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omen’s Final Four is hot ticket
AUSTIN (AP) — Texas Coach
Conradt says the sixth annual
omen’s NCAA basketball
hampionship isn’t a sure thing for
he Lady Longhorns even if they are
he defending national champions
laying on their home court
“This isn’t the same team that won
he national title last year,” Conradt
aid Wednesday at a press confer-
nce with the Final Four head
caches. “I lost six seniors off the
|team a year ago.
“Rignt now this team is being led
[jy two freshmen. This team has
played to the best of its ability, I will
lay that but we are no way as close to
sing as mature as the team we had
|ast year. ”
The top-seeded Lady Longhorns
lire 31-1 with their only loss coming
Jec. 14 in Austin to Tenneseee 85-
78. Texas avenged the defeat 88-74
|wo weeks later. Since then, they
We won their last 25 games.
Texas meets the Louisiana Tech
ady Techsters (29-2) at 9 p.m. Fri-
iay while the Tennessee Lady Vol-
inteers, who are 26-6, play the Long
leach State Lady 49ers (33-2) at 6
p.m.
i The winners collide at noon on
Sunday for the national title in the
Special Events Center. ESPN is tele
vising all of the games nationally.
Only a few tickets remain with re
cord sellout crowds of almost 16,000
fans assured for each session.
“I was shocked when I heard it’s
almost a sellout,” Louisiana Tech
Athletic Director Paul Miller said.
“We may make some money this
year. The women’s Final Four teams
only got about $5,000 each last year.
I think this is great for the Women’s
Final Four. It could be a big stepping
stone for the future.”
“We’re excited about the ticket
sales,” Conradt said. “Ten years ago
this was something you could only
dream about. It’s a very tough ticket
now.”
The tournament began in 1982
when Louisiana Tech won the title at
Ruston, La.
“I’d like to have the same luck
Louisiana Tech had when it hosted
the Final Four on its home court,”
Conradt said. “Remember, we had it
here two years ago, but we weren’t in
it. That was a big disappointment.”
The Tennessee-Long Beach State
game will feature the rookie versus
the veteran.
Long Beach State Coach Joan
Bonvicini is the only first-time coach
in the Final Four. Tennessee Head
Coach Pat Summit is in the Final
Four for a record fourth time.
Louisiana Tech Coach Leon Bar-
more has extensive Final Four expe
rience. He was twice co-head coach
with Sonja Hogg and an assistant on
another occasion.
“It’s going to be tough to try to
handle Texas at home,” Barmore
said. “But I still believe every team
here has the chance to win the na
tional title.”
Summit, the coach of the United
States’ 1984 gold medal Olympic
team, said “defense has been the key
to our team. We benched three start
ers and the team has responded well.
Long Beach will be hard to handle.”
Bonvicini said she likes the Lady
49ers to be referred to as a “tran
sition team. Some people like to call
us run-and-gun, but all we do is just
run on makes and misses. We don’t
try to score a lot of points.”
The teams arrived late Wednes
day and began workouts at the “Su
per Drum” which is the nickname
for the Lady Longhorn’s home
court.
Zone defense won't work
against La Salle bombers
NEW YORK (AP) — La Salle,
which faces Southern Mississippi
for the title in the 50th National
Invitation Tournament tonight,
can forget about facing another
zone defense that will let the Ex
plorers again make eight 3-point
shots in the first half.
“They’ve convinced me they
can shoot,” Southern Mississippi
Coach M.K. Turk said Wednes
day. “I can assure you that we
won’t open with a zone against La
Salle.”
“They know they have to play
us man-to-man to win,” La Salle
Coach Bill “Speedy” Morris said.
“But we feel we can handle a
man-to-man and get the ball in
side. Not many teams have tried
to play a zone against us. We’ve
had games where we’ve only shot
five or six 3-pointers.”
La Salle guards Tim Teller
and Rich Tarr hit three 3-point-
ers each in the first half against
Arkansas-Little Rock in Tuesday
night’s semifinals.
