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The Sioux City Journal, Sunday, December 9, 1979 1 Briar Cliff tops Mankato in 'physical' game, 98-79 Tdjl Sports I vi- va ji nr A Vt ByDickChamp Journal Sports Writer Saturday's college basketball game at Sioux City Auditorium probably won't go down in history as one of the most "artistic" contests ever played. But it will go down in Briar Cliff annals as another victory. And it may also be listed somewhere as the game played in Sioux City in which the greatest number of technical fouls were called against a losing team. "It was a very physical game," said Briar Cliff Coach Ray Nacke after his team had posted a 98-79 triumph over Mankato State University. "And sometimes when a game is physical it gets a little ragged." Physical it was.

The referees called a total of 46 personal fouls, 28 of them against the Mavericks. In addition there were five technical fouls, two each on the Mankato bench and Maverick Roy Groce. The fifth was against Mankato's Dan Carpenter and it, as was one on Groce, was assessed for slapping the backboard on a shot. The teams shot 59 free throws 46 by the Chargers. And those gift shots were the big difference in the final score.

The hosts made 36 field goals, one more than Mankato; they also made 26 gifters, something that wasn't entirely pleasing to the veteran BCC mentor. "I was disappointed with our free throw shooting," Nacke said. "Yes, we work on them in practice but it looks like we need to practice more." Rolando Frazer, for example, went to the line 15 times and missed eight shots. Rolando Lawrence was 3-for-7 and Glenn Hunnel was 2-for-5. On the positive side, Vince Duncan was 6-for-7, Mitch McCallister 6-for-8 Chuck Weber 2-for-3 from the chari-ty line.

Briar Cliff put this one away in a period of two minutes and two seconds late in the first half. Mankato State, trailing by as many as eight points in the early stages, out- For the Chargers, who won the board battle, 41-38, Weber had seven and Lawrence pulled down six. In addition to his scoring efforts Frazer dished out a team-high nine assists. Briar Cliff, now 6-1, returns to action Tuesday with a game at Wayne State College. Rene Cockburn made a pair of free throws with :08 left and Carlos Morgan blocked a last-second shot to give the Briar Cliff junior varsity a 76-75 win over Orange City Life Investors in the preliminary game.

Dan Pause had 15 points, Cockburn 14 for the young Chargers, who trailed 33-29 at half. Mike Bies notched 14, Doug Schuver 12 and Jeff Van Rooyen 11 for the visitors. Mankato (79) FG FT-A PF TP DonRawls 2 1-1 2 5 MikeGartield I (H 3 2 Tim Wahl 2-2 3 12 RoyGroce 5 0-0 5 10 Dan Carpenter 13 5-7 3 31 JimRoblson 3 1-2 2 7 Pat Kennedy 2 0-0 2 4 Jef I Morgan 1 0-0 5 2 GlmGoertien 1 0-13 2 Mark 1 0-0 0 2 Doug Jotinson 1 04 0 2 Totals 35 -13 2t 7 Briar Cliff (98) FG FT-A PF TP Glenn Hurmel 3 2-5 2 a Rolando Frazer .....15 715 37 Rolando Lawrence 3 37 4 9 Chuck Weber 3 8 Mitch McCallister 1 6-8 2 a Israel Vigier 1 0-1 0 2 Vince Duncan ....7 6-7 1 20 Rod Minor 2 0-0 2 4 VIcLund 0 0-0 2 0 Gus Flick 0 00 0 0 Jim Flaws 1 04 0 2 RyanOhl 0 04 0 0 Totals 36 26-46 18 18 Score by halves: Mankato 37 42 79 Briar Cliff 44 54 98 Technical fouls: Mankato bench 2, Groce 2. Carpenter. Officials: Mike Mallette, Wayne, Mike Fleming.

Sibley, Iowa. Duncan backs off a little to avoid fouling Groce. The Chargers made the Mavericks their fifth straight victim, 98-79. (Staff photo by Gary Anderson) Cards collect 2nd win, 57-45 ByRussWard Journal Sports Writer South Sioux City cut Heelan down to size and won the City League battle at the Mini-Dome Saturday night, 57-45. "I though we played a pretty good game," said Cardinal Coach Ed Wiltgen.

