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B-2 LANSING STATE JOURNAL March 14, 1 981 NN yX Pram pmduces tittle for Ok mm Bstoim College mips Condudad from pog i-1 Thompson was the only Pioneer to score in double figures. Okemos led 32-27 at half time but opened a nine-point lead midway in the third quarter. It maintained the pace the rest of the way before pulling out to an 18-point bulge with two minutes left In the game. "It was one of those games when I had goosebumps all over," Stolz said. "We got another superb game from Bolton, who not only got 10 very big points, but I can't remember him going to the boards any better than he did tonight.

Valkanoff and Arensmeier helped out and played smart ball. The Sards were outstanding by getting the 11 up court against their press." IF THERE WAS a turning point in the game, it came with 5:21 left in the fourth quarter and the Chieftains up 48-39. Five times the Chieftains tipped the ball at the basket before Arensmeier finally scored and was fouled. He converted the three-point play. "That was Stolz grinned.

"We were awesome on the offensive board and kept tipping the ball until the darned ball went in and Bruce was fouled. It was absolutely beautiful. And did you see the bench erupt? Tell me Valkanoff didn't show All-State stuff. He opened some eyes." Valkanoff pulled down nine rebounds, Bolton had seven and Arensmeier six in a 35-11 board advantage. Guard Mike Mertz also tossed in 12 points for the winners and teamed with Old when the Chieftains went into their four-comer delay.

Arensmeier contributed 10 points to the attack. "We can play that, too," said Stolz, referring to the four-comer tactic East Grand Rapids used against Lakewood. "That's when we were smart. Old and Mertz handled the ball so well. We waited for the opening and took advantage by getting some layups." TUSCALOOSA, Ala.

(AP) Dwan Chandler and John Bagley each scored four points in the final 96 seconds as i Boston College overcame a late seven-point deficit and downed Ball State 93- 90 Friday night in an NCAA Mideast Regional first round basketball game. Boston College, 22-6, trailed 78-71 with less than six minutes remaining when freshman Martin Clark started the rally by hitting a 16-footer and came back a minute later with a pair of free throws and still another 16-footer that tied the game at 79 with 3:37 remaining. CHANDLER PUT the Eagles ahead to stay at 87-86 when he drilled a 20-footer with 54 seconds remaining. 93. W.

Kentucky 68 TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) Glenn Marcus scored 22 points as Alabama-Birmingham led all the way and buried Western Kentucky 93-68 in the NCAA Mideast Regional basketball tournament Friday night. The victories set up a Sunday second-round doubleheader with UAB facing eighth-ranked Kentucky and Boston College taking on No. 11 Wake For--est. r.

UAB, 22-8, had little trouble with the Hilltoppers, jumping to an 18-7 lead in the first 10 minutes and Western never got closer than six the rest of the way. Kansas 69, Mississippi WICHITA. "Kan. (AP) Darnell Valentine scored 15 points and Johnny Crawford tossed in two free throws with 22 seconds remaining to lift Kansas to a. 69-66 win over Mississippi Friday night in a regionally televised first round game of the NCAA Midwest Sub- Regionals.

Kansas, 23-7, takes on No. 3 Arizona State, 24-3 in second-round action of the National Collegiate Athletics Asso- ciation tournament. Crisler Arena in Ann Arbor and lost to Muskegon Heights. 5049 win over top-ranked Wyoming Rogers Friday night. That sets up a possible rematch of the 1979 semifinal, providing Okemos wins Wednesday and the Heights gets past Stevensville-' Lakeshore.

Okemos scored the first basket of the game Friday night when Arensmeier canned a short jumper, saw. East Grand Rapids tie it, then scored 10 of the next 12 points. Valka-nnff named to The Associated Press All-State team a week ago, scored six points in the spurt while Vanek was the dominant rebounding force. He drew a thundering ovation by blocking the first shot taken by Tim MulvihiU, the seven-foot sophomore center who normally only play for jump ball purposes. "THE KIDS WANTED this game badly," added Stolz.

