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Fphniflrvl 1QS9. CO Stars Really Game Out Sunday Julius Erving (left) Was Bright Star for NBA East, Joe Montana (below) Makes Like Meteor For NFC fr The Erving Sn. 1 1 Joe Montana saambles by Lester Hayes Kick In The 'Nick' of Time Gives AFC Pro Bowl Win makes a dunk against West Stars Bird Parish Key East Win in Pro Bowl Montana 21 yards to the NFC one. The NFC had taken a 6-0 half- i time lead with the first of Ever-! son Walls' two interceptions set (Turn to Page B-5) i Tompkins Lucky Lindy Tulane family when the job became available. Infante had accepted an attractive job offer to be an assistant coach at Cincinnati early in 1980.

"The fact that I left Tulane, I'm sure they used that against me," said Infante. "But I can't imagine people not wanting someone to advance themselves, and that's what I was doing by taking this job. I had no way of knowing Larry (Smith) wasn't going to be there, and I knew as long as Larry was there I wasn't going to be head coach. "I was looking to advance myself in my profession," he continued "The pay raise was substantial, plus you take the $23,000 we got this year for going to the Super BowL You can't pass it up." Infante said however, he didn't bear any grudges against Tulane for not hiring him. "I don't hold it against them," he said "Hindman (Wall) and Vince (Gibson) are friends," he said, referring to Tulane's athletic director and the man he hired instead as head coach.

"I can understand him (Wall) wanting to hire someone he knew well and knew he could work with. Anyway, there are a lot of qualified assistants out there who haven't been given head coaching jobs." Instead of beating the trail recruiting high school athletes last week, Infante and his family were enjoying the thrill of being a part (Turn to Page B-5) EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) Larry Bird and Robert Parish, using variations of a play they run with the Boston Celtics, dominated the fourth quarter of the National Basketball Association All-Star Game Sunday, leading the East to a 120-118 victory over the West "We ran a play down the stretch that the Celtics use throughout the year," said Bird, who won the Most Valuable Player award. Bird scored 12 of his 19 points and Parish added nine of his 21 in the fourth quarter. Bird also had 12 rebounds.

"That's what took them out of the game," added Bird. "That's definitely the key. Robert and I played together well throughout the two years we've been together, and today we just carried it further." "It's hard to say anyone's a better player than Larry Bird," said East Coach Bill Fitch of the Celt ics. "But the best thing about him is that if I hadn't put him in at the end, he wouldn't have said a word I'm glad Bird got the MVP, but don't forget, it could have gone to Parish also." Parish rebounded the West's last-gasp shot by Earvin "Magic" Johnson with one second remaining to clinch the victory. Johnson drove the lane and put up a six-foot shot that caromed off the backboard to the front of the rim before bouncing away.

"I thought Magic was just trying to make it on the drive," said Parish, "not so much to draw a fouL "It (the award) could have gone either way. It would have been a good feeling to win." Johnson was sharply criticized last year in the playoffs when he took a last, desperation shot in the Los Angeles Lakers' loss to the Houston Rockets. He said he felt a little better about this miss. "It was a good shot, but it didn't Houston's Earl Campbell later in the third period The score was set up when the New York Jets' Mark Gastineau returned a fumble by San Francisco quarterback Joe Fickle Fate The 1979 football season at Tu-lane is fondly remembered maybe even revered by Green Wave fans. It was Roch Hontas' splendid senior season at quarterback, when the Greenies made the Top 20 after demolishing Mississippi on regional television, beat arch-rival LSU two weeks later and then lost to Penn State 9-6 in a misty, muddy battle of field goals at the Liberty BowL The offensive coordinator for the Green Wave that year was Lindy Infante, who now holds the same position with the American Football Conference champion Cincinnati Bengals.

Infante (pronounced in-FAN-tee) has again played an imporant role in a memorable season the season that climaxed with two Cinderel-las, the Bengals and the San Francisco 49ers, at Super Bowl XVI. Infante would not have been a central character in the NFL's annual "ultimate" game at the Sil-verdome in Pontiac, last week if he had had his way two years ago. Infante would've liked to have been hired as Tulane's head coach after Larry Smith surprisingly resigned to take the head coaching job at the University of Arizona. "The Tulane job was one I felt qualified for," Infante said Sunday afternoon in a phone conversation from his home in Loveland Ohio. "I kinda felt like I paid my dues to deserve it" Infante, however, wasn't in the There's a Life 14 Bob HONOLULU (AP) American Football Conference Coach Don Shula liked Sunday's Pro Bowl for the excitement and the outcome.

"It was anything but a dull game," the Miami Dolphins' Shula said following the AFC's 16-13 victory over the NFC in a game that was decided with three seconds remaining. "There were a tot of good plays on both sides." A 23-yard field goal by Kansas City's Nick Lowery with just three ticks left on the clock gave the AFC the triumph in a contest that lacked offensive spark in the opening half but picked up some steam in the second "I was disappointed we were down 6-0 at half time," said Shula, who had coached two previous Pro Bowl winners. "I felt we could get going in the second half." Tampa Bay's John McKay, making his Pro Bowl debut as NFC coach, said the game unfolded much as he expected "I figured it would be a low-scoring game, and it was," he said "There was just too much defense. "It takes longer than we have before this game to get an offense coordinated" The game was a career high point for Lowery, who tied for the AFC scoring lead this season with 115 points. He had great difficutly breaking into pro football, being waived or failing tryouts with eight different teams before finally landing a job with the Chiefs.

