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Show Sunday, May 1, 1977 , THE HERALD, Provo, Utah—Page 9 Sun Devils Set World Record PHILADELPHIA (UPI) — Thefleet relay teams of Arizona State set a world record in the 800 meters and a national collegiate record in the 1,600 meters Saturday to dominate the 83rd annual Pena Relays. medley and the 3,200-meter relay to also complete a triple over two days Arizona S\ate’s team of Gary Burl, Tony Darden, Gerry Burl and Olympic gold medalist Herman Frazier ran the With Clifton McKenzie, Gerry Burl, Darden and Frazier, the Sun Devils came backin the 1,600 to win in 3:01 9. 100-meter dash breaking their own collegiate record of conds and world meter ch2m 3028 800 in 1:21.4 to snap the record of 1:21.5 Meetofficials said the old record was set byanItalian team in July 1972 and for the mile but that the new mark equaled by Tennessee at last year’s would stand as a record since the 1,600 Penn Relays. is slightly longer than a mile Wilson Waigwa of Texas-El Paso posted the fastest outdoor mile in the country this year with a clocking of 3:53.8. In last place at the half mile The Sun Devils completed their soughtaftertriple with a victoryin the 400 while Villanova captured the sprint high jump with a leap of 7 feet, 4% inches Tennessee was a double winner, taking first place in the 6,000-meter relay and the shuttle hurdle relay. The Volunteers used a 3:46.3 second leg from Keith Young toopenuptheir lead inthe 6,000 and coasted fromtherein & mark, Waigwa moved intofourth place with a quarter mile to go, took the lead with 200 meters remaining and pulled awayto a 15-yard victory time of 15:09.4 A meet record was Steve Scott of the University of California at Irvine finished second in 3:55.1, the same time asthird place finisher Steve Foster. Defending cham: pion Paul Cummings faded to fifth 3.000-meter steeple chase after leading for a short time on the last lap, finishing in 3:57.2 Mark Belger anchored Villanova’s victories with 800-meter anchorlegs of 1:46,2 in the sprint medley and 1:47.6 in the 3,200, The Wildcats’ time of 7:16.3 in the 3,200 broke their Penn Relays record The Wildcats also won the distance medleyrelay Friday. In the featured events, Olympicgold also set in the with Bruce Rickford of Northeastern breaking the tape in a timeof 8:33.6, Other individual winners included Nathaniel Johnson of tiny Mott College of Michigan in the college 100-meter dash in 10.57 seconds and Greg Robertson of Maryland in the 110meter hur- dies in 13.89 seconds. In field events, Kyle Arne” of Arizona State took the college high jump with a leap of 7-4; Paul Jordean of Tennessee canes the triple jump with a best of 5: Jim Kirby of - ryland won the ein with a toss uf 2 and lan Pyka of Maryland wonthe Sunn with a throwof 59-10'2 Cats Dominate Meet at Utah jumps, He leaped 24-7% in the long By ROB WAKEFIELD Jumptoeasily take that event and then Herald Correspondent SALT LAKE CITY — In a warmup went49-0 edged Utah's Greg Hay, who for the upcoming WACtrack andfield meet at BYU, the Cougars’ Tapio Kuusela set a newschoolrecord in the hammerthrow,tossing the implement 201-4 to highlight a non-scoring dual track meet between BYU and Utah Saturday. Kuusela held to the old school mark at 197-plus. BYU dominated the meet, capturing 12 of the 19 available first places Despite the absence of three of their top performers — Richard George, Henry Marsh and Jim Barry,all at the Drake Relays. Steve Baxter of BYU led the assault by winning both the long andthe triple Relays Saturday ASU set national collegiate record of 3:01.9 in race and also set world record in 800 meters. (UPI Telephoto) ARIZONA STATE'S HERMAN Frazier (middle) is hugged by