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Page 10/The Battalion/Monday, March 25, 1985 nun . . Guns firing big blanks on offense San Antonio to change QBs for Denver game Associated Press DENVER — Theirs is not the worst offense in the United States Football League — thanks to the presence of lowly Orlando — but don’t ask San Antonio Gunslingers Coach J ini Bates to heap praises on any phase of his anemic attack. “Our offense has sputtered and we haven’t gotten anything going of fensively in any of our four games,” said Bates as his team wound up pre parations for Monday night’s United States Football League game against the Denver Gold at Mile High Sta dium. “It’s not a question of running problems one game and passing problems another,” Bates said, “it’s been a total breakdown every game. “Maybe we’ve tried to do some things offensively that don’t fit our personnel. I don’t know. We’ve just got to get more productive.” Offensive coordinator Tom Rossley was fired last week, leaving Bates and the remaining offensive assistant coaches to handle this week’s game plan. Indications are the Gunslingers will go with a more simplified attack aimed at improving execution. Vi I la nova knocks off No. 7 North Carolina Associated Press Bates has promised at least one lineup change. Wildcats 56, Tar Heels 44 San Antonio will have its third starting quarterback in as many games, as second-year pro Whit Tay lor gets the call against Denver. Tay lor, a former Vanderbilt star, re placed Fred Mortensen, who had just taken the job from Rick Neuhei- sel. Mortensen, a former Gold quar terback, completed only seven of 23 passes for 73 yards, with one touch down and one interception, in last week’s 38-7 loss to the Los Angeles Express, dropping San Antonio’s re cord to 1-3. The Gunslingers didn’t cross midfield until late in the final quarter. San Antonio is averaging 200 yards per game on offense, ranking 13th in the 14-team league. They have fewer first downs than any other USFL team (47), and are tied with Orlando for fewest points scored (44). But the Denver defense might be a unit San Antonio could get well against. The Gold has surrendered 361 yards per game, most of its through the air, to rank 13th in the USFL. Denver, 2-2, bowed to Houston 36-17 last week. Coach Mouse Davis’ run-and-shoot offense has shown signs of exploding, but five intercep tions and six sacks stymied the attack against Houston. Quarterback Vince Evans is completing only 44 percent of his passes, with four touchdowns and a league-high 10 interceptions for the year. Gold officials were hoping for a crowd well in excess of the home- opener gate of 1 7,890 — the team’s lowest attendance in its three years of existence. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Harold Pressley, Dwayne McClain and Har old Jensen put Villanova in control with six points each early in the sec ond half and the Wildcats upset sev enth-ranked North Carolina 56-44 Sunday to advance to the NCAA Fi nal Four. The Wildcats redeemed them selves in the second half after shoot ing only 23 percent in the first. By winning the Southeast Re gional championship, Villanova, 23- 10, became die second Big East Con ference team to reach the national semifinals. The Wildcats will face No. 5 Memphis State, 30-3, at Lex ington, Ky., Saturday. Memphis State won the Midwest Regional Sat urday 63-61 over Oklahoma. Villanova, which last appeared in the Final Four in 1971, was led by Pressley with 15 points, McClain and Gary McLain with 11 each and Jen sen with 10. Brad Daugherty had 17 points for North Carolina. North Carolina, 27-9, led 22-17 at the half. Villanova trailed 26-21 after Daugherty hit a layup two minutes into the second half before Ed Pinckney started a 10-0 spurt by hit ting a layup. McCain had the last two baskets to give the Wildcats a 31-26 lead with 14:29 to go. After North Carolina cut the lead to one on two baskets by Daugherty, Jensen hit three baskets in the 15-18 foot range and Pressley added two buckets, including a slam dunk off a steal that provided a 43-33 lead with 8:13 to play. North Carolina was never able to get closer than seven points the rest of the way. It was only Villanova’s second vic tory over North Carolina in six meetings, including a loss to the Tar lost to Kansas in the championship game. The Redmen’s victory capped a successful day for the Big East Con ference, which will send a record three teams to the national semifi nals Saturday at Lexington, Ky. Vil lanova joined St.John’s and George town by upsetting North Carolina 56-44 in the Southeast Regional championship game and will meet Metro Conference champion Mem phis State in the other semifinal. St. John’s, which hit 25 of 31 free throws to 18 of 23 for N.C. State, didn’t pull awav from North Caro lina State until tne final two minutes. Heels in the 1982 East Regional fi nals. Villanova also lost to Houston in a regional championship game in 1983 and fell to Duke in a 1978 re gional championship contest. It was the second time in three years that North Carolina lost in the regional championship game, fol lowing an upset by Georgia in the East finals two years ago. The Tar Heels lost to Indiana in the regional semifinals last year. Muilin’s rebound basket and two subsequent free throws staked the Redmen to a 47-42 advantage mid way through the second half. To that point, the Redmen