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Show 2D The Salt Lake Tribune 1 Tuesday, Sneads, 33 Pros 5,15 ebruary Top Teams Keep Ratings, By Joe Baird Tribune Sports Writer teams in All four of the the Salt Lake Tribune s Prep Basketball Poll reclaimed their spots Tuesday with victories last week. No there. But it was what went on down most notably in Class that garnered most of the attention. Among the leaders, Brighton held 1 to off stubborn West Jordan maintain its grip on the top in Provo struggled in regulation but turned on the jets in overtime to get in Richfield burby Orem 7 and ied hapless Grand 100-6-0 in Enterprise drilled Milford 2 to reclub m main the But they went down like bowling as pins just below the Bengals in d the second, third and teams Bountiful, Viewmont and were all upset in rapid Hillcrest order, leading in turn to major revisions in this weeks rankings. 3), 7. out. Judge Memorial remained a very close second this week with an easy 3 win over Tooele. And even though the league season is only half over, Jim Yerkovich and his team have to like their chances for the Region Six title. The Bulldogs have beaten everybody five games into the schedule and get primary challenger South at home next time around. The Cubs, meanwhile, lost their third game of the season Friday night at Jordan. And not only did the 5 setback knock them down a notch to sixth this week, but it also dealt a severe blow to their region title chances. The Champs are Back: With that big win over the Cubbies, the defend- - 4-- 80-5- 3-- 2-- 89-3- top-rank- 4-- fifth-ranke- Gass Brighton Bonneville (11-3Viewmont 3. 5. Skyline (10-34. Bountilul 6. Bingham ); (9-4- ); ); (11-2- (9-4- ); Jeremys Lanny Nielsen To Direct 85 Shootout ); Hillcrest Davis 7. 9. Cottonwood 8. (9-5- ); 10. Alta (7-7- ); ing champion Beetdiggers find themselves in the Top 10 this week a remarkable feat given their horrendous 7 preseason start. A 8 record is nothing to get too excited about, sure, but consider the start, consider the Friday win and consider the fact that they came within four points of the second-ranke- d Bulldogs at Judge. These guys can play. 3-- A (8-6- ); (8-5- ). Reids Bengals rolled over the Jaguars in style last Friday to Duke 5-- boost their Region Two record to 0 and put even more distance between themselves and the rest of the pack. The Mighty Fall: It was Alta, after all, which got to play the role of spoiler last week with its 0 win over Hillcrest. The other two giants were bumped off in Region Four, where Highland got its act together and dumped the Braves 4 and Davis stunned the Vikings 7 on the road. For their efforts, the Hawks move back into the Top 10 this week. Davis moves up a notch to ninth derecord and the spite its so-s- o Rams, who havent graced the rankings yet this season, moved a step closer with the win over Bountiful. Now if Larry Maxwells club can put a couple more victories together . . . Filling the Void: Moving into the second and third spots this week are Skyline and Bonneville, who both stayed perfect in Region Three and Dne, respectively, with wins over Granger and Box Elder. The Bees .umbled from the Top 10 with the loss :o the Lakers. 5-- 56-5- Gass 76-6- 7-- 7 Gass Provo 3. Timpvfew 5. Ogden (14-1- ); er (11-3- ); 2. 2. ); (10-4- ); ); ); nt 4-- A (14-0- ); (12-2- 3. 48-4- 1. 2-- A Richfield Wasatch 4. San Juan (14-0Pine View (13-25. North Sanpete (10 4). With their laugher over Grand, the Wildcats easily held on at the top of the ranks, but face what might be their toughest test this season when they travel to Mount Pleasant for a Friday meeting with the d Hawks. Should be a good 1. fifth-ranke- one. Still Unbeaten: San Juan, meanwhile, remained the only undefeated team in and with a win on the road at Montrose, Colo. 2-- A Gass A 2. Piute (14-1Enterprise (12-24. South Sum3. North Summit ). 