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NM Aggies Defeat Lobos In NCAA, 6258 By Quick Whitlock Here's How UCLA Wins Far West Crown Dayton Tops W. Virginia In NIT O'--- ''v Bv CHUCK WHITLOCK ALBUQUERQUE. N.M. UCLA and Lew Alcindor rattled Santa Clara in the first five minutes and won the NCAA Far West regional basketball tournament 87-66 Saturday night. Third time was the charm for the New Mexico State Aggies as they collected from the free throw line for a 52-48 victory over University of New Mexico for third place.

Hitting 20 ofr 24 free throws a department seriously missing in their first round loss to UCLA Friday the Aggies started from behind in the final seven minutes of the game. In the closing minutes five successive free throws provided the Aggies dominance. Alcindor scored 22 points, pulled down 18 rebounds and blocked five shots in sending his team into next week's NCAA semifinals against Houston the only team to beat the second-ranked Bruins this season. Houston whipped Texas Christian 103-68 Saturday night for the NCAA Midwest regional crown and a trip to the semifinals at Los Angeles. Lucious Allen and Mike Warren provided the Pacific-8 champion and defending NCAA national champion Bruins plenty of outside firepower.

UCLA, now 27-1, went ahead of Santa Clara for good on a basket by Allen at 14:13 in the first half. The score steadily piled up after that. The Bruins held a 51-34 halftime lead over the West Coast Athletic Conference champion Santa Clara, which completes its season at 22-4. The victory for the Aggies provided a measure of revenge and helped to offset two earlier season losses to the Lobos. It also set a new school record, extending the season mark to 23 wins and six losses most victories by a team in school history.

Four players in double figures shared honors for New Mexico State, led by Jimmy Collins with 17. Paul Landis added 12, John Burgess 11, and Rob Evans 10. Conversely only two players provided real scoring for the Lobos. Senior Ron Sanford collected with 23 points but it was Ron Nelson with 26 who took top honors. The Aggies hit 21 of 49 shots from the floor for 42.9 per cent.

The Lobos were 23-54 for 42.6. The Lobos led 30-29 at halftime. NEW YORK (AP) Unheralded Dan Obnovac and ace Don May worked over and behind West Virginia's zone in a first half blitz that powered favored Dayton past the Mountaineers 87-68 in the Nation-a 1 Invitational Basketball Tournament Saturday night. The victory put Dayton in the quarter-finals Tuesday night against Fordham which eliminated tall, stubborn Duquesne 69-60 on some key shooting by Frank McLaughlin and Ken Parker. Luther Green's three points in the final 19 seconds climaxed a startling Long Island University comeback and lifted the Blackbirds to an 80-77 victory over Bradley after Notre Dame shook off Army and Bill Schutsky in the final minutes and paraded to a 62-58 victory in the opening game of an afternoon double-header.

West Virginia led only once, 14-13. and tied once at 35 before the rugged Flyers ran off 10 straight points at the end of the first half. Mountaineer star Ron Williams was on the bench in foul trouble at the time. Obrovac, a 6-foot-10 center who fnished with 30 points, worked in behind West Virginia's zone for four of those 10 points and had 18 as Dayton led 47-37 at the half. May and Bob Hooper added 12 points each in the torrid first half in which the Flyers hit 56 per cent from the field and West Virginia stubbornly stayed close with 55.3 shooting percentage.

A string of nine straight points five toy Obrovac and four by May early in the second half increased Dayton's lead to 56-39 and ended any hopes of a comeback by the smaller Mountaineers. May, hitting mostly with jump shots from the corner, finished with 24 points. Williams had 19 for West Virginia. Fordham raced to leads as big as 13 points in the first half and Iedthroughut the second session, but needed the final boost from McLaughlin and Parker when the Dukes pulled within one point at 45-44 early in the second half. A basket by McLaughlin made it 47-44 free throw to widen the margin to 57-49 with three minutes left.

