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Arizona remained the No. 1 col
lege basketball team in the the Asso-
[ dated Press rankings Monday, and
the Wildcats missed being a unani-
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Arizona, 18-1, received 59 first-
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ers and broadcasters and were voted
jsecond on the other four ballots.
This is the third straight No. 1 rank
ling for Arizona, which beat South-
lern California and UCLA last week,
land the fifth week overall in the top
(spot.
Purdue, 17-1 and winner of 16
[consecutive games, jumped from
[fifth to second with three first-place
[votes and 1,1 74 points.
The Boilermakers beat Michigan
[State and Louisville last week to ex
tend the nation’s longest winning
streak.
The Boilermakers had been the
No. 2 team in the preseason poll.
Three teams fell from the Top 20
and they were replaced by No. 14
Florida, which was absent from the
poll for two weeks after being as
high as seventh, and newcomers No.
19 Villanova and No. 20 Southern
Mississippi, which was ranked for
the first time since becoming a Divi
sion I school in 1965.
North Carolina, 14-2, fell one spot
to third with 1,018 points after los
ing only its second game in the Dean
Smith Center, 70-69 to then-No. 9
Duke before beating then-No. 20
North Carolina State.
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proved from eighth to fourth after
handing Temple its first loss of the
season. The Runnin’ Rebels also had
conference victories over Utah State
and San Jose State.
Duke was fifth with 936 points, 46
more than Temple, which was just
12 points ahead of Brigham Young,
the only undefeated major team, 17
in front of Michigan and 30 over
Kentucky.
Michigan, 16-2, fell one spot to
eighth after losing to Ohio State be
fore beating Wisconsin and Indiana.
Kentucky, 13-2, fell from fourth af
ter losing its second home game of
the season, 58-56 to Florida.
Oklahoma, which received 773
points, rounded out the Top 10 af
ter beating Colorado and then-No. 6
Pittsburgh, which dropped to 1 1th.
Duke, 12-2, also beat Wake Forest
in addition to beating North Caro
lina, while Temple fell for the first
time in 15 games and dropped from
third to sixth.
Following Pittsburgh in the Sec
ond 10 was Iowa State, Illinois, Flor
ida, Georgetown, Iowa, Syracuse,
Texas-El Paso, Villanova and South
ern Mississippi.
Brigham Young, 14-0, improved
from 12th to seventh with two im
pressive road victories over No. 18
Texas-El Paso and New Mexico, the
only team to beat Arizona.
Last week’s Second 10 was Okla
homa, Brigham Young, Illinois, Syr
acuse, Georgetown, Kansas, Wyom
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I Jay Haas reached one goal. Now, he
has some other, more significant,
targets in mind.
“1 always wanted to win a tourna
ment when it was being televised by
NBC,” Haas said.
That, he explained, is because his
uncle and teacher, former Masters
champion Bob Goalby, is a fairway
reporter for the network.
Goalby unobtrusively walked the
final few holes with Haas Sunday
when he held on for a two-shot vic
tory in the Bob Hope Desert Classic.
“He’s been my teacher. He gave
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second father to me. Everything I
am in golf, I owe to Bob.
“That’s been a goal for me, to win
with him on television. That’s one
goal I’ve achieved,” Haas said.
Haas’ seventh lifetime victory also
put him in position to reach some
other goals in a 12-year career that
has not been quite as successful as he
could have wished.
The former national collegiate
champion from Wake Forest won
five times in his first six seasons on
the pro tour.
Then he went into a mild decline.
He went through five seasons with
out a victory, breaking that string in
Houston last year. Still, he finished
only 37th in the money-winnings.
“I’m tired of being 30th or 40th or
50th on the money-winning list,”
Haas said. “I feel I’m a better player
than that. I think I have the ability to
be better than that.
“Maybe it’s about time I took an
other step up,” he said.
Haas hasn’t won more than twice
in a single season as a pro and has
not finished higher than 13th (in
1982) on the money-winning list.
Two weeks deep into the 1988
season, however, he’s at the top of
the list — for the first time — at
$186,100.
He expects to add to it in the
Phoenix Open this week and, bar
ring injury or illness, should be in
line for his best money year.
One more goal he mentioned: the
Masters.
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HOUSTON — Former Texas
A&M and Mississippi State foot
ball coach Emory Bellard was
named head coach at Westfield
High School.
