The Delta Democrat-Times from Greenville, Mississippi • Page 8

Alcorn rips C. Wash. Lowly Washburn wins 9f A S-A I of Topeka, seemed one of the least likely unseeded teams to escape the first round of the A I A basketball tournament. all, the Ichabuds entered the 37th annual event with thfe worst record (16-11) in the 32-tearn field. And they were a i againsl i i a Claire 2 4 4 a tourney-hardened crew that was appearing here for the fourth time in the last five years.

a i i backboards with ferocity and cutting off the passing lanes with intensity, shelled the ninth-seeded BUigolds 67-50 Monday nighl, scoring the only upset on the 'first day of the six-day tournament. "Our board play was the big thing," said Coach Glenn Cater. "That and defense. Rebounding won the game for us. Our front line did a helluva job, especially.

Joe Luebcke. He was a tower of strength inside." Luebcke, a 6-foot-8 junior, from Marysville, plucked 16 rebounds and was one of four Washburn double-figure scorers with 12 points, The Ichabods outrebounded Eau Claire 44-34. Washburn won despite a jittery start when the Ichabods hit only one of their first 11 shots. When the 12th shot fell, however, Eau Claire led by only 6-4. The game was a close one until midway through the second half when Washburn scored 11 unanswered points, turning a 37-36 lead into a 48-36 margin with 10:11 to play.

Bob Love, who scored all 12 of his points in the second half; scored six during the 11-point burst. Eau Claire rallied within five points with minutes to play before 1-ove untracked the Ichabods again wtih a free, throw and goal. Washburn outscored Eau Claire 13-2 in the last minutes' to turn the final score into a runaway. "I don't think our slow start was due to tourney jitters," said Cafer. We forced a few shots but they play a good solid defense, too.

We didn't run like we can sometimes. We weren't free and easy." seeded teams farnd better than Eau Claire. -Second-seeded State dumped i (S.C;) 82-69; fourth-seeded (Alcorn (Miss.) AM ran away from Central Washington 93-55; fifth-seeded Hanover (Ind.) trimmed State College of Arkansas 87-73- sixth-seeded Grand Canyon (Ariz.) nudged Virginia State 69-65; lOth-seeded St. Thomas (Minn.) thundered past Grand Valley (Mich.) 95-71; Hth-seeded West Georgia clouted Huron (S.D.) 102-71; and 16th seeded St. Mary's (Tex.) routed Keene (N.H.) State 95-66.

Alcorn.was. never in trouble, rolling up a 30-point lead midway through the halt. The fast-breaking Braves, were led by Nathaniel Archibald's 18. Eight more first-round games were scheduled today. Top-seeded Fairmont (W.

Va.) State goes, against Cameron (Okla.) State Tonight. Final poll NC State is sr NEW YORK There's a fanaticism associated with Atlantic Coast Conference basketball that must be experienced to be understood. Consequently, when North Carolina State Coach Norman Sloan reads to his Wolfpack team being named the major college basketball national champion by United Press International's Board of Coaches with "these past two years have been the happiest" we've ever known," it's not just another quarter- pound of baloney. If ACC games take on the appearance of a war, it's not just a war--it's a crusade. On "Tobacco Road," ACC basketball is the predominant religion, slightly ahead of Southern Baptist.

In the ACC, the fans live and die with the fortunes of their basketball team and State's fans have been living it up for two years now. The Wolfpack went 27-0 last year, but were ineligible for the NCAA national tournament after being put on probation for violating recruiting regulations in the case of 'David Thompson. This year Thompson made il all Miss. Valley announces grid slate I A A i a Mississippi Valley State College Delta Devils football team will play a 10-game schedule during the 1974 season, athletic director and head coach Davis Weathersby announced today. The Devils, 3-5 in last year's campaign, will play five games on the road and five games on their home The home contest i include A a a a A i i a i College, Prairie View (Texas) AM and Alcorn College.

Road games will be played in Pine Bluff, Jackson; Houston, Texas; Dallas, and conclude with the a i i a Classic i 1 Montgomery, Ala. "We would like to add another a a i Weathersby, "but as of right now we've got ten games and that is what we will concentrate on." The 1974 football schedule follows: Sept. 7--Open Sept. 14-- Alabama AM at Itta Bena, 7:30 p.m. Sept.

21--univer ArKansas-Plne Bluff at Sept. 28-- Jackson Stale College at Jackson, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 5--Southern Lo.) University at Itta Bena, Oct. 12-Opcn Oct.

19--Grumbling College at Itta Sena, 1:30 p.m. Oct. 26--Texas Southern University at Houston, Texas, 2 p.m. Nov. 2--Prairie View (Texas) AM at Itta Bena, (homecoming).

Nov. 9--Alcorn AIM College al Itla Bena, 1:30 p.m. Nov. 16--Open Nov. 23-- Bishop College (Texas) at Nov.

