&uiltorbian 10 Golf team set for new season Christopher Behm Staff Writer The Quakers will get back into the swing of things when the new golf season begins with the Tom O'Briant Memorial Tournament on September 13-14. Early indica tions are that the Quakers will fare pretty well in their home tourna ment. But, it is still early enough in the season that no one, includ ing Coach Jack Jensen, can be de finitive on the caliber of team that will eventually emerge. If experience is any indication, the Quakers have a fine team in deed. In all, there are five golfers on this year's roster who have par ticipated in national tournament play. If the Quakers return to the tournament this year, as is ex pected, it will be the third year in a row for some members of the team. Last year's team placed six teenth in the NCAA Division 111 National Tournament. However, according to Coach Jensen, in the past these teams "didn't play up to our capabilities." Since Jensen continually strives for improve ment from one year to the next, he has set the team's sights at improv Quakers open with loss Brett Ayers Sports Information Director Guilford opened the 1993 sea son with a 56-0 non-conference loss at Lenoir-Rhyne College. The Quakers fell behind 14-oattheend of the first quarter, and then trailed 35-0 at the half. Guilford picked up only 89 yards of total offense, earning only four first downs in the game. That number fell short of the Quakers'school record: They had just two in last year's 41-0 loss to Emory & Henry. The Quakers found little success on the ground or through the air. Eleven Guilford runners could pick up a total of only 79 net yards on 37 carries. Three Guilford quar terbacks completed only one pass, a 10-yarder from freshman Santes Beatty (Raeford, NC) to freshman Jim Gambino (Lake Grove, NY) in the fourth quarter. For the game, Quakers were one of eight >assing with two interceptions. Lenoir-Rhyne, an NCAA Divi sion II school, amassed 564 yards of total offense. Three Bear run ing on the performances in the last two national tournaments. Thus, he states that "if we did better than eleventh this year, it'd probably be a pretty good year." It seems as if the Quakers should have the personnel to improve on the past Coach Jensen will be ex pecting strong performances and leadership from seniors Bryant Reeser, Brett Thompson, Cannon Morgan, and lan Downey. Juniors John Mitchell and Jamie MacPherson will also be very im portant Jody Trover, Kevin Sagen, Chad Evans, and Jamie Gilley are all sophomores who should con tribute greatly to the team's suc cess. Jensen is particularly encour aged by the performance of Sagen at last year's tournament, stating that he "showed a lot of improve ment." He is also happy with the play of Gilley, a transfer student, who Jensen says is "going to be a pretty good player." Finally, he states that there are "a couple of pretty good new players." As far as competition is con cerned, Jensen does not seem to worry very much. Although "75 to 80 percent" of their competition are larger, Division I schools, Jensen §ays the Quakers have gen erally been "able to beat them at ning backs had 100-yard games. The Bears held the ball for almost 38 minutes, compared to Guilford's 22 minutes. On defense, the Quakers had three players with seven tackles each, but all three were in the de fensive backfield. Safeties Drew Baker (Fayetteville, NC) and Jamie Corey (St. Johnbury, VT), along with linebacker Max Appleby (Blacksburg, VA) all had seven, and Baker picked off the 14th interception of his career. He is now only two away from from the all-time record at Guilford. The Quakers had plenty of op portunities for kickoff returns, and it was one bright spot for the night. Dee Rankin (Charlotte, NC) had five returns for 61 yards, with a long of 21 yards. Jeff Hatch (East Greenwich, RI) returned two for 32 yards, and senior JJ. Rogers (Raleigh, NC) also had two for 30 yards, with a long of 23. This week, Guilford faces Meth odist College, fresh off a 16-13 win over Chowan College. With that win, the Monarchs broke a 14- game losing streak, and picked up - —•*- -■ SBport# GOLF SCHEDULE September 13-14 Tom O'Briant Memorial The Cardinal C.C. Greensboro, N.C. September 20-21 Uwharrie Point-Pfeiffer Badin, N.C. Invitational October 4-5 Hargrove Davis Memorial Keith Hills C.C. Buies Creek, N.C. October 29-30 ODU Seascape Invitational Seascape G.C. Kitty Hawk, N.C. will." This success, he believes, is due to the fact that golf often gets overlooked at larger schools. Whatever the situation, Jensen will be stressing that his golfers enjoy the game. In the past, he has felt that nerves have gotten the better of some of his teams. As he states, "in other sports you can get the jitters out... but in golf you can't get them out... If you get angry and try harder, you get worse." Thus, he sometimes asks 11l , „ ■•■ ■■■■■■■■■ ■■'■,■■' ■'■'■ - ■■■■■■■■ ■■■■■,-.-.■. ill- ■■■.■.;.■.■.■■■.■■■ :SSgS:H Rughy team works on fundamentals in preparation for the upcoming season. Photo by Eric Foreman ||||| only their third win in their four year football history. Last year, the Quakers pounded the Monarchs 38-7 in Fayetteville, his golfers to slow down and en joy the scenery, rather than fretting over missed putts. The scenery will be an added bonus to the visiting teams of the September 13-14 tournament. It will be held at The Cardinal Coun try Club, which Coach Jensen calls a "beautiful course and great re cruiting tool." The tournament, which has been set up in a modi fied Ryder Cup-type format, should be a challenge for all in North Carolina. The Guilford de fense held Methodist to only 69 yards of total offense, a school record. Most of the Quaker defense September 3. 1993 volved. Although some of the larger, Division I programs have declined to attend (due to an ear lier starting date than in the past and the new format), Coach Jensen and the team are looking forward to the event. As Jensen states, it is "their loss" because "this is the best golf course most of them are going to play." Hopefully, "their loss" will be the Quakers' gain and the start of another successful year for the Guilford golf program. returns intact, while the Method ist roster features only eight upper classmen on the 100-man list