Point News, 1969 January 24

              Page 4 THE POINT NEWS January 24,1969
The Point News
Staff would
like to thank
Mr. Merovick
for his guidance,
cooperation, and
above all
PATIENCE
in presenting
this edition.
Pro DeBow
SMC 64 vs BCC 59
SMC achieved its first victory of
the season on December 13 by de­feating
Baltimore College ofCom-merce
64 to 59. The game was
played at Parkville Armory, on a
floor covered with some kind of
sand. At times it looked like the
players were doing a strange ver­sion
of the “ old soft shoe.*’
We broke on top from the start,
and were never behind. A sticky
zone press by BCC made the
game close in the second half.
But a dutch lay-up by co-cap­tain
Jay Lowery broke the tie and
St. Mary's achieved its first (and
at this point only) victory of the
season. Jay Lowery came up with
an outstanding effort of 20 points
and 21 rebounds, to lead the vic­tors.
SMC 86 vs WILLIAMSPORT 110
The Saints had their best game
offensively against Williamsport
when they scored 86 points. But
this means nothing, when your de­fense
allows 110. Williamsport
was led by its outstanding guard,
Adams. He continually streaked
down court and scored easy lay­ups
time and again. St. Mary’ s
could not adjust to the running
game of the visitors, and we con­tinually
fell behind by huge mar­gins.
Adams, of Williamsport, led
all scorers with 31 points, at least
16 of which were “ snowbird lay­ups."
Jay Lowery was high scor­er
of St. Mary’ s with 25 points,
Skip Smith had 18 for the Saints.
St. Mary’ s had its best day ever
offensively, shooting a sizzling
53.5% from the floor.
SMC 45 vs GETTYSBURG 123
123-45 sounds more like a zip
code than a basketball score. But
that was the score when SMC was
humilated by Gettysburg on the
winner’ s floor. This game is better
off forgotten, but to give you an
idea of how terrible we were, here
are some vital statistics: 43 turn­overs,
15-19 at the half, we took
only 47 shots the entire game,
Gettysburg had 8 men in double
figures. Mr. Ed Cole summed up
the first half nicely when he said
“ That's the worst half of basket­ball
I ’ ve ever seen” Jay Lowery
was high scorer for both teams with
20 points.
SMC 56 vs HARFORD JR. 96
Led by the leading scorer in the
tri-state conference, Steve Rad-diffee,
Hartford Jr. College de­feated
St. Mary’ s by the score of
96-56. Harford nad tne game in
control from beginning to end. Har­ford
had a big size advantage over
us, and the sickness of co-captain
Jay Lowery hurt our board strength
considerably.
Turn-overs were again the big
reason why we lost, if you give
the ball to the other team 24
times they are bound to score on
at least 10 of these gifts. It has
been said that SMC needs a boni­fied
big man, but the real need is
that of a good ball handler, some­one
to provide leadership and settle
the team down when things are
tense. Steve Raddiffee led all scor­ers
with 30 points.
SMC 73 vs CHEASAPEAKE CC 76
Of all the other losses we have
had this year, the loss to Chesa­peake
was the most difficult to
swallow. We had Chesapeake by
16 points mid-way through the sec­ond
half, and simply blew it.
Again the lack of a proficient
ball handler hurt us. Ten points
up with 7 and one half minutes
left we took the ball down and
threw up careless shots time after
time. This failure to work the
ball in for a good shot ultimately
cost us the ball game. We let
them play their game, instead of
the other way around. The loss
of Jay Lowery hurt us consider­ably,
for the second game in a row.
I f we had had Mr. Lowery, I have
to say that we would have smoked
them out in a hurry. This game was
a heart breaker to lose and a
beautiful thing to win. Brice for
Chesapeake led all scorers with
21 points.
SMC 72 vs STRAYER Jr. 91
SMC played their finest game of
the year against arch rival Stray-er
J.C., but still came out on the
short end of a 91-72 score. Stray-er
’ s outstanding guard, Preston
Gale, killed us continually on
drives in the lane and on fast
breaks. They ran a lot early,
and consequently they were very
tired by half time. The Saints
capitalized on their condition and
cut the lead from 20 to 7 at the half
period.
Strayer’ s was not to be denied
in the second half though; a drive
by Preston Gale, and a base line
jumper put them 11 points up. This
forced us to play catch-up ball, and
we simply couldn’t come through in
the clutch.
Joe McCaddin had an outstanding
game for St. Mary’ s,he had 21
points and didn’ t even start. Pres­ton
Gale led all scorers with 26
points.
Letter To
The
Sports Fans
Men’s
Intramurals
The MAA volleyball games end­ed
with the come behind Panthers
headed by Mr. Louie P. Stone
being defeated by the awesome
Roadrunners led by Michael As-plen.
The games were played with
much enthusiam and participation
by all teams.
MAA Basketball L:ames have al­ready
state.). 3o tai Llie Orange­men
are leading the tournament
with the Bees in pursuit. There
hasn’ t been as much participation
but games have been interesting.
The Basketball intramurals should
end this Wednesday.
This years basketball team has
started at an unusual low. Not
many things have happened to dis­prove
this theory or that anything
will happen to help it. But there
Is something that can be done to
help our team in the future —
support. With support our varsity
could be more “ psyched-up” and
play a better game. With each
progressing game, the team has
played together more and achieved
what the fans want to see, a good
basketball game and a possible
win. Discouraging or downing the
team is no way to get the needed
spirit which is essential for a
winning team.
As has been stated, our team
Is starting to look more and more
like a small college basketball
team. We couldn’ t play LaSalle,
but in time could hold our own.
It takes time for a team to play
together. The varsity started
practicing a few weeks after they
arrived here at St. Mary’ s. This
is hardly time enough to get to­gether
a good high school team
much less college. Most good
high school teams have players
who have played together for years.
Our team has but a few first
string players with any experi­ence
at playing together, and their
positions have to be changed from
time to time to add versatility*
What the team needs is experi­ence,
and time, a combination that
is interchangeable. Support the
team, be patient and there will be
better results the second se­mester.
Go to the games and raise
hell, something that will give the
players the* impression that the
school cares,
Allen Hicks
The Rah-Rah’s Have Done It Again With two games left to play,
the W.A.A. intramural basketball
tournament is almost over. The
Rah-Rah’ s claimed first place with
an 11-1 record. The Redskins
took second place with a 9-1/2-
2 record. The G.B.’ s came in
third with a 3-1/2-6 record and
the Dum-Dum’ s and Ha-Ha’ s are
tied for last with a 2-9 record.
The top scorers for each team
were:
Rah-Rah’ s - Barbara zaiser -
85 pts.
Redskin’ s - Patti Sharpnack -
63 pts.
Ha-Ha's - Debbie Schuhart -
28 pts.
Dum-Dum’s - Sharon Faraday
- 21 pts.
G.B.’ s - Barbara Schumann -
17 pts.
The two top scorers for all the
teams were:
Barbara Zaiser - 85 pts.
Patti Sharpnack - 63 pts.
With the Basketball Tournament
drawing to a close, attention is
now being turned towards the try­outs
for Women’s Varsity Basket­ball.
The tournament showed that St.
Mary’ s has both the girls and the
ability for a varsity team. The
only factor that is lacking is the
support. With this factor added
to the rest, SMC can have a great
women's varsity team.