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C4 The Sun FRIDAY, December 7, 1990 Victor Valley loss, Hyder glad to be back Despite By NICKLEYVA Sun Sports Writer having a field goal in the entire fourth to action Thursday alter serving a CIF-mandated 1-year suspension for striking a basketball official last year. "I'm glad this whole thing is behind me now. I just want to get on with the season and my life." Hyder, along with former teammates Thomas Wilkins and Michael Butler, was involved in a game-ending fracas with basketball officials Dick Smith and Al Jury at Moreno Valley High School last Dec. 6. It was an opening-round game in the Riverside Kiwanis Tournament.

Wilkins and Butler (former WHS coach Ollie Butler's son) received lifetime suspensions from all CIF-sanc-tioned sports. Wilkins has since graduated and Butler, now a senior at WHS, is serving out his suspension. The CIF Executive Committee handed down the lifetime suspensions to those two, but it determined Hyder had been provoked by Jury and suspended him for one year with a chance for re instatement. Hyder, who was cleared to be reinstated in September, could not play for the Jackrabbits' basketball team nor, once the season began, was he allowed to practice with the team after his regular sixth-period class ended. "He played pretty well considering he hadn't practiced with us for about three weeks," said first-year coach Kurt Herbst, who replaced veteran coach Ollie Butler over the summer.

Last year's episode eventually forced Butler to resign in June. "You could tell he got kind of tired toward the end of the game," Herbst said of Hyder. "He came in and gave us a spark in the first quarter, but then he got tired and his legs went." "I still have a lot of things to work on," said Hyder. "I was pretty proud of my defense, but my shooting and conditioning are still not 100 percent. I think I'll be ready by the (Dec.

26-29 San Ber nardino) Kiwanis Tournament." Herbst said he doesn't think it'll take that long. "I think he'll be back in shape by the end of next week," he said. "We have a couple of non-league games next week (Tuesday at Rim and next Friday at North) so those should help him a lot." Herbst said before Thursday's game he expected to bring in Hyder late in the first half. Hyder entered the game at the 2:00 mark of the first quarter with the Jackrabbits trailing 13-5. Hyder quickly drew a foul and converted a pair of free throws to cut into the Giants' lead.

By the time the senior sat back down with 3:26 left in the half, the Jackrabbits had gone on a modest 15-12 run and Ga-nesha held a scant 25-20 lead. Hyder, who was 2-of-6 from the three-point area, started the second half and immediately hit a three to tie the score 25-25. However, Ganesha went on a 12-2 run and put the game away despite not quarter. The Giants were 15-of-20 from the line in that period while threes by Hyder and Danny Mentz and two-pointers by Bill Redlin and Damian Bunch were the only offense WHS could muster. "We just didn't rebound well and our shots weren't falling," Herbst said.

"We need to work on our outside shooting; you don't win too many when you score in the 30s. "The key thing is that we finally have our whole team together and we can get Carlton involved in our game. It's important to have your whole team together." Hyder was just glad to be wearing a WHS uniform again. "The hardest part of all this was going home after sixth period while all the other guys practiced," he said. "I would just go home and study or watch TV.

It's great to get out of the street clothes and back on the court." MONTCLAIR It wasn't one of those anniversaries to happily remember or celebrate. In fact, Carlton Hyder might have wished it never happened. But he couldn't go back and erase the Events of Dec. 6, 1989. So he just took Thursday night's game in stride.

Hyder, Victor Valley High School's 6-' 3, 175-pound guard, scored 12 points, grabbed four rebounds and blocked two in the Jackrabbits' 46-37 loss to Ga-nesha in a consolation semifinal in the Upland-Montclair Tournament. It wasn't so much the fact that the Jackrabbits lost and watched their record fall to 2-3. But Hyder was back with his teammates playing the game he loves much. i "It felt great to get the feel of the court again," said Hyder, who returned Battle wins war, game for Cajon over Colton APWIREPHOTO Blackhawks goalie Ed Belfour keeps his eye on the puck as David Volek of the Islanders hopes for the rebound. Sabres hold off Philadelphia rally The Sun Junior center Shaun Battle scored 34 points and grabbed 10 rebounds to lead the Cajon Cowboys past the Colton Yellowjack-ets Thursday, 73-56, in the first round of the Notre Dame Tournament.

Senior forward Doneka Buckner added 14 points, eight rebounds and four blocks for Cajon (2-2), which plays Valley View in the second round today. Senior guard John Lisle scored 18 points and junior guard David Jones had 16 for Colton (1-3). SAN BERNARDINO 80, MONTCLAIR 43: Guard Billy King had 17 points and grabbed nine rebounds and Mike Fadipe added 15 points to lead the Cardinals into their eighth consecutive Upland-Montclair Tournament championship game tonight. Senior center Ray Owes scored 14 points and had 12 rebounds while forward Kofi Bass scored 12 points and had 11 boards. The Cardinals are 4-0 overall.

