The Daily News-Journal from Murfreesboro, Tennessee • 7

Jan. 31, 1978, Murfreesboro, News Journal 7 MTSU girls lose, invacte Lebanon tonidlilt Pats Martin 'f. RIVERDALE 59 Malone 35. Tyler 12. Morris 3.

B. Morris 2. Jennings 4. Wade 3 Guards Erickson. Ervin.

Harrison SPRINGFIELD (43) -Polk 4, Jones 20, Mason 10, Crabtree 7. Hassel 9, Terry 2, (todard 14, Sawyers 2. Guards Gainer 1 -T' Farmer RJVgftDAtS 58 Rowland Halftime: 24-24 Maty 16. JMisonl. LVons SPRINGFIELD (75) Campbell 4, Nobles 5.

Hudson 13. Stanton 6. Dardeo 21. Halftone: Springfield 222. face UT Super-quick Memphis State forced Middle Tennessee State's Lady Raiders into 25 turnovers and went on to defeat visiting MT5U nUt.H Memphis on Monday night.

State, using a full-court press much of the time, jumped out to a 48-35 half time lead and increased the margin to 20 points on a couple of occasions as they coasted in the second half The closest MTSU was able to come was 10 points after intermission. Guard Liz Hannah led the Raider scoring with 21 points, followed by Patrice Amos with 20 points, Sherry McKinney with 14 ana Sharon Mcciannahan with 13. Jan Zitney and Karen Carter added seven points each, wiiiie Linda Carter chipped in with four. Sophomore guard Betty Booker led Memphis State with 30 points. She had lots of help from Linda McKinnie with 22 and Ethel Cook with 20 Both teams shot ap- dersonville out of the way Saturday taking both ends of the event at Hendersonville Other area games tonight include Woodbury at Manchester in a 6:30 p.m.

girls clash with the boys game followed immediately after the girls; Nashville Christian is at Middle Tennessee Christian. Friendship is at Webb and Page high is at Eagleville Incidentally, Riverdale finally got in that snowed out twinbill with Springfield Monday The Warriorettes won their half of the event 59-43 as sophomore Rhonda Malone set a single game school scoring record with 35 points Twpntv-fivp nf Malnnp's nninrs came during a second half rally after the highly favored Warriorettes were down five points after being deadlocked 24-24 at the halfway mark Emily Tyler, with 12 points, was the only other Warriorette in the double figures Riverdale girls are now 14-3 having lost only to Iebanon. Smyrna and Gallatin with the season's big event coming off Friday at Riverdale against crosstown rival Oakland Oakland won in their previous meeting at Oakland In the boys game at Springfield Monday the Warriors staged a big second half rally, but were finally beaten by the Yellow Jackets 75-58 TONIGHTS AREA PREP SLATE 7 00 Nashville Christian at MTCS Franklin Rnarl at Springfield 7:30 Woodbury at Manchester 6 30 Friendship at Webb Oakland at Lebanon Page at Eagleville Ashland Citv at Smvma 'girls' Tuesday when his Riverdale girls suffered their third loss of the season at the hands of the obviously improving Devilettes, of Coach Campbell Brandon Against the Devilettes, Riverdale played about as well as they were expected to. But the Warriorettes simply could not stage a successful winning rally against the big Lebanon home court advantage. The Smyrna teams are in a position to pick up two more victories this evening as they host the Cubs of Cheatham County high school out of Ashland City.

The Bulldog teams got a snowed out twinbill with Hen- Annual "Hoop Shoot" Contest The national contest will be held on March 2. 1978. in Kansas City, Missouri, prior to a Kansas City Kings basketball game In last year's state contest, which was "heldat MTSU, Renea Hooten of Nashville, went on to win the 8-9 girls age division national title. Over 26,500 boys and girls participated in the Tennessee Elks Association's "Hoop Shoot" Contest last year. This year, more than 31,000 contestants participated in the local Elks Lodge contests across the state Elks Hoop Shoot here Saturday The Tennessee Elks Association will hold its Sixth Annual "Hoop Shoot" (Free Throw) Contest at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro at 12:00 noon on Saturday, February 4, 1978 prior to the MTSU-Eastern Kentucky University basketball game.

