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Desert Dispatch, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 1990 7 Purdues too much for Knights crew Bell Trophy Barry Sanders is top NFL rookie I end any Indiana come bode hopes. Scheffler, capitalizing on his experience to get Indiana's Chris Lawson in foul trouble, sparked on 11-4 streak in tha opening eight minutes of the second half when Indiana went scoreless for more than six minutes. Scheffler then had three more and Tony Jones four in a 13-2 streak that gave the Bofiermakera a 62-82 bulge with 7:47 to play. Purduo, which never trailed, led 9-1 as the Hoosiers missed their first five shots.

Scheffler topped Purdue and Calbert Chaney woe high for the Hoosiers with 12. No. 6 Connecticut 75, Providence 72 At 8toYra, Nadav Hencfeld. a former Israeli soldier, a 3-pointer with two seconds left in overtime to keep the Huskies at the top of the Big East Honofold, a 6 -foot-7, 21-year-old freshman, made up for a bad shooting night by contributing four steals and a team-leading nine rebounds. He scored but 10 points, hitting only one of five 3-pointera before the game winner, and missing two free throws late in regulation.

Eric Murdock, who forced the overtime with ajumper that tied it 68-63 with four seconds left, scored all nine of Providence's overtime points, including a 3-pointer with 50 seconds left to tie it 72-72. With two seconds left on tho 45-eocond clock, Tate Georga found Honofold at the top of tho key for an open jump shot that bounced oil the rim, touched the backboard and dropped through. Chris Smith led the Huskies with 17 points. Murdock came ofT the bench to lead Providence with 21 points. After watching Sanders, Mika Ditka, head coach of the Chicago Bears, said, "He reminds me of a guy we used to have." Walter -Payton, of course.

The lions, using Sanders behind their now "Silver Stretch passing attack, want 7-9 this season. They won six of their last seven games, including the final five in a row Detroit's longest winning streak since 1970. For Sanders, it was a fitting end to his sweet season. Butts he really a threat to the guy still Even known I College basketball roundup Connecticut needed an overtime to subdue Providence 75-72. Purdues Stephen Scheffler, who leads the nation with a 73 percent field-goal -percentage, hit six of seven shots in scoring 18 points and also had eight rebounds end four assists, nil in Just 28 minutes.

"Scheffler is the most valuable player in the Big Ten. Knight said. "He moves, sets screens and takes good shots. Its hard to be excited nhbut a guy whos beating -your brains out, but hes really, really good." Quickie White scored all 12 of his points in the first half os the Boilermakers took a 88-24 load. Scheffler scored Purdue's first seven points after intermission to Missouri The Associated Press Missouri and Kansas continue to swap the No.

1 ranking in the nation and tha No. 1 position in the Big Eight standings. The Tigers re turned to the top spot in The Associated Press college basketball poll on Monday following a weak in which thoy again boot the Joyhawka and knocked thorn out of tho No. 1 ranking. Missouri, 24-2 overall and 10-1 in theBig Eight, was second in the nation fast weok.

Then the Tigers best Kansas and Oklahoma and garnered 6 IX finfe-plaee votes and 1JS96K paints from the nationwide panel of sportewritore and broadcasters. The Jayhswks, with both losses this season coming against Missouri, ended their second two-week run No. 1 with one-half vote for first place and By Howard Bluer NEW YORK (NEA) Does Bany Sanders, the sensational new rasher for the Detroit lions, remind you of somebody? Walter Payton, perhaps? Experts around the National Football League are already laying the 21-year-old runs a lot like Payton, the future Hall of Famer and No. 1 ground-gainor in the history of pro football. Linebacker Mike Merri-weather of the Minnesota Vikings thinks Sanders is bound Ar glory, too.

Hes agrsat one, claims Merri weather, "hopls arejjoing to be saying, "Walter Sanders, who led the NFC in rushing in 1989 with 1,470 yards, is now the winner of The Worl d-Al manses Bert Bell Trophy. It has been awarded since 1964 totheNFL's rookie of the Jim Finks, the general manager of the New Orleans Saints, believes this particular NFL debut was virtually unmatched. Vows Finks: "Senders may be the finest rookie Ive ever seen. Tha Bell Trophy is preson tod on behalf of The World Almanac; its publisher. Pharos Books; and its 140 cosponsoring newspapers.

Newspaper Enterprise Association announced the choice to more than 600 UB. daffies. 8anders, the Heisman Trophy winner who left Oklahoma State as a Junior and signed (hr a $2.1 million bonus, more than lived up to his billing. At 6-foot-8 and 208 pounds, he is a strong, electrifying rusher. Ha can instantly start, stop and start again.

