PAGE 4 — THE DECREE — NOVEMBER 22,1991
Battling Bishops expect winning season
Men’s Basketball Schedule
Nov. 22 Ronaoke Tournament 8 p.m.
Nov. 23 Roanoke Tournament TBA
Dec. 2 AtWinthrop 7:30 p.m.
Dec. 4 At East Carolina 7 p.m.
Dec. 6 Roger Taylor Invitational Tournament 8 p.m.
Dec. 7 Roger Taylor Invitational Tournament TBA
Dec. 14 Salisbury State 2 p.m.
Dec. 28 Otterbein Tournament 8 p.m.
Dec. 29 Otterbein Tournament TBA
Jan. 7 At Barton 7:30 p.m.
Jan. 9 At Apprentice School 7 p.m.
Jan. 14 At Greensboro* 7:30 p.m.
Jan. 16 Mary Washington 7:30 p.m.
Jan. 18 Averett* 7:30 p.m.
Jan. 22 Methodist” 7:30 p.m.
Jan. 25 AtFerrum* 7:30 p.m.
Jan. 28 At Shenandoah 7 p.m.
Feb. 1 At Christopher Newport* 7:30 p.m,
Feb. 4 Apprentice School 6 p.m.
Feb. 8 Ferrum* 7:30 p.m.
Feb. 11 At Averett* 7:30 p.m.
Feb. 15 Greensboro* 7:30 p.m.
Feb. 18 At Methodist” 7:30 p.m.
Feb. 22 Christopher Newport* 7:30 p.m.
Feb. 25 DIAC Tournament First Roimd 7:30 p.m.
Feb. 28 DIAC Toumament TEA
Feb. 29 DIAC Toumament TBA
♦Conference games
to sophomores
By NICOLE COX
The Battling Bishops men’s
basketball team started their pre
season recently with strong play
against the University of North
Carolina’s junior varsity team. If
the Bishops keep up this good
work, they could be on their way
to a Dixie Conference champion
ship.
According to Head Coach Bill
Lady Bishops
lose to Ithaca
in tournament
The North Carolina Wesleyan
women’s soccer team made its
second appearance ever in the
NCAA Division III Women’s
Soccer Toumament and lost 1-0
to Ithaca College, the defending
national champions.
Head coach Patrick Baker and
company completed a terrific
season and re-wrote the
program’s record book.
“We had a great season,” said
coach Baker. “It was a fantastic
experience for all of us to get into
the NCAA toumament and be one
of 16 teams playing for the na
tional championship. I thought we
played well against Ithaca They
ended up getting the break they
needed, and we didn’t.”
The only goal of the match
came 20 minutes into the second
half off an indirect free kick.
“The supposed foul that led to
the free kick is still questionable
in my mind, but I know the offi
cials aren’t perfect,” said coach
Baker. “We had our wall set up
just right and they hit the ball off
the inside of the far post We were
just unfortunate not to get a goal
ourselves.”
The Lady Bishops will not
graduate anyone from the team
this year and look to retum the
same players for next year.
“We have a very strong
nucleus of young players to work
with for the next few years,” said
Baker. “I won’t need to bring 10-
15 freshmen like I have the last
two years. We are looking at a
pool of about 20 exceptional
players and realistically hope to
get four to five of them for next
fall.”
The North Carolina Wesleyan
volleyball team finished its 1991
season with a loss in the first
round of the Dixie Conference
Chambers, the team’s perfor
mance at Chapel Hill was a good
sign. “We went down there to
*work on offense and defense,” he
said. “I was really pleased with
our scrimmage in terms of defen
sive intensity and good shots on
offense. We played really hard.”
This year’s team has nine
freshmen and is concentrating on
teaching those freshmen a more
rigorous man-to-man defense.
With this new team, as well as
the returning players. Coach
Chambers hopes to have a new
kind of season.
“Last year we had a tough
season,” he said. ‘The goal this
year is to turn things around and
have a winning season.”
