Evansville Press from Evansville, Indiana • 33

Friday Dacambar 1 1995 33 fnEvamvillePres? SSPOK In this section 36 For the record 37 Comics 38 Lotteries USD opens tamer season alt tame By Erie Crawford won the starting spot at small forward averaging 125 points per game and is second-best on the team with five rebounds per contest Several noteworthy newcomers led by guard Johnny Moore a transfer from Eastern Illinois who Was MVP of the Alaska-Fairbanks Tournament of Champions with a 125-point average Still not everything is new When asked about USI's Kenny Kent Toyota-sponsored tournament coinciding with Toyota's announcement that it would build a new truck plant near Princeton USI coach Bruce Pearl ever the salesman miss a beat "Hey great timing" he See Page 34 where we want our program to be This game should show us how far we have to go to get But the Screaming Eagles hope to display more than new banners trophies and uniforms in their regular-season home opener Among some of the other new features: A more confident aggressive Neil Coyle at center The 6-f oot-8 fifth-year senior brought a 59-point career scoring average into this season but he also brought 15 pounds of added muscle and a new attitude the team's No 2 scorer at 150 points per game A new and vastly improved Scott Taylor After a redshirt season the 6-4 Junior returned with improved size lallhandling and shooting range and But the symbols of success were on full display for the tourney participants who arrived for shootarounds last night They lost on University of Charleston coach Bryan Poore who will lead his Golden Eagles (1-2) playing their first full season at the Division II level against No 1-ranked USI (2-0) at 7:30 tonight know much about Southern Indiana but the banners say all we need to know" Poore said the best in Division II At first I was happy to be in such a good tournament but not too excited about playing the national champions on their floor I thought about it and I decided that it was appropriate at the top of Division II and The first thing that greets visitors to the University of Southern Indiana's Physical Activities Center is a new addition: A narrow wooden case displaying the 1995 NCAA Division II basketball championship trophy Take a left turn into the arena and glimpse a new set of banners most significantly the blue national championship banner hanging above the far end zone That banner and others commemorating NCAA tournament and Great Lakes Valley Conference accomplishments will be unveiled between games of Kenny Kent Toyota National Shootout Letter-swapping of local stations due this weekend If you watch any local television you no doubt know by now that a momentous day is fast upon us You surely have heard that one of the most important events in the history of this city will take place effective midnight Sunday when ooh just saying it makes me shiver three of thelocal television stations will be swapping their network affiliations Kind people at all three stations have done what they can to ease the insecurity we three-dimensional people often feel in such times of emotional turmoil All three stations have assured us that the change will not affect their to us (Whew) All three have assured us that fie the logic! even though the best in town right now be an even better best when they change affiliations try to figure out how that works It will make your head hurt) As with most events of such sweeping importance people are asking one big question: To heck with the existential implications this going to affect me? In this case you sports fans are wondering how it will change your television viewing habits Tie answer of course is not much everything that is there now will be there later except maybe on a different station And that simply gives us another excuse to play with the re-a little longer mote control All-City team led by North star By David Jackson Staff reporter Coach of the Year Player of the Year Deke Cooper (Sr) Mike Wilson North running back North 206 lbs Here are the 24 players who were elected to the 1995 All-City Football Team Eleven players were chosen for offense! and defense A kicker and a punter were also named B'l'V'-' ftlj'' 'gT '-V: a a s'Jk fr 'L-m Class School Height Weight Name Fosttkm Quarterback Duce Reeder Senior Reitz 61 192 lbs 186 lbs 62 Running back Levron Williams Junior Bosse sssm 150 lbs so Wide receiver Jimmy Klusmeier Senior Central mm Senior North Bart Blalock Tackle 255 lbs 270 lbs join Cooper on the All-City list led by example and he inspired everyone by the work he did in the offseason and in the weight Wilson said set a