The Paducah Sun from Paducah, Kentucky • 17

1 The Paducah Sun Sunday, December 13, 1987 2 Outdoors, Bl 1 Almanac, B12 one Steve Millizer Sun Sports Writer I .1.11,1,., Im. II III.IIIIIIIUl.t.L.. imnNMl-ULL L.H.. way goes long Balance for Jenkins VVi Is. -i I v.

M-4 s. ft Wildcats 76, Cardinals 75 LOUISVILLE Crook 10-16 44 24 Payne 4-9 0-0 10, Ellison 7-17 6-7 20. Smith 4-13 0-0 9. Williams 4-8 O-O fl, Abram 1-2 2-2 4, Spencer 00-00. Totals 30-63 12-1575.

KENTUCKY Jenkins 1-4 0-0 2, Bennett 6-11 2-4 14, Lock 1-7 4-6 6, Chapman 8-15 3-4 21, Davender 7-4 4-4 20, Manuel 2-7 44 8, Miller 1-5 (HP 2, Madison 0-1 00 0, Ellis 1-1 1-2 3. Totals 27-6518-2476. 1 Halftime Kentucky 45, Louisville1 32. 3-polnt goals Louisville 3-9 (Payne 2-5, Smith 1-4), Kentucky 4-13 (Chapman 2-7, Davender 2-3, Miller 0-3). Fouled out Payne, Smith, Bennett.

Rebounds Louisville 36 (Ellison -13), Kentucky 37 (Jenkins 11). Assists Louisville 21 (Smith 6), Kentucky 15 (Jenkins, Davender 3). Total fouls Louisville 18, Kentucky ill 7. Technical Louisville bench. A And Louisville Coach Dehny Crum, whose team, fell 69-54, to Notre Dame in its season opener a week earlier, was elated that team rebounded with the near-victory effort.

"At year end we could have a chance to be a very good basketball team," he said. "To come in here and play the No.l team and have a chance to take the lead with 11 seconds left, I couldn't be prouder of my team." Guard Rex Chapman scored 21 points to lead Kentucky its fourth victory in as many games. Davender Mowed with 20 points and forward Winston Bennett added 14. Forward Herbert Crook scored 24 points to pace Louisville, 0-2, while By MIKE EMBRY APSportiWrtter LEXINGTON, Ky. A little offense went a long way for Kentucky's Cedric Jenkins.

Jenkins' tip-in as time expired his only points of the game lifted No.l Kentucky to a 76-75 victory over Louisville Saturday. "Definitely I'd have to say it was one of my greatest moments," said Jenkins. "I'm not one to concentrate on offense too much. I'm in there to shut my man down and get rebounds." Louisville, which had trailed by as many as 16 points in the first half, took a 75-74 lead on Pervis Ellison's baseline jumper with 40 seconds to go. Kentucky worked 29 seconds off the clock before calling a timeout to set up final strategy.

The ball went to guard Ed Davender, who drove to the right baseline and misfired on a 12-footer. After one unsuccessful tip-in the frantic final seconds, Jenkins slipped in on the right side of the basket to score just before the horn sounded. "Rob (Lock) and I got a hand on it (first tip) and it came back to me," said Jenkins. "I just crashed the boards. It was an open lane and I just tipped it in." It didn't surprise Kentucky Coach Eddie Sutton that his team had a struggle with its in-state rival.

"I knew it would be a tough game," said Sutton, whose team blew a 13-point halftime advantage. "Louisville is a good team. I knew a if we didn't play as well as we can play it would be close." 1 missed a 12-foot jumper with four seconds left. off cost us the he said. Louisville's Herbert Crook said, he was too close to the basket to grab the rebound even though he got a hand on the ball.

"We had a chance to get the rebound. I did touch it, but Cedric has those long arms and he grabbed it over me and tipped it in," Crook said. "We know we had a chance to win," he added, "but they just got K( fv ft iff i ft, i pi 1 Associated Prass Kentucky's Robert Lock. AlH I IIIIIIIIU ll II 111 III I 1W anHT Louisville's Pervis Ellison gets Mental block costly Issel's jersey retired LEXINGTON, Ky. The jersey of former University of Kentucky Ail-American Dan Issel was retired before the start of Saturday's game between Kentucky and Louisville.

Issel, who played from 1968-70, is Kentucky's all-time leading scorer with 2,138 points and 1,078 rebounds. He later played for the Kentucky Colonels of the old American Basketball Association and the Denver Nuggets of the National Basketball Association. He retired two years ago, finishing as the fourth-highest scorer in pro basketball history with more than 30,000 points. It marked the first time since 1954 that Kentucky had retired a player's jersey. of power Rupp Arena summit restores realistic view LEXINGTON, Ky.

