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,20 Friday, Feb. 20, 1976 gfrg fMfrrftrlft (Haltfomtoti i i muy, rcu, 7 miff CIUHH Hi UlUll Prep cage teams battle Bishop 5 Wasco hosts mat tourney mllo AWAr A srn Tho a The meet will get under- leee. The too three in the Other Tiger loo for playoff positions Kern County prep basketball teams come down to the final weekend of regular-season play with four sure bets, two in the driver's seat and five keeping their fingers crossed and praying. All over continued play in the upcoming post-season tournaments. Teams definitely in the Central Section playoffs are Foothill as South Yosemite League champion, Garces as South Sequoia League titlist.

And Arvin with at least a share of the East Yosemite League crown. Tehachapi, with a definite Desert-lnyo League second place, is in the Southern Section 1-A meet. The two teams who will make the Central Section playoffs by winning their final games are Taft as South Sequoia League run- nerup and Bakersfield High 36 the South Yosemite League No. 2 team. Still having outside hopes at playoff bids are East, South and North in the SYL, Shatter in the SSL, McFarland in the East Sierra and Burroughs in the Golden League.

All but Burroughs, which hopes to make the CIF 3-A playoffs as the Golden League third-place team, will need help from other teams. Foothill, the County's top- rated team with a 20-3 record and a 13-game winning streak, tries to cap a 120 SYL season tonight when it travels to South. The Rebels still have a slim hope of tying for second place in the SYL with their 5-5 record, but must upset Foothill and then beat North on the Rebel floor Saturday night. North is in the same boat as South with its 5-5 record. The Stars must whip East tonight in the Blade gym and South tomorrow.

The Blades are third in league at 64 and will close their season at West tomorrow night. EB won't be in top shape with its leading player, guard Dean Jones, hobbling around on a bad ankle injured last week. He'll try to play, but his effectiveness will be questionable. South, East and North all have to count on the league's two bottom teams, West and Highland, to upset second- place to have any playoff hopes. If the Drillers beat West (2-8) and Highland (0-11) tomorrow night, both in the BHS gym, they're in.

One win eliminates North and South and clinches a tie with East, which would force a playoff game for the Valley representative, if the Blades win their final pair. Garces (8-1) will be preparing for the playoffs as it closes South Sequoia League play at Coalinga (09) tonight. The Rams wrapped up their second straight title in their last outing by blasting Wasco, while Taft was losing to Corcoran. The Wildcats (6-3) will be the second-place team by beating Wasco (3-6) on the Tiger courts tonight. But if Taft loses, it will have to Guerrero wins main event at Strelich Karl Von Brauner blasted Chavo Guerrero last night and announced that Chavo "wanted his papa" in Bakersfield.

Now Von Brauner knows why. He was the first wrestler to be eliminated in a six-man match in the min event at Strelich Stadium Von Brauner's brother, Cliff and Senor were matched against Raul Mate, and the father and son team of Gory and Chavo Guerrero and the sole survivor and winner was the former light heavyweight champion of the world, Gory Guerrero. The 55-year-old Gory won BC golfers in 3rd loss FRESNO The non-conference season is over and Bill Nelson's Bakersfield College golfers aren't going to shed any tears because of it. Nelson's Renegades were handed their third loss in as many tries here yesterday as Fresno City College slipped past the visitors by one shot, 474-475. Bakersfield College now hopes to make up some lost time in Metropolitan Conference action which opens Monday at Long Beach.

Jim Norris' medalist score of 74 was the crusher for the 'Gades, whose best cards were a pair of 77s, by Scott Underhill and Jim Foss. Fresno also claimed the second best score of the day, a 76 by Kirk Valentine, while the balance of Bakersfield's scoring had Dave Stanley at 78, Bud Ardell and Carl Comer, 80, and Dan Anselmo, 83. Kapp hearing set back again SAN FRANCISCO (AP) The Joe Kapp case, which was scheduled to go to trial next Monday, has been set back again, a U.S. District Court clerk said yesterday. Judge William T.

