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Show THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Page 6 Friday. March 25. 1983 A full report and commentary on winners, Sports losers and coming events N.C. State, Virginia Triumph By MARION DUNN Herald Sports Editor There is a good OGDEN chance the 1983 NCAA basketball champion will be the winner of Saturday's Western Regional Finale which will be played in Weber State's Dee Center at 1 p.m. But if that happens the new king of the NCAA hill won't be from the West unless you live on an island off the Eastern seaboard and consider the sovereign states of Virginia and North Carolina as being "out West." This came about Thursday night when a torrid shooting North Carolina State team sent Utah, the last Western team still alive, and the Ralph packing, 75-5- 6; Sampson-le- d Virginia powerhouse held off a fighting Boston College which turned the West five, 95-9- Regionals into an Coast Conference party. Saturday the two Eastern powers will meet for the fourth time this year. The two coaches, Jim Valvano of N.C. State and Terry Holland of Virginia, claimed the game's only special significance to them lies in the fact it will insure the ACC of at least one representative in the Final Four. True, the winner will stay in the West by moving to Albuquerque for the final round of the NCAA but there must be more to this game than the coaches admitted. During the ACC season Virginia beat the Wolfpack twice. But the n Wolfpack won the tournament by defeating the Cavaliers in overtime in the title game. Because Sampson is regarded as the best college player in the country and the Wolfpack is a bunch of that loss had to smart. Saturday the Cavaliers will have a chance to prove they are the class of the conference while the Pack will be out to prove their recent victory roll is not a fluke. And, the Wolfpack is on a roll. After sweeping through the ACC tourney, they eliminated a big part of the West's representatives post-seaso- in the NCAA playoffs to earn the right to meet Virginia and to stay in the fight for the Final Four. All by themselves the Wolfpack has bounced Pepperdine, UNLV and Utah out of this collegiate basketball showcase. Virginia took care of one westerner, Washington State; Iowa, another, Utah State; and in two instances of fratricide Utah took care of UCLA and Washington State bounced Weber State. So exit the West and they didn't even leave them laughing. Utah, the only Western team to reach the round of 16, stayed with the Wolfpack for a little more than 26 minutes last night, but then was buried under an avalanche of long- have given the Wolfpack the victory even had Utah been loosy-goosThe Wolfpack won this game y. at the perimeter. They hit 28 of 41 attempts from the field for the game and were 14 of 19 in the second half. A big share of these field goals were from a range that would have been three-pointe- rs in the NBA. Senior guard Derrick Whitten-bur- g was the big gunner. His shots went in from 19 feet and further as though they were following a radio beam. He was 10 of 13 from the from the field and seven-- f free throw line for 27 big ones. Still the Utes were in the game with a little over 11 minutes to play. They trailed by four at the and held that pace for half, six minutes in the second period when the score was But the Pack jumped this to 0 and it was all over. "That was unbelievable shooting," Utah coach Jerry Pimm said. "But they earned the shots they made. And, even though I found it hard to believe from the bench, those were the shots they distance baskets. The Wolfpack can shoot. It might have been years since the 30-2- 6, Western Regionals have witnessed the kind of shooting done by the visitors from Carolina in the Dee Center. The Utes, loose and easy in 44-4- 48-4- earlier wins over Illinois and tight, tense and tied in knots for this game in their home state. That tightness cost them dearly as they never really found the tempo, the style and poise that carried them this far. Right at the start of the game the Utes' shooting star Peter Williams was open for an easy jump shot from about four feet. He missed. UCLA, showed up wanted." That's right. Valvano said, "we watched a lot of film on Utah and knew they liked to stop their rivals from taking the ball inside. We decided we'd