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THE COURIER JOURNAL, FRIDAY, JAN. 7, 1972 Lyons keys upset A 11 1:1 ilk Hv Bafflin' Bellarmine loses 77-76 mystery to Houston Baptist Morehead sophs shock Marshall placed by Bubba Abell, Lowell Ashby and Ike Unseld. Harrell's decision to start the 6-2 Noll at forward in place of injured Ron Nicholson, moving Coulter into the pivot, gave Morehead an all-sophomore lineup. Coulter scored 26 points, Bill Dotson 20 and Howard Wallen 10. Amazingly enough, 25 of Lyons' 27 points came in the first half.

Morehead's next outing comes against Illinois State at home Monday night. Last night's game was the Eagles' fourth straight on the road. first time in the game 76-74 on a short jump shot with 1:03 left. Worsham, a reserve who scored 17 points overall, made the deciding point on a free throw with 15 seconds to go after Bellar-mine's Bobby Todd had tied the score 76-76 on a long jumper. Duncan had a chance to perhaps salvage the win for Bellarmine when he was fouled by Eddie Brown with seven seconds showing on the clock, but he missed the first free throw in a one-and-one situation.

"Bellarmine seemed to lose most of its offense when it decided to hold the ball," said Houston Baptist coach Lonnie Richards, whose team improved its record to 6-5. "But it's easy to say that now. I'm not knocking coach Reibcl. "Bellarmine was great that first half. I'm not sure what happened to them after that, but I do know my players never gave up." On that point, even Agatha Christie would agree.

By HERB WHITNEY Courier-Journal Tlmat Staff Writer Agatha Christie would have loved it. But it's doubtful that even the world's master mystery writer could have unraveled the strange goings-on in the second half if she had been at Knights Hall last night for the Bellarmine-Hous-ton Baptist basketball game. Here are the essential facts. Bellarmine, playing its best basketball of the season in the first half, shot 53 per cent from the field and led 49-35 at intermission. Bellarmine, playing its worst basketball of the season in the second half, shot 38 per cent from the field, threw the ball away 14 times, was outrebounded 27-17 and turned what had earlier looked like a rout into a nip-and-tuck affair in the closing minutes.

Bellarmine lost 77-76. "I take full blame for what happened," said Bellarmine coach Joe Reibel, whose Knights now stand 5-3 on the season after last night's unbelievable turnabout. "We tried to force them out of their zone defense in the second half by holding the ball and making them come to us, but it backfired. S.W. Louisiana avenges loss, dumps Eastern i i Special to Th Courier-Journal W.

Va Coach Bill Harrell's baby-faced Morehead basketball team has now lost any opportunity to sneak into the Ohio Valley Conference race as a lightly-regarded "sleeper." 'But that's all right baby, that's all light. The sophomore-studded Eagles outplayed heavily-favored Marshall and scratched, out a 103-98 victory on JlarshalFs court last night. JVVes, that's right, this was the same Marshall team that horsewhipped More-Jiefld 105-82 earlier this season at More-head in a game that wasn't even that close; the same Marshall team that came into last night's game with an 8-1 record 3-4 and ranked No. 13 in nation by Associated Press. to make the victory even sweeter, Morehead hung on to whip its traditional inter-state rival despite losing three starters to personal fouls.

Noll ties it up trailing twice by 10 points in the first half, Morehead finally went ahead 46-45 with 4:36 left in the period on a fastbreak layup by Eugene Lyons, whose 2 points topped all scorers. Morehead scored the last five points of the half to lead 61-53 at intermission, btft Marshall, which got 26 points from Mike D'Antoni, fought back in the second half to forge ahead 80-79 with 7:06 to.play oft two Russell Lee free throws. Ken Noll tied it with a free throw, Morehead scored four straight points and then pushed ahead by 12 196-84) with 2:55 left. The Eagles held off Marshall despite the fouling-out of Lyons Noll (5:39) and Leonard Coulter Those three were re- Staff Photo by Charley Pence BELLARMINE 7 HOUSTON BAPTIST 77 WAGGENER'S Mike Wood gets off a shot while Trimble County's Tony Jett (13) and Tony Gossom (23) look oa The action took place in last night's Henry County Invitational game. Waggener won 73-57.

