Sporte Appleton-Neenah-Menasha, Wis. C-l Idcats are Hoyas' final obstacle Both of us have played one another enough to know that surprises aren't the things that cause you to win these ball games." He brushed aside the observation that in the three games during the season in which Georgetown was held under 60 points, Villanova did it twice. "I'm not statistically oriented, as someof my brethren are," hesaid. "I say statistics are basically a rationale for losing. If I can win 2-0, I'll do that.
If I can win by 50, I'll try to win by 50. The object of the game is to win. "We'll hold the ball, we'll run, we'll pressure, we'll play slow, we'll do what we have to do to win a ball game." One thing they'll have to do is figure out Villanova's constantly changing defensive looks. The Wildcats basically play a matchup zone, but it has 27 variations designed to throw the other team off balance. Georgetown knows defense, too.
William Bedford of Memphis State into foul trouble and coming out with a 52-45 victory over the taller Tigers. "I don't suppose we actually held the ball, until we got into our stall, more than 25 seconds before we shot it," Massimino said. "There's certainly a difference between taking the air out of the ball and making an extra pass. That's what we're attempting to do, as we've done throughout the year. We are not going to play any differently or try to play any differently than we've played all year long." John Thompson, the Georgetown coach, isn't looking for any surprises, either.
"I don't expect to see anything different," he said. "Coach Massimino has done an excellent job in bringing his team here and I think he would be pretty foolish to change anything now that he's gotten to the final game. "Villanova will try to control the tempo of the game and we'll try to do the things that have brought us uci c. ii caaui c. nciuijwiuii.
TPC nere. we pressure, we 11 try to run. the end of the Coach John Wooden era at UCLA in 1973. Conversely, Villa-nova hopes to become the first team since North Carolina State two years ago to win the title after finishing the season out of The Asssociated Press Top 20 poll. This meeting of two Big East teams is the first same-conference title game since Indiana beat Big Ten rival Michigan nine years ago.
The Hoyas already are being pared to the Lew Alcindor-Bill Wal-r ton Bruins of the 1960s and '70s, as well as to the Bill Russell-led University of San Francisco squad of the mid '50s, the post-war Kentucky teams of Alex Groza and the undefeated Indiana team of 1976. "We know they're the No. 1 team in the United States, probably one of the best teams ever assembled in the history of collegiate basketball," Massimino said. Georgetown guard Michael Jackson was asked whether he felt a sense of being part of a team that would leave a similar imprint on the sport's 1 i-r -e -r- to amazing Peete nv rhr r.BFFM and, during the season, became BY BOB GREEN and, during the season, became Monday, April 1, 1985 Fost-Crescent BY BRUCE LOWITT AP sport- writer LEXINGTON, Ky. Time just may be on Villanova's side if the Wildcats have the lead against Georgetown with time running out.
That's a pretty tall order against a pretty tall team, but it's nothing new to Villanova. Coach Rollie Massimino's scrappers and scramblers have been doing nothing but knocking off one giant after another Michigan, Carolina and. last Saturday. Memphis State to get to the NCAA championship basketball game against Patrick Ewing and the defending champion Hoyas tonight (8:12 p.m. CST).
"We're an aggressive, spunky group of people and this is a national championship game," Massimino said Sunday. "I think we're going to play as hard as we can; try to give as much in our bodies as possible." It is Georgetown's chance to become the first team to win success-sive national championships since Troll's Cove wins title at Holy Cross BY KRIS KORT 01 Tht Post-Crescent KAUKAUNA Bob Coenen and Ernie Montgomery put on great individual performances and their teammates contributed solid defense and heady offense as Troll's Cove of Kau-kauna defeated Wisconsin Awards of Madison 81-72 Sunday to win the 17th annual Holy Cross Open men's basketball tournament. Troll's Cove became the first Kaa- kauna-based team and only the sec-V; ond from the Fox Cities to capture the''; tourney, uattney Red carpet ot Kimberly won in 1979. Coenen, a 6-foot-9 UW-Eau Claire graduate, dominated inside play, while Montgomery, a slick, quick guard from Northern Michigan, effectively drove the lane and controlled the game's tempo. Each scored 25 points.
