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Cavayearlings Win

By Davis Marshall
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer

Anyone following Virginia's
basketball team can easily see that
next season's edition will genuinely
be good if only an adequate
replacement for sterling forward
Chip Case can be found. With four
starters and a portentous bench
returning the Cavaliers can only
improve, especially with the
possible addition of '68-'69 starter
Mike Wilkes. But, in order to insure
a good shot at the ACC'S upper
division, Bill Gibson needs another
good guard-forward.

Freshman Coach Dick DiBiaso
may have the solution to Coach
Gibson's enigma in Barry Parkhill
a lean, graceful jumping jack from
State College, Pennsylvania who
taps out at 10 feet 11 inches.
Saturday afternoon, after Virginia's
typically close IV loss, the 6-3
"Pistol Parkhill" (sic) led the
Cavayearlings over Roanoke
College's frosh 107-78. Moving
fluently, sentiently sure of his
ball-handling and shooting ability,
he tallied 37 points on 14 of 21
from the field, and 9 of 12 from
the line, to boost his season's
average to 25 points per game. He
also hauled in 12 rebounds and
added five assists for a rather
normal performance.

To be sure all of the
Cavayearlings fared well. Larry
Gey netted fifteen points and
garnered 11 rebounds in perhaps his
finest effort this year. Jim Hobgood
pulled down a game-high 18
rebounds and added 14 points
while the two other starting
members of the team. Jim Farmer
and Jerry Berman, contributed 13
and 12 points, respectively.

Despite a final point spread the
game was close in the first half.
Parkhill staked the Cavayearlings to
an 8-0 lead in the initial two and a
half minutes. But the taller
Mas came back, mainly on
outside shooting and a sometimes
shabby Virginia defense, to knot
the score at 27-27 with six minutes
left. A flurry of fast break baskets
game the first year men an eleven
point lead, but Roanoke countered
with eight straight points before the
half-time buzzer and trailed into
the locker room down by a mere
three points, 42-39.

Five minutes into the second
half Parkhill scored seven
consectutive points in the span of a
minute, making the score 59-16,
breaking the game wide open and
sending the Cavayearlings to their
fourth-win in eight attempts.