Five straight successful faceoffs and the threat of another blowout in Rupp Arena had the 'Cat-callers lined up long before tipoff of Kentucky's geoiolitical struggle for state-wide supremacy. The hawkish Blue sup-porters were grumbling about an unequal balance of power in the Commonwealth's Summit negotia- tions. Just a week before the scheduled meeting of Kentucky's two super power basketball programs, the experts had watched Denny Crum's Louisville team become a victim of its own inefficiency. Mired in a 69- 54 loss to Notre Dame, the Cardi--i: nals' reputation appeared to fade at the Big Four confrontation. Meanwhile, the Kentucky Wild-: cats' prominence was secured in the same conflict.

With an arsenal deadly enough to rule the collegiate world, Kentucky earned a No. 1 ranking after its overtime victory over Indiana. All week long the clamor increased. Kentucky's experience, Kentucky's diverse weaponry, Kentucky's technological superiority ,6 would leave the Cardinals begging to save face. There were hints oi Lexington, from former players and some fans, that the Wildcats were dealing with a third-rate -power and that this game didn't mean as much any more.

"Whoever said something like that was on his seat those last few seconds," (Cardinal forward Her- bert Crook said about the Wildcats 76-75 victory over Louisville Saturday. "They knew they had a chance at losing, and they nearly did. "They can't take us lightly, not with all the talent we've got because if they do, we're going to 'beat them." Kentucky's status bounced around the rim tentatively in the final seconds, tilting between disas-' ter and survival as the final seconds of negotiation ticked off the clock, just before Kentucky's Cedric Jenkins tipped the scales in Kentucky's favor. Jenkins' tipin of an Ed Davender miss on the final play of the game finally ended the Cardinals' sur- 1 prising power-play bid. 7 Incredibly, the Cardinals had I refused to surrender their ground to Kentucky's obvious superiority.

Each time the 'Cats seemed to establish their position, the Cardi- nals found a way to undermine it. With 13:12 left Louisville trailed by eight points, but with 11 seconds left it led 75-74. "To come in here and play the No. 1 team in the country and have a lead with 11 seconds left and a chance to win is something that makes me very proud of this team," Crum said afterward. 'To come back from a 16-point deficit on the road and in this place against the No.

1 team in the country is something. If it was just two or three seconds shorter, we upset the No. 1 team in there own gym." Those circumstances were hardly expected from the usually expres-" sive Kentucky fans, who moaned with disappointment midway through the first half when Ken-' tucky failed to take an expected 1 comfortable lead. The 45-32 half-time edge Kentucky held relieved that earlier tension. Louisville refused to capitulate.

"Coach just told us to keep our beads up and if we went out there and played like we had the first half, we'd get back into the game," said Crook, who led Louisville with 12 points in each half. "We weren't worried about what the reporters bad been saying, that we were :) going to get beat by 30-or-40." Maybe Kentucky did. It came out fiat after halftime, surrendered its advantages and crumbled under token pressure late in the game when it had rebuilt a 70-65 lead with 3:20 left Three straight turn-1 overs flipped that to a 72-70 deficit "We came out rushing things and flat after halftime," Kentucky guard Ed Davender sail "You See POWERB4 Safety, fans' faith reasons for actions! i i in a blink as he swats away a shot by DAN ISSEL Murray State coach Steve Newton Martin also was among the leaders on the boards as MSU outre-bounded the Broncs 42-29. He had nine to share honors with Chris Ogden, while Sias added 8. Johnson led the Broncs, now 4-2, with 20 points.

Melvin Thomas added 16 points and nine rebounds, while Boddie had 12 points, all on three-point goals in the second half. fcr-- See L0NEB4 for Cards lucky there at the end and tipped it in." Louisville guard Keith Williams said he was on the floor when the winning shot went through the hoop. I "I thought Herb was going to get it (the rebound), but (Jenkins) lunged over him and got it," Williams said. "We did all the things necessary to win except get that last rebound." Louisville Coach Denny Crum See BLOCKB5 NFL updates Injury report, page 3. Baseball Jackson's first choice, page 7.

New language in New Orleans, page 7. Pro's best teams meet today, page 7. Monday. i "One was a competitive consideration. We thought it would be a bad competitive situation if one team had half its players available and most of the other team's players were off on the West Coast or someplace," Schramm said.

