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Saturday March 20, 1989 A a Santa Maria Times 'Normal' or not, Duke dominates SMS by 17 Blue Devils to meet Owls in regional final Damon The Dog" Perry, 3-7 a m. John Renshaw, 7-11 a.m. Peter Brown, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. "Papa" Joe Chevalier, 3-7 p.m.

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(AP) -Even Duke couldn't have kept playing as well as Duke had been lately. The top-ranked Blue Devils had won their first two NCAA tournament games by an average of 41 points. Those were the last two wins in an 11 -game stretch that saw them win by an average of 3 1 points. So Friday's night's victory over 12th-seed-ed Southwest Missouri State in the East Regional semifinals by a more mortal 78-61 had some saying Duke looked almost normal. "Anything would have been a letdown," Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said of his team's recent play.

"We've been playing great basketball, actually unusually great basketball." Their 30th straight victory may not have been as dominant as the recent streak, but it did get the Blue Devils within a win of the Final Four for the second straight season. Duke (35-1) will play the winner of the Temple-Purdue regional semifinal game on Sunday at Continental Airlines Arena, a building where it is now 14-1 and from which it has moved to the Final Four half of the eight times the Blue Devils have gone there under Krzyzewski. "When you bring really great teams into an arena you're going to win a hell of a lot of games," Krzyzewski said. "I should have good records in a lot of buildings." The latest win came as a result of some good defense by Duke and a solid offensive outing led by Trajan Langdon's 24 points on 9-for-14 shooting. Langdon, who had a career-high eight rebounds, had missed the last two games of See EAST, page B-3 KSBQ fills a need for sports radio in Santa Maria on 1480 AM RyanT.

Elystone 7 Times Sports Editor Ron Cameron doesn't know the Central Coast yet, but he does know one thing about us sports mean something to many of us in the community. We like to talk about it, we want to hear about it. We want to be in the know. When we see sports on television, read about it in the newspaper or hear about it on the radio, we want to talk about it. For those who do, those who have an urge to know what's going on in the sports world, setting your radio to KSBQ 1480 AM is the way to go now.

When the sale of the San Luis Obispo-based KKAL 1280 AM was finalized earlier this month and the new ownership changed the format from all sports to general talk, Cameron acted quickly to bring sports talk back to Santa Maria and the rest of the Central Coast. Residents who had grown accustomed to the One-on-One Sports syndicated talk shows and coverage of Los Angeles Kings hockey and Cal Poly athletic events were suddenly living without it. And it apparently left a vacancy in the lives of '( Ron Cameron, je manager ofKSBQ, said he has major plans in stare for local sports radio listeners. radio listeners. Cameron, the station manager at KSBQ, knew it.

So did Chuck Duncan, the executive vice president who deals with radio affiliates for One-on-One Sports. "We had been affiliated with KKAL as long as we've been around in 1993," Duncan said. "When the station changed the format, there were people in pain at the thought of losing sports talk radio. We received about 50 e-mails, we got phone calls from listeners and from business owners asking what they could do. "We've seen this happen in 10-12 other circumstances, but not to the extent in San Luis Obispo and Santa Maria.

We relayed all of that information to Ron. It felt very reassuring to us that there was that kind of loyalty. It's humbling to know that our radio programming meant so much to the area. We were happy to help Rori get it converted as quickly as possible. It really means a lot." It only took Cameron, 54, a little more than three weeks to get 1480 converted from a Spanish format to sports talk.

Cameron's product officially went on the air on Thursday morning. Cameron, who brings 25 years of television and radio broadcasting experience with him, spent most of his career in Detroit where there was always something to talk about the Red Wings, Lions, Tigers and Pistons were sure-fire targets as well as the national sports scene. He has been honored with an ACE Award for his broadcasting and worked at ABC until he was let go in 1991 because he wanted to do both radio and write a sports column for the Detroit Free-Press newspaper, something on which the network wasn't willing to compromise, according to Cameron. He also published a national sports magazine, The Sports Fan's Journal, which included columns by late football coach George Allen, Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Feller, CNN talk-show host Larry King and a man who is quite busy during the current March Madness, Dick Vitale. Cameron said his influence helped jump start the career of Vitale, a man whose face is a fixture on TV during the college basketball season.

Vitale, then a coach with the NBA's Pistons, co-hosted a radio call-in show with Cameron during the off-season. When he was fired by the team, he came back to Cameron, who helped him get his broadcasting career off the ground. Cameron's charm seems similar to Vitale 's in one respect. He's driven to see sports radio live and thrive on the Central Coast. "From what I've heard, this area is a good sports town," Cameron said earlier this week.

"I know this is going to work." Michigan State'S Mateen CleaVeS takes a shot in the Spartans' win over Oklahoma. Spartans wear out Sooners ST. LOUIS (AP) Michigan State isn't the smoothest team in the NCAA tournament, although the Spartans may be the toughest. Oklahoma found that out Friday night. Michigan State shut down the Sooners' perimeter shooting, flattened their best player and muscled its way to a 54-46 victory in the Midwest Regional semifinals.

