Friday, April 7, 1967
PAGE THREE
Elon Baseballers Down Apps In 5-1 Game
COACHES WHO LEAD SPRING SPORTS PROGRAM ON CAMPUS
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COACH JERRY DRAKE
Baseball
COACH GARY MATTOCKS
Golf
COACH JERRY TOLLEY
Track
COACH BILL MILLER
Tennis
Minor Sports
GOLF SCHEDULE
Apr. 4,—Guilford, home.
Apr. 6—Pfeiffer, away.
Apr. 11—Guilford and
Pfeiffer, away.
Apr. 13—Appalachian, home.
Apr. 18—Guilford, away.
Apr. 20—High Point, home.
Apr. 25—Catawba, home.
Apr. 27—Appalachian, away.
Apr. 28—A.C.C., home.
May 4—High Point, away.
May 9—A.C.C., away.
May 12—Catawba, away.
May 15-16—Conference Tourna
ment at Boone.
TENNIS SCHEDULE
Apr. 1—A.C.C., home.
Apr. 6—High Point, away.
Apr. 12—UNC Freshmen, away.
Apr. 15—Guilford, home.
Apr. 17—A.C.C., away.
Apr. 18—Pfeffer, home.
Apr. 21—West Carolina, home.
Apr. 22—West Carolina, home.
Apr. 24—Guilford, away.
Apr. 27—High Point, home.
May 15-16—Conference Tourna
ment at Boone.
TRACK SCHEDULE
Apr. 7—Catawba, away.
Apr. 10—Campbell, home.
Apr, 12—A.C.C., home.
Apr. 14—High Point, away.
Apr. 17—Guilford, home.
Apr. 22—Davidson Relays
Apr. 29—W. and L., away.
May 3—Catawba, home.
I^3y 5-6—State Meet, Durham.
May 8—Conference Meet.
Varsity Gridders Will Meet Alunini
Squad In Burlington Stadium Battle
The Elon College gridders will
close out their spring football ses
sions by meeting a strong combina
tion of Fighting Christian alumni
stars in a full-scale game in Burling
ton’s Memorial Stadium at 2:30 o’
clock tomorrow afternoon.
The game will mark the first pub
lic view of Coach Red Wilson’s new
Single-Wing model of the Fighting
Christian football machine, and the
game should prove quite a test for
the Elon varsity gridders as they
face an alumni outfit that shows some
of the outstanding stars of past years
Charleston
Downs Elon
In 2 Games
The Charleston College base
ballers grabbed off a pair of wins
from the Elon College diamond squad
in two games played in the South
Carolina port city on March 22nd
and 23rd, winning the first battle
by a 4 to 3 margin and taking the
second tilt by a 7 to 2 count.
The two games were the first of
the new 1967 season for the Elon
nine, and Coach Jerry Drake’s young
squad suffered badly as a result of
some ragged work in the field. The
Christians committed six errors in
the first tilt and three in the second
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High Point ISiiie Winner
By 3-2 In Lengthy Tilt
Ed Kirchgessner, Elon’s big fresh-
righthander from Succasunna,
J-, held the high-powered High
Point Panthers to three hits for
•hirteen innings in a Carolinas Con-
srence battle on the Elon field last
riday afternoon, but seven errors
® the Christian infield cost the big
*^uunker a 3 to 2 loss to the Panther
nine.
The High Pointers, rated by
Chuck Hartman as the most
^snted he has had in Pantherland
® sight years there, plated a single
in the second on three Christian
®'scues and then got their only
s^rned marker of the game on Bob
° Prison’s triple and an outfield
fly in the seventh.
Between the two Panther tallies,
Elon got a singleton run in the third
on singles by Rick Coble and Mike
(Spillane, sandwiched around a
stolen base, also tallied one run in
the sixth on three walks, a fielders
choice and a single by Jim Freis-
inger. .
The tying run by High Pomt m
the seventh set the stage for a tight
duel that stretched almost into the
twilight. Ron Blosse held the mound
for High Point until he gave way to
a pinch hitter in the eleventh, and
then Rob Myers came on to battle
Elon’s Kirchgessner until the Pan-
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in Elon football play.
Three of Elon’s All-American aces
of the past few years will be in uni
form for the Alumni team, for
George Wooten, Jerry Rowe, and
Willie Tart have all stated they will
be on hand. Wooten and Tart won
All-NAIA honors in the back-
field in their senior year, and Tart’s
jersey Number 25 was retired from
use after he graduated. Rowe won
his All-NAIA honors at end.
Ed “Strawberry” Wheless, who set
many Elon passing and offensive
records during two seasons here, will
be on hand to guide the alumni from
the quarterback slot; and big Rex
Harrison, who joined the Los Ange
les Rams as an end after graduation
here, will also be on hand.
Other former Elon stars due to be
in uniform include Charlie Rayburn,
Burl Clements, Cameron Little, Mar
vin Crowder, Dan Kelley, Clayton
Johnson, Charlie Strigo, Ronnie
Bell, Fred Stewart, A. W. McGee,
Don Amos, Joe Dawson, Scott Crab
tree, Darrell Morgan, Sonny Pruitt,
Zack Broadway and Alex Burnette.
They will be joined by the senior
members of the last fall's Elon
squad, and the entire group will be
directed from the bench by Sal Gero
and Lou Roshelli, a pair of Elon
stars of the early 1950’s. Gero was
twice All-American at tackle dur
ing his Elon career, and Roshelli set
many offensive records.
