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Johnson
Lou Johnson
SPORTS
Gordy Improving,
But Bears Still Lose
The Mercer Beers, who
really aren’t related to Gentle
Ben, will try to revenfe an
earlier loss to Georgia
Southern Monday night as
they brace for a Homecoming
’70 contest with Columbus
College Saturday night.
The Bears dropped two
more games recently, (ailing
to Carson-New man, 88-53, be
fore LaGrange College stopped
them, 83-76.
In the Carson-New man con
test, the Bears found them
selves at the tail end of a
race-horse offense and never
posted much of a threat to
win.
Bruce Gordy was the lead
ing Bear scorer with 14
points, and he received much-
needed help from freshman
Jack Scott who had 11. Gor
dy has been the most consis
tent scoring threat for the
Bears during the last month.
His recent play has been more
indicative of what was expect
ed from the last year fresh
man sensation at the begin
ning of the season.
“Perhaps we’ve been ex
pecting too much of him,”
said coach Bob Wilder. “He
had a lot to carry at the be
ginning of the year, and he is
finally coming around now
and he’s more confident of his
ability."
Scott's efforts marked one
of the “up" points in his less
than consistent scoring this
year. However, the big fresh
man's play has merited him a
starting role throughout most
of the season. Scott has been
one of those players switched
from guard to forward and
vice-versa this year. When
opponents throw a press at
Mercer, Scott's usually the
man aasigned to bring the ball
across mid-court. Wilder called
the 6’2”, 200 pounder “One
of the strongest men on the
team — he has great strength
on those boards."
The Bears dropped a battle
to LaGrange on the Panthers
bomecourt to set their record
at 4-12 for the year. The vic
tory by LaGrange revenged an
early season route on Mercer
home court when the Bears
scored over a hundred points
for the first and only time
this year.
Again, Gordy was the lead
ing scorer for Mercer with 20
points.
Intramurals Half Over
As Davis, ATO Ahead
Davis and Sigma Nu are
still on top in League 1, but
ATO has moved out front in
League 2 in Men’s Intramural
League Play.
Davis, ATO and Sigma Nu
each picked up two wins dur
ing the week to grab the top
spots.
Davis stormed over Pi Kap,
53-15 and edged KA, 51-44.
In the win over Pi Kap, Pigott
gunned in 23 points for Davis,
with Rodney English popping
the nets for 14 and Jerry
Hicks hitting 14. McManus led
the scoring for Pi Kap with 8.
Fernando Olivenciz was the
top gun for Davis in the KA
contest with 18 points, and
Hicks hit again for 15. Kent
Curley was KA’s sharpest
shooter with 25 points in the
losing cause and Alexander hit
6.
Sigma Nu picked up two
easy wins, a 61-34 romp of
Phi Delt and 53-11 trouncing
of Pi Kap. Julian Pafford hit
for 11 in the PDT contest,
with teammate Lay Kerr hit
ting 10, but those efforts were
not enough to hold SN’s Ed
Ba^ey’s 18 points, Richard
Jacob 12, Vernon Greene 11
and Mike Chkhini 10. In the
PK contest, Bagley again was
the top scorer for SN with 15
points, and Richard Jacobs
hitting 14. McManus was again
the high scorer for Pi Kap
with 8.
Before dropping a game to
Davis, the KA’s trounced the
Pi Kap’s, 63-15. Kent Curley
tossed in 20 points for the
K’s, and teammate Frank Bar
ron fired in 16. As usual,
McManus was the high scorer
for the courageous PK’s with
12 points as his team went
down to it’s third defeat of
the week.
SAE picked up it's first
win of the season after an ear
lier lo« with a 43-33 victory
over Kappa Sig. Sutton Mc-
Gehee hit the nets for 18
points for the E's, with Parks
and Bedingfield hitting for 5
points apiece. Mike Shaw hit
for 14 for KS, with Unruh
hitting for 6.
