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today in sports STEVE los iio ilAVMA STAN ELFRINK TERRY CLARK BRAD SCHOENBECH TOM SCHMIDT REGGIE GARDNER GERALD WASHINGTON RON JONES stnirn i All-Area: Old new star sports April 2 1976 Page 15 The News-Democrat game GARY HAVERMAN- Haverman's quickness and mobility with the ball helped produce a 19-6 year for Belleville East His 175 points per game topped the Lancers too Haverman hit a deadly 55 per cent from the field as a junior RODNEY BROOKS- Rodney is called "Sky" because of his great leaping ability but it might as well have been for his ability to keep Lebanon high in the standings all year Brooks canned 189 points and 11 rebounds per game and took the Greyhounds into the supersectionals He was named a Class A All-Stater GARY Ed-wardsville like Belleville West placed a lot of hope for its inside game on one man For the Tigers it was Riechmann and he responded Riechmann topped the Tigers in rebounding with 105 per game and was second in scoring with 17 points per contest TOM Schmidt See All-Area page 16 By DON FROST News-Democrat Sports Editor The old and the new the better and the best That's the way this year's second annual News-Democrat All-Area Prep Basketball Team shapes up The old in this case stands for Steve Lanter Leroy Stam-pley Reggie Gardner and Anthony Williams Those four are the only repeaters from last year's All-Area squad The new is represented by the five juniors on the team The "youngsters" include Belleville East's Gary Haverman Rodney Brooks of Lebanon Rick Klingelhoefer from Mas-coutah St Henry's Stan El-frink and Brad Schoenbech of Marissa A thumbnail sketch of each player follows STEVE Lanter capped a brilliant prep career at Mascoutah with a 233 points per game scoring average In addition he hit 60 per cent from the floor and 80 per cent from the free throw line while hauling in 12 rebounds in gymnastics YMCA girls to compete Stephanie Noblitt will be one of several girls from the Belleville Family YMCA who will compete Saturday April 10 in a state qualifying gymnastics meet The qualifying meet will be held at Carbondale Noblitt will compete in the 11 and under age bracket Also competing in the same division will be Cheryl Loehr Girls who will compete in the 12 and older bracket will be Paige Simms Tina Pannier Jeanne Doherty and Karen Meder in football Oilers to announce trade The Houston Oilers have scheduled a press conference today to announce the trade of backup quarterback Lynn Dickey to the Green Bay Packers for veteran signal John Had! Both quarterbacks former players at Kansas are expected to switch roles Dickey is expected to start for Green Bay while Hadl will probably serve as back-up to Dan Pastsrini Hadl is 36 and Dickey is 27 The Oilers reportedly will also receive seven year cornerback Ken Ellis and two middle draft choice plus cash in the deal Charlie Joiner traded The Cincinnati Bengals Thursday traded wide receiver Charlie Joiner to the San Diego Chargers for defensive end Coy Bacon Joiner is a seven year veteran He had his best season last year catching 37 passes for 726 yards and five touchdowns Bacon is a 270-pound nine year veteran in baseball Kuhn fails to sanction plan Baseball commissioner Bowie Kahn Thursday refused to sanction the American League's proposed plan to expand to Toronto in 1977 until some provision is made to provide a team in Washington DC "It is difficult for me to see how I can ignore the American League's failure to provide for Washington" Kuhn said "At the same time I must give the American League high marks for its consistent cooperation with the Franchise Committee Kuhn has said for the last several years expansion into Washington was essential to the long-term interests of the game and should be given priority to any plans to expand Bus service expanded The special bus service to St Louis Cardinal baseball games has been expanded in Belleville the Bi-State transit system has announced A new line has been added The branch will serve the area along 17th St and North Belt The new line will run from 17th St Main via 17th St and will stop at the Bel-Air Bowl The line will then continue on North Belt Main and State Sts The bus will continue along 7th St Broadway Ave and will cross the Eads Bridge From there it will go directly to the stadium The other branch will cover the same