Goals the 1991-92 team have
set for themselves are to be the
best defensive team in the con
ference and to be playing their
very best basketball at the end of
the season. They hope that by
achieving these goals, they will
be able to win the conference
championship and go on to the
NCAA Tournament.
Co-captain James Condery, a
third-year player at Wesleyan,
feels that this year’s team has
what it takes to go far.
“I feel the team is together,
and that’s what we need,” he said.
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students coming in to talk with
only a few rehearsed answers; this
needs to be spontaneous. We want
to engage the students so we can
understand just what they’re
thinking about academically.”
Brooks added that through
conversation the team will be able
“to better understand the experi
ence sophomores are having here
as students.”
Students already interviewed
felt that these intaviews are a
good idea. Angela Boone, who
was interviewed by Sullivan, said,
“Wesleyan has always wanted to
create a one-on-one atmosphere
between students and faculty, and
these interviews help accomplish
that.”
The Lady Bishops traveled to
Methodist College to play in the
toumament and were beaten in
three straight games, 6-15,4-15,
“We’ve been underestimated, but
we’re going to show what we can
do.”
One of the other strengths the
team possesses, in addition to
unity, is good quickness.
“We have good athletes — a
more athletic team than last year,”
Chamber said. “We hope to be
able to mn the ball, play a more
up-tempo game than last year.
Running the fast break can be one
of our strengths.”
However, one of the weak
nesses associated with the team’s
quickness is turnovers.
“If we’re going to ran we’ve
got to take care of the ball — get
ride of tumovers,” said Chambers.
All in all, the team is expect
ing a good season.
“We’ve had a great tradition
going: winning seasons, confer
ence championships, and NCAA
Tournaments,” Chambers said.
The team hopes to continue that
tradition this season.
The Battling Bishops’ first
home game is Friday, Dec. 6,
when they host the Roger Taylor
Invitational Toumament. Every
one is encouraged to attend.
“When we get a lot of fans in,
it is a great atmosphere for small
college basketball,” Chambers
said.
When asked what she felt was
the most important aspect of the
interviews, Boone said, “I think
they will help put the students’
misconceptions at ease. Also I
think it’s important that they find
out why students come to Wes
leyan.”
Tommy Allen, who was inter
viewed by Brooks, added to this
by saying, “I thought that the in
terviews have been very produc
tive. It is great that students have
the chance to express their ideas
and grievances so candidly, and
know that we are really being lis
tened to.”
Most of the information gath
ered will be used to help sopho
mores choose majors and, after
college, a career. There are no
plans now for this to become a
yearly event, although, if suc
cessful, the knowledge obtained
will have direct benefits for all
students in upcoming years.
Because this is new for both
students and the team members,
there will be no guidelines or rigid
oals to be followed or met, and
students will have an advantage
over faculty and staff, Sullivan
said, by being able to use their
knowledge to give better knowl
edge.
Sullivan and the other eight
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secretarial help, a compact disc
and record librarian, students in
terested in athletic programming,
and journalism students to cover
news programs.”
The trustees have approved
$5,000 to purchfise additional
equipment for Wesleyan Radio,
to ensure that it is a quality prod
uct and a good experience for
students.
Any student who wishes to
work with WESQ is encouraged
to get involved. A broadcasting
course will be offered in the
members will be counting on the
sophomores to participate fully
and tell them exactly what it is
like academically here at NCWC
because, he said, “We’re looking
to learn.”
spring semester for anyone inter
ested.
“We’re very excited about this
venture,” said McDowell. “I don’t
know anything on campus that
has aroused this much interest
with the students.” However,
more interest in WESQ is needed.
It will take a lot of people to mn
the expanded hours the station
hopes to achieve.
Interested students should
contact McDowell in the Devel
opment Office and sign up for
the broadcasting course in the
spring.
Volleyball team ends season
College listening
J^ew radio station plans
to go on air by January