"They were pumped, and I thought the defense was exceptional. When we went to the boards and had our fast break going, we had things pretty well under after Vanek went out, I was scared." The key to winning was not just tough defense. The Chieftains turned the ball over just nine times and committed only four personal fouls in the first half. They also threw up a 2-3 zone in the second half which denied sharpshooter Garde Thompson the ball. -It was Thomspon who rocked Lake Odessa-Lakewood two nights earlier with a 40-point exhibition.

Thompson kept his team in the game with 16 first-half points but scored only 10 after intermission, getting just two shots in the third quarter. He made eight of 11 shots in the first half anc scored 14 of his team's 16 points in one stretch. WE WERE NOT going to let him get the ball, and we didn't," beamed Stolz. "He's quite a player. I saw what he could do with the basketball against Lakewood, and it wasn't going to happen against us." ance, surprised the favored Shockers by jumping to a 20-14 lead behind the hot shooting of Anthony Bryant.

But a Carr bucket with 8:48 left in the first half knotted the score at 26-26. Mike Jones hit a basket for Wichita State 30 seconds later to put the Shockers in the lead for good. Pittsburgh 70, Idaho 69 EL PASO, Texas (AP) Dwayne Wallace banked in a 10-foot jump shot with three seconds left in overtime to S've Pittsburgh a 70-69 victory over laho Friday night in a first-round NCAA West basketball game. Pittsburgh earned the right to meet sixth-ranked North Carolina in the second round. Fresno State faced Northeastern in the second game of Friday night's doubleheader.

It was Wallace who took the game into overtime with a 15-foot jump shot with 38 seconds left in regulation play, tying the score at 61-all. The Panthers trailed by as much as eight points in the first half and didn't regain the lead until overtime. Villonova 90, Houston 72 CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) Led by the trio of Alex Bradley, John Pinone and Tom Sienkiewicz, Villanova raced to an easy 90-72 victory over. Houston in a first-round game of the NCAA East regional basketball tournament Friday night.

Villanova now faces Virginia on Sunday afternoon. While Sienkiewicz was destroying the Cougars with his outside shooting, Bradley and Pinone anchored a powerful front line that gave the Wildcats a big lead early in the game. Bradley connected on a three-point play early in the first half to give Villanova a 5-4 lead. Houston pulled to within one point on two more occasions, but Villanova proved too strong for the Cougars and the Wildcats raced to a 41-28 halftime lead. Virginia Comm.

85, LIU 69 CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) Kenny Stancell scored 22 points as Virginia Commonwealth repelled a Long Island rally and captured an 85-69 basketball victory over the Blackbirds in the first game of a double-header in the NCAA East Regional Friday night. During the opener, the Rams held a 17-point lead at the 12:03 mark of the second half when Danny Kottak hit a technical free throw. The score then was 55-38. From that point, however, the Blackbirds outscored VCU 18-2 to pull to within one at 57-56 with 6:41 left to play.

One free throw by Stancell increased the lead to two, but Jeff Mariwether got one back for LIU to make the score 58-57 with 6:08 left to play. Staff photo by SUSAN TUSA Eastern's Sam Vincent (44) rips a rebound away from Ann Arbor Huron's Marty Hunter Friday. Eastern takes it easy DeWitt outboarded The Rebels, making their first appearance ever in the NCAA, fought back from a 12-point second half deficit and got within two, 64-62, on a bucket by Elston Turner with 29 seconds remaining. Wichita St. 95 Southern 70 WICHITA, Kan.

(AP) Cliff Lev-ingston and Antoine Carr combined for 42 points and helped Wichita State dominate the backboard as the Shockers romped past Southern University 95-70 Friday night in a regionally televised first-round game of the NCAA Midwest Sub-Regionals. Kansas, 23-6, meets No. 3 Arizona State, 24-3, and Wichita State, 24-6, takes on No. 13 Iowa, 21-6, on Sunday in second round action of the National Collegiate Athletics Association tournament. Southern, the Baton Rouge, school making its first NCAA appear Syracuse for 88-81 SYRACUSE, N.Y.