We told Larry (Voss) that he should drive more to the basket," the coach said. "And he did just that. He got some key points for us." South Sioux City never trailed after getting off to a quick 6-0 start on a bucket by Kerry Dean and two by -Voss in the first two minutes. From there, the Redbirds soared to 12-8 at the first quarter and 25-17 at the half which caused new Crusader Coach to "We didn't shoot at all well the first half but overall we showed a big improvement over our past losses." It was the second straight triumph for the Cardinals who had opened the season North belts Warriors for fourth straight win SIOUX CENTER, Iowa Sioux City But North wasted no time in popping North hammered Sioux Center 72-31 for that Sioux Center bubble. The Sioux its fourth win of the young basketball Cityans outscored the hosts 23-5 the season Saturday.

second period and it was, for all intents About the only encouraging news for and purposes, over, the Warriors was the score at the end of It was North by 51-24 after three the first quarter: periods and Coach Tom Goodman After eight minutes Sioux Center was cleared his bench as his team sailed on top 14-12. It was the only time in four nome' games the Stars have been behind at the The Warriors couldn't find their end of the first period. shooting eyes after the first quarter. Part of the credit for that goes to the aggressive North defense. 1 Again the Stars showed a balanced All-Star Ting Card scoring attack.

Mark Cutler led the way 1ntrl Wp Inn in with 17 points- Any had 14' Tim sidicu iieie an. xu Dunnington 10 and Randy Musselman A 15-bout Senior Ail-Star Boxing pro- Mike Hu'stein led Sioux Center gram will be held at the Sioux City 1-1, with 10 markers. Auditorium Thursday, Jan. 10, promoter North's sophomores gained a 39-36 win Bill Engel announced Saturday. in the preliminary game The Stars shoot for victory No.

5 when Boxers from a four-state area (Iowa, they travel to Sioux Falls O'Gorman South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota) Friday night. They wind up pre-holiday are entered including the Kaiser scrapping playing Sioux City Heelan on brothers of Rapid City and the Pelsters Dec. 18 and South Sioux City on Dec. 20. of Petersburg, Neb.

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0-10 0 Local and area fighters competing Jen-strain 2-2 0 2 AlBoykin 0 0-0 0 0 include flyweights Shaun Holden and Bmnjager i Tony Parks, Sioux City; John ToU" 78 Hinrjchsen, Anthon, Iowa Sioux Center (31) featherweight Dave Parks, Sioux City; fg ft-a pf tp welterweight Darrell Millee, Macy, SbS SI I middleweight Ray puty, South i 5 Sioux City, and heavyweights Rich Gaul, 07vsret South Sioux; Leon Harte, Remsen, MikeKraayenbrinit i o-o i 2 Iowa Walt Hulit, Macy, and Billy mSmS. tw 10 IMipken Omaha Jim Vander Brake 2 0-fl 0 lieisen, Umana. Terry Schuiteman 0 0-0 I 0 Arlyn Rozehoom 0 0-0 1 0 For ticket information call Bill Engel, sriV 494-4653 or 494-1730. nt nt ntZZ scored the Chargers 22-6 and moved ahead by 31-23 on Tim Wahl's basket with 6: 34 left in the half. Fifty-six seconds later BC started its own scoring splurge on Lawrence's bucket.

Then came two baskets by Frazer, two free shots by Weber, another Frazer bucket and four consecutive free throws by McCallister. The first two gifters by McCallister came after he was fouled in going after a rebound under the Maverick basket. The other two, which completed the Chargers' 14-point surge, came at the same time when the first technical foul was called on the Mankato bench because Coach Butch Raymond questioned the personal foul call and a couple of others too vehemently. At any rate BC now led by 37-31 and was to be no less than three points ahead the rest of the contest. It was 44-37 at halftime and the Chargers built their biggest lead of the game when Frazer banked a jump shot off the glass to finish an 11-0 Cliff spree and make it 90-69 with 1:59 left in the game.

It reached 21 one more time. Once again, Frazer won game scoring honors with 37 points, just a shade off his 37.6 average. Freshman Duncan came off the bench to score 20 points and drew praise from his coach. "I was very pleased with Vince's play," Nacke said. "This had to help his confidence." Carpenter led the Mavericks, 1-3, with 31 points.

