fC's Martin wes In On )0 Yd. Total PEL HILL—Kennard Martin ade it all the way back. ded from the North Carolina I team a year ago, Martin has back to have a dynamic nore season at tailback and oms as a top All-Atlantic Coast ) possibility, addition, he has a shot at the | coveted figure among Tar Heel -1,000 yards rushing, olina, in fact, has produced 1,000-yard rushers than any i in the country. On 18 occasions Seel backs have hit the 1,000 ,ot’B just ahead of runner-up Jifomia with 17. krtin appears to have a ate chance to increase the Tar | total. Heading into the final two of the year, the 5’10”, nd sophomore from Winston has 757 yards. He need 243 Virginia and Duke to reach |,000 total. i figure became a real possibili Martin last Saturday after a nt performance at Clemson. He I the ruged Tiger defense for 116 i on just 16 carries. That includ 37-yard touchdown sprint. No ’ back this year has gained 100 i on the ground against Clemson. t was a great performance," says Coach Mack Brown. “But that’s the type of play we’ve i to expect from Kennard. He’s i outstanding for us in recent I kin uoa gauicu iov ui 1119 jraiuo Una’s last seven games. While Dating with Torin Dorn at ack, he averaged S.7 yards per and scored eight touchdowns, scored more TDs on the nd than any other player in the | and his yards-per-carry average ond only to Clemson’s Terry 1 among running backs, though Martin admits the sion was justified, he also says I he would never be comfor ) or able to relax around the Tar I staff again. ■broke team rules, something I'll lys* regret,” he says. “My st fear was that I would never sted again. Perhaps that was r on my part, but I juist had that ; and it made me very uncom Itbie. I didn’t know if I could have 1 back and played here again.” 1 though Martin decided to stay spel Hill, he still got his fresh Mack Brown became the new r Heel coach and wiped the slate of iry player clean, including i’s. 1 jumped at his fresh beginn and got off to a great start in d’s first spring practice. But in limited his work and he was lly an unknown quantity to the coaching staff heading into the [ “But he came back this fall with a ■t attitude and has continued to ove. He was a very highly lited young man, but this is the year he’s had a lot of positive happen to him. Now he’s got 1 confidence,” Brown said. Chicago s Presley jets New Lease 3n NHL Life __ CHICAGO, 111. (AP)-Wayne Presley, a promising 32-goal scorer only two years ago, has been waiting for the chance to show he still belongs in the NHL. Placed on waivers Friday by Chicago but recalled on Sunday, Presley hasn’t been in uniform since Oct. 31. But on Wednesday, Presley got his first two goals of the season, in cluding the game-tying score in the third period, as the Blackhawks fought back for a 6-6 tie with the Mon treal Canadiens. “Being put on waivers was tough," said Presley, who stuffed in a Denis Savard rebound at 6:46 of the third period to make it 6-6. “I had to sit down and think real seriously. I said to myself, ‘I know I'm an NHL player. I just have to make others believe it.’” A skin rash that suddenly afflicted Rick Vaive gave Presley his chance. “I was going to work hard in prac tice and wait for my chance,” he said. “Tonight I was the most relaxed I’ve over been. I told myself to go out and have fun. I was going to work hard all the time whether I got two points or 30 shifts." Guy Corbonneau had two goals in the first period and Mats Naslund found the net twice in the second for the Canadiens, who haven’t loot to the Blackhawks in their last 10 meetings. Naslund, who entered the game with just one ponit in seven road games, added a pair of assists as the Canadiens ran their unbeaten streak to five. Drugs, gambling and 16-year-old kidl - more evidence that we are con tinuing to lose the war on drugs. SURE SHOT—Al l. Sore got Isa Major HHlMl Mart at the winner ol a 1988 irniale cantaat Judged b» Oatacy Jmoa. Sure hoe ahce lam turning aui Mta from hia defeat afcum. Hera he la ate* with Ebeo^Jet Shewcaae hosteaa Deborah CraMe showing If t jump thot time for a hot, Sore shot. St. Aug’s Develops Winning Ways A.D. Heartley One Reason BY AL HARGROVE Staff Writer At the corner of Tarboro Street and Oakwood Avenue stands a small black college. This is not an unusual sight in the South. What is unusual about the institution is that it is rich in athletic tradition. Under the guidance of Athletic Director Harvey Heartley, St. Augustine’s College has achieved na tional success with a small enrollment—that has grown over the years, but still doesn’t rank with the numbers of some larger schools in the division in which it competes. That success is due in part to its athletic director and his