TEN The Gazette-Times, Heppner, Ore.. Thursday, Feb. 21, l!7
Parker scores 29 in win
Jim Parker scored 29 points
I last Tuesday to lead Hep
I pner's freshmen past Sher-
man County in the season
f ender, 43-32.
'S. Parker has scored 94 points
in the last four eames for a
23.5 average. He was 13 for 25
from the field and three for
four from the line. Along with
the points, he pulled down 15
rebounds.
Heppner built a 24-16 half
time edge and coasted home
PAC 8 Standings
OREGON
UCLA
Oregon St.
Washington St.
Washington
ISC
California
Stanford
Call it gradual takeover.
Given time. Northwest schools
will commandeer the Pac 8
basketball conference.
K.IGK.IN' l (Continued on page 8
Sorry Bill, You lose.
UCLA matches up with Greenwood and Johnson and
Vroman and Hamilton and Spillane? Or Wilkes or Townsend
or Vandeweghe?
You know, when you judge a m mi
team in comparing with re
cords, UCLA will always be
first. The team has a crippling
dynasty that in my estima
tions, has lived about two
years too long. It dies with
John Wooden.
The Wizard of Westwood
was UCLA's dynasty. Sure,
players have come out of
UCLA like no other players.
Guys like Kareem Abdul
Jabbarr and the great red
head, Portland's Bill Walton.
A whole other story. The
Blazers and the Ducks have
got this writer's approval. tmaimmmm
Bighaus probably likes the Lakers.
But I must sum this up. I put it on the line with the facts
both ways. UCLA is a great school with a great history in
basketball.
Oregon is a great school with a great history in basketball.
We want to match histories? UCLA has the basketball nod.
But Oregon has their own, because they've beaten that
great UCLA three times in the last three matchups. It will go
down in history.
If we talk about now: it'sOregon. If we talk about then: it's
UCLA.
Sorry, Bill. You lose. I'd like to stop, but my fingers say no.
Read on, Bill. I hope you enjoy reading this as much as I
enjoy writing it.
And Bill, why do you take it so hard? When the facts are
presented to you in such a way as to try to console you.
May I suggest some short, easy reading on the subject. It
appeared under the heading Pasero Says in the Tuesday
Oregon Journal, for years one of the top sports-minded
newspapers in the United States.
Pasero talks about John Wooden, too, and how Oregon's
leader, Dick Harter, vowed to beat UCLA even in 1973.
Harter is going to be another Wooden, only in that he'll be a
winner and a strategist and a defensive wizard. On the
regionally televised UCLA-Oregon clash Saturday, network
sports commentators said Dick Harter should be the shoe-in
for coach of the year.
His player talent is only minimal. Bill, but Harter gets its
maximum. What, tell me, would Oregon be doing if Stu
Jackson and Dick Hartshorne hadn't been accidentally
injured in freak accidents this summer? They would have
been destroying people. ..I'CLA by bigger margins than
they've already had.
While I'm on a hot streak, let's go for broke. Harter has
been criticized by even John Wooden for his style of play. In
Pasero Tuesday, the Journal editor remembered some other
coaches' and fans' lines about the Ducks' defense.
Wooden said it was like a wrestling match. Agreed. It's
been termed Kung fu, karate, kamikaze with which the
Ducks have been suitably nicknamed the Kamikaze Kids.
One Bay Area sports writer put it this way: "They use a
man-to-man defense that resembles the bump and run, hurl
themselves on the floor in pursuit of loose balls, or their
opponents."
Harter also puts it mildly. "Basketball isn't ballet." He
said that to Wooden in 1973. He said, "Our style won't change.
But we'll come at him with better players."
Dick Harter and Oregon's style hasn't changed. They
figure it's worth winning. They threw better players at UCLA
and they won.
The coach is better. The players are better. And the fans
are better. Saturday, the second half Oregon play against the
big Bruins has already been described as "candy time."
John Murray, who scored 14 points Saturday, said, "We
started playing our 'D'. They missed a few shots, took some
bad ones, turned the ball over."
I'CLA had built a 37-29 halftime lead. And Oregon threw
their aggressive, ball hawking, harassing defense at the
Bruins.
And Biii. it s very legal. The Ducks have been called for 200
fouls more than UCLA this year. They pay the fouling price.
And amazingly, they are great charity stripe connectors.
Oregon had one more foul Saturday, 15-14. They played
good, aggressive ball hawking, harassing defense, and they
did it cleanly.
Am I persuading you to see the light, Bill?
Harter even got pegged for his usual technical foul. The
Ducks play to win. And, I won't wear it out by saying it again :
they beat the Bruins, Bill.
Enough of this. It's the first time I've had a chance to put in
a word edgewise with you on this subject. But as you can see,
I won't rub it in or go to extremes. You're still my friend, Bill.
