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basketball.Two fine days from the top of beer can hillBaseball team rallies, falls to 10-10filled. trip and enters a season sounprepared cannot be expected toBY JOHN SI DO LISince Spring 1971 seems to be reserved for Fridays, the annual afternoon gatherings on Beer-Can Hill to watch the BC baseball team have been difficult to attend. However, two days weresufficiently nice enough to watch games against UMass and Holy Cross from the littered box-seat.Walking up the hill must be the reason for the consumption of the beer on top. because anyone who climbs it must be in as good shape as the team on the field.When one reaches the top of the hill he is greeted with salutations by the bare-backed fans, and must make sure each is returned to be able to remain in the special fraternity. Hi Timmy, Hi Sid, Hi Jack. Hi Sid, etc.This feeling of brotherhood must be the over-riding impetus for viewing a game from this site because left and center fields are completely obscured by a cluster of trees. If the main idea was to watch a baseball game the standswould be far more advantageousbecause they are almost neverhes season 5 electedweaknesses which must be remedied before the club kicks off its fall schedule against Harvard next October 2. Good crowd support could help the spirit situation, as enthusiasm in the stands is contagious on the field. Strength, depth, and ability point to a successful season coming up, as long as the fire lacking this year is there next year.Elections were held last week for next year’s club officers. Jim Cusick was elected president, succeeding Brian King. Jim Mullin is the secretary, Tom Zlatopor the fixture secretary, and Doug Gorans son will handlemembership and publicity. The social secretary job went to ferry O’Donnell, the treasurer is Bill Fornaci. and “A” team captain is Mike Holland.Joining Harvard on next year’s schedule are Fairfield, Holy Cross, Tufts, MIT, the Pilgrims, and Beacon Hill Rugby Club.The first game against UMass was played on a summer-like day with the temperature in the 80's. The hill was jammed and the beer was flowing generously. The obscenities flowed as generously as the beer.UMass had a very good college baseball team which was battling UConn for the Yankee Conference title, and BC was a mediocre team with a five hundred record hoping lor anoutside bid to the NCAA tournament.BC won 7-5 with aid of some UMass mistakes and a seventh inning two run homer by Jack Abbott. Frank Hewett, BC’s answer to Bobby Shantz, started the game but needed relief help from Frank Worthington and Gary Becket, the latter picking up the win. Becket pitched three innings of brilliant, hitless ball to finish up the game.The second game against Holy Cross was rained out then replayed two days later. Up on the hill the elements were less pleasant with rain threatening and a cold win blowing. But beer has a tendency to make you forget about that (and sometimes even the game).Some of the game was remembered, however, and BC was the victor. Gary Becket came back to pitch a complete game shutou! as the Eagles won 1-0. The lone run C3ine in the third inning on a bases loaded single by Buddy Bender. Becket took care of the rest.BC dashed what little hope there was for a NCAA bid by dropping its next two games to Dartmouth and Colby. The Indians provided a tough test for the Eagles because they threw Pete Broberg at them. Broberg is one of the lop pitchers in the college ranks and is certain to be a high draft pick, possibly of the Red Sox. He showed why he rates so highly by striking out 20, a new Dartmouth record, as the Indians beat BC 14-1 Obviously down after the defeat, the Eagles played sloppily and lost a 8-3 decision to Colby, dropping their record to 10-10.It is believed here that a team which does not have a southernperform well enough to be considered for a tournament bid. Maybe the people in the Athletic Office should consider a change inslateits altitude towards the baseball team and start with a reappraisal of the coach. Perhaps there should be a coach who isn't allergic to the south.Minority sports at BC(Ed. note: Sean Rush plays soccer for the BC team)Boston College has been trying lo compete on a national level with many other major colleges in the country in recent years, athletically as well as academically, and it is in this vein that BC has been trying to build an image of First-class varsity sports. Think of BC and you think of football, hockey, and basketball, certainly not lacrosse, soccer, tennis, wrestling, skiing, and/or golf. The fact is that these sports are given second class treatment by this school.It’s really embarrassing when an opposing team comes to play soccer, a varsity sport, and BC does noi have a trainer present at the game in case of an injury, nor do wc even offer oranges at halftime. After the game you must go back to your locker room, which is no larger than a good sized closet, to find that the Villanova football team has taken it over. You then travel through the frigid temperatures of McHugh Forum with only a towel around your waist in order to take a shower, dodging people who are putting on skates. The only time the above situation does not occur is when the football team is on the road.The gap between the haves and the have-nots, sportswise. is an ever widening one. While the football team lounges in a wall-to-wall carpetedlocker room equipped with piped in stereo music, some minor sports%team must wonder when and lo where the location of their locker room will be changed. A pup-tent erected outside the tennis courts? The greenhouse next to Higgins Hall? Maybe even the press box in Alumni Stadium!It just seems that minor sports are forgotten on this campus. Aside from the fact that a trainer fained to show up at 4 out of the 6 home soccer games, no representative failed the Athletic Association bothered to appear at any team banquet of any minor sport. The only people attending the affair were the team members and the coach. Even the custodian from the gym would have been better than nothing. Either the AA representatives did not want to come or they jusl forgot, more than likely the latter.The AA at tliis school seems to make only token gestures in its approach to minor sports, not really giving a damn, just calling a sport a “varsity sport so it can list more than 4 or 5. Look at some of the other schools to which BC likens itself, Brown, Harvard and UCLA for example. ALL of the varsity sports at these schools carry the prestige that goes with the name of the school. They do not just play up the football, basketball, or hockey, and virtually ignore the other sports offered as varsity sports. It is very misleading to bring someone to BC and say that we offer 1 I varsity sports and have him assume that they all get treated the same as, let's say, the football team. Until that apocalyptic moment when BC realizes its superficial sports image and gives to “minor” sports the prestige and concern that it gives to “major” sports, it can not be truly called a top rank and first class university in athletics.
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