Bellard, who replaces Ron
Anders, returns to coaching after
leaving Mississippi State two years
ago. In six and hall seasons at
Texas A&M, Bellard guided the
Aggies to a 48-27 record, includ
ing 10-2 campaigns in both 1975
and 1976.
A former president of the
Texas High School Coaches Asso
ciation, Bellard spent 15 years
coaching in Texas high schools
and compiled a 139-35-4 record
at Ingleside, Breckenridge and
San Angelo Central.
His 1958 Breckenridge team
won the state title by beating
Kingsville 42-14 in the finals and
then shared the 1959 crown after
a 20-20 tie with Cleburne.
Bellard’s 1975 A&M team tied
for the conference championship
with Baylor and Arkansas and
lost to USC in the Liberty Bowl.
His 1976-77 team defeated Flor
ida in the Sun Bowl, and his 1977
team lost again to USC, this time
in the Bluebonnet Bowl.
Bellard resigned mid-way
through the 1978 season after
back-to-back losses to Houston
and Baylor.
He has been living in King-
wood since leaving Mississippi
State.
Bellard will assume his duties
at Westfield on Feb. 1. The
Spring Independent School Dis
trict school is in Class 5A and had
a 2-8 record last season.
Reserve leads Lady Horns
past Horned Frogs 102-62
AUSTIN (AP) — Reserve center
Michelle Eglinger led seven Texas
players in double figures as the fifth-
ranked Lady Longhorns blasted
Texas Christian 102-62 in Southwest
Conference action Monday.
Eglinger, a 6-4 senior, had 17
points and pulled down nine re
bounds as the Lady Longhorns won
their seventh game in a row and
88th straight in the SWC. Texas
built up a 52-20 halftime lead de
spite getting off to a slow start.
Yulonda Wimbish, the Lady
Longhorns’ leading scorer on the
season, followed Eglinger with 13
points after playing only 13 minutes
in the first half.
Senior guard Terri Janak hit 5-of-
7 from 3-point range to lead the
Horned Frogs with 19 points, a new
career high.
Texas improves to 16-2 on the
year and 5-0 in conference play,
while the Horned Frogs drop to 9-7
and 2-4 and lost four of their last
Five games.
The Lady Longhorns, who have
never lost to TCL/ in 12 games, led
by as much as 42 in the second half.
Texas will face Texas A&M Satur
day at 7:30 p.m. at G. Rollie White
Coliseum.
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MARSHALL (AP) — After a
seemingly endless list of accomplish
ments, national champion barrel
racer Martha Josey of Marshall now
has the “icing on the cake.” She has
been chosen to compete in a rodeo at
the Winter Olympics.
Josey, who has set several national
records in barrel racing, will be one
of three U.S. riders competing
against Canada in the Rodeo ’88
Challenge Cup, which is part of the
Olympic Arts Festival during the
games in Calgary, Canada.
The event is set for Feb. 22-27.
“This is the icing on the cake for
me,” Josey said Tuesday. “I have
loved the Olympic Games over the
years, but I never, never, never
thought I would actually be a part of
it.
“It’s one of the highlights of my
career,” she added.
The U.S. and Canadian riders will
be judged on speed and accuracy
from seven rides through the barrel
race course.
The event is not a sanctioned
Olympic sport, but has been in
cluded as part of the games’ festivi
ties.
The winners’ honors will not
count in the country’s medal stand
ings.
Josey was chosen for the Olympics
after finishing 1 1th in the National
Finals Rodeo barrel racing competi
tion in December in Las Vegas.
After competing against the na
tion’s best racers in Nevada, Josey is
optimistic, and even more patriotic,
as the Olympic date draws near.
“This is something that’s going to
be so rewarding because at the
Olympics, you are not just trying for
yourself, you are trying for your
country,” she said.
Josey, who has competed in eight
NFR championships, became the
only woman to compete in NFR
competition on four different
horses.
In 1968-69, she competed on
Cebe Reed, and in 1978, ’79, ’80 and
’81 on Bit O’ Broth.
In 1985 she mounted Fred, and in
December on seven-year-old J.C.
Miss Cop Beretta helped her win
the 1977 Louisiana Maturity
Championship.
In 1979, Josey captured the
World’s Champion Barrel Racing
Futurity on Bit O’ Broth.