teammates Gerry Burl and Tony Darden after running final leg of the 1600 meter relay at Penn | Herald Scoreboa rd | 12 9 8 7 7 6 West L Pet. GB 7 632 — 7 563 1% 7 9 9 9 533 438 438 400 WL Pet. Los Angeles Houston Cincinnati San Francisco 16 3 910 910 810 Atlanta 842 474 474 444 812 San Diego 400 2 34 34% 4 GB — 7 7 7% 8% 8 14 364 9% Saturd: Results Philadelphia at San Francisco Houston at Pittsburgh Cincinnati 8 Chicago 0, night Louis 5 Atlanta 4, night Montreal at Los Angeles, night New York at San Diego, night Sunday's Games (All Times EDT) Houston (Lemongello 3) at Pitts: burgh (Candelaria 2-0), 1:35 p.m Chicago (R. Reuschel 2-1) at Cincinnati (Norman 1-1), 2:18 p.m Atlanta (Ruthven 3-2) at St. Louis Rasmussen 1-3), 2:15 Montreal (Rogers 1-1) at Los Angeles Sutton 3-0), 4 p.m New York (Swan 0-2) at San Diego Shirley 2-2), 4 p.m Philadelphia (Christenson 2-1) at San Francisco (MeGlothen 0-2), 4:05 p.m American League East WoL Pet. 11 6 .647 11 9 550 529 99 98 500 10 11 476 Milwaukee New York Baltimore Boston Toronto Detroit Cleveland West Minnesota Kansas City 812 6 11 400 353 L Pct. 9 8 Oakland Chicago GB — 1% 2 2% 3 4% 5 GB 591 79 Wheelock * 129 571 4% 10 8 $56 1 10 8 556 1 913 409 4 816 333 6 day's Results Minnesota Detroit 3 Texas 14 Chicago 4 Cleveland 1 Milwaukee 0, 12 innings New York 7 Seattle 2 Boston 8 Oakland 4 Baltimore 4 California 3, 10 innings. night Toronto 2 Kansas City 1, night Sunday's Games (All Times EDT) Seattle (Abbott 0-2) at New York Holtzman 1-1), 2 p.m Oakland (Blvc 0 2 pain 1-2) at Boston (Stanley t (Rozema 1-0) at Minnesota 15 p.m Perry 1-3) at Chicago (Brett 15 pm a Ross 0-1 at Baltimore vit), 2 pm ornmodsgard 1 Lemancrykh Cowboys Cop Golf Win; BYUTrails CHICAGO East Montreal Chicago New York Philadelphia Utah on Connolly's strong anchor leg. OAKLAND BOSTON ' ‘ abrhbi 4010 Burleson ss 5023 DeJesus ss 4000 o100 North ef 5000 Cardenal If 4000 2000 Murray rf 412 Doyle 2 4000Rice dh 3010 Buckner 1b 4000 5100 Page If Murcer rf 4010 Griffey rf 4221 Allen tb 40.12 Yastramsk 1f2100 Morales cf 3010 Morgan 2b 33200 Sanguilln dh 4000 Scott 1b 2310 Trillo% 2000 Knight 3b 0000 Gross 3b 4111 Fisk ¢ 4231 Ontiveros 363010 Foster If 5022 Williams ¢ 4121 Evans rf 4112 4010 Hobson 3b 3121 Mitterwald c3010 Bench c 5131 Perez 2b SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (UPI) — — 4010 Burris p 0000 G3ronimo cf 3021 Picciolo ss 2010 Milles ef o000 Defending NCAA champion Oklahoma Hernandez p10 00 Billingham p4019 Mallory ph 1110 Tiant p RScott ss 10.0.0 WiiMlougaby poo00 State obliterated the field and the Gross ph 1010 oo00 Krukow p 0000 records Saturdayin capturing thefifth oo00 Bittner ph 1000 annual Sun Devil-Phoenix Thunderbird 0000 d 000 Collegiate Golf Tournament e000 32.050 Totals ugi17 00 4104 Totals 328117 The Aggies won the 54-hole tourna900 010 021—4 mentwith a teamtotal of 1,046, trimmath 000 n ib aex—4 jeJesus, Trillo. DP—Chicago 1, ing 22 strokes off the old team record DP—-Oakland Cincinnati 1. LOB—Chicago €, Cincinnati a ll 2B—Bench 2, Griffey. 3B—Griffey Boston 6 21.—Scott, Fisk, Murray. HR~ set last year by Brigham Young UniH RERBBSO Evans (4), Gross (6), Williams (5). SB— vers! Burris (L -3) 1 3 6 3 5 0 Fisk, Hobson Lindy Miller led OSU, compiling a Hecnandez 330001 . . Krakow 2 2 0 0 1 1 TORONTO KANSAS CITY total of 203, 13-under par for the 6,900232220 bi abrh yard McCormick Ranch Golf Course. Billingham (W 3-1 9 5 0 0 1-5 Scott If 4020 Brett 3b Miller's score wassix strokes better Burris pitched to 3 batters in 2nd Torres 2b 4000 McRae If than the previousindividual record set HBP—by Hernandez ZRose). WP— Sailor ss 4120 Otis cf by Mark Sollenberger of Arizona State Hernandez 2. T—2:15. A—26.774 Velez dh 4131 Mayberry 