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March 3, 1983 Basketball Team finish with excellent season Bruce Mable Western Maryland's Men'S MAC. The third best mark Basketball team ended it's belonged to Dave Engle, who season with a heartbreaking hit .844 from the line. Overall 52~54 loss to Dickinson Col- Pinto, Engle and Kohr com- lege and ended the year with bined for 869 of the Terrors a 16-7 record. That mark tied 1717 points for the year. It's a the school record for wins in a trio that will be hard to re- season, the third straight time place. the Terror's have tied the For the year the team hit record. . 51% from the floor and 75% The Terror's Dave Engle from the line. They outscored had a chance to tie the game their opponents by, an aver- with two seconds on the clock age of 74-69 points and out- but his twenty foot jump shot rebounded them by a narrow bounced first off the front of 677 to 660 margin. the rim, then 6ack, then off the front one more time be- ~iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiipi fore finally spinning out of the basket Both the team and the crowd had their hopes raised and then crushed as they watched that ball come so close to going in. The miss ended WMC's playoff hopes and also ended their goal of settinq a new record for wins in a season, Even with the dtsappotnt- ments though, this years Ter- rors squad posted the second best overall record in the South-West conference, where five teams posted records above .600 mark, and as coach Ober said, "You've got to keep in mind that ten years ago a 16·7 reocrd would have been onceueva- ble. Its a sign of the times that we can go 16-7 and still feel we've got something left to accomplish." Besides the team's tying the wins record, there were some outstanding individual efforts. Doug Pinto went over the 1,000 point mark against Le- banon Valley. That made Doug the ninth all time scorer in WMC history, Scott Kohr had a great year at the free throw line, hitting .847 from the charity line. That was the second best record in the CARROLL'S Silver LIMDUSINE SERV1I:::E 24-hour Service by Appointment Baltimore area: enn Station - BWI only $35.00