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lael’s 6th;bles to 8thWith each Tirsl place vote worth 10 coming on strong the pastints, Hobbs complied 160 points and several weeks in a dash to overlake wlugtoi) 150 points to runaway from Valley in the nisi. 2AAAA race,moved up from fourth place to displace Valley in the No, 2 spot behind Hobbs.NEW MEXICANSportsc other teams in their respective asses.Eioth had held Ihe top spots a week [o but neither were unanimous.The combination of two easy Hobbs imps and a loss for the second weeka row by Albuquerque Valley, Highland 70-66.Valley, which had held lop billing until Hobbs wrestled the spotlight from the Vlkes last week, dropped to third alter losing to Albuquerquehleh had picked up support for theo. 1 rating last week, caused the mdslide for the Eagles.Bernalillo's Spartans grabbed some rst place votes in the Jasl poll to keep le Wildcats from being unanimous nd the Spartans breezed to two easy ictories last week. But after ovinglon bandied Portates and 'MMI, both ranked in the Top 10, fie re was no slopping the rush of the oters to the Wildcats.Albuquerque Mariano, which haste ends73-58Clovis, which will challenge Hobbs for a share of Ihe Dist. 4 AAA A regular season crown Friday night used a 64-62 viciory over ranked Roswell in a wild four overtime thriller to step up from fifth to fourth.Las Cruces, cighlh last week, was voted to the No. 6 spot, while Roswell remained seventh, Saul a Fe tumbled from sixth \o eighth after losing 56-54 in overtime to Farmington, Highland remained ninth and Albuquerque Del Norte retained its hold on Ihe No. 10 slot.In Class AAA, Bernalillo was returned to the runner up position even 1 hough the Spartans failed to attract any first place nods this time around.Santa Fe St. Michael's remained in sixth, WesL Las Vegas was returned to the No. 7 spot and Portales and NMMI exchanged places with Port ales getting the nod at No. 8 and NMMI being dropped to ninth.Rounding out the Top 10 was Pojoaque, which look over for Las Vegas Robertson in final puss lion-Here are the weekly Associated Press Class AAA A and Class AAA prep basketball Top LU polls of sports writers and spurlseaslers withTT* Hew Met leu /Tony O'Unenleflclt behind Mike Phillips in iverhauling Mississippi. Kentucky’s rawny center wound up with 20 oints as the Wildeals reached the 20-dctory mark for the fourth year inder Joe Hall.Ernie Gruufeld scored 24 points and records, tola! points and first place earned with Terry Crosby in Ihe votes in parentheses:RAIDERS IN CONTROL — Furl Lewis Monday night. Among the interested ob-College’s Kelly Cordes regains control as the servers are Raider Kevin Elkeberry £55), and College of Santa Fe’s Tim Dowdell defends KntghtsMike Horan (50) and Kevin Neal.CSF rally falls shortsecond half in leading Tennessee past Mississippi State.Rocky BroWn sen red 21 points, helping Alabama beat Georgia for its 20lh victory of the season. Brian Williams and Dob Miller each scored lh points, leading Cincinnati past Buffalo State.In other action, Mall Brown scored £0 points, pacing Army to a 74-56 victory over Colgate; Rich Laurel scored 40 points and John Irving hauled down 22 rebounds as Hofstra beat American U. 89-78; Glen Williams and George Johnson combined for 45 points, helping St. John’s top Howard University 92 69; Dave Corzine's 22 points led DePaul over Marshall 93-74, and a 23-point performance by Russell Chapman led West Virginia over Cleveland State 107.-69.Also, Glenn Mosley’s 25 rebounds and IB points shot Setoti Hall past Catholic University 93-75; Larry Bird scored 26 points, leading Indiana State past St. Louis University 77-72; Furman defeated South Carolina 88-80Class AAAA1. Hohb* 1942. Man*anol7-63. Valley 20-34. Clovis 17-65. Albuquerque High 17-56. Las Cruces 13-107. Roswell 17-88. Santa Fe 16-49. Highland 14-810. Del Norte 13-9Others receiving votes: minglon 12.Class AA1. Lovinglonl942. Bernal ill cj 18-53. Azlec 18-34. St. Tius 15-75. Demingl6-66. St. Michael’s 16-77. W. Las Vegas 20-48. Portates 9-149. NMMI 12-1110. Pojoaque 15-8 Others receiving votes:16)160127122109KM7355464232Far-(15) 150135 116 99 79 78 74 41 15 12Tularosa,By Waller K. LopezTbe New M extern Sttff Fort Lewis College survived a late College of Santa Fe charge Monday night to pull out a thrilling 85-82 victory at the CSF gym.Trailing by 15 points early in the second half, CSF steadily chipped awav at the Fort I^wis margin. Senior Tom Flack poured in fiveCollege from Phoenix. Game time is Flack sank