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Campus Review
March 6, 2012
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Williams, Salter Earn
All-Peach Belt Conference Honors
by Lee Wright, Sports Information
The Clayton State Laker men’s basketball
team picked up two All-Peach Belt
Conference honors on Tuesday.
Both Teondre Williams and Anthony
Salter were selected second team All-
Peach Belt Conference for the 2011-12 sea-
son. It marks the second straight season that
Clayton State has had multiple All-
Conference selections in men’s basketball.
ADivision I transfer from Oregon, Williams
is the Lakers’ leading scorer this season,
averaging 18.3 points per game. The 6-foot-
5, 218-pound senior from Atlanta is ranked
third in the Peach Belt in scoring, and has
reached double-figures in scoring in all but
three games played this season.
Williams scored 20 or more points in 11
games, highlighted by a career-high 28
points against Limestone, plus 27 points
against Flagler and 26 points against West
Georgia. He also scored 24 points each
against Tennessee Temple, Edward
Waters and West Georgia and is shooting
76 percent from the free throw line this
season.
Salter, a 5-11, 170-pound senior point
guard from Tallahassee, Fla., took over
successfully following the graduation of
last season’s All-PBC guard Timmy
Downs. The Division I transfer from the
University of Hawaii is averaging 17 points to
rank eighth in the Peach Belt. He also shoots
38 percent from 3-point range and 75 percent
from the free throw line.
Salter scored in double-figures in all but two
games played this season. He scored a career-
high 26 points against UNC Pembroke, plus
25 points against Montevallo twice and
against Augusta State.
Williams
Salter
Men Drop 48-40 Decision
To Aiken in PBC Quarterfinals
The Clayton State Laker men’s basketball
team turned in perhaps its top defensive
performance of the season. However, the
Lakers could not make some key shots
down the stretch and dropped a 48-40
decision against USC Aiken in the Peach
Belt Conference Tournament quarterfinals
at the Lumpkin Center. The defeat ends
Clayton State’s season at 16-11 overall.
“That was an unbelievable effort by our
team,” said Clayton State head coach
Gordon Gibbons. “We came in extremely
well-prepared, and that team (USCAiken)
was guarded tonight by a real good defen-
sive team. But what cost us the game
tonight was the free throw line.”
It was a defensive battle to the nth degree.
Clayton State limited the Pacers, the
Peach Belt Conference regular season
champion and one of the top offensive
teams in the conference, to only 26 per-
cent shooting from the field and 1-for-16
shooting from 3-point range. But the
Lakers could not fare much better offen-
sively, shooting only 33 percent from the
field and 0-for-9 from 3-point range.
That ended an impressive streak for the
Lakers in which they connected on at least
one 3-point basket in 330 straight games.
Neither team led by more than seven
points in the first half as there were six
ties and eight lead-changes.There were
five ties and six lead-changes in the sec-
ond half. Clayton State opened the half on
a 12-4 run as Anthony Salter converted a
3-point play and a jumper in the lane.
Juron Dobb’s lay-up at the 12:49 mark
gave the Lakers a 29-26 lead.
USC Aiken took the lead for good on two
free throws by Jesse Seilern, but Clayton
State had numerous chances to either tie or
take the lead. USC Aiken finished the game
on a 7-1 run in the final two minutes.
Anthony Salter paced Clayton State with
18 points, while center Andrew Bachanov
grabbed a game-high 11 rebounds.
Trivia Time
Born in the U.S.A.
by John Shiffert, University Relations
Just to slip in a Bruce Springsteen ref-
erence… who was the first American
president who was actually “born in the
U.S.A.?”
No less than four former chief execu-
tives were nominated for this singular
honor; George Washington, Martin Van
Buren, John (no relation to Steven)
Tyler and Zachary (no relation to Rob)
Taylor. It is, of course, something of a
trick question.
Washington, for instance, was born in
what became the state of Virginia, but,
at the time, it was the Virginia colony,
since there was no United States. Thus,
the first president born after independ-
ence was declared from England was;
Martin Van Buren, Old Kinderhook
himself. (In case you’re interested,
Tyler was the first president born after
the Constitution was adopted.)
Those who came up with Van Buren
included; Jill Ellington, Taylor (Rob,
not Zachary, although he guessed him,
too), Teressa Bolt, Lou Brackett,
Norman Grizzell, Brett Reichert, Scott
McElroy, Kurt-Alexander Zeller, Tom
Eddins, and B.D. Stillion (who gets a
Bonus Point for the “Born in the
U.S.A.” line.)
Sticking with this year’s theme of pres-
idential politics; who was the first sit-
ting president defeated for re-election
thanks in a large part to a concerted PR
campaign by his opponent, consisting of
clever electioneering slogans, jingles,
banners and the like? Send your answers
to Clayton State’s PR person.