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Show Page 8 THE Wednesday, March 16, 1977 SPORTS REPORT By Brown College Basketball After going through a season where rarely a week went by without some sort of major upset, the NCAA tournament seems destined to provide that same style of action as the nation's top collegiate basketball teams have completed their first rounds in tournament play. Looking first in the East we find the favored teams living up to pre-tournament expectations as 3rd ranked North Carolina, led by Phil Ford's 27 points edged Purdue 69-66. Number 5 Kentucky had little lit-tle trouble with Princeton as the Wildcats won 72-58. 72-58. In a rough and tumble game marred with 52 personal fouls Notre Dame decisioned Hoftra 90-83. 90-83. Rounding out the East regionals, it was unranked VMI defeating Duquesne 73-66. Moving to Mid East regionals, we are met with the first minor upset of the tournament as the 10th ranked Orangemen of Syracuse surprised number 7 Tennessee in an overtime victory 93-88. The top ranked Wolverines of Michigan finally pulled away from a surprisingly tough Holy Cross team in the final 5 minutes to win 92-81. Ail-American Ail-American Ricky Green scored a career high 35 points for Michigan. Seventeenth ranked Detroit coasted with a 93-76 win over Middle Tennessee and North Carolina-Charlotte took an overtime win from Central Michigan 91-86. In the Midwest, it was the unranked Deacons of Wake Forest providing the upset trend as they defeated 8th ranked Arkansas 86-80. The loss was Arkansas' second defeat of the season against 26 wins. Marquette, after losing their final regular season game to Michigan, came back to defeat 11th ranked Cincinnati 66-61 in a minor upset. Completing Midwest action, it was Kansas State over Providence 87-80 and Southern Illinois defeating Arizona 81-77. In what some feel was the biggest upset of the weekend, the 6th ranked Rebels of Nevada-Las Vegas ran the formerly top ranked San Francisco Fran-cisco Dons into the ground in Western Regional play. Nevada's high speed offense embarrassed the Dons with a record high score of 121-95. Number 4 rated UCLA defeated 14th rated Louisville 87-79, while Idaho State defeated Long Beach State 83-72. Utah, winning in a fashion which has become a habit with them, defeated St. John's 72-68 as they came from behind and protected their slim lead at the end with their accurate ac-curate freethrows. Thursday's Pairings East-Kentucy vs. VMI Midwest-Michigan vs. Detroit Syracuse vs. North Carolina-Charlotte Midwest-Marquette vs. Kansas State Southern Illinois vs. Wake Forest West-UCLA vs. Idaho State Utah vs. Nevada-Las Vegas Meanwhile in Madison Square Garden, we find the National Invitationl Tournament; a tournament tour-nament recently reduced to secondary status due to lack of attendence and media coverage, well underway as it enters its quarter finals this Tuesday. Alabama, the tournament's only nationally ranked team, will go up against VPI, the 1973 NIT champions. The two teams played previously this year with the Crimson Tide coming out on top 108-78. Completing the pairings it will be Houston vs. Illinois State, Massachusetts vs. Villanova and Oregon meeting St. Bona venture. Elsewhere in college basketball news, the Associated Press named their 1976-77 Ail-American Ail-American team. The first team selections were Marques Johnson of UCLA, Rickey Green of Michigan, Phil Ford of North Carolina, Kent Benson of Indiana and Bernard King of Tennessee. Ten-nessee. NBA Going into the final weeks of their long season, the division leaders are feeling the pressure as the standings have changed somewhat since last week. Feeling this pressure the most are the Washington Bullets, who haven't been known for winning games when they count the most. The past week was disastrous for the Bullets ; leading the Central Division by 2 12 games last week, they have now fallen one game behind Houston. Denver, the Midwest division leaders, have had their formerly comfortable lead trimmed to 212 games last week over the Detroit Pistons. The Atlantic Division Leading Philadelphia 76ers have maintained their 5 game margin over the Celtics, while on the West Coast, the Pacific division leaders, the L.A. Lakers, have increased their lead over Portland by 4 full games. Tennis Fresh from his $250,000 winner-take-all match victory over Ilie Natasie, Jimmy Connors led Americans to their second straight World Cup victory. Connors mounted a second set rally against Australian Tony Roche as he won in two sets 6-4, 7-5. Down 5-2 in