nil ulir:3’- r' >5? 3tu Thursday, li|arc|i£' Sports m DIVE: Senior second baseman Tim Patton dives bacic to first base in the Christians’ loss to Wake Forest Tuesday. This was Elon’s first loss of the season, they now stand at 3-1. Lady netters begin with the right swing By Brian E. Batchelor Sports Editor “We’ll have to struggle this year,” said Elon’s new women’s tennis coach Byrd Britt. ”We should end up about mid conference at the end of the year.” This year the whole team, in cluding the coach, are pretty young. Britt is in her first year ever as a head coach. Britt, who replaced former coach Karen Carden last summer, said no one had done any recruiting. ’’The team is basical ly walk-ons,” she said. There are some returning players from last year, however. Though she expects to have no “powerhouse” players, she said she is looking foward to steady play from all of the players. Guilford, High Point and Atlantic Christian Colleges are the teams Britt expects to have real trouble with, but she said Elon should b_ competetitive. Britt said she feels that in the future the Lady Christians will be Baseball season opens up| first week with a 3-1 mar] Photo by Brian E. Batchelor Detter off ’’We’ll be a lot stronger next year,” she predicted, pointing out that two recruits are already convinced to come to Elon. She added that she is still working on two more recruits. “I think they’re (Elon) really trying to build up the (tennis) pro gram here,” she says, noting that both the men’s and the women’s teams coaches are new to Elon. The Lady Christians won their season opener at Wingate Mon day 6-3. Number three player Cindy Wall, number four player Terri Barnes, number five player Juli Bollman and number six player Lori Johnson all won in the singles competition. The doubles teams of Wall and Kathy Dudley (- 2) and Johnson and Bollman (- 3) also won. The Lady Christians travel to Charlotte to face the University of North Carolina at Charlotte to day and end the week by hosting Mars Hill Friday. Monday sees the Lady Christians traveling to Campbell University and Wednesday they - go - to Lenoir-Rhyne. ^ * By Brian E. Batchelor Sports Editor Pitching trouble hurt Elon’s Fightin’ Christians as they fell hard Tuesday night to a powerful Wake Forest team, 16-3. Rick Jones’ Christians had nothing but bad luck while Marvin Crater’s Demon Deacons couldn’t go wrong. Bobby Oakley’s first pitch, the first pitch of the game, was pounded over the left-center field fence. Saturday the Christians topped the University of North Carolina at Charlotte 6-2, then captured both games of a doubleheader from the University of North Carolina at Asheville, 8-4 and 4-1. Tuesdays contest was a far cry from the perfor mance the Christians produced last year. Follow ing the pitching of a very strong staff the Christians finished an impressive 40-10 and ended up in the NAIA World Series, capturing the fifth place na tional ranking. The Christians are facing a four game home stand this week, hosting Wingate today. Mount Olive on Saturday, Western Carolina on Monday and Catawba on Wedsnesday. Benny Tart is the only returning pitcher from last year who saw a lot of playing time. Last year’s aces John Driscoll, Greg McDannold and Greg Harris have all graduated, limiting Elon’s staff. All Conference and All District player Mo Mor ton will also be missed. Morton and Harris both signed with the San Diego Padres after last year’s season. Harris and Driscoll were also named to the All Conference and All District teams last year. Despite the many players the Christians lost, a profitable recruiting year has allowed them to re main strong. Hailing as transfers from Liuerty Baptist a heavy hitting Barrick brothers, John and Andy.J defends first base while Andy roams left f Catcher William “Tank” Hardin transferf Louisville Junior College and is also being col on. Hardin had one of the few bright spots iiJ day’s loss when he punched a long homer c left field fence. Before the game senior second baseman Ti ton implied that this would be the standard, got the long ball this year,” he said. ’’We’reJ to hit homeruns.” Patton, who played short stop last year, noli Barrick brothers, Hardin, and returning outfj Troy Harris as the heavy hitters of the tear ton said Harris was probably the “best pure] Elon’s ever had.” Outfielder Randy Warren, also transferingi Louisville, will add a great deal. Warren, tha off batter is expected to aid greatly in the s department. In Tuesday’s contest Oakley was rq by returning sophomore Jeff Girton. The I were slowed but not stopped by Girton’s siiij style. After three solid hits against him wi outs in the fifth, Girton was replaced by TJ Tate held out until Jones replaced him. Joel took over in the eigth with the Deacons !e| 13-3. Patton also noted possible troubles in theC tians pitching staff, “They’re just not tiiroj strikes,” he said. But he also noted a definite talent in Duane H Mike Sebesto and C. W. Willis, “Iftheysti pitch (well) no one will beat us,” Patton J ’’When they’re in top form they make thetea^ They’re capable of getting anyone out.” I Free information from the Federal Government is available to you at more than 1,380 Depository Li braries across the country Congress established the Depository Library Pro gram in 1814 to provide free access to Govern ment information. To find the Federal De pository in your area, contact your local library or write to the Federal Depository Library Program, Office of the Publk Printer, Washington DC 20401. 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