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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1978
Page
22
Track East Iowa Hawkeye lists girls and team scoring results. West Branch leads with 44 points followed by Clear Creek 40 and West Liberty 36. In the team standings West Liberty tops with 592 points, Mount Vernon 52 and Wilton 28.
Top seed Chris Evert reached the quarterfinals of the $100,000 women’s pro tennis event after a tight 4-6 6-3 6-0 comeback win over 19-year-old Regina Marsikova in Philadelphia. Wimbledon champ Virginia Wade also advanced, beating Kristien Shaw 7-5 6-2.
Application forms for the Marion Kids League baseball program are distributed to Marion schools with a March 29 deadline. Call 377 1238 to register. An April 10 managers meeting and umpire rules meeting occur that night at the Marion Community Center. Umpire sign ups contact Ray Brainard at 377 2007 with an April 3 meeting at 7 30 p.m.
Major league teams released and waived players including Tommy Moore and Jer ry Johnson. NFL Saints add a quarterbacks and receivers coach, CFL Argonauts sign a linebacker, and college programs announce coaching changes at Duquesne UCLA and Whitworth with resignations noted.
Salvation Army 73 defeats Beef-A-Roo 69 while LaSalle 70 beats Believers 67 and Red Cross 85 toppled Mid-Continent 39. High scorers include Alfred Ellis 42 for Believers, Larry Anderson 27 for LaSalle, Jeff Dawson 22 for Salvation Army, Larry Fields 85 for Red Cross, Dave Burgett 25 for Beef-A-Roo, and Steve Voight 20 for Mid-Continent.
Arkansas-Little Rock crushed Buena Vista 20 to 2 in a one sided contest. Iowa defeated New Mexico Highlands 8 to 2, while Michigan State beat Morningside 10 to 4. Tennessee State posted a 12 to 4 win over Upper Iowa. Indian Hills fell 3 to 7 and Western Arkansas went down 2 to 4.
Duke faces Notre Dame in the NCAA semifinals in St Louis with Duke carrying a 26-6 record and Notre Dame at 23-6. Kentucky meets Arkansas in the other semifinal, Kentucky 28-2 and Arkansas 31-3, for a spot in the championship.
Six Iowa boxers were defeated in Wednesday action at the National Golden Gloves in Albuquerque New Mexico Five more Iowans were scheduled to box today Randy Remp of Manchester dropped a first round KO to Greg Page of Louisville Kentucky results also list Lionel Johnson and Robert Crook Don Avery Jerry Laughridge Robert Cooper Don Carter and the heavyweight match Page KO Kemp in another bout
Razorbacks coach Eddie Sutton says Arkansas will not switch to zone defense against top ranked Kentucky in the NCAA semifinal at the Checkerdome. Sutton emphasizes defensive rebounding as the key and rejects changes. Kentucky coach Joe Hall mirrors the stance, citing quickness as a challenge for his team in the matchup.
Kareem Abdul Jabbar scored 31 points with 14 rebounds and eight blocks to lift the Los Angeles Lakers 124-106 over the Houston Rockets. Houston coach Tom Nissalke called him the greatest, while Calvin Murphy led Houston with 36. Several NBA results followed, including Kansas City’s upset of Philadelphia and Boston’s win over Cleveland.
Goaltender Mike Palmateer says a cut on his arm will not keep him from playing for Toronto in tonight's NHL game against the New York Islanders. He joined Toronto after hospital treatment for the cut suffered at his apartment Monday and practiced Tuesday.
Three teenagers stole No. 44 Jerry West jersey from the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield Massachusetts and escaped past security. Police said the trio described as two girls and a young man fled Tuesday with the display item.
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