1b Ault 1b 3.000 Wathan pr in 1974 and tied by Scott Simpson of SEATTLE N AWoods rf 4011 Cowens r Southern Calin 1975. aRrAgi neLeta GWoods cf 4010 Rojas dh In team scoring, host Arizona State Milbourne 2b5 000 Randolph 2) 4012 Ashby c 1000 Patek ss finished second with 1,080 followed by Reynolds ss 4010 Munson c 4111 McKay 3b 3000 Martinez c Braun If 3010 Jackson rf 3121 Garvin p 0000 White 2b BYU with 1,089, San Diego State with Meyer Ib 4000 Chambliss 1b3110 Splittorff p 1,098, and Houston with 1,109. Bernhrdt dh 2100 May 3110 Totals 31292 Totals Houston's Ed Fiori was second in inS : 4000 Toronto 4 4110 Kansas City dividual standings, four strokes behind 3 4121 _DP=kansas City 1. LOB—toronto 5. Miller. Britt Harrison of OSUwasthird 3 2101 Kansas City 6. 2B—patek, Velez at 208, teammate David Edwards was 0 0000 CLEVELAND MILWAUKEE abrbbi abrh bi fourth at 209, and ASU's Bill Loeffler Manning cf 6010 Joshua cf $5000 was fifth at 212 Kuiper 2b 5010 Yount ss 501 Lee Mikles of ASU and Tom Jones 4 Norris 1b 4010 Cooper 1b 4000 and Jaime Gonzalez, both of Oklahoma w York 1 Srubb If 3010 Money 2b 4000 State,tied at 213. Alone at 214 was Jim DP—Seattle 1, New York 1 Carty dh 5010 Bando 3b 4010 Seattle 8, New York 5. 2B—Blair. 3B— Bell 3b 5000 Lezcano rf 4010 Blair of BYU. Jim Nelford and Pat Randolph. HR—Munson (3), Stinson (1), Thornton 1b 3000 Quirk dh 3000 McGowan, both of BYU, and Oklahoma Jackson (3). SF—Dent, Lopez Lowensten rf2110 Heldman ph 0000 IPH RERBBSO Blanks ss 3020 Wobiford i 1000 State’s Tom Sieckman deadlocked at National League St. Louis Pittsburgh 2-1) 8 60 or Gura 1-0), at Kansas 2:30 p.m Garland 0-2 and Bibby 1-0 r Waits 0-0) at Mil Augustine (L 2-3 2566 0 Duffy ss 0000 Hegan ph 1000 and Beare 1-0), Kendall c 4011 Brye If 2000 Other team scores were: San Jose Eckersley p 0500 Moore c 3010 State 1,112; Oregon 1,115; Southern Cal Kern p 0000 McMullen phi 000 1,116; Stanford 1,124; Arizona 1,126; LaRoche p 0000 Haney c 1000 Fresno State 1,129; Colorado 1,134; Slaton p 9000 Mclure p 0000 Long Beach State 1,143; UCLA 1,146; Totals 40191 Torals e048 Weber State 1,154; New Mexico 1,168, Cleveland 000 000 000 061-1 and New MexicoState 1,169. Milwaukee 000 —0 E-Haney. DP—Cleveland 1, Milwaukee 2. LOB—Cleveland 9, Milwaukee 9 3B— Bando. SB—Blanks, Lezcano, Yount. S. Blanks. Norris, Bando. SF—Kendall PHILADELPHIA SAN FRANCISCO 4010Terrell ib Macken a 4010 Smalley ss 0000 Randall 2b 0.000 Borgmann 0000 Wynegar c Zahn p 403123 Totals 1 240 Zahn DP Detroit 4 LOB Minnesota 3. 2B—Staub. 3B—Randall. HR—Hisle S—Randall Maddox cf abrhbi w Aim 2, Lb. May 5 4010 Martin rf Schmidt 3» 4110 3000 Clark r Luzinski If 4011 Johnstone rf 4000 Hutton tb 0000 Boone 4020 Herndon cf Evans 1b Elliott if Hill c 4itt 3110 Sizemore 2b 3110 Halicki p 1000 Harmon s 3211 Williams p 0000 Lerch p 2111 Andrews ph 1010 Reed p 1000 Curtis p 0006 Thomssn ornutt ph p L augh . w Tekulve 2 1000 0000 disgruntled George Burns in the third- roundof the $200,000 Houston Open, Burns was within two shots of the ad after 15 holes and had a chance to e to within oneas he stood over a steeplechase at Drake Relays Saturday. Marsh won in meet record timeof 8:31.02 and Staynings finished second. (UPI Telephoto) Marsh Winsat Drake DES MOINES (UPI) — BYU's Henry Marsh set a Drake Relays record of 8:31.02 in the 3,000-meter steeplechase and the Cougars’ Jim Barry finished thirdin the pole vault with a 16-6 effort to highlight the Provo schwul's track weekend. Marsh shattered the old record of 8:43.66 by Jerome Liebenberg of Western Michigan as he outclassed Tony Staynings of Western Kentucky, whofinished second at 8:38.20. Barry finished third to Hubert Butler of Jackson State and Brad Blair of Texas