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Show Wednesday, January 1, 1992, THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, C3 Page Golfer gets 2 By MIKE NADEL AP Sports Writer MINNEAPOLIS (AP) his record-smashin- brick-throwin- J Photo courtesy J. Earl Lewis 4 former Cougar star, Elder Shawn Bradley (second from right), is Pictured with Helen Hartly, Sis. Erlene Bennion and Elder Merrill Bennion of Logan in Powra, Australia. t? "C r, ' o Cougars have grea cage team scattered a!! around the world i. r. By RALPH ZOBELL BYU Sports Information Director Elder Grant Berges, 210, Fr. Left: August 1991. Plans to team. return: August 1993. Mission: Who wouldn't want to build a France Bordeaux. Gained 18 ar Shawn program around Bradley, 8 Kenneth Roberts, 9 Jeff Campbell, 7 Mark Durrant, 8 Grant Berges, 4 Ryan Cuff 6-- 6-- 6-- 6-- 6-- and 6-- 1 Randy Re id? But none of those athletes are presently playing ' basketball. 6-- 8, pounds in the Missionary Training Center, where he got to meet Jeff Campbell. Has been laboring in Angouleme, France with a companion. He had to special-ordan extra big bicycle that he will have shipped to each town where he serves. His five er Church missions are a challenge for a coach, who must years of French in high school continually mold a basketball pro- have paid off, as has his parent's research in France gram with players coming and 23 His frusmore usual. than It's going years ago. companion made trating at times to Coach Roger him knock on 100 doors in a row to Reid, who jests BYU has "the break him in to tracting. most sophisticated junior college Elder Mark Durrant, program in Division I." 195, Soph. Left: May 1990. " Reid has had positive experiPlans to return: May 1992. Misences with players who have intersion: Kentucky Louisville. While rupted a career of dunking basketin a Cincinnati ghetto, he spotted balls through hoops to voluntarily youngsters playing basketball and serve missions in hopes of dunking dazzled them because he could converts in baptismal waters. dunk while wearing a suit. Re' "It is a great experience to have quested his parents send a jump a sone on a mission," Reid said. and hand a rope gripper to help "There is a time and a place for him in back shape. He has met get everything. I've seen great growth several people who knew him in Randy. Often in his letters when he was a toddler and his parhome, he says he wants to still play ents were the mission presidents in basketball, but says when he does that area. His older sister, Marin-dplay , he can 't make a basket. ' ' actually lives in the same area There are always surprises. A (Jefferson, Indiana), so his niece Pevin Durrant, who didn't shoot a and nephews think all missionaries ball for two years while serving a are "Uncle Markies." Sends hope mission in Spain, returned to Spain of Randy Reid, with pictures a few years later to shoot for a whom he corresponds. living in European pro basketball. Elder 165, Randy Reid, And then there's Russell Larson, who has developed quickly in the Fr. Left: June 1990. Plans to return: June 1992. Mission: New Marriott , Center since returning Morristown. Wants a new Jersey last July from Buenos Aires. of gym shoes every other Sometimes, a player elects to pair month shoes to replace worn-otransfer to a different school or and one worn-obasketball. Told give up playing. Two years ago, BYU basketball his mom not to send many Christmas goodies because he is trying to players serving missions included Nathan Call in Bolivia, John Fish get back in shape. Requested his dad send lots of that say in Scotland, Russell Larson in Arhe so can them "BYU" out. give gentina and Gary Trost in Pennsylhis sonmissionvania. All four currently play for Roger got to see ary last December when the Couthe Cougars. Four years ago, the mission gars were part of the Holiday Festival Tournament in New York and field had Mark Heslop in the Neththe team coordinated a fireside in erlands. Chris Rasmussen North with Randy in East Brunswick, Carolina. David Reeves in ScotN.J. Randy has set up displays at land and Todd Gentry in Pennsyland Princeton as the pubRutgers vania. Heslop now plays for BYU, lic relations director for his misii Genand Reeves for sion. said He he is in charge of try for Utah State. which consist breakfasts preparing Six years ago there were mishot of chocolate and bagels. sionaries named Andy Toolson in Elder Ryan Cuff, 185, Fr. Childe, Brian Taylor is Spain, Alan Astle in England, Jim Usev-itc- h Left: July 1990. Plans to return: in New Zealand, Carl Pollard July 1992. Mission: Argentina in Pennsylvania, Marty Haws in Cordoba. A positive, upbeat Ryan Florida and Michael Smith in Ar- plays soccer once a week to improve his footwork, but has tried to gentina. Here's an update on the current put basketball in the back of his mind. Cougar football running "team away from campus. " back Chad Knowles is in Ryan's Elder Kenneth Roberts, 1991. mission. Chad returns home a 220, Soph. Left: May month before Ryan. Sometimes, it Plans to return: May 1993. Mission: Australia Melbourne. Took takes three weeks for Ryan's leta .suitcase full of shoes, including ters to reach his home in Richfield, tennis and sometimes two letters will arhightop and shoes with him, but requested his rive from Argentina at the same time. He has requested red licorice parents send him some lowtop tennis shoes and sandals, too. His care in his care packages. Of Robert packages have also been filled with and Vicki Cuff's five children, Ryan was the most picky eater, but requested Oreo cookies. His hear no complaints about the son of they nephew Marc, former Cougar eager Glen, is in food from their son laboring in g Argentina. charge of sending Cougar clipShawn Bradley, Elder In Australia, pings to Kenneth. 