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Show Page 6 - THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Thursday, March 17, 1983 A full report and commentary on winners, Sports j losers and coming events Good Choice For New Football Coach A1 cake Aggies Those writers who covered Utah the football job. There is a similarity, also, beState University football back in the early to mid sixties, used to tween Pella and BYU's successful tell Chris Pella that he had been coach LaVeil Edwards. Edwards was an assistant at created in the image of John BYU for 10 years before getting Ralston. You had to be there to appre- the head job. Pella was an assistant for 15 years and served under ciate the humor. Pella was a serious student of three head coaches in that time. Pella, like Edwards, believes in coaching even as an undergraduate at USU. He played under Tony hiring good people and then giving Knap and just after Ralston left them responsibility. He also believes in throwing the for Stanford. Ralston played little football at but was football. The games of the tutored to be a coach by Pappy future might need a special "shot Waldorf. Pella was a little like that clock" in order to finish in four except that he played regular for hours. the Aggies. But even as a player Anyway, a Well Done to Aggie he was looking ahead to the day athletic director Ladell Andersen when he would become head coach and the selection committee for at Utah State. promoting Pella to the head job. That day came yesterday. Pella, 40, was named to replace Bruce Snyder as head coach. SnyThis is probably a good time to der resigned several weeks ago to wrapup the WAC. The season accept a position on the staff of could end for the conference tothe Los Angeles Rams. night. A couple of firsts were recorded I think Pella was an excellent in the conference. They were: choice. And I'm glad the Aggies 1. In 21 years this was the first finally took one of their own for Marion Dunn ey SPORTS EDITOR BYU-Aggi- ail-tim- time there has been a three-wa- y tie for first place. 2. In 21 years this was the first time the winners had as many as five losses. So much for the firsts. It should be pointed out that youth prevailed in the league this winter. Only 37 percent of the 45 starters in the WAC (17) were seniors, 31 percent (14) were juniors and 16 percent each (7) were sophomores and freshmen. Five teams were starting freshmen by the end of the season. Force and Colorado State started the most seniors, four and three respectively. Four schools started two and two schools one senior each. Air While it was a young league, and probably down, it was as evidenced by more than the three-wa- y tie for the title. The average margin of victory well-balanc- NCAA Foes Seeking Respect By RALPH WAKLEY BOISE (UPI) Illinois, Utah, Washington State and Weber State will each be looking for a little national fame tonight, before favored Virginia and UCLA take over the spotlight in NCAA West subregional tournament at Boise. Big Sky Conference champion Weber State plays Washington State in tonight's first game, while Western Athletic Conference titl-iUtah meets Illinois in the nightcap. winners ;The two opening-roun- d earn the doubtful honor Saturday of facing Virginia (27-4- ) -sand No. 7 UCLA (23-5- ) - st Raveling's 22-- Cougars are led forward Steve Harriel, by averaging 16 points and six rebounds per game. And his other point guard Craig big man is Ehlo, averaging 12 points, 4.5 assists and two steals per game. The Wildcats' top players are 6-- 6 forwards Randy Worster and center Royal Edwards and 0 Tom Heywood averaging 13, 12 and 10 points respectively. And Edwards and Heywood are both averaging seven rebounds per game. But, while Raveling and McCar- thy only talked about their teams, eeded respectively in the Illinois coach Lou Henson claims there isn't much difference beWestern Regionals. "We're both very similar," says tween any of the teams in the Weber State coach Neil McCarthy tournament at