Towson State Tiger Tracks, May 2, 1978

Towson State University Tiger Tracks Published exclusively for Tiger Club members by the News and Publications Services May 2, 1978 MAKE RESERVATIONS FOR SPORTS AWARDS BANQUET Don't forget the big Sports Awards Banquet honoring top athletes from several of the University's intercollegiate sports. The date is Tuesday, May 16 at Martin's West. Lou Holtz, head football coach of the University of Arkansas, will be our featured speaker and the price is $25 per person including an open bar and prime rib dinner. Call 321-2181 to make your reservation. TIGERS CLOSE WITH A BANG Our men's varsity lacrosse team clinched a berth in the upcoming NCAA College Divi¬ sion post-season lacrosse tournament with their 15-13 upset over second-ranked Roanoke College this past Saturday night at Burdick Field. The victory raised our record to 7-6 on the year as coach Carl Runk's Tigers closed out the regular season portion of the 1978 schedule. The win moved us up to sixth place in the national rankings. The NCAA will extend invitations to 12 teams. Although we don't play any more games we're certain to get an invite and we'll probably host a first round game at Burdick on May 10 when the tournament begins. Our last two games of the season proved that Carl's young team has come of age. We were definite underdogs going into the University of Baltimore and Roanoke scraps but we pounded the Super Bees 22-14 and whipped up on the Maroons. Junior attackman Tom Wagner caught fire against the Bees and pumped in six goals and added four assists in a brilliant performance. You might say our extra man offense worked to perfection scoring seven goals on seven tries. Our 15-13 win over Roanoke was a plastering. We led by as much as five goals (11-6) with 7:13 left in the third quarter. The Maroons scored two extra man goals to catch up, 11-8 but then we answered with two of our own to keep them at bay. Senior middie Paul Mullen led the way with five goals. Junior attackman Jules Siskind upped his season's assist total to 27 with four feeds in the game. HARDBALLERS PREP FOR TOURNAMENT Coach Bob Zeigler's varsity baseball team finished with a 7-3 league record, good enough to put them into the Mason-Dixon Conference playoffs this Saturday at the Univer¬ sity of Maryland Baltimore County. The Tigers scored a school record 29 runs in the first game of a league doubleheader with Mt. St. Mary's to win 29-0 this past Saturday but let up a little too much in the nightcap to bow 8-7 in extra innings. A sweep would have given us an 8-2 mark and a share of the regular season crown with UMBC, which did finish 8-2. Scott Hargest hurled the victory, his fifth in seven starts as he checked the Mount- ies with five hits while our guys banged out 28 led by Tom Long and Mark Edwards who popped off two home runs each in the rout. The Mount collected itself in the second game and finally won it in the eighth (on a dropped fly by us to push across the winning tal¬ ly). Junior Mike Gilpin suffered the loss, his second on the hill this season against four wins. -over-