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THE CORBIH Times-TRIBUNE Page Two Friday, January 4, 1974 SPORTS JACK THURSTON, Sports Editor Basketball Baseball Football Golf Laurel County Ousts Middlesboro Memphis St. Trips Bradley Arizona Leads Wild West Show Casey County Wins Over Pulaski County fly KEN RAPPOPORT AP Sports Writer The Wild, Wild West opened a new season Thursday night and the star of the show was Coneil "Popcorn" Norman. "It's always a big win (or us in Laramie," said Arizona Coacli Fred Snowden after en- joying Norman's dramatic, 26- point performance in a 93-77 Western Athletic Conference victory over Wyoming. Norman thrived in the role of the leading man helping the ISIh-rankcxl Wildcats run off 10 straight points midway through the second half that pulled the curtain down on Wyoming. The Arizona coacti hopes for a in Saturday's game against Colorado Stale, no doubt another Shootout in the wide-open conference.

In other games involving the Kentucky Wesleyan Wins Virginia Tech Stops Eastern By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Craig Leider scored 23 of a game-high 30 points in the first half Thursday night, as Virginia Tech downed Eastern Kentucky 92-65 at Blacksburg, Va. Virginia Tech shot 52.5 per cent from the floor in the first 20 minutes, building up a 51-26 lead over the visitors. Tech widened that margin to 61-30 with 15:02 left, then let its reserves take over. Charlie Thomas held Eastern's top scorer, Carl Brown, to eight, points. Brown has been aver- aging 17.2 points per game.

Eastern led just once in seven starts. The Kentuckians were paced by Robert Brooks with 17 points and Rick Stansel with 12. Vince Smith put in a game- high of 29 points Thursday to lead the Indiana Athletes into overtime against Kentucky Wesleyan. It wasn't enough, however, and Wesleyan went on to score 22 points in the extra lime to lake a 99-88 victory. The Athletes, an independent team of former college players representing the Campus Cru- sade for Christ International, were ahead 43-42 at inter- mission, and the score was 77- all at the end of regulation play.

The game was tied 15 times. Kentucky Wesleyan, which recorded its eighth straight vic- tory, was able to manage a 12- point lead with seven minutes remaining in the first half. Guard Jyronna Ralston led lire Kenluckians with 27 points. At Georgetown, the host team fell to Tennessee Wesleyan 90-85 in another overtime game, after liaving beaten secondranked Alcorn A to win the Quincy, 111. tournament last week.

Georgetown's Andy Williams turned in a 34-point, nine- rebound performance, but the visitors managed to up their season record to 2 11 anyway. Georgetown, now 7-2, led 41-35 at the half. Andre Hampton and Gerald Cunningham did all they could to overcome unbeaten Fair- monlSlatein Fairmont, W. but it wasn't enough and the visitors took their straight defeat, 83-74. Hampton collect4d 21 points and 22 rebounds and Cunning- ham added 20 points and 22 rebounds.

nation's ranked teams, No. 9 Ixng Beach State crushed Los Angeles Slate 93-7G; No. 18 Memphis State tripped Bradley 88-76 in overtime and Southern Mississippi upset No. 20 Austin Peay in a consolation game of the Senior Bowl basketball tournament in Mobile, Ala- bama. Incidentally, South Ala- bama won the tournament with a 74-64 upset of Missouri in the finals.

Clifton Pondexter scored 20 to pace Long Beach over Los An- geles Stale. Pondexter, a 6-foot- 8 freshman center, collected seven rebounds and connected on 9-of-14 field goal attempts as the 49ers won their 10th game in 11 starts. Bill Cook, Eddie Wilson and Kenny Andrews each had four points in overtime to spark Memphis State's victory. Regu- lation time ended in a 74-74 tie as Memphis State came back from a 12-point deficit with 15 minutes remaining. Casey whipped Pulaski County C2-51 and then l-aurcl Courtly won a thriller over the Middlesboro Yellowjackets in the first round of the lower bracket laurel County I i a i a Tour- nament.

Tonight at 7 p.m. the Clay County Tigers will tangle with the Danville Admirals and at 8:30 Casey County meets host laurel County. The two winners will meet Saturday night for the championstiip trophy. Middlesboro started fast and seemed on the verge of settling Hie issue with 1-aurel County early when they opened a nine point margin in the early stages of the game. This was the longest lead for the losers.

