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Wildcats, ’Barna
collide Saturday
By ED SHEARER
AP Sports Writer
Second-ranked Kentucky and
No. 8 Alabama collide Saturday
in a regionally televised South
eastern Conference basketball
game that the Crimson Tide
must win to retain any hope of a
third straight NCAA tourna
ment appearance.
Kentucky needs the victory to
stay on the heels of No. 7 Ten
nessee in a torrid SEC title
chase that suddenly became a
two-team affair when the Vols
won at Alabama last Saturday.
With only two weekends re
maining in the season, Ten
nessee has a 14-1 conference
mark, Kentucky 13-1 and Ala
bama 11-3.
Tennessee visits Georgia in
its final road game before re
turning home to close the sea
son with a televised showdown
against Kentucky next Satur
day and a battle with archrival
Vanderbilt the following Mon
day night.
Hawks
eat,
sell
ATLANTA (AP) - The At
lanta Hawks did a little eating
and a little selling Thursday
night before they went on the
court and defeated the New
York Knicks in overtime.
The National Basketball As
sociation team hosted a dinner
party for local businessmen in
an effort to sell season tickets
for the rest of this season and
for next year.
Hawks officials didn’t have an
official count of season tickets
sold, but they seemed pleased at
the turnout of 560 which in
cluded Gov. George Busbee and
Atlanta Mayor Maynard
Jackson.
After mingling with the
crowd, the Hawks went out to
face the Knicks, defeating them
101-98 in overtime.
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The schedule favors Ten
nessee at this point since only
Kentucky figures to challenge
the Vols in the remaining
games. Meanwhile, Kentucky
had two straight dangerous foes
this weekend—Alabama Satur
day at 4 p.m. EST and Mis
sissippi State Monday night.
State blew a seven-point lead in
the closing minutes of last
year’s match with the Wildcats
in Lexington.
Other SEC action Saturday
has Louisiana State at Auburn
in an afternoon game, Mis
sissippi at Florida and Mis
sissippi State at Vanderbilt.
“Right now I think Kentucky
has the toughest schedule,”
says Wildcat Coach Joe Hall.
His Wildcats are undefeated
on the road this year, with both
losses in a 21-2 campaign having
come at home in the 23,000-seat
Rupp Arena.
“We will go at these games
(Alabama and State) like they
are on the road,” Hall said.
SPORTS
Intruders
melt ice
ATLANTA (AP) - Roller
skates would have been better
than ice skates for the Atlanta
Flames after four armed in
truders left water running on
their practice area Thursday,
melting it down to bare con
crete.
The intruders broke into the
Omni early Thursday, sur
prised a guard watering the ice
and bound him while they ran
sacked the offices.
An Omni spokesman said the
guard, Harry Wilson, was dis
covered unhurt four hours later.
The intruders refused his pleas
to turn off the hose.
Concerning what previously
appeared to be a showdown
battle with the Crimson Tide,
winners of the last four SEC ti
tles, Hall said, “Alabama is a
solid team capable of beating
anybody.”
Kentucky is seeking its 30th
SEC crown this year and Ten
nessee hopes to nail down its
sixth, having last won in 1972
when the Vols tied Kentucky for
the title.
Chances are good that two of
the three nationally ranked
powers will appear in the NCAA
tournament, but the champion
will have a “home court”
advantage since the NCAA
Mideast action for the SEC
champion will be played at LSU
and Kentucky.
The first round game will be
at LSU on Sunday, March 13,
with a victory advancing a team
to the second round at Rupp
Arena March 17-19. This year’s
NCAA semifinals and finals will
be played at the Omni in Atlanta
March 26-28.
Wilborn
bowls 626
Jimmy Wilborn bowled a 220
game and a 626 series last night
in the Commercial League.
Other leading bowlers were:
Billy Bevil 210, Melvin
Whidby 204, Mike Waddell 201,
Frank McElroy 200, Bill
Crawford 202, Fred Tatum 205,
Billy Moore 213, Freddie
Bethune 205, Guy Taylor 207,
Julian Cook 215, Jim Skrine 214
and Barney Brown 218.