Running low to tha ground makes him even more elusive. For Detroit, Sanders averaged 5.3 yards per carry on 280 attempts. His total rushing yardage and Ma 14 TD runs were both team records. Sanders also caugM 24 passes for 282 yards, an average of 1L8. per catch Pips he ran back five tycfcoflK, for another 118 yards, avaragv, Ing 23.6 each.

takes over L510X points. Missouri and Kansas both have games at Oklahoma this week. The Sooners, ranked 10th this week, have a 43-game homecourt winning streak. Duka (22-4) beat Stetson, East Carolina and Wake Forest last week and moved from sixth to third with 1,884 points, one more than UNLV (22-4), which also jumped three spots. Tho Runnin Rebels beet two ranked teams in their three victories lost week New Mexico State and Arizona.

Georgetown (20-3) received one first-place and foil two places to filth after loss to Providence. La Salle (22-1) received the other firet-plece vote and wee 14th. Connecticut (22-4) followed the Hayee in sixth with 1,127 points end Michigan (19-5) was players and fow officials saw what happened. Thanks to those two games, the District 15-SA race ended in a three-way tie among Atlanta, Gilmer and Lindan-KUdare, all with 7-8 league records. When Gilmer beat Kildare 80-64 in a playoff elimination, it was time for Atlanta-Gilmer IIL This time, everybody was invited.

The fans packed Longview High Schools Lobo Coliseum, and Atlanta was glad to have them. Atlanta won 86-73. It made a Mg difference," Atlanta coach Eddie Johnson said. We respondsd well to the crowd. I told the kids after the emotional overtime loss in the lock-out game that something good is going to Brawlers stay away in Longview win No.

1 spot seventh with 1,088 points. Gsorgia Tech (19-4) was eighth With 1,042 points, 19 more than Purdue (18-4) and 44 more than Oklahoma (19-4), which rounded out tho Top Ten. Tho Top Ton teams are drawn from just live conferences. Tha Big Eight has the top two teams and Oklahoma, tho Atlantic Coast Conference offers Duka and Georgia Tech, tha Big East has Georgetown and Connecticut and tha Big Ten has Michigan and Purdue. UNLV plays in the Big Watt Syracuse, fourth last week, tumbled to 11th after losses to Villanova and Notre Dame.

The Orangemen were followed by IOuistans State, Arkansas, La Salle, Michigan State, Louisville, Oregon State, Minnesota, and Blinds and Xavier, Ohio, which tied for 19lh. come out of this." Fans of the teams spent the evening jumping out of assigned oats on opposite sides of the gym, a mqvo made by officials intent on keeping all the action on the court. "Their fans didn't affect us," Gilmer coach Ralph Mason said. "Wo fust didn't get the job done. The biggest factor goee back to beating someone three times in one year.

They were quicker end getting position quicker and beating us to the boards." Atlanta fans who traveled tho 60 miles to Longview dubbed, themselves the "sixth man sec-, tion" and gave themselves match-; ing T-shirts that read: "We Will Rode You" end Atlantas Sixth Man. that if his disk were taken out and. hia bones were destabilized by. that procedure, then he could con-, tinue to suffer back pain. Peopla who have had that of condition hockey players and other athletes have hod trouble returning to play.

Lemieux flew to Loa Angeles with Burke last weekend to consult with spine specialist Dr. Robert Watkins and will remain there for four weeks of exercises end therapy. WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) Bob Knight is the kind of coach who appreciates good defonsc, even if it wrecks his teem. Knights Indiana Hoosiers, toting a No.

25 national ranking and hopes of climbing bock into tho Big Ten title chase, faced 40 minutes of textbook defense Monday night, courtesy of No. 9 Purdue. Tho Boilermakers won the game 72-49 to remain one game ahead of Michigan State in the Big Ten. Purdue is 19-4 and 11-2, Indiana 16-7 and 6-7. "They played extremely well, Knight said.

"Their defonee dominated our olTense the vast majority of the time. Indiana was limited to 89 per-centshootingin losingbothendsof the series with Purdue for the first time in five seasons. It was Indianas largest margin of defeat in the series since 1969. In theothergame Monday night involving a ranked team. No.