Pasero says it best about the fans, the big plus in Oregon
favor, along with the likes of Harter and the players them
selves. Pasero writes : "Students had made a campground of Mac
Court entrance since Thursday. ..Once inside, they made it a
celebration... circus time. ..with the band playing, stunts and
signs, the Frisbees, and a basket of apples and oranges for
Marques Johnson, who had been quoted in Basketball Weekly
as saying Pit fans were deranged and instead of throwing
paper, threw apples and oranges. Even the rendition of the
Star Spangled Banner was given a fast tempo. The three
seniors Greg Ballard, Greg Graham and Ernie Kent were
the captains. Parents of most of the players had come in from
wherever. John Murray's parents had come for the Far West
Classic, instead. ..but John ran to the phone booth to give
them the news of the win. "My mom, she just flipped out,"
Murray said. "She started crying."
Murray is only a freshman, but he summarizes the entire
Puck attitude when he said: "We work so hard to always give
110 per cent. ..and when we see UCLA on their uniforms, we
know they have a name. So when we beat them, that's the
best feeling. ..the best feeling."
The Bruins are good, Bill. They might win the Pac 8; but
they aren't better than the Oregon Ducks. I guess nobody is.
with the win. Steve Marlatt
and Eric Clow each had five
points for Heppner. DeGrange
had 16 for Sherman County.
Heppner 13 1 1 8 9 43
Sherman 10 16 24 32
Heppner: Parker 29, Mar
latt 5, Clow 5, Palmer 2,
McCarl 2.
Columbia LL nsimes officers
Columbia Little League As
sociation held their first
meeting of the year last week
at Umatilla City Hall. Officers
for the coming year were
elected.
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lone's Junior High girls figure they won the Umatilla Jamboree
Saturday. No trophies or official stats were kept, but lone
cruised to two victories, taking Heppner, 8-7, and then Umatilla,
15-12. In both games, it was Mary Kincaid leading the way. She
had 18 points in the two ball games. Annie Murray had four and
Margaret Kincaid added one. (Gazette-Times photo)
Kegler's
Korner
(KDITOR'S NOTE: The Gazette-Times would be happy to
print league results from bowling leagues at Fiesta Bowl.
However, we must know some sort of lineage each week. For the
past few weeks, the results have been hit and miss. One week it
will be one league and the next another. Still, other weeks
nothing comes through the door. We ask that league secretaries
take five minutes each week and compile up to date results and
turn them into the Gazette-Times office on Friday or Monday.
Thank you for ynur cooperation. WCP)
Central Market dusted off Morrow County Grain Growers in
four games, to take sole ownership of first place in Kegler's
Korner action during the week of Feb. 7.
Central, 19-5, held an impressive lead over second place
Fiesta Bowl and MCGG at 13-11. In other matchups that week,
Peterson's downed Coast-to-Coast four times and Fiesta Bowl
won three from Gardner's.
fnetia Cantin, Peterson's, took high honors for high game of
224 and high series with a 537. Central Market took high game
with a 945 and a 2707 series.
Standings
Central Market 19 5
Fiesta Bowl 13 11
MCGG 13 11
Gardner's 11 13
Peterson's 10 14
Coast-to-Coast 6 18
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Officers elected are Ron
Douglas, Irrigon, president;
Kaye Trumbell, Boardman,
vice-president; Don Leighton,
Boardman, secretary -treasurer
and public relations; Keith
Follett, Umatilla, safety
agent; John Poorman, Uma
tilla, player agent.
Field representatives were
also elected. Thelma Marcum
will represent Stanfield: John
Poorman, Umatilla; Bob
Byrd. Irrigon; Don Leighton,
Boardman; and Echo had no
one available as yet.
Carla Leighton, Boardman,
is assistant district adminis
trator for the east end of
district 5, which includes
Columbia, Hermiston and Wil
low Creek Little League
programs.
Registration dates and
places for Columbia Little
Leaguers follow: Feb. 2610
a.m.-noon, Riverside High
School, Boardman; Feb. 26
1-3 p.m., A.C. Houghton Ele
mentary, Irrigon; Feb. 287-8
p.m., Grade School, Stanfield;
Mar. 510 a.m.-2 p.m., Fine
Hall, Umatilla.
No time, date or place has
been set for Echo. Children
ages 8-12, boy or girl, who
reaches that age by or before
Aug. 1, 1977 is eligible to
participate. Children must be
accompanied by a parentjor
legal guardian and are asked
to bring a birth certificate for
registration. Fees, which in
clude hats, are $10 for one
child; $18 for two children;
and $25 for three or more
children.
The next meeting of the,
Columbia Little League is set
for Mar. 13, at 2 p.m. "at
Umatilla City Hall. For fur
ther information, contact Don
Leighton in Boardman "St
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