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Q a r-» THE PLAYERS' PLAYER Sweet swinging Calvin Peete pul another notch on his irons Sunday as he strode o ff the 18th hole at the Players Club at Sawgrass in Ponte Verda. Florida Peete won the Tour nament Players Championship with a record setting performance o f 14- under par, 274 total. The victory pul (162,000 big ones in Calvin’s treasure chest and gives him $269,585 in earn ings for the season. That total puts Calvin in second place on the money list behind Curtis Strange Sunday’s round was a thing of beauty as Calvin held o ff all chal lenges and kept the pressure on with some monster putts on the back nine. His blistering 32 on the backside all but clinched this prestigious win against the champions from last season. Brother Calvin started the day’s play in a tie for the lead with D .A . Weibnng and two-time U.S. Open champion Hale Irwin. Peete set the tone with a birdie-birdie start and let the field know that they were in for an interesting afternoon. From then on it was just fairways and greens as the straight hitter from Florida brought the course to its knees. When Calvin reached the 12th hole he decided to pul some distance between himself and his competition and promptly birdied the 12th. 13th and 14th holes. When Peete reached the 17th, a 140-yard par-3 surrounded by water, he hit a nine iron stoney, birdied the hole and split. During Saturday’s round, Peete hit one that got wet on the 17th. A routine par on the final hole broke the course record, held by Fred Couples, by 3 shots. • SPORTTA L K • SPORTT A L K • down the coach or the school, but the whole community.” It absolutely amazes me that loyalty to school and community is forever placed on the shoulders of the student athletes. When these angry coaches get a better offer to take their talents elsewhere, they will not be encum bered by such things as community loyalty and transfer rules. This fuss has come about because St. Mary's won both the stale basket ball and volleyball titles with athletes that transferred from public high schools in the Metro area. St. M ary’s officials insist they would not resist any rule changes. "That would be fine with us," said l.eann Leaver- ton, athletic director at St. Mary's Academy. “ W e've always followed the rules." CINDY'S HOME All-American Cindy Brown was home this week for spring vacaiion and dialling wiih her was truly my pleasure. Long Beach Stale was knocked oui o f the N C A A semifinals by Georgia and Cindy and I watched the tape o f the game together W atch ing this young lady mature as a player and individual makes me feel good As we watched the game, Cindy was making comments that were so knowledgeable about the game it Vlllanova 66 PG ZT II A I F to P r e s s le y , . . . . 4 0 4 -0 3 -4 5 1 1 11 Media i n . . . . . . 40 5 -7 7 -0 1 } 3 17 1 in c k n e y . . . . . 37 5 -7 6 -7 7 5 3 16 W llb u r . . . . 0 -0 0 -0 0 1 0 0 F ic d la in , . . 3 -3 2 -2 2 2 2 8 J t-nnen. . , . 5 -5 4-5 1 2 2 1 4 1 la n s k y . . . . . . 1 0 -0 0 -1 0 0 1 0 ¿ v e rs o n .. . . . . 3 0 -0 0 -0 0 0 0 0 ,9 14 12 T o ta ls 200 2 2 - 2 8 2 2 -2 7 surprised me. When her hoop days are behind her, the lady can have a coaching career ahead o f her. That’s far in the future because there are some great playing days in her future When the tape was over, Cindy headed out for the courts to let the kids know that her game was back in town. The boys over at Irving Park must hate to see her coming. Check out the related story on this page to see how her career at Cal Stale has been going. One day soon, Cindy Brown will be the topic o f conversa tion in women's basketball in this country. The lady can flat-out play. HORSERACING AT PORTLAND MEADOWS Wildcats bushwack Hoyas for NCAA title CHAM PIONSHIP BOX SCORE K • When you play a team that only misses 6 shots in the game and you kne by 2 points, there’s no need io hang your head. That seemed to be the philosophy that John Thompson took Monday night as his Hoyas were stopped in their bid to repeat as N C A A champions. In the last four years the Hoyas had their chances and lost two champion ships by a total o f three points, and they won one. If the Wildcats o f Vil- lanova had played the Celtics and shot 79 percent from the field, they could've won the N B A championship. (. rcdii Coach Massimino for a solid game plan Villanosa completely shut down the Hoyas inside game in the second half and nullified Patrick Fwing. I won’t go into the details of the game because if you're a fan you saw it and if you’re not you wouldn’t he reading this column Does that sound as if I lost a bet? This game was a prune example of what can happen in college hoops with out a shot dock. W’ith a shot dock forc ing the action, I ’m sure that the Wildcats could riot have shot such a tomd per centage from the field I’m whipping a dead horse and I know it but it will he a tragedy to see the college game go the way of the pros. POST T IM E Wed Fri. 7:00 p.m. Sat.-Sun.-1:30p.m. I________________ FREE COUPON Use This Coupon for FREE Admission at Any Gate My fiat is off to (. oach Thompson, wui iv kisc. His teams have won with style, and they kist the same way. You can't win them all! PO 66 SOUR GRAPES Georgetown 64 Brad Smith, girls basketball coach at Oregon City and president o f the girls high school basketball coaches association, says that his colleagues are quite angry. You won’t believe what they’re angry about. St. M ary’s back-to-back basketball champion ships have the coaches upset because they leel the Blues are taking advan tage of the transfer rules for student athletes. “ The coaches can rationalize in their minds that privaie schools have to recruit, not just athletes but any body, to stay alive,” Smith said. But it’s tough to count on a kid for three years, pul a lot o f time and en ergy into her, then the kid is gong to a competing school. 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