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Western Maryland College Page? Men's Basketball Defeats Second-Ranked Dickinson By DAV1D N. MII.LER way. With4:02Ieflinlhegame, senior froward Scott Roth (11 S"IfR,,,,,,, .. Dickinson's Craig Copeland hit points, 3 rebounds), and senior The Western Maryland two foul shots to bring the score Rich vanston (12 points, 4 re- men's basketball team to Dickinson 60, WMC57. The bounds). Freshman guard Pat stretched their four game win- Green Terrors then went on to Young and feshman froward ning streak to five with an excit- score the next 10 points, with Tony Jenkins contributed 9 and ing 72-70 victory over the freshman guard Pat Young hit- 7 points each, respectively. Dickinson College Red Devils ting a 3-point goal at 3:21 to The Western Maryland at Dickinson to end the season gain the lead for good at 62-60. men's basketball squad has had on a 9-15 record. Following the lead of the a rough season, but with a five- Challenged with the oppor- past four games, all victories, game winning streak, it has tunity to play spoiler to a the young Western Maryland ended optimistically. Dickinson team caught in a squad went into Saturday After a hopeful 3-1 start, a three way tie in the Middle At- night's game feeling confident season ending knee injury to lantic Conference, the Green and hungry for another taste of junior center Paul Pawlowski, :: Terror hoopstcrs rose to the oc- victory. Following a 67-62 loss and general inexperience of the r casion with their best playing all earlier in the season at home, the team led to a dismal showing in ~ season . WMC squad looked for ven- January, and a 12-game losing .:i Led by a strong defense and geance against tied-far-second streak. ~ the offensive leadership of place Dickinson. Coach Zoulias expressed the ~ sophomore Rolando Welch's 20 Terror coach Nick Zoulias team's disappointment with the £ points, the Terrors managed to emphasized the importance of middle of the season, but feels stay neck and neck with a strong the Dickinson game in an inter- the growing confidence of a Dickinson squad, and sealed the view Friday night, "We're not young squad that is beginning to going to be in the playoffs, so learn to play well together. ------------------ ~~nn~rfro:!~ ~ou~~~n:7ne: this is our playoff game. We ''There was disappointment, and Debbie Shockley: final minutes of the game. have a chance to knock some- that certainly tested everyone's at The battle Dickinson's but the way that it's fin- The Records Speak for Themselves home court was a close one, the body out of the playoffs." delivered, meule. up, with four convincing The Green Terrors ished with up well-balanced team putting throughout 14 ties good oppo- game, and 21 lead changes be- slats, and double-figures contri- victories there's against a sense of confi- nents, By KENDRA WEIBLE influence on my basketball fore the pendulum of the game butions from junior guard Scott dence that this will be a spring- SbIfR