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D5 Ex-Ram Gridder Gray Receives Purdue Grant Avon Event Marks Return Of Women's Pro Tennis Daily Press. Sunday. January 3. 1982 By RAY HEBERT Daily Press Sports Writer Everyone has some kind of a problem. Former, Lafayette' football standout Mel Gray is no exception.

season," says Beers, "when Purdue plays Ohio State and Indiana. "James Palmer is a freshman at Ohio State and Jerry Lee is a junior at Indiana. They played together on the 1978 team." season there and Mike Rozier last year. Rozier is now at Nebraska, which lost to Clemson in this year's Orange Bowl game. In one game this season, against the Arkansas junior varsity.

Gray had his hands on the ball 12 times and scored six touchdowns, including a 109-yard kickoff return. His total yardage for the game, in which he only played slightly more than a half, was 240 yards. "His size and plus having to pick up his grades a little stopped him from being heavily recruited when he was a senior at Lafayette," says Rams' Coach Barry Beers. "He's more than made up since. He felt by going to Coffeyville that he would be able to get the experience he needs and also brush up on a couple of subjects," adds Beers.

"Mel will be able to renew a couple of. friendships next football Ram product Mel Gray By TOM FOSTER Daily Press Sports Writer Women's pro tennis returns to the Peninsula Thursday, and the fight for spots in the main draw is shaping up as one of the most fiercely contested ever on the circuit. As of Saturday, 166 players had signed up to compete in pre-qualifying for the $40,000 Avon Futures of Hampton Roads. The norm, according to officials of the women's winter circuit, is around 120. Eight players from the pre-qualifying Thursday and Friday advance to the qualifying in the Hampton Roads Racquet Club event, which runs Sunday and The top eight players in the draw of 32 advance to the main tournament beginning Tuesday, Jan.

12, and running through the following Sunday, The semifinalists in the main draw move up to the Avon Championship circuit; where they are guaranteed spots in Seattle (Jan. 18-25) and Chicago (Jan. 25-31). Kate Latham and Pam Teeguarden, Nos. 36 and 37 in the world, respectively, are the top ranked players currently in the main draw.

The most attention, though, will be given to Newport News' Leigh Anne Thompson, No. 62 in the world and seeking her first title on the pro circuit. Thompson is still an amateur, though, and will not accept the money even if she were to win the $5,000 first prize. Thompson is the only player assured of being in the main draw. The rest of the list depends on what happens this week during the first stop on the tour in Fort Myers, Fla.

The top four players there advance to the championship circuit and do not come to Newport News. Others in the top 50 include No. 39 Julie Harrington, No. .40 Beth Norton, No. 41 Ann White, No.

42 Rosalyn Fairbank, No. 43 Susan Mascarin and No. 44 Hana Strachonova. Also, No. 45 Lucia Romanov, No.

47 Barbara Hallquist, No. 48 Kathleen Cummings of Richmond and No. 50 Duk Hee Lee. Other players include Lea Antonoplis, Yvonne Vermaak, Margie Blackwood, Stacy Margolin, Glynis Coles, Pat Medrado, Joyce Portman, Kim Sands, Sue Saliba, Anna Maria Fernandez and Nancy Yeargin. Together, including what the amateurs would have won" if they were pros, the players listed in the main draw won over $750,000 in prize money during 1981.

Fairbank, who just turned 21and is from t)urr South Africa, leads the money list with $63,935 in earnings. Another South African, Vermaak, made $54,369 while Teeguarden, from made $46,038. Diane Desfor, who came to the Peninsula last month fo help promote the event, has withdrawn from the qualifying competition. Barbara Jordan, whose sister Kathy made it to the finals of the Richmond $100,000 tournament last summer, will be in the qualifying as will Elise Burgin of Baltimore and Trey Lewis of the Southern California squad. Originally, play was scheduled for 9 a.m.

to 11 p.m. Thursday and 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. Friday, but officials say that will change because of. the number pre-qualifiers: "We'll probably have to go from 8 a.m.

to well past midnight the first day to get them all in;" according to press aide Susan Fletcher. "We will, have to run approximately 160 matches off in two days oh six courts." passed up the first futures event to compete in qualifying for the Washington Avon Championship tournament this week. Other events on the futures circuit include Montreal (Jan. 18-24), Pittsburgh (Jan. Ogden, Utah (Feb.

