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Two Nets as good as Birdsong EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) - It may not be possible to replace the injured Otis Birdsong with one man. But the New Jersey Nets have so far had some success replacing the firepower of their leading scorer with two. In tandem, Kelvin Ransey and Darwin Cook worked to perfection Sunday, combining for 32 points to lead the Nets to a 129-105 National Basketball Association romp over the Indiana Pacers. Buck Williams iced the cake with 29 points and 12 rebounds as the Nets never trailed. “With Ransey and Cook on the floor, we have exceptional quickness,” said Nets Coach Stan Albeck, who learned prior to Sunday’s game that Birdsong would be lost to the club for the remainder of the season after suffering a broken right hand Saturday night in a 127-107 loss to Philadelphia. “Over the next couple of weeks I think we’ll find out exactly what we have between Ransey and Cook,” Albeck said after the on again-off again Nets raised their record to 34-34. In beating the slumping Pacers, Ransey tallied 18 points starting in place of Birdsong, while Code came off the bench to hit six of nine from the field and finish with 14 points. “I’m glad to be starting again, but the circumstances are unfortunate,” said Ransey, who had seven assists and four steals in the game. “Naturally, we hate to lose our leading scorer and most consistent player but I think between us, Darwin and I can fill his shoes.” “We just have to accept what happened to Otis as part of the game,” said Cook, who had complained in recent weeks about a lack of playing time. “I know I’m ready for the challenge.” New Jersey snapped a 2-2 tie with eight straight points, six by Williams, and never looked back. A 14-4 spurt mid-way through the second period included two baskets each by Williams and Micheal Ray Richardson, allowing the Nets to open a commanding 56-38 lead. New Jersey, which forced 27 Indiana turnovers, built its lead to as many as 30 points in the latter stages of the game. The Pacers, now 20-48, suffered their ninth loss in the last 10 games. INDIANA (114) Kellogg 6-10 7-1120, Williams 14-26 2-2 30, Stipanovich 49 4-412, Fleming 2-5 1-2 5, Stansbury 6-9 2-4 14, Garnett 4-4 2-4 10, Thomas 2-7 3-4 7, Sichting 4-7 2-2 10, Brown 0-4<H>o, Durrant 2-3 OO 4. Gray 1-2 00 2. Totals 45-86 23-33 114. NEW YORK (116) Bailey 1-5 2-2 4, King 12-14 5-9 29, Bannister 4-6 03 8, Tucker 1013 2-2 24, Walker 3-10 2-2 8, Orr 5-9 8-918, Carter 010 2-3 14, Sparrow 3-5 2-2 8, Cavanall 00 00 0, Gninfeld 1-3 1-2 3, Wilkins Ol OO 0. Totals 4576 24-34 116. Three-point goals—Tucker 2, Kellogg. Fouled out—Stansbury. Rebounds—lndiana 50 (Kellogg 11), New York 42 (King 8). Assists—lndiana 31 (Stansbury 6), New York 32 (King, Walker 10). Total fouls—lndiana 29, New York 27. A—9.209
Palombizio is MVP
MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) - Junior forward Dan Palombizio, the nation’s third leading scorer this season, has been named Ball State’s most valuable player of the year by his teammates. The 6-foot-8 Palombizio, who averaged 26.3 points per game, received the award Sunday. He set a Ball State single-season scoring record with 762 points, and a MidAmerican Conference single-season record with 468 points in league games. Palombizio also was honored for leading Ball State in rebounding, with an average of 11 per game, and free throw shooting, with a .788 percentage
Spirits score 173 points
DETROIT (AP) Guard Tico Brown scored 48 points as the Detroit Spirits defeated the Evansville Thunder 173-145 Sunday night for a 3-1 victory in the best-of-five opening round of the Continental Basketball Association playoffs. Evansville led 76-74 at halftime, but forward Michael Young sank a field goal with 8:46 to go in the third period
