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Nets 'Treat' Fans to Romp Over Cleveland Wilson Washington, on the heels of his best -game as a pro against Golden State Wednes- day night) had one of his poorest last night. Midway through the first Quarter he was- made four assists in 26 minutes of play. The former New York Knicks sharpshooter had trouble with his shooting last night, hitting on two of 11 The Nets were credited with 12 blocked shots, oiutrebounded the Cavs 50-44 and also outshot them 47 percent to 44 percent from the floor. CLEVELAND MfFGMFGAFTMFTA RES A PF PTS called to the bench with three personal fouls.tion," Loughery said of his reserves. "Once sat out the remainder of the half, and lasted you get confidence in them you're not afraid fir fa ml "In this game we were in trouble a little bit, but our bench came in and helped us.

Bernard (King) played a fine game, too. He scored a quiet 38 points and probably got 18 rebounds (actually it was 34 points and 17 rebounds. "The one we should have won was the Knicks." That was another cliff hanger the Nets lost last Saturday, 108-109. But Loughery wasn't, wasting too much time regretting that loss. Last night's win put his club over the .500 mark with a 5-4 record and was the third straight.

Tonight they go for four straight when they entertain the Boston Celtics, 1-5 for the season. "Super John" Williamson teamed with King last night in turning back Cleveland threats as he scored 28 points and did a yeoman's job in slowing down Walt Frazier of the Cavs. The trouble Loughery referred to came in the first half when Cleveland took a 32-28 first quarter lead and stretched it to 46-39 midway through the second. Part of the problem was born of the fact strong forward By WES MOON Press Staff Writer PISCATAWAY TOWNSHIP The New Jersey Nets fans aren't quite used to what their team offered up last night a 123-108 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers at the Rutgers University gym. The fans are more accustomed to cliff-hangers and well before last night's final buzzer many of the 3,353 faithful were heading for the exits.

The Nets opened the fourth period with an 84-75 lead and at no time during the final 12 minutes could the Cavs draw closer than seven. tame fare compared with the 97-95 and 121-118 wins over Indiana and Golden State the last two times out. But Nets Coach Kevin Loughery wasn't concerned about the lack of a snappy ending to his production. "The pleasing thing is we have won three different ways," he observed. "The Indiana game was a terrific defensive battle and we won a shootout with Golden State.

Cleveland is a playoff-type team and tonight our defense was very good. only 3 minutes into the third period after committing two more personals. He played a total of 11 minutes, contributed four points and grabbed four rebounds. But Tim Bassett, and Bob Elliott subbing for Washington helped the Nets maintain the upper hand under the boards while Eddie Jordan, Jan van Breda Kolff and rookie Win-ford Boynes supplied scoring when it was needed most. When the Nets outscored the Cavs 22-10 during the last 6 minutes of the second perod to take command of the game the reserves played the major role in the rally.

Boynes scored six of his 14 points in this period and Jordan all of his six and Elliott provided the spark under the boards, his outlet passes drawing praise from Loughery. "Elliott is undoubtedly the surprise of the squad so far," Loughery said. "He is really passing the ball well. Burd, Rumson Girls Win Second Straight State Title sys i ii i PRINCETON Rumson Coach Gail Burd and his girls tennis team did it again. Yesterday, at Princeton University's outdoor tennis courts, the Rumson Bulldogs defeated Tenafly, 4-1, to capture their second straight NJSIAA Group championship.

It was their 40th straight victory. "There's no doubt we're number one," said Burd after the match. All-Shore star Holly Reid succeeded in downing Tenafly's Pam Kuhms, 6-2, 6-0, to get the Bulldogs off on the right foot with a 1-0 lead. The undefeated first doubles team of Mary Ann Swikart and Sally Quinn eliminated Karen McTernan and Mona Camhe, 6-0, 6-1, to give the Bulldogs a 2-0 lead. Then came Heidi Hosch.

As in the Bulldogs' Group semifinal victory over Haddonfield earlier in the week, Hosch scored the Bulldogs' winning point with a 6-1, 6-3 victory over Elisa Peters. It was a matter of one, two, three, and Rumson was once again state champions. Tenafly's second doubles team of Lisa Arky and Eve Hirsch scored the only point for their team. it wasn't an easy one. In a match that took nearly two hours, the Bulldogs' Bonnie Powers and Kelly Sheri-ton finally bowed to Arky and Hirsch, 6-4, 6-4.

The longest of confrontation of the match was third singles between Rumson's Gracie Fowler and Tenafly's Denise Broadman. Fowler and Broadman toiled for nearly hurried to a first set triumph in the other doubles match. The rest of the afternoon, though, wasn't as easy. The key match was Dunston. Neppl played a steady baseline game and led, 5-4.

