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Monday, December 5, 1977 Santa Cruz Sentinel 9 Birdie Futt Wins Its For Pate, Stacy NCAA Soccer Titlists Elusive Chose Ends For Tiny Hartwick The Palmers, Arnold and Sandra, combined for a last round 67 that put them in a tie for third at 275 with Andy Bean and Susan O'Connor, who had a closing 68, and Tom Purtzer and Sandra Post, 69. to have me hit the approach and Hollis do the putting," Pate said. "On the last hole, though, she had an 8-iron to the green and I had a. 6-iron. I told her to go ahead and hit it.

And she hit it perfect." paper, but not ours." She added, "It'd be nice to be known, to hear someone saying, 'Come on, or 'Come on, Curtis'." They had a shot at it when Strange holed a 25-foot birdie putt from the fringe on the 17th. That tied it. But Nancy left a 20-foot birdie putt short on the final hole and the Pate-Stacy combo nailed it down moments later. Under the unique format for this tournament, both members of each man-woman team hit off the tee. Each plays the other's ball on the next shot.

They then select the one they want and play alternate shots on the same ball for the remainder of the hole. "All week, our strategy was round on the North course at the Bardmoor Country Club, finished with a 70 and a 270 total. Both collected $20,000 from the total purse of $200,000. Strange, 22, and Lopez, 20, a pair of rookies who joined their respective tours only in mid-season, salved their disappointment with $12,944 each. Trailing by three shots going into the final day, they, finished with a 68 and a 271 total, It was the fourth runner-up finish this year for Nancy, who started her pro career with three seconds in a row, and marked the second time Strange had finished in the No.

2 spot. Both have yet to win. "It's tough," the pretty Nancy said. "I'm tired of being second. "I really hoped we could pull this off.

We haven't reached the top yet. They don't know who we are. All week long I've seen pictures of other players in the 1 'W If LARGO, Fla. (AP) A bitterly disappointed Curtis Strange and Nancy Lopez could do nothing but watch in mounting concern and dismay as that first pro golf victory, the one they say is the hardest to achieve, slipped from their grasp. After trailing all week, by margins ranging up to eight strokes, they finally tied it on the 71st hole, finished with a par and then could only watch as Jerry Pate and U.S.

Women's Open champ Hollis Stacy carefully engineered a winning birdie on the final hole. "They had both balls in the fairway, so I thought they'd birdie," Strange said. They did. The bouncey little Hollis hit an 8-iron third shot about 10 feet from the flag on the final hole and Pate, who'd had trouble putting all week, broke the tie with a rap into the baqk of the cup for a birdie 4. "That's why he's where he is," Hollis said of her who won twice this year despite missing most of the season with an injury.

"He makes the putts he has to make." Pate and Stacy, who had led since a fantastic 61 in the first BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) The elusive chase for a national title has ended for tiny soccer powerhouse Hartwick colleee of Oneota, N.Y. Playing in the NCAA championships for the 10th time in as many years, the Warriors finally won it Sunday, upsetting two-time defending champion San Francisco 2-1. The triumph gave Hartwick, whose only loss last year was in the national semifinals, an unbeaten season, 16-0-1, and stopped the Dons' winning streak at 20 straight games. USF finished the year 25-4-1.

"We knew what we would have to do," said Hartwick Coach Jim Lennox, who has compiled a two-year record of 32-1-3. "We had to play with confidence and not lose our composure and we did it," After a scoreless first half, Hartwick scored two minutes into the second half on a 6-yard head shot by Art Napolitano off a kick by Duncan McDonald. "That first score was the key," said Lennox. "It meant we could try to keep possession of the ball and make them chase us, hoping that after a while they would tire out." The Dons, who had been averaging better than three goals a game, didn't tire. If anything, they picked up the pace after Hartwick's Steve Long made it 2-0 on an unassisted goal with 26 minutes remaining.

"We had plenty of chances to score, but it's obvious you can't win if you don't put the ball in the goal," said losing Coach Steve Negoesco, whose team had a half-dozen near misses. Throttled effectively most of the game by Hartwick freshman goalie Aly Anderson, USF scored with three minutes left when Anthony Gray netted a head shot off a corner kick by Tony Igwe. "We're small and they're giants," said freshman Tony Maresca of Hartwick whose team was shorter and lighter than the Dons. "So I guess the win shows that size doesn't mean anyhing in soccer." In the consolation finals, Southerin Illinois-Edwardsville dumped Brown 3-2 on a goal by Tim Guleker. 111 presrraa RBflKwn wnn ill Wl if! ,4 Australia Owns Davis Cup MTW'SSJH I SHORT-CIRCUITED BLOOMINGTON, Minn.

(AP) Part of Bud Grant's reputation as a coach who forbids his players to use artificial warmings devices has evaporated. National Football League teams visiting Metropolitan Stadium in December generally use gas heaters along the sidelines, such as the San Francisco 49ers did Sunday. The Vikings shiver in their warmup jackets and parkas. But 35-year-old linebacker Wally Hilgenberg, who has shivered through 10 Minnesota winters, may have short-circuited the no-warming rule. Hilgenburg reportedly heated a 10-to 15-pound rock in a sauna prior to Sunday's game, wrapped it in a towel because it was so hot and smuggled it onto the field.

Several players were seen warming their hands with the rock during the game, which was played in snowy, 15-degree weather. ano, who must be terribly disappointed," said Alexander. "I know that I would have been." In one of the most tense and closely-fought matches in recent Davis Cup history, the 26-year-old Alexander rallied to win 6-4, 4-6, 2-6, 8-6, 11-9. Alexander's victory gave the Australians an unbeatable 3-1 lead in the best-of-five series and gained them the Cup which they have held 25 times but have won only twice in the past 10 years. The final singles match between Australian Tony Roche and Corrado Barazzutti was abandoned by mutual agreement.

Panatta almost had Alexander beaten. Serving with the score 6-5 and leading two sets to one, the 27-year-old Italian ace came within three points of taking the match and making the final singles between the left-handed Roche and Barazzutti the decider. But he could not beat off Alexander's challenge. He double-faulted and lost an unlucky net cord to drop his service, allowing the Australian back into the game. The Italians, who won the 77-year-old Cup 4-1 over Chile last year, lost both opening singles on Friday but kept their hopes alive with a victory over Australia in the doubles Saturday.

New South Wales Governor Sir Roden Cutler presented the Cup to the Australians in a brief ceremony in which the crowd of 7,000 at White City. Stadium gave a standing ovation to the Italian side as it marched on to the court. SYDNEY, Australia (AP) The Davis Cup will reside in Australia this year, thanks to an artistic triumph in the finals by John Alexander. "It was one of the greatest matches of all time," said Australian team captain Neale Fraser after watching Alexander oust Adriano Panatta of Italy in a grueling, five-set marathon that took nearly four hours to play Sunday. "It was a very exciting, beautiful match," said Italian captain Nicola Pietrangei, adding that his country had nothing to be ashamed of in losing to the Australians.

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