Ukiah Daily Journal from Ukiah, California • Page 8

8 TUESDAY, NOV. 17, 1992 DIGEST Youth boys' hoop placement gets moved The city of Ukiah Community Services Department boys' youth basketball placement this Saturday has been moved from the Pomolita Middle School gym to the Ukiah High School gym. The tryout times remain the same, with the fourth and fifth grades scheduled for 9 a.m., and the sixth, seventh and eighth grades scheduled for 11 a.m. The high school placement originally scheduled for 1 p.m. has been canceled, with high school players being automatically placed on teams by the Community Services Department.

Elks to hold competition The Ukiah Elks will hold their annual for boys and girls this Saturday at 10 a.m. in the Pomo- lita gym. All boys and girls between the ages of 8-13 are welcome to participate. Trophies will be presented to the first two places in each of the six categories, with the winners invited to particpate in the Elk District shoot-off in December. Eight and 9-year-olds will shoot from four feet in front of the regulation foul line.

All others will shoot from the regulation distance. For more information, call 462-7897. Sports THE UKIAH DAILY JOURNAL To report sports news telephone Steo Guertln, 468-3521 TRIVIA What NBA team has the best winning percentage over the past five seasons? (see answer at bottom of schedule) SCORES Junior College Girls' Basketball Santa Rosa Mendocino 78 47 SCHEDULE Willits, other Empire teams fare well in NCS playoff picks By GLENN ERICKSON Journal Sports Editor Emeritus Ask, and ye shall receive. But Anderson Valley High School football coach Keith Squires did not apply for an at-large berth in NCS-B football at the annual North Coast Section seed- ings and pairings meeting held in Ukiah. As a result, the NCS selection committee set up only a three-team NCS-B postseason playoff at the smallest school level.

Ukiah High School Stadium will be the site for the NCS-A and NCS- Championship football games on Dec. 5. Even without Anderson Valley's football Panthers, the Redwood Empire fared well in both football and volleyball sccdings and selections Sunday. Anderson Valley will be represented at the North Coast Section level by its North Coast League HI championship volleyball team, which posted a 17-2 record this sea- TUESDAY VOLLEYBALL Sierra College at Mendocino College (6:30 p.m.) Anderson Valley High at Upper Lake (7:30 p.m.) BASKETBALL Fetzer vs. Preston Lumber at Pomolita (7 p.m.) Pacific vs.

Rainbow Construction at Pomolita (8:15 p.m.) THURSDAY BASKETBALL Ukiah Ambulance vs. U.P.O.A. at MC (6:30 p.m.) California Leisure vs. Rossi's Hardware at MC (7:45 p.m.) Sports Attic vs. Ballbusters at MC (9 p.m.) Millers vs.

Smiths Clines Construction at Pomo- lita (7 p.m.) Les 21 vs. Advanced Manufacturing at Pomolita (8:15 p.m.) FRIDAY GIRLS' BASKETBALL Potter Valley High at Branson High (3, 4:30 p.m.) SATURDAY FOOTBALL Contra Costa College at Mendocino College (1 p.m.) Willits High at Middletown High in North Coast Section playoffs (1 p.m.) GIRLS'BASKETBALL Feather River College at Mendocino College (6 p.m.) SUNDAY POP WARNER Moe Ivey Bowl at Ukiah High Stadium (Answer: The Los Angeles Lakers with a .690 (283-127) winning percentage.) son and Sunday was seeded seventh in the NCS-5 playoffs. Coaches Flick McDonald and Belh Swchla will take their NCL- undefeated girls to play top- seeded Upper Lake at 7:30 p.m. today in a first-round game. Led by promising freshman Gra- cicla Torrez, the Anderson Valley girls debuting at the NCS level will include Aimce and Sarah Summit, Jennifer Thomasson, Jaimic Casey, Jessica Czapkay, Tracy Daniels, Sigrid Guiamaraes, Amber McClurc, Faith Moglcr and Sara Sparks.

