 points and 19 re bounds from ALL-CIAA Timothy McDaniels the Vi kings fell short to the Shaw Bears in overtime, 106-102. The Vikings had a chance to win, but turnovers caused the visting Vikings to settle for a 96-96 regulation tie. ESCUled by as many as 10 points in the first half, but the Vikings saw their lead crumble due to turnovers. Shaw led the Vi kings at halftime 44-42. ECSU had 22 turnovers at halftime. The Vikings took the lead in the fourth quarter 96-94 on a three-point goal by Danny Jones. With seven seconds re maining in the regulation the Bears pushed the ball upcourt quickly and T. Douglas scored at the buzzer to tie the at 96-96. In the overtime period the Vikings were outscored 10-6. It was the Vikings’ third loss of the season. The Vikings were led by Timothy McDaniels with 22 points and 19 rebounds, fol lowed by Lydell Lucas with 20 points and 13 rebounds. Ja mie Turner added 15 points. The Bears were led by An thony Joseph and Mark Brown with 30 and 20 points respectively. Propositon 48 studied Basketball season officially started November 22. Many questions need to be asked, but the most asked question is, “How will Proposition 48 affect college basketball?” NCAA Bylaw 5-1 (j) or Proposition 48 specifies that potential qualifiers for an ath letic scholarship at all Divi sion I schools must meet two requirements: (DA score of at least 700 on the verbal and math sections of the SAT or a score of 15 on the ACT. (2) A cumulative minimum 2.0 Grade Point Average in a core curriculum of at least 11 Specified academic courses in the areas of English, math ematics, social sciences and natuaral or physical sciences. Coaches have criticized the first provision, saying it dis criminates against inner-city black athletes. Athletes who don’t meet the required guidelines have the following options: (1) Accept the scholarship or some other form of finan cial aid, and sit out the sea son, if they have a 2.0 GPA. No practicing, no special tu toring, and definitely no play ing. (2) Pay their own way the first year the best way they can. (3) Attend a Division II or III or NAIA school. (4) Attend a junior college. The best bet of all these op tions would be to attend a ju nior college or a Division II School, where the player could come in and possibly contribute right away. Cullens is new coach; Baseball returns to ECSU Baseball, the All-American past-time, has returned to fiCSU. The sounds of crack ing bats and smells of rubbed leather gloves will fill the spring air again after an ab sence of 26 years. ”The University dropped the baseball program in 1960 due to lack of funding and sup port. But the boys of spring ate back under the leadership of new baseball coach Chuck Ctllens. -Although no positions have been assigned or even a ros ter made, the new coach is op timistic. “The 20 young men who have come out are progres sing nicely,” said Cullens. “Being the definite under dogs in the conference should make us work even harder, and the CIAA crown is always a possibility.” Because Cullens was not hired until late August, re cruitment of high school play ers was not possible. Accord ing to Cullens, however, there are some real bright spots on the team, even without re cruiting. The Vikings will play 17 home games and 18 away games, as well as the CIAA Tournament held in Hamp ton, April 18-19. Cullens, an Elizabeth City native, was an Elon College letterman and former Alber- marle Academy and Camden High School head baseball coach. "The “Spiking Vikings,” ECSU’s womens voiieybali team are front row, L-R, Donaid Brock, video, Ciiariene Murpiiy, WIikens ' Marclial, Jerriet Davis, Clieryi Cross, statistician, Shawn Curtis, statistician. Back row, L-R, Allison Zimmerianan, Lagina Z Frink, Adrienne Jones, Mary James, Sheila Williams and Coach Debbie Lynch. Not pictured, Darlene Dubose. V Pnoto Dy Ricnard McIntyre Alvin Kelly, Girl’s Basketball Coach, presents award to Jackie Kennedy, ECSU Hall of Fame inductee, and Tom Cauldwell, Kennedy’s former coach. ECSU Hall of Fame inducts Fields, Kennedy ECSU inducted two new members into their Sports Hall of Fame October 31 in the K.E. W’hite Graduate Center at 7 p.m. Jackie Kennedy, a na tive of Portsmouth, Vir ginia, who is now the Ath letic Director of the U.S. Marine Corps in Japan, and Henry Fields, who is now the Sports Director for the Corps in France, were inducted. Fields participated in both basketball and track while at ECSU and was a member of the first ECSU basketball team to make the CIAA Basketball Tour nament. He won the CIAA high jump competition during his junior and se nior years and also won medals in the Penn Relays duirng those years. Fields, ECSU’s first big man to dominate in the center position, was first in rebounding during two of the three years that he played in the CIAA and ranked in the top ten na tionally in rebounding. Jackie Kennedy was the first white student to start in any major sport in the history of ECSU. Kennedy won the Unlimited Weight Class Championship in wrestling for three consec utive years in the CIAA. He was also the first white player at ECSU to start on the football team, where he played as a defensive lineman and linebacker. During the years Ken nedy played at ECSU, the team won 23 games and lost only 4. “While Jack didn’t do it all himself, he was an integral part of the 42 man squad, sharing de fensive leadership with such ECSU greats as Dar nell Moore, Billy Ander son, and Washington John son,” said Tom Caldwell, his former coach. Kennedy came to ECSU because of a former black high school classmate that ' he helped to make the transition at Craddock High School, a predomina tely white school. That classmate, Washington Johnson, encouraged Ken nedy to attend ECSU and helped him to make the transition to a predomina tely black school. “There is irony here,” says George McClelland, Sports Editor of the Vir ginian-Pilot. “Johnson came to Craddock a stranger and went on Jo become the first black atji- lete to excel at the Ports mouth school and he con vinced Kennedy to jump the other way.” Both Fields and Ken nedy have excelled in their chosen professions. And you’re still smoking? 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