Outlook For Fall:
Tough Soccer Games
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The 1977 soccer schedule has
been announced for the
defending N.A.l.A. District 26
champion Belmont Abbey
College soccer team.
The Crusaders will play a
tough 13-game schedule. Along
with the arch-rival teams in the
district, strong competition will
be offered by non-district
teams.
A replacement for soccer
coach Stanley Dudko, who has
announced his resignation, has
not been found.
The season kicks off on
Friday, Sept. 9 at home against
Warren-Wilson College. The
, Crusaders then will host the Tar
Heels of the University of North
Carolina from Chapel Hill.
The remainder of the
schedule will be as follows:
September 17, St. Andrews
College, away; September 20,
Appalachian State University,
home; September 22, UNC-
Charlotte, away; September 26,
UNC-Greensboro, away;
September 29, Pfeiffer College,
home; October 4, UNC-
Asheville, away; October 7,
High Point College, home;
October 21, Catawba College,
home; October 24, Lenoir-
Rhyne College, away; October
.26, Campbell College, home,
|and October 29, Eton College,
I home.
“We are again playing a very
difficult schedule,” commented
Dudko. “Besides tough District
26 matches against High Point
and Pfeiffer, we play UNC-
Chapel Hill and Appalachian
State. We will have to play our
best* Those are 13 very good
teams we face.”
Golf
Team
Plays
The Belmont Abbey College
Crusaders golf team has opened
its 1977 season.
The team is being coached by
Fr. Martin Hayes, O.S.B. A
total of. 13 matches will be
played, with home matches
being played on the Forest
Pawtuckett course in Charlotte.
The Crusaders played in the
UNC-C tournament held at
Pawtuckett last weekend. They
take on Limestone and Catawba
on Tuesday, March 15 at
Pawtuckett.
The remainder of the
schedule will be as follows:
Monday, April 4, J.C. Smith and
Livingstone here; Monday,
April 18, Gardner-Webb here;
Tuesday, April 19, UNC-
Charlotte here; Wednesday,
April 20 at USC-Spartanburg;
Thursday, April 21 at Catawba;
Friday, April 22 at Gardner-
Webb.
“It is going to be a difficult
season,” commented Martin.
“There are very fine golfers on
each team that we play. We
have a young team and it will be
a while before we see how well
things are going to go. I’m
loojiing forward to the season,
though. We have a good team to
work with.”
The Crusaders closed the 1976
season with a 17-5 record and
won the N.A.l.A. District 26
championship. Dudko was
named Coach of the Year in the
district and Belgassam Soussi
was named District 26 Player of
the Year. Four Crusaders also
made the All-District team.
They were Soussi, Randy
Schambach, Khalid Khalifa,
and Moore Asouzu. Soussi was
also named to the All-South
soccer team.
Soussi, who finished his
career with the close of the 1976
season, led the nation in scoring
with 39 goals and 36 assists. He
finished his career as the Ab
bey’s all time leading scorer
with 123 goals.
“We had a good season,”
commented Dudko. “We had a
few injuries that hurt us in the
beginning of the season, but so
did other teams. I’m not
making any excuses. I’m proud
of the team. I just hope 1977 is
as good as 1976.
“We are going to have to
replace Belgassam,” Dudko
said. “Those will be big shoes to
fill. We had some good young
talent. We are going to miss
him, but we have enough
players to help pick up the
slack. I’ll not know anything for
sure until practice begins in
August. A lot can happen
between now and then.”
The Crusaders are not having
a spring soccer season this
year. “The fellas worked hard
this fall. 1 want them to be
ready for next fall so we are just
going to skip any spring tour
naments,” Dudko concluded.
SPIKE REILLY serves to his opponent in a recent tennis match
against Catawba Coilege. More tennis update can be found on page
8.
16 Game Tennis Schedule
No Women’s
Softball Team
There will be no women’s
intercollegiate softball team at
Belmont Abbey College this
season due to a shortage of
players, but there will be an
extramural team that will
compete with area teams.
“We just didn’t have enough
girls interested to field an in
tercollegiate team,” said Pam
Allison, coach. “We tried for a
week and the most we had was
11 girls. We needed at least 15
girls, but we just didn't have
them.”
“With the girls we have, we
will be able to compete this
way,” continued Ms. Allison.
“It will allow them to gain a
great deal of experience and get
some needed playing time. It
will also give us a good foun
dation for next year. I’ll have
something to build with.”
Ms. Allison went on to say
that “I hate that we were unable
to have a team. There were a
few of the girls that were really
interested in an intercollegiate
team.”
John Miller, a Plainfield, N.J.
freshman, will be assisting Ms.
Allison with the coaching duties
for the team. Miller is the head
trainer for all Crusader teams
and has been supervising
practice while Allison handles
her duties in the Recreation
Department.
Softball is one of the two
women’s sports being offered at
Belmont Abbey College
beginning this year. Volleyball
was added this fall. Interest in
the volleyball program was
strong enough that the Lady
Crusaders will play an ex
panded schedule next fall.
“We have several tough tests
next season,” commented
Allison, who also coaches the
volleyball team. “We are
playing more teams. These
teams are all very tough.”
“Getting a program started is
a very difficult task,” Ms.
Allison concluded. “You have
to prove to everyone that you
are serious about what you set
out to do. People are hesitant to
get into it at the beginning.
■ Once they see we are serious,
the interest will grow. I’ve
already had inquiries from
students who are interested in
coming to Belmont Abbey
College and participating on one
of our teams. There is a very
bright outlook for in-
t^collegiate sports here.”
The Belmont Abbey College
Crusaders tennis team is into
their 1977 season under head
coach Mike Reidy. They will
play a 16-game schedule with
the season closing on April 29-30
at the District 26 tournament to
be played at Guilford College.
“We have been working since
January,” commented Reidy.
“Most of the guys play year-
round, but we really started to
get in shape for the season then.
It takes a lot of conditioning to
be ready to play tennis.
Everyone has really been
working hard and I feel we are
going to have a good season.”
‘‘We have several tough
matches, with Catawba, UNC-
Charlotte, Emory University,
and of course, Gardner-Webb
and Lenoir-Rhyne,” Reidy
continued. “You have to be
ready for every match and you
can’t afford to let up. I feel,
though, that we will be able to
handle the grind.”
The Crusaders will be playing
I their home matches on the
newly resurfaced courts at the
Wheeler Center complex here.
The resurfacing look place this
fall to repair the severely
cracked court surfaces.
“I’m looking forward to this
season,” Reidy concluded.
“The team has a good attitude
and I have a good time working
with them, win or lose.”
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