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erw ewr 1a0 Beavers defeat Tigers 4-3 C4 Comics C6 Classified C7-12 Tuesday May 10 1988 I Stevens Point forfeits ceiver Aatron Kenney and fullback Keith Majors during the year For the Pointers a 12-2-1 season that ended when Mike Tuiasosopo blocked a Joe Parish game-winning field goal attempt is now a wash Pacific Lutheran and Westering who led the Lutes to an undisputed title in 1980 are now sole national champions I feel real empathy for their said Westering who first heard of it after a Monday morning call from NAIA offices in Kansas City eligibility circles these things can happen just too bad feel any different We considered it a double-win at the time I just feel too bad that it had to got 10 semesters (of eligibility) to play Whenever you get a transfer athlete you have to retrace his past from the day he graduated from high UW-Stevens Point announced late Sunday night it would voluntarily forfeit Coach DJ LeRoy read to players Sunday night a letter dated Thursday and sent to the NAIA School officials indicated they were prepared to accept any penalties meted out by the NAIA Kenney caught 67 passes for more than 1500 yards and scored 19 touchdowns last season for the Pointers He was a 12th-round draft choice of the Indianapolis Colts in the National Football League draft last month He caught just two passes for 26 yards and returned two kickoffs for 48 more in the title game against the Lutes Majors accounted for nearly 800 yards rushing and receiving last season He is believed to be in Italy for a tryout with a European league team share of football title Stevens-Point's own investigation revealed Kenney and Majors both of Dallas improperly altered college transcripts before transferring to UW-Stevens Point last fall Each player had attended Angelo State in San Angelo Texas during the 1986-87 school year although neither was on the football roster that season Angelo State is an NCAA Division II school Prior to that Kenney and Majors had spent two years each at Cisco Junior College in Texas Each accumulated time in school violated NAIA rules requiring a student-athlete to complete his eligibility period within 10 semesters or 15 quarters time you're in school the said Westering whose team finished 10-1-2 prior to this announcement you play or not only News Tribuna staff and wins Forrest (Frosty) Westering will tell anyone within earshot that he has long believed in the philosophy in his approach to athletics Even in the aftermath of a 16-16 tie last December with Wisconsin-Stevens Point in the NAIA Division II championship game in the Tacoma Dome the Pacific Lutheran University football coach maintained he was happy with the outcome A belief in the purity of playing the game and playing it to the best of your ability regardless of result was reward enough for him and his players said Westering Monday morning the that was seen by some as only half a win became more of a victory Stevens Point forfeited its 1987 football victories and its share of the championship after learning it had unknowingly used two ineligible players wide re- FLYING AIR JORDAN A 1 ffj i 4 1 i More Tiger meat Welch Canseco lead victory The Associated Press OAKLAND Calif Before they can officially lay claim to the American League West pennant the Oakland Athletics may want to register title to that other division You see this year the Athletics also own the American League East Monday night Jose Canseco hit his league-leading ninth home run and Bob Welch allowed four hits in eight-plus innings Monday night as the Athletics beat the Detroit Tigers 3-1 to extend their winning streak to 14 games the longest in the major leagues in 11 years The are now 12-0 against American League East teams They also own the most consecutive victories in the majors since the Kansas City Royals won 16 straight in 1977 Welch (5-2) struck out five and walked one in beating Jack Morris to win his fourth consecutive game Moris (3-4) had 11 strikeouts and allowed nine hits en route to his fourth complete game Lou Whitaker led off the top of the ninth with a double and Dennis Eckersley relieved Welch and got his 12th save in 13 games Eckersley has not allowed a run in 15 innings The Tigers scored in the third inning without hitting the ball out of the infield Pat Sheridan beat out a high chopper to third base advanced to second on a balk went to third on an infield hit by Gary Pettis and scored on Welch's second balk of the inning and seventh of the season The took the lead in the bottom of the inning when Carney Lansford singled and Canseco hit a home run to left field tying New Dave Winfield for the major-league RBI lead with 32 Oakland made it 3-1 in the fourth After Ron Hassey singled with one out Dave Henderson reached on a forceout went to second on a balk and scored on Mike Gallego's single Ron Hassey had three hits for the A's giving him seven hits in two games His next stop? Some place high By Ira Berkow The New Yortt Times No one claims to have seen Michael Jordan walk on water though some basketball fans are convinced he could if he put his mind to it Many however believe they have actually seen Michael Jordan walk on air Often In a number of cities in America With his size IS sneakers This they would testify to in a court of law There are hardened long-time basketball experts who are cot verts to the Jordan phenomenon plays higher than ever said Wayne Embry the general manager of the Cleveland Cavaliers and a former National Basketball Association player plays so high that even the big guys challenge This was after the second Cavaliers-Chicago Bulls playoff game in which the 6-foot-6 Jordan who goes by such names as Air Jordan and