State at Montgomery, Saints ink Laporta NEW ORLEANS (UPD-The New Orleans Saints signed o'fensive tackle Bill Laporta of Penn State to a player contract Monday, bringing to nine the number of 1974 draft choices who have come to terms. Laporta, who had knee problems in spring of 1973, was a starter for State's Orange Bow) champions thU put season and was a standout.in the senior bowl game at Mobile, Ala. The Saints drafted Laporta, 6-4 and U6 pounds, in the ninth round of the January player selection. Final top 20 I I i I a i a a a i a a a a i number of i place and i a theses: Team Points 1. N.C.

St. (171 2 6 1 313 2. UCLA (13) 2 3 3 1 304 3. Notre Dame 13) 2 5 2 260 4. Maryland (23 5) 184 5.

Marquette (23-4) 134 6. Providence 1 2 4 3 114 7. Vanderbllt 2 3 3 104 8. North Carolina 2 2 5 99 9. Indiana (20-4) 82 10.

Kansas (21-5) 11. Long Beach St. 2 3 2 1 3 6 Michigan 2 0 4 32 13. Southern Col 2 2 4 21 14. Pittsburgh 2 4 3 22 15.

Louisville 2 0 21 16" South Carolina 2 2 5 1 17 17. Creighton 2 6 10 19. New i 9 19. i Alabama 2 2 4 19. i Dayton (20-7) 6 worthwhile as he led the Wolfpack to a 26-1 record and a second straight undefeated season in ACC competition, a remarkable achievement.

"Even though we did it, if anyone had asked me if it could be done, I would have said no," Sloan said of surviving two years of ACC basketball without a loss. UCLA was the only team to handle the Wolfpack this season, but three PacifiCfB losses cost the Bruins the national trophy they had won the three previous years. N.C. State received 17 first place votes to UCLA's 13 and totaled 313 points to the Bruins' 304. A rematch between Ihe No.

1 and No. 2 teams is anticipated in the semifinals of the NCAA a i a tournament in Greensboro, N.C. Notre Dame, which finished the season with loss'es to only UCLA and Dayton, was third in the ratings, with Maryland fourth. Independents Marquette and Providence claimed the fifth and sixth positions, respectively, followed by Vanderbilt. Another ACC power, North Carolina, was eighth and Indiana was Big Eight champion Kansas claimed the final spot in the top 10.

Ixmg Beach State headed the second 10, while Michigan climbed trom 18th to 12th in the final ratings. Southern California tumbled to 13th after getting mauled by UCLA, Pittsburgh was 14th and Louisville 15th. South Carolina was 16th, followed by Creighton, New Mexico and, in a lie for 19th, Alabama and Dayton. Hazelwood-(left), Fyke look over program Staff Reed wins top honor in 'Spirit of G'ville's Milton on All-NAIA A A a i a a Short of Jackson State heads Ithe 1973-74 A I A All-District (basketball team, announced here this week by Dr. Leon Davis, district chairman.

Short, who was named on 90 per-cent of the coaches ballots, averaged 24.2 points this season while picking off 9.7 rebounds per game. His 24.2 scoring average ranked as best in District 27. Jackson State was the only squad to put more than one player on the honors team. Junior Glendale Jones, a guard, joined Short on the All-District unit. Other players chosen include Greenville's Alfred Milton, a junior forward who paced Alcorn AM to the District 27 championship; junior point man Coleman Crawford.of Florence State, the Gulf South Conference! player -of the year; junior center Ronnie Money of Jacksonville unior center Danny Williams of Mississippi College, junior forward Gerald Douglass of Montevallo, junior forward Raley Downing of William Carey, sophomore center-forward Calvin Robinson of Mississippi Valley State, and freshman forward Ralph Moore of Delta State.

Downing had the second best scoring average on the district team at 21.6 followed by Robinson's 20.0 average. Top rebounder' was Crawford with 15.7 with Milton second at 14.1 and Downing third at 12.3. Coach of the year honors went to Oba Belcher of Athens College. Belcher led Athens to the Southern States Conference championships and a spot in the district playoffs. Indiana's Laskowski (31), Green (34) team up against Michigan's Russell Michigan wins Big 10 title A A I 1 1 1 (UPD--Michigan's husky front line combined for 55 points Monday night to spark the Wolverines to a 75-67 victory over Indiana and send them into the regionals of the NCAA championship tournament.

The Wolverines racked up their 21st win of the season against four losses in the second playoff in Big Ten history, held to determine which of the league co-champions would get into the tournament. It was held on the neutral I i i both Wolverines and Hoosiers had won earlier over the Illini. The contest drew a near sellout crowd of 15,109. Michigan never trailed in the Foster knew Utes' NIT foe A Miss. A i a a i a honored 20 high school athletes in Mississippi for achievements in sports and citizenship.

Jim Reed, a 17-year-old four-sport letterman at Humphreys Academy in Belzoni, received the top award in the annual "Spirit of America" ceremony. "Spirit of America" ceremony. Other awards were presented to Craig Kennedy, Simpson Academy, a benton Academy; Gerald -Porter, Watkins, Laurel; Mike Tuerner, Philadelphia; Jed Wall, Amite School. Center, i Steve i Winston Academy, Louisville; Keith Wright, Warren Center Vicksburg; Wayne Anglada, St. Martin Biloxi.

