The Messenger from Madisonville, Kentucky • 11

Sports The Messenger Madisonville, Tuesday November 25, 1980 11 UPs te: Western's Jimmy Feix Ohio upends West Feix is OVC coach of year; Western Kentucky dominates all-OVC team with nine wide pick was Austin Peay Austin Peay, one from Akron, one from Morehead State and one from Tennessee Tech. In balloting for the second team, Eastern Kentucky placed six players; Tennessee Tech had four; Western Kentucky, Murray State and Morehead State had three apiece; Akron and Austin Peay placed two each; and Middle Tennessee had one. Meacham. Eastern Kentucky placed second in the balloting with five all-conference players. They were: Greve; offensive tackle Darryl Lawson; center Joe Schipske, defensive lineman James Shelton; and defensive back George Floyd.

Four Murray State players were selected, as were three from NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -Nine football players from Ohio Valley Conference champion Western Kentucky and five from Eastern Kentucky head up the 1980 all-conference first team. Hilltopper guard Pete Walters was one of two unanimous choices by OVC coaches, who selected the team which was announced Monday. The other unanimous team includes 14 seniors and 10 juniors. Western Kentucky selections to the team were: runningback Troy Snardon, the OVC's leading scorer; Gwinn; offensive tackle Phil Rich; Walters; punter Ray Farmer; wide receiver Jerry Flippin; defensive lineman Donnie Evans; defensive backs Barry Bumm and LaMont receiver Steve Puthof Four players were repeat selections from the 1979 ali-OVC squad.

They were tight end Ricky Gwinn of Western Kentucky, defensive end Glenn Jones of Murray State, safety Terry Love oi Murray State and guard Kevin Greve of Eastern Kentucky. The 24-man all-conference first Nate Jones makes second team Feix gets 5 of 8 votes NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) These are the players selected to the all-Ohio Valley Conference college football team Monday in balloting by league coaches: First Team Offense NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) These are the players selected to the all-Ohio Valley Conference college football second team Monday in balloting by league coaches Second Team Offense NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -Jimmy Feix, head coach of Ohio Valley Conference champion Western Kentucky, has been chosen the league's football coach of the year.

Feix was selected for the honor in balloting by his fellow OVC coaches, conference officials said Monday. Feix, an All-American football player at Western in the early 1950s, guided the Hilltoppers to a 9-1 regular season record and the league crown this year. For most of the season, Western was ranked in top ten of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I-AA, at one point tied for first. He collected five of eight possible first-place votes to win the award. Coach Watson Brown of Austin Peay received two votes and Tom Lichtenberg of Morehead State received one vote.

In his 13th year of directing Western Kentucky's football program, Feix also received coach-of-the-year honors in 1973 ad 1978. Murray State coach Mike Gottfried received the honor last year. Pos Player School RB Troy Snardon Western Ky. RB Dorron Hunter Morehead St. QB Sonny Defilippis Austin Peay TE Ricky Gwinn Western Ky.

OT Phil Rich Western Ky. OT Darryl Lawson Eastern Ky. OG Pete Walters Western Ky. OG Kevin Greve Eastern Ky. Joe Schipske Eastern Ky.

WR Steve Puthoff Austin Peay WR Jerry Flippin Western Ky. Wayne Andersonn Tenn Tech Pos Player School RB Dennis Brumfield Akron RB Nate Jones Western Ky. RB Dale Patton Eastern Ky. QB Chris Isaac Eastern Ky. TE Tim Devine Morehead St.

OT Charles Tucker Austin Peay OT Ronnie Dyer Tenn Tech OG Davey Locke Morehead St. Greg Gallas Western Ky. WR David Booze Eastern Ky. WR Jack Kelly Tenn Tech David Floras Eastern Ky. West Hopkins' Rebelettes lost their first game of the year last night, on the road to Ohio County.

