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Show Sunday, March 27, Cards Triumph from Page (Cont. 6) mm said the game was a matter of pride for the Cardinals. He said he was not tired going into overtime. "We hustled a lot in the second half," he said. "Pride really brought us back. It's just like when you think practice is over and you have to go practice for five more minutes." rally to erase an f l.-i- -- y. iTM( JUS . By Wednesday the players participating "ft 58-5- 43-3- 2, kets. In less than a minute, Louisville had pulled to within 2 with 15:18 left to play. Gordon hit a spinning in the lane to give the Cardinals their first lead in the game, with 11:40 left. The lead changed hands three times then Louisville's defense went to work again. A bucket by Billy Thompson gave Louisville its biggest lead in regulation at 45-4- 50-4- 9, Ir 58-5- 3. The Wildcats battled back e bombs by mostly on Master, who finished with 18 points. Kentucky's Charles Hurt grabbed a rebound off a missed Derrick Hord free throw and laid it in to tie the game at 60 with 3: 13 left. long-rang- Louisville's Milt Wagner then threw the ball out of bounds, giving Kentucky possession with 2:25 left. The Wildcats ran the clock down to 15 seconds trying for the last shot but Dirk Minnie-field- 's layup attempt was blocked by Charles Jones. Scooter McCray rebounded the ball and fired a pass to Gordon 0 lead who gave Louisville a with an shot off the driving glass with 11 seconds left. Master's sent the g into overtime at the buzzer, but the Wildcats did not score again until the overtime with 34 seconds left. Gordon led the Cardinals with 24 points while Wagner had 18 points. UPI Sports Writer didn't even need Her-schWalker. Georgia, better known for running backs than power forwards, rocked the NCAA Tournament Friday night with a 7 victory over St. John's in the semifinals of the Mideast Regional. The Bulldogs turned to Terry Fair for 27 points and some clutch foul shooting down the stretch td advance to Sunday's regional final against North Carolina. "I think Georgia will always be a football school," Fair said. "But people will know from now on that we have a basketball program." In the other East semifinal, the And they el 70-6- defending champion Tar Heels moved within one game of a return trip to the Final Four by defeating Ohio State 1 behind 64-5- points by Michael Jordan. In the Midwest semis in Kansas City, Mo., Villanova downed Iowa 4 as Gary McLain and John Pinone each sank two free throws in the final 23 seconds. And Houston, behind center Akeem Olaju-won- 's 21 points and five blocked shots, defeated Memphis State 3 to set up a Sunday game against Villanova. The urgings of the Carrier Dome crowd of 23,286 were not enough to 17 55-5- 70-6- 6-- Wildcats. Instead, Santa Clara and Washington State reached the finals. "I tried to analyze our play during the Northwestern game," said BYU Coach Gary Pullins. "If I could have found our problem I would have made an adjustment, but we were just playing flat." . The Cougars, now 10-finished the Riverside Tournament with a 2 record which was second in the Blue Division. It appeared the Cougars had things going in the right direction during the tourney, 4 having pulled out a 5, Memphis State's Bobby Parks goes sliding with Houston's Clyde Drexler on his back. 5-- 49-4- 61-6- nt 68-6- 5. . 49-4- ( - 2) ment Players Championship (TPC) in Ponte Vedra, Fla. He is only two shots behind former U.S. Amateur titlist John Cook who wielded tour's best birdie touch Saturday by shooting 70 that gave him a a of 139. two day-totar al Ohio State alumnus, winner of the 1981 Cook, a y Crosby, started the day in a tie for second, a shot behind d leader Bruce Lietzke, but he moved to the top by shoot?0 that gave him ing a 139. y total of a five-wa- first-roun- two-da- "Survival, that's about it today," Cook said. "It was windy and cool and some pretty tough I pin placements out there, but got a few breaks." Also at 141 were first-roun- d 72 runner-u- p Clampett, who had a Don and Snead Saturday, and J.C. Pooley, who had 70a. The field was cut to the low 60 fiscorers for Sunday's nale, a situation created when the first round was postponed for 24 hours after a heavy rain, made the Tournament Players Club course unplayable on 36-ho- early-mornin- g Thursday. Sunday's winner gets $126,000 the largest prize ever offered on the PGA Tour. "You never look forward to playing 36 holes," Cook said. "You nave to pace yourself. Those in the best shape will do best. It will be a survival course, a challenge to keep