Longview News-Journal from Longview, Texas • Page 19

Thursday, March 25, 1976 jLongview, Texas fage 3-B Gotta Believe Delta St. Romps In Meet Opener to help Baylor overcome a half- seeded Southern Connecticut 76-time deficit and down eight- 72. NBA Standings By The Associated Press NBA Eastern Conference Atlantic Division Pet GB Boston 48 27 .640 Philadelphia 41 32 .561 8 Buffalo 40 32 556 9 New York 33 40 .452 16 Central Division osse 103-85. Nancy Dunkel, a 6-2 center, had 27 points for the winners. Crowds were sparse for the other six first-round games in which fourth-seeded Queens College of New York was beaten 91-80 by unseeded Mississippi College; fifth-seeded Wayland Baptist of Texas beat Utah 85-46 with the aid of 16 points by Pearl "The Earl" Worrell, and sixth-seeded William Penn, a Quaker school in Iowa, gained a 78-70 victory over Tennessee Tech.

Other games saw seventh-seeded Montclair State of New Jersey defeat Portland State of Oregon 86-49, with the help of 25 points by Carol Blazejow, and Sue Snider scored 33 points real sippiti whiskey V7M SIM Washton Cleveland Houston Orleans Atlanta 44 42 36 33 28 28 28 37 40 43 .611 .600 .493 .452 .394 1 iiV4 STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) A stomach virus had kept her from solid food for two days, but Lusia Harris ate up the defense set for her by Penn State's women's basketball team. "We didn't come all this way to lose," the 6-foot-3 Miss Harris said Wednesday after her 29 points helped Mississippi's Delta State open defense of its women's college basketball title with an 88-46 victory over Penn State. Second-seeded Immaculata College of suburban Philadelphia and third-seeded Cal State-Fullerton also advanced to today's quarter-finals in the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Woman tournament. Marianne Crawford-Stanley had 16 points and nine assists to help Immaculata beat Long State 84-65 and move the Macs a step closer to regaining the title they held three years before losing to Delta in 1975.

Cal State-Fullerton, the West Coast champion, piled up the highest point total of the first round, beating Wisconsin-Lacr By STEVE MART AIN DALE Sports Staff Writer SPRING HILL In most cases Class A schools just don't put that many college players into the market. Billy Roy was another of those cases but he kept trying until, at the last moment, Bethel College offered to pay for his education if he agreed to play basketball for them. "They (Bethel) called me last August, the day before classes were to begin, and asked if I wanted to come up for a tryout. Of course, I went up and they offered me a scholarship." Simple as that, it seems, but an East Texas boy from a small high school such as Spring Hill has little chance of being found by a small college in Tennessee unless he brings himself to its attention first. "My pastor first told me about it (Bethel is a Presby-tarian supported school) and he wrote to tell them about me.

I sent them a bunch of clippings from the newspaper and Coach (Ronnie) Bowman sent my stats to them. "We didn't hear anything for a long time and I had decided against going to school that semester. But, he called and I figured that if I could play ball it would be worth it." An unlikely basketball candidate at 5-11, Roy proved an instrumental part in the Spring Hill Panthers trek to the regional tournament his senior year, their first ever. Termed a "jumping jack" by most that watched him play, he even jumped center for the Panthers and finished as one of the team's leading rebounders. The transition to college ball was tough in some ways, he said, but the physical part was the least difficult.

"We have some really hard workouts but I feel that Coach Bowman worked us as hard down here. That's probably the best thing that he did as far as getting ready for college. I've had to learn completely different drills and such. For example, we played entirely zone defense down here. But, our coach up there thinks zone is a dirty word.

He coached some under Bobby Knight (Illinois Hoosier head coach) and feels just like he does about it." Bethel's Wildcats must be doing something right though for they played the dark horse role this year and just about pulled the trick. Playing in the Volunteer State Athletic Conference (VSAC), the Cats finished with a 20-12 season record and third during conference play. But, when playoffs began for the invitation to the NAIA tournament, the young team took a pair of narrow wins one over the perennial favorite and one easier win to land in the tournament finals. There, two points meant the difference between entering the tourney and staying home. Individually, Billy feels he saw plenty of action.