Wahl had a dozen and Groce added 10. Groce and Carpenter shared individual rebounding honors with 10 apiece. with a 61-52 overtime win over Le Mars Friday. Heelan now is 0-3 and 0-2 in the City. The Crusaders had lost to Sioux Falls Washington (62-54) and West" 57-51 earlier in the week.

the big (6-4) kid who also plays a pretty fair game of football, was the difference in this game. The rugged senior not only took scoring honors with 26 points but also pulled down nine of his team's 26 rebounds. "I think he has settled down on his inside game," said Wiltgen, a former Heelan High and Briar Cliff standout. "We talked it over and told him that we needed his driving game. We got it from him tonight." Wiltgen added that "We got a good game out of (Troy) Brende," the hustling 5-8 senior guard.

"We were a little fearful that he might have gotten hurt (in the second half). He's had an achilles heel problem and banged it on the floor. It went numb briefly but we were able to get him back quickly. He's a good -during Saturday night's City League game at South Sioux City. The host Cardinals won the game 57-45.

(Staff photo by Gary Anderson) leader, the type that settles the team down." In addition to his leadership ability, Brende threw in 12 points and Kerry-Dean, another of the senior starters, contributed 13. The three combined for 51 points, all but six of the Cardinal total. After the Cards had hit on their first three shots, Heelan fought back to within two (8-6) on baskets by Luis Villaescusa, the 6-5 senior from Mexico, Jim Anderson and veteran Mark Hickman. But that was as close as they came the rest of the way. Midway in the third it still was a four-point game (31-27) but the Cards suddenly reeling off six straight points on jumpers by Dean and Brende, the latter hitting a 20-footer from the side, and two Brende free throws.

That opened a 10-point spread (37-27) and the Crusaders never were closer than eight points after that. "Our inside shooting hurt us," said Sawyer. "We'll have to work on that." South Sioux won just about every statistical battle except rebounds where Heelan had a 30-26 advantage. The-Cmsaders also took more shots, 60 to 48, but fewer went in (21) as against South Sioux's 23 baskets. But everything else belonged to the Cardinals including the most important statistic of all the winning score.

The hosts hit 48 percent from the floor (23 of 48) to 35 percent for Heelan which also hit only three of 10 free throws. South Sioux connected on 11 of 19. The Crusaders were especially hurt the second half since they were unable to benefit from the one-and-one until late in the game. See CARDS, Page D4 Mankato State's Roy Groce tosses pass over the head of Briar Cliff's Glenn Hunnel and Charger Vince Sioux City sports slate Today 7:30 Waterloo at Musketeers On the inside Cowboys, Seahawks win NFL D5 Steve Stubbs is latest to bowl 300... D8 Nadia Comaneci has successful sur- Blues' Plager quits as coach ST.

LOUIS (AP) "I am not getting the best out of the team," said Barclay Plager after resigning Saturday as coach of the St. Plager's resignation was made public earlier, when Emile Francis, president and general manager of the National Hockey League team said, "Barclay Plager has tendered his resignation and it has been accepted." Francis declined to elaborate. But at a news conference before Saturday night's game against the Washington Capitals, Plager said, "I think we're at the point in this team where someone has got to get them ready. In looking at my position with the club, I truthfully believe I am lacking in that department." Earlier, club publicist Susie Mathieu said the resignation apparently was related to recent health problems that had hospitalized the 38-year-old Blues' coach for 10 days last month. Doctors believed the problem stemmed from a head injury Plager sustained during his playing days.

the drive with a one-yard scoring burst, his first of three one-yard TD runs on the day. The Oilers recovered a Galen Kaemingk fumble on the first play after the klckoff and, despite a 15-yard penalty, covered 32 yards in short order for a 14-0 lead. florthwestern's troubles were only just beginning, but the backbreaker was perhaps a fumble on the ensuing kickoff that set the Ohioans up on the Raider 17-yard line. And six plays later, it was It was to go on this way throughout most of the day. Five of Findlay's seven touchdowns followed turnovers that gave the Oilers the ball no further than 37 yards away from paydirt.

