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The Battalion
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Seniors movers, shakers
Legends’ course made
easier at Barton Creek
Despite poor record,
Rockets earned spot
in playoffs, says coach
HOUSTON (AP) — Never mind
that the Houston Rockets have the
worst record of any team in the NBA
playoffs. They belong there, says
coach Don Chaney.
“I think the teams who made the
playoffs deserve to be there whether
they stumbled in, walked in back
wards, ran into it or crawled in,”
Chaney said.
Houston (41-41) lurched into the
playoffs Sunday after Golden State
eliminated Seattle in the final min
ute and the Rockets beat Utah in the
Summit.
“It’s not how you get there, it’s
what you do when you get there,”
Chaney said.
The Rockets begin a best-of-five-
E ame first round playoff Friday in
,os Angeles against the Lakers (63-
19), who own the best record in the
oflfs.
he Rockets would like to forget
how they got into the playoffs for
the sixth consecutive year.
It took them until the final game
of the season to clinch a spot, and it
took Golden State’s victory over the
Supersonics and a 100-88 Rockets
victory over Utah to get in.
The Rockets finished the final 27
games with a 17-10 record, aided by
inspirational play from center
Akeem Olajuwon and an added
spark from guard Vernon Maxwell.
But it was a struggle every step of
the wav.
“I feel like we’ve already com
pleted two playoff series,” Chaney
said.
AUSTIN (AP) — When the Leg
ends of Golf tournament moved
from the birthplace of the Senior
Tour, the Onion Creek Club, orga
nizers said the Barton Creek Coun
try Club would provide a sterner test
for golfers. It didn’t. The winning
score was 39 under par.
In capturing the title and
$140,000 prize, the team of Charles
Goody and Dale Douglass won with a
249 total, seven shots better than
runners-up A1 Geiberger and Har
old Henning.
That compared with the previous
tournament record of 251 set last
year by Geiberger and Henning, but
their score was shot at Onion Creek,
a par-70 course. Henning and Gei
berger were 29 under par, 10 less
than Coody-Douglas at the par-72
Barton Creek layout.
Although a tougher course wasn’t
the primary reason for moving, Leg
ends operations director Stu Lerner
had cited last year’s 29-under score
as unacceptable.
Lerner said he expects Barton
Creek to play much tougher next
year, assuming the tournament isn’t
shifted to a new, Ben Crenshaw-de
signed course being built at the Bar
ton Creek complex.
“The first time I came out here, I
said this is such a tough golf course
that they’ll never shoot 29 under
again,” Lerner said of Barton
Creek’s Hill Country layout.
“When I found out the PGA Tour
(officials) set the course up at less
than 6,700 yards instead of 7,000, I
couldn’t believe it.”
Playoff sweep
within one game
for Bruins
MONTREAL (AP) — The Boston
Bruins moved within one game of
their first playoff sweep of Montreal
in 61 years as John Carter scored
twice to lead a 6-3 victory over the
Canadiens in Game 3 of the Adams
Division finals Monday night.
The Bruins, whose only other
sweep of Montreal was in a best-of-5
series in 1929, their first-ever play
off meeting, can advance to the
Wales Conference finals with a vic
tory at the Forum on Wednesday
night.
Carter broke a 2-2 tie at 5:30 of
the second period when he took a
pass from Ray Bourque and beat
Patrick Roy for his second goal of
the game and third of the playoffs.
NC State names Valvano’s successor
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Les Robinson, a former
North Carolina State player, was named Monday to suc
ceed Jim Valvano as the Wolfpack’s basketball coach.
Robinson, coach and athletic director and coach at
East Tennessee State, takes over a program that has
been under scrutiny for nearly 1 ‘/a years and still has
another year of NCAA probation to serve. The pro
gram remains under investigation.
The appointment of Robinson came 16 days after
Valvano was forced out when NC State officials agreed
on a $500,000 settlement — a $212,000 contract buyout
and the balance from the school’s booster group, the
Wolfpack Club.
