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ttimes SPOE TS lllmois C-l Tuesday February 5, 1985 BALL STATE'S SCORING MACHINE Sports briefly 1IM aware of race Baseball mm By The Associated Press CHICAGO Donald C. Grenesko Monday was named executive vice president in charge of business operations for the Chicago Cubs and will report to Dallas Green, club president and general manager. Grenesko, 36, also Is treasurer of Tribune which owns the Chicago Cubs. He will direct the team's business and administrative affairs, including financial, marketing and stadium operations. Grenesko will assume part of the duties formerly handled by-Jim Finks, who resigned last December as vice president and chief executive officer.

CHICAGO White Sox general manager Roland Hemond announced the signings Monday of pitchers Juan Agosto and Al Jones, catcher Ron Karkovice and outfielder Ken Williams to one-year contracts. pretty good victory," although he admitted the Illini were deficient in some phases of play, particularly ball-handling. "We might take that in most of the games that we have coming up," Henson said. Michigan State swept Wisconsin and Northwestern on the road last week only the third time in five years that the Spartans have won both games on a road trip and appears to be back on track after four consecutive losses, including a 12-point loss Jan. 12 at Illinois.

The Spartans are 5-4 in the conference and 14-5 overall. But MSU coach Jud Heathcote said Monday the Big Ten race is between Michigan, Iowa and Illinois. Michigan State, he said, is fighting for a berth in the NCAA tournament. He called his team's games this week against Illinois and Purdue "must wins." Michigan coach Bill Frieder said the Wolverines have been on a roll since a 64-58 overtime loss at Illinois on Jan. 10.

Since then, they've won six conference games in a row, plus a non-conference match-up with Kansas. "The biggest thing that has happened to us was after losing in overtime at Illinois we won (81-65) at Purdue," he said. "Winning at Purdue like that after the loss at Champaign gave us some confidence. It was a very, very important game for us." But Frieder admitted the Wolverines, 16-3 overall and 7-2 in the conference, have a tougher remaining schedule than either Iowa or Illinois. Michigan has five road contests, including games at Iowa, Michigan State, Indiana and Ohio State.

CHAMPAIGN Illinois, in third place in the Big Ten with a 6-3 record, takes to the road this week with important contests Thursday night at Michigan State and Saturday afternoon at Michigan. Although the Illini have won six of their last seven games, they trail league leaders Iowa and Michigan by a full game as the second half of the conference season opens Wednesday night Illinois center Scott Meents, who scored a career-high 22 points in Sunday's 77-76 non-conference win at Houston, said Monday he's confident the Illini will challenge the Hawkeyes and Wolverines for the title. "I like our situation," said Meents. got to go to Michigan and Michigan State now, instead of at the end of the season." Most importantly, he noted, the Illini have five of their last seven games at home, including the final three. "We're aware of the standings," Meents said.

"These aren't necessarily do or die. If we lose two, it might be do or die, but I think the champion of the Big Ten might have five losses. After a devastating 54-34 loss at Purdue last week, Illinois seemed to be reeling, but the win at Houston helped a lot, according to Meents. "I think maybe some of the guys were trying too hard at Purdue," he said. "But the game yesterday helped us by boosting our confidence." Coach Lou Henson called Sunday's win "a MyS lit Wj lLJL Basketball Proviso West holds No.

1 By The Associated Press NEW YORK Michael Jordan, the Chicago Bulls' guard who will start in Sunday's All-Star Game, was named Monday as the National Basketball Association's rookie of the month for January. During the month, Jordan averaged 30.5 points per game while shooting .567 from the floor and .882 from the free-throw line. HAMMOND Purdue University Calumet hosts a basketball doubleheader today. The Lady Lakers take on Wisconsin-Parkside at 5 p.m., followed by a 7:30 p.m., NAIA District 21 clash between the men Lakers and Indiana Tech of Ft. Wayne.

Undefeated Proviso West and defending MC Rogers product score in recent game against Ohio. Palombisio getting the bait and more that there was some shuffling, mainly because of a pair of losses absorbed by Peoria Richwoods. Richwoods (16-3) lost to Peoria Manual, 51-50, and to Pekin, 77-64, in triple overtime and plunged from sixth place to No. 13. Hillcrest (20-1) and Leyden (18-1) each advanced one spot to sixth and seventh, respectively.

Chicago Crane (16-1) and Peoria Manual (13-2) found themselves tied for eighth place, ahead of Springfield Lanphier (17-2), which moved up two places to No. 10 while Aurora East (16-2) held 11th place. Rock Island (14-3) moved up to No. 12 ahead of Richwoods. Evanston (18-3) and Mundelein Carmel (17-3) switched places with Evanston taking over 14th place and Carmel dropping to 15th.

