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Televised Runaway

Cavs Demolish Wake, 104-73

BY JOHN MARKON

CD Photos/Jim Brunetti

Jim Hobgood Forces Layup Over Mike Parrish In Big Win

"Even if we'd played real
well, if we'd played to 100 per
cent of our potential, we still
might have gotten blown out
of the gym."

These were the words of
Wake Forest guard Eddie
Payne after he had spent a long
Saturday afternoon in U Hall
struggling in vain to prevent a
rampaging band of Virginia
Cavaliers from overwhelming
his Deacon teammates, 104-73.

Payne's 22 points
notwithstanding, there was
very little he or any other of
the Deacons could do to stop
the Cavs, who played their best
team game of the year. Three
Wahoos topped 20 points as
the unfortunate Deaus could
only stand by and watch
themselves get chewed up and
ground into a fine powder.

First-year forward Wally
Walker led the Virginia charge
with 22 points and 17
rebounds as he hit on ten of 14
shots to help the Cavs to 55
per cent shooting and
combined with center Gus
Gerard (12 rebounds) to
dominate the boards as the
Wahoos crushed the Deacs
underneath, 55 rebounds to
31. Also scoring 22 points
was guard Barry Parkhill as the
Cavs' All-American had his best
shooting game of the year,
hitting nine of 13 shots. Barry
also doled out eight assist
passes, some of them bringing
the near-capacity crowd to
its feet in appreciation.

Reserve guard Stevie Morris
came off the bench when
starter Al Drummond got in
foul trouble and played his
best game of the year, leading
the Cavs in assists with nine
and scoring four points.

With all this going on,
however, it was still left for
Gerard to leave the game as the
"star." Gus drove on the Wake
centers with reckless abandon
throughout the contest and
finished with 20 points.

With the game on the ACC
regional TV network, the tube
audience was treated along
with the U Hall crowd to a
display of some of Gerard's
most vintage inside moves. Gus
drew at least four or five
standing O's from the crowd
and he, Walker and Parkhill all
left the game to thunderous
applause.

A fourth double figures
scorer for Virginia was forward
Jim Hobgood, who hit seven of
13 shots, most of them from
the vicinity of the Barracks
Road parking lot.

Hobgood, who busied
himself with Law Boards from
8 a.m. to one in the afternoon,
was rushed to the game by a
cordon of Unicops and arrived
just in time to take pre-game
warmups. If he did as well on
the tests as he did in the game,
you can look for him on the
Supreme Court in the near
future.

Also scoring for Virginia
were Drummond with four,
forward Bob McKeag with six,
Dan Bonner and Andy Boninti
with four and Spencer Graham
with two.

Guard Stevie Morris Seeks Escape From Wake's Eddie Payne

It was the "Big Four" of
Walker, Gerard, Parkhill and
Hobgood, however, that made
all the difference. With 16:03
left in the first half and Wake
within four at 14-10, the four
of them combined to lead the
Cavs to their only big hot
streak of the afternoon and a
26-12 lead.

After that it was all over.
Try as he would to shuffle his
lineup and change his defenses,
Wake coach Carl Tacy could do
nothing to stop the Cavs from
running away with the game.
Payne was his leading scorer
while forward Mike Parrish was
second with 15 points and led
the Deacs in rebounding with
12.

In contrast to the jubilation
surrounding te Virginia locker
room, a visitor to the Wake
dressing room felt like an
uninvited guest at someone's
funeral.

"It was weird, man,"
continued Payne. "Everything
Virginia did turned out great."
With that, Payne excused
himself and threw up for about
the fifth time into a trash can.
With the cheering of victory in
the air from the Virgina camp
down the hall, Payne could
certainly be pardoned for
thinking himself a victim of
circumstance.