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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
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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.
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kidl - more evidence that we are con
tinuing to lose the war on drugs.
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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
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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
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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.
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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<mt off Doug Wilson for closing
Mahaadaeathepuck
It was "a penalty that never should
have been called,’’ Wilson said.
"Players catch the puck all the
time and there is a three-second
period before you have to get rid of
it," he said. "It certainly was not
right and it’s something you find hard
to believe.”
Quebec Coach Ron Lapointe called
Hairs omciaung Druiai.
Hall assessed a two-minute minor
penalty on the Nordiques’ bench
when Lapointe banged a stick on the
boards in anger, and on the ensuing
power play Brian Noonan scored the
third of the three-straight second
period goals as the Blackhawks open
ed up a 5-2 lead.
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Harlon Hill Award Picks
FLOKENCE, Ala. (AP)-Thirty
players have been nominated for the
third annual Harlon Hill Trophy, in
cluding last year’s wir ier .lohnny
Bailey of Texas A .' I.
The nominees .. Division 11 foot
ball’s top individual honor were pick
ed by the sports information directors
at their respective schools. The win
ner will be selected in balloting of the
116 SIDs at football-playing Division
II schools.
The top three vote-getters will be
brought to Florence for the Dec. 9
presentation of the award on the eve
of the NCAA Division II champion
ship game at Brady Stadium.
Nine players were nominated from
the West region, eight from the
Midwest, seven from the South, six
from the East. Regional balloting
reduced the field to eight Nov. 9 with
the top two vote-getters in each
regional advancing to the national
ballot.
North Dakota State quarterback
Jeff Bentrim won the first Harlon Hill
Trophy in 1986. Bailey won the award
last season as a sophomore after
leading Division II in rushing for a se
cond straight year.
In addition to bailey, four other
nominees also were on last year’s
ballot: quarterback Chris Crawford
of Portland State, quarterback Jim
mie Davis of Morehouse College,
.quarterback Earl Harvey of North
Caiolina Central and running back
Harry Jackson of St. Cloud State.
West region nominees are tight end
Jon Braff of St. Mary’s College,
Crawford; center Mike Favor of
North Dakota State; quarterback
Mark Sedinger of Northern Colorado;
receiver Troy Slusser of Washburn
University, flanker Todd Smith of
Morningside College, linebacker
Doug Vanderesch of South Dakota,
and receiver Mark Young of
Sacramento State.
In the Midwest region, the
nominees are Steve Avery of Nor
them Michigan, Bailey, quarterback
kicker-punter Steve Bohlken of Lin
coln University, quarterback Alan
Brown of Missouri Southern State,
split end Chris Harkness of Ashland
College, receiver Frank Moitke of
Grand Valley State, running back
Steve Roberts of Butler University
and running back Gerald Todd of
Abilene Christian.
South region nominees are quarter
back Tomihy Compton of North
Alabama, Davis, safety Fred Garner
of Alabama A&M, quarterback David
Gulledge of Jacksonville State,
Harvey, defensive tackle Emanuel
McNeil of Tennessee-Martin, and
quarterback Stanley Williams of
Albany State (Ga.).
Nominees from the East Region
are running back Steve Girting of In
diana (Pa.) University, receiver
cornerback Bill Hess of West Chester
University, quarterback Michael
Horton of New Haven, tight end Terry
O’Shea of California (Pa.) Universi
ty, running back Greg Patera of Slip
pery Rock, and linebacker John
Petrus of Millersville University.
The trophy is named for Harlon
Hill, a former star with Florence
State Teachers College (now the
University of North Alabama) and
the NFL’s Chicago Bears.