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OPUS APSJU Visits Tetm. Tccfi 2 1. Carolina Loses Again .2 Sports A.M. Scoreboard 4 THURSDAY February 17, 1983 Section 'm Frosh Mi UT So Assignment: Vanderbilt leaving Knoxville at the end of th quarter. "Coach Bill Brown (Arkansas a sistant) has been talking to my hig1 school coacn since he found out wasn't playing much at Tennesse and I think they are still interested i me at Arkansas," he said.

"In fac By JIMMY DAVY my high school coach said Coac Brown had called him today aboil me." Mills' high school coach is Ma one of his friends at Glencliff High School, where he played prep basketball, and told her Tuesday night that he did not plan to talk to anyone else this week. His phone has been busy for two days. Harper also told his friend that he would sit out the rest of this week, go back out on the court Monday and devote his effort to improving. Harper was a questionable student until his senior year in high school, when he qualified for entrance to college. During the first quarter at Tennessee, he had a 2.5 average and although he had played sparingly, he had shown considerable improvement.

MILLS SAID he did not have the personality to fit into the Tennessee system. lie said he probably would not enter another school until fall, although he might enroll in summer school. But he was definite about were for an indefinite period, and that when he had further comment on the subject he would make it. NONE OF the three practiced with the team last night, the first session since the Alabama game. The three were apparently suspended for conduct detrimental to the team.

Reportedly, the two freshmen had been told of something McDonald had done to an Alabama fan who heckled him, and that all three entered the Tennessee dressing room laughing. DeVoe was enraged, and before the door to the dressing room had been closed, was heard screaming at the players. Neither Harper nor McDonald were available for comment last night. HARPER REPORTEDLY called By F.M. WILLIAMS University of Tennessee freshman forward William Mills, suspended from the team Monday, said last night that he will transfer from the school atrthe end of this quarter.

"I am definitely leaving Tennessee at the end of this quarter in mid-March," Mills said yesterday, after holding a private a conference with Tennessee coach Don DeVoe. MILLS, A 6-6 forward from Millen, said he had talked to DeVoe about his future, and tHat they had concluded that it would be better at another university. Mills said yesterday he would like to attend the University of Arkansas. DeVoe. suspended Mills, Nashville freshman Tyrone Harper and Tul-lahoma junior Seth McDonald after the Vols lost a 90-78 decision to Alabama Monday night.

The coach said the suspensions Morrison. MILLS AND Harper are two of trf three freshmen on the Tennessef team thisyea'r. Both of them played more in tn pre-Southeastern Conference seasq than since, and both have expressd unhappiness at times, which is nt unusual. Rob Jones is the other freshm and he has been playing more a more in recent games. mi ni'ijl I' mil' "A Ill" I I'l in 'I I II 1 1 I I II II I I II I II I I'-n 1 I I ij I iii -ill iii I I A yr- Indiana Upset 58-57 BLOOMINGTON, Ind.

(AP) Greg Stokes scored 22 points anc Bob Hansen snapped a tie late ir the game and then protectee Iowa's slim lead with two free throws in the closing minute as the 16th-ranked Hawkeyes edgec second-ranked Indiana 58-57 in A Big Ten Conference basketball game last night. Indiana is ranked No.l in the nation in the United Press InteH national Poll. Nevada-Las Vegas is top-ranked in the AP balloting! Hansen broke a 50-50 tie with CM. Sees No Breaks VANDERBILT'S CM. Newton says he sees no significant breaks in the hectic Southeastern Conference basketball standoff, but admits that Kentucky is suddenly in good shape for the stretch drive.

'Kentucky's two wins on the road this past weekend at Auburn and Florida were big," Newton said yesterday, lounging in a Memorial Gymnasium seat just after practice. "THEY ARE NOW at home with a home-and-away schedule that favors them," he went on. "But, there is no way that Kentucky has things locked up. Not by a long shot." The current standings are ample proof. Kentucky is in the lead at 9-4, but there are five other teams within two games with five left to play.

One of those, of course, is Vanderbilt, now 7-6 and just two games off the pace despite two straight losses on the road this past weekend. But, the rigors of the road are not over. Vandy is at Rupp Arena Saturday night to play the Wildcats, with a shot at narrowing the Kentucky lead to just a single game. "THAT'S HOW TIGHT it is," Newton said. "While Keptucky has leveled the schedule, with three of its last five games at home, all three of us going up there Vandy, Tennessee and Georgia can win.

