Simpson's Leader-Times from Kittanning, Pennsylvania • Page 7

Old Basketball Nemesis Kept Kittanning from Goal Although Ford City has been beating Kittanning basketball teams at an 86 per cent rate for 50 years, the latest blow might have hurt most. If not for a 58-38 whipping at the hands of Ford City last month, Kittanning would be tied with Hampton and Knoch for first place in Section One. It was the third and last time Kittanning went down in section play this season, but the loss was probably fatal to the Wildcats' section title hopes. Hampton and Knoch have lost only two games, one to each other and one to Kittanning. "I can't complain about losing to Ford City," Kittanning coach Dave Sysyn said.

"The thing is, Knoch and Hampton haven't lost more. If you'd told me before the season three losses would keep you in third place, I wouldn't have agreed." i a i could tie for second, since Knoch is expected to lose Tuesday at Deer Lakes. But Hampton should wrap up at least a tie for first in an apparently easy game at home that night against last-place Richland. After losing to Ford City, Kittanning realized a first place finish was out of its hands, since someone else would have to beat Hampton and Knoch. Although no one did, no one -not even Hampton and Knoch -has beaten Kittanning in six second half games.

Basketball to Dribble Out For All Except East Brady The ball should stop bouncing officially Tuesday night in and around Armstrong County. Only for East Brady followers is the basketball season expected to continue, with at least one trip to Clarion. Besides the Kittanning Ford City game, East Brady will visit Moniteau, home of the Clarion County League championship; Shannock Valley will visit Dayton, its neighborhood rival; Elderton will be at Worthington and Freeport at Apollo-Ridge to determine who will finish last in their sections, and Redbank Valley will wind up at home agaiast Keystone. East Brady, whose win over Clarion Limestone assured Moniteau of first place, can pick up momentum for the district playoffs by beating the CCL's Cinderella champs. Moniteau came from a seventh place finish last year to first this season.

If not for Moniteau, Brady would be the league's rags-to-riches outfit, climbing from eighth place to fourth despite having graduated four of last year's starters. Moniteau beat Brady, 65-63, last month as Warrior center Bill McGaryey scored 29 points. His Bulldog counterpart, Jim Kelly, got in four trouble and scored only four, matching a season low. Tim Simpson fired in 26 points for Brady, but he wasn't enough to match Moniteau's 55 per cent shooting. Dayton stumbled from the gate at Shannock, which raced out to an 18-3 lead and won breezing, 68-33.

Shannock shot 58 per cent and Dayton committed 35 turnovers. "We have to play better defense and do better against the press," Dayton coach Dick Crawford said, almost needlessly. Shannock's Joe Notto scored a varsity career- high 16 points and bottled up Mike Blose, who is responsible for setting up the Dayton offense. The Lions were forced into bad shots and made only 29 per cent. "You gotta control their guards and handle them on the boards," Spartan coach Tony Bernard! said.

"They're pretty rugged on the boards. "You gotta keep Blose from going crazy on you. He's the kind of kid that can penetrate." Worthington won, 56-53, at Elderton, but the Bisons have lost six straignt since and Bernard! called the Bobcats "the most improved team in the section the second half." Perhaps half the best players in the section are centers, and Worthington and Elderton have good ones. Worthington's leading scorer, 6-1 Rex Barnhart, scored 23 and Elderton's high gun, 6-2 Gary Detwiler, had 18 in their first meeting. "I think controlling the boards and controlling the tempo of thegame will be the key," Elderton coach John Galcik said.

"On that sort of floor, Worthington's used to coming down and popping from anywhere." Freeport, which failed to win a game at home this season, lost there, 67-62, to Apollo-Ridge as the visitors racked up their highest score of the season. Jack Willoughby scored 26 points for the Yellow Jackets, but Dan Rowley, who was in double figures only one other time all season, scored a surprising 17 for the Vikings. Redbank, three overtime losses away from an 11-lOrecord, beat Keystone at Knox, 61-54. Larry Smith scored 19 for Redbank and Mark Bowser hit a season high of 21 for Keystone, but the Bulldogs held the Panthers' perpetual motion machine, Tom Kerle, to 11 points fewer than his 17-point season average. "At the break the guys could have gone individually, on their own," Sysyn said of his players, "but adversity toughened them up mentally.

