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DICKENS, HILL CAPTURE TOP AWARDS
May 23, 1978
Roger Dickens and Sue Hill captured the top awards at the Tiger Club's second annual
Sports Awards Banquet at Martin's West last week.
Roger, a senior All American guard for our 26-4 basketball team last season, was
selected Male Athlete of the Year while Sue, a record setting swimmer, was chosen Female
Athlete of the Year.
Sue, a Physical Education major with a 3.99 academic average, also picked up the
coveted Tiger Club's Academic Achievement Award given annually to the senior athlete who
has demonstrated the very best combination of academic achievement and athletic skill.
She will be recognized again at our June 4th commencement exercise at the Civic Center.
Other student-athletes who received university -wide awards included Brian Matthews,
an All American guard from the basketball squad, and Ann Wellham, a two sport letter
winner in volleyball and basketball, who were named Senior Athletes of the Year. Mike
Winterling, a quarter-miler on the track squad, and Karen Ebling, an All Baltimore Col¬
lege and All Southeast wing in both field hockey and lacrosse, were chosen Christopher
Harris Souris Memorial Award winners, an honor presented each year to the junior male and
female athletes who have demonstrated achievement in athletics and in the classroom.
Don Gettier, a senior reserve on the basketball team, and Jane Shehan, a senior link
on the field hockey team, were selected Unsung Hero recipients. Eddie Diggs received the
University's Manager of the Year Award for his work with the men's basketball team.
Vince Angotti, head basketball coach, was honored as the Tiger Club's Coach of the
Year for guiding the Tigers to their 26-4 record. Lou Holtz, head football coach at the
University of Arkansas, was the guest speaker.
From start to finish the banquet was an outstanding success. We honored 28 of our
top student-athletes and then listened to Lou Holtz, perhaps the best after-dinner speaker
in the country. Not one of the over 1,200 people on hand left unsatisfied.
Much of the credit for the evening's success must go to dinner chairman Joe Pokorny
and his vice-chairmen Bill Bauersfeld, Dave Bimestefer and David Nevins. Behind them were
51 men and women whose efforts also contributed handsomely toward the affair.
IT'S ALL OVER
With the exception of some individual student-athletes competing in national com¬
petition the 1978 spring season officially came to a close when Shippensburg State Col¬
lege let us have it 5-1 in the rain delayed NCAA Division II Mid-Atlantic Regional s.
Our BASEBALL squad finished with a 20-13 record which included a second place in the
Mason-Dixon Conference and playoff berth in the NCAA regional. We bowed 7-2 to eventual
Mid-Atlantic kingpin Lemoyne in the opening round and then fell to Shippensburg in the
double elimination event. It was the first time a Tiger team had ever been invited to the
playoffs. Coach Bob Zeigler, in his first year at the helm, did an outstanding job. His
guys dominated the Mason-Dixon Conference All Star team with short stop Mark Edwards,
centerfi elder Tom Long, catcher Bud Zebley, pitcher Scott Hargest and designated hitter
Keith Kelley all making the First Team.
Edwards, who swatted a team high .500 for us this spring, was picked to the All Mid-
Atlantic Regional team and is up for All American honors. That'll be decided later this
week in Springfield, Ill.
The men's varsity LACROSSE team put on a burst at the end and didn't run out of
steam until the quarterfinals of the NCAA Division II-III tournament.
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