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By Mary Anae Yarbrough
E-T Sports Editor
The Tarleton TexAnns leave
this afternoon for Cedar
Rapids, Iowa to prepare for
their Saturday night game the
Mount Mercy College in the
second round of the NAIAW
tournament A 7:^0 tip off is
scheduled on Saturday night
in the Regis High School Gym
and the game will be broad-
cast live over KWWM, 96.3
FM.
The TexAnns, now 27 and
nine, defeated Spring Arbor of
Home Office 422 W. Washington Stephenville, Tx.
Sunbelt Savings Association of Texas
formerly
Stephenville Savings & Loan Association
Arbor. The slender freshman
outmaneuvered the taller and
more husky Michigan girls on
the inside puDfng down 12
rebounds and tapping In 36
points.
Harrell played the game
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slightly favored in the contest
Iowa has long been considered
by many as the capital of
womens basketball and a good
attendance is expected for the
Saturday game.
The Mustangs are 27 and six
for the year, playing a few
Division n schools and losing
to Division I powerhouse,
William Penn.
Coached by Dr. Leonard
Ransom, the Mustangs
feature a very balanced at-
patience. It looked bleak.
We’ve won a lot of games
coming back. We were for-
tunate to play as well as we
did to come back."
“We got off to a great
start," said Central
Washington Coach Dean
Nicholson. “I was really proud
of our team. We gave it a
super effort. We just couldn’t
get the shots down when we
needed them. We were
outrebounded 37-23. You don’t
have to say a heck of a lot
more than that.’’
Leroy Jackson scored 25
points and triggered a
Cameron rally over LeMoyne-
Owen. Cameron trailed by as
many as seven points in the
first half and was down by two
at intermission. But with
about 7% minutes remaining,
Jackson and Keith Kimble led
Cameron on a 13-1 spurt that
resulted in a 68-60 lead.
“The better team won,”
said LeMoyne Coach Jerry
Johnson. “We wanted to win,
we just lost our composure at
times.’’
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senior guard Dianna May and
5-6 junior guard Jackie Rose.
Fivetex senior Debbie Riggs
is the top name on the sub-
stitutelist.
Harrell, still recovering
from a rib injury was the key
performer in the TexAnns
first round victory over Spring
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Two
Great Options
includes top relievers 6-1
freshman center Gina Schulte,
5-0 freshman forward Laura
' Loes and 5-10 sophomore
forward Deb DeDecker.
Mary Forret and Jane
Steele are the leading shooters
for the Mustangs, both have
over 1000 points for the year.
on Saturday night will ao doubt be
pda Byrd, right. The two werer la-
iring Arbor on Wednesday night as
Harrell sank 30 points and Byrd snatched up 19 rebounds. Saturday’s game will be broad-
cast live from Iowa over KWWM 98.3 FM.
“The most gratifying thing
about reaching the quar-
terfinals is that we’re a school
with an enrollment of 280,”
said Huron Coach Bruce
Carrier. "We have a
recruiting budget of about
8500. I suppose that proves
that you don't have to spend a
lot of money to get things
done.”
Carrier described the top-
seeded Alabama State Hor-
nets as “awesome.”
“There’s no doubt about it—
they are awesome in every
way. I think they’re playing in
the wrong tournament. They
should be in the other one
(NCAA). They play good
defense, good offense, and
they’re well coached. We’re
just going to go into the game
and play to win, try to do
everything we can to win.”
Central Arkansas Coach
Don Dyer said his team was
“simply no physical match"
for the Hornets.
“They could match up with
a lot of teams In the Southwest
Conference," Dyer added.
“As long as we led or were tied
and had the basketball we had
a chance, but when we made a
couple of turnovers and gave *
them the lead in the first half
it was all over.”
tack with all five starters
averaging in double figures.
Although the starting rtater
averages out smaller than the
TexAnns, the overall lineup
includes several very tall
players.
Starting for the Mustangs
will be 5-5 senior guard Teresa
Dolan, 5-6 senior forward
Mary Fooret, 5-4 junior guard
Jane Steele, 64 sophomore
center Jean Meyer and 5-10
junior forward Lia
Dielschneider.
The roster of substitutes
Jack Nicklaus, on a
comeback of his own, matched
par 72 with birdies on a couple
of par-5 holes and two bogeys.
Defending champion Mark
McCumber had a 75. Lee
Trevino shot 73 and British
Open champ Seve Ballesteros
of Spain had a 74.
Valentine, 30, once lost his
playing rights because of poor
performance, regained his
card with a second try at the
Qualifying School and played
full time last season. He didn’t
make expenses.
He’s made only one check
this season, missed qualifying
in three consecutive tour-
naments coming into this one
and made it here only through
a Monday playoff for the last
spot in the 144-man field.