Probably her greatest accomplish
ment on the rodeo circuit came
when she won the 1980 Women’s
Professional Rodeo Association’s
World Championship.
time to operate their thriving busi
ness at Josey Ranch, eight miles east
of Marshall on the Karnack High
way.
During the Texas Rodeo Finals in
Fort Worth on Dec. 28, Josey cap
tured another championship, after
winning the last go-around (15.53)
at Fort Worth’s Cowtown Coliseum.
She will be riding J.C., short for
Jesus Christ, in the Olympics.
Not only did she win the 1980 ti
tle, but she set another record that
year by capturing the American
Quarter Horse World
Championship on Bit O’ Broth.
Josey will be competing on the
Olympic team with Charmayne
James of Clayton, N.M., and Malene
Eddleman of Ordway, Colo. Cathy
Felts of Yoakum is the Olympic al
ternate.
In addition to teaching rodeo
techniques and holding several clin
ics at the ranch, the two are now
known worldwide for their most
popular youth event, the annual Jo
sey World Champion Junior Barrel
Race, which is held on their 220-acre
ranch in May.
The junior barrel-racing event,
which is the largest and most profita
ble of its kind, gave away more than
$100,000 to some 290 contestants
last year.
Josey’s invitation to the Olympics
didn’t come overnight. It probably
began when she was blazing the ro
deo circuit trails in the 1960s and
’70s.
On the First horse that that she
ever owned, Cebe Reed, Josey cap
tured the Texas Barrel Racing
Championship four straight years,
in addition to seven horse-trailers.
The women will be competing in
barrel racing, while the men will
compete in calf-roping, bareback
riding, saddle-bronc riding and bull-
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Josey, who also teaches barrel rac
ing, is coached by her husband, R.E.,
who has also gained fame on the ro
deo circuit.
Josey, who also has her own cloth
ing line with three other local
women, hopes to design the Olympic
team’s barrel-racing outfits.
The Josey Collection was intro
duced at the NFR event in Las Ve
gas.
In order to prepare for the
games, Josey said she’s already
started a rigorous training schedule
that is similar, she says, to a boxer
training for a championship bout.
She also rode Clabber’s Bar Maid
to the 1975 Texas Barrel Racing Fu
turity Championship and Miss Baby
Dude to the 1977 Oklahoma Matu
rity Championship.
“R.E. is my biggest supporter.
He’s been great in helping me pre
pare for this and hauling me to all of
those rodeos. I know without him, I
couldn’t have done it,” she said.
“I want to be in training like
Rocky in the movie,” she said, “and I
know how hard it is when George
Foreman is training for his fight.
That’s how it has been.
The two not only travel to several
rodeos annually, but they also find
“I’m getting myself in tip-top
shape mentally and physically.”
Coach gets probation
for grade-tampering
AUSTIN (AP) — The Univer
sity Interscholastic League voted
Monday to put on probation for
two years a high school football
coach who allegedly pressured a
teacher to change a student’s
grade.
The state executive commiittee
also publicly reprimanded Waco
High School Coach Johnny Tusa
on a 7-1 vote.
UIL Director Bailey Marshall
said earlier he could not recall a
similar case coming before the ex
ecutive committee.
In November, sociology tea
cher Sue Collins said Tusa pres
sured her into giving a passing
grade to football player Trell
Payne, allowing him to retain his
athletic eligibility.
Her admission led to the team
forfeiting six games and being
disqualified from the playoffs.
Aggie baseball team
to face Astros this year
The Texas A&M baseball sched
ule will be highlighted by an exhibi
tion game against the Houston As
tros April 18 at Olsen Field.
It will be the second time the Ag
gies have played the Astros. In 1978,
A&M defeated Houston 1-0.
A&M’s schedule isn’t as difficult
as last year’s, when the Aggies faced
12 teams that advanced to post-sea
son play.
The Aggies will face nine such
teams this year, including Lamar,
New Orleans, Sam Houston State
and Houston, all at home. Road
games against perennial playoff
teams includes battles with Louisiana
Tech, Arkansas and Texas.
A&M may also face two other na
tional contenders in Clemson and
Washington State when it travels to
Fresno, Calif., to participate in the
Best of the West Classic March 14-
19.
Last year, A&M Coach Mark
Johnson was named Southwest Con
ference Coach of the Year and came
within one game of advancing to the
College World Series in Omaha,
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