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3 8r Monte Towe was a big man in State frosh basketball program Monte Towe: State's Own Little Big Man By A. J. CARR effects of the layoff. I'm not smooth yet, hitting or When Monte Towe strolled onto the N. C.

State campus last fall, a lot of folks figured he was a 5-foot-7, 140-pound "Mistake." Others reckoned that he was just a novelty, or another publicity gimmick, like a midget in Barnum Bailey's. But they were wrong. He didn't come from Converse, to perform at halftime during basketball season, or be the batboy on the baseball team. He came to PLAY! That was manifested during the winter when Towe, although a mere tulip among trees, averaged 18.4 points for State's freshman squad. And this spring he is adding to his athletic stature by playing baseball.

Having started the last five games at second base, Monte has injected considerable spark into a lethargic team naturally. The little guy could liven up a wake. A Winner Staff Writer "He came in cold and has been playing second base like he's been there all his life, enthused Coach Sam Esposito. "He's alert, aggressive, and just does things instinctively well. "Monte's something else, something we've been needing on this team," continued the coach.

"He keeps us alive, he's a winner and he'll be my second baseman the rest of the year. I'd bet anybody right now that he'll be starting in basketball next year, too." That's Towe the opportunist. Give him a small role to play and he's liable to steal the whole show. But where had he been until five games ago? Hiding in Tim Stoddard's (6-7) pocket? The answer is Monte Towe has been there all along, but simply wasn't counted on to play much. Not Smooth Yet "I wasn't even sure I was going to come out," said the effusive freshman, who hadn't played baseball in two years.

"Finally, I decided I wanted to stay active in the spring. But I can feel the Granted, Monte is not an impeccable player. He might bobble a few grounders, or go 0-for-7, which he did in a recent double header. But more often than not he's apt to beat you. As he strolled to the plate last week against Pembroke State, Towe looked like a little leaguer who had wandered into the wrong park.

At least, he looked that way until he swung 1 the bat five times and collected four hits. "I've never thought a small man couldn't play sports," said Towe, whose life revolves inexorably around athletics. "I just figure what I lack physically I can make up for mentally with mental toughness." During his prep days at Converse, Monte played golf (shoots in 80's), and starred in basketball, baseball (All-Area), and football (All-Area), quarterbacking his team to 18 consecutive victories. But today basketball is No. 1, baseball No.

2 on his list of priorities. Odd Couple "He figures very prominently in our plans next year," guaranteed Norm Sloan, the basketball coach. "His speed, ballhandling, and playmaking can help us. And he's a definite leader. People wonder about his defensive play.

But he didn't get hurt in freshman games or scrimmaging against the varsity last year." Away from the floor, Towe, is a prime target for good-natured needling, for all the corny names a 5-7 fireplug hears when he is playing in America's tallest game. Also, rooming with 7-4 Tommy Burleson seems to shrink him to a smaller size. Put that pair together, and you've got State's version of the "Odd Couple." "We get along real well," chuckled Towe. "We like the same things music, shooting pool, basketball, etc. A About the only real advantage Tommy has is that he can unplug our black light merely by reaching up while I have to stand in a chair." Monte Towe.

Did the Easter did State find ing? No, but as a gift to a mistake. NCAA Seeking Expansion for Cage Tournament KANSAS CITY (AP) The National Collegiate Athletic Association said Saturday plans likely will be finalized next week for expanding the NCAA basketball championship tournament field from 25 to 28 or 32 teams. An NCAA spokesman said expansion plans will be worked out by telephone conference calls among organization's basketball tournament committee and the executive committee. The executive committee has already said it favors expansion. However, before deciding on how many teams will compete, the committee wants to try to determine the number of quality teams warranting tournament berths which would be available every year.

A committee member said it is believed there definitely would be as many as 28 such teams. The expansion probably would not become effective until 1974. The starting time cannot be determined for certain until advance schedules of the various conferences are examined. would be no first round byes if the tournament fields. was Each expanded team to selected 32 would have to play an additional game to qualify for advancement.

conferences, the Big Eight, Big Ten and West Coast Athletic Conference, which already have automatic qualifications into the regional tournaments, would lose that and have to play first round games. The NCAA said certification new postseason football bowl game between cham- Girl Coxswain Stirs A Little Controversy EUGENE, Ore. (AP) When Vicky Brown turned out for crew at the University of Oregon "as a fun thing to do," she never dreamed she'd trigger a West Coast controversy over use of women in traditionally male collegiate sports. "No I never imagined that anyone would make a big deal out of it. Things here have just sort of snowballed.

It's getting bigger and bigger," she said. Vicky is a pretty, 18-year-old freshman from Beaverton, who serves as coxswain on the Oregon crew. She took up the months ago and "suddenly she got the knack," says her coach, Don Costello. "The last few weeks she's shown she can steer pretty straight. She's gained a lot of confidence and can be heard pretty well," says the 23-year-old Costello, who participated in crew for the University of California at Berkeley from 1966 through 1969.

Accepted by Team "She's accepted by everyone on the team and the guys get mad at her for mistakes just like anyone else," he said. Crew is not a sport sponsored by the Oregon Athletic Department and that's where the trouble begins. It is an activity financed by sudent fees. Costello says Oregon shouldn't be governed by rules of the National Collegiate Athletic Association of the Pacific Conference because it is not a university-sponsored sport. "He says rules of these organizations prohibiting use of women in intercollegiate sports do not apply to Oregon and Vicky should be allowed to compete against, all-male crews from belonging to the NCAA or Pac-8.

Oregon does belong to the Western Intercollegiate Crew Coaches Association (WICCA) and Costello says the school interprets WICCA rules this way: The associaion says whatever standards are used to determine eligibility are up to individual institutions. If Seattle University says someone is eligible, Oregon will recognize him, or her. "We because of that rule Vicky should be recognizfeel, ed," Costello said. There are 22 coaches in the WICCA and not all of them agree with Oregon's interpretation of the association rules. Karl Drlica, crew coach at Oregon State and WICCA president, is among the dissenters.

Oregon State refuses to compete against Oregon with Vicky in the shell because OSU sponsors crew as an intercollegiate sport and NCAA and conference rules prohibit mixed competition. The school has a different interpretation of WICCA guidelines, saying the association agrees to follow NCAA and conference rules. Refused to Row The University of Washington refused to row against Oregon last weekend in Seattle because Costello's crew wouldn't race without Vicky as coxswain. The decision was made by Washington Coachoh Dick Erickson, ho yeah, they're (Oregon officials) calling me a male chauvinist pig and all of that, but the rules of the Pacific-8 and NCAA don't allow female COXswains." The Washington crew, a national power, didn't have a vote, "We'd have rowed against her," said Paul Julien, the No. 5 man for the Huskies.

"We don't care." Jim Barratt, athletic director at Oregon State, took the same viewpoint as Erickson. However he came up with an idea last week an exhibition race against Oregon, with Vicky allowed to compete, at Dexter Reservoir near Eugene on April 22. He sent a letter to his Oregon counterpart, Nory Ritchey, challenging the Oregon crew to a race-with the losers providing a dinner for the winners. Ritchey his department couldn't accept the offer because it was up to Costello to decide. Vicky, prodded for her reaction, admitted, "I can't say I really was too fond of the idea It's a little humihating.

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