the second set, Connors won five straight games to win the match which gives the U.S. an insurmountable 4-0 lead in the best of seven tournament. With this victory, Connors kept intact his undefeated record for two years in World Cup play. Golf This week it was Miami Beach and the Doral Open Golf Tournament providing the setting for a young unknown named Andy Bean to win his Odermatt Narrows Budu's Lead Swiss pro ski racer Josef Odermatt claimed his fourth slalom win of the 1976-77 World Pro Skiing season at Hunter Mountain in the $40,000 Hang Ten-English Leather Cup and now trails tour champion Henri Duvil-lard Duvil-lard of France by a mere 15 points with one meet remaining remain-ing on the schedule. While Duvillard, watching from the finish line, was complaining of a lower back pain that helped defeat him in the quarterfinals of both Saturday's giant slalom and Sunday's slalom. Odermatt, 24, was defeating Austrian Werner Bleiner, 30, for the $5,400 win in the slalom finals. Bleiner earned $3,000 lor his second place on the fall away icy course and now ranks sixth overall. North Conway. N.H.'s Tyler Palmer. Pal-mer. 2(i. placed third, worth $2,200. Stowe, Vt.'s Greg Bartlett. 22. took fourth and SI. 400. Sixth-year pro Tyler Palmer Palm-er enjoyed his best weekend as a professional ski racer by placing first in the giant slalom and third in Sunday's slalom for $7,600 in earnings. The victory, his second this season, and the third of his career, helped secure Palmer's Palm-er's hold on third place overall. He has 315 points and $28,214 now. In first place is Henri Duvillard with 455 points and $60,082: in second place is Josef Odermatt Oder-matt with 440 points and $50,157. Mammoth, Ca.'s Perry Thompson is in fourth place overall with 265 points and $18,303. Canadian Paul Carson. 24, skiing out of Copper Mountain. Moun-tain. CO, placed second behind Tyler Palmer in the giant slalom, breaking a mid-season slump that saw him drop from third place to outside the top ten. Doug Woodcock, 27. of Oshawa, Ontario, grabbed third in the giant slalom and is now the highest-ranking Canadian on the tour in seventh overall. Terry Palmer, the 25-year-old brother of Tyler, pocketed pocket-ed fourth-place and $1,400. It was the first time in the eight-year history of World Pro Skiing that four competitors competi-tors from North American took the top four spots in a dual-challenge giant slalom. Pressure After the $40,000 Hang Ten-English Leather Cup, Swiss pro Josef Odermatt, number two overall, trails pro champ Henri Duvillard of France by only 15 points. One meet remains in the 1977 schedule: the $40,000 Hawaiian Hawai-ian Tropic Pro Championships Champion-ships at Snowbird. UT, April 2-3. "I am young. I have many years to win the tour and nobody thought I would win this year. But Duvillard is 29 and he retires at the end of the season. He is suppose to win. For sure, the pressure pres-sure is on Duvillard." Oder-matt's Oder-matt's training plan for the final event includes free skiing in Aspen, CO, plus four days of hard training in the week prior to the events at Snowbird, UT. What does Odermatt have to do to catch Duvillard? The point breakdown in both giant slalom and slalom are: 35 points for first; 30 for second; 25 for third; 20 for fourth; 15 for quarterfinals; 10 for the round of 16; and 5 for the round of 32. A winner of both events collects 70 points but would only, gain ten points on an opponent who finished second each day. The number of possible permutations makes predicting predict-ing the outcome impossible. Four From P.C. Named to Intermt. Junior National Race Team Park City racer Roxanne Toly (pictured above), along with teammates Mark B rower, John Donner and Karri Hayes, mas named to the Intermountain Division Junior National Team which mill compete at Mt. Alyeska, Alaska beginning March 20. first pro golf tournament. Bean is one of a growing list of young golfers who thus far this year have dominated all but a few of the major tournaments. Playing under the axiom that, "Most tournaments are not won, they're lost," the young Bean took advantage of critical mistakes made by his closest challenger David Graham. Coming back from being 4 strokes down, Graham surged forward to share the lead going into 14th hole only to bogey two of the last four holes and finish one stroke behind the leader. Bean finished with an 11 under par 277 as his first victory netted him $40,000. Tales Telemark By Steven Erickson White Pine Touring Center Days spent touring alpine wilderness, two feet of that light dry Utah