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"1978 AIC Swimming ResultsHendrixHardingCentral ArkansasSouthern ArkansasOuachita BaptistArkansas TechHenderson State63527316716614511534Victory filled the air as the WaterBuffaloes opened their 1978 season.Traveling to St. Louis, Missiouri, theWater B.uffaloes overtook MacMurrayCollege of Illinois with a score of 68-44. Harding swam on to triumph overWestminster College by a score of 65-48. In the same meet the WaterBuffaloes fell to powerful University ofMissouri-St. Louis by a 40-70 margin.Important winning events for Hardingwere the 400 yard freestyle and 400yard medley relays.The Water Buffaloes began practicingin late September and the seasonclosed with the AIC Championshipmeet in late February. Throughoutthese practices coach Arnold Pylkasworked in developing each swimmer'sform, endurance and confidence. Aspecial aspect of the Water Buffaloes istheir spiritual closeness. Freshmanswimmer Monty Lynn stated, "CoachPylkas' Christ-like influence has greatlyadded to the spiritual closeness of theteam."Continuing on in their season, thetankers traveled to Conway competingagainst the Hendrix Warriors and OBUTigers. The Bisons returned havingoutswum the Tigers 78-33, but fellshort to their arch rivals, the HendrixWarriors, 89-24. Harding pulled a firstin the 400 freestyle relays with a timeof 3:53:27. Dale "Goober" McCoy andEdd ie BI ackshear captured a fi rst andsecond place respectivel y, in the oneand three meter diving competition.The Water Buffaloes triumphedagain in their final home meet againstHenderson, scoring 95-18 - leavi ng apositive feel ing for the AIC Championshipmeet. .With a determination and spirit towin, the tankers set out for victory inthe Ale. At the end of an exhausting,but exciting weekend, the WaterBuffaloes had a total score of 273points for second place, with theHendrix Warriors taking the championshipwith 635 points. Some importantwinning events for the tankerswere the 400 yard freestyle relay, the100 yard individual freestyle, and the200 yard individual backstroke. Theend of this meet proved to be a veryemotional one as Coach Pylkas endedhis coaching career after six years hereat Harding. Of these six years, Pylkas'team never returned from the AIC withless than second place.Swimming • 205
Charles BurtA'.lff>;,7,QI.!ENAJAI30WlingHall of FameWinning outright AIC championships incross country and bowling and tieing forthe championship in football, whileplacing second in swimming and tennis,enabled Harding to place third in t he AICAll-Sports competition for 1977 with 66 Y,points, behind Ouachita with 72 andUniversity of Central Arkansas with 73'1,points. Thi s was the 13th consecutiveyear that Harding placed fourth or higherin the All-Sports competition of the 10-member conference.M ike O'Keefe, a four-year letterman intrack and a two-year letterman in crosscountry, received the 1977 Cliff ShawScholar-Athlete Award presented by theAIC to the graduating senior in theConference earning at least two lettersand achieving the highest grade average.He achieved a 3.977 average en route to amajor in social science and a strong minorin art which he converted to a B.S. degreein art during the 1977 fall semester.O'Keefe was the 11th Harding athlete inthe last 19 years to receive this award .On April 14, 1977, at the NAIA nationalbowling tournament in Kansas City,Charles Burt was inducted into the NAIABowling Hall of Fame. Burt, who participatedin four national tournamentsduring his undergraduate years at Harding,is the only bowler ever to win theNAIA singles t itle twice. He won thesingles as a freshman in 1966 and again asa senior in 1970.For the second year senior ButchGardner was named to the A II-NAIAsecond team in basketball and for thefourth year to the AII-AIC team as hecl imaxed a great career at Harding. Heholds the third all-time scoring record inAIC annals with a four-year total of 2,255points in the 107 games he played for theBisons. On February 21, 1977, his jerseywith the famed number "20" was retired,the first athlete in any sport at Harding tohave his number retired.Bisons dominated the AII-AICrecipients in cross country and bowling aswould be expected since Hardingperennially wins the conferencechampionship in these two sports.Vince AdamsBaseballAII-NAIA DiS!. 17Kyle AsbillTennisAll-AleMike BeamBaseba llAll-AleTim BoydSwimmingAll-AleGary BrownFootballAll-AleAII-NAIA Dist. 17Lanny DaukschFootballAll-AleAII-NAIA DiS!. 17Bryan DavisBowlingAll-AleNAJA All-AmericanMax EllzeyFootballAll-AleAII-NAIA Dist. 17Kevin FisherBowlingAll-AleAle Singles Champion206 • AII·Stars
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