FG FG FT TP Player Player Coleman ..,12 Senter 3 Bennett 1 Brown 4 Roy 2 Fiinrhp 2 FT TP 3- 3 19 2-6 10 1- 4 1 4- 10 22 2- 5 IS 0-1 2 0-0 0 0-0 2 0-0 4 12-29 74 0-1 24 Held 2- 2 8 Wallace 4 0-2 2 Hunter 0 4-5 12 Duncan 9 4-5 8 Todd 7 0-3 4 Wright 1 0-0 2 Potter 0 3- 5 17 Cunningham 1 0-2 0 Duffy 2 "I've been coaching for 10 years, and wuuamson" ..1 that's the first time it's ever backfired. Hurst .32 It's my fault. I didn't prepare the kids well enough to make the strategy work." Totals 32 13-25 77 Totals Halftime Bellarmine 49-35. Attendance 1,800 (estimated). Bradley clouts Memphis; Drake outlasts Wichita Bellarmine, which could do nothing wrong in the opening 20 minutes (guard George Duncan hit 7 of 10 from the field and had 18 points and forward Greg Held connected on 6 of 7 for 12), changed from a precision scoring machine into a fumbling, error-prone lemon in the second half.

Low percentage shots hurt College basketball tonight KENTUCKY SCHOOLS Centre at Tennessee Temple. Wesleyan at North Park. OTHER GAMES Presidential Classic at Ft. Myer, American U. vs.

Virginia Tech, Texas A8.M vs. George Washington. Southern Cal at Oregon. UCLA at Oregon State. MARSHALL 98 FT TP Player FG FT TP 26 MOREHEAD 103 Player FG Dotson .7 Wallen 4 Coulter 10 Abell 2 Lyons 11 AJhby 1 2 ON YOUR VALUABLES 6-4 20 D'Antoni ...10 6-7 2- 2 10 James 1 2-2 6-10 26 Collins 7 2-6 3- 3 7 Driscoll 2 0-0 5-7 27 Orsinl 1 2-2 2-2 4 R.

Noll 8 5-7 4- 7 8 Lee 8 7-10 1-2 1 Special to The Courier-Journal LAFAYETTE, La. Southwestern Louisiana's 15th-ranked college basketball team avenged its only loss of the season last night, turning the tables on visiting Eastern Kentucky by a score of 87-80. It was the Louisiana team's seventh straight win after dropping a 105-99 decision to Eastern at Richmond on Dec. 1 in its first game of the season. Eastern fell behind early In the first half last night and never caught up.

A six-point surge in the final minutes of the first half helped Southwestern Louisiana to a 10-point edge, 43-33, at halftime. A three-point play by guard Billy Burton pulled Eastern back to within seven at the start of the second half. Then Southwestern Louisiana turned it on full speed ahead, eventually going ahead by 18 points, 65-47, with 11:38 to play. That was Southwestern Louisiana's longest lead of the game. Eastern suffered a pair of crippling blows in the final six minutes.

With 5:36 left, guard George Bryant fouled out with 23 points. Eleven seconds later, his running mate Burton joined him on the sidelines. Still, Eastern, using a full-court press, scrapped back to within four points, 84-80, with 44 seconds left on a free throw by Wade Upchurch. Upchurch had a chance to trim another point off the host's lead, but missed his bonus free throw. Southwestern Louisiana got the rebound and stalled for 30 seconds.

With 14 seconds lelt, Steve Greene was fouled' by Bobby Newell. He hit the first to make the score 85-80, then missed the second. Eastern's Daryl Dunagan rebounded, but Eastern lost the ball out of bounds with five seconds to play. Green hit a field goal at the buzzer to account for the final margin. Dwight Lamar, who hit on 13 of 31 field goal attempts, led the winners in scoring with 34 points.

Fred Saunders added 13 and Payton Townsend 12 for Southwestern Louisiana. Bryant's 23 points were high for Eastern, now 5-3. Charles Mitchell added 20 and Robert Brooks contributed 10. 4 16 4 4 21 23 98 Ifnteld 0 Totals 37 M-39 103 Total 37 24-34 Halftime Morehead 61-53. ivShootlng percentages Morehead 51, Marshall 42.

