February 8,1979
The Pendulum
Page 5
Sports
Lacrosse club begins practice;
ECU and Clemson top schedule
The Elon Lacrosse Club
started practices on Monday,
Feb. 5, and an enthusiastic
turnout has added to the
team’s hopes for a successful
1979 season, says one veteran
player. Elon*s schedule for
Ithis season consists of 10!
games, four to be played at
home. As usual, the competi
tion will be tough—East
Carolina, South Carolina,
are once again on the sche
dule. along with arch- rival
Guilford.
The club is currently pre
paring for its season opener,
on Feb 24 in Atlanta vs.
Georgia tech. Elon upset Tech
last year by a score of 9-7,
and will be trying to repeat
that feat this season, fol
lowing day, Elon will visit
Clemson before returning
home for a game vs. South
Carolina on March 3.
Leading Elon will be at-
tackman Paul Jamme, who
holds virtually all of the
club’s scoring records. Other
players returning from the ’78
squad include midfielders
Keith Scott and Howard
Wheatley; Elon will also be
relying heavily on returning
attackman John Hitch and
David Landskroener, defense-
men Greg Piper, Andy Weav
er and Scott Montgomery,
and all of the freshmen mem
bers of the team.
The club will be trying to
improve on last year’s 6-6
record — no easy task, since
this season’s competition is
made up primarily of varsity
teams which are supported by
their respective schools. How
ever, the lack of college
funding from which Elon’s
lacrosse program suffers will
no doubt be made up for in
’79 by the enthusiasm of the
players involved.
Soccer tryouts
to be held
by Grayson Whitt
Anyone interested in trying
out for next year’s soccer
team should come out on the
soccer field from 3:00-4:00
any afternoon during the
week.
Head coach Steve Ballard is
looking for a bright season
next year. Soccer is one of the
fastest growing sports in
America,and Ballard is head
ing the Elon effort.
Lee Allison, here doing a climaxing behind-the-head slam
dunk is this week’s Pendulum Player of the Week. The 6’3”
Allison is a forward on Coach Bill Miller’s Fighting
Christiatas basketball team. A sophomore, from Mebane,
Allison scored 28 points Monday night to lead the Fighting
Christians over UNC-Asheville 84-67. All of his 28 points
came in the second half.
Second home win
Christians keep streak alive
by Grayson Whitt
With last Saturday night’s
72-71 overtime victory over
Catawba, Elon’s basketball
team ended a biz:5are string.
This was their first win at
home in eight tries this sea
son. Clarence Dickerson led
Elon with 22 points and was
followed by Drew Van Horn
who scored 14 points.
Last Saturday’s win gave
the Fighting Christians an
8-13 record. Elon is 4-6 in the
Carolinas Conference stand
ing.
One of the biggest high
lights this season was when
the Fighting Christians won
the Fidelity American Basket
ball Tournament at South
Boston, Virginia. The Fight
ing Christians downed Long-
wood and Hampden-Sydney
to claim the crown. Larry
Scott waj named the tourna
ment’s Most Valuable Player.
Leading the Fighting Chris
tians in scoring this year is
Clarence Dickerson and Lee
Allison. Dickeson is averaging
over 19 points per game and
Allison is averaging over 16
points per game.
Elon’s second win came
Monday night against UNC-
Asheville. Lee Allison led all
scoring with 28 points, in the
84-67 victory over UNC-A.
Meanwhile, the “Golden
Girls”, are off to one of their
best seasons in the last few
years. Hit hard by academic
problems early in the season,
the “Golden Girls” are cur
rently 11-7. They are 4-2 in
the Carolinas Conference.
Heading the scoring for this
year’s team are Vanessa Cor
bett and Lou Williamson.
Corbett leads the way with an
State to host tourney
Golden GW ccntcr Donna Roach goes np against pamp^
College defenders while teammate Jeannle Hairston looks on.
Bon went on to win by 29 points.
Tickets for the AIAW Na
tional Championship basket
ball tournament are now on
sale at Elon College. The
games will be played in the
Greensboro Coliseum Friday,
March 23, and Sunday,
March 25. North Carohna
State is serving as host of this
event.
Cost of tickets for prime
seats at this event are $20 per
adult booklet and $12 per
student booklet. For further
information and ticket pur
chases, contact Coach Bar
bara Yarborough at Elon
College, Campus Box 295, or
call her at 919-584-9711, Ext.
226.
average of 20 points per
game, and Williamson is next
with an 18 points per game
average.
Elon College
Intramurals
by Grayson Whitt
Sigma Pi Fraternity cap
tured the intramural volley
ball championship by down
ing TKE Fraternity. Sigma Pi,
7-0 during the regular season,
dovraed TKE 11-15, 15-11
and 15-10 in the champion
ship game to end the season
at 10-0.
TKE Fraternity won the
intramursd water polo cham
pionship by defeating Sigma
Pi 2-1 in the final game. Both
teams entered the game un
defeated.
Charlie Williamson won the
intramural basektball one-on-
one championship by down
ing Shade Green.
This year the team ac
cumulating the most points
will win the championship
trophy. By virtue of being in
the finals of the three-team
championship games. Sigma
Pi leads the race for the
trophy with 562 points. TKE
is second with 492 points.