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10 The Transcript, Tuesday, November 24, 1981 "Sports Voelker 10th in regional cross country competition WILLIAMSTOWN Barb Voelker, an eighth grader at Mt. Greylock High School, placed 10th at the New England Athletic Congress Women's Cross Country Championships at Smith College. Voelker, 14, completed the five kilometer course In 20:48, enabling her to finish second in the 19-and-under age group to Nancy Knowles of Chlcopee, who defeated her three weeks ago at the Western Mass. cross cmtry championship. Voelker will compete Saturday with the Greater Springfield Harriers in tne national women's cross country championship In Burbank, California.

The top eight from that race, which Includes such nationally renowed runners as Jan Merrill and Joan Benolt, will qualify for the international championships in Warsaw, Poland. Melissa Cleveland of the Ocean State Track Club In Rhode Island won the race In 18:40. The Greater Springfield Harriers finished runnerup to the Liberty Athletic Club of Boston in the team standings. OTA avfl ycjyiy Kuhn, others gui Ity k3 were Anthony and Rocco Perla, brothers from Braddock Hills, Paul Mazzel of Pittsburgh and James Burke of New York. The defendants were found guilty of a three-count indictment charging them with racketeering conspiracy, conspiracy to commit sports bribery and violation of the Travel Act, that is, using Interstate facilities to perpetrate a crime.

The government centered its case on six BC games in the 1978-79 season targeted to be fixed Providence, Harvard, UCLA, Fordham, St. John's and Holy Cross. Testimony showed that Kuhn and several unindicted players were paid $2,500 per game to shave points and "dump" games so BC would not beat the point spread. Kuhn also was given cocaine and Quaaludes. The "fix" did not always succeed.

Three times bettors won, twice they lost and once they tied. The jury apparently believed testimony 6y the government's key hoopsters NEW YORK (AP) A federal jury has found former Boston College basketball player Rick Kuhn and four others guilty of conspiring to shave points and fix basketball games In the 1978-79 season. The jury of eight women and four men reached its verdict Monday afternoon in the fifth week of the trial after three days of deliberation. Defense attorneys said they would appeal. Prosecutor Edward McDonald, himself a BC alumnus who briefly Clayed basketball his first year, said ie verdicts were "satisfactory to the government." U.S.

District Judge Henry Bramwell, saying, "I agree with your verdict," set Jan. 8 for sentencing, at which time the defendants could receive a maximum 30 years in prison and $45,000 in fines. It was the third time in 30 years that such a scandal had struck college basketball. Convicted with Kuhn, 26, of Swissvale, who now tends bar, Mohawk NORTH ADAMS The North Adams State College basketball teams picked up a split in Westfield Monday, as the men downed West-field 74-64 while the women suffered a 63-57 defeat. NASC 74, Westfield 64 The Mohawks assumed a 33-32 halftime lead and gradually eased away to victory.

North Adams led by six points with 50 seconds to go and sealed the victory with four late free throws. Dan Ross CINCINNATI (AP) Dan Ross, the leading receiver on the Cincinnati Bengals, is not widely known back in his native New England where he played his college career at Northeastern in Boston. Ross, who caught seven passes for 123 yards in Sunday's 38-21 victory over the Denver Broncos, now has caught 52 for 701 yards and is zeroing in on the club record of 58 catches in one season. He has also scored five touchdowns. Ross joked that only two Bengals witness.

Henry HuT, 38, a bettor who later told authorities what he knew in exchange for Immunity from prosecution on drug charges. Hill detailed the scheme and each defendant's role from July 1978, when his friend Mazzel proposed the idea, saying a Pittsburgh bookie, Anthony Perla, and his younger brother, Rocco, had been "prepplng" Kuhn, a high school buddy of Rocco's, all summer. The "Pittsburgh connection" sought Hill's help because it needed protection from any retaliation by angry bookies and because it wanted to establish a network to farm out the bets to better profit, something it felt Burke could do in New York. Hill said he, Burke and others bet as much as $30,000 on some games. Burke and Mazzei are currently serving time in federal prisons, Burke for parole violation stemming from an extortion conviction and Mazzei on a narcotics trafficking conviction.

split two in the second half as the Mohawks met disaster offensively. North Adams didn't score a point until 9:30 remained on the clock as Westfield scored 16 straight points to assume a 49-26 lead. Laurie Bess paced Westfield with 17 points and Leslie Watts chipped in with 12. Regina Belford's 14 points, Including eight for eight from the free throw line, led the Mohawks. Jerri Lewis added nine points and Diane Mattimore contributed eight.