In football, the Willits High School Wolverines, defending NCS small school champions, are back in the NCS hunt, albeit with an at-large berth on their 1992 record of 6-4 and their proven NCS play of a year ago when they were seeded seventh and won the NCS Championship. Willits, seeded sixth, draws second-seeded Middletown (7-2) at 1 p.m. Saturday at Middletown. That's the same time top-seeded Upper Lake (8-1) hosts California School for the Deaf (4-5), seeded eighth. NCS-A football playoffs start Friday at Lower Lake (5-3-1) when the third-seeded Trojans play South Fork (7-2), rated seventh.

With Anderson Valley defering on its chance to play at the NCS level, the NCS-B top-seeded Ferndale (9-0) team draws a first-round bye. Second-seeded and NCL-II champion Tomales (9-1) travels to Laytonville (7-2), which shaded Anderson Valley (5-2-2) for the NCL-ID. grid crown. That game will be Friday at 7 p.m. The North Bay League has its teams scattered hither and yon in various NCS grid school- enrollment categories.

Cardinal Newman (8-2), though not a large school, is seeded first in the NCS-3A largest school division and hosts Pittsburgh Pirates Satur- day at 7 p.m. at SRJC's Bailey Field. Montgomery is seeded sixth and draws perennial grid power De La Salle (10-0) at California High School Saturday night. Today, top-seeded NBL champion Ursuline (16-1) hosts Marin Catholic (16-6) at 5:30 p.m. in Division-4 play at SRJC.

NBL volleyball runner-up Santa Rosa will be playing at the largest school NCS Division I level. The Lady Panthers (15-8) are seeded second, hosting Berkeley (12-7) at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. The third NBL volleyball team selected for NCS play, also in NCS-I, is Montogmery (10-9) in the five-team NCS draw. The Lady Vikings, who last week won the NCS soccer championship for the third straight year with a 2-0 victory over Ursuline, will travel to Antioch (12-10) Tuesday to start their NCS volleyball play.

Tennis Tidbits Chris Kretchmer Lady Eagles get thumped in debut Poor first half, turnovers lead to 78-47 loss By STEVE GUERTIN Journal sports editor As expected, Mendocino College's women's basketball team got off to a slow start in its debut in college hoop, falling to the visiting Santa Rosa JC Bear Cubs 78-47 Monday night. The Lady Eagles ran into trouble early, showed a brief sign of life, then fell apart to fall behind by 27 points at halftime. "We had a lot of balls taken away," said Mendocino head coach Bill Brunemeyer. Mendocino committed 35 turnovers in the game, with about half leading to buckets the other way. Santa Rosa scored the game's first 15 points before the Lady Eagles rallied to close within 19-13 with 10:08 left in the first half.

But Santa Rosa put the clamps on and allowed Mendocino only one point over the next eight minutes, taking a commanding 39-14 lead. The Bear Cubs led 43-16 at the half. "I didn't think we'd win the game, but I thought we'd do better than 16 points at halftime," Brunemeyer said. "We were down 15-0 and came back, then we stood on 13 points for 10 minutes. We just couldn't do anything right." Santa Rosa's Jean Ann Shelmet dominated the inside all night, pulling down offensive rebounds and getting easy layups.

And when Shelmet wasn' hitting from inside, Angela Church was lighting it up from the outside. Shelmet finished with 19 points and dished off eight assists, while Chruch finished with a game-high 21 points and nine assists, including two 3-pointers. Jody Williams led Mendocino with 12 points. Denise Crabtree chipped in with nine, Chris Zacarias had eight, and Jonna Badgeley Steve Daily Journal Mendoclno's Dawn Weldon, right, gets her shot blocked by Santa Rosa JC's Jean Ann Shelmet during women's basketball competition at Mendocino College Monday night. The Lady Eagles lost In their debut, 78-47.

and Dawn Weldon each had seven. "We didn't set up our offense very well," Brunemeyer said. "But they tried hard, and we had a better second half than first half. You could see a lot of inexperience and tentativeness." Mendocino hosts Feather River College next Saturday night, and the Lady Eagles expect to have three volleyball players join the team by then. Dawn Whybum, Lisa Falleri and Jerri Walker wind up their volleyball seasons tonight at RIGHT ON TARGET These National Rifle Association Junior Olympic Shotgun Shooting Program members display their tools of the trade.

