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Hilda Heard:
Senior Teddy
By Sarah Beavers
“I don’t think we’ve played up to our
potential at all this year,’’ said Senior
Teddy Bear Hilda Heard, "but I do hope
we'll improve, up to, and in the State
Tournament."
\ Things have not exactly gone well for
Hilda these last two years. She injured
her right knee ■ few weeks before the
Teddy Bears' first game last year. Then,
in her first game, she injured the other
knee. The injuries allowed her to play in
only 11 of the 28 games in the season.
She reflected, saying "Everything
doesn’t always go as planned. My junior
and senior years weren't what I’d
thought they'd be.”
Despite/the run of bed luck, Hilda has
demonstrated much determination by
continuing to work and improve herself.
She has injured both knees several times
this yearr but refuses to let the injuries
“cramp her style."
This year, Hilda has played in all 17
games, starting in 8. Her scoring
average is slightly over 7 points per
game, and her all game high is 17 points.
Hilda came to Mercer in 1974. To her
surprise, she started at the forward
position, standing only five feet six
inches tall. That year the Teddy Bears'
season ended with 23 wins and six
losses, finishing third in the state, third
in the region and fourth in the NWIT
(National Women's Invitational Tour-
Bears Take. Revenge
Over Baptist College
Ms. Heard received the
“ Monster Award" for aggressiveness.
During bar sophomore year, Ms.
Heard was shifted to point guard. She
was a bit hesitant of taking the position,
but bar fears proved wrong. She was the
number two scorer and served as an
Intramural Basketball
Is Well Underway
By JeArn Hodges
The
btggeet of the
Kappa Sigma will have to put their
co-leadership of the league up against
their two top challeneors. Omega Ps» Phi
and Sigma Alpha Epsilon. My predic
tion? I look for Kappa Sigma in a good
game again* SAE doe to
Kappe Sigma should have a tougher '
time against the Quae. The outcome of
the game could be decided by the
success of the Qoe’s press. Omega Pn
Phi runs a full ianari maa-to-man peer*,
the tikes of which the fraternity league
has never seen. The only team with a
preas as efficient is in an i
league with the mitaale H.S.
AKMF defeated the Beptu
Union 50-48 in triple overtime. That’s
excellent team leader, on and off the
floor.
The team earned a 24-6 season, a first
place State Tournament trophy, the first
Mercer ever received, and a thinfplace
region trophy. Hilda was recipient of the
"Hustle'' trophy.
Hilda attended St." Joseph’s High
School in Atlanta, Georgia, her
hometown. She began her career at St.
Joseph’s, leading the team to second
place in the sub-region her junior year
and on to first place her senior year. She
received “Most Valuable Player"
trophies her junior and senior years, and
averaged 20 points per game her senior
year in high school.
. After graduating from mercer, Hilda
plana to attend graduate school, seeking
a Master’s in Physidal Education
Basketball is not Hilda's only activity.
She enjoys music, swimming, softball
and, last but definitely not least - Carxell
Morris, the Teddy Bears'
It would seem that even the most
skeptical Mercer fans would be
convinced by now. The Bears have won 7
of their last 10 games and yet the fans
still stay away.
The latest victim for the Bears was
Baptist College on Saturday night,
88-61. The major reasons for the
impressive victory were the Mercer
guarda, good team play, and the
almighty desire for revenge.
Just as in the North Carolina game,
Joe Everette and Stewart Reese werd the
major point producers for Mercer.
Everette had 14 points while Reese led
all scorers with 20 points. Reese and
Everette were just too quick for the
Buccaneer opponents as they made steal
after steal.
Coach Bill Bibb made excellent use ok
the Mercer’s bench strength as all of
Mercer's eligible players registered
points. Freshman walk-on Dan Kniffen
could not play because his namq was
acddentUy left off the official game
roster. Seven Bears had as many as eight
points. Bibb pointed to team "intensity"
By John F. Hodges
as the key to recent Mercer success.
The victory waa sweet revepge for the
Bears who lost 75-74 in double overtime
to Baptist College back in December. Joe
Everette waa only in that contest for
about three minutes while Stanley Black
waa less than 100%.
Mercer has lost four games this
season against basically inferior teams.
Now that Mercer had begun to play well
as a team, it is conceivable that they
could win 15 or more games this season,
with 20 victories being a probability next
Mercer's recent good play, coupled
with their performance in the Carolina
game, should bring more students out to
the coliseum. Aside from the few who
support the team regularly, the
remainder of the "no-shows” seem a
hopeless case. Mercer stands to low
their division 1 status in the future
unless there is a drastic change in Team
Support. Who’s to Blame?
Let's put it this way: How many home
games have you been to this season?
Hilda is also a Water Safety Instructor
for the Red Cross, teaching Mercer
Students and the Mercer Community
each spring. She is a life guard and
manager of a swimming pool during the
summer for the fDekalb County Recrea
tion 1
will be the right, triple overtime! Although neither
as far ss fraternity team is a threat to win the intramural
tide, both teams showed a competitive
spirit that could be topped by no one.
Heher Skelter defeated EEE, the only
other undefeated teem in their league. I
look for them to take aO of the regular
season contests and then to sweep
beckcourt through the playoffs for their second
As much as it goes against my poliey,
I must mention that the honorable John
B. Kowkabany scored has first basket in
two years of intramural action in the
AKMF vs. BSU contest. That represents
what intramural activities should be all
about. Although victory should be every
Cham's goal, the main objective should
* be to have a good time. And if you’ve
ever seen Kowkabany play...
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