1-6); Bakersfield, (Feb. 8-14), Nashville (Feb. 15-21), Greenville, S.C., (Feb. 22-28), Hershey, (March 1:7) and the. championships-March 17-21 in Omaha, Neb.

Besides Desfor, two others of local interest from the original list have dropped out of the main qualifying Laura DuPont of North Carolina and Kim Jones of San Diego. 1 Jones was upset by Thompson 6-1, 6-1 in the second round of the U.S, Open last fall. Two of last year's futures winners. Australian Susan Leo (Nashville) and The Netherlands'' Mary Anne Van Dertorre (Hershey), are in the qualifying. Tickets are available by calling 877-1735 or 599-2279.

There will be a pro-am tournament Jan. 14 at 7:30 p.m. after third-round action earlier in the day. The tournament is a benefit to the Riverside Hospital Cancer Treatment Center. Denton Pulls Upset In Australian Open hapless Pfister, who struggled even to get his racquet on the ball.

It marks Denton's first Grand Prix final and he said that he would just try to play as well as he can Sunday. "If I lose there is always next week," he said. "I'll just do my best and not worry about Kriek said after his match that it was his service return that carried him to his first Grand Slam tournament final. "He never came close to breaking my serve," Kriek said. "He missed a lot of balls, which surprised me, but I thought I played to a high standard throughout the match." Kriek beat his Peugeot-Ros-signol teammate, American Tim Mayotte, in the quarterfinals, but before that victory his confidence was at a low ebb.

"But after this match I've ously got to be confident about tomorrow," said Kriek. MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) Steve Denton upset fellow American Hank Pfister in five sets Saturday and gained Sunday's final of the $400,000 Marlboro Australian Open tennis tournament against South Africa's Johan Kriek. Denton, best known as a doubles specialist, downed Pfister 7-6, 6-7, 6-1, 3-6, 6-3 in a battle of powerful servers. In the other semifinal, the fourth-seeded Kriek stunned the 1976 Australian Open winner, Mark Edmondson, 6-0, 7-6, 7-5 victory. In the past three weeks Denton's singles game emerged.

He made the semifinals of a Grand Prix tournament in South Africa and the semifinals of last week's New South Wales Open. Under the tutelage of a new coach, Australian Warren Jacques, Denton has improved his main weapon, his booming serve, and Saturday wielded it against the Gray, now attending Coffeyville (Kan.) Community College, had a problem, which major college to attend on a football scholarship. Visiting his family in Williamsburg for the holidays, the first-team All-American Junior College running back had narrowed his choice to the University of Pittsburgh and Purdue University. That was until last Wednesday, when Wake Forest put its two cents into the recruiting picture. After visiting the Atlantic Coast Conference school in Winston-Salem, N.C: Gray decided he was going to stick with his first choice Although Pittsburgh coaches told Gray he would play right away, he felt that he had a better chance at starting with the Big Ten Boilermakers.

"Besides that." says Gray, "the environment of playing in the midwest had something to do with it and I always wanted to play in the Big Ten," he adds. Planning to major in eommuni-a cations, Gray says it felt good to be recruited by so many major colleges; "I didn't expect he says. He did say he had expected to have a good season last "In my first year at Coffeyville we had a lot of good running backs. I figured that by going back for my" second I'd have the experience and would have a good season." A good season is putting it mildly for the former Ram. He scored 20 touchdowns and rushed for more than 1,400 yards.