6 Maryland slips past Trojans LOS ANGELES (AP) Walt Williams know who would take the last shot for Southern Cal, and ho wanted to bo tha one to stop it. After Williams hit a 12-foot jumper with 12 seconds remaining to give Maryland a 64-62 lead over Southern Cel, Harold Miner's off-balance 18-foot jumper bounced off the rim at the buzzer. During a Maryland timeout in the final seconds Monday night, Williams asked to guard Miner, the Trojans leading scorer. "When I guy asks for a challenge like that you dont turn Mm down," Maryland coach Gary Williams aid. Tony Massen burg had 20 points and 11 rebounds and Jarred Mus-taf added 18 for the Terrapins, who raised their overall record to 15-1L Miner had 25 points andRonnie Coleman added 20 for the Trojans, who foil to 9-18.

The Terrapin coach said the long trip from the East Coast took "its. toll on hiis Maryland traveled straightfrom their 80-76 win at North Carolina Saturday. I thought we won a step alow all night long; but wo made tha plays when we had to," Williams aid. "We executed tha play at the end to perfection and then we played groat defense in tiro final eight seconds." Williams said ha know Uie Trojans would give the last shot to Miner, but USC coach George Raveling said tha plan was for Chris Munk to taka it "We tried to uso Miner as a decoy and let Pack take the 8-point hot, but they covered him pretty good," Raveling said. "We didn't hove a lot of time It just didn't work out" Maryland led at halflimo 38-80 but Southern Cel, behind eight points from Col omen, wont on a 10-2 run to open tho socond hnlf and pull oven at 40 with 16:00 to play.

The Trqjans led 67-56 until the Terrapins ran off six straight points, tho last two on a pair of free throws by Toyon McCoy, to take a 62-67 advantage with 8:09 to go. A pair of flee throws by Cole-man andaS-pointboaket by Minor with 2:01 left tied tho game again at 62. USC had a chaneo to toko tho load, but guard Robart Pack was called for a 5-second violation with 62 seconds to piny. Altor calling a timeout, Maryland sot up Williams' winning shot y. Straw Hat East 1930 Main j2E'y By the Mall Open 256-8456 to 11 PJUL FrL ft PBZAHOT WHEELS "NilMwMPfm Hoar CM Footer EXTRA LARGE 2 Topping I PIZZA $11.99 I Good on dloo to or del 1 1 Not Good atony otar I 1 I Halas Trophy Tim Harris leads NFL on defense Payton thinks so: "HA better than I was.

I was never that good. The previous winners of tha NEAWorid Almanac Bert Bell Trophy, awarded to the NFL1! outstanding rookie: 1964: Charlie Taylor, Washington; 1966: Gale Sayers, Chicago; 1966: Tommy Nobis, Atlanta; 1967: Mel Farr, Detroit; 1968: Earl McCul-loudi, Detroit; 1969: Calvin Hill, Dallas; 1970: Raymond Chester, Oakland; 1971: Jim Plunkett, New England (AFC); John Broddngton, Green Bay (NFC); 1972: Franco Harris, Pittsburgh (AFO; Willie Budianon, Green Bay (NFC); Clark, Cincinnati (AFO; Chuck Foreman, Minnesota (NFC); 1974: Don Woods, Son Diego; 1975: Robert Braxile, Houston (AFO; Steve Bartkowski, Atlanta (NFC); 1976: Mike Hay-nos, New England (AFC); Sammy White, Minnesota (NFC); 1977: Tony Doraett, Dallas; 1978: Earl Campbell, Houston; 1979: Ottis Anderson, SL-Louis; 1980: Billy Sims, Detroit; 1981: Lawrence Taylor, N.Y. Giants; 1982: Marcus Allen, IA. Raiders; 1988: Eric Dicker-son, LA Rams; 1984: Louis Lippe, Pittsburgh; 1986: Eddie Brown, Cincinnati; 198c: Rueben Mayes, New Orleans; lMTtfb Jadt.IWders; John Staphjrne, Now England. Harria did even more to shore up Green Bay's oftafi shaky defense.

He also forced four fiimbles, recovered three and made 72 tackles 68 of them solo. He meant an awfid lot to our football team during the 1989 season," said Infentei "One of the ttujfor reasons we had the degree of success we had was Tim Harris' year." The Packers, having their best season in nearly two decades, matched the 10-6 record of NFC Central champion Minnesota. But Groen Bay's b(d for a wild card berth in the playoffe was denied on the last weekend of the regular season. Is the Fade really back? Yes, says Infante, giving plenty of the credit to Harris'bigplays 0f not his big mouth): "HA a very talented football player who has a great fiituro in this business." The previous winners of the NEAWorid Almanac George Halas' Trophy, which Ts a wardod totheNFLls top defensive pkyer: 1966: Larry Wilson, SL Louis; 1967: Daocon Jones, Los Angelos; 1968: Deacon Jones, Los Angeles; 1969: Dick Butk-us, Chicago; 1970: Dick Butkus, Chicago; 1971: Curl Eller, Minnesota; 1972: Joe Greene, Pittsburgh; 1973: Alan Page, Minnesota; 1974: Joe Greene, Pittsburgh; 1975: Curley Culp, Houston; 1976: Jerry Shark, Cleveland; 1977: Harvey Martin, Dallas; 1978: Randy Grndishar, Denver, 1979: Leo Roy Selmon, Tampa Bay; 1980: I ter Ilnyes, Oakland; 1981: Joe Ktecko, N.Y. Jets; 1982: Mark Gastinaau, N.Y.