Attendance 6,472. Associated Press Sam Simmons poured in 24 points last night to pace Bradley to a 95-79 romp past Memphis State in a Missouri Valley Conference contest at Peoria, 111. Both teams traded baskets early in the first half until Bradley exploded for a 33-15 lead with eight minutes left in the half. They led 46-31 at the intermission and were never headed. Don Holcomb, a 6-10 center, led Memphis State with 24 points and Larry Finch added 21 in the losing effort.

Bradley now is 2-1 in the conference and 7-4 overall. Memphis State is 0-1 in the MVC and 5-4 overall. Meanwhile, sophomore Bob Whitley scored four clutch baskets in the final eight minutes to lift Drake to a 61-58 victory over visiting Wichita in the MVC opener for both teams. Whitley's basket with 2:58 to play pushed Drake into a 58-57 lead. Cleo Kilgore's rebound shot 42 seconds later stretched the margin to three and Wichita never got closer than two points.

Sophomore Larry Seger had 16 points to pass Drake, now 4 5. Wichita is 6-2. West Texas tripped North State 79-69 in another MVC clash at Amarillo. Bouncing back from a six-game losing skid, Louisiana State whipped Georgetown (D.C.) 90-71 at Baton Rouge, La. Bill Newton tossed in 37 points for the winners.

Southern Illinois outran the University of San Diego 95-74 at Carbondale, 111, as Greg Starrick, the transfer from UK, had 18 points, including four straight free throws which brought his string of consecutive foul shots to 50, just 10 short of the NCAA record set in 1967 by Bob Lloyd of Rutgers. Tom Binegar scored 22 points to lead Xavier to an 80-70 win over Thomas More in Cincinnati. 5 84-774sfeP Lootsky The Knights seemed to', move the ball in the offensive end all right, but often they would become impatient and throw up low percentage shots instead of waiting for a crack in the Houston Baptist defense near the basket. Not only did Reibel's club break down on offense (Duncan ended up with 22 points, but hit 2 of 8 shots after intermission, and Held could manage only 2 of 7 en route to 19 but its defense collapsed, too. And 6-foot-7 Houston Baptist forward E.

C. Coleman, along with 6-4 freshman Willie Worsham, took full advantage of the letdown. Coleman topped all scorers and rebounders with 24 points and 18 retrieves, putting his team ahead for the GABE'S Russian chess newspaper calls Fischer 'mercenary' "LJ 800 S. PRESTON (AT COLLEGE ST.) UNREDEEMED BARGAINS IK. Diamond Earrings $199.50 IK.

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Jhe paper's chess commentator, A. Roshal, expressed fear that Fischer's demands will force the world chess com-rniinity to raise the stakes at future international competitions. 'Other players will probably share his pojnt of view to see chess primarily as means of enrichment," Roshal wrote. He said Fischer was putting money before the game and thus "inflicts damage on th art- of chess." Halftime S.W. Louisiana 43 33.

Attendance 9,500. We're Building Pro sports calendar National Hockey League Today To Serve Division West W. L. T. Pts.

Team 27 6 5 59 Chicago 26 6 6 58 Minnesota East Team Boston New York Division W. L. T. Pts. 26 8 4 56 22 11 5 49 12 21 8 32 American Basketball Association East Division West Division Team W.

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KENTUCKY 32 9 .780 Utah 30 11 .732 Virginia 26 16 .619 Indiana 23 18 ,561 Floridians 19 21 .475 Denver 16 22 New York 17 '1 Dallas 17 26 .395 Pittsburgh 17 27 .396 Memphis 16 25 .390 Carolina 14 z9 Wednesday's Results New York 125, Carolina 116; Montreal 22 8 7 51 California Toronto 18 13 8 44 Pittsburgh .11 21 7 29 Detroit 15 18 6 36 St. Louis 11 22 7 29 Buffalo 8 23 10 26 Philadelphia 11 20 6 28 Vancouver 9 24 4 22 Los Angeles 11 28 1 23 You Better Wednesday's Results New York 9, St. Louis Boston 2, Toronto Montreal 6, Vancouver Chicago Roll call Cards obtain Clendenon; Lynchburg hires Farrell 3, Pittsburgh 3, tie; Minnesota Detroit can- forma 6. Los Anneies 2. LAST NIGHT'S RESULTS St.