A a Chamberlain-Hunt Academy', Port Gibson; Barr Brown, Cathedral, Natchez; Stewart Cliburn, Forest Hill, Jackson; Donald Calhoun, Derrick Dahl, Strider Academy, Charleston; Joey Dpbbs, Marshall Academy, Holly Springs; Craig a i a a A a March 12,1974 Delta Democrat-Times Greenville, Miss McComb; Jody Patterson, Sumrall; Bruce Smith, Enterprise; Bill Ward, i a a Sharkey-Issaquena Academy, Rolling Fork. i Washington County representatives at the "Spirit of America" ceremonies were Greenville Christian School's Frank Fyke and Washington School's a Both semifinalists in the event honoring Mississippi's top high school athletes, citizens and leaders. a 1 7 a 6 1 180-pounder, has participated in four sports--football, basketball, baseball and track--at GCS. In his school work, he has a 90-plus average thus far. He is the son of Mrs.

Frank Fyke 1140 Long view Drive, and the late Mr. Fyke. Hazelwood is a 17-year-old, 6-0, 1 9 5 a a three-sport--football, baseball and track--performer at Washington. His scholastic average thus far is 84. He is (he son of Mr.

and Mrs. G.E. Hazelwood 1475 Marilyn St. Both Fyke and Hazelwood have signed football scholarships at Mississippi Delta Junior College. All-NAIA District 27 Alfred Milton, Forward, 21, 6-6, 215, Alcorn AM.

Ralph Moore, Forward, 18, 6-3, 220, Delta State. Coleman Crawford, Post, 20, 6-7, 215, Florence State. Eugene Short, Forward Soph, 20, Jackson State. Glendale Jones, Guard 21, 6-2, 175, Jackson States. Ronnie Money, Center 21, 6-11, 242, Jacksonville State.

Danny Williams, Center 21, 6-9, 225, Miss. College. Geraid Douglass, Forward 21, Montevallo. Raley Downing, Forward 21, 6-5, 205, William Carey. Calvin Robinson, Center-Forward, Soph, Miss.

Valley State. COACH OF THE YEAR: Oba Belcher, Athens Brodie goes to NBC NEW YORK (UPD-John Brodie i a a i quarterback instead of a Sunday one next season. Brodie, who retired at the end of last season after 17 years with the San Francisco 49ers, Monday signed with the National Broadcasting Company. He'll join Al Derogatis as color commentator for the network's nationally televised National Football League games. NEW YORK (UPD--Utah's Bill Foster was the first coach to know his first-round opponent in the National Invitation Tournament, which begins Saturday in Madison Square Garden.

Utah was among a group of seven basketball teams named to the 16-team field March 4, including Rutgers, and although the pairings were not announced until Monday, Foster was certain of his Redskins' first opponent. Foster abandoned the head coaching job at Rutgers three years ago, so when Utah was paired with the Scarlet i for a 1 a first-round game, he was anything but surprised. "I felt right away that's who we were going to play," Foster quipped, "I know the way the NIT operates. They like to pair these far-away teams against one of the local powers right away." Actually Rutgers and Utah appear fairly evenly matched, at least on basis of records. The Scarlet Knights are 18-7 and the Redskins 19-7.

The 37th NIT gets under way at 2 p.m. Saturday when Manhattan (18-8) meets Maryland-Eastern Shore (26-1) in the first half of an afternoon doubleheader. North Carolina (22-5) plays Purdue (17-9) in the second game. There's another doubleheader Saturday evening with Massachusetts (21-4) playing Jacksonville (18-8) and Fairfield (17-8) against Hawaii (17-8). I a i doubleheader, Boston College (18-8) goes against Cincinnati (19-7) and Memphis State (16-10) plays Seton Hall (16-10).

St. John's (20-6) tackles Connecticut (18-7) in the other Sunday afternoon contest. ENJOY! contest and Indiana, trailing by eight points twice in the first half, managed to.tie' the score only three times and trailed by two at the half at 38-36. The Wolverines dropped 10 of the first. 13 points in the second half and worked to an H-point lead at 56-45 before the Hoosiers could get their game together.

Then Indiana rallied and finally closed within one point at 62-61 before Michigan stiffened, played to control the ball and racked up seven of their last 13 points on free throws. Four of the Hoosiers, Scott May, Quinn Buckncr, Bob Wilkerson and Kent Benson, fouled out in the final six minutes trying to 'get the ball from Michigan's'control game. Only one Wolverine fouled out, the i i i i a i champion, Campy Russell, who left with 4:48 remaining in the game. Russell also took a rest of more than two minutes when he had four fouls and that was the span which Indiana closed the Wolverine margin. The win set Michigan into the NCAA regional against Notre Dame at Alabama Thursday night for the first a a a i a i a Championship tourney since 1966.

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