SPORTS
pEBRUAR^^F^uary 25,1970
D.I.A.C. Bowling Standings
College
1. UNC-Chailotte
2. Lynchburg College
3. Methodist College
4. St. Andrews College
5. College of Charleston
9: N. C. Wesleyan College
Games
Points
W L
W L
17 - 4
23 -5
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10-11
13- 15
5- 16
8-20
3 - 18
4 - 24
UNCC Successfully Defends D.I.A.C. Crown
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By Dave Taylor
The UNCC 49'ers have brought the
Dixie Conference Crown to Charlotte for
the second consecutive year. Remaining
extremely composed under pressure and
applying a tenacious defense throughout
the tournament, the 49'ers knocked off
the College of Charleston, and Methodist
College in the opening rounds and turned
back the host Lynchburg team in the
Championship game.
On Thursday night, in the opening
round, UNCC bombed College of
Charleston 103-81. Larry Reid led the
rout, pumping in a game high 29 points.
Charlotte opened up a 12 point lead early
in the first half and widened it to 17
points with seven minutes left in the half.
This margin was the spread at half time
with Charlotte leading 51-34. Reid had
18 of his 28 points in the first half.
The second half was more of the same
with Charlotte increasing their lead to as
much as 27 points at 80-53 with 10
minutes remaining in the game. Stan
Graham put Charlotte over the century
mark for the second time this year with a
jump shot with 1:50 remaining. The final
Charlotte points were scored by Dave
"HCM" Rhinehardt who hit a 50-foot
shot from midcourt as the buzzer
sounded. All Conference Norris Dae
added 18 points to the barrage followed
by Ben Basinger's 17,
Friday night, in the semi-finals,
Charlotte played what this reporter
considers their finest effort of the season.
Down to Methodist by six points with
less than four minutes left in the game,
Charlotte staged a miraculous comeback
to win in the last five seconds.
After taking a slight edge at 34-32 at
halftime, the 49'ers built their lead to six
at 46-40 with 8:30 remaining. At that
point, Methodist went on a scoring
rampage, outscoring Charlotte 16-2 to
take the lead at 56-48 with only four
minutes remaining in the game. This is
when the 49'ers started their courageous
comeback. After Methodist's Bobby
Hodges sank both ends of a one-and-one
to put them up by one at 61-60, Pete
Donahue made what must be the key
play of the tournament. The Senior
Co-Captain stole a Methodist pass with 14
seconds on the clock. He was fouled on
the ensuing layup and sank the first of his
charity tosses. After missing the second
shot, Ben Basinger rebounded and was
fouled on the shot. With only five
seconds remaining, and the score tied at
61-61, Basinger calmly sank both free
throws to ice the victory. Methodist was
unable to get off a shot, and UNCC came
away a 63-61 winner.
Methodist's Roy Henderson took garne
scoring honors with 35 points, while
UNCC's more-blanced attack was led by
Norris Dae, with 21, followed by Larry
Reid, who had 15.
In the Championship game on
Saturday night, Charlotte had to take on
the host Lynchburg team. In the first
half, UNCC built a 14 point lead, at
which time they went into a modified
four-corners offense, designed to pull
Lynchburg out of their zone defense. As
a result of this slowed tempo, Charlotte
went into intermission leading 28-19.
UNCC continued to hold the ball in
the second half, putting up only three
shots in the first ten minutes. Finally,
Lynchburg came out of their zone, and in
front of almost 2,000 wildly partisan
fans, cut the 49'er lead to one at 34-33.
At this point, however, Larry Reid sank a
free throw, Ben Basinger added two more
from the charity line, and Norris Dae hit
a short jumper. That made the score
39-33 and Charlotte was not to be denied
the title. The final score was 49-42,
making UNCC the 1970 Dixie Conference
Champions.
Reid topped all scorers with 15 points,
followed by Ben Basinger with 12.
Lynchburg's Nowlin Wingfield led the
Hornet attack, scoring 12 points.
UNCC placed three players on the
All-Tournament team. Larry Reid, who
was named the tournament's Most
Valuable Player, was joined by teammates
Ben Basinger and Norris Dae. Rounding
out the team were Methodist's Roy
Henderson, and Lynchburg's Nowlin
Wingfield.
Wrestlers Head For Districts
Few people realize the importance of
team spirit in intercollegiate wrestling.
Contrary to popular belief, wrestling is
not a totally individual sport. Certainly
the wrestler is facing his opponent by
himself, but he expects moral support
from the rest of the team. Each member
of the team is expected to shoulder his
part of the load in order to produce a
team victory. The individual wrestler
desires to win for the team's sake and not
simply for the sake of personal glory.
Looking at his team's season of five
wins and eight losses in this perspective,
UNC-C wrestling coach Paul Fleming said
that the wrestlers lacked team spirit at
the beginning of the season. They were
participating as a group of individuals
rather than as a team. They lost five
straight meets.
Then there was a transition period
when pride in the team began to show.
They won a match on their sixth try, and
at that point it was difficult to distinguish
cause from effect. The increase in spirit
may have sparked the win, or the win
might have reinforced the team's spirit.
At any rate they kept the winning
combination long enough to produce four
consecutive victories. Displaying solid
wrestling strength, the grapplers amassed
scores like 31-13 against Lynchburg, 30-0
at Methodist, and 39-5 versus Pfeiffer.
Yet the wrestlers were to face still
another reversal. They lost three key men
to injuries and were forced to forfeit
points in the last match. As a result, team
spirit sagged, the individuals went out to
wrestle N. C. State, and they came off the
mat thoroughly trounced.
Looking at some of the individual
accomplishments, Al Barnette placed
fifth in the All North Carolina
Tournament. There were conference
champions Mike Bingham, Brek
Cunningham, Randy Freeze, Gary Annis
and Garry Scotty.
Annis, a freshman, tallied a season
record of ten wins, two losses, and two
draws. He was a fourth place finisher at
the Chapel Hill tournament and came
away from the conference meet with a
championship.
Scotty was a transfer student from
Cinncinatti and was ineligible until spring
semester. When he was finally able to
compete, he won seven matches without
losing any and was the only undefeated
member of the team. In addition to
winning a conference title, Scotty
presented the team with its most quickly
earned five points by pinning one of his
opponents in fifty seconds.
These men along with the rest of the
team will be competing for more honors
in the district tournament, which will be
held at Guilford College on Wednesday,
February 25. Winners in the district will
qualify for participation in the National
N.A.I.A. championships at Superior
(State), Wisconsin, the twelfth through
the fourteenth of H^rch.
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