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Jerry Heard Wins Citrus By 3 Strokes

Bv BOB GREEN AP Golf Writer

ORLANDO. Fla. (AP) - Jer-ry Heard, considered one of pro golf's brightest young stars un-til he began a futile, frustrating search for perfection, says he's straightened out his act on some advice from his wife.

"She's watching me hit those big hooks in the woods and she says. 'What the hell are you doing? 'Why don't you go back to the way you played be-fore0-" Heard said.

He did. and the result was a front-running, three-stroke vic-tory over Homero Blancas and Jim Jamfeson Sunday in the S150.000 Citrus Open.

Heard, occasionally whistling softly to himself, fashioned a three-under-par 69 in the final round and won with a 273 total. 15 under par on the 6.929-yard Rio Pinar Country Club course and comfortably in front of Blancas and Jamieson, tied at 276.

Jamieson, playing in only his second event after returning from an injury absence, had a 67 in the bright, warm sunshine and Blancas took a 70.

South African Bobby Cole. 69, and Bob Murphy, who once got to within a single shot of the lead midway through the last round, tied at 277. Murphy had a closing 71.

The group at 278 included Lee Elder, Chi Chi Rodriguez. Bruce Crampton of Australia and Leonard Thompson, who scored his first professional vic-tory just a week ago. Elder had a 69, Rodriguez 71. Crampton 70 and Thompson 72.

Lee Trevino matched par 72 in the last round for 284 and Arnold Palmer went to 74—278. Jack Nicklaus. Tom Weiskopf and Johnny Miller didn't play here.

Potsdam Taking On Larries In NCAA Regional

By The Associated Press Potsdam State goes against

St. Lawrence Tuesday in the NCAA Eastern Regional Col-lege Division tournament. But the Bears haven't been-taking it easy while they wait for the big game.

AVith center Ted Bence pour-ing in 30 points and forward Mike Deane notching his 1,000th career assist and adding 17 points. Potsdam State walloped New Paltz State 103-85 Satur-day, giving the Bears the State University of New York Confer-ence Championships.

Potsdam State finished regu-lar season play with a 20-6 over-all mark.

In other college basketball games Saturday involving up-state New York teams. Syr-acuse whipped Colgate 64-57; Albany State nipped Ithaca 74-73: Larry Fogle's 26 points helped lift Canisius over Niag-ara 68-64: LeMoyne downed tournament-bound Siena 87-81. and Pennsylvania dumped hap-less Cornell 84-68.

Senior guard Tom Juknis scored 33 points and tied the school record for most points in a career with 1.006 in Rensse-laer Polytechnic's 95-74 victory over Middlebury. and Gordon Turner scored a school record 45 points to spark Rochester pas* Buffalo State 106-95.

Guard Jimmy Lee hit for 15 points as Syracuse, bound for post-season NCAA competition, wound up regular season play at 19-6. Colgate finished 15-10.

Byron Miller tossed in 22 points for Albany State. 16-7, which overcame a 59-58 deficit late in the game against Ith-. aca.

Fogle's 26 points were eight below his average but the na-tion's leading scorer had help from forward Kenny Kee. who fired in 22 points to boost Ca-nisius' mark to 14-11. Niagara closed the season at 12-14.

Siena faces Jersey City State in the opening-round NCAA Col-lege Division regionals but Le-Moyne didn't seem impressed, coming back from a halftime deficit to record its 14th win against 10 losses. Rich May-scored 22 for the victors.

Cornell bowed out with one of its worst basketball seasons ever. 3-23 over-all and 1-13 in the Ivy League, despite 29 points from Abbie Lucas in the loss to Pennsylvania?" Penn had already captured its fifth con-secutive Ivy title.

In other contests. Ed Robota scored 18 points to lead Gen-eseo State over Fredonia State 47-43: Willy Sanders' 17 points helped Brockport State crush Cortland State 85-56; Elmira defeated Roberts Wesleyan 56-49 to win the Private College Athletic Conference champion-ship; Eisenhower dumped Alba-ny College of Pharmacy 83-76; Bill Marion hit for 27 points to lead Binghamton State over Utica 78-74, and Oneonta State nipped Pittsburgh State 39-37.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Fi-nal top scores and money win-nings Sunday in the $150,000 Cirtus Open Golf Tournament on the 6.929-yard, par-72 Rio Pinar Country Club course: Jerry Heard

$30,000 67-68-69-69—273 Jim Jamieson S13.875 70-72-67-67—276 Homero Blancas $13,875 71-69-66-70—276 Bob Murphy $6,600 71-67-68-71-277 Bobby Cole $6,600 70-71-67-69—277 Chi Chi Rodriguez $4,669 71-68-68-71-278 Bruce Crampton $4,669 69-73-66-70-278 Leonard Thompson $4,669 68-69-69-72-278 Lee Elder $4,669 71-70-68-69—278 Hale Irwin $3,450 71-69-68-71—279 Hubert Green $3,450 70-70-72-67—279 Richard Cawford -S3.450 67-71-74-67—279

Louisville, Texas, Vanderbilt Clinch, Make NCAA Playoffs By KEN RAPPOPORT

AP Sports Writer The NCAA's postseason bas-

ketball party is getting crowded. More guests are ar-riving by the day and it should be a bouncy affair.

