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THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1990 PAGE 4B Vols Prevent Georgia From Claiming SEC Title Outright College Basketball getting 20 points and 12 rebounds from Alonzo Mourning in an 84-64 victory over No. 4 Connecticut. The setback ended the Huskies' four-game winning streak and spoiled their bid to clinch at least a share of the conference crown. Connecticut, which went more than six minutes without a point midway through the second half, fell into a tie with Georgetown and Syracuse with one game to play. The Huskies (24-5, 11-4) grabbed an early 13-8 lead, but Georgetown took command with a 14-3 run and never gave up the lead in avenging an earlier loss to Connecticut.

Dwayne Bryant scored 20 for Georgetown (22-4, 11-4), while Dikembe Mutombo had 15 points, 14 rebounds and four blocks. The Huskies closed within five points early in the second half, but their extended scoreless drought was too much to overcome. 71 Seton Hall 69 EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. Derrick Coleman tipped in Billy Owens' missed shot at the buzzer Wednesday night as No. 10 Syracuse continued its domination of time had expired.

James Moses also had 15 points for Iowa, while Les Jep-sen, playing his last home game, chipped in 14. Woody Austin led Purdue with 13 points, Oliver had 11 and Ryan Berning and Jones each finished with 10. Iowa collapsed three players on Stephen Scheffler, who leads the NCAA in field goal percentage at 73 percent, holding the senior to six points, nearly 11 below his average. Missouri 65 Kansas 60 COLUMBIA, Mo. Third-ranked Missouri locked up its seventh Big Eight basketball championship Wednesday night, riding 28 points and 17 rebounds by Doug Smith to a 65-60 victory over Kansas State.

Missouri goes into its regular-season finale at Notre Dame Saturday with a 26-3 record and one of the nation's hottest players in the 6-foot-10 Smith, who has averaged almost 28 points in his last six games. The Tigers, 12-2 in the Big Eight with road losses to Oklahoma and Kansas State, also got a boost from point guard Lee Coward. He came off the bench in the first half after missing several games with an injury. Kansas State (16-13, 6-7) scored the first five points of the game, but Smith's two free throws with 7:51 left in the half gave the Tigers their first lead, 17-15. Kansas State never went ahead again.

Georgetown 84 Connecticut 64 LAN DOVER, Md. Seventh-ranked Georgetown moved into a tie atop the Big East Wednesday, for both teams. Clemson, which trailed 53-51 at halftime, led by as many as nine in the second half before Duke rallied within 87-86 with 1:27 left on a dunk by Phil Henderson. Christian Laettner then stole the ball under the Clemson basket but missed a layup and fouled Marion Cash. Cash hit both ends of a one-and-one to give Clemson an 89-86 lead with 1:19 left.

Elden Campbell scored with 59 seconds left after grabbing Derrick Forrest's missed free throw to give the Tigers a five-point lead. The Blue Devils cut the lead to two three times but could get no closer as David Young hit two free throws with 24 seconds left, then Howling made one-and-ones with 1 and four seconds to go. Iowa 64 Purdue 63 IOWA CITY, Iowa Matt Bul-lard, playing his last game at Carver-Hawkeye Arena, scored 15 points and hit the winning shot Wednesday night to lead Iowa to a 64-63 victory over No. 9 Purdue, knocking the Boilermakers out of the Big Ten lead. Iowa snapped its six-game losing streak to improve to 12-14 overall and 4-12 in the league.

Purdue, which whipped Iowa 80-59 earlier this season, fell to 20-6, 12-4. Michigan State is 11-3 in the conference. Ballard's short turnaround jumper on the left side came with eight seconds left. Purdue's Tony Jones dribbled the length of the court with the inbounds pass but missed a jumper from the left side. Jimmy Oliver's shot from deep in the right corner swished in, but officials ruled Sptnn Hall, defeating the Pirates for the 20th straight time, 71-69 in the Big East.

The victory was the third straight for the Orangemen (21-5, 11-4) and it handed Seton Hall (11-15, 4-11) its eighth loss in nine games. Seton Hall had rallied from a 69-63 deficit in the final 2:14 and tied the game when Oliver Taylor drove the lane and scooped in a layup with 9.2 seconds to play. North Carolina 81 Georgia Tech 79 CHAPEL HILL, N.C. Rick Fox sank two free throws with four seconds left and helped North Carolina break a three-game losing streak with an 81-79 victory over No. 11 Georgia Tech in the Atlantic Coast Conference Wednesday night.

Fox got the free throws after he took a midcourt inbounds pass from Kevin Madden and drove the right baseline. Karl Brown stepped in front of Fox and was called for a blocking foul. The victory was sealed when Brian Oliver stepped out of bounds after taking an inbounds pass from Brown at halfcourt with two seconds to play. Montgomery! join us in a Associated Press Reports KNOXVILLE, Tenn. Ian Lockhart scored 24 points and had 17 rebounds to lead Tennessee to a 93-83 victory over Georgia Wednesday and keep the Bulldogs from claiming the Southeastern Conference regular season title outright.