Rubber-Band Man scored 55 points following the 50 he had in the first game the first time in NBA history that any player had back-to-back 50-point games in the playoffs In the following two games last week Jordan sewed 38 points on Tuesday and 44 on Thursday Sunday he added 39 in the clinching victory that sent them to the second round Bob Cousy who was accused in his time of performing incredible feats on the basketball court had this view of Jordan: goes up stops for a cup of coffee looks over the scenery and then follows through with a tomahawk To the naked and perhaps ingenuous eye Jordan his closely shaved head gleaming in the arena lights his baggy basketball drawers adding a kind of animated cartoon aspect appears to do the following: He drives with the ball into heavy traffic and springs into the air as that aforementioned traffic springs up too At this point it is impossible to get a shot off since some of these basketball vehicles round him have jumped high and most were taller than him to begin with and they have long arms too Then one by one they naturally begin to descend All that is but Air Jordan all but Rubber-Band Man still up there bringing the ball down from his ear to his hip then back up to his left shoulder then across to his right and soon he is up in the air all by himself and flicks the ball through the strings of the hoop not sure myself what going to be doing once up said Jordan when instinct takes over when the mind goes into its In Chicago Stadium the cheers for such stuff reach a decibel level that would rival any rock show rival any jack-hammering of a city AMAZING Monday: beat Tigers 3-1 Streak: Won 14 In a row Longest winning atraaka American League: 19 New York June 29-July 17 1947 Major leagues: 21 Chicago (twice) June 2-JUy 8 1880 and Sept 4-27 1935 Please see Jordan CS When on or hovering above a basketball court Michael Jordan seems to defy the laws of gravity Columnist in crisis: pass the horoscope folks most of them now in their fifth sixth and seventh decades and many of them about two jumps from being total cripples Your heart might thrill and goosebumps might rise each time they replay Fredd crunching tackle on an ill-fated kickoff return or every time Curt Warner shrugs off two or three defenders to turn the corner and head upfield only to be flattened by two or three more pursuers but please make mine vanilla I only hope that Young and Warner and other robust gladiators of their ilk are able to bend over and tie their shoes at age 50 Football as the Sea hawks or anyone else at any age plays it is a game designed to vent the anger and frustration of our riotous times As such it is hardly noble and possibly suicidal And a crowd at a bear-baiting circus in the 1700s might have been as dignified as the suds-sloshing hordes who inhabit the Kingdome on any given Seahawks Sunday Me with the Ancient Mariner now even beginning Please see Kenyon C5 both my brain and my body might be looking for a soft spot on which to land: Basketball is a five-person ballet conducted upon a 94-foot maple dance floor an intricate marriage of speed size and uncanny shotmaking For the past two seasons SuperSonics fans have been privy to a so-called revival of their fortunes But it has been a revival predicated on only one of the foundations This has been a team that lives by the 20-foot perimeter jumpshot often the fallaway variety and ultimately dies by the same means No inside playmaking no rebounding of distinction little else beside the exploits of three long-distance shooters save for an occasional off-the-floor eye-scratching between the wives of two starters Against the glory and hope and courage of schoolboy or for that matter schoolgirl basketball sorry give me Sumner and Puyallup on a Tuesday night I think more akin to what Naismith had in mind On another front the Mariners have struggled for 12 seasons and through three sets of front-office mavens to find a pitching staff capable of guiding them through a 162-game schedule without floundering Along the way they have made repeated reference to their need for power in a bandbox-sized ballpark yet they continue to trade what sluggers and hitters they have for sore-armed and soft-headed pitchers with the approximate consistency of Silly Putty Verily take me to Peck Field where I will watch the beer-drinkers bash an inflated ball to all corners of the yard amid the howl of their laughing and screaming children and the steady hum of wives' attention to the daily routine of life In other words at least give me a game which baseball was fully intended to be Instead of a high-salaried exercise in utter futility Even as my own bones creak and sway beneath the weight of accumulated years I am a glad boy for never having really seen the sense in doming helmet and shoulder pads to engage in the body-bludgeoning that is football I am surrounded at luncheons and dinners and other social occasions by former warriors of the game many of them even exalted in the profession Bn a world where the advice of a 60ish astrologer might have bearing on top policy decisions of President Reagan and where the local major-league shortstop has a 16-year-old wife it is time to make a severe admission: I am suffering some sort of mid-life crisis Somehow this roller coaster-like condition has manifested itself in an apparent disregard for a lot of the athletic endeavors that appear to hold spellbound vast numbers of the Pugetopolis populace I mean I'm more intrigued by high school basketball than by the Sonics a slo-pitch softball game makes more sense to me than much of what the Mariners do and I think football of all sorts is simply for the birds Let me try to explain again with the reminder that ir tlMMiMI hi.