The Cavaliers were led by John Turner's 12 points. YUCAIPA 59, BARSTOW 51: Senior guard Brian Sides scored 15 points to lead the Thunderbirds (2-2) in the semifinals of the Elsi-nore Tournament. Junior forward Shawn Henry scored 11 points and senior guard Mike Bukey added 10 more for Yucaipa. Barstow's woes continued as it dropped its fifth game in as many tries. Senior guard Jason Leslie led the Aztecs with 32 points, but was the only Barstow player in double figures.

NOGALES 85, HESPERIA 60: Senior guard Jay Harrie had four three-pointers and 25 points but it wasn't enough as Hesperia was defeated by Nogales. Brian Oloiza had 15 rebounds to go with his 9 points. CORONA 76, AQUINAS 62: Junior guard Wesley Caruthers scored 29 points and senior forward Jeremy Fitzgerald added 12 more, but the Falcons (0-2) still fell in the first round of the Notre Dame Tournament. BIG BEAR 56, RIM OF THE WORLD 53: Senior guard Russ Ru-bio scored 11 of his 15 points in the first quarter to lead Big Bear (3-1) to a their third victory against Rim of the World. Senior center Chris Neale had 14 points, 10 rebounds and five blocked shots.

ALTA LOMA 69, CORONA CENTENNIAL 46: Senior forward Allan Hebbert scored 20 points and added five steals as Alia Loma defeated Sentenial in the first round of the Arlington Tournament. Alta Loma went on a 10-0 run in the second quarter that Sente- Belfour (17-7-1) stopped 29 shots. The Islanders are now 0-5-2 since beating Winnipeg on Nov. 22. CANADIENS 6, BOSTON 4: Ste-phan Lebeau and Brian Skrud-land scored rare power-play goals for Montreal as the Canadiens moved within one point of Adams Division-leading Boston with a victory over the host Bruins.

The Montreal power-play, once the best, is now the worst in the 21-team NHL with 17 goals in 137 chances. The victory left the Canadiens with 33 points to Boston's 34 in the race for first place in the Adams Division. Boston, however, has three games in hand. MAPLE LEAFS 2, NORTH STARS 1: Rob Ramage's goal with 2:03 left in overtime lifted Toronto to victory over Minnesota. Maple Leafs goalie Peter Ing made 29 saves as Toronto stopped Minnesota's three-game winning streak.

From Sun News Services past Pomona COLLEGE BASKETBALL Heels rally for victory Rick Fox and Pete Chilcutt led a second-half surge that "helped lOth-ranked North Carolina overcome a big deficit and take a 79-64 victory over 14th- s-ranked Connecticut (3-1) on Thursday night. The Tar Heels (4-1) won the final game of the challenge series between the Atlantic Coast and the Big East. But the Big East won six of the flight games between the two Conferences. Virginia beat Pitt an the series opener for the only other win. Fox scored 18 points before -fouling out and suffering an arm injury.

George Lynch scored 12 and Chilcutt and Hubert Davis added 11 each for North Carolina. Lynch also had a career-high i4 rebounds. The Tar Heels, who trailed 40-33 at halftime, spent the sec-, ond half chipping away at the '(Huskies before finally overtaking them. 0 DITTCRIIBRU 1IK UAQQUAII 75: Brian Shorter scored 17 of his 20 points in the sec ond half as No. 11 Pittsburgh (5- 1) wasted most of a 20-point first-half lead before recovering to Tout visiting Marshall (3-3).

TENNESSEE TECH 84, S. MISSISSIPPI 78: Van Usher scored 7, nine of his 17 points in the second halfas host Tennessee Tech (3-2) No. 15 Southern Mississippi (2-1). '3 From Sun News Services iU of men iwin in OT The Sun x' IRVINE Junior forward Jeff Sofro scored 21 points and junior guard Brad Jaques shot in 'T9 more Thursday night to lead University of Redlands alien's basketball team to an overtime victory over Christ College. Sophomore center Brett Grebihg shot in 14 points and grabbed a team-high seven rebounds for the Bulldogs (5-2).

Sophomore forward Dave Purdy added 10 points for Redlands. Cory Smith of Christ College l-7) drilled a three-pointer with '13 seconds left to force the overtime. Jaques led Redlands with five pjoints in overtime. Christ College never led in the five-minute extra period. Redlands plays Domican Gollege today in Irvine.