Ail-American point guard Mateen Cleaves, whose collision with Oklahoma star Eduardo Najera knocked both players out, was only 3-of-14 from the field and his top-seeded Spartans shot just 40 percent. But 13th-seeded Oklahoma was held to 33 percent and was just 4-of-15 from 3-point range, where the Sooner? had been so effective in the first two rounds. "It was an ugly game," Graves said. "It's been an ugly tournament for MSU, to tell you the truth. But the fcus are coming through, we've come together as a team and we're in the Great Eight." With their 21st straight victory, the Spartans (32-4) advanced to the regional finals for the first time since their national championship season of 1979.

See MIDWEST, page B-3 Angels Baseball games will be one of the new features carried on KSBQ Even if Cameron has to work at it every day. "I'm a seven-day-a-vveek work guy," he said. I was looking to get away from the hustle and of Detroit. This is the perfect area for me. It's not as fast paced, but I wanted to be in a nice area, a beautiful area.

And it's one that's growing." The station's signal a mere 1.000 watts flight not be best for the estimated 350,000 listen-jpes from Solvang to San Luis Obispo who will See Radio, page B-3 Lakers victimized by Iverson's actj iRHS swimmers earn split with DP one of those games. PHILADELPHIA (AP) -Allen Iverson didn't meet a shot he didn't like Friday, attempting a career-high 36, scoring 41 points and putting some distance between himself and Shaquille O'Neal in the scoring race as the 76ers beat the Lakers 105-90. It was a dominant display by Iverson, who embarrassed everyone the Lakers used as a defender especially Kobe Bryant in front of the 76ers' first sellout crowd of the season. Iverson shot 17-for-36 from the field, 4-for-6 from the line and surpassed 40 points for the eighth time in his career. This, oddly enough, was the first time the Sixers won clock ticked inside the final minute.

After failing to shake Bryant with a pick or fancy footwork, Iverson found Eric Snow open for a jumper, giving him his 10th assist and putting the Sixers ahead 102-90. Iverson increased his league-leading average from 28.6 to 292, while O'Neal's dropped from 272 to 27J0. George Lynch added 13 points, Theo Ratliff had 12, Tyrone Hill had 11 points and 10 rebounds and Eric Snow had 10 points, six steals and five assists. The 76ers outrebounded the. See LAKERS page B-3 limes Staff vCOLETA The Righetti High 3jbys swim team improved to a per-lecj.

5-0 on the season with a 97-88 ion-league victory over Dos Pueblos on Friday afternoon, while the JVarrior girls fell to 2-3 with a 124-54 loss to the Chargers. Jeremy Ballew won the boys' 100-meter butterfly with a time of one of a second for the Warriors. He also teamed up with Ryan Vanderlei. Chris Lewis and Nick VanGalio to win the 200-meter medley relay and later teamed with Lewis, VanGalio and Jarod King Part of the reason was that Iverson, strange as it seemed looking at his shot total, was actually unselfish. He added 10 assists, tying his season-high, and five rebounds while finding his shot within the rhythm of the 76ers offense and surviving three hard collisions with O'Neal and one with Travis Knight.

O'Neal scored 23 for Los Angeles before fouling out with 1 :25 left, while Bryant also had 23 when he wasn't being made to look foolish by trying to keep up with the speedy Iverson. About the only time Bryant contained Iverson came as the to win the 200-meter freestyle relay Travis Home won the 200 free (1:48.13) and the 100 free (51.83) for the Chargers, as did David Pro-danovich, who won the 100 breast-stroke (1:06.28) and the 200 individual medley In the girls action, the Chargers swept all 1 1 events. Baseball Bishop Diego 12, Santa Ynez 9 SANTA BARBARA Ian Richardson hit a grand slam in a six-run fourth inning as the Cardinals defeated the Pirates in a non-league game shortened to five innings because of darkness. Bishop Diego (3-2) had only one hit in the inning but took advantage of five walks and three errors. Combined, the teams walked 20 batters and committed five errors while totaling just 10 hits.

Santa Ynez (3-4) answered Richardson's home run with three runs in the fifth to tie the game, keyed by a Rob Salerno solo homer, but the Cardinals scorred three more times in the bottom of the inning. Volleyball Santa Maria 3, Morro Bay 1 MORRO BAY Nathan Beebe had nine kills while Ramiro Aguil- See ROSKDOP, page B-3 1 TONIGHT 1 I LA losinn I Red Sox, Mets feel the pain mm streak is now uve i mm mum immm i COLLEGE PREP SOFTBALL PREP BASEBALL PREP SOFTBAU SOFTBAU Noon 11a.m. 11a.m. KsnCOCk Non-league Non-league Non-league Bulldogs BlgfietU Midland Coast Union at Warriors Oaks Broncos ClovisWest VGA PasoRcbiss Tournament uiuwwhmi iua Bearcsts (doubleheader) "OnS doubleheader pjurrHEBSit KINGS Fo Sports West 7:30 p.m. SRMKlt BR9INS 10:30 Boston's Nomar Garcia-parra, New York's Bobby Bonilla join a growing list of injured baseball players.

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