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Show 2C The Salt Lake Tribune Monday, February 13. 1 4 Colleges: Arkansas Halts Heels Tribune Wire Services Charles Balentine was surprised, but North Carolina was stunned Sunday. Balentine took a pass from Alvin base-- , Robertson and hit a five-foline jumper with four seconds to play, lifting unranked Arkansas to a college basketball upset of No. and previously unbeaten North Carolina at Pme Bluff, Ark. The loss for tne Tar Heels, the last unbeaten Division I team, ended their winning streak at 21 games, their longest since their 32-- 0 NCAA championship season of 1957. When I put it up, I just hoped and , prayed it would go in, Balentine said. When I got the ball, I was surprised for a moment, but everybody should be looking for the ball when Alvin has it. because he's such a great passer. Carolina tried to set up one last shot, calling two time outs in the final three seconds, but Steve Hale's long jump shot bounded off the rim at the buzzer. Hale was the second option on our final shot, North Carolina Coach Dean Smith said. I dont want to say what our first option was, because we may need to run it again. Not getting the shot we wanted is my fault. We hadnt worked on the play for awhile. Smith took the loss calmly. In the first half we weren't ready to play, he said. They outhustled us. I dont believe losses on the road to top 20 teams are upsets. College basketball is just too balanced. While unranked in The Associated Press poll of sports writers and broadcasters, the Razorbacks were ranked 19tb by United Press International's coaches board. Arkansas raised its record to 19-and Coach Eddie Sutton said the victory ranked with his bigge'st thrills. Our victory over UCLA in 1978 was a big one because it gave our program credibility, Sutton said. But no Arkansas team has beaten a No. 1 ranked team, so this was a big 65-6- 4 4, one. ; "They are undoubtedly the best team in the nation, Robertson said. And since they are No. 1, there was no real pressure on us. Arkansas led by four points at the half and by as much as eight in the second half. North Carolina went ahead its only lead of the second half, on a jump shot by Michael Jordan with 1 13 remaining Arkansas called time with 29 seconds left and Robertson then drove for the basket as the clock wound down. When he went up to shoot, he was closely guarded and dumped the ball to Balentine for the game - winner over Tar Heel forward Sam Perkins. Slightly more than two minutes earlier, Balentine made both ends of a free throw situation to give Arkansas a 0 lead. Jordan responded with a that cut the margin to one. Center Joe Kleine led Arkansas with 20 points, while Darryl Bedford added 12, Leroy Sutton 11 and Balentine 10. Jordan topped all scorers with 21 points for North Carolina, followed by Perkins with 17 and Hale with 15. North Carolina led by as much as five points early and Arkansas took the lead for the first time 10-- on Kleine s two free throws with 15 49 left in the first half. A follow shot by Robertson and a tip-i- n by Kleine put Arkansas on top before Jordan got loose inside when Kleine Arkansas led made two free throws with 7 54 left, but North Carolina ran off eight two baskets by straight points Perkins wrapped around two baskets by Hale. The Razorbacks then outscored the Tar Heels 12-- over the next three minutes. Bedford came off the bench and drove the baseline for a basket, got a good bounce on a short jumper and then sw ished a to make it A short turnaround jumper by Kleine, a drive by Ricky Norton after a steal by Balentine and two free throws by Kleine made it 9 with 2 53 left. Hale's three-poin- t play and two free throws by Perkins narrowed the margin to two, but Sutton got inside for a pass from Robertson and halftime lead a four-poiArkansas tried only one shot of more than 12 feet until a buzzer attempt at the end of the first half 64-6- 3, ' one-and-o- 63-6- 9 19-1- 5 24-1- 9 sily than we did. particularly intellisaid Iowa oach George gence, Raveling. We're just not phys'cally tough under the backboards Raveling said a key to the Iowa loss was Illinois offensive rebounding. It's something that's bothered us all year. I'm just at a total loss to figure how to get them to do thjse things. Four Illim finished the game in double figures: Douglas and Efrem Winters with 16 each. Richardson with 15 and George Montgomery with 10 Raveling said Douglas is the glue that keeps Illinois together, and is the kind of player every coach would love to have If you could make some clones out of him you could make some . like McDonald's, he money . said The triumph lifted eighth-ranke- d Illinois back into a first place tie with Purdue m the conference race, both teams with 10-- 1 records. The victory improved Illinois overall record to 19-- and dropped overall and 9 the Hawkeyes to in the Big Ten. . 