Homestead wins again
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Homestead is the Indiana high school girls’ gymnastics champion for a record-tying third straight year. Led by Ericka Couch, who successfully defended her individual championship on the uneven bars and placed second in the all-around competition, Homestead edged runner-up Chesterton 103.5 to 100.55 in Satur day’s state finals at Perry Meridian. The three consecutive championships for Homestead tied the record set by Perry Mendian from 1 wlmTcentral junior Cm Wagner won the individual all-around title Jith 35.75 points. Couch finished a
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North Putnam's 6-8 wrestling team was among those honored during Thursday night's winter sports banquet. Coach Tom Roach (center) presented the MVP award to 19-4 Ryan Lathrop (left), who advanced to the IHSAA
Bird and Parish put on show for old coach and Twin Towers
By The Associated Press Houston’s Twin Towers found out that the Boston Celtics have a pretty good 1-2 punch of their own. Houston’s Ralph Sampson scored 32 points Sunday and Akeem Olajuwon added 12. But Boston’s Larry Bird bettered that by himself with 48 points and the Celtics got a season-high 38 from Robert Parish in rolling to a 134-120 victory over the Rockets. “I had more fun watching them when I was coaching them (the Celtics),” said Houston’s Bill Fitch. In other National Basketball Association games, Chicago edged Milwaukee 119-117 in overtime, San Antonio downed Denver 124-119, New Jersey whipped Indiana 129105, Kansas City beat Utah 107-101, Seattle turned back Detroit 106-98, Portland trounced Atlanta 114-101 and Golden State beat the Los Angeles Clippers 109-100. The Houston-Boston game was tied 14 times before a layup by Bird with 13 seconds remaining in the first half gave Boston the lead for good en route to its fifth consecutive triumph.
from the line. The team voted Mike Chesser most improved player on the Cardinal squad. He also was honored as the team’s leading field goal shooter, with a .5% percentage. Freshman guard Derrick Wesley was presented the Spark Award, which recognizes the Ball State player with the greatest loyalty and enthusiasm. Chesser and senior guard Larry Jones were named honorary captains of the 1984-85 Cardinal squad. Junior guard Rich Rowray received the academic award. He had a 3.666 grade-point average on a scale of four during the winter quarter.
to put the Spirits ahead for good, 83-81 Forward Campy Russell had 33 points and Young added 28 for Detroit. Forward DeWayne Scales led the Thunder with 48 points and 11 rebounds. The Spirits next face the winner of the Wisconsin-Wyoming series for the CBA’s Western Division title round.
close second with 35.6. Shari Smith of Lawrence North was third at 35.3. Defending champion Jill Beauchamp of Homestead failed to place among the top six. Wagner finished first on the vault with 9.35 points, was fourth on the balance beam and placed sixth on the uneven bars. Couch had a 9.2 score on the uneven bars, while Stephanie Reich of Elkhart Memorial retained her balance beam title with 9.05 points. Martinsville was third in the team competition with 98.65, followed by Carmel at 97.45 and Marion at 88.1. Susan Hart of Homestead won the IHSAA Mental Attitude Award.
semistate before his season was ended and the mental attitude award went to freshman Mike Little, Who wrestled varsity the entire season for the Cougars. (BannerdGraphic photo by Steve Fields).