had con verted till 13 of their free-throw at tempts. With 6:18 left, the 6-foot-6 Mullin in a mismatch against State’s 5-7 guard Anthony “Spud” Webb went inside for a three-point play. A min ute later he popped a 15-foot jumper over Webb to give St. John’s a commanding 56-48 lead. Villanova, which finished third in the Big East, had entered the NCAA as the eighth seed and knocked off top-seeded and second-ranked Michigan in the second round and fifth-seeded Maryland Friday night. The Wolfpack got no closer than four points after that, even though St. John’s free J throw shooting was shaky down the stretch, missing five of the last 14, most in the final two minutes. Redmen 69, Wolfpack 60 DENVER -— Swingman Chris Mullin scored 25 points and forward Walter Berry added 19 as third- ranked St. John’s defeated North Carolina State 69-60 Sunday in the NCAA West Regional final, sending the Redmen to a Final Four rematch with No. 1 Georgetown. St. John’s, 31-3 and the top seed in the West, will be in the Final Four for the first time since 1952, when it State’s Lorenzo Charles, who started slowly and didn’t score his first points until late in the first half, led a Wolfpack rally early in the sec ond half as his team drew within 43- 42 with 11:21 to play. But a collaps ing St. John’s defense inside held Charles to only two points the re mainder Of the game and he fin ished with a team-high 15. Webb had 14 for the Wolfpack, 23-10. Center Bill Wennington added 14 for St.John’s. Kirk’s Tigers end 2 years San Antonio of Final Four frustration ^ Seattle Associated Press DALLAS - The Memphis State Tigers have finally made it back to the NCAA Final Four after two years of failure and second-gues sing. “Now, I want to wear the roses around my neck,” said Memphis Coach Dana Kirk. Kirk, in a buoyant spirit after the Tigers had knocked off Oklahoma and All-American Wayman Tisdale 63-61 in the final of the Midwest Re gional, was alluding to the fact that the Final Four beginning Saturday will be held in horse race country, Lexington, Ky. And he wants to win it all. The opponent for the Tigers will be Villanova, who bumped off North Carolina in the Southeast Re gional. Memphis State was defeated by Houston iti the NCAA playoffs the last two years and Kirk was starting to tire of answering his critics. “We’re going to Lexington and we know it’s going to be tough, baby,” Kirk said. But he quickly added “I think we’ve got a good basketball team and however far we go we deserve it.” Andre Turner was the hero again for the Tigers. Turner, who beat Boston College "We missed out on the Final Four and wanted^ m do whatever k took ip get there. We had to win three dose games m ^'mw hut that’s what the NCAA k aM about. with a last-second shot on Thursday, scored four points in the final 33 sec onds and All-American Keith Lee had 23 points as the No. 5 Tigers eliminated the No. 4 ranked Okla homa Sooners. Turner said “We missed out on the Final Four and wanted to do whatever it took to get there. We had to win three close games in a row but that’s what the NCAA is all about, pressure games.” Kirk agreed. “We did what we had to do at the end of the game. We handled the pressure,” he said. “I thought we did an excellent job of shot selection and we played great defense against Ok lahoma.” It will be the Tigers’ first appear ance in the Final Four since 1973 when they lost in the title game to UCLA. Oklahoma went into the game as the highest scoring team in the na tion with a 90 points per game aver age but the Sooners were held to their lowest point total of the year. Oklahoma All-America Wayman Tisdale, who was held to only 11 points, said “We’ll just have to come back next year and be better. We’re not going to get our heads down.” Tisdale, a junior, said he would make a decision later whether to make himself available for the Na tional Basketball Association draft in June. “I have no comment right now,” he said. Turner made a layup against the Sooner press then hit two free throws with 23 seconds to go. Oklahoma had one last chance af ter Turner missed a free throw with eight seconds to play. Anthony Bo wie’s 24-footer at the buzzer hit the back of the iron ane bounced away, bringing groans from the sellout crowd of 17,007 fans in Reunion Arena. SAN ANTONIO — Guard George Gervin scored eight of his 15 points in the fourth quarter, leading the San Antonio Spurs to a 104-99 National Basketball Association vic tory over the Seattle SuperSonics Sunday. Gervin, nicknamed “The Ice man,” played sparingly in the first half and not at all in the third quar ter to lead a well-balanced Spurs scoring attack. Forward Marc lava- roni added 14 points and centers Ar tis Gilmore and Ozell Jones had 16 and 13 respectively. In all, six Spurs scored in double figures. Sonics center Tim McCormick and forward Tom Chambers keyed a fourth-quarter Seattle rally. The comeback attempt fell short despite six points each from the two players. McCormick led Seattle with 29 points and seven rebounds. Cham bers scored 26. San Antonio, which trailed during much of the first period, took a 12- point lead midway through the sec ond quarter, primarily on the play of Jones. Jones, who filled in for Gil more early in the second period, scored 10 points, grabbed seven re bounds and blocked three shots in eight minutes of play. 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