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Fridayr Dec: 7, 1990 PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS Page 125 Sports Digest P. mappy itMin in LJJhPJJt BOB LARAMIE DAILY NEWS Hawks' Rap Curry scores two points against Rutgers's Mike Jones Two-Year Ban For Ark. School The National Eligibility Committee of the NA1A has recommended a two-year death penalty for the football program at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, school officials said yesterday. The recommendation followed the committee's conclusion that UAI'B had engaged in 40 infractions of National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics rules over a four-year period, according to a UAPB news release. "This definitely is too harsh," UAPB chancellor Charles A.

Walker said in the release. "We intend to appeal this ruling." The violations included improper completion of eligibility certificates or transfer forms and competition by three students for five years, one beyond the limit. In other college news: Officials from the Big 8 and Southwest conferences hope to discuss interconference competition at next month's NCAA Convention in Nashville, Kansas State president Jon We-fald said. C0LF American Chris Patton and New Zealand's Simon Owen shot 4-under-par 67s to share the first-round lead in the Johnnie Walker Golf Classic in Melbourne, Australia. Top-ranked Betsy King and Japan's Fukumi Tani were among those who advanced to the second round in the LPGA World Match Play Championship in Princeville, Hawaii.

Germany's Bernhard Lang-er shot a 3-under-par 69 to take a two-stroke lead in the first round of the Million Dollar Challenge, in Sun City, South African PHILLY FILE The Mounl Su Mary's basketball team has lost' junior guard Kevin Booth, last season's leading scorer (18.5 points), for the rest of this with a dislocated left kneecap. The son of former St. Joseph's coachHarry Booth, from the Salesianum School (Delaware), will be red-shirted. Former l.a Salle University star Tim Legler, now with the Omaha Racers, was named the Continental Basketball Association Ployer of the Week, for the week ending last Saturday. had made a great defensive play against Hughes to thwart Rutgers's only second-half chance to take the lead, hit a huge "three" and made an acrobatic spin move and reverse layup.

Blunt had missed the first half of a one-and-one just before that wonderful series of plays, which seemed destined to win the game. Still, he stepped to the line a 75 percent foul shooter for the season. His shot was long, off the back iron. Rutgers came down and, with no timeouts, seemed unsure of what to do. Craig Carter had the ball in front of the Rutgers bench with the game clock in single digits.

What to. do? Fire a "three" a mile high and watch it swish through as the clock hit :07. Gardler who played a perfect game, charged up the court and looked set to turn the corner at the foul line with two seconds left. But he ran into a wall of red, the ball came loose and most of the 2,449 spectators waited for a whistle. They're still waiting.

The disheartened Hawks scored only two points on their first six overtime possessions and left the court with everything but a victory. "(Losing- close) is just a form of rationalization that we're trying to rid ourselves of," Griffin said. "We really take no satisfaction in a close loss The only thing that we can leara from this is a sense of confidence that we can play if we do what we want to do with some of the better teams in the About that non-call, coach? "My view of it would suggest that he was grabbed," Griffin said. "With a tie game, rnfey make a big hopefully, they celebrate the We inbound the ball quickly, get it up the court and score or get a shot before they have a chance to set defense. 1 thought that we generally were in a position to do Being in position and getting a call' are two different things.

It would have been Rutgers's 10th foul of the half and Gardler, the Big 5 and At-! lantic 10 foul shooting champ last By Dick Jerardi Daily News Sports Writer When the game was over, the losers must have wondered about justice. And the winners had to be counting their lucky stars. St. Joseph's, only 72 hours after a devastating, last-second loss to Ford-ham, outplayed Rutgers for 40 minutes last night. Unfortunately for the Hawks, the game lasted 45 minutes and they went down in overtime, 75-69, at Alumni Memorial Fieldhouse.

The Hawks led from the 10:50 mark of the first half until seven seconds remained in regulation. They led by 14 points right after intermission and shot 55 percent in the second half. For the game, they had five double-figure scorers, committed only turnovers and made nine three-pointers How then did St. Joe's lose? Well, there were Rutgers's 50-32 rebound advantage and Keith Hughes's game-high 31 points and 15 rebounds. Most importantly, there was St.

Joe's 10-for-18 foul shooting, including one giant miss down the stretch. And there also, was an apparent non-call at the -end of regulation that would have put guard Chris Gardler at the foul line for two shots. After standing around like zombies for a half, the Scarlet Knights came out in an aggressive man-to-man in the second half and cut into, the Hawks point by point. But every time the Hawks needed a bas. ket, got it until the end.