With Duquesne pressing, Parker's long pass set up McLaughlin for another basket and then McLaughlin fed Parker for another score with length of the court a 61-54 spread witn one minute remaining. Bill Langheld led the hot shooting Rams, who hit 55 per cent from the field, with 19 points. McLaughlin finished with 13 and Parker seven. Ron Guziak kept Duquesne close with 25 points. Notre Dame and LIU will meet in one of Tuesday night's quarter-final games.

Green hit a jump shot from the key with 19 seconds left for a 79-77 lead and then added a free throw with seven seconds remaing after rBadley's Joe Allen missed the Braves' last chance. The points gave Green, a 6-foot-6 junior, a total of 32 as he teamed with small college Ail-American Larry Newbold to bring underdog LIU from behind late in the game. U.S.-MEXICO BASKETBALL CONFERENCE A conference to announce a two-game basketball series between the Mexican Olympic team and a team of former United States college players, including Endicott Peabody, assistant director of the Office of Emergency Planning, who is working to coordinate programs that will create better U.S.-Mexico relations. The games are set for May 1 in Juarez and May 2 in El Paso. several University of Texas at El Paso stars, was held in the office of Congressman Richard C.

White, D-El Paso, left, Saturday. With White are Saul Kleinfeld, center, chosen to promote the games and Hunt Hurls, Hits Miners Past Texas Tech Raiders je 21 Jaw CSme Page 1-D Sunday, 17, NMSU UNM Nelson 9 8-8 26 Evans 4 2-2 10 Sanford 11 1-4 23 Landis 5 2-4 12 Becker 1 1-2 3 J. Collins 6 5-6 17 Grimes 1 2-5 4 R. Collins 2 2-2 6 Shrop'ire 1 0-1 2 Lacey 1 3-3 5 Griffith 0 0-0 0 Burgess 3 5-6 11 Jones 0 0-0 0 Murphy 0 1-1 1 Lopes 0 0-0 0 Totals 21 20-24 62 Totals 23 12-20 5S NMSU 29 3362 UNM 30 2858 Fouled out, NMSU Lacey; UNM Grimes Total fouls NMSU 16, UNM 21. Attendance 15,000.

By RODGER McKOWN Lynn Hunt doubled to drive in the winning run and went the distance on the round, pacing University of Texas at El Paso to a 4-3 baseball victory over Texas Tech at Dudley Field Saturday. The Miner win evened the two-game series after Tech took a 2-0 win the opener Friday. Hunt got support at the plate from U.T. El Paso left fielder Mike Ward who had three hits in four times at bat. Ward had two doubles and a single, driving in one run in the fifth with his first two-bagger and then scoring a run himself to tie the game at 3-3.

Hunt was steady in his nine-inning stint on the mound, scattering six hits, one a double for the only extra base blow by the Red Raiders. The junior southpaw struck out two and issued three free passes. The win evens Hunt's season record at 2-2. Floyd Lowery was the starting pitcher for Tech but gave way to Buddy Hampton who came on in the fourth to pitch the middle three innings. Hampton gave up three runs on four hits and was charged with the loss.

Patt Abbott hurled the final two innings for Tech, giving up only one hit. The Raiders jumped out in front with two runs in the opening frame on a pair of singles, a base on balls and a fielding error. The Miners got one run back in the second when Bobby Aguirre sent Danny Blanco home from third with a sacrifice fly. Blanco had singled and moved to third when the Tech hurler loaded the bases by hitting a batter and walking the next. The Raiders final run came in the top of the fifth on a single and double before the Miners tied the score with their fifth-inning rally, setting the stage for Hunt's winning blow.

Aguirre singled with two outs in the sixth and Hunt slapped the ball, just fair, past first base and into the right field corner to send home with the winning run. Hunt faced only 10 Tech batters in the final three frames. The win ups the Miner record to 3-7 while the Tech season mark was evened at 3-3 for the Red Raiders. U.T. El Paso faces the busiest week of its schedule, starting Monday.