Tennessee (15-11, 10-7) also got scoring help from reserves Carlus Groves, with 18 points, and Ron Taylor, with 17. Litterial Green led Georgia (19-7, 12-5) with 21 points. Six Bulldogs scored in double figures, but leading scorer Alec Kessler was limited by foul trouble to just 10 points. The Bulldogs clinched a tie for the SEC title when Louisiana State lost to Florida Tuesday night. But Tennessee's victory kept Georgia from laying sole claim to its first regular season title in history.

Lockhart, a senior playing his final home game, carried the Vols in the second half. In one five-minute stretch he scored 12 of Tennessee's 14 points as the Vols rallied from a 58-53 deficit to a 67-66 lead with 8:40 left to play. A 3-point basket by Taylor stretched the lead to 70-66 and the Bulldogs were never closer than two again. Kessler fouled out with 2:59 left and Georgia trailing 79-74. Tennessee scored the next seven points for an 86-74 lead on four free throws by Groves and a 3-pointer by Taylor to put it out of reach.

Georgia had rallied to cut an 18-point first half deficit down to three, 43-40, at the break. Georgia could have taken a lead but for struggling at the foul line, hitting 13 of 20 shots in the half. Of the misses, three were the first of one-and-one chances. Georgia still can clinch the SEC title with a victory Saturday at Auburn. Ole Miss 88 Kentucky 74 OXFORD, Miss.

Gerald Glass poured in 34 points in his home final game Wednesday night to lift Mississippi to an 88-74 victory over Kentucky in a Southeastern Conference matchup. Glass, a 6-foot-6 forward, added 10 rebounds and 10 assists as the Rebels improved to 8-9 in the SEC and 11-15 overall. Kentucky finished 10-8 in the conference and is 14-13 overall with a game remaining. After a close first 10 minutes, Glass led Ole Miss on an 11-0 run that boosted the Rebels to a 33-25 lead. He had five points and reserve Patrick Eddie six in the run.

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Reggie Hanson topped Kentucky with 25 points. Miller finished with 18 and John Pelph-rey 15 for the Wildcats, which lost for the ninth time in 10 road games. Miss. State 83 Vanderbilt 68 STARKVILLE, Miss. Mississippi State's Greg Carter scored 15 points in the second half to help the Bulldogs close out the Southeastern Conerence season Wednesday night with an 83-68 victory over Vanderbilt.

Carter scored six of the Bulldogs' first eight points in the second half to turn a 3-point half-time advantage into an 11-point lead for Mississippi State (7-11, 14-12) with just over 16 minutes to play. Carter finished the night with a game-high 24 points. Vanderbilt (6-11, 13-13) cut the margin to nine points but suffered a seven-minute scoring drought which allowed Mississippi State to pull ahead by 15 points. Vanderbilt led for most of the first half, leading by as many as six points on six different occasions before allowing the Bulldogs to capture a 27-26 lead on Carter's field goal with 4:49 left in the first half Mississippi State moved to a 37-34 halftime edge. Other scoring for Mississippi State came from Cameron Burns with 18 points and Tony Watts with 16.

For Vanderbilt, Derrick Wilcox had 13 points and Scott Draud added 10. Clemson 97 Duke 93 CLEMSON, S.C. Clemson clinch a share of its first ever Atlantic Coast Conference regular-season title Wednesday night as Kirkland Howling hit four free throws in the final 17 seconds for a 97-93 win over fifth-ranked Duke. The victory assured the 20th-ranked Tigers (23-5, 10-3) a tie for the league crown going into next week's conference tournament, which determines the official ACC champion. Clemson has won its last eight games.

The Blue Devils (23-6, 9-4) still can tie for the title if they beat North Carolina on Sunday and the Tigers lose to Georgia Tech on Saturday in the ACC finales College Baseball Huntingdon 9-9 Siena Heights 1-3 Huntingdon swept a double-header from Siena Heights of Michigan at Hawk Field on Wednesday, winning the first game 9-1 and the second 9-3. In the first game, Danny Mose-ley went 2-for-3 with four RBI for Huntingdon, 7-3. Eddie Ous-ley went 2-for-3 and drove in one run for the Hawks. Mike Grayden, 1-0, went six innings in picking up the win. In the second game, Mark Andrews, John Gluschick, Rusty Cone and Jeff Mahy each had two hits for Huntingdon.

Winning pitcher Terry Martin, 2-0, worked five innings. Siena Heights fell to 1-9. Huntingdon visits Spring Hill for a double-header Saturday at noon. Patrick Henry JC 3-7 Wallace-Selma 1-6 MONROEVILLE Patrick Henry swept a double-header from Wallace-Selma here Wednesday, winning the first game 3-1 and the second 7-6 in nine innings. In the first game, Jeff Ger-hart's RBI single in the sixth inning snapped a 1-1 tie.

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