2-- 9-- UNLV 86, San Jose 76: At Las Vegas, Richie Adams had 25 points and 11 rebounds in only 28 minutes a career-hig- h the second half, for the Spartans, who also got 15 frm freshman center Gerald Thomas. Jeff Collins had 12 points for the Rebels, and NCAA leader Tarkanian had 12 assists 68, Georgia Tech 67: At Raleigh, Lorenzo Charles scored 26 points to spark a game-hig- State N.C. h North Carolina State to an Atlantic Coast Conference basketball victory over No. 18 Georgia Tech. It was the eighth straight victory for the Wolf-pac18-raising their record to in the ACC. N.C. State never led until a three-poiplay by Anthony "Spud Webb Wolf-paccapped a 2 run and gave the 4 a lead with 16 27 left. Georgia Tech got within one point twice in the next two minutes before Charles went to work. 5 15 d 1 fast-brea- 73-5- 5 4 81-7- points on nine of 13 from the field. Bruce Dalrymple had 18 and Price added 10, all in the first half. The Yellow Jackets are 15-- 7 and and have lost five of their last 1 5-- 6 six. LSU 65, Mississippi 61: At Oxford, Miss., junior center Steffond Johnson scored 20 points to lead the Louisiana State Tigers to a Southeastern Conference basketball victory over the Mississippi Rebels. The victory snapped an Ole Miss e winning streak. It increases LSUs record to 15-- 6 overall and 4 in the conference, while Ole Miss falls to and 0 in the SEC. ? jfef - 35-3- Charles scored 11 points m the first half, but had been held scoreless in the first eight minutes of the second half. He finally connected on a jumper from inside the lane with 12 01 left to play to give N C. State a lead. From there he scored eight of the next 10 Wolfpack points for a 8 edge with 7:57 left. 45-4- 0 Three free throws by Cozell McQueen and two more by Charles lead with 5 24 gave N C. State a five but straight points remaining, by John Salley helped the Yellow 60-5- 2 Jackets close the gap to 60-5- 7 with left. 3 29 Scott Petway 's layup with 42 seconds left pulled Georgia Tech to but Charles added the within at the front end of a mark and Terry Gannon hit two free throws with 13 seconds left to provide the insurance. Salley and Petway scored uncontested baskets in the last three seconds to establish the final score. Salley led Georgia Tech with 21 65-6- 3, ,44 r .... :vt 20th-rank- 4 : 4 sv .. - f Me i A HX two-gam- 8-- 7-- ."V k 55-4- as Nevada-La- s fourth-rankeVegas held off stubborn San Jose State in a Pacific Coast Athletic Association basketball game. and 13-- 0 in the The Rebels, 22-PCAA, led by 18 points with 5 56 to k play after Danny Tarkamans But San layup made it used eight of and Jose State, Stony Evans 10 points to close the gap to 3 with 1 02 left. Two free throws apiece by Eric Booker and Adams and one by Fred Banks in the final minute helped UNLV draw away to its 13th straight win. and Ed Catchings scored Farris scored Ward 23 points, 17 in - & Dale Brown's Tigers, despite a 39 percent shooting percentage, controlled the entire game. They took shootadvantage of poor free-throing by the Rebels (11 for 24) to cruise to victory before 4,306 and a regional television audience. - w UAB 51, So. Alabama 5& At Birmingham, point guard Steve Mitchell hit a jumper at the buzzer to lift to victory over South Alabama. Mitchells shot followed a baseline jumper by Anthony Barge with three seconds left that appeared to win the game for South Alabama. But Mitchell took an inbounds pass from halfcourt and launched the winner as time expired to give the Blazers their seventh victory in a row over the Jaguars. f i' 25-fo- Alabama-Birmingha- Mitchell finished with 16 points and McKinley Singleton added 14 to in the lead UAB. 20-- 7 overall and Sun Belt Conference. Terry Catledge tossed in 15 points and Michael Gerren and Willie Jackson added 12 each to pace South Alabama, 17-- 5 overall and 4 in the Sun Belt. Jackson also pulled down 13 rebounds. I ' s 'V v'fSfc- X; ' t T 7-- 3 6-- . w x , v A t Pf sOC NBA: Undermanned Sixers Embarrass Celts Tribune Wire Services Today, said Coach Billy Cunningham of the Philadelphia 76ers. was our day. There was no argument anyw here Sunday after the 76ers embarrassed in a showthe Boston Celtics 109-9down of National Basketball Association powers at Boston. "Boston's the best team in basketball right now, but we came into this game with a great attitude to overcome obstacles, Cunningham said. re"Everything went well for us bounding, loose balls, everything. It seems we have our worst games on national television, Boston Coach K.C'. Jones said Because of the way we played, I was very happy being tied at halftime. "In the second half, it just got worse. They began to double up on us inside and we missed our outside shots. Things got so bad that we couldn't make layups. Julius Erving scored 30 points and Andrew Toney contributed 21 in leading the 76ers romp. Despite the loss of injured Moses Malone and Bobby Jones, the 76ers