The Miners play seven games in six days all at home, hosting Colorado State College in a two-game series Monday and Tuesday, Southern Colorado State in a two-game series Wednesday and Thursday and New Mexico Highlands in a three-game series Friday and Saturday. Tech 200 010 0003 6 0 UTEP 010 021 OOx 4 7 2 Lowery, Hampton (4), Abbott (7) and Gregory; Hunt and Hix. Hunt, Hampton. Affgies Gained In Defeat ALBUQUERQUE. N.M.

New Mexico State lost a basketball game and gained in prestige; University of New Mexico and Albuquerque fans proved themselves of major caliber; and the Lobos went back five years in history in the opening round of the far west NCA regional tournament Friday night here. The amazing Aggies of NMSU were just that. For the second year in a row Lou Henson's players forced an over-whelming favorite (the line was 17 points) to play their brand of basketbal and almost made it go. A year ago it was Houston and a 59-58 loss in a preliminary playoff game. Friday night it was UCLA and Alcindor and a 58-49 loss that stretched that wide only in the closing minutes.

The 15,345 fans who jammed UNM's pit proved a highly partisan crowd with fine behavior and appreciation of good basketball. It had to be one of the largest crowds to watch the NCAA play in the nation. And for the Lobos, in their 86-73 loss to Santa Clara, it took Coach Bob King back five years to the battle with Bradlay for the championship of the NIT to find an equal in frustration. The Lobos could not hit, did not play defense and Santa Clara's hot-handed Broncos outmuscled them. But in the final analysis, Friday night was Lew Alcindor show.

Alcinrior's Domination The towering Alcindor, who's 7-foot-l1, frame has dominated the national cage scene for 2 years, does not move with the great speed of some of the smaller players but his control of the backboards and the ease with which he drops basketballs through the hoop tells its own story. Sam Lacey of the Aggies, with a great help from Richard Collins, played a fine game against Alcindor. One of the most tumultous hands of the night came for Lacey's blocking of an Alcindor's shot. Yet the UCLA ace picked up 28 points for scoring honors, and set an arena record with 23 rebounds, eclipsing the 21 set by the Lobo's Mel Daniels against Wyoming. The measure of the Aggies success was in controling the other UCLA stars, and the measure of their defeat lay in missing 14 of 25 free throws, and in hitting only 32 per cent from the floor.

That is not winning basketball, no matter how great the effort. The crowd in the Arena was solidly Aggie against UCLA, and the explosion of applause was tremendous. Yet the crowd was not unruly. There were booed decisions by officials, but nothing was thrown and there was no rowdysm with which Lobo fans have been charged in the past. Wooden Complimentary The Aggies made it tough on UCLA, with what Coach John Wooden was "one of the toughest defenses we have played yet.

They handled Alcindor well, floating men in front and behind him. We needed this game we have been playing well for several games and a tough one like this, in which we did not play too well, probably will help us." Henson, who has come a long way since he left Las Cruces High School, six years ago, had a laughing comment: "UCLA is the only coaching staff in the nation that can beat you and then make you feel like you won." Lou was gratified with the play of his boys, and rightly figured the turning point of the game as that 60-second period in which both Lacey and Collins were lost by fouls. It was a record 13th consecutive NCAA tournament victory for UCLA, which has lost one game in 61 and seems headed for the second national championship in a row for the Alcindor team. Whether they get that second straight remains to be seen. But they are a polished, poised and highly capable team and tough to bet against.

A couple of notes on the passing parade of the Fourth Estate struck us during the past week. One was the passing of Bill Van Fleet, long-time esteemed colleague and personal friend, of the Fort Worth Star Telegram. We first met Bill in the Golden Gloves program 21 years ago and a nicer fellow we have never known. Always friendly, helpful and willing to give a helping hand, both as a writer and as a worker in the Gloves. He wrote sagely of the Southwest Conference for many years, using a gentle hand in some instances and generally acted considerately of the other guy.

