The Rock Island Argus from Moline, Illinois • 15

Dissenter gets but SportsDay rest say Broncs are best The Ness Guess The Guest Guess When it comes to Super Bowl predictions no middle ground John Marx is either the smartest or the dumbest member of the Sports-Day team Marx stands alone as the sole staff backer of the Washington Redskins when they meet the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XXII which begins at 5:15 pm Sunday in San Diego For the rest the best At least what the pick sheet shows For the record though sports writer Craig DeVrieze with his intrepid ability to equal his forecasting and softball-batting averages (000) chose to toss a piece of silver (It used to be copper but he got a raise) a breakdown of the Sports-Day staff selections and why: Jim Meenan sports editor Broncos: I be surprised if the win Gibbs is a great coach But I have to go with Denver being there for the second year in a row Marc Nesseler associate sports editor Broncos: I would benefit financially from a Denver victory I have Moline last fall with a 14-1 record a 933 percentage! The only miss was on Georgetown-Syracuse a one-point Orangemen loss I've promised though to give the boss a plug Meenan deserves the credit for persuading me toward Missouri over Iowa State and Notre Dame over Kansas Even without those two games the Ness Guess would have extended his undefeated string not losing since Dec 11 by defeating Guest Guess Paul DeBruine of Geneseo who had a 9-6 record For the cage season the Ness Guess stands at 36-14 (72) with the Guest Guessers at 17-13 (567) With last win the Ness Guess jackpot is now up to $75 a five-month high-water mark With a shot at that will be Deb Gainey of Lynn Center who also missed one coincidentally the same one as the Ness Guess She edged out David Napsky of Rock Island who had also missed just one but lost on the tie-breaker which must dictate this pick Gainey Peoria Central: Central has a little better record 5 Dixon at United Township Ness Guess UT: No contesto Gainey UT: Going with UT at home 6 Monmouth at Alleman Ness Guess Alleman: An important regional tune-up Gainey Alleman: Monmouth is not the power it was in the past 7 Minnesota at Iowa Ness Guess Iowa: The Gophers keep reeling and reeling Gainey Iowa: Iowa will blow them away at home 8 Illinois at Arizona Ness Guess Arizona: I seem to figure the Mini's lofty ranking Gainey Arizona: the best in college basketball 9 Northwestern at Wisconsin Ness Guess Wisconsin: The home court means a big ton in the Big Ten (Please see NESSELER page C3) Gainey already has won $25 by finishing first in the SportsDay Basketball Contest which has its entry blank appearing on Mondays Now she has a chance to turn it into $100! This games 1 Rock Island at Galesburg Ness Guess Rock Island: a tough place to play but the Streaks have lost three straight at home Gainey Rock Island: Best of the Big 6 2 Moline at Quincy Ness Guess Quincy: An upset special Quincy is even a tougher place to play Gainey Moline: Maroons are tough this season 3 United Township at Alleman Ness Guess UT: Panthers vying for a first-division finish Gainey UT: Alleman will remain winless in conference 4 Peoria Central at Rock Island Ness Guess Rock Island: I picked the Rocks against Manual at stake be MVP Elway all the way John Marx Redskins: What can I say I love grapefruit! Dex-ter Dexter Dex-ter My good-Ness! After the past two weeks the Ness Guess plans to petition the sports moguls to start the basketball season in September and forget about the football season The Ness Guess had his best week ever last week and topping the best Guess Guess Willie Eccles of one of those John Elway minor-league baseball cards Nolan Hurt senior sports writer 27-20 Elway is the only reason needed Craig DeVrieze sports writer Heads Broncos: Did you see my baseball picks? I was 0-for-26 Jeff Wendland sports writer Broncos: Dick Vitale would call John Elway a PTP and the game will be played during prime time Tom Johnston Broncos: They cost me last year with the Argus Angle title on the line With nothing SportsDay Bradley wins 4th straight C3 Rocks in big swim win C3 THE DAILY DISPATCH AND ARGUS Friday January 29 1988 Cl Box Score Bad 1st half costs Illini gave Michigan a 64-54 lead with 5:32 left "We did what we had to do to hang Frieder said kept coming at us coming at us coming at us They have a little more depth than we do and we got think Michigan is one of the outstanding teams in the Henson said get What really crushed comeback try was having five shots on one trip down the floor when it was 66-58 approaching the three-minute mark Not one of them fell and Michigan came down to get a 12-foot wing shot from Rice Rice tied Nick Anderson of Illinois for game-scoring honors with 23 points while Grant added 17 and Loy Vaught 13 for Michigan Lowell Hamilton had 15 and Glynn Black-well 11 Ken Battle sat out the first 12:23 for disciplinary reasons and scored just three points He along with guard Larry Smith and Marcus