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Tennis Team
Sees Good
Season
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The Belmont Abbey College
tennis team .is off to a quick
start. The netters possess a 5-3
record for the early part of the
season, as the Crusaders are
playing one of the toughest
schedules in their history.
Among the five victories for
the Crusaders is one over tough
University of North Carolina-
Charlotte. They also downed
Lafayette (Pa.) and lost a close
one to Pfeiffer College. They
will play an 18-game schedule,
not including the Johnson C.
Smith Invitational Tournament
and the NAIA District 26
Tournament.
Number one seed on this
year s team is T.J. Reilly. His
brother Steve, better known as
“Spike," is seeded second.
Gaston County sensation Roger
Martin, a freshman, is seeded
third, while Andrew Doris, who
also plays soccer, is fourth. Ed
Perry is the fifth seed and John
Maresh the sixth.
The doubles team of T.J.
Reilly and Roger Martin is
undefeated this season. The
pair is just now getting used to
playing as a team, and should
prove to be one of the premier
doubles teams in the District.
“This is a fine tennis team,”
said Coach Mike Reidy. “Every
one of the players works hard,
trying to perfect his game. I’ve
been proud of the way they have
played. They have faced some
stiff competition.”
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ROGER MARTIN
T. J. REILLY
Seniors Contribute To 21-9 Record
The Belmont Abbey College
basketball team, which finished
the 1977-78 season with a 21-9
record, their best of the seven-
year career of Coach Bobby
Hussey, owes a great deal of
that credit to the thrre seniors
on ‘he squad
“They have done so. many
things for us this season,” said
Hu.s.sey “Many of the things
hat they did did not show up in
a box score, but the things that
were needed for us to be a
succesis the’ did
“They helped, even while not
playing reguiarly They en
couraged, were leaders and just
served as examples for our
younger players.”
The trio consists of Glenn
Tambon, a 6-11 center from
Elmhurst, N.Y., Bobby Moran,
a 5-7 guard from Bethesda, Md.,
and Desmond Dennis, a 6-7
center from Washington, D C.
“They are the unsung heroes
of this team,” Hussey con
tinued. “It was an adjustment
for them, to be watching instead
of playing. When you called on
them to go into the game, they
were there and picking us up.
“Elach one of them con
tributed so much to the team’s l
attitude. ’They were lending'
helping hands to me when
things did not go our way in a
game. There is no way that I
can express in words what they
meant to the team, or how much"
that they will be missed. They
will be very difficult to
replace,” concluded Hussey.
It was the best season in the
trio’s four-year careers. They
were but one game from a
possible NAIA District 26
playoff berth, and were ranked
as high as second in the district
during the season.
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BOBBY MORAN
DEBMOND DENNIS
GLENN TAMBON
Soccer Still
Going Strong
Although it is springtime,
soccer is still going strong at
'Belmont Abbey College. In
fact, you would think it’s fall
instead of spring the way things
look around campus.
The Crusaders, under Coach
George Kennedy, who soon will
enter his second season at the
helm of the Crusaders, have
been playing both indoor and
outdoor games since the
Abbey Golf
The Belmont Abbey College
golf team is preparing for
another season in the tough
NAIA District 26. Theteam has
been hard at work, Jpgether,
and with the*players working on
their games inividually, long
before spring time.
The team will again be
coached by Father Martin
Hayes, O.S.B. They will play an
eight-match schedule, not in
cluding the NAIA District 26
tournament.
beginning of the second
semester. They also par
ticipated in a tournament in
Davidson, and have sponsored
several soccer clinics as in
terest in the game is growing in
this area.
The soccer Arid will also take
on a new look this fall. The field
has been re-seeded, and new,
removable goals have been
added.
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FR. MAR'HN HAYES, O.S.B.