He'll be missed from Southwestern circles. Last week also there was an affair in Fort Worth to honor and lampoon Harold V. Ratliff, who retires May 1 as Southwestern sports editor of the Associated Press after 32 years of chronicling the Southwestern scene. It was "Harold V. Ratliff Day," so proclaimed by the Greater Fort Worth Sports Committee of the Chamber of Commerce.

He was presented a plaque which recognized him as "No. 1 spokesman for sports in Texas and the Southwest Conference for more than a quarter of a century." The mischievous, cigar-chewing Rathff, whose laughter, it is said, ounds like a broken fan belt, also was on the receiving end of some tales which could be included in his five books and estimated 15 million words, of which he says "a lot of which weren't printed." Flem Hall, former sports director of the Star-Telegram, told of investigating a 1925 report that a schoolboy had run a 100-yard dash in 8.7 seconds at San Marcos. The investigation, Hall reported, disclosed that Ratliff had run "only 80 yards, on pavement, downhill, and they timed it by the courthouse clock." L. R. "Dutch" Meyer, former coach and athletic director at TCU, said Ratliff once asked him a leadoff question: "Dutch, don't you think Sammy Baugh was better than Jesus Christ?" Meyer continued "I hadn't had a lot of contact with the Lord, so I said Yes.

And so he had another big a HoustonBeats TCUInlSCAA Midwest Villanova Wins NCAA Indoor Track, U.T. El Paso Takes 5th I Cage Games Set For Mexicans, Former Miners A two-game basketball series May 1-2, between the Mexican Olympic team and a team comprised mostly of former University of Texas at El Paso players, was announced Saturday in the El Paso office of Congressman Richard C. White (D-El Paso) The first game is to be played in Juarez at Monumental Bull Ring with the second set for El Paso County Coliseum. The announcement came at a conference called by White and Endicott Pea-body, assistant director of the Office of Emergency Planning in Washington. Purpose of the conference was to explain the part the basketball games and sports, in general, would play in the United States-Mexico border relations program to a group of El Pasoans, prominent in sports, and enlist their help in promoting the program.

At present there is some discussion as to what the team from this area will be called. At the conference, the name Texas Western All Stars was discussed. But at a later luncheon meeting, the possibilities of inviting some players from Juarez and some former New Mexico State University players to join the team and changing the name to Rio Grande All Stars were discussed. Saul Kleinfeld, coach of the Union Furniture team, was selected to promote the basketball games. Most of the former U.T.

El Paso players who will comprise the majority of the team have been playing with the Union Furniture squad. The former Miners on the Union team are Bobby Joe Hill, Harry Flournoy, Charley Banks, Bobby Dibler and Bobby Leslie. Also expected to join the team are Willie Worsley and Willie Cager. And Kleinfield said there was a possibility that Nolan Richardson and Orsten Artis would return to El Paso long enough to play in the games. The group of El Pasoans, including Dr.

Joseph M. Ray, George McCarty, Jim Bowden, Orba Lee Malone, John McFall, Andy Cohen, City Alderman Sal Berroterran and John Phelan, will form a committee to help with preparations for the game. Although he was unable to be present for the conference, Kleinfield said Mike Brumblelow was contacted later and had accepted the chairmanship of the committee with Phelan serving as assistant chairman. Kleinfeld said County Judge Colbert Coldwell was also added to the committee and U.T. El Paso sports information director Eddie Mullens, in Detroit with the Miner track team Saturday, would be asked to join the committee.

Kleinfeld said plans are being made to invite several professional basketball stars to El Paso to conduct a cage clinic for youngsters on both sides of the border in conjunction with the games. Accompanying Peabody, former governor of Massachusetts, to El Paso for the conference was David Carrasco, sports attache to the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City. Peabody and Carrasco met later Saturday with Juarez Mayor Armando Gonzalez Soto to discuss plans for the games. Gadsden Wins Or Ton rn ev Special to EL PASO TIMES OR N.M.

