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I 1 0C COURIER-fOST, Friday, Nommbw 23,1078 FILsC C30CKEY vescott, Thorne, cited Lynch standout on a team that qualified for the national tournament. Thome moved into a varsity job midway through her freshman year and has played several positions for Ursinus. This year she has become the leader of the defensive unit that carried Ursinus to a third-place finish in the Mid-Eastern Tournament and into the Nationals. Wescott has rewritten the Mid-Eastern and Atlantic Coast Conference record books. Among her acheivements are most shutouts career and season, most saves career and season, and most consecutive shutouts.

The three college players will be honored as part of the awards banquet honoring the All-South Jersey team. Special awards include the coach-of-the year, school sportsmanship presented by the Suburban Newspaper Group, school and individual spirit awards. Three distinguished service awards to a former coach, former player and former official and a student-manager plaque and bond also will be presented. 1 The banquet has been sold out for several weeks. CHERRY HILL Denise Wescott and Kim Thome will be honored Monday night as South Jersey's college field hockey players of 1979, and Carol Sue Lynch will be.

cited as most couragous. The three former scholastic stars will be the featured guests at the third annual awards banquet of the Field Hockey Club of South Jersey in Kenney's Suburban House. All three will be in next week's national championship tournament. Wescott, a former three-sport all-star at Moorestown High School, has started in goal four seasons at the University of Maryland. Thome, who excelled athletically at Shawnee High School, has played on three national contenders at Ursinus.

Lynch, a former Glassboro High School star, came back from an auto accident to regain her starting job at Davis Elkins of West Virginia. The three seniors will receive official Field Hockey Club wrist watches and will be presented by their college coaches. Adele Boyd of Ursinus, Jean Tallman of Davis Elkins and Suzanne Tyler of Mary- Mid-Atlantic teams net tourney ties DENISE makes WESCOTT wise decision Wescott made wise decision CAROL SUE LYNCH Davis Elkins star land will introduce their athletes at the banquet. Lynch moved into the starting lineup at Davis Elkins as a freshman and helped the team gain national recognition. After her sophomore year.

Lynch was EDISON Mid-Atlantic area teams failed to win here yesterday as the annual United States Field Hockey Association national tournament got underway. Each of the three Mid-Atlantic teams did manage a tie in the competition, which involves the sectional tournament all-star squads from around the country. In the feature game involving Mid-Atlantic Nancy Chubb of Delaware scored twice in the first half but the powerful Northeast entry from the Boston area rallied to tie 2-2. Mid-Atlantic goalie D.J. Vinci-guerra was credited with five saves.

Clayton quarterback Mike Brown then connected with Sinclair for a 60-yard touchdown pass and Ralph Carr's two-point conversion run tied the game. But Pitman regained the lead late in the third period. Lee Dresh came up with the big play when he blocked and recovered a punt on the nine-yard line with three minutes to play. From there, Mcllvaine got his team back on top, 21-14, with a one-yard dive late in the third period, and added an insurance touchdown run in the fourth period. KATHY MfTTON scores goal TRI-COUNTY Mcllvane scores 4 in Pitman victory KIM THORNE Urinsus star involved in an auto accident that left her disabled.

She spent her junior year as the team trainer when she was unable to even walk without pain. A series of operations and a rugged rehabilitation program put Lynch back in action this season and she has been a Team captain Debbie Clifford changed the team's offensive strategy after a 1-0 morning loss to Southeast. "We didn't play as well as we can in the first game," said Clifford, the' coach at Middle Township High School and a defensive back on the Mid-Atlantic team. "But we made some adjustments, went to links, and played very well in the second game." The Mid-Atlantic II team also finished the first day 0-1-1. In a well-played game, Melissa Magee fired in a second-half goal to give Philadelphia II a 1-0 victory.

Barb Niel-son had 10 saves for the losers. MIKE MclLVAME four TDs Holmes said at the time that it was the hardest fight of his career. "Weaver can fight," said LeDoux. "His fight with Holmes should not have been stopped. He had Holmes down once and was doing all right when the referee called it a TKO.

Weaver is a good fighter for me right now. After I beat him, it puts me in a better position for a title fight. I feel for the guy, though I'll beat him." LeDoux, a relentless boxer with neither the physique of a Norton nor the speed of an Ali, expects to weight in at 220 pounds. Weaver, the stronger puncher, will fight at just over 200 pounds. "Not bad for a midget," LeDoux commented.

"Weaver is gone. I've already eliminated him in my mind." The card also includes four other bouts. Young Joe Louis will meet Jesse Burnett in a 10-round heavyweight match; Michael Spinks, brother of Leon, will fight Fred Brown in an eight-round light heavyweight match; Greg Page will take on James Reid in an eight-round heavyweight fight, and Tyrone Moore will meet Lala Hernandez in a four-round welterweight contest. Leon Spinks was supposed to have been on the card, but he was dropped last week when the promoters discovered he had not been in training. 1 I t.

