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Wednesday, June 7,1989
State association of basketball coaches
proposes system for evaluating officials
AUSTIN (AP) — The Texas As
sociation of Basketball Coaches pro
posed Tuesday that the University
Interscholastic League establish a
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ketball officials.
After a game, coaches would hold
evaluation cards for at least a 24-
hour “cooling-off’ period before
mailing them to the local chapters of
the Southwest Basketball Officials
Association, where they would be
tabulated.
Local chapters of the association
would provide the UIL with a list of
the top 10 percent of officials.
Tommy Newman of Trinity High
School, who represented basketball
coaches, told the UIL Athletic Com
mittee the system would reward bet
ter officials with “choice assign
ments” to regional and state
tournaments.
“This is not a fool-proof system by
any means,” Newman said. “The
bugs still need to be worked out.”
Newman said such a system is
needed because some better young
officials are dropping out for lack of
incentive.
UIL director Bailey Marshall said
he was concerned that such a system
would result in losing basketball
coaches giving zeros to officials at
their games, which would knock
them off the list of top officials.
“The bad grades will come from
the losing coaches, not the winning
coaches,” Marshall said.
The basketball coaches also
sought better state tournament seats
by proposing that the UIL mail
ticket forms directly to coaches, thus
bypassing school administrators.
“This is not going to pass, because
we have superintendents on the
committee,” UIL athletic director
Bill Farney said.
The Athletic Committee sched
uled votes on proposals by the UIL
staff and others for Wednesday.
Another proposal by basketball
coaches would give Texas coaches
the opportunity to coach in ap
proved all-star games other than the
Texas High School Coaches Associa
tion games.
Newman said this would highlight
such longtime successful coaches as
Bill Krueger of Clear Lake, Don Co
leman of Houston Memorial and
Robert Hughes of Fort Worth Dun
bar.
Other athletic proposals would
implement a fast-pitch softball pro
gram for girls in Class 4A and 5A;
stop the “raiding” of public school
athletes by private schools offering
“monetary incentives”; require a
“visible clock” and official timer at
soccer matches; allow summer
camps to take place any time during
the summer; and make it a violation
to remove a team from the field,
court or playing area during a game.
Also, Jeff Bearden, baseball coach
and girls’ basketball coach at Breck-
enridge High School, wrote that “all
types of tobacco” should be banned
from the dugout and field at base
ball games.
He call the use of tobacco a “filthy
and disgusting habit,” and said a ban
should apply to both players and
coaches.
Hill returns as new
Aggie strength coach
FROM STAFF & WIRE REPORTS
Texas A&M Athletic Director
John David Crow announced
Tuesday that former strength
and conditioning coach Bert Hill
will return to the A&M athletic
program.
“We’re very excited to have
Bert Hill return to Texas A&M,”
Crow said. “He has shown the
ability to motivate student-ath
letes in the weight room and the
position of strength and condi
tioning coach is very important to
all of our athletic programs at
A&M.”
Hill, who served as the
strength and conditioning coach
at A&M from 1983-1988, worked
for the past year as the strength
coach at Ohio State University.
“I’m very happy that John Da
vid Crow and R.C. Slocum gave
me this opportunity to return to
Texas A&M,” Hill said. “I look
forward to working with all of the
coaches and athletic programs at
A&M.”
Hill coached at Nicholls State
from 1981-82 before serving as a
graduate assistant at Auburn
University from 1982-83, where
he earned his Master’s Degree in
strength physiology.
“We’re pleased to have Bert re
join our team at A&M,” head
football coach R.C. Slocum said.
“He has the respect of the ath
letes in the field of strength and
conditioning and works well with
all of the athletes.”
Hill replaces Keith Kephart,
who resigned from the position
earlier this year.
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Lakers’ Scott will miss first
two games of ’89 NBA finals
with partially torn hamstring
Course-record 64 qualifies Rose for Open
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) —
Starting Los Angeles Lakers guard
Byron Scott will miss at least the first
two games of the NBA Finals be
cause of a partially torn left ham
string, team doctor Robert Kerlan
announced Tuesday.