Kennon Wilson of Gadsden led the Gadsden Panthers with a low of 75 and the championship of the Truth or Consequences high school golf tournament here Saturday. Wilson was medalist. A 1 WICHITA, Kan. (AP) All-America Elvin Hayes and his Houston playmates on the nation's No. 1 basketball team whipped outclassed Texas Christian 103-68 Saturday night for another NCAA Midwest regional crown.

It was Houston's 32nd straight victory. The talented Houston Cougars continued their bid to become the fifth team in 30 years of NCAA tournaments to win the title with a perfect season record. The fabulous 6-914 Hayes bombed TCU from long and short range for 39 points. He continued his assault on the alltime NCAA tourney scoring record of 177 points in five games by Bill Bradley of Princeton in 1965, a 35.4 average. Hayes has 123 points in three tourney games for a 41.0 average.

He needs only 55 more in his last two games at Los Angeles next Friday and Saturday to break Bradley's record. Hayes received an ovation when he left the games two minutes before the end. TCU never had a chance. Houston ran up a 15-0 lead at the start as the Houston fans in the crowd of 11,004 chanted "We want a shutout." The first TCU points came with almost four minutes gon on a corner shot by James Cash, first Negro player in Southwest Conference history. It was 27-8 before someone other than Cash had a field goal for Texas Christian.

The score mounted to 59-26 at half-time, although TCU never gave up and used a full-court press. Houston's 1-3-1 zone defense was as devastating as ever, led by 6-7 Theodis Lee, 6-9 Ken Spain and 6-5 Don Chaney. In the opening third place game, All-America Westley Unseld triggered a sizzling fast break and his teammates bombed Kansas State's zone for a 93 to 63 victory. DETROIT (AP) Villanova's talented Wildcats swept two relays and were second in a third baton event to capture its first NCAA indoor track and field crown Saturday as an ailing Jim Ryun completed a meet double with a slow 4:06.8 mile victory. The concluding day of action produced two new meet records while three were tied.

For the entire 17-event program which started Friday night, two all-time indoor marks were set, five meet records fashioned and three meet marks. Equalled. Villanova's winning total was 35 1-3 points, the highest by far in the four-year history of the NCAA indoor held at Detroit since 1965. After Villanova came Southern California with 25, Oklahoma with 17, Kansas with 15 1-3 and Texas-El Paso with 15. i 1 I a led by newly found 880 champion Dave Patrick and indoor world record holding 4-40 star Larry James, dethroned the favored defending champion Southern California by taking four Ohio State Wins Mideast NCAA thrown LEXINGTON, Ky.

(AP) Ohio State, all but out of the tournament picture ten days ago, knocked off fifth-ranked Kentucky 82-81 Saturday night for a trip to the NCAA, finals at Los Angeles next week. Dave Sorenson, who topped the Buckeyes with 24 points, scored the winning basket with three seconds left on a five foot jump shot. Sorenson's shot came after Kentucky's Dan Issel had put the Wildcats in front 81-80 with 26 seconds left. Kentucky opened a six-point lead at the start, but it withered under hot shooting by the Buckeyes and Ohio State held a 44-40 halftime lead. State raised the margin to eight points, 54-46, after three minutes of the second half, but a Kentucky surge tied it at 73 with five minutes to go.

Tar Heels Win Eastern NCAA Title RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) North Carolina's Tar Heels, behind by six points at the half, stormed back to defeat Davidson 70-66 and win the NCAA Eastern Regional basketball championship Saturday night. The fourth-ranked Tar Heels will play Ohio State Friday night at Los Angeles in the national semifinals. North Carolina finished fourth in the 1967 tournament. Eighth-ranked Davidson, Southern Conference champion, outplayed the favored Tar Heels in the first half, but the Wildcats, playing without injured starter Doug Cook, their No.