Boise State Univerabout his 7 Wildcats and Pac-1- 0 sity's new Pavilion. "I can't believe our players runnerup Washington State. "Nei1- -2 ther team has a dominating player, but we both have eight or nine guys who can really play together." "We'll have two problems Mc- against Washington State," Carthy said. "First, we'll have to hold our own on rebounding to stay with them. Then, we'll have to And the player with the hot shoot-ip- g hand to get our offense moving-" Washington State's George Ravp eling agrees with McCarthy's that the Wildcats and WSU players. Cougars lack "We're not a team with a bunch of glamour players like Virginia qr North Carolina," said Raveling. ''We've got a bunch of kids who live each other and play well si-u- star-quali- ty Upsets, with our consistency than with Utah. We have to have all five of our players on the floor playing well. And, we have to take advantage of our height. Maybe we can hurt them there." is led by junior Illinois (21-1guard Derek Harper, named to the UPI All America honorable mention squad. The Harper is averaging 15.5 points per game, but the Fighting Illini also have 9 in Blow-out- s 1 Panguitch downing North Summit. So. Summit 69, Piute 59 Craig Rydalch and Kelly Hatch combined for 45 points, 19 and 24 I The state 1A Tournament respectively as So. Summit edge in BYU the Opened Wednesday Marriott Center. And as usual, Piute. Piute couldn't get any closer here were the upsets and the blow than 0 when the third quarter Outs. ended the game Beaver, Kanab and Wendover was history, and down by 10. : one sided wins most the captured Gunnison 59, Altamont 48 of the tourney. Led by Paul RobiAltaThe Longhorns nson's shooting the Beavers 13-- 2 in to mont the first quarter in the game plaimed the lead early and were never tested enroute to a pull away and never trail in the 8 win and Kanab easily han- contest. Parowan 63, Dugway 53 6 and Wendled Monticello Robinson dumped in 22 Mike d dover Duchesne points to aid Parowan in their over the former state '. Robinson, Steve Hutchings and upset win Thane Marshall all hit buckets to champion Dugway squad in the upset so far. open the second half and give the tourney's biggest of 21 from the The Rams sank-1Beavers a 8 edge, and it was in the fourth quarter to foul line all down hill from that point. : Robinson led Beaver with 21 deny the Mustangs a chance to points and Marshall and Hutchings rally. By DAVE McCANN and JOE PRATT Herald Correspondents 49-4- - out-scor- 81-5- 64-3- 76-8- 7. man-handle- 57-2- both had 17 apiece. Wamsley scored 29 points to lead North WENDOVER-DUCHESN- E Wendover established themselves as one of the tourney favorites as Rich. In earlier games South Summit they bombed Duchesne. They 'downed Piute 69-5Gunnison were awesome in all phases of and their game, featuring tough regunned down Altamont fast Parcwan upset heavily favored bounding, breaks and great defense. Dugway Later games found East Carbon Beaver 111) 8 and Hutchings 7 17. Robinson 10 21. Brannuall 2 ;edging Bryce Valley 9; 59-4- 8; ball-hawkin- g, 53-6- ', 61-5- 52-3- 2, 50-3- 41-2- 3. Box Elder got the early lead of the game, dropping in two points with one minute off the clock. Provo responded a min-tur- e later as Kristen Thompson tied the score for the first time in a series of six ties. 7-- -A ELDER PROVO-BO- Going into the second quarter tied, Wright sant a jump shot to put the Bulldogs out in front and then Provo's Rogers stole the Box Elder inbound pass and scored. Box Elder put on a press two minutes into the fourth quarter, but could not stop the Provo momentum. 20-fo- ot full-cou- al 6-- 4 Marshall 17, the game. 16 81. Altamont (41) 1 04 4 Roberts 1 GUUIKM V. Hill 0 Jensen 3 Totals 25 4, Brotherson 1 8. Christensen 2 41. 3. Totals It 5 (it) 0. 10, 59. 7 Barney 3 Higham Gaaalsoa 13 Altamont 2 Parowaa Evans 3 44 10, 4 Gardner 18, 2 Greenburt 25, C. HiU 18. 10. 