The contestants represent the top free throw shooters from across Tennessee who have been victorious in their school, local Elks Lodge and Elks District contests. The contest, open to all boys and to all girls between the ages of 8 and 12 is divided into three age In the state LEXINGTON KY. Kentucky's Rick Robey (53) finds himself surrounded by Georgia players os SEC leoder Kentucky defeated the Georgia Bulldogs 90-73 Monday for an overall record of 15-1 ond 7-1 in the Conference (UPI Telephofo) Wildcats learn to concentrate Monte Hale named Voice of Sounds For the first time in some time, high school basketball is expected to get back on schedule tonight provided another quick snowstorm doesn't, blow in this afternoon The Riverdale Warriors are not scheduled this evening, but Oakland has one of its toughest assignments of the season, that of invading Lebanon to play in the Devils Den. Home court or not the n-2 Patriots will rule a slight favorite. But for Coach Ben Cates and the Lady Patriots, the assignment is most difficult Riverdale Warriorette Coach Buddy Pate learned how difficult this assignment can be last Tennessee Ekls Association.

The winners will also demonstrate their shooting ability after the presentation of the awards The state winners will advance to the Elks Southeastern Regional "Hoop Shoot" Contest in Atlanta, Georgia, on Saturday, February 25, 1978, at the Georgia Tech Coliseum. The regional contest will bring the state winners from Alabama. Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina and Tennessee together to determine who will represent the region in the Elks National Foundation's Sixth before purchasing W.MTS AM FM in December. The Nashville Sounds is a Cincinnati Red owned double A team and will be playing in the Southern League. Teams that comprise the league include.

Nashville. Memphis. Knoxville, Chattanooga. Charlotte, Columbus, (i a Jacksonville, Orlando, and Montgomery All 144 games will be broadcast by UMTS-FM. The station will serve as the flagship station for the Sounds network.

Sounds President, Larry Schmittou stated, "We are very happy to have someone of Monie caliber to broadcast our games. His ioe for baseball should make the broadcasts as exciting as those Blue Raider basketball games." The Sounds begin play at their new ball park on Thursday night April 13. against Memphis. The manager of the learn will be former major leaguer Chuck Coggins. Assisting Hale on the broadcast will be Jay Colley.

who currently serves as color man on the Blue Raider Basketball Network. Bailey. Jeff Stroop. and Lester Westbrooks all added four (4) tallies to the cause, but it wasn't quite enough. At the McFadden Community Center Third Baptist rolled to an impressive 67-35 rout of 1st Presbyterian with Mark Campbell, and Kevin Dove pacing the win.

campbell tipped in 22 points and Dove was not far behind with 20 and that total was enough to win the game. Bruce Hooper. Ralph Parchment, and David Daniel were the leading scorer's for the Presbyterians. Hooper and Parchment both netting 11 points each and Daniel finding the range for 6 St. Paul's Episcopal kept rolling along as they poured it on 1st Baptist to the tune of 52-36.

Temper's got a little hot as they will times, but cooler heads pre-vailed and to the proximately the same percentage, with Memphis State hitting on 49 per cent of their field goal attempts and 71 per Ccui Oi uicu ace iiuuws, while MTSU hit 45 per cent from the field and 76 per cent from the line. The difference came in the turnovers and rebounds. The Lady Tigers out-rehaunded MTSU by a 51-42 count, and only had 14 turnovers to 25 for the Lady Raiders. This enabled them to get off 15 more shots from the field, hitting eight of them, to account for the final 15-point margin. Although MTSU lost the battle of the backboards.

Patripp Amos led all rebounders with 13 Cook and Linda Street eath had a dozen for Memphis State. The win raised Memphis State's record to 19-4, while MTSU fell to 9-8. The Lady Raiders will play again tonight at UT Martin in a game set for 7 o'clock. contest, each contestant will shoot 25 free throws using a regulation basketball while standing at the regulation foul line. The 8-9 age group will shoot from a position four feet in front of the regulation foul line.

All contestants will shoot at the standard height basketball goal The "Hoop Shoot" contestants will attend the MTSU-EKU basketball game and the winners will be presented with their trophies during the half-time ceremonies by MTSU Director of athletics, Coach C. M. Murphy, and representatives of the will be the Voice of the Sounds when the team begins play April 13. Hale, for 16 years was associated with WfA'S Radio voice assignment. roundup Southeast Baptist with 19 points and Jamie Herring tossed in 13 to help wrap up the all important win.

