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DMen SPORTS Sports writers, Inside Wanted: TIlffjJr -women's 14 star Kerry Wilson headed photographers, lacrosse unde- team feated in Conference and editors -Page -Track Call x8600 III championship for division Volume XVII, Number 4 Western Maryland College -Pagel.S Wednesday,Apnl 1, 1998 Terror baseball begins Women's tennis has perfect season with mixed results record; men yet to find victory IIV EMILY STAMATHIS Terror responded with two of their Lady Terror tennis has had a Then on March 26, the Terror straight sets. Managing Editor own in the bottom of the frame. winning season, opening with 5- women routed Swarthmore 8-1. Western Maryland's first Freshman shortstop Mike Wolfe Green Terror baseball met its drew a bases-loaded walk to force 2 win over Centennial Confer- WMC swept the doubles matches, doubles unit of junior Kevin opening day of the season with in one run and Abildso knocked in ence rival Johns Hopkins. and won at the top five singles spots Klunk and freshman Mark mixed results this year, winning its the other with a single. Freshmen Alethea in its victory at Swarthmore. Weider did win six games in a Green Terror first game 13-5 over Marian Brockport used two singles, two Desrosiers won 6-4, 6-3 at sec- record The to 2-0, both overall pushed and in its 6-3,6-3 loss to Jon Flood and ond singles over MelissaAgocs, (Wise.) College at the Cocoa Expo walks and two sacrifice bunts in its Scott Czerwonka. Sports Center, with senior winning rally to send WMC to its and teamed with junior Amy the Centennial. Swarthmore had a The Terror men were also Christiaan Abildso's four hits and second last-inning loss in Florida. Sheridan for an 8-1 victory at three-match winning streak shut out by Johns Hopkins in sophomore Brent Fuchs firing a Western Maryland fell to 2-3, while second doubles. snapped, as the Garnet dropped to Centennial Conference matches. complete game. Brockport raised its record to 3-1. Becka Lyter defeated Remy 4-2 overall and I-I in the confer- Johns Hopkins did not drop However, WMC lost its second Sophomore left-fielder Ryan Harrold 6-4, 3-6, 6-1 in the fifth ence. a set in its shutout of the West- game of the day to SI. Lawrence Legge had a double and a triple for singles match, and took an 8-3 However, Elizabethtown ern Maryland men. The match (N.¥.) University 8-1. the Terror, with Abildso and senior triumph at third doubles with spoiled the March 23 season opener was the season opener for the Abildso, the team captain and third baseman Brian Miller adding teammate Stephanie Nemecek. for the Terror men's tennis team by BlueJays, while Western Mary- center-fielder, had four singles, two two hits each. Sheridan also was a double blanking the Green Terror 9-0. The land fell to 0-2 overall and 0-1 runs scored and a stolen base. The Terror then went on to de- winner, as she beat the Blue Jays Blue Jays pushed their record to 5- in the Centennial. Fuchs, a right-hander, allowed just Continued on page I3 at fourth singles 6-1, 6-1. I by winning all nine matches in Courtesy of Sports Information four hits while striking out two and was walking none. The game after the Golf course changes score hole in one WMCfourth stopped after six innings time allotted expired. Along with tee times, the course in Tee-Off WMC had back-to-beck four- There's no guarantee', but golf- say, par for the course. run innings in the third and fourth ers at the public course at Western But the recommended tee times will employ the flow of play. Actu- Tournament a starter and rangers to grab an 8-1 advantage. Sopho- Maryland College shouldn't be left are just one of the changes being to monitor more Ryan Legge put (he finishing standing at the first tee this season. instituted by Moyer Golf Club ally, Moyer said, a golfer will get touch on Western Maryland's five- Beginning April I, the nine-hole Management Co., which took over two tee times two hours apart for Western Maryland opened its run sixth inning with a three-run facility will take tee times at 10- daily operations March 1 and is each round of 18 holes. The sec- spring golf season with a fourth- triple, and added a double against minute intervals. Formerly golfers headed by golf professional J. Scott ond time is set aside for the group's place finish at the Susquehanna St.Lawrence. played the course on a