g Celtmanhandled the ics for only their third victory in the last nine games Boston, owner of the best record in the NBA. suffered its third defeat in the last four starts. The 76ers. defeating Boston for the third time in five meetings this season, pulled away from a 1 58-5- 7 lead with a 21-- 4 spurt, nailing down the decision and turning the nationally televised game into a rout in the third period. Boston managed only five field goals in 24 attempts and a total of 12 points in the third period nightmare which ended with Philadelphia in front 3 Boston jumped to an eight point lead, 16-- but Philadelphia chipped away and closed to within 6 at the end of the first period. The 76ers, led by Erving and 2 m the Toney, charged in front second period before the Celtics went on a 1 run for a 1 standoff at halftime. Sam Williams, filling in for Jones, had 17 points for the 76ers, the defending NBA champs who trail Boston by 6 one-ha- lf games in the Atlantic Division. The Celtics were led by Larry Bird with 25 points and Kevin McHale with 22. 79-6- 27-2- 50-4- 9-- 51-5- points in the second half. Forward Dan Roundfield led Atlanta with 24 points and 11 rebounds and forward Dominique Wilkins contributed 18 points. The loss was the third in a row for Atlanta and dropped the Hawks out e of a tie with Detroit in the Central Division. Rookie guard Byron Scott had 17 points for Los Angeles and forward Jamaal Wilkes added 16. The Lakers dominated the backboards and the Hawks 5 in the first half Atlanta cut a deficit to with 6 04 remaining, but Johnson scored the next two baskets for Los Angeles and the Hawks never recovered. first-plac- 30-1- 91-8- 0 Nets Rockets 103: At East Dawkins Rutherford, scored 25 points, including three free throws in the final minute, to lead the Nets to a victory over the 107, N.J., Darryl Rockets. New Jersey tallied eight free throws in the final minute to e losing streak and snap a improve its record to 5 Buck Williams broke a 9 deadlock when he hit one of two foul shots to put the Nets ahead for good with one minute to play. Dawkins made a free throw with 35 seconds and the left to make it center added two more points from the line with 12 seconds to go as New Jersey took a four-poilead Allen Leavell scored a driving with layup for Houston, now d five straight loses, at the mark. But Foots Walker and Michael Ray Richardson each hit a pair of free throws to wrap up the victory. New Jersey scored 16 of the first 20 points in the game as the Nets admoved out to an early vantage. But Houston battled back d with 12 points from lead Ralph Sampson to take a at the end of the quarter. Neither team was able to build lead the remore than a five-poimainder of the game. Williams and Albert King each added 19 points for the Nets, while Lewis Lloyd had 21 for the Rockets rookSampson, the Rockets' ie center, left the game with a sprained right arch after playing just 13 minutes two-gam- 26-2- 99-9- 101-9- 20-3- 1 five-secon- first-perio- 33-3- 0 Lakers 108, Hawks 87: At Los Angeles, Kareem Abdul-Jabbscored 26 points and Earvin Magic Johnson got 23 to lead the Lakers to victory Johnson contributed 15 assists and 10 rebounds to help Los Angeles win its ninth game in the last 10 and sixth in a row at home r and Johnson each had 15 points m the first half when the Lakers shot 57 percent from the field to open up a 1 lead. Atlanta never came closer than 11 ar Abdul-Jabba- 57-4- No Eagles Tonight The Central Hockey League game originally scheduled between the Salt Lake Golden Eagles and the Tulsa Oilers for Monday night in the Salt Palace will not be played The game was played back in early October as a result of ice conflicts between the Oilers and their rink nt Bucks 107, Clippers 100: At Mil waukee, Sidney Moncrief poured in points, including 8 m overtime, to lead the Bucks over the Clippers Lorenzo Romar gave the Bucks with 1 34 to the lead for good at go when Terry Cummings goaltend-eon Romar's baseline drive. Moncrief sank 2 free throws with 27 seconds left and Harvey Catchings scored on a slam dunk with 48 seconds to go to give the Bucks a comlead fortable 103-9followed a steal dunk Catchings' by Romar in ban Diego's backeourt also got U The Bucks. and Ju Bob Lanier from each points nior Bridgeman and 12 from Mar ques Johnson Cummings led the Clippers. with 23 points. Greg Kclser anc Craig Hodges contributed 18 point! apiece. Norm Nixon had 16 anc James Donaldson had 14 for thi Clippers jumpier Bridgeman hit a with 9 seconds left m regulation to send the game into overtime at Cummings got off a shot just before the buzzer that went off the left side of the rim. San Diego went on a spurt tc 7 at 1 03 and went on to a go up advantage at the end of tlu first period After Hodges hit a at the beginning of the second quarter, the Bucks ran off 10 straight points to The lead changed pull even at hands twice before San Diego weni