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Sports
Best Wishes to All
Coaches and Athletes
Baseball This Fall
Coach White Getting It Right
Peter Adderley
“All positions are open-last
season is history.”
Despite the fact that the man’s
office is located on the upper
stage of a basketball gym, the
most favorable and familiar
sport that bounces to his mind is
baseball. The man is Henry
White. Coach White, a man with a
gloved understanding and ap
preciation for the game of
baseball said confidently to a Pen
sports reporter during an inter
view, “We have a good team this
year, and there is no doubt that
we should do well.” White, who’s
club finished 14-13 last season and
placed third out of thirteen teams
in NAIA District 26, feels that this
year’s team is going through a
learning process. One must agree
with White considering the fact
that he has lost nine of his players
and must now deal with fifteen
new recruits, two seniors, four
juniors and the others
sophomores and freshman.
The team was first in batting in
NAIA District 26 this year, third
in the nation in hitting and two
players, Tony Blackman and
Lisben Chavous, made All
District. According to White,
such accomplishments are
historic factors and players must
prove themselves this season.
Noted for his keen judgements,
after a three week workout with
the team, the baseball leader
said, “We have a good defensive
team this year and we are excep
tionally strong in the infield.”
The ‘Wiz’ continued by saying,
“There are some things we must
work on considering the fact that
we are a young, team, but my
view is, practice doesn’t make
perfect, but it rather causes im
provement.”
White is depending strongly on
pitching this season from James
Scott, Tony Blackman and Mark
Evans. While an average of forty
to fifty players turn out daily, all
with the common dream of being
a part of St. Augustine’s baseball
team, Coach White says, “Only
thirty can make the team and the
official cut will be made October
12th, 1983.”
MAY COACH WHITE CON
TINUE TO DO HIS BEST HERE
AT ST. AUG. AS OUR
BASEBALL MAN...AND BASE
BALL PROSPECTS: HIT THE
BALL HARD AND RUN AS
FAST AS YOU CAN...
Henry White
Men’s Baseball Head Coach
Close Up
Kenneth “Foots” Bauister
By Theresa Yvonne McLean
As newly elected Sports Editor,
I would like to extend a warm
welcome to the administrators,
faculty, staff and fellow Augites
on another prosperous year. I am
looking forward to being at the
events and exposing the outstan
ding accomplishments of the
By Grover Benjamin
Benjamin: When did you first
gain an interest in basketball?
Bauister: It was about five
years ago when a coach came up
to me while I was walking down a
street in Baltimore and asked me
did I want to play ball.
Benjamin: Give me a brief
summary of your honors and
awards from playing basketball.
Bauister: Since high school I
was an All-American center.
From Junior Metro South
Western High School in
Baltimore, I went to Trinidad
State, where I was an All-Region
and All-State number one
transfer student. From there I
went to Indiana State, where I led
the team in rebounds and was
third in scoring. Then I came to
St. Aug. to finish my last year and
hope to be successful one day.
Benjamin; How do you plan to
prepare yourself for the upcom
ing basketball season?
Bauiiter: Work hard with my
other teammates so that we can
help each other improve our
basketball skills.
Benjamin: How do you feel
about the team’s record last
year?
Bauister: I felt, they had an
outstanding squad last year, and
I also feel that I will give the
team one hundred and ten per
cent participation and effort to
make this a championship squad.
Benjamin: Do the other
players on the team reject you
because of your ability to play
basketball?
Bauister: Well, I feel that
everybody on the t»m has to pro
duce and play ball, to play their
role in the game to the best of
their ability.
Benjamin: Do you feel that be
ing on this team will enhance
your chances of turning pro next
year?
Bauister: Well this is my last
year and I’m going to give it my
all and hope my teammates do
also.
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athletes.
On behalf of myself and the Pen
Newspaper, I would like to ex
tend best wishes to the coaches
and athletes for the 1983-84
athletic season. “Remember to
put God first and you’ll come out
on top e^^ry time.”
Ready to Do It Again
Benjamin: What is your motto
about playing basketball?