into it for 10 hours. Clampett should do well today. He is young and has that killer instinct. But he faces a monumental task of conquering one of the hardest, if not the most bizzare course on the tour Sawgrass. Cut virtually out of the swamps in northern Florida, Sawgrass has been making fools out of the tour players. For example, on the par 4, 18th hole, Mike Reid, another product, dumped three balls into the drink and took a fat nine. Reid missed the cut for today's final two round. Another player. Rex Caldwell, was in good position at par when he put three balls into the water on the short, par three 17th hole (only a wedge or nine- U one-und- er and took a terrible nine. That pushed Caldwell to an instant par for the tourney. iron) five-ov- er The pros had been complaining all week that the TPC course was too tough, and the fact that only nine out of a starting field of 129 were under par after 36 holes seemed to bear that out. The tournament's three biggest Jack Nicklaus, drawing cards Tom Watson and Arnold Palmer 149s in the all shot first two rounds to barely make the cut. Clampett knows the course quite well. He maintains a home nearby and played several practice rounds prior to the TPC. Meanwhile, most every BYU golf fan is trying to figure out why the Clampett is on the low rung of the ladder this year. The latest tour statistics might reveal why. Clampett's name is nowhere to be found. He's not listed in the top 100 money winners or in any of the typical PGA statistics such as driving accuracy, distance, putting, sand saves or' scoring average. Yet, the former BYU golf star is and three time the cover boy on the April issue of "Golf Magazine" of which he is a considered a "playing editor." victory over Washington State early in the week and a victory Friday night against California-Berkeley. 3 with Memphis State led 15:20 left but Olajuwon provided a dunk, a fadeaway jumper and a sweeping hook to trigger a 14-- 4 run over the next 6 Vz minutes, putting 8 the Cougars up with 8:08 remaining. With Houston in a spread, Memphis State cut it to 5 but the Cougars were able to hold on. 44-4- 57-4- 57-5- Michael Young added 17 points for Houston while Bobby Parks scored 17 and Keith Lee and Derrick Phillips 13 apiece for the Tigers, 23-"This was the best game I've played this year," said Olajuwon, a Nigerian. "We worked on initimidation last week in practice and the presence of Keith Lee really pumped me up." 8. It's not too hard to figure out why the blond Californian from Monterey has that title. He knows the inside and outs of his own golf swing. Don't ever get into a conversation with Clampett on the golf swing, because you are in for a technical, jargonistic lecture that would take an engineering student to figure out. In the feature Homer Kelley effects of the Machine," and . in Golf Magazine, writes about the book "The Golf tells about Clampett's amazing power despite his frame. slight 5-- 142-pou- Sadly, just "a few days after writing this article, Kelly suffered a heart attack and died at the age of 75 on Feb. 14. Whether Kelly's death has had anything to do Clampett's play is unknown. But Clampett's personal mentor has been Ben Doyle, a club professional in Monterey, who has taught Clampett using the book. The results speak for themselves. The past 2 to years, Clampett has won $380,000 on the tour and one tournament the Southern Open in 1982. Everyone expected Clampett to be a dominant force on the '83 tour, but so far nothing has BYU Against y; wide receivers Kirk Pendleton, Mike Eddo, Glen Kotlowski and Mark Bellini; running backs Casey Tiumalu and Eddie Stinnetyt; and linebackers Marv Allen, Todd Shell and Leon White among others. "We hopefully will be able to schedconclude our ule with this Friday's game," said Edwards. "We are playing the game in a continuation of our staff's effort to find out who are the top players and getting our team ready for the Fall opener." The Cougars open at Baylor University in Waco, Tex., on Sept. 10. Tickets for the Pigskin Preview for general admission in Cougar Stadium cost $1 and can be purchased in advance at the Marriott Center Ticket Office, the Alumni House, ZCMI or at the gate Friday. fashioned a four-ru- n rally in the ninth inning to offset a bad start against the Bears. Cal scored three runs in the first inning off;a pair of double steals and a suicide squeeze at home plate. The Bears tied a tournament record with nine stolen bases. Earlier Friday, the Cougars defeated Oral Roberts in a make-u- p game, Against ORU, BYU Eric Varoz led off the game with a home run and Gary Cooper followed with a homer in the second inning. BYU now readies for this week's Best in the West Tourney in Fresno, Calif. 