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Page 12 THE BATTALION FRIDAY. DECEMBER 17. 1979 S* New Mexico basketball tea ripped by loss of key playeii 10& United Press Internationa) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Six more University of New Mexico bas ketball players were declared ineli gible Thursday, the latest develop ment in an ongoing scandal that has ripped through the school’s once highly successful program. The ineligibility of the six players, coupled with the suspension of a seventh earlier this week, reduced the beleaguered New Mexico team to five players and may have sealed the ouster of head coach Norm Ellenberger. Ellenberger and chief recruiter Manny Goldstein were both sus pended last week in the wake of an FBI investigation which implicated the two coaches in an alleged bribery and transcript-fixing scandal involv ing junior college recruit Craig Gil bert of Santa Barbara, Calif. A top university official told UPI the resignation or firing of Ellenber ger was imminent. The six latest players to be drop ped from the squad included seniors Larry Belin, Andre Logan and Paul Roby and junior college transfers Larry Tar ranee, Larry Hubbard and Jerome Henderson. Belin, Logan and Roby all trans ferred to New Mexico from junior colleges prior to the start of the 1978- 79 season, while Tarrance, Hubbard and Henderson enrolled this fall. Belin, a 6-8 center-forward, was the team’s leading scorer last season with an average of 15.5 points a game. Logan, a 6-6 center, and Roby, 6-5, were part-time starters last season. UNM officials said the six players had received academic credit for a summer school course they were en rolled in but never attended. The course was supposedly offered through Ottawa University of Kan sas, a self-proclaimed “innovative and experimental type of college, and taught at the Van Nuys, Calif, campus of Los Angeles Valley State. Representatives of the Clinical Law Program at UNM, the agency which is representing the six athletes, said the players had no knowledge they had even been en rolled in the Qttawa University of Ottawa, Kan., course, which was conducted in California this past summer. “I spent most of my time going to school here (UNM) last summer,’’ said Logan, a co-captain on this year’s squad. “I don’t know how I was supposed to be in two places at once. ” Contacted at the school’s main campus, Ottawa athletic director Bill Boucek said, “There is no way any such course could have been offered without my knowledge. We have no connection with any school in Cali fornia. ’ Despite the fact UNM officials in dicated they were working with Ottawa officials in their investigation of the case, Boucek said he had not talked to anyone from New Mexico. “The first I knew about it was when a reporter contacted me,’ Boucek said. Newly named athletic director John Bridgers said school officials were trying to determine the identi ty of the individual who enrolled the six players. Bob Weaver, director of admis sions at New Mexico, said his office received six transcripts thisfajJhl 73 No in a two-day period, inditai |L Pages six players.had completed a called “Current Probleup Coaching Athletics.” Weaver said UNM working with Ottawa officials; effort to trace the individu^ volved in the falsification of^ rollment records and transenj Ellenberger and Goldstein suspended following therein an FBI transcript of a tapeditr sation in which the two q allegedly discussed a $300pay a false transcript on Gilbertfroi nard Junior College in Califnj Of the five remainingplaye UNM, one of them, freshm Smi th of New York, has; ankle. School officials late 1 said at least two football playa possibly three other students^ be added to the basketballs the school could meet its s commitments. In the wake of the latestd ment and due to the lackofpi acting coach Charlie Harrisc celed practice Thursday. Big week for Texas prep footb ‘V ? skies for two Texas A&M’s Vernon ‘V’ Smith tips the ball in points a game after two games and is eight for for two of his career-high 32 points he scored eight from the free throw line. against Texas Lutheran. Smith is averaging 30 Battalion photo by Lee Roy Leschper jr. Comaneci’s injury kills title hopes United Press International FORT WORTH — Nadia Com aneci, who spent most of the day in a hospital bed with an intravenous tube stuck in her arm, abandoned her initial routine at the World Gym nastics Championships Thursday night and thus lost all hope of win ning the world championship. Comaneci, hospitalized Wednes day night with an infected left hand, entered the Tarrant County Con vention Center with the rest of her teammates after an afternoon of spe culation on whether she would com pete. After her five teammates had con ducted their routines on the uneven parallel bars it was Comaneci’s turn. Comaneci delayed for two minutes and then stepped onto the platform, grabbed the lower of the two bars, swung under them once and let her feet hit the floor. She stepped away from the bars, bowed to the judges and walked off the stage before a hushed, stunned, sellout crowd. Gymnastics officials said Comane ci, who hoped to try routines on the balance beam, vault and floor exer cise, had to at least attempt a per formance on the uneven bars or she would have forfeited all chances of competing in the other events. But in failing to produce a score on the uneven bars, her hopes to win the world all-around title were gone and the automatic favorite for that crown became the Soviet Union’s Nelli Kim. It was the second straight dis appointment for Comaneci in the world championships. The heroine of the Moscow Olym pics had finished fourth in last year’s world meet at Strasbourg after slip ping off the balance beam and regis tering only a 9.1 score. She had been propping for this meet all year and had tuned up by winning the all-around title at the European championships in Copenhagen. United Press International Coach John Reddell calls his 1979 Euless-Trinity Trojans the strug- glers of Texas high school football, but says they have made him one happy man this year. “It’s been a struggle throughout the year, but these kids have de veloped real well and are probably as intent and as scrappy a bunch as I’ve ever coached,” Reddell told UPI. “(W.T.) White looked impossible to us on paper last week, but the kids dug in and gave us 100 percent, both offensively and defensively. “This week we re matched against Temple, and it looks improbable. But, with the attitude our kids have, don’t count us out yet. The way they’ve responded makes a person real proud to be associated with them. ” The Trinity-Temple Class AAAA quarterfinal is set Friday night in Texas Stadium at Irving, one of two such games to be played there this weekend. El Paso Coronado meets Lewisville Saturday afternoon in the other. Houston Memorial plays Baytown Lee Saturday in the Astrodome and Alice meets San Antonio Wheatley in San Antonio’s Alamo Stadium Fri day in the other two Class AAAA quarterfinals. Class AAA and Class A move into semifinals, and Classes AA and A will also have quarterfinals this week. Bay City meets Beaumont Hebert in Pasadena and McKinney plays Lub bock Estacado in Abilene in Satur day’s Class AAA semis. Reddell says the Trojans have a ball-control offense which has aver aged over 20 points per game this year. On defense. Trinity has limited its opposition to 8.5 points per game. “We don’t blow many folks out,” he said. “We re smaller than most folks, and we have to stick with what we can do best. But, I think our offense and defense complement each other.” He said the movement and quick ness of his Trojans have made them an exciting team to watch this year. “A lot of folks have lined up against and and tried to run over us with their big people. But, we’ve been able to hang in there, and ever now and then break a quick one that counted. Reddell said he knows the odds are against him, but he hopes to gear up the Trojans this week similar to what happened last week. “If we can put together as fine an entire game as we did last week, we can play against anyone,” he said. “I know we ll have to be sky high to play that way, but we ll have to against Temple.” Class AA quarterfinals, all at 8 p.m. Friday, match Childress and F“abens in Odessa, Breckenridge and Van in Denton, Waller and McGre gor in Austin, and Edna and Port Isabel in Corpus Christi. Class A quarterfinals, also all Friday, pit New Deal and Seagraves in Lub bock, China Spring and Pilot Point in Waxahachie, Troup and Lovelady in Nacogdoches, and HulUK and Falls City in Wharton. 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