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May 17, 1968
Braves Netmen Place
Second in Conference
The West Georgia College netmen under Coach Ed Lambert par
ticipated in the conference tournament on Thursday and Friday of last
week. The Braves brought home second place despite the bad luck
that plagued them.
On Wednesday night in Valdosta,
where the conference matches
were held, our bad luck began.
Longi Vickers received fairly se
vere lacerations of his right
wrist. This extremely unfortu
nate accident necessitated the
forfeiture of Longi’s number
three singles and number three
doubles with Ken Dixon. Despite
the unfortunate accident to Vick
ers, the team did manage to take
second place in total points.
SCORING
The conference’s method of
scoring gives one point for vic
tories and one for each bye that
a team has. Byes are determined
by the regular season record.
Anyone having the best season
record would get the bye and also
the point for the bye.
West Georgia’s number one, A1
Robertson, was beaten by Val
dosta’s Anderson in the semi
final round. In this bracket Val
dosta entered two players and
therefore won the bracket with
out any trouble. In conference
championship play, a set to just
ten games is played. The first
one to win ten games and win by
two games takes the victory.
FINAL ROUND MATCHES
Gary Wood, the only member of
West Georgia’s team not to get
a bye the first round made it to
the finals by beating Bellury of
Southwestern 11-9 in the semi
finals. Wood lost in the finals to
WGC Cindermen Were Ready,
Captured First in GIAC Meet
By STEVE ELLERBEE
On Saturday, Piedmont College
came to West Georgia for two
games. The first game was lost
3-2, and the second game was a
15-0 stomp of the Piedmont team.
The first game was also the first
game lost on West Georgia’s new
field.
On the mound for the Braves
was Jim Collins in the early game.
Collins went all the way and took
the loss. For Collins, normally a
reliever, this was his first start
of the season.
One reason for the loss was the
lack of hitting to back up Collin’s
pitching. The leading hitting of
the game was from the bat of
Mike Murphy who had two hits
for three trips to the plate. Col
ins helped his own cause by col
lecting another hit himself.
SECOND GAME
The second game sounaea more
like the Braves. This game was
won by the resounding score of
15-0. Toeing the rubber for the
team in this game was Ronald
“Gramps” Royal.
Gramps pitched five innings, al
lowing only one hit and giving up
no runs. In the sixth inning Ger
ald Lewis was placed in the game
to pitch the remaining two in
nings.
Hitting to support the fine pitch
ing performances was better. Al
most all of the members of the
team were getting hits. After
this game the team statistics
were substantially raised.
In the late inning, the game was
Dixon of Valdosta State 10-5.
Number three singles, as it has
been stated, was forfeited due to
the injury of Vickers. The points
for Longi’s bye was given, al
though Longi did not play. Mal
lory Jones made it to the finals,
but lost to Valdosta Sate’s Pol
lack.
Two wins were picked up in sin
gles competition. Van Burgin
played Norris of Southwestern in
the semi-final round and defeat
ed him 10-5. In the final round
Van completely demolished Ro
mine from Valdosta State 10-1 to
take West Georgia’s first win.
Ken Dixon also took a victory
from his opponent from La-
Grange. To get to the finals, Ken
beat Paulk of Valdosta 10-8. He
then took a 10-6 victory from
LaGrange’s Moseley for West
Georgia’s second singles victory.
In the best match of the tourna
ment, Robertson and Wood, num
ber one doubles team won the
doubles match. They beat Ander
son and Summe of Valdosta 10-3
in the finals after defeating the
LaGrange team 10-4 in the semi
final round.
Number two doubles, Burgin and
Jones, lost out in the semi-finals
12-10 to the team from LaGrange.
This team went on to win the
match. Number three doubles
was forfeited because of injury.
Valdosta took this victory.
going so well that Coach West
cleared the bench. Everyone
played in the game. For exam
ple, Coach West had pitchers
playing in the outfield.
SOUTHWESTERN
On Tuesday, May 14, the Braves
traveled to Americus to play
Georgia Southwestern for the last
regular season game of the year.
The Braves took their 18th win
with an 8-4 victory over South
western.
Billy Merritt started the game
and pitched five full innings. He
allowed no runs and was credit
ed with the win. Coach West de
cided to pull Merritt in the sixth
and to let Lewis pitch.
Lewis faced four batters with
out getting an out. Royal came in
the fifth inning with no outs and
the bases loaded. In the three and
two-thirds innings he pitched,
Royal gave up three runs, two of
which were unearned. Collins
came in and got the last out of the
game.
The pitching efforts were backed
up by hitting. Ron Sellars, sec
ond baseman, collected four hits.
Bill “Baseball” Brown had three
hits upping his average to the
team leading .397. Posey, Bowen,
and Best each had two hits in the
victory. Oh, by the way Gramps
Royal now has an average, he
got his first hit in this the last
regular season game.