Dawson Springs and Providence also lost, leaving South Hopkins the only team to post a win among The Messenger's reader-area teams last night. Here is a rundown of each of the four girls games involving The Messenger's cpt erage area Ohio Cour-V 55, West Hopkins 47 HARTFOrtD Ohio County used some nifty free throw shooting in the fourth quarter to break away from a dead even duel with West Hopkins here last night to post a 55-47 win. Ohio County finally started to move away from West when the Rebelettes' Tammy Minor began to have to take a seat with fouls in the third quarter. Minor did not foul out, but both Tressa Johnson and Jannie Coakley did in the fourth quarter. Minor wound up with three fouls, and center Laura Dever had four.

Ohio County coach Janet Magan said that her team had not swished many foul shots early in the which hampered her team's but hit seven of 11 in the final period. West hit two of four. She said that until West got into foul trouble, the game was a two-to-four-point game all the way. She called it a "very physical game, too." The loss knocked West from the ranks of the unbeaten, as the Rebelettes now have a 4-1 mark. Ohio County is 1-0 as they began their season.

Sherri Raley led all scorers with 19 points, while Dever led West with 15. While Ohio had the better of the foul shooting late, they outshot West by 21 to 18 from the field, building up six of their eight point margin from the floor. South Hopkins 58, Central City 37 NORTONVILLE When asked if her Lady Tomcats were just too strong for Central City, coach Shirley Nance replied, "Yearr, I think so. They have basically five girls, but that (Jackie) Reynolds girl is really good. She said the game was one which her team took an early lead, then just seemed to "stay with us 10-15 points up throughout the rest of the game." South was bouncing back from its first loss of the year, and got its fifth win.

Central City dropped its first game of the season, and also stands at 5-1. Nance said her team didn't seem to show any ill effects from that loss, last Friday night in the finals of the South Hopkins Thanksgiving Tournament to Todd County Central. She noted, "They (her team) just didn't let the loss get them down, First Team Defense De Flip pis, Floyd players of the year Second Team Defense DL DL DL DE DE LB LB DB DB DB DB Donnie Evans Rick Lanpher James Shelton Brett Williams Glenn Jones Donald White Brad Reese George Floyd Barry Bumm Terry Love Lamont Meacham Ray Farmer Western Ky. Murray St. Eastern Ky.

Austin Peay Murray St. Murray St. Akron Eastern Ky. Western Ky. Murray St.

Westerjj Ky. Western Ky. Tim Ford Western Ky. Jeff Gardner Murray St. Don Edwards Tenn Tech Lamar Williams Murray St.

Mark Daniel Austin Peay Danny Gooch Morehead St. Alex Dominguez Eastern Ky. Greg Evans Murray St. James Griffin Middle Tenn v. db Rodney Byrd Tony Chatman Andy Graham Eastern Ky.

Tenn Tech Akron quarterback led the OVC In total offense this season, compiling 2,199 yards the fifth-best single season performance in the OVC's 32-year history. Floyd, a junior from Brooksvllle, narrowly edged Austin Peay's Brett Williams 15 points to 14 points for the defensive player honor. Floyd led the conference with 129 yards on five interceptions this season, along with making 63 tackles, 27 assists, one fumble recovery and seven tackles for loss totallying 39 yards. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -Austin Peay quarterback Sonny Defilippis and George Floyd, a defensive back at Eastern Kentucky, have been named Ohio Valley Conference offensive and defensive football players of the year.

The two were chosen Monday In balloting by conference coaches. Defilippis, a senior from Savannah, led the Governors to a 7-4 overall record the team's second-straight 7-4 season and fourth consecutive winning year. The 6-foot-l, 185pound Madisonville's Nate Jones UK board gives Curci only partial backing Kentucky's Fran Curcl TV in for upper-level seats. They now are $5 and $4, respectively. The board said it watch the actions of other Southeastern Conference schools before deciding whether to raise football ticket prices.