(AP) Tony Bruin scored 26 points as Syracuse University held off a late Marquette rally to post 88-81 basketball victory Friday in a National Invitation Tournament opening-round game pitting two teams that failed to make the NCAA post-season tournament for the first time in several years this season. Playing before 20,123 fans, Syracuse, which had played in eight straight NCAA post-season tournaments, took the lead for good on a Danny Schayes layup after 13 minutes of play. The Orangemen followed with nine straight points in the next two minutes, including seven points by Bruin, to take a 13-pomt lead. MARQUETTE, WHICH had appeared in the NCAA post-season tournament 10 consecutive times, rallied and moved within a single point late in the second half. The Warriors trailed 76-74 when Glenn Rivers sank two foul shots with 1 46 left to play.

Concluded from pogo B-1 a five-point outburst a basket by Dobis, and a three-point play by Mike Vondette, both off offensive rebounds. DeWitt scored the quarter's final bucket and four straight points to open the final quarter, as Fedio switched out of the four-comer. "We got the baskets we wanted off the four-comer," said Fedio, defending his strategy of patiently working the ball inside to Mohre. "You go with what is working. Maybe it stagnated.

We got a couple of turnovers, and sure, you're gonna get out of it." CARROLLTON KNEW how to defense DeWitt's four-comer. Coach Ron Vondette made sure of that as he watched DeWitt smash Farwell, 92-63, in the regional opener Tuesday. "They did it in the other game, and my kids got a chance to see it and get used to it," said Vondette. In Carrollton's Wednesday win over Breekenridge, DeWitt saw Carrollton's big man, Dobis, go down with a ankle and knee injury. The Panthers might not have expected Dobis to match Mohre power move-for-power move, but the Cavalier did and finished with 22 points.

He also held Mohre to two second-half baskets, fronting him effectively and relying on weak-side Stockbridge Cowdudod from pago B-l Three Oaks-River Valley, Class state champ in 1979, or Cassapolis will oppose Branson Wednesday in quarterfinal play. Tipoff for the game at West-em Michigan University is at 7:30 p.m. Stockbridge did mount one minor rally in the fourth quarter behind two outside jumpers and two free throws from center Rod Stone. Barry Wild followed Stone's effort with a tipin at the 20-second mark to pull Stockbridge within nine, 58-49. "You've got td credit the kids for never giving up," Hora said.

"But they're not the type to give up." Forward Rich Stephens paced the Panthers with 20 points and was backed by Jeff Becker's 12 rebounds and nine points. Stockbridge finished the season at 19-5. at a 04 4, OKEMOS (45) Old 1 4-4 4, Merti 4 12. Volkonoff I 2-3 It, Arensmeier 4 24 10. Vanek 2 4, Bolton 5 10, Abra-hom 2 04, Fossum 0 1-2 1.

Total! 21 4-1545. EAST GRAND RAPIDS (4t) Spindle 2 4, Johnson 0 2-2 2, Clark 2 0-0 4, Thompson 12 2-3 24, Rlaos 4 1-1 VanderWerf 20-0 4, Norton 0 0-00. Totals 225444. Okemos II 14 14 17 45 East Grand Rartdi 11 15 10 11 4 Fouled out Norton. Total fouls Okemos 13, East Grand Rapids 20.

help. Mohre finished with 24 points and Deak had 21, but sharpshooter Tim Carey spent most of night looking throughCavalier fingers and fouled out with six points. CARROLLTON, 21-4, advances to a Wednesday night quarter-final meeting Jenison Field House with either Grand Rapids South Christian or Fenn-ville, which play today. DeWitt closes memorable season at 20-5. "We had a good season," said Fedio, completing his third year at DeWitt.

"If you measure success on winning your last game, then there's only four successful teams. But we're happy. Now, we can look back and reflect on the season, on how we beat LCC (Lansing Catholic Central) for the first time in a long time, won the district and have some people get all-league honors and be up for All-State honors. They made more sacrifices than the two teams I had before, obviously." SAOINAW CARROLLTON (41) Dobis 11 04 22, M. Vondette 2 54 Lewis 4 0-1 12.

