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Sports (Tlje Paily pantagrapl) FRIDAY, DEC. 3, 1982 SECTION Scoreboard on B2 Duncan's shot comp lefes INTERCITY BASKETBALL ISU comeback over Western HS, Ironmen play on road i Jr LA -I Block Tinch By JIM BARNHART Pantograph sporti editor Illinois State University's strategy of holding the basketball for 5 minutes and 34 seconds was to Coach Jack Margenthaler's liking last night. But Brad Duncan's driving the lane and flipping in an 8-footer with 13 seconds remaining was not. Duncan's game-decider, which came on his first shot attempt, brought Illinois State back from oblivion and a 55-53 victory over Western Illinois University before 5,298 people at Horton Field House. Down 48-34 with 12:18 to go and still suffering from fatigue as a result of its brutally played victory at Northern Illinois Tuesday night, Illinois State extended its normal defense to the backcourt, pressured the ball, and outscored the Leathernecks 21-5 in winning its third game in as many starts.

Margenthaler's Western Illinois team has a 2-1 record. "The way the game was going, I'd do it all over again," said Margen-thaler when asked if he was content to let ISU hold the ball that long with the score tied, 53-53. Content "I was content to let it go down," continued the Western coach. "They were making a run at us and if he (ISU coach Bob Donewald) wanted to get out of his momentum, I would let him. "Percentage-wise, the offensive team usually makes a mistake in a case like that.

But, we made a mistake defensively and let him (Duncan) get off a nice shot. I expected him to kick it off and not shoot but we didn't want him to go down that far unmplested. "We thought they'd go inside. But Duncan penetrated so far, he had to take the shot." Lli By BRYAN BLOODWORTH Pantograph staff Basketball teams from Normal Community and Bloomington high schools can ill afford to be caught flat-footed tonight if they hope to bounce back from disappointing losses incurred Wednesday in the Intercity Tournament. Both teams are on the road and face opponents who rely on quickness.

NCHS, 2-1, travels to Rantoul for a nonconference game while BUS, 0-3, is at Mattoon for a Big 12 Conference encounter. Both games begin at 8 o'clock. NCHS-Rantoul NCHS hopes to get back on the winning track after Wednesday's 51-48 loss to Central Catholic in the finals of the Intercity Tournament. Rantoul lost three straight in the season-opening Champaign Centennial Tournament last weekend, but that doesn't mean a whole lot to NCHS coach Jon Hawthorne. "I had a chance to see them play and they are definitely a running team," said Hawthorne.

"Even after a score, they try to beat you down the floor with a long pass. "They press and prefer to get shots off the press or fast break. They try to get the ball to (Ken) Buenting. He'll shoot from anywhere at anytime." Buenting, a 6-foot senior guard, leads the Eagles with a 12.9 scoring average. Forwards Kent Rademacher and Dean Goldenstein score 10 points per game.

"We improved in every game in the Centennial Tournament," said first-year Eagle coach Ray Smith. "We've changed the philosophy from what it's been in the past. "Rantoul was more a pattern team in the past, so much that they tried to control the tempo much the way Normal does. This group likes to run with the ball and we've given them the opportunity." "Rantoul is not a very big team," added Hawthorne. "Their tallest starter is 6-3.

We'll try to take advantage of Andy's (Woodtli) size inside. "We did a better job against Central of getting the ball to him. He had more shots than the previous two games. "We had our best overall performance against Central, but we need to improve our free throw shooting. That has really hurt us.

And we need to continue to improve our rebounding." Pantagrtpn pnotoAL HouoOKbK! Illinois State's Dwayne Tyus (23) looked to shoot at Horton Field House last night as Western Illinois' Joe Dykstra (42) and ISU's Lou Stefanovic watched in ISU's victory. See additional photo on B2. Sophomore Todd Block, who gave the Ironmen steady play off the bench in the first three games, will move into the starting lineup in place of Todd Harrison tonight. "Todd (Block) filled the role of the sixth man very well for us," said Hawhtorne. "He gave us a lift off the bench, which is nice to have, but I also believe in rewarding a guy for playing well.

And the best way to reward him is to start him." Senior guard Brian Metz leads NCHS with a 23.3 scoring average while Woodtli is next with a 12.6 mark. "Some of the people I talked with said Woodtli wasn't much of a factor in NCHS' first two games," said Smith. "But from what I saw Wednesday, he was a big factor in the game. "I was also impressed with Metz. He's an aggressive player with the ball and he knows where he wants to go with it." BHS-Mattoon Quick is the best way BHS coach Bob Spahn can describe Mattoon, which won once in three tries in the Champaign Centennial Tournament.