2 scorer, fell behind in the second half and couldn't overtake the fast Tar Heels. Seventh-ranked Columbia scored a 95-75 victory over third-ranked St. Bonaven-ture in the opening game to win third place. North Carolina, Atlantic Coast Conference champion, raced into an 8-0 lead but suddenly lost its shooting range as Davidson came back and went ahead 9-8. Rodney Knowles and Mike Maly provided the major scoring as Davidson built up a 22-14 lead with 6:30 left in the first half.

The Tar Heels came back briefly as All-American Larry Miller scored his first goal and Charlie Scott hit on a layup. Rusty Clark sank a free throw and Davidson's lead was cut to 22-19. However, Davidson continued to control the ball and pulled away again, this time to a 28-19 lead and later 32-23. Ryun, who Friday night took the two-mile crown, said before Saturday's wind-up his feet bothered him and he hoped to be able just to finish much less crack his NCAA indoor record of 3:58.6. At that, Ryun finished only three yards ahead of fast closing Sam Bair of Kent State, who was clocked in 4:07.2.

Villanova's relay surge in Saturday's closing 10-final session was sparked particularly by sophomore quartermiler James, whose anchor effort gave the Wildcat mile relay team a meet record of 3:14.4. The Wildcats also easily captured the distance medley relay with a sparkling mile anchor leg by Frank Murphy. In Saturday's third baton event, a superb Harvard foursome set an NCAA two-mile relay record of 7:26.8. Villanova took second on Patrick's sizzling anchor 880 of 1:49.1. In the mile relay, which really clinched the team title for Villanova, the splits for the Wildcat foursome were Hal Nichter, 50.7; Hardge Davis, 48.5; Ken Prince, 4S.6, and James Swift 46.6.

Ryun, along with Bob Beamon of Texas-El Paso, who set an indoor long jump record and won the triple jump Friday night, became the meet's first double winners. In the closing session, three of the five returning individual champions were dethroned. In a battle of star football flankers, Tennessee's Richmond Flowers unseated Southern California's Earl McCullouch in a record matching 7.0 time. Another champion dethroned was Ted Downing of Miami of Ohio in the high jump, won by the unorthodox stylist, Dick Fosbury of Oregon State. Fosbury, who goes over the bar in a awkward dive, matched the meet record of 7-0.

Bob Seagren was dethroned by Southern California teammate Paul Wilson in the pole vault. Ryun and Wisconsin's Ray Arlington in the 1.000-yard run were the successful defending champions. Flowers virtually dove across the finish line and landed sprawling on the boards after overtaking McCullouch in the final strides. McCullouch, who had tied his own meet mark of 7.0 twice in the preliminaries, got off to an excellent start but was awarded second in 7.L. Marquette Wins Mid-East Consolation Coach Wayne Vandenburg said he was pleased with the fifth-place finish by U.T.

El Paso despite the fact that the Miners did not do as well in the meet as he had hoped. "I was pleased, considering the fact that we do not have an indoor facility where we can work out and I was very pleased with Beamon's performance, Vandenburg said. All 15 of the Miner points were scored in Friday's first day of competition when Beamon scored a double win, one in the long jump and another in the triple jump. Only hurdlers Kelly Myrick and Levi Portis were left in Saturday's competition for U.T. El Paso and neither finished high enough to add to the Miner print total.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) Marquette, sparked by 3rad Luchini and George Thompson, defeated East Tennessee 69-57 in a MCAA Mid-East regional consolation basketball game. Marquette took the lead 4-2 on a jump shot by Luchini and although East Tennessee tied it seven times in the first half, Marquette pulled away after a 14-14 deadlock. With Luchini hitting 16 of his 18 points in the first period, the Warriors pulled out to lead by as much as 17 points. firsts in the program at Cobo Arena.

A sellout crowd of 9,556 saw Ryun, the world's best 1,500 and 800-meter runner, put on a patented blazing finish to capture the mile despite an ailing left ankle. 1.