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Cimcs Northwest Arkansas TIMES, Dec. 19, 1973 25 Tennessee St. Picked No. 1 In Grid Poll By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tennessee State had to show its credentials during the 1973 regular season, then sit on the sidelines during post-season competiton hoping that no one else would look too convincing. No one did and Tennessee State, which went 10-0 during the regular season, emerged today as the top team in The Associated Press' final small college football poll of the 1973 campaign.

The Tigers received 17 first-place votes and 708 points from a national panel of sports writers and broadcasters. They edged Louisiana Tech, 12-1, by two points. Louisiana Tech collected more first- place votes, 21, but had a total of only 706 points. POST PLAY-OF FPOLL This was the first time the small college poll had been conducted after the playoffs. Tennessee State was unable to compete in the playoffs because several Tiger players iad used up their post-season eligibility.

Louisiana Tech wound up winning the NCAA college divi sion playoffs with a 34-0 victory over Western Kentucky in the Camellia Bowl. Western Kentucky, which los the NCAA Division II cham finished third in the with 459 votes, while Dogs Barely Topple Huntsvilie Blue receiver Henry Childs (800) of 'Kansas State and Gray defender Lee Pearson (87) of Richmond land hard Hard Landing after battling for a pass thrown by Jessie Frielas in the first quarter of Tuesday's annual BBluc Gray All-Sla game in Montgomery, Alabama. The pass was complete for 15 yards. (AP Wireitlioto) Goalie Jumps Leagues; Helps Detroit Wings Save Tie With Kings Bv THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 'Life is full of little ironies when you're 24 and playing in your first National Hockey "League game. a morning.

Bill McKenzie was an American Hockey League goalie and he was missing his 1 lo'clock jumbo jet plane. But Tuesday night. Bill McKentie was in the NHL, not missing a little three inch puck and saving the Detroit Red Wings' 4-4 tie with the Los Angeles Kings. Elsewhere in the NHL, the New York Islanders and Vancouver Canucks skated to a 2-2 tie and the Montreal Canadiens whipped the California Golden Seals 4-1. In the World Hockey Association, the Chicago Cougars and Winnipeg Jets finished in a 3-3 tie; the Quebec Nordiques beat the Edmonton Oilers 4-2; the Toronto Toros downed the Jersey Knights 4-1 and the Vancouver Blazers tripped the Los Angeles Sharks 5-2.

Though McKenzie had trouble catching his plane to Detroit. he was in the right place and on time late in the third period. Mike Murphy had a breakway and a chance to une ven a 4-4 tie and pull out the Kings' first victory in Detroit in six years. But he was grounded by McKenzie. "All I thought about was to keep my legs together, cut the angle down and stay with him all the way," McKenzie said "He didn'L'try to fake me, jus gave me one shoulder and a shot.

The puck hit me. I tell on and everything turned out all ight. I felt tremendous like was home." Maybe he is now. CANADIENS 4, SEALS 1 Montreal goalie Michel La- ocque assisted on a first-period goal by Frank Mahovlich and stopped 30 of California's 31 shots in helping the Cana- beat the Seals. CANTUCKS 2, ISLANDERS 2 Don Lever's eighth goal of the season at 13:32 of the first period lifted the Vancouver Ca- ntcks into a tie ith the New York Islanders.

NORDIQUES 4, OILERS The Quebec Nordiques beat the Edmonton Oilers which wasn't the only beating going on in Quebec. Both players' benches emptied after Edmonton's Doug Barrie and Jean Guy Gendron collided. Barrie took a swing at the Quebec player with his stick, prompting Serge Bernier of the Nordiques to join the fracas. Jim Harrison of the Oil- ers entered the altercation and that brought both benches spilling onto the ice. JETS 3, COUGARS 3 The Chicago Cougars scored all their goals in the final 12:41 of play to tie the Winnipeg Jets.

TOROS 4, KNIGHTS 1 Pat Hickey and Tom Simpson scored goals eight seconds apart in the first period, triggering the Toronto Tovos to their victory over the Jersey. BLAZERS 5, SHARKS 2 Defenscmen Ron Plumb and John Migneault scored power play goals in the second period, breaking a 2-2 tie as the Vancouver Canucks went on to beat the Los Angeles Sharks. New AD Set Up Likely At FHS A shift in (he Athletic directorship of the Fayclle- ville Schools was discussed in executive session liy the Board of Directors at noon Tuesday. A consensus of the directors indicates that the football coach hired to succeed Coach David Vinson will be named athletic director, hut formal action was deferred until (he regularly scheduled hoard meeting. Harry Vandcrgriff, superintendent, said athletic director Joe Holt, whose primary job has been supervising (he physical education program, has been over-extended.