The Green Wave whipped Rantoul and lost to Centennial and Chicago Corliss. "They are a very quick team and probably have one of the best players in the conference in Doug Thompson," said Spahn. "He is very quick and penetrates to the basket well. "We really have to control him and try to shut him down. We need to make them look to someone else to pick up the slack.

They are a young team, a lot like us, so it will be interesting to see what happens." Thompson, who had a single-game output of 30 points against BHS last See INTERCITY, B3 "They knew they were in trouble and they just went into it," said Donewald. "Rickie Johnson had to be on the floor and that helped. I watched them warm up and I thought they were quicker than we are. We were awfully leg-weary because we had just played a rough game on the road 48 hours previous to this one." Rick Lamb, who led Illinois State with seven rebounds, said, "The pressure helped. We were just playing all over the floor, switching defenses, and taking chances.

We talked amongst ourselves and decided we had to do it." Where Western Illinois was hitting just 9 of 29 shots in the second half, ISU improved its first-half performance by making 11 of 24 shots. The rebounding ended in a 34-34 standoff, including team rebounds. Illinois State had just eight turnovers, two less than Western. Hank Cornley, who scored 10 of his game-high 14 points in the sec ond half, hurt Western in the late going. Cornley made 10 points in the final 12 minutes, including a 3-point play that provided the impetus for ISU when it trailed 48-34.

"I just got it down low and started to go one-on-one," said Cornley. "I was happy to see them stay in the man-to-man because I was trying to draw fouls." Donewald cited sophomore reserve Lou Stefanovic, who scored six points and handled five rebounds in the first half. "I told Jack (Margenthaler) I was happy we won but sorry he had to lose," said Donewald. "His kids came to play and they outreacted us. Jackson shot well the first half and made us look slow and lethargic." Asked about Sports Illustrated elevating ISU from 18th to 17th in this week's national poll, Donewald said, "It's like living in a glass house.

I'm used to it but the players are not. People are throwing lots of rocks and big boulders at us." points and shooting 59 percent per game, had his problems, particularly when hounded by Raynard Malaine. Dykstra had 9 of his 15 points in the first half but shot 33 percent from the field. He was also saddled with foul trouble early, sitting out the final 2 minutes and 45 seconds of the first half when he drew his third infraction. Dykstra got his fourth with 15:28 to play but Margenthaler left him in the game for another three minutes.

Dykstra sat out nearly three minutes before coming back to finish. Dykstra had 11 points in the first 8 minutes and 3 seconds but was noticeably shaken when Malaine blocked one of his shots with 10:04 left in the first half. "He was frustrated," said Malaine. "Our game plan was to play off him a little but after he hit a couple, Coach said to take a step up on him." of the keys was keeping Dykstra under control," said Donewald. "He's one of the best 6-6 players my teams have played against and that includes at Indiana." Western shot 58 percent in taking a 34-28 halftime lead with Eric Jackson sinking 6 of 7 shots.

But the Redbirds' defense checked Jackson with a free throw in the final 20 minutes. "Jackson is a good perimeter player and he caught us a step behind," said Donewald. Before the game, Jackson told a newsman that Western would win in a run-away, providing it didn't get homered. But even if it got homered, Western would win, Jackson After Duncan's field goal, Western called a timeout with 9 seconds left but made a tactical mistake and didn't get the ball across the center line before asking for time. When Western set up to throw the ball in bounds, it called another timeout in an effort to confuse the ISU defense.

The ball went to Western's high-scoring Joe Dykstra, who weaved his way to the baseline where he got off a jumper that hit the close side of the bankboard and bounced off. Western eventually came up with the rebound but about two seconds too late. Rebound "That was the play we wanted," said Margenthaler. "Even if Joe misses, we've got Kevin Wilson on the weakside to rebound. We wanted it that way.

Kevin got the rebound but we needed another second." Donewald said he went to the delay because his team was leg-weary. "I thought we were laboring and I wanted to eat up time," explained Donewald. "So, we did it to see if they wanted to come out and play with us. They didn't so we just stayed with it." Donewald also said ISU did not have a particular play in mind for the game-winner. "Brad has the option; he can go down and shoot or drop it off," said Donewald.

