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PAGE EIGHT MARS HILL COLLEGE HILLTOP FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, by Eric Garner Mars Hill, N.C. Freshman quarterback Jeff Wade ran for three touchdowns two weeks ago as Mars Hill routed the vi siting Monarchs of St.Leo College 62-0. St. Leo took the opening kick-off and could net move again st the Lion defense and was forced to punt. Freshman Clyde Simmons fum bled the punt return for the Lions and St. Lio recovered. It appeared it was- go ing to be a long af ternoon as memories of "fumblitis" in the losses to Elon and Catawba brought fears to the crowe. Freshman Terry Parrish saved the day for the Lions as he picked off a St. Lio pass on the next play. The offense took over and on the first play, junior fullback Jerome Durham galloped 29 yards to the Monarch 32 yard line where Charlie Hammersley took the next hand- off and ran the re maining 32 yards for the opening Lion score. The fears suddenly began to change as the crowd and coaches began to feel that the Lion offense was going to bombard St. Leo as they scored on a 61 yard drive in only 2 plays. Seven minutes alter, Stan Curry, the leading scorer on the Lion team, kicked a 37 yard field goal and soon following, a 26 yard field goal to raise the score to 13-0 at the end of the first quarter. The second FG was set up on a fumble recovery by Greg Hasselbring. Spike Anderson picked off a St. Leo pass in the opening of the second quarter and 4 plays later, Tim McDonald ran 3 yards for the second Lion ,TD. The kick was blocked and the Lions lead 19-0 Following the kick off, sophomore defen sive tackle, Jerry Chester, recovered a St. Leo fumble on the Monarch 25. Two plays later, senior QB Danny Robinson passed 3 yards to senior tight end Joey Harp for the next Lion TD and a 26-0 lead. The Lions coaches pulled the entire first unit including Charlie Hammersley who rushed 10 times for 100 yards, all in the first quarter. This was the last time the first unit saw action that day and the coaches were able to see how well the back-up units were going to work. Jeff Wade took con trol from Robinson at QB and marched the Lions 75 yards capped by a 3 yard TD run by Wade. Terry Parrish picked off his second interception of the day on St. Leo's next ball possession giv ing Wade and Company the ball on teh St. Leo 11 yard line. On the second play fol lowing the intercep tion, Wade ran for his second TD from the 6 yard line plus Curry's extra point as opposed to the empty slot on the scoreboard for St. Leo. The third and fourth quarter clocks were reduced from 15 to 12 minutes each due to the evident fact as to whom the victor on the contest would be. The Lions failed to mount any scoring drives in the third quarter and all St. Leo could do was to punt and force the Lions to open the fourth quarter from their own 3 yard line. "It's hard to pick any one or two play ers who standout dur ing a game such as this," said Lion head coach Claude "Hoot" Gibson. "We had a good chance to look at our second and third teams and were very pleased." Perhaps the fresh men players were the most productive unit as Terry Parrish in tercepted 2 passes on defense and Wade scored again in the opening of the fourth quarter for his third TD of the afternoon. Following the St. Leo punt that landed dead on the MHC 3 yard line, Wade marched the offense 97 yards cap;^ed by Wade's 29 yard TDrun. On the next series of plays for St. Leo, Jim Gillis tackled the Monarch punter in the end zone for a safety adn a 49-0 Lion lead. Two min utes ■ later, Gillis intercepted another St. Leo pass setting up a 4 yard TD run by sophomore Doug Rhodes. Art Rhodes recover ed a St. Leo fumbfe on the next series of downs (the third fumble lost by St. Leo) setting up the last Lion score. John Benson quarter- backed the Lion of fense and with fourth down and goal to go from the 9 yard line, Benson scrambled the entire 9 yards for the score. That gave the final talley for the day at 62-0 with only 21 seconds left on the clock. This was an impor tant victory for the Mars Hill team. It was the first time this season that they had won 2 games in a row (the previous week's victory over Gardner-Webb, 26-33). This was the first time since the Elon game in early Septem ber that the Lions have been ahead of the record count which was then 5 wins to 4 losses. The Lions picked up 503 yards of tatal offense as the Mars Hill defense held St. Leo to only 11 yards for the entire game. by Eric Garner NEWBERRY, S.C. Following the opening kickoff and the 71 yard, 14 play, touch down drive by the Newberry Indians, it appeared it was going to be a long night for the Lions who had not heated Newberry in five years. It looked even worse as the Lion offense fum bled their second posession on the Newberry 8 yardline and were denied a score, but the Lions came back and scored in the remaining three quarters, shut ting out the Newberry offense after the first score and won 34-7. Quarterback Danny Robinson finally got control of the of fense in the second quarter and calling his own plays, march ed the Lions 93 yards in 13 plays for the score in which Robin son ran 9 yards for the TD. Stan Curry's extra point kick tied the game 7-7 and the rest of the game was history. Robinson directed another drive just minutes later in which freshman William Washington capped a 9 play dirve on a 7 yard TD run. Overall, Washington carried 17 times for 105 yards against Newberry to become the fourth Lion run- ningback this season to cross the century mark in yardage for a single game. The Lions came out of the dressing room from halftime with the 14-7 lead and were fired up to ex pand the gap. They opened with a 12 play drive which fizzled as the Lions fumbled on the Newberry 16 yard line. The Lions soon took over the ball again and Robinson marched the Lions from the Mars Hill 45 to the Ccotie Williams and the Aarndvarks appearing Saturday night for Sadie Hawkins Newberry 18 yardline where he hit Ronnie Capps with a pass in the end zone to ex pand the Jffld to 21-7. Newberry became a- gressive on offense and drove to the Mars Hill 21 where the Lion defense dug in and held through 4 down allowing the offense to take over. On the next offense drive, again the Lions lost the ball on a fumble on theit own 22 yard line* Newberry quickly opened for a first down on the Lion 8 yard line. The de fense dug in tighter as Ne\A)erry drew closer to the goal line with each play* Finally the Indians were staved off for 3 downs as the count drew to 4 th down o*' the two yard line* Fullback Tim Brown tried for his second TD as he dived over the line on the fourth down play. Th®' front wall of the Lion defensive lin® including, Dave Roberts, Walt Nichols Jerry Chester, John Mackey, and Gre9 Hasselbring, stood nP their opponents stop' ping Brown on the one yard line giving the ball to the offense* The defense held Newberry three ti®®® through four downs t® take over posessi®'' of the ball including that goal line stand- The key to the de' fense was i the lin®' backers and the puT' suit of sophomore® Barry Jacks and J®^ Stapleton who combi® ed for 16 tackles an 10 assists. With 4:40 left in the game, Dave Robe®® recovered a Newbert)^ fumble giving th® Lions the ball on th® Indian 25. Robins^'’ again found All-C®® ference split en“ Ronnie Capps on th® end of a 16 yard Pf ,s® for a touchdown ing the Lion lead t 28-7. . Reserve quarterb® Jeff Wade and second string off®® took over with a 1^ tie over 2 mind te® remaining in the 9 am® and drove for the fi J^LUME nal Mars Hill r® as halfback Bunch plunged 9 y®^' into the end on®; The kick failed the Lions upset N®*'' by Sari Berry 34 to 7. belief lege beam.T 9anize 1974 a by Dr. ^einber ate; ®iviis ^ Tea and B. the thei beic sitj The cipa thos . of ® spec ®alti ®ber, Mar oj - f an Sho; Tw, 3rt term - ® cur te '"ich Out- “ tha til,, ®even| of V endea curtij ill ®‘agaj Sj^oile t \ Pubi W, ^Ssoc ^ica"
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