The Cardinals started whacking away at the lead and finally forged ahead by 31-30 with 3:55 left in the first half. They led by as many as eight points in the fourth period. In the final stages of the game the lead changed hands with every field goal with the last tie Falcons Defeat Nuggets; East Ward Beats Wildcats Tug Of War Over The East Ward Greenwave downed the South Ward Wild- cats 21-16 and the Central Falcons ran over the Central Nuggets in Little League basketball play last night. Chuck Hicks with only six points was tops for the Greenwave while Tony Buckley Sport Shorts By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MONTREAL (AP) Catcher Bob Stinson of the Montreal Expos has returned to his home in Houston after suffering a fractured toe on his right foot while playing winter baseball in the Dominican Republic, the Expos announced Thursday. Stinson was injured when he fouled a ball off his foot.

The injured foot was placed in a cast following the mishap. He was batting .250 in the winter league when he was hurt. and Tom Cornn each had five points for South Ward. The winners led at the end of the first period by 6-0 and at halflime 11-4. They started the final period of play with a 15-9 margin.

In the nightcap, the Falcons got even scoring from their leam with Bonza and Dave Huff each having six points. Larry Coins and Doug Chaffin each had the same amount for the losing Nuggets. The Falcons led at of the firsl period by 10-2 and at halftime 22-3. They started the final quarter with a 30-7 lead. Virdon Is Yankee Manager coming at 55 all.

Krnie Butil was the show for the Yellowjackets with 28 points on 12 field goals and four free throws followed by teammate Hill Bingham, with 21 points on eight fielders and five from the charity line. Bernie Tincher was tops for laurel County with 18 points on nine fielders followed by David Moseley with 13 and Keith Reams with 12. Uurel County hit 34 of 73 from Hie field for 45 per cent, had 38 rebounds, two assist and 12 turnovers. Middlesborofinishedwitha 49 per cent shooting average on 31 of 63 from the field, pulled in 41 rebounds, did not have an assist and committed 18 turnovers. Casey County led at all rest stops to down Pulaski County.

The winners were on top by 15-10 after a quarter of play and upped the margin to 32-18 by halftime. They led 45-29 starting the final period of play. The Rebels were led by Jack Prewitt with 17 points on six from the field and five charity tosses. Dwight Bastin and Ron Rodgers each finished with 12 points for Casey County. Tony Wilburn with 16 points was tops for Pulaski County.

He made all of his points from the field. The longest lead for Casey County in the first period was five points but in the second quarter they led by as many as 1C and in the third quarter 24. By HAL BOCK AP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) Don't try to tell Bill Virdon he's an interim manager for the New York Yankees. He just doesn't see it that way. "As far as I'm concerned," said Virdon, "I'm the manager of the New York Yankees and I like it that way.

I'm not con- cerned about Dick Williams." Virdon, ex-skipper of the Pittsburgh Pirates, was named to the Yankee job Thursday, ending the three-month tug of war that the New York club had been waging with Oakland owner Charles 0. Finley over Williams. Uist month, Virdon signed a contract to manage Houston's Denver farm club in the Pacific Coast League. Does that mean the Yankees have inherited an- other Williams-type contract hassle? Virdon laughed at the sugges- tion. "No, no," he said.

"I had a stipulation in the Denver con- major league job, I would be free to go." That offer came earlier this week from the Yankees, who had run into a dead end in their negotiations with Finley aimed at trying to get the A's boss to ROME (AP) The site of Italy's World Cup soccer game against West Germany, to be played Feb. 26, 1974, has been changed from Naples to Rome, the Italian Soccer Federation announced Thursday. The West German federation had sought the change in order to enable its team to make the round trip on a regularly sched- uled commercial flight rather than a charter. ST. PAUL, Minn.

(AP) Of- ficials of Ihe World Hockey As- sociation and the U.S. Hockey Ieague met Thursday to dis- cuss a proposed affiliation. Bob Kasuveck, commissioner of Hie U.S. appointed Bill Chimo of Milwaukee and Dave Tyler of Waterloo, Iowa, lo help him study the matter further. The U.S.

league is a nine- team league on a semi-pro lev- el. The affiliation could result In a minor league proving ground for WHA teams. Individual Scoring Eastward James Calahan Ed Bonza Bob Wyan Chuck Hicks GregGreer Alvin Kelsay Total Southward Tom Buckley K. Wages Tom Cornn DennisMullis Rusty Onkst J.Cash Total Nuggets I.arry Coins Jim Parks Eddie Adkins Doug Chaffin Steven I sty Total Falcons Harbin Dave Brock Ed Bonza J. Mecks Dave.