Onlel 1 04 2, OeGraee 4 1-2 Miller 2 0-1 4, J. Vondette 21-35. Totols 28 7-1343. DEWITT (42) Corey 2 2-3 4. Deak 3-5 21, Mohre 44 24, Peterson 2 4, Kinney 31-27.

Totals 25 12-14 42. Saginow Carrollten II 15 15 15 41 DeWitt 17 If 17 41 Fouled out Corey, Deak. Total fouls Saginaw Carrollton 14, DeWitt 14. sidelined RONSON (41) Smith 4 3-511, German 10 4-4 24, Clemens 2 2-2 4, Burnett 2 2-3 4, Houghton 1 44 4, 0' Rourke 1 1-2 1 Lutl 1 2-5 Neveraskl 1 04 2. Totals 21 20-32 42.

STOCKBRIDGE (4) Stephens 7 44 20, Basore 2 1-3 5, Wild 1 0-1 Lobdell 2 t-1 4. Becker 4 1-2 Stone 2 2-2 4, Love 0 34 3. Totals II 13-21 4. Breme 17 15 It 11 41 Jtetkbridte 7 4 II II 4 Fouled out Clemens. Total fouls Branson 17, Stockorlooe 25.

Class at St. Johns Third-rated Allendale High School outscored Mount Pleasant Sacred Heart 6-2 in the last 45 seconds to earn a 65-61 regional triumph Friday. The Falcons were led by Doug Roberts' 25 points. John Modderman had 16. Allendale raised its record to 24-1.

Brian Pasche led the Fighting Irish with 29 points as Sacred Heart closed the season at 14-11. peatedly between Straight's gloves to score. The two decisions capped off a string of Kronk Club victories that saw die first four Detroit boxers lightweight Lionel Johnson and welterweights Jimmy Paul, Lanny EdV mond and Darrell Chambers all claim TKOs in less than four rounds. Johnson opened the' night with his professional debut and, after fielding Alfred Taylor's counterpunqhes through the first round, floored Taylor with a right hook early in the second. Taylor, a Jackson boxer also in his first pro bout, came back unsteadily, and Johnson took him to the comer and blasted him defenseless with a right uppercut before the referee waved him off to end the bout 2:01 into the round.

Paul's bout with Clinton Harris of Concluded from pago ft-1 control all the way," he continued. "It took us a little while to adjust to their offense, but I expected that to be the case. Part of it is, when you're the favorite, the other team seems to out just a little extra hard. "That leveled out, and the kids made some of their own adjustments along with ours as the game went along. The thing is, if you play the kid of defense we do (a ball-hawking zone), the longer you play it, the harder it is on the other team.

They have to work and work. "And once our defense began to take effect, we got into the flow of the offense, too." That happened in the second quarter. Huron had managed a virtual standoff in the first eight minutes, trailing by only one point, 15-14, despite an early 9-2 deficit. THE RIVER RATS hit the first basket of the second period to go on top, 16-15, but that was about their last hurrah. Jeff Lynch, Robert Henderson and Sam Vincent supplied six unanswered points to put the Quakers on top to stay.

Another spurt, this one 10 points long, pushed Eastern's advantage to 11, 31-20. The Quakers didn't stop pulling away until the first minute of the last quarter, when Vincent nailed one from the side to put them in command by 23, 51-28. Huron finally got rolling then, behind some phenomenal outside shooting by guards Todd Steverson and Reggie Hu-gan, scoring more points in the last period (29) than it had in the first three combined. But the River Rats never got closer than within 10, and they never worried Cook. THAT MAY HAVE been mostly because the Quakers weren't standing around watching, scoring 23 points of their own, 11 of them by Vincent to boost his total to a game-high 31.