Oliver’s Sewing Machine beat
Commercial Bank 3-1, Speir
Insurance defeated Hillhouse 3-
1, Pro Sports beat Spalding
Square 4-0, Mayfield Motors
defeated Shelby Electric 3-1,
Tommy’s Used Cars of
Thomaston beat Capri
Restaurant 3-1, Highland beat
Sigman Buick 4-0, Tommy’s
Used Cars of Griffin beat Drug
and Surgical 3-1 and Cole’s
Drug Store beat Cedric’s 4-0.
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Kathy Bates (1) and Rusty Jackson of Barnesville
Academy were named to the All-Region team in Region 2-
A of the SEAIS.
2 Warriors
All-Region
Two Barnesville Academy
players were named to the All-
Region team for Region 2-A of
the Southeastern Association of
Independent Schools. They are
seniors Rusty Jackson and
Kathy Bates, who won the honor
for the second straight year.
Miss Bates averaged 16 points
and 13 rebounds per game while
leading the Lady Warriors to an
18-11 overall record and a 10-2
region mark. She was named to
the Westwood Invitational All-
Tournament team after the
Lady Warriors won that
tourney.
In addition, Miss Bates was
Hawks upsets
Knicks in OT
ATLANTA (AP) - Atlanta
Hawks Coach Hubie Brown says
he’s “beginning to see some
light at the end of the tunnel for
next year” after the Hawks
scored a 101-98 overtime victory
over the New York Knicks in
National Basketball Association
play Thursday night.
“It’s getting more and more
difficult for teams to double
team (John) Drew,” Brown
said.
Drew slipped through the
Knicks defense to hit a driving
layup with 27 seconds left to put
the Hawks in the lead for good.
The shot broke a 96-96 tie and
was followed 22 seconds later by
two free throws by Armond Hill.
With two seconds left, the
Knicks cut the lead to two, 100-
98, on a shot by Bob McAdoo,
but a technical foul for delay of
the game turned into a free
throw by Atlanta’s Ken Charles
that cinched the game for the
Hawks.
Knicks Coach Red Holtzman
said Brown “is doing a great job
with the Hawks. They’re a
much better team.
“We moved the ball better
than we have in recent games,
but things just didn’t work out
for us,” he said.
During the game, both teams
built, and lost, big leads. In the
first quarter, the Knicks out
scored the Hawks 13-1 on their
way to a 30-22 edge that turned
into a 46-34 lead in the second
period.
After halftime, Atlanta hit on
14 straight points during a 20-2
streak to build a 68-55 lead.
New York came back to tie
the game 80-80 when Earl Mon
roe hit a layup but the lead
shifted back and forth during
the rest of regulation play and
into the overtime period.
McAdoo led scoring with 35
N. Georgia
defeats
Piedmont
DAHLONEGA, Ga. (AP) -
North Georgia defeated Pied
mont Thursday night in a col
lege basketball tournament, but
the Lions will have another
chance when the two schools
meet in a semifinal game of the
NAIA District 25 playoffs
Monday night.
Randy Dunn came off the
bench for North Georgia to
spark the Saints to a 62-56 vic
tory Thursday over Piedmont in
the championship game of the
Georgia Intercollegiate Athletic
Conference tournament.
selected to Region 2-A’s All-
Tournament team.
Jackson averaged 19 points
and 9 rebounds a game to lead
the Warriors to an 18-9 overall
record and 9-3 in region play.
He, like Miss Bates, was
named to the All-Tournament
team at the Westwood
Invitational.
The 6-1 senior failed to score
in double figures only twice this
season.
Warriors’ Ronnie Watson and
Jim Milam received All-Region
honorable mention as did the
Lady Warriors’ Melodie
Harwell.
points. Teammate Walt Frazier
added 25. The Hawks were led
by Robinson’s 32 points and
Drew finished the night with 25.
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Allen to join Finley?
By HERSCHEL NISSENSON
AP Sports Writer
And now to further enthrall
you, baseball fans, comes the
latest shocker courtesy of
Charles O. Finley.
Reportedly galloping from his
Perkasie, Pa., farm to join up
Bombers,
Tigers
win
The Bombers beat the
Scotties 18-16 yesterday in the
girls’ division of the Rick Barry
League.
The Tigers ripped the Rockets
30-13 and the Bruins beat the
Wildcats 28-20 in the boys’
division.