5. Mount Vernon mit The Wolves and Thunderbirds had no trouble in hanging onto their spots in as Enterprise got the easy win over Milford and Piute got past a tough Gunnison team, 1. ); (11-4- (11-4- 3-- A Judge Memorial 4. Bear Riv6. South (11- - (12-1- ); ); ); (8-4- ); outside of the traditional Grand Slam events. By Steve Goldstein r Newspapers A huge DELRAY BEACH, Fla. construction crane hovered over the 11,200-sestadium court, waiting to in put place two giant scoreboards. The court itself was tracked with mud from the shoes of workers, preparastruggling with tions in between players practice sessions. Less than 24 hours remained before the start of Tuesdays $1.8 million International Players Championships, k tournament in tenthe fifth nis and the first new tennis fortnight to be launched in more than a The IPC also is only the third tournament for both men and women, Knight-Ridde- - am. Tuesday, Bulgarias Man-uel- a Maleeva and Aneliki Kanello-poulowill tromp across the sand to the stadium at Lavers International Tennis Community to start play for the 128 men and 128 women, who will share equally in the third-largepurse in tennis. When the ambitious tournament concludes in the same stadium with the mens final on Feb. 17, there will be more evidence to support the promoters claim of a Winter Wimbledon or to demonstrate that the IPC is merely a whimper of WimbleAt 9 at me wans, U A T 1 Y two-wee- half-centur- 'H SERVICE F E N D A B in the future, one famous and familiar senior-junio- r team has already indicated it will return to Jeremy Ranch this August Legendary Sam Snead and nephew J C. Snead better-bal- l will compete in the four-da- y event, while Bagley is confident defending champion Don January-Mik- e Sullivan and 1983 titlists Mike Reid Bob Goalby will also be in the monhs field. m y ing. Although the tournament is several WAC - For LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) coming up with 46 points in two Western Athletic Conference games last weekend, Utah guard Manuel Hendrix Monday was named the WAC Basketball Player of the Week. Hendrix, a junior from Phoenix, Anz., was 10 of 16 from the floor and hit two free throws as the Utes defeated Hawaii Against San Diego State, Hendrix hit 11 field goals and two free throws in a 5 triumph. In that game, he also had one assist, one blocked shot and one steal. Others nominated for the honor were Maurice McDonald of Air Force, Rich Strong of Colorado State, Ray Arthur of Hawaii, Hunt er Greene of New Mexico, Luster Goodwin of Texas-E- l Paso and Ja78-6- 67-6- mal two-wee- Ivan Lendl, in fact, was opposed to playing here, but was persuaded because the clothing firm he represents, Adidas, is a prime sponsor. I had to think about it, Lendl, who is the top seed, said Monday after practicing. He said he believed that the tennis calendar was too crowded k already and that another tournament among 14 events he is was unfair. required to play Like the Tournament Players Championship in golf, the IPC is designed as a players championship. It is promoted and administered, in part, by the two players groups, the mens Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) and the Womens Tennis Association (WTA). There is hope by the chairman and promoter, Butch Buchholz, that it eventually may be regarded as a fifth Grand Slam event. Yet the IPC does not have the unanimous support of the players. Among the 11 men absent from the top 50 are the top two, John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors. The women are better represented, with 96 of the top 100 competing and only Pam Shriver missing from the top 10. McEnroe has taken a lot of heat from this currently sweltering site and other parts of the tennis world almost since the day last June when he said it was unlikely he would play in this event. Utah's Hendrix Honored by Oddly, the women have been more vocal in attacking McEnroe. The men, privately, have echoed some of the same reasons McEnroe gave for not playing here: the sudden switch from indoor play to outdoors; the rigk event just ors of playing a as the year is starting; the unpredictability of Florida weather, particularly the potentially windy conditions, which McEnroe detests; the setting of the event in a growing resort community, with the players, as McEnroe said, being used to sell condominiums. don. two-wee- Lendl also said the event lacked a championship format, in that matches will be best of three sets until the quarterfinals, when the format becomes best of five sets. talked with J C Snead in Phoenix and he said he's going to make Sam woik on his game because they're coming back, said Dr. Bag-leI y January and Miller Barber, the top on the Senior money-maker- s Tour last year, have