"That's what we've got to have, one or the other (Vincent or Robert Henderson, who scored 31 Wednesday) has got to get 30," Cook said. "Huron tried the same defense (the box and one) on us Flint Central did, and you can't play your usual offense against it. There's really no offense to play against it unless you've got a lot of shooters. Hilldale falls in KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -James Dumes poured in 17 points and Ricky Knight rattled in 14 as fifth-seeded Alabama-Huntsville notched a 65-60 win over tenacious Hillsdale, which saw its top player leave the game midway through the first half Friday night in semifinal action of the 44th Annual NAIA Basketball Tournament.

Alabama-Huntsville, 3fr6, will Windsor went almost four rounds before Paul got his TKO. Paul had a textbook-perfect jab throughout the fight but had trouble following it up until late in the fourth, when he held Harris at arm's length with it and then unleashed a snappy straight right to put Harris down. AFTER HARRIS got up, it took less than 20.seconds for Paul to complete the win, this time by simply slugging Harris to the canvas at 2:56 of the 'round. Edmond. followed suit, counter-punching crisply and then sending Iowa's C.B.

Brown down early in the second round. In the third, Edmond drilled Brown into the ropes for another eight-count, then used the left hook to put him down for the third time and get a TKO at 1:26. "But it didn't look like it bothered Sam or Robert much, did it? I thought they handled it very well this time. If kids are players, they're going to play good when they have to, they're just going to be more into it mentally." HENDERSON GOT IN his licks, too, scoring 17 points and leading the Quakers to a 30-30 rebounding standoff with Huron's rugged front line by pulling down 10 rebounds. It might have appeared that East-em's defense slipped badly in the late going, after limiting Huron to a meager 14 points in the middle two periods.

Cook didn't think that was the case. "You don't expect guys to keep putting them in from where they did, you tell the kids to let. them have those shots when you've got a lead like we had," he said. "The shots just happened to go in, but I was never concerned they could keep it up long enough to really hurt us." Despite the remarkable last quarter accuracy of Steverson and Hugan -at one point they were a combined eight-for-eight, all from "downtown" Huron finished on the same side of the shooting statistics virtually all Quaker foes do the short side. EASTERN, THANKS to Vincent's 13-for-18 work, dropped in 52 percent of its shots, 29 of 55.

Huron, thanks to a 13-for-19 last quarter, finished 27 of 60, for 45 percent. Vincent and Henderson were supported by Jim Lynch's second straight 10-point game. Three River Rats also made double figures, 6-foot-4 Don Pet-ties, the game's top rebounder with 13, scoring 17, Steverson adding 16 and Sherman Baker 10. The Quakers handled the ball well until the last period, when they turned it over eight times for a game total of 15. Huron was guilty of 19 turnovers, 17 in the first three quarters.

The River Rats finish with an 18-6 record. EASTERN (72) Potter 0 34 3, Jim Lynch 4 24 10, Henderson 7 3-3 17, Jeff Lynch 3 1-3 7, Vincent 13 5-7 31, Robinson 2 04 4. Totals 29 14-23 72. ANN ARBOR HURON (57) Pettles 7 3-7 17, Baker 5 04 10. Mullice 2 04 4, Hunter 1 04 2, Christian 0 04 0.

Steverson 1 04 14, Huson 3 04 4, McEwen 1 0-1 2. Totals 27 3-7 57. Eastern 15 II 14 23 72 Ann Arbor Huron 14 I 4 27 57 Fouled out Pettles. Mullice. Total fouls Eastern 12, Ann Arbor Huron It.

NAIA semis meet Bethany Nazarene, 35-6, for the National Association of Intercollegiate Athetics title on Saturday- Hillsdale was operating under a handicap most of the night after Dale Allen, a 6-foot-6 senior forward who leads the team in scoring and rebounding, left the game with 11 44 to go in the first half. Club boxers Chambers had the shortest fight of the night, going just 1:15 with Raoul Hernandez of Chicago before catching him with a left hook that put him out on his feet. Chambers chased him down to land a solid right and the referee stopped the bout. In exhibition, World Boxing Association lightweight champion Hilmer Kenty went four rounds with Kronk teammate DuJuan Johnson. Afterward, Kenty said he still has work to do before his upcoming tide defense with Sean O'Grady.