The board said It borrowed one of Indiana University's NCAA because we seemed anxious to play again." HopkinsvUle 63, Daws.m Springs 57 DAWSON SPRINGS "We had our chances to tie it in the fourth quarter, but we missed two technical foul shots. We had a chance to win it, but it didn't happen." That's what Dawson Springs girls coach Linda Highfill said about last night's loss to HopkinsvUle. It dropped the Panthers' record to 1-3, while HopkinsvUle opened their season. Dawson trailed by two going into the final period, and a technical foul to start the quarter failed to produce any Dawson points. On top of that, Dawson missed ploht other fnnl shots in the fourth basketball championship trophies so duplicates could be made of Kentucky's 1948, 1949, 1951 and in a number of ways," he said.

"It's been a disappointment to our coaches and players as well. I believe there's a general awareness that that disappointment is tempered by a number of things. "There's no question this was a very young, inexperienced team there were a number of injuries that had some effect on the course of the team," he said. Curci reportedly was on an out-of-town recruiting trip and could not be reached for comment. In other business, the board voted to raise lower-level ticket prices for basketball games in Rupp Arena next season to $6.

They currently are $5. Upperlevel tickets will remain at $4. The board also boosted UK Invitational Tournament tickets to $7 for lower-level seats and $5 mythical figure of how many games you win or how many games you lose or any particular game, including the game last Saturday." It was meant to express "the hope and expectation that Coach Curci, in the years left on his existing contract, will indeed enjoy the success that he wants and we want for him," Singletary said. Three board members former Gov. Albert B.

"Happy" Chandler, Dr. Ralph Angelucci and S.T. Roach said they favored a five-year renewal, but voted for the four-year term. Curci was under fire from some Wildcat boosters this season and Singletary acknowledged the criticism. "I think people agree it has been a disappointing season LEXINGTON, Ky.

(AP) The remaining four years of Kentucky football coach Fran Curci's contract have been renewed, but the school's athletics board declined to grant another one-year extension. Curci received a five-year contract after a 10-1 season In 1977. The contract was renewed with a one-year extension in each of the last two years despite records of 4-6-1 and 5-6. Kentucky finished 3-8 this year, including last week's 4514 loss at Tennessee. A board resolution said the latest renewal was approved "with the expectation there will be improvements in certain areas of the football program." But Dr.

Otis A. Singletary, UK president, said the resolution was not an ultimatum based on "any 1958 championship trophies. They were among 13 sterling silver trophies taken from a case in Memorial Coliseum. The 1 'A TOSS. duplicates will be of an un specified alloy.

quarter alone, which would have been enough to win it, had they a- T0K; Also stolen were three Sugar Bowl basketball tournament trophies, which the Sugar Bowl committee has agreed to replace I at no cost. Highfill was not only unhappy with the foul shooting, but the mistakes her team made. She explained that her squad made 18 turnovers in the game, and most of them seemed to come in the fourth auarter. Union County 60, Providence 51 MORGANFIELD "We had a chance to win it. We had the ball with 32 seconds to go, worked it down to 10 seconds, and (Vanessa) Crook had a good shot.

She missed, The box scores Nolan knows end is near South Hopkins -18-15-12-13-58 Central City -10-9-13-5-37 South Hopkins: Beth Dixon 7-2-16, Angle Quails 5-2-12, Vickie Stewart 4-3-11, Tammy Joseph 3-0-6, Linda Harris 4-0-8, Marcel Whitfield 0-1-1, Cindy Costanzo 1-0-2, Kandi Williams 0-O-0, Tammy Eli 0-0-0, Tammle Boze 044, Lois Gower 0-0-0. Team 25-8-58. Central City: Jackie Reynolds 5-2-12, Kathy Terry 4-0-8, LaDonna Jones 1-1-3, Marty McRoy 2-24, Debbie Roberts 3-2-8. Team Dawson Springs 15-16-19-7-57 HopkinsvUle -11-21-20-11-43 Dawson Springs: Teresa Orange 4-6-14, Usa Woolsey 0-2-2, Rhonda Boucher 4-4-12, Rlglna Stallins 00, Tawana Riley 54-16, Tracy Zaparanick 1-0-2, Kathy Cotton 04-0, Teresa Hamby 04-0, Tonya KitUnger 0-04, Lori Johnston 044, Diana Bowles 4-1-11, Lisa Wilson 044. Team 18-2157 HopkinsvUle: McGlothen 444, Burchett 14-2, Brown 044, West 0-3-3, Lyle 4-1-9, Merritt 34-6, Durse 7-5-19, Knauer 0-2-2, Tatum 54-10, Brown 24-4.