powder. Skiing special green on those light racing skis. Snow so light the lightest gear floats, carves, effortlessly, engulfing your every motion. That Feb. sun beating down upon your already sunburnt nose. The air remains cold and crisp. Your body remains warm and moist as you work your way back to the peak. The benef its of the uphill climb, the high of a strong heart pushing that blood out to each and every capillary, taking in that high mountain air, feeling that oxygen converting to high mountain energy as you drift along to the top of the hill. As if the up in itself wasn't enough, you are then rewarded with the view atop plus the exhilaration of skiing down through the powder on those light, skinnv skiis. The lighter the ski, the more that dreaming, lloating sensation is transmitted to the body without skiis. A feeling I thought unsurpassed, an ideal combination of mental and physical. A release that until now has dominated a large part of my existence. Days spent touring alpine wilderness, two feet of that light dry ytairj)Ow:der;'b)oving endlessly' over your head engulfing your every motion. The pleasant hum or your well-tuned machine. That sweet smell of burning gas. Breathe deeply, taste that film of high grade refined oil. In such abundance are the pleasures of learning a new sport. Roaring-through the woods, pushing to your limits. Slowing or stopping unwillfully. Attempting remotivation, hearing that old track spin and whine through layers of snow,' brush, dirt and rock. Brow n on white, a beautiful sight. Pushing tugging, lifting, sweating, straining. Ah, those stimulating physical pleasures. Makes you glad you've got that Now cross-country skiiers, I'd say, better keep a watchful eye on those other winter travelers. As snowmobilers get stronger, and, indeed they will for lifting snowmobiles all day ain't no Sunday afternoon picnic. The aches and pains in my arms and shoulders will attest to the fact that Nordic skiers can't compare their brute strengths with that of a healthy snowmobiler. Snowmobiling can easily combine a great amount of mental discipline along with the physical. Allowing your machine to become slightly out of tune will place you in many a stressful stiuation. The hours spent on the old pull cord, to no avail, will help you build character, perserverance, a good overall disposition, a strong right arm, and a deep-rooted love for the out-of-doors, machine to carry you home. Time and distance seem to lose perspective as you whip through the wind with an undivided attention. As I whiz along, trying to unstick the throttle. I am amazed how quickly the garbage can door comes upon me, how quickly I rebound toward the building over the snow bank and off into the sunset. Almost catching the sun as it disappears over the horizon. Once again I am amazed at the distance I have covered. Out of gas I retrace and realize that distance with each step I take in that thigh-deep junk. Those physical pleasures persist. My recent snow mobiling experience has been an intriguing one. My only real interest is in pulling a sled to provide a better ski track. Nevertheless, once upon the driver's seat, you are involved and should probably pursue the sport as you would any endeavor, if I never have the opportunity to experience the thrills of the snowmobile again, I think my sanity will remain with me to a ' consjcieraply' older ag,'. Banjo Grounds Flyers, Takes Crown The Park City Recreation Department held their Commercial Basketball League Championships last Thursday night at the Memorial Building. Shaking off a cold first quarter in which they didn't score a field-goal, the Red Banjo Team held the opposing op-posing Flyers scoreless in the second period and went on to win the league championship cham-pionship with a 50 to 29 victory. vic-tory. Red Banjo had three men in double figures with Bill Hart getting 15 points, Craig Kunkel 14 points and All Stellato 11 points. Chuck Folkerth, the league's Most Valuable Player led the second place Flyers with 10 points. The Claimjumper team, utilizing their superior height advantage and a balanced scoring attack, led by Rusty Davidson's 29 points, poin-ts, easily handled the Memorial Building Superstars Super-stars 86 to 40 to capture third place. The Superstars were led by Mike Weavers 14 points. poin-ts. In action on Tuesday, March 8th, Treasure Mountain Moun-tain Inn captured 5th place with a 44 to 33 victory over Park West. FINAL STANDINGS: 1st Red Banjo 2nd Flyers 3rd Claimjumper 4th Mem. Bldg. 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