higher standard in training that his teammates followed" Also honored from North: senior guard Eric Emspiger senior linebackers Joe Patterson and David Branch junior defensive back William Beverly and junior punter Nick Barnes Also chosen to the line: Mater Dei tackle Matt Boehman and tight end Nick Mayer Reitz guard Kevin Mackey and Central center Casey Gray Setting the backfield in motion is Beits quarterback Duce Reeder who completed 111 of 186 passes for 1640 yards and 18 touchdowns His ability to read defenses gave him the nod in a quarterback-rich season over North option artist Kareem Neighbors and passers Andy Owen of Central and Chris Koes-ter of Mater Dei Mayer who had 58 catches for 10 touchdowns and 800 yards is joined at receiver by Jimmy Klusmeier (32 catches 759 yards seven TDs) and LaMareo Norman (29 catches 676 yards 14 TDs) Bosse junior Levron Williams who rushed for 2102 yards and 21 touchdowns on 262 carries is the other back Reitz senior Adam Hubbard who hit 31 of 35 extra-point attempts and a pair of 25-yard field goals is the kicker Blalock (28 tackles) is joined along the defensive front by Brandon Haefle (50 tackles seven sacks) and Derek Barnett (51 five) and Reits's Tony Madison (45 five) Patterson (40 tackles) and Branch (56) are joined at linebacker by Central senior Kurt Davies (106) and Reitz senior Mike Penrod (107) The secondary is rounded out by Harrison senior Jeremy Redd (76 tackles six interceptions) and Reitz junior Tyrone Browning (71 tackles seven interceptions) Senior North Senior Central There seemed to be nowhere to go but down for Deke Cooper When Cooper now a senior at North High School first stepped onto the practice field four years ago he was heralded by Coach Mike Wilson as the most talented player ever coached For three years Cooper dis tinguished himself as a very good player This fall he made a prophet out of his coach Cooper moved from receiver to tailback midway through this season and transformed North from a good team into an exceptional one The Huskies (13-1) won city conference sectional regional and semistate titles before suffering their only loss in the Class 5-A title game The 6-foot-3 206-pound caught 18 passes for 370 (a 206-yard average) and touchdowns He ran 125 times for 1239 yards (a 103-yard average) and 10 TDs was so much fun to watch Deke grow into his talent this year" said Wilson who has been chosen The Evansville Coach of the Year in the same season Cooper was named the Most Outstanding Player on the All-City team were so many things we could do with him He could catch the ball he could run and he could throw He really is one in a million He has all the physical ability and the drive to go with Recruiters from Florida Michigan Notre Dame Nebraska Illinois Northwestern Indiana and others have noticed Wilson kept telling me that I had hidden talent I know I had but I thought he was just talking" said Cooper just worked hard to get ready for the season and I was able to play with some great Six of them led by Bart Blalock a senior chosen at both offensive and defensive tackle Guard Center EricEmspiger MBS Casey Gray Name VfofifoV Class 'School --V Height Weight PDSftkM you wan yourself a few clicks of the clicker a quick rundown of the four network-affiliated local stations and how things will be as of Monday: WTVW-Channel 7: The longtime ABC affiliate is switching to Fox making it the biggest gainer in sports programming Fox has rights to games from the National Football League Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League On the other hand it will lose the popular NFL Monday Night Football with its final broadcast taking place last Monday Sports director Mike Mallory says there is one question callers ask far more than any other: want to know if still going to be carrying UK basketball" he said The answer is yes WTVW will retain its UK basketball package which includes both live and tape-delayed games WFIE-Channel 14: WFIE is not changing affiliates which is hardly a surprise Nothing has changed at this NBC station since Mike Blake let his crewcut grow out in 1960 The only local sports programming will still be University of Evansville basketball The sports programming will remain mostly the NFL WEHT-Channel 26: Currently the CBS affiliate WEHT is switching to ABC And that means nothing will stay the same because the station have any local or regional sports programming to retain 225 lbs A Defensive tackle Derek Barnett Sophomore Harrison Defensive end Brandon Haefle Senior i Outside LB David Branch Senior 63 195 lbs asanBBa- 7jf Inside LB Joe Patterson Senior North 224 lbs -V