They are, from left, Jeremy Weatherly, Nea Salmen Heidi Qulgley, Tad DePrlest and Ben Logan. The Shooting Program will be hSdina membership signups this Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the Ukiah Gun Club, located at 2300 Vichy Springs Road In Ukiah. The purpose of the program Is to Demote safety while developing the proficiency of shotgun and trap shooting. Anyone between the ages of 10-18 Is encouraged to sign up.

home against Sierra. Mendocino will need all three against Feather River. Despite playing in only its second season of women's basketball, Feather River has been scoring close to 100 points in exhibition games this year. Baseball to have expansion draft NEW YORK (AP) Toronto and Atlanta, the best teams in baseball, figure to be the first to lose players in today's expansion draft. Braves pitcher David Nied was expected to be taken by the Colorado Rockies as the first pick, and Toronto outfield prospect Nigel Wilson was expected to go to the Marlins on the second pick.

Colorado started baseball's big week Monday by signing free agent first baseman Andres Galarraga to a $500,000, one-year deal with the chance to earn another $600,000 in performance bonuses. Galarraga became only the second of 153 free agents to sign and the first to switch teams. Each team will draft 36 players, and plenty of big names are available. Lee Smith and Shawon Dunston and Jose Lind may be drafted and dealt just after the picking ends at 9 p.m. EST.

Danny Tartabull, Jack Morris and catchers Mike LaValliere, Don Slaught, Greg Olson and Damon Berryhill were among the others left off 15-man protected lists. Each existing team can lose just one player per round, and can protect additional players after each round ends. Just in case you missed it Again, we implore your help. As part of our continuing pledge to scour the earth in search of interesting tennis news for our readers, we often stumble across tidbits of tennis news for which we can find no home. These are not boilerplate tournament results.

They are not interesting biographical pieces. They are not even the creative fluff that we are able to whip up from time to time. Rather, they are simple reports that are interesting, but curious. Have they any long term significance? Are they cultural signposts? Is there any deeper meaning here? Judge for yourself. John McEnroe's wife Tatum O'Neal has been making the rounds the last few months preparing for a possible return to show business after a brief bout with motherhood.

Once a major star on the Hollywood scene, the mother of three says that she is looking forward to her husband's retirement when, "He takes care of the kids while I make two pictures a year, get to pick my scripts and work with whomever I want and our kids go to great schools and live happily ever after." Has she talked to John about this yet? At the end of play each day at Wimbledon, youngsters equipped with brooms and dustpans make a clean sweep of the litter that has accumulated under the stands. Last year, this litter included a set of false teeth and a pair of lace underwear. The longest doubles match in Wimbledon history was played this year when McEnroe and Stich defeated Grabb and Reneberg 7-5, 6-7, 6-3, 6-7, 19-17 in a five hour marathon. Hint: Do the results of this match have anything to do with the first two items? The Wall Street Journal reported recently that Jimmy Connors' "Nupe It" ads have failed to deliver sales. In fact, in the first quarter of 1992 at the height of Connors' popularity, Nuprin's share of the $1 billion pain-reliever market actually dropped by half a share.

Nonetheless, Bristol-Myers thought so much of the ad that they signed Chris Everett to help. Pete Sampras on Jimmy Connors' repeated contention that today's American tennis suffers from a lack of interesting stars and great rivalries. "I don't understand it. You have Jim Courier the No. 1 player in the world.

You have Andre Agassi winning Wimbledon. American tennis is as strong as it's ever been and it's still a popular sport. I really don't care what he says." Maybe they ought to sign Sampras for Andre Agassi on why he hugged opponent Goran Ivanisevic after Agassi won the Wimbledon Final. "Because he looked so good in his shorts." Earlier this year, 'People' Magazine named Spain's Emilio Sanchez as one of the world's 50 most beautiful people. They must have missed Goran in his shorts.

Recently, they followed that up by naming Monica Seles as one of its worst dressed. Subtle and caring, 'People' described her look as, "brunning the gamut from skintight homages to idol Madonna to strobe- bright glitz." She's pictured in a gold and brown mini-dress, judged an expensive mistake by Versace, suggesting an Ivanna in training. And you thought Tidbits failed to keep up with fashion trends!.