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Girls find mentor in Carline Continued from Metro g irls.” Carline arrived and the girls were soon in a circle, hearing his pep talk about exercising during the Thanksgiving holiday. “D on’t just sit around for four days eating turkey sandwiches, or I the next team will kill you,’ he said. Carline urged them to “be thankful, not just tor the material things, but the friendships, your coaches, everything." “Now, let’s work hard today," he I said, quickly leading various exer cises and small groups working off each other’s energy and skills. “1 teach the girls that if they keep their grades together and work I hard, there are opportunities out there for them,” Carline told The Portland Observer, pointing to a I “ strin g o f su c c e sse s,” fo rm er Benson players who now play ma jo r college ball Some won scholarships right I away, he tells the girls, while oth ers walked on after earning good I grades and winning a spot on the I team and a scholarship. The Benson plan has worked so well, several graduates are playing college baskethall now and Carline I keeps hoping for college recruit ers to show up in the Benson stands more often. Some have won scholarships, like Mfon Udoka (class ot ’94) and I now a senior basketball star at DePaul University, Chicago. (She has been tagged by USA I oday as the nation's lop rebounder in women s bas ketball. And she is one ot five players in DePaul history to have 1,000 points, 7(X) rebounds and l(X) steals. When Sarah Green was at Benson, she led the state in scoring in her senior year and won a scholarship to the University of Portland. Persistence is as important as grades, Carline tells his girls, noting Reshawn Lewis, who "had great grades and gixxl basketball skills, didn’t get recruited, but walked on at the University of Or egon and made the team " He also recalled M onica Watts who played on a junior college bas ketball court for two years before transferring to Oregon State Uni versity, walking on the court, earn ing a scholarship, and now averag ing 13 points and 8 rebounds a game Similarly, Kim Green, Sara s sis ter, was getting good grades at the University of Portland, where she is a senior, walked on to the basket ball court, and played so well in her freshman year, they gave her a schol arship for the next three years. “We expect the kids to have at least 2.0 grade point average to try out for the team," he said. “But our goal is to get them to a 2.5 or better by the end of the year.” With a combined roster of 38 girls on the varsity, freshman and junior varsity teams, “our saying this year is ‘W inning with Team w ork’ and that includes players, coaches, parents and teachers,” said Carline "Everybody is involved. “ I'm so happy with these girls, a great bunch ot kids,' he said. Al Each practice is a bit different, with weight training on Tuesdays, jum propeon Wednesdays, andcon- stantly asking “Are you having tun yet?” then telling them, “I’m hav ing fun too.” “If you do stuff like that, the winning will com e,” he notes. "But you have won already, the way you act and carry yourself.” C a rlin e o fte n ta lk s ab o u t “sportsmanship, how to handle dif ferent situations, being scared, having intensity and all the things you need on the court to be suc cessful - that carries into the class room .” This is his 12th year at Benson, where he also serves as drug and alcohol coordinator. “I’ve wanted to coach since seventh grade in Los Angeles, said Carline, who earned a physical education de gree and played at Pacific University, Forest Grove, then started coaching middle school children in basketball, track and volleyball. He attributes his own success to parental motivation that "put me on the road” and inspiration from his junior college coach Jim Thompson. But in the end, “I did all the sprints, ran the relays, did the triple jum p and long jum p and played basketball,” he said. Carline, 41, and wife, Debra have been married for 14 years. They have four children: Denise (14), Daedra (8), Delissa (7), and Den nis Jr. (2). though not as tall as some teams, “they are quick, have good skills and are hard workers.” h ■ J uâsn — » ison freshman Serena Washington makes the pass as boacn Sprewell spars with PJ Draws 10 game suspension for attack' Latrell Sprewell has been sus pended indefinitely for what the team said was an attack on P.J. C arlesimo during practice, and the star guard reportedly threatened to “kill the coach. “We aren’t going to tolerate the conduct that was displayed on the court," general manager Garry St. Jean said at a Monday night news conference. Sprewell, leading the W arriors with a 21.4 scoring average, is sus pended without pay for at least 10 games, starting with W ednesday’s home game against Cleveland. A 10- game suspension would cost the three-time All-Star guard $935,000 of his $7.7 million salary. Carlesimo, saddled with a 1-13 record in his first year as coach at Golden State, said he and Sprewell argued twice during a drill in prac tice Monday. “I asked Spre to leave practice. He didn’t, and words kind of esca lated to some physical contact,” he said, refusing to say how he got a scratch on his neck. O'Neal looks for Good Samaritan Jermaine O ’Neal ofthe Trail Blaz ers would like to thank the man who got him out o f his car after a hit-and- run accident last week, but the man is nowhere to be found. “ My mom said the guy was an angel. It makes you wonder,” O ’Neal said. “Nobody else but me saw him, and when I turned around, he was gone.” O ’N eal’s mother, Angela Ocean, is certain. “ It was an angel; that’s why they can't find him,” she said Sunday from her home in Columbia, S.C. "I always ask God to take care o f my children, and he does.” O ’Neal found him self trapped in his Lexus after another vehicle knocked it into a ditch about 1:30 a m. Thursday near his home in west Portland. O ’Neal was returning from Port land International Airport after a game in Minneapolis. He was treated for a bruised left shoulder and a bruised shin and given six stitches for a cut near his left eye. The driver o f the other car, Brian Christopher Wolfe, 25, o f Canby, • 89-1 FM The JAZZ Station Traditional JAZZ every Saturday & Sunday at 9 a.m. PGE's Ed Bunn. On call, on the move around the clock. with the Big Band Sounds on Sunday afternoons MT. HOOD CO M M UNITY COLLEGE • GRESHAM As part of PGE's Eagle repair and restoration crew, Ed brings his truck home and is always ready to r o ll- 24 hours a day, seven days a week. 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