The directors and administration recognize the need for closer supervision for (he phj'sical ccluca(ion program and feel (lie football coach can assume (he directorship of (he a(hle(ic program. Vandergrlff saiit contacts (o fill (he head football coach position at (he high school have been marie hut no interviews have been held as yet. pionship, balloting Wittenberg finished fourth afte beating Juniata in the Stagg Bowl for the NCAA's Division III championship. ACC FIFTH Abilene Christian lied fo: fifth place with Boise State Abilene Christian defeated pre viously unbeaten Elon in thi NAIA championship game a Shreveport. La.

Grambling, 10-3, was seventh while Cal Poly-San Luis Obispi was eighth, Hawaii, ninth anc Elon, 10th. Rounding out the top 15 were South Dakota, Jacksonville State, Delaware, North Dakota State and Langston, Okla. The votes We're An Exciting Team' By GRANT HALL Of the TIMES Sporls Staff HUNTSVILLE "I told you we're an exciting team," said Fayellevillc Coach Joe Kretschmar after his team's 52-51 win over the Huntsvilie Eagles Tuesday night. "We're exciting even when we aren't supposed to be." The Bulldogs, who had beaten Huntsvilie 52-33 at Fayetteville, almost pulled off an upset loss in the rematch. They turned a 24-12 lead into a 26-25 deficit in the second quarter, and blew all but one point of a 44-37 advantage in the final period.

But to give the Eagles proper credit, they would have richly deserved the win had they extracted it. Richard Pharris almost won the game single-handedly, scoring 31 points on nine of 15 field goals and 13 of 13 free throws. The 6-4 junior poured in more points than the top two Fayetteville scorers combined. Pharris swished 12 of his free throws cleanly, sinking 11 of them in the second half. He led Hunlsville to a startling .864 percentage from the line, compared to only .520 for the Bulldogs.

Fayetteville failed to lake advantage of five one-anrt-one opportunities, four in the fourth quarter. TRUMBO IN CHARGE "I wish I knew the reason," moaned Kretschmar. "We're shooting '18 per cent from the field this year, but only 5D per cent from the free throw line. We should be hitting 75 per cent. It must be a mental block." Whatever it is, Trey Trumbo shrugs it off in the clutch.

In the last two Bulldog wins, Trumbo has taken in the late minutes. After driving for a layup which gave Fayetteville a 5045 lead over Huntsvilie, he sank both ends of a one-and- one with 12 seconds left to make the score 52-49 and insure the win. Huntsvilie had rallied from 44-37 to 4443 on two field goals by Pharris and one by Jim Cogcr. Mike Kretschmar countered with a jump shot and Neil Bruton followed with a steal and layup, but Trum- bp's bucket was bracketed by six Pharris free throws. The Eagles had a chance to go ahead with 15 seconds left, but Pharris missed a five- footer.

Trumbo rebounded, was fouled, and that was that. Pharris put in a layup with three seconds left, but Tom Burgin simply hugged the ball until the buzzer sounded. LEAD VAMSHES The Bulldogs raced to a 12- point lead midway through the second quarter behind 12 points by Lynn Waldren and six by Trumbo, but Huntsvilie rallied for an unanswered dozen to tic the score at 24, The Eagles actually took a 26-25 lead with 54 seconds left in the half on a jumper by Wayne Brown, before Fayetteville scored on an uncharacteristic follow shot by Ease Past Bullets, 98-91 Hawks Snap Streak Top 15 with first-place in parentheses, season records and total points. Points abulated on basis of 20-18-16-1412-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1: 1. Term.

St. (17) 10-0-0 708 2. La. Tech (21) 12-1-0 706 3. W.

Kentucky 12-1-0 459 4. Wittenberg (1) 12-0-0 407 5. Boise St. 10-3-0 390 tie Abiline Ch'n 11-1-0 390 7. Grambling 10-3-0 372 8.

Cal Poly-SLO 9-1-0 264 9. Hawaii 8-2-0 233 10. Elon 12-1-0 223 11. S. Dakota 8-3-0 221 12.

Jacksnvle St. 7-2-0 22 13 Delaware 8-3-0 152 14. N. Dakota St. 8-2-0 111 15.

