Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 17

Today's radio tip Television takes a break after the NCAA and before the Masters, so how about a peaceful afternoon listening to Nevada's baseball team taking on Stanislaus. KHIT, 1590-AM, 1:50 p.m. Tuesday April 3, 1990 RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL SCORELINE: 323-4422 SPORTS EDITOR: JOE SANTORO, 788-6345 Section 2C AT A GLANCE 3C UNLV-DUKE 4C BASEBALL ports Cleveland sending power, talent to Silver Sox Padres receiving Hollywood flair? SAN DIEGO An investment send chills up the spines of Cal League pitchers." The Indians' minor leaguers will fly into Reno Thursday. The Silver Sox will open the season against Stockton at Moana Stadium Friday night. Left-hander Chuck Alexander, who split his time between Cleveland farm clubs in Burlington, N.C, and Watertown, N.Y.

in short-season leagues last year, will start the game for the Silver Sox. New Silver Sox manager Mike Brown, 27, a former Class A utilityman in the Houston Astros organization, said his Indians' players are talented, but inexperienced professionally. "I know the Cal League is going to be a tough league," Brown said. "We're going to New players, manager fly into Reno Thursday By Steve SneddonGazette-Joumai TUCSON, Ariz. It's enough to make a Class A general manager drool over the prospects of windy summer nights at Moana Municipal Stadium.

The Cleveland Indians must have been listening when Reno Silver Sox general manager Jack Patton put in his order for power-hitting bookends. Patton did his part by re-signing power- hitting, first baseman Milt Harper, who hit .275 with 25 home runs in Keno last season. The Indians completed the set when they assigned right-handed hitting outfielder Ken Whitfield to the California League club. Whitfield batted .331 with 18 home runs and 63 RBI in only 84 games for Reno in 1988 before the Silver Sox sold his contract to the Indians. Whitfield is one of 16 players the Indians are sending to the Reno co-op club from their Tucson minor league training camp.

The Silver Sox have already signed six players of their own. "I'm excited thinking about having Harper and Whitfield in the same lineup," said Patton, back in Reno Monday after visiting the Indians' camp Sunday. "Those kind of power hitters, left handed and right-handed the thought of that should Jtri Duke is bedeviled by relentless UNLV defense into record rout be young at a lot of positions to start the season. It's going to take them awhile to adjust. "They think they're going to a lower Class A league (than the Carolina League) because they're not going to Kinston (N.C).

I've told them the Cal League is as good or better. We'll struggle a bit early, but I'm going to try to make them all players." Former Minnesota Twins and Silver Sox manager Johnny Goryl, the Indians' minor league director of field operations, agreed that Reno will have a talented club. "We're not sending you a bunch of players just to fill out a club," Goryl said. "We're sending some players we consider See SOX, page 4C put them on probation. But Monday night, there was no question who the better college basketball team was in McNichols Arena.

"It's not sweet revenge (against the NCAA)," Coach Jerry Tarkanian said, who has had a long-running feud with the NCAA. "But it is sweet." "Every team we played was the good guys," center David Butler said. "Were good, too. Not just good basketball players, but good people. "From Day 1, we've worked for this." Said Krzyzewski: "It was an incredible display in great basketball by UNLV.

They were in control of the ball throughout, whether they had the ball or didn't have the ball." For Duke (29-9), it was another Final Four nightmare. The loss makes the Blue Devils 0-for-8. UNLV never trailed. Twelve minutes into the game, it had forced a stunned and shaky Duke team into 12 turnovers and a 30-17 deficit. And in one incredible 2:49 spurt in the second half which will live forever on microfilm in Las Vegas and in See UNLV, page 3C Associated Press FRUSTRATION: Duke guard Bobby: Hurley wondered what hit him.

in the Hunt group headed by Hollywood producer Tom Werner letter of intent Monday purchase tne San Die, club owner Joan Kr Terms of the tran: not released, but the tag was reported million. The deal is on approval of Ml gue baseball ow 'e it can be finalized. Tj ase is expected toi pleted within the next 45 ays. "I expect that my status with respect to the Padres will soon be that of many thousands of San Diego, citizens," Kroc said. Werner, 39, is a partner in Casey-Werner which produces "The Cosby Show," "Roseanne" and other highly-rated television series.

His personal fortune has been estimated at $140 million. Syracuse QB quits SYRACUSE, N.Y. Syracuse starting quarterback Bill Scharr Monday notified the coaching staff that he is quitting spring football practice. Scharr, a fourth-year junior who was the nation's sixth most efficient passer in 1989, left open the possibility he could return for the 1990 season. "I'm not really sure what I want to do at this time," said Scharr, a management major who expects to finish his undergraduate schooling this summer.

"I could start work on my master's degree in the fall while continuing to play football. Or I could start working in my field. I simply do not know which direction I want to go in at this time." Scharr said his uncertainty over his future had made it hard for him to concentrate on both his academics and football. Miami hires Hamilton MIAMI Oklahoma State's Leonard Hamilton was named on Monday the new basketball coach at the University of Miami. Hamilton had a 56-63 record at Oklahoma State since being hired in 1986 from Kentucky, where he had been an assistant coach.

The 41-year-old Hamilton succeeds Bill Foster. K-State selects Altman HUNTINGTON, W.Va. Marshall basketball coach Dana Altman was hired Monday as head coach at Kansas State, where he was an assistant for three years. Altman will replace Lon Kruger, with whom he served as assistant before taking the Thundering Herd job last April. Kruger is leaving Manhattan, after four years to become head coach at the University of Florida.

