Jackson Hole News from Jackson, Wyoming • 23

JACKSON HOLE NEWS WedneHday, March 26, 1986 23 Top Florida in semis Casper Democrat Sullivan enters Governor's race Pokes near NIT crown to five, the game was well within reach," Brandenburg said. "As young as we are, with six sophomores in our basic seven-man rotation, this team doesn't scare easily." Dembo scored all of his 11 second half points in a nine- minute span and gave the Cowboys the lead to stay at 49-48 onalayup with 8:40 left. McClary, who led the Gators with 13 points and 10 Brandenburg CHEYENNE. Wyo. (API-Casper attorney Mike Sullivan has announced he will seek the Democratic nomination for governor, saying he has little political experience but a lifetime attachment to Wyoming.

"I am the first to recognize that a Democratic lawyer, who represents a utility company and lives in Casper (which hasn't elected a governor since 1906) may not have ideal credentials to secure an immediate and loving embrace from the voters statewide," Sullivan said in a release Thursday. But, he added, he has "a deep and abiding love. the state, its people and its unique lifestyle." Sullivan joins three other Democrats seeking the party's nomination. They include Al Hamburg of Torrington, Wyoming's perennial candidate; Casper woodcutter Keith Goodenough; and Pat Mc-Quire, a Laramie man who was trounced by Herschler in the 1982 gubernatorial primary. The 46-year-old Sullivan has served as Gov.

Ed Herschler's representative to the Interstate Oil Compact Commission and as a member of the Department of Economic Planning and Development Advisory Board. Sullivan, who grew up in Douglas, also was co-chairman of the "We are Wyoming" fund which raised money in central Wyoming for victims of last August's flood in Cheyenne. He holds degrees in petroleum engineering and law from the University of Wyoming. He said his law practice lately has concentrated on the defense of medical malpractice cases. Sullivan said he plans to travel the entire state in an effort "to make up for what many perceive as my lack of statewide name recognition." His campaign efforts will be Michael Sullivan directed at gaining support from all types of Wyoming residents.

Sullivan said the state is facing turbulent times ahead but it "can use this time of transition as a window of opportunity to emerge as a vital and vibrant state." Former House Speaker Russ Donley also entered the race Thursday, becoming the seventh person to seek the Republican gubernatorial nomination. The other Republicans already in the race are Fred Schroader, a Douglas businessman; John Johnson, a Saratoga dentist; Bill Budd, former executive vice president of the Wyoming Mining Association; Jim Bace of Cheyenne; state Treasurer Stan Smith; and Pete Simpson, brother of U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson and director of the University of Wyoming Foundation. NEW YORK (AP)-Ohio State and Wyoming, who used superior size and strength to win in the semifinals, won't have that luxury again when they meet for the championship of the 49th National Invitation Tournament.

The game will be telecast locally on cable channel 22 by the USA Network. The championship game is slated to begin at 7 p.m. tonight, Wednesday. The Buckeyes, led by lame-duck Coach Eldon Miller, got an overpowering performance from 7-foot forward Brad Sellers in a 79 66 Monday night over Louisiana Tech, which had no one taller than 6-8. On Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden, Ohio State will face Wyoming, which ousted Florida 67-58 with strong inside play from sophomores Fen-nis Dembo and Eric Leckner.

Florida's tallest player was 6'7" Kenny McClary. Sellers, who had 23 points, 13 rebounds and nine blocked shots, equaling the NIT shot-blocking record set in 1980 by Virginia's Ralph Sampson, said he expected a physical meeting with the Cowboys. "They're a big, strong team, similar to our Big 10 competition I faced," Sellers said of Wyoming. "It should be a good game." Dembo, not a tall forward at 6'4" but boasting big shoulders and a barrel chest, scored 23 points and Leckner, a 6'11" center, added 19 points and 12 rebounds as the Cowboys rallied from a 12 point first-half deficit against the Gators. "Our strength and size paid off for us," said Dembo, who was 10-for-15 from the field, with nearly all of his shots inside.

"We used our strength," Wyoming Coach Jim Brandenburg said. "We gutted it up in the second half and played them a little tighter." Florida, 19 13, led 25-13 at the 8:51 mark of the first half as Joe Lawrence hit six consecutive shots from long range, shell-shocking Wyoming, now 24-11. "Lawrence, however, never scored again as he missed his last five field-goal attempts. The Cowboys, meanwhile, abandoned their perimeter game and moved inside, rallying to 37-32 at halftime. They then scored the first six points of the second half for their first lead.

