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FRIDAY, January 10, 1992 The Sun C3 Will they play or won't they? Only A.D. knows for sure each averages a team-best points per game. Nash, starter, averages a 13.6 Forney, a recruit from School in Riverside, 3.6 points. and Walker played with Los Angeles City College Weaver is a transfer University of La Verne. must achieve a 2.0 or grade-point average in the quarter to remain eligible, mandated by the California Athletic Association.

8:05 p.m. game Chapman at Cal State is first game in the NCAA Division II conference. The school's compliance officer, Nancy Simpson, said she completed the grade checks on Monday night and handed them over to athletic director David Suenram. However, Suenram has been at the NCAA convention in Anaheim all week and there has been no release from the school. "I have been given nothing to release at this point," sports information director Dave Beyer said late Thursday afternoon.

"Any decision on the timing of any release would have to come from the athletic director." Attempts to reach Suenram on Thursday were unsuccessful. Judith Hymer, vice president for university relations, said through her secretary on Wednesday that answers to questions regarding the eligibility of players would have to come from coaches. Earlier in the week the status of Aaron Courseault was in question because of reports the junior guard may have quit the team. But Morris said he and Courseault are still working things out and "as time goes on, it looks more positive that he will remain on the team." Courseault has missed the last three Coyotes games. Dineen, Flyers 'stick' if to Kings in 5-2 victory! ifs man forward Ed Forney would be suspended, beginning with tonight's game, for academic reasons.

Morris told The Sun on Monday that Nash has been suspended for academic reasons, but would not reveal the status of the other three players. As for why it is taking so long to find out who the ineligible players are, Morris said, "I have no idea." Students received grade re-ports in the mail before Christmas. The last day of finals for the fall quarter was Dec. 16. Walker and Weaver are start Philadelphia goalie Ron Hextall turns away a Flyers' 5-2 victory Thursday night.

Tougher rules Associated Press ANAHEIM If the NCAA's new academic requirements had been in place in 1988, almost four of every 10 freshmen football and basketball players would have been disqualified. That's the indication drawn from a little-known project by the academic research department of the NCAA staff at Overland Park, Kan. It doesn't take into account the main argument of supporters of the tougher standards that high school kids, when challenged, will bring their grades up. 'L ers and 14.3 also a points and North High averages Nash Morris at and from the Athletes better previous as Collegiate Today's against the Coyotes' By CHUCK HICKEY Sun Sports Writer SAN BERNARDINO In a not-so-surprising statement, Cal State San Bernardino men's basketball coach Reggie Morris said Thursday that the eligibility status of three Coyotes players won't be known until just before tonight's game, "Until then, I have no further comment on it," Morris said Thursday. In Monday's editions of The Sun, it was reported that junior forward Marcus Nash, junior guard Develle Walker, senior forward Deshang Weaver and fresh- NHL ROUNDUP Hull held scoreless by Devils The New Jersey Devils stopped Brett Hull's 10-game goal-scoring streak en route to a 4-3 victory over the St.

Louis Blues on Thursday night at Byrne Meadowlands Arena. Hull, the NHL's leading goal-scorer with 43, was coming off a three-goal night against the New York Rangers on Wednesday to extend his streak to 10 the longest in the NHL since the 1979-80 season when Charlie Simmer scored in a record 13 consecutive games for the Los Angeles Kings. Hull did pick up two assists on Thursday night, however, to extend his point-scoring streak to a season-high 20 games. Alexei Kasatonov and Ste-phane Richer scored 36 seconds apart in the first period to spark the Devils. Goaltender Craig Billington made 30 saves as he won his fifth consecutive decision, improving his record to 10-1-1.

The Devils have the best in-terdivisional record in the NHL (14-5-2) as they won for the seventh time in the last eight meetings with the Blues. The Blues, the top road club in the league last year, suffered their sixth defeat in their last seven road games. Overall, they are 5-13-5 on the road this season. Peter Stastny dug out his own rebound behind the Blues' net to set up Kasatonov's goal. The de-fehseman, unchecked near the right post, directed a shot past rookie goaltender Guy Hebert at 10:47.

Richer followed with a wraparound score as he circled behind the St. Louis net before emerging into the low slot to bank a shot off Hebert's pads. Former Devil Brendan Sha-nahan scored a power-play goal early in the second to cut the New Jersey lead to 2-1. Shanahan, working the low slot, caught a point pass from Hull and took a stride toward the net before flipping a shot over Billington at 1:16. Claude Lemieux responded with a power-play for the Devils at 14:39 of the second to put New Jersey ahead 3-1.