Altman said Monday he had been approached by other schools interested in hiring him but wouldn't even discuss leaving Marshall until Kruger called him Sunday to tell him about the Florida job. "I had spent three years at K-State. Obviously, that meant something to the people at K-State," Altman said. N.C. State prepares suit CHAPEL HILL, N.C.

North Carolina State was given permission by the UNC Board of Governors on Monday to file suit, if necessary, to force basketball coach Jim Valvano's resignation. "The next step will be up to N.C. State University's private counsel, along with his coordination with the attorney general's office," said Robert "Roddy" Jones, chairman of the University of North Carolina board. Jones, however, said after the unanimous vote that he hoped the question of Valvano's future did not end up in court. "The system is not proud of anything that goes on this long within our 16-campus system.

And, of course, N.C. State University, the board of trustees and all the friends of N.C. State wish for this to come to a speedy conclusion," Jones said. Quotebook "I think there's a difference hptwppn not. nlavinc well and them not letting us play well.

My guys were ready. They just wouia noi lei us ao anything." Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski. Wire service reports To submit Items, ma8 to Reno Gazette-Jour-nai, P.O. Box 22000, Reno, 89520. up Ittionlwere Ivr Lll if Durca ry AT routed SHARE If you would like recreation classes.

A KID'S Kids 7 to games, of April $52 or By Mike LoprestiGannett News Service DENVER They are what they are. Whatever happens to the Nevada-Las Vegas Runnin' Rebels or their image, one night in Denver they stood tall as national champions, done in a fashion no one could ever question. Attacking Duke as if this was the moment they had waited for all their lives, they destroyed the Blue Devils 103-73 Monday night for their first NCAA title in the most lopsided championship game in NCAA history. "They've called us thugs; they've called us hoodlums," power forward Larry Johnson said. "Now they have to call us national champions." "That team," Duke guard Bobby Hurley said, "was on another level." The old record was UCLA over North Carolina 78-55 in 1968.

That's famous company. UNLV, the first team to hit 100 points in a title game, deserves to be there. "I think it's the best a team has ever played against me as a coach," Duke's Mike Krzyzewski said. 'I'm in awe." The public may or may not like the Rebels (35-5). The NCAA may or may not Commentary Final mismatch a fitting tribute to new champ By Marc HansenGannett News Service DENVER Duke might have the graduation rates, the college entrance board scores, the reputation for taking the student and the athlete and joining the two at the shooting arm.

But Nevada-Las Vegas has the championship of college basketball. Had it from the start Monday night in McNichols Arena. And squeezed it tight at the finish when the buzzer signaled the Rebels' devastating 103-73 victory. Ninety-nine percent of first-round tournament games are more competitive than this one. First-round Big West tournament games.

Why, the Rebels were mere two-point winners over Ball State in the West Regional semifinal. Even Iowa's See MISMATCH, page 3C Hunt 1 1- fen With the Johnson Hunt didn't And after calledtime. This time, arms in Hunt's ended the 13:18 left. Duke's Phil guard Hunt. "He played Henderson, called the wouldn't go "It's one UNLV Pi wm 'Mummmi I tr Associated Press CELEBRATING EARLY: Rebels Moses Scurry (left) and tournament MVP Anderson Hunt had an evening full of celebration.

Defense had Rebels By Wendy E. LaneAssociated Press DENVER When Anderson Hunt caught fire, the NCAA final was still a game. After he scored 12 points in an 18-0 UNLV run, the game had all but ended. Hunt, the Runnin' Rebels' quiet sophomore, scored three straight baskets and two 3-pointers during the spurt that sealed UNLV's first national championship Monday night, a 103-73 rout over Duke. Named the tournament's outstanding player, Hunt remained characteristically reticent afterward, all but sweeping aside his 29-point performance on 12-for-16 shooting.

"I was really concentrating on Bobby Hurley (Duke point guard) and not on score 66-47, Duke called a timeout. At mid-court, ran to Hunt, meeting him with a high-five. let up after the break, getting another layup. Augmon scored on a fast break, Duke again Hunt seemed to know it was over, raising his triumph as the Blue Devils straggled to the bench. third 3-pointer of the game ended the spree and hopes of the Blue Devils, who trailed 75-47 with Henderson said he was run ragged trying to like he never got tired," Henderson said.

who said he'd seen Hunt play many times, performance the best he'd seen. Hunt, however, that far. of them," Hunt said. coach Jerry Tarkanian countered: "This is the best big game he's ever played." Hunt got comfortable in the right corner, hitting three of his four 3-pointers from that spot. "His 3-point shots were such momentum shots," Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said.

"You'd think you might have a chance to get back (in the game) a little bit, and he'd hit a 3-pointer." the offensive game, he said. With UNLV ahead 57-47 with 16:24 to play, Hunt hit a 12-foot baseline jumper to open the run. After a bucket by Larry Johnson, Stacey Augmon's steal set up Hunt's 3-pointer from the right corner. The next trip down the floor, Augmon again stole the ball and fed an outlet pass to a sprinting Hunt for a layup. HUSTLE AWARD: With efforts like this by Larry Johnson on a first-half loose ball, UNLV dominated throughout.

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