4-- 2. BYU 000 000 000 0 5 . 1 NORTHWESTERN 200 202 OOx 6 9 0 Beavers. Saffell (6) and Eldredge. Tranlwein and Giardi. Snyder. Mogentelli, Hammonds 2. BYU 001 110 004 7 CAI. 300 100 101 6 11 7 2 1 Steve Nielsen and Eagar. Price, Deaver (9) and L Price Greene. W Steve Nielsen. lnouye, Varoz. Cal, Blankship. BYU ORU 1200001 491 101 000 0 2 5 '. 1 DeLaTorre and Eldredge. Helms, Merklen (2), Cottrell. W DeLaTorre. Varoz and Cooper. Joyner. and Cougar Golfers Finish Third STOCKTON, Calif. A three-wa- y tie for third place was the best BYU's men's golf team could muster Saturday at the Northern California Intercollegiate Tourna- ment. Fresno State won the tourney par 1085, followed by the University of Pacific's 1093. BYU was tied with Sant Diego State and San Jose State wt 1097. Other team scores included Oregon 1115, Long Beach State and Utah 1117 and Stanford at 1120 in with a 7, 51-4- tight end Gordon Hudson and his backups Steve Harper, David Mills and Brad Har-dist- 7-- 6 said. "Our teammates know that and they want to give us the ball." For Iowa, Greg Stokes scored 22 points and had 11 rebounds while Hansen finished with 21 points. No. 1 Houston got exceptional frontline strength in running its record to 29-- 2 and its winning streak to 24 games. The Cougars struggled through the final eight minutes and resorted to a rare spread offense, almost blowing a 21-1- 0, 7, four-minu- te 9, "We went down like champions," said St. John's coach Lou Carnesecca. "They had to knock us out." The Tar Heels, 28-played most of the second half with their two big men, Sam Perkins and Brad Daugherty, benched because of fouls. But Jordan, despite an off night from the floor, triggered a 20-- 6 spurt over 10 minutes, which erased Ohio State's final lead and put North Carolina in control. Jordan had 13 points in the second half. Perkins finished with 13 and Braddock 10. Joe Concheck led OSU with 14 points. Villanova looked to its bullish center to overtake Iowa. Pinone scored 18 points to cross the 2,000-poiplateau for his career. Bob Hansen scored 10 points during a 5 stretch midway through the second half to lift Iowa to a 5 lead with 6:18 remaining. But the Wildcats, 24-- answered with a scoop by Stewart Granger, two free throws by Ed Pinckney and a follow by Mike Mulquin to take a 9 lead with 3:46 left. Iowa's Steve Carfino tied it with his only basket 30 seconds later. The Wildcats went to a spread, eased the clock to 23 seconds and secured the victory at the line. "Me and John, we're seniors and we know the game," Granger 5-- Struggling Clampett in Good Shape To Make Run at Tourney Players Title BY ROD COLLETT Herald Sports Writer Trying to figure out why Bobby Clampett has not had a better year on the 1983 PGA golf tour is like trying to figure out the roll of the dice in Las Vegas. It's all very complicated. Clampett is in the best position of any tournament this year to make a serious run for a tour title after he stands at 141 (69-7two rounds of the $700,000 Tourna- spring A 0 loss RIVERSIDE, Calif. to tarNorthwesten Saturday nished what was otherwise a good week for the BYU baseball team at the Riverside Tournament. The Cougars missed getting into the championship of the tourpey because of the loss to Northwest-em'- s Georgia Ambushes St. John's FRED LIEF BYU to Northwestern BYU Loses carry St. John's. In fact, many among the Redmen following were looking past Georgia in anticipation of meeting North Carolina. One New York City newspapar ran a headline quoting a St. John's player: "We'll bury Bulldogs." Hardly. Georgia, fourth in the Southeastern Conference this season but winner of the league tournament, took command in the second half. During a stretch the Bulldogs went on a 15-- 4 run for a 3 lead with 10:05 to play. 0 St. John's made it with 1:41 to play on a basket by Billy Goodwin and two foul shots by Kevin Williams. But Georgia made its next 7 points from the line. St. John's closed to 7 on two free throws by Chris Mullin with five seconds remaining. The Redmen had no timeouts left and were unable to foul as Georgia punctuated its victory with a dunk ' by Fair at the buzzer. "Coming into the game we were the only people who thought we had a chance," Georgia coach Hugh Durham said. For Georgia, 23-- Fair, a center, was backed by Lamar Heard with 11 points and Vern Fleming with 10. Mullin had 19 points for St. John's, which closed its most successful season at 28-- Page 