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GIBeR SPORTS Sports writers, Inside Wanted: TeffjJr -Three Terror softball players photographers, make all-conference first team -page 13 and editors -Centennial Conference track championships -page 14 Call x8600 Volume XVII, Number 6 Western Maryland College Thursday, May 7, 1998 13-14 1998 All-Centennial Conference Women's tennis closes record for Women's Tennis Teams out season with spot Terror Green Terror at championships Baseball Congratulations to the following BY EMILY STAMATHIS back from its first loss of the year women for making: 8-1 non-con- Managing Editor with a commanding the College. of win over ference First Team Singles - Lara Henderson BY ERIN HOWARD The Green Terror women's ten- Notre Dame (6-3). Assistant News Editor nis team had its first loss of the year The Green Terror won all three First Team Doubles - Kim Keller on April 15, when Gettysburg (15- doubles matches and the top five Ending the season with a 13-14 Second Team Singles - Alethea Desrosiers 2,7-1) won all six singles matches, singles spots. record, the young WMC baseball defeating the Green Terror 6-3 in a Freshman Alethea Desrosiers team is expecting to improve on Centennial Conference match. and junior Amy Sheridan pushed their record next season. They went The roundtrippers gave West- by Jeremy Berman. The Fords Still, WMC finished 13-2 over- their singles records to II-I, but in 6-7 in the Centennial Conference. ern Maryland (10-11, 7-7) a 5-3 jumped out 10 a 4-0 lead in the first all and 8-2 in the conference to fin- very different fashions. Desrosiers WMC was defeated 8-5 at a lead. The Green Terror tied the ish in a second-place tie with Get- lost just two games in a 6-1, 6-1 inning, by Centennial Conference game game at 3-3 in the firth on a sacri- Mulvaney's highlighted double. Tim tysburg in the II-team league. It win over Christina Chapel sky, three-run against Gettysburg on April 14. while Sheridan had to capture two fice fly by Steigerwalt and a solo WMC lost 9-1 to Dickinson at marks the first time a Western Gettysburg's Chris Lunardi homer by Gugliotta. the game on April 21. Dickinson Maryland women's tennis team tie breakers in a 7-6, 1-6,7-6 vic- had three singles to finish the game reached double figures in wins. tory over Nancy Bernstein. four-for four with two runs scored Western Maryland jumped out With a 12-1,7-1 at that point, and the three runs batted in. He Freshman shortstop Mike Wolfe added a to a 3-0 lead on April 15, after WMC kept itself alive in the next singled and scored in the third, sweeping the doubles play. The match against Bryn Mawr, for a when Gettysburg added three runs two-run triple later in the fourth, as the Bullets recovered with its singles share of the Centennial Conference to take a 7-2 lead. Green Terror scoredfour times in the sweep to leave Franklin & Marshall title with an 8-1 win. Brett Thorp also reached base as the only undefeated team in the The Green Terror hosted four times with two runs scored for inning. CentenniaL Franklin & Marshall Monday April the Bullets. Mike Marino had three Sophomore Lara Henderson 20. Unfortunately, Western Mary- singles for WMC, which also re- Culley earned his first win of sophomore Will Cooper fired a and senior Kim Keller remained land was denied in its bid for a ceived four innings of shutout re- the season after allowing just one complete-game six-hitter, leading perfect at first doubles for Western share of the Centennial Conference lief from left-hander Kevin Culley. run and three hits in four innings Dickinson(J5-10,10-5)overWest- Maryland at 10-0 with an 8-6 win title, as Franklin & Marshall won However, the April 17 home of relief. ern Maryland (10-12, 7-8)9-1 ina over Gettysburg's Masako Yoshida its second straight championship game against Gettysburg proved to Haverford won the opener 6-3 Centennial Conference game. and Tara Schmitt. with a 8-1 victory. be a different story as the Terror behind a complete-game six-hitter Continued on page 19 Two days later, WMC bounced F&M's Katie Rouff and Leah defeated Gettysburg 14-5. Rubin edged Henderson and Keller Freshman catcher Rich Softball gets bid to NCAA playoffs in the first spot 9-8, handing the Steigrwalt had five hits and class- Green Terror pair its firstloss of the mate Albert Pero added four to lead 17. ers. season after II triumphs and snap- Western Maryland (9-10,6-6) over HY KEVIN CliLLEY Western