Page 12/The Battalion/Tuesday, March 27,1984
Final Four size up foes
TANK MCNAMARA
United Press International
The semifinals of the NCAA
basketball tournament, which
will be held in Seattle next
weekend, perhaps more appro
priately should be played at the
foot of Mt. St. Helens.
It would form the perfect
backdrop for a program cover.
After all, three of the teams in
the Final Four have mountain
ous big men who at any time
can erupt like a volcano.
Patrick Ewing of George
town, Mel Turpin and Sam Bo
wie of Kentucky and Akeem
Olajuwon of Houston are all 7-
footers who throw their weight
— and elbows — around with
considerable authority.
It is ironic that the fourth
team in the semifinals, Virginia,
does not have a dominating big
man. The Cavaliers had the na
tion’s most dominating college
center the past three years in 7-
4 Ralph Sampson but never
won the NCAA tournament
(Akeem) Olajuwon was all-everything Sunday in
the Cougars’ 68-63 triumph over Wake Forest.
He scored 29 points, grabbed 12 rebounds,
blocked three shots and changed the arc of
countless others.
and reached the Final Four only
once.
Virginia’s center this year is
skinny, 6-11 Olden Polynice,
who performed well, if not
spectacularly, in the Cavaliers’
50-48 East Regional triumph
over Indiana last Saturday.
Polynice will be put to the su
preme test Saturday when he
goes up against Olajuwon in the
opener of the double-header at
the Kingdome.
Olajuwon was all-everything
Sunday in the Cougars’ 68-63
triumph over Wake Forest. He
scored 29 points, grabbed 12 re
bounds, blocked three shots
and changed the arc of count
less others.
Wake Forest guard Danny
Young was so impressed with
Olajuwon that he compared
him favorably to Sampson, who
was voted college basketball’s
Player of the Year three times.
“I think Akeem is more active
on defense (than Sampson),”
said Young. “On offense, I
don’t see much difference. Both
of them have very good offen
sive moves. Akeem surprised
me with some of his moves to
day. I knew he was a good of
fensive player. I didn’t know he
was that good.”
The Georgetown-Kentucky
contest will pit All-America Ew
ing against the so-called “Twin
Towers” of Kentucky, Turpin
and Bowie.
“It’ll be the Rockies against
the Alps,” said Dayton Coach
Don Donoher when asked to
size up the game. “They might
want to go to a four or five-man
(officiating) crew for that game.
They might want an NFL
crew.”
Kentucky, too, is very physi
cal and Georgetown Coach
John Thompson thinks a key to
the game will be how well his
forwards, Ralph Dalton (6-11)
and Michael Graham (6-9), play
against a team as big up front as
the Wildcats.
“We’ll be against bigger
teams,” said Thompson, “but
our (defensive) pressure will be
important, too. Ralph and Mike
will be the key to that.”
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tled up Arkansas Monday, help
ing Rice to a 7-2 victory over the
Razorbacks in Southwest Con
ference baseball action.
Hinnrichs allowed nine hits
and struck out 10 Hogs in win
ning his sixth game without a
loss.
The victory by 20th-ranked
Rice, now 23-4 for the year and
3-3 in SWC play, kept the Hogs
from a three-game series sweep.
Arkansas, 25-5 and 4-2, is 11th
in this week’s Collegiate Base
ball magazine poll.
Controversy erupted in the
Rice fifth when, leading 4-1,
Owl first baseman Carl Mikeska
hit what an apparent two-run
homer. But Razorback catcher
Mark Berry pointed out to um
pire Bob Roberts that Mikeska’s
bat lacked a required marking
18 inches from the handle.
Roberts agreed, calling Mi
keska out for using an illegal bat
and nullifying the home run.
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Thompson gave the Owls a first
inning lead. The Owls scored
single runs in the fourth and
fifth innings, and clinched the
win with three in the ninth, in
cluding Scott Johnson’s solo
homer.
Arkansas’ runs came in the
first inning, when Mike Loggins
doubled home Jim Ward, and
in the sixth on Brett Harrison’s
RBI single.
Kevin Campbell, 3-1, suf
fered the loss despite allowing
only three hits in five innings.
The Texas A&M handball team brought home
a second place trophy from the 1984 United
States Handball Association’s National Collegiate
Tournament held in Colorado Springs, Colo
rado.
“We came in second in the nation out of an 18
team field,” said Lance Lowy, coach of the team.
Lake Forest, from Chicago, Illinois, won the
tournament, but A&M gave them a run for their
money, Lowy said.
“Lake Forest gives scholarships for handball so
they are an automatic powerhouse,” Lowy said.
“We had a great chance to beat them, but we
came out a little short.”
The tournament was broken down into men’s
and women’s A, B, and C divisions.
Lowy said that Matt Pokryfki, the top player
on the team, played a major part in the team’s
success. Pokryfki, a senior on the team, placed
second in division B.
Pokryfki said everybody had a hand in bring
ing home the team’s second place title.
“It felt good to place second because for the
last three years we’ve placed third,” Pokryfki
said. “It wasn’t just me, it was everybody.”
Another place holder is Brent Burtran, who
placed fourth in division C for the second year in
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Meyer leaves without crown
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ST. LOUIS — If a Hollywood
writer had been scripting this
year’s NCAA tournament, he
would have had Ray Meyer and
DePaul preparing to meet
Houston in Sunday’s NCAA
Midwest Regional final.
