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-t -r Page 6B Tuesday, April 23, 1996 Patterson needs to vault through busy week children, is a teacher at Shelton State in Tuscaloosa. Her fiancee, Trey Woodard, is earning his master's degree at Alabama. After rolling through the first half of its SEC schedule, the Tide dropped its first conference series since last season when it IF0 Inside Alabama with Phillip Tutor TUSCALOOSA Don't go to Sarah Patterson's house this week. She may not be there. Patterson, the coach of Alabama's nationally ranked gymnastics team, has felt the scheduling crunch of holding the NCAA Championships at Coleman Coliseum in Tuscaloosa the last few weeks.

Everything from practice times to team hotels, from ceremonial banquets to coliseum decorations has been arranged by the university's athletic department. Some of that has passed over Patterson's desk. And this week, it's only going to get worse at Patterson's house. In the coming days, the Pattersons (her husband, David, is a Crimson Tide assistant coach) will have 35 family members coming to Tuscaloosa, where they'll revel in the pre-meet festivities and live at the Pattersons' home. Sarah Patterson, though, won't be there.

"We're turning over the house and we're moving into the hotel," Patterson said. "I'll pretend we're in a different city and we're lost two games to woeful Ole Miss last weekend at Se well-Thomas Stadium. Up next: Three games this weekend at powerful LSU, not a good destination for a team thats bats have gone silent, Alabama had won seven straight SEC series, dating back to last season, Perhaps the good news for the Tide is pitcher Joel Colgrove, who's stated to start one of the games against LSU, Colgrove is 6-0 the last two seasons against top 25 teams. Alabama is also 8-0 the last two seasons against top 25 teams in games he's started. NERVOUS DAD: It's a big week for Alabama basketball coach David Hobbs.

On Thursday, Hobbs celebrates his 47th birthday. Saturday afternoon, Hobbs will celebrate the marriage of his daughter, Heather, in a large ceremony in Tuscaloosa. Heather Hobbs, the oldest of Hobbs' two TIDE TIDBITS: Kudos to Becky assistant sports information director. This week the Tide's women's basketball media guide, which Hopf produced, was judged second in the nation by the College Sports Information Association The Tide's men's golf team now looks as if it may earn an NCAA bid, Alabama finished second overall in the Billy Hitchcock Intercollegiate last weekend. Tide golfer Chip Deason was a big reason for that success, as he posted a career-best finish of second with a 210 (70-72-68) The Tide's men's tennis team finished the regular season last weekend with a 13-10 record, 12 victories better than its record a year ago The Tide's women's golf team didn't fare as well.

It ended up 10th of 12 teams in SEC competition last weekend in Knoxville, traveling with our team. I think I have to do that. "If I put myself in a position of helping run the tournament and being a mother with two small children, I think I'll do a disservice to our team." On Monday, Patterson and her husband received good news. David Patterson was promoted to assistant head coach, while Sarah Patterson will soon receive a contract extension. Her current contract expires at the end of this season.

BAD WEEKEND: Alabama's nationally ranked baseball team couldn't have picked a worse time to hit a slump. Miller-less Pacers still a tough team 14 I minr iMimwii'' pi 0 lmmlltf "3 I i A Nebraska football helmet sits atop the casket of former Cornhusker quarterback Brook Berringer, who was buried Monday in his home of Goodland, Kan. Kansas town bids a somber to Berringer, Lake goodbye Associated Press GOODLAND, Kan. Brook Local basketball Jennifer Miller and Jennifer Watson of Jacksonville Christian will sign grant-and-aid scholarships with Gadsden State in basketball. The two outstanding guard-forwards for coach Tommy Miller have been on the Lady Thunder varsity since the sixth-grade The pair helped lead the Jacksonville Christian basketball team to a runner-up finish in the NACA national tournament at Dayton, Tennessee.

Miller averaged 14 points and 1 1 rebounds a game, while Watson averaged 23 points and nine rebounds this season. "I know they both will work real hard and be an asset to the Gadsden State program," said coach Miller. Local softball a The Alexandria Lady Cubs defeated Piedmont 9-4 and 10-4 Monday afternoon. Summer Stedham was the winning pitcher in both games. The Lady Valley Cubs will play Jacksonville today.

Local soccer Donoho defeated Erwin 3-1 Monday afternoon as John Hurlbutt scored all three goals for the Falcons. Donoho scored all their points in the first half while Erwin scored its only goal late in the second half. Donoho travels to play Jacksonville today. Local volleyball The first annual Mountain Dew Classic volleyball tournament will be held at Silver Lakes on Sunday. The format will have a 2 on 2 competition in both men and women competition.

Deadline for entering the tournament is Saturday at noon. For more information, call 492-9981. Minor league baseball CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. Paul Bako's two-run homer in the third inning helped Chattanooga beat Birmingham 6- 4 in Monday Southern League game. Bako third homer of the year gave the Lookouts a 5-1 lead.

