| Summary: | Combing the cob -\ World renowned snow surfer Nick Burg catches the drift. by Larry Seljevold For those of you who were regular attenders to Concordia's men's varsity basketball games, you'll probably recognize the name Ivan Larson. He's the gentleman who is the official timer at such games. Although retired, he was once a professor of business education and the faculty representative to the M.I.A.C. for Concordia. During this last season it was my pleasure to work with him, as he ran the clock and I the Scoreboard, except once Mr. Larson couldn't make the game due to illness. Now everybody gets sick once in awhile and such an occasion can easily go unnoticed. In fact his absentee probably would have, had he not mentioned that that was the first game he had missed since 1955. That's an awful good track record. If he keeps up things he won't miss another game until 1999. During the weeks of Feb. 21-Mar: 5, Concordia's played host to some of the most Fearless staffer flees land of the sometimes thaw for Alaska where 'snow's up and surfin'sgoocT by Nick Burg With the snow beating down and the vast wetness all about, I creep to the edge of my board with my toes numbing quickly, and shoot through the big swell while hangin ten; Whoopee! I've made it. I rode the big one; the one the Eskimos called "the big drift." Now ifs Miller time-time to relax. Women cagers close season with second place in MAIA Wtourney by Mary Henkes The Concordia College wo-men's basketball team rounded out their 1976-77 season by Capturing a second place finish in the small college MAIAW tournament Feb. 17, 18,-19 at. Southwest State University. Concordia defeated conference1 rival Bemidji State University by1 a narrow margin to earn a berth in the tournament. In the opening round, Con-cordia defeated St. Olaf 51-47 behind the strong rebounding of Kathy Meyer and Cindy Hudson who grabbed 18 and 11 re-bounds respectively. Becky Dooley tallied 12 points to the scoring column. The victory pitted Concordia against the • Southwest State Pintos. Co-captain Hudson and fresh-man Mary Schultz teamed up to score 16 and 19 points respec-tively and Hudson grabbed 9 rebounds. Earning a berth into the finals with the 57-48 win over Southwest State University, the Cobbers anticipated a tough battle with Concordia of St. Paul, the number one rated team, but St. Catherines pulled an upset over Concordia of St. Paul. St. Catherines continued their winning ways over Concor-dia Moorhead with a 56-44 victory to earn their way to the region tournament in Nebraska. The Cobbers ended the sea-son 20-13 overall. During mid-sem break, I decided, to escape Moorhead's temperate weather and go north. While in Juneau, I learned about snow surfing. Snow surfing was invented by the eskimos and has been popular for a long time. The best surfing is when a new fallen snow has fell and the snow plows are out clearing the roads. The-trick is \o ge\ next-tQ the blade and ride- the drift along the road., .-,-,• ••.-. There are two ways one can tell when the snow and tem-perature are just right: first—you can lick your beach pole and if your tongue peels off, you know it's just right; secondly—you hear someone yell, "snow's up!" Most seasoned surfers prefer the latter. Many of the favorite snow-surfing resorts up north have really gone commercial since snow-surfing has gone faddish. The rrjost popular beaches are frequented by sensuous snow bunnies, albino brazened, he- -Tien, and pensive looking pen-guins. Nome, Alaska, is espec-ially commercialized and even allows topless surfers. Here's some surfing jargon that I picked up: (1) Snow's up = it's snowing. (2) Blue baby = surfer stuck in a drift for 12 hours. (3) Big Bumps = refers to abnormally large geese bumps on a surfer's skin or a well-endowed snow bunny. (4) Norwegian booty = Norwe-gian who wears galoshes while surfing.- v - - • • (5) Eye Cycle — when a surfer gets ari icicle in the eye. , Here's a few "hip" things tp . say while on the beach: (1) "Heh, it's snowing." (2) "Looks like snow." (3) "Flaky, Baby. Flaky" And with that 111 flake off baby. 1 Summer Help Wanted! Wilderness Camping Program in northern Minnesota needs counselors and canoe guides, ^interested contact Tom. and Dale from Outdoor Ministery, Inc. Friday, March 11 between 2 and 4 p.m. at the Gold Room in the Centrum. .'•1 SPORTING GOODS SEETHE PR0FE55I0NRL5 OF exciting basketball ever played. The high school district and regional tournament was held to determine which area schools would go to the state next week. Fjor some Concordia students, this tournament was also the last time to punch the old time card. , For the statistician crew oT Darrel Olson, Jim Bauck, Brad Atchison, Kevin Shipley, Kent Stadum and Dave Crinaker, it was the last time to figure shooting percentage and re-bounds. For Mark Anderson, the region final was the last time a basketball crowd in Concordia's auditorium will ever hear his voice. Women's track team opens with 'strong performances' by Mary Henkes Concordia's womens track team opened competition at the United States Track and Field Federation Bison Open at NDSU. Coach Joyce Prokop's contingent turned in some strong performances. Connie Grosz, a freshman from Anoka put the shot 363 W for a first place finish. Freshman Dawn Peterson sprinted to a fourth place finish in the 60 yard dash as she clocked a 7:38 second time. Sophomore Ann Seery placed fourth in the 60 yard hurdles with a 9:45 second performance. The following members also tallied good times for the early season nerformance: 880 yd run-Mary Henkes, 2.26, 7th pface; Barb Cart ford, 2.36 Mile run--Barb Cartford, 6.01; Ann White. 7.02 440 dash-Joyce Wefel, 1.05; Kathy Tufte, 1.07:5. 60 yd dash-Kan Fevig, 7:9; Kathy Tufte, 8:1. ( The women will host the Concordia Invitational track meet Saturday, March 19 at 10:00 a.m. Bennett defends NAIA championship by Larry Seljevold Barry Bennett successfully defended his national N.A.l.A. Division II! heavyweight cham-pionship last week at Eastern Washington State. Trailing 3-2 in the remaining seconds, Ben-nett scored a takedown in the last seven seconds edging Don Wilson of Eastern Washington State 4-3. Concordia tied with Lake Superior State College with 25 points for 14th place. M.I.A.C.- champion Augsburg placed 7th with 32 points. Mark Jensen, a sophomore from Brainerd, had four wins and two losses in the tourna-ment. 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