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Cavaliers Smother Terps

Parkhill, McCandlish Lead
Fourteenth Victory, 78-63

By Randy Wert
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer

A Volatile Lefty Driesell And A Smiling Bill Gibson Mirror Last Night's Game

Virginia's 78-63 Win Meant Satisfied Grins For Hooter, A Technical Foul For Lefty

So Maryland's Varsity didn't
have four High School All-Americans.
The Cavaliers' 78-63
victory was no less impressive as
a fired up team and its
accompanying ACC atmosphere
destroyed conference personality
"Goodbye" Lefty Driesell's
"contending" Terrapin before a
crowd of over 9,000 partisans.

Parkhill Stars

Superhooper Barry Parkhill was
again the moving factor as the
Pennsylvania flash dropped in nine
of seventeen floor attempts and
three foul shots for 21 points. Scott
McCandlish looked very big with a
perfect seven for seven from the
foul stripe and five field goals for
17. Junior Frank DeWitt picked up
the attack in an early second half
stump and fired in 16 markers, 14
in the last period.

After the Terps jumped off to
an early three point lead Parkhill
got the slightly off Virginia offense
rolling with six straight points. The
very slow tempo of he first ten
minutes saw much ball handling by
Maryland's "name" sophs Howard
White and Jim O'Brien (complete
with red Maryland "knickers").
Coach Bill Gibson, delighting the
crowd in his Sunkist orange
Wahoowah trousers insured reserve
Jim Hobgood who wasted no time
in throwing in a 23-foot bomb
to give the Cavaliers their first lead
in the contest, 22-21.

Cavaliers Go Ahead

Virginia went ahead for good on
Parkhill's layup after a Hobgood
steal, and Maryland proceeded to
go cold for a three minute period,
only to score once again before the
half ended with the Cavaliers on
top, 40-26.

Hot shooting in the second half
propelled he Wahoos to a 26 point
advantage at which point Driesell
called time to regroup in what the
home fans assumed was a gesture of
surrender. The largest ever
University Hall crowd, which tended
to get a bit carried away at points,
cheered lustily when the official
signalled the inevitable technical
on Coach Driesell.

Terps Fail

Maryland never did get an attack
mounted after the intermission as
Parkhill's seemingly off-balance
shots and DeWitt's six for seven
courtwork complemented a tough
defense which held the 6-7 "guard"
O'Brien to two points in the second
half (six in the first), and "H"
(Holdog?) White to twelve for the
contest. The Cavaliers shot ten
percent better than he Terps and
won the rebounding war 46-32 over
much taller opponents.

Virginia's record in now 14-4
overall and 6-3 in he ACC with a
road contest at Wake Forest this
Saturday evening. So pack you cars
and you flasks and roll to
Winston-Salem with a little ACC
atmosphere U-Hall style.