Our rapid and healthy growth neces-
sitated a name change...A change
that would convey the strength and
power of an association you helped
build...an association that has ex-
panded to many communities in our
area...calling for a more universal
name. Hence:
By Kareem
Abdul-Jabbar
Sunbelt Savings
Association of Texas
seemed very appropriate with all of
the current interest in this area of
our country. We want you to know
, that our great service...our involv-
ed employees...our community in-
terest...our friendly service is still
the same...only our name is differ-
ent ...just call us SUNBELT SAVINGS!
Nothing Has
Changed...
But Our
Name!
Fergus, Valentine hold
early lead in Doral Open
MIAMI (AP) — A pair of
non-winners, Keith Fergus
and Tommy Valentine, had
the lead but a rebounding
veteran was poised to make a
move in the 8250,000 Doral
Open Golf tournament.
“Maybe that’s what I
needed. Maybe that’s what it’s
gonna take to turn everything
around," Dave Hill said after
a scrambing 69 left him one
shot off the 4-under-par pace
set by Fergus and Valentine in
Thursday’s first round.
Hill, 42, winner of 13 tour-
naments in 22 years on the pro
tour, wasn’t talking about his
score so much as the unlikely
fashion that score was put
together. He didn’t make a
bogey in his effort on the wind-
swept, 7,065 yard Blue Mon-
ster course at the Doral
Country Club, but he had
every good opportunity to do
so. He had to one-putt for par
on his first seven holes, made
a couple of 35-footers for two
of his birdies and chipped in
for the other. In all, he one-
putted 11 times and had one
no-putt.
“I’ve hit the ball super all
year — best l've hit it in three
years — and I keep coming up
empty.
“This was the poorest ball-
striking round I’ve had in I
don’t know how long. And I
shoot 69. It could have been 79.
But maybe that’s what I
need.”
Hill, once noted as golfs
controversial, oft-fined bad
boy, is attempting a comeback
from three lean seasons.
His game isn’t up to the
standards that enabled him to
win the coveted Vardon
Trophy in 1969, but there’s
been an improvement. He’s
already won more money this
year than he did in the past
two seasons combined.
Hill shared third place with
Leonard Thompson, Wayne
Levi, Kermit Zarley, Dave
Eger and Rex Caldwell.
The big group at 70 included
Lou Graham, a three-time
winner last year, Bruce
Uetxke and Jerry Pate. »
The Mustangs won their
region and drew a first round
bye in the national playoffs.
The TexAnns will most
likely be starting six-foot
freshman center TyAnn
Harrell, 54 senior forward
Patti Dunlap, 5-8 sophomore
forward Wanda Byrd, 5-7
the Stephenville
Yellow Jacket baseball
team is set for a 4:30
game with Mineral
Wells this afternoon in
Mineral Wells. The
Jackets opened the
season against the
Rams a couple of weeks
1 ago and stopped them 13
1 toO.
The Jackets have had
k workouts throughout the
* spring break but have
i not played since last
1 Friday night’s loss to
1 Aledo in the Weather-
' ford tournament.
A junior varsity game
( is scheduled Monday in
Granbury with the
district 11AAA season
beginning officially on
Tuesday when the
Jacket varsity visits the
Elates.,. .Both games
begin at 4:30 p.m.
By DOUG TUCKER
AP Sports Writer
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP)-
Tiny Huron College of South
Dakota, an unknown whose
chances for winning the NAIA
National Basketball Tour-
nament three days ago
seedied about as unim-
pressive as its enrollment of
280 students, meets top-
seeded, steam-rolling
Alabama State tonight in the
semifinals.
In the other semifinal
match, scheduled to tip off at 7
p.m., Cameron, Okla., goes
against second-seeded
Wisconsin-Eau Clair.
Huron, led by guard Terry
Dupris and hot-shooting Clyde
Harrington, erased an 11-point
first-half deficit and turned
aside Clairon State of Penn-
sylvania in the quarterfinals
Thursday night, 61-52.
Alabama State, after
scoring 103 points in each of its
first two victories, beat
Central Arkansas, 67-53.
Jim Behnke and Gib Hinz
each scored four points in
overtime as Eau Claire, after
falling behind 18-2, downed
Central Washington, 68-61,
and Cameron rallied to down
LeMoyne-Owen of Memphis,
Tenn., 7665.
apparently took the phyrical
contact with only minor
stiffneM. She will be taped and
* ready for tbe Saturday night
game.
Starters Dunlap and Rose
suffered sprained ankles in
the Wednesday night game,
but both were expected to be
ready for Saturday night
The TexAnns played a solid
defense against the Michigan
guests but their offense often
sputtered and they gave up 21
turnovers in the game. They
shoot 41 percent from the floor
and outrebounded the Cougars
47 to 21 to protect their vic-
tory, but the miscues and bad
passes on their drive down
court gave the Spring Arbor
girts ample opportunity to get
back in the game.
