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MAY 2, 1972 Stickmen- five by Tom Trezise outta seven Exploding for seven goals in the third quarter, Western Maryland's stickmen went on to defeat the Gettysburg team by the score of 11-7last Tuesday on the Gettysburg field. The Gettysburg ten got on the books first with a scor~ by _!tick Hoefer. with 6:02 gone from the first quarter. Ron Athey answered for WMC on an assist from Bruce Preston. The Score stood at 1-1 as the first quarter ended. The second quarter went much like the first with Dave Hoopes and Bob Wolfing teaming up for a Terror score and Moore netting one for the Pennsylvanians. It was tied at two apiece at the half. - Western Maryland blew the game open in the third quarter with Preston 'slipping three scores through the Gettysburg defense and Athey and Wolfing each contributing two tallies. The Get- tysburg squad failed to score and the quarter ended with the score at 9-2. The Pennsylvania stickmen tried to stage a comeback late in the game by shooting five goals passed the terror defense. Earlier goals by Wolfing and Bob Jacobs had made' the score almost in- surmountable and the Gettysburg attack fell short. The final tally stcod.at 11-7. After the match with Gettysburg the squad's record stood at an admirable 5 wins and 2 losses. The team appears strong and has a good deal of Western Maryland sluggers stand 3 and 3 after a frequently hardfought month of competition. stamina since a majority of its scoring has been a close play in the Hampden-Sydney game. done in the second half. The terrors take on Washington College tomorrow at 3:00 p.m. at Washington. Baseball season all tied up Raqueteers by Robert Rarnsa"el! inexperienced The Western Maryland Baseball Team stands eleventh because of darkness. even with a 3-3 record, plus two games called with The next day Loyola came up to try their luck. the score tied after close to a month of competition. The Terrors scored twice in the fifth to eradicate a by Heather Keppler After losing to Vrsinus, 3-1,on April 14,the Terrors 1-0 Loyola lead but Loyola tied it up in the sixth. Plagues by inexperience, the men's tennis team came back on the 18th to sweep both ends of a Things stayed 2-2until the tenth inning when Loyola is having a losing season. double-header against Johns Hopkins, 16-4and 4-3. scored once to take a 3-2 victory. The men have played five games, and have lost The Terrors began to experience difficulties in all of them. Four of the five, however, have been bringing their games to a conclusion either way Hampden-Sdney became the Ter.ror's next op- very close. They lost to George-Mason, Shepherd, when they played V.M.B.C. on April 20. V.M.B.C. ponent on April 25. Both teams scored in the first Catholic, and Loyola, 4-5, and all four of these drew first blood with three runs in the top of the and W.M.C. took a 2-1 lead in the third. Hampden- scores could easily have been reversed. WMC also first but W.M.C. evened things up with three in the Sydney came back in the fifth to the tune of three lost to the Johns Hopkins team, 9-0. third. With two out in the eighth, U.M.B.C. struck runs, two on a homer, and a 4-2 advantage. One of the team's main problems is inexperience. for three more runs and a 6-3 lead. But two hits and However, the Terrors scored twice with two out in The first six players are almost all sophomores and four walks in the bottom of the ninth enabled the their half of the fifth to even it up at 4-4. From here freshmen, and when it comes, to a close game, Terrors to tie it up, (Hi. Neither team could score in on out it was strictly a pitcher's battle as neither experience counts. The team is much stronger this overtime and the game was called after the team could score over the next eleven innings, the year than last, however, and Coach Jones hopes 1<: game finally being called after the sixteenth. win at least a few games before 'the sesaon.ends. Thinclads running away with it Western Maryland's trackmen kept their un- defeated season intact with victories over both Loyola and Johns Hopkins University last Tuesday at the Hopkins track. They downed the Hopkins squad 89-56 and overwhelmed the Loyola team by a 112-23margin. The Terrors took twelve of the events from Hopkins and fourteen from Loyola. Freshman Steve Wason set a new school record in the high hurdles with a time of 15.2 seconds. Others taking first were: Bernie Pfeiffer in the mile and two-mile runs; Larry Appel in the 880; Joe Brockmeyer- in the loo-yard dash; Odd Haugen in both the shot put and the discus; Lynn Boniface in the f>ole vault; the 440 relay team consisting of Brockmeyer, Dave Roulette, Bill McCormick and Rod Sewell; and the mile relay team made up of Appel, Sewell, McCormick, and Frank Schaeffer. The thinclads added their third victory April 20, with a 111 1/2 - 29 1/ 2 trouncing of Washington College. The field events featured fine per- formances with Odd Haugen qualifying for the nationals with distances of 53'4" in the shot put and 156' in the discus. Nelson Shaffer and Brian Alles also had outstanding performances. . After the Hopkins meet the squad's record stood at 5-0.They are perhaps one of the best teams that Western Maryland spring sports have seen in A long run, but worth it: WMC sprinters decisively trounced Washington '111-1/2 to 29-1/2. years. The team still faces difficult meets with Frostburg, Lebanon Valley, and York. They meet York here today at 3:00.