240, Soph. Left: May 1991. Kenneth has worked with the youth Plans to return: May 1993. Misin a retirement community, fed a Doors wallaby, and has worked out his sion: Australia Sydney. in shut the his but have been face, homesickdiscouragement and is has the he most 30 gained pounds ness. news and he is still the 210, talked-aboElder Jeff Campbell, focus of media attention. In addiSoph. Left: June 1991. Plans to tion to missionary work, he has Gerreturn: June 1993. Mission: an Australian boys basketcoached his ankle many Dresden. Sprained He often tours the area ball team. a from down badly while coming mission his wth president to fill in the dunk Missionary Training Center. A newspaper in Mittweida speaking assignments. He looked with a kangaroo and ran a photo of this tall missionary snake neon a had crawling on him standing by a religion display, but His letters a wilderness at park. Jeff wrote his parents saying, home have an Australian flair, beI because the took picture "they ginning with "Dear True Blue was the guy that had and Dinken Dad." He has ever been there. Claims not to be Mum "America-skk.- " is he requested lighter clothing, Koo-laihomesick, rather, Starburst and Jolly Rancher He likes the chocolate better in Gernuny, but has requested candies and trail mix. ... Two-ye- ar When nothing-goin- g, g, g, keep-on-tryi- night was over, Tim Harda-wa- y couldn't help but smile. "What can I say? I was missing," Hardaway said Friday after his shooting broke a record set 44 years ago three years before the Basketball Association of America merged with the National Basketball League to form what is now the NBA. Asked if he had considered giving Hardaway more bench time, Warriors coach Don Nelson said: "I did, for about a minute. But guys can have a bad shooting night and still do other things. ' ' Despite setting the record for futility, Hardaway played 44 minutes and dished out 13 assists, helping the Golden State Warriors 2 to a overtime victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves. The previous record had been on eight occasions involvseven ing players, most recently Sacramento's Rodney McCray on Nov. 9, 1988. In the 1940s, Philadelphia's Howie Dallmar had two 106-10- care packages full of honey-roaste- d peanuts, cheese puffs, Doritos and peanut M&Ms. missions is ing staggered two-yepotentially BYU's best basketball g, While Hardaway said some of his shots "were in and came out," the fact is that most missed by wide margins. He botched two layups, shot two airballs and fired up several missiles that crashed off the backboard without touching the and rim. He missed two several short-ranjumpers. He did make his only two free throws. Were there any shots he didn't and miss? try "A drop kick," Hardaway said, laughing. "I've got to give him credit for keeping on putting the ball up," the Timberwolves' Doug West said. "I would have sat myself down. Everyone has off nights, but lot like that." y, Nelson-cryin- iS - backboard-crashin- g, Ofor-Frida- ' sive. games. Others who had the record erased by Hardaway: Dick Rick-ettRochester, 1956; Corky DevFort lin, Wayne, 1956; Charlie Tyra, New York, 1957; Frank Ramsey, Boston, 1960; Ray Williams, New Jersey, 1981. "I'm gonna frame this one," Hardaway said of the box score. s, ge ' aces, totals 4 of The LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) odds on a hitting a golf course might be a million to one for most duffers, but not for a Nebraska-Lincolprofessor. Dennis Schneider, 60, a professor of brass instruments, has nabbed four of golf s highest prizes in the past nine years. The player stroked two w ithin hole-in-o- n six days this month. "This is not even the golf season," Schneider said. "I wonder what the odds are to shoot two holes in one in a y period. That's really weird." Mathematicians say there are too many variables to determine accurately the odds on shooting six-da- holes-in-on- e. Minnesota's Tony Schneider's first Campbell: "He kept firing. He's the week was on No. Added Tim Hardaway "I've gotta get an NBA record somehow." Perhaps the most incredible thing about the record is that Tim Hardaway set it. One of the NBA's best point pro entered guards, the third-yeFriday's game averaging 23.8 points on 46.3 percent shooting. He left it averaging 23 points and shooting 44.7 percent. "I think we defended well on him," Timberwolves coach Jimmy Rodgers said. "Although, even when you're playing great defense on a player like that, you've gotta expect that the ball's ar gonna go in, at least by happenstance, once in a while. Again, he found a way to contribute. He's still dishing it out and finding the open man and that was impres- - not bashful." Just part of the job description. "I'm the point guard. Some- times I'm gonna miss a bunch of shots, but I have to shoot when I'm open. But I've never had a game like this at any level," Hardaway said. "Still, the one thing is we won." Elsewhere in the NBA: The Orlando Magic played 15 games in December and lost them all, wrapping up the year Monday night with a of Holmes Golf Course on Dec. 20. Using a hole-in-o- loss to New which recorded Orlando, Jersey. its last victory on Nov. 30 against Miami, tied a club record for consecutive losses set late in the 1989-9- 0 season. Philadelphia holds the NBA record for consecutive losses with 20 in 1972-7122-11- 2 3. 12 at he hit the ball about 20 feet short of the green and w atched it roll into the cup on the 210-yarpar-- 3 hole. d, On the day after Christmas, e Schneider had a on No. 8, a par-hole, at Hillcrest Country Club. He used a hole-in-on- 157-yar- 3 d, He didn't even see the shot. "I couldn't believe that last one," he said. "I lost it in the sun. It felt good, though. The fellow I was with said it was right but curving back to the green. Then he said, 'I think that thing went into the hole.'" e Schneider's previous were scored at Hillcrest and in McCook. 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