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Show Monday, June 1 i981, THE HERALD, Provo, Utah Page Scott Phillips Waits for His Spot in NFL Camp Today Phillips is in Seattle By DICK HARMON Herald Sports Writer The kid was once a 3-A MVP quarterback from nook-in-theroad Springville, Utah, but now e 43, 44 range ‘astest we've had tle team, runningplays. pas: terns, training on the machine and sprinting he's in Seattle working out with NFLpros and launching a career that maysurprise a fewpeople Maybe manypeople d Hall V surprised. And the fact he im proved his ru ‘He's notin a try-out period by any means,” says Mansperger of Dallas. ‘‘He's preparing himself for training camp which opens in July He's catching pas: ses with our quarterbacks and reviewing filmof our offense people are even talking in superlatives about the future of Seattle SeahawkScott Phillips, the 1980 leading Western Athletic Conference receiver. who played running back for league champion BYU Seattle picked Phillips after drafting Kenny Easley of UCLA David Hughesof BoiseState. and Bill Dugan of PennState April 29, when the NFL draft sent BYU's Clay Brown to Denver, Glen Titensor to Dallas and Dean Miraldi of Utah to Philadelphia in the second round and Utah's Jeff Griffin to St Louisin the third round — people were mildly surprised that Phillips was taken along with AllAmerica teammate Nick Eyre When thescouts camearound to test Scott. they were impres: sed with his speed. Theysaid he one of the fastest players fromthe oth stride as a freshman enabled coachesto evaluate his speed and make it better iced when he was ac was taking little steps and when he got into plays at the line he was running by people. But whe got in the open he would open up a longer stride with his big long legs and would slow abit Youcan't take long strides in line You need short strides so you one of the fastest 40-yard dash timesin the NFLat 4.3 seconds and among menhis size(6-2, 200 pounds) he’s right at the top When BYU got Phillips he was a quarterback that could play receiver or defensive back. ning back and just use him as a blocker because he was a race horse. It workedout Bethard of the Redskins noticed that many NFL teams didn’t have Scott on the list and “Oh gee. Scott has tremendous athletic ability hoped he could sneak him in, but at the end of the season Dallas and Seattle were high on him because of his talent and background with the BYU of. and character He’s a winner Mansperger. “T wasn't surprised Scott was taken that early,” explains BYU running back coach Garth Hall who recruited Phillips and has watched his progress since a junior at Springville attending BYUfootball summer camp. said “We realize he played running back in college. But he caught the ball 60 times. Playing run fense. said Hall. “We're excited for Scott.” ningback isn’t being counted out here but we went after pure athletes and we're looking at Hall predicts Phillips will work out well for Seattleontheoutside playing him at receiver “Having worked with Scott, 1 one of the fastest players in this him.” In fact, says Hall, the scouts were sniffing around Phillips afterhis junior year butin spring drills the word was out that he would probably redshirt last season, so many didn’t keep a book on himuntil late 1980. PARIS (UPI) — If there had been a fire exit on the center court of the Roland Garros Stadium Terry Moor would have been the first man out. But there was no escape for the 29year-old American, who wasleft like an accident victim Sunday after being routed, 6-0. 6-0, 6-1, by five-time champion Bjorn Borg in the fourth roundof the $611 000 French Open Tennis Championships. All Moor had to show for his 73minute roasting was drawing the biggest roar of approval from a French crowd since the storming of the Bastil- le The cheer came when the America‘ grabbed the sixth gameofthe third set to prevent a whitewash. “T can't ever rememberhaving lost 17 straight games before "’ said Moor who is rated 32nd in the ATP world rankings. ‘Winning a game was my goal after those first two sets. I was getting a little shaky there.’ Moor, who managed to hold onlysix game points throughout the match, thought being left-handed would have improved his chances against Borg. d Bonnie Phillips will perience catching the ball as a have a chanceat the Big Time — away fromRiver City Buy is above average: 4.5 he's got Taking everything I know about Scott. I think he will be a future star in the NFLand will runnerwill help. The measuringstick for runers on the gridiron says: at 4.6 the excellent speed; time him at 4.4 and he’s a break-a-way man. but surprise a great many people,” concluded Hall bring in a 4.3 guy and miracles Stadler Wins Kemper OpenbySix Shots Borg Routs Moor in Open ‘T told Seattle that his future is id of them. That made So the son of year’s draft right up there with the speed merchants in the NFL. “That's « plu’ if a receiver hasthat kind of speed andhis ex- howinterested they were in He punched onto the fairway, but Finally, a spectatortold anofficial of seeing a youngsterpick upa ball-in the needed three to get down. That was little consolation to his pursuers, and area “We didn't figure there would be gave him his third career victory The$72 000 pushed his season's winnanyoneelse’s ball in that area. so the officials gave me the benefit of any ings to $146 452 and his careertotal to question and let me drop anotherball $535,272. A year ago, Stadler finished second, (withoutpenalty ),”’ said Stadler. where he can work theflats Manspergerrates Phillips as think I know his