route as last from High Main Sts via Main St to North Belt The line will then continue on Main and Stale Sts covering the same route as the new branch Buses on both branches will pick passengers up at all local bus stops from Belleville to 3rd then non-stop to the stadium Adult cash fare on all lines will be 75 cents plus a 10-eent zone charge Children under 13 will pay half the adult fare Regular weekly passes will be good on all Red Bird Express buses upon a payment of 45 cent plus zone charges Senior citizens and blind persons with Bi-State Identification Cards may ride for 35 cents plus a five cent zone charge in golf Haynie scores ace "All I thought was wow" said Sandra Haynie "Five thousand dollars I remember when they didn't win that for a whole season" Those were her thoughts Thursday after firing a hole-in-one in the first round of the $200000 Winners Circle LPGA tournament at Palm Springs Calif Five thousand dollars was also her prize for recording the ace Boosted by her hole-in-one which came on the 165-yard eighth hole the 32-year old veteran shot a two over par 74 which puts her six shots off the lead of Kathy McMullen and Susie Maxwell Berning per game He was named an all-stater after leading the Indians to a 24-3 record and the Mississippi Valley Conference championship LEROY Stampley became synonymous with offense during the course of the last two years at Alton The 6-1 senior hit over 50 per cent from the floor while averaging 23 points per game for Coach Glenn McPherson Stampley was a threat both inside and out FRED BARTON- Barton was a prolific scorer for Ed-wardsville and was a big reason the Tigers advanced to the Carbondale Class AA super-sectional after a mediocre season Barton also averaged 23 points per game while shooting close to 50 per cent JON At 6 5 Jon Harry was expected to provide the inside attack for Belleville West this season Harry did that but he also proved an able shooter away from the basket and netted 205 points per game and 10 rebounds per contest RON JONES- When college scouts start talking about prized players to come out of this area they usually wind up talking about Ron Jones Jones led the Trojans to a 25-3 record and a regional championship over rival Venice while averaging 20 points per I RED BARTON GARY JEFFRIES LEROY STAMPLEY Balanced field set for Lancer Relays BRAND NEW going to try to put our top too early to tell how we com 1976 STOCK NO 223 ONLY UUJV Immediate Delivery By ROGER SCHLUETER I News-Democrat Sports Writer A warm spring day a fight to the fin-j ish and a chance for area track teams to start checking each other out Put those together and you I have the makings of the Belleville East Invitational Price includes: 2 Bl 140 cu in engine 3 speed syncro floor shift whi-tewall tires body side moldings soft ray glass bucket seats 4 passenger car with large trunk 5 year 60000 mile engine warranty A TRUE ECONOMY CAR ECONOMICALLY PRICED PONTIAC'S FULL SIZE HARDTOP CATALINA nnaun yriu team together and do our best" A look at the two local entries in the meet: BELLEVILLE WEST: Maroon Coach Norm Armstrong is the only coach in the meet to use both "quality" and "depth" to describe his team this year For while most teams point to a number of prime individuals Armstrong can rattle off names and numbers which may make his Maroons a force to be reckoned with this spring Among those names are senior Rob Davenport and sophomore Bob Weilmuenster distance runners who qualified for the state tournament last year Also high on Armstrong's list are junior sprinters Tim Armstrong and Mark Collins junior distance man Jim Bartlesmeyer and senior hurdler Pat Compton to name a few All are lettermen "We have had a lot of experience on the track and I think we have a lot of depth" Armstrong says "East St Louis and Alton are the two teams everybody will be looking to beat but I think we're going to challenge if we do get some depth" At the 38-team indoor meet at Eastern Illinois University in March Collins finished second in the 440 (515) Armstrong was fifth in the Bt stm a IW BBI 1 Wm i i nnr IllinilW OIULK INU OO I A Relays And Saturday should prove no different when seven area squads along with Mt Vernon converge on the fast Lancer track for the third annual affair Field events get underway at 11 am while running events open up at noon As usual the relays offer an