5 Kathy Mitton, coach at William-stown High School, scored for Mid-Atlantic II to give the locals a 1-1 tie with the Southeast II team. Mitton scored in the first half and Nielson recorded seven saves. Mid-Atlantic III tied Philadelphia IV, 0-0, in its lone outing. Lorraine Allen, a former Shawnee High player, had five saves to earn the shutout. The round-robin competition, which involves 10 regions, continues today and tomorrow morning.

The leading teams compete for the championship tomorrow afternoon and Sunday. Eagles topple Schalick CENTERTON Pennsville High School ran off to 22-0 lead, then staved off a late attack to drop Schalick, 22-16, here yesterday in a Tri-County Conference football game. The win assured the Eagles of a winning season at 5-4, while Schalick ended with 2-7. "We're pleased with the record," said first-year Pennsville Coach Horace Carl, "considering the inexperience we had. We started the season with seven seniors and ended up with just five." The five seniors had returned from a class trip just in time to play in the game.

Ron Bennet was the big gun for the Eagles with two touchdowns and a 24-yard field goal that made it 22-0 by the fourth period. Schalick fought back, however, as quarterback George Knowlton threw touchdown passes of 86 and 83 yards to Erric Hedgeman and Murcer Hedgeman, respectively. "Schalick came to play," said Carl. "They certainly didn't give up. But, expeept for those touchdown passes, we played a nice game defensively." Pennsville got on the board first in the opening period when Bennett booted a 24-yard field goal.

Quarter back Keith Muhs then threw the first of his two touchdown passes, a 15-yard strike to Lex Bleckly, making it9-0byhalftime. The Eagles got the pressure going into the third period when Bennett returned a punt 42 yards for a score. Lacrosse parley slated next week CHERRY HILL The 97th annual United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association convention will open on Wednesday in the Cherry Hill Inn. Association president Richard Clower, athletic director at Western Maryland, will preside over the meeting. The convention will continue through Saturday, with many topics of interest to be discussed.

A new slate of of icers will be elected at the general business meeting scheduled for Friday at 9:30 a.m. There will be meeting of high school lacrosse coaches on Friday at 10 a.m. LeDoux, Weaver vie for title shot "It has been a fantastic year," said Wescott, who encourages her teammates on the field with resonable facimiles of characters made famous by comedienne Gilda Radner on "Saturday Night Live." "We're all very close off the field, in fact, this is the closest team I've ever been associated with. "We support each other, believe in each other, goof off together." Wescott does not judge her success in terms of just winning and losing, however. "It's not a question of winning and losing or how many I let through," said Wescott.

"Although I think I should get to everything, I have to admit there are good scorers out there. "You want to be proud of your school," she said. "And part of that pride is the pride of winning. When you lose, you lose a little bit of pride." Just how deep the Wescott influence is on her Terrapin teammates can be fathomed by the remarks of Willingboro High grad Debbie Fak-torow, a freshman at Maryland. "This may not be eloquent," said Faktorow, who has battled, injuries to have a strong year herself; "but, we get much of our strength from Denise.

She's an aggressive, intelligent player, "She's an inspiring player even though she's not a field player. She's our spark, and we pick that up and light up ourselves." Monday, the Field Hockey Club of South Jersey will honor Denise as one of the 1979 collegiate players of the year. They, too, have made a wise choice. Horatius wins Pilgrim 'Cap at Keystone BENSALEM, PA. Philip J.

Tornsey's Horatius charged from off the pace to gain command in the stretch, then hung on tenaciously when challenged by John D. Marsh's Majesty's World and posted a mild upset victory in the inaugural running of the $29,275 Pilgrim Handicap at Keystone Race Track yesterday. Responding to a strong ride by Kentuckian Don Brumfield, Horatius carried 116 pounds td a slim nose victory in the mile and a sixteenth test. He sped over the fast track in 1:45 and rewarded his backers in the crowd of 8,353 with mutuels of $11.20, $5.60, and $3.80. John D.

Marsh's late-rushing Majesty's World, who had a rough trip in the race, was second, finishing three and a half lenths before Button K. Sipp's Steelwood. Majesty's World paid $4.60 and $2.80, while Steelwood paid $3.60. The exacta of Horatius and Majesty's World was worth $45.80. By MARY ELLEN DRISCOLL Of the Courier-Post Giving up a dream is always a very difficult thing to do.

