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THE HILLTOP, March 2, 1978
Scotty Miller
New Faces Play Large Part In Basketball Program
“There’s never been a time when first
year players have played as large a role
as this team has for any team I've
coached.”—Head Coach Jack Lytton
On a typical basketball roster one
would rarely find more than three or
four players with no previous collegiate
experience. However, on a team that
has only 11 members, the Lions boast no
less than seven first year performers.
Perhaps this can be one reason why
Mars Hill has had a rough season in the
won-lost column, but it also generates
future hope. Four of these first year
men are freshmen: two are sophomores
and one is a junior.
Perry Somers is a freshman from
Reidsville, N. C. and he played his prep
ball at Wentworth High School. There
he averaged 25 points a game and came
within a hair of playing for the Uni
versity of Virginia. Things didn t mater
ialize, so Perry is now starting for Mars
Hill, averaging over 11 pounds and four
rebounds a game, as well as being
second on the squad in assists.
“Perry is a fine outside shooter and
plays a solid, heady game, not the style
you would expect freshman to play,”
added Coach Lytton. “He adds good
scoring, punch and ballhandling to our
offense.”
When asked about how college ball
was different from high school. Perry
responded that the quality of players
is different. “Every team usually has
five good athletes on the floor. My
role at Mars Hill isn’t much different.
I’m used to going to the boards, but I
have to work at it more.”
James Holmes is another new face
who has found his place in the basket
ball program. He played high school
ball at Cary High, a 4-A school in Cary,
N. C. A walk-on, James was influenced
by another player, Mark Duke, to try
his hand as a Mars Hill eager. It didn t
take him long to work his way into the
starting rotation, and he now averages
over 10 points and six rebounds a game.
“Holmes is a real good shooter and
recently has started playing more ag
gressively around the boards; his
strength has made himself known.”
stated Lytton.
“I like Mars Hill,” commented the 6'5"
freshman. “1 almost went to East Caro
lina but decided I didn’t want to party
all the time. The people here are real
friendly.”
When asked about the losing season,
James replied that it is a hard situation
to get used to. “It took some adjust
ment: I was used to winning. Some
times we feel like it’s expected for us to
lose and that we’re not real good.”
Wes Early is not a freshman, but this
is his first year of organized basket
ball since junior varsity. Keith Harris,
the student assistant coach for the Lions,
was a key factor into urging Wes to
once again don a basketball uniform. The
hunch paid off. Wes is now one of the
starting five, and one only has to follow
Mars Hill basketball to see his improve
ments.
“Wes has good quickness and with
work he’s going to become more of a
scoring threat,” said Lytton.
“I didn’t really expect to play as much,”
Wes stated. “But unforseen circum
stances changed that. I don’t have quite
as much study time as I used to, but
that’s about the only change I’ve gone
through.”
Wes is a psychology major and plans
to attend graduate school in a few
years.
Johnny Easterling could be the best
all-round athlete on the team. He at
tended McBee High near Hartsville,
S. C. where he played football, track and
baseball in addition to basketball.
“Johnny’s been a big help to the team
since Christmas,” added Lytton. “It
took a while for him to get used to the
patterns. He is at an advantage in that
he can guard bigger people and yet is
a good ballhandler, also. He has a knack
of knowing where the ball is going.”
“The players are bigger in college,”
stated Johnny. “Instead of trying to
outplay them every time, you have to
outsmart them. Right now I’m getting
adjusted to playing a more disciplined
game.”
Mark Duke is a junior, yet this is his
first year of collegiate action. He was
hurt his senior year at Cary High School,
and spent the next couple of years re
covering. He worked hard this summer
in pickup games at Carolina and N. C.
State, and that effort paid off with a
spot on Mars Hill’s team. . (
“I’m just now getting to the
where my ability and confidence I®
is beginning to pick up. This
I’m going to concentrate on ball-n
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dling. It has taken a while to get use
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playing organized ball. It’s a
ferent from street basketball.
