Evening star., 1955-02-09
Richmond Warns Up
With vMI for CIV
And LaSaIIe Games
BY the Assesiatsd Press

Richmond's Spiders. unranked
nationally but currently the
toughies of the Southern Con-
ference, go after victory No. 9
In the conference tonight in a
game with Virginia Military In
stitute at Lexington. Richmond,
conference leader, has lost only
one game in the circuit, while
VMI has only 1-6 mark.
The VMI game looks like
Richmond's only easy outing this
week. however, for Friday night
Richmond comes here to meet
George Washington. the confer
ence's defending champion.
which now is third with a Al
mark in the standings. Rich
mond then moves on to LaSalle
for a game with the Nations
third ranked team Saturday
night. N
Beaten Once by Richmond.
Richmond gave George Wash
ington its only conference de-
feat after the Spiders had lost
o nonconference game to the
Colonials, who rank No. 6 in the
Nation.
George Washington got ready
for Friday nights tussle by
spanking Maryland, 1857. last
night while North Carolina
State, with six players scoring in
the double figures, defeated Vir-
ginia. 114-97. and climbed into
q first place Atlantic Coast Con-
ference tie with the Terps.
Both N. c. State and Mary
land have 80 conference records.
But tonight both may have to
move over a bit to make room
for Duke and a three-way first
place tie. Duke tackles Wake
Forest and is the favorite.
Wilkinson Scores "a.
Virginia's Buzz wilkinson
poured in "a points and took
honors for last nights game.
The Wolfpack was forced to
abandon pregame plans in order
to beat the Cavaliers. Virginia
held an eight-point advantage
after eight minutes Of play.
Cliff Dwyer then went into the
lineup to assist Ron Shavlik and
John Maglio to step up N. C.
States fast-break attack. Soon
the Wolfpack had charge Of the
boards and the game.
Shavlik had rs points, high
for N. c. State. Dwyer had 10
and Dave Gotkin 18.
It was Virginia's eighth loss
In II conference games.
W&L ROuts Roanoke.
In the only other Southern
Conference game last night.
Washington and Lee routed
Roanoke College, 100-65.
In other games. Colorado
Western blocked Idaho States
bid to wrap up third straight
Rocky Mountain Conference title
and an automatic NCAA berth,
1857. It was Idaho States first
conference defeat in nine games
and only the second league set
back in three seasons.
Penn strengthened its Ivy
League lead with q 1884 deci-
sion over Columbia while Prince
ton knocked OFF Cornell. 71-47.
In the Big Seven, Iowa State
defeated Kansas, 77-59, and in
the Southwest Conference 1t was
Rice, 70; Texas, 70.
Penn gained q game and O
half lead over runnerup Colum-
bia as the Quakers again put
their running game in motion
and Karl Hoagland, the defen-
sive~ace, limited the Lions Chet
Forte to Is points. Forte had
scored 81 points in his last two
league games.
Princeton and Iowa State,
meanwhile, got their usual big
help from their big men. Capt.
Bud Haabestad scored 26 in the
Tigers victory over Cornell and
Chuck Duncan canned 81 for the
Cyclones against Kansas.
In other games, Holy Cross
whipped Yale, 80-56, after fall
ing from the top 20 in the As
ISOLATED Press poll with defeats
by Niagara and Syracuse last
week. Both losses were con-
sidered upsets and Syracuse kept
at it last night by spilling
Niagara. 87-83.