7 1 1 0 Ogden defenders stuck close to the Bruins' Julie Schlappi and Michelle Burnett, allowing them only 13 points between the two of them. 2, 2, 5f 29 21 41 Mountain View will be matched with Provo Friday and the night in the Bruins are ready to meet them, although they lost twice 1831 Robinson 8 4. Griffiths 3 Dvgway 1531 Bruce 10 0 20. 7 32 41 10, 12 3, Fisher 6 4, Todd 4 Farrow 0 0. Burton I 34 5. M. 22. Rogerson 41-- 3 9.0. Robinson 2 0 13. Totals 19 3 63. semi-fina- Brothers 0 1, White 0. Lyndy 0 1 3, Dewitt 5 3 11. Totals 23 ls Parowaa II Dagway 13 27 42 35 Plate St. Summit Wendover 12 28 42 59 17 49 41 09 (78) 3 04 6; Jn. Mclnerney 21-- 2 5; L. Dahlstrom 1 Dahlstrom 1 04 2: Evans 1 00- - 2; Jay Mclnerney 10 04 20; Callister 1 04 2; Bostock 7 16; Massell 4 04 8; Spillman 5 04 10; Sharp 1 04 2. Totals 36 44 Peebles -2 3, Dcketaef37 Norman 0 Brady 3 1 042; 3. Caldwell I 04 4; Bailey 1 2; Young 4 10; Peterson 04 8: Ward 01-2Totals 6 1. C. 04 6; Dawes 1 04 K. 4 Bailey WeadaverlS 42 67t Dackesae91S29 37 : ; was the latest rage, Hary S. Truman was president and Ray Meyer was the Blue Demons' coach. years have passed, and Meyer has finally seen his long NIT drought come to an end. DePaul got 20 points from Tony Jackson and ran off a burst midway through the second half 3 Wednesday night to take a NIT victory over visitThirty-fiv- e 10-- 0 76-7- first-roun- d ing Minnesota at Rosemont, 111. In other first-roun- d NIT games, Doug Arnold hit a jumper with 5 econds left to give Texas Chris- - - 4 64-6- 2 victory over Tulsa; Jimmy Foster's career-hig- h 31 points gave South Carolina a 100-9- 0 victory over Old Dominion; Iona defeated St. Bonaventure be6 hind Steve Burtt's 33 points; Acie Sanders scored 7 of his 11 points in overtime to lead New Orleans to a 90-7- 99-9- 4 triumph over Louisiana State, Charlie Sitton scored 23 points and Steve Woodside and Danny Evans added 18 each to lead Oregon State to a 9 victory over Idaho and Fresno State overcame UTEP of the Western Athletic Conference At, Tulsa, Okla., Arnold's basket highlighted Texas Christian's first n appearance since 1971. After Tulsa's Bruce Vanley sank 77-5- 71-6- post-seaso- 'i f f) Dennis Pattertoa Photo Provo's Holly Loveall looks up into a sea of arms to the Bulldogs in region play. "We're going to get them," said Mountain View Coach Debbie Freestone. "Our kids played awesome on the inside tonight. We can beat Provo." PROVO (41) Rogers 8 4 IS Wright 8 3 17 Thompson 2 2 6 4 Brereton Lamb 1 04 2 Loveall 1 144 2 49 Bra null 0 04 0 Totals 21 BOX ELDER (43) Gorman 144 2 Gilbert 1 04 2 Baddley 4 1 ( Jeppsen 2 04 4 Humphrey 1 34 5 Wilkin 3 43 Adams 4 24 10 Enright 2 04 4 Totals 18 12 26 35 49 Provo Boi Elder 12 IS 27 38 SPANISH FORK (32) Nelson 2 04 4 Vincent 4 5 11 Downey 2 54 9 1 3 Jackson 2 3 2 Jarvis 0 Walter t 31 Cook I 04 2 Brandt 0 04 0 Totals 10 TOOELE (52) Bush 5 04 10 Winn 2 5 5 Leiken S 44 14 Bum 0 0 White 4 2 9 Peshell 2 2 6 Bradford 1 04 52 2 Totals 22 SpFork 7121732 Tooele 16284052 MOUNTAIN VIEW (58) Burnett 2 2 5 Hlrscbi 0 0--2 0 Brown 0 0 20 Schlappi 3 Ferre 4 94 17 Pollard 10 Leavitt 0 Totals 19 1 50 OGDEN (18) 1 Dayton 4 14 9 Madsen 6 2 13 Davis 2 Giles 1 1 2 Thorton 2 I J. Giles 1 14 I Totals 184-1- 7 36 Mtn View 19 25 39 50 8 13 20 36 Ogden Cougar Batcats Face NAIA Champs By BOB HUDSON Herald Sports Writer Grand Canyon College, the defending NAIA national champion, will bring its baseball team into e series FriProvo for a and Saturday. day ' The first game of each double-headwill be broadcast by KHQ 1480 kc on the AM dial, with radio, Raeldon Palmer doing and O'Neil Miner providing four-gam- er play-bypl- Blue Demons Finally Get Post - Season Win tian a 's Ok 83 53 Plate 1591 4. Nay 0 2 2. Jenkins 0 Cleave 1 5, J. Oalton 1 0- - 1 2. Millctt 3 04 8. 14. Jolley 8 Torgerson 3 B Dallon 7 59. 15. Totals 21 So. Summit 189) 3. Todd 1 (Ml 2, Ruf 1 Flinders 5 44 14. Peterson 1 4. Rydalch 6 713 19, Hatch 10 5 24, Hoyt 0 4 3. 