In League Two play for the
week, the Tau's humiliated
MIMA, 80-25 and toyed with
Lambda Chi, 38 14, for their
two wins. Four men hit for
double figures in the
ATO MIMA contest with
Chester Pierce leading the way
for Tau’s with 25 points,
equaling the team effort of
MIMA. Bill Conner had 16,
Stu Mervis 14 and Ronnie
Bennett 13. Bill Crooks scored
6 points for the frustrated
MIMA squad.
Mervis topped all scorers in
the ATO LA match with 16
points, and Bill Conner hit 7.
Paul Baldwin scored 7 for
Lambda Chi, and Mik Noell
hit 4.
Johnson won it’s only
game of the week as the UA
team whipped another UA
squad, Ingram, 59-36. Ricky
Massey led all scorers with 14
points for Johnson, with
Swain hitting 11 as 12 players
got on the scoreboard for the
UA team. Bill Ingram led his
team with 11 points, but Foo
ter tossed in 11 to tie for
scoring honors.
Ingram rebounded in a lat
er contest with a 37-29 win o-
ver the Lawyers. Foster took
scoring honors for Ingram this
time with 16 markers, and In
gram hit 9 for his team. Sand
ers scored 13 for the Leagle
Eagles, and Tom Hawkins
tipped in 7. ,
This week's Intramural play
will be highlighted by a facul
ty-intramural all-star contest
on Thursday night at 8 p.m.
Come out and cheer your fa
vorite instructor into exhaus
tion. . .and enjoy a Funderful
Friday.
League One League Two
Davis
4
0
ATO
3
0
Sigma Nu
4
0
Johnson
2
0
Kappa Alpha
2
1
Ingram
2
1
SAE
1
1
lawyers
1
2
Pi Kappa Phi
0
3
MIMA
0
2
Kappa Sig
Phi Delta
0
0
3
3
LXA
0
3
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ANNOUNCEMENT
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HOMECOMING BRUINS
Boier
Baseball 1$ Coming
AU baseball candidates are
urged to attend try outs for
the Bears baseball squad each
day at 3:30 p.m.
Coach Claude Smith, who’s
in his 26th year at the helm
of the Bears, said he is taking
a long look at this year’s pro
spects as he attempts to im
prove on his 21-5 record from
last season, which included a
trip to the NA1A District
Playoffs.
“We’ll be looking for pitch
ers,’’ Smith said, “and es
pecially righthanded pitchers.”
“I’m hoping the weather will
turn out all right, it has been
beautiful some this week, and
if it does we’ll do some hit
ting. Of counp, we’ll be doing
some running on the inside if
the weather is bad."
Coach Smith, who has nev
er had a losing season and on
ly two where he broke even,
has only seven lettermen re
turning from last year’s squad
but has a couple of good
looking freshmen.
Returning lettermen in
clude Lou Johnson, Chester
Pierce, Mark Steinbeck, BUI
Conner, Chuck Brewer and
Richard Jacobs.
The Bears schedule includes
games against Georgia Tech,
Auburn, Stetson and arch-rival
Oglethorpe. Instead of taking
it easy during spring break,
the Mercer base bailers will
open the season against Taylor
University of Indiana, on
March 21. The Bears will take
a couple of days off to regis
ter for the spring quarter,
then reel off an unbelievable
string of nine ball games in
five days, with four straight
days of doubleheaders.
Freshmen to look out for,
according to Smith, will be
Don Peyton, Ricky Masaey.
“Peyton looked real good in
fall practice.” said Smith, and
he will certainly be an asset to
our baU club."
“Maaaey has the potentials
to be a great hitter, and he is
really strong,” he said. “He
has strength, and real good
speed, even though he doesn't
look fast when he takes those
easy strides.”
Your Home Away from Home
The College
Snackbar
A haven of Southern hospitality"
This Homecoming 'What's
Bruining" Is the Snackbar
Special of the Week.
Today, only 85^
Oolux* Club Sandwich with Potato Chips and
10< Drinks of your choko. Rogular 95< valuo
The Bears — Thelma and the Gang.
THE MERCER CLUSTER • February 10, 1970 • 3