After Hughes missed a foul shot with '27 seconds left in regulation and Rutgers trailing, 62-59, St. Joe's Brian, Daly grabbed the rebound and was fouled hard by Brent Dabbs. The pair biimped heads like two fighters in a clinch. Daly got the worst of it and ended up with a big lump on his forehead. Haw'ks coach John Griffin had the' option of going to his bench and.

choQsing a foul shooter to replace Daly fa 62.5 percent foul shooter this season, 54.8 in his first two Seasons). He cnose freshman Bernand Blunt, who, in the previous two minutes, season, would have been shooting two. Could have, should have, would have. Got no chance. "I didn't see a foul," Rutgers coach Bob Wenzel said.

Griffin was more concerned about something else. "I'm sure that tonight, I'll not sleep and continue to second-guess my decision to have Bernard Blunt shoot for Brian Daly," he said. "Bernard was anxious to shoot the ball and Brian seemed a little bit dazed. It seemed like the right Said Blunt: "It was very disappointing, just a lack of concentration. Hopefully, in the future, me and my teammates can get to that level of concentration.

When the game's on the line, it's money. IMake it, and the game's over." 'Before itVall Griffin said "Bernard Blunt, is going to be responsible" for his share of wins here' Werizel acknowledged his team was fortunate and heaped praise on the Hawks. "They took us right out of the game in the first half," he said. "They played with a lot of aggressiveness and poise and really knocked us out of the box and made us quite But Rutgers woke up and St. Joe's, again, had to wonder about the breaks' evening out.

"We played well enough to be in a position to win," Griffin said. "That's the sign of an improving team. 1 think it's also the sign of a team trying to find itself and trying to learn how to win. These games, to some extent, remind me of my first year at Siena." Griffin was 12-16 at Siena in 1982-83. His teams won 59 games the next three seasons.

Rutgers (4-0v 2-0 A-10) is ranked 29th' in the Associaled Press poll on the strength of an ESPN win over Missouri; a team with a reputation and little else. Clearly, the Scarlet Knights are not as good as their record. The Hawks (1-4, 0-3) are better than In seasons, St. Joe's junior forward Craig Amos (a team-high 14 points) has played on the winning side in only 16 of 62 games, He has enough moral victories to last a lifetime. "We keep on proving we can play a 'good brand of basketball," Amos said.

"But the losing gets monotonous. We have to get Playing good and still losing doesn't get me anything." Area College Basketball Report Greenstone, Gibbons Lead Swarthmore Morman, from William Penn, who scored 21 and Donald Chisholm, of Northeast, who -added 17. j. HE CHRISTIAN 112, BURLCO CC 82 At "Burlington County Community, the Knights (6-3) were led-by seven double-fig-. ure scorers, including Howard Flowers and Khalib Mu'mis, whu scored 16 each, and Jeff Thompson (15) and Ken Brisco Axel Rodriguez scored 20 for Burlco i In a Women's Game: NE CHRISTIAN 74, BURLCO.

CC 37 At Burlington County Community, North- eastern (5-0) was led by Sabrina Burnett's 20 and Kendra Westmoreland's 14. a In Other Men's Games: HOLY FAMILY 69, EASTERN 60 At Eastern, the Tigers (7-1) were led Jim from Roman, who had 21 points, and Kevin Comey (North Catholic), who had ,13 points, 10 assists, including six of Holy Family's 12 overtime points. NEUMANN .84, GWYNEDD MERCY 64 i At Neumann, the Blue Knights (3-2) were led by Jason Arrowsmith, of Paul Vl (N.J.), who scored 19 points, Tim McKee, of Bonner, who added 15 and Pete Postiglione, -who had 13. Gwynedd Mercy (0-SY was led by -James SPORT STOPS Top German sports officials said drug testing will be stepped up jn all sports following allegations that several of the nation's athletes had used banned substances. The Board of Stewards at Hollywood Park in Inglewood, Califs denied a request by suspended! jockey Patrick Valen-zuela to ride in Sunday's SI mil-, lion Hollywood Futurity.

Compiled from staff and wire reports. Michael Greenstone scored 25 points and pulled-down 13 rebounds and Scott Gibbons added 17 points to lead Swarthmore to a 79-75 win over visiting Muhlenberg last Greenstone shot 6-fof-10 from beyond the three-point arc. Gibbons hit a' critical "three" with 2:41 left to break a 69-69 tie and put the Garnet ahead for good. The win lifted the Swarthmore to 4-5 over-all -and an unbeaten 3-0 at home, Muhlenberg (4-3) was led by Jim Hitchcock's 19 points..