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Cavaliers Survive Ambush,
Welcome Deacons Warmly

By FRAN MARKON

Another Capacity University Hall Crowd Went Wild As Virginia Topped N. C. State Saturday

Cavalier Galleries Will Receive Second Television Exposure When Wake Forest Invades Tomorrow

After surviving an ambush
by a pack of frenzied
Mountaineers on the shores of
the Kanawha, Virginia's
sixth-ranked "team of
Destiny" returns home
tomorrow at 2 to tangle with
Wake Forest at University Hall.

The Demon Deacons have
not exactly been enjoying a
banner season. They have yet
to win an ACC game and,
although they put up quite a
battle, dropped a seven-point
decision to the Wahoos in
January in a game played down
in Winston-Salem.

Wake has several players
that could be called "pretty
good" but no real stars. Guard
Willie Griffin scores 15 points
per game and is possessed of
the kind of outside shot that
makes ABA scouts drool.
Willie, however, has played
games against Virginia in his
young career and none of them
have been anything to write
home about.

The same cannot be said of
forward Rich Habeggar, who
always seems to save his best
games for the Wahoos.
Habefggar only averages 7.8
points per game but the sight
of blue and orange uniforms
makes him awesome. At first
thought to be a hot prospect,
he's fighting for playing time as
a senior and his continual
success against the Wahoos
seems more than ever passing
strange.

The Deacon center will be
6-9 Pat Kelly. Kelly took over
the bulk of the pivot duties
when Mike Dean, a junior
college transfer, found his
exams too hot to handle. Dean
has since gone on to greater
glories leaving Kelly, who
could not possibly start for any
other ACC team, as Wake's big
man in the middle.

He will be spelled in the
pivot by Sam Jackson, who is
Wake's other starting forward.
Jackson at 6-6, is a fine leaper
who gave the Virginia front
court, fits at Winston-Salem.
He carries a 14 point average
and qualifies as one of head
Coach Jack McCloskey.s main
men.

The remaining starter is
guard Eddie Payne, a nine
point man. Deac benchwarmer
who will probably see
considerable action are guards
Bob Dwyer and forward Bob
Hook. The Wake rinkydinks
are very rinky.

The big Wake stars of the
past, the Gil McGregors and
the Charlie Davises, were able
to carry such mediocre
supporting casts to respectable
ACC records. What this year's
Deac team needs is another
stud capable of doing the same
thing. When McCloskey looks
down his bench tomorrow
night he won't be able to find
one.

This is not to say that the
Cavs will knock Wake over
sweatlessly, although they have
the ability to do just that.
What will be needed on the
Virginia end will be better
team shooting and inside play
and a return by Barry Parkhill
to his "Mr. BP" form. These
ingredients were all supplied in
insufficient quantities against
West Virginia.

In that game, won by the
Cavaliers 89-88 in overtime, it
was only the Wahoos
traditional tough defense and
the deadeye marksmanship of
forward Jim Hobgood (22
points) that saved the team
from certain death. Hobgood
will again be on the front line
against Wake, joined there by
Scott McCandlish and Frank
DeWitt and backed by guards
Parkhill and Tim Rash.

The Deacons are one of the
few teams the Cavs play that
will be shorter than they are. If
the Virginia big men can
establish some control
underneath then the game will
not be close, whether or not the
shooting slump continues.

The game will begin at 2 in
the afternoon and is on
regional television. There will
be no freshman game due to
the unusual starting time but
the Cavalier wrestling team will
face Virginia Tech after the
contest at 4. Virginia really
should win easily but, then
again, statements like that just
aren't going over big around
here any more.

Forward Jim Hobgood Led Cavs With 22 Points Against WVU

"Hobbo" Could Shine Against A Short Wake Team Tomorrow