Final: Etiwanda Continued fromC1 lro school was forced to forfeit its J.wo playoff wins. That left the Eagles ready to play and nobody to play against als the CIF automatically advanced them into tonight's final. -1 "I'm tired about hearing how Vve backed into this thing," Tis-jiale said. "Our kids feel if we have played the (Central) gjome we would have won. It's too bad this had to happen.

But, hey, viie didn't do anything wrong." I Tisdale said the unexpected bye might be beneficial to his team. "For one, Norco didn't get to tee us play in a semifinal," he J'aid, "and, for another, we got all those bumps and bruises that the kids were nursing to kind of heal. We're definitely ready." Rick Valve got the flashy duty scoring the game-winning goal with 4:02 left remaining but the Sabres' penalty killers were the real heroes of Buffalo's 4-3 victory over the host Philadelphia Flyers. After allowing the Flyers to score three straight to tie the game Thursday night, the Sabres kept Philadelphia from scoring during a five-minute penalty against goaltender Clint Malar-chuk and a one-man advantage during the last 1:20 of the game. "We had a lot of adversity in the game," Buffalo coach Rick Dudley said.

"We lost our No. 1 goaltender. You're obviously not happy when you lose a Clint Ma-larchuk." Christian Ruuttu and Dave Snuggerud led the Buffalo defense, which stymied the Flyers on five of six power-play opportunities. "Between Ruuttu and Snuggerud, we feel that they're the best combination of penalty killers in the league," Dudley said. Vaive put in his own rebound for the winning goal.

He first redirected Doug Bodger's point Queen leads The Sun BOYS BASKETBALL nial was unable to come back. Senior forward Len Crow chipped in 13. VALLEY VIEW 73, BEAUMONT 69: Junior forward Robert Kelly scored 18 points, but the Cougars (1-3) fell in the first round of the Notre Dame Tournament. Senior forward Malt Pohl scored 13 points and junior guard Jason Lindsey added. 12 more for Beaumont.

AMBASSADOR BAPTIST 60, CSDR 45: Sophomore guard Rick Martinez scored 21 points and junior forward Mark Winkleman added 16 more to lead the Bulldogs (3-1) into the semifinals of the Webb Tournament. REDLANDS CALVARY CHAPEL 82, NEW LIFE ACADEMY 42: Senior Aaron Miller and freshman Joel Harworth scored 19 points apiece to lead Redlands (3-1) in the Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa Tournament. Harworth and Miller also had six rebounds each. Junior Jon Chesnut led the team in rebounds with 10 and added 1 1 points. WESTERN CHRISTIAN 78, INLAND CHRISTIAN: Tory Light scored 31 points but it wasn't enough as Inland Chriatian(2-1) fell to Western Christian.

Senior guard Chris Bruice led Western Christian with 25 points. FONTANA 89, NOTRE DAME 80: Senior guard Dave Smith scored 27 points to lift the Steelers (2-2) into the semifinals of the Notre Dame Tournament. Senior forward Randy Price shot in 20 points and senior forward Nate Canady added 13 points for Fontana, which plays Corona at 8 p.m. today. REDLANDS 76, ETIWANDA 61; Senior guard Marcus Rogers scored 20 points and senior center David Brubacher added 17 points and 13 rebounds as Redlands defeated Etiwanda in the Montclair-Upland Tournament semifinals.

Redlands (4-0) plays today in the finals. RAMONA SAN DIEGO 90, BLOOMINGTON (80): Hot-shooting guards Alfenso Do La Nuez (31 points) and Clint Cook (29) led Ra mona to a fast start and a first round victory over Bloomington in the Elsinore Tournament. Ramona (2-0) jumped out to a 29-12 lead in the first quarter and led by 19 at the half. Sparked by 6-6 junior center Gregg Hardrick (29 points and 12 rebounds) and senior guard Gil Garza (26 points), the Bruins (1-1) outscored Ramona by nine in the second half, but could never make it close. Bloomington plays Hemet at 5 p.m.

today in the consolation round. GIRLS BASKETBALL PALMS 39: Terri Fisher had a game-high 22 points, but the Wildcats (0-3) fell in a losers' bracket game of the Banning-Beaumont Tournament. BANNING 67, BIG BEAR 23: Pa 111 Peloza scored 10 points, but the Bears (0-3) were never in it, losing in a losers' bracket game in the Banning-Beaumont Tournament. Banning led 31-14 at halftime and 46-18 after three quarters. ARROWHEAD CHRISTIAN 44, S.

CALIFORNIA CHRISTIAN 17: Senior forward Andrea DeYoung scored 21 points and had nine rebounds to lead Arrowhead Christian to a victory over Southern California Christian. Arrowhead held Southern California scoreless in the third quarter and kept the team in single-figure scoring in the first, second, and fi nal quarters. Arrowhead plays host to May-field Wednesday at 6 p.m. NHL ROUNDUP drive. Goaltender Ken Wregget, seeing action for the first time since injuring his hip Nov.