Homewood-Flossmoor (15-2) remained No. 16. The complete Class AA and A polls can be found in Scoreboard, Page C-2. champion Chicago Simeon held fast to their one-two positions in the weekly Associated Press Class AA Illinois high school basketball poll. The two powers not Only remained one-two they had exactly the same votes and number of points they received last week.

Proviso West (2(H)) collected 15 first-place votes from the panel of 16 sportswriters and broadcasters who cast ballots and had 253 of a possible 256 poll points. Simeon (17-1) had the other first-place vote and again had 236 poll points. There were no changes among the first five teams with Chicago King (17-2) retaining third place ahead of Chicago Leo (19-0) and Rockford Boylan (19-1). After Football By DANNY McNEIL Special to The Times Providence-St. Mel still on top bizio's 28.2 points-per-game average is tops across the country in NCAA Division I play.

The Michigan City Rogers alum has led the club in rebounds in every game but one with an 11.8 average. In addition, Palombizio has brought school spirit back from the dead and helped return the team's image to one of respectability. Unhappy with his role in the offense at Purdue under coach Gene Keady, Palombizio packed his bags and drove two hours east on Indiana 26 to Muncie, where his teammates look to get the ball to him. (Continued on Page C-3) MUNCIE Amidst east-central Indiana's cornfields and livestock farms hides Ball State University, where basketball supremacy has been unevident in recent years. The Cardinals were 8-19 last year, a showing not good enough for a spot in the Mid-American Conference tournament.

A visit to the NCAA tourney, which the Redbirds have achieved only once, seemed ridiculous for Ball State backers to even talk about. But Ball State has found renewed basketball life in transfer Dan Palombizio. In 19 games, Palom- By The Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS Jerry Stauffer of Class AAAA playoff champion Warren Central and Tom Conn of Class AAA runner-up Concord will be the coaches for the 1985 North-South All-Star game, the Indiaina Football Coaches Association has announced. Munster's Leroy Marsh will join the North squad headed by Conn. Other North assistants will be Andy Johns of Fort Wayne Dwenger, Ernie Beck of West Lafayette and Jim Plummer of Western.

Stauffer will coach the South team and will be assisted by Mike Godan of Brownsburg, Larry Wright of Sheridan, Bob Proctor of Boonville and Glenn Crocker of Lawrenceburg. week, including a narrow 79-75 decision over St. Gregory, to boost its record to 19-1, and Mater Dei (19-0) breezed past Pana and Hillsboro. St. Mel collected 18 of 19 first-place votes and had 302 of a possible 304 poll points.

Mater Dei picked up the other first-place vote and had 277 points. Providence-St. Mel and undefeated Breese Mater Dei held the two top spots in the weekly Associated Press Class A Illinois high. school basketball poll. But Pittsfield dropped from third to seventh following a loss to Chicago Carver.

St. Mel scored two more victories last Crete's Caldwell no junior on mat circuit Gymnastics By PHIL BRTTT Times Sports Writer the level of competition the coach expected. That means its even more important that his teammates give him a good workout to prepare him for another trip downstate. The state two-level tournament series starts Friday. Crete will be in the Class AA district at Bloom Trail, which feeds into the Class AA sectional at Bloom Trail the following week.

District action will start at 6 p.m. Friday, with the second session at noon Saturday and the third session at 6 p.m. "He's get out of districts," Oliver said. "He should go downstate, but we're in one of the toughest sectionals in the state." The Warriors are going there with one of the state's toughest wrestlers. Wrestling Federation tournaments.

A shoulder injury kept him out most of last summer, however. When the summer season is over, Caldwell works out on his own until the team starts practices. "He conditions himself to wrestle six hard minutes," Oliver said. "He likes to work the arms and the wing series. If that doesn't work, he'll go to some leg moves for some back points.

He'll take whatever's there to wear the other guy down." Oliver also credits three of Caldwell's teammates Tony Carlos (145 pounds), Rich Fortner (155), Jerry Alexia (167) for keeping Caldwell sharp during team practices. That's more than Oliver said of Caldwell's opponents this season. Day-in, day-out, Caldwell hasn't faced Saturday's SICA South tournament. His 3-2 win over Rich East's Kevin Nordquist was one of the toughest bouts of the year, according to Oliver, as was an earlier win over Hobart's Todd Cox in the East Chicago Washington Stan Mish tournament "He's always going for the pin," Oliver said. "He's had a lot of upper-20-point matches.

Sometimes he doesn't get a pin before time runs out or the other kid has enough moxie not to get pinned. Sometimes he's had a 20-point lead, then he's pinned the (other). That's something that doesn't show up in the scoring. "He won't sit on a lead. He's constantly working." That goes for the offseason, too.