He was the leading scorer in junior college this past season and was third in the nation in rushing. "Mel is the quickest running back I've ever coached," says Coffeyville Coach Dick Foster. According to Foster, every coach in the Kansas Junior College Conference voted for Gray for All-American honors. He is the fourth All-American Foster has coached. The first was Tommy Reamon in 1969 and 1970 while at Fort Scott (Kan Others were Ron Springs in 1975 at Coffeyville, Foster's first Middlesex Stops West Point 78-50 MIDDLESEX A 29-point third quarter paved the way Saturday night for Middlesex to turn back visiting West Point 78-50 in a non-conference scuffle.

Although the Chargers were leading 34-18 at intermission. Coach John Clements' crew broke the game wide open in the third. With James Griffin controlling the boards, Aaron Johnson, Joe Harrow and Langston Washington scored 22 of the points tallied for a 63-30 going into the fourth. WEST POINT (50): Bluford 3 0-0 6. Burnett 4 0-0 8, Porker 3 2-3 8.

Johnson 5 1-3 11, Gresham 3 0 0 6. Manlev 1 2-2 4, Ho99e 3 1-4 7, Jones 0 00 0 Totals 22 6-14 50. MIDDLESEX (78): Harrow 3 8-9 14, Johnson 8 l-l 1', Blake 2 4-6 8. Washington 7 15 15, Griffin 6 4-5 16, Jones 0 1-2 1, Owens 0 0-0 0, Beverly 0 3-4 3. Hiers 0 0-2 0, Shores 1 0 0 2.

Crittenden 0 2-2 Dixsbn 0 0-2 0. Totals 27 24-38 78. Miller's 66 Ties Ballesteros fit fslf "It's exciting," the usually low-key Miller said Saturday after his 54-hole total of 206 had lifted him into a tie with Seve Ballesteros of Spain, who had led alone through the first two rounds of the Sun City $1 million Golf Challenge. "I'd really like to see it come SUN CITY, Bophuthatswana AP) Johnny Miller, whose brilliant 6-under-par 66 has elevated him into a tie for the lead going into today's final 1 round the world's richest golf tournament, would like to see the chase get even tighter. I IT" if Clemson Gridders MacArthur Winners 4 FOR down to the last two holes with all-three of us, me and Seve and Jack (Nicklaus), tied for the lead." Miller said.

Then he noticed Ballesteros in a crowd of reporters. "Wouldn't you like Seve?" he asked. "Wouldn't that be fun?" "I think I'd rather be leading," answered the young Spaniard, who rallied with a 32 on the back nine to salvage a 69 and a tie for the top spot at 10 under par for three trips over the course Gary Player cre-' ated in the crater of an old, extinct volcano. Nicklaus was alone in third at 209 after a 69. "I feel like I've played well after a layoff, but I'm three behind two very good players.

They are playing some kind of golf." Nicklaus said. Lee Trevino and Player appeared out of the running. Trevino three-putted for bogeys on his first three holes and finished the day's play with a 74 that left him at 218, 2-over-par on the course that adjoins this spectacular resort 100 miles northwest of Johannesburg. Player, the only other man in the elite, invitational field, got a par 72 and was last at 219. 9 Jm ll A78-13 Blackwall and the Tigers scored an impressive victory over a 'strong, high-ranking University of Nebraska team in the Orange Bowl," said Vincent dePaul Draddy, chairman of the NFF.

The MacArthur Bowl is formally presented each summer at the Foundation's College Football Hall of Fame in Kings Island, Ohio. This year's bowl will be awarded July 24 at the Hall of Fame Enshrinement ceremony. Several "strong teams" on NCAA probation were disqualified from consideration, the NFF said. NEW ORLEANS (UPI) Top-ranked Clemson University, the nation's only undefeated and un: tied major college football team, was awarded the 1981 MacArthur Bowl. Hall of Fame officials said Saturday.

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