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February 28, 1991 Western Maryland College Women's Basketball Report Card MattLtvy ishcd behind Shockley in scor- tin had to recruit people around Like the men's team, the ing (10.2), and assists (74). Her campus topractice with the.team. women's basketball team will outside shooting improved. ALone point, the team was down receive grades from "Professor Now, if she can just find the tosixplayers. Martingottheteam Many of us have experienced an inability to reason through Levy." The Green Terrors fin- basket on a drive. Sue Head through it all and nearly pulled relatively significant issues after our minds have been pushed ished 11-12 overall, while com- came inafter the Christmas break off a .500 season B beyond their normal operating balances. Whether they are peting with just eight players. and provided the Green Terrors OVERALL: Last year, the physically or chemically induced, such mental imbalances Western Maryland finished with another outside threat. The team went 18-5. This year, they prompt many "radical" and outrageous theories. fourth in the Middle Atlantic freshman averaged9.1 points per finished 11-12. Soundslikeabad I usually pass the critical point around 11 a.m.,rightaftermy Conferecne-Southwest Section. game. Head averaged over 12 year, right? Wrong. Noone was seventh cup of high test coffee. Ajler The Buzz, Iam able to Let's take a closer look. points a game in the final six expecting more than seven wins, surpass the mundane mainstream thought topics, thus provid- FORWARDS: Debbie contests. Rhonda Small had and seven was pressing the is- ing the world with a consistent source of radical problem Shockley nearly set all of the moments (23 points versus Notre sue. The team achieved 11 vic- solutions, and on occasion new problems. school'sthrce-pointrecords. Her Dame), but her play was not tories, including a major upset of The purpose of this column is LO expose normal people [who 18.4 points and eight rebounds consistent. She flushed with Johns Hopkins B eat balanced meals, floss, and then sleep regularly] to the pergame ledthe team, along with averages of 6.8 points and 3.8 MVP: Shockley critical and pinnacle theories that the rest of us formulate After 101 assists, 129 steals, and, yes, rebounds per contest. B Most Improved Player: The Buzz. 71 fouls. The men went to Sher- BENCH: WHAT BENCH! Smith To get this column off on the right [correct] foot, and just in lock for a big basket, the women .............................. Incomplete Rookie of the Year: Head case the powers that be never run uagain, Iam going to devote went to Shockley. Alice Smith COACHING: Head Coach Weird Stat. of the Year: its initial run to a question whose solution has eluded me since improved her game as the senior Becky Martin could write a book Shockley took more three-points the seventh grade [back then The Buzz was physically induced, finished second in rebounding on the trials and tribulations of shots (147) than the rest of the not chemically]. (5.2), and fourth in scoring aver- this year. After players did not team (23), or their opponents In Mr. Hagerson's history class on that most momentous day age(8.2). Herdefensiveplaywas return for various reasons, Mar- (133). Q in 1976, I was startled awake by the bell. r had fallen asleep solid as she finshed second in while thumbing through my textbook and scoping out the stealswi!h45. JonelleLtith was pictures of the middle ages. It took a few moments before I was injured and missed the first eight able to muster enough energy to raise my head. So, as I lay with games. Her average of just 3.1 my right check stuck to page 136, I stared at a picture on the pointsand3.2reboundspergame opposing page. It wasn't as disgusting of a picture as one might was a disappointment. B+ think but it wasn't something that you would hang in the dining CENTERS: Claudia room either. It was a picture of a person who had just been Henemyre did not play basket- decapitated by aguillotine. The head was ina basket and he was ball last year, butthejuniorshook j staring right at me. For a split second I even thought that he was offthecobwebsandplayedsoJid E trying to communicate with me. throughout the year. She aver-a Immediately I began to wonder if a person could think after agedjustbelow five points (4.9) ~ this gruesome fate? This is a question that I have never and rebounds (4.9) a game. ~ resolved. It is also a question which has grown proportionally Freshman Marie Pawlowski ~ faster in my mind than Hobbes' Leviathan ever grew. struggledthrougboutmostorthe 0 . Over time I began to wonder what. assumina thev could year. She did score 14 points in think, decapitated persons think about. The image of that long her final game and led the team ago picture is still so clear to me that r have often conjcctured the thoughts that this soul had in his last moments, or last in blocks with 18 B- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~=~~~~~ Here arc a few moments plus some as the case may be. f GUARDS: AngieAlfanoin- creased her scoring from a year possibilities: ago. The junior floor leader fin- Captain Angie Alfano helped lead the team to an 11-12 record. • The victims long lost mother heard of his public execution Men's Basketball Report Card See BUZZ, Pg. 8 Coil Matt Levy this year, but Krusinski's shoot- coaching of Nick Zoulias. After 'FAN'S The 1990-91 men's basket- ing was still up and down ... B+ three disappointing seasons in a ball season is over, and it's lime GUARDS: Scott Lyon row, the rookie head coach for "Professor Levy" to issue out added quickness to the squad. (Zoulias served as interim coach @ grades. A 12-12 overall record His averaged just under nine for the Green Terrors one year) for the Green Terrors. That's points per game (8.8), and led re-established confidence on the good. A 3-9 conference record. theteaminassistswhh 138. Next team. Hcstayed withasetlineup That's not good. Let's take a year should be a banner one for throughout the year, brought the CHINESE RESTAURANT closer look. the sophomore. Senior Eric learn to the.500 mark 8+ Szechuan· Cantonese- American Forwards: Mike Sherlock Watkinson did not shoot as OVERALL: Anytimeateam 59 West Main St., Westminster, MD 21157 led the team in scoring for the impressively as he did a year improves its win total by seven, second consecutive year. The ago. He had moments, like a 6 it was a good year. The Learndid Telephone: senior captain averaged 14.2 for 9 three-point shooting per- finish in last place again and (301) 848-0919· (301) 876-3166 points and 4.6 rebounds per formance versus Juniata, but nOL won onbly three of 11 games on contest. When Western Mary- enough of them B- the road (not counting neutral land needed a basket. the ball BENCH: With Rob Howl'll sites). More was expected from Fitzgerald's went to Sherlock. Scott Roth and Kent Pearce hurt most of this senior class. but it's hard 10 was playing his best basketball the year, the bench did nOLhave argue with a seven-game im- Carriage House Liquors before an injury forced him to a lot of depth. Freshman Ro- provement.. . 8 miss the final four games. 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