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Sports October 1,1998 19 This Week in Campus Recreation Intramurals Tntramural Team of the Week Mighty Pandas The Mighty Pandas of Alpha Omicron Pi finished the regular season undefeated by beating defending women's champion Phi Mu 6-0 and earning the #1 seed for the playoffs. Tntramiiral Player of theWeek Dennis Ott The senior lineman scored his first career Intramural touchdown in the Shockers' 26-0 route over the No-Names. Look for This Week^s Outstanding Game; A-Net vs. Sigma Chi This looks to be the most interesting of the first roimd battles as teams vie for the Elon flag football championship and a trip to Wilmington. Coming soon: Soccer Captains' Meeting: Tuesday, Oct. 6th 5 pm, in KC 141 Soccer Officials Clinic: Wednesday, Oct. 7th @ 5 p.m. in KC 141 This IntramuralsLby Chrissie Taylor, with Peter Tulchinsky, — Director of Campus Recreation Updates: Women's golf and soccer . L..* „ Hav This was Clark Troy Adams Chrissie Taylor The Pendulum Elon Women’s Golf The women’s golf team fin ished 1 l^attheRadfordLady High lander Invitational, played at Draper Valley Golf Club in Dublin, VA on Sept. 21 and 22. The team shot rounds of 324- 328=652, improving 23 strokes from their first tournament. Sophomore Angie Baskette finished 11^ individually, shooting rounds of 74 and 80. Baskette was only four off the lead after the first day, but a tough second day ended her medalist hopes. Campbell University won the tournament, shooting 291-291=582 for their second straight win. Winthrop University’s Janice Rob erts won medalist honors, firing a four-under-par 140. Elon’s Laura Orlsen shot 78- 82=160 to finish tied for 35^’’. Beth Frace, Adrienne Groeller and Megan Tripp finished 57‘\ 60^^ and 70‘\ Elon Women’s Soccer Freshman Tricia Clark scored a break-away goal in the 80* minute to lead the Elon College women’s soccer team to a 3-2 win over Stetson University at home on Sunday. This was Clark’s second goal of the match. This came after Marissa Venuti scored Elon’s first goal 18-yards-out at the beginning of the second half. Clark scored off of a rebound blast by teammate Venuti. Stetson’s Kristy Porcelli scored for the Hatters before Clark’s first goal. Carrie Cooper also scored on a header against Elon’s keeper Meghan Miller, but after a red card given to Stetson’s keeper, Elon had a one-player advantage for the rest of the match. Elon outshot the Hat ters 32-8, and improved their record to 4-3-1. Fightin' Christians come up empty against JMU Josh Phoebus The Pendulum Updates: Men's golf and soccer Troy Adams sifter captured Letitia Lee The Pendulum medalist honors, firing a 3-underpar total of 139 (69-70). Sophomore John Marshall tied for third, shoot ing 72-69=141. Junior Todd Grassi finished tied for lO* with a 69- Against High Point, Elon lost 2-1. Elon had 9 shots on goal, and came out with one of those shots as a goal by Robert Latimer. Elon’s only goal was in the first half. After accidentally kick Elon Men’s Golf ^ ^ Dominant, unyieldmg, and Jeff Ennis and ing one in for the other team, the \f PH 'FllP.O'O nil rlGSCriDC tllC . i t rromfi junior Matt Donovan finished tied simply en fuego all describe performance of the men’s golf team last week at the Charleston South ern Fall Invitational . While the words are many, their score was altogether opposite - very low. As a team, Elon was six- under par in the two-day event. The Fightin’ Christians shot 284- 278=562, giving them a 14-stroke victory over Coastal Carolina and Charleston Southern. They aver aged just over par (71.5) as a team. for 12*^ and 25‘^ shooting 74-70-144 and 79-69=148, respectively. The tournament, played at Coosaw Creelc Country Club in North Charleston, SC, had a field of 13 teams. No one came close to Elon Aside from Coastal Carohna and Charleston Southern, the next closestteamwasBethune-Cookman. 23 strokes back. Elon Men’s Soccer This past week, Elon men s had four players shoot 69 and all ILHighPoin’tandCharles- five shot under par in at least one soccerfa^^^ round. Every Elon golfer finished ton momentum of the game changed. Against Charleston the same thing, losing within one. Elon came up short in a 3-2 effort. With time winding down Elon capitalized on a foul com mitted in the penalty area, leaving the score 2-2. In overtime the there was a controversial handball call in the box setting up Charleston for a penalty shot to which they scored Elon goals were made by Brian Neiberline and Duran Mar tin For 30 minutes, the Fightin’ Christians played perhaps their best football of this young season. They accumulated 200 yards on the ground and played strong defense on their way to a 12- 0 lead over the James Madison University Dukes at halftime. However, the Dukes came out “hungry” and rallied for nineteen unanswered points to defeat Elon 19-12 before 8,000 at Bridgeforth Stadium, Things started out well for Elon as they put together a five play 73-yard drive highlighted by a 48- yard run by Derrick Moore. Moore had one of his best games of the year as he lead all rushers with 92 yards on the ground. “Derrick made some big plays for us. He continues to get better with every game” Head Coach A1 Seagraves said. The drive ended with a 17 yard touchdown run by Steve Ferguson that put Elon up 7-0. The Fightin’ Christians added a 21 -yard field goal by Austin Boone with 1:27 left to go in the half. With just 3.3 seconds to go in the first half, Andrew Stevenson blocked JMU’s punt. The ball rolled out of the end zone and the Fightin’ Christians were awarded a safety and entered the locker room up 12- 0. The defense had a phenom enal first half as they shut out JMU and held them to just 58 total yards. However, both James Madison and Elon seemed to be different teams in the second half. JMU put together an eight play fi fty-y ard dri ve that ended wi th a nine yard touchdown pass froni quarterback Greg Maddox to wide receiver John Wakely. ThiscuttheFightin’Christian lead to 12-7 with 9:22 left to go in third quarter. After Elon failed to score on their first possession, the Dukes gained control of the ball and took the lead on a eight yard run by running back Delvin Joyce that gave JMU the lead at 13-12 with just 94 seconds left in the quarter. This drive not only gave the Dukes the lead but also swung the momentum in James Madison’s favor as Joyce’s eight yard run en ergized the JMU faithful that had been silent for most of the first half. Joyce turned out to be the driving force behind JMU’s sec ond half dramatic comeback. He added a spectacular 69-yard punt return with nearly ten minutes to go in the game that increased the Dukes lead to 19-12 and sealed the first win of the season for James Madison. The loss was the third straight for the Fightin’ Christians. “This loss was a difficult pill to swallow because we im proved offensively but we couldn’t execute in all phases of the game during critical situations,” ‘ ‘Se'agraves's'aid. ‘ ’
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