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Bontsomf nj JVdoertiscr 0)Oirt Ken Rogers Sports editor Phone (334) 240-0190 Fax (334) 261-1548 200 Washington Ave. Montgomery AL 361 04 Sunday Jan. 27, 2002 Fans 2B 4B Recruiting Outdoors 12B Sportsline annua silemices 'Carfts fc. By Tim Gayle Montgomery Advertiser LEXINGTON, Ky. The players talked of past road games lost in a flurry of turnovers and poor shots.

The coach talked of determined players stung by the NCAA Tournament selection committee last year. No one talked of an upset or the play of two guards making their first-ever appearance in Rupp Arena. Fear was a four-letter word never mentioned. Antoine Pettway and Maurice Williams scored 13 upset," Alabama junior Rod Grizzard said, "but between the two teams? We should've come out with it." Kentucky, 13-5 and 3-3, lost for the third time at home this season and had a four-game winning streak snapped. The Wildcats were on the verge of overtaking Florida and Georgia for the SEC East Division lead following losses by the two teams earlier in the day.

"To lose at home is a tough blow," Kentucky coach Tubby Smith said. "We've got to find a way to recover. Tonight, it was a matter of not making shots." Neither team looked par- ticularly effective on offense, but wars are rarely pretty. The officiating crew of John Clougherty, Mike Thibodeaux and Pat Adams allowed the two teams to shove each other around, a move that favored Alabama in the paint. The Crimson Tide connected on 21-of-29 Bama Page 8B ALABAMA 64, KENTUCKY 61 points each and silenced a sellout crowd of 23,544 as 14th-ranked Alabama stepped to the head of the class with a 64-61 win over eighth-ranked Kentucky on Saturday night.

Alabama, 17-3 overall and 5-1 in Southeastern Conference play, is the only team in the league with one conference loss after Saturday's play. "The numbers say it's an Alabama's Antoine Pettway, top, wrestles for the ball with Kentucky's Chuck Hayes during their game at Rupp Arena on Saturday. The Tide upset HIGH SCHOOL WRESTLING TOURNAMENTS Ed Reinkey The Associated Press drought at UK. 4, V. the Wildcats to end a ALABAMA STATE Tigers shock Hornets By Griffin Mayo Montgomery Advertiser Alabama State is finding defending its Southwestern Athletic Conference championship to be an extremely difficult task.

The Hornets had their troubles again Saturday night at the Acadome. This time, lowly Texas Southern a team with just three wins entering the game shot 51 percent from the floor and 45 percent from 3-point range en route to a 76-71 upset of Alabama State. The loss drops ASU's overall record to 11-8. How ever, the Hornets asssPsH are 6-2 in 0m 111 VV Kj in and still have a tight grip on second place in the standings. "We are in conference play now, and anyone can win," Spivery said.

"Every team we play will give us their very best. Their coach will probably say they played their best game of the year." Texas Southern jumped out early on the Hornets, connecting on its first five shots from the field, and never looked back. The Tigers never trailed in the game and led by double figures for most of the evening. ASU's Alvin Pettway connected on a short, turnaround jumper with just under two minutes remaining to cut the lead to one, 71-70. But the Hornets could get no closer.

Texas Southern set the tempo early, running the court and connecting on four of its first six 3-point shot attempts. Alabama State tried to run with the Tigers, but its shots were not falling. Hornets Page 7B Jeff Davis' Lawrence "Speedy" Jordan, top, defeated Pelham's Ben Johnson high school wrestling sectional Saturday at Robert E. Lee. College basketball Top 25 (2) Kan.

86, Texas 74 (3) Maryland 84, FSU 63 (4) Cincinnati 78, S. Fla. 68 Ark. 94, (5) Florida 92 T. Tech 92, (6) Okla.

79 (14) Alabama 64, (8) Ky. 61 Indiana 88, (9) Illinois 57 (25) Conn. 100, (10) Ariz. 98 (11) Okla. St.

64, Colo. 55 (12) Syracuse 81, Va. Tech 69 (13) UCLA 64, Cal. 57 Vandy 86, (1 5) Georgia 84 (16) Gonz. 70, St.

Mary's 52 (230 USC 90, (17) Stanford 82 (18) Missouri 86, Kansas St. 74 (19) Oregon 94, Wash. St. 86 Minn. 89, (20) Ohio St.