skill as well as anyone and talking with pro scouts over the last year, I know BETHESDA, Md. (UPI) — Somefan mayhave stolen his golf ball on the final hole Sunday. but no one could steal, or otherwise make off with Craig Stadler’s $72,000 first-place check in the $400,000 Kemper Open. Stadler had little trouble with Congressional Country Club and posted a course-record 10-under-par 270 to beatthe field by six shots. He had a 2under 68 in Sunday's final round. Only Masters champion Tom Watson and three-time Kemper winner Tom Weiskopf were within shouting distance at 276. John Cook finished at 277 with Dave Edwards a shot back. D. A. Weibring, Tom Kite and Danny Edwards were the only other players under par, at 279. Stadler droveinto thetrees lining the 18th fairway. but didn’t see a real problem becauseheled by seven shots at the time. That was before he couldn'tfindhis ball, even with the help of several hundred officials, marshalls and fans “We didn't want to switch him to run- The Seahawks are looking at that 4.3 speed and thinking of making Phillips into a wide receiver, something Golden Richards style Washington would have taken Phillips in the third round but waited Scott Phillips,beat out an injured Homer Jones instead of redshirting in 1980. can change direction bet ter. Wetold Scott that and hedid all the work Thefactis, Scott Phillips has But, then, people didn't have access to the scouting evaluations on Phillips conducted over the past 12 months. And they didn't talk to Dick Mansperger. director of player personnel for Seattle, or Bobby Bethard of the Redskins. set him apart Hall. who ne to BYU from Wake Forest. says a film analysis of Phillips’ running they'd timed.” said BYU team. mate senior-to-be‘Dan Plater (Houston) in the fourth, “We knew he t we werepleasant weight whoused to work with Gil Brandt A few informed can happen with his wife Linda. He works out daily with members of the Seat AAPCSTONE three shots behind John Mahattey. His closing-round 67 only put slight pressure on Mahaffey who birdiedthefiial two holes This time as Congressional Country Club hosted the Kemper Open for the | second time Stadler was crisp all 384 W.Center, Provo 373-2805 HOURS: Mon.-Fri. 7:30 a.m. - 6 p.m. SATURDAY7:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. week. His game was a flurryof iron shots drilled into greens made softer than normalbyofrainsthat fell three of the past four days. Sunday, Stadler started with 12 | straight pars and added birdies on 13. | 14 and16 before his problemson 18. He| save parson fourofthefirst five holes , with crisp chips, including getting up| and downfrom the sand on No. 2. | Stadler heads for his Lake Tahoe. | Nev. home Monday andwill rest until | going to Ardmore Pa. next weekend| for a couple of practice rounds for the U.S. Open that begins June 18 at Merion| Golf Club. s' o ry 0 6 0 60 sper set of B regular price Steel Belted Radial TRAX le Whitewalls Watson and Weiskopf each picked up | $35 200 for the second-place tie and advance on PGA moneylists. Betioli Named AIAW All-America award, She also holds two indoor AIAW all-America citations in the high jump Holder of the South American record Betioli has a career mark of6-3 According to BYU coach Craig Poole, the winning marks were well below the career bests of the athletes Maria Luiza Betioli, 5-11 junior from involved — all were hindered bya wet Sao Paulo, Brazil, cleared 5-11% in the field and a tunnelof wind that hit them high jumpona soggyfield to tie Louise as they madetheturnfortheir takeoff Ritter of Texas Women’s University After clearing 5-11%4, Betioli tried for and Ann Bair of the University of Virginia. The event was won by Coleen 6-0 and neenfs0 safely over on her seReinstra of Arizona State with her cond attempt when she ticked the bar with her heel, thus losing the chanceto markof 6-0. Betioli won a clear second last year tie Reinstra Since Betioli has suffered severe shin at nationals with a jump of 6-0 2 to score her first all-America outdoor splints all season, she jumpedonly5-10 BYU'slone entrantinto the finals of the AIAW national track and field championships Saturday night in Austin, Texas, tied for second in her event and wonanall-Americacitation for the second year in a row MARIA BETIOLI Tacoma Beats Gulls 4-1 SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) — Tacoma righthander Rick Lysander stretched his record to 6-0 by throwing a sevenhitter Sunday afternoon as the Tigers beat the Salt Lake Gulls 41 in Pacific Coast League play. The only run Lysander allowed was a solo home run by Daryl Sconiers in the sixth inning. The Tigerstallied twice in the fourth inning on a run-scoring triple by Jim Nettles and a sacrifice fly by Kevin Bell. A Nettles sacrifice fly added another run in the sixth and Mike Davis hit an RBI single in the seventh Army-NavySite (UPI) — The annual Army-Navy football ame will be held at Philadelphia's Veterans Stadium for the next three see Mayor Wil- liam J. Green has an- ‘@ nounced. BROKEN SEE US! inning for the final Tacomascore Tacoma won three of four games in the series at Derk’s Field, Salt Lake now heads for Portland while the Tigers travel to Albuquerque, WINDSHIELD? We Offer: § Acomplate inventory of oute gas © Approved by oll Insurance companies A-1 Quality Glass 443 West 100 Worth, Prove 374-5527. in the trials — all she had to do tomake the final 12 “She jumped in pain throughout the meet,” said BYUassistant coach Pat Shane. ‘She's a real competitor.” On Thursdayduring the discus trials. 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