4, made the initial save. But Vaive pushed the puck around the sprawled Wregget, who replaced Pete Peeters after a goal by Snuggerud at 9:29 of the second period. "It's two games in a row that we let the other team dictate the tempo and get up 3-0," Philadelphia coach Paul Holmgren said. "It's our building and we should dictate the tempo." BLACKHAWKS 5, ISLANDERS 2: Steve Larmer had two goals and three assists and goaltender Ed Belfour earned his NHL-leading 17th triumph as the Chicago Blackhawks extended the New York Islanders' winless streak to seven games with a victory. Michel Goulet had a pair of goals and Jeremy Roenick picked up four assists, equaling a career high.

Larmer's goals were his 18th and 19th of the season. His five points, matching a career best, gave him 42. Cal State men game while the offense is averaging a little more than 30 points an outing. "We've been winning handily," said Tisdale, in his eighth year at the Rancho Cucamonga high school. "We just hope we can keep it going another another game." Meanwhile, Norco has quietly sneaked through the lower bracket with a solid defense and an adequate offense.

Wachholtz, a 6-5, 200 senior with 4.7 speed, has completed 108-of-175 passes for 1,743 yards and 19 TDs. Wide receiver Tyrone Harts is his favorite target with 39 catches for 621 yards and 12 TDs. Fullback Shane Ballard leads the rushing attack with 1,359 yards and 15 TDs. The offensive line is one of the division's bigger ones with center and junior guard assists along with The Coyotes half when it eight minutes of 7 three-point Pomona got an 8-2 run by Cal Cal State plays 8 p.m. as part women play Cal Darren Thompson dished out six scoring eight points.

led by as much as 55-46 in the second made six three-pointers in the first the second half. Cal State was 1-of- shooting tin the first half. as close as 59-56 with 7:34 left, but State put the game away. host to Claremont on Saturday at of a doubleheader. The Cal State Baptist at 5:30 p.m.

POMONA Junior forward Darrin Queen scored 22 points and grabbed eight rebounds Thursday night to lead the Cal State San Bernardino men's basketball team to a 73-67 victory over Pomo-na-Pitzer. Senior center Ron Ligon chipped in with 12 points, 10 rebounds and four blocks as Cal State improved to 3-6. Pomona is 1-5. Junior guard John Guerrero shot in 11 points Porter leads Redlands into tournament final lone county team in CIF football final tonight The Sun Senior guard Penny Porter had 16 points, 11 rebounds, and six assists to lead Redlands over Temecula, 66-41, in the semifinals of the Beaumont Tournament. Senior center Kim Burr and Kathleen Sigford both chipped in 14 points apiece.

Redlands (5-0) plays Perris today in the final. HESPERIA 49, FONTANA 36: Junior center Tena Meis had 12 points and seven rebounds, and senior forward Crystal Thorn chipped in 11 rebounds logo with seven points to lead Hesperia (3-2) over Fontana in the fifth-place semifinal game of the Etiwanda Tournament. Fontana held close in the first half, but Hesperia dominated the second half. Hesperia plays again Saturday al 6 p.m. SAN JACINTO 41, TWENTYNINE The Eagles are led by Tau-kieaho (1,104 yards on 140 carries, 16 TDs) and Smith (862 yards on 101 carries, 15 TDs).

Halfback Matt Morehead has caught 18 passes for 381 yards and seven TDs and quarterback Geoff Minet has completed 63-of-1 38 for 1 ,452 yards and 1 1 Ds. The defense is solid with tackle John Latu (6-0, 246) and left end Chad Barksdale (5-7, 155). Latu has 115 tackles and 18 sacks while Barksdale has 99 tackles and nine sacks. Strong safety Terry Carver has 81 tackles and two interceptions while right end Mike Pan-nell has 69 tackles and seven sacks. He also has scored three TDs, one on an interception and two on fumble recoveries.

The Eagles defense is allowing an average of just six points a Joe Montano (6-3, 230), right guard Peter Becker (6-3, 240) and right tackle James Cregg (6-4, 230). Becker and Cregg were all-league picks last year. "Even when these guys were juniors, we knew we would have a great line this year," Campbell said, "because they were better than our seniors who graduated last year." The Cougars are led on defense by leading tacklcrs linebackers Shay Muirbrook and Gordie Legere. "I've had better teams before, thought we were going to do well and lose in the first round," said Campbell, who grew up three blocks from Citrus College. "You always think you're going to do well.

At the beginning of the playoffs, I thought this team might have a chance to go all the way. Now, we're almost there.".