Louisville. Vanderbilt and Texas are among nine new faces in the NCAA playoffs. They made the prestgious guest list after clinching conference titles Saturday.

Louisville defeated Bradley 87-84 to win the Missouri Valley Conference championship; Van-derbilt clinched the South-eastern Conference title with a 71-69 victory over Kentucky and Texas was the winner in the Southwest Conference after beating Baylor 95-84.

In addition. New Mexico won the Western Athletic Confer-ence championship by beating Texas-EI Paso 67-55; Furman won the Southern Conference by stopping Richmond 62-60: St. Joseph's.Pa.. trimmed LaSalle

76-71 to win the Middle Atlantic Conference University Division championship; San Francisco won the West Coast Athletic Conference by beating St. Mary's 80-70 and Ohio Univer-sity took the Mid-American Conference with a 71-70 trimm-ing of Bowling Green.

Long Beach State finished first in the Pacific Coast Athlet-ic Conference race with a 76-52 victory over the University of the Pacific, but can't play in the NCAA playoffs because of recruiting violations. Los Ange-les State, the No. 2 team in the PCAC, will be the representa-tive. The runnerups beat UC-Santa Barbara 93-87 Saturday night.

The new additions bring the NCAA field to 19, leaving five more openings for certain other conference champions. Penn became the first major confer-ence champion in the land, win-ning the Ivy League crown for the fifth straight year Friday

night. The NCAA last week in-vited nine independents to its 25-team affair.

Louisville, the nation's 20th-ranked team, went down to the bitter end — and then some — for the MVC-cIincher. Ulysses Bridgeman made a three-point play in the closing seconds of overtime to win it.

Dave Klobucher and Jim Caruthers made jump shots in the final 58 seconds to tie the score at 76 at the end of regu-lation. Bradley took an early-lead in overtime but the Braves buckled . under Bridgeman's shooting.

After Louisville tied the game at 84. with Bridgeman contrib-uting a key field goal in the ral-ly, he scored on a layup and made a free throw for the final margin.

Vanderbilt's SEC title was made possible by a com-bination of the Commodores' victory and a loss by Alabama. The Crimson Tide, the nation's

No. 7 team, was upset by Flori-da 64-61.

Actually, the Commodores clinched a tie for the confer-ence championship but will go to the NCAA playoffs because they've beaten Alabama tw.ce this season.

Vanderbilt, No. 6 in the coun-try, had some problems before beating the underdog Wildcats. Jess Fosnes pulled it out with two free throws at the 41-sec-ond mark. Fosnes wound up with 24 points. . Dan Krueger, Larry Robinson and Harry Larrabee each scored more than 20 points to help Texas secure the South-west Conference championship. Krueger had 26 points, Lar-rabee scored 22 and Robinson, the SWC scoring leader, fired in 20.

Bernard Hardin scored 15 points while Gabe Nava and Bill Hagins had 14 apiece to lead New Mexico's offense. The Lobo dressing room was happy-

bedlam. Clyde Mayes and Ed Kelley

combined to give Furman the title in the 'Southern Confer-ence. Mayes scored 21 points and Kelley added 14, including two free throws with 18 seconds left that provided the victory-margin. Richmond twice tied the score in the last four min-utes before falling short.

Jimmy O'Brien scored 19 points while he directed the of-fense and also keyed a tough defense, leading St. Joseph's over LaSalle. Five Hawk play-ers scored in double figures.

Elsewhere in college basket-ball, top-ranked North Carolina State beat Wake Forest 72-63 and became the first team in the history of the 21-year Atlan-tic Coact Conference to go un-defeated in league competition.

Notre Dame, the country's No. 2 team, walloped Villanova 115-85: third-ranked UCLA beat Stanford 62-60; No. 4 North Carolina took Duke 96-92 in

overtime; No. 5 Maryland trounced Virginia 110-75; Cin-cinnati upset No. 8 Marquette 92-77; Ohio State stopped No. 9 Indiana 85-79 and lOth-ranked Southern California trimmed California 70-67.

In the Second Ten, llth-rank-ed Pitt stopped West Virginia 83-78; No. 12 Providence beat St. John's 85-67; 14th-ranked South Carolina crushed Houston 104-86: 15th-ranked Kansas nipped Colorado 70-68; No. 17 Michigan ripped Minnesota 79-56 and No. 18 Arizona was beat-en by Arizona State 108-95.

TOURNAMENTS NAIA

Championship Lake Superior, Mich. 4,

Bemidji St. 1 Consolation

Agustus Adolphus 6, St. Thomas, Minn. 5

ECAC Division II Playoffs Quarter-final

Vermont 10, Army 1

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