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Tuesday, March 29, 1983/The Battalion/Page 13 11 - mi M^MARA by Jeff Millar & Bill Hinds t U£>fU MAV PUT IM A UA1?C?&AIP wr similar fc me wav u&a aUPERGRAWATK^ FAMILIES- ^ut no less \rkansas, Tea proved that the it of the Hont AMP CU&? WOlV BG LESS’ PlSCRlKAtMA'T'ORV WlAEM 1 TfMMK.OF ALE1H&&E uK)R?i?ruKJAfeuv affluemt VaJM& MEM CfeKJlEp 1HEK2 PREAM OF PLAVIM& f%> BALL SiMPLY BECAUSE mag OOUEGG EUEieiLlTV ISM'T UP Fresno State, DePaul win; NIT title game Wednesday her conferent sports, but s parity, strenj nth west Conf irown continued from page 11) am, which was the first ever to o undefeated (12-0) in District 4-5A play. One of those games, esaid, was a victory over Hous- m Yates in December. “We had never beaten a giant s far as basketball goes — Yates, finished secoti ashmere, Wheatley,” B rown up in third an aid. “We’ve been playing them ver since I came here and we’ve een beaten every time by one or men’s sportsaul A&M and Tew st coast teams i le fighting t-season tourm CAA swimmitj placed individui nerica team, than we did last year. But I just had to try to get them to play together as a team. “We came around and found the right combination. We got hot at the right time. We tried to peak at the right time, too. There are usually two peaks in a season: we play well at one time, we have a valley and then we play well again. Fortunately, we found our second peak at the second team. No Vikings made the third team. But Brown says he’s not thinking about honors. He’s looking toward next season. Dis trict coaches, again voting be fore the start of the state play offs, chose Bryan to finish second behind Killeen in next year’s 14-5A race. The Vikes will have to search for new faces, however, since Brown loses the SWCisfu m points. But we’d never ; from top to bn ims in the Topi htingtheirwap lentand beat Yates by 15, our eaten any of them. “When we won that tourna- hip. uys knew we could play. And >t peoplethougi latgave us a little bit of conli- mference, thti ience when we did play stron- md football,b er teams in the playoffs.” : are recognize ig in all spons :s writers, ght be singing j d second in Another key game, he said, ame when the Vikings played still lacksrespa liserably but still managed to Hefeat Round Rock Westwood idoubleovertime by two points i an early district game. “We really played badly,” uston should It Irown said. “I tried everything d 1 exas orH(# jo get the players motivated, hut t at the Colltj lothing worked. We were very id for a buncln Ltunate to win by two points, Iks from do* In from that point on, we had [o make a commitment. “So we billed the next game — gainst Temple — as the biggest ame of the year for us. And I n really believe that it was, because i ^ ^ e had to make a decision as to diether we were going to play r just go through the motions. aackClub-b: p e |3| ew Temple out by 26 ite’s booster gt oints in that game, hones were ritj dth calls fromj “So we went on and kept win- bout charter I ling," he said, “but we didn’t eally start dominating until we ;ot into the playoffs. We just irf of caught fire.” By using the word “dominat- Brown speaks of the fol- /. said he believe greater this yea lot of people n t you gomgo jwingplayoff victories en route your partying;' ig that doesn't! ear for us.” noted the id Thompson 1 'T 311 San Antonio Sam fim Stoddard e had lostjusl ) years. not puston 63, and Bryan 7 1, Fort forth Paschal 54. “A lot of people didn’t think e could win, but our players elieved we could and so did I,” town said. “1 thought going ito the season we might have ad a little more talent this year i you re ou’ve got theal g to come jest. We're goinj t our game ;h we'll get bei Bryan High basketball coach Larry Brown a the state crown: Bryan 55, ongview 53; Bryan 66, Klein orest43; Bryan 63, Richardson 9; Bryan 73, Dallas Kimball 67; right time.” Now that the championship trophy has been brought to Bryan High, Brown is having trouble understanding the all- district and all-state teams re cently announced. And he may have a point. The First-team all-district selections, made by way of a vote of District 14-5 A coaches before the start of the playoffs, in cluded only one Bryan player — Mitchell. Chambers, Bernstine and Bradsher made second team, but it took a second vote of the coaches — brought about upon the insistence of Brown — to get Bradsher and Bernstine on that squad. To add more insult to injury, the Texas Association of Basket ball Coaches’ all-state First team didn't have a Bryan player listed. Mitchell, a junior, made Bernstine, Chambers and Dick son to graduation. Brown, who teaches four clas ses in addition to coaching the Vikings, says he’d like to stay in the high school ranks. “I like the high school level,” he said. ““I think we’re going to get good athletes here every year, our kids are going to work hard and we’re going to be suc cessful. We may not win state every year, but we’re going to be successful. I had a couple of opportunities to go into college coaching this past year, but I just don’t know.” United Press International NEW YORK — Fresno State came to Madison Square Gar den Monday night with two ob jectives: to advance to the Na tional Invitation Tournament finals and to gain respect. The Bulldogs’ impressive 86- 62 victory over Wake Forest in Monday Night’s NIT semifinal accomplished the first goal. Na tional recognition might have to wait, however, until Fresno State battles DePaul, a 68-58 winner over Nebraska in the other semi final. T he NIT’s 46th champion ship game is Wednesday at 9 p.m. EST. DePaul is obviously the bet ter-known of the finalists. Coach Ray Meyer’s Blue Demons are in their third NIT final (the first since winning the title in 1945), Forward chooses Arkansas United Press International LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Jay Crane, a 6-8, 190-pound for ward from Haltom City High School, has made a verbal com mitment to play basketball at the University of Arkansas, Razor- back coach Eddie Sutton says. Crane made the commitment to Bill Brown, Arkansas’ assis tant coach after Brown spoke at the school’s athletic awards ban quet and visited with Crane’s family. John Dickerson, Haltom Ci ty’s head coach, said Crane had narrowed his choice to either Arkansas or the University of Texas but also had considered Vanderbilt, Utah and Kentucky. Arkansas already has signed Hunter McDonald, a 6-3 guard from Leawood, Kan. McDonald signed during the NCAA’s early signing period in November hut Crane cannot sign until April 14, the official spring signing date. 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Anderson, a 6-foot-7-inch junior, and Thompson, a 6-foot- 6-inch junior, scored 10 points apiece as Fresno State moved to a 38-24 halftime lead. A 13-2 spurt midway through the second half gave the Bulldogs a 59-36 advantage and the Deacons never came within 19 points. Barmore scored 13 points and tied Anderson for the team lead with 7 rebounds. Wake Forest got 16 points from Delaney Rudd and Anthony Teachey added 14. DePaul, 21-11, bounced the Cornhuskers depsite shooting 37 percent and losing its high scorer when Tony Jackson fouled out with 7:23 left after scoring 17 points. “I thought we didn’t play as well as we normally do but you have to credit Nebraska’s de fense for that,” the 69-year-old Meyer said. “They played us very well and took us out of our offense. Sometimes I thought we couldn’t throw the ball in the ocean if we were standing on the beach.” DePaul hit only 21 -of-56 shots from the floor hut Nebraska did even worse with 22-of-62 shooting. 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