"A lot of people quit on them, but they didn't quit on themselves." i a i re-defined its goal, concentrating on winning as many games as possible. The Wildcats (16-5) will finish with their second best section record since 1940 and another win will give them a better mark than the I960 section champions' 16-6. A second place finish would be the Wildcats' third highest since 1934, but the Sabers can keep them out of second, just as they apparently kept them out of first. Kittanning can't afford to play as poorly Tuesday night at Ford City as it did last month at Kittanning, where the Sabers outshot the Wildcats, 53 per cent to 22 per cent, from the field, and outrcbounded them, 48-38. "They penetrated real well," Sysyn said, referring to Ford City guard Tom Minarcin and wing Dave Orion.

"We're going to have to stop them from penetrating." Stopping Sysyn figures, will keep Kip Volek from going wild like he did at Kittanning, where he scored a varsity career-high 22 points and raked in 16 rebounds. Volek was often ignored as Kitlanning shifted its attention to Dave Lerner, a threat to score more than the one field goal he made that night. Lerner is averaging 15 points a game, Volek. 12 and Minarcin, 10. "I've been expecting a terrific game out of Minarcin and he has to be due," Ford City coach Mark Fruehan said.

"He's a 20-point guard, but he's been giving up his points to get the ball to the other guys." Another guy Fruehan mentioned was 6-3 Mike Karabin, who provides depth inside, much like Jim Hanulik does for Kittanning. "This Karabin boy has been olavine real well." the folksy Ford City coach said. "He really gets up." i a i inside men, including Brian Foster and Steve a i did not play well against Ford City last Foster had 12 points and nine rebounds, They shot with strange meekness and the ball bounced all over the rim but seldom through it. Since then Kittanning has regained its i shooting 45 per cent from the field in its last six games. That's more than twice as well as it shot against Ford City.

"I don't think we were nearly as good a team then as we are now," Sysyn said. "It's too bad 7--Leader-Times Kittanning, Pa. Monday, 23, 1976 there's not a i half (of section play)." "Any team with the momentum going with them will do better," Fruehan said. "Their guards are shooting real well." i a i best outside shooter, Dave Walker, has totaled 30 points in the last two games, slippery Bill Henry scored a season high of 15 points Tuesday and sophomore wing Jim Kunst had 12 Friday. Kunst's only higher varsity output was 13 against Ford City.

His performance was the only high point that night for Kittanning, which suffered its lowest point of the season, while Ford City enjoyed its highest. Ford City's win evened a 13- year-old score. The 1963 Sabers, who finished one game behind first-place Butler, lost at home to the Wildcats, 26-25. DUNCAN MOTOR SALES NEW MANAGEMENT AND NEW HOURS AT Duncan Motor Sales Fri. 9 A.M.-9 P.M.

Tuesday Thursday 9 A.M.-7 P.M. Saturday 9 A.M.-6 P.M. SPECIAL! FEBRUARY A Golden Opportunity OAKLAND, Calif. I -Who can beat the Golden State Warriors in the NBA playoffs? Even on off nights, they beat the best of the Eastern Division of the NBA. Golden State in general, and Rick Barry in particular, was unimpressive Saturday and Sunday yet the Warriors beat Boston 100-94 and Philadelphia 94-93 in a pair of weekend triumphs.

The Warriors' four toughest NBA rivals would seem to be Boston, Philadelphia, Washington and Buffalo. Yet those teams must all play each other in the NBA playoffs so that the Warriors will have to face only one in the final NBA playoffs. The key to the Warriors' success is fast becoming soft- spoken, poker-faced Phil Smith, who hit 27-of-47 shots in the two weekend wins while Barry, who says tired legs are hurting his shooting, was only 10-for-37. But Barry also had 17 assists in the two games to help lead his team to victory even when he was ice cold from the floor. Said Barry after Sunday's win over the 76ers "thankfully, we can win without my scoring.

We're fortunate we have a lot of guys who can pick up the slack. Right now, Phil Smith is an all-leaguer. He is playing as well as any guard in the NBA." (Milton Ricfiflfon) Players Set for Spring Training But Owners Might Not Play Ball NEW YORK (UPI) Spring training is supposed to get underway a week from today but from the way things look now. it won't. Marvin Miller, head of the Players Association, has a bit of a problem.