fine staff. Heartley’s success began to take root early in his life. While a student at Smithfield’s Johnson Central High School, Heartley was co-captain of the basketball in 1950-51. From there, Heartley ventured on to North Carolina College (now NCCU). As a student there, Heartley’s athleticism on the court garnered him awards that others would soon notice. In 1954 and ’55, Heartley was selected AU-CIAA and honorable mention All-American. After North Carolina College put together back-to-back championships in the CIAA, Heartley was selected by the Minneapolis Lakers in the college draft. As is the case with many good athletes, once Heartley’s career was over, he moved on to coaching. His basic philosophy of the game was simple: ‘‘To play the game 91 feet in intensity for 40 minutes, to be fun NY Playground Basketball wi umin x un/r&n Violent drug dealers in New York City, thier pockets full of thick wads of cash, are using their money to sponsor playground basketball teams. This is not the same as Joe’s Hard ware picking up the tab for your local softball team. Drug dealers in New York, the same men who sell crack, cocaine and heroin to our young people, are walking up to impressionable 15- and 16-year-old kids and asking them to play on their team. fielding teams in New York are documented. The New York Daily News, citing information obtained from law enforcement sources, reports that two players who are now in the NBA, Wayne “Pearl” Washington and Walter Berry, once played for teams sponsored by a jail ed Harlem drug kingpin. Let it be known that Berry and Washington have not been suspected of any wrongdoing. They are decent, law-abiding citizens, and there is a chance they never knew who spon sored their teams. That’s what’s so chilling; With their BMWs, Mercedes, leather coats and gold chains, drug dealers already are ; This is not fiction. Cases of a status symbol many inner-city kids 100K Up tO. In an era when the black family is virtually under siege, when an over whelming majority of inner-city blade families are headed by a temale, it is tne orug dealer wno serves as a role model for our youth. The playgrounds used to be an escape from all of that. A kid could ladt up to the coach of his summer league team, maybe even the black bmriaessman who provided the mm*y for the sneakers, the la many cases in New York, rce for the Sneakers and is money earned by drug . Kfcat’sthat you say? You don’t live York so this is not your pro bfcg|? Think again. If this is happen ing in New York then it is happening inother cities, too. Miami. Cleveland. Pittsburgh. San Francisco. Los Angeles. The drug business is boom ing1/everywhere. It knows no boun dmg dealers are lodging for tty;” a well-known New York gttt:; leader told the Daily Mg.-great the athletes like the dealers are dropp he top young players. Said New York policeman Norris Walton, “Drug money is funding about 85 percent of the summer leagues out here in Harlem. When you see a BMW or a Mercedes or a Rolls-Royce pull up to a court driven by a guy witlTfio job, you know what’s 'going on.” Said David McCollum, who coaches the New York Gouchos, a nationally known club team, “They try to give the impression, ‘We’re the good guys,’ offering $250 to players just to put your sneakers on. They’re always out there. The faces change but it’s the same story. Big cars, big bucks.” Why do the dealers seek to sponsor teams? The same reason Joe’s Hard ware would back your softball team: for positive public relations. But there’s another reason, too. The dealers bet on the outcomes of the games. damentally sound and to master the basic skills of passing, shooting, re bounding." He was ready to put that philosophy into practice. He began in high school, with championships in the 1962-63 season at the state 2-A level and in 1966-67 at the 4-A level. Heartley has coached a total of 10 teams, counting high school and college, to championships. His coaching record stands at 552-296 at the beginning of this season, 274-180 at St. Augustine’s alone. Heartley knows what kind of players he is looking for. “He should be able to put the team first instead of individual goals. I think that a player should have a positive attitude toward himself, the school and the game,” he said. “The role of the coach is to be a positive role model and make a contribution to the com munity.” After leaving the high school ranks, Heartley began his long relationship with St. Augustine’s. Together the coach and school have risen to na tional acclaim in the media. When asked to recount his biggest moment as a coach, Heartley says, “When we played for the Division II national championship in ’84.” One can hear the sense of pride in his voice