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The Ashevtlle Cltlien, April H87 Washel Steps Down As Girls Basketball Coach At Reynolds From Staff and AP Reports Reynolds girls basketball Coach Bob Washel announced his resignation Wednesday after 14 years in charge of the Rockettes. Washel, 37, compiled 220-122 record that included a 14-9 mark this season. The year was plagued by controversy when Washel suspended six players, Including four starters, for the last half of the season for breaking school rules. Washel said his decision to resign was made before the season and was not related to the player suspensions. "This is a career move I want to finish my masters (degree) by December and I felt like I may have had too many irons in the fire and it wouldn't be fair to the program to not devote my full attention and time.

"My top priority is to procure a job in administration, and if that doesn't work out I wouldn't be opposed to coaching again." Asked if that would include a possible return to Reynolds, Washel said, "That would not be for me to decide." Carson-Newman Downs Cats JEFFERSON CITY, Term. Ernie Ford hit two home runs, including a two-run shot in a five-run eighth inning, to spark Carson-Newman to an 8-3 victory against Western Carolina in a college baseball game. WCU's Gary Shamp entered a 3-3 game In the eighth and promptly gave up five runs. Kevin Roach, who went 3-for-4, had a solo homer and Chad Silver added a two-run double in the inning. Hendersonville's Kessaris Loses CHARLESTON, S.C.

Gretchen Rush-Magers of San Antonio, Texas, defeated Kim Kessaris of Hendersonvllle, N.C, 6-3, 7-5 in the second round of the (75,000 Wild Dunes Women's International Tennis Tournament at Wild Dunes Resort. Kessaris, 14, was competing in her first professional tournament. Cook Named BFCC Assistant Pro David Cook has been named assistant golf pro at Biltmore Forest Country Club. Cook was an assistant at Fox wood Hills CC near Clemson, S.C, before accepting the BFCC position. He was previously an assistant at Kiawah CC and Palmetto Dunes CC at Hilton Head Island, S.C.

"I have fond memories of the program here and we felt like we wanted to develop the girls' talents on the court and in the classroom, and I think we accomplished that," he said. Senior guard Skeeter Golden played three years under Washel and said Reynolds will be hard-pressed to replace him. "Coach Washel helped me become a better player in a lot of ways and I think it's going to hurt the program to lose someone with his experience." Washel said he will continue to teach English at Reynolds while pursuing his masters degree in administration and would consider a return to coaching at a later date. WASHEL TO fill I Pirates Trade Pena For Cards' Van Slyke Tony Pena, a four-time National League All Star catcher, was traded Wednesday to the St. Louis Cardinals for outfielder Andy Van Slyke and two other players, the Pittsburgh Pirates announced at their spring training site in Bradenton, Fla.

Syd Thrift, the Pirates' gen SPORTS eral manager, said Pittsburgh also received catcher Mike La- Him Valliere and minor league pitcher mine uunne. In 801 major league games, Pena, 29, had a lifetime .286 batting average with 63 home runs and 340 runs batted in. In other baseball news: The Montreal Expos have denied a report they have signed free agent outfielder Tim Raines. "That's not true," Expos Vice President Bill Stoneman said in a telephone interview from West Palm Beach, Fla. "We do not have a deal with Tim Raines." Veteran Milwaukee Brewers right-hander Pete Vuckovich re RANGER r-i-nn" i FISHING tired from baseball for the second time in two years Wednesday, saying he could no longer pitch consistently in the major leagues.

Vuckovich had been bothered by arm Drob'ems since his 18-6 sea WrrT. BERKLEY son in 1982. IHJiln STRIKE WADE RS I Six Cities Hope For NBA Team Groups in six cities were hoDine thev would be designated fnr a nrn American-Made Cleat Sole basketball franchise when the NBA's expansion committee issues its final report Thursday, though no more than three were likelv tn pet SOLD ALL OVER FOR $7.99 good news. League spokesman Brian Mclntvre said once the rennrt was mnrio 298 there would be an announcement dealing with expansion, but he would not say if the cities to be recommended for franchises, if anv are wnnM be named at that time. Mclntyre said any formal action bv leaeue would be taken at a Felt Sole board of governors meeting on April 22 in New York.

in oiner nasKetnau news: Navy center David Robinson was a runaway winner of the nth TROUT NETS annual John R. Wooden Award, presented annually to the nation's top college basketball student-athlete, it was announced. hteve Alford of Indiana was second with 645 Mints, followed bv BOOT HANGERS' Reggie Williams of Georgetown with 431 points, Kenny Smith of North Carolina with 229 points and Dennis Honson of Ohio State with 140 $388 points. $129 I Guard Earvtn "Magic" Johnson of the Los Aneeles Lakers whn averaged 21.7 points and 14.6 assists in March, has been named the nbas fiayer oi ine Monin, ine league announced. Johnson shot .589 from the field and .819 from the foul line last month as the Lakers won 13 of 14 games.

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22 after 11 years as head coach. In other coaching news: Wake Forest head baseball coach Marvin Crater, who has led the Demon Deacons to more than 250 victories during his 12-year career, announced that he will retire at the end of the 1987 season. Former Maryland basketball coach Lefty Driesell has praised the University of South Alabama and the coaching offer it gave him, saying he will make up his mind whether to take the job in the next three to four days. Mike Matheson of Bandys was chosen The Associated Press state women's high school basketball Coach of the Year. Matheson, 37, received 12 of a possible 21 first-place votes from a panel of sports writers across the state.

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He wants to get it answered. Dwight is feeling positive, he wants to get this taken care of." Gooden's father, Dan, said he had "no idea" his son had a drug problem. "He said he'd never messed with the stuff," Dan Gooden told the Tampa Tribune. "I don't know what to say. It's kind of stunning." Mets Manager Davey Johnson said "it never really entered my mind" that Gooden had a drug problem.

"It totally caught me by surprise," he said. "I was hoping this was an April Fool's joke, but I guess it's not. It's a tragic thing to happen. "It's unfortunate, you know a young man like Dwight, he's a fine individual as far as I'm concerned. It's hard to see him mixed up in anything ukeit" 5 Mets pitcher Bobby Ojeda characterized Gooden as a "man crying out for help.

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If a player enters the area of the ball and does not resume play, he could be called for a technical foul, under terms of the proposed experiment. "You've seen coaches get their players around them and tell them, 'You don't go out until they go It's nothing but gamesmanship, and It slows the game down forever," Steitzsaid. He said he has no idea which conferences might decide to experiment with what rules. He speculated, however, that the most likely candidate for experimentation was moving the three-point line back nine inches. "The Big East Just might play wfth that," he said.

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