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Alio in this MCtion: NATIONAL NEWS COMICS INTERNATIONAL NEWS ALBANY DEMOCRAT-HERALD Cy FRIDAY. MARCH 21. 1980 15 -A Michigan star saysho'll sign Orogon letter of intent OSU rallies to upset Mississippi in WIT dobut carregul 12 and All-American center Carol Menken 20 to pace the come-from-behind victory. Menken bad a team-high 13 rebounds and made I of 12 shots afield, Becker was 6 of 8, and Betty Collings handed out five assists for OSU. In other opening round games Thursday, North Carolina stopped Illinois State 84-73, and Virginia topped Wayland Baptist 67-62.

OSU is now 21-8, Mississippi College fell to 21-7. OREGON STATE Badur II RIH 2. Clrt 14. MoM I. CsiUngi 4.

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Crtffla 4. On M. Pamti I ToUU W-M 20 28 71 tUlfUnr MtaMippI 17, OSU S. season, 6.5 assists and 7 rebounds. His team reached the state quarterfinals before losing.

Cofleld had 23 points In the team's final pme. Oregon was the only school to recruit Cofleld for basketball only he was a football quarterback but Syracuse, Michigan, Iowa, Michigan State, West Virginia and Pittsburgh also recruited him. The BC scouting service of St. Petersburg, said Cofleld was "the best senior guard In Michigan." Added Haney: "He possesses the athletic ability to do a lot of things, shoot, pass, rebound and lead. Therefore, he can beat you In a lot of ways It leads one to believe that he can come in and adapt fairly well as far as providing leadership." AMARILLO, Texas Oregon State's women's basketball team, down 71-69 with two minutes to play, outscored favored Mississippi College 10-1 down the stretch to win an opening round game in the National Women's Invitational Tourament here Thursday night.

The Beavers will meet No. 1 seed Clemson, a winner over Drake Thursday night, at 7 o'clock tonight in the semifinals of the. eight-team tournament. It was some clever passing and defense by OSU's Margie Becker and Chris Acarregul -and a blistering 66 percent field goal shooting that enabled the Beavers to rally for the victory. Becker finished with 18 points, Ac- EUGENE Fred Cofleld, a 8-foot 2', 185-pound guard from Ypsllanti, has informed University of Oregon basketball Coach Jim Haney that he will accept a scholarship to play at UO next year.

Cofleld Is the second player to announce his intent to enroll at Oregon. Earlier, John Cheatham, a 6-4 guard from Phoenix, who was named the Most Valuable Player In the Arizona state tournament, announced for the Ducks. Neither can sip a letter-of intent until April 8, the first day to do so. Cheathem is considered wing man, Cofleld exclusively a point guard. "He's the kind of py who wants to run the show," UO assistant coach Jim O'Brien said.

Cofleld averaged 21 points a game this Foe UCLA, dYs 'stop GsarwW; ffoir flovva, Bti's 'stop Griffith' i I i 'sjvi I I I I it ki 1 lowa-Loulavllle: Che. 8-13, 10 a.m. UCLA Purdua: Che. 13, 1p.m. INDIANAPOLIS (AP) UCLA Coach Larry Brown knows the tall task facing his Bruins if they plan to write another chapter in their Cinderella success story: Stop Joe Barry Carroll.

"Carroll Is a dominating player, certainly the key man on their team," Brown said of Purdue's 7-foot-1, 245 pound All-America center. "The only player on the West Coast who compares to Joe Barry performs tor the Lakers." It may be exaggerating to rank Carroll alongside Los Angeles Lakers pivotman Kareem Abdul Jabber. However, how well the young Bruins meet the challenge Carroll presents will go a long way toward determining the outcome of Saturday's semifinal of the NCAA basketball championship between unranked UCLA, 21-9, and the 20th-ranked Boilermakers, 22-t. No. 2 Louisville, 31-3, takes on unranked Iowa, 234, In the opener of Saturday's doubleheader before a sellout crowd of some 17,000 at Market Square Arena and a national television audience.

