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THE BANNERGRAPHIC March 5.1991
IU assistant named in UTEP investigation
EL PASO, Texas (AP) TexasEl Paso basketball coach Don Haskins, former assistant coach Norm Ellenberger and assistant coach Greg Lackey have been accused by the NCAA of making improper recruiting contacts, according to an letter of official inquiry. THE 15-PAGE letter, with many of its pages virtually blank because UTEP officials deleted information to protect the privacy of current or former students named in an NCAA investigation, was released Monday. According to the letter of inquiry, Haskins, Ellenberger and Lackey are accused of “impermissible in-person, off-campus recruit-
Unhappy Reds walk out of camp
PLANT CITY, Fla. (AP) Catcher Joe Oliver and pitcher Jack Armstrong walked out of the Cincinnati Reds training camp today to protest contracts the team gave them Monday. THE REDS automatically renewed the contracts of Oliver, Armstrong, pitcher Tim Layana and first baseman Hal Morris on Monday after they failed to reach contract agreements. The Reds said they renewed the contracts in order to get those matters resolved before the exhibition game schedule starts Friday.
Greencastle league plans sign-up, baseball clinic
The Greencastle Youth Baseball has planned two signups and hooked up with DePauw University’s baseball program for a free “Baseball Clinic” for boys and girls ages five through 12. The Greencastle Youth Baseball League sign-ups will be March 12 and 13, 5 to 9 p.m, at the PSI Building on Indianapolis Road. The league is
GMS seventh grade 7-1
The Greencastle Middle School seventh grade girls basketball team raised its record to 7-1 Monday night with a 30-28 victory over North Clay. No other details were reported. The Greencastle Middle School eighth grade girls team slipped to 2-6 on the year with a
Question will follow ’9l Tigers
By STEVE FIELDS Banner-Graphic Sports Editor The 1975 Indiana University Hoosiers had one of the all-time “What if?” seasons. The team coach Bob Knight has said was the best he ever saw play college basketball went undefeated during the regular season, but did not win the NCAA Tournament 1975 because leading scorer Scott May suffered a broken arm. The Hoosiers lost to Kentucky 92-90 in the NCAA Tournament, one game away from the Final Four. What if May had played? Would the Hoosiers have been back-to-back undefeated NCAA champions? WHAT IF MOOSE HECKO had played for DePauw University on Saturday? What if...? It was the foremost question in the minds of the reporters covering the NCAA Division 111 Tournament game between the DePauw Tigers and Illinois Benedictine Eagles. Would Illinois Benedictine have won? Would IBC’s 6-8 Jason Forrestal have scored 25 points, grabbed 11 rebounds and blocked four shots? Would the 6-6 Hecko have stopped Forrestal, or at least got him in foul trouble? THE BOTTOM LINE, is he didn’t play. DePauw trainer Rex Call says Hecko has a slipped disc. “It would not have been in his best interest for him to try to push it and play tonight,” Call said after the 76-72 loss. “We suspected it earlier in the week because he had a history of cronic back problems going back as far as four years (ago) and also last season he had some intermittent problems,” Call explained. Hecko’s back trouble flared up in the loss at Taylor. “Of course we played the four games in eight days and I think the accumulative effects of playing four games in eight days took its toll on him,” DePauw trainer said. AFTER BEING EXAMINED twice last week in Indianapolis by Dr. Mark Stevens, the last time on Friday before the team left for Lisle, 111., Hecko made the trip. And while he did not practice through the week, it was not decided until Saturday morning that the Greencasde High School product would not play. “With those different signs and symptoms,
ing contacts with two prospective student athletes.” The details of those alleged violations were among the portions of the letter deleted by UTEP before it was released to the public. ELLENBERGER, NOW A full-time assistant coach at Indiana University, was a part-time assistant coach at UTEP from 1986 to 1990. NCAA rules bar part-time coaches from recruiting off-cam-pus. Ellenberger could not be reached for comment today. A spokesman for the Indiana University athletic department who did not identify himself in a telephone conversation said there would be no comment from Ellenberger, head coach Bob
None of the players have enough major league service to be eligible for salary arbitration, so the Reds were able to automatically impose contracts at salaries of the team’s choosing. Armstrong was given a $215,000 salary for 1991, while Oliver got $185,000. Oliver and Armstrong both were paid $107,500 last season, when Armstrong started the All-Star Game and Oliver became the Reds’ regular catcher and drove in the winning run in Game Two of the World Series sweep of the Oakland A’s.
open to boys and girls ages five through nine. Then on March 16, coach Ed Meyer, the all-time winningest baseball coach in DcPauw history, will put on a clinic for boys and girls in the league. Each child participating in the clinic will receive a food certificate from a local restaurant and special door prizes will be given away. For more information call 653-9596.