Southeast will be a top contender in tournament play. Tom Windham tipped in 11 markers for the Marksman and Tim James and Terry Smith netted 10 each as the Methodist can't seem to find that elusive key to victory. In a battle of the two struggling yearlings. Cumberland Presbyterian defeated always hustling North Blv'd Church of Christ 39-29. The game wasn't exactly a defensive gem but both teams battled from beginning to end.

Owen voung was the leading scorer for C. P. with 12 points and time "Mole" Robinson and EddieFarmer chipped in 7 each in the low scoring game Tommy Parrish kept North Blv'd in contention with an even dozen 12 markers, Mike 84-73 at Florida and Mississippi State 85-74 at Auburn. Kentucky now holds a two-game edge in the SEC standings. 7-1 to fi-3 for the Tide and Bulldogs.

To round off upset-night in the SEC. bottom-rung Vander-hilt edged Tennessee 56 55 Jo shove the Vols into the cellar Mississippi and Louisiana State were idle. In independent play. Soufli Carolina lost a 63-61 decision Ki Duquense at Pittsburgh and saw its season record fall to 10 10. Alabama gambled, and lost on a man-to-man defense instead of te zone which most other teams use against speedy-Florida Al Bonner had 29 points and Richard Glasper 21 in leading the Gators to victory before their fifth straight home sellout crowd Reginald King, with 23 points, was the Tide's high scorer.

Guard Stan i i i scored a career-high 32 points and Mike Mitchell scored 28 and grabbed 12 rebounds in Auburn's win over Mississippi State, whose Rickv Brown had The Nashville Sounds professional baseball team artirdurkeit r'oday that Mbrite jx Hale, Voice of the MTSU Blue uaiuci iicinvin iui ll years. MONTE HALE Church league i I pl INVEST Help; Build America EARN UP TO 5 PER YEAR ON 3-MONTH SAVINGS CERTIFICATES COMPOUNDED DAILY TO YIELD ANNUALLY A Substantial Interest Penalty Is Required For Early Withdrawal of Certificates Shelbyville, T. Francis advance in frosh event Wettig said he was hit by three oranges, "You get disappointed in college athletics and the fans take something away from the players and coaches who work so hard." he said. "It makes it repulsive." Sophomore guard Jeff Baldwin hit a 17-foot jump shu. while falling to the floor with three seconds left to lift Duquense past South Carolina.

Mike Doyle and Rich Wejnert led the Gamecocks with 13 points each. in brief WASHINGTON UPD The Washington Bullets announced Monday guard Charles Johnson, brought in on a 10-day trial basis, has been signed to a multi-year contract, because of his fine performance and the uncertainty of guard Phil Chenier's condition. Bullets physician Dr. Stan Lavine said Monday there is a 50 per cent chance Chenier will have to undergo surgery for a back problem. Draine 12, Harris 8, Sutton 6, Kennedy 4, Johnson 4, Moss 2, McDonale.

LaVernge (44) Butler 20, Peebles 10, Brown 5, Smartt 4, Shadowens 3, Tomlinson 2. Halftime: Shelbyville 30-17. Girls Thurman Francis (40) Hall 22. Steven 12, Maynard 5, Hayes 1. guards Brooks, Patton, Brady.

Oakland (38) Willis 15, Arbit 12, Sanford 7, Jenkins 4, guards Wilgus, Hughes, Duke. Halftime: 16-13 Francis WEDNESDAY'S SCHEDULE 6:00 Riverdale vs. T. Francis boys. 7: 15 Riverdale vs.

winner of Shelbyville LaVergne girls 8:30 Oakland vs. winner Shelbyville LaVergne boys. THURSDAY 7:00 Girls championships. 8:30 Boys championships. COUNTS STORE HeadquaHwh" IGuH) 20 points "We were very patient in the secor.d half and took the best shots in the world." said Auburn Coach Bob Davis "We had to make them play defense and we did We did what we wanted to do all year long we hustled." Tommy Springer hit two free throws with five seconds left to push Vandprbilt past Tennessee at Nashville The game had to be stopped in the final minutes when fans threw oranges on the floor Tennessee Coach Cliff Sports WEST LAFAYETTE.

Ind 'UPI1 Purdue University Monday named Bob Spoo. a former Purdue quarterback and assistant coach at Wisconsin, to its football staff Spoo replaced John Mack-ovic. recently named head coach at Wake Forest, and will be in charge of quarterbacks and recruiting in the Chicago area, said Coach Jim Young Willis with points Lisa Arbit had 12. Thurman Francis led most of the way getting some outstanding guard play from Deana Curran in relief There will be no action tonight to avoid conflicts with senior high games, but play resumes Wednesday as the host teams swing into action and the Oakland boys plav Shelbyville DISTRICT FRESHMAN TOURNAMENT "iris Shelbyville (44) Hulan 4. Sundberry 14, McChristian 12 Cooper 12.