"There was no set play; just P-L-A-Y. It turned out the last shot was a little quicker than I wanted." Dykstra, who was averaging 23.5 AREA BASKETBALL ROUNDUP a Ene enoa faces Fairbury cj "It's important for us to win as many as we can early." Fairbury-Crospey coach Dennis Kagel admitted the 1-3 start is less than what he had hoped for from his squad, but said it's important that the Tartars not get discouraged. "We had hoped to get off to a better start, but there's really a fine line sometimes between winning and losing," he said. "We could just have easily won those last two games and been 3-1 right-now. But Fairbury-Cropsey, a squad expected to be in the heart of the Sangamon Valley Conference race, brings an unexpected 1-3 record into the game following a pair of one-point defeats.

Terry Field, Chenoa's third-year head coach, said a victory tonight could prove vital to his junior-laden team. "Since we only won five games last year, winning games now is a confidence builder for us," he said. we have to guard against getting too down on ourselves. It's way too early to panic." Juniors shine Field received key performances from 6-foot-4 junior center Jim Jacobs and junior guards Curt Stalter, Alan Dunahee and Ted Morris in the victory over Odell. Jacobs pumped in 34 points, something Field said wouldn't have hap- See AREA, B3 By RANDY KINDRED Pantograph staff Chenoa High School's basketball team hopes to refine its winning formula, while Fairbury-Cropsey's Tartars will be out to retrieve theirs tonight in a nonconference game at Chenoa.

Chenoa, a team which won just five games a year ago, looks for its second straight victory after a season-opening win over Odell (69-55) Tuesday night. assured the man. Western made 5 of 9 free throws and Illinois State made 5 of 8. Donewald said he did not tell his team to extend its defense and pressure the ball in the second half. JJIMRARNHART and four years of additional credit from courses attempted in English, math, social science, natural science, foreign language, computer science, or speech.

The proposal also requires an overall accumulative minimum grade-point average of 2.000. by his sixth, seventh, or eighth semester is eligible to sign a national letter-of-intent to the school of his choice. He could have the 2.000 at the end of his sixth semester and not do as well in his seventh and still sign. If he doesn't have the average at, the end of his sixth semester, he still has the seventh to reach his goal. If not the seventh, he has the eighth.

One proposal, submitted by the American Council on Education, would establish a specific core curriculum for which a student must have a 2.000 minimum grade-point average. Under this proposal, a student also would have to have a 700 combined score on the SAT verbal and math sections or a 15 composite score on the ACT. The core curriculum states that a student must have a minimum grade-point of 2.000 in at least 11 academic courses, including at least three in English, two in mathematics, two in social science, and two in natural or physical science (including at lease one laboratory class, if offered by the high school). Another proposal would require the same core curriculum but does not require minimum ACT or SAT test scores. math, and an overall high school accumulative minimum grade-point average of 2.000.

The ACT standard of 15 would eliminate a lot of students from obtaining an athletic scholarship in college. It would affect many inner-city athletes and not because they're stupid. They just don't have the cultural or educational background to do well on the tests. But they can go to college, and with some assistance, get a degree. I was told about one inner-city high school student who was valedictorian of his class, yet had a single digit on his ACT tests.

I believe the NCAA would be better off to police the athlete once he gets to college and make sure he's making normal progress toward a degree. This would place the burden of proof on the colleges to furnish tutorial programs and make sure the athlete is going to graduate. Wouldn't it be better to admit 100 athletes under the present rule, even though only 50 might make it, than to turn down all 100 and let them sit on some street corner and wait to be shot? The most complex core curriculum proposal would require a minimum 2.000 grade-point average for four years of English (including one of composition), two years of math (including one year of algebra), three years of socal science, two years of natural science (including one year of laboratory science), The simplest core curriculum, originated by the Recruiting Committee, would require the high school student to complete successfully at least two years of credit in nonremedial mathematics courses and three years of credit in nonremedial English courses with an accumulative-minimum grade-point average of 2.000 in those subjects. I believe the greatest learning experience for white, middle-age America would be to visit an inner-city high school and see first-hand what people must go through to get an education. Illinois State University basketball coach Bob Donewald.

took me to one in Chicago several years ago and, from the moment the guard unlocked the door to let us in, I was appalled at what I saw. And this was one of the better run schools. Leave the entrance requirements as is. But crack down on the colleges to be sure the athletes aren't being exploited. Rule change would hurt minorities The NCAA could become an elitist organization in the strictest sense if any one of five proposals to amend the 2.000 rule passes at next month's convention.

The NCAA Council proposals are aimed at strengthening academic standards in Division I but those ideas being submitted are going to work to the disadvantage of the inner-city athlete, whose way of life is crowded with disadvantages. The way it stands now, any high school student who earns a 2.000 accumulative grade point average Another proposal would require the same test scores but would require a 2.000 grade-point in three years of English and two years of.