For Denise Wescott, the goalie on the University of Maryland's field hockey team, a national finalist, it was an emotional experience, almost traumatic. Yet, it has been a decision which, in the long run, has proven to be extremely beneficial. When Wescott was a multi-sport athlete at Moorestown High School, there was a tendency among the fans in South Jersey to think of her as a basketball star. Certainly, Wescott thought of herself that way. "All my dreams involved basketball," said Wescott.

"I started in goal for hockey my freshman year. So, I started basketball late and was told I could only play JV. I was the high scorer and high rebounder. I reported to lacrosse late, but still played varsity. "After that year, Miss Tyler, (Suzanne Tyler, Maryland hockey coach) called me into the office and told me that it was just impossible to play three sports.

I knew I had to make a decision." The decision involved a full week of judging priorities, a painful enough process for an adult in a midlife crisis. But, for the 18-year-old Wescott it was "basically a week full of hell." "When it was first brought up to me, it was very traumatic because I love basketball," said Wescott. "Once I left the office, I sat back and thought, unemotionally, about what I could and should do. "I called my parents and had a long talk with them, discussing the options I had. What would happen if I chose Hockey and lacrosse? In my heart, I knew what the better option was." Wescott has not regretted her decision, her change in lifestyle, her switch of goals.

"As much as I love basketball, I felt committed to hockey and lacrosse because I was already a varsity player in those sports and Miss Tyler was counting on me," said Wescott. As talented a goalie as she is, Wescott did not find the adjustment into a major college program very easy. Her freshman year, the Terrapins were just establishing a program and playing the big-time was awe-inspiring. "In my first collegiate game, we played Ursinus," recalled Wescott with a laugh. "We lost, 4-0, and Ursinus took 60 shots on goal.

I thought to myself, 'My God, is every game going to be like I was ready to retire." Things didn't get much better when Maryland faced West Chester, then in the second year of its four-year grip on the national title, later that season. The Rams beat Maryland, 5-1. A season like that makes Wescott appreciate this year, with the Terrapins ranked No. 7 in the nation with a 10-2-4 record and a finalist in the Division I tournament next weekend at Princeton. PITMAN Mike Mcllvaine plunged over for four touchdowns, leading Pitman High School to a 28-14 triumph over Clayton yesterday in a Tri-County Conference football game.

Mcllvaine carried the ball just six times and gained 60 yards. He scored on a three-yard run and three one-yard dives in helping the Panthers close their season with a 7-3 mark. It was the 14th time Pitman won the traditional rivalry in the last 16 outings. Fred Giordano led all rushers with 122 yards in 22 carries as the Panthers rushed for 180 yards in 42 attempts, boosting his total to 1,041 yards for the season. The Panthers used Mcllvaine's two first-period touchdowns and two Carl Ennis kicks to take a 14-0 lead, but the Clippers rallied back to draw to a 14-14 tie of the middle two periods as Emory Tunstall caught an eight-yard touchdown pass from Ron Sinclair on an option pass.

4-year pact averts strike at Keystone CORNWELLS HEIGHTS, Pa. (AP) Management and horsemen at Keystone Race Track reached a tentative agreement yesterday, averting a threatened shutdown. Keystone officials said. Mike Mercer, a Keystone spokesman, said a tentative four-year pact was reached about 9 a.m., and that racing will held as usual today at the Sucks County track. Mercer said it would be a day or two before details of the pact are released.

Differences between both sides were reduced late Wednesday when officials of the Eagle Downs and Continental Racing Associations, operators of the track, submitted a proposal involving economic issues to leaders of the Horsemen's Benev- olent and Protective Association. The contract between the racing associations and the 100-member HBPA expired at midnight Tuesday. The horsemen had threatened a QjsycoU if they did not get Hew contract BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) -Scott LeDoux and Mike Weaver, two journeyman boxers who still have designs on the title, will square off tomorrow at the Met Center in a 12-round bout designed to produce a challenger to the heavyweight throne. The winner reportedly will be in line for a match against John Tate, the current World Boxing Association champion, or Larry Holmes, the reigning World Boxing Council champ.

The bout, being held in LeDoux's home state of Minnesota, is being billed as the battle for the U.S. heavyweight crown by Harold J. Smith, a producer for Muhammad Ali Sports. "The cream of world boxers still come from America," Smith said. "The winner of this U.S.

championship fight will be ready to challenge Holmes or Tate for the world championship. "LeDoux and Weaver, off their showings against (Ken) Norton and Holmes, are regarded among the top heavyweights in the world." LeDoux, who has a 25-7-4 record, fought to a draw against Norton in his last fight Aug. 19 at the Met Center. Weaver, 22-8, last fought Sept. 22, when he knocked out Harry Terrell in four rounds in Los Angeles.

Before that, he had gone 1 1 rounds of a 15-round title fight wittf Holmes before the fight was stopped..