Liberty who is ineligible because of Proposition 48 were in an auto accident at 1:20 am Sunday Reports said a car driven by Smith at speeds of 40-45 mph in a 30 mph zone collided with another vehicle There were no injuries Smith was ticketed for driving too fast for conditions and all three were ticketed for illegal transportation of liquor after police discovered a halfbottle of cognac near the scene Eyewitnesses told police the bottle was thrown from car ANN ARBOR Mich (UPI) Gary Grant and Glen Rice were getting tired but they still wore Illinois out Grant and Rice teamed up down the stretch Thursday night to save Michigan the embarrassment of blowing a 16-point halftime lead and pace the No 8 Wolverines to a 76-64 Big Ten victory over No 14 Illinois was some question if be able to come back in the second said Illinois coach Lou Henson whose team trailed 39-23 at the half and was also being outrebounded 23-11 were beaten so badly in the first half by a team I think is really he said were pleased the way the kids came back in the second half Rice and Grant were the ones who really hurt Grant and Rice had 18 of the 26 points Michigan scored in the final 13:35 to improve to 17-2 overall and 6-1 in the Big Ten Illinois dropped to 14-5 overall including 4-3 in the conference tell you where Grant really helped us down the Michigan coach Bill Frieder said we were going to Rice and Rice was getting tired Grant really picked us two baskets were the only points Michigan scored while Illinois was making a 10-4 run that shaved the deficit to 58-52 with 7:24 to play Grant fed Mark Hughes for a layup sank an 18-footer from the corner then stripped the ball from Jens Kujawa and fed Rice for a jam that Glynn Blackwell tries to get past Arbor Michigan beat the Mini 76-64 Michigan is now 6-1 Rumeal Robinson during first half action Thursday in Ann in the Big Ten while the Mini fall to 4-3 (UPI) Hoosiers begin climb back into Big 1 0 race Hartlieb Lampkin opt for Iowa IOWA CITY Iowa (UPI) -Iowa football coach Hayden Fry apparently will be getting one of the St Louis best running backs and another Hartlieb appears ready to wear a Hawkeye uniform Marvin Lampkin who rushed for 1700 and scored 23 touchdowns for East StLouis but ran for just 60 yards on 18 carries against United Township in East St Louis 20-13 playoff win at Soule Bowl said he plans to attend the University of Iowa next fall Lampkin said he chose Iowa after visiting Oklahoma State and Rice Universities The other Hartlieb is Jim the younger brother of Iowa quarterback Chuck Hartlieb Jim Hartlieb said he will sign a letter of intent next month to join the Hawkeyes Jim Hartlieb is also a quarterback and led his Woodstock 111 team to a 13-1 record last season when he passed for 1900 yards and 20 touchdowns and ran for another 824 yards and 15 TDs Thunder trades Patterson The Quad City Thunder sent forward Andre Patterson to Rapids City today for a future NBA draft choice Patterson was relegated to the injured reserve list because of back spasms and a conflict with head coach Mauro Panaggio The Thunder also announced it does not expect Cub pitcher Rick Sutcliffe to show as its fantasy player tonight when it takes on the Pensacola Tornados at 7:35 at Wharton Field House Sutcliffe has been hunting with Cubs catcher Jody Davis and the Thunder has been unable to reach him Sutcliffe had been expected to fill the role of fantasy player In other CBA news Rockford Lightning guard Pete Meyers has signed an NBA contract with the San Antonio Spurs Before playing in Rockford Meyers was a member of the Chicago Bulls Former Loyala star Alfrederick Hughes has been signed as a replacement The Topeka Sizzlers also announced that head coach John Killilea has been fired record with Topeka was 13-17 A replacement has not been announced Pack thought they had Perles as coach GREEN BAY Wis (UPI) -Michigan State football coach George Perles turned down an offer to coach Green Bay Thursday after to a Packer official late Wednesday night he would accept the position Tom Braatz Packer vice president of football operations said in a telephone interview from San Diego he thought Perles was subjected to outside pressure possibly from Michigan Gov James Blanchard to remain at Michigan State Asked if he thought political pressure was applied from Blanchard Braatz said have to surmise that but that's what I thought I kind of got that (Perles) said got Spartan green blood in his Braatz said matched its Atlantic Coast Conference victory output from last season with an 83-80 triumph over No 3 North Carolina The Deacons who two years ago were winless in the conference last year were only able to beat Maryland twice This season they also defeated North Carolina State Sam Ivy sank 2 free throws with three seconds left at Greensboro NC to give Wake Forest the final margin of victory Wake Forest improved to 2-4 in the conference and 7-9 overall North Carolina fell to 3-2 and 14-3 said really proud of my players not ready for the NCAA championship