"Then, there was the players' safety. There would be a danger of injuries if they didn't have enough time to get ready physically. "And those who came walking back in on Thursday or Friday SeeSAFETYB4 than 9 points the second half. "In the second half, our depth showed, and the inside play of Michelle Wenning was the difference," Murray State coach Bud Childers said. Murray State returns to action afternoon when it faces Southern nimois-EdwardsvQle at 2.

MURRAY RATE (M) Wenning 1-12 1-14 B. Johraaa PDOman 1 Gray Smith t-U I Finley Braaec Eddy Hoffman Pierce Littles Hi) Camp MW4. Totals tVB, 17-11, M. ST. LOUB (M) Girmoa Hacker Menberger 44 1-1 1, Qser tHrs 14) HI, Bergman MHI, Oaae 144) GraaersU 44 Keim 44 Seikman 4-7 CanneUoa IS 1 Fraiier I ToUh lM, M-ll, ii By TED M.

NATT JR. Associated Press Writer LEXINGTON, Ky. LouisviUe center Pervis Ellison stared in disbelief at the final statistics from the Cardinals' last-second loss to top-ranked Kentucky. "It was his only two points?" Ellison said of Cedric Jenkins' tip-in with one second remaining that the Wildcats to a 76-75 victory Saturday. Ellison said he and his teammates failed to block Kentucky out for the rebound after Ed Davender knows better days are ahead.

Pan Am 60, Murray State 57 MURRAY STATE Jeff Martin 11-H Chris Ogden 1-7 4, Ctrl Sias 4-7 44 11, Jeff Robbin 1-4 1, Terence Brooks 1-7 Doug Gold HHI, Paul King 7, Robert McOatcnej I Totals -14 H. PAN AMERICAN Greg Garrett 1-1 Mehrii Thomas 7-16 Roy Swift 1-1 1, Kevin Johnson 7-14 J-7 Lee Boddie 44 11, Gabriel Valda 1-4 Ml, Eric Montgomery 1-1 1-1 1, Steve Rainey MHI. Totals Habtfeae MSU PAH Ttate-oeht gads MSU (Martin King 1-1), PAU t-IS (Boddie Johnson 1-J, Valda 1-1). Ribwndi MSU 41 (Martin and Ogden t), PAU (Thomas I). Asians MSU 7 (Martin 1), PAU It (Thomas 1).

Faded out none. Technicals -none. A TBA. By The Associated Press A regard for player safety and a desire to keep faith with the fans were behind the decision to bar returning NFL strikers from playing the weekend after walkout ended, a member of the Management Council's executive board said Saturday. Tex Schramm, president of the Dallas Cowboys, disputed a charge in a complaint by the National Labor Relations Board on Friday that the club owners had illegally discriminated against players who struck by not allowing them to play in the first round of games after they ended their 24-day walkout.

"There was absolutely no discrimination," said Schramm from his home in suburban Dallas. Schramm said three factors were involved in the decision to set a reporting deadline of Wednesday afternoon for players to be eligible for games the following Sunday and Texas losses may provide consolation Special to Tbe San AUSTIN, Texas Murray State head basketball coach Steve Newton can identify with the old story about the man who kept beating his head against a wall because he knew it would feel so good when he stopped. The end has arrived for Newton and his battered Racers. Their 60-57 loss to Pan American Saturday night in the consolation game of The Longhorn Classic not only brought an end to the wall MSU has been beating its head against, namely the suspension of three players, including veteran point guard Don Mann, it also brought home exactly how valuable experience at the point can be. "Though it's been painful, I think we got something out of this stretch," said Newton, whose club slipped to 3-4 with the two losses here.

The Racers sorely missed Mann's influence and clutch play at both ends of the floor. Murray's three guards combined for only 11 points, while Pan American's perimeter foursome hit for 40 points. The Racers led at the half, 28-26, and built the lead to as much as 10 points, 53-43, with 5:29 remaining. From there, Pan American used the outside sniping of Lee Boddie and Kevin Johnson to pull itself up off the floor and claim the win. Forward Jeff Martin, an all-tournament selection, continued to lead the Racers by scoring 26 points, ringing up a total of 53 in the two nights.

He received help from senior center Carl Sias, who added 12 points. Murray women tie record Staff report ST. LOUIS Michelle Wenning and Sheila Smith combined for 48 points as Murray State tied a school record for consecutive victories at 7 in a 84-54 win over St Louis University Saturday afternoon. The Lady Racers, who got 25 points from Wenning and 23 from Smith, are now 7-0. Murray State scored the first seven points of the game and led by as many as 13 in the first half before settling with a 44-31 lead at the break.

St. Louis got no closer l.liV-rfltU.