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Western Maryland College April 24, 1992 8y ED RIG LING spon,r:d;IQr As The Sports World Turns ... it seems the sports world is be- Riding the wave of a five coming more like thescnal daytime programming thananything game winning streak, the West- else of late. Duke was only able to enjoy their national champi- ern Maryland Terrors faced off onshipa week or so before the big, bad NCAA dugupsomcdirt. on a rainy Thursday afternoon A diary for GQ?? My sympathies are not with Christian agamst division rival Laeuncr, I'm the least bit interested in what his diary may say. Gettysburg for the lead in the More shake ups in the college basketball world... since MAC Southwest division, only Massimino 'rolled' west, I'll reconsider my loyalty to the to lose 13-8 in a close match. Villanova Wildcats. The San Antonio Spurs must have caught The Terrors entered the a clip of Jerry Tarkanien's debut tv special, Tark's World. game with a 5-4 overall record Anything but flattering ... Stick with the hoops! and a 2-0 record in the division Poor old Pat Knight, son of Coach Bobby Knight. His dad against Gettysburg, who was 4- cut him from the basketball team at Indiana. Pat was nabbed for o in division play. At stake: the public drunkcness and disorderly conduct after cursing at the MAC Southwest crown and a officer. At least he didn'tlhrow anything at the policeman. secured spot in the MAC play- I happened to see a portion of a news report about what I offs. think was a hockey game. No mention of the settled strike or Coming out and setting a fu- the details of the contracts, just a shot of a fan being beat to a rious pace, Western Maryland pulp by the Buffalo Sabres after wondering on the ice. What- set the tempo of the game by has the ushers' union walked out as well? pressuring the Gettysburg de- The question remains ... are the NHL players really into the fense with a Flurry of shots, playoffs, or do they just want to be paid? Suddenly the stock cutshcoung the Bullets 20-13 in value of hockey cards has sky-rocketed. This greediness could the first half. spark the end to the recession, President Bush. . If not for the excellent play WMC beat out Swarthmore last Saturday 13-11 in overtime. I'm afraid I have little to offer in regards to the major of Gettysburg goaltender Kelli leagues... unless, of course you want to know about theOrioles. Agnew, the Terrors would have possibly gone on 1O crush the Instead, Agnew stood strong, Ifind the one sided sports reporting around this area amazing. rolled out 1O an early lead and Bullets. See LAX, Pg. 7 Col. 1 The only lhing Ican be sure.of is that those neighbors ofCamden Yards still have not received their parking permits. I catch my- Baseball Gets Back into MAC SW Race self looking forward to the daily reports on them. Besides thc O's, Ihave been seeing ads for the movie"Babc" By PATRICK DoNNELLY S"'-ffR,_ .. starring John Goodman, so far the reveiws don't look good. The Green Terror baseball Perhaps you missed the television coverage of the men's team won three of their last four Olympic Marathon tria!s amidst an hour of commercial adver- Southwest MAC games to reach tisements. Someday running may get the respect and recogni- the .500 level for the first time Lionit deserves. this season with a 4-4 confer- Rcgardless, the learn is set for Barcelona: Steve Spence, Ed ence record and an 11-11 over- Eyestone and Bob Kempainen. The women representing the all record. U.S. arc Janis Klecker, CaLhyO'Brien and Francie Lameui- On Saturday, April 11, the Smith. The true athletes. It probably won't be long until the Terrors split a doubleheader Olympic hoopla hits the media again. So be ready for it and a against Moravian to go 2-4 in new selection of cereal box cover portraits! 0 the MAC division and remain in the Southwest race. A sweep of division for Dickinson on the following Monday brought the CAMP COUNSELOI(S team into competition for a title with four division games re- General and Specialty Areas mainingon the schedule. ;:~~~~~~~~~~::;~~~~~~~ Resident, Co-Ed Camp Against Dickinson, senior Located in Maryland. Ron Chanski threw a two-hit WMC swept both games against Lebanon last week: 6-5; 8-9. shutout to give WMC a 5-0 vic- carried a shutout into the sev- the Terrors traveled to Messiah Contact Camp Glyndon. lory in the second game after a enth inning only to give up a and once again was embroiled 6·5 extra inning win was eked solo home run to spoil his bid. in an extra-inning nail-biter. (301) 486-5515 out in the first game. Butx remained to finish the But this time, the Terrors wound Another pitching gem oc- game and collect the win for the up on the losing end of the slick, curred at Moravian. Tim Butz 5-1 victory. reducing their record to the .500 Pitching duels seem to be a level once again. HOUSE OF UQUORS way of life for the Terrors these impressive numbers this season. A few players have made days. Against Catholic Univer- "Everything in Spirits, PLUS Courtesy & Service" sity, neither team scored in Sophomore Gary Carter is bat- CARROLL PLAZA SHOPPING CEKTER, WESTMINSTER, t.IJ 21157 eight innings Then Catholic ting .334 and has a team-leading (Rt,140andEnglarRd.) broke open the game with four seven doubles. Freshman Eric 848·1314 runs in the top of the ninth off Rosh leads the team in a number starter Todd Lcskoski only LO of categories, including balling Lotto & Lottery Headquarters have the Terrors storm right FINE WINE & SPIRITS· THE PERFECT GIFT FOR All OCCASlCXVS average (.353), runs scored back in the bottom of the ninth (19), and hits (30). Puchcr Tim to tie the game up with four runs Butz leads the staff in strikeouts r-$100~ff-lM;!WaUke~~~~~F~R~P~IL/~A!99/case of their own and send the game with 35, and freshman Chuck I I National Bohemian ..._- ,,--- ,,_ _,... __..... $8.99/case into extra innings.Leskoskl then McLean carries a 4-0 record and I A~~~o~r~~o~~r IKeystone (Reg .. Lt .. Dry) _" $S.99f12 pk: $9.99/case held the visitors scoreless in the a 2.76 ERA. I (saleitemsexcluded) I EVERYDAY LOW PRICES tenth, and the Terrors loaded the On April 25 and 27, the Ter- I NO LIMIT I Coors It (AllCans) $13.99/case bases in the bottom of the inning rors will finish their MAC SW the game-winning run with L _ !:'='!51..:!'!!. _...I g~er:;~(12·Pk'sT.'.':: .... $~~3?j2~Sk~ scored on a wild pitch. season in divisional games ver- sus Lebanon Valley and Frank- Playing back to back days, lin and Marshall at home. Q ---y-- - -