"I played more than I thought I would. I guess I averaged about six or seven minutes a game. didn't average scoring but about a point a game though, because I was usually in just to handle the ball and set up plays. But I did lead the team in free throw percentage with 83.3 per cent." Bethel College is a small school with "600-700 students" but that is what Billy is accustomed to. "The student-faculty ratio is about 20-1 and the largest class I have has only about 50 students in it.

It's supposed to be the second toughest school in the state, behind Vanderbilt." He is majoring in Physical Education but is considering a change to Psychology. Long range plans are indefinite but he says he is seriously considering coaching. "I've thought about coaching but it has drawbacks. We were talking in a class the other day and the average high school coach stays in one place only 2.6 years. What appeals to me though is that I want to be able to help some kids that don't ordinarily get a chance to play much." Maybe Billy Roy will be able some day to pay someone back for his chance to play college ball.

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758-1461 ainwti stuiwt ftiww twisot urooor Western Conference Midwest Division Milwaukee 31 41 .431 Detroit 29 43 .403 3 Kansas City 29 44 .397 3 Chicago 22 50 .306 10 Pacific Division x-GoldenSt 52 20 .722 Seattle 37 36 .507 15 Los Angeles 37 37 .500 16 Phoenix 35 36 .493 16 Portland 32 40 .444 20 x-clinched division title Wednesday's Results Boston 94, Chicago 87 Philadelphia 118, New York 100 Detroit 130, Kansas City 117 Seattle 135, Milwaukee 110 Thursday's Games Portland at Washington Buffalo at Cleveland Atlanta at Phoenix Thomas Gets All-American HUTCHINSON, Kan. (UPI) Belinda Candler and Pam Parham of Seminole (Okla.) Junior College were both named to the National Junior College Athletic Association's Women's All America first team Wednesday. Joining them on the first team were Liz Hannah of Cleveland State Sarah Williams ofWeatherford and Debra Thomas of Panola (Tex). LONGVIEW Aggie Freshmen Seek Injunction MARCH 26,27 DALLAS (AP) An injunction has been sought in federal court by suspended Texas freshmen basketball players Karl Godine and Jarvis Williams in an attempt to become eligible for the 1976-1977 season. The Southwest Conference has ruled Godine and Williams ineligible for the next season the two players to finish the regular season.

The players are also sueing the SWC, excluding Texas on a charge of failing to grant them due process at a Feb. 29 hearing because it did not provide witnesses they asked to appear. because of alleged recruiting violations. The players were not allowed to participate in the SWC's post-season tournament in Dallas. The injunction was filed in the court of U.S.

Dist. Judge Patrick Higginbotham, who earlier had granted a temporary restraining order allowing SALE FRIDAY SATURDAY 9 A.M.-7P.M. FOOTBALLSoBASKETBALLSoSOCCER BALLS REG. SALE JUMP ROPES 2.50 1.49 SHUTTLECOCKS TUBE OF 6 1.10 69 KNEE PADS 3.75 1.99 PR. Panther Relays 'Necks Class Of Field REG.

SALE OFFICIAL NFL FOOTBALLS 34.50 17.95 PENN. RED-WHITE-BLUE BASKETBALLS 9.95 6.50 SEAMCO SOCCERBALLS 10.20 6.45 SEAMCO RUBBER COVERED FOOTBALLS 1 3.95 9.99 2 ONLY CROQUET SETS 21.95 PRO MODEL BATTING GLOVES $5 BASKETBALL GOAL NET Vt" 12.95 BOMBATS 12.75 00 EACH SALE 9:95 11.95 derson, White Oak, 6-2. POLE VALUT Jace Tyner, White Oak, 13-3. 440-YARD RELAY White Oak (Mosely, Wesley, Mulli-kin, Clark), 43.9. 880-YARD RUN Donald Bogue, Timpson, 2:04.1.

120-YARD HURDLES -Bobby Martin, White Oak, 15.7. 110-YARD DASH Carlton Derrett, Winona, 10.0. 440-YARD DASH Connell Patton, Timpson, 50.8. 330-YARD HURDLES -Kenneth Clark, White Oak, 40.4. at 6-2 last year and has already cleared 6-4 this season, although he will be hard pressed by Reginald Owens of Gladewater and his own teammate Browning, who also have done 6-4.