Louis 3, Philadelphia 2. Boston 5, Buffalo 2 Tonight's Game Detroit at California. American Hockey League Tomorrow BASEBALL INDIANS Signed third baseman CLEVELAND Craig Netties, MINNESOTA TWINS Named Kirbv Farrell man Division W. L. T.

PlJ. .18 9 6 42 .17 14 5 39 14 16 9 37 .15 15 6 36 .14 16 6 34 9 24 3 21 East Division West Team W. L. T. Pts.

Team Boston 24 8 6 54 Hershey Nova Scotia 17 12 9 43 Baltimore Springfield 14 12 7 35 Cincinnati Rochester ...12 19 4 28 Cleveland Providence 9 18 9 27 Richmond Tidewater Wednesday's Result Nova Scotia Tidewater 1. KENTUCKY 129, Utah 123. LAST NIGHT'S RESULTS Virginia 137, Pittsburgh 130. Dallas 104, Memphis 103. Tonight's Games KENTUCKY at Pittsburgh) Floridians at Utah; Virginia vs.

Carolina at Greensboro, N.C.; Denver at New York; Dallas at Indiana. National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic D'x'on Central Division Team W. L. Pet. Team W.

L. Pet. Boston 2i Baltimore 15 22 .421 New York .25 15 .625 Cleveland 15 25 .375 Philadelphia 17 25 .405 Atlanta 15 26 .366 Buffalo 11 27 .289 Cincinnati 10 28 .263 WESTERN CONFERENCE Midwest Division Pacific Division Team W. L. Pet.

Team W. L. Pet. Milwaukee 34 8 .810 Los Angeles 38 .927 Chicago 28 11 .718 Seattle 24 19 .558 Phoenix 24 17 .585 x-Golden State 21 19 .525 Detroit 15 26 .366 Houston 14 28 .333 x-Portland 9 33 .214 Last night's game not included. Wednesday's Results Milwaukee 115, Cincinnati 106; Chicago 139, Philadelphia 107; Los Angeles 113, Cleveland 103; Baltimore 111, Detroit 89; Boston 113, Houston 105; Seattle 127, Atlanta 116.

LAST NIGHT'S RESULT Portland vs. Golden State at Oakland. Tonight's Games Phoenix at Buffalo; Los Angeles at Atlanta; New York at Philadelphia; Cincinnati at Detroit; Baltimore at Chicago; Boston at Portland) Cleveland at Seattle. ir LAST NIGHT'S RESULTS No games scheduled. Tonight's Games Tidewater at Baltimore; Hershey at Cleveland; Nova Scotia at Providence; Boston at Richmond; Rochester at Springfield.

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i PRO HOCKEY MINNESOTA NORTH STARS-Recalled defenseman Bob Paradise from Seattle. ST. LOUIS BLUES Recalled defenseman John Arbour from Denver, COLLEGE WRESTLING WNCAA Named Tommy Chesbro of Oklahoma State as coach of the year. College basketball summaries AT BRADLEY (95) Simmons 24, Reed 19, Allen 15, Schultz 14, Shank 12, Klobucher 5, Brooks 4, Harrell 2i Thomas 0. MEMPHIS STATE (79)-Holcomb 24, Finch 21, Horton 16, Robinson 11, Foxworth 4, Andrews 2, Mc-Kinnev 1, Christ 0, Laurie 0.

1 Halftime Bradley 46-31. Attendance 8,000. I. AT DRAKE (tl)-Seger 16, Kilgore 13. Whitley 13, Bell 12, Huff 7, Johnson 0, Davis 0, Godfrey 0.

Wednesday's pro basketball AT SEATTLE (127) Wlnfield 24, Haywood 21, Koiis 18, Smith 18, Snyder 17, Wilkens 16, Cross 6, Clemens 4, Heard 3. ATLANTA (116) Bellamy 30, Maravlch 24, Hudson 21, Adams 17, Washington, .12, Gilliam 6, Trapp 4, May 2. ATLANTA HAWKS 28 26 28 34116 SEATTLE SUPERSONICS 31 28 27 41127 ATT EN DENCE 8,120. -) iff RAY MONTGOMERY Ug WICHITA o( Lang oemon ia narris Yi, Smith 11, Kreher 9, GoTtz oitz bnogren o. 1, Shogren 0.

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