THE SUNDAY STAR-BULLETIN & ADVERTISER G-2 Honolulu, Dec. 5, 1971 * hal wood Sports Editor it was a grand week of sports Okay, men. Back to the old salt mines. Get out that pick and shovel. Push that pencil, tote that garbage. Resume those dock negotiations. Get on with the Christmas shopping. And, mom, get busy with the poi pounder. The greatest two weeks in Hawaii sports history is over- would you believe it?- the Rainbows won three out of four. Not bad when you consider we're a little ol' isle 'way out here in the middle of the Pacific, really just boys playing with the men. But we're growing up. Of course, our Bows were edged a little by Nebraska, the No. 1 ranked team in the nation, on the football grid last night. But, so what? It was an honor just to be on the same field with that gang of bruisers. But just eight days s ago Coach Dave Holmes' well-tuned band of Bows upset a high-powered New Mexico offense. And on the basketball boards Thursday and Friday coach Red Rocha introduced the 1971-72 edition of his court magicians and they licked Oregon State both times. The fact that the Beavers are considered a good bet to win the Pac-8 Conference this year didn't seem to bother Bob Nash & Co. at all. They just swept them off the boards in the opener. And got too careful in the second before pulling out a squeaker. and now for the basketball If you think the football season was interesting, stick around for basketball. The Bows have st sort of a "breather" this week against Linfield. The Wildcats scored only 109 points in winning their opener and these days that's what we call a breather. Then comes Florida State, ranked 13th in the nation by Sports Illustrated. After that the Rainbow Classic, in which our team opens against Northwestern of the Big Ten. The other possible competition could be the likes of Arizona State, which tromped on U.S.C. in the opener; Minnesota, Temple, California and Texas Christian. No breathers there at all. The demand for tickets is worse than for the Nebraska game, if that's possible. "If we can work something out, I think we'll have to televise most of the major home games," says University of Hawaii athletic director Paul Durham. "Not the Linfield series. But we have bids out for Florida State. And the Rainbow Classic." The rest of the home schedule isn't quite as inviting-Pepperdine, Redlands, U.S. International, Oklahoma City and State. If the Bows can work through the schedule with reasonable success, however, they'll be in line for a bid to the NCAA championships. Or at least the N.I.T. in New York. This looks like a bigger, better and stronger squad than the one that rolled through the opposition last year. Nash is huskier and faster than ever before. He's a better outside shot. And is smarter. Penebacker, the jumping jack Dwight Holiday put on at least a pound and one-half and may have more stamina this year, while losing none of his speed. Jerome Freeman has all the tricks he had last year, plus a few new ones. Al Davis, 6-7 and stronger than ever, is going to be a monster on the boards. And that John Penebacker still jumps like he had springs in his shoes. In the second Oregon State game a ball bounced high off the rim and was coming down near the free-throw line, where Steve Ericksen, 6-11, of the Beavers, and Nash, 6-8, were jumping at it. Penebacker, with a running start, leaped about 12 feet up there and took if away from both of 'em. And he stands 6-2, or would if you didn't count that four-inch Afro haircut. And to show you that Nash has a bit of spring in his legs, too, in the second Beaver game he was running for the ball when Fred Boyd of Oregon State retrieved it and crouched down. Nash, to avoid a collision, leaped clear over the head of Boyd, who happens to stand only 6-2. The crowd acted as if it