Jets; 1983: Jack Lombort, Pittsburgh; 1884: Mika Haynes, LA. Raiders; 1986 (tie): Howie Long, LA Raiders; Andre Tippett. New England; 1986: Lawrence Taylor, N.Y. Giants; 1987: Reggie White, Philadelphia; 1988: Mike-Singletary, Chicngu. be out for regular season we can hope for ie to get him bade by the plnyoffk," Burke said Monday.

"Obviously, if (the Penguins) ere going to go anywhere, they need him." The complication make Lc-mieux's injury different IVom that of Joo Montana, who recovered from disk surgery to quarterback the San Francisco 49eri to the lost two Super Bowl chnmpionships- "This isn't simple disk herniation," Burke said. "(Lemieux) does have some praMcmsin hie bones LONGVIEW.Texae CAP) Any fan esn toll you than were no finite this time. They saw it with their own eyes. Feiu and players their tempers at door es Gilmer played Atlanta for tha third time this basketball season. The first game, at Longview, ended with Gilmer leading 87-78 when play was halted because of a standa-dooring brawL Fearing another inch occurrence in the rematch at Atlanta could get tha schools kicked out of the Texas playofh, officials ordered that the game be played in an empty gym.

In what has been dubbed "tho beet game nobody saw, Atlanta, playing at home but without much of a home-court advantage, was beaten 98-89 in overtime. Only the Lemieux may PITTSBURGH (AP) Mario Lemfeuxli doctors, fearful that back surgery might threaten hia career, have proscribed four to six weeks of treatment end therapy that may sideline tho NHL's leading scorer for tho rest of the Dr. Charles Burks said the Penguins ore running out of options in treating Lomioux's painftil herniated disc, which recently cut short hia record-threatening scor-ing streak at 46 games. Because Uie problem is aggravated by an arthritis-liko condition that could flirther injure Lcmieuxs back if the troublesome disk is removed, Burke said surgery "is our very Inst option." Realistically, oven if he responds to Iho treatment, the best I $2.00 OFF I Any Large I PIZZA I I Good dbw In or dstowy I yyl eMtama iMIim si ttmm HOI UDOO vBmvf OHIO wM fa BUFFET. I Served 11 AM to 3 PM I MANY ITEMS such 88 I BBQRBS and 25 ITEM SALAD BAR1 "All You Can Ear I ADULTS 5JB6 plus tax I No Taka Out No Staring I (SnKidiiRlQgTpfFMffh By Howard Biner NEW YORK (NEA) Even before this season, linebacker 11m Harris was the talk of the National Football League.

Why did much of the talking. The fourth-year pro, brash and outspoken, had built himself a reputation as the beat player on the Green Bay Packers. He was also known as the guy who liked to taunt opponents and shoot an imaginary pistol after a sack. In 1989, though, his actions spoka far louder than his words. So, Harris, 25, is the winner of the World Almanac's George Halas Trophy, which has been awarded since 1968 to the NFLt best defensive player.

1 think Timmy's very deserving of this kind of an award, said Green Bay head coach Lindy Infhnto. "He's an exodlant football player who oitfoya the game and he portrays that when he takas the field." Tha Halas award is presented on behalf of The World nimnc; wwiiwh Bo oka; and. its 140 cosponsoring newspapers. The announcement was made by Newspaper Enterprise Association to more than 600 UA. daffies.

Harris, at 6-foot-6 and 250 pounds, typifies the new bread ofNFL defender who can either rush from the line of scrimmage or roam some yards bode. His tpiidc burst overcomes blockers, and Ms pursuit brings down ball -carriers. From his spot at right outside linebacker, Harris can penetrate on the Mind' side of a right-handed quarterback. The result: In 1989, Harris had 19.6 sodca second best in the NFL for a total of 128 yards lost. In feet, he's led the Puckers in sacks every season since he was drafted out of Memphis State in the fourth round in 1986.

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