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Savannah News-Press • Sunday, November 11, 1990
Suns Scorch Record Book
By Burning Denver 173-143
Pro Wins
Southbridge
Night Event
From Wire Reports
Club pro Phil Wagoner teamed
with BUI Parks, Mike O'Conner
and Ted Welch to shoot a 33 for
nine holes and win the first night
tournament at Southbridge Golf
Club on Nov. 2.
Doug Ward, Jimmy Harper,
Bert Herrin and Tommy Myers
also had a 33, but lost on a scorecard playoff.
PHOENIX - The Phoenix Suns
shattered the NBA record with 107
points in the first half and set several other records Saturday night,
beating the winless Denver Nuggets1
173-143 for Cotton Fitzsimmons
700th NBA coaching victory.
The Suns eclipsed the first-half
record of 90 points set by the Nuggets on Thursday night when they
led San Antonio 90-83. Phoenix got
its 91st point on Kenny Battle's
three-point play with 3:31 remaining
in the half, then went on to set an
NBA record with 57 second-quarter
points, surpassing the mark of 52 by
Baltimore in 1965.
Rookie Cedric Ceballos scored 22
of his 32 points in the quarter for the
Suns.
Phoenix had a shot at becoming
the first team to 200 points in a
game, but cooled off in the second
half and settled for tying the league
record for points in a regulation
game. The Suns matched the 173
points by Boston against Minneapolis in 1959.
The Suns, hitting 17 of their first
19 field goals, also tied the NBA record for most points in the first
Golf
Notebook
In third with a 34 was the team
of Greg England, Marion Bui Us,
Harvey Bullis and Nancy
Trtflcanto.
SHERATON: The third Sheratofi Savannah Invitational is
scheduled for Dec. 1-2. A 36-hole
event, the tournament features a
tw.o-man, best-ball" format. Entry fee is $300 per team. Call
897-1612 for more information.
SOUTHBRIDGE:
Jeff
Howerton was the low pro and
hea'ded the winning team at the
Oct. 29 Georgia PGA Eastern
Chapter pro-am. Howerton shot a
68, and teamed with Ed McAuliff,
Harry Grumish and Steve Wilk for
a 126 to win the "two net best
ball" format.
LAVID A:
Katherine White
scored a 68 Tuesday to win the Ladte$ of LaVida low-net tournament. Rose Ferriera (75) was second.
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SGC: Alan Reynolds Jr. aced
the 129-yard No. 5 hole on Nov. 3.
Housed an 8-iron.
• Ralph Demopoulos aced the
15£yard No. 13 hole on Oct. 30. He
used a 7-iron.
• Marjorie Story, Sissy Harris,
Helen Artley and Peggy Murphy
combined to finish 15-under par
ano! win Tuesday's Savannah Golf
Club Ladies Association "Nassau" tournament. Pauline Powers
, Betty Post and Margaret Artley
won the low-back-nine competition. Three teams tied for lowfront-nine honors.
'•'In the Nov. 30 "Town and
Country*' best-ball blitz, Bee
Lange, Roselyn Mills, Armin Chisholm and Emilie Stoddard combined to win with a 13-under score.
SWAT: Cavs' Larry Nance blocks shot by 76ers' Manute Bol
Southern plays host to St. Petersburg, Fla., in an exhibition game
Thursday night at Hanner Fieldhouse. Saturday night, the Eagles
will play an Australian national
team in another exhibition game.
"I hope they are good," Kems
said. "We'll be able to get some experience and observe and evaluate.
We might be better able to see some
of our strengths and weaknesses in
game situations."
Southern opens up for real at
home against Bradley Nov. 24.
"We're a skinny team and physically that might be a problem,"
Kerns said. "We'll have to do a lot of
things well to make up for it."
Like getting top mileage from
By DONALD HEATH
quarter when they led 50-37. They
matched the mark of 50 first set by
Syracuse against San Francisco in
1962 and tied three other times.
Bulls 105, Hornets 86
CHICAGO - Michael Jordan
scored 23 points and Scottie Pippen
22 as Chicago won its first home
game in three tries.