Sweigert, who will hear the case in which Kapp seeks damages from the National Football League, is presiding oyer another trial which is expected to run into next week. The clerk's office said JWarch 1 is the new probable starting date for the Kapp trial. In a pretrial order issued Feb. 12, Sweigert ruled that the only matter to be determined by the jury will be the amount of damages due the former Minnesota Vikings and New England Patriots quarterback who contends he was prevented from playing football. Pro basketball ASSOCIATED PRESS NBA Cltvaland 112, Portland 94.

ABA Virginia 102. Kentucky 82. Danvar 121, Indiana 123. the hearts of the 862 people on hand when he pinned Cliff Von and then proceeded to unmask Senor X. As Cliff Von Brauner threw a towel over Senor trying to keep his identity hidden the crowd chanted "J.C.

Dykes, J.C. Dykes." Pork Chop won a decision over Roddy Piper and Tony Rocco got the nod over Rock Riddle as both matches went the limit. Butch Cassidy was disqualified in his Strelich Stadium debut for throwing "Hurricane" Frank Hester over the top rope. Next Thursday night Guerrero puts his America's Heavyweight Title on the line against Cliff Von Brauner and Chavo's father, Gory Guerrero will meet Senor in a "loser leave Bakersfield" match. play off for second between the winner of tonight's Corcoran at Shatter game.

Both clubs are 5-4 in league. Arvin (8-1) will be undisputed East Yosemite League champion if it beats Delano (5-4) tonight on the Bears' court. But if Arvin loses and Monache wins its finale with Porterville, the two clubs would share first place. However, Arvin would be designated the EYL No. 1 team and have the first- round homecourt advantage in the playoffs since the Bears won a coin flip with Monache Wednesday.

Tehachapi, (10-2) in the Desert-lnyo League, will close its season tomorrow night at Lone Pine. The Warriors still have a shot of at least sharing the Desert- lnyo League title, depending on how Bishop dies in its final contests. McFarland will have its eyes focused on two games tonight. The Cougars play Parlier at home, but if they're going to play anymore after tonight, Immanuel is going to have to win its game with Laton. If that happens, there would be a three-way ite in the East Sierra League between McFarland, Laton and Immanuel, all at 8-2.

Then there would have to be a two- game playoff to determine the Valley representative since the East Sierra only gets one team. The Cougars have been the hot team in the second round, averaging over 85 points a game and beating both Laton and Immanuel. Burroughs will clinch the third-place position behind champion Victor Valley and Antelope Valley by beating Barstow tonight in Ridgecrest. The Burros are 8-5 in league and have won seven of their last eight games. There are three games tonight involving teams who are just playing out the string.

Maricopa, after three straight Tri-Coiinty League titles, will be staying home this year with its 7-4 loop mark. But the Indians could end with a fine feather in their cap by knocking off the new league champ, Coast Union, in the finale on the Maricopa boards. In a pair of Desert-lnyo League tilts, Kern Valley (65) hosts Lone Pine and Rosamond (5-6) goes to Mojave (2-9). In addition to Tehachapi at Lone Pine tomorrow night, the DIL will have Kern Valley at Rosamond, Mojave at Mammoth and Boron at Trona, all beginning at 7 o'clock. rolls over Scorpions Californian News Service BISHOP Bishop High outscored Desert by 11 points in the first period, 21-10, and the Broncos never looked back in handing Warren Hurst's Scorpions a 69-53 Desert-lnyo League defeat here last night.

The contest, a makeup affair, ended the league season for both clubs. Desert wound up with'a 9-4 DIL ledger. The Scorpions, who suffered through a miserable shooting night, could never even pull close after the early going. Bishop, which built a whopping 38-18 halftime advantage, outshot the visitors from the field by 10 field goals, 30-20. The hosts continued to be the aggressor in the second half, stretching the lead to 30 points through three periods.