Against this talented crew of old
grads. Coach Red Wilson has an
nounced that he will start an of
fensive team which lists Perry Wil
liams and Richard McGeorge, ends;
Doug Thomas and Bill Gee, tackles;
Wes Gilliam and Gene Schaeffer,
guards; Lee Johnson, center; and Joe
Rinaca, Emery Moore, Gary Jordan
and Bill Miele, backs.
The defensive starters for the
Christian varsity will include Perry
Williams and Wade Williamson, ends;
Doug Thomas and Frankie Mensch,
tackles; Dickie Wilburn and Roger
Norman, guards; Lloyd Kanipe and
Gary Dean, linebackers; and Ron
Foresta, Dave Oliphant and Marty
Bonnett, halfbacks.
On the sidelines and directing play
for the Fighting Christian gridders
will be the entire Elon coaching staff
that lists Head Coach Red Wilson,
Assistant Coaches Alan White, Jerry
Tolley and Mickey Brown and Asso
ciate Coach Charlie Justice.
Elon Baseball
Elon 3, Charleston 4.
Elon 2, Charleston 7.
Elon 5, Appalachian 1.
Elon 6, Lynchburg 7.
Elon 2, High Point 3.
(Remaining Games)
Apr. 3—Delaware, home.
Apr. 4—Campbell, home.
Apr. 5—Pembroke, away.
Apr. 7—Lenoir Rhyne, away.
Apr. 8—Appalachian, away.
Apr. 11—Pfeiffer, home.
Apr. 12—A.C.C., away.
Apr. 14—Guilford, away.
Apr. 15—W. Carolina, home (DH).
Apr. 18—Guilford, home.
Apr. 21—Presbyterian, away (DH).
Apr. 22—Newberry, away (DH).
Apr. 24—High Point, away.
Apr. 25—Campbell, away.
Apr. 26—Catawba, home.
Apr. 29—Lenoir Rhyne, home.
May 2—Pfeiffer, away.
May 3—A.C.C., home.
May 5—Catawba, away.
May 6—Pembroke, at Greensboro.
May 11-12-13—Conf. Tournament.
Golf, Tennis
And Track
Teams Drill
The Elon College golf, tennis and
track teams are already preparing
for their 1967 campaigns, and both
the golf and tennis teams were to
open their schedules this week. The
track team was not expected to start
action until after the spring foot
ball game tomorrow. No results in
any of the sports were available at
present time.
Coach Gary Mattocks, who is di
recting the Elon golf squad, has only
two lettermen from last year’s team
that showed a 6-7 duel meet record.
The two vets are George Watts and
Bill Austin. Others on the 1967 ros
ter include Charles Woody, Graeme
Shull, Rick Schloss, Kerry Capell
and Asa Roper.
The Elon netters, again directed
by Coach Bill Miller, show three
lettermen on hand, including Don
Weed, Jim Ritter and Sandy Car
rington, with others on the roster
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Christian ‘9*
Wins First
Loop Battle
The Elon Christians opened their
home baseball season with a deci
sive 5 to 1 victory over the Appa
lachian Mountaineers on the Elon
field Wednesday, March 29th, with
the Carolinas Conference triumph
featuring timely hitting behind a
beautiful three-hit mound job by
Elon’s stocky little Chris Pecora.
Pecora, a stocky little freshman
righthander from East Islip, N. V.,
fanned nine and walked none as he
held the Mounties batters hitless in
seven of the nine innings. The
Christian hurler also scored two of
the Elon runs and rapped out one
of his team’s hits during the win
ning eighth inning rally.
The game was a tight mound
duel between Pecora and Appa
lachian’s Ed Curlee through the first
seven frames, with each team scor
ing singleton markers in the sixth.
Curlee gave way to a pinch hitter in
the eighth, and relief pitcher Bill
Hodges was the victim of Elon’s big
rally in the bottom of the eighth.
A double by Richard Smith, a
single by Pecora, a walk to Rick
Coble, a sacrifice by Mike Spillane
and a round-tripper by Joe Byrtus
sent the four Elon runners scamper
ing home in the winning rally. Byr
tus also had a triple to pace the
Elon hitting.
The line score:
R. H.E.
Appalachian 000 001 000 1 3 1
Elon 000 001 04x 5 5 2
Curlee, Hodges (8) and Bangston;
Pecora and Brady. HR — Byrtus
(Elon).
Lynchburg Is
Winner Here
In 7-6 Game
The Lynchburg Hornets turned
back the Elon Christians in an er-
ractic diamond battle on the Elon
field on March 30th, grabbing a 7
to 6 win in a game that showed
seven pitchers parading to the mound
for the rival teams.
Four Elon hurlers scattered eight
Lynchburg hits well over the nine
inning route and allowed only five
walks while fanning nine of the Hor
nets, but all of the Christian pitchers
suffered from erratic defense that
included three errors and five passed
balls.
Each team plated single runs in
the third inning, with Lynchburg
moving to the front with a pair of
scores in the top of the fifth, only
to have Elon rally for four counters
on three hits in the bottom of the
same frame.
The Christians held the lead until
the eighth, although the rivals traded
singleton markers in the seventh, and
then came the winning scores by the
Virginia visitors in the eighth and
ninth. The Hornets plated two men
in the eighth without a single hit,
using four bases on balls and fielder’s
choice in the rally, and then came
their winning tally in the ninth on
an error, sacrifice hit and single.
The line score:
R.H.E.
Lynchburg 001 020 121 7 8 1
Elon 001 040 100 6 8 3
Krouse, Kraft (7), Seeley and Rowley;
Moon, Amundsen (6), Pecora (8),
Kirchgessner (8) and Brady. WP
Seeley. LP—Kirchgessner,