26-17 loss. No other details were reported. The Greencastle teams travel to Crawfordsville’s Tuttle Middle School (take Chestnut Street east of highway 231) on Tuesday (today). The first game starts at 6 p.m.
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they are too pronounced to take a chance on causing greater injury or causing more permanent injury that might cause him to have to have surgery,” Call said. “I told coach (Royce Waltman), ‘Moose, is the kind of guy that is going to jump on the landmine to save the team or save his buddies,’” the trainer said. Hecko’s streak of 83 consecutive starts for DePauw ended. “He’s just a real hard-nosed player and he can play with pain, but this was the type of injury and his symptoms were such that it would not have been in his best interest for him to try to push it and play tonight.” COACH WALTMAN MADE no excuses. He stuck to his philosophy that you play with the guys you have. He has not talked about the impact of other missing players and while being polite in the post-game press conference, he wouldn’t dwell on Hecko’s absence. “If I got into that question I’d take away from the efforts of the kids who played in his place and I’d certainly take away from the effort Illinois Benedictine put forth,” Waltman said. As for Hecko being able to stop Forrestal, Waltman saw it another way. “I think he would have been somebody maybe Forrestal would have had to try to stop,” Waltman said. “But no, I would be misleading (you) to say we had a guy over there (on the bench) in street clothes who is going to stop Forrestal. That’s not so.” AND IF HECKO was on the floor, who is to say the others would have played as well. The Tigers dug deep and played hard, even harder than usual. When they walked off, they left everything they had to give out there on the
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Knight or the university. Haskins, Lackey and all other UTEP employees have been asked by UTEP President Diana Natalicio not to comment on the NCAA findings until the school completes its own investigation.
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South Putnam captain Cory Robinson (left) received the Greencastle-IHSAA sectional championship trophy from Greencastle High School principal Bob Harbison following the championship game. Robinson and the Eagles
St. Joseph’s AD moves to San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) The University of San Francisco, aiming to regain the lost prominence of its basketball program, has named Bill Hogan as athletic director. Hogan, 38, has been athletic director of St. Joseph’s College in Rensselaer, Ind., since 1982 and its men’s basketball coach since 1984. Hogan was chosen Monday to succeed the Rev. Robert Sunderland, S.J., who resign :d last November.
Fields’ Findings
IT IS THE second time Ellenberger has had problems with the NCAA. He was fired as the head coach at the University of New Mexico in 1979 after his program was hit with a grade-fixing scandal now known
HOGAN WAS SELECTED after a USF search committee screened more than 70 applicants. USF President the Rev. John LoSchiavo, S.J., said Monday in an on-campus news conference that Hogan’s appointment was a move in line with the school’s goals when it restarted its basketball program in the 1985-86 season. “I think we said at the time we wanted to stay Division I, and we wanted to stay in the West Coast Conference, and that we wanted to
floor. Tim Frey, Brad Brownell, Troy Greenlee, Steve Rutherford and, of course, Brett Crist, could not have given more. Think about it. Frey scores 17 points in his final game and could easily have hung it up last year when he had to undergo major knee surgery. When Brownell decided to transfer to DePauw from Purdue and resume his basketball career, his committment to play to the final second was made. The 6-3 guard led the Tigers in assists for the third straight year and finished fifth on the all-time list with 332. GREENLEE WAS BENT on pulling out this game, so much so that he actually faked a threepoint shot and drove by his defender to attempt a two-pointer. Greenlee closes his career holding DePauw records for three-point field goals made in a career (232), three-point field goals attempted in a career (473), best three-point field goal percentage (.490) and consecutive games with at least one three-pointer (55). He scored 954 points in his career. And Saturday night it was Rutherford who grabbed the rebound and hit the two free throws and layup to bring the Tigers within three, 7067, with 57 seconds left giving more hope. CRIST DROVE AND passed and shot for 22 points in a effort that has become so common and expected, that his exceptional efforts are often overlooked. “I knew with the situation tonight and the lineup we had, that he would try and do as much as he could and I think he did and fairly well within the structure of the game without going too far,” Waltman said. CRIST CLOSED HIS career as DePauw’s all-time leading scorer with 1,694 points, as well as being third on the all-time assist list. “Brett has been a great player for us and there is no other way to put it,” Waltman said. Statistically, Crist also set DePauw records for career free throws made (414), career free throws attempted (551) and best free throw percentage in a game (16-16 against Wabash). The Tigers compiled a 44-14 record with one conference title, two NCAA Tournament appearances and a second place finish in the NCAA Tournament... Just think, what if...