"I thought when we got it down rebounds, finally was overwhelmed by Wyoming's inside game. Nine of his rebounds came in the first half and he fouled out with 2:47 remaining. Florida's Norm Sloan, who coached North Carolina State to an NCAA title in 1974, agreed that size was the difference. "When you have to rely so much on perimeter scoring, it's tough," Sloan said. "You need a couple of people who can move in there and get the ball.

We didn't have it." Sellers was l-for-6 from the field in the first half for 18-14 Ohio State, but he was 7-for-7 and also hit four straight free throws in the second half. The Buckeyes still led Louisiana Tech 32 23 at halftime as guard Dennis Hopson scored 14 of his 23 points before intermission. The Bulldogs, 19-14, never got closer than nine points in the second half as Sellers scored at will. "We always try to get the ball in to Brad in close," said Miller, who was dismissed Feb. 3, effective at the end of the season, and already has been hired by Northern Iowa.

"Everything we do is designed to do that, but if the jumper is there we'll take that, too." "It was a physical game and I don't know if we were prepared to play it that way," Louisiana Tech Coach Tommy Joe Eagles said. "I don't know if we ever played a team as big and strong as Ohio State." Miller down played his lame-duck status with the Buckeyes. "I try not to take the game personally," he said. "On Wednesday, we have a chance to play and love it. It'smagic moment in your life.

You don't have many of those." Madison Campground to be open is accused of sticking a rifle into the ribs of a Bureau of Land Management employee. He was reportedly upset because a BLM helicopter had been "spooking" his cattle. The Douglas Republican allegedly assaulted BLM field worker Tim Peterson last Sept. 11, while Peterson and other BLM employees were conducting a ranchland survey near Laramie Peak. Cross also is charged with assaulting a federal officer, an offense carrying a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, a $10,000 fine, or both.

But the prison sentence is not mandatory. Cross's trial is scheduled to take place March 31. Toxic spill cleaned up WEST YELLOWSTONE, Mont. (AP) Authorities reopened Montana Highway 20 early Monday after cleaning up 25,000 pounds of poisonous and flammable chemicals from a truck that rolled over Sunday. Harzardous materials experts from "Billings were called in to help clean up the spilled pesticides and herbicides.

Nobody was injured and no chemicals leaked out of the truck, but 'there was some leakage inside, and the accident raised questions about the possibility of a disastrous chemical or hazardous waste spill. Gallatin County Civil Defense Director Hank Wruck called the truck's load of parathion, malathion, pramitol and other chemicals "real bad stuff," and said a major spill could have led to fires or the escape of highly toxic fumes. Road opening delayed YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP)-Deep snow drifts, some as high as 30 feet, likely will delay the opening of parts of Yellowstone National Park's 300 miles of roads this spring, officials say. This year's schedule to open the south and east entrances by mid-May already is in jeopardy because of the snow and ice conditions.

The west entrance is scheduled to open April 26. "If it stays like this, we probably won't finish on time," said Fred Howie, operator of one of the two large rotary plows trying to bite through the unusual snow depths. A crew of 18 employees are working to clear park roads. He added that other planned cutbacks will remain in effect, including a drop in seasonal hiring of rangers and the closing of the Grant Village Visitor Center. Judge denies motion to dismiss firearms charge CHEYENNE, Wyo.

District Court Judge Ewing Kerr on Monday denied a motion to dismiss one of two charges against House Majority Whip William "Rory" Cross. Attorney Jack Speight on Friday asked Kerr to drop a charge of using a firearm in a crime of violence. The charge carries a mandatory 5-year prison term with no possibility of parole. Cross, a Yale University graduate, made up by further cutting of the park's road maintenance budget. Park service officials initially planned to reduce the road repair budget $265,000 to meet necessary cutbacks.

Now, at least $400,000 of the total $689,000 road budget will be lost to austerity. "The roads are in bad shape already and they will be worse," Kroll said. The lost funds would have gone to patching potholes and resurfacing short stretches of road, he said. Funds for rebuilding longer sections of road come from the federal highway budget, he added. According to park officials, the roads in Yellowstone require major repair and reconstruction totaling $112 million.

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP)-Federal officials have overruled a decision to close Madison Junction Campground this summer and told Yellowstone National Park authorities to make cutbacks in road maintenance instead. Secretary of the Interior Donald Hodel and National Park Service Chief William Penn Mott told Yellowstone officials to keep the 292-site campground open, despite austerity measures in the wake of mandatory spending cuts imposed by the Gramm-Rudman Act. Hodel and Mott, who have made a commitment to reduce park budgets without closing campgrounds, said the $174,000 savings from the planned closing of Madison Junction should be 1 1 1 1 1 ii i i.