Only a relatively productive fourth period, in which the Scorpions outscored the Broncos, 24-10, prevented the game from being a total rout. Jim Bechtold paced Desert with 19 points, including eight field goals and teammate Reggie Black added 13 tallies. Bishop also won both the game, 38-37, and the junior varsity battle, 47-36. The scoring: WASCO The host Wasco team will be among the favorites to capture the Sequoia-Sierra Divisional wrestling title in the Tiger gym tomorrow. The South Sequoia League champions the past three years qualified all their wrestlers for the Divisionals as they romped to the loop title last week.

Kingsburg of the Central Sequoia and Tranquillity of the qualified in 12 of the 13 weights while the North Sequoia's Washington Union has 10 entrants. The meet will get underway tomorrow at 10 a.m. Consolation finals are slated for 5 o'clock and the championship matches will take place at 7 p.m. tomorrow night. There will be an admission price of $1.50 for adults and $1 for students and children, reports meet director Dale Dillingham.

The top three in each weight will join the top five qualifiers from the Yosemite Divisional meet at the Valley tournament a week 1 from Saturday at Fresno City lege. The top three in the Valley then will go on to the state tournament at Cal Poly Pomona March 5 and 6. Wasco will feature six league champions in the Divisionals, led by 106-pound Tony Padilla, who has lost only once this year, a narrow decision to two-time South Yosemite League champion Percy Richard of East. Padilla faces a tough foe in Leon Bass of Chowchilla, who won the 115-pound title at Morro Bay earlier in the season. Clovis favored to grab fourth Yosemite Division mat crown BISHOP DESERT (S3) tgtttp tgtttp Tockty 9 2 JO Black 5 3 13 Smith 1 ,2 18 Btchtld 3 Kltkat 3 0 6 Rhta 1 4 i Btrgar 3 0 6 Clark 4 1 9 Srwad 3 3 9 Swaanay 2 2 6 Kaltar 1 0 2 Howard 0 2 Scratn 1 0 2 Tankiky 0 2 2 Tatgm 1 0 2 Totali 30 9 Totali 20 13 S3 Halftlma: Bfihop 38, Desert 18.

College basketball 1 ASSOCIATED PRESS Air Force 89, Sanford 68. Freino Stata 80, San Jose State 76 (OT). Long Baach Stata 56, Pacific 51. New Mexico State 114, East New Mexico 87. Northern Arizona 80, Montana 64, Oregon 70, USC 67.

Puget Sound 90, Portland State 76. Seattle Pacific 91, Lewis and Clark 59. UCLA 78, Oregon State 69. Utah State 94, Denver 93. Washington 80, Stanford 59.

Washington State 98, California 85. Weber State 84, Montana State 79. Texas ASM 111, TCU 70. Wichita State 95, Drake 78. Georgia Tech 65, Southern Mississippi 60.

Memphis State 91, Tulsa 83. Holy Cross 100, Boston 80. Massachusetts 84, Rhode Island 76. Notre Dame 91, Fordham 78. Tribe inks Duffy CLEVELAND (AP) The Cleveland Indians said today that shortstop.

Frank Duffy has signed his 1976 contract, bringing to 26 the number of players who have returned signed contracts. HANFORD Three-time Valley and two-time state champion Clovis will be heavily favored to make it four Yosemite Divisional wrestling titles in a row tomorrow at Hanford High School. The North Yosemite League champions have qualified wrestlers in 12 of the 13 weights. The Cougars' closest competition will come from NYL foes Madera, second in the state last year, and Fresno, plus the champions of the three other Yosemite leagues, Highland of the South Yosemite, Hanford of the West Yosemite and Monache of the East Yosemite. Hanford qualified all 13 of its wrestlers.

The meet get underway at 9:30 tomorrow morning with the consolation finals slated for 5 o'clock. The championship matches will start at 7 tomorrow evening. The top five in each weight will qualify for the Valley meet the following Saturday at Fresno City College. The Bakersfield contingent in the meet will be headed by two defending Valley champions, Highland's Pete Gonzalez at 106 and South's Paul Feliz at 130. Both will have tough competition tomorrow.