Lemieux took a long lead pass from Kasatonov and beat Hebert with a blast from the top of the right circle. In the third, Hull again set up Shanahan to cut the Devils lead to 3-2. Hull slipped a pass to Shanahan in center ice and he moved into the Devils' zone to rip a 30-foot shot past Billington's glove. Claude Vilgrain scored on a breakaway at 12:22 to put New Jersey ahead 4 -2. Ron Sutter scored at 15:30 for St.

Louis to close out the scoring. BLACKHAWKS 2, MAPLE LEAFS 0: Dominik Hasek got his first career shutout, making 21 saves, as host Chicago beat Toronto. BRUINS 5, NORDIQUES 4: Cam Neely scored his second goal of the game, his fifth in four games since returning from a leg injury, to break a tie as Boston beat Quebec, extended the Nordiques' road winless streak to 21. ISLANDERS 2, WHALERS 1: Adam Creighton and David Volek ended goal-scoring droughts and Steve Weeks made 17 third-period saves as the New York Islanders beat visiting Hartford. RED WINGS 9, NORTH STARS 4: Paul Ysebaert, Jimmy Carson and Bob Probert each scored twice as host Detroit routed Minnesota.

From Sun News Services If the four players are deemed' are ineligible and Courseautyrlso is out, the Coyotes would I'bave only seven players for tonight's game. Cal State started the -ear-with 13 players. Junior guard Anthony Thomas is lost for the1 season because of a knee injury suffered Dec. lOatBiola. As for the women's tam, coach Gary Schwartz said jflnlor, forward Kim Hansen's grade check has not been finalizedand she will not play this weekend.

The Coyotes will have'wnly, eight players for the sevenUwn- secutive game because freshman, center Zynylhia Caviness still has not reported to school. "I expected a different effort from'our guys." said Webster, whose team won. 6-2'' at Pittsburgh on Tuesday. "They (the-Fly-ers) did all the hitting in the first peVlod. They did the battling." Los Angeles goalie Daniel Bertluaumo agreed.

"I don't think we were ready in th! first period," said Berthiaume, who has otltVWin- in his last six starts. "They came out strong and we had to play catchup." IH UK Ricci liked the way his teammates came back after a 5-5 lie with Buffalo Tuesday. "Everybody was banging," Ricci said. "If we play like that nine out of 10 games, 1 can't see why we can't get a streak Gretzky has a point in 19 of his 21 games. "It was one of those things," Greky.

said. "They worked hard and the 'puck wound up in our net." Ricci opened the scoring by I'akingsTiol on a 2-on-l with Pelle Eklund and sliiping the puck by Berthiaume for his 10th season at 5:24. The goal was just Ricci's second in his last 12 games. Nine minutes later, Lomakin scored on a slap shot. Dineen followed onds, converting a pass from Rod BriCtCA--mour at the side of the net for his 12th guu.l.

Philadelphia dominated the fir.sL.20 minutes physically, throwing checks to the Kings' eight. Los Aiij4es also had a two-man advantage for 1:37 but could manage only four shots. The Kings came back in the seconU period to score twice. Gretzky was in the slot and his slap shot eluded goalie Ron llexlall on a power play at l'Q'i). Blake closed the gap to 3-2 when his drive beat llexlall to the long side.

Dineen converted another pass' fCom Brind'Amour at the side of the net with 5:19 remaining in the game to seal the iic-tory, and Eklund scored an empty-net g6lil with 43 seconds remaining. 1 Philadelphia defenseman Garry tjal-ley, acquired from Boston on Jan. 2, suffered an injury in the rib area and left'llYo game in the opening period. of freshmen factory 2.0 GPA in the 1 1 core cour.ses.Of those, 37.56 percent of football players'aiul 38.35 percent of basketball players Jiad GPAs below 2.5. The figures didn't break down the players among minority and non-minority, tint every sport indicated a sizable perccrifalie of freshman would not have met theJfijjw grade point standards.

i( "In baseball, it was 22.73 percent' who were less than 2.5 in the core," Ursula Walsh of the NCAA staff said. "In goIlTIt was 16.95. Soccer was 21.21, wrestling 15.69, swimming 22.47. Men's volleyball jumped back up to 33.33." must ask school endorsements from outside the university. That additional income has been- routinely considered as part of the total'ffay package for coaches at major schools, with that outside money sometimes far surpassing the actual salary paid by the university.

