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Show Spartans Bury Sycamores, Win Title Page 6—T HE By RALPH WAKLEY g UPI Sports Write SALT Michigan LAK State says soph Johnsonhas people don't notice than not heconnects is on the line th whe t fe % Che Daily fHero ld 4 ~ SPORTS title-game Sycamores the eighth t legiate crown t with Our player saved other Heathcote And the way h it w who MSU was coasting on Le What ti ‘ 2 Be got caut 4 Magic areg Kelser picked up t foul and was benched with | to go. During the next 10 minutes the Sy camores — 33-0 coming nto the fina ignited a sco: them within5 But Johnson DePaul Finishes Third he ame By ROGER BENNETT SALT LAKE ke I together he Johnson's four-pointe On Bird's ore g than Third-place ing he basically grabbed a o Kelser a dunk rebou w hun your step-sister 5 ing to do with it. z wa the body, expected a cleared the ball return pass for Heaton. Johnson kis eam sak affair ybe like kissing game nn s war raggedy and uninspired. it wound uled a! mak ing the shot and then sank two throws for a four-point play t MSU ahead ment and a pray Our planwas t In the added four morepoints and fired pas ses to Kelser for two easy stuffs that kept ISU at a comfortable distance f u thriller with DePaul ( keep all the time. And md headliners. And eve DePaul-Pennsylvania game was pret And he g t eve " M overtim n he on the floor or moved into another man would move in. the Wewantedto force the action, We got thelead doing that andlost it doing that. For a period they took us out of Kelser finished with 19 points, a our game. We werefortunate to come team-high eight rebounds, and a back.” was Ag freshmanscorer for DePaul. T pearances the coming in 1943 It (playing for t place red alot of time. It’s hard for the play. It’s a tremendous letdown after playing Indiana State The Blue Demons lost 76-74 semifinal game to ev Saturday's unner-up ISl r the another 19-footer by Sal DePaul free throw. But then throws NCAA cha today’ Weinhaue} said t coach we are capable playing I was not concerned about a wir loss as much as | was about the total ef for The effort was r couple nuckets down bu it nal 1 never the 1 DePaul’s only ap ai Nikitas hrows Bot just to give effort how pl the clock wound Wedidn’t ask anybody to win the ballgame point nds Penn scored a as many as 25 points inthe first half show people give th a State in the semis came out ir Monday and ound themselves down after red on baseline Penn, embarrassed timate eight t 87-87 andle only time in the gameat 89-88 on other juring World War Il ts ng his 37 ea ePaul's dily appare outstanding t was hard to get up a Blue Demon ip as we should aS Dera 1 fg fga ft fta reb pt tp m fe 4 rd time getting Bra are yas e Garis Made or the NIT TOTALS 31 68 34 9 rn ig tga ft fta 4 Hi the winner, and “ pe Pennsylyani. * n three an go home Se wante hey reb pt tp - fr answer we came back going to W They didn ie Bout Set TOTALS : KEEPING BIRD CAGEDwasa major factor in Michigan State's 75-64 victory in the NCAA championship game.Attheleft the Spartans’ Jay Vin- 4) ‘ 94 9 3 CARACAS, Venezuela (UPI Dr. Fernando Mandry Galindez, Fpresident iF " of the World Boxing Association, an 1 nounced Sunday that Hector Carras- tries to help out from the rear. Bird scored but 19 points, 11 below his average and hit just seven of 21 shots from thefield. (UPI Telephoto) cent (31) and Earvin ‘Magic’ Johnson block his wayto the basket ona drive attempt. At the right Michigan State's Greg Kelser (33) fronts quilla of Panama will fight his compatriot Eusebio Pedroza for the WBA featherweight title ir lamaCity April 7. Sycamore star Larry Bird while Don Brkovich Coach Jud Heathcote’s Michigan State basketball team had just won the 1979 NCAA Championship in the Special Events Center and hewas trying dard’s that’s a career in itself Will you bethankful for saying to put his feelings into words. “It knowledge you gained game and the “that we're elated, My feeling is a combination of relief and ela tion. I’m sure that down theroad I'll realize that I've achieved a great personal goal, but right play it well yous for five years by coaching the fr D and two more as. frosh-varsity it means to the players Okay, Jud ee theote, your time. Let it sink Letit come when you you ck East Lansing and it's summer time andthe living is the flowers are in bloom and leavesoffer shade and the grass is green an was something abou fine barely CLA Montar beaten by in the NCAA and sportswriters in non-Big Sky parts of the country called you Jed and spelled your name Heathcoat, Heethkote, and every of the And 1. Savannah Detroit and New York? Wil national char mn 1k to ge a of nostalgia for the days when just national championship was ey your in another gleam h youfeel that it was all w e Will you beglad you becam pr coach, glad you paid the aC without inheriting «| rea dynasty? years those for glad be u Willyo hool spentat West Valley HighSc were Spokane — I think there stan 's today By i i) them? Ipe Magic e hr sals year of on a : ae eae aC wt orate EVA AREAANGEaNY See asrian 1 unt sure me Wer he five yea profits on 4 you took e (eer ae om ii tam M aff Flagst and , Pocatello, Ogden from inside \ layers you we ale { la team Championship plaque after his Michigan State team won national championshiplast night in Utah's pecial Events Center with a 75-64 win over Indiana State in finals of NCAA tourna: ment. (UPI Telephoto) You said If it to Charles because he is Jon Jay Vincent Beh somewhere deep in did smile whe and n ( available And wasn't fa bette in the when encore, floor and saw whi jooked down the who was 1 you ealize won't player But that move come up with be easier wha made have the mn arles or Brkovic or Rob Gonzales. the Northwestern debacle HEATHCOTEhas smile as he holds the 1979 J I the of those Valley Miss¢ yutside when you bench Ron Charles with Mike Brkovich in his place afte JUD yack had put i 0 er yo wa be uh 1 e before Howdid you feel about the By tin Can you remember the pr at the in Northwestern a John re blunte is and the Indiana State, After Janu: that whipping t ir job lost four conference games ir row, three a single you a feeling And 17 and sixth in the Big 10. We you disillusioned or cou! c last d error far national A eas And how about withou ve t It must have been a little ha that first year y Du wert two in high Big. Sky have done asily honors What were you feeling when \< of THE there? And will you get glad you did it the while could you those ye ! the you from everydire ahead ac 7 realize look back on what Or tion, will you be grateful th Michigan Stat ru before you yo remember the meeti g th now, coming al see what was only will cision making fre to East Lansing and avoided th detours along the way Wash Cali right with the world that you are THE « nship. 1 to See the need e ch and the guts tc it, come from those years then perfected at Michigan Stat. and God's in But, Jud Heath when you r comes t you had 2 the big time? O were those years wasted Will you feel that the zone defense youfirst used to win five could have been developed easier and faster had you gone direct! r Mor Will yoube glac years of apo enticeship before > and Moi entinchi g. way but correctly league championships at We Valley High ishec men whe ps tak in slow young Tn whe yes when you were offered an as sistant’s job at Washington State? Will you appre ate the goes without saying,” he said now my only thoughts areof what nid y i 30 yea 1 ha |