He has negotiated magnificently getting the ballplayers practically everything they ever wanted, but he overlooked one small detail. It's still the owners' ball. If they don't wish to put it in play, the result is obvious. Spring training doesn't open, and this is the prospect Marvin Miller faces now. Miller's trip this past week did not end on a particularly high note.

For one thing, he didn't draw too much of a turnout during his stopover in Cincinnati Friday. One hundred fifteen players were on hand Wednes- day in Los Angeles to get an up-date from him on how negotiations were going with the owners and 24 were present to hear him the following day in Chicago, but only seven showed up in Cincinnati. Of that number, Merv Rettenmund was the lone representative from the world champion Reds and he was committed because he's Cincy's player rep. This was supposed to have been a regional gel-together in which players from the entire area were invited, and the fact so few of them did show up was not lost upon Miller. "How many Reds can we expect?" he asked Rettenmund before the meeting got underway.

"There's nobody else on our team in town right now," Rettenmund said. Later that day, Bob Howsam, the Reds' President, took a swipe at Miller, accusing him of "playing with words," which he is if you consider two different statements he has made. On one hand, he said he wants to table negotiations with the owners on the reserve clause until the end of the season because by then the players would have a better idea of how to modify it, and on the other hand Miller said the players haven't made any proposals to modify the reserve clause because they don't want to change it at all. Miller wasn't fooling Howsam one bit. "After all, the reserve clause has been completely changed in the last few weeks, and Miller says the association doesn't want to modify it," the Reds' boss scoffed.

The owners and players still are without a Basic Agreement. They're no closer to one than they were this past Dec. 31, which is when the last written agreement between them ran out, and without such an accord the owners have no intention of opening spring training. Bruce Dal Canton, the veter- Around Sports World SALISBURY, Md. (UPI) -Hie Nastase began his Sunday having breakfast with his close friend Jimmy Connors and ended the day playing him in an i i i match in Providence.

R.I. In between, however, the fUiTTianian star took the National Indoor Tennis crown from his American doubles partner 6-2, 6-3. 7-6. DETROIT (UPIl Five years ago Rosie Casals was a nervous 22-year-old shooting for the lop prize in the first Clarion Wrestler Wins Four Titles BLOOMSBURG.Pa. (UPI) -Don Rohn, Oarion's 142-pound wrestler, became the eight wrestler in the history of the Pennsylvania Athletic Conference Wrestling competition to win four titles this weekend as Clarion claimed the title for the fourth time in five years.

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Evert took a 6-4. 6-2 victory and picked up $15,000 for her impeccable efforts in the $75.000 tournament. Casals won $8.500. Casals, seeded third, has not beaten Evert since 1973, her only victory over her topseeded opponent in the times they have met. GJOEVIK, Norway (UPI) Three-time Olympic medalist Sheila Young of the United Slates was third in the Women's World Speedskating Championships Sunday.

Sylvia Burke of Canada was the upset winner and Tatiana Averina of the Soviet Union was second in total points. an reliever with the Atlanta Braves, was one of those who attended Miller's briefing in Cincinnati. He was speaking for most big leaguers when he said becoming a free agent primarily would benefit the big-name players and not do much for a player, like him. or for the majority of others. He also said he knew of no player who wants spring trainingdelayed.

The owners insist upon a new Agreement before they open shop. The only way there can be a new Agreement will be for the players to compromise. Any compromise by the players would have to be in the form of a modification of the reserve clause. To achieve that would require a written waiver by every player in-the majors and Marvin Miller doesn't have a prayer of getting that. What's more, he knows it.

Miller can not negotiate any settlement which abrogates the right of a single ballplayer as set forth by arbitrator Peter Seitz and approved by District Court Judge John W. Oliver. Those two men gave all big leaguers, players with limited experience like Bill Madlock, John Montefusco and Gary Carter, the same free agent rights as Andy Messsersmith, and now unless the Court of Appeal overturns the decision, nobody, not Marvin Miller, not Bowie Kuhn, not anybody else, can negotiate away those rights. So while the players have the freedom, the owners have the ball. If the players become that eager to get back on the field, that determined to draw their pay checks for doing what they love to do best, inevitably they will have lo come back to the owners and likely negotiate with them on their own.

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