Coenen, the 16-team tournament's most valuable player, sank 11 of 17 field goal attempts, hauled down 14 rebounds and held former University of Wisconsin center John PIoss to just 6 points. Montgomery also dished out 12 assists and grabbed 6 rebounds. "Bobby Coenen had a helluva game," said Troll's Cove team captain Bill Weiner. "He was going up againsXa Division I player and I think he showed who was boss." 'Whine score tied at 61, Coenen convert! a 3-point play with 4:56 left to gjjjerthe winners a 64-61 margin. Montgomery then took charge, scoring of his team's final 17 points.
free throws by Keith French pulled Wisconsin Awards to within 64-63, but a 3-point play by Montgomery made it 67-63 with 3:56 to go. Wisconsin Awards moved to within 69-66 with 3 minutes left, but Troll's Cove secured the win with an 8-point run and a 77-66 lead with just over a Continued on page 4 ScrappyW mino said. "Now, without the clock, it might be different. Obviously, in this tournament, the clock has worked to our advantage. "Our strategy over the 29 years that I've coached has been that with three minutes or less to go, if we're up one or more, we just use the expression 'We have We try to instill in the kids the total belief that they can beat people once they're in that kind of situation." Still, they'll have to get to that situation tonight in the Rupp Arena.
And the lack of a shot clock likely won't make much of a difference in the 37 minutes which precede the final three, not even to Villanova. "Usually, people shoot the ball within 12 to 13 seconds," Massimino said. "We don't intentionally try to hold the ball. We just try to get a good shot. Our philosophy is to get the ball inside first.
Everything else will work from there." That's how it worked in Saturday's semifinal, the Wildcats forcing the ball inside, forcing Keith Lee and Sunday at Ponte Vedra, Fla. (AP) a starter doesn't worry him. "The most important thing during spring training is feeling good at the plate," he said. "I think that if you asked somebody, they'd rather feel good at the plate and hit line drives and make outs than struggle at the plate and get chink hits and hit .400 down here. "In that respect, I think the basic thing is to get ready for the season.
Because once opening day comes, everybody forgets what you did in spring training." The Breweits sent outfielder Bobby Clark to Vancouver and placed outfielder Dion James on the 15-day disabled list Sunday. That left 32 players in camp, including 14 pitchers. General Manager Harry Dalton hopes to make the final 7 cuts by Thursday. A throwing error by right fielder Ben Oglivie allowed San Diego to Continued on page 3 history. "I don't think we can sit here and think about what those teams did and try and compare ourselves to them 'cause we have a game to play tomorrow," he said.
Right now we have to concern ourselves with Villanova because if we lose that game, we won't be compared to those teams." The championship likely will be the last NCAA game played without a 45-second shot clock. Some statistics notwithstanding, the absence of that shoot-or-lose-possession rule may have a bearing on the outcome if the Wildcats can hang in there against yet another taller, higher-ranked team. They were able to do that during the season. In two Big East Conference losses to the Hoyas, 52-50 in overtime and then 57-50, the Wildcats led most of the way before being caught and beaten. "When we played with the clock, there were times down the stretch that we had to shoot the ball," Massi swing late last season, finishing with 14 home runs.
During 20 games in August, he had 9 homers and 14 runs batted in. "You should know that when a guy like myself gets into a streak like that, that's something that can happen," he said. "By the same token, I can't keep that up 162 games. "I'm sure there's a chance I might get a streak like that going again this year, and maybe not. I think I showed that I have the capability of doing that." Bamberger is counting on him to provide power from the right side of the plate.
"I really think he'll have a good year and hit about 20 homers," he said. "He has a lot of ability with the bat. He's a free swinger. The more contact he makes, the more home runs he'll hit." Schroeder has hit only one home run in spring training, but that AP golf writer PONTE VEDRA, Fla. Calvin Peete has had to set some new standards for himself.
"I wanted to win $1 million and win a major. Now I've done that. Now I want to win more majors and win another $1 million," Peete said Sunday after a spectacular triumph in the Tournament Players Championship. Peete, the embodiment of one of the most remarkable rags-to-riches stories in golf's history, won the annual championship of the game's touring pros with a 6-under-par 66 in the final round over the windswept Players Club at Sawgrass, one of the most difficult courses the touring pros encounter. "Under the circ*mstances," he said, "it was my best round ever." By way of illustration, the 66 was two shots better than the best ball carded over the last 18 holes by Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Lee.Tre-vino and Tom Watson.
It provided Peete with a 72-hole total of 274, a course record. And it stamped him as a force to be considered in the Masters, two weeks away in Augusta, and Peete's next scheduled start. The victory was worth $162,000 from the total purse of $900,000 and lifted Peete's earnings for the year to $269,585. It was his second title of the season, the 10th of his career and, without question, the most important. "This is just as much a major as any of the other tournaments we call majors," Peete insisted.