And a sixth came on a 42-yard drive on which a turnover had Influenced field position one exchange earlier. In short, Northwestern was its own worst enemy. After three early fumbles sent Findlay's lead to 28-0, the Oilers sat back on defense and waited for the passes. And knowing what to expect, they proceeded to Intercept six of them, four by Kaemingk, then two by reserve Mike Calvert. Four interceptions went to Charlie Byrd, who returned his first theft to the Raider 23, where quarterback Paul Trina launched a touchdown pass to Jim yl 0 Turnover-ridden Raiders lose, 51-6 ftps FINDLAY, Ohio When it rains, it pours.

Northwestern College got off to a poor start in the NAIA Division II football championship game here Saturday and, from there, things only got worse for Coach Larry Korver's Red Raiders. Find! ay College snapped Northwestern's 10-game winning streak in devastating fashion, roaring to the national title with a 51-6 triumph. It was an NAIA playoff record for most points by two teams, thanks to the losers' lone touchdown. Turnovers nine, to be exact told the story for the vanquished northwest Iowans, whose gambling style of offense has been prone to giveaways, but had normally produced more than enough scoring to compensale. This time, the Raiders were all but out of It before their normally potent passing attack had a chance to operate as a disastrous string of misfortunes sent Findlay to a 41-0 halftime bulge, also an NAIA pliiyoff mark.

Incredibly, Northwestern had run only one offensive play and found Itself trailing 21-0. Findlay received the opening klckoff and drove 74 yards on 14 plays for the only touchdown in which the hosts weren't helped by a Northwestern turnover. Fullback Nelson Bolden capped ground was a first-quarter injury from which halfback Marty Guthmiller, the team's leading rusher, was unable to return. The national championship was the first for Findlay, which lost the title game on its home field a year ago in a 7-0 thriller with Concordia The Oilers reign over a field of 105 schools which comprise Division II in NAIA football. Finishing Its season at 10-2, Northwestern absorbed its second loss In three trips to the championship round.

The Raiders lost the 1972 final, then, just as Findlay did this time, bounced back to win it in 1973. In view of this twice-repeated pattern, Korver's disappointed crew should have added incentive for 1980. Summary North wwtcrn 0 0 8 Klndlay lOtiloi 21 7 3 SI KIN: Nelson Bolden I run 'OrcK I'latllnp hick i KIN Wilson Heard 28 pass (mm I'aul Triiu I'hlllpn kick i KIN Bolden I run i I'hilipn kick i KIN-Trina lOnin il'hlhppkicki Kkk llallleld 211 pass I rum Trina il'hlllpp kick) KIN: B4(Jcn I run 'kick lilulkedl NW: Terry Johnson 10 pass (nun (iakn Kacmlniik ipuwi lalledi KIN Hatfield 1 1 pass from Trim I Itilllpp kick I STATISTICS Nwtt Find Kind downs Hi tl Hushes-yards II 1MM Passmiivards 1:15 Krlurn yards 17 120 )tfX 10 18 2 Punts 4 110 J4.7 Penalties yards lo I.I4 fumbles lost 4-3 8-1 AIl-American end Rick Hatfield, making 1135-0. Byrd's other thefts came on three successive Northwestern possessions in the second half, the first of these putting Findlay 21 yards and three plays away from their seventh and final TD. Just prior to this, Northwestern had dodged the goose-egg with its lone scoring play, a 10-yard pass from Kaemingk to Terry Johnson after a short punt put the visitors on Findlay's 29-yard line.

It may have seemed like salt In the wounds that Findlay's Greg Phillpp converted a 36-yard field goal in the final quarter, but it was merely to soothe the kicker's ego. Philipp had missed all of 10 field goal tries this year before hitting one last Saturday in Findlay's 9-0 semifinal win over Pacific Lutheran. Findlay, finishing its championship season at 10-1-1, piled up 426 yards in the finale, with 298 on the ground. Northwestern managed just 36 rushing and 135 passing as Kaemingk completed 10 of 24 with four picked off and Calvert hit six of 11, two intercepted. The Raiders went to eight different receivers In their frantic comeback bid.

Leading the receiving corps were Johnson, three catches for 44 yards; Elson Schut, 3 for 31; and Dean Jacobsen, 4 for 17. i Hampering the visitors. efforts on the' ft 5 Heelan's Jim Anderson (23) goes high in the air but South Sioux City's Tom Leitschuck (30) has not yet started his leap for a shot attempt AAA. 4 8 l8V4VJ.