Evangel University - Lancer Yearbook (Springfield, MO)

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Nancy Whitlow, junior, with help from Debbie lawhorn, senior, grabs the ball between Southwest Missouri State players. Lawhorn was leading scorer t22t and rebounder Oi, but the Crusaders were defeated 68-71. row, the women's basket- ball team played well enough to be invited to the Missouri Association of Inter- s collegiate Athletics for -; Women's Division II state i . tournament. ' By virtue of their 3-3 record within their district, the Lady Crusaders qualified for the tournament, held February 26-28 at William Woods Col- lege in Fulton, Missouri. Wil- liam Woods was the defendin state champion, while Evange ranked with Southwest Mis- souri State and Lincoln Univer- sity as favorites to dethrone the Owls. The team compiled an 18-7 overall record under first year coach Lynn Bowen, a 1972 graduate of Evangel. Bowen was filling the shoes of his predecessor David Stair, who took a one-year sabbatical to pursue his doctorate. The season was highlighted . by some individual achieve- For the second year in a w Howard T'iPP ments of senior guards Tracy Zinn and Cindy Light. The backcourt duo has been at Evangel since their freshman year. Miss Zinn surpassed the 970 point record on February 3. She finished the season with a total of 1,074 points. In addition, the 5'6 guard established career marks in assists and steals. Her four-year total of 157 assists and 131 steals, and her single game records for assists U41 and steals U11, prove Miss Zinn as one of the most outstanding women's basketball players. a Miss Light, who once scored a record 44 points in a ame as a freshman, broke te 800 career point barrier. The 5'7 guard- amassed 830 points moving her into third place on the scoring list. The Crusaders began their season like a house afire, winning five games in a row. The previous year the women began with nine straight wins, Four-year starter Tracy Zinn, senior5 leads a fast break against Missouri Southern while Nancy Whitlow, jun- i'or, and Val Aldrich, freshman, quickly follow. Miss Zinn scored a season high 28 points in this game. Photo by Howard Tripp. Seniors' soaring statistics spotlight season by Breaking the barriers and fans had visions of another 16-5 season and a state cham- pionship. The bubble burst with an 83-60 loss to Missouri South- ern in Jo lin, and the team proceede to drop three of its next four games and finished the 1980 portion of its schedule with a 6-4 record. Highlighting the early season was the performance of junior forward Nanc Whitlow, whose 5'8 height belied her rebounding prowess. Miss Whitlow kept her per ame .r'ebound average aroun 12, and threw in a school record of 26 rebounds in an overtime win over Central Methodist. The team came back from semester break determined to earn a trip to the state tour- nament. Sophomore Phyllis Thompson rejoined the lineu after missing seven games with a broken finger, and the team reeled off nine straight wins to run its record to 15-4. b Howard Tripp Phyllis Thompson, sopho- more, fights for the ball with a Missouri Southern player as Debbie Lawhorn, senior, and Nancy Whitlow, iunior, stand ready to help. Front row: Debbie lawhorn, Cindy Light, Tracy Zinn, Shar- on Whitaker. Back row: Johnny Sheppard, manager, Joyce Barney, Carla Unruh, Jodi Blain, Phyllis Thompson, Vicki Foster, Val Aldrich, Gwen Beans, Nancy Whitlow, Donna Creekmore, Jewell Detlefsen, Coach lynn Bowen. Women '5 Basketball 207

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1980-81 Womens Basketball 82 Bartlesville Wesleyan 78 William Jewell College 66 Benedictine College 71 School of the Ozarks 74 Central Methodist 60 Missouri Southern 65 Lincoln University 45 Northwest Missouri State University 84 KansasCin Community College 68 Southwest Missouri State University 90 Bartlesville Wesleyan 63 University of Missouri-Rolla 85 School of the Ozarks 88 Southwest Baptist 78 Washington University 59 University of Missouri-Stt Louis 85 Central Methodist 81 University of Missouri-Rolla 101 Missouri Southern 62 Crowder College 57 William Woods 56 Southwest Missouri State University 111 Southwest Baptist 66 Southeast Missouri StaIe University 76 Crowder College 2 0 8 Women '5 Basketball 51 53 55 67 67 83 70 83 44 71 57 53 70 82 52 57 61 66 70 72 71 80 64 47 74 This Iay-up shot by Cindy Light senior, is only one of many that led the Crusaders to a 101- 70 victory over 1 Missouri Southern. Miss Light and Tracy Zinn, senior, both passed old school scoring records during that i game. Soaring statistics spotlight season Included in that string were a pair of wins over district foe Missouri-Rolla, an exciting 88-82 homecourt win over Southwest Baptist, an upset, 59-57 win at higth-touted Missouri-St. Louis, and a crush- ing, 101-70 triumph at home against Missouri Southern February 3, the night Miss Zinn broke the scoring record. The win over Southern assured the Lady Crusaders of a trip to the state tournament. The winning streak was cut short as the team dropped three games in a row. The first of those losses, to junior college power Crowder College, severely dampened the possibility- of Evangel reaching the national rankings for the second year in a row. Two nights later, defending Ho ward Tripp Senior Tracy Zinn steals the ball froiIi ' a Southwest iBaptist Bearcat and makes a fastbreak downcourt. Miss Zinn averaged 14.5 points per game. Senior Sharon Whitaker displays the iree-throw style that gave her the second highest percentage $3.21 of free-throw shooters on the team. Photo by Howard Tripp. state champion William Woods handed Evangel its first home- court loss in two months, and Southwest Missouri continued the Crusaders' plight with a big win three nights later. Two other seniors played their final games in the maroon and white this season; Sharon Whitaker and Debbie Law- horn, who transferred to Evan- gel from Crowder before their junior season. Both jumped into the starting lineup im- mediately and have been hard to bump from the starting quintet. In two years as a Crusader, Miss Lawhorn scored over 600 points and snared nearly 300 rebounds. Miss Whitaker in- creased her scoring output to 12 points per games and again was nearing 100 assists. The Evangel scoring leaders: in each game were usuallyl different, as evidenced by the balanced scoring statistics. Miss Zinn's 28 points against Mis- souri Southern was a season high. She also scored 25 in an early season game at William Jewell. Miss Zinn topped the 20 point mark four other times, as did Miss Lawhorn, while Miss Whitlow and Miss Whi- taker each eclipsed the 20 point barrier twice. Rounding out the Lady Cru- saders squad were juniors Donna Creekmore and Jewell Detlefsen, sophomores Carla Unruh and Gwen Beans, and freshmen Vickie Foster, Joyce Barney, Jodi Blain, and Valerie Aldrich. 8 - am Twining t