Team 26-1143. By AUSTIN WILSON AP Sports Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) Dick Nolan knows the ax is a little sharper after his New Orleans Saints bowed 27-7 to the Los Angeles Rams, but somebody else will have to swing it. "I will not resign," Nolan said after the Monday night game that left the Saints 0-12 in the National Football League this season. "John Mecom (team owner) and I spoke briefly after the game, but I will not comment on the conversation." The Rams, 8-4, administered an old fashioned country whippin' to the Saints Monday night, outgalnlng New Orleans 393 yards to 96, sacking the quarterback eight times and allowing the Saints past mldfleld only twice. The victory kept the Rams one game back of Atlanta in the NFC West.

"The whole Idea in football is to dominate the line of scrimmage," said Rams defensive end Fred Dryer. "If you can do that, you're going to win the football game." Nolan agreed with Dryer's assessment. "They were beating us on the line of scrimmage. We couldn't knock them off the line," he said. The first quarter was scoreless only because the Rams stopped themselves.

A holding call stalled one drive at the New Orleans 36 and Frank Corral missed a 53yard field goal attempt. The next drive stalled at the New Orleans 17 and Corral was sent back out of the game and told to sit out a play when he was found to have illegal tape on his kicking shoe. Deprived of the use of their field goal kicker, the Rams had to go for it on fourth-and-four and fell short. "He had tape covering the laces on his kicking shoe," said Los Angeles Coach Ray Malavasl. "Last week he had the same tape on, and nothing was called.

That shows an inconsistency." The lapses were eliminated in the second quarter and wide receiver Preston Dennard caught two touchdown passes for the Rams. One was a 31-yard halfback pass from reserve Mike Guman, the other a 16-yard toss from quarterback Vince Ferragamo. Elvis Peacock scored a fourth-quarter touchdown on a 1-yard dive, and Corral booted two field goals a 23-yarder in the third quarter and a 19-yarder in the fourth quarter. but got her own rebound. But, the time ran out before she could put it back up." Wayne Morris, the Providence coach, was looking for his second win of the year.

Instead, when the shot didn't fall, the game went into overtime, which was a disaster for his team. Sigrid Norman, making her first start of the year after joining the team list Tuesday, and Cindy Simms, the leading scorer for the night, both fouled out in the overtime, and that spelled defeat for Providence, now 1-6. Union was opening its season. Morris said, "They just beat us to death on the boards in overtime. They got second and third shots all the time.

Providence 7-20-4-17-3-51 Union County -15-15-12-6-12-60 Providence: Paula Artman 6-2-14, Vanessa Crook 0-7-7, Slgrid Norman 1-1-3, Janet Ray 1- 0- 2, Cindy Slmms 6-6-1B, Holly Brown 1-5-7. Team 15-21-51. Union County; Lovern 5-3-13, Qulnn 1-0-2, Faith 3-2-8, Everhardt 3-4-10, Cowan 3-3-9, Hurrls 1-2-4, Lamer 1-0-2, Ward 1-1-3, Lyons 0- 1- 1, Duncan 4-0-8. Team 22-16-60. West Hopkins 9-14-12-12-47 Ohio County -10-13-11-2045 West Hopkins: Laura Dever 4-7-15, Therese Donaldson 4-1-9, Tammy Minor 4-1-9, Robyn Bearden 2-24, Tressa Johnson 24-4, Ja'nnie Coakley24-4.

Team 18-11-47. Ohio County: Sherrl Raley 8-3-19, Debi Bennett 5-4-14, Christy Hlgdon 3-1-10, Llsla Tlnsley 44-8, Kim Adams 1-2-4, Pam Felty 044, Donna Ramsey 044. Team 21-13-55.