Caldwell spends most of his summers participating in Illinois Kids' CRETE Coach Mike Oliver has never seen a wrestler burst onto the scene like his own Adam Caldwell. The Crete-Monee junior is 29-0 this season after going 28-4 and qualifying for the Illinois Class AA tournament as a sophomore. That's a varsity winning percentage of .934. "He's been 'on for two years," Oliver said "He's a state-competition quality wrestler. He's been flat a couple of matches, but it hasn't been noticeable." Caldwell has started to get some notice the last few weeks.

He's now the third-ranked grappler in his weight class. His position could be strengthened by his victory in last FLOSSMOOR Sandy Sellers led her Thornwood team to the Homewood-Flossmoor regional title Monday by a narrow margin over the host school. Sellers' all-around score of 35.25 was the best in the field, while Thornwood's team score of 132.85 bested H-F's 131.20. Teammate Lori Golem placed third all-around with a 34.05. Sellers will next eye Feb.

16 sectional competition at Downers Grove North. Monday's complete team and individual scoring is on Page C-3. EC's Lukawski pays for his fun in the baseball sun his formative years as an East Chicago American Legion player didn't play high school an old shoulder injury so hampered bis swing that he Wes Lukoshus Times Sports Writer spent the week hitting lefty. Actually, be TS: didn't do much hitting at first against a col-lection of mechanical and camper and play a game. "We had to be dressed at 10: 15 every morning.

Then Hundley would hold a meeting. We'd get done between 2 and 3 in the afternoon. And we were so tired, we wouldn't eat 'til dinner time." Lukawski said be lost ISpounds. As for the ex-Cubs, They're all A-l guys. Nobody was too high-falutin to break bread or have a drink with you.

What really surprised me was the condition of those guys and bow well tbey could still play. "Banks made one error the whole week, and be did that on purpose to get a runner on base. The first time Hundley came to bat he hit the firs pitches over the 350 sign foul, then on the third pitch hit one fair over the 375 foot sign." "I really enjoyed it It's a satisfaction 1 11 cherish the rest of my life." The campers ranged in age from 31 to 68. Also representing the Region was Merrillville dentist Harry Frank. The camp, whose novelty has spread among other major league organizations, had in attendance such ex-Chicago stars as Ron Santo, Glenn Beckett, Gene Oliver, Hoyt Wilhelm, Carmen Fanzone, Jenkins and Hundley, and Mr.

Cub himself, Ernie Banks. "I was really impressed with the professionalism of the setup," Lukawski said. "They tried to treat you just like you were a rookie." That meant a four -hour workout the first day, featuring 30 minutes of drills at each of several specialized stations. "There was a station for hitting, fielding, rundowns, game situations," Lukawski said. "After the first day, we would practice Oh, yes you can.

Some 24 hours after fanning helplessly on a Fergie Jenkins curveball in the final day, '69 Cubs vs. campers game, Lukawski said he "tightened up like a board" on the plane ride home. His "injury" kept him away from work and on the four-day disabled list He said Monday he's "still paying for his fun in the sun," but that it was worth every agony. "It was very exciting," be said. But then again, we'd think it was exciting, too, if we turned out to be the subject of a CBS television feature program to be aired in March.

Lukawski and four of his "teammates" rated the honor. He says be doesn't know bow he came to be among the chosen elite. His grit and determination, though, may have been contributing factors. A right-handed swinger during As labors of love go, East Chicago's Chet Lukawski bit himself of a doozie. He wasn't satisfied just to casually participate in the recent Randy Hundley oldtimers baseball camp a mere 38-plus years after hanging up his mit and spikes.

No, 54-years-young Lukawski, EC school city director of recreation and former EC Roosevelt gridder and bead coach, bad to go one better. He volunteered to be a catcher for one of the sue teams into which the contingent of 58 middle-aged Peter Pans were divided. "Nobody wants to catch, so I said I would, but that I couldn't do it the whole time," he said Monday, far away from the Mesa, Ariz, camp site and Cubs' spring training facility. Our man, Cbet, held true to his word. He didn't catch all the time.

burling arms iriing arms both, un- Ntji, ess 1 "I didn't i i-virct doubtedly I TKlWCirf bit But he paid his price just the same. Day 1 found him getting clipped in the pinky by a foul ball. When blood gushed, it was feared he bad suffered a fracture, and that his week of baseball hobnobbing won for him by his wife, Valerie, at Cubs Fan Appreciation Day last September would end prematurely. But X-rays were negative, and so it was back to the tools of ignorance. "You can't keep a good man down," be would quip later.

want to em- ban-ass myself, so I just kept working at it," he said. Sure enough, the base hits started to fall. He finished the week with a .278 average, which could get him about a $1.2 million contract in today's free agent market.