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Bears Hold Hatters Jud Roberts Drivss For 2 of 30 Point! SPORTS REVIEW Bears Gun Down Columbus Rebels By LOUIS JOHNSON Sports Editor Jud Roberts and the Mercer Bears gunned the high-flying olumbus College quint, 90-76, getting revenge for an earlier loss to the visitors on their home floor. Roberts, showing plenty of rea son why he is in the race for Little All-America honors, swished the nets for 38 points, with 25 of these coming in the first half on long range bombs. In the Bears first game ever against Columbus, Roberta hit 40 points in a 103-90 loss. The win was the third in a row M>ur(aculty ~ advisor asks you (or advice? Think it over, over coffee. TheThink Drink. for the Bears as they refused to be pushed around by a big, strong Rebel five. Marvin Bailey, the Bears 6-5 freshman center and sophmore Jim Graham helped the Bears outrebound the taller Rebels, with Bailey getting 17 and Graham 11, as the Bears won the battle of the boards, 65-59. The game was a rough and tumble affair, with the entire Mer cer starting five playing the last few minutes of the game with four fouls apiece. The visitors were in practically the same situation with their starting five. However, Butch Tillman, the leading scorer for Columbus, fouled out with about a minute to go Each team was tagged with 24 personal fouls, and Columbus coach Frank Clements was tagged The red-hot Mercer Bears ste- raked to their fifth straight win with a 97-93 squeaker over the Stetson Hatters, and their second win on the two-game road trip. The Bears were led by Jud Ro berts, who is continuing his bid for Little All-America honors, with 30 points. Junior Robert Bellior, who hit 31 points the night before, scored 28 markers, although he fouled out in the final minute of the game. Freshman Bruce Gordy continued his torrid play by adding 17, and Jim Graham pitched in 11 in the win. The Bears were in foul trouble thoroughout the second half, and center Marvin Bailey, who had 16 rebounds for the Bears, fouled out midway the second half. Roberts played much of the half with four fouls on him, as Graham took on the rebounding chores and finished with 16. The Bears had a total of 26 fouls against them, while Stetson was charged with 17. Jim Graham also fouled out for the Bears, giv ing them three of the starting five E CHECKERED APRON Restaurant and Drive-In You could eat a different pitta each week. 80 va- >tie» to choose from. Phone 746 566J 717 Rivenide Dr J. L. ROLLINS, ANNOUNCING .... with a technical foul In the first half on a disputed call. There was 71 foul shots in the game, with Mercer hitting on 24 of 35 tried and Columbus hitting on 24 of 36 shots. The Rebels jumped out to a 3-0 lead early in the game, but the Bears hit on six straight points and were never held as they streaked to their 11 win of the season against 9 defeats. The Bears led by as much as 20 points twice in the game, but the visitors kept knocking "at the door and came within 10 points. How/ ever, with Mercer holding the ball, the Rebels had to foul to get pos session and the Bears scored their last six points at the charity stripe. Roberts got scoring help from Robert Bellior with 14, Bruce Gordy with 13, and Graham with 12. From the FEBRUARY 25. 1M« f»>ri.n..nii»8ii.i »«..»«■«tv»«»«»■»«m»«t«< MM Orttk N««. Dm. N.fO «M>S*. I004«- IM C««t»Off R. S. THORPE & SONS prmMnts NEW FALL FASHIONS • JANTZEN • SERO SHIRTS SPORTSWEAR • AUSTIN HILL • CRICKETEER Hadu Suits and Sportcoats Campus Representative HARRY MOORE DAVE MARR GOLF COLLECTION .... The new Jantzcn knit shirts in both open collar and mock turtle and in a large variety of colors to co-ordinate with your spring fashions MERCER CLUSTER 5 out of the line-up in tire closing minutes of the game. The win was the 13th of the season for the Bears and assures them of at least an even slate for the season. Mercer has only four games left, and only one of these are road games. The road game is against a tough Jacksonville Uni versity team, and the Bears have home games against Florida Southern, a team they have beaten on the road this year, Oglethorpe, who beat the Bears in Atlanta, ' and Georgia Southern, a team the Bears have beaten twice this year. Mercer Bears Hall The Eagles Flighl The Mercer Bears handed Geor gia Southern its first defeat in ten home games this year with an 83- 76 victory over the Eagles. Freshman Bruce Gordy led the attack for the Bears with 20 points, but received plenty of help as three other Bears hit double figures. (Continued on Page 6) Season's Windup ATO destroyed their closest com petitor when they mauled SN 66-36. ATO shook the pace up from the start wi th a constant fast lead and left the court at half time with a 32-18 advantage. The second half was no better for the snakes as ATO ran up its final margin of 30 points. Igniting the Tau’s attack was Stu Mervis who led the fast break time and again for 24 points, he was followed by Ronnie Bennett with 14 and Chester Pierce with 12. SN was led’ by freshman Jim Cole with 15 and Richard Jacobs with 10. The UA’s opened up with a close game in the second half and ran away from MIMA 56-43. The game had been close at the first but the fast UA’s opened up a substantial lead by the half. Led by Charlie Bowen's shooting and Steve Jackson on the bounds MIMA closed the margin to 4 points several times but finally the UA’s pressed too much and widened the gap. MIMA was led by Steve Jack- son and Charles Bowen each with 15 while the UA’s were paced by Andy Brumbach’s 18 and Lou Johnson's 13. KA captured its second win of the season by downing Pi Kappa Phi 60-39. The game boiled down to a balanced team effort on KA’s part and the one man show of Richard Keley. KA found it was able to run and shoot on Pi Kap Steve Wright netted 13 while Gray Brenner playing only the second half got 12 as did Cole. Riley netted 24 as he did most of the shooting chores for Tt Kap. Phi Delta Theta whipped the Lawyers 54-45 but it wasn’t that close as Phi Delt was generous ly substituting players at the end. David Wilbanks ended his intra mural career with 23 points and led the Willards to a slim 24-21 first half lead. But together John Fox and Wilbanks opened the margin constantly until the scrubs went in and the score became respectable. The lawyers were led by a couple of hotshots, Boyce with 13 and Lancaster with 16 while Fox put 12 in for Phe Delt in addition to Wil banks 23. Monday, March 10, 1969 9:00 am. to 12:00 noon All 2nd period classes 2.00 p.m. to :00 pm. All 1st, 7th & 8th period classes 7:00 pm. to 9:30 pm. All 9A period classes Tuesday, March 11, 1969 9:00 am. to 12 noon All 3rd period classes 2:00 pm. to 5:00 p.m. All 4th period classes 7:00 pm. to 9:30 pm. All 9B period classes Wednesday, March 12, 1969 9:00 am. to 12:00 noon All 5th period classes 2:00 pm. to 5.00 pm. All 6th period classes