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Lansing State Journal ciassifiedi (. Haslett beats Perry Karin Husbeck scores 16 points as Haslett beat Perry 64-24 to win the ICL championship. Page 4C Bowling them over Bowling Green's hockey team is one of the surprises of the season this year. Page5C Index Digest 2C Basketball 4C Soccer 5C Football 12C SPORTS LOCKER NBA Tuesday's results Pistons 126, Timberwolves 112 Knicks 117, Lakers 113 Rockets 100, Cavaliers 98 i Nuggets 115, Mavericks 107 1 Heat vs. Warriors (n) BILLIARDS Test your skills against Mataya Pocket billiards players can test their skills against professional Jim FOR Wednesday November 9, 1994 kit Reachingout: Perry's Andrea Castle pulls down a rebound.

in-f "--iin-" fcfWM mi irt i wm nn pi f- "As we end one era, we look forward to President Peter McPherson "To say this was a surprise, believe in the Easter Bunny." you would have to George Peries QMKf Mataya of Lansing in a fundraising exhibition for Harvest House from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Thurs-, day at Pock-i ets on South' Washlngtoa Tickets are Mataya I've been fired, smd that's a toreadh of contract $10 per person. People from the audience will get a chance to play Mataya in a game of 9-balL Mataya will also give a trick shot exhibition. See story, Page 12C WOMEN'S BASKETBALL Langeland is Spalding advisor Karen Langeland, Michigan State's women's basketball coach, is one of 10 college coaches who -X ft- HP A-! nas Deen named to the basketball advisory staff of Spalding Sports Worldwide.

Langeland will advise Spalding about the women's market for 'V 'Langeland 0 'r the company's products. Other coaches on the advisory staff include: Sylvia Hatchell, coach of the defending national champion North Carolina; Rene Portland of Penn State; Joanie O'Brien of Massachusetts; Theresa Grentz of Rutgers; Marynell Mea-dors of Florida State; Nancy Wilson of South Carolina; Geno Auriemma of Connecticut; Nancy Darsch of Ohio State; and Amy Ruley of North Dakota State. FOOTBALL Eions sign QB Torretta 1 PONTIAC The Detroit Li-ohs, left with only two quarter-becks because of an injury to starter Scott Mitchell, signed former Heisman Trophy winner Gino Torretta on Tuesday. i Mitchell, who broke a bone in his right wrist in Sunday's loss td Green Bay, was placed on injured reserve for the rest of the season. Torretta, who won the Heisman Trophy in 1992, was picked id the seventh round by Minnesota two years ago.

Torretta was 9 of 20 passing for 75 yards with no touchdowns and two interceptions during the preseason and was cfit before the start of the season. I Dave Krieg, who completed of 33 passes for 275 yards and three touchdowns after replacing Mitchell last week, will start Sunday for the Lions. Torretta and Chuck Long will be the backups. "1 ROD SANFORD Lansing State Journal Peries said he was fired and said it was a breach of contract. Peries still has three years remaining on a 10-year contract.

Peries fights back: Michigan State football coach George Peries, true to his nature, refused to go quietly during Tuesday's press conference. erles vows to be loyal Spartan SPARTAN FOOTBALL ESPN to televise MSU-Penn State ty In the end, Peries didn't win enough i we make all our decisions' based on winning the Rose Bowl, ev ery thing will be fine." George Peries: Dec. 3, 1982 EAST LANSING The first time we' heard those words, Michigan State had just introduced its 19th head football coach. Nearly 12 years later, MSU President Pe-' ter McPherson is following Peries' philosophy. It has been seven years since the Spartans' last triumphant trip to Pasadena, Calif.

six years too long for many fans. So, to no one's surprise, EAST LANSING Michigan State's final game of the regular sgason Nov. 26 at Penn State vAli be televised by ESPN. Kickoff at Beaver Stadium is at 4 pjn. The game will be George Peries last as Spartan coach, unless MSU should win its final two contests and earns a bowl trip with a 6-5 record.

If Penn State defeats Illinois this weekend and Northwestern on Nov. 19, the Nittany Lions would clinch the Big Ten title outright and rgmain in the national championship race with a victory over the Spartans. Coach says he won't criticize university ever By Jack Ebling Lansing State Journal EAST LANSING He won't be Michigan State's head football coach next season. But on the day he was fired for the first time, George Peries promised to stay a staunch Michigan Stater. And if the right team is interested, he said he could still be a football coach.

What he couldn't do this year was produce the "outstanding season" ordered last winter by MSU President Peter McPherson, who announced a change late Tuesday afternoon in packed meeting rooms at the Duffy Daugherty Football Building. "George will coach the remainder of this season and will not coach next season," McPherson said, to no one's surprise. "George has three years remaining in his contract and, of course, has rights under that contract. The university and Coach Peries have begun negotiations on the contract And I am confident that we will come to agreement in the time ahead." There were no specifics from either side about a clean-break buyout arrangement that could cost the university up to $1.5 million money generated from football revenue in the 1980s and stored in escrow. But the first area of agreement will allow Peries to direct his 4-5 team against Purdue Saturday in an emotional Spartan Stadium farewell and to try to upend No.

2-ranked Penn State Nov. 26 in University Park, Pa. A pair of wins and nothing less could lift MSU to its eighth post-season bowl in Peries' 12 seasons. His 72-61-4, .540, overall record is the second-wlnningest mark In MSU history, behind Daugherty's 109-69-5 effort from 1954-72. "Ladies and gentlemen, this has been a Please see PERLES, 3C in hi mm mm a tumultuous era is about to enter its last two games or perhaps its final three, if the Spartans can JOURNAL JEOPARDY beat Purdue and catch Penn State on an off-off- I v.

vt ty off-off-day. The school made that much official Tuesday, announcing a "Buy George. Bye, George!" plan to replace Peries, who has three years left bn a 10-year contract Jack Ebling Today's question: JWho was the last Detroit Piston to tead the NBA in scoring? Call 485-7316 and press 2 to an- 1 swer the question, leave a spelling olyour name, your hometown and phone number. The Brst caller with the correct answer will ap-! pear in the following day's paper. 2 Tuesday's answer: 1 Otis Armstrong holds the Purdue 2 record for most yards rushing in one game with 276 againt Indiana Jin 1971 Tom Juntune "Okemos ROD SANFORD Lansing State Journal Let's shake hands: George Peries shakes hands with President Peter McPherson.

Peries vowed that he'd never say anything bad about the Spartans. Players mad about Peries being fired. Page 3C Who will be the next Spartan coach? Page 3C Peries' goodbye as controversial as his reign. Page 3C MSU coach's year-by-year record. Page 3C As an embarrassment- packed period in Spartan history comes to an end, we're all left wonder, "Did it have to end this way?" i It did because, right or wrong, 3-8, 5-6, and 4-5 records the last four seasons' are: unacceptable in big-money college athletics i Ask Barry Wilson, who was replaced at! Duke after a 3-8 season with the highest graduation rate in Division I-A.

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