7 Briefs ; 62-6- By 125 in football practices should be divided by the coaches into two equal teams for this Friday's Pigskin Preview. The stakes are high in this winners Pigskin Preview-t- he eat steak and the losers eat beans after the contest. BYU Coach La Veil Edwards said the two teams will be equally divided and will not feature the offense versus the defense as in recent years. Edwards indicated quarterbacks Steve Young and Robbie Bosco would be on opposite teams. He also said the preview would include all phanses of a football games except for kickoff returns. The coaching staff will have to split place kickers Lee Johnson and Pete Rossie as well as Johnson and Richard Orr as punters. Other positions where the coaches will have to divide the talent include m nt deficit and take a 3 lead with 7:45 remaining. Down Louisville rattled the Wildcats with a furious press, converting three steals into bas- - Cougars Await Spring Game jj Louisville Coach Denny Crum said it was "too bad we all can't go to the finals." Louisville went on a furious second-hal- ss THE HERALD. Provo, Utah. 1983 the 20-ov- er m field. Stanford's Scott Erickson shot a 210 for medalist honors on the d Elkhorn three-und- er water-logge- Country Club course, while BYU's Robert Meyer was third at 215. BYU's Keith Goyen finished in a three-watied with Fresno State's Jim Plotkin and SDSU's Dave y Hobby at 216. BYU's other scores were Rick Fehr 220, Kent Kluba and John Bodenhamer at 223 and Rick Gibson at 231. "We are getting good scoring spurts, but can't keep from lapsing," said BYU Coach Karl Tucker. "We were even with the field after 10 holes today, but our wheels came off on the last hole where we lost seven shots. "We found the too many times, but we are scoring enough birdies. We are down, but not discouraged because our potential is so much better than we are showing." Arizona St. Gymnasts Lead two LOGAN events in After the NCAA Western Regional Women's Gymastics Champion- Ariships, BYU trailed zona State and second-ranke- d Utah by about five points. Arizona State led the meet with 92.75, with Utah close behind at 92.5. The Cougars followed with top-rank- 87.6, Arizona had 85.85 and Utah State had 84.65. The Cougars were scheduled to compete next on the uneven parallel bars and then finish the meet on their best event, the balance beam. The meet ran late past press time. WAC Swimmers Score 2 - Utah's INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Scott Mefford was the only swimmer from the Western Athletic Conference to place at this weekend's Men's NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships. Mefford clocked a 1:49.47 in the d backstrock with an 11th place finish, which was fifth in the 200-yar- consolation bracket, and thus scored two points for the only scoring from either BYU or Utah. d free "Except for the realy where we stumbled early, we looked good," said BYU Coach Tim Powers. "We gained some valuable insights as to what it takes to be one of the best swimmers in the world, because nearly all of them were here. Ther fastest times we've ever seen in an NCAA Championship were here this weekend. But we return a nucleus for a fine, fine team for the future." 800-yar- Eagles Burn Flames, By RAY SCHWARTZ Herald Sports Writer SALT LAKE CITY The Salt lake Golden Eagles, scoring six goals in the first two periods, defeated the Colorado Flames 2 Saturday night in the Salt Palace. The win moved the Eagles to within four points of the third-plac- e Birmingham South Stars in the Central Hockey League standings. Both the Eagles and South Stars have clinched berths in the CHL Adams Cup playoffs. Tjhe Eagles were led to victory by Claude Julien, Bert Wilson and Rod Tudor, who scored two goals each. Julien, a defenseman, also played tough on defense, as did - 7-- Bill Stewart. Ralph Klassen scored the other Eagle goal. Danny Bolduc and Mike Dwyer 7-- 2 scored for Colorado. Paul Skidmore, playing in goal for the Eagles, had a shutout going into the third period, but Bolduc and Dwyer broke the Colorado scoring drought. Salt Lake took a 0 lead in the first period, as Wilson scored at 1:17,. Klassen at 8:33 and Julien at 14:47. Stewart came up with two defensive gems in the first period which halted a couple of Colorado forays down the ice. In the second period, Wilson arid Julien scored thier second goals of the game and Tudor added another as the Eagles boosted their lead to 3-- 6-- Julien also came up with a.great defensive play to cut Colorado's Tim Harrer off at the pass around the 10 minute mark of the period. ' |