when he speaks about that ball-club. The team was led by Ken Banister, who went on to play for the New York Knicks. Ten times in his career Heartley has been selected coach of the year in the CIAA, a feat few can point to. On ly a wife can know the long hours and sweat the man puts into his work to get the task done. When the going gets tough, Ms. Maria Heartley is the one who confronts the.problems, not the big crowds in the arenas. The cou ple has managed to raise four children in the process. Heartley has a variety of duties along with coach and athletic direc tor. He also fills the roles of associate professor, golf coach and promoter, as well as running a summer basket ball camp for community kids. He spends his time from the start of the pre-season to the time of the tourna ment in late February keeping eveyrone in this area informed about how and when to purchase CIAA tour nament tickets (call him for informa tion). The past few years have seen a dramatic change in black college athletics. In the past, black colleges were the hub of education and athletics for black students. But television and Proposition 48 have changed all that, as well as the fact that black student/athletes are now courted by major universities. “We’re in a transition period now with Proposition 48 Powers such as HARVEY HEARTLEY N.C. State, Carolina and other big schools are competing for quality stu dent athletes and that makes the small schools’ job even harder. And it appears there are not enough good athletes to go around,” Heartley said. The coach also thinks some changes are needed at the Division I and II level. “There's no way you can expect to treat all schools the same,” he said. “Such intangibles as enroll ment, budgets and gross revenue make that impossible. When we have restrictions in admission it seems to me this is in conflict with our mission.” Heartley’s solution? “I think Divi sion II schools should have the right to determine who they should admit. The conference to which the school belongs should determine the eligibility standards for the players, which traditionally has been 24 semester hours and a 2.0 grade point average each year between seasons. We instruct our players to aim for a 2.5 GPA and 30 semester hours.” On the subject of television, Heartley says we don’t see any black college games on the tube “because television likes to have as wide an au dience as possible. We don’t know how many people not of a minority descent would watch. The games might not make money. That in part is due to the wide amount of publicity the big schools get from the network.” He adds, however, “I think BET (Black Entertainment Televi sion, a cable network) is doing a great job." Heartley has been selected CIAA athletic director of the year on four different occasions—1976, .81, ’84 and ’85. ^ i • v O | • W ‘ •! Quebec a Joe Saktc Likes Hts Chances In Nat’l. Hockey League CHICAGO, 111. (AP)—Quebec’s rookie center, Joe Sakic, likes his chances of sticking around in the Na tional Hockey League and so does his coach, Ron Lapointe. Sakis scored a pair of third-period power-play goals Sunday night, in cluding the game-tying shot with just 20 seconds left in regulation play as Quebec rallied from a 5-2 deficit against the Chicago Blackhawks. The Blackhawks and Nordiques ended up skating to a 5-5 tie in over time. “It was a great point because we came from three goals down,” said Sakic, the Nordiques’ second draft pick in 1987, whose two goals raised his season's total to 13. While playing the past two seasons in the Western Hockey League, Sakic recalls he was often surrounded by three players whenever he had the puck. But in the NHL, “It’s more of a one on-one situation and there’s just more room to maneuver,” said Sakic. With Quebec enjoying a man ad vantage, Sakic maneuvered himself into good position in the closing seconds of the third period and unleashed an eight-foot wrist shot to send the game into a sudden-death five-minute overtime period. According to Sakic, Michael Goulet “made the play when he pounced on a loose puck which was bouncing around. “I just let go because I was pretty sure it would take a great save to stop me.” His first power-play goal came ear ly in the final period to trim Chicago's advantage to 5-4. Chicago goalie Darren Pang called Sakic’s tying goal “a goal scorer’s dream—he had the ice to himself, nobody was in front of him and he hit a low shot that went to my stick side.” But the Blackhawks said they might have won the game were it not for some calls by referee Bob Hall. With 3:23 left, Hall disallowed a goal by the Blackhawks’ Steve Thomas, saying he directed the puck into the net with his skate. And with 1:33 left in regulation, »i«it f