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ft—THE NEWS-TELEGRAM, Sulphur Springs, T«xot, Turn*day, Fob. 12.1990.
After the leader
Norwegian speed skater Frode Roennmg follows Eric Heiden of
the United States around the rink as they warm up at the World
Speed Skating Sprint Championships in West Allis, Wis.
Saturday. At the midway point in the competition Heiden was in
first place while Roennmg was second
A P photo
Lady 'Cats lose;
Jayvees win 37-12
Coach Angela Hamm’s l^ady
Wildcat basketball team ended
. , its 1979-80 season Monday night
in the Wildcat gymnasium on a
losing note. But for the Iaidy
Atlanta Babbits the 48-40
triumph was never assured
until the final 30 seconds.
Hamm's troops controlled a
meager 14-13 first quarter lead
behind the outside shooting of
* senior guard Jill Pearson,
playing her last game as a tody
Wildcat. Pearson hit seven
from the field for 14 points to
• lead the ‘Cat scorers. Ten of
those 14 points came in the; first
half alone and Hamm's cagers
took a one point lead to the
Intermission, 29-28.
Both teams slowed the pace in
the third quarter, scoring seven
team points each and at the
I . . buzzer Hamm's squad was still
up by one, 38-35,
And with less than one minute
stowing on the fourth quarter
.' clock Hamm's ladles were still
;on top, still by one point, 46-45.
But the Lady Rabbits forced a
turnover and connected on the
field goal to take the lead 47-46
. with 25 seconds left.; The
Rabbits added one from the free
throw line to run their tally to
48-46 and the Lady ‘Cats took
over with 18 seconds showing.
On the pass Inbounds Carol
Flnnie drew a Rabbit foul and
went to the line for a one-and-
one situation and a chance to
tie.
But the first shot bounced
harmlessly off the front rim of
' the goal and the game ended on
that note. Finnie ended the
night with four from the field
and three of six free throws for
11 points.
As a unit the tody ‘Cats hit a
game-breaking eight of 27 from
the free throw line but made up
for it somewhat with a sporadic,
yet stellar defensive showing.
The loss leaves Hamm’s
ladies at 7-18 for the season and
3-11 in district play.
Meanwhile coach Kamilla
Johnson's tody ‘Cat Jayvees
won their 14th season game as
opposed to seven losses with a
convincing 37-12 decision over
the Atlanta Jayvees.
Pacing Johnson's troops were
Dalyn Petty with 14 points and
Sandy Green and Jill Johnson
with eight each.
P. Johnson had eight points
for the Rabbits.
Coach Johnson's Jayvees
finished the’season with a 9-5
district mark.
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Blue Demons
on top again
By TOMCANAVAN
Associated Press Writer
Ray Meyer and DePaul
may have received a scare
last weekend, but this week's
Associated Press college
basketball poll was just
another cakewalk
Meyer’s Blue Demons
were the unanimous choice
Monday for the top spot in
The Associated Press
college basketball poll for
the fourth straight week.
DePaul was tabbed No.l on
all 58 ballots and received a
perfect score of 1,160 in the
voting by a nationwide panel
of sports writers and
broadcasters.
But that was the easy part.
DePaul faced a tougher
challenge in upping its
record to 20-0 last Saturday
— Dayton. It took a basket
by Clyde Bradshaw with
three seconds left before
DePaul emerged with a 65453
triumph.
“We got the scare of our
lives,” said Coach Meyer
after the game.
DePaul wasn’t the only
team to find a niche to its
liking — the next five teams
in the poll also remained
unchanged.
Second-ranked Syracuse
collected collected 1,047
points in outdistancing
Louisville for the runnerup
slot. The Cardinals, who
posted victories over Cin-
cinnati and Providence last
week, were third with 1,012
points.
Oregon State, which
nipped Arizona State in
overtime last week, was
fourth with 959 points,
followed by Kentucky, 898,
and Louisiana State, 874.
St.John’s moved up one
spot this week and took over
the No.7 position from
Maryland with 774 points.
The Terps were next with 749
points while Ohio State and
Clemson rounded out the Top
10.
The Buckeyes, ranked 13th
last week, collected 628
points following triumphs
over Michigan and Michigan
State. Clemson, which
jumped from No. 16 to the
Top 10 after upsetting
Maryland last week, got 462
points in edging North
Carolina for the No.10 spot.