71 (21) W. Forest 87, Ga. Tech 74 (24) Texas 69, Baylor 63 Other SEC games Ole Miss 71, S.C. 53 Miss. St.

84, LSU 61 Other area games Texas So. 76, ASU 71 So. Tech 81, AUM 79 Faulkner 76, Shorter 42 Hunt. 68, T. Temple 60 NBA Miami 90, N.

Jersey 77 N.Y. 129, Milwaukee 127 Sacramento 114, Utah 90 Houston 111, Charlotte 104 Seattle 95, Indiana 86 Boston 108, Cleveland 101 Wash. 112, Phoenix 102 Minnesota 103, Atlanta 80 Chicago 95, Memphis 92 Dallas 133, LA. Clippers 112 San Antonio 90, Golden St. 82 BRIEFLY Who will win this year's Super Bowl? New England Patriots Philadelphia Eagles Pittsburgh Steelers St.

Louis Rams Vote Online www. montgomeryadvertiser.com Tiger Walk director dies of brain cancer Tiger Walk director Tommy Williams, a long-time Auburn supporter, died Saturday after a battle with brain cancer. He was 58. "We are deeply saddened Tommy is one of our greatest supporters," Auburn coach Tommy Tuber-ville said. "Tiger Walk wouldn't be what it is without him.

He will be not employed by the university, Williams spent many years working to promote Auburn in an unofficial capacity. His most visible role was with Tiger Walk, the Auburn tradition which involves fans cheering the football team as it walks from Sewell Hall to Jordan-Hare Stadium before each home game. Williams, a Sylacauga native, earned an official com mendation from the State of Alabama in December for his work at Auburn. He was chosen to front the Tigers in their final Tiger Walk of the season. Visitation will be held Monday from 6-8 p.m.

at Jef-fcoat-Trant funeral home in Opelika. A memorial service will be held at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at Auburn United Methodist Church. JayG. Tate Medial ine GOLF PGA Tour, Phoenix Open, final round, at Scottsdale, WAKA CBS, 3 p.m.

MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL Auburn at Tennessee, WSFAJP, 3 p.m. North Carolina at Clem-son, FOXSN, 5 p.m. Virginia at Duke, FOXSN, 7 p.m. NBA L.A. Lakers at Philadelphia (joined in progress), WSFANBC, noon.

Complete TV listing 11B COMING MONDAY Auburn tries to halt its losing skid when it travels to Ten nessee this afternoon to play the Volunteers. The Advertis er will have results from the game. Page edited and designed by Ben Thomas Vestavia pulls away for sectional victory Hooper captures crown By Wesley Lyle Special to the Advertiser MARION The pressure is off the Hooper wrestling I team. The Colts worked toward one goal all season. Satur-; day, they realized that goal winning a state wrestling championship.

1 Hooper scored 237.5 team points to finish ahead of de-1 fending state champion Glenwood (208 points). Ma-! con-East came in third with 143 points. I "This is a relief. Today was a little too exciting," I Hooper coach Craig Duncan -joked. The state championship is nothing new to Duncan.

He also guided the Colts to the championship in 1997 1 and 1998. "We did pretty good from start to finish today. Going into the finals, we had only lost four matches. We were a little sloppy in the finals; but overall we did well," he said. Despite the wide margin I of victory, the champion-; ship was not secured until I late in the finals.

Only 10.5' points separated the two teams as the finals and Glenwood was able to I narrow the gap further. Hooper placed 11 wres-I tiers in the finals and Glen- wood placed 10. I Hooper's lead began to-dwindle as the Colts lost five of their first six match- es three to Glenwood. With just five matches re- maining all against the Gators Hooper needed to win out. "I don't really know what Hooper Page 3B I AISA TEAM RESULTS I 1.

Hooper 237.5 I 2. Glenwood 208 3. Macon-East 143 4. Meadovwiew 78 5. Marion Military Institute.