had just seen someone jumping over the moon. No gravity. Yes, sir. It could be a jivin' and jumpin' season for the Bows. college basketball INTERSECTIONAL St. John's 98, Vanderbilt 81 Villanova 83, Detroit 64 North Carolina 90, Pittsburgh 75 Wake Forest 100, Rice 62 Memphis St. 84, Oklahoma St. 68 Union 112, Sul Ross 89 Kentucky 79, Kansas 69 Texas Tech 91, South Dakota St. 73 Texas 85, Alabama 83 N. Texas St. 61, S. Mississippi 52 West Virginia 70, Cal (Irvine) 66 Marshall 104, South Dakota 70 Tulane 72, Wisconsin 70 Kansas St. 80, Pacific 75 BYU 73, St. Joseph's 72 Ohio State 68, Oregon 57 DePaul 108, Rocky Mountain 84. N. Illinois 116, Cal State Fullerton 82 SOUTH Florida State 96, E. Kentucky 83 Louisville 116, Bellarmine 58 Florida 116, S. Florida 87 Troy St. 88, Fiorence St. 87 Jackson St. 93, Tuskegee 79 N. Carolina State 92, Georgia 81 SW Louisiana 105, W. Kentucky 84 Kentucky Wesleyan 99, Alcorn A&M 82 Jacksonville 77, East Carolina 68 Cumberland 98, Union 79 Maryland 117, G. Washington 96 Davidson 76, Clemson 65 William-Mary 110, Furman 91 EAST Seton Hall 81, Harvard 80 Penn 94, Navy 74. Niagara 84, Gannon 69 Hofstra 58, LaSalle 56 Bradley 92, Culver-Stockton 57 Potsdam St. 72, Utica 53 Lehigh 61, Gettysburg 60 Roanoke 75, Long Island 72 St. Francis 85, Lemoyne 79 Fordham 81, Fairfield 79 Providence 81, Brown 61 Syracuse 91, Army 77 Hunter 63, Nichols 61 Phil. Textile 66, Kings 62 Springfield 97, Clark 84 WPI 68, Coast Guard 64 Boston U. 103, Georgetown 93 Mercyhurst 69, Slippery Rock 68 Rutgers 92, Colgate 80 CCNY 87, Adelphi 62 Holy Cross 69, Temple 68 Iona 63, Marxist 56 Penn State 99, Cornell 75 Queens 81, Yeshiva 57 Lafayette 89, Muhlenberg 71 SOUTHWEST Christian 115, Angelo St. (Arlington) 69 84 Abiliene West Texas St. 100, Texas SMU 110, Austin 69 Pan American 103, Texas Lutheran 72 Advertiser photo by David Yamada The camera catches panoramic sweep of 23,002 fans who came to watch No. 1 Nebraska against Hawaii. Huskers husk Hawaii, 45-3 65 53 Husker quarterback Jerry Tagge (14) fires perfect strike to Jeff Kinney - right over the outstretched arms of Rainbow defender Gene Bickford (65). Weber captures bowling lead Dick Weber's 227-plus pins per game was good enough for first place after 18 games in the third annual PBA Invitational held last night at Waialae Bowl. The St. Louis bowler had a pin total of 4074. Don Johnson of Akron, Ohio had 4023, Dave Davis of Miami 3951 and Don Russell of San Diego 3915. Fifth went to John Tetragria of Brooklyn with a 3847, followed by Dave Soutar of Gilroy Calif. 3840, Akira Ohashi of Tokyo 3661, Roy Buckley of Columbus, Ohio 3619 and Honolulu's Stan Lai, Jr. 3526. Soutar had high game for the night with a 278. Bucks beat Ducks, 68-57 COLUMBUS, Ohio (UPI) -Center Luke Witte scored 21 points as fifth-ranked Ohio State overcame Oregon's ball control tactics last night for a 68-57 victory. Witte's 10 first half points paced the Buckeyes to a 30- 16 intermission lead as the smaller Ducks, working for the good percentage shots, counted only six field goals in the opening 20 minutes. highs and lows on Hu Huskers, Bows MIKE CORGAN, Husker news room as "Old Whats- To a luau? a plane for iMami, to be in backfield coach, has been hername." -0- on the filming for the Kodak buying something different "As a retirement gift, the ALL YEAR LONG Bruce Coaches All-American grid -tropical plants. For Ne- me a trip to Ha- Spinks has been covering team. braska? Certainly. paper gave the real Ram- University of Hawaii sports -0- waii," says for the Advertiser- has He has a friend in Lincoln blin' Rose. "'The hospitality been looking forward to the a report AND THERE'S who has built an indoors here has been great. The week: U.H. vs. Nebras- flying around (true) that Haand courteous. I past waii is negotiating with