North Carolina headed the
Second 16 for the 1 third
consecutive week. Notre
Dame, Noi9 last week but
upset by North Carolina
State, was 12th followed by
Brigham Young, Missouri,
Purdue, Duke, Weber State,
Arizona State, Kansas State
and Iowa.
tost week, the Second 10
was North Carolina, Purdue,
Ohio State, Brigham Young,
Missouri, Clemson, Weber
State, Virginia, Arizona
State and Indiana.
Kansas State and Iowa,
both of which appeared in
the poll earlier this year,
returned to the list this week.
Games underway
despite problems
By HAL BOCK -
AP Sport* Writer
LAKE PLACID, N Y. I AP) —
Hounded by continuing political
problems and haunted by
logistical nightmares, the
Games of the XIII Winter
Olympiad began on schedule
today in this picturesque map-
dot village nestled in the
Adirondack Mountains.
The official opening of the
Games, complete with the
ceremonial parade of nearly
1,300 athletes, is scheduled for
Wednesday. But the hockey
competition got a jump on the
other sports with six games on
today’s schedule.
For American athletes the
1980 Games could yield a record
winter medal haul. The United
States won 10 medals in the 1976
Winter Games at Innsbruck and
never has captured more than
the dozen it won the last time
Lake Placid hosted these
Games in 1932.
But stars like champion speed
skaters Eric and Beth Heiden,
cross country skier Bill Koch,
figure skaters Linda Fratianne
and Charlie Tickner and skiers
Phil Mahre and Cindy Nelson
could make this a memorable
Olympiad for the United States.
Most of the hockey interest
centered on the awesome Soviet
Union team, considered almost
certain to win the hockey gold.
The Russians opened against
Japan tonight. In other games,
Norway met Czechoslovakia,
Canada played Holland, the
United States faced Sweden,
West Germany opposed
Romania and Poland took on
Finland.
The young American team,
composed largely of college
players, got a close look at the
Soviets in a 10-3 thrashing last
Saturday in New York. Coach
Herb Brooks thought he
detected some extra verve in
the play of the Russians,
brought on, perhaps, by the
current world political
situation.
“The Russians have always
been subtle physically before,”
said Brooks. ‘‘I've never seen
them quite as physical as they
were against us. When Khrush-
chev said that they’d bury us, I
didn’t thihk he meant the
American hockey team of 1980.
They vented a lot that seemed
to be inside them in that game.”
The Soviet squad includes
many of the stars such as goalie
Vladislav Tretiak and forward
Boris Mikhailov, who have
become familiar to North
American fans in the last eight4
years in games against
National Hockey League teams.
Brooks smiles at matching
them up against his young
American team.
“Eight years ago, they were
playing against Team Canada,
the coach said. ‘‘I’ve got six or
eight kids on my team who were
playing peewee hoc-key eight
years ago.” •,
With the opening ceremonies
just 24 hours away, the Taiwan
issue remained clouded.
Athletes from that nation,
demanding to compete as the
Republic of China under their
own flag and with their own
anthem, planned to carry their
suit against the International
Olympic Committee into the
New York "State Court of Ap-
peals today. On Monday in a
middle-level court, Olympic
officials got reversed an
original ruling supporting the
Taiwanese position.
The IOC had ordered the
changes to clear the way. for
participation in these Games by
athletes from mainland China.
That triggered the original suit
by the Taiwanese. If the higher
court also supports the IOC, it
could send the Taiwan team
tome.
While the Taiwan question
weaved its way through the
judicial network, American
Olympic officials presented to
the IOC President Carter’s case
for moving, postponing or
cancelling the 1980 Moscow
Games because of the Soviet
intervention in Afghanistan
“I couldn't say if we won any
points or lost any,” said Robert
Kane, president of the United
States Olympic Committee, “1
was pleased, however, that
their questions indicated at
least that our points were being
understood. That’s been dif-
ficult to get across, even in our
own country.”
The USOC point, which has
seemed to be little more than
semantics to some but is im-
portant in the lexicon of the
IOC, is that the United States
opposes any Olympic boycott.
“Boycott has hostile con-
notations,” said Kane. “We are
for staying within the system to
continue our relations with the
IOC, to take part in the
deliberations and discussions
and perhaps the decision-
making.”
By KEN RAPPOPORT
AP Sports Writer
It was a long shot.
Well, not as long as L>es
Henson’s — but just long
enough for Louisville.
"The play was just to get it to
Darrell Griffith and let him do
what he could with it," said
Louisville Coach Denny Crum.
Spinning around at the
baseline, Griffith went high in
the air and hit a 20-footer with
one second left in overtime to
give the nation’s third-ranked
college basketball team a 56-54
victory over stubborn Virginia
Tech Monday night.
