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k8D Sunday, July 28, 1991 SPORTS The News-Leader Brushes with law leave Missouri's football team short-handed MARTY EDDLEMON the past two campaigns as receivers coach at Mississippi State. NAIA stays put After considering a number of options, the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics has decided to lease its downtown Kansas City headquarters location for three more years. Marty Eddlemon is a sports columnist (or The News-leader. Rolla High School in 1976-81, was offensive coordinator at Northeast Missouri in 1983-85, offensive line coach at Indiana State in 1986-89 and became head coach at Cape Girardeau Central in 1990. While Tommy Deffebaugh's position as assistant basketball coach hasn't been filled, former Rolla High coach Don Morris has joined the Miners as a volunteer assistant.

Eric Swanbeck, an assistant at W. College, has been selected as men's and women's soc cer coach for UMR. Berry to Southeast Todd Berry, 30-year-old son of Willard football coach Reuben Berry, has been named offensive coordinator at Southeast Missouri State University for the Cape Girardeau school's first season of NCAA Division I-AA football. A quarterback at Tulsa University in 1979-80, Todd was at Tulsa, Oklahoma State, Tennessee and Tennessee-Martin before serving vTi if) and battery after an incident with another TU student last week. Miners add coaches Despite operating with an interim president, an interim chancellor, and interim dean and an interim athletic director, Missouri-Rolla has started to fill its athletic department vacancies for the coming school year.

Jim Anderson, quite familiar to Rolla and area fans, will take over as offensive coordinator of the football team. Anderson replaces Jeff Stevens, defensive coordinator who resigned last spring. Veteran aide Joe Kee-ton moves from offense to defense under head coach Charlie Finley. A 1969 graduate of the University of Missouri, Anderson coached at Nine arrests since February have 6ft the University of Missouri's Tigers short of football talent. Problems with law officers have Resulted in the dismissal of potential defensive starters Curtis Roberts (end) and Louis Thomas (linebacker) from the squad.

Suspended indefinitely are two of the team's top running backs, tailback Mark Jackson and fullback Michael Washington, along with senior tight end David Frisch and linebacker Lance Noel. i Running back Tony Van Zant and linebacker Tony Cooper are on probation. Adding to coach Bob Shull's problems is the fact that free safety Niu Sale failed to make up his academic difficiency. 'However, senior cornerback harron Washington apparently has regained eligibility. Another standout running back under indefinite suspension from a football team is Chris Hughley of Tulsa, Southwest Missouri State's season-opening opponent.

He's been charged with assault family' shines at Games A TRUE DRIVING 'EXPERIENCE''. wwvvvvvw Ozark 'karate By Joe Walljasper for The News-Leader COLUMBIA It is not every family whose idea of a pleasant evening of bonding includes punching and kicking each other. But it suited the Dalton family just fine Saturday. The Daltons competed in the Show-Me State Games' karate event. Eight-year-old ijach Dalton and his parents, Dan and Mary, of Ozark, work out at the Ozark Taekwon-Do Academy two or three nights per week.

"It's somewhere we all can go," Mary said. "We can all exercise together. It's good for your mind and your body. It's not at all the atmosphere I expected with martial arts." v. All the training seems to have paid off for the Daltons.

Zach won first place in the Show-Me Games pairing and kata competitions in the mini pee-wee division. Dan earned fourth place in the intermediate-division sparring cmpetition and Mary placed second in the intermediate kata and sparring events. Karate competitions are divided into two seperate events. In the kata competition, participants perform a Dan and Mary have a chance to earn black belts karate's highest honor in October. "They are very dedicated," 6aid Jerry Lawless, a third-degree black belt who runs the Ozark academy.

"It's very unusual to see a husband-and-wife team earn black belts at the same time." Dan is now a firm believer in the benefits of karate. "We kind of started late, but it was good that we did it," he said. "I'm in better shape than I've been in years." At last year's American-Korean Taekwon-Do Association tournament in Kansas City, all three Daltons placed first in their divisons in the sparring competition. Event coordinators said they believed it was the first time a family had accomplished the feat. Although she and her family have had success in competition, Mary said they are not involved in karate to compete.

"Maybe (Zach) will want to do that someday," she said, "but we're in it for the exercise and the discipline." Brower said. "He was a little nervous early, but got the walks out of his system." Davis agreed: "Burns was pretty much in command." ACURA LEGEND SEDAN thousands thru July 31st Ash Grove drops Hillcrest in Legion district routine of different kicks and punches alone. Judges score them, much like in gymnastics. In the sparring competition, two competitors face off. Every time one cleanly lands a blow, the judge stops the action and the competitor is awarded a full point for a kick or a half-point for a punch.

The first person to open a three-point lead or whoever is winning when time expires is the winner. The Daltons began practicing Taekwon-Do the Korean version of martial arts two years ago at Zach's urging. He was a fan of Chuck Norris movies and wanted to try the martial arts himself. "I liked watching movies with karate people," he explained. Dan, 40, and Mary, 35, wanted to stay active and find a sport where the family could participate together.

Dan had practiced karate briefly while he was in college, and Mary was willing to give it a chance. "I had no desire to learn any martial arts at all," Mary said. "So, it was more or less a dare for me." She was soon hooked on the sport, however, and now all three family members have brown belts. to 16-25. The district champion will advance to next weekend's Zone IV Tournament at Post 676 Field.

Hillcrest, the Zone Tournament's host team, will earn an automatic bid. Anderson's sixth-inning homer gave Ash Grove a 3-0 lead. "The homer probably took some of our spirit," Hillcrest coach Dave Davis said. "Troy Pinon has been our hard-luck pitcher all season. He has pitched well in his last four starts and has nothing to show for it.

He kept us within one run through five innings." But Ash Grove's Paul Burns complemented Anderson's offense with a two-hit shutout. Burns allowed both of Hillcrest hits in the second inning. Burns finished the second inning by leaving the bases loading, and Hillcrest never threatened again. "He shutout a very good hitting team," Ash Grove coach John Power Locks Dual Power Seats AmFm Cassette 4 Bumper to Bumper Warr. By Brent Lawrence "he News-Leader REPUBLIC Justin Anderson's extra work paid off in the American Legion District Tournament Saturday night.

Anderson took some extra batting practice before the game due to a recent slump. Those extra swings got Anderson on track, as he whacked a two-run homer and drove in all of Ash Grove's runs in a win over Hillcrest in the winners' bracket final. "The last few games I hadn't hit too well," Anderson said. "That got my swing back. We're playing very good now." Ash Grove (29-17) will play in the championship game at 5 p.m.

today at Post 676 Field in Republic. Hill-Crest (25-20) will play Willard in the losers' bracket final at 1 p.m. Willard (20-17) defeated Republic 12-5 late Saturday night in the losers' bracket semifinal. Republic fell III I Ill (V) 2 I GrtlifltW ls Vn 1 AtaraMtaW CfN. -piinQtlrirt I 1 hUnjIleld I MwtonIHtl i Ctmrvl TDwnond jT I ,1, SP' Mt Zm The News-Leader YOUR ALL DAILY PAPER.

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