Gonzalez, a two-time Valley champ and state runner- up, figures to be rematched with Clovis' Paul Bolanos, who has handed Gonzalez his only loss in. 28 starts this year, a referee's overtime decision. Feliz, undefeated in 21 matches after winning the Valley 123-pound last should run into Mt. Whitney's Kevin McConnougahy, third in the Valley at 123 last year, The Visalia wrestler has lost only once this campaign by default. Highland will be sending two undefeated grapplers into the meet, Bob Chase (148) and David Johnson (157).

Chase, third in the Valley Steve Nickell of East at 115, will be challenging Clois' Bianco brothers for Divisional honors, Anthony at 98 and Tommy at 115. Defending, divisonal 141- pound champion Don Dow of Highland will be hoping for a rematch against Foothill's Scott Chambers, who. beat last year, will take a 23-0'him on a referee's overtime mark into the fray, where decision in the meet, Clovis' Tommy Williams and Hanford's Ed Davis are strong. Johnson, 13-0 and a state runnerup in New Mexico last year, will be in a tough weight. Bob Grimes of Clovis is the NYL champ at 157 and he had to hand Madera's Leron Leroy, a state placer, his first loss of the year to earn the title.

Monache's Don Cooksey was third in the Valley last year. Another strong weight is 168 where two-time Valley champion Kevin Cookingham of Clovis will tangle with South's James Torres and Bill Thomas of Hanford. Torres, a Valley runnerup, handed Cookingham his lone loss this year in the Kern County meet, while Thomas has also lost just once. The Bakersfield area's four top sophomores, Percy Richard of East and Freddie Gonzalez of Highland at 98, and John Burt of West and Mets sign trio NEW YORK (AP) The New York Mets announced the signing of first basemen Ed Kranepool and John Milner and utility infielder Jack Heidemann yesterday, bringing to 24 the number of players who have agreed to terms for the 1976 season. George Whitmore of Fresno, third in the Valley last year, will make it a three-man affair.

Eddie Reyes of Bakersfield, 29-1 at 136 pounds, will be vying with Redwood's Rick Contreras, sixth in the state last year. Foothill's William Gonzales has to rate a shot at 123 pounds since he lost to the favorite, Bill Jones of Hanford (36-1), in the final few seconds of the Highland tournament. Other favorites figure to be Mike Landeros of ache at 17-8, John Diaz of Madera at 194 and Doug Arthur of Clovis at heavyweight. Landeros was fourth in the Valley at 194 last year, Diaz' only loss was to Arthur, and the Clovis heavy is 29-9. Dave Smith of Hanford, third in the Valley at 194 last year, could challenge Arthur.

Other Tiger loop titlists, are Dillingham (130)," Tom teimmett (141), Terry' Summers (148), Alex Spolsd-S off (168) and heavyweight" Jay Wedel. Splolsdoff won; his SSL crown with a 24-0 decision. Dillingham will be matched with Shafter's Stever McWhorter. The grappler handed McWhorterJ; only his second loss of theV year in the league meet, wild 16-10 McWhorter's only other loss- was to undefeated Paul Feliz'- of Souths -v The Generals, who finished second to Wasco in the league meet, have an outstanding 194-pounder in man Williams. Last year's Valley runnerup at 178 pounds is undefeated in 26 starts.

Hester of' Chowchilla could give Williams a good tussle. In additon to Scott Benderx (98), Martin Affentranger (ii5)', 'Mike Lamas (123) and John Mi- ralez (136) all won league titles for Shafter. 1 Shafter qualified eight wrestlers all told to the the position by placing in the top three of the SSL tourney. The other Kern entrant in the als, McFarland, qualified six wrestlers, headed by league runnersup Arthur Marroquin (106); Santos Salinas (115) and Steve Myrick (136). Selma and Woodlake will be a couple of other teams to watch in the team race.

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