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Show Daily Utah Chronicle May 10, 1974 rules 'hardship' under Ute NBA picks players bv ROGER GRAVES Chronicle Staff Utah's Mike Sojourner and Luther "Ticky" Burden, both sophomores, were among 20 undergraduate college basketball players accepted as hardship cases by the National Basketball Association Wednesday. Sojourner, Burden, and the remaining 18 hardship cases all will be eligible for the upcoming NBA season if they are selected in the league's draft May 28. Burden and Sojouner must withdraw their names from the NBA hardship list before the May 28 draft to retain their current eligibility at Utah. The two Ute stars submitted their names as an attempt to find out their value to the NBA at the present time. Burden has said that he will withdraw his name immediately while Sojourner plans to analyze his value and withdraw his name unless he is contract. offered a fat, no-cShould the two Ute stars fail to withdraw their names for the 0 ut II Broken Arrows No More, Once More a United People " for become ineligible intercollegiate basketball. Sojourner and Burden were both named to the Athletic Conference first team and helped pace the Utes to a 22-season record. The duo also helped Utah to a All-Weste- rn blue-ribbo- n National Invitational and ended the ranked 15th in the Tournament season, nation. Sojourner, who was named NIT's Most Valuable Player, a brother, Willie, active with basketball professional Jack Ridley American University of Idaho Professor: Tribal the has in the Basketball Association's New York Nets. Willie also played his college ball in the Beehive state, but down the road a bit, at Weber State Governments and College. Indian Education Sojourner led the WAC in rebounding with a 13.4 average and also scored an average of 17 points a game. Burden was second-bes- t in WAC scoring 23.7 points per game. averaging Other WAC players being recognized as hardship cases, and therefore eligible for the draft, were sophomores Eric Money and Coniel Norman, both of Arizona. The Wildcat pair plan to jump to the NBA provided they can come to terms with an NBA club. p.m. 3-- 5 INDIAN DAYS EVENTS WED WAY 8 MiSS INDIAN U of U Contest -MAY 9, floyd Wwtermn "Custr THURS Your Sm" Album UB, 7:30 Dd or Sundowner Best on the Navajo Nation B'ownmg Pipetem Cofte b Politic 9 5C. 255 OSH Topic Indn and the I A UB SAT WAY 11 Noon- - Indian Food UB Indian Arts 6 Cra'tf Indian Foot Race Indian Pow Wow MPER Nv0 ifll Wi.r. WERE WrVSTrNO OUR. UVES JUST 8 second place finish in the Indian Anthropologist at Princeton University. Oral Tradition: Stories of the Southwest Indians OSH AUD. to NCAA rules, they automatically TODAYS SPEAKERS Dr. Al Ortiz Dr. list, according hardship EDO) lie CFinrii ;Gb enna nsjru 33G& CD 80 cuss JACK KIRKAM'S AAA TENT r AWNING 24 West 5th South, SLC Phone (801)328-0181 LETS DO ABOUT IT.' i vr L JUST SITTING GET INTO ACTION. THAT'S THE PEACE CORPS AND VISTA...ACTION GET INTO IT NOW. LAST DAY TO SEE RECRUITERS FOR FALL PROJECT SUMMARIES, APPLICATION UNION CIRCLE BOOTH 4 IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR ACTION, WE'RE LOOKING FOR YOU 9-- L Ticky Burden fires a jump 6hot while Mike Sojourner pushes for rebounding position in a recent Utah basketball game. Burden and Sojourner, who both were named hardship cases by the National Basketball Association, recently finished their sophomore seasons. He psyches 'em Hot box man Cowley keeps the guys 'up' Chronicle Staff Utah third baseman Steve Cowley thinks players have rights. And he proves it by bickering with umpires when he feels a bad call has been made. 'When a bad call has been made, you bet I'll argue with him, at least until he tells me to shut up or he'll kick me out of the game. Players have a right to argue up to a certain point if they think the ump has missed a call. If it is close enough and I feel there is no question, I'll let him know about it." "Besides, it can psyche up a team if they are flat. Look at what happened in Colorado with f 14. v by JULIE HAYES SOeTNC VrH& 3 4 Courtney, it gave us the psychological advantage." Cowley was referring to a game a few weeks ago where the Utes were tied in an extra inning game and looked "flat." Courtney Nielsen, assistant coach, violently protested a call at the plate and was thrown out of the park. It "psyched us up" as Cowley put it, and the Utes won the game. Cowley is a senior and one of the captains of the baseball team. "As the captains, we try to keep the guys up. We don't let them get down like we were earlier in the year when we were losing. We tell them that they are the best at their own positions. We did have trouble getting the guys to believe it, but now that they do, we are winning. We also try to help the younger guys realize they have three more years to play and not to get down when they aren't out on the field." Cowley comes from Price, Utah. Though he has been in Salt Lake for four years, he still retains some of his small town manner. "I didn't like Salt Lake at first. It was way too big and it was hard to adjust 'cause I didn't know anybody. I just went to school, then to practice and then home. Then after my freshman year of fall baseball it was a lot easier 'cause I knew people better." "I really like Salt Lake now. But I still like to go home once in a while, we are a real close family. But I don't think I want to live in Price." He quickly added, "I wouldn't change where I came from for anything in the world. I really like those people." Cowley, like most of the Ute team, started baseball young, when he was six years old. He progressed through the system and played for Carbon High School and Helper in American Legion. In high school he also played basketball as a guard. "I was pretty good, but I knew I could never make it in basketball because of my size." He is 8 and weighs 150 pounds. "I'm the smallest guy on the team but in baseball there is always a place for a small guy who can hit and field adequately. Ixk at Pete Rose. He might, not get a lot of home runs like the big guys do, but he sure gets a continued on page 11) 5-- |