"I WASN'T in the best of shape," Kenty- said. "That was a hard four rounds. But I think I'm in a fantastic position because my legs felt good, and that's the most important thing right now." holds on WIT win Tulsa.81, Pan American 71 TULSA, Okla. (AP) Phil Spradl-ing's outside shooting and Greg Stewart's muscle inside sparked Tulsa to an 81-71 win over Pan American in a National Invitation Tournament first-round game Friday night. Tulsa's Hurricane broke away from a 53-53 tie midway through the second half, and built a lead of 12 points before Coach Nolan Richardson pulled his starters for good.

W. Virginia 67, "Penn 64 MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) -Greg Jones and Diego McCoy sank pressure free throws in the closing seconds Friday as West Virginia University recovered after blowing a 16-point lead to edge Pennsylvania 67-64 in a first round National Invitation Tournament game. West Virginia, raising its record to 21-8, now plays Temple in a second round game Monday night in Morgan-town. 200-yard medley relay into the consola tions.

Waverly's Dave Jolly qualified for 50-yard freestyle consolations. Class at Grand Rapids J.C. Okemos High School senior Andy Lydens turned in the best time in the 500-yard freestyle and is the top seed in today's finals after Friday's prelims of the Class swimming and diving state championship meet. Lydens covered the marathon freestyle in 4:49.67, and is just three-tenths of a second off the leading pace in the 200-yard freestyle. His 200-yard freestyle time, 1 47.56, was fourth-best.

Sophomore Rich Hayden was die only other Okemos tanker to qualify for the finals, making the 500-yard freestyle championship with a 4:54.07 time Hayden also qualified for the consolations of the 200-yard freestyle. Dave Marttila advanced to the consolations of the 100-yard breaststroke for the Chieftains, while Okemos' 400-yard freestyle relay team (Hayden, Lydens, Andy Moore and Brad Buck-lin) will also swim in today's consolations. Haslett's Rod Howell became the night's third area swimmer, to make the 500-yard freestyle finals, while teammate Dave Garthe qualified for the 100-yard breaststroke Tilden twice 'A' finalist; Lydens best in 'B' swim Goodwin, Armstrong lead sweep by Kronk ANN ARBOR East Lansing High School All-American Pete Tilden qualified for today's finals in two events during Friday's preliminaries of the Class A swimming and diving state championship meet at the University of Michigan. Tilden had his best time of the season, 1:44.15, in the 200-yard freestyle, an event he won last year. But his time is still more than three seconds off the leading qualifier's 1 40.80 pace.

Tilden, a senior, made the 100-yard freestyle finals with a clocking of :48.35, fifth best for the night. EAST LANSING'S John Koval also earned a berth in the 200-yard freestyle championship with a 1:45.99 effort. Koval just missed the 100-yard freestyle finals, qualifying for the consolations with a 48.43 time. Trojan Mitch Dejonge, swam to a lOth-best time of 1:01.27 for a spot in the 100-yard backstroke consolations. East Lansing's 200-yard medley relay team (Dejonge, Tilden, Bob Christel and Jim Stapleton) also qualified for the consolations.

Eastern's Krishna Singh's 1:01.27 time in the 100-yard breaststroke, fifth best, placed him in the finals. Quaker Mark Miller made the 200-yard individual medley consolation, while Chris Zarka, Tom Stinnett and Terry Brown teamed with Singh to push Eastern's B-l the fight simply by covering up on the ropes and forcing Goodwin to come to him. Goodwin prides himself on his knockouts he has 19 of them and despite Steward's admonitions to-work the body, Goodwin kept clobbering unsuccessfully at Straight's glove-protected head. "I thought I could knock him out," Goodwin said. "I thought I could rip the guy's head off with one shot, but I couldn't get at him." GOODWIN TOOK a few good shots himself in the meantime.

In the third round, the two locked horns for half a minute in a neutral comer until Goodwin game out with a swollen left eye, but he came back in die fourth with a straight right that he shot re.