but a competitive team and capable of playing good basketball on any given Melvin Newbern added 16 points for the Gophers who last won a Big Ten game on the road in January of 1986 Forward Carlton Valentine scored 16 for Michigan State which dropped to 1-5 and 6-10 Wake Forest 83 North Carolina 80 Wake Forest Thursday night loss to Michigan to make some changes set it up to play the kids that were doing the best job for said Knight we started we were pleased so we just stayed with Calloway did not play Smart played the final 99 seconds Indiana the defending national champion raised its Big Ten record to 2-4 and its overall mark to 10-6 Ohio State fell to 3-3 and 10-6 Minnesota 58 Michigan State 56 win tastes pretty good right Minnesota Coach Clem Haskins benched starters Keith Smart and Ricky Calloway in favor of freshmen Lyndon Jones and Jay Edwards and the Hoosiers beat Ohio State 75-71 Center Dean Garrett scored 22 points 18 in the second half and hit 10 of 10 from the free throw line Jones contributed 21 points hitting 9 of 10 from the floor and Edwards added 11 points with nine assists was proud of these said Knight got in a close game and came away with a win Our offense was an important factor and it been that way to this Knight said he decided Monday the day after the 72-60 home United Pratt International The Indiana Hoosiers started their long climb back into the Big Ten basketball race by beating Ohio State for their first road victory of the season In the two other midweek Big Ten games Minnesota won its first conference game in 22 tries by beating Michigan State 59-56 and No 8 Michigan clipped No 14 Illinois 76-64 to stay one game behind front-running Purdue in the conference title race Indiana which had lost its first two road games and four of its five conference games going into Columbus used a revamped lineup to beat the Buckeyes Indiana Coach Bob Knight Davis play an act of faith Thunder self portrait Dwayne McClain PERSONAL DATA: Age 24 Height 6-foot-6 Weight 202 Single Home: Boston NICKNAMES: D-Train BASKETBALL BACKGROUND: Villanova University Drafted 2nd round of 1985 NBA draft by Indiana Pacers (27th overall pick) Played with Pacers 1985-1986 season Played overseas in France last year On the CBA CAREER HIGHLIGHT: Winning 1985 NCAA Championship at said has had me going to the line a lot more and that helps Already Davis has launched 316 tries from the free-throw line by far a league high and has converted better than 82 percent of those He was 8 of 8 at the line in a 31-point effort Wednesday against the Thunder at Wharton and a week ago he hit a record 22 (out of 24) in a 58-point outing versus Topeka That performance helped Davis win CBA Player of the Week honors for the second time this year Davis a two-time All-Big Ten player at Minnesota also is having better than reasonable success from the field taken a league-high 568 attempts and converted 53 percent of those From three-point range he ranks among the league leaders having knocked down 58 of his 144 tries True to his faith Davis is taking his success in stride just want to play he said keep the Lord first in my The 24-year-old native of Au- (Please see CBA page C2) a reasonable explanation for the heavenly numbers CBA scoring leader Tommy Davis is putting up this season the former Minnesota star Davis said Wednesday playing for the Lord Jesus Christ shown me the And how A third-year CBA veteran Davis entered the season with a career scoring average of 172 an outing but he has blown well past that this season Through the Pensacola Tornados first 33 games Davis averaged 313 per night and held a whopping 7-point edge over the second most prolific scorer Claude Gregory Prior to a Thursday date in Rockford Davis had led the Tornados in scoring 26 times in 33 trips out and had surpassed the 30-point barrier 19 times scored 40 or better five times and had games of 54 56 and 58 points scored 1034 points and is almost certain to eclispe the CBA record for total points in a season 1441 It would take some doing to CAREER HONORS: High school All-American three years Honorable mention collegiate All-America two years HERO: George Gervin PLANS AFTER BASKETBALL: Working in the marketing department of a company HOBBIES: Fishing music fine food female company FAVORITE MOVIES: Breakfast and of the Lost surpass Ron 1981-82 record scoring average of 351 but this Davis claims he interested in records anyway not concerned about breaking any records" said Davis be back in action at Wharton Field House tonight when the Tornados meet the Quad City Thunder I score 20 points or 50 1 just want to be on a winning In addition to his strengthened religious convictions Davis credits a more aggressive offensive approach for his increased production concentrating a lot more on going to the he FAVORITE MUSICIANS: Jeffrey Osborne FAVORITE READING: Color Purple" by Alice Walker IDEAL EVENING: Fishing on a quiet lake with a case of Lowenbrau WHAT CHANGE ABOUT THE WORLD: End the AIDS epidemic.