Cagers Head for NCAA's Face Cheyney

1 ~~@OO1J~=================::::::;==========R=e=tr=ie=v=er='=F=e=b=rU=a=rY=2=6='=1=9~79==9 Cagers head for NCAA's Face Cheyney. Towson before tourney from page 1 they crept up." according to Goedeke, who said The game is also Arbutus night, Still, Salisbury never really that the 1,OOO-plus crowd of most and will feature a mid-court threatened the Retrievers. Howie ly dorm students "adds 10 points shootout at halftime. Sponsored Kane led UMBC with 22 points, to the score." Goedeke thinks by Bata Shoe Company, the followed by John Goedeke's 20 that the home-court advantage shootout will give three UMBC points and 11 rebounds. Jack will give the Retrievers con students an opportunity to make Kane was the only other Retriev fidence in the NCAA tourney. He a shot from mid-court. For being er in double figures, with 10 sees the Cheyney and Towson selected, the students will get a points. Though they didn't score a games as important wins for the pair of tennis shoes valued at $25. lot of points, both Reggie Nance team~ to have before the tourna If the student actually makes the and Jeff Brooks had the large ment. basket, he/she will receive a pair crowd cheering, Nance with a beautiful turnaround layup early "It'll help us get a little of leather Pancho Gonzales momentum, go into the tourna shoes, a gym bag, and a Bata in the first half, Brooks with three steals and four assists. ment with confidence," the t-shirt, all valued at $75. senior said. Goedeke has been The Cheyney and Towson Salisbury's Juan Gabourel, one with the team since the '74-'75 games will probably be a bit of Division Ill's leading scorers, season, when the Retrievers were neater than tbe Salisbury game, tallied 29 points for the 'Seagulls, considered a breather on every which showed the effects of the hitting 11 of 15 from the- floor, and one's schedule. He has a feeling Retrievers' snow-caused layoff. seven of seven from the charity of pride in the distance the team "Our timing was off," stated stripe. has come. coach Billy Jones, "you can tell because it affected our ball Gabourel was nicknamed "Dr. "It's a good feeling of ac handling and shooting. Passes J." by the UMBC needlers sitting complishment. We've been Ofl went wide, shots fell short." behind the scorer's table. The both sides of the fence." The Retrievers built up a 44-25 peanut gallery also came down Should the Retrievers win thl: lead in the first half, but couldn't hard on Jim Hunt, who scored 17 South Atlantic Tournament, they keep it as the Seagulls managed points for Salisbury. will advance to the Eastern to creep within nine points in the "We haven't played for a Regionals and then, hopefully, to second half. week," said Jack Kane after the the nationals, semi-finals and "We went into this game with a game, "we got a bad game out of finals, at Springfield, Illinois. mentally different attitude than our system. We'll be ready to go According to the fans at last we will against Cheyney," said by Saturday, and it should be a Thursday night's game, the J ones. "Salisbury is a Division real good game." Retrievers are going to go all the III team, 4-19, we thought that we The crowd played a significant way to the nationals. The players could jog, and still get it done, but portion in the Retriever victory, agree with the fans. OFFSIDES-------------Kathleen Warnock . Way to go, seniors' On their way to the NCAA The seniors are among the few remember moments from many playoffs, the Retrievers are stop people who have spent four years seniors' careers. The seven . Jack Kane leaps· up to block a Sh~t by Salisbury'S Juan Gabou' :~I~an ping for a moment to recognize here at UMBC, and for that alone, seniors on the basketball team The Retrievers won a 88-79 victory over the 'Gulls. the contributions of the senior they deserve a round of applause. have gone from rags to riches in athletes in fall and winter sports (Just kidding! I would like to their four years (or in the case of Retriever of the Week this Tuesday at the Towson State spend the next year here without Howie Kane, two years) on the game. being ripped limb from limb).) team. I first met John Goedeke Some of the seniors are my and Mark. Massimini in a poetry friends, some I know through in class my freshman year, and 1 Holden shines terviewing them. Without excep remember someone saying, tion, they are students as well as "Wow, that Goedeke's tall-I athletes, getting an education wonder why he's not playing on a in first year and a good time here at UMBC. good basketball team." They aren't products of a sports Sue Fahnnan, volleyball, bas factory, selling their services to ketball, ·lacrosse player, sat on gym squad the school in a business deal; behind me in criminology last they participate in student ac year. When I see her make a set By Kathleen Warnock favorite, is the halance hearn, tivities, are in the student govern up or grab a rebound, I remem which she has been doing since ber trading answers and talking Last week Kim Holden got she started gymnastics. She ment, and give UMBC a good her exercise shoveling snow, name wherever they go. about the final (we both did pret ahw docs well in the floor ty well). hut now that school is back in ('xercise and in the last couple It's· impossible to talk about session, she will be doing whatv each one individually, but I Cliff Feldheim holds a lot of years has added vaulting and school records in distance run she does better than anyone at uneven hars and become an ning, but it's a running joke that U M BC - gym nastics. all-around competitor. we only print one picture of him In her first year on the team, Holden was introduced to in the Retriever-the one that Holden has quickly become the gymnastics hy a friend when makes him look like he has one top all-around gymnast for the she was in the ninth ~rade. She leg. When I think of Cliff, I think Retrievers. attended Old Mill High School of him making eggs for breakfast "She's a hard worker, our in Anne Arundel county, a in the Dining Hall-rather good most consistent performer," school with a number of county eggs, too. says Coach Cathy Stocks, and state championships in Then there's my own team herself a former UMBC gym gymnastics. The team won nast. mate Linda Sirkis. She's also a championships while Holden was there and she looked for a classmate, in my Ancient Greek While a freshman's coming in school with a gymnastics class, translating the New Testa and gaining tl].e top spot might program when she was ment. She holds the women's cause dissension on some team together, gives lessons, choosing colleges. tflams, Holden says that her "I wanted a school close usually wins when she fences. teammates welcome her and We'll all miss her next year when enough so I could commute, don't resent her. "We're a with a gymnastics program, but she goes to grad school in London close-knit group. We work as a or Canada. not really humongous, like team, not as individuals going some of the schools around Those aren't all the seniors, for the best score." here," she said when exp and it would take most of the Holden's best event, and her page to talk about all of them. But laining her choice of UMBC. each of them has his/her place in As yet an undeclared major, the history of UMBC sports! and frC'shman Holden came to we're glad they came here. Sen U MBC for its science programs, ior Appreciation Night is a fitting but is lately taking an interest in Bunyan way to bid goodbye to these geography. "This semester I started to take some courses in All eyes are on John Goedeke's shot, which went in for 2 student-athletes, and there should be a good crowd out there continued on page 10 of his 20 points against Salisbury. to say "thank you." .

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