Turnbow 2, guards, Jackson, Renegar, McGrew. LaVergne (20) Webb 8, Hanvy 6, Lewis 4, Murphy 2, guards Murphy, Bowman Willis. Halftime: Shelbyville 21-7. Boys Shelbyville (66) Smith 28, LARRY TIRE "Your Tre By O'NEIL HENDRICK United Press International The Kentucky Wildcats feel they may have found the ingredient that was missing last week in their only loss of the season: concentration. They concentrated very hard on Georgia Monday night and just about blew the Bulldogs off the court in the first 10 minutes of play "We came out and did everything right during that first 10 minutes," said Coach Joe Hall of his top-ranked team's 90 73 victory, their 15th of the year Forward Jack Givens.

who paced Kentucky with 19 points, agreed. "We certainly were concentrating on playing very hard at the beginning," he said Guard Kyle Macy. who hari 18 points, said a lack of concentration probably led to the Wildcats' defeat at Alabama last week. "We knew we had to come out and play strong," he said. Georgia Coach John Guthrie said his team didn't help its cause any with a 34 percent shooting average But.

he said, that may have been academic "After all. we were playing the number one team in the nation and I'm sure they wanted to play well after last week." he added. The Wildcats got an added bonus in the Southeastern Conference standings. Their two closest challengers. Alabama and Mississippi State, both lost Monday night Alabama Baptist credit of the officials all ended on a peaceful note.

Daryle South was in his usual form and paced the Saints in the scoring column with 21 points. Danny Wallace also had a hot hand and tipped in 13 to help salt away the savory win. Rusty Burn's hit for an even dozen (12) markers but his temper got the best of him. John Farmer tossed in 10 in a losing effort. In the Senior Division skirmish Powell's Chapel got by a stubborn East Main Street Church of Christ team 59-47 Dowell Rowland was the top scorer for the Chapel team with 17 tallies and Gerry Short rimmed the hoop for 15.

Tommy Gaddy kept "East Main in the ball game as he tossed in 15 points and David Ogg added 14, a tally that fell far short of victory. By Ray Duffy Boulevard crushes First Play opened Monday night at Riverdale in the district TSSAA freshman tournament with both Shelbyville teams and the Thurman Francis girls scoring victories. In the opening game, Shelbyville girls outclassed LaVergnc 44-20 as Dianne Sundberry scored 14 points before fouling out early in the decond half Valenica McChristian and Vicki Cooper got a dozen each for the winners No one for LaVergne was in the double figures In the boys game, Shelbyville cleared it bench, playing nine players in drubbing the LaVergne Lakers 66-44, going way out in front at. the halfway mark 44-17. Ricky Smith had a super game for Shelbyville scoring 28 points while Jerry Draine got a dozen.

Moe Butler turned in an excellent effort for LaVergne scoring 20 points and Chris Peebles added 12 more In what was described as a mild upset, the Thurman Francis girls knocked off Oakland 40-38 as Phillis Hall drilled in 22 points and Tracey Stevens added another dozen for the winners. Hall had an outstanding game hitting six of seven free throws in the fourth quarter. Best effort for the losing Lady Patriots came from Lavere The last game of the night at the Cox Memorial Gym produced the most fire works as the on coming North Blv'd Church of Christ demolished the 1st Baptist team 97-56 in the top offensive show of the year. Four North Blv'd men were in double figures and the scoring explosion was awesome. Tim Battle almost won the game single handed, blasting away with 31 points but he was helped out by Doug Meadows with 24, Trent Messick netted 22.

and Bruce Thweatt tipped in 12 Joe Patty paced the Baptist with 16 points while teammates Darden Shadrach, Cliff Shirley, and Mike Sams all hit for 10 in a vain attempt to ward off the North Blv'd avalanche In the Junior Division games. Southeast Baptist eased by the St. Mark's United Methodist 50-43 in a well played game that could have gone way. Al Jones was the big gun for iVlupfreecbopd Federal The Tire Store Thai's Here When You Need If I 702 N.W. Broed Murfreesboro 893-5850 1.