as “Lobogate.” New Mexico was barred from post-season play for two years, and forced to return money made in the 1978 NCAA tournament. Ellenberger was also indicted by a federal grand jury, but later acquitted on five counts of mail fraud, one count of wire fraud and one count of interstate travel in aid of a racketeer. IN 1981, ELLENBERGER was convicted on 21 of 22 New Mexico state charges of fraud and making false public vouchers, all fourthdegree felonies. He was put on unsurpervised probation for one year. Natalicio last month released a list of the 13 allegations lodged by the NCAA against the UTEP bas-
now play Ilth-ranked Terre Haute South in the West Vigo-IHSAA Regional at 11 a m. Saturday at Hulman Civic Center in Terre Haute. Regional tickets are on sale at South Putnam High School. (Banner-Graphic photo by Eric Bernsee)
be competitive in the West Coast Conference,” he said. LoSchiavo said the growing complexity of running an athletic department led to the hiring of Hogan with his background both as a coach and an administrator. HOGAN SAID IT will take four or five years before San Francisco can field a men’s basketball program that can compete for the WCC title. He said such a program would have to aim to be a Top 25 program to accomplish that.
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Moose Hecko (back) could only stand on the sideline and encourage DePauw teammates, like Scott Allison (32), Saturday night in the NCAA Division 111 Tournament
ketball program. The charges ranged from an assistant coach lying to an NCAA investigator to a booster providing free use of cars to players. The letter says assistant coach Rus Bardburd is accused of lying to an NCAA investigator. The specific allegations were deleted by UTEP. Assistant coach G. Ray Johnson is accused in the improper recruitment of former Los Angeles high school star John Staggers, currently being recruited by UNLV. IF THE NCAA finds UTEP guilty of rules violations, the school’s basketball team could face a range of sanctions, including loss of scholarships and a ban on postseason play.
Celtics did not let up on Pacers HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) After blowing a 17-point fourthquarter lead to Indiana eight days earlier, Boston wasn’t about to let it happen again. So the Celtics didn’t let up Monday night until a Larry Bird dunk with 3:18 left gave them a 117-94 lead. Coach Chris Ford sent in the backups, and the Celtics finished with a 126-101 victory. “WE DIDN’T WANT them coming back in the game and getting one back from us,” Robert Parish said. “They’re not a team you can coast on because they are a very explosive offensive team. With a team like this, when you’ve got them down you’ve got to keep them down.” The Celtics put them down early and did keep them down, holding them to 44 percent shooting in the second half and outrebounding them 30-14 during the half. “We didn’t have the intensity right from the start,” Pacers forward Detlef Schrcmpf said. “We didn’t play hard enough or smart enough.” Pacers INDIANA (101) Sanders 1-7 0-0 2, Person 2-6 0-0 4, Dreiling 13 3-4 5, Fleming 5-10 1-3 11, Miller 8-15 4-4 21, Schrempf 5-10 10-13 20, McCloud 5-12 0-0 12, Smits 1-3 2-2 4, Thompson 1-3 1-2 3, K.Williams 7- 1-2 15. Wittman 2-3 0-0 4. Totals 38-81 22-30 101. BOSTON (126) Bird 10-18 2-2 29, Gamble 9-12 1-2 19, Parish 8- 1-1 17, Brown 10-13 2-2 22, Lewis 6-14 3-4 15, McHale 5-13 3-4 14, Pinckney 0-0 2-2 2, C.Smith 0-1 0-0 0, Kleine 2-4 0-0 4, M.Smith 0-2 2-2 2, Vrankovic 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 51-88 16-19 126. Indiana 21 31 25 24—101 Boston 37 32 28 2<k-126 3-Point goals —Indiana 3-13 (McCloud 2-6, Miller 1-5, Wittman 0-1, Person 0-1), Boston 8-11 (Bird 7-10, McHale i-1). Fouled out —None. Rebounds —Indiana 37 (Schrempf 8), Boston 54 (Parish 11). Assists —Indiana 25 (Fleming 7), Boston 29 (Bird 10). Total fouls—lndiana 21, Boston 22.
game at Illinois Benedictine. Hecko, DePauw’s leading scorer and rebounder, could not play because slipped disc. (Banner-Graphic photo by Monique Fields)