Golfs major championships generally are recognized as the Masters, U.S. and British Opens and the PGA. But that is by acceptance only. There are no rules, no regulations, no standards, nothing of an official nature that indicates the major status of a tournament. "It is not something that can be done by decree," said PGA Tour Commissioner Deane Beman.
"All we can do is provide all the ingredients necessary for a major championship. "Then it remains for the players, the press and the public to decide. If enough players call it a major, if enough writers and commentators call it a major, if the public accepts it as a major, then it is." "If this isn't a major, we don't have one," said D. A. Weibring, who chased Peete to the title, played the last nine holes in 4-under-par 32 and made up no ground at all.
"The man is a machine," Weibring said. He has gained that reputation. Peete, who has a damaged left elbow and cannot fully straighten the arm, has led the PGA Tour for the last four years in driving accuracy. In three of those four years, he has led in greens hit in regulation. Last year he took the coveted Vardon Trophy for the low scoring average Calvin Peete hugs his caddy, 'Golf ball' Hall, after winning the TPC Schroeder 'comfortable' as continued on page mninr' Continued on page 3 the first black player to go past $1 million in career earnings.
In the last four seasons, he has won more titles, nine, than any other player in golf. All this from a man who was one of 19 children, who once peddled jewelry from the trunk of his car to migrant farm workers, who did not touch a golf club until the age of 23. "Add up all the superlatives, and there he is," said Weibring, who played his last round in 69 and finished with a 277 total. No one else was even close. Larry Rinker came on to take third at 281 seven strokes off the pace with a last-round 70.
Gary Hallberg was another shot back at 72-282. Hale Irwin, the two-time U.S. Open champion who entered the final round in a tie for the lead, slipped to a 75 and was tied at 283 with Canadian Continued on page 2 Doc's gains 3rd straight Xavier crown BY KRIS KORT Of The Post-Crescent After spotting Cheers of Green Bay a 51-38 halftime lead, Doc Holliday's of Appleton had toscrambleto win its third consecutive Xavier Men's Invitational basketball tournament title. Mark Bleier and Phil Plamann'' who had combined for just 5 points in. the first half, took charge after intermission as Doc's rallied to win 88-78.
Bleier scored 20 points after intermission while Plamann, forced to sit out much of the first half with foul trouble, scored all 10 of his points in the second half. After a basket by Dave Bradish gave Cheers a 53-38 lead 6 seconds into the second half, Doc's ran off 10 straight points to pull within 53-48 with 15:47 left in the game. Bleier and Doug Lopas each had two baskets in the run. Three minutes later, Plamann hit a baseline jumper that started a 16-point spurt which moved Doc's from a 7-point deficit (58-51) to a 9-point lead (67-58) with 9:50 to go. Plamann scored 6 points on long jumpers and Bleier added 5 points in the run.
Cheers, behind team captain Keith Noskowiak, scored 5 straight to make it 67-63 with 7:34 left. Bleier and Plamann again ignited a Doc's spurt, hitting two baskets each in a 12-3 spurt that produced a 79-66 lead with 4:14 left. Plamann said the winners did not change much at halftime despite the huge deficit. "We just tried to work harder on Continued on page 4 Jtnf-l fl, ri j1t i- both of us," Schroeder said of the trade. "I think the Brewers would like to have us both catching, but personally, I think Jim Sundberg wanted to play every day.
That was a guarantee the Brewers couldn't give him. "I was under the impression that if he was going to catch 100 games, I'd catch 60 or 9070 or something like that. It takesthe pressure off both of us now. If he went into a slump, there would always be speculation that I should be catching. Or if I didn't hit the ball, people would be saying 'Why is he in there instead of I guess that's pretty much out the window right now." Milwaukee Manager George Bamberger doesn't see any problems going with Schroeder.
"He's getting rid of the ball good and he nandles the pitchers real well," he said. "I think he's ready." Schroeder, 26, displayed a powerful BY MIKE EMBRY AP sports writer SUN CITY, Ariz. Now that Bill Schroeder is the Milwaukee Brewers' No. 1 catcher, he wants to prove that-he belongs there. "It's been comfortable," Schroeder said of spring training, "but I find myself trying to prove myself every day.
I think once you lose that, you're pretty much in bad shape. "I go out there, and every time I take the field, I want to prove msyelf." Schroeder became the club's No. 1 catcher when Jim Sundberg was traded to Kansas City in the off-season. Sundberg was dealt to the Royals when the Brewers couldn't guarantee him the starting job. Schroeder made the deal easier because of the solid job he had done in a reserve role last year.