Bird, who set a club scoring record last Tuesday with 60 points, has reached 30 points 32 times this season and 40 points eight times. Spurs 124, Nuggets 119 Denver center Dan Issel became pro basketball’s fourth highest all-time scorer but San Antonio’s Johnny Moore scored 12 of his 23 points in the fourth quarter and led the Spurs to victory. George Gervin also had 23 for the Spurs. Issel scored 27 points and moved past Elvin Hayes into the No. 4 spot. Hayes retired at the end of last season with 27,313 points and Issel has 27,337 during his career in the NBA and the American Basketball Association. Alex English added 25 points for Denver. Bulls 119, Bucks 117 Michael Jordan scored 32 points and Chicago rallied from a 22-point deficit in the second half. The Bulls stormed back behind the clutch shooting of Jordan and Steve Johnson, each of whom had 12 points in the fourth quarter. Kings 107, Jazz 101 Rookie Otis Thorpe scored 25 points and
Alford and Hoosiers on track
By The Associated Press The regular season was nothing to write home about for Indiana University, but the Hoosiers are hoping to tack on a big P.S. now that Steve Alford has rediscovered his shooting touch. Alford shot 59 percent as an Indiana freshman last year and upped that to 64.4 percent as a member of the Gold Medal U.S. Olympic team. But the 6-foot-2 sophomore connected on just 17 of 63 shots during a late-season slump that saw the Hoosiers slip to a 15-13 record the worst since Coach Bob Knight arrived in 1971 and miss out on an NCAA bid for the first time since 1979. But Alford has shot 11-of-16 in his last two outings, including Friday’s 79-57 victory over Butler when he scored 26 points and had eight steals to pace the Hoosiers into the second round of the National Invitation Tournament on Tuesday night against Richmond in Bloomington, Ind. “I’m much more confident, though I don’t really think my confidence left me that much,” Alford said. “I’ve always been a confident shooter. I think I started thinking about being tired instead of thinking about putting the ball in the bucket.” The rest of the Tuesday night schedule finds St. Joseph’s, Pa., at Virginia,
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grabbed a career-high 15 rebounds to lead Kansas City. With the score tied in the third quarter, Larry Drew hit from the top of the key to give the Kings a 71-69 lead and from then on they never trailed. Super Sonics 106, Pistons 98 Tom Chambers scored 10 of his 21 points in the fourth quarter to pace a Seattle rally. Isiah Thomas topped the Pistons with 22 points and 13 assists. Trail Blazers 114, Hawks 101 Kiki Vandeweghe scored 14 of his 35 points in the first quarter to lead Portland. Portland led by as many as 34 points. Warriors 109, Clippers 100 Purvis Short and Eric “Sleepy” Floyd scored 20 points each and Jerome Whitehead added 19 to lead Golden State to its fifth triumph in 33 road games. The Clippers have lost 13 of their last 14 games. On Saturday night, Kareem AbdulJabbar of the Los Angeles Lakers, the NBA’s all-time leading scorer, scored his 33,000 th career point in a 123-112 victory over the Clippers.
Marquette at Cincinnati, New Mexico at Fresno State and Nebraska at UCLA. On Wednesday night. South Florida visits Louisville, Southwestern Louisiana is at Tennessee and TennesseeChattanooga at Lamar. “This is a new season for us,” Alford said. “I think the coaches are frustrated about the season, but I think the players are really frustrated about it. “We had high hopes. We’re not playing in the No. 1 tournament, but the NIT is prestige and it’s tradition. We want to get to New York (for the semifinals), and that’s a goal for us. We feel like we’ve got an excellent chance at winning the NIT.” Like Indiana, Virginia had a disappointing regular season (15-15). But the Cavaliers’ opening-round 56-55 victory over West Virginia fired them up for a possible trip to New York. Virginia’s Jim Miller, West Virginia
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Tar Heels win on Smith's heroics