A&M. Both cleared 17-0. The Cougars’ Richard George was scheduled to competein the javelin but was unable to compete after contracting food poisoning. Unheralded Mike Roberson of Florida State upset Olympic stars Harvey Glance and Johnny Jones in the special 100-meter dash Saturday to win the feature race of the 68th Drake Relays. Therace, the subject of a week-long media buildup, was part of a closing day package that produced an American record and world best in the women’s 5,000-meter run. Roberson's time wasa disappointing 10.53 seconds in a race that had world record possibilities. Glance and Jones, membersof the United States’ winning 400-meter relay team at the 1976 Olympics, had potential world recordsin the 100-meter dash wiped out by faulty timersearlier this year. Jones, a freshmanat Texas, was second in 10.58 and Glance, a sophomore at Auburn, took third in 10.61 Roberson, who replaced injured teammate Don Merrickinthe field, defeated Jones in a meet three weeks ago and tied Glance last week “I was in the outside lane and could run andnot be noticed bythe other two guys (Glance and Jones),"’ said Roberson, a sophomore. “They werein there fighting with each other and | wasn't in the crowd. I had nothing to lose The world record for 100 meters is 9.9 O02 0 0@ 02 Hernandez. 2B—Brock HR—Pa: k 1), Simmons (8 Messersmith Templeton, McBride. SF ~Teaselen five-foot birdie putt at the par-5 16th But as Burns prepared to putt, the ball hit by Littler from the rough almost 250 yards away, rolled onto t green and across Burns’ line of sight Instead of stepping away fromhis ball Burns went ahead and putted But he missed the makeableputt and then stood and glared back down the seconds by several men. Peg Neppel of the lowa State Track Club shattered the American women’s mark at 5,000 meters by beating former record-holder Teri Anderson of Athletes in Action. Neppelfinished in 15:52.27 to become the first woman everto break the 16-minute barrier. No official world records are kept for the event, but Drakeofficials said her time was the best ever in the world. Anderson's previous record was 1606.8 last week. She finished second to Neppel Saturday in 15:57. Neppel, who is from Dolliver, lowa, also bettered the American record and world best for three miles during the race, covering that distance in 15:22. Oklahoma completed a sweep on the Texas-Kansas-Drake relays circuit with a victory in the sprint medley relay and Arkansas accomplished the same feat in the distance medley. Oklahomahad a chance for a sweepin the 440-yard relay, but finished second to Southern Illinois. Randy Wilson, who defeated Olympians Mike Boit and Rick Wolhuter in the 800-meter run Friday, anchored Oklahoma's sprint medley team, bringing the Sooners homein 3:18.25, Arkansas got a 4:00.7 anchor mile from Irishman Niall O'Shaughnessy to win the distance medley in 9:39.46. O'Shaughnessy was sixth when he got the baton, but won going away despite losing his right shoe on the third lap. Five meet records were broken Saturday. Marsh knocked 12 seconds off the 3,000-meter steeplechase with 8:31.02, James Walker of Auburn won the 110-meter high hurdles in 13.79, Francie Larrieu Lutz broke her own record in the women’s 1,500 meters with 4:15.66, Wendy Knudson of Colorado State broke Lutz’ record record in the 800 meters in 2:03.37, Nate Page of Missouri cleared 7-feet-3 in the university-college high jump and lowa Stae’s Jeff Myers ran the university-college 1,500 meters in 3:47.31 By United Press International They are two clubs with totally dif. ferent approaches to the game of basketball One excels with a five-man team while the other is the master of one-onone basketball. Onehas the knowledge of