a jumper for a Fort Lewis7:30 p.m. 42*38 halflime edge.Despite a porous defense and poor The Raiders came out smoking in free throw shooting, CSF ha I Lind on the second half, oulseoring the even terms with the Raiders in the Knights 17-6 in the first eight minutes first 20 minutes of action. for a commanding 8944 edge. DuringFollowing, a baseline jumper by the that span. Fort Lewis held the KnighlsHaiders’ Jim Coffman to open the scoreless for 3:27. scaring, hoi-handed Ron Estrada put Flack and Larry Gordleh combined in the first six points for CSF to lift Ihe for 17 points over the remainder rf thebring CSF .surging hack.iitorspoints via a bucket and a three point Knights to a 6-2 advantage. contest to bring CSF- .surging l:play to slice the Knights’ deficit to 73- Fort Lewis surged back lo knot the But, costly fouls enabled the vis po With 5-19 to 20 and Bruce James score at 6 6 on buckets hy Coffman to put the game oulol reach.68 with 5:19 to go pulled CSF closer at 79-76 with a basket at Ihe 1:36 mark.But, that’s as close as the Knighls came to the visitors. Fort Lewis' Mark Beaudin and A1 Richardson sank iwo free throws each sandwiched around a Skip Jerankoand Jeranku and the score was deadlocked four more times before the Knights, behind Ihe shooting of Estrada and Tim Dowdell, pulled out to a 28-21 advantage - their biggest lead of the contest.Fori Lewis won the game at the free throw line, sinking 25 of 36 altempls. CSF made good on lU'o 117 trios.Jeranko poured in 23 points to pace the winners and all scorers in I lie game. Coffman added 21 and Dokosky 10.Estrada popped in 20 to lead theRobert son.Artesia.flhiprock. Silver City,Penetrating the CSF defense for breakaway layup in the final 1:17 of easy buekels, Fort Lewis Tought back ,nlav to secure the victory for 1he to tie the game for the seventh time at Knights, 14 m the first 1 toll. DowdellRaiders 32-32. The contest remained even at 3- and .Tames contributed 12 apiece andThe defeat was the third in sue- 34 and 36-36 before the Raiders pulled Flack chipped in with jtcession for coach Kd Upton’s Knighls ahead for keeps on a Mike Bokoskyand lower's their season record to 3- layup with 44 seconds remaining in22.Fort Lewis raised its season mark to 9-16.CSF closes the campaign Friday night when It husls Grand CanyonFort l^ewis com milted 19 turnovers as compared to II for CSF.the half.Kelly Cordes and Beaudin tossed in FLtwo free I brows apiece and CSF’s CSF42 43 — *5 38 44 — 82Finley says owners united agai nst KuhnCHICAGO lAP) — Charles O. Finley, baseball’s maverick owner, thinks he finally has the other club owners on his side in his latest clashwith Commissioner Bowie Kuhn over a big money deal.The Oakland A's boss, who has one lawsuit pending against Kuhn, has threatened Id- sue him again if he hlocks the sale of relief piLeher Paul Lindblad to Texas for $400,000.And this time, Pinley says, his fellow owners would lei ihe commissi oner stand alone and not vote to indemnify him if Finley sues and wins.indemnify him, Finley said Monday. “He knows he’s in Ihe wrong ... Don’t be concerned about Bowie Kuhn canceling this deal. ”He said Lindblad also might sue if Kuhn blocks the sale.Kuhn had no comment on Finley's statements.The commissioner is planning a hearing on Ihe sale of the 35-year-old Lindblad, a Texas resident, to ihe Rangers. Bui Finley has set a condition for his allcndancr.“My attorney has made a request to the commissioner to outline In writing what the purpose of ihe meeting isHe hasn't got the courage or guts ^ wc lo conic in-‘’ saWfe C?Ce!.Jhiv If Kiihn does not mcel ihe condition,Monday. He knows .hat the:«B Finley says ho wilt stay away, tf Kuhn m baseball will not vote to indemnify compjie/an[J lhe aSswe/ satisfieshim, this lime. Fintey. “we’ll be there with bells on,”Finley still Is seething over Kuhn s |h A£owner says, ciston June 18 voiding the sales of A spokfismri/ for Kuhn Mys theThcNcw M«xkAn / Too jr O'BrienKNIGHT CHARGES — The College of Santa Monday night. He was temporarily set free on. Fe’s Kevin Neal maneuvers near the basket apiekby teammate Jim Lowrey (10).decision June 18 voiding three Oakland stars for S3.5 million. He sued Kuhn Tor lhal amount, bul Ihe owners voted to share the losses if Finley wins.Enough league owners realizecommissioner will not approve the sale of Lindblad, a 12-ycar major league veteran, until after a hearing. No dale has been sel, and Finley said lhe earliest he and his allomey could
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