Thursday, March 24, 1988/The Battalion/Page 13 J
raditional big guns face
Upstarts in East Regional
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nditfMAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP)
Rice, H)uke is the odd team out in the
Villian jpAA East Regional, at least when
1 do»[Bmes to recognizable conference
k sin;,ffiliations.
he Blue Devils, the Atlantic
tnjojt st Conference tournament
pions, might be the one team in
egional whose conference is fa-
rto basketball fans.
|ut for the Atlantic 10, home of
[ranked Temple and Rhode Is-
,and the Colonial Athletic Asso-
on, in which Richmond plays,
ignition has been a perennial
>le2‘t)roblem.
k sin# “The size of the school, the size of
Os,B;hewhat conference you play
vAetibif those things are irrelevant at this
t,” Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski
at one of four news conferences
nesday.
hat has no bearing on the
e. We just want to concentrate
bur players and have them play
red j heir game.”
Fifth-ranked Duke, 26-6, will
t Rhode Island, 28-6, Thursday
n r ,Hit in the opening game of the
loUbieheader at the Brendan Byrne
P na ’ while No. 1 ranked Temple,
will face Richmond, 26-6, in
i ihf jtepecond game.
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The East Region championship
game will be played Saturday af
ternoon, with the winner heading
for the Final Four in Kansas City.
For the Blue Devils to play their
game, they must come up with a way
to cope with Rhode Island’s out
standing senior guard duo of Tom
Garrick and Carlton Owens, who
both average more than 20 points
per game, and blossoming sopho
more forward Kenny Green.
The Rams come into the game on
an emotional high after victories
over Missouri and Syracuse, which
was seeded third in the East. Duke is
the second seed behind Temple.
Rhode Island is the No. 11 seed,
while Richmond is No. 13.
“The pressure is on Duke,” Rhode
Island coach Tom Penders said. “If
they lose to us, it’s tough. I’m sure
(Syracuse Coach) Jim Boeheim has
to wear a mask up in Syracuse be
cause he certainly wasn’t supposed
to lose to Rhode Island of the Atlan
tic 10.
“We’re loose. We feel we have ev
erything to gain and nothing to
lose.”
One of the keys for Duke will be
the play of 6-foot-6 forward Billy
King, who will be assigned to try to
stop either Garrick or Owens.
“He’s a great defensive player,”
said Owens, who runs the Rams’
run-and-gun offense. “It doesn’t
concern me who he plays. We’re still
going to play our game.”
Krzyzewski is hoping Duke does
the same thing against Rhode Is
land, meaning the Blue Devils play
good defense and play as a unit.
“We can’t let Owens or Garrick
have career games, or let Green take
off,” he said. “We have to try not to
do anything different. We have to
play out style.”
Temple coach John Chaney said
Richmond can cause some problems
for his Owls because the two teams
are similiar in that they both play
good defense and concentrate on a
half-court game.
“This is the exciting portion of the
year,” Chaney said. “I think people
who characterize teams in the final
64 as underdogs are people who
have closed their heads and eyes on
what has taken place. Anything can
happen.”
Richmond is a perfect example of
that. The Spiders knocked off In
diana and Georgia Tech last week to
make it to the round of 16.
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Pat Bradley
to defend
• tourney title
gontWIOENIX, Ariz. (AP) — Pat
ru Bindley returns to defend her ti-
i the tie in the $350,000 LPGA Turqu
oise Classic that begins Thursday
Cl on the Moon Valley layout where
AL she set a course record last year,
to ■That was the first time this
Jtinj-Brnameit was played on this
;rs ip,404-yard, par-73 course, and
prrepraclley fired the record-setting
ote Hrd-round 67 en route to a two-
Kroke victory over Chris John-
2) ; son.
teamBBut this year’s crowd favorite is
hing JP^ly to be Mary Bea Porter of
an, [nearby Scottsdale,
nd tBhe was given an unprece
dented exemption into the field
e ( )n recognition of having saved the
1 ho:® of a drowning youngster last
i Do;Wednesday while trying
vet nsfully to qualify for thi
unsuc-
is tour-
ext-tw
sfully
tent.
radley has not been playing
this season. She is not among
top 50 in earnings, for in-
nce, and she didn’t do well in
esday’s sudden-death shootout
t pared the field with each
lie.
[Bradley missed the green on
second hole, the par-3 11th,
wind up with a bogey and a
it si quick trip back to the clubhouse,
dtflPatty Sheehan, who says she
jen eiljoys the shoutouts because they
neeikive spectators a chance to see the
players relax and joke, went on to
Bn over Beth Daniel three holes
R Jater.