The winners will meet for the title Monday night. The first game will feature two of the premier guards In the nation, Louisville's Darrell Griffith and Iowa's Ronnie Lester. The spotlight In the second game will be focused squarely on Carroll, who Is regarded by most scouts as the one college senior capable of stepping Into the pro ranks and turning a team around. He averaged 22.1 points and 1.1 rebounds per game during the regular season, and has picked those numbers up to 26.S and I (or his four NCAA tournament games so far. Ex-Marquette Coach Al McGulre calls Carroll "'an aircraft carrier." DePaul Coach Ray Meyer describes him as "a skyscraper, the kind of guy Carroll because of a knee injury that still bothers bim.

Iowa was 15-1 this season with Lester, 8-7 without him. "Our team plays well without Ronnie, but we play better with him," said Iowa Coach Lute Olson. "There is a feeling of security knowing No. 12 Is out there. He is like a security blanket." Louisville has a similar player in Griffith, an All-America who like Lester is his school's leading scorer.

The 6-foot-4 Griffith averaged 22.8 points per game on .549 shooting and bad 40 dunks, many of them flashy enough to explain the nickname Dr. Dunkenstein. This will be Louisville's third trip to the Final Four under Cm. The Cardinals lost both previous times to UCLA where Crura served as an assistant coach in the semifinals in 1872 and the finals in 1975. As the only highly ranked team here, Louisville must rate as the favorite.

And Cram has tried hard this week to lessen that burden. "We're trying to approach this weekend the same as any other," he said. "It's difficult, though, because of the pressure from students, fans and the media. But some day you've just got to draw the line and say, 'Hey, we've got a basketball game to That day comes Saturday. THE WOMEN'S FINAL FOUR MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich.

(AP) Four women's basketball teams from down South begin play tonight for the 1980 AIAW championship. South Carolina, 23-5, will meet Tennessee, 32-4, in the opener. Virginia's Old Dominion, defending hamp ion and tournament favorite with a 35-1 record, a 25-game victory streak and three of the nation's top players, meets Louisiana Tech, 40-1 Griffith UCLA def endet James Wilkes who scores more points by accident than those little guys score on purpose. And St. John's Coach Lou Carnesecca, whose team was beaten by Purdue 87-72 In the Mideast Regional, sayi Carroll will need "a Brinks truck" when be turns pro.

"Once be gets the ball down low," adds Carnesecca. "he's unstoppable." Brows knows that aU too well, and has designed bis game plan accordingly. "There's no doubt in my mind what the key to stopping Purdue is." he said. "We have to keep the ball from Carroll. Once he gets it, there's not much chance for us to stop him." The problem Is particularly acute for UCLA, whose starting center Is Moot -8 sophomore Mike Sanders, one of the shortest regular plvotmen In the major college ranks.

Iowa guard Ronnie Lester "We have tremendous quickness and jumping ability Inside. Our man-to-man defense gives each guy the responsibility for working bard on his man and blocking him out. "But do one we've faced this year compares to Carroll." Nevertheless, Purdue Coach Lee Rose isn't taking anything for granted. "I'm very impressed with their quickness, especially when they go to the boards." he said. In the first game, Iowa will seek to extend its unbeaten streak against opponents from outside the Big Ten Conference.

Hie Hawkey es, who tied for fourth place in the conference with a 10-8 record, were 13-0 against outside foes. Their success may hinge on the health of Lester, their 8-2 senior guard who missed 15 games But It was Brown's mklseason decision to move Sanders, as well as freshman guards Rod Foster and Michael Holton, into the starting lineup that turned UCLA's season around. The Bruins, who struggled to an 8-8 start, went 13-3 with their new lineup of the young trio plus senior forwards Kiki Vandeweghe and James WUkes. Wilkes is UCLA's top defensive player. "We went through some difficult times," said Brown.

"We played a lot of people early. When we were 8-8 it was time we started building a foundation for the future. I decided to go with the kids because they deserved a chance to play." And play they have, knocking off top-ranked DePaul In the second round of the tournament and outreboundlng their four opponents 150-142. "We've rebounded well all year," said Brown. it As group, Linn-Benton's 1980 track team labeled among school's best yet i i 4 A TV 1 4 VI Ml ir Hi4 111 Class AA, A track: Jantzi title-bound? By JEFF KINO Democrat Herald Wrltar HALSEY If they made a film of Rick Jantxi'i track career it would appear on That Incredible.