The measure passed without debate, predictably enough, since the individuals who might not like the change, the coaches, are employed by the people who proposed the change, the college pcejlr dents. "My feeling is, it's fine with me, long as it applies to everybody," Nebraska coach Tom Osborne said of the proposal. "Ii'they're going to do it with coaches, then it would be nice if they did it with all, (tie faculty. "My income is fairly open," Osborne added. "I'm glad to do that (inform the president of outside income).

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About 10 games ago, Dineen decided to straighten out the curve in his stick a little. The results have been excellent. Dineen scored two goals for the second straight game as the Philadelphia Flyers defeated the Kings 5-2 Thursday, extending their home unbeaten streak to seven games (3-0-4). "It was a great team effort," Dineen said. "Playing with the guys I'm playing with and getting the ice time I'm getting, I'm going to score goals." The new stick has made Dineen more confident.

"I'm shooting to score now," Dineen said. "There's a difference between putting the puck on net and shooting to score." Philadelphia got a jump on the Kings by taking a 3-0 lead in the opening period on goals by Mike Ricci, Andrei Lomakin and Dineen. Los Angeles, which watched a three-game winning streak end, rallied in the second period on goals by Wayne Gretzky and Rob Blake to close the gap to 3-2. But Dineen scored with 5:19 loll in the game and Pelle Eklund added an empty-net goal with 44 seconds left to help the Flyers end a live-game winless streak (0-3-2). "I felt strong about our team," coach Bill Dineen said.

"I thought we'd come out strong and play solid." Kings coach Tom Webster was hoping for the same. to 40 percent 2.0, or average in 11 core courses and minimum scores on the ACT and SAT college aptitude tests. But schools voted Wednesday to raise the number of core courses to 13 and hike the required grade point to 2.5, in the C-plus to B-minus range. The proposal was bitterly opposed by most delegates from predominantly Black schools, who have argued for years that Proposition 48 is racially and culturally discriminatory. Research by the NCAA stair and a cross-sample of high school officials seems to back them up.

The NCAA took a ram-dom sampling of one-fifth of all freshman who enrolled in 1988 with the then-satis NCAA: coaches before accepting By KEN PETERS Associated Press ANAHEIM Coaches for major college sports powers will continue to be allowed to collect lucrative sums for endorsing shoes and appearing on TV shows. Now, however, they'll need the permission of the school president. The NCAA Presidents Commission, which already had pushed through proposals to raise academic standards for athletes, got a tighter financial rein on their coaches Thursday when NCAA schools approved a measure regarding outside income. The proposition, passed by a lopsided 296-26 margin in balloting by Division I delegates to the NCAA convention, requires that coaches receive prior approval annually for income and benefits received APWIREPHOTO shot by the Kings' Luc Robitaille during the may affect up But many coaches and educators believe an alarming percentage of young people, particularly disadvantaged inner-city youngsters, won't have a chance. "A lot of those young people arc going to have a hard time," Nebraska football coach Tom Osborne said after the new freshman eligibility standards were passed during Wednesday's session of the NCAA convention.

"They're not getting the parental support, the parental guidance, that some people in this room assume everybody gets." Since the mid 1980s, the freshman rule known as Proposition 48 has required a Sunday, the field will be whittled down to the final four teams in its boys and girls divisions: under-14, under-12, under-10 and under-8. The under-12 and under-14 boys and girls finals will be played at Colton High School beginning at noon. The un-der-10 and under-8 boys and girls finals will be played at Colton Junior High School beginning at 1 1:30 a.m. Rios said the all-star teams in the Cup represent some 15,000 players in 14 California Youth Soccer Association organizations in the Inland Empire. The Colton Parks and Recreation Department and the Colton HS varsity and junior varsity girls soccer teams, have provided support for the All-star soccer tournament ends this weekend in Colton The Sun The President's Cup, featuring all-star youth soccer talent from San Bernardino and Riverside counties, finishes up its two-week tournament Saturday and Sunday in Colton.

Beginning at 8 a.m. Saturday, last weekend's rainout tournament games will be made up in four boys and girls divisions. Games will be played at San Bernardino Valley College, Colton High School, Colton Junior High and Grand Terrace Junior High. "We started with 158 games last Saturday," said Sal Rios, president of the Colton Youth Soccer League and organizer of the tournament. STOP nun morq V1EW 2351 OPEN 7 DAYS mm I PICTURE PERFECT ENTERTAINME AND COMPARE SATURN WITH THE COMPETITION ill MID mm.

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