interesting way to get the spring track season off and running Not only are all events set up on a team relay rather than individual basis but the sophomore and varsity scores are added together to produce an overall champion And although most squads have had a dual meet or two most are still trying to find what talent the other teams have As usual this year's field promises to be another well-balanced one In addition to Mt Vernon Belleville East ONLY Immediate Delivery PRICE INCLUDES: pare with past years but this group has worked harder throughout the winter than any group I have had for a long time" BELLEVILLE EAST: If Paul Browning were to make a record album he'd probably pattern it after Paul Simon's latest and call it "Still Thin After All These Years" At least that's how he describes his 1976 it has good talent but it's thin "We're awfully thin" he says "I don't know what it is but we can't seem to get it all together here Really we're primarily a young team But we seem to keep living from year to year" Numbering among his favorites are seniors Mark Mueller and Tom Reid Mueller is a sprinter-leaper who qualified for the state tournament last year with a long jump of 21-7 Reid is a sprinter and a member of the Lancer relay corps "They're our two standbys they're tough" Browning said "They'll probably be the backbone of our team this spring" Other seniors Browning is looking to for leadership include distance men Doug Meyer and Greg Phelps discus thrower Ron Koch shot putter Kurt Kreitner high jumper Joe Slimack relay man Al Hursey and hurdler Rick Valdeviez In the field Chuck Harrison and Gary Dedmon will help fill some of the jumping spots while Kevin Seelman and Stan Dickerson take over the pole vaulting Others who merit watching will be quarter-miler Todd Fink middle distance man Rick Kasten and John Henry "This team has worked hard to accomplish what they have" Browning says "We'll probably take a few lumps but I think we should be able to give some teams some trouble" AIR CONDITIONER vinyl top whitewalls radio side moldings soft ray glass vinyl seats wheel discs wheel opening moldings remote control mirror plus much more land Belleville West will be knocking heads along with Collinsville Edwardsville Granite City North Granite City South and Cahokia i Last year Mt Vernon eked 600 and the mile relay team of Collins Compton middle out a one-point win over the 'two local entries although NOTE: Last Day To Order Full Size 76 Pontiacs Is April 19th GMAC or BANK FINANCING AVAILABLE We're open Mon-Wed-Fri til 9 pm Tues Thurs til 5:30 pm Sat til 5 pm SEE US BEFORE YOU BUY ANY CAR in tennis Connors draws Alexander Jimmy Connors will play John Alexander in the first round of next week's S60000 River Oaks Tennis Tournament which will be held in Houston Connors the no 1 seed in the tournament will also face difficult competition in his bracket should he get past Alexander He would meet the winner of the Cliff Rlchey-Vltas Gemlaitas match to reach the semifinals against probably file Naslase or Harold Solomon "We are going to have fans with finals tickets swapping them for tickets earlier in the week" said tournament director Harry Partin in basketball five schools wound up within distance runner Mike Mein- 11 points of each other as the koth and junior Chuck Hollis title race went down to the final event This year much BI U-I L- uie bdine udiiie seems to oe shaping up so as usual coaches are picking no clear- placed fourth Other top performances have included a 4:34 mile from Weilmuenster a 4:37 from Bartlesmeyer and a 1:592 half-mile from Collins Still other faces to look for on the track will be junior middle distance runner Keith Kniep-kamp and sprinters Tom Schmitz a junior and Steve Ward a sophomore "We've been to a couple of indoor meets and I think our cut favorites "The field seems to be pretty even" Belleville East Coach Paul Browning says "Collinsville will be good in the high jump discus and Abdul-Jabbar honored Although his team nrobahlv will not make Ihp Ma I shot but what they have on tional Basketball Association playoffs Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has been voted the league's Most Valuable the track I don't know West lis always strong The other flayer teams all have a number of times have been exceptional good individuals We're just Armstrong Jays "It's really.