The Explorers made eight of
their first 12 long-range attempts
while taking a 43-25 lead Ifi'/a
minutes into the game, then
freshman star Lionel Simmons
scored 13 of his 21 points in the
second half as La Salle went on to
a 92-73 victory. Legler had 26
points and Tarr 23.
Southern Miss defeated Ne
braska 82-75 in the other semifi
nal. Randolph Keys had 24 points
and John White 19, and they
scored all of the Golden Eagles’
points during a 15-2 second-half
spurt that turned a 60-58 deficit
into a 73-62 lead.
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BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) — Jim
Pankovits picked up two hits, includ
ing a home run, drove in two runs
nd scored two runs as the Houston
stros defeated the Pittsburgh Pi
rates 8-4 in exhibition baseball
ednesday.
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[ton’s McKechnie Field, where the
ind was blowing strongly toward
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earns five homers for the day.
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the first inning on RBI singles by
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Pankovits scored in the fourth on
a single by Glenn Carpenter, who
advanced to second on an error by
Pirates’ right fielder Tommy Dun
bar. Carpenter then scored on an
other Pirates error, this one by
shortstop Onix Concepcion.
Pankovits hit a solo homer in the
fifth inning and the Astros scored
two more runs in the ninth.
All of the Pirates’ scoring came on
solo home runs off starter and win
ner Nolan Ryan. Tony Pena hit his
in the first inning, RJ. Reynolds fol
lowed in the second, and Jim Morri
son and pitcher Bob Paterson con
nected in the fourth.
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| Texas lineup Wednesday night afer
an eight-game absence and hit a two-
■ run homer and a two-run double in
his first two at-bats of the Rangers
II* 14-1 victory over Baltimore.
Oddibe McDowell and Larry Par-
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Orioles 14-1
Darrell Porter hit his second, a
two-run shot off lefty Brad Havens
in the eighth. The Rangers also
came up with five more runs on
three hits, two walks and three
Orioles errors in the seventh.
Bobby Witt, making his second
exhibition start of the year, struck
out six in four innings and allowed
an unearned run when he walked
Ken Gerhart with the bases loaded
in the second after third baseman
Parrish dropped a foul pop up.
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Norman looks
ahead to IRC
golf tourney
PONTE VEDRA, Fla. (AP) —
Since Jan. 1, Greg Norman has won
the Australia Masters and played in
four PGA Tour events in the United
States.
Norman, however, said the $1
million Tournament Players
Championship “is the real start of
my American schedule.
“The rest of it was just a lot of
running around,” the current Brit
ish Open champion said Wednesday
before a practice session for the
touring players own championship.
“I had a nice little break last week.
Now I’m ready to get back to it. I’ll
play as much as I can between now
and September, get my concentra
tion back in focus, get my game back
in tournament shape.”
Norman, who led both the Ameri
can and Australia tours in money-
winnings and took 10 international
titles last season, has a third and a
fifth place finish as his best perfor
mances in the United States this
year.
“The first time I played St. An
drews, I didn’t like it,” Norman said.
The more I played it, the better I
liked it. This course is the same.”
Norman, who acquired more than
$1.2 million in world-wide earnings
last year, is part of a 144-man field
that ranks as the strongest of the sea
son.
The only figure of any conse
quence who is missing is Mac
O’Grady, winner of the Tournament
of Champions earlier this season.
Among the major challengers for
the $180,000 first prize are U.S.
Open winner Ray Floyd, PGA ti-
tleholder Bob Tway, defending
champion John Mahaffey and Jack
Nicklaus, who made a last-minute
decision to add this event to his re
duced playing schedule.
Other leading players include
Payne Stewart, Ben Crenshaw,
Fuzzy Zoeller, Tom Kite, Lanny
Wadkins, Lee Trevino, Ben
Crenshaw and Corey Pavin, already
the winner of two 1987 titles.
Seve Ballesteros of Spain, who re
ceived a special invitation as the
leading player on the European
tour, heads a foreign field that also
includes Bernhard Langer of West
Germany, Sandy Lyle of Scotland
and Tommy Nakajima of Japan.
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