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B-6 Monday. Dacambar S. 1977THE COURIER-NEWS Central Jersey Group 3 town mile's runners bum Hightsi By ALLAN CONOVER Courier-News Sports Writer 0 1 XNW ft itv' Jiif if- 1 If ss y-f fT 7 2' Courier-News Photo iy Vince Kremer A couple of Hightstown High defenders close in as Somerville's James Walker looks for running room during Saturday's Central Jersey Group 3 finale. Somerville came through with a 28-6 victorv second successive sectional championship. SOMERVILLE Victor Holloway, Somerville High's outstanding senior running back, wishes he was going to be around again next year.

No, not to pile up another 1,000 yards rushing. And not to break the school's season scoring record which he just established. "I'd just love to come back and block for Jonathan Williams," beamed Holloway Saturday in the Pioneers' euphoric locker room. "Just block for him and watch him run." Hightstown, much to its chagrin, had plenty of opportunities to watch Williams run Saturday. Somerville's swift sophomore totaled 93 yards on just 10 carries, scored a pair of touchdowns and tossed his fifth TO pass of the year in sparking the Pioneers to a 28-6 triumph in the NJSIAA Central Jersey Group 3 championship battle at Brooks Field.

While Holloway has certainly left his mark on the Somerville record book, he figures there's no limit on what Williams can accomplish in the next two seasons. "He's only a sophomore and look at the moves he's already got," pointed out Holloway, who tallied the host team's third touchdown and later added a conversion run to finish the campaign with 112 points, a school standard. "No doubt about it, the best halfback to come out of Somerville will be Jonathan Williams," continued Holloway. "With his ability he's gonna be the baddest halfback ever around here." With the help of excellent blocks thrown by Willie Moore and Robert Bench, Williams took a pitchout and scooted 42 yards on Somerville's second possession for the game's initial touchdown. On the next series he took another pitch from quarterback Russ Trinchera, stepped back and tossed a perfect 24-yard scoring pass to split end Frank Deardorff who didn't have a Ram within 10 yards of him.

Down 14-0 with 39 seconds still remaining in the first quarter, previously-unbeaten Hightstown was getting a taste of something different and apparently didn't know how to cope. "They seemed to give up after that second touchdown," remarked Williams, whose 13-yard punt return set up the first TD. "We were just stickin' it to 'em and they seemed to quit. And our speed and power was too much for 'em." Senior James Walker, a stickout in both the offensive and defensive backfields for the Pioneers (10-1), and defensive end George Johnson also questioned Hightstown willingness to fight back from adversity. "We knew we had to burn from the word go," commented Walker, another integral part of the Pioneers' rushing fortunes with 59 yards on eight tries.

"That's what we did. We never let up. And it appeared to me that they quit, even in the first half. They couldn't deal with our quickness." Hightstown (9-1-1), a running-oriented club like Somerville, managed just 122 Gill-St. Bernard's wins tournamefit GLADSTONE- Don Lovas tallied all six of his points in the fourth quarter Saturday to help the Gill-St.

Bernard's School basketball team nail down a 58-53 triumph over Collegiate of Passaic in the finale of the second annual Saints Tournament. Sophomore forward Jeff Dangelmajer connected on 12 of 26 triesfrom the field and finished with 28 points to lead the host team. Mike Jeffers tallied 16 points and pulled down a game-high 19 rebounds for Gill while Dangelmajer added 14 rebounds. Scott Wilmore and Kevin Chase each scored 13 points for Collegiate. "We just have a tough team, a super line, backs who can run and no one ever loafs.

Here, if you don't have the ball you block like hell. And our kids were psyched for this one. It was our chance to put our names in the record book." Moore was also profuse in his praise for Holloway. The 6-0, 200-pound back accumulated 93 yards on 12 carries, raising his season total over the level, and was devastating while playing linebacker on defense. "Victor has got to be the most complete player in the state, "said Moore.

"He runs, plays super defense and when he's blocking on sweeps he just knocks people down. There can't be anyone better than Victor." And Holloway, who's narrowed his choice of colleges down to five major schools, returned the kind words. "That man (Moore) treats us like college players right now," he pointed out. "He makes us work hard. When we 'st to Watchung (6-0) we came right back the next week and worked our butts off to get ready for Piscataway.

And we beat Piscataway. "All the guys on the team love him and the rest of the coaches. We all love each other here. This is the most together team I've ever seen." The total yardage statistics, although almost even in the second half, reveal Somerville's dominance. Hightstown 00 06-4 Somerville U40I--2I Williams run (Trinchere run); S--Dear(Jortf 24 pass from Williams (run failed); S-Holloway 4 run (pass failed); S-Williami 2 run (Holloway run), H-Laioie 16 run (run failed).

yards on the ground all day and got little of that total going towards Johnson, who operates on the left side of the defense. "They weren't as tough as I expected," he said. "No way they compare to Ridge. Ridge is much better. And they gave up when they got behind early.

I told 'em to go home if they don't want to play, man." Prior to the game many Somerville fans may have thought that coach Don Colbert's Rams did stay at home. The opening kickoff was delayed 15 minutes because Hightstown, employing a little psychological arrived late after warming up at Hillsborough High. Needless to say, the tactic failed miserably. "We knew we had to try something, but it didn't work," conceded Colbert. "Heck, they were just a better team.

I think the real key was their offensive line." Somerville coach Jerry Moore, who established an NJSIAA playoff first by guiding his team to back-to-back titles in different groups (2 and 3), was slightly amused by the game-delay strategy. "He told me he felt he had to do everything possible to shake us up," said Moore. "I guess he was telling his kids that we were better than them. But our guys are too smart and too cool to let something like that affect them." Smart, cool and very, very triented. "I didn't really feel they could control us, and on a dry field the score could've been outta sight," continued Moore.