Netropical garden they are people are so ka in football, U.H. vs. Oreto see if they can raise hope they don't Westernize State in basketball. braska for a home-and-home going gon back in the these people so they get like So what happened: Bruce arrangement in the near futropical plants snow country. ours." is in the ture. hospital, suffering The contract already has -0- -0- from a strep and possi- been written for a game in throat ONE NEBRASKA visitor MEMO TO the vice squad: ble diphtheria. Missed 'em Lincoln in 1978. Now there here for the big week has Not only were tickets to the are negotiations under way all. But he was well enough been Fern Rose from the Nebraska-Hawaii football to sit up and watch last for one in the new stadium city of York (pop. 7,000). She game being scalped, but night's massacre on TV. here in 1976. wrote a column for the local there was a report that tick- -0- What? The Bows haven't newspaper called "Ramblin' ets to the Nebraska luau AFTER THE GAME, had enough of the CornhusRose" and was known in the were being scalped? coach Devaney and players kers yet? after Sanger kicked the ex tra point,: it was 10-0 Huskers with 8:59 to go. That was break number two. Hawaii, as coach Dave Holmes had predicted, was able to move the ball against the Huskers-at least between the 20 yard stripes. The Bows put on a sustained drive after the kickoff, marching to the Nebraska 27. Then, the big Cornhuskers defense, anchored by Rich Glover and Larry Jacobson, stopped them cold. Sovio tried a 43-yard field goal but it was a couple of feet short. Continued from G-1 NEBRASKA took the ball on its own 20 and Tagge didn't waste any time fooling around this time. He passed an aerial of about 20 yards to Jerry List and the slippery end scooted the rest of the way on an 80-yard play for a touchdown with no Rainbows near him to make it 17-0 at the quarter. During that stretch Hawaii's defensive men, overanxious to get at the ball packers, were running into each other. But they settled down in the second period. This time Biscotti was at the helm and he took the Bows on a 59- yard march to the Nebraska eight. The big play in this one was a pass over the middle to Mahi who bowled over a couple of Nebraska defenders and made it to the eight before being pulled down by Dan Anderson. ONCE AGAIN the Nebraska defense held and after three downs Hawaii was back on its 15. Sovio came in and kicked a 29-yard field goal. That closed the gap to 17-3 with 6:30 left on the clock. But the Cornhuskers came marching back. They took the ball on their own 41 and in eight plays, including a 15-yard clipping penalty, made it to the UH 12. From there Tagge found a huge hole at tackle and went in for the score to make it 24-3 with 2:40 remaining. Biscotti took the Bows on another march from his own 25 with passes to Mahi and Roger Parkman carrying to the Nebraska 22 in seven plays. However, on third down and with only a few seconds left his pass on the goal line was intercepted by Bob Terrio. The half ended at 24-3. The powerful Huskers rolled up 481 yards, slightly better than their year long average of 433.7. Jeff Kinney was the leading ground gainer with 56 yards in 16 carries, but the Big Red passed the work around and had 10 different ball packers. Dennis Wyckoff, who carried the ball 10 times, was top ground gainer for UH with 27 yards. The Nebraska defense apparently keyed on Larry Sherrer and held him to a net of 15 yards in 14 carries. Biscotti had the hot hand in the aerial department for the Bows completing 11-18 for 171 yards. Tagge made good on 12 of 25 for 248 yards. net title won by Rodriquez Marquette triumphs MILWAUKEE, Wis. (UPI) -The Marquette Warriors shook off a stubborn Bowling Green team midway in the second half last night and went on to post their