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The News-Messenger from Fremont, Ohio • 12

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12 The News-Messenger, Fremont, 0., Tuesday, Dec. 22, 1981 Sports 7 overtimes later, Bearcats had No. 7 Briefs domination on the boards. Alabama is definitely a Top Ten team barring in 'The Tennis Ball Tourney' juries," he said. BETTSVILLE Don't put away the clubs and jusi in case, Keep a fresh tin of tennis balls nanay.

Elsewhere, Jacques Tuz scored 14 points and grabbed eight rebounds, leading Colorado to a 58-52 victory over For the golfer who wants a mid-winter game, a "classic" Is slated for Jan. 16 at Nature Trails Golf Course. Officially dubbed "The Tennis Ball Tourney," the Idaho State in a first-round game of the Rebel Roundup tournament. Larry Anderson scored 20 points to. pace Nevada-Las Vegas to a 66-59 victory over Stetson in the other first-round tournament win be played snow or no snow.

If there is a snow covering, tennis balls will be used but if mere is no snow, colored golf balls will be used. game. For more Information on the links tourney, call ytfo-bzzy. mere is a sio entry fee. Greg Palm scored 21 points and pulled down 15 rebounds, leading Nevada-Reno Ed Nealy scored 22 points and grabbed 10 rebounds to lead Kansas State over Minnesota.

Kansas State Coach Jack Hartman credited Junior center Les Craft with playing a pivotal role, even though he didn't score any points. Craft held the Gophers' 7-foot-3 center Randy Breuer to 12 points, 11 under his average. "Les did a great job on Breuer," Hartman said. "And the rest did an equally good job of supporting him. The only way to stop Breuer is not to let him get the ball." Ricky Frazier scored 16 points and grabbed four rebounds to lead Missouri over Youngstown State.

The victory was Missouri's 24th consecutive victory at home, a school record. Second Ten Eddie Phillips had 22 points and 11 other Alabama players broke Into the scoring column as the Crimson Tide defeated Biscayne College. Alabana, 7-0, went into the dressing room at halftime with a 48-28 lead, and the game was never close after that. Biscayne Coach Ken Stibler said he was extremely Impressed with the Alabama team. "They wore us down physically by their depth and their By KEN RAPPOPORT AP Sports Writer It was one of those games that you could play and play again.

In fact, that's what the Cincinnati Bearcats and the Bradley Braves did Monday night. When it was over, Cincinnati had beaten Bradley 75-73 in seven nerve-racking overtimes to set a Division I college basketball record. Cincinnati is now 7-1 while Bradley is 5-3. "We just couldn't get a break," said Bradley Coach Dick Versace after watching Doug Schloemer's 15-foot shot drop in for Cincinnati with one second left in the seventh overtime. "They got lucky we didn't.

Our guys played so hard, that you can't really fault them." Neither team had scored in the final overtime frame prior to Schloemer's winning basket. Bradley's center Kerry Cooks launched an 18-footer after a long inbounds pass but the shot bounced off the back of the rim, ending the three hour and 15-minute marathon. "I knew I had a 50 percent chance of taking the last shot said Schloemer. "Most of our shots are from the wing and I thought it would be either me or Bobby Austin." Regulation play ended with the teams tied at 61 after the Bearcats overcame Bradley's 61-57 edge with 45 seconds to play. Jump shots by Kevin Geffney and Austin tied the contest to send the game into the first extra period.

Both teams played keep-away throughout the overtime periods and only once, in the fifth overtime, did either team manage more than a two-point lead. The old Division I record of six overtimes was held by two games, one in 1955 when Minnesota beat Purdue, 59-56, and the other in 1953 when Niagara beat Siena, 88-81. In games involving the nation's ranked teams, No. 4 Virginia routed Brigham Young-Hawaii 118-84; Kansas State upset No. 5 Minnesota 62-52; No.

9 Missouri walloped Youngstown State 97-60 and No. 12 Alabama trimmed Biscayne 94-63. Top Ten All-America center Ralph Sampson put in 30 points and snared 16 rebounds to pace Virginia over BYU-Hawail. Othell Wilson added 19 points for the Cavaliers, as Coach Terry Holland substituted freely throughout the game against the NAIA team. to a 93-85 victory over Loyola Don blame Browns9 coach Marymount in the first round of the Wolf BEREA, Ohio (AP) Cleveland Browns quart rack Classic.

St. Mary's neid off a last-ditch rally by North Texas State and erback Brian Sipe said Coach Sam Rutigllano should not be blamed for the Browns' 5-11 season In Franklin Rhodes hit two free throws to wrap up an 88-86 Gaels' victory in the the National Football league in 1981. The 32-year-old quarterback said Monday that other opening-round game. some of the players on the Browns did not motivate tnemseives. Elsewhere, Howard Carter scored 23 points as Louisiana State coasted past The Browns were 11-5 In 1980 and champions of tne American conference central Division.

