ptumwmatimil Sporting an overall 5-1 record and enjoying a four-game winning streak, the R-hrend cagers also have their greatest start ever, according to Coach Roger Sweeting. The coach attributes much of this to good bal.- alce on the first string squad. Joe Williams and Ron Hornyak have both been averaging about twenty points per game. Barney Easel, Thal Taylor and Howie McGregor have all been averaging between eleven and sixteen points per game. Victory at Dußois The last two wins have been against the Dußois Campus of Penn State and the 'Warren Campus of Edin boro State College. In the former on December 17, a new all-time scor ing record vas set for the Cubs with their 136-78 win. With ten minutes left in the last period, the Cubs reached a score of 100. Then the additional. 36 were racked up by the substitutes who finished the game. Bruce Rine hart, who tallied fifteen points as a substitute in that game, made the record-setting basket. Coach Sweet ing points out, coincidentally, that ha also scored the record-breaking point in the first game this year against the Venengo Campus of Clarion State College, when the previous high had been 115. Page li, With six players in double figures for that game, 'Barney Edsel vas high-scorer with 27 points. Warren Team Bows aro days later, December 19, the Cubs von over the cagers of the Warren Campus of Edinboro State Col lege, with a final score of 90-64. High-scorer Joe Williams sank 25 baskets in that game. The highlight of that game came came in the second half. Scor ing seventeen points themselves, the Behrend cagers held the Warren tee scoreless for the first six and one half minutes of the half to break the game open. 3 Players lost Unfortunately, term grades have taken their toll on the basketball team, as in other organizations. The team is losing three members. But this loss will be partially made up by Randy Lschowski, and important on last year's starting string, who has once again become eligible for Play- Kane Games Scheduled The Bel:mend team has a tight schedule this week, but they . will all be home games. Tomorrow night they face the team frao the Venango Campus (cont. To. 5)
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