John Link transferred to Mars
from UNC-Charlotte and just becs ^
eligible in January. He played
ball at West Henderson. He
talked
Coach Lytton this summer and de^
to come here as a walk-on. He uie'
Book Review: My Mother/Myself-The Daughter’s Search
for Identity - Nancy Friday
Symbiosis Cycle Must Be Broken
By Joy Bridges
Nancy Friday has used both her own
insight into her own relationship with
her mother and interviews with other
women, especially women psychiat-
■ rists and psychologists to explore the
nature of a very complex relationship-
that of mother and daughter.
Motherhood, like romantic love, has
been idealized to the point where
psychoanalysts say that a woman
patient would rather consider herself
"crazy” than admit that she simply does
not like her daughter. “Love is not an
invisible emotion-our job as adults is
to separate out the elements in this
big package we got from mother which
she called love, and to take in what she
did give us and to look in the real world
for those other aspects we did not get
from her.”
“We learn our deepest ways of in
timacy with mother: automatically we
repeat the pattern with everyone else
with whom we become close.” We take
the role of the mother or the child.
Psychologists now believe that both
men and women choose to love people
who remind them emotionally of their
mothers. Thus, if your mother was cold
anduncaring, you will seek out partners
whdwill reject you. It may not be “fun”
but’ it is “comfortable” because it is
what you are used to. The best thing a
mother can do is to have her main
connection and emotional energy cen
tered on her husband and not her daugh
ter. Without this, she is in danger of
“smothering” her daughter with love.
Mother does not have to be perfect. She
just has to be a good enough mother
to give the growing child a feeling of
basic trust-that on the whole, life is
more to be trusted than not. As adults,
our job is to understand the past, learn
its lessons, and then let it go. Mother
baiting uses up energy that should be
used, to examine the wrong choices one
has made oneself.
“Letting go” is a talent a good mother
needs. It is giving freedom to another
person, before they become resentful,
stunted, or suffocated by being tied too
close. Symbiosis is hard to break be
cause it is so endorsed by society. If
a woman is 25 and married and still
telephoning mommy every day, some
thing is wrong. Society prefers to en
dorse people’s insecurities rather than
has
the team and, according to Lytton
developed a good inside shot.
John is a business administra
major and next to basketball has
skiing as his favorite pastime. , ^
A seventh new face to Mars Hi" *
this year is freshman Roger Mauney
attended Cherryville High, a 4-A sc
and the alma mater of former Lion
Jimmy Graves. When asked about ,
he liked Mars Hill, he simply (jie
“Okay. I like the people but not
weather.” js
Coach Lytton commented: i
a hard worker in practice and n
good sense of humor, which is goo
the team’s morale.” . ,g|e,
Roger is a good, diversified
having played football and track iu
school. He is a recreation major
hopes to coordinate a program a .
the lines of the YMCA or maybe co
Basketball at Mars Hill looks to
good hands.
their health, independence and tradition
breaking possibilities.
The symbiosis of mother and daugh
ter sets the daughter up to repeat the
scene with her husband. Mother took
care of her and now she feels that her
husband will look after her. The wife is
in for a shock if she seeks a divorce. Up
to now, she’s “chosen” not to know her
husband’s income, she doesn’t know
whose name the house is in, what are
their total assets in stocks, bonds, or
whatever. Women go into lawyer s
offices, beaten up by their husband, and
still believe that he will level with them
about the financial situation. Money is
power, the woman without
victim. The sad fact is that most
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are carefully trained, since
to be victims. By the time they
this, if they do, they blame moi ‘ j(i
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men, or society. Blaming peopl®
help an individual to cope vyith I®
life in an intelligent way. You
take personal responsibility
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own life and not think of it u®
thing that your mother or
person can give you. It is heal
you can achieve this before y° eJ’j
daughters of your own so that
break the cycle of symbiosis tha
weaken your child.
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