He would have had grandfa-
therly Meyer taking his team to
the Final Four in Seattle — and
winning that elusive national
championship in his 42nd and
final season. And Meyer would
have been carried off the floor
by his jubilant team as a cham
pion.
But Meyer was a spectator
Sunday, watching Houston de
feat Wake Forest, 68-63, the
team that ended his career in
melodramatic fashion.
Instead of the jubilant final,
the end was a tearjerker. Meyer,
frustrated by his team’s turn
overs and missed free throws
down the stretch in the 73-71
overtime loss to Wake Forest,
tried to put up a smiling front.
But the pain of the loss and the
degree of the disappointment
was too strong.
“It’ll take a while to get over
that loss,” Meyer said.
figured.
“I don’t think anyone
dreamed we’d do what we did.
That is why this team is very
special to me,” Meyer said.
It was that theme that Meyer
tried to convey to his dejected
squad in a small clubhouse in
“Burtran is twice as good as hewaslal
and he still plat ed fourth,” Lowy said
shows you how fast the quality of |i
changes.”
Lowy, who has won various tournameins
self, said it was the women on the team
pulled them through.
“We would have the best women’s team
country if we had a separate women's tern
said.
Lowy said the men and womenarecoi
to one team for the ‘teammate comradery
Julie Werner placed second inthewoi
vision A, Renee' deLassus placed third
women’s division A, and Kay Kern placed!
division A.
“My girls are all champions,” Lowy said
He said the best part of the tournamei
the bond created among the team memberrBHARTFOR
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Lowy said. “The players who lost in tliMiesday, win
rounds went bezerk cheering in the standMimary by a
value of the whole thing was to go up tlJondale and
do the best we can. Some got beat, but Ming into nex
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The record will show Meyer with 724 victories
— but not the NCAA title he so wanted in his fi
nal year. The record also will show that this
year’s DePaul team, 27-3, went farther than
most pre-season expects had figured.
The record will show Meyer
with 724 victories — but not the
NCAA title he so wanted in his
final year. The record also will
show that this year’s DePaul
team, 27-3, went farther than
most pre-season expects had
the St. Louis Arena Saturday.
“The coach” downplayed any
sympathy that fans and media
alike were showing for the 70-
year-old Meyer.
“I don’t feel sorry for myself.
I feel sorry for the players,”
Meyer said “I told themS
out and hang their head'B tes c° unl
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shake off the feeline JGnnectici
let down a man who nasi® 1 ie ,' 01
entered the Hall of FaraB ex P et [ 0< .
who built DePaul intoaap )ai! ’ net ieavi
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in, I fell very low,”said
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the coach.” * Mew England
Joey Meyer, who stamB„P nniarv
first day as head coach ,ut swe Pj
day, could only wipe hi®’ SC0UI1 S
look around the nonj
arena and reflect.
“There were so marifl
down the stretch wecouij
won the game,” Meyers
wasn’t to be.”
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Astros, Rangers both score wins
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Astros 5, Tigers 4
Ray Knight singled home
Jose Cruz from third base with
one out in the twelfth inning to
give the Houston Astros a 5-4
exhibition baseball victory over
the Detroit Tigers Monday.
Cruz led off the inning with a
single, reached second base on a
balk and moved to third base on
Alan Ashby’s infield grounder.
Denny Walling singled home
the tying run for Houston in
the bottom of the eighth inning.
The Astros took a 3-0 first in
ning lead off Detroit starting
pitcher Jack Morris, scoring on
Phil Garner’s two run double as
Jerry Mumphrey’s RBI single.
But Detroit gained a tie
against Houston pitcher Nolan
Ryan when Lou Whitaker sin
gled in a third inning run and
Tom Brookens doubled in two
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runs in the fourth.
The Astros are 14-8 in exhi
bition games. Detroit is 8-14.
Rangers 3,Orioles 0
Four Ranger pitchers com
bined on a six-hit shutout and
an error by Todd Cruz led to
three unearned runs in the sev
enth Monday to give Texas a 3-
0 victory over the Baltimore
Orioles.
With two out in the seventh,
Tim Anderson singled and went
to second on an error by Orioles
rightfielder Dan Ford. George
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ST. LOUIS — Third-team All-
America forward Michael
Young of Houston was 20 min
utes away from disaster — a si
lent end to his college basketball
career.
Unlike fellow forward Clyde
Drexler, Young chose to return
to Houston for his senior season
and one last shot at the national
title. He averaged 20.3 points to
help the Cougars win the
Southwest ConferC
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78-71 semifinal victor;
Memphis State Friday
and held a precarious
halftime lead Sunday i
Midwest title game
Wake Forest despite a mettl
points from Young.
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who came out in the
half, scoring 13 of his fipB
to propel the Cougars to*
63 victory over Wake F
and a berth in the NCAAf
Four for the third straight'*
“It would have been
tough to end my careet
that, knowing I didn’t
much to help out,” said Vo
the fourth all-time k* 1
scorer in Southwest Confei
history.
“In order for us to geto.
here (regional), I knew 1 li
do something out thereof
floor. I didn’t do verymui!
the first half — I was just
of standing around.”