If you don't think so, just look back at what's happened all over the conference this season." Newton says that he is not sure there is any advantage to finishing anywhere but first in the current SEC scramble to the wire. The Commodores, he says, still have their sights on the regular season title a sure invitation to post-season play. "Of course, we want to finish as high as we can. We want to win as many games as we can, because in the end the total record will determine the kind of post-season chances we have," Newton said. "But, the seedings in the post-season tournament do not appear to make much difference.

There just isn't any single team this year that isn't tough," he said, laughing. "Who would you pick in the tournament?" rrS A GOOD question. Certainly not last-place Alabama: "I do, however, prefer to miss that first round of games and, because of it, hope we're able to wind up in the top six," he added. The first six finishers in the SEC draw byes in the opening round at Birmingham March 10 the bottom four teams playing simply to fill the eight-team bracket for the final three nights. Newton, unlike Tennessee's Don DeVoe and others, puts no "must" tag on any specific number of wins needed to capture the favor of the NCAA tourney selection committee.

"I think they are very aware of how tough and balanced this conference round-robin has been this year," he said, "and will take this' into full consideration. It may well work in favor of SEC teams." One of Vandy's losses in a 16-9 season was an overtime setback to Kentucky at Memorial Gymnasium, finally decided by a controversial holding call with just a few seconds left to play. The difference since then has been the explosion of help from the Kentucky bench, while Vander-bilt's reserves have, in the words of Newton, "have gone backwards." FOR INSTANCE, on the Florida-Auburn road trip, Vandy reserves contributed a total of 10 points, four rebounds, three turnovers and no assists. "It's my fault," said Newton yesterday. "It's my job to be sure these young players know what they are supposed to do and are mentally ready for the game.

They haven't been and the result is that we're not as productive off the bench as we must (Turn to Page 4, Column 3) 4:30 left in the game when he canned a 10-foot jumper. The Hawkeyes extended their lead tc four as Michael Payne added twe free throws with 3:30 left. INDIANA, 19-3, cut the margir to 54-52 on Randy Wittman'd v.yv i "o-yy'y y.v- cszki' yrv, baseline jumper with 2:41 left ir the contest. However, Iowa, 16-61 inched the margin back to four on free throws by Steve Carfinc and Mark Gannon. The Hoosiers' Jimmy Thomaa made it ob-o4 with 1:0 remaini ing, hitting two free throws, bul Hansen added two free throws with 39 seconds remaining tc TrMWMaBniafi(iiirfi--fT i rai; a flfi firHBrwua wirfi ii fii i i'i i iw trnmrniTWBiwwii fnw rr i ir-nrr-'-'-nr i 'ttt x-- v- 'ft DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.

Bobby Allison has a look of determination as he begins a practice run. give Iowa a 58-54 lead. Wittman, who finished the game with 33 points, hit a three! point field goal with six seconds Daytona's Big Week Wrecked left, and the Hoosiers had one more chance to win after Hanser missed the first of a one and one if the problem isn't fying races solved. free throw opportunity. HOWEVER, IOWA stole a Win! ston Morgan pass to protect it! second triumph over the Hoof siers this year.

Iowa, now 7-5 in the Big Ter also got a 12 points from Paynj and 11 from Carfino. Payne alsJ held Ted Kitchel, the leadind By LARRY WOODY Tennesscan Sports Writer DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. NAS-CAR's hot-shot racers have been driving like a bunch of little old ladies on an icy super market parking lot all week long. It's been one fender-bender after another throughout preliminary races and time trials for Sunday's 25th Daytona 500, the crown jewel of stock car racing. Cale Yarborough went from the pole seat to the junk heap after crashing Monday and scooting down the track upside down at 200 mph.

Bobby Allison has already run up a $160,000 bill by wrecking two new racers. Terry Labonte spun out and took two other cars with him. Ditto Dale Earnhardt, who was subsequently slapped with the heaviest fine in NASCAR history $10,000 for failing to heed a black flag and get his smoking car off the track. WHAT'S THE matter with these guys, anyway, carrying on like a bunch of dropouts from the Aunt Bea Driving School? Nothing, they insist. It's their cars' fault.

The drivers aren't wrecking the cars, they claim; the cars are wrecking the drivers. And they may have a point. The drivers say a NASCAR limitation on the size of the car's rear spoiler is causing control troubles, and they predict bigger and badder things in today's twin 125-mile quali scorer in the conference, to jusj six points. "YOU'RE GOING to see a lot of us being as cautious as you can be and still drive a race car," predicts Allison. "It's, gonna be tough to race at th.ese speeds," says Yarborough, who broke the track record (200.503 mph) on the lap before he crashed.

