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A SEASON OF Given a bit more time, the women's At guard, Jayne Kernan averaged 9. I basketball team at WMC could have points per game and paced the club in had a better year. steals with 58. Teammate Maggie Mules But time was not on the side of the rounded out the starting five by leading Terrors, particularly in the beginning of the club in assists with 38, and everaq- the season, when they fell into a 1-9 ing 4.4 points per game. hoJd from which they never totally re Julie Fringer and Mandy Roe helped covered. Bankert add depth to the front court, When the season began against York while Donna Weidorfer and Patsy College on December 3, the entire team Moyles filled in at guard. had practiced together less than a week. Perhaps the most important win of Six players, including three starters, the season was a 68-66 game against were involved with the MAC champion UMBC. The Retrievers had played two volleyball team, which competed in the close games against the College of Eastern regional tournament in late No- Notre Dame, while the Terrors were vember. twice thumped by NO. After that game, No sooner did the hoopsters get a few "the players just started saying 'Hey, games under their belt when exams and we are better," ., Armstrong said winter vacation interrupted the season. But the coach was most impressed The team managed to squeeze in a cou- with her team's play in a late season WMC Opponent pie of practice sessions before compet· loss. "1 felt one of the best games we 56 York College 62 ing in the Gino's Classic at UMBC, but 45 Delaware Valley 61 then starting forward Moureen Noonan played was against Messiah (an 82·70 loss)," she said. Messiah had lost to 64 St. Mary's 57 and freshman Becky Bankert suffered 43 Notre Dame 71 injuries. Noonan's knee injury ended her powerful Elizabethtown by just seven the week before, but the Terrors stayed 54 Notre Dame 7B season, while Bankert missed six close to Messiah until late in the game. 52 Wilkes College 6B games. Also, two other players had to There were a few times when the Ter- 61 Drew University 64 quit, leaving the team a bit thin on the rors were up against excellent teams, 37 Albright 67 57 Susquehanna 88 bench. notably Elizabethtown (one of the best Division III teams in the country) and "We never had enough time to really 60 Lebanon Valley 31 build on things," said first-year coach Widener. "We ran up against some 68 UMBC 66 Robin Armstrong. "The team had too teams that just had us outmanned," 57 Dickinson 77 many adjustments to make." Changes Armstrong said. 67 Gallaudet 53 included a new coach, a different inside But even in those big losses, the 77 Johns Hopkins 51 game and a more freeflowing offense. team's strong sense of unity pulled the 45 Widener 107 After the first ten games, though, players through, "I can't really say that 62 Hood College 40 things began to gel for the Terrors. we ever game up or threw in the towel," 70 Messiah 82 Freshman center Donna Mummert be· Armstrong concluded, 44 Elizabethtown 114 gan to score in double figures consrs- 50 Gettysburg 80 tently and the team's shooting, which 2 Franklin £,. Marshall o had been about 30 percent, suddenly jumped to near 40 percent. Western Maryland won five of the next seven before a three game losing streak late in the season Mummert finished the season as both the leading scorer, averaging 12.7 points per game, and the top rebounder, with 139. and earning the praise of Arm· strong. "Donna came around very well," the coach said. "She has endless possibilities for Western Maryland." Second in both scoring and rebound- ing was senior Jean Elliott, who aver aged 10.2 points and 6.5 rebounds per game. Freshman forward Colleen Gohe· gao filled in nicely for Noonan, grabbing 97 rebounds and averaging 9,8 points per contest. 120