Point News, 1969 May 26

              May 26, 1969___________________________ THE POINT NEWS Page 8
Standing: Bill Malone, Paul Hawkins, Russel Diffenderfer, Jeff Pitts, Coach Lowder. Kneeling: Don Anthony, Clinton George and John Rue.
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This is the first varsity athletic
team to go the entire season un­defeated.
The tennis team com­piled
a record of 7 straight wins,
with one match remaining to be
played. This is the first year in
the M.I.C. conference, which is
made up of smaller colleges in
Maryland, such as our own. Sta­tistics
show that the team com­piled
51 wins against 12 losses
out of a total of 63 individual
matches. Out of this came 35
wins and 7 losses in singles and
16 wins and 5 losses in doubles.
The team scores were:
SMC vs. George Mason College
(A) 5-4
SMC vs. Bowie State College (A)
9-0
SMC vs. Charlotte Hall (A) 7-2
SMC vs. George Mason College
(H) won by forfeit
SMC vs. D.C. Teacher's College
(H) 6-3
SMC vs. D.C. Teacher’s College
(A) 6-3
SMC vs. Charlotte Hall (H) 9-0
Along with the team being un­defeated,
there were four players
who were also undefeated in
'singles. Jeff Pitts and Clinton
George, the team’s number 2 and 3
players each went the season with
a 7 and 0 record. The number 6
man, Donnie Anthony, who ad­vanced
to number 5, after Bill
Fluharty broke his leg in an intra­mural
softball game, finished with
a 6 and 0 slate. Russ Diffen­derfer,
late-comer to the team
and number 6 player, compiled a
3 and 0 record. Bill Malone,
the number 1 player and team
captain, completed the season with
a 5 and 2 record losing only to
the number 1 player in the con­ference.
John Rue, Bill Fluharty,
and Paul Hawkins rounded out
the eight man team and contributed
to the squads’ winning record.
Coach Jack Lowder feels that
this has been one of the best teams
in St. Mary’s tennis history and
that it shows great potential for
next year’s season. From the
eight players, six will be return­ing
next year. With this many of
the players returning, there are
great hopes of winning the con­ference
championship next year.
At this time the team would like
to express its thanks for those
people who came out to the home
matches and rallied the players
on to victory. To Mr. Jack Low­der
we extend our deepest grati­tude
for helping us throughout
this “history-making” season.
Congratulations to him and the
undefeated team of SMC.
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Varsity Sports Draw Interest
by A1 Hicks
Girls Intramurals
The tennis intramural swill start
on Monday the 26th of May. They
will last about \ >ir days. All
girls still interested in playing,
please see Bev Finnegan.
Rah Rahs
Win Again
The Rah Rahs — Sue Brooker,
Diane LeGoullon, Gayle Schaefer,
Nancy Carr, Bev Finnegan, Leigh
Hartlove, Diana Waldron, Pam
Nides, and Shef, recently won the
W.A.A. softball championship.
Team number four (Hah Hahs)
were defeated by the score of four­teen
to eight in a five inning
game. Congratulations again Rah
Rahs!”
This year the students of St.
Mary’s College showed a better
interest in the Varsity sports as
well as the Intramural sports.
The spirit was not unusually high,
buA interest did make a major
ir iert to the different sports.
This year rowing was added as
another sport. Interest has been
stimulated into different varieties
of sports. This interest is what
has been lacking at St. Mary’s
for years. St. Mary’s is expand­ing
in academics, facilities, and
now in athletics. With the ex­pansion
there should be a better
variety of sports in which next
years student can choose and ex­cel
in. With this coming interest,
a desire 'for a varsity baseball
team has been mentioned, a var­sity
swimming team and a ex­panded
program for the rowing
team have been initiated and hope­fully
will come about.
As Sports Editor I would like
to thank the interested athletic
minded people for their ideas and
actions in the development of an
expanded sports program. I would
also like to thank the interested
students for their support through
out the year in the different sports,
without your interest, the players
,/ould not be able to play an ef­fective
game.
Colts Take
First Place
This years softball standings
ended with the Colts in first place,
completely dominating the league.
There was hardly any competi­tion
against the Colts except for
one defeat, produced by the Or­angemen.
The Colts were gifted with sev­eral
long ball hitters, a very good
infield, and the predictable pitch­ing
of Lee Gates. This combina­tion
led the Colts to an undefeated
Tournament Championship.
All in all, the softball season
had a tremendous show of partic­ipation
and interest.
Second Victory
Leslie Bishop emerged victor- Sue Brooker came in second, and
ious in the table tennis intra- Linda Legg finished a close third,
murals. She was undefeated The tournament consisted of thir-throughout
the tournament. She teen girls playing the best two
also captured the title in 1967. out of three games.