second consecutive win this season, 84-64. The Warriors committed several turnovers in the first half and led by only four points, 42-38, at the half. But Marquette came out with a perfect defense in the second half and scored the first eight points to open up a 50- 38 lead. Bob Lackey led Marquette scoring with 24 points. Marcus Washington had 20. Seminoles win TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (UPI) State University won its second straight game of the young basketball season last night, with a 96-82 victory over Eastern Kentucky, the Colonels' first loss this year. Continued 1 from G-1 the Orange Bowl. "We've been allotted only 12,500. Now what do we do?" -0- THE NEBRASKA football players are going to have so much luggage going back that they may have to hire an extra plane. "They've bought everything there is to buy," said a team spokesman. "Tikis, swim suits and aloha shirts. They can wear the swim suits and aloha shirts when they go to Miami for the Orange Bowl--I hope." college football Tennessee 31, Penn State 11 Oklahoma 58, Okla. State 14 Syracuse 14, Miami (Fla.) 0 Cal Lutheran 30, Westminster (Pa.) 14 San Diego St. 44, N. Texas St. 28 Arizona Western 28, Ellsworth 12 (El Toro Bowl) East 19, West 10 (Black Football Classic) Wildcats win sloppy outing EVANSTON, Ill. (UPI)Northwestern pulled away in the second half of a sloppily played game last night to post a 76-65 basketball victory over Ohio University. Northwestern was paced by center Barry Hentz who scored 22 points but played little more than half the game and led 21-28 at the half. Mark Sibley added 20 and Rick Sund got 18 for the Wildcats. Bob Howell led Ohio with 16. Gil Rodriquez beat Jim Schwitters, 8-5 in a pro set, to win the singles competition of the North Shore Open at Church College yesterday. Rodriquez beat Jim Bartlett, 8-2, and Schwitters stopped Bill Vogt, 8-3, to earn final berths. Schwitters and Rodriquez took the doubles title by default. WEST USC 102, USF 82 UCLA 106, Iowa 72 California 79, Arizona 76 Utah 93, Utah St. 74 Santa Barbara 88, Samford (Ala.) 71 Arizona St. 96, a Cal Riverside 87 New Mexico 78, New Mexico St. 76 Baylor 86, Oklahoma City 82 Houston 67, Tennessee 65 Hardin Simmons 102, Dallas Baptist MIDWEST Minnesota 72, Iowa State 54 Marquette 84, Bowling Green 64 Notre Dame 81, Valparaiso 71 Northwestern 76, Ohio U. 65 Illinois 70, Oklahoma 65 Missouri 73, Arkansas 72 Michigan 90, Western Michigan 69 Indiana 65, Miami (Ohio) 50 Purdue 94, Eastern Michigan 84 Michigan State 87, South Alabama 72 Drake 87, Butler 77 Akron 53, Kent St 39 Ohio Wesleyan 85, John Carroll 83 Wichita St 74, Nebraska 61 Sparts trounce South Alabama EAST LANSING, Mich. (UPI) The Michigan State Spartans, spearheaded by sophomore guard Mike Robinson's 29 points, had little trouble beating South Alabama here last night, 87-72. The Spartans received a well balanced scoring effort with center Bill Kilgore adding 20 points and forward Al Smith hitting the nets for 13 more. Andy Denny had 28 points to pace South Alabama. In the first game Ken House's tap-in with three seconds left gave Seton Hall an. 81-80 upset victory over Harvard. Oregon, led by the outside shooting of 6-foot-9 Rusty Blair and Doug - Little, narrowed the margin to 37-31 with a little over 14 minutes remaining in the second half, by outscoring the Buckeyes, 15-7. Bob Siekmann, the Buckeyes' second leading scorer with 14 points, then came off the bench and rallied Ohio State to a 54-39 lead with six minutes to play. wanted: clubs for Governors Farrington High is returning to golf competition but the team needs golf clubs. Robert Watanabe, athletic director, said anyone with used or old clubs he wants to give away. should contact him at the school, 841-3331. "I'll have someone pick them up," he said.