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Show I TttsdAy, ApRil 26, 1988 ChROMiclE Snow plagues UK Utah sluggers Special to the Chronicle wouldn't be spring here if it didn't snow at least once. This past weekend has been no exception. LARAMIE-- It Utah, which saw two of its games delayed because of snow last week, had its game with the Cowboys suspended Monday after another snowstorm hit the Cowboy Field at the end of the sixth inning. It has not been determined whether the game will be completed or not. The U., which dropped a pair of was trailing games Sunday (4-- 3 and the Pokes 14-- 8 when the white stuff 9-8- ), The package was sent by Dwane Casey, a UK assistant basketball coach. "We don't recruit that way," Casey said when asked about the package. "I have never, ever put any money in a package." Claud Mills, whose son signed an agreement to go to Kentucky last November, said he knew nothing of the package, sity father of either. Meanwhile, Roselle himself called the National Collegiate Athletic Association to investigate the matter. The NCAA, which sets recruiting rules for member schools, had reprimanded UK in February for "minor" violations of the rules. At USC, Professor Helen Horowitz officially complained last week about athletic department brochures advertising for women students to become a "USC recruiting hostess" to show prospective USC athletes around the Los Angeles campus. Chris Mills, much-recruite- d California's high school for the 1987-8- 8 basketball season. came. After Utah jumped out to a quick 0 lead in the first inning, Wyoming came back in the bottom of the first with four runs of its own. Shortstop Todd Hall crushed a Guy Fowlks pitch over the fence with the bases loaded to give his team a 4-- 2 lead. The scoring barrage continued for both teams in the third inning as Utah player-of-the-ye- 2-- ar lightning "It was a bummer because I lost a lot of from page ten was placed in a private room. This is where his memory partially returned. "All I remember is being in a room of my own, having a chocolate malt and going home the next day," Davis recalled. Pain killers became a vital part of Davis' life. Even a slight breeze caused incredi- crossed the plate four times with Wyoming tallying three. First baseman Travis Hansen led off the inning with a single, and after Jared Nye and Mike Aranzullo walked, U. sec- His mother would stay up all night with him when the intense pain prohibited sleep. His father would take him on 7-- d. Utah came back with two more runs in its top half of the sixth when the snow came. returned to Hillcrest. His hard work hospital. mvm Davis is summed up best by his father. "He was determined. He sets goals and keeps them," he said. cally all over again," Michael Davis, Collin's father, said. "He had to come a real long way. He couldn't even throw a Eventually Davis was able to walk again on his own. In fact he was even doing some jogging. His rapid progress led to an attempt to return to school. This comeback was foiled by his damaged nerves becoming overloaded. The senior-to-b- e was forced to furlough his final year at Hillcrest and return to the libitum ifci'iuJIiD Jlfcu w iJlUMIIinnHi, MO -- fi II-1- The remarkable comeback of Collin wm& no I llMi respectively, but the charges were never proven. "I think (the brochure's) a mistake," said USC Executive Vice Provost Robert Biller. "I thought we agreed last year that the program would be billed as a host and hostess program." Nevertheless, "the very best interpretation one could put on it is that it involves the objectification of women," Horowitz replied. "This isn't a dating service," insisted Recruiting Director Jack Himebauch. "It's strictly a group of girls who are interested and can lend a different touch to the department." resulted in earning a starting position on the football team. "Collin is one of the most dedicated "He had to learn to do everything physi- Davis added. school recruits at the University of Georgia and SMU in 1985 and 1987, baseball." Davis spent much of his of time running, lifting weights and working on an exercise bike in his room. A year after the accident occurred Davis frame. walks. "I basically had to learn to walk again," Such hostess programs were criticized as little more than dating services for high people I've ever worked with in my life." Hillcrest High track coach Raynor Pearce said. "He was a pleasure and a real inspiration." That year, Pearce coached Davis to the state 4A long jump title. At the state championship meet Davis was approached by U. track coach Mike Jones who later offered him a scholarship. "Collin's had so much adversity, obstacles that occur now don't bother him," Jones said. "Since I've known him, he has always been an extra hard worker, always giving 110 percent." At last year's WAC Track and Field Championships, Davis finished sixth in the triple jump and seventh in the long jump for the "Utes." This year as a sophomore, he has recorded the WAC's second best triple jump and sixth best long jump. contact with people I knew being out of school," Davis said. "But it did take me about a year to recover." This time, his doctors took him completely off of pain killers and a new exercise routine was introduced. For the most part Davis initiated workouts on his own. His weight had dropped 50 pounds making him eager to rebuild his athletic ble pain. ond baseman Lance Pratt singled in Hansen. Centerfielder Lance Madsen reached on an error scoring Aranzullo. All that was followed by a Chad Bianco single which lcnocked in Pratt and Madsen. But as has been the case this season, the big inning killed the U. And that inning came in the fifth. With Wyoming clinging to a 6 lead, the Cowboys exploded for seven runs, led off by a Ken Lake solo homer to cen-terfiel- denies sending money to Mills of Kentucky president David Roselle professed April 14 to know nothing about an anonymous $1,000 cash gift to a star high school basketball player who will enroll at UK next fall. A "mistake'' in an athlete recruiting brochure, moreover, led a University of Southern California faculty member to accuse campus recruiters of being sexist last week. The problems at Kentucky began March 31, when Emery Worldwide Air Freight employees in Los Angeles noticed a package they were processing had broken open. On further inspection, they found the package contained $1,000 in cash. 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