put it in, then kick it back out and take the perimeter shot. That's what we did." "Thinking back," Pimm said, "I just don't know what we could have done differently. We made them earn their shots and that's all you can do." He really missed. The ball hit the back of the rim and bounced into the hands of a player from Carolina. little later freshman guard Manuel Hendrix was in for a lay-u-p all by himself and he fired the ball completely over the basket. And performer Pace Mannion missed three straight foul pitches at a time when each point could have meant the difference between life and death for the Utes. But the Utes' tenseness was only part of the story. That probably kept the game from being close, but the way N.C. State shot from the perimeter would probably A Mannion, who ended his collegiate career with 13 points, said, "there's not much I can say. Whittenburg is a great player. I learned a long time ago in the WAC against great offensive players like Danny Ainge, Charles Bradley and Kenny Page that all you can do is work hard. You try and get a hand in their face and make them earn it. I did that tonight and Whittenburg put the ball in." Williams had 15 points to lead all-WA- C II : ' ur four-of-fiv- last-minu- Boston College came back from a big deficit to pull within three points at the end. In fact, the last 24 seconds actually took about 15 minutes of real time. But the Eagles could come close, but not close enough. Sampson picked up his fifth foul at the 1 : 36 mark with the score That enabled the Eagles to make their final run. , Louisville defeated Arkansas 65-6-3 in a wild affair as Scooter McCray tipped in a shot at the buzzer. And Melvin Turpin scored 16 points and Kentucky broke to a lead before holding off Indiana if 64-5- 9. Tonight, it's North State and Georgia-S- t. is State in the Midwest Regional in Kansas City, Houston-Memph- Mo. Kentucky and Louisville have not played 24 years, the last meeting coming in the 1959 NCAA Tournament in which the CardiAnd this game is certain to nals won 76-6be a bonanza for ticket scalpers since bad blood has developed over the years. Kentucky, ever the proud Southern gentleman, has refused to schedule Louisville during the regular season. "I want to play them real bad," Turpin said, "and I know the fans want to see it first-ha- lf Louisville battled from a deficit to tie it 3 on a hook by Lancaster Gordon. Arkansas tried to work for a final shot. But Charles Balentine walked as as Gordon attempted a steal, giving the Cardinals possession with 37 seconds left. They ran the clock to 13 seconds and Milt Wagner missed from the lane. Louisville crashed the boards ferociously and kept the ball alive. There were four tips and Charles Jones and Scooter McCray finally got a hand on the ball before the buzzer, the winning basket was credited to McCray. loss to Louisville thus avenged a the Razor backs in the NCAA Tournament two years ago on U.S. Reed's shot from mid-cour- t. Lancaster Gordon led the No. 2 Cardinals, 31-with 19 points and McCray added 17. For No. 9 Arkansas, 26-Joe Kleine had 21 points. "The Kentucky game is not just another game." Gordon said. "One is going to win the championship." In the opener, Kentucky had enough poise to hold off Indiana. The Hoosiers trailed by 10 with 8:30 remaining but pulled to S9-S-7 with 2:50 left on a basket by Randy Witt-ma- n. in m ft 6 69-5- ' 7 75-5- PbUShurtleff Paolo Chris Kitchen stretches to hoop over Sheldon Cox. . m Carolina-Ohi- o John's in the East Regional in Syracuse, and N.Y., and Villanova-Iow- a : ers Joe Weight and Sid Wagner, donated their time. Youngsters also had a chance to e shoot at the basket during half-tim- saootouts. Each who did so received two tickets to the Utah Jazz-Golde- n State game next weekend compliments of the Jazz. V M Briaa TregasUs PbaU Wolfpack's Derrick Whittenburg fires over Manuel Hendrix. B YU Briefs FREDUEF Two of college basketball's most inhospitable neighbors get to settle a score Saturday in the finals of the Mideas t Regional in Knox-vill- e, Term. On Thursday night each won its semifinal encounter to set up the showdown with the winner advancing to the Final Four in Albuquerque, N.M. 57-5- game. American Fork's Sean Gunter got a basket to bring the North to within seven, but Ross answered with two baskets and it was 8 