up 5 at the half 38 99-9- 8 8 28-2- 17-3- 4 92-9- 2 9-- 0 25-1- 27-1- 9 29-2- 9 47-4- Renner Changes Ending at Hawaiian Open fP'HKTW: V By Bob Green AP Golf Writer HONOLULU A year late, one after Hawaiian the Open title year was snatched from his grasp by one of golf s most dramatic shots. Jack Renner became a winner of the Hawaiian Open. "I was due," Renner said Sunday after he'd tied Wayne Levi with a birdie on the final hole of regulation play, then won on the second hole of a sudden death playoff He won this time when Levi, who led through the first 17 of the regulation dosing 18 holes, suddenly ran afoul of a balky putter He missed four times from short range on the last five holes he played. Any one of the first three would have closed out Renner And tne last, a would have prolonged the playoff He missed them all. 30-2- X 36-2- round in 66. But, all year long, people kept asking me about it. Now," he said, and smiled, I hope they'll ask me about this year " Renner, three or four shots off the pace most of the day, placed himself in the title chase with a string of three consecutive birdies beginning on the 12th. Then Levi, career, was worth 190.000 total purse of $500,000 ner in this event in from the Levi, a win1982. $54 000 64 with a series of It was another two shots back to chances to close him out, suddenly Cal Peete. Bernhard Lar.ger and Dafell victim to putting problems. It vid Edwards at 275 Peete. who led was the opening Renner needed through the first two rounds, dosed The slender young man gained a with a 71 tie for the lead with a birdie Aoki. the winner last year, was putt on the 18th hole at the Waialae well back this time at Country Club, finishing off a final Renner, three or four strokes back round of 67, most of the day. moved into title That put him m at 271. for the tournament. But Levi, who contention with a string of three had played a great third shot out of consecutive birdies beginning on the 12th He holed from 10 feet there, hit the rough, had a for birda wedge to six feet on the 13th and ie that would have made Renner a on the 4th dropped a loser again "1 was pulling everything. Levi "That was the 1 first time 1 started said. As pioorly as played over the But he missed it and the playoff thinking about winning." he said w as on. last few holes, and as well as Jack He closed to w ithin one w hen Lev i played. Jack deserved to win Both made routine, two-pupars three-puttefor bogey on the 16th It helped erase some of the sting on the first playoff hole he Still and from the year-ol- d said, I felt I was living on memory On the second, the 434 yard 16th. of the s.iot that borrowed time. constant reminder each put his approach some Levi had a chance to go two up deprived Renner of this title a year feet from the flag Renner was ago. with one to play, but missed a short away, and missed his birdie opportubirdie putt on the 17th. Renner finished play in the 1983 nity. lead Hawaiian Open with a one-shOn the 18th. Levi came within Then Levi, who had watched a over Isao Aoki and was m the scothree-shinches of holing his third shot for an lead dwindle and disaprers tent when Aoki unleashed pereagle just as Aoki did last year pear over the final 18 holes of reguhaps the most dramatic shot of the lation. stepped to his putt. He. too. I thought, 'if that goes m. I'm year missed It ran never coming back here ." Renner feet by the cup lie holed a And Levi, who had three-puttepile h from the said th rough for an eagle that snatched same green from about the same poBut the ball slid by After Renner he f.Ie from a stunned Renner r sition a earlier, missed a had holed his birdie putt. Levi neid t her a y ar nobody let rue forget coming bak. huruiing the title to cd nlv that pull lo win l! Renner But he missed Hi nm r aid 'Its hard to live it Levi play i d the f.nal 13 of n gula down surm thing like that And the And when be mi"ed again on the second playoff hole. Rennir was a tf.rg is I didnt feel I had anything tion in 70 o l,e rii ,u n Id plived the Idvt Thevaiorv the Hurd in Bonners winner a year Lie but a winner 7 four-foot- 1 tt d 15-1- 8 ot v- - . . - s 2-- 3 128-yar- d , i They just p! , nth um asm i' e a d ort wnh a lot nnue ta e and intin tJ sjx-fito- Jack Renner Iriumphanlh raises his poller after forcing playoff. II e won the Hawaiian Open on second playoff hole. ) .memmJmmmm m d half-hou- V m m 4 m m m m im jm gained Gil Morgan, the principal challenger to Levi most of the day. fell back into a tie for third at 273 with Chip Beck. Morgan shot a 69 while Beck had the best round of day. an two-foote- r, guard Quinn Rn nardxon The game lad been tad lo is when ferwa-- j lM,g Alii r,b r r -- tored at 1. "4 i the Lam ,j m a 52 27 b ad surge that re si photo Arkansas Charles Balentine puts up the shot that beat No. 1 North Carolina in Sunday upset in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. , |