Huff Lowe Uarnwcll Rex Huff Robert Brown Robinson Total Standings Wildcats Falcons Greenwave Nuggets '9 1 2 1 3 0 1 8 1 0 2 1 0 1 5 fa 2 1 1 3 0 7 fg 2 1 3 2 3 2 1 1 1 2 19 If 0 0 3 0 2 0 5 ft 3 1 1 0 1 0 6 ft 2 0 0 0 1 3 ft 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 4 4 2 0 tp 2 4 5 6 2 2 21 tp 5 1 5 2 1 2 16 tp 6 2 2 6 1 17 tp 4 2 6 4 6 4 2 3 2 4 39 1 1 3 5 Eastern's Wally Chambers Is NFL Rookie Of Year By HAL 80CK Associated Press Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) Each January, National' Football League teams sit down to divide the best of college football's graduating senior class. The cream this season went to the Minnesota Vikings, who came up with power runner Chuck Foreman, and the Chicago Bears, who found a fierce defensive end in Wally Cham- bers. Foreman was chosen the NFL's Offensive Rookie of the Year and Chambers took fresh- man defensive honors today in a poll conducted by The Associ- ated Press. Foreman had rushed for a career record of 1,631 yards at Miami, including a school record 951 in 1971. He also caught 56 passes for 732 yards in three seasons.

Standout per- Freeman Leads Pacers Over Denver Rockets i.mm,m SPORTS of I To See, Hear Or Attend Local evenls: Basketball Laurel Counly Tournament--both i over WCTT Semifinals: P.m. Clay Counly vs. Danville :30 p.m. Laurel Counly vs. Casey Counly Regular Schedule Wiltiamsburg al Barbourville Whitley Counly at Bell County Lynn Camp at Lone JacK TV Sports: Friday p.m.

NHL Hockey-Boston Bruins vs. New York Saturday 12:30 p.m. ID UT Basketball Highlighls-Ray Metrs Ip.m. 10 Marquerte Warriors vs. the Fighting Gamecocks o( Smith Carolina p.m.

Pro Bowlers Tour 3 f.m. 10 27 Kentucky WiWcah vs. Fiqhring Tigers LSU- tame will also be brojMcasI over WCTT. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Donnie Freeman got Indiana out of the gate quickly Thursday night and the Pacers hustled to their fourth straight American Basketball Association victory a 100-97 decision over the Denver Rockets. Freeman, a veteran guard, hit on eight of 10 shots from the floor and piled up 17 points in the first quarter as Indiana pulled away to an 11-point lead.

The Pacers managed to hang on for the win and Freeman got just four points the rest of the way. Elsewhere in the ABA, Ken- tucky edged Virginia 110-109, Carolina rolled past Memphis 122-10! and Utah downed San Antonio 101-93. Milwaukee turned back Kan- sas City-Omaha 120-105 in the lone National Basketball Asso- ciation game. The Rockets rallied in the fourth quarter behind Byr i Ineck to go on top 39, but In- i a a a i George McGinnis completed a clutch three-point play lo help the Pacers regain the lead for good. McGinnis finished with 30 points for Indiana and Beck lopped Denver with'23.

Colonels 110, Squires 109 Mike Gale sank a pair of free throws with just Iwo seconds left to account for the Kentucky victory and neutralize George Carter's Ihrcc-poinl goal at the buzzer. Dan Isscl scored 27 points and Gale added 21 for the winners. George Gervin netted 29 for the Squires. Cougars 122, Tarns 104 Carolina took an 11-point lead at the half and cruised home. The Cougars placed eight play- ers in double figures, including Ted McClain who had 20 points.

Tom Owens added 19 points and 18 rebounds. Slars 101, Spurs 93 a rookie Bruce Seals pumped in 12 points in fourth quarter lo keep his team on top down the stretch. AllSlar forward Willie Wise led Ihe Stars with 19 points and rookie center Swen Naler paced San Antonio with 19. Bucks 120, Kings Kareem Abdul-Jabbar poured in 38 points and Jon McGlocklin added 29 for Milwaukee. The injury-riddled Bucks blew a 16- point lead but were able to rally in the fourth quarter for the win.

