The Pilot, Page 4 at Basketball is Slammin’ GWC in ’88-’89 By James Rowe, special to By Michelle O'Brien and Jon McNeil. Returning players The Pilot R. Shawn Lewis include two-time District 26 GWC's tennis program will For zealous college Player of the Year and third- shine this year, having alrea­ basketball fans, this is the team All-American Stan dy played ten matches— winning beginning of the best time of Easterling, Donald Simmons, eight of them. With such play­ the year. We follow our favo­ Reggie Ampley, Orlando Early, ers as Oscar Blacutt, Kevin rites from the season-opener Thomas Plaster, and Darren Scott, and Per Albertsson, the to the championships. The Sanders. Eleven new names ap­ team is enthusiastic and ready Gardner-Webb College Slammin' pear on the roster this year, to win. Bulldogs, last season's Dis­ hailing from North Carolina, Per, a Swedish exchange trict 2 6 champions, are ready New Jersey, South Carolina, student, is in his second year for the '88-'89 season and the and Georgia. at Gardner-Webb. He has been changes it will bring to the Three new faces played on the tennis team both years team. very significant roles in the now, and is looking forward to The Slammin' Dogs kicked Rotary Dixie Classic: Tony this season especially. "Our off their season with the Deal, from Atlanta, Ga., team is going to do very Rotary Dixie Classic on Nov. Patrick Coulson, a Wadesboro, well." 21-22. Participating teams N.C. product, and Blease He did not play tennis in included Pembroke State, Glen- Young, a junior college high school, saying, "We ville, Livingstone, and GWC. transfer. These new players played in clubs, not in After crushing Livingstone in plus others are helping make schools like the Americans the first game, Gardner-Webb Bulldog basketball a spectacle d o . " This is probably the easily disposed of Pembroke to behold. biggest difference between State to win the championship. On the horizon for the Swedish and American tennis. Afterwards, at an awards cere­ Slammin' Dogs is the High In Per's opinion, the mony, Bulldog Stan Easterling Point Invitational Tournament best court to play on is the was named Most Valuable as well as a very challenging hard court. He has never Player. Gardner-Webb has also schedule including USC- played on a and posted victories over Guilford Spartanburg, Bluefield, and feels that "clay courts are and Catawba. West Georgia. With the new and too slow. The ball bounces The team is coached this the old. Bulldog basketball is much higher. The hard court year by Jim Wiles, with John exciting. Be sure to come out game is much faster." Haskins as his assistant. Andy and watch the slamfest and, Since Per did not play in Muse is a Graduate Assistant who knows, maybe a trip to high school, where did he and functioning as Student Kansas City. compete? "We qualified to play Assistants are Barry Mayo and in Junior and Senior Champion­ ships at the clubs." The Championships are separated by the age of 18. If one was older than 18, he was consi­ dered a senior' player. While Per was in , he qualified for the Junior Championships. The first time he played, he lost in the first match, but in his second competition, he managed to win two matches, but fell short in the third round. Per's obvious favorite tennis player is Sweden's own , winner of this past year's Wimbledon in England. His favorite American player is . Bjorn Borg was a favorite, too, "but he's retired now." Per is proud to say that along with having the number one interna­ tional seed. , Sweden also has Stefan Edberg, the number three seed, "along WOMEN'S BASKETBALL with two or three others in The Lady Bulldogs are the top 2 0." Sports Shorts training hard and it appears Maybe after Per's time at to be paying off. The Lady GWC, he will return to his By Michelle O'Brien and Bulldogs have dominated early country and we will see his R. Shawn Lewis opponents and had only lost name on television in later SOCCER once at press time. Coach Bud years. "Per Albertsson has The official soccer sea­ Black has definitely got these just won Wimbledon!" son is now over. Says head young ladies ready to play. With this upcoming sea­ coach Tony Setzer: "I feel Look for the Lady Bulldogs to son, Per and his teammates we've progressed from a good turn some heads when the sea­ will play dozens of matches high school team to a competi­ son gets into full swing. and they are sure to be a tive college team." winning team. Let's go out and Soccer will be one of the BASEBALL support them as they sports in the SAC-8 All Sports Gardner-Webb baseball is their way to victory! Conference next year. in weight-training in prepara­ tion for the coming season. The players are worked the concession stands at home football games to help finance G. T. McSWAIN, INC. VIDEO HOUSE AND TANNING SALON a trip to Florida in the spring of 1989, as well as 11:00 AM - 10:00 PM MON.-SAT. help support the baseball program. 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