Langslon 11-1-0 95 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Atlanta Hawks snapped a five-game National Basketball Association losing streak Tuesday night by defeating the Capital Bullets 98-91. Walt Bellamy held the Bullets' Elvin Hayes to 12 points, nine below his average, and Pete Maravich scored 34 points as the Hawks climbed to within two games of the first place Bullets in the NBA's Central Division. Elsewhere, the Los Angeles Lakers edged the Milwaukee Bucks 109-107, the Boston Celtics trimmed the Golden State Varriors 125-106, the Seattle Su- perSonics nipped the Chicago 3ulls 93-92, the Portland Trail 31azers trounced the Phoenix Suns 133-117 and the Buffalo 3ravcs downed the Cleveland Cavaliers 100-93. No games were scheduled in the American Basketball Association. The second Bullets, game playing their the new $16 million Capital Center in Largo, Md They made a trailed spirited 1-68 after rally, three quarters but trimmed the deficit to 90-89 with three minutes left.

But Hayes fouled out at that point and the Bullets' defense collapsed. Kevin Porter came off the bench to lead Capital with 23 points. Lou Hudson helped Maravich with 28 for the Hawks. LAKERS 109, BUCKS 107 Jimmy Price, playing for the ailing Jerry West, made a 25- foot jump shot at the buzzer to give Los Angeles its victory. Price finished 16 points.

Teammate Gail Goodrich led all scrers with 40. Kareem Ab- dul-Jabbar topped Milwaukee with 37. CELTS 125, WARRIORS 106 Jo Jo White hit six quick points in the closing minutes of second quarter to start Boston on the way to victory. The defeat, third in a row for the Warriors, cut their lead over Los Angeles to 12 percentage points in the Pacific Division SONICS 93, BULLS 92 Kennedy Mclntosh's got the winning basket on a jump shot with two seconds left after the Sonics all but blew the game in the final quarter after leading by as many as 16 points. BLAZERS 133, SUNS 117 Geoff Petrie scored 37 points and John Johnson 28 as Port in the fina! Phoenix ir Portland for the first time in 1 tries.

5-9 Rick Karnbach to lead 2726 at halftime. In the second half, ville held the visitors without a fpllow-shot field goal, after giving up five in the first two periods. The Eagles limited Waldren to just two free throws and finally fouled him out with 2:43 to go in the game. Larry Harness joined him on the bench for the same reason 47 seconds later, Chris Tice of the Eagles had already fouled out with 4:49 left, however, and his loss was just as damaging to Huntsvilie. He did not score a point, but contributed several steals and assists IT'S FAIRVIEW FRIDAY.

Trumbo led the Bulldogs with 15 points, followed by Waldren with 14 and Bruton with 10. Bruton's basket at third-quarter buzzer proved invaluable. It came on a maneuver he executes as well as anyone: a driving left- handed layup from the right side. Coger. Brown, and Randy Counts supplemented Pharris' scoring with eight, and five points respectively.

After the game. Kretschmar was kidded by a close friend who said, "It takes a good team to play lousy and still win." The coach himself' admitted, "We were probably looking ahead to Friday night If so, you could hardly blame them, the opponent Friday at Fayetteville will be a new and attractive one. a Fairview. The Bulldogs will take a 6-2 record into the fray. land pulled away period and beat FAYKTTKYILLE Tnlmbo Waldren Bruton Kretsohmar Karnbach Burgin Stephens Ownbey Harness Llerley Frenger HUXTSVILLU Pharris CoKer Brown Counts Ttce Stroud 6 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 II 21 9 2 3 2 0 ft-tla 3-5 i-S (U 0-0 0-0 0-1 2-3 1-2 0-1 IKS 0-0 10-19 13-13 13 1-2 0-0 0-0 19-22 tp IS 14 19 1 a 51 31 51 Mrs.

Sharkey Dies EPPING, N.H. (AP) Doro- Epping, N.H., Prairie Grove Blasts Gravelle PRAIRIE GROVE The Prairie Grove Tigers made short work of the Gravette Golden Lions and in the process had one of their best offensive nights of the season as they rocked the visitors 100-74. Phil Smith led Prairie Grove with 28 points while Terry Mabrv adtled 21. Brad Igou finished with 16, Randy Rieff had 14 and David Flint 12. Robert Hatfield led Gravette with 21 while Terry Roberts and Rick Polleris had 14 each.

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