"As far as I'm concerned, the real championship was decided when we beat Ridge (20-14). Couritr-News Photo By Vince Kremer The Somervllle High football team Is No. 1, at least In Central Jersey Group 3, and the Pioneers' standout running back Vic Holloway wants everyone to know It. Australians regain cup behind Alexander's play GILL-ST. BERNARD'S (51) Jeffers 7-2-16; Engstrom 3-0-6; Lovas 1-4-6; Jenkins 1-0-2, Dangelmaier 12-4-2I Totals 24-10-51.

COLLEGIATE (S3) Wilmore 6-I-I3; Will 5-0-10; Barnes 5-0-10; Chase 5-3-IJ; Gibson 2-0-4; O'Hara 1-1-3. Totals 29-S-53. McGraw places In Shore ASBURY PARK Alice McGraw, a senior at Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School, finished in the top ten for women and 536th over all in Sunday's Shore Marathon. McGraw covered the 26 mile, 386-t ard course in 3 hours, 20 minutes and 52 seconds. A time of 3:30 is necessary to qualify for the Boston Marathon.

Rutgers graduate Bill Seamon finished first in a Shore record time of 2:18. OPEN DAILY East Inraswid Open Till 10:00 WED. By PETER LOLGHLIN Associated Press Writer SYDNEY, Australia (AP) John Alexander outlasted Adriano Panatta of Italy in a grueling five-set marathon that took three hours and 54 minutes Sunday, regaining the Davis Cup for once tennis-rich Australia. In one of the most tense and closely fought matches in recent Davis Cup history, the 26-year-old Alexander rallied to win 6-4, 4-6, 2-6, 8-6, 11-9. Alexander's victory gave the Australians an unbeatable 3-1 lead in the best-of-five series and gained them the Cup which they have held 25 times but have won only twice in the past 10 years.

The final singles match between Australian Tony Roche and Corrado Barazzut-ti was abandoned by mutual agreement with the score tied 12-12. It will' go in the record books as unfinished, leaving the team score of the final series 3-1. Australian team Captain Neale Fraser described the final as "one of the greatest of all Italian team Captain Nicola Pietrangei called the match "one of the greatest I have ever seen." "It was a very exciting, beautiful match," he said, adding that Italy had nothing to be ashamed of in losing to the Australians. Alexander described the match as the toughest game he could ever remember playing. "I feel desperately sorry for Adriano, who must be disappointed for that long I know I would have been." The 27-year old Panatta had the match almost in his grasp.

Serving for the match with the score 6-5 and leading two sets to one, Panatta came within three points of taking the match and making the final singles between the left-handed Roche and Barazzutti the decider. But he could not beat off Alexander's challenge. He double faulted and lost an unlucky net cord to drop his service, and allowed the Australian back into the game. The Italians, who won the 77-year-old Cup 4-1 over Chile last year, lost both opening singles on Friday but kept their hopes alive with a victory over Australia in the doubles Saturday. Panatta started poorly against Alexander in front of a crowd of 7,000 at White City-Stadium.

A 15 mile-an-hour cross-court wind upset the Italian, who had difficulty with the ball as he tossed it up for service. He dropped the first set 6-4 but settled down in the second and, using his big serve and volley game, lifted his performance to take the set 6-4 and even the score at one set all. Alexander, wilting under the pressure of Panatta's winning service return, lost touch, dropped his service in the third game and again in the fifth, giving Panatta the set 6-2. In the fourth set, Alexander ran quickly to a 3-1 lead but Panatta broke his service after a heated seventh game which went to deuce twice and was marred by disputed line calls and hoots from the crowd. broke Alexander's service again in the 11th game for a 6-5 lead, with his own service to come.

He got to 15-0 three points from clinching the match but double faulted at what Pietrangeli later described as the turning point in the game. Panatta went on to miss two backhands, allowing Alexander to even the score at 6-6. Alexander, who first started playing Davis Cup in 1968 at the age of 17, served a love game next and then broke Panatta's service with a superbly placed angled return, taking the set 8-6 after 51 minutes of exhausting tennis. In the deciding fifth set, Panatta got an early break of service to lead 2-1 and had the Italian fans cheering him on. Alexander broke back the next game to even it at 2-2, broke Panatta's service i-gain to make it 4-2 and in the ninth game, leading 5-4, he netted two backhand returns and dropped his serve, letting the Italian back into the game.

Middlesex wrestlers open their season with tourney victory SEWELL Middlesex County College opened its wrestling season Saturday by winning the 7th annual Road Runner Wrestling Tournament at Gloucester County College. The Colts won for the fourth time, scoring 83 points. Four wrestlers from MCC won titles. Two were second and one third. Erwin Velasquez (South Plainfield) won the 134 title with a 6-4 decision in the finals.

Bill Pavlak, (St. Thomas Aquinas) won the 167 title with a 7-3 decision in the finals. Gary Rushing won the 177 crown and won the tournament's Outstanding Wrestler award. He had three pins, including a 1 :29 effort in the championship bout. The 190 title went to Al Gittle (J.P.

Stevens). He took the championship match 13-1. Bill McCaskill took a second at 118 and Danny Cooper a second at 159. Tony Pompilio (South Plain-field) took third at 142. Middlesex won the tournament by 27 points over Suffolk of New York.

Morris CC ws third with 49tt points. Eight teams competed. Middlesex travels to Camden Saturday to open its dual season. Its first home match is Jan. 7.

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