The Braves next action will be
THE WEST GEORGIAN
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DANNY WOODRUFF, Braves shot putter and discus man,
throws the shot in a recent meet. Danny has brought home
several victories in both events this year.
West Georgia Beaten at Home
Defeat Southwestern on Road
The West Georgia Braves cin
dermen completely outclassed all
foes in Saturday’s conference
meet in Rome, Ga. The Braves
amassed a total of 109 points,
while the second place finisher,
Georgia Southwestern, had only
61 points. Of the other schools,
Berry College had 50 points.
Piedmont had 20 points, Shorter
with Georgia Southern. This
meeting will be for the NAIA re
gional crown. They will play the
best of three games series. The
games will start on Friday, May
17 and continue through Saturday.
Two games will be played onSat
urday if the need arises.
Braves Statistics Reveal
All-Round Improvement
NAME AB H HR SB RBI AVER.
Brown 58 23 1 6 15 .
Bowen 44 16 0 0 10 .364
Murphy 47 16 0 0 8 .340
Sell£s 92 31 2 17 9 .337
Pace 33 11 0 1 7 -333
Best 91 30 0 10 8 .330
Porter 73 23 0 8 14 .315
Fowler 80 25 0 6 18 .3
Meyer 77 22 2 6 13 .286
Posey 26 7 0 6 3 .269
Marshall 91 24 0 8 12 * 264
TOTAL 816 250 5 71 125 .306
NAME IP ER SO BB REC. ERA
Meyer 9 0 10 3 1-0 0.00
Meyer 22 2 18 6 3-0 0.81
Collins 16 2/3 3 10 3 0-2 1.62
Merritt 45 1/3 9 43 10 4-2 1.78
Tarpley 30 1/3 6 34 22 4-1 1.78
Lewis 19 4 24 14 1-1 1.89
Murphy 69 16 81 39 5-3 2.09
TOTAL 211 1/3 40 220 97 18-9 1.70
College had 16, and LaGrange
College had two points.
RECORDS SET
In the 17 events, West Georgia
had eight first places. Seven of
these eight first places were new
conference meet records.
The victories were picked up in
six field events and two weight
events. The 440-yard relay team
set anew record with a time of
43.7 seconds. In the high hurdle
event, Dennis Beatty ran for a
15.4 second time. This run also
set a school and a meet record.
The mile run was won by Den
nis Fifield in 4:29.6 also setting
school and meet records. David
Johnson did not run his best race
of the year, but he set a meet
record in the 440-yard dash with
a :50 timing. Danny Woodruff and
Richard Porter set two more
meet and school records by
throwing the discus and jumping
6’2” in the high jump, respec
tively.
Page Seven
Pistol Match
Set for May
The West Georgia College Pis
tol and Rifle Club’s May tourna
ment schedule was begun on Sun
day, May 12. The next match will
be on Sunday, May 19, between 2
and 6 p.m.
On Sunday, a 30 caliber rifle
match will be held at the D.C.M.
Qualification Range HP-B. The
match will be fired from 100
yards, and sixty rounds will be
fired.
After this match, there will be
three remaining matches. On
Wednesday, May 22, there will be
a 22 caliber rifle match, on Sun
day, May 26, a 22 and 45 caliber
pistol match, and on Wednesday,
May 29, the last match will be a
30 caliber rifle match.
Membership to the club is
closed. All members are fur
nished D.C.M. ammo free. Wea
pons are available at all match
es. There is no entry fee and no
trophies will be given.
The last two meet records were
set by Dennis Fifield and Danny
Woodruff. Fifield ran the half
mile in 1:59.7 and Woodruff put
the shot 43’2 1/2”.
MORE RECORDS
There were five more school
records either beaten or tied, and
two more meet records. Although
these records were not good
enough for first places, they were
excellent showings.
Kenny Duke went under the
school and meet record in the
mile, but he could only capture
second place. David Johnson tied
his own school record in the 220-
yard dash with a time of 22.2
seconds. Beatty recorded a :60.4
in the 440-yard hurdles for a
school record. Beatty only had
second place despite his new rec
ord.
Eddie Crumbley took another
second place while going under
the meet record with a time of
2:01.4 for the half-mile. Mickey
Spinks and Steve Jennings also
set school records in the 100-
yard dash and the triple jump.
Spinks ran : 10.1 in the 100-yard
dash and the triple jump was
41'8” by Jennings.
WALKED AWAY
The Braves took first, second,
and third places in the shot put
with David Stewart and Jim Agan
taking second and third. First,
second and fourth places were
taken in the mile with Crawford
taking third place. In the three
mile, West Georgia took second,
third, and fourth places. Duke
took second, Parmer third, and
Crofton placed fourth.
Fred Jones made a good show
ing in the hurdle events. He
placed fourth in the high hurdles,
and fifth in the intermediate hur
dles. In the 220, Mickey Spinks
again showed up good with a third
place. /
Congratulations to the tra r
team for a fine effort in bring
home the second
of the spring season. Hp
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West Gerfgia’s track reputation.