Coach Jan Lowrey agreed
on Wednesday night that the
TexAnns were going to have to
control their turnovers more
but added quickly that the
team had stayed cool in the
tense game and pulled out the
win with the right moves at
the right time.
The winner on Saturday
night will hoot the third round
game on Tuesday. That
Tuesday night winner gets a
trip to Washington for thefinal
two game championship
bracket
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“A Place to Grow”
Carl Fortson scored 22
points for the Hornets, hitting
10-of-l1 from the field.
“I feel very good about our
chances,” said Alabama State
Coach Jim Oliver. “If we give
it all we've got, I have the
confidence that we’ll win this
thing. I knew we had an ex-
cellent ball club , one of the.
best, but we’e still got to go
hard (or two more games."
“I guess everybody expects
us to score 100 points a game,”
said Fortson, a heavily
muscled 6-foot-5 forward.
“But as long as we win, that’s
all we care about.”
After falling behind 18-2,
Wisconsin-Eau Clair began
chipping away and trailed at
halftime, 29-19. The Blugolds,
now 30-2, outscored the
Wildcats 12-0 midway through
the second half to tuma 35-27
deficit into a 39-35 lead.
"That was a great
comeback," exclaimed
Wisconsin Coach Ken An-
dersort. "The big thiflg was we
did not lose our noise or
1 save my energy for when 1
have to put it on the court. So
in the playoffs, I’ll be capable
of getting the critical basket
for our team because I didn't
burn out during the season.
Bill Russell was able to
play for a long time He had
the skills that enabled him to
help the team - and not have
give.
I think that NBA athletes
are holding down the toughest
job in sports because we have
the smallest number of play-
ers on a tea^i And the sport is
more physically demanding
than others
You have more injuries in
football, but basketball
requires more intense condi-
tioning because you are going
up and down the court — with
My responsibility few breaks and little substitu-
■ ■ ■ t tion. Also, it's a very competi-
tive game.
I’ll play as long as I have
the skills and the desire to uti-
lize them.
I’ve never had a motivation
problem because I’m an
athlete. Athletes are competi-
tive people. My incentive is to
win We are in this game for
the money, but I don’t think
anyone can do it just for the
money
Winning gives me the most
satisfaction in any game.
The NBA has been what I
thought it would be I can’t
think of any surprises or
disappointments. It’s been the
same pretty much throughout
What 1 owe myself is to
earn the money they pay you
That’s what I owe to the team,
too.
As for the public, I think I
owe them a few courtesies
and to do my job to the best of
my ability.
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Tiny Huron College meets
Alabama in NAIA semi-finals
weaknesses are and to use
your strengths as muqju as
possible and work on your
weaknesses to improve your-
self.
To play at a high level, it
takes a lot of determination
and a competitive attitude
You also have to be fortunate
TexAnns leave for Iowa; Mustangs await them
Michigan in the first round
competition on Wednesday
night in a 89 to 68 thriller in
Wisdom Gym.
The team left Stephenville
this afternoon with a 7 pm.
departure set from DFW
airport. They are expected to
arrive in Iowa about 9:30 pm.
Their return flight leaves
Iowa at 7:30 Sunday morning,
making a stop over in St Louis
and arriving back in Dallas
about 11 o’clock.
The Mount Mercy Mustangs
are among the top seeded
I think I’m pretty close to
the top of my skills.
There's a notion that if
you're a superstar, then your
name is synonymous with
success People think F Lee
Bailey is not supposed to lose to stay well like I have,
a case — or that I can get ’
paid to prevent the Lakers
from losing
People like to adjust their
image of me to my surround-
ings My play has been very
consistent But when the team
doesn't do well, they try to say
it's my fault. This is a team
^nJt paid so I can do the job to give everything he had to
to the best of my ability.
If the team loses, writers
downplay anything I did well,
implying I was supposed to do
that Tlrey emphasize the fact
we haven't won a champion-
ship while I've been in Los
Angeles, and that I'm to
blame
My ‘biggest challenge is to
win the championship for Los
Angeles
My job has changed over
the years I*,
now is to make g<x>d plays
defensively, to rebound well,
to intimidate the other team
and make people miss or pre-
vent them from shooting
In the past I’ve had to do all
that, and score.
If I'm rebounding well, then
were able to make fast
breaks If 1 make the other
team take bad shots, then with
the kind of rebounding team
we have - with Jim Chones,
' Spencer Haywood and even
Magic (Johnson) - we’re able
to run with it. I may not be
scoring the points, but my
play otherwise leads to points
at our end
The biggest keys to success
in the National Basketbafr my.Sarec.r
Association are to realize
what your strengths and
KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR of the
Los Angeles Lakers (UCLA.
' 1969) is considered to be the
best center in the NBA At 7-
foot-2, he holds numerous
offense and defense records He
is a five-time MVP
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TWO CT ARTERS-Two of the starters for the
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