"I think it was the best thing for WSUC alumni made their mark at Holy Cross TomGoff Wisconsin Awards. KAUKAUNA Relaxing between games of the 17th annual Holy Cross Open basketball tournament, former Marquette star Dave Delsman made an interesting observation. "This tournament showcases good caliber athletes, not just the top names from big schools, but also players at the state college level," he said. "There are a lot of good players in state colleges." Nowhere was that more apparent than in the tournament's championship game where Troll's Cove, a Kaukauna-sponsored team comprised largely of players from UW-Eau Claire and UW-Stevens Point, defeated Wisconsin Awards of Madison, which featured recent University of Wisconsin starters Scott Roth and John PIoss. "As far as non-scholarships go, the WSUC has always been a good conference and today it's stronger than it's ever been," said former UW-Eau Claire standout Bob Coenen, who dominated the championship game and was named most valuable player for the tournament.
Coenen, a 6-9 center from De Pere, who scored 25 points and was a terror on the boards in the finale, said that playing against Division I players was an added incentive. "Yeah, that fired me up," said Coenen, who teaches and coaches in Antigo. "It's fun playing against guys of that caliber." Asked why he was so effective, Coenen said: "A lot of it is the guys I play with. Also, I'm not that quick. I have to utilize my body more and use head fakes to get them moving." Other WSUC alumni fared well in the post-tournament awards.
Anthony Brazzel, a lightning-quick guard from UW-Whitewater who played for Wisconsin Awards, was voted the tourney's most popular player, while Gregg Jensen and Andre McKoy made the all-tournament team. Jensen, from Kaukauna and UW-Eau Claire, played for Troll's Cove, while McKoy, of UW-Whitewater, starred for Wisconsin Awards. Roth, an all-Big 10 second team selection and the Badgers' MVP this season, is confident he can play basketball after college if not in the NBA, then in Europe. "Two weeks ago I signed with an agent, Lustig Pro Sports, which represents a lot of great players. They have a lot of confidence in me.
My agent thinks I could be drafted in the third or fourth round. If I'm not drafted, there's a good chance I can play in Europe," Roth said. Can Roth play in the NBA? "Without question," he replied. "There's eight or so top players on every pro team. After that, everyone's about equal.
I feel that at 6-9 I could be a role player in the NBA." Last week, Roth made the all-tournament team in the Western Invitational all-star game in Lewiston, Mont. A handful of NBA scouts were there. Tuesday he will compete in the Portsmouth (Va.) Invitational, where more NBA scouts will be on hand. Roth had just 4 points and 3 rebounds in Sunday night's finals, but he was slowed by a hip pointer that he aggravated in the afternoon semifinals. Roth said he became "a stronger person and a better player" because of all the adversity that surrounded the UW program while he was there.
Asked what it might have been like if Cory Blackwell, Brad Sellers and Carl Golston hadn't left early, Roth said, "There may not have been enough balls to go around, or it might have been a the start of a dynasty. They are all such talented players. That question will go unanswered forever. We'll never know." Troll's Cove guard Ernie Montgomery was one of the last players cut by the Golden State Warriors in 1983. Montgomery, who starred at Milwaukee Tech and later at Northern Michigan, said he got caught up in a numbers game.
"All of the guards I was competing against (Mike Bratz, Eric 'Sleepy Floyd, and Lester Conner) had guaranteed contracts," he said. "But none of them is a true point guard." "Who is the only sixth man from an NCAA Division III school to get drafted by an NBA team? You're looking at him," said. Keith French of Following graduation from North Park (111.) College, French was drafted by the Phoenix Suns on the seventh round in 1980. He stayed with the team throughout the summer, but was later released. "They were looking for a power forward, and I really couldn't play power forward," he said.
Playing in Kaukauna was nothing new for Troll's Cove guard Michael Maben, who is from Milwaukee. When he was in junior high in 1973-74, Maben played for the Milwaukee Junior Royals, who took on a Fox Cities all-star team at Holy Cross. He also played for the Milwaukee North Monsters youth football team that faced the Hollandtown (now Kaukauna) Raiders. "I remember that we won the basketball games, but lost the football game," said Maben, who stayed with the Bob Martzahl family in Kaukauna. "It was great to renew that friendship which started over 10 years ago." After graduating from Milwaukee Tech, Maben played basketball at Suomi Junior College in Hanco*ck, Mich, and the University of Idaho.
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