with 4:50 left. Gunter hit a free throw to close the margin to 10, but Ross came back with a pair of charity tosses and a basket and Santiago hit a bemb to push the South edge to 9 with 3:31 left. Pleasant Grove's Chris Kitchen got two free throws with 3:11 to go, but the North didn't score again until Lehi's Brett Liston got a free throw with 13 seconds left. The South, meanwhile, scored 12 unanswered points to make the game a blow-ou- t. Sagers led all scorers with 24 points. Ross had 14; Santiago 13 while Johnson and Timpview's Steve Andrus had 10 each. Mountain View's Carl Pollard led the North with 18, but was the only player in double figures for his team. Bruin teammate Ken Rasmussen and Lehi's Jeff had eight apiece. All proceeds go toward support of the Boys Club. The players and all officials, including whistle-blo- W i (' Utah Swimmers Scoreless BYU, INDIANAPOUS, Sagers scored seven seconds into the final quarter to boost the but Lehi's Jeff lead to retaliated to bring the lead back to three. Then Provo's Duane Johnson, Springville's Darrin Williams and Sagers reeled off consecutive baskets to push the South advantage to nine at with 6:13 left in the r Mi 6-- Louisville To Play 39-3- 65-5- rY" nj Lfl Eagle coach Gary Williams said, "I noticed a lot of fans got up and left with three minutes to play. They just don't know us." Sampson was not the outstanding player in the game, just the dominant one. He was great, of course, but 8 John Garris of Boston College showed him some fantastic moves and won his undying respect. Garris led all scorers with 25 points and his teammate, Jay Murphy, had 23. For Virginia Rick Carlisle had 22, Sampson 19 and Othell Wilson 18. Sampson and Garris each had four blocked shots. . Mr nt ,c 86-7- 7. Take the shotgun. Don't forget the moonshine. And bring plenty of them greenbacks. Louisville and Kentucky are coming out of the hills for a little r f them." By ".-- 1 easy and this works against UPI Sports Writer SJ A without Ralph when we beat Houston without him earlier this year," Holland said. "We don't like to be in that situation but our players responded well Sometimes the other team will become complacent when they reach a goal that puts Sampson on the bench because they think they can take it all-st- ar 59-5-4, -- te " X n half and sat out the next 12 minutes. But while he was out the Cavaliers pulled together, built up a commanding lead and then held off a surge by the Eagles from Massachusetts. "I think we proved we can play 90-6-2 57-5- 4, long-distan- Kentucky, 'Timpview's Paul Sagers and Rob Ross and Provo' s Kevin Santiago exploded in the fourth quarter to lead the South to a victory over the North in The Daily Herald's annual Utah County benefit game for the Boys Club of Utah County Thursday. The South led by just three, at going into the final quarter, basketball but played race-hors- e and outscored the North 33-- 8 over the final eight minutes. Ross led the attack with 10 points while Santiago added nine and Sagers, who was selected as the game's MVP, added eight. "We broke it open with our fast break," said Timpview coach Tim Lewis, who guided the South. "It was fun; nobody was weak," Lewis said of the game. "Everyone contributed. "I want this team at Timpview next year," Lewis said. The first three quarters were close although the South built a seven-poilead on a couple of occasions. The score was tied at the end of the first quarter and the 8 South led at the end of the first half. Payson's Bob Armstrong got a basket with six seconds left in the third quarter to give the South its 4 lead at the end of the session. Zt the Utes while Lorenzo Charles had 18 on seven-of-nin-e and four-of-foand Terry Gannon had 10, e getting fielders, to back up Wbittenburg's offense. In the nightcap Boston College attained one goal by getting Sampson into foul trouble but it was small consolation. Sampson picked up his fourth foul on the first play of the second South Stars Blitz North By BOB HUDSON Herald Sports Writer 4 Uunter I I J 5. Kitdia 1 H . Palmer 3 (. Burnincham 4 (Ml I. Butler 1 (VI 4. Luton 0 Barms 3 M 6. Rasmussen 4 Ml. Pollard 7 44 II. Totals 17 t SOUTH INI Cos I (Ml 2. Armstrong 4 1 I. Williams 3 i I. Framptoa 31-- 7. Johnson 5 M 10. Santiafo 1 11 13, Andrus 4 24 10. Ross I 2 14. Sagers 10 4 20. Totals 42 IS 30 54 (2 North South It 39 &7 90 Total fouls: North 10. South IS. Fouled out: bom. Indiana had a chance to tie with 2:28 to go after drawing a charge. Kenny Walker of Kentucky then blocked a layup by Jim Thomas and the Wildcats worked the clock to 35 seconds. Five free throw secured the victory. Walker had 11 For No. 10 Kentucky. 