"Griffith hit it with two hands
in his face,” said Virginia Tech
Coach Charlie Moir. "I thought
Dexter (Reid) did a good job on
him.”
After Griffith’s shot, Henson
launched a 40-footer from just
beyond the half-court mark for
Virginia Tech. But the ball just
missed — hitting the rim inside
the basket and bounced out at
the buzzer. Henson, of course,
was the player who beat Florida
State earlier this season with a
record 89-foot, 6-inch shot at the
final second.
‘"niat’s the most patient I’ve
ever seen a Louisville team
play,” said Moir. "Hiey showed
a lot of patience and poise.”
In other action Monday night
Involving the nation's Top
Twenty teams, eighth-ranked
Maryland walloped Boston
University 99-76; llth-ranked
North Carolina defeated
Georgia Tech 60-50; and No. 12
Notre Dame turned back San
Francisco 78-66.
Griffith's game-winning shot
came after the Cardinals had
run 43 seconds off the clock
following a basket by Jeff
Schneider that tied the score at
54-54 with 44 seconds
remaining.
"There aren’t too many
guards that can block one of my
jumpers,” said Griffith. “I just
concentrated on getting good
elevation. I wasn't having what
you would call a hot night (7-of-
19), but that's basketball. You
can't let that bother you.”
Griffith wound up with 14
points for the Cardinals, one
behind team leader Wiley
Brown, who scored 15. Virginia
Tech’s Dale Solomon led all
scorers with 27 points.
Albert King scored 32 points,
including 16 of 17 free throws, to
lead Maryland’s victory over
Boston University. King’s first
free throw of the game gave
him 30 in a.row, then he missed
his next attempt before drop-
ping in the next 15.
Michael O’Koren scored 17
points to lead North Carolina
past Georgia Tech. The Tar
Heels scored only two field
goals in the last 10 minutes, but
hit 20 free throws in that time.
...
M
Kane said he agreed with the
president's position.
“It seems illogical and in-
congruous that a nation which ist
invading its smaller neighbor
and killing and plundering
should host a festival which is
intended to further peace and
international goodwill in the
world,” he said.
\ Kane called the question of
\die Moscow Games the most
diificjjlt crisis situation the IOC
has eveTfacnd “We are trying
to preserve the Games, not
destroy them,” the American
official said.
And while the philosophical
questions of Taiwan and
Moscow dominated the political
side of the Games, the more
practical problem of logistics
plagued the world press
assembled to cover this event.
The carefully-constructed
transportation planjs to move
people around the Olympic area
venues seemed to have
collapsed completely on
Monday. Only 80 of the expected
300 busses were on duty because
of a labor dispute and waits of
more than two hours for
transportation were routine.
The press corps from Swit-
zerland, Italy and France filed
official protests over the
situation.
“We have had a problem with
transportation,” said Ed Lewi,
press coordinator of the Lake
Placid Organizing Committee.
“A couple of contracts had to be
clarified. Our labor problems
seem solved one day but then
not the next. The last word I
have is that they are solved and
we will have 300 buses available
Wednesday.”
Credentials were another
problem with limited access for
events such as hockey, speed
‘.skating and figure skating,
leaving some members of the
media vying with one another
for seats.
For the athletes, however, all
the problems were strictly
peripheral. As the start of the
Games approached, they oc-
cupied their time in the
Olympic Village where a disco
and first-run movies kept them
busy. But they were aware that
their movement in the world’s
sports spotlight was ap-
proaching.
“We’ve waited a long time for
this,” said Mike Eruzione,
captain of the American hockey
team. “We're looking forward
to it right now.”
Third-ranked Louisville
stops Virginia Tech 56-54
ETSU opens tennis
season Thursday
COMMERCE - The 1980
edition of the East Texas State
University men’s tennis team
opens the season on the road
Thursday (Feb. 14) against 13th
NCAA ranked University of
Texas at Austin.
The Lions, who finished
second to Southwest Texas
State University in the Lone
Star Conference last year,
return the league's top doubles
team in senior Bruce Gibson
and junior Chris Herden.
Gibson won All-America honors
in 1978 when he and his brother,
Jeff, won the NAIA national
doubles championship.
The Longhorns are led by
freshman Craig Kardon and
Paul Crozier.
“Texas is very good," head
coach Roger Grant said. "I feel
Bruce could pull an upset as
well as our doubles team."
Gibson is the No. 1 player on
the Lion team with senior Alex
Otero and Herden battling for
the No. 2 spot. Victor Longoria
OLYMPIC SKI JUMPING is being held on the new 70- and 90-meter sites at Lake Plaeidjs
Intervale Bill Massive concrete and steel tower,es were built at a cost of $6.5 million.