experience, and is the defending National Basketball Association cham pion, whilethe other is a teain of youth, Suan oneof the most electrifying ers in the the team which many believed would rompover the of the Houston Washington Bullets series Eastern Conference ii uston could wrap up th Landover, Md. Roc f i series on Sunday. The Rockets went ahead3-2 Friday night with a123 115 victory Elsewhere in tne NBA Sunday, Los Angeles will play at Golden State and Portland will be at Denver The Lakers hold a 3-2 edge over the Warriors, having beaten them x riday rest of the NBA during the regular night 112-105, led by Kareem Abdul eason Sunday afternoon at the Spectrumin in a showdownof con the seventh and deciding t ati Gasiern Division semifinal Ra series nervous enough in the first place since he is trying to win his first tour title He immediately bogeyed the 17th and dropped four shots back. Littler promptly birdied the17th to move five he tried to win his first title since the 1975 Westchester Classic The winner of this series play winner fairway toward Littler. Littler went on to birdie the hole and move threeshots in front. The incident appeared to unnerve Burns, who was shots in [ront and assume command as Contrasting Styles of Sixers, Celtics on Display Today 1 1453302 io00 01 5 0 11310 WOODLANDS, Tex. (UPI — Gene Littler, seeking his first PGA victoryin 4422 4010 two years, fired a five-under-par 67 4000 4010 Saturday to open a five-shot lead over IP H RERBBSO hecen Staynings splash into water in abrbbi tb Roberts ip H 9) KER $14 0-4) BBSO 8 18 613639352 io BYU’S HENRY MARSH(left) and Western Kentucky's Tony Littler Leads Houston Open Hebner 2:3 SH—Bumbry Harlow, Garcia 215. Laxton witios Pagan 51a 20 0 1 2 Figueroa (W 2-2) 9722 3 Wheelock pitched to 3 batters in ud HBP—by Wheelock (Chambliss). WP— Laxton. T—2:15. 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DeCinces. Ryan DF HR—Stargeli LOB-—California 6, Bal Taveras 2S) 2h—Bochte HR—Murray (4 22 leaped 48-8 The Cougars’ Dale Connolly, who hac qualified for the NCAAin the 200, sped 46.56 to meet the 400 meter standard. Utah's AdamaFall pushed Connolly to the mark, staying with him until the final 10 meters, oa finished at 46.90. Kenth Gardenkrans, who has been in a slump, threwthe discus 192-7 to help the Cougar coaches breath a bit more easily as he handily outdistanced Utah's Dave Hart, whofinished second with a throwof 155-5. Other BYU winners included Doug Murdockin the 800, freshmandistance sinsation Luis Hernandez with a 4:09.57 mile, Arild Wathne in the three-mile, Kim Nieison in the high jump, on the basis of few missesat 6-11, Per Nilsson in the shot as he outheaved thefield and the mile relay team zipped away from Jabbar's 45 points A victory for the Lakers Sunday at Oakland—where they have not won since 1973—would move them into the Western Division wainst the winner of the Portland-Denver serie Portland leads 3-1 Littler's 67 Saturday gave him a three-round total of 14-under-par 202 over the pinestudded 7,000-yard Woodlands Golf Club course Burns held on to shoot a 72 for a 54+ hole al of 207 ird place came Leonard Thompson at 208 after a 70 Saturday and another shot back were Bill Kratzert, who shot the day's best round of 66, LLanny Wadkins, Dave Eichel berger and Chi Chi Rodriguez Jack Nicklaus posted a 67 Saturday. but was still nine shots back at 211. Lee Trevino, who faded badly after an open: ing Li five 169, was at 221 after a 75. whe has won 27 PGAevents since his eancer operation in I! one shot back of Burns on pening hole Saturday. But Littler, fied three holes on thefront side advantage of a double bogey by Burns on the sixth hole to seize a three shot lead at the turn, |