23-of his 13 points in the second half, and Jim Master added II No. Indiana, 244, beat earlier in the year. The Kentucky 62-S-9 18 Hoosiers had points from Wittman and 17 Uwe Blab. from "The one thing thats means more to a coach than anything else if his team's mental attitude." said Kentucky's Joe Hall. "And I do like our attitude right now." i Ind. - Both and Utah's men's swimming teams remained scoreless following Thursday's opening round of BYU the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships. BYU's Rod Strate and Utah's Bruce Kelley failed to qualify for the finals in the freestyle. Strate, who had clocked a 20.31, scored a 20.75, while Kelley, the 50-ya- rd BYU Ray's champion, recorded a 20.63. d The BYU medley relay team missed a qualifying time with a 3:24.69 time. 400-yar- Following Thursday's action, the championships with 69 points, Texas has 61, FLorida 54, Arizona State 49 and SMU leads UCLA 45. Diamondmen Rip - Calif. RIVERSIDE, Rob two-ru- n Senior homer capped fifth inning to boost a five-ru-n BYU's baseball team past host Thursday. Ray's homer over the left field fence scored Eric Varoz, who had previously doubled to score Kurt Lee and Steve Eagar. Eagar had doubled to score Gary Cooper, who got on base due to an error by the Riverside shortstop. The Cougars, now 4 overall and leading the blue division at 1 in tournament action, were paced on the mound by freshman Colby Ward. Ward surrendered five hits and went the distance to record his first victory of the season. Statistically, Varoz, Ray and Eagar led the Cougars. Varoz was three for four, had two RBIs, scored three runs and hit a triple and two doubles. Ray was three for four, had three RBIs and scored one run off his homer. 9-- 3, 9-- 3-- Athletic Conference Western Cal-Riversi- de Eagar had two RBIs coming from his two doubles in three at bats. Defensively the Cougars capitalized on "the Highlanders. Six consecutive outs were recorded on six straight pitches by Ward from the last out in the fifth inning to the second out in the seventh inning. The Cougars need to win two of their next three games in the Riverside Tournament to qualify for Saturday evening's championship. On Friday, BYU plays a doubleheader beginning with Oral Roberts in a make-u- p game, followed by a regularly scheduled Saturgame with over-anxio- us twi-nig- ht 4 p.m. (mountain time) game against Northwestern will be broadcast live over KHQ Radio day's (1480 AM). Cal Rivcnide 000 130 000 3 3 3 lOlOJOOOitl! BYU Ward and Eagar. Carmichad. Lisse lit, James (() IB BYU, and Held W Ward. Vara 2. and Eagar 3B. BYU. Vara. Ray ill. I Cougar Men Netters Bomb Weber While it was cold and snowing outside, BYU's men's tennis team was sizzling inside as they defeated Weber State in Provo, 8 2 to upping their dual record to 2, 6-- "We have been practicing hard and it payed off today," said BYU coahc Larry Hall. "Everyone played very well and we had a lot of close matches. If we didn't play with intensity the match could have easily gone Weber's way." Greg Hayward. BYU, del. Barry Ntnenbaam, (. 4- - 3. Paul Steele. BYU. del. Eric Styrmoc 74. M. Roe Fought. BYU. del. Craig BeU t-John Kline. BYU. del. Kevin Easterly 74, J Andy Noorda, BYU. del. Rod Hortoa t-Shawn Encaon. BYU. del. Bill Collim t--4. 34, M. Harward-NoordBYU, del. Milf nfiaum erly 34 4 4 Steele. Todd Wallia. BYU, del. Styrmoc-Bt- H. 74. Kline-De- Pardoe. BYU, n. Till Hortoo-CoUi- 44, not played. Cougar Ruggers Whip N. Colorado The BYU rugby team slipped 4 and slid its way to a win against Northern Colorado in the snow Thursday afternoon. The second-ranke- d Cougars resorted to kicking the ball much of the time, as the snow made it tough to hold on to the ball. Lance Watene scored on three of 38-1- seven attempts at the end zone, with Thorpe Facer adding two score and Dean Ormsby and Mitch Buck getting one each. Mark Ormsby converted five of six conversion attempts. The Cats, now 11-- 1 on the tea son, host Utah State on Haws Field tomorrow at 2 p.m. |