both signed commitments to play in the 1985 Shootout Other notable seniors who have signed up, according to PGA Senior Tour officials, include former Mase ters champion Gay Brewer, U.S Open winner Casper, 1955 U S. Open champion Jack Fleck, 1955 PGA titlist Doug Ford, former Utah Open champion Billy Johnston, 1957 National Open king Dick Mayer, 1959 PGA winner Bob Rosburg, and 1969 U.S. Open champion Orville Moody Jeremy Ranch course designer Arnold Palmer, who has competed in all three previous Shootouts, and seniors such as Gene Littler, Bob Toski, Julius Boros, Dave Marr, Dan Sikes, Lee Elder, Kel Nagle, Peter Thomson and Art Wall are also expected to partner teams, although they have yet to sign commitments. The Shootout at Jeremy Ranch will once again conflict with the World Series of Golf in Akron, Ohio, meaning those regular PGA Tour players who . win a tournament between last years World Series and the 1985 PGA Championship at Cherry Hills in Denver will be required to be at Firestone Country Club rather than Jeremy Ranch in August. Its interesting to see all the former Shootout players who have gone on to win tournaments on the regular Tour, noted Nielsen, who took pride in seeing Shootout regular Mark OMeara win again in the Bing Crosat Pebble Beach. by Pro-Atwo Hosey of Wyoming. m Nielsen, who has been the head professional at Jeremy Rapch since the courses construction back in 1980-8has been promoted to Director of Golf at Jeremy Ranch and will herewith serve as the Shootouts tournament director. Meanwhile, former Jeremy assistant pro Steve Sharp has been promoted to head professional and director of golf shop operations. Several major sponsors will be involved with the 1985 Shootout, according to Dr. Bagley. Cadillac, which will supply 55 courtesy cars to American Explayers; Coca-Colpress, Performance Systems, Clover Club, Western Airlines, JBs, Blue Cross-Blu- e Shield, KUTV, and the Jorman Group are among nose companies who have signed on for 1985. 1, Lendl prefers best of five for the entire tournament, as it is at the Grand Slam events. Best of five eliminates luck a little more, the French Open champion said. You have to be stronger and you have to be better to win. There is no arguing that Lendl wants to win the $112,500 first prize and the whopping number of ATP and Grand Prix points that can move him up in the rankings, but the Czechoslovak was realistic about the significance of winning a major tournament that lacked McEnroe and The worlds No. 1 player also is the vice president of the ATP, so he has been criticized by other players, notably Chris Evert Lloyd and Martina Navratilova, for not supporting the ATPs own event. Connors. a, o CABUL H O st 66-5- 7. (11-3- ); 19-2- 5 Can IPC Be Considered a Major Event? last-minu- Tribune Prep Rankings members of the Senior Torn have signed commitments to compete in the 85 Shootout Aug at Jeremy Ranch. Now, those 33 seniors will spr nd the spring studying the young lions on the regular Tour before choosing playing partners for the lucrative Utah event. The interest level is way up among players, sponsors and people in the community, judged Dr. Bag-leI talked with several Monday. players at the Phoenix Open two weeks ago and the response was tremendous. I talked to David Graham and he said hed love to come if he doesnt win a tournament. I talked to Lee Trevino and he was enthusiastic, as always. Its early, but the players I talked to were all excited about com- two-tim- 60-5- 4-- A 2. 19-2- 5 3-- 73-6- (13-1- ); ); top-rank- oe-lo- w 1. (9-5- ); (5-8- 4-- 43-3- By Roger Graves Tribune Sports Writer What began as a $150,000 invitational for seniors only and has slowly become Utahs premier summer sporting event will celebrate its fourth anniversary August on the same slice of golfing greenery where Spnngville resident Billy Casper won the inaugural event in August of 1982. Yes, plans are proceeding at a brisk pace for the 1985 Shootout at Jeremy Ranch, which for the third straight year will bring together members of the regular PGA Tour and golden oldies from the PGA Senior Tour in a best ball tournament with $450,000 at stake. Tournament organizers Dr. Gerald H. Bagley and Lanny Nielsen of Jeremy Ranch revealed Monday that 33 dan ). 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