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15-9 Victory

Duquette, Barker Lead Stickmen

By JOHN MARKON

Snapping a two-game losing
streak, the Cavalier lacrosse
team got peak production out
of starting attackmen Tom
Duquette, Jay Connor and
Chip Barker and handled
sixth-ranked Towson State
rather easily, 15-9, in a game
played Saturday at University
Hall Field.

Duquette, held without a
point for the first time in his
University career last weekend
against Navy, came back in
Saturday's game to lead the
early Cavalier charge and
finished with three goals, three
assists, six points, and an
injured ankle which will
hopefully mend for this
weekend's Maryland game.

Virginia so dominated the
game's early going that the
Cavs had already established a
3-0 lead before Towson
attempted their first shot on
goal.

Doug Cooper connected for
the first two Wahoo goals, both
on feeds from Duquette, and
Connor nailed the third on an
unassisted effort.

It had become obvious by
this time that the Towson
defensemen, despite some fine
individual efforts, were not
going to have an easy day with
the Cavalier attack. Connor
beat Wendell Thomas for his
early goal and four assists,
creasemen Barker and Rick
Beach totalled seven goals and
two assists against Sal Maffei,
and Duquette got his six points
against Howard Thomas.

John Sothoron was in the
nets for Towson and, after a
rocky start, played well. He
was credited with 21 saves on
the day and made several
excellent stops on Virginia
midfielders, holding
All-American Pete Eldredge
without a point.

Roddy Rullman and Scotty
Howe, both first-year men,
each played a half in goal for
the Cavaliers and neither really
did a bad job. Rullman, the
starter, had a few problems in

the second period but, on the
whole, they were probably
both satisfactory.

Cavalier lacrosse boss Glenn
Thiel thought his team played
a 'good game" but felt that
the Cavs 'let up on them a
little near the end.' If this was
indeed the case, the team can
be pardoned as they had the
game well under control early
into the third quarter.

Top point man for the
Wahoos was Barker, starting his
first game ever for Virginia.
The tall second-year creaseman
rammed home five goals and
made two assist passes. He
always seemed to be in the
right place at the right time
and soon Duquette and Connor
were looking for him and
working to him regularly.

Virginia's middies, while
they didn't score much, had a
good day on clears and rides
(busting up 12 of 29 Towson
clears) and played fairly good
defense. Midfielders breaking
into the scoring column were
Cooper (two goals), Jim Ulman
(a goal and an assist), and
Richie Werner, who scored the
Cavs' final goal.

Attackmen accounted for
the remainder of the points
with Connor breaking a school
record that had stood since
1950 by notching his 41st
assist of the season. Other
totals had Beach scoring two
goals and Doug 'Toes' Tarring
garnering an assist on Werner's
goal.

On defense, Virginia
exhibited a more
close-checking style than usual
and handled the Towson attack
well with the major exception
of one Craig Saxon. Saxon,
playing right behind, burned
Boo Smith and a few other
defenders for his outstanding
game total of six goals and one
assist.

Except for the injury to
Duquette, which might prove
to be little more than an
annoyance as "Duker" was
iced up, taped up and sent
back in to play for a while, the
team will be in good shape for
their encounter with the Terps,
presently ranked number one
but losers against Army on
Saturday.

Although that game will
decide the ACC title, the
game's national importance has
shrunk just a little as powerful
Johns Hopkins continues to
kick tail. In weekend action the
Blue Jays, led by Sports
Illustrated photo-spread darling
Jack Thomas, smashed a good
Navy team, 17-3, in Annapolis.