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B-8 The Sunday Pantagraph, Dec. 28, 1980 Basketball coach Seattle University dismisses Schalow Increase in hunters yields record catch Martin, Witt lead BHS girls to cage win MATTOON (PNS) Kris Martin and Beth Witt scored 12 points apiece Saturday afternoon to lead Blooming-ton High School's girls' basketball team to its third straight victory, a 57-31 conquest of Urbana in the Mat-toon Invitational. Witt grabbed eight rebounds while Tammi Rettig, who tallied 11 points, snared seven rebounds. record. Missouri ranks as one of the leading wild turkey states in the nation along Sportsmen's report McLean (27, 100); Livingston (26, 91); Logan (19, 69); DeWitt (18, 60); Piatt (14, 49); Champaign (10, 38) and Ford (6, 17).

Coach Sue Silvey's Purple Raiders will face Danville at noon Monday in the semifinals. The Vikings topped Decatur Eisenhower Saturday. Championship and third-place games will be held Monday night. 14 24 39 57 11 19 27 31 Urbana McGuire, transfefed to Seattle Unir versity as a junior from Yakima Valley College, a two-year school, in 1978. He is a graduate of McKinley High School in Washington D.C.

Tom Schneeman, former assistant basketball coach at Washington State and Detroit, was appointed to replace Schalow for the rest of the season, McDuffie said. Schneeman's most recent job was as an assistant at Bellevue Community College. McDuffie said NAIA officials and both schools were notified of the forfeits, which go into the record books as 2-0 scores and drop Seattle University to 1-2 for the season. The sports director also said two freshmen team members, Bobby Basnight and Doug Thompson, both of Seattle, had been ruled academically ineligible for the rest of the season. Earlier, academic problems prevented the return of four members of the 1979-80 Seattle University team Bernard Hill, Tonby Barnes, John Harper and Lawrence Brooks.

All were junior-college transfers. SEATTLE (AP) Jack Schalow has been fired as basketball coach at Seattle University for using an ineligible player on the team, says Richard McDuffie, sports director for the Chieftains. McDuffie said Friday that Schalow was fired because he "knowingly played the ineligible athlete," senior Andre McGuire, in games Dec. 15 against Lewis-Clark State and Dec. 16 against Whit worth.

The Chieftains have forfeited both National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics games. "It is our judgment that such conduct on the part of a coach that is, playing an athlete who is academically ineligible is unacceptable," McDuffie said. "That is a lie. It is untrue," Schalow insisted. "I did not know he was ineligible.

"I do not want to say anything more or elaborate until I have talked to the (university) president, the vice president and my attorney. I will have a statement to make at the appropriate time." Schalow, working in the final year of a three-year contract, was hired after Bill O'Connor was fired as Seattle University coach in the spring of 1978. with Pennsylvania, Alabama and Florida. The sprawling Harry S. Truman Reservoir will have 10 public access points open in 1981 with two completed camping areas.

'Truman Lake is Missouri's second largest, slightly smaller than the Lake of the Ozarks. Fishing is expected to be excellent next year. Lake maps are available from the Kansas City District Office, U.S. Corps of Engineers, 700 Federal Building, Kansas City, 64106. Local ice fishing started one week ago today at Dawson Lake with about four inches of ice.

Most anglers were catching bluegills on waxworms, but they were on the small side. With clear ice, without snow cover, and sunny days, these fish will be in deep water except for early and late in the day when the sun is lower in the sky. BLOOMINGTON Walsh 4-0-8; Martin 6-0-12; Johnston 3-0-4; Witt 6-0-12; Rettig 5-1-11; Massa 1-2-4; Johnson 2-0-4; White 0-0-0; Ward 0-0-0; Sheperd 0-0-0. Totals 27-3-57. URBANA Holmes 0-0-0; Ogle 0-2-2; Sallee 4-0-S; Dockery 3-0-6; Newcomb 6-3-15.

Totals 13-5-31. Glenn sends Knicks to one-point victory NEW YORK (AP) Mike Glenn hit an 18-foot jumper from the left of the key with one second left to play Saturday as the New York Knicks rallied from a 15-point first-half deficit to defeat the Kansas City Kings 100-99 in National Basketball Association play. By Ted Schanafelt Deer hunters throughout the state bagged more than 20,000 whitetails to set a record during the recently-completed firearm season. A total of 5,942 whitetails were bagged during the second weekend according to Forrest Loomis, Department of Conservation forest game biologist. During the first weekend, 14,341 deer were harvested, making the total 20,283 which is about 300 more than last year.

The small increase is probably due to an increase in the number of hunters rather than an increase in deer population, Loomis said. The 1980 harvest indicates that deer members are beginning to level off, like other upland game species, and that the increase of a few years ago are past us. The Mississippi River bottom numbers were up, but the Southern Illinois numbers are starting down which might be due to the bad crops that beset the southern portion of the state. An unknown variable affecting deer management is the impact of poaching, which usually increases in hard times. The recent raids in the west-central part of the state is proof that it is going on in a big way.

Hunters enjoyed good conditions throughout most of the second weekend. Since most of the farmers had harvested their crops before the first weekend, the deer were encouraged to leave the cover of agricultural fields and return to their normal forest habitat. Top counties during the second weekend were Adams (270); Pike (242); Jo Daviess (221); and Hancock (194). Hunters bagged 357 deer on Crab Orchard Wildlife Area. Conservation officers issued 369 citations.

Totals for area counties, preceeded by totals for the second weekend are: Tazewell (43, 123); Woodford (58, 112); The Illinois Department of Conservation Police Officer Corp has 13 openings which will be filled by persons who satisfactorily complete the State Merit Exam in January, which will be administered in Springfield, according to Carry Closson, law enforcement chief for the DOC. Applications must be received by Jan. 7 and can be obtained from Department of Personnel, W.G. Strat-ton Building, Springfield, 62706. Potential applicants must be between 21- and 35-years-old and must have two years of college or equivalent police experience.

The monthly salary ranges from The 42nd annual Chicago Sport Show will be Jan. 9-18 at the International Amphitheatre. John Bromfield will head the stage and water shows, with fishing tackle row, Marine exhibits, recreation vehicles and other various exhibits. The show will be open in the afternoon and evenings. Hunters took 9,401 birds during Missouri's Wild Turkey season.

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