Hulse’s Shooting Leads Cavaliers to Victory Over
By Christian Malone
Tim Hulse’s lay-up with 59 seconds
left gave the Cavaliers an 87-84 win in their
preseason opener riuirsday niglit against
Crossfire.
Hulse’s hot shooting led the Cavaliers
back from a double-digit deficit late in the
second half and started their season off on
a positive note. In all, the sophomore
guard from Ohio dropped in 25, which lead
the Cavaliers.
The game marked the return of ex-
Cavs Jamie Johnson and Jason Baker to
McAlister Gymnasium. Johnson ended up
leading Crossfire in scoring with 23.
With eight minutes left in the first half.
Montreat held a 23-20 lead. But then
Crossfire went on a 13-5 run to take the
lead. They went into the locker room with
a 43-36 lead.
Crossfire held the lead the first 14
minutes of the second half, and kept it in
double digits for much of the time. But
Crossfire
over halfway through the second half.
Montreat began to saw away at the lead.
Hulse began letting it fly, and the ball
dropped through the hoop for both him
and the other Cavaliers.
With less than six minutes remaining,
swingman Luke Tatum hit a three-pointer
to give Montreat it’s first lead in 22
minutes, 73-72.
Hulse followed that up with a three of
his own to extend it to 76-72. The back-to-
back threes began an 11-2 run that put
Montreat up 81-74.
But Crossfire shot right back with a 7-
0 run to tie it back up at 81 on a Johnson
jumper. After a Montreat basket.
Crossfire’s Josh Kohn hit a three to give
Crossfire its last lead (and last points) of
the game, 84-83, with less than two
minutes left.
After each team missed a shot, Hulse
drove the lane and laid the ball in with 59
ticks left on the clock. Crossfire took the
ball down, but missed a jumper, which was
rebounded by Jeff Sheets. Montreat then
tried to run down the clock. With 12
seconds left, point guard Will Mangum
missed a shot, but the ball hit off a
Crossfire player out of bounds, giving
Montreat possession.
Hulse then sank two tree throws to
extend the lead to three, and Johnson’s
attempt to tie hit off the backboard with 1.5
seconds left.
Also putting up double figures in
scoring were power forward Jason Sheri 11
with 14 and Sheets with 13.
Mangum said, “Tim shot the ball real
well tonight. I think we’ll see more of
these big games out of him, because he
can really shoot the ball.”
Forward Aaron Gilchrist III agreed,
saying, “We played well late in the game,
especially Tim. He went off tonight!”
Teammate Jeff Long said, “We showed
them who’s boss on this floor!”
Volleyball Season Ends, But Not Without fight
By Daryl Bryant
The volleyball team played this
past Friday against the Conference
Tournament host Milligan. The Lady
Cavaliers played well, but lost to a
very tough Milligan team in three
games. The tournament was single
elimination, so the loss ended their
season with an overall record of 9-26
and a conference record of 4-8.
Freshman Jamie Scott commented,
“1 wish we would’ve had a better
season. I just wish it wasn’t over.”
Montreat and Covenant were tied
Pulp Fiction Meets Shakespeare: Romeo
& Juliet in Review
By Eric Satter
If you haven’t seen director Baz
Luhrmann’s interpretation of William
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, prepare
yourself for a radical new twist. This new
modern day style of this classic tragedy,
takes the language of Shakespeare and
puts it into an environment in which
today’s generation can relate. Set in
Verona Beach, a violent other world,
neither future or past, viewers witness a
city in a state of civil war between two rival
family industries, the Montaques and the
Capulets.
As was found in Shakespeare’s
original manuscript, this trudge starts off
with a narrator, who summarizes the main
parts of the play. Instead of actually seeing
a narrator on screen, the audience sees a
television with a newscaster coming
straight at them proclaiming the deaths of
two star crossed lovers who lake their
lives, Komeo and Juliet.
Romeo is played by actor t.eonardo
DiCaprio, who is most popularly known for
his work in The Basketball Diaries. Juliet
is played by actress Claire Danes, who
won a Golden Globe Award and earned an
Emmy nomination for the work on the
highly-regarded television drama, My So
Called Life. Within seconds from the
newscaster narration, viewers see a
montage of colors, characters, and icons of
a modern, yet not-modern age. I can only
compare the first 20 minutes to that of
Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction as we
see a gun fight between the Capulets and
the Montaques—remember, to make a
modern day version of this play guns
replace swords—as was seen in Franco
Zeffirelli’s 1968 version. To make a gun
true to the Shakespearean text, Luhrmann
chose to use the word sword as a name
brand of gun found among Verona Beach.
Personally, I felt that was one way for
Luhrmann to out cheat himself into having
guns in the first place.
After the fast, jump-cut, Ptdp Fiction
editing sequences, the movie became more
fluid and more realistic. 1 especially loved
the scene were Romeo and Juliet first
meet—their faces glued to a salt-water
aquarium. Harold Pen ineau played an
awesome Mercutio, even if Shakespeare
didn’t envision the character as an African
American.
In short, I have mixed feelings about
this movie. Should this movie have been
made? In my opinion, not really. But, if
one were to make a modern version of this
tragedy, this would be the way it should be
done—with the exception of the Pulp
Fiction style in the beginning. Like Siskel
and Ebert, I give this movie “one thumb
up, one thumb down.” But if you really
want to know whether or not this is a
movie to go see, my advice to you is to
simply go see it yourselves.
for fourth in the conference going into
the final week of play, when the Lady
Cavs demolished Covenant in three
games on November 3. This big
victory dropped Covenant to fifth place
and earned Montreat a berth in the
Conference Tournament.
On November 6, the last home
game of the season was played against
one of the top teams in the league,
Tusculum. The Lady Cavs fought
hard, but came up a little short against
powerhouse Tusculum by losing in
three games.
Before the game. Seniors Christi
Waddell and Stephanie McCall were
honored by the team for their four
years of hard work and dedication.
Christi Waddell stated, “All in all we
had a decent season, considering a
first year coach, and a very young
team.”
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Contributors
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