Scott suffered the injury, which
Kerlan described as “moderately se
vere,” while landing awkwardly after
a rebound attempt early in the club’s
workout Monday at the Palace, site
of Tuesday night’s opening game of
the best-of-7. series between the
Lakers and Detroit Pistons.
Scott, a starter for the Lakers who
averaged 19.9 points as the team
won a record 1 1 straight playoff
games to reach the NBA Finals, will
continue to receive treatment.
He will be re-evaluated before
Sunday’s third game of the finals at
the Forum in Inglewood, Calif.
Scott, 28, averaged 19.6 points in
74 regular-season games. He scored
a career playoff-high 35 points as
the Lakers beat the Phoenix Suns
122-117 on May 28 to win the West
ern Conference finals 4-0.
According to a press release,
Lakers coach Pat Riley will make a
decision on who will replace Scott in
the starting lineup shortly before
Tuesday night’s game.
A strong possibility is veteran Mi
chael Cooper.
The two-time defending NBA
champion Lakers are trying to be
come the first NBA team to win
three straight championships since
the Boston Celtics did so in the mid-
1960s.
SUMMIT, N.J. (AP) — PGA vet
eran Clarence Rose shot a course-re-
cord 8-under-par 64 Tuesday en
route to a 36-hole, 9-under-par 135
as the final 19 spots for next week’s
U.S. Open were decided in sectional
qualifying at Canoe Brook Country
Club.
The sectional was the last of a
dozen to determine the final 101
spots in the Open, which begins
June 15 at the Oak Hill Country
Club in Rochester, N.Y.
Rose, a nine-year pro from Gold
sboro, N.C., had nine birdies in his
record round on the 6,594-yard
south course, including six on the
first nine holes.
The score broke the previous
course record of 66 set earlier in the
day by Rich Flesher of Saucon Val
ley, Pa., and later matched by sec
tional runner-up Ed Fiore, who fin
ished a shot behind Rose.
“I hit the ball very well today, es
pecially on the south course,” said
Rose, 31, who has never won on the
PGA tour. He earned $229,000 last
year, his best year.
Fiore, 36, had eight birdies and no
bogeys in tying Rose’s course record.
The 12-year pro had an opening
round of 72 on the 6,911-yard north
course before getting his game
going.
“I was hitting everything and
making all my putts,” said Fiore,
who earned $194,000 last year, but
has not won since 1982 at the Bob
Hope Desert Classic.
Fiore, from Sugarland, has to
share second with veteran tour
player Mark Lye, who had rounds of
69 and 67. Tour pro Dave Eichel-
berger of Ridgewood finished
fourth with a 69-68—137 total.
The 19 qualifiers, all profession
als, were among 97 starters in sec
tional.
Former U.S. Open champion
jpposed t
pete in the sectional but withdrew
because of bad knees. Touring pro
Howard Twitty also pulled out.
Veteran pro John Mahaffey of
theWoodlands finished fifth with a
70-69—139 total, while New Jersey
pro Jim McGovern of Hackensack
finished tied for sixth with touring
pros Buddy Gardner and Leonard
Thompson at 140.
The last two spots among the 19
qualifiers were won by David Glenz
of Morris County and Scott Allen
T aylor of Sleepy Hollow, N.Y., in a
one-hole playoff with three other
golfers, including touring pro
Wayne Levi. Glenz and Taylor had
birdies on the par-4, 367-yard No. 1
hole of the north course. The five
players had finished 36 holes with
scores of 143.
The other 11 sectionals were held
Monday. The largest was played at
Woodmont Country Club in Rock
ville, Md., where 128 players were
entered to compete for 41 spots.
Two-time U.S. Amateur cham
pion Jay Sigel had to go overtime to
grab one of the spots. Bobby Wad-
kins, Wayne Grady, Nick Price, for
mer PGA titleholder Hal Sutton,
and 1976 Open champion Jerry Pate
were among those who also qual
ified.