League. "I lust went along with him," smiled the third year, 6-foot-4, 235-pound resident of Everett, Mass. Quarterback Ken Anderson has concentrated on throwing to the tight ends and backs in recent games after the Bengals' opponents started using two defensive backs to cover the wide receivers. "The wide receivers were so open Kenny would rather take a 10-yard gain than a 10-12 yard gain," Ross said, explaining why Anderson did not throw passes to him earlier in the season. "They started throwing me the ball when they started doubling up the wide receivers," Ross said.

Now the Opponents are doubling up Ross, sometimes with a linebacker and the strong safety; sometimes with both safeties. I Jeff Reed was again high scorer for the Mohawks with 24 points. Bob Smith added 17 points and John Walsh 10. Jeff Beauregard led Westfield with 12 points. North Adams is now 2-0 on the s6flson Westfield 63, NASC57 The Mohawk women dropped 23 points off the pace in the second half and couldn't quite catch up as their record dropped to 1-1.

Westfield streaked to a 33-26 halftime edge and pulled away early enjoying season AWARD WINNERS Members of the Millard. At the bottom, Drury Drury football team were honored at the quarterback Packy Morey receives the 20th annual Drury Football Mom's Club Mom's Club award from club president Banquet. At the top, Jim Allen, a tri- Nancy Allen. The team was honored at a captain for Drury, receives the John banquet at the Bounti-Fare Restaurant, DelNegro award in honor of his athletic (Transcript-MacGillivray) -accomplishments from coach Fran Oilers tough critics of own efforts ri Inn! urn 1 1 ii i .,4, that got the Falcons even at 21 midway in the third period. Kramer had scoring passes of 6 42 yards to Ahmad Rashad, 3 yards to5 Bob Bruer and the 16-yarder tM Senser while Ted Brown had 108 yards in 16 rushing attempts for the; Vikings, the first running back to goe over 100 yards this season against thes Falcons.

Rashad was Kramer's favorite'; target, catching 9 passes for 1513 yards. The Falcons, who accumulated yards, got 91 yards out of Andrews in2 22 attempts and 67 from Lynn Cain hr 11 tries while Jenkins had 5 catches for 65 yards to break the club record for single-season receiving yardage; with 1,047. He held the previous mark Sox job the first time' I ever thought another situation. I just don like the Jl 41 J.I I A.t 1 1 direction uiai me ciud is going in. Announcing a game is not unlike' laying the game, the proper attitude as gofto be there," he said.

Harrelson said his decision had; nothing to do with the management of' Boston Channel 38, where he worked as Red Sox color man. With the White Sox, Harrelson said he sees a bright, progressive future, ft "I like the Dennle nut there I Falcons win shootout with Minnesota iTH f'1 i Ti I I and all by William Andrews, helping Minnesota to a 21-7 halftime edge. The loss left the Vikings with a 7-5 record, one game ahead of Detroit and Tampa Bay in the NFC Central Division race. "There was no pep talk at halftime. We didn't do anything different," said Steve Bartkowski, who threw three touchdown passes and set up Mick Luckhurst's 32-yard field goal with his passing.

"We were our own worst enemy in the first half with the turnovers, and we were fortunate to still be in the game," said Bartkowski, who hit on 21 of 32 passes for 213 yards and ran his TD total to 27 for the season, including tosses of 8 yards to Alfred Jackson, 3 yards to Junior Miller and finally a 29-yarder to Wallace Francis to White season. "But the contract was the major thing; it was the first consideration. Harrelson joined the Red Sox broadcasting team after an unsuccessful, four-year try at pro golf. He played with the Red Sox from 1967 to April 1969, when he was traded to Cleveland, where he played two s6dsons. "Leaving Boston never entered my mind until the Fisk, Lynn and Burleson thing last year.