first-come, Moyer, WMC's director of golf and back nine. As long as the golfers University Tee-Off Tournament. On Monday, March 16, the Ter- first-serve basis which left them coach of the nationally ranked can play half a round in about two The four Green Terror scorers rorfaced both SI. Joseph's (Maine) stacked up like jumbo jets at a Green Terror Squad. hours they will tee it up at hold combined for a total of 318 strokes and Clarkson. crowded municipal airport, espe- "We attract all levels of play number 10 without waiting. to trail champion York (300), Sophomore Barrett Gugliotta cially when players coming off the here," Moyer said, "and we want Mike Arnira, most recently di- Susquehanna's' A' team (306) and earned his first collegiate pitching front nine tried 10 make the tum to make it as fun and as beneficial rector of golf at the Links at third-place West Chester (31 0). Jon victory, hurling Terror baseball to only to run into a crowd of new as possible for all our golfers. Tak- Challedon in Mount Airy, is the Thornton of York keyed his team's a 10-8 win over Clarkson Monday. players already in line for the first ing out as many delays as we can course's first head professional. victory by claiming medalist hon- In its first game that day, WMC hole. Backups were, golfers might is a good start." Continued on page 13 ors with a two over-par 72. dropped a 6-2 decision to St. Senior Tony Worm posted Joseph's. Western Maryland's low round Gugliotta limited Clarkson to Green Terror Winter '97 Accolades with a 76, good for a four-way tie just three runs on five hits through for fourth place. Sophomore Tony the first six innings, before tiring Women's Indoor Track and Field placed 4th in the Centennial Conference championship led by sopho- Santillo was tied for 19th at 79. in the seventh. The right-hander more Kerry Wilson, who won two events. Western Maryland was ranked finished with five strikeouts and 18th in the MasterCard Collegiate just three walks in 6-1/3 innings. Men's Indoor Track and Field placed 6th, led by Gavin DeFreitas, Jarrod Gillam, and Mike Cushwa. Golf Rankings for Division III at Gugliotta staked a big lead the close of the fall season. when it broke a scoreless tie with Women's Basketball reached the CC semi-finals led by Katie Haley, named to the All-Centennial Con- seven runs on seven hits in the bot- ference first team; Haley became WMC's all-time scoring leader, breaking the record set by Cindy Boyer Final Team Scoring: I. York, 300; tom of the fourth inning. Clarkson Thompson in 1987. 2. Susquehanna 'A', 306; 3. West scored three times in the top of the Chester, 310; 4. Western Maryland, fifth, but the Green Terror added a Men's Basketball star Will Marshall was named to [he All-Centennial Conference men's basketball first 318; 5. Widener, 325; 6. single run in the bottom half of the team, and became WMC's all-time scoring leader, breaking the record set by Art Press '52. Susquehanna 'B', 330; 7. Gettys- fifth and two more in the sixth. burg, 343; 8. Lycoming, 346; 9. Sophomore left-fielder Ryan Wrestling saw eight team members (Steve Smiddy, Andrey Brener, Charlie Conaway, Scott Taylor, Rodney Villa Julie, 349; 10. Elmira, 354; Legge was three-for-six with two Stine, Jon Pitonzo, Josh Ellin and Cody Brenneman) finish in the top six in their respective weight classes 11. Pitt-Bradford, 355; 12. Rutgers- walks and three stolen bases in the in the NCAA Division III East Regional tournament. Steve Smiddy reached the finals, becoming a first Camden, 384. two games for Western Maryland. alternate to the Division III national tournament. Medalist (61 finishers)-Jon With a 2-2 record, the Terror Thornton, York, 72. Western Md. next played Brockport (N.Y.) State Men's Swimming finished 6th in the CC swimming championships, led by Chris Drawbaugh, who was players: 4 (tie). Tony Worm, 76; 17 in its only game on Tuesday the 6th in the I ,650-yard freestyle. (tie). Tony Santillo, 79; 21 (tie). 17th. Brockport scored twice in Mike Diehl, 81; 26 (tie). Craig both the sixth and seventh innings Women's Swimming finished 6th in the Centennial Conference swimming champions . Zabora, 82; 33 (tie). Ryan Reid, 85. and WMC was defeated 7-5. Dameron, who tied for 8th place in individual scoring with a second-place finish in t Courtesy of Sports Information The two sixth-inning runs gave Brockport a 5-3 lead, but the Green