"I wasn't worried" he said of his Pro Bowl-deciding kick. "I thought before the kick, 'I've done it before and here it is The kick by Lowery, who earlier had missed an extra point try because of a bad snap and also missed a long field goal attempt capped a 69-yard drive engineered by San Diego quarterback Dan Fouts. The NFC, which had won the last four NFL all-star games, tied the contest 13-13 with 2:43 left when Dallas' Tony Dorsett sprinted four yards for a touchdown. But when the AFC got the ball back, Fouts moved his team steadily down the field completing passes of 16 yards to Denver's Steve Watson, 9 yards to Cleveland's Ozzie Newsome and 23 yards to Chargers teammate Kel-len Winslow. The pass to Winslow put the ball on the NFC 5, and after two running plays, Lowery, a second-year pro out of Dartmouth, hit his game-winning kick.

Fouts also had guided another long drive that set up the AFC's first touchdown, a two-yard burst by San Diego's Chuck Muncie midway through the third period Low-ery's missed PAT attempt followed that score. The other American Conference score was on a one-yard run by Good, Bad News for fall," he said. "I was going inside to Kareem (Abdul-Jabbar) if he was open, but it was closed, so I just took it to the hoop. There was no contact on the play. It was a good defensive play." Abdul-Jabbar of the Lakers, the sixth-leading scorer in the NBA, was only one for 10 from the field and finished with two points for the West, which lost for the third time in a row and fell behind 21-11 in the All Star series.

The game see-sawed throughout, with the lead changing hands 18 times. In addition, there were 15 ties. Bird tied the score at 109 and again at 111 with 4:30 remaining, then gave the East a 113-111 lead at 4:02. George Gervin of San Antonio tied it for the last time with a basket for the West at 3:46. A free throw by Julius Erving of Philadelphia, who scored 16 points, and a basket by Parish made it 116-113.

of Deshautelle, 6-4 Robert Myer and 6-5 Kevin Brisco. Keith Breaz-eale and Marcus Wallace will be the guards. Xavier is outscoring its opponents by an average of 10 points and is shooting a little better than 50 percent from the field Deshautelle is currently sixth in scoring with a 16 ppg. average and sixth in rebounding with a 6.6 average in the GCAC. The LC women are still seeking their first GCAC district win, having lost their first six games.

They are 4-13 overall but it wont be easy to get that first win against Xavier. The Wildcats dropped a 71-49 loss to Tougaloo in their last effort, largely because of the 66-42 disparity in rebounding. LC will start Debbie Seaman, currently ranked second in assists with a 6.3 average, and Mary Murphy at the guards. Lori Thames, Shawn Hickman and Sheila Cason will be up front The women are scheduled to begin at 5:30 with the men following at about 7 :30p.m. By Mario Cmz Town Talk Sports Writer First the good news.

The Louisiana College Wildcats finally get to play an extensive series of games at home. They will play five games in two weeks at West Fieldhouse. Now the bad news. Their first foe will be the Xavier Gold Rush, leaders in the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference with a 9-0 record. After an opening season loss, Xavier has won 19 straight, its latest victim being Spring Hill Saturday night, 67-52.

The LC women will face the Gold Nuggets in the preceding game. "They have awfully athletes," Wildcat coach Billy Allgood said. "They are quick and are good jumpers. We just hope to play good solid defense and control the tempo." Xavier defeated LC in their first meeting by a score of 75-63 despite a 24-point, 10-rebound performance by Burman Deshautelle. "We were in it," Allgood said of their first encounter, "we just turned the ball over too much." The Gold Rush is currently ranked sixth in the NAIA top 20 poll and it isn't difficult to see why.

They are led by 5-9 guard Alvin Dukes, New Orleans' All-City MVP last year. Clifton Gullett, a 6-8 forward, is shooting a phenomenal 70 percent from the field and Louis Williams, a 6-4 forward, is Xavier's leading scorer with an 18-point average who was named the district "player of the week" recently. Joining Dukes in the backcourt will be 6-2 Tyronne Waivers while 6-7 Dwayne Myers will be in the middle. The Wildcats, now M3 and 3-5 in the GCAC, had their three-game winning streak snapped Saturday by Tougaloo, losing a close one, 51-50. Prior to last week's game with East Texas Baptist, the Wildcats had been on the road for almost two months and look to settle down at home.

"We're tired and I'm sure the team feels the grind. They looked sluggish and weary," Allgood said of his team after Saturday's loss. Allgood will go with a frontcourt Insurance) CURTIS PAUL AGENCY 338B- Us 3202-A Jackson Street Jackson Square Alexandria, Louisiana Phone 445-8730 SHELTER INSURANCE.