"We're having trouble with just one car on the track and it's gonna be worse in the draft when we start racing. "If we don't get more spoiler The spoiler is a rigid piece of aluminum anchored to the rear deck of the car. Its function is to catch the air flowing over the back of the car, (Turn to Page 4, Column 3) Wittman hit 16 of 19 shots foj inaiana, wnicn still holds a onel game lead in the Big Ten with 9-3 mark. The game was close through! out the first half and neithei team could gain more than four-point lead. The halftimJ score was tied 28-28.

Iowa broke a 32-32 tie early is the second half, running off a 7- spurt. They led 41-34 before Indil 7 7 ana retaliated with a 8-0 run t4 Elwoy Assigned 'to Sounds take a 42-41 advantage. IKyv' Vols' Harrison Lis ILM Goes to Falcons SUWANEE. Ga. (AP) Bol 4 Harrison, receiver coach at the University of Tennessee, was named receiver coach for the Atlanta Falcons vesterdav the National Football League 1 si team new head coach, Dai Ilenning.

7- -vi 4 1 Harrison. 41. also oversa the Volunteers' kicking game last season. Harrison, who has 15 years of ed Southern League all-stars Brian Dayett and Erik Peterson. New York also released several former Sounds.

Cut from the organization were catchers Brian Poldberg and Pat Callahan, outfielder Nate Chapman, infielders Dan Schmitz and Rafael Villa-man, and pitcher Jeff Taylor. THE FINAL Sounds' roster will not be established until the close of spring training which begins for minor leaguers March 10 at Hollywood, Fla. Dayett has been invited to the big league camp at Ft. Lauderdale which is already underway. The Sounds' first home game is not until April 16, but Nashville will host a major league exhibition game at Greer Stadium April 3 between the Toronto Blue Jays and the World Champion St.

Louis Cardinals. There are still some tickets remaining for that game and the Sounds' exhibition contest against the New York Yankees at Greer April 28. Nashville opens the Southern League campaign April 9 at iy- By TOM SQUIRES John Elway, the Stanford University All-America quarterback who was runner up for the Heis-man Trophy, has been assigned by the New York Yankees to the Nashville Sounds' Class AA baseball roster for this summer. Elway is currently awaiting the National Football League draft at which time he will decide between professional baseball and football as a career. He played rookie ball for New York's Oneonta farm club in the N.Y.-Penn League last summer before returning to Stanford for.

his final season of college football. ALTHOUGH THE Yankees have not released the remainder of the Nashville coaching staff, it was learned that Hoyt Wilhelm will return as pitching coach and that Nashvillian Dick Sisler, former Cincinnati Reds manager, will move from a roving minor league batting instructor to a stationery position as a Sounds' coach. Also added to the Sounds' roster were three minor leaguers involved in a trade which sent outfielder Lee Mazzilli to Pittsburgh. In exchange, the Pirates sent outfielder Jerry Aubin, catcher John Holland and inficld-er Jose Rivera to the Yankees. Aubin played Double-A ball last season while Holland was in Triple-A.

New York also obtained a former first-round draft choice from the St. Louis Cardinals Bob Meacham and placed him on the Nashville roster. FORMER SOUNDS on the Nashville roster again this season include first baseman Buck Showalter, infielder Brian Butterfield, outfielders Tob Tee-garden and Huey Gayden, pitchers Mike Browning and Mark Bersano and catcher Frank Kneuer. Several Sounds were placed on the Yankees' major league roster following the close of last season, including pitchers Stefan Wever, Clay Christiansen, and Ray Fon-tenot and infielders Otis Nixon and Ed Rodriguez. Those moving up to the Class AAA roster for the Columbus, Ohio, team includ college coaching experience, is credited with developing sever al outstanding Tennessee play-J ers, including All-American wide receiver Willie Gault.

the Falcons said in an announced ment. A native of Cleveland, OhioJ Harrison graduated from Kent State in 1964. An end, he was captain of the team in 1963. He coached four years, 1964 te 1968 at John Adams HiaV School in Cleveland, the last as AP Laserphoto BUFFALO, N.Y. Boston Bruin goalie Peter Peeters fails to stop a shot by Buffalo's Paul Cyr in the Sabres 3-1 win over the Bruins.

Had Buffalo won, Peeters would have tied the NHL record of 32 consecutive starts without defeat. head coach before returning tr Kent State in 1969 as defensive line coach. A.