They Texas-El Paso 71-59; Mara Jones naa a career-high 27 points and Eric Stover feu to last place in 1981. added 21 to lead St. Bonaventure to a 93- "i noticed a little less determination than we had in the past, more naiveness of what it took for us to 68 victory over Maryland-Eastern Shore; Brad Seller scored 15 points as accomplish what we did last year," Sipe said. Wisconsin defeated Northern Iowa 65-53 while packing his belongings Monday at the team's training quarters at Baldwin-Wallace College, the NFL's Most Valuable Player in 1980 said his remarks might not enhance his popularity Mike Schmidt gets a big Phillies Christmas present witn some of nis teammates, but are needed. "if somebody reads this and takes offense, I say to mm, 'if the shoe fits, wear The people who that I have no idea what's available for will get this message understand what I'm trying to me to spend," he said with a laugh.

"I do know that I'll have more money to lose say." on the card games on the team plane." Canadian edges Mueller CRANS. Switzerland (AP) Canadian Steve The slugger, with 314 lifetime homers, has a career batting average of .263, including a .286 average in 1980 and a Podborski swept to a convincing downhill World careerhigh .316 last season. Cup victory, edging Swiss ace Peter Mueller by 15-hundredths of a second. Schmidt led the league in six offensive with teammates, the club's future and his relationship with the Philadelphia fans and community made him want to remain with the team. "It also helped for the Phillies to feel the way they did about me," Schmidt said after Giles predicted the third baseman would eventually "be put in the same class as the Joe DiMaggios, Willie Mayes, Mickey Mantles, Babe Ruths, StanMusials." The contract also includes a three-year, no-trade clause, though Schmidt said he would have liked to have had a no-trade clause for all six years.

Schmidt admitted he was a bit awed by his new contract. "It's a little mind boggling. But I'm getting paid in such complicated ways Dave Winfield, who signed a free agent contract with New York Yankees last season, is reportedly the game's highest-paid player with a $14 million contract. Giles said Schmidt's contract "is not as high as Winfield's," though Schmidt may have become the NL's highest-paid player. Schmidt, the all-time Phillies home-run king, could have become a free agent at the end of the 1982 season, when his current six-year, contract expires.

"I could have gotten a bigger and better contract, possibly, by becoming a free agent, but I wanted to stay in this city for a lot of reasons," he said. The six-time All-Star said friendships PHILADELPHIA (AP) Mike Schmidt, possibly baseball's best player, has become one of its highest-paid by agreeing to a six-year contract with the Philadelphia Phillies worth between $7.2 million and $10 million. "I'll be financially secure for the rest of my life," the 32-year-old third baseman, winner of the National League's Most Valuable Player award the past two seasons, said Monday. "I won't have to go out and get a job once I. stop playing." Neither Schmidt nor team President Bill Giles would say how much the contract was worth.

But estimates on the pact which runs through the 1987 season were upward from $1.2 million a year. Podborski finished in 2 minutes, 9.22 seconds. Muller was timed in 2:09.37. categories last year while hitting 31 homers and knocking in 91 runs during the strike-shortened season. His homer won the All-Star game for the NL in Gretzky NHL player of week MONTREAL (AP) Edmonton Oilers' center August.

In his nine full seasons, Schmidt has won six Gold Gloves and was named the 1980 World Series MVP when he led the Wayne Gretzky, who continued his torrid scoring pace with seven goals and seven assists in his last four games, was named the NHL's Player of the Phillies to the World Championship. Week. The seven goals gave Gretzky 40 for the season in only 36 games, putting him ahead of the pace set by Jug winner is Harness Horse of Year New York Islanders forward Mike Bossy and former Montreal Canadiens great Maurice Richard, who both scored 50 goals in 50 games. COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) Little Brown Jug winner Fan Hanover, a 3-year-old pacing filly that was the most consistent standardbred performer during a year of upsets, has won the 1981 E. Roland Harriman Harness Horse of the Year award.

In balloting conducted by the U.S. Trotting Association and the U.S. Harness Writers' Soviets win in 3rd period MOSCOW AP) The Soviet Union ralied for two goals in the third period and defeated Czechoslovakia 4-3 in the final match of the Izvestia Association, Fan Hanover received 133 of the 248 votes cast. Fan Hanover, with career winnings of $698,981, Is the first female pacer to win the honor since the award was begun in 1947. Royce, a 4-year-old pacing stallion, finished a distant second with 20 votes, followed by McKinzie Almahurst with 17, Rambling Willie with 12 and Ideal du Gazeau with nine votes.

A total of 23 horses received at least one vote. Sold as a yearling for $20,000 at the 1979 Harrisburg, Sale, Fan Hanover won 17 of 23 races in 1981, earning $497,717 a record one-year total for a female harness horse. Cup tournanent. The Soviets, who won all four of their games, already had clinched the top spot. Czechoslovakia finished second, while Sweden captured third place by defeating Finland 4-2.

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