For a narrator they'd have Boris Kaiioff or Vincent Price. In book form you'd find It listed under mysteries. On the track Jantzi has been exactly that. A mystery. He bss the potential to be a state champion in the quarter mile, but the Central Linn High School junior has never made It.

At the Class AA state meet last spring he jumped the start of the 400 finals and watched the rest of the meet from the stands. He was favored to win the event. Last year he ran one of the fastest quarters in Class yet didn't place. "I thought maybe I was jinxed," he said. "I didn't know what was going on.

"I trained so narctfor the state meet last year and then had to watch the other guys run. It really hurt bad. I started crying. I felt funny doing that In front of all these people, but I couldn't help It." At the Oregon Indoor In January Jantzi was running second In the 500 when he fell on a turn, finishing fourth. "Someone pushed me," he said.

His career has been punctuated by bad luck. He's practiced Murphy's Law. If something could go wrong, it has. Until recently. Last month at the Simplot Indoor games at Pocatello, Idaho labeled the biggest high school track meet In the country Jantzi finished first In the 400.

The kid from Halsey had beaten some of the best prep runners In the country. He won three heats to get to the finals; he had to finish first in the opening race or be would've been eliminated. "Most of the runners were from Idaho and from hearing other people they were supposed to be pretty said Jantzi. "I was really scared. I arrived In Idaho by train at six or seven In the morning, and I bad to run at one o'clock that same day.

I was hard." After two years of near misses, Jantzi finally finished at the top. He was champion. "I was supposed to go for my award, but I wanted to find Mr. Marshall (Central linn track coach CTyde Marshall) first and tell him I finally did it." No one deserved It more than Jantzi. He trained for this meet after basketball practice in the winter, and ran on weekends.

He ran alone. Track season doesn't officially open until next week, but that hasn't kept Jantzi out of the blocks. He wants to be ready for that weekend in late May, the state meet, "I want to get under 50 seconds in the quarter," he said. "I've been working hard for it. I've done more with my form work, and have started a weight program.

After the meet last year I realized that I still had two years left" To reach that one goal. MID-VALLEY AA.A OUTLOOK CENTRAL LINN; Lacks depth and won't be strong dual-meet team, yet has several quality athletes. Beside Jantzi, there's Mike Babcock in the shot put and mile relay, Tim Fisher In the javelin, Joe LaCoste and Carl Rominei In the sprints, Scott Rambousek in distances, Perry Provratsky in the quarter and high Jump, John Manning in the discus, and Todd Campfleld i i li Two months ago, prospects for the 1380 track season at Linn-Benton Community College weren't too shabby. "At that time I'd have said we would be devastating," Roadrunner Coach Dave Bakley says. "But then we lost some people academically, financially and some to Job situations." Now it looks as if LBCC will merely be good; if everything goes according to Hoyle, the Roadrunners could have the best track and field season for men and women in the school's history.

"We've been weakened in some areas, but we have the ability to have as strong as team as we've ever had," Bakley said. "We've got more talented Individuals than we've had for a long time." The Roadrunners officially begin the season Saturday at the Oregon State Invitational at CorvaUis' Wayne Valley Field. Athletes from OSU, Oregon, Eastern Washington State, Pacific, Chemeketa, Linfleld, Willamette, Clackamas, Lewis Clark, Oregon Tech and Southwestern Oregon College are entered. First event, the 10,000 meters, is at 10:15 a.m. The main portion of the meet is 12:30 p.m.

Bakley figures to Involve all 30-odd LBCC athletes in the meet Here's a capsule summary of the 1980 Roadrunners: MEN'S TEAM Three distance runners John Critters (Rex Putnam), Garry Killgore (South Albany) and Jim Jeter (Aloha) are perhaps the finest in LBCC history. "All three are capable of competing on the national level," Bakley says. The threesome will run varied events, from the 800 meters to the steeplechase. Pole-vaulter, hurdler Tim Bright, a sophomore from Phoenix, placed fourth in the nation last year in pole vault (16-0) and is thus an Ail-American. He could win it all this year.

