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Miller earns
ODAC award
By Tim McFarlin
SPORTS EDITOR
Guilford College junior
Arden Miller (Landenberg, PA/
Sanford School (DE)) earned
the Old Dominion Athletic
Conference's (ODAC) Women's
Basketball Player of the Week
Award for the week ending Feb
ruary 13th the league an
nounced Tuesday.
The prize marks the first of
Miller's career. A four-time mem
ber of the league's honor roll,
she becomes Guilford's first re
cipient of the weekly award this
season.
A 510" forward, Miller av
eraged 26 points, 16 rebounds,
and three steals as the Quakers
rolled to three conference wins
last week. She hit 51 percent
from the field and shot 81.3 per
cent from the free-throw line.
Miller tallied a career-high
37 points in a February 10th win
over Lynchburg, the second
highest total in the league this
year and seventh-best figure in
Guilford history.
Her 15 free throws in 17 at
tempts broke Guilford's 10-
year-old school record for
single-game free throws. She
contributed 19 points and 17
boards in a 59-51 win over
league-leading Emory & Henry
February 9th and ended the
week with 22 points and a ca
reer-high 18 boards in a win
over visiting Randolph-Macon.
Miller's play lifted her
team-leading scoring average to
21.3 points per game, the sec
ond-best figure in the confer
ence. She leads the ODAC with
her 11.2 boards per game aver
age.
Miller paces the Quakers
in field goal percentage (.494)
and three-point field goal per
centage (.387). The team captain
ranks second on the Quakers'
single-season three-point field
goals list (36).
Miller has a career-high 14
double-doubles on the year, the
most by a Quakers' player since
All-American Laura Haynes,
'9B, had 14 double-doubles in
1994-95.
Coach Barb Bausch's club
owns a four-game winning
streak and has won 12 of its last
13 games. Guilford is 17-5 over
all and shares first place with
Bridgewater in the ODAC with
a 14-4 mark.
The Quakers hosted the
Eagles in their home finale
Wednesday night.
Sports
Men's hoops show much
improvement in past week
By Timothy Leadem
STAFF WRITER
If this season has been a
learning experience for the men's
basketball team, then the two
solid performances turned in this
past week indicate just how far
this team has come.
The Quakers traveled to
Emory & Henry last Wednesday
in Old Dominion Athletic Confer
ence (ODAC) play and came away
with a 72-66 victory. After seven
straight losses, the team thor
oughly enjoyed the win.
Sophomore forward Matt
Lewis said that the team simply
played well across the board. "We
played sound defense, took care
of the ball, and shot well from the
floor. Everyone looked to make
the extra pass and to play as a
team."
Saturday, Guilford hosted
Chowan in a non-conference
match-up, and again the Quakers
came out on top, 88-77. Sopho
more guard Brad Woolley led a
balanced attack as he chipped in
a team-high 21 points. Four
Guilford men scored in double fig
ures.
Down 38-34 at the halftime
break, Guilford came back with a
"John Rocker is an idiot"
The Associated Press
Calling John Rocker "an
idiot," Toronto Blue Jays pitcher
David Wells said the Atlanta re
liever will need bodyguards to
protect him from hostile fans.
"People will throw stuff at
him," Wells said Tuesday at the
Blue Jays' spring training camp.
"If I was a bodyguard, I wouldn't
even want to be around him. He
isn't the president. Nobody will
take a bullet for him, no matter
how much money he pays them."
Rocker was suspended until
May Ist by commissioner Bud
Selig after saying in December he
would never play for a New York
team because he didn't want to
ride a subway train "next to some
queer with AIDS." He also
mocked foreigners and called a
Latin teammate a "fat monkey."
"The guy's an idiot," Wells
said. "You don't say that stuff out
in public. You don't put it in a pa
per or make those statements. ...
He's going to pay the price, and
honestly I feel sorry for him.
"He's going to have to look at
The Guilfordian
19-0 run early in the second and
never looked back. Of the win,
junior guard David Zelickson
said, "We got a lead and didn't
panic, moved
the ball around,
and played
well to the
end."
With
two wins to
boost their con
fidence, the
team looked
ahead with op
timism to its
two crucial
home confer
ence games
this week.
Guilford
faced Roanoke
Monday, look
ing to avenge a
40-point loss to
the Maroons earlier this season.
The Quakers came out hustling
on both ends of the floor, and at
the half trailed by a single point,
35-34.
The second half was as hotly
contested as the first. The Quak
ers showed tremendous heart,
playing against a very deep
Roanoke squad. Down 64-59 with
that for the rest of his life. A lot
of people hate him already. If he
ever has any kids and they're out
in the public, it'll be a rough time
in life because people are relent
less," he said. "If you keep to your
self, you ain't going to have no
problems but when you hit every
religion, your percentages aren't
too good."
Wells said the Braves should
trade Rocker to the Mets or Yan
kees.
"If he was traded to New
York, someone would take it per
sonal," Wells said. "He'd have to
save 50 games for two years
straight. Those fans in New York
are tough, they don't give in."
On other subjects, Wells dis
agreed with Toronto's decision to
trade Shawn Green to Los Ange
les along with minor league sec
ond baseman Jorge Nunez for out
fielder Raul Mondesi and re
liever Pedro Borbon. The Blue
Jays made the deal after failing
to agree to a multiyear contract
with Green, who got an SB4 mil
lion, six-year deal from the Dodg
ers.
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Ash worth leads the
defensive effort with
9 total blocks and
7. 1 boards per
game.
February 18, 2000
51 seconds left, Woolley hit a
three-point bucket from the top
of the key, cutting the Roanoke
lead to two.
As Roanoke brought
the ball down the floor, the
Quakers primed them
selves for a key defensive
stop. However, Woolley
was called for a question
able foul in the lane, and
Roanoke sealed its victory
from the free-throw line.
Guilford's home game
against Washington and
Lee on Wednesday became
a must-win situation for
the Quakers to have any
chance of making the
ODAC tournament.
A full write-up of the
game will appear in the
next issue of The
Guilfordiati.
Lewis summed up the
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team's thoughts on the upcoming
tournament, should the Quakers
qualify. "We've always had the
potential to play with any of the
teams in this conference. Talent
wise, we have some of the best
players in the league. Making the
tournament would be a real bo
nus because once we get there,
anything can happen."
"We never should have got
ten rid of Shawn Green," Wells
said. "It's good that he went
where he wanted to but what we
got wasn't even up."
Wells thinks Toronto has a
chance to make the playoffs.
"I think if we stick to the
game plan, read the scouting re
ports and know the hitters, we'll
be OK," he said. "If Chris Carpen
ter is healthy, he'll be a 20 game
winner for five straight years, just
like Stew (Dave Stewart) did.
Esco (Kelvim Escobar) also has
what it takes. He can get away
with a pitch because he throws
100 mph, and if he learns how to
pitch he'll be phenomenal."
Toronto starts official work
outs Friday. Wells already was
looking ahead to his post-retire
ment career.
"I'm going to be a baseball
commentator, me and Kirk
Gibson," he said. "We'll tell the
game like it should be told. I'll tell
you if the guy on the field isn't
doing his job. I want to go into the
booth and be controversial, but in
a corrective way."