Davis Love III shot a 9-under-par
63 to set a record for the Walt Dis
ney World Magnolia course en route
to a 12-under 132 in the sectional at
Orlando, Fla.. Arnold Palmer failed
to qualify for the sixth straight time.
Fifty-five players were totally
exempt from qualifying. Included in
that group are Seve Ballesteros, Paul
Azinger, Mark Calvecchia, Ben
Crenshaw and Nick Faldo.
Look for Lakers to threepeat their way into the record books
The 1989 NBA Finals should be one to
remember. Not because it will be close. No,
this series will be the exclamation point on a
great post-season for the Los Angeles
Lakers. Logic says the Detroit Pistons
should win. On paper, they have never
been better. But NBA Championships are
won on the court, where the Lakers are
very effective.
Two months ago, I would have easily
picked the Pistons in this series. But the
Lakers have shown that the regular season
and the playoffs are two, totally different
situations.
The Lakers have -won 1 1 straight games
in the 1989 playoffs; 13 straight if you look
back to last year’s championship round.
The Leakers’ dominance of the west in this
year’s playoffs looks like Red Riding Hood
on a cakewalk. But these three straight
sweeps were not given to them. The Lakers
earned it.
L.A. breezed by Portland, but weren’t
Robbie
Scichili
Sports Writer
expected to be as dominant over the Seattle
Supersonics. The Lakers stormed into
Seattle and literally stole two games from
the Sonics. Then the Phoenix Suns, who
ended the season a mere two games behind
the Lakers, were expected to challenge L.A.
for the western crown. Phoenix fell to the
side quietly with the others as L.A. looked
forward to a long layoff before the Finals.
Detroit, in the meantime, was just
begging for an upset against Jordan and
company in the eastern conference finals.
Jordan, however, was not up to the task
in the last three games and Chicago never
recovered.
This year’s rematch of the 1988 NBA
Finals is different in many ways. This year,
the Pistons are the favorites and have the
home court advantage. But is it an
advantage? I feel that L.A. is in a much
better position than the Pistons simply
because more pressure is on the favored
team. Detroit has to win the first two games,
or this will be a very short series.
The Lakers have the motivation of
Kareem’s last season to help push them
through. L.A. has also added Orlando
Woolridge to their lineup — an
experienced, hungry forward who provides
them with solid, inside play off the bench.
Detroit’s downfall will be the absence of
Adrian Dantley, who was traded to Dallas
for the enigmatic Mark Aguirre. Sure,
Aguirre will score, but only when he plays.
If Detroit coach Chuck Daly would use
Aguirre to his potential, the Pistons would
have a better chance.
Many say Detroit’s defense is too good
for the Lakers to win against. True, no one
has scored 100 points against Detroit in the
playoffs, but then again, no one has tried.
Chicago and Milwaukee choose to walk the
ball up the floor. Look for the Lakers to
push it.
Speaking of defense, the Lakers play the
best team defense this side of the Atlantic.
Look for the Lakers to win the rebounding
war, which could prove pivital in the series.
Why are the Lakers such a good team
that works together? Their coach, Pat Riley
has a lot to do with that. He doesn’t get the
recognition he deserves because of the
players the Lakers have had such as Magic,
Kareem and Worthy.
The fact is the Lakers would never have
won back-to-back titles if it weren’t for
Riley. He stresses team first, which is what
his players do best.
Magic will have the last word against his
best friends, Thomas and Aguirre. All
three will kiss before each game and then it
will be time to get down to business.
Magic is the key. He will not let the
Lakers lose this series. Look for him to do
what he does best - get the ball in the hands
of his teammates for easy baskets. Magic
will show why he is indeed the MVP.
On offense, look for the Pistons to again
use their size to drive the ball to the basket
and take it inside. The Lakers need to be
careful of foul trouble. If they can stay away
from that, their swarming defense will be
more effective.
The Lakers will frustrate the Pistons with
their effective team defense and patient
offense. In any language, it spells trouble
for Detroit. You won’t see any brooms, but
in the end the Lakers will have cleaned up
well enough. L.A. in six.
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