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Minneapolli Tribune May 15, 1979 Kunze 'willing to take returns to state to coach Fillies Sid Hartman Normandale wins title with doubleheader sweep Normandale Community College won the baseball championship in the State Junior College League's Southeast Division with a 10-0 record by sweeping a doubleheader 12-4 and 14-2 from Inver Hills Monday. Tom Baurle hit his seventh home run of the season in the first game. Bob Paszklewlcz pitched a one-hitter In the second game, which was called after five inning by the 10-run rule "We talked about It and the more 1 thought about It, the more it seemed like a good step," Kunze said. "I talked to Jim Dutcher about it and I talked to some local college and high school coaches, and there seems to be not as much pessimism about women's basketball as there was earlier." So Kunze took the job and is optimistic about his future. He said the Fillies will not repeat their 1-7 start of last year.

Unlike the old ABA, the WPBL doesn't compete with an existing league and its player salaries are not in the six-figure range as in men's sports. Kunze thinks the WPBL can afford to stay around for a long time. "It's going to take a lot of hard work," said Kunze, who has previously coached women only at basketball camps, "but I'm pretty excited about it." 1 'P MOTORISTS ROBBED Jjg3 BY GAS Motorists are being robbed by i sly thief who steals gas while they drive. The culprit is i dirty carburetor, which wastes precious fuel and causes poor engine performance. Now you can restore efficiency thanks to WYNN'S Carburetor Cleaner.

This special spray formula works without dismantling to instantly remove gum and varnish, curb rough idling and stalling, as il increases mileage. So for happier motoring, get WYNN'S Carburetor Cleaner today, Terry Kunze Is returning to Minnesota to become the head coach of the Minnesota Fillies, the Women's Professional Basketball League (WPBL) club announced Monday. The Fillies had four different coaches in their first year of existence, and the team did not make money. The WPBL, while not on the verge of collapse, is still not a sure bet to succeed In the long run. "If I weren't wilting to take a risk, I wouldn't be here," Kunze said after signing a multiyear contract with the Fillies.

"Nothing ventured, nothing gained. If I weren't willing to take risks, I would never have left the University of Minnesota to go to East Carolina." Kunze, 35, of Duluth, played for the Gophers from 1961 to 1964. After a brief career In the NBA and ABA, he went to Belgium, where he played pro basketball and coached a high school team. He returned to Minnesota in 1 974 to coach at Mora High School, then joined Jim Dutcher's Gophers staff in 1975. He left Minnesota for East Carolina because he thought the assistant coaching job at the Greenville, N.C., school would be a good stepping stone In his career.

It almost was. At the end of the season, the head coaching job came open and Kunze with his power and Trautner with his ability to move the ball around would be a good team. Our doubles had been going a little stale. The new combination really was fantastic." Now that the Gophers have won the No. 1 doubles for the first time since 1935, Noyce sees a great future for this team.

"Only Ryan GreJy, our No. 8 man who played third-team doubles, will graduate," Noyce said. "Everybody else is back, including Hakan Almstrom, who won the consolation in No. 4 singles, and Mark Wheaton, who won it In No. 6.

"In addition, Dave Marine, a fine player from St Paul, and Kent Hel-geson, who transferred from Arizona State, will help us." Jottings: Mychal Thompson, the former Gopher who had an outstanding rookie year with the Portland Trail Blazers, said he was looking forward to playing with Bill Walton and was disappointed to see the ex-UCLA great sign a seven-year contract with San Diego. "Bill makes everybody he plays with much better," said Thompson. "With Walton we would be the best team in the NBA. Without him, we are just another team." Terry Kunze was convinced he would get it. He didn't.

"It's really a shock when you don't get something after you thought It was yours, Kunze said. After the shock wore off, he began looking for a new job. When he returned to the Twin Cities to investigate some business possibilities, he went to say hello to an old friend, Fillies President Gordon Nevers. Nevers mentioned that he needed a coach. ilFGoodrich Good Value In an Economical Passenger Tiro Custom Long Miler Toby Harrah, traded to the Cleveland Indians by Texas for third baseman Buddy Bell last December, rates his former team, here to play a three-game series with the Minnesota Twins, "a bona fide pennant contender.