Comerback Jeremy Redd Senior Harrison 61 200 lbs Reitz Tyrone Browning Junior Cl Safety Pnm graphic by Paul WMIan Jr WEHT will lose one of the biggest plums in the business with the NCAA tournament and also Pitino expects close game against IU Baa Ewtaa By Erie Crawford oU'MoorstillwantstoreturntotheHoosiers join the team- ill Ron Radford who coached i sister Sanunthaaaid Moore told her that he a problem with Boh Knight She told the paper that Moore was concerned with the health of his 1-year-old daughter: i missing durr? foot-7 forward at Southern! Union Mg Indiana i 73-53 win over Notre Dame on Tuesday report left the team because of a But hiijf omcff loniorollegt: ichl (ItoalUoiusviltefCouriei State in Alabama last season said heM expects Moore and the IU coaches to work out tho Ifl toMhimi togobacki i could be worked outf Radford fiahCfHe aidtf want to do the regular-season college basketball package It adds Monday Night Football beginning with a Chicago Bears-Detroit Lions matchup the day after the swap WEW-Channel 44: The Fox affiliate got dumped when a group including network czar Ruppert Murdoch purchased WTVW-Channel 7 but picked up CBS WEW loses lots of sports prohours picking up NCAA but losing the NFL -NHL and Major League Baseball But worry not Hoosier fans the station will retain its rights to Indians University basketball gotten a lot of calls from people who had the misconception that our IU package somehow came from said sports director Adam Alexander not the case IU will still be on 44" By the way most of basketball games are televised by sister station TSN-Chan-nel 51 Cable 48 something that can workediut who suffers from absence went unexi plained after the winTues- day night! Knight the jxwt game new conference A 'jffcT ft 'Xirv The calls came from all over the Bluegrass State to a Louisville Ky sports talk show last night Billy from Madison ville Curt from Lexington Mary from Leitchfield and a chorus of others all had the same prediction for 2 pm Ken-tucky-Indiana college basketball showdown at the RCA Dome in Indianapolis: 'Cats by a bunch Even the own fan maga sine has listed Kentucky as a 5-point favorite Kentucky coach Rick Pitino forgotten that the border rivalry has produced more nail-biters than any other since he arrived in Lexington He was ready with a quick History 101 lesson for his team this week people tell me that big favorites against Indiana I -always say that nobody's a big favorite bounded from a disappointing loss to Butler to knock them off 96-84 This time it is Kentucky that needs to bounce back after a 92-82 losa to No 5 Massachusetts on Tuesday Indiana (2-2) seems to have righted itself after a meltdown in the Great Alaska Shoots See "Kentucky-! Pag 34 Since 1973 the have brought a national ranking across the state line 10 times and eight times Indiana sent them home with a loss Still Kentucky (1-1) has won three of the past four games by scores of 73-70 81-79 and 76-74 The last time the visited the RCA Dome was 1993 They were ranked No 1 then' too but IU re against Pitino said last season after his heavily favored Wildcats escaped with a 3-point win you do best is what Indiana stops you from doing They take away your No 1 option and force you to be disciplined and patient Our games will always be close the nature of the "PSPHF mm hot tips SPORTSLINE mm If you have a sports tip a question or a comment on sports coverage please call Sports Editor Tim Ethridge at 812-422-1234 and leave a message on extension 1503 A touch-tone phone is required Army has beaten Navy three consecutive times in the service academy rivalry that will be renewed at 11 am tomorrow (WTVW-Channel 7 Cable 8) but the margin been much The three wins over the Midshipmen have come by the scores of 22-20 16-14 and 25-24 The University of Evansville basketball team will get a more physical challenge at 7:05 pm tomorrow when ithosts Western Michigan at Roberts Stadium UE coach Jim Crews says the Broncos (0-2) will be bigger and more talented than Chicago State which fell to the Aces 111-69 on Tuesday night UE is 1-1 against Western Michigan the past two seasons Stray Page 34 Veteran quarterback Steve Beuerleln says no way the expansion Jacksonville Jaguars will play below their abilities to gain an edge in next NFL draft though at 3-9 now tied with Washington and the New York Jets for the worst record in the league and a shot at the No 1 pick for next season: "We're playing for jobs If we have higher Uajr draft picks next year wore guys in this locker room 1 won't be here next year You're not going to find anybody on our team playing for draft position klu 1.