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PAGE EIGHT Terrors Tumble by Tom Trease Western Maryland's Green Terror eleven fell to Washington & Lee Saturday, October 23, by the score of 14-7on the Washington & Lee field. Joe Brockmeyer led the WMC team with 99 yards rushing. The first quarter saw no score by either squad. With 13:48 in the second quarter Brockmeyer went across with the games first tally and Odd Haugen added the extra point to make the score 7-0 ill favor of the Green Terrors. Washington & Leecame back with a67 yard drive and with 7:55 left in the half Fluharty plunged across from the one. Chase added the extra point to knot the score at seven all. The first half closed with no further scoring. The third quarter opened much like the first with neither team moving the ball very wen until late in the quarter when Washington & Lee culminated a nine yard drive with Purser scoring from five yards out. The extra point made the score 14-7. The fourth quarter was dominated by ball exchanges with neither squad scoring. _ Since this was not a conference game, WMC is still tied with Franklin and Marshall for the lead in the Southern section of the Middle Atlantic Conference. Western Maryland leads the league in three divisions, rushing, -total offense, and punting, and is second in total defense and Fullback Tom Botts rushes down the field to score in Saturday's home scoring. Tom Yates is the individual punting game against the Randolph-Macon Yellow Jackets. The Terrors scored leader with an average of 41.6 yards a kick. an upset, 43-12, in a game marked by 4 WMC interceptions. Western Maryland's next conference game is November 6 at Juniata. Lots of spirit, little scoring; hockey season concludes by Chip Rouse Western Maryland's field hockey season varsity, however, was not as fortunate; the opened with an unusually large squad this year. Delaware team creamed th'L._m,5-0. Maryland's first team lost 3-1, and their second Over 35 girls turned out for the first practices, Playing on Western Maryland's second team team went down, 1-0.The varsity thus wound up but by the time the first game rolled around, only at this time were Joan Runner, Sandy Meldrun, with a 1-6-2record in the year's scorebook, and the 'Zl remained. Perhaps this was the first In. Chip Rouse, Amy Shaw, Sharon Spainhour, Jan Jayvee wound up 0-4. . dication that something was amiss, for boU- Wecker, Robin Fornicola, Nancy Ellsworth, It can be hypothesized as to the causes of the teams' seasons were far from what was an Janie Watts, Susan Brown, Pam Feller, Mary team's discouraging year. As mentioned earlier, ticipated. The spirit was willing, but that specla Gemill, Betsy Altfather,' Meg Swain, Judy there was little or none of that final push that combination of team cooperation, skill, anc Gardner, Jackie Andrews, Mel Coleman and makes a team come from behind against enthusiasm was lacking. Michele Swain. stronger players. Coach Joan Weyers and the teams practiced In the third game, against Catonsville Com- Looking ahead to next year's season, it will be over an hour each day, beginning on the 20th of hoped that the hockey teams will receive September. The first game was scheduled for munity College, the first of many injuries oc- stronger support from the school, .and t~at the curred. Fullback Joan D'Andrea was sidelined only one week after the season opened, so the by two broken fingers, whereupon Judy Gardner special something which was lacking this year first week of practice was especially strenuous. was transferred to the first team. Western will be around in plentitude in 1972. Unfortunately, Gettysburg's varsity beat Maryland, however, suffered their third loss. In Western Maryland 3-0, and our Jayvee was what was an emotional game for both sides, downed 1-0 in a well-played game there. By this Whimsee was downed by Goucher 2-1, and the Soccer-to-them time the squads had been stabilized and playing spirit began to sag. After a tie and a loss, more on Western Maryland's first team were Liz injuries occurred. Wing Yvette Dawson broke a Wheeler, co-captain Debra Clark, Charlotte finger and was put out for the rest of the season. Lent, Sandy Gochar, Yvette Dawson, Fran Both Janie Watts and Sandy Meldrun were then by' Bob Ramsdell McCabe, Penny Parsons, Jean Meyer, 'Lin Van moved up as _alternate substitutes. Name, Co-Captain Joan D'Andrea, and Mary The W.M.C. Soccer Team now srancs -'l-:.'., Louise Di Dominico. The next game was against bu1 ~':s~~r~o M~~;~::d ~i~!fIY f~~~W~d-g~~~e' ha ving ripped off three consecutive vic- . the University of Delaware, and Western against Essex Community College, 1-0, and then tories . • Maryland quite obviously profited by their first tied York College, 1-1. In their final game of the Catholic was the first team to fall to the loss, for the game was a close one, 1-0. seasoll, against Lebanon valley, Western Terrors as Western Maryland handed them a 2-0 setback on October 15. A week later, Western Maryland traveled to Lycoming for the first of two games over the weekend. The Terrors drew first blood with two goals in the first period. Lycoming held the WMC offense in check after that, coming up with two goals of their own to tie it up, 2 all, in the third period. The game remained that way until the dramatic finish when Eugene Lindsay of Western Maryland headed in a pass for the winning goal with 18seconds left in the game. The next day, October 23, the Terrors played Susquehanna on a wet field. Things started off pretty poorly as Susquehanna scored only 45 seconds into the game. After that, though, it was all Western Maryland. The Terrors scored twice in the second period and once in the third to win going away, 3-1. Questioned after the game, Coach Earll said, "This was a real fine performance. The players played two games in two days with little rest. I think this proved that we're in good shape." This coming. Wednesday, November 3, Western Maryland will play Mount St. Mary's here at home. This could very well be a decisive game in the battle for a play-off berth in the Mason-Dixon Conference.