"Texas may have lost 60 to 70 stolen bases by trading Bobby Bonds to Cleveland, John Lowenstein to Baltimore and me to Cleveland," Harrah said. "They may also have deprived themselves of a few home runs by getting rid of Bonds, Juan Beniquez (to the New York Yankees) and me. But it's my opinion that they finally tailored their club to their big Arlington ball park by trading for pitching and defense. "They have always been short of relief pitching. Now they have added two of the best in Jim Kern from Cleveland and Sparky Lyle from the New York Yankees." Kern got his fifth victory against no losses and Bell went 4 for 5, driving In the winning run, against the Twins Monday night.

"Defensively, the Rangers also strengthen the club by playing Nelson Norman at shortstop and Bell at third," Harrah said. "They have good starting pitching in Jon Mat-lack, Ferguson Jenkins, Doc Medich, Dock Ellis and Steve Comer. And Oscar Gamble (now out with an injury) can come off the bench and win a game. "The RanRers should have given up 10 years ago trying to win at home with the long ball. You just don't hit home runs in that ball park.

"It's my opinion that they will not slump at the end of the season like they have in recent years. They will make a better run for the pennant (his year because of the type of club they have." Harrah, who spent eight years in Texas after starting his career with the Washington Senators, has great respect for Pat Corrales, the new Texas manager. "Pat is an honest man, a characteristic that is hard to find among big league managers today," said Toby "He is a hard-nosed person who has tome talent and he knows what has to be done to win." The Cleveland third baseman is also high on Gene Mauch. "Mauch makes the Twins go," he said. "You have to be ready for anything when he is managing.

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Olympic soccer team In two matches against the Mexican national team Mike Brennan, a former Minneapolis West tennis player now at Lake Forest, beat Carleton player Greg Svenseen from Edlna last weekend for the Midwest Conference singles tehnls title Bruce Grant, the former Bloomington Lincoln quarterback, may wind up at Minnesota-Duluth, where he would play for Jim Malosky, who played at the university with his father, Bud. DARK BROWN GENUINE LEATHER WATCH FOR SALE ADS ALL THIS WEEK Plus $2.38 F.E.T. Plus $2.66 F.E.T. WHITEWALIS St. leuh Pork eioomlngton Mirocl Milt Southtown Ctnttr 884-0242 rJShoes Original Equipment ftcdiol onManyNewCors Gtldtn Vallty Goldtfl Vallty Ctnttr Robbimdalt Robin Ctnttr 537-0239 El MO 544316 BEST FAMILY SHOE STORE IN TOWN Ufosw-TdWhrfrwell STEEL RADIALS FR78-15 PLUS $2.55 F.E.T.

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"Barber is as good a running back as there is in the country," Salem said Monday. "He could make Ail-American next season and then as a senior be a candidate for the Heisman Trophy." Salem had kept Barber out of contact the past two weeks because "we knew what he could do and didn't want to get him hurt. So what did Marion do but go over to another field and run with the scout team in practice. We. were defensing the triple option, something we expect to face.

Barber ran an offense he had never run before and scored three times. I asked our defensive coordinator Bruce Vandersall how the defense did. Not very he answered. But Barber was great." Williams Fund helped When the Wayzata Sportacular was started in 1972 to help raise money for the University of Minnesota Williams Fund, Jaye Dyer, Wayne Jim-merson and other hard workers turned over a $5,000 check to Paul Giel. The following year the golf tournament raised $10,000, then i 17,000, $38,000, $53,00, $65,000 and last year $83,000.

The goal was $100,000 this year. While the figures aren't in after yesterday's golf and tennis tournament, Dyer said he was sure of another record. Giel has a goal of raising $500,000 through different Williams Fund events by June. And he probably will exceed that figure. Noyce optimistic The University of Minnesota will play host to the Big Ten tennis tournament next year.

After tying with Ohio State for tnird In the conference meet at Columbus, Ohio, last weekend. Coach Jerry Noyce feels Jhe Gophers have a chance to win the championship next year. "1 didn't decide to put Mike Trautner and Ted Kauffmann together until jhe night before the tournament," aid Noyce. "So they went out and jjeat Michigan's Jeff Etterbeck and Watt Horwitch, one of the top four teams in the country. a three-time singles champion from Pierre, S.D., has been (paying No.

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