But Dunston rallied for the next two games and a 6-5 lead, only to have Neppl pull even at 6-6 with a low, crosscourt shot that Dunston had no chance on. The set went to a five-point tiebreaker, and Dunston won the first point easily. Neppl, though, recovered quickly and forced Dunston into several errors while winning the next three points. As the Chatham fans prepared for the finale, though, Dunston stroked two successsive shots past her opponent and the match went to the final point. Dunston played a rally game for the first four shots, then began an aggressive attack Asbary Park Press Rumson's Grace Fowler eyes Tenafly's Denise Broadman's shot during third singles match yesterday in NJSIAA Group II tennis championship at Princeton University.

Rumson triumphed, 4-1, for its second straight Group II title. "Boynes," Loughery said, "is a natural scorer. He's not shooting as well as he can, I'm not worried. He'll come along. "I'm not afraid to use them in anv situa- they'll hurt you.

And it's good to have com petition off the bench. It makes the starters play harder." Once the reserves put the Nets in control of the game, the Cavs never seriously threatened again. After the Nets opened 12-point -leads twice in the third period at 74-62 and 80-68, Cleveland made a run, drawing to within five at 80-75. But free throws by Boynes and George Johnson opened the lead to nine as the period ended and the Nets scored the first three of the fourth quarter to make it 12 again. King netted 12 points in the fourth quarter and Williamson eight to thwart any hopes the Cavs had of overcoming the lead.

Center Jim Chones was high scorer for Cleveland with 28 and also took down 16 rebounds and Campy Russell scored 27 points. Frazier, who received a warm welcome from the crowd, scored seven points and Section C- Asbury Park Press, Sat. three hours before Fowler closed in on Broadman, 7-6, 6-2. "I think that the reason my girls are so good as a team is they way they get along with each other," said Burd prior to the match. "We don't always take everything so seriously, and we always try to have a good time," he said.

The match, which was scheduled for 1 p.m. didn't get started until 2:30. The Bulldogs seemed totally at ease during the long wait, occupying themselves by either watching other state competition matches or just enjoying each other's company in general. And despite the chilly, windy weather of the late afternoon, the Bulldogs' spirits never I Crown of crosscourt shots which soon left Neppl off balance and gave Dunston a shot to Neppl's backhand she couldn't reach. "That was important," said Ferraro, still nervous but beginning to anticipate the championship.

"We needed that point, because we're still close on the other courts." While he was talking, though, his second doubles squad, which had dropped the second set, 6-4, clinched the championship with another 6-4 win. "I didn't even know they were ahead," he said. "They were trailing the last time I checked, and I thought we had lost it. But it's a credit to them, because the never gave up." LaBrecque, tied in her second set at 1-1 when Bostrom and LaCosta won their match, played even stronger the rest of her set and heat back Greenstein, 64 for the final Hornet Associated Press Girls 'Deliver' Group 45 8 18 11 14 26 3 6 2 5 4 8 5 27 5 28 3 13 Chores Frazier Walker Carr 41 12 18 4 26 2 11 3 26 2 4 4 16 28 6 13 1 Lambert. Furlow Mitchell TOMS 16 13 2 4 2 7 3 5 J40 40 91 28 43 44 16 32 1M NEW JERSEY MMFGM FGA FTM FTA REB A PF PTS 38 15 24 4 8 17 3 4 34 Kino Johnson 11 2 7 31 2 7 30 5 16 32 10 18 17 1 2 18 2 5 30 3 6 17 1 4 5 4 4 8 4 15 3 28 3 3 3 6 5 4' 1 5 2 14 Money.

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28, 1978 dampened. "I'm really proud of these girls," Burd said sincerely. "But these girls really earned it." Next year Burd will lose Hosch, Reid, Swikart and Quinn to graduation. When asked what his plans were for next year, if he'll continue as coach, and if so, his plans for his new team, Burd declined to comment. Somehow, though, it is doubtful Burd will ever walk away from a winning combination.

Rumson 4, Tenafly 1 SMGLES HeM Hosch (R) Ellsa Peters, 6-1, 6-3; HoHv ReK) (R) Pam Kuhms, 6-2, 6-0; Grocle Fowler (R) a. Denise Broadman, 7-6, 6-2. DOUBLES Mary Ann Swlkort-Sotlv Quinn (R) d. Karen McTeman-Mona Camhe, 6-0, 6-1; Lisa Arky-Ev Hirsch (T) d. Bonnie Powers-Kelly Sherltan.

6-4, 6-4. to Ferraro point. "It's the most exciting thing to happen to me," said Ferraro afterward. "It's probably more exciting than my wedding was. "I was a little worried in the beginning of the season, especially after our disasterous start (they lost their first four matches).

