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PAL meets Chance in final
By DAN COVEN
As July draws to a close, the competition in the Sandy San-
ders Basketball League gets as hot. The summer season
culminates Saturday night at 8:30 p.m.- when Washtenaw
PAL faces this summer's favorite, The Chance.
Losing only one game this season to Round Haus, The
Chance is led by league-leading scorer, Roy Tarpley.
"ROY HAS PROGRESSED in every game this summer,">,
said ex-Michigan teammate Isaac Person. "He (Tarpley)
has tremendous offensive talent, and his shot blocking is a
real intimidation factor." Joining Tarpley are Alan Hardy
and Johnny Johnson. The Chance, 7-1, has routinely beaten
opponents by 10 and 20-point spreads. They rely on stringent
defense. Dhysical inside play and shot blocking by Hardy and
Tarpley.
PAL, 5-3, has won its last three games and is led by hot-
shooting guards Percy Cooper and Wilbert McCormick.
Mark Bostic and Irv Giddings provide the inside scoring.
Quarterbacking PAL is point guard Freddie Cofield of
Eastern Michigan, who along with Tarpley have been the
league's best players.
THE SUMMER LEAGUE has provided the players a
chance to hone their skills and keep in shape. "The league is
very competitive, and playing on the same court with the
pros is a real honor," said Michigan sophomore Richard
Rellford. "It keeps me in shape helps build my stamina,
which was a real problem for me last year with
Michigan .
Revenge was of issue last Monday night as The Chance
defeated Round Haus, 74-70, in one of this seasons finest
games.
With the score tied at 17, and seven minutes left in the half,
Tarpley entered the game for The Chance, He quickly set the
tempo by snuffing three shots and igniting The Chance's -
deadly fast break, by hitting teammates with the outlet pass.
By halftime, The Chance led 35-27.
The second half saw The Chance extend its lead to nine on
scoring by Hardy, Johnson and Tarpley. Then PAL rallied as
MSU-Sophomore countered every Tarpley slam with a
basket of his won with aggressive play by Rellford and Ray
Brooks, PAL tied the game at 64, with 4 minutes to play. It
was then that Tarpley took charge by getting out on the fast-
break. With 30 seconds left and the score tied at 70, Tarpley
scored on an alley-oop jam from Hardy and when Roy
Holman stole the inbounds pass and fed Tarpley for a crowd- Daiy Photo by DOUG MMAHON
rousing dunk to end the game. Detroit~Pistons' Terry Tyler (41) snuffs Mark Bostic in Sandy Sanders basketball action. The cham-
Harley ledh scorers wi h 19 po nts and eigh re ection . pionship game will be played at Pioneer High School this Saturday at 8:30 p.m.
SPORTS OF THE DAILY:
Seattle seventh kills Tigers, 5-3
By JIM GINDIN
special to the Daily
DETROIT - The Mariners ended the
Tigers' four-game winning streak in
posting a 5-3 victory last night.
Mike Moore got his second win of the
season against three defeats as he went
eight and two-thirds innings and
allowed only three hits.
SEATTLE broke the game open off'
reliever Doug Bair in the top of the
seventh. Rick Sweet, batting for Jamie
Nelson, walked. John Moses singled
and shortstop Spike Owens sacrificed
the runners to second and third.
Tony Bernazard singled to shortstop,
scoring Sweet. Then Pat Putnam
blasted his second homer of the night
into the left-center field seats.
Howard Bailey came in to relieve
Bair and shut down the Mariner rally,
getting Richie Zisk to fly to center and
Ron Roenicke, just picked up as a free
agent from Los Angeles, to bounce to
third. Seattle led 5-2.
LANCE PARRISH gave the Tigers a
1-0 lead in the fourth inning with a
double down the third baseline, the first
Tiger hit, scoring Larry Herndon from
first base.
Detroit tallied again in the fifth in-
ning when Chet Lemon reached first on
an error by Mariner first baseman
Manny Castillo. Rich Leach singled to
right, sending Lemon to third, and
Wayne Krenchicki lifted a sacrifice fly to
center to score Lemon.
Seattle came back in the top of the
sixth as Putnam led off with his 13th
home run of the year.
Detroit came back with a run after
the big Mariner seventh as Lemon
crushed a ball into the upper deck in left
field to cut the Mariner lead to 5-3.
Bill Caudill came in to get Glenn
Wilson with one on in the ninth for the
save.
Brazes 6, Mets 3
NEW YORK (AP) - Rafael
Ramirez's two-out, two-run single
highlighted a four-run eighth inning as
the Atlanta Braves rallied to defeat the
New York Mets 6-3 yesterday and aver-
ted a three-game sweep at the hands of
the last-place Mets.
The Braves had lost a 2-0 lead when
Mookie Wilson cracked a three-run
homer in the bottom of the eighth to
give the Mets a 3-2 lead.
BUT THE Braves bounced right
back.
Dale Murphy and Glenn' Hubbard
drew consecutive one-out walks off
reliever Doug Sisk and Bruce Benedict
followed with a double to right, scoring
Murphy to tie it 3-3.
Carlos Diaz replaced Sisk and got
pinch-hitter Terry Harper to fly to short
center. Bob Watson, pinch-hitting for
Brett Butler, was walked intentionally
but Ramirez singled to center, scoring
Hubbard and Murphy, and Watson also
scored when Wilson's throw skipped by
third base.
Rookie Craig McMurty was the
beneficiary of the big inning, improving
his record to 12-5. Sisk, third of six New
York pitches, took the loss and dropped
to 4-3.
Four Panthers All-USFL
NEW YORK (AP - Chicago, Tampa
Bay, Philadelphia and Michigan placed
four players each on the first United
States Football League All-League
team announced yesterday.
Quarterback Bobby Hebert, named
most valuable player in Michigan's 24-
22 championship game victory over
Philadelphia, heads the offense. The
other Panthers honored were tackle
Ray Pinney, guard Thom Dornbrook
and linebacker John Corker.
SELECTED from Philadelphia were
running back Kelvin Bryant, tackle Iry
Eatman, linebacker Sam Mills and
safety Scott Woerner. Chicago placed
wide receiver Trumaine Johnson,
defensive end Kit Lathrop, linebacker
Stan White and safety Luther Bradley.
Chosen from Tampa Bay were wide
receiver Eric T uvillion, center Bob
Van Duyne, nose tackle Fred Nor-
dgren and cornerback Jeff George.
The team was selected by writers and
broadcasters who covered the USFL on
a regular basis.
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