Last Friday, NC State named Todd Turner as its new
athletic director, a post Valvano was forced to give up
last year after the basketball program was placed on two
years’ NCAA probation when it was found that players
sold complimentary tickets and sneakers.
Robinson, who signed a four-year contract at
$95,000 per year, also faces the task of trying to keep
one of his top players — guard Chris Corchiani — from
leaving. After Valvano left, Corciani said he would
transfer but he has yet to do so.
“There is no other coaching job in the United States
that I would rather have,” Robinson said. “I don’t know
how long they will want me here, but I’m going to be
here until they run me off. This is a very, very exciting
moment for me, one of the biggest days of my life.”
Valvano was under fire because of the poor academic
records of his players. Robinson, meanwhile, has been
coaching for 16 years and all but one of his players have
graduated.
Other problems hounding NC State involve point
shaving allegations and former player Charles Shackle
ford, who admitted he took $65,000 from two men
while still at the school.
Thr 47-year-old Robinson, a 1965 NC State grad, is
the 16th head coach for the Wolfpack.
“Les understands the tradition of this university,
both athetically and academically there couldn’t be a
more suitable candidate to lead this program in its con
tinued quest for greatness,” said Harold Hopfenburg,
acting athletic director until Turner takes over July 1.
Robinson guided the Buccaneers to a 27-7 record
and the Southern Conference championship last sea
son. But NC State was also interested in his ability to
work under NCAA restrictions inherited from former
coach Barry Dowd.
Draft
(Continued from page 7)
Battalion Hie photo by F. Joe
Texas A&M safety , Gary Jones
was taken in the ninth round by
the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Cowboys
(Continued from page 7)
Harper was all-Northern Califor
nia Athletic Conference second-
team in 1988. As a halfback, he had
114 yards against the University of
California at Davis in 1988. He was a
transfer from Weaver State who
f raduated from Eureka, Calif., High
chool.
Dallas’ trade of Herschel Walker
to Minnesota left them without their
only legitimate running threat. But
Terrence Flagler, obtained from the
Allen chosen by Minnesota on tke
ninth.
Meanwhile, Atlanta continued i(
draft players who fit coach Jerr,
Glanviile’s black-hat image and tit
new black uniforms the Falcons nil
wear.
On the sixth round, they picket
running back Mike Pringle of Ctj
State Fullerton, the nation’s leadei
in all-purpose yardage last seasot
with 2,690.
Pringle has been arrested twiceit
the last month following altercation!
in barrooms, the first of which alit
involved running back Steve Brow
sard, the Falcons’ first-round pick
They join Atlanta’s second-rounder
Jackson State linebacker Darioi
Conner, whom Glanville described
as “like a borderline trained killer."
Four punters were taken, witli
John Nies of Arizona, chosen bf
Buffalo in the sixth round to replace
Plan B defector John Kidd, thefirsi
to go. Only one kicker was drafted
— Matt Stover of Louisiana Teck,
taken by the Giants with the 329tho(
331 picks that consumed 16 hoim
and 38 minutes over two days.
On the seventh round, theDenvet
Broncos took wide receiver Shannon
Sharpe of Savannah State, the hup
and slower brother of Sterling
Sharpe, Green Bay’s All-Pro wide
ceiver. On the eighth, they took
Southern Cal center Brad Leggett,
son of Earl Leggett, their defensive
line coach.
San Francisco 49ers in a trade, and
Smith give Johnson a one-two run
ning back punch.
I he Cowboys, 1-15, also were
hurting at wide receiver because
Kelvin Martin and Michael Ini::
were hurt last year. Dallas took Den
nis McKinnon and Rod Harrisintke
Plan B period and added Wrigbi
who could draw double coverage re
spect deep.
Johnson said Dallas didn't go for
defense in the first two rounds be
cause it would have been a gamble
on the quality of the players.
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