District 38-B girls vie
for basketball crown
The District 38-B girls
basketball tournament will be
played Thursday and Friday
night land possibly Saturdayt,
in the Sulphur Springs Wildcat
gymnasium to determine the
district winner.
The top four teams in the
district will be competing for
the title. The Como-Pickton
Eagle girls, coached by Willie
Hargett, come into the tour-
nament undefeated in district
play, posting a 15-0 mark with
an overall record of 24 wins and
one loss, in sole possession of
first place. Coach Bruce
Knowles' North Hopkins
Panther girls, currently in the
second spot, will bring a 13-2
district slate and an overall
mark of 26 wins and five losses
into the final event while the
Saltillo Lion girls, under the
direction of Kerry Garmon,
occupy the number three spot
with a record of 11 district wins
and five losses as compared to
an overall showing of 19-13. And
the Alba-Golden girls, coached
by Charles Cude, round out the
four contestants with a district
record of 9-6 and an overall
mark of 18-12.
The action gets under way
Thursday at 7 p.m. with North
Hopkins and Saltillo in the first
game and Como-Pickton and
Alba-Golden will clash in the
second game. The losers of the
first Thursday game will play
at 7 p.m. Friday and the win-
ners of the second Thursday
game will be in the number two
game Friday.
If the tournament winner is
not Como-Pickton, the district
leader, then a play-off game
will be played Saturday night at
7:00 to determine the district
champion.
Como-Pickton is led by the
hot-shooting, high scoring
Teresa Swanson, who con-
nected in one game against
Yantis for 40 points and hit for
more than 20 on several oc-
casions, as well as Leslie
Mowat, also a consistent
double-figure scorer.
Perhaps Swanson’s lowest
scoring game was against the
Saltillo Lions earlier in the
season, a game in which the
Eagles had to struggle to win 42-
41. Swanson ended the night wih
11 points.
Other names to listen for in
the tournament are Saltillo’s
Kim Jones, Alba-Golden’s
Burge, North Hopkins’ Janet
Gibby and Julie Drummond.
The action in past district
tournaments has always been
fast and furious and this one
promises to be no different, if
anything, even better.
Lions win twice
The Saltillo Lions, on their
way to the district tournaments,
both boys and giMs, defeated
Sulphur Bluff basketball teams
twice Monday night in Saltillo.
In the girls game, the Lions,
led by Kim Jones with 17 points
and Leanda Tully with 10,
slipped by the Sulphur Bluff
girls 39-36. The win leaves the
Lion girls with a district slate of
11 wins and five losses. The Lion
girls will be in the district 38-B
tournament to decide the
district winner this Thursday
and Friday in the Sulphur
Springs Wildcat gym.
For the Saltillo boys, Kelly
Stretcher connected for 24
points'while Scott Lee and Mike
Goldsmith hit for 12 and 10
points respectively to pace a 75-
36 lopsided lion victory.
Chris Dyer and Scott Hen-
derson each hit for 10 points to
lead the Sulphur Bluff scorers.
Stretcher and the rest of the
Lion boys team will be in action
to decide the boys district
winner a week from this
Thursday in the Wildcat gym.
The Lion boys ended their
season with a 15-1 district
record and will come into the
tournament in first place in the
standings.
“We got a lot of practice
shooting foul shots,” said North
Carolina Coach Dean Smith.
“But, that’s the way they chose
to play it.”
Georgia Tech Coach Dwane
Morrison: “We were not ready
mentally tonight. We were still
reliving the Virginia game.
That’s just human, but that’s
not the way to win ball games.”
Georgia Tech, competing in
the Atlantic Coast Conference
for the first time this season,
broke a string of 11 conference
losses last Saturday with a
victory over Virginia.
Tracy Jackson scored a
career-high 23 points and Kelly
Tripucka added 20 in Notre
Dame’s victory over San
Francisco.
is the No. 4 man followed by
Fred Palacio and Bill Adcock of
Greenville.
ETSU's schedule continues
against Southwest Conference
competition with a match Feb.
18 (Monday) against Southern
Methodist University, ranked
4th in the NCAA, and Texas
Christian University on Feb. 25
(Monday).
“These first three matches
will be tough,” Grant said.
"The experience we gain will be
a definite advantage in con-
ference play.”
The Lions will scrimmage
Cook County College Thursday
(Feb. 12) at 2 p.m. on the
University Courts.
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