Thursday. October 31,1985
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The Pendulum
1..IL 3 'SM iillT
Sports
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Christians rebound, thump Catawba 34-3
A powerful rushing anack and
a defense that got tough around
the goal line propelled Elon back
into the winning column, 34-3
over visiting Catawba last
Saturday.
The victory moved the Fightin’
Christians into sole possession of
second place in the SAC-8 with
a 3-1 league record behind Mars
Hill at 4-0.
Elon hosts Gardner-Webb at 2
p.m. Saturday in Burlington
Memorial Stadium for the annual
Parent’s Day game. The Indians
come in at 1-3 in the league, 4-3
overall, after losing a tough 13-7
battle with Carson-Newman last
Saturday.
Last year the Christians
walloped G-W 53-7 in their big
gest offensive explosion of the
season.
Quarterback Garrett Robinson,
in his first start of the season, led
the Christians in what head coach
Macky Carden called “a nearly
perfect first half of football.” He
rushed eight times for 106
yards—including a 62-yarder in
the first quarter—and tossed a TD
pass to end Stanley Haley.
Jonas Davis, held to a mere 39
yards in Oct. 19’s loss to
Presbyterian, came back with 137
yards on 26 carries for two TDs
against the Indians. Fullback
Mike O’Lari also netted 69 yards
on 10 carries, scoring the game’s
first TD on a 13-yard first-quarter
run through the center of the
Catawba defense.
Elon led 17-0 before the
visitors could get on the board
with a 29-yard field goal by Ran
dy Brown. The only other
Catawba threat in the first half
was stymied when Brown’s field
goal attempt was blocked just
before the half. By then Elon was
ahead 24-3.
Carden used reserves liberally
in the second half. Quarterback
Perry Cuda saw his first extensive
action of the season, completing
four of eight passes and directing
the Christians to their final score,
a 26-yard Paul Mullen field goal
in the third period.
Elon defensive back Jake
Welborn was named SAC-8
Player of the Week for making
eight solo tackles and picking off
two Catawba passes. Linebacker
Jack Arnold continued his sterl
ing play, with seven solo tackles
and 10 assists.
“This was our best game of the
year,” Carden said. ”lf we’d
played with this much fire at PC,
we might have won down there,
too.”
The victory, coupled with
Newberry’s loss to Georgia
Southern, moved the Christians
back ahead of Newberry in the
all-important NAIA national poll.
Newberry had been ranked sixth
last week, one notch ahead of
Elon. Playoff berths in the NAIA
are determined by a complex for
mula which requires that a team
finish in the final Top 1^
TD FOR JD:Elon’s Jonas Davis lays the ball on the ground after
scoring third-quarter TD, his second of the day. The Fightin’ Chris
tians took sole possession of second place in the SAC-8 with this
victory.
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PEP TALK:Elon coach Charlie Griffin gets the Christian defense ready. Elon’s defense kept
Catawba out of the end zone.
Hall of Fame
to induct 5
The Elon College Sports Hall
of Fame will be inducting five
new members on Nov. 16.
Those five members include
C.C. “Jack” Andrews, Maurice
“Molly” Craft, James B.
Mallory, Clarence “Difly” Ross,
and Brent Saxton.
Andrews played baseball and
basketball for Elon in the late
1940s. He received All-
Conference and All-State honors
in baseball. He became Elon’s
third 20-game winning pitcher
with a record of 20-8.
Craft was an Elon star in foot
ball and baseball just before
World War II.
Mallory was the baseball and
football coach for six years,
beginning in 1948.
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