69. Totals 24 3- By United Press International The last time DePaul won a first-roun- d game in the National Invitation Tournament, television - 53. commentary. ' " '- t x VIEW-OGDE- N Mountain View sophomore Lynn Pollard scored 10 points to aid the Bruins in their victory over the Ogden Tigers. Ogden's Pam Davis sank the first basket, giving the Tigers their only lead of the game. Limb 3 (Ml 6, Wood Nt. Mcli M 29, Lamborn 1 0 2. Mattson 1 8 1, Wamsley 11 3, Huefner Esterholdt J 04 8, Mills 1 2 4, Willis 1 1 9 11 2 58. 0 2. Anderson 4, Totals Beaver 11 42 IS 81 Ne. Rick 8 22 37 58 Thayne Miles - FORK-TOOEL- Tourney MucKi 2 04 4, 9, Totals 36 ii rt E SPANISH Spanish Fork's Denise Vincent led the Dongs in their struggle by pumping in 11 points, but it wasn't enough. Tooele grabbed the opening tip and scored, giving them a lead that they held throughout MOUNTAIN 7. Kearney said: "The WAC owes Irv a debt of gratitude, not only for a distinguished officiating career that marked him as the best in the nation, but for a superb job as supervisor of officials. "Under Irv's leadership the WAC may have the finest overall corps of basketball officials in the country. He will be missed." A search is underway to find a replacement and Kearney said he hopes to have someone aboard by the time Irv leaves at the end of June. Irv will be missed indeed. Mountain Spanish Fork 6 View tripped up Ogden and Judge dumped Carbon 24-2- 0) Denver and with CBS television. In making the announcement this morning, commissioner Joe games, Tooele demolished 10-ti- intimidate us." "However, I'm more concerned And it is official, if you'll pardon the expression. Irv Brown, supervisor of officials since April, 1978, has resigned effective June 30. I hate to hear this, but it is true. Brown will devote his time to broadcasting, a daily talk show in 3-- A Ralph Sampson and Houston's Akeem Abdul Olajuwon. The 4 Sampson, the creme de la creme of the players in the Boise tournament, his Cavaliers national champion and the UCLA Bruins sit on the sidelines byes. tonight with first-roun- d The two teams surviving the Boise tournament advance to the March 6 Western Regionals at Ogden, Utah, along with the two winners from the subregional at Corvallis, Ore. In other action toWest Virginia takes on night, James Madison and Virginia Commonwealth goes against LaSalle at Greensboro, N.C. Purdue faces qualifier Robert Morris and Illinois State plays Ohio University at Tampa, Fla. - minus 49-4- against the likes of Virginia's three-tim- e All America center would leak beyond Utah Thursday to play UCLA on Saturday," Hen-so- n said. "And, I'm not sure UCLA is a better team than Utah. Utah is a very physical team that will be aggressive on both offense and defense, so we can't let them 18,100, By KATHLEEN L. PLOTHOW Herald Correspondent Murray Provo' s Tiffany Rogers and Amy Wright led the Bulldogs in a 3 victory over the Box Elder Bees in Wednesday night's round of the basketball tournagirls' ment at Murray. In other Wednesday night height" after having played 23-- 1,059; CSU, 72,315, Force 3-- A 6-- 6-- 7, 6-- 6 minus 102, 231, minus 588; Hawaii, 72,307, up 129; San Diego State, 59,110, minus 1,347, and Air 230. Provo Girls Defeat Bees In Prep Tourney Action forwards Efrem Winters and Ancenter Bryan tony Welch, and Leonard. wiU Meanwhile, Utah (16-1start Peter Williams and Pace and 8 Chris Mannion, both Winans up front giving up two inches per man to Illinois' front line. Mannion and Williams are the Utes leading scorers, each averaging 14 points per game. Utah coach Jerry Pimm said Illinois, 1983 runnerup in the Big Ten, "doesn't look like anyone we've played this year. They're Vegas, something like Nevada-La- s only they're bigger and more active." But Pimm said his Utes "are not going to be shook up by a little together." 