Billy Hall's RBI double added a run to put Chattanooga up 6-1 before Birmingham attempted a comeback. Birmingham's Maggleo Ordonez hit his first home run of the year in the fifth, and Greg Norton followed with a ground out in the same inning to make the score 6-3. The Barons' Mike Cameron hit his fourth homer of the year to end the game. ZEBULON, N.C. Willie Morales and Steve Cox each had two-run homers and Bret Wagner worked six strong innings Monday night as the Huntsville Stars beat the Carolina Mudcats 4-2 in the Southern League.

The game was delayed 17 minutes in the top of the seven inning by a power outage, and the second game of the scheduled doubleheader was called off because of trouble with the lights. Wagner (2-1 threw five innings of no-hit ball after settling down, getting 10 ground ball outs and seven strikeouts. Kirk Dressendorfer worked a scoreless inning to notch his first save of the season. College baseball BATON ROUGE, La. LSU second baseman Warren Morris will be lost to the team for four to eight weeks after undergoing surgery on his injured right wnst Wednesday, the school said.

Morris, who has a fractured hamate bone in his wrist, will begin rehabilitation shortly after the operation in an effort to speed his recovery and return, LSU said Monday. Morris, who has missed 27 of LSU's 45 games this season due. to the injury, played in the final two games of last weekend's series versus Arkansas. Baseball CINCINNATI Cincinnati Reds right fielder Reggie Sanders will be sidelined for three-to-five weeks because of a torn disk in his back. The Reds put Sanders on the 15-day disabled list Monday and called up Chad Mottola from Triple-A Indianapolis.

Sanders had a bone scan Monday in Los Angeles that detected the disk tear. He injured the lower back while diving for a ball April 12. College Football time in high school racking up points on the basketball court. The day of his funeral, as friends, family and former teammates wept, the scoreboard showed only the number he had worn at the University of Nebraska No. 18.

"I was so proud to have coached in the small plane that crashed last Lincoln, with Berringer at the were from Goodland. on wheels were set up in the Max where Berringer played basketball one casket was a Nebraska football other a heap of red roses. Next to on the scoreboard was No. 99 as a high school football player. watched videotaped highlights of the on two large-screen televisions.

shown reading to children, and playing known you. You were a great example of how to live your life," said Nebraska quarterbacks coach Turner Gill, his voice heaving, tears in his eyes. In a broken voice, Gill said: "I and miss you." Some 3,000 mourners were on By Hank Lowenkron Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS Reggie Miller's heroics sparked the Indiana Pacers to the Eastern Conference finals the past two years. They apparently will have to get past the first round against Atlanta without him. NBA Miller was still bothered by double vision on Monday, when his teammates began practicing for Thursday's start of their best-of-5 series.

Miller had surgery to repair a fractured socket in his right eye on Arpil 14 and was supposed to miss three weeks. Miller was put on the team's 12-man playoff roster on Monday, but the timetable was unchanged. "Reggie is progressing nicely. The eyeball and muscle are healing, but he still has some double vision," said Dr. John Abrams, who performed the exam.

"Reggie and his examination show improvement and the double vision is decreasing." Miller is limited to riding a stationary bike and walking, indicating he may not be in shape to play basketball immediately. "When you lose a player like Reggie, who has played so well at this time of the year and is such a big part of our team, everybody has got to step up," said coach Larry Brown, who guided the Pacers to 52 wins for the second consecutive year. "I've been around Reggie three years. If it is humanly possible for him to play, I have every confidence he'll play. "I want him to get well.

I don't want him to come back if he's not well," Brown said. Miller missed the last four games of the season and Indiana won three of them. Hornets coach resigns CHARLOTTE, N.C. Allan Bristow resigned under pressure as coach of the Charlotte Hornets today after the club had a nine-game drop-off from last season's record and failed to make the playoffs. Bristow took a struggling 3-year-old franchise and molded it into respectability, but was unable to turn the Hornets into consistent winner.

"Allan and I came to a mutual agreement that it was time for us Isaac From Page 1 driver to walk into victory lane." Rutherford began racing in 1959, driving Modifieds at Devil's Bowl Speedway in Dallas. He moved on to sprint cars and was the USAC sprint champ in 1965. That was also the same year he claimed his first Indy-type race, a 250-miler in Atlanta. What some auto racing fans may not know is Rutherford drove a few Winston Cup events. In fact he won the first one he ever entered.

He won one of the 100-mile qualifiers for the 1963 Daytona 500. "It was the first time I'd ever been in a late model stock car," he said. He retired from racing in 1989. Racing fans in the South may not be familiar with John Surtees, but his accomplishments are remarkable. Surtees is the only driver to win world championships in both cars and motorcycles.

Born in 1934 in England, Surtees was born with the sounds of roaring engines in his cars. the burial, planes flew overhead. It was a somber day for those who knew Berringer and Tobey Lake, a Tyson; Must avoid strip Today 's lineup No games scheduled. The playoffs start Thursday night. SENT PACKING Brendan Malone, who led the expansion Toronto Raptors to a 21-61 record, was fired as coach Monday because of differences with general manager Isiah Thomas.