Peery, too, will be the favorite in the grueling mile as he has been clocked at 4:34.9 (second in E-Tex circles). Glenn Miller of Lindale, however, is not far behind with a 4:35.5 (third). Ore City's Austin Shaw and White Oak's Paul Wesley are the 880-yard run favorites. Shaw has clicked off an East Texas best of 1:59.0. SHOT PUT Missidime Davis, Spring Hill, 49-9.

DISCI'S terry Reynolds, White oak, LONG JUMP Darrell Anderson, White Oak. 21-5. HIGH JUMP Darrell An SPRING HILL-Rampaging White Oak will be back to defend its Panther Relays title when the second annual affair gets underway here Friday at 9 a.m. with the field events. The Roughnecks, who have demolished their opposition in two consecutive meets thus far and have scored 445 points in just the two weeks, will be the heavy favorite in the 15-team field.

Joining Tommy Atkins' White Oak crew will be Troup, Union Grove, Gladewater, Timpson. Hemphill, Tatum, Sabine, Overton, Queen City, Ore City, Lindale, Hawkins, Winona and host Spring Hill. Following the field events will be the preliminaries at ll a.m. and the finals at 2 p.m. White Oak nabbed eight first places in last year's Panther Relays and totaled 208 points, far ahead of second place Winona's 83 and third place Timp-son's 49.

And of five individual winners returning, all are Roughneck thinclads Darell Anderson in the high jump and long jump, Jace Tyner in the pole vault, Kenneth Clark in the 330-yard intermediate hurdles and Mike Peery in the mile run. A year ago three Roughnecks grabbed the top three spots in the pole vault Tyner, Mark Cloud and Ronnie Browning. All will be back once again and all have been spectacular, to say the least. Browning holds the second best vault in East Texas with 14-0. while Tyner and Cloud have each cleared 13-0.

Anderson won the high jump KNITWEAR 220-YARD DASH Carlton REG. SALE Derrett, Winona, 22.7. MILE RUN Mike Peery, White Oak, 4:03.0. COACHING SHORTS $10.95 5 HOODED MILE RELAY Timpson (Johnson, Patton, Roberts, 6.95 3.90 SWEATSHIRTS TENNIS EQUIPMENT REG. SALE DUNLOP PRO RACKETS (STRUNG) 16.95 10.88 DUNLOP VOLLEY RACKETS (STRUNG) 17.45 9.90 KEN ROSEWALL YOUNG PRO STRUNG RACKETS 18.95 10.95 TENNIS JACKETS 13.95 8.00 Bogue), 3:29.4.1 records set in 1975.

Vi PRICE COACHING SHIRTS YOUTH SIZE SWEATSUITS 11.95 5.75 TOG A in NYLON JACKETS Vi PRICE 35 ONLY PULLOVER KNIT CHEERLEADER SWEATERS 17.95 4.99 TOBOGGANS 1 .95 89' BRODERICK GIRLS GYM WEAR Vt PRICE WHITE FOOTBALL JERSEYS WITH SOUTHWEST CONF. EMBLEMS 5.95 2.75 KARATE GHIS 13 mm ATTENTION COACHES, MANAGERS TEAM BUYERS i t. I V. 5: SOFTBALL BASEBALL EQUIPMENT DUDLEY LEATHER OFFICIAL TAAF SOFTBALLS DOZ. $28.00 SOLD IN DOZEN LOTS ONLY AT THIS PRICE WHILE THEY LAST WILSON NOKONA SOFTBALL MASKS 7.95 3.99 OFFICIAL SAV A LEG HOME PLATE 24.50 15.75 OFFICIAL LITTLE LEAGUE OFFICIAL SIZE PITCHERS RUBBER 10.95 8.40 PREMIER B-55 PLASTIC COATED NYLON BASEBALL BASES (SET OF 3) 24.95 1 4.90 EVERLAST 6850 WATERPROOF OFFICIAL DELUXE LITTLE LEAGUE BASES (SET OF 3) 31.00 14.90 EVERLAST 6835 OFFICIAL SIZE BASES (SET OF 3) 33.00 1 7.90 "51 3ia Mb ALL CATCHER EQUIPMENT (INCLUDING MITTS) 2 Vz OFF mm Little League Official Size SHIN GUARDS CHEST PROTECTORS MASKS All BASEBALL STEEL SPIKE SHOES mm 0 I I 1 GROUP ASSORTED SHOES IN BROKEN SIZES Vi PRICE CONVERSE WOLF ADIDAS TIGER.