Nate Williams had 30 points for Ihe Kings, whose coach, Phil Johnson, was thrown out of the game after picking up his second technical foul in Ihe final period. trad offered, a. release Williams from the last two'years of his managing con- tract. The Yankees had tried to force the issue a few weeks ago when they signed Williams to a three-year contract. But out- going American League Presi- dent Joe Cronin nixed that deal, sending the Yankees back to Finley to try to satisfy the Oakland boss, who kept insist- ing on a couple of top prospects in return for Williams.

"Charley wanted too much," said George M. Steinbrenner, general partner of the Yankees. That was when the club turned to Virdon. "He's a winner and that's the kind of man we wanted," said Steinbrenner. "I've never had a chance to be a loser," said Virdon, who was fired last September in the midst of the National League East pennant race with the Pi- rates only Iwo games out of first place.

"One in the lost column," reminded Virdon. "I feel if I had stayed, we would have won." The Yankees, who also an- nounced the appointment of Whiley Ford as pitching coach and the re-hiring of coaches Dick Howser and Elslon How- ard, signed Virdon for one year. President Gabe Paul insisted there was no significance to the length of contract. formances in the North-South Game and the Senior Bowl con- vinced the Vikings they were right about the young man. Chambers led the Bears in tackles with 101 and assisted on 31 others.

It marked the first time since 1965 when Dick But- kus joined the team that anyone but Butkus had led Ihe learn in tackles. The 6-foot-6, 250- pounder also had nine quar- terback sacks to his credit. Foreman had more com- petition in the offensive ballot- ing than Chambers did on de- fense in The AP poll of sports writers and broadcasters. Foreman received 24 of a possible 78 votes. Second place belonged to Philadelphia tight end Charley Young, who at- tracted 1G votes.

Wide receiver Isaac Curtis of Cincinnali was third with 15 votes. Individual Scoring Laurel County Mike Baker Keith Reams Bernie Tincher Mike Heuser WendellElza David Moseley KennySizemore Total Middlesboro Aruthur Trent Pal Ward Ernie Buhl Bill Bingham Keith Blondell Eric Riggs Nathan Williams Dan Griffin Total '9 3 5 9 2 6 6 3 34. 1 2 12 8 1 I 3 1 29 ft 2 2 0 0 0 1 0 :5, It 1 1 6 5 0 1 0 0 14 tp 8 12 18 4 12 13 6 73 tp 3 5 28 21 2 3 6 2 72 Score by Quarters Laurel County 21 41 53 71 Middlesboro 25 37 55 72 Casey County Dwight Bastin Ron Rodgers Jack Prewitt Denny Price Dave Hamilton BobSalyers Total Pulaski County Barry Daullon Mike Erp John Boise Terry Branscum Tony Wilburn Jasper Measel Total fq 5 6 4 4 0 25 9 3 3 1 1 8 1 4 21 ft 2 0 5 0 1 4 12 ft 3 1 0 0 0 0 5 9 tp 12 12 17 8 9 4 62 IP 9 7 2 2 16 2 13 51 Score by Quarters Casey County 15 32 45 Pulaski County 10 IS 11 62 51 College Basketball Thursday's College Basketball Results By The Associated Press EAST Delaware 78, Drexel 70 Island U. 93, Hofslra 69 New Hampshire 76, Con- necticut 70 Boston Col. 91, I.eMoyne 75 SOUTH Ky.

Wesleyan 99, Athletes in Action 88, overtime Case W. Reserve 77, Oticrlin 73 Furmnn 92, Baptist College 64 Bethel 58, Carson-Newman 44 St. Ixuiis 57, S. Florida 55 Memphis St. 88, Bradley 76, overtime Stetson 8fi, Florida Tech 68 MIDWEST Oklahoma 101, CaUSanla Bar- 79 W.

Michigan fi8, Cleveland St. 59 SOUTHWEST Christian Bros, at Arkansas ppd Tex. Lutheran 90, Bishop 83 Pan American 86, Air Force 79 FAR WEST New MexicoSt. 71, Wichita St 03 ColorailoSt. 74, Arizona St.

72 Arizona 93, Wyoming 77 St. Martin's, Wash. 95, Pacif- ic, Ore. 94 Beach St. 9.1, Ange- les -St.

76 Fresno St. 80, Colorado U. 70 Cal 52, UC-Davis 35 A Friends Tourney i Round Marymniint 89, Baker 50 OuiUnnl 101, Itelmonl Abbey 97 Senior Bowl Championship S. Alabama 74, Missouri 61 Consolation S. Miss, 79, Austin Peay 75 Hoslon Cot.

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