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THE CHRONICLE, Clinton, S. C., Feb. 12, 1970—7-A
PC Gunning
For Conference
Tourney Berth
‘WE’LL DO IT THIS WAY* — PC
Coach Herb Robinson discusses strat
egy with the Blue Hose during a
time-out last Thursday in PC’s 90-69
win over High Point.
BILL CURRIE
Mouth
of the South
Lefty's Orneriness
Didja ever knnu a girl who was so stomp-down ugly that when
you computed the sum t^tal of all Iter deficiencies she added up to
be truly attractive 0 It s pretty certain that everyone has had this
experience, and it is not exclusive to girls. Amost anyone who is
one hundred percent anything assumes an air of attractiveness.
Lefty Driesell is a case in point.
Ten or eleven years ago when Lefty hustled his way out of a
Tidewater, Virginia, high school onto the campus at Davidson to
become basketball coach the news was greeted with hardly a po
lite yawn. Nobody ever won at Davidson. In fact, the Wildcats
had been licked so consistently over such a terrifying period of
time that they had come to wear their inadequacy as a sort of
badge yl honor. What Lefty did m his decade on the ’Cat campus is
a miracle and has been told too many times to bear repeating. He did
start with a recruiting budget of $500 and run his team into a
nationally rated power.
W'hen Maryland came along last year and picked him off, there
was some mourning on the Davidson campus, but not too much.
First off, the present cropofstudents,never havmg been accustom
ed to defeat, were pretty well convinced that anyone could win at
Davidson. After all, they had read in Sports Illustrated that it was
the Princeton of the South. Then too, Lefty didn’t work overtime
cultivating an over-abundance of hangers-on. If you weren’t es
sential to his program, the hell with you. It was just this day-in
and day-oubornermess which finally captured my admiration.
That and the fact that he was a winner.
Must of all, though, his departure was not overly mourned
because of the stuffy professors who like to think of Davidson as
the Princeton of the South were disturbed because Lefty was
getting a lot more publicity than they were. They hated to be be
holden to a man like Lefty to get Davidson in the national headlines.
But it was the only way. Most people across the country could
care less about some dust collecting dissertation moulding in the
library, but the guy who wrote it thinks it ought to command equal
attention and more money than coaching basketball. Therefore,
when Lefty departed, many Davidson faculty people were happy
because while they enjoyed the national publicity, they hated to
owe it to a flamboyant character like Driesell.
In Hog Heaven
Now at Maryland he is in hog heaven. Maryland is a strong
university with nearly 30,000 students and it doesn’t have to worry
about its academic image. Jt is internationally known. Lefty has
taken the dregs of last year’s failure, and added a couple of
good sophomores which he inherited, and presto, he is winning.
More important, he is giving the crowd a show. This is an ab
solute must in a section which is so totally overpowered by pro
fessional sports. With big league baseball and football m both
Washington and Baltimore and College Park sandwiched in be
tween, Maryland has been eating the husks for a long time.
But if you’ll check both the Baltimore Bullets of the NBA and
the Washington Caps of the ABA, you’ll find that both of them are
losing money playing tefore empty houses, and the Maryland
Terps are filling mammoth Cole Field House. Heck, when Lefty
comes out, the band even plays “Hail to the Chief.” Kids in the
audience think he is President Nixon.
Yeah, Lefty is a full-blown anything you want to call him. But
because he is so consistent, and works so hard, and is a winner,
no matter what you think he is, you got to admit, he’s a good ’un!
CHS To Host Union
Next Tuesday Night
Clinton High’s Red Devils visit
Eastern Conference leader
Lower Richland Friday night and
will close their home schedule
next Tuesday, playing host to
Union.
The"final scheduled game for
the CHS basketball squad is Fri
day, Feb. 20 at Lexington. The
Eastern Conference Tournament
starts Feb. 23 at Woodruff.
Clinton dropped decisions to
Chester, 62-37, last Friday and
to York, 75-44, on Tuesday night
Burry Tedards was high scorer
for Clinton in both games, hitt-
ting 12 against Chester and 22
Walking
Catfish'
“Walking catfish” pose a threat
to South Carolina’s native fish
population, according to Dr. Rick
Harrison of the Presbyterian
College faculty.