He was the OC-CAA champion in hurdles and "is an exceptional athlete," according to Bailey, "with a chance to reach 17-feet this year." Sprinter Mark Vaughan, a freshman from CorvaUis High School, could be the best In the OCCAA. "He's going to reestablish every sprinting record we have," Bakley said. "He doesn't have a lot of experience, but, boy, does he run fast. He can run on the national level." Vaughan will be helped in the sprints and relays by two former West Albany athletes, Tim Smith and Bill Peacock. The two helped West to an unbeaten dual meet season in 1979.

Elsewhere in the track events, distance runners Mark Wood (Alaska), Roger McKay (Jefferson), Jeff Clifton (Albany) give Bakley some of the best depth he's had. In field events, Stayton freshman Jeff ft K3 I at. --wJtrar Central Unn's Rick Jantzi: Going for state title. LBCC's Dave Bakley Goyins (a member of the LBCC basketball team) is a gifted high Jumper. He cleared 6-8 In high school and might also compete in hurdles and relays for the Roadrunners.

"He can fill a lot of slots," Bakley says. "He's very valuable." Grant Herring (Newberg) is a newcomer in the decathlon, javelin and hurdles, while Tillamook's John Jenson will compete in shot put and discus. Former South Albany athlete Phil Kill-inger is a hammer-shot-discus competitor, while Scio's Bill Lassetter will try the decathlon, discus and javelin. WOMEN'S TEAM Considering that Lebanon's Trina Marvin finished second in the nation In the discus and fourth in the shot put last year "alone, she was 11th in the nation as a team," Bakley says and that she is back for her sophomore year, the Roadrunners have a chance to move within the nation's top 10. "Maybe even the top five," according to Bakley.

Tillamook sophomore Jean Melson is a three-time state shot put champion. Lebanon freshman Debbie Prince will compete in the 800, 1500 and relays. Both were members of the 23-victory LBCC women's basketball team. "But." Bakley says, "I think Melson and Prince have more opportunity to excel in track than any other sport. They both have a chance to finish in the top four or six in nationals if they keep going." Joining Marvin.

Melson and Prince are two Scio athletes, Linda Friesen (relays, 800, 1500) and Janice Kalina (shot discus). And two Philomath athletes, Denise Potts (shot. Javelin) and Teresa Littleton (relays, sprints, hurdles). Pat Gements is a sprinter and long jumper, rounding out the team. Duran in distances, Tori Downing in discus, Diana Debus in sprints.

"We have our best turnout in 10 years," Flsk said. The prospects for the boys are very bright." HARRIsBURG: The Eagles are weak team wise, yet has several good individuals: Cory Peppard In the high jump (defending district champ), Kent Bowers In the 800, Bruce Stegner in the triple Jump and javelin, Curt Rasmussen and Brian Sheiby in the high jump, Randy O'Shea In the pole vault; be took fourth at the Class A meet last year at 12-4. Michelle Baker returns in the distances, Karen Seymour In the high jump, Sandy Holland in the hurdles and Linda Jentzsch In hurdles and sprints. SCIO: The Loggers are having problems with numbers. Coach John Donovan's boys have some strong individuals, namely Rich LaBrasseur in the middle distances, Tony Lagler in the high Jump and hurdles, Pat Ortiz in the jumps, Eric Straw In the Javelin.

Only two girls have been practicing regularly, and both have good potential: Jamie Ortiz to middle distances and Carol McCormack in the hurdles. in the high Jump. In girls' events, Susan Grossnlcklaus, the district champion in the 400, returns, as do Irish Robb in the 800 and mile, and Jennifer Frey in the mile. Freshman Javelin thrower Connie Reynolds and hurdler-long Jumper Val Koontz are other principal figures. "We Just don't have the numbers," said Central Linn Coach Percy Benedict "We'll get the firsts, but not the seconds and thirds you need to win meets." JEFFERSON: One of three Yawama League boys' teams regarded as contenders.

"We have at least one outstanding Individual In all but one event," said Jefferson Coach Wayne Flsk. Returning are district shot put and discus champion Forrest Grtiiel, and Darren McGW, a district champ In the 100 and runnerup In 200. Other top athletes include Rick Threet in the pole vault, Blair Albertson In the sprints, and distance runners DIno Yzagulrre, Bob AguOar, and Dwtght Larabee. Girls' team not as deep, but still expected to do well in dual-meet season. The top athletes, among others, are Lori Madsen and Kandl Patrick in sprints, Linda.