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May 10, 1979 The Pendulum Page 6 Elon nine holds district lead by Grayson Whitt The Elon College baseball team is ranked number one in District 26 this week. The District 26 tournament started last night with the Fightin’ Christians facing Catawba. With two doubleheader sweeps this week, the Fightin’ Christians ended their regular season with a 28-8 record. Elon has a district record of 16-4. Elon started the week off by defeating Davidson by a margin of 11-6 in both games. In the first game, the Fightin’ Christians clouted five home runs to win the 10- inning affair. Joey Hackett hit two of the roundtrippers while Mike Rushton, Cilly Freeman and Gene Drum- wright each added one. George Winfrey picked up the win with two innings of relief. John Crumbley, also pitched well for the Fightin’ Chris tians. In the nightcap, Elon Football recruits signed Head football coach Jerry Tolley recently announced the signings of 24 gridders to grants-in-aid for the 1979 season. Leading the list are Dale Ayers, QB, Marietta, Geor gia; Quinton Bullard, DT, Gates; Ricky Grays, LB, Pet ersburg, Virginia; Danny Scales, TE, Madison; and Stanley Tootoo, mington. LB, Wil- The lists also includes two local players, Gary Whitesell and Dwayne Janey. Whitesell, a DE, played at Western Ala mance while Janey, a LB, played at Eastern Alamance. The complete list is as follows: Joe Strouse Stanley Tootoo Rockne Honeycutt Phil Wrenn Otis Davis Tim Dillon Dale Ayers Ricky Grays Dean Grimm Reggie Leach Robert Hinson A1 Smith Mike Harper Boyd Byerly Gary Whitesell Kevin McDonald John Murray Danny Scales Dwayne Janey Bill McGovern Mark Mura Quinton Bullard Jimmy Moore Jay Junkins SE Goldsboro LB Wilmington TE-P Paffetown K Fayetteville RB Fayetteville DT Winston-Salem QB Marietta, Georgia LB Petersburg, Virginia K St. Petersburg, Florida HB Newton Grove C Monroe FB Hamlett RB Statesville QB Tabor City DE Burlington OT Erwin G Ahoskie TE Madison LB Burlington QB Hampton, New Jersey DT Hampton, New Jersey DT Gates HB Washington, N.C. RB Hampton, New Jersey New assistuit football coach Linwood Fergnson, former defensive coordinator at Chowan Junior College and offensive backfield coach at East Carolina, comes to Elon as a winner with sound philosophies. Photo by John Hurd. scored eight runs in the first three innings to capture the victory. Phil Baskervaille and Rushton had two hits each while Larry Colson, Alan Dalton and Rushton each homered. Eric Smith picked up the win to run his record to 5-1. Later in the week, Elon de feated Lenoir Rhyne 7-1 and 1-0. Great pitching provided the sweep over the Bears. In the opener, Stan Queen pitched a five-hitter to run his record to 3-1. David Whitley, Billy Freeman, Colson, Rush ton, and Hackett had two hits apiece to aid Queen. The second game, against Lenoir Rhyne, was a pitchers duel. Elon’s Hughes Crisp pitched a no-hitter to claim the win. Crisp’s record for the year is 6-0. Dave Lenig’s two hits paced the hitters in this game. The Fightin’ Christians scored their only run in the second game in the last inn ing. With the bases loaded and one out, Lenig’s suicide squeeze bunt scored Hackett. Going into the district tour nament, Elon has a chance to break the school record of 30 wins in a season. mm This week’s Pendulum Player of the Week is Hughes Crisp. A pitcher on Bob McBee’s baseball squad. Crisp hurled a no-hitter last week to defeat Lenoir Rhyne 1-0. A native of Graham, Crisp struck out nine in the seven inning affair. Intramural softball champions decided by Gray Amick The intramural softball sea son concludes this week with the post-season playoffs. A total of 10-men’s teams and four women’s teams are vying for their respective champion ships. By press time of the Pendulum both men’s and women’s championships will have been decided. The men’s league has four divisions. Representing Divis ion 1 in the playoffs are BBF with a 7-0 record and NHG which has a 6-1 slate. Divis ion II has three teams in the running: TKE-A which is 6-1, TNK Pan Red 5-1, and WEPAC 5-1. Division III also has three teams competing for the title. They are the un defeated Second Stringers 7 -0, the Desperados 5-2, and the Underdogs, 5-2. Bagubas 6-1, and the Ludes 7-0, round out the field and are rep resentatives of Division IV. There is only one women’s league. Battling for the wom en’s. crown are: Third Staley 7-1, LFPINC 6-2, undefeated Sweetness 8-0, and First Vir ginia 5-3. Both men’s and women’s champions were to have been decided yesterday. They, along with all other intramu ral champions of this year, will be honored tonight at the intramural awards banquet. The banquet is at 6:30 on the second floor of McEwen Din ing Hall. Coach stresses weight training by Paul Chaconas If you think that Elon’s football team has some big men — you’re right. But if new defensive line coach Lin wood Ferguson has anything to do with it, the average size of an Elon player will be even bigger within the next few years. Like University of Maryland head football coach Jerry Claiborne, who has built the Terps into a perennial A.C.C. powerhouse and bowl team, Coach Ferguson is a strong advocate of weight training. He has already developed a mandatory weight training program for his defensive line crew at Elon. Coach Ferguson does not want to see his weight train ing program stop with de fensive linemen or even foot- beillers for that matter. He has opened his training ses sions in Elon’s weight room not only to football players, but also to basketball players and tracksters as well. As a P.E. instructor, Ferguson will also be conducting a class he calls “weight training,” not overload conditioning as Elon students know it now. Introducing weight training as a key instrument to his coaching plans, Ferguson credits weight lifting with building confidence in that it increases one’s strength and speed. This is accomplished by what Ferguson calls two “high intensity” workouts per week where the athlete exerts ail of his energy and then recovers with longer periods of rest. Ferguson also stresses stretching exercises before and after each workout to increase flexibility and thus reduce the athlete’s chance of injury. Besides “pumping iron,” Coach Ferguson emphasizes technique in his defensive linemen’s style of play. Says Ferguson, “Being able to hit hard is great, but I also want my players to know how to react to certain blocks and plays. It is always easy for a coach to be a slave driver. I can be that too. Blit I want to teach the players something about the game of football itself; somei fling that they can always carry with them.” 044 M3^L3Ln J uuuw m
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