Tyrone Bogues led the Hornets
with 14 points, while reserve Kenny
Gattison had 13.
The Bulls led 77-64 entering the
the fourth quarter, but Kendall Gill's
basket with 5:22 left closed the gap
to 92-82. But then the Bulls outscored
Charlotte 13-4 the rest of the way.
Cavaliers 104, 76ers 88
RICHFIELD, Ohio - Larry
Nance scored 23 points and inspired
his teammates by blocking Manute
Bol's shot during an 18-4 Cleveland
run in the second quarter as the
Cavaliers beat Philadelphia.
Cleveland, which won for the
Staff Writer
STATESBORO - With the basketball season less than two weeks
away, Georgia Southern's lOth-year
coach Frank Kerns begins his annual brush with gloom and doom.
The Eagles, winners of 17 games
last season and 84 during the last
four years, have only two returning
starters and lose seven players that
contributed heavily a year ago.
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scared to death," Kerns
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says. ' I think they might get me this
year."
This week, Kerns, gets a chance
to view his new team in action when
point guard Charlton Young and dell Charles to step in and contribcenter Emmett Smith. Young, only a ute. Windless, a 6-4 perimeter play
sophomore, started 17 games last much in the mold of GSU's departed
season and 8.8 points and 3.6 assists all-conference small forward Mike
a game. Smith, a 7-foot senior with Curry, averaged 19.1 points and 8.3
an accurate jumper from three- rebounds during his junior college
point range, had 7.2 points and 5.1 days at Cowley County Community
rebounds a game.
College in the ultra competitive JayBoth Young and Smith made the hawk Conference. Charles, a 6-3
preseason Trans America Athletic guard from Hutchinson Community
Conference's second team.
College, can play either the point or
"The experience (Young) got last on the perimeter.
year will really help him," Kerns
Jeff Hagans, Gal Ferguson and
said. "And there are times when Joby Powell are still fighting for the
Emmett shows flashes of really be- other post position in Kerns' twining good. His back-to-the-basket post offense. Ferguson averaged six
game has improved tremendously." points a game despite playing only
Kerns expects junior college 14.8 minutes a game. Hagans, a setransfers Tony Windless and Wen- nior, saw limited playing time last
Heat 120, Pacers 10S
MIAMI - Kevin Edwards scored
13 of his 30 points and Sherman
Douglas contributed seven of his 14
assists in the third quarter as Miami
pulled away to a win over Indiana.
Spurs 111, Rockets 110
SAN ANTONIO - Rod Strickland's three-point play with 3.3 seconds left gave San Antonio a victory
over Houston.
Strickland scored 27 points in his
first game of the season after missing all of the preseason and three
regular-season games with a possible stress fracture in his left fibula.
season. Powell averaged nearly 20
points and 13 rebounds a game at
Jenkins High last season.
Most basketball experts are picking the Eagles to finish third in the
eight-team TAAC. Despite joining
new conferences always competitive
Texas-San Antonio (head to the
Southland Conference) and Arkansas-Little Rock (head to the Sun
Belt) remain as stumbling blocks for
another year.
Stetson is the conference's consensus favorite.
"It's hard to characterize this
team. Because of injuries l don't
think we're where a lot of other people are right now," said Kerns. "It's
scary."
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third time in its last four games,
trailed 29-24 early in the second
quarter after Charles Barkley completed a three-point play for his 20th
point.
The Cavaliers ran off the next 11
points, getting fired up when Nance
jumped high near the basket and
stuffed a layup attempt by the 7foot-7 Bol.
Celtics 105, Nets 91
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. Larry Bird had four points, two assists and a steal to set up another
basket as Boston outscored New Jersey 19-2 in the final 6:28 and beat the
Nets.
Kerns 'Scared To Death'of Rebuilding Eagles
SWGA: Laura Sayre was the
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an 81 at the Savannah Women's
Golf Association "Turkey Tournament" at Southbridge Golf Club
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