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For St. Augustine's Coach Harvey f
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finals by stopping pre-season favorite f
Virginia Union 75-72 in the semifinals
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formance by Union's version of Mr. 4
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another in a string of close calls. 1
Heartley has never won a C1AA \
tourney. 1
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Heartley said. 44We have met good
teams every time we have lost in the t
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the damn place to shake his hand.
finals or the semifinals. At least we had <
an opportunity to get to the title i
game." s
Heartley credited the Spartan
defense with taking his team out of its
offensive pattern. "Both teams played
tough defense," he said. "We just *
weren't patient enough. We let their
defense take us out of our offense."
Heartley did, however, share an i
afterthought when he saw the stat 1
sheet, which showed his team hitting 28 1
of 55 field goal attempts for nearly 51
percent while the Spartans managed i
only a 36 percent showing on 22-of-60 j
shooting. y
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lifference," he said, looking at Norolk's
24 of 32 free throws as compared
o his Falcons' eight of 14 attempts
rom the line.
Heartley then quickly praised the
ourney's Most Valuable Player, Tally.
'He was the turning point," Heartley
aid, adding that he missed recruiting
i ally by one week. "Norman Roscoe
leld him in check in the first half but
le just ran out of gas in the second half
ind then Tally went to work."
In the title game, the 6-1 Atlantic Ciy,
N.J., freshman scored 18 points, in?!'s)
hand after the game and he
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:luding eight for eight from the line,
ind added five rebounds and four
steals. Gatling, who played only 23
ninutes but scored 16 points and was
>ix of six from the line, was named to
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5uard Barry Mullen, who scored 12
joints in the title game and added five
ebounds.
Rounding out the first team, along
vith Pope and Tally, were the Falcons'
Randy Franks, Anthony Rogers and
Ken Bannister.
Making the second team with Mullen
ind Gatling were Roscoe of St.
Augustine's, Charles Oakley of
Virginia Union and Troy Russell of
iVSSU.
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