Malone was replaced by assistant coach Darrell Walker, a former teammate of Thomas'; Walker was signed to a three-year contract. Butch Beard was fired as coach of the New Jersey Nets, just two days after they finished a second straight 30-victory season. SCHEDULE The New Jersey Nets and Orlando Magic will play each other twice in November at the Tokyo Dome in regular-season games. STATUS Joe Kleine, the Phoenix Suns center who fainted during the national anthem on April 14, has been cleared to play Friday night against San Antonio. SUSPENDED? The Seattle SuperSonics face the prospect that Shawn Kemp might be suspended for a playoff game against Sacramento.

Kemp and Denver's Tom Hammonds were ejected for fighting Sunday night. SPEAKING "If we win every game by two or three points, that's OK. If we win by 15 points, that would be a serious statement But we don't expect that to happen. The regular season doesn't really count. We just want to redeem ourselves for last year." Michael Jordan.

to make a change and head in a different direction," Hornets owner George Shinn said today at a news conference that Bristow did not attend. "Allan has been with us a long time and I appreciate all of the effort and dedication he put into his job. I feel he already did the very best job he possibly could." Bristow did not go out after a losing record. But the Hornets' 41-41 mark and failure to make the playoffs represented much less than had been expected from Charlotte this season. His father was a pro motorcyclist who won the British sidecar title in 1937, '38 and '39.

John Surtees won his first motorcycle race in 1951 when he was 17 years old and in 1956 he claimed his first motorcycle world championship. He would win six more. In 1958 he was named Britain's Sportsman of the Year. A year later he made a test run in an Aston Martin and in 1960 made his debut in four-wheel competition. He finished second in his first car race.

Four years later he claimed the sport's foremost title, the Driver's World Championship of Formula I. His Ferrari finished more than a minute ahead of the opposition at the Nurburgring in Germany and at Monza in 1964. A second-place finish in the final race at Mexico City enabled Surtees to come from behind in the standings and win the title by a single point. Berringer spent you and to have love you, Brook, hand Monday. At Boxing raping a woman.

The purpose of the new restrictions is to keep Tyson out of potential trouble situations, said George Walker, chief probation officer for Marion Superior Court. "In other words, he couldn't' figure it out Walker said. "It not only puts him on notice, but his staff and friends on notice." there and give it 100 percent." Senior pitcher Dave Townsend said the team realizes the amount of effort required for Marchant to do his job. "We know it is hard for him to coach. We get to come out here everyday and run, throw and hit," Townsend said.

"Sometimes we may take it for granted. That's one thing coach has always toldus, don't take anything for granted." The accident hasn't changed Marchanl's competitive nature. But it's had an effect on his coaching philosophy. "I think coaching means a lot more to me. I'm more sensitive to the needs and wants of the kids off the field," he said.

"I don't think anything on the field is different. My competitiveness is still the same. "I'll be honest, if I hadn't had a good year coming back (1994), I might not be here right now," Marchant said. The Statesmen were 45-13 the first year after the accident. They friend who was week near controls.

Both Two caskets Jones Fieldhouse, as a student. On helmet, on the Berringer's number Lake's number Mourners two men's lives Berringer was football. clubs, bars Walker said Tyson agreed to abide by the new restrictions. The restrictions were imposed by probation officials in Ohio. Joe Andrews, a spokesman for the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, said officials decided to prohibit bar visits because that's where the alleged assault took place two weeks ago.

"Strip bars are sexual in nature, and his offense was sexually related," Andrews said. advanced to the NCAA Division II College World Series and finished third. Delta State, which hosts the GSC tournament April 26-28, has also won three straight Gulf South Conference Western Division titles, including this vear. The Statesmen have played in two NCAA region-als. Marchant refuses to take all of the credit.

His right-hand man is Mike Kinnison, who soon after the paralyzing accident became the first full-time assistant baseball coach hired by the Cleveland school. "I wouldn't have been able to do it myself. To be honest, we needed a full-time assistant before I got hurt," Marchant said. "I'm glad we have one now. It makes it easier to run the program.

"Coach Kinnison and my philosophy is so much a like, there is not a lot of difference," he said. "I don't have an ego as far as what he's doing. He's doing a great job. That's been evident the last three years." Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS Mike Tyson has been ordered to stay out of bars and strip clubs after a woman claimed the boxer assaulted her in Chicago. Tyson has- disputed the woman version of events, in which she said he fondled her and tried to bite her face at a Chicago nightclub.

He is on probation after serving a prison sentence for Marchant From Page 1B ways. The Jeep rolled over into a field. Marchant was thrown from the vehicle, a jolt which crushed a ver tebrae in his neck. His wife, who unlike her husband was wearing a seatbelt, suffered only minor injuries. Doctors have said Marchant he will never walk again.

"Coach Marchant does a great job of coming out every day and doing his job and showing his deter mination to be here, said fifth-year senior outfielder Heath Bailey. "We look at him and realize what we can do. You look at him sitting there. You can be thankful for what you have. You go out there and play everyday." Bailey said the coach has never used his paralysis as motivation for the (earn.

"He doesn't use that as a factor to make us play hard," Bailey said. "But as a team we recognize the sit uation, and are thankful and get out.