That was Candida te are Jim Brewer, Tommy Davis, Bill Freehan, Tommy Harper, Alex Johnson, Deron Johnson, Cleon Jones, Tony Oliva, Rico Petrocelli, Tony Taylor, Cesar Tovar and Billy Williams. 1 The holdover candidates are Luis Aparicio, Richie Ashburn, Gates Brown, Jim Bunning, Lew Burdette, Leo Cardenas, Orlando Cepeda, Don Drysdale, EIRoy Face, Nellie Fox, Gil Hodges, Elston Howard, Harmon Killebrew, Harvey Kuenn, Don Larsen. Juan Marichal. Roger Maris, Bill Mazeroskl, Lindy McNally, Thurman Munson, Jim Northrup, Claude Osteen, Jim Perry, Vada Plnson, Red Schoen-dlenst, Sonny Siebert, Hoyt Wilhelm and Maury Wills. EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) -There was a time when the Edmonton Oilers simply would have taken the two points and run.

And that wasn't to long ago. After 23 games last season, they were skating on thin ice with just six victories, 12 losses and five ties. But this year the Oilers lead the National Hockey League's overall standings with a 14-6-3 record for 31 points. And with that new-found success, they have become a little more critical of their performances, even after a victory. Such was the case after the Oilers dumped Detroit Red Wings 8-4 in the only NHL game played Monday night.

r'We gave the puck away too many times tonight' said Edmonton assistant coach Ted Green. "It was a very loose-played game on our and Detroit's part' Green, responsible for the defen-semen, suggested the Oilers' early-season success may be going to their heads. "I think it boils down to the fact there wasn't much intensity. The players had trouble getting up for a game against Detroit. It was as simple as that." Glenn Anderson led the Oilers with games were televised back to Boston this ivear.

"The San Diego game went back to Boston, but they shut it off after the first half because we were beating them so bad," said Ross Monday. "The L.A. (Los Angeles Rams) game went in, but most of the town is on cable and the cable blew out that day," he laughed. Ross said a Boston radio broadcaster Interviewed him recently but had no idea whether he was a regular nor how many years Ross has been playing in the National Football three goals and an assist, while linemate Matti Hagman also had a four-point night with a goal and three flSSistS Dave Lumley, Wayne Gretzky, Stan Weir and Paul Coffey also scored for the Oilers, who led 3-2 after one period and 5-3 after two. Gret-zky's goal was his 24th in 23 games.

He also added an assist to give nim 50 points on the season and a 10-point lead on Dave Taylor of Los Angeles Kings in the NHLrs scoring race. Defenseman Greg Smith, with his first two goals of the season, led Detroit. John Ogrodnick and Mike Foligno added singles for the Red Wings, who battled back to tie the game 3-3 early in the second period. The Oilers finally took control midway through the second when goals by Gretzky and Weir put them in front 5-3 heading into the final 20 minutes. Detroit's downfall was it's inability to control Edmonton's offensive attack, which leads the league with 120 goals.

Detroit, at times, suffered from suspect goaltending by veteran Gilles Gilbert, who faced42 shots and was caught out of position several times. Edmonton goalie Ron Low turned aside 30 of 34 shots. score three goals. Truskowski, one of the shiftiest forwards in the league, starred for Hoosac Valley's county cham-pionship team. The Division II recipient of the sportsmanship award, Truskowski scored 14 goals and eight assists her senior year to set a career girls' scoring record at Hoosac.

Jim Airoldi of Lee and Tim Armstrong of Taconic received the boys' sportmanship trophies. DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) -Veteran stock car driver Dalrell Waltrip has claimed his first NASCAR Winston Cup Grand National driving championship, edging Bobby Allison by 53 points. Waltrip, who finished sixth in Sunday's Winston Western 500, amassed 4,880 points, while Allison, who won the race at Riverside In-tornNMflnnl Rkwv. romDlled 4,827.