But we began to come together in midseason, and I knew we were capable of going all the way. "It's really great for Shore area tennis that both Rumson and ourselves won today (Rumson won the Group title)," he said. Holmdel 4, Chatham Township 1 SINGLES Diane Dunn (H) d. Karen Maall, 6-1, 6-0; Jennifer Dunston (H) d. Chriss Nepal 6-2, 7-6; Nancee LaBrecque (H) d.

Karen Greenstein, 6-2, 6-4. DOUBLES Sue Dowhng-Laura Grimm (CTJ d. Linda Wern-Pom Ross, 7-5, 4-1; Lisa Bostrom-Trocey Lo-Costa (H) a. Barbara MatMsen-Chris McDonnell, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4. Riley Is Hired As Manchester's New Cage Coach MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP Scott Riley, who helped lead Henry Hudson Regional School to its only Shore Conference basketball championship in 1969, has been appointed head basketball coach at Manchester Township High School.

Riley, whose 1968-69 Admirals were also Shore Conference Class and NJSLA Central Jersey Group I champions, had been the assistant at Manchester under head coach John Crews for the past two seasons. Crews is now assistant principal. "I'm very pleased with the position," said Riley. "I've always enjoyed sports and sports has been very good to me. I know in my own case sports kept me in school." Riley played three varsity seasons at Montclair State College and was later a junior varsity assistant for one season.

"During my first year at Manchester when I went back to Henry Hudson they gave me a nice welcome and introduced me to the crowd," he said. "But I guess like any coach I want to beat them, even if it is my alma mater." Manchester was 9-16 last season, but Riley Junior varsity was 11-8. "We want to have a lot of discipline," he said. "We want the players to understand it takes a lot of hard work to make a successful program. Also we want to make the attitude of some of the students and the players more positive.

We want them to feel that when another school comes here to play us they're not going to walk away with an easy victory." Last year's two leading scorers, Len Williams and Jon Allen, have graduated. Two of Riley's Junior varsity players, Ed Woodward and Willy Guthridge, are Mndidates for varsity positions this sea son, but Riley said the overall accent wilH be on youth. Sports Holmdel PRINCETON Mike Ferraro is halfway through the most exciting month of his life. The first-year girls tennis coach at Holm-del High School was presented his first state championship yesterday when the Hornets defeated Chatham Township, 4-1. And sometime in the next few weeks he'll become a father for the first time.

His wife, Joan, is expecting any time now. But yesterday, all Ferraro could do was pace nervously along the outside of the fence around Princeton University's courts, anxiously watching as his team battled past a Chatham squad that a year ago beat a veteran Holmdel squad, 4-1, and had the entire championship team back on the Princeton courts against a Holmdel team with two new singles players and both doubles teams. "It's all our mental attitude," Ferraro said halfway through the match as his team Brick Has Favorites RoleAgain For Brick's three time champion Green Dragons, the role as favorites in the fifth annual Ocean County Soccer Tournament is nothing new. For Raritan's Rockets, the top-seeded team in the inaugural Monmouth County Tournament, it's a different story. Brick (12-2-1) plays Southern at 1 p.m.

today at Ocean County College in one of four first round games being held at the school. In other games, Toms River North plays St. Joseph's at 9 a.m., Point Pleasant Boro and Lakewood clash at 11 a.m., and Toms River South battles Central at 3 p.m. The semifinals will be Nov. 2 under the lights at St.

Joseph's High School, and the final will be 8 p.m., Nov. 4, at St. Joseph's. Raritan, a stranger to soccer success until this season, will be looking to extend its unbeaten mark to 16 straight games when it hosts Freehold today at 11:30 a.m. in one of four games in the championship bracket of the Monmouth event.

A doubleheader at Wall High School also helps launch the Monmouth County Tournament with Wall and CBA playing at 1 p.m. followed by Neptune and St. Rose at 4 p.m. Also, Shore vlsts Ocean at 3 p.m. The semifinals are the night of Nov.

1 at Wall and the final is at 7:30 p.m., Nov. 3, at Wall. Most first-round games in the Red and Blue brackets of the Monmouth Tournament are also scheduled for today. Brick, which has won the tournament in 1974, 1975, and last year, 2-1 over Point Boro, is meeting Southern for a third time. The Rams stunned Brick in their first meeting, 1-0, then the Dragons rebounded with a 2-0 victory.

Since bowing to Kearny, 24, Brick has fashined an eight game unbeaten streak (7-0-1) to close in on the Shore Conference Class A South championship, but has only shown flashes of its expected awesome firepower. Senior Tom Reilly (16 goals) and junior Jim Powers (nine goals) lead the Brick attack. The Dragons have been getting strong play at midfield from halfback Robbie Bechtloff (six goals, seven assists). Southern is led by Bruce Novotny (13 goals), but will be missing high scorer Mike Todd (10 goals) who is out for the year with a broken jaw. Vito Dellegrippo, Point Boro coach, said his Shore Conference Class champions are taking nothing for granted against Lakewood.