Ginny Dunaway scored 10
points for the Bombers and
Amanda Ogletree made 4. Dee
Ann Shirah scored 7 for the
Scotties and Teresa Colbert
made 5.
Chuck Gray led the Tigers
with 5 points. Cesar Zavallos
made 2. Andre Holmes scored
11 points for the Rockets and
Jimmy Daniel made 8.
Mike Slade was leading
scorer for the Bruins with 13
points. Danny Caldwell made 8.
Wes Treadway made 9 for the
Wildcats and Sebastian
Wimbush made 7.
Trotters,
Pirates win
The Globetrotters edged the
Barons 48-46 yesterday in the
Junior Basketball League.
The Pirates nipped the
Nuggets 46-44 and the Colonels
defeated the Sabres 43-33.
Antonio Gray scored 17 points
and Freddie Mathis made 14 for
the Trotters. Harry Peaden
made 19 for the Barons and
Dexter Harris scored 16.
Michael Chapman made 14
points for the Pirates and Clevis
Pyron made 11. Winford Smith
led the Nuggets with 19 points
and Ricky Chambliss made 12.
David English was high
scorer for the Colonels with 15.
Victor Perdue made 6. Tim
Long and Jeff Harpe made 8 for
the Sabres.
Griffin Daily News Friday, February 25, 1977
with the mule-loving maverick
owner of the Oakland A’s is
none other than the noted Penn
sylvania horse-fancier Richard
Anthony “Call Me Dick” Allen.
How do you like them apples,
Bowie Kuhn?
The report comes from Fin
ley, who disclosed Thursday
that he expected to reach
agreement “any minute” with
the veteran slugger, who’ll be 35
next month and who was cut
adrift by the Philadelphia
Phillies following another antic
filled 1976 season.
If Allen indeed makes it to
Oakland, the A’s will be the
controversial first baseman’s
fifth major league club, in
cluding two tours with the
Phillies, who had it up to here
with him both times.
Allen was up for grabs in a
special free agent draft last
year and the A’s, clutching at
straws after most of their own
free agent stars fled Finley’s
clutches, were the only ones to
reach out for him.
In 85 games with the Phillies
last season, Allen batted .268
with 15 home runs and 49 runs
batted in, giving him 346
homers and 1,088 RBI in his 13-
year career.
Finley said Allen’s lawyer
told him that “as far as he was
concerned we had a deal, but we
have to wait for Dick to give it
his agreement.” The A’s owner
would not discuss details of the
planned signing, but said it
would not be a long-term con
tract.
With Allen’s checkered his
tory, did anyone think it would
be?
While Allen apparently was
finding a new home just as
spring training was getting un
der way, the Boston Red Sox
were faced with a horse of a
different color.
Bob Woolf, who represents
Luis Tiant, the team’s ace
pitcher, said the 36-year-old
right-hander would not report to
camp today as scheduled and is
Red Devils
The Red Devils outshot
McDonald’s Chapel 70-52 and
McDowell’s Chapel nipped
Dundee 62-61 last night in the
Men’s Basketball League
Tournament.
“seriously considering the
possibility of retirement”
unless the Bosox agree to ex
tend a contract that was re
negotiated last season through
1977 to a reported SIBO,OOO a
year.
In other developments around
the spring camps:
—The A’s sent veteran first
baseman Ron Fairly to the
fledgling Toronto Blue Jays for
infielder Mike Weathers, whom
they sold to Toronto last No
vember for $175,000. The A’s re
ceived an additional $30,000
along with Weathers.
—General Manager Dick
Wagner of the world champion
Cincinnati Reds said he hopes to
have the team’s five unsigned
players under contract by
March 1. They are infielders
Pete Rose and Dave Concepcion
and pitchers Gary Nolan, Rawly
Eastwick and Pat Darcy.
—Catcher Steve Yeager
signed a three-year pact with
the Los Angeles Dodgers.
—General Manager Joe
McDonald of the New York
Mets said the club and slugger
Dave Kingman remain “very
far apart” in their contract dis
pute. Meanwhile, catcher Jerry
Grote indicated he may change
his mind about retiring.
—Two key players missed the
California Angels’ third day of
workouts. Outfielder Bobby
Bonds had a bad cold while in
fielder Bobby Grich suited up
but complained of a sore back
and was sent back to the hotel.
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