Harrison has been working
since last summer to get legis
lation passed which will prohibit
the importation or sale of Clar
ies batrachus, popularly known as
“walking catfish.” Legislation
recently was introduced by Sena
tor Thomas A. Wofford of Green-
▼ille and it went to the Fish,
Game and Forestry Committee
of the Senate this week.
The fish is known as “walk
ing catfish” because of its abili
ty to live for long periods of
time out of water and because it
is mobile on land.
Harrison, a member of the
Biology Department at PC, said
the fish was introduced into
Florida around 1964-65. “Since
then, it has spread rapidly due
to its reproductive potential, ag
gressiveness and mobility---on
land and water. It appears to be
displacing, or at least posing a
serious ecological threat to the
native fish population of southern
Florida."
Harrison points out that the fish
are on sale in South Carolina, at
a price of 98 cents to $1.49,
depending on size. He said they
are sold primarily for home
aquarias, but he added, “When
they outgrow the aquarium, they
often are flushed down the toilet
into the rivers. ” He said they have
been collected in the Savannah
River this past year.
Harrison urged that other lo
cal citizens contact legislative
representatives to encourage
support for the bill now under stu
dy. He said that Sen. John D.
Long of Union is one of the
members of the committee which
is considering the bill.
Presbyterian College’s bas
ketball Blue Hose entered the
home stretch of their schedule
seeking their first invitation to
the Carolinas Conference Tour
nament
The Hose played host to New
berry Wednesday nightinaCaro-
linas Conference game and will
play host to Elon Monday in a-
nother conference outing. PC
plays at Belmont Abbey next Wed
nesday and will close the season
by playing host to Pfeiffer on Sat
urday, Feb. 21.
PC went into the Newberry
game with a 2-7 record. Wins
over Newberry, Elon and Pfeif
fer would cinch a tournament
berth. The Hose are scrapping for
the tournament berth with Pfeif
fer and Atlantic Christian. Pfeif
fer was 3-10 early this week with
three conference games to play
and Atlantic Christian was 3-7
with three to play.
PC Coach Herb Robinson said,
“I think we have a good shot
at making the tournament field
for the first time ever but we’ve
got to play some good basket
ball.”
The top eight conference teams
are invited to the tournament.
There are nine teams in the con
ference.
Regardless of the tournament
outcome, the Blue Hose already
have chalked up one distinction
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JOINS STATE—Former
Presbyterian Co 1 1 e f? e
Basketball Coach Art
Musselman has joined
the' N.C. State basket
ball staff as an assist-
ant coach. Mussehnan.
who coached at PC from
1964 through 1968, was
a member of the Gem-
son staff prior to going
to N.C. State. At Etate,
he joins another forwer
PC coach, Norman Sloan,
who is now head coach
at N.C. State and who
coached Musselman at
The Citadel
Roach, Pierce Lead
Thornwell Boys' Team
against York.
Clinton’s JVs suffered a 37-24
loss toChester, snapping a three-
game winning streak for the lo
cals. Gerald Davenport tallied
eight points to pace Clinton.
However, the JVs bounced back
on Tuesday night and came from
behind to defeat York 32-25 at
York. The local JVs were down
24-18 before they started their
fourth quarter rally, scoring 14
points while York scored only
one. Barry Saunders paced the
locals with nine points.
Thornwell swept both ends of a
basketball doubleheader Tuesday
night with S. C. School for the
Deaf.
The Thornwell boys won 65-56
after the girls edged out a 29-25
win in the preliminary.
Maynard Pierce scored 25
points for the winning boys and
Kanada Roach had 23. Dianne
Woods scored 11 to lead the
Thornwell girls who came from
behind a 16-14 halftime deficit
Prior to the Tuesday game with
SCSD, Thornwell’s boys had an
8-5 record and the girls were
5-7 with two games remaining
on the schedule.
The Thornwell teams will play
at Dela Howe Friday and will
close the slate next Tuesday,
playing host to Connie Maxwell.
After that, Thornwell will par
ticipate in the Conference 1-A
Tournament Feb. 23-28 at Pres
byterian College.
Pacing the Thornwell boys
through the first 13 games were
Maynard Pierce, with a 21-point
scoring average, and Kanada
Roach, with a 19-point average.
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this season. They bombed Bel
mont Abbey Monday night for
their 10th win against 12 losses,
overall. That marks the first
time in 10 years that the Blue
Hose have won as many as 10
games.
In 1959, the PC team coached
by Courts Bedford ha'd an 11-9
record.