Jed ffiSheehan had finished second
in the Tucson Open shootout a
_ aitBek earlier, and previous shoot-
; ni OUts wins at Denver and Cincin-
ygi pati.
mP®“But I didn’t win any of those
tournaments,” she said.
■She already has taken one first,
Bo third-places, including the
thotiMMcson Open, and a seventh
lair place finish to head the earnings
ag, list with $69,933.
iat ®“This is one of my better
tht Starts,” said Sheehan, a two-time
gierall LPGA champion in her
e i (l ninth season.
y|‘ Sheehan and Daniel, third in
•18)®rnings, are joined by such other
yl money leaders as No. 2. Ayako
Okamoto, JoAnne Garner, Betsy
0 King, British rookie Laura Davies
in( ) and Jan Stephenson. The field
I will be cut to low 70 scorers after
holes.
Organizers take steps
to improve tennis finals
DALLAS (AP) — Organizers are
making some big changes in the
$680,000 World Championship
Tennis Finals in a bid to bolster the
tournament’s attendance and pres
tige.
Not that the Dallas tournament is
suffering — it could gross $3 million
this year. It’s just that officials
thought changes were needed to en
sure the event’s success because of a
slumping Dallas economy and com
petition from other spectator sports.
Among the changes for this year’s
tournament, which runs Tuesday
through April 2 at Reunion Arena,
are live network television coverage
for Saturday’s final, the addition of
Nabisco Grand Prix bonus points
and increased marketing and adver
tising to attract fans.
Perhaps the most significant
change will be new dates for next
year’s event — Feb. 28-March 4 —
that will make it the season’s final in
door tournament. The new dates
won’t conflict with the Virginia Slims
of Dallas, tentatively scheduled for
November.
Owen Williams, WCT Finals chief
executive officer, fought to change
the dates because they were not pop
ular with players who had already
begun playing outdoor tourna
ments.
Many who qualified for Dallas
have been competing in outdoor
tournaments since Feb. 29. The two-
week Lipton International Players
Championship in Key Biscayne, Fla.
— an outdoor tournament — ends
two days before Dallas begins.
“1 had to bang heads from Tim
buktu to Tokyo to get it through,”
Williams said. “I felt the tournament
needed it because you want the play
ers to come happy. They said it’s
crazy playing a two-week outdoor
tournament then coming into Dallas.
The 1989 date will kill that conflict.”
What worried Williams more was
the potential for injuries to players
competing in the LIPC. Top-ranked
Ivan Lendl had already withdrawn
from the WCT Finals because of a
stress fracture, and the loss of other
players could have hurt attendance.
But Pat Cash (sore heel), Stefan
Edberg (bronchitis) and Boris
Becker skipped Lipton, ensuring
that the WCT will have seven Top
10 players and four of the top five.
As extra incentive, the WCT’s
$200,000 first prize will be supple
mented by 700 bonus points, which
are part of a yearlong competition
that awards the bonus pool winner
$800,000.
The change from a Sunday to Sat
urday final this year will give the
WCT Finals live coverage on CBS,
which should boost its ratings. Al
though the WCT sacrificed a Sun
day TV appearance and extra reve
nue, Williams said the noon
Saturday final will be more popular
with players and fans.
The WCT has a vested interest in
its fans.
About 50 percent of its income is
generated from ticket sales and
about 40 percent from sponsors.
It is the “fifth or sixth largest
grossing tournament in the world,”
Williams said.
Attendance has been consistently
good, although last year’s five-ses
sion tournament attracted 62,434, its
lowest turnout since 1983 when it
drew 64,690 for eight sessions.
Astros edge Dodgers 4-3
VERO BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Bob
Knepper blanked Los Angeles for
six innings and Reid Nichols and Jim
Pankovits homered Wednesday as
the Houston Astros topped the
Dodgers 4-3 in an exhibition base
ball game.
Knepper scattered five hits,
walked one and struck out four as he
evened his spring record at 1-1.
Nichols and Pankovits blasted
two-run home runs off Don Sutton
to give the Astros all the runs they
needed.
The Dodgers scored three runs
off reliever Joe Sambito in the sev
enth inning, but left-hander Juan
Agosto pitched out of trouble, and
Rocky Childress hurled a scoreless
ninth to pick up his first save of the
spring.
Second baseman Steve Sax col
lected three hits and scored a run to
lead the Dodger attack.
Houston boosted its record to 11-
10 while the Dodgers fell to 15-7.
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