"We're not looking for anything to be easy," said Dellegrippo. Senior Mike Godleski (16 goals) is the Panthers' big gun. f'The (Shore) Conference hurt us by going to 14 games which eliminated two non-conference games against bigger schools which we like to play. We're hoping to get by Lakewood and have another shot at a certain team (Toms River South). The Indians handed the Panthers their only loss of the year, 1-0.

"A sleeper in the tournament could be St. Joseph's," said Dellegrippo. "Look for St. Joseph's to give Toms River North a rough time." Ed Shakespeare, Freehold coach, said he was glad his team is seeded in the chanmpionship bracket of the Monmouth Tournament and has the opportunity to play Raritan. "It's a real challange for us," he said.

we'd spend the rest of the season wondering what we would have done in the championship bracket. This way we'll know. You only go around once and this is it." Freehold (11-5-1) has had a seven game unbeaten streak this season, dropped a pair of one-goal decisions to Point Boro, and is led by senior striker Maurice DeGrade (22 goals, nine assists). See BRICK Page C4 'African Connection9 Is Key for Villanova was caught up in a struggle. "We came down here with a good attitude, the girls were really ready.

But they have to keep it up or we'll be out of this thing quick." Diane Dunn, an All-Shore performer a year ago, continued her season-long success yesterday in the first singles spot. She disposed of Chatham's Karen Magil, 6-1, 64), giving Holmdel the first point of the match. But Chatham evened it with a triumph in first doubles, Sue Dowling and Laura Grimm of Chatham beating Linda Wern and Pam Ross, 7-5, 6-1. And while those two points came easily, the other three matches were nip and tuck. Jennifer Dunston, in second singles, took her first set against Chatham's Chriss Neppl, 6-2, and Nancee LaBrecque went up on Karen Greenstein in their first set, also 6-2.

And Lisa Bostrom and Tracey LaCosta booked for their own Big Three race yesterday. Fairleigh Dickinson, winner of the 1977 IC4A University Division title, moved up to the Championship Division for the first time and did it in style. Coach Walt Marusyn's Bergen County Knights claimed second with 136 points, exactly 100 behind Villanova but one ahead of Massachusetts, the 1977 IC4A Utlist. Rutgers ran fourth with Cornell fifth, Maryland sixth and Army seventh. This year's University Division team crown went to Millersville, Pa.

State College, over East Stroudsburg and Bates, 106-107-116. Individual champion was Mark Kimball of Boston University in 24:51.5. Brandeis ran off with the College Division crown with 52 points while George Mason University of Virginia had the gold medalist in freshman Chuck Wimberly in 24:50. See 'AFRICAN Page C4 'y a I OIF! 1 III IMII 1BMIIKIII HWIlini By ELLIOTT DENMAN Press Staff Writer NEW YORK Once upon an earlier athletic era, The Irish Connection carried Villa-nova University to footracing glories. Villanova 's supply of championship trophies hasn't slowed a perceptable bit in recent years.

But now the Wildcats are doing it with The African Connection. Sophomores Sydney Maree of South Africa and Amos Kipkorir of Kenya ran 1-2 yesterday and thus carried Villanova to the team title in the 70th annual Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America Cross-Country Championships at Van Cort-landt Park. Coach James "Jumbo" Elliott's Wildcats did it with the runaway low total of 36 points. It was their first IC4A crown since 1971 and they did it with one of the lowest scores in IC4A annals. Maree became the first IC4A king from Africa since Steve Machooka won this classic five-mile test, the oldest intercollegiate cross-country event in the nation, for Cornell back in 1961.

Maree did it in 24:04.0, thus missing the IC4A record of 23:51.0 by Penn's David Merrick by just 13 seconds. "I think I might have had that record, too," said Maree after he had toweled off from the run up and over Van Cortlandt's flats, backwoods and feared Cemetery Hill. "I was running with plenty left. If it wasn't my teammate closest to me, I might gone a lot faster." Kipkorir landed second in 24:13.1 and was followed by teammates John Bums in eighth, Rob Earl in 10th and Kevin Dillon in 18th to lock it up. This IC4A run was held earlier than ever before, in deference to the NCAA District II Regionals to be held at Lehigh Nov.

and consequent scheduling proems kept away several traditional IC4A powers, including Princeton, Harvard and Yale, who were Inside. Sports Matowon Ties Raritan, 1-1 C2 Flames Blast Islanders C2 Caseys Blast Griffins, 21-6 C3 McClendon'i Lead 5 Strokes C5 Pro Football Report C6 Recreation C7 Holmdel's Diane Dunn shojjvs delivers overhand returqjo Chatham Township's Karen Magil en route to.6-1, 6-0 victory, which heped give Holmdel the NJSIAA Group I tennis crown yesterday in a 4-1 decision at Princeton..