Maryland earned its Thompson, the team's leadoff ping its 17-match winning streak. CV11IrihlllingWri/er Gettysburg (13-12, 4-8) 14-5 in the invitation after the best regular sea- hitter, is hitting .394 with 10 At second doubles, Diplomats Centennial Conference game. The Western Maryland College son in the College's 18-year var- doubles, two triples and one homer. Carrie Bruno and Brianne Steigerwalt, who had Western softball team has received its first sity softball history. The Green Defensively she handled 53 O'Laughlin remained unbeaten on Maryland's only extra-base hits of bid to the NCAA Division III play- Terror won 25 of 32 games, sur- chances in center without making their career at 21-0 with a 9-7 the game with a pair of doubles, offs in the 17-year history of the passing the previous record of 22 an error. squeaker over Desrosiers and entered the contest with just five tournament. The Green Terror will victories in 1996 (22-7-1), and won The Green Terror offense, Sheridan. The duo entered the hits on the season. be one of five teams playing in the the Centennial Conference (CC) which averaged 7.1 runs per game, match with a 12-1 mark. Pero reached base on all five at- East Regional, beginning May 7 at championship with a 14-2 mark. also includes junior shortstop Janu- Henderson earned WMC's lone bats with four singles and a walk. Messiah College in Grantham, Pa. Dix's squad features a power- ary Scott of Chesapeake City, Md. point by coming from behind to He scored three times and also beat Rouff 4-6,6-0,6-3 at number drove in three runs. Western Maryland earned its invitation after the best regular one. Sophomore right-hander Barrett Lady Terror tennis then went on Gugliotta pitched six innings to season in the College s I8-year varsity softball history. to conclude its most successful take the team lead in wins with his dual-match season in school history fourth in five decisions. The Green The tournament includes 40-teams ful offense, led by senior Division (Bohemia Manor H.S.), and fresh- with a 9-0 Centennial Conference Terror staked him to a 7-1 lead af- nationwide. III All-America second baseman man designated player Stephanie with a bang, a shutout at Dickin- ter three innings Head Coach George Dix's team Julie Backof of Westminster. Bell of Federalsburg, Md. (Colo- son (5-10, 4-6). Sophomore second baseman will face Moravian College in its Backof has slugged II home runs, nel Richardson H.S.). Scott brings The first doubles learn of Kevin Grimm went four-of-four for first game today at II am. The 9 doubles and 6 triples. She com- her. 450 balling average and team Henderson and Keller bounced Gettysburg, which crept back to double-elimination tournament, piled 47 hits in 100 official at-bats, high 49 hits into the Regionals. Of back within 8-4 before Western Mary- one of eight such tournaments tak- drove in 44 runs, has a slugging her 49 hits, 14 were doubles and from its loss to Franklin & Marshall laIfd plated six runs in the bottom ing place this coming weekend, percentage of 1.010, and made just four were triples by routing Liz Eukers and Christin of the eighth. will continue through May 10th. three errors in 135 chances. Bell has had a strong first col- Meehan 8-1. WMC won the second game in Western Maryland is the fifth The team's other two seniors, legiate season, hilling .447 with Henderson and Keller, who a Centennial Conference double seeded team behind lop seeded host third baseman Gina Hughes of seven doubles, one triple and two were at this point 12-1 in 1998 and header against Haverford on April Messiah, North Carolina Wesleyan, Westminster and center-fielder roundtrippers. 22-3 in their career, began defense 18. Brian Miller and Ryan Legge Chowan (N.C.) and Moravian. Kari Thompson of Linthicum, Md. Dix has spread out the pitching of their 1997 Centennial champi- hit back-to-back home runs in the The winners of the eight re- (Archbishop Spalding H.S.), also duties among four underclass- onship at the conference's singles sixth inning of the second game to gional tournaments will advance to are having excellent seasons. men-junior Kim Ruprecht of and doubles tournaments, which lift Western Maryland over the Division III College World Se- Hughes is batting .438 with 10 Clarksville, Md. (Atholton H.S.), began Friday, April 24 at Franklin Haverford 5-4. ries in Salem, va., May 14 through doubles, one triple and three hom- Continued on page & Marshall College.