4th-rank- was 9.8 points. Seven games were decided by one point, three by five points, four by four points, four by three points and nine by two points. Thus 37 percent of the 72 games were decided by five or less points. The fans can't say they weren't entertained most of the time. Attendance was high around the conference. For the ninth consecutive year the WAC drew over one million fans. The crowd count was the third best in history. A total of 1,236,703 fans saw the 141 games. e record for the WAC is The 1,277, 749, 1981. Second best was la 1978 when 1,252,553 turned out. The average crowd this year was 8,771. BYU was down an average of 960 fans per game from 1982, but still had a healthy lead in the conference with a total of 303,957 for an average of 20,264. New Mexico drew 277, 680 up 317 per game; Utah 188,943, up 418; UTEP, 142,060, up 167; Wyoming, The opening game each day will seven begin at noon and will go innings. The second game is scheduled for nine innings in each two free throws to tie it 2 with 1:14 left, TCU wound down the clock. Arnold then scored from the right corner to eliminate Tulsa, the 1981 NIT champion. At Columbia, S.C., Foster also pulled down 12 rebounds and Kenny Holmes had 24 points for the Gamecocks. Charlie Smith led Old Dominion, of the Sun Belt Conference, with 19 points. At New Rochelle, N.Y., Burtt scored 24 of his 33 points in the second half to allow the Gaels to erase a 8 deficit. At Baton Rouge, La., New Orleans, appearing in its first major n 0 game, took a lead in overtime . 62-6- instance. 56-1- "Last year Grand Canyon was cham- 5 and was the NAIA pion," noted BYU coach Gary Pullins. "This year they are ranked number one in the NAIA by Collegiate Baseball (newspa- obvious they per). From that it's are the same caliber of team they have been. "We played them in the fall and got to see a lot of their people,' Pullins said. "But, by the same token, they saw a lot of ours. So we've both been pretty well-scouted- ." 42-3- post-seaso- 93-9- pair of model first basemen will represent the two clubs with Wally Joyner, who is batting .425, wearing the Cougar colors and A transBruce Kipper, a 66, 215-lfer from Oklahoma State, representing the Antelopes. Although BYU had some defensive problems during last weekend's series with Gonzaga, Pullins b. isn't planning any wholesale changes for this series. "The key errors we made in the ballgame last week were throwing errors," Pullins said. "People seemed to be rushing things. It was just a matter of early season and striving too much to excell. We just have to settle down and play good fundamental baseball and I'm sure we will." Pullins will make two changes to open the series. Rob Ray, who played well in the final game of the Gonzaga series will start at shortstop with Cory Snyder serving as the designated hitter. And Mike Willes will start at third with Mark Inouye serving as his backup.- - "Rob played so well in that final game that we want to reward him with a start," Pullins said. "This doesn't mean we're giving up on playing Cory at short. We know that he is going to make some errors there. "The same thing at third," Pullins said. "We're not changing for any reason right now except that Willes has the hot bat. Over the first 30 games of the season, we expect to be doing a lot of lineup shuffling, giving people a chance to play and seeing what works best for us." Friday Pullins will start Scott and Steve Nielsen on the mound. Saturday Rick Aguilera and Jim Bowden will get the call. After the weekend series, the Cougars will head west for dates in the Riverside Tournament all next week and in the Fresno Tournament the following week. "Grand Canyon will get us ready for our California tourneys which will come at us real fast when we need some credible performances," Pullins said. "It is time to keep our fingers crossed against injuries, but I am getting more optimistic as the season progresses." Part-tim-e outfielder Bart Day is currently leading the team in g with a .500 average in three games. Right fielder Gary Cooper has hit .458 over eight games and Willes has hit .450 in six games. Catcher Dave Eldredge is hitting .429 and Joyner is hitting .425. Relief pitcher Colby Ward has record and a 1.12 earned run an average. Scott Nielsen is CM) with a 3.4 ERA while Mark DeLaTorre with a 4.8 ERA. is nit-tin- 0-- 0 2-- 0 |