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) Notre Dame star freshman David Rivers had the green light, but he and his Fighting Irish teammates didn’t go anywhere with it. With eight seconds left in Saturday’s NCAA Southeast Regional game against North Carolina, a scramble defense took the ball from Rivers and Kenny Smith scored on a dunk to lift the Tar Heels to a 60-58 victory. Rivers had Coach Digger Phelps’ goahead to end a minute-long Notre Dame stall and take a final shot at breaking the 58-58 tie, but he lost control of the ball. River said the it was slapped away. But Smith said Rivers, who had already scored a team-high 17 points, dribbled the ball off his leg. Tar Heel Joe Wolf said Rivers dribbled the ball off his foot, a version supported by taped replays. In any case, Curtis Hunter got the loose ball and passed to Smith. “I thought maybe we’d get it, but not that way,” Smith said. “I thought maybe we’d intercept a pass. ’ ’ Phelps refused to second-guess his strategy of turning Rivers loose in the final seconds. “We’d been living with David all year, and we’d been living with him today,” he said. “David had the green light to go. Once it got down to 20 (seconds), David was going. “If I had the same opportunity again, Rivers would still have the ball and we’d make the same move,” he said. Smith, who scored 12 points in the game, then intercepted the inbounds pass from Tim Kempton to spoil the Irish’ last hope of tying the contest. Brad Daugherty, who scored a gamehigh 18 points, said the Tar Heels have struggled with a lot of what-if questions about themselves. “It’s been tough to establish our own identity,” he said. “We have had what-ifs. What if (Michael) Jordan had stayed another year? We don’t have the great individual and we have had to band together harder to make a name for ourselves.” Jordan gave up a year of eligibility to sign with the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association. North Carolina will meet Auburn, a 66-64 winner over Kansas, in the next round of the Southeast Regional tournament at Birmingham, Ala. The Irish had battled back from a sixpoint deficit to tie at 56 on a pair of free throws by Donald Royal, but Daugherty returned to the lineup with four fouls and retook the lead on two free throws. Rivers tied the game again at 58 with two minutes left, but Royal missed a free throw seconds later. The Irish free throw game, normally 75 percent, faltered as the team made only 14 of 26 attempts. The first half ended tied at 35 after the lead changed hands twice in the closing
High School Player of the Year four years ago, played his first collegiate game in his home state. “We got there (Morgantown) and saw how arrogant the crowd was,” said Virginia’s Mel Kennedy. “That was what really got us pumped up. They were all over Jimmy from the early warmups on. We came back in the locker room, and we were really pumped up. We said, ‘All right, now let’s play some ball.’
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minute. Buzz Peterson, who replaced injured guard Steve Hale in the starting lineup, put the Tar Heels in the lead, 33-32, on a field goal with 58 seconds left, but the Irish’ Jim Dolan countered with a basket seconds later before Smith tied it with a field goal. The Tar Heels controlled the lead most of the half, led by 14 points from Daugherty, before a Joseph Price field goal gave the Irish a 28-27 lead at 4:26. North Carolina opened the half with six unanswered points, including four from Dave Popson. Ken Barlow put the Irish on the scoreboard more than three minutes into the game. The Tar Heels twice gave up seven-point leads in the half. Sky is limit now for Tigers SOUTH BEND, Ind: (AP) Lame duck coach Sonny Smith says his Auburn team will be flying high when they resume NCAA Southeast Regional competition in Birmingham. The Tigers of Auburn, 22-11, won the right to take on 7th-ranked North Carolina after defeating Kansas, 66-64, during second-round play in the regional tournament. “It’s one of my most satisfying wins, because they would not quit,” said Smith, who says he’ll resign at the end of the season, said. “They stayed right in there.” “I said to the team, if you can get to Birmingham, the sky’s the limit,” he said. Experts hadn’t picked Auburn to go far in post-season play, but that doesn’t worry Smith. “Georgia got into the Final Four one time with a team that couldn’t get there,” he said. “I think this bunch can get there with a team that shouldn’t get there.” Kansas coach Larry Brown agrees Auburn has fielded a “great” team. “A lot of people should start rallying around them because of what they’ve done under the circumstances,” Brown said. Both teams had starters in foul trouble for much of Saturday’s game, but Brown said the Javhawks made up for the prolonged absence of Danny Manning with good performances from substitutes. He noted that Auburn star Chuck Person managed to finish with 21 points despite the burden of foul trouble. “He had to play with four fouls and he still came up with some great plays,” he said. Person and Frank Ford, who finished with 23 points, helped Auburn pull away late in the second half. Kansas roared back after Auburn had taken its biggest lead of the game so far, 40-34, with just under 13 minutes remaining in the game.
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