ATLANTA (AP) "The game just ended and they were ahead, was the way Minnesota Coach Bud Grant described the Atlanta Falcons' 31-30 victory over the Vikings in a turnover-plagued National Football League game. The Falcons apparently had Monday night's nationally televised game wrapped up after linebacker Buddy Curry intercepted a Tommy Kramer pass and returned it 35 yards for a touchdown and a 31-21 lead with just 4: 06 remaining. But the Falcons gave up an intentional safety after failing to move the ball inside tlfeir own 6-yard line with 1:54 left. Just 44 seconds later it was 31-30 when Kramer hit Joe Senser with a 16-yard TD strike. The Falcons' Reggie Smith, Unhappy 1 BOSTON (AP) Ken "Hawk" Harrelson, whose Boston Red Sox career included the playing field and the broadcast booth, says he was lured to the Chicago White Sox announcing team through a combination of money and worry over Boston's future.

The White Sox scheduled a news conference for today to announce formally that Harrelson and Don Drysdale will be the team's principal however, recovered Ifie Vikings' onside kick after it bounded out of the grasp of two other Falcons players on Atlanta's 43. Atlanta ran out the clock for the victory, snapping a two-game losing streak and keeping its wild card playoff hopes alive with a 6-6 record. "We almost got a chance to win at the end when the onside kick broke loose up the middle," said Grant. "If we would have recovered, we were only 15 seconds away from a field goal." The Vikings, who pounded out 460 yards, were hindered by five turnovers, including four interceptions of Kramer, who passed for 330 yards and four touchdowns. Meanwhile, the Falcons had three lost fumbles, all in the opening half Hawk flies announcers during the 1982 season.

Harrelson's salary reportely will be $1 million over five years, about three times as much as he earned as television color man for the Red Sox games. "Haywood Sullivan and I didn't get along, and I was concerned about the direction of the ballclub," Harrelson said Monday of his decision to leave the color commentator's job he has held since the 1975 American League former major leaguers who became eligible for consideration because they have been retired five years. Under the agreement between the Hall of Fame and the BBWAA, the list of eligible candidates is submitted each year to a panel of six veteran baseball writers. A candidate jnust be approved by at least one of the six to have his name included on the ballot. Aaron is major league baseball's all-time home run king with 755.

He also had a career batting average of .305 for 23 seasons. Robinson, who won the MVP in both the National and American leagues, hit 586 career homers and had a lifetime .294 batting average for 21 seasons. The 12 other first-time candidates Two Locals named soccer sportsmen Aaron Hall of Fame PITTSFIELD Lisa Gregalis of Drury and Kathy Truskowski of Hoosac Valley have been honored with sportsmanship awards presented by the Berkshire County Soccer Officials Association. Gregalis, an outstanding senior fullback at Drury, received the Division I award. A four-year starter Gregalis was the anchor of a defensive unit that surrendered only 10 goals while posting an 11-3-1 record this fall.

She also moved up front to Sports Briefs WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Mathews Motshwarateu and his teammates captured five of the top eight spots as the University of Texas-El Paso won its fourth straight NCAA cross country championship. Motshwarateu captured the 1981 individual title by recording a time of 28 minutes, 45.6 seconds on the Echo Hills Golf Course in said. "They're in an upward tren and I didn't like the Red Sox' Chicago looks like they want to be ic, pennant contender. They're spending money and that's the big rule you; play by these days." Harrelson has had hit-disagreements with Sullivan, all-owner of the Red Sox, and there was some question whether his contract would be renewed when it expired ii two years.

Channel 38 General Manager Joe! Dimino said that his intentions were to keep Harrelson on, but that pressure could be brought on thfc station when its contract with the Redj Sox expires in 1983. "Hawk's comnftnts did conv! remise me a little! and even thoughts am the only decision maker on th broadcasters, I couldn't jeopardize my contract. Under certain am? ditions Hawk could have been oui then," Dimino said. He was referring! to a speech critical of Sullivan that HAwUwi made laot winter I NEW YORK (AP) Hall of Fame voters will have a rare opportunity to 8ut two historic baseball figures into ie Cooperstown, N.Y., shrine as first-time candidates in 1982. Home run champ Henry Aaron and two-league Most Valuable Player Frank Robinson head a list of 14 former major leaguers whose names have been placed on the Hall of Fame ballot for tne first time.

Including holdover candidates from last year who remain eligible, the ballot will contain 43 names. Ballots will be mailed in early December to 10-year members of the Baseball Writers Association of America, with the election to take place in mid-January. Robinson and the other 12 newcomers were among more than 30.