PC has won two of its last
three games. The Hose staged
one oftheir finest offensive shows
last Thursday in defeating High
Point 90-69 at PC. Freshman
Steve Crowe led the Hose scor
ers with 21 points and Dave
Kerchner fired in 18. Also in
double figures were Mike Lovell,
15; John Bartone, 11; and Donnie
Kuhn, 10.
On Saturday night, the Blue
Hose dropped a heart-breaker to
Erskine, 64-61 in double over
time.
The Erskine win erased some
last-minute heroics by George
Dickerson. With seven seconds
remaining in the regulation game
and Erskine leading by three
points, Dickerson drove in for a
basket and was fouled. He sank
the free throw to send the game
into overtime with the score tied
53-53. The first five-minute
overtime ended with the score
tied at 57-57. Erskine pulled out
to a 64-59 lead in the second
overtime and PC, with three
starters out on fouls, couldn’t
overcome the lead.
Mike Lovell paced PC with 13
points while Crowe and Dickerson
had 11 each and Dave Kerchner
scored 10.
Crowe and Kerchner paced the
Monday night win over Belmont
Abbey, 83-72. Kerchner scored
22 points and Crowe had 21. Kuhn
contributed 14 points to the PC
cause.
PC grabbed the lead at 6-5
on a basket by Lovell and the
Blue Hose led the rest of the way.
PC was out front 39-22 at half
time after a 14-point scoring
spree.
BOOSTERS OF THE BLUE—One of
the loudest cheering sections at Pres
byterian College home basketball
games is the group shown above. The
Clinton youngsters sit together at
the far end of the gymnasium and;
whoop it up for the Blue Hose. They“
concoct their own yells and enthusi- ::
asm runs high.
Blue Hose Gridders Add
Mars Hill, Gardner-Webb
Presbyterian College’s foot
ball team will face an 11-game
schedule in the 1970 season, head
football coach and athletic direc
tor Cally Gault announced today.
Gardner-Webb and Mars Hill
are newcomers to the schedule,
replacing Quantico Marines and
Appalachian.
The Hose, who currently are
going through spring practice,
will open with three tough games
on the road---at Furman, Lenoir
Rhyne and Wofford---before
opening at home against Elon on
Oct. 10.
The 1970 schedule:
Sept. 19---at Furman (8 p.m.)
Sept. 26---at Lenoir Rhyne
(8 p.m.)
Oct. 3---at Wofford (8 p.m.)
Oct. 10---Elon here (Youth
Day, 2:30 p.m.)
Oct. 17—- Western Carolina
here (7:30 p.m.)
Oct. 24---at Guildord (2 p.m.)
Oct. 31-—at Catawba (2 p.m.)
Nov. 7—-Gardner-Webb here
(homecoming, 2:30 p.m.)
Nov. 14 --- Carson-Newman
here (Parents Night, 7:30 p.m.)
Nov. 21-— atMarsHill(2p.m.)
Nov. 26 --- Newberry here
(Thanksgiving Day, 2 p.m.)
Coach Gault said the times
on some ofthe out-of-town games
are subject to change prior to the
season.
He also has his 1971 schedule
planned tentatively and it includes
a trip to The Citadel in Charles
ton. In 1971, the Blue Hose will
open at home against Furman and
then will play host to Lenoir
Rhyne and Wofford before going
to Elon for their first road game.
The Blue Hose will visit The
Citadel on Oct. 16. Rounding out
the schedule will be Guilford and
Catawba here, at Gardner-Webb
and Carson-Newman, Mars Hill
and Newberry here.
Coach Gault said his spring
practice sessions are “goingvrt-y
well.’’ He said the squad is work
ing out four days a week and lie
hopes spring practice can be con
cluded by March 7, the beginning
of spring holidays.
He said, “We’ve been re^J
pleased with the effort shown thus
far. Some of our freshmen are
maturing and could be a big help
to us.”
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Frank Bruyer and Pete Belcher
lead the team in rebounds. Al
ternating at the other starting
post are Mike Briggs and Frank
Kellam.
Dianne Woods leads the Thorn
well girls in scoring with a 10-
point average and Laura Bee, a
sophomore, is the leading re
bounder.
The Thornwell teams swept a
doubleheader from Dacusville
last Friday. The boys chalked up
a 57-37 win after the girls rolled
to a 32-15 triumph.
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