Bauister: It’s a mind game,
just like chess.
Benjamin: Why do they call
you “Foots”?
Bauister: Well ever since I was
a kid I had that name. Ever since
I was in high school, I have
always been the tallest looking
over people with the biggest feet.
Theresa Y. McLean
The Saint Augustine’s College
Volleyball Team had a
remarkable season last year. Ac
cording to Ms. Beverly Downing,
Coordinator of Women’s
Athletics, our volleyball team
was tremendous. “It was the
‘Dynasty’ of the CIAA”, said Ms.
Downing.
Looking back on last year’s
team, its over-all record was 15-2.
It lost to Guilford College by a
forfeit because of default of
transportation problems and also
to Jacksonville University of
Jacksonville, Florida. The team
was 11-0 in the CIAA; 14-1 in
NAIA regionals and 13-1 in the
Falcons Looking
Forward to
Winning Season
Beverly O. Saunders
As the 1983-84 “Falcon” basket
ball season approaches, Head
Coach Harvey Heartley has a
very positive attitude towards the
team and its capabilities. Like
“Falcon” fans, Coach Heartley is
looking for an even more trium
phant season as opposed to the
success of the team last year.
The “Falcon” finished second
in the NCAA Division Two, Mid-
Atlantic finals last season and
were ranked sixth in the nation.
They were also first in the CIAA
Southern Division.
Sitting back calmly in his of
fice, Coach Heartley says of his
new recruits, “They have a lot of
hard work to do.” Of the return
ing players he says, “Those who
weren’t starting last season must
show that they want to this
season.” If they are impressive,
they will start but if not, there are
the new recruits who may show
him more. “We have to play
together as a team at any rate”,
says Coach Heartley.
Among those returning are:
Ben Bradshaw, Anthony Rogers,
Randy Franks, Phil Garrett, Nor
man Roscoe and Emanuel Chap
man.
Of the new recruits and
transfers are: Desmon Thomas,
Baltimore, Md.; Madison E.
Smith, Randallstown, Md.; Keith
Davis, Houston, Tx.; Bruce
Moore, Newark, N.J.; Kenneth
Bauister, Baltimore, Md.; Leroy
Morene, Washington, D.C.; and
Albert Coates, Baltimore, Md.
As a word of inspiration from
the coach to the team. Coach
Heartley says, “We are going to
have to work smarter, faster,
harder and longer to achieve the
level of last year’s team.”
On behalf of the Pen
Newspaper staff and the
“Falcon” fans, “Good luck guys.
- -We know you can do it/-’ • • > ♦
NCAA. It won the CIAA cham
pionship last year and has done
so for the last seven years. In the
NAIA, the team was runner-up
after losing a hard one in the final
game to High Point College.
Under new supervision, the
team is now coached by Leslie
Cartwright. This is his first time
coaching the volleyball team at
St. Aug. but he has coached other
volleyball teams in the Bahamas.
Coach Cartwright has a great
deal of confidence in his team and
he is looking forward to another
victorious season. He does note
that he doesn’t know what the
competition is like this year so he
is preparing his team in all areas.
The team had its first scrim
mage game of the year at UNC-
Chapel Hill on September 9. It
scrimmaged against UNC and
also St. Andrew’s College. The
team did well over-all but assis
tant coach, Kenneth Dotson (PJ),
thinks the team still has a great
deal of work to do and at the rate
it is going, it will be a pretty
tough team to beat. Looking pro
udly over at his team as it was
practicing, he smiled and said,
“We have a very strong team this
year.”
The Women’s Volleyball Team
members for the 1983-84 year are
Oria Woods, Lavern Doley, Jen
nifer Johnson, Marjorie Grant,
Jennifer Isaacs, Anita Withers
poon, Shelia Beaton, Esther Cart
wright, Bridgett Dampier,
Brigynda Dampier, Carol
Whitley, Shelly Hudson and An-
drdea Ferguson.
The Pen Newspaper wishes you
all the success that a team could
have. The “Falcon” family is
behind you all the way.
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