57.5 6. Bessemer Academy 43 7. Greenville Academy 25 8. Edge wood Academy 18 9. Lee-Scott 3 AUBURN AT TENNESSEE rj When: 3 p.m.

today Where: Thompson-Bol- ing Arena, Knoxville On the air: TV I WSFAJP; Radio WMSP-AM 740 and! WLWI-FM 92.3; WQNR-' FM 99.9 in Tallassee and 1 Auburn 1 Players to watch: AU GF Marquis Daniels (12.1 ppg, 5.1 rpg); SG Derrick Bird (11.2 3.4 rpg); UT SF Vince Yarbrough (18.1 ppg, 7.3 rpg), PF Marcus Haislip (16.0 ppg, 6.8 rpg) vember or December. We have some good veterans I but I think our freshman class is extremely talented, I Moving Monroe the program's only point-guard Ellis Page 7B Photos by David Alan Planchet Staff during the Class 6A state als for second place. "We had five (in the finals) and I thought at least three of those had a shot to win," said Lee coach Matt Vestavia Page 5B trmm.n iifi.n-J By Graham Dunn Montgomery Advertiser Both Robert E. Lee and Vestavia Hills entered the championship round of the Class 6A, Section 1 Wrestling Meet Saturday with the same number of qualifiers 11. But when the matches were completed, the king was still reigning.

The Rebels scored 25 points in the championship round to distance themselves from both Lee and Hoover and capture the Sectional at the Lee gym Saturday, setting themselves for a fourth-consecutive state title. Vestavia finished with a Robert E. Lee's Tony Hill, right, tangles with Pel-ham's Adam Barbee Saturday night at Lee. Team results, individual state qualifiers 5B team total of 213 points. Hoover finished second while Lee was third.

"We are just now starting to wrestle better," Vestavia Hills coach Steve Gaydosh said. "We had the majority probably 10 of our kids had very little experience. We were so bad, we didn't even check the scores. But in the last two weeks, we have come up to the point from the fact that I didn't think we had a chance to win the state." Only three Rebels won individual titles, but seven others finished either sec- AFC championship games, nearly a dozen Hall of Fam-ers and two coaches. Compare that to the Washington Redskins, who have had more coaches (Terry Robiskie, Marty Schottenheimer, Steve Spurrier) in the last 13 Stability of Steelers is rare in NFL world Ellis decides it's time to go with freshman ond or third.

Meanwhile, Lee failed to place anyone in the winner's circle while five wrestlers finished second. With Hoover's two wins, the Buccaneers were able to leapfrog the Gener- NFL PLAYOFFS Today's games AFC Championship New England at Pittsburgh (CBS), 11:30 a.m. NFC Championship Philadelphia at St. Louis (FOX), 3:15 p.m. Feb.

3 Super Bowl At New Orleans AFC Champion vs. NFC Champion (FOX), 5 p.m. Eagle eyes on Faulk 9B months. Or the Chargers, who have had 13 count 'em, 13 since 1969. The Steelers have had Noll, Cowher and a ton of stability.

They change coaches so irregularly that Cowher didn't know who the coach was before Noll. (Memo to Cowher: It was Bill Austin, a Vince Lom-bardi protege fired after the 1968 season.) "It's probably not by coincidence that I didn't know Steelers Page 9B By Alan Robinson The Associated Press PITTSBURGH In a sport where change is the only constant, success doesn't guarantee stability and NFL teams are forever searching for the latest and greatest, the Pittsburgh Steelers are as old-fashioned as the leather helmet and the single wing. Steelers owner Dan Roo-ney fires coaches only when he believes it to be absolutely necessary and he hasn't found it so since Lyndon Johnson was president. Consider this: Since 1969, when man landed on the moon and the Amazin' Mets won the World Series, the Steelers have had more stadiums (3) than head coaches (2). While shifting addresses from now-demolished Pitt Stadium to now-demolished Three Rivers Stadium to brand new Heinz Field, the Steelers changed coaches only in 1992, when Bill Cow- By Jay G.

Tate Montgomery Advertiser AUBURN With the Tigers' season teetering on the brink of disaster, Auburn coach Cliff Ellis has decided to make a move. Though the timetable remains unclear, lightly used freshman Lewis Monroe is expected to take over as the team's point guard. Marquis Daniels, a forward who agreed to play the point until a successor was groomed, will resume his career at small forward. Auburn (9-8, 1-5 in conference play) still lists Daniels as its starter at point guard for today's game against Tennessee (8-10, 1-4) in Knoxville. But things could change.

"The move of Lewis Monroe is one where we had to fish or cut bait," Ellis said. "We have such good freshmen that we wanted to go ahead and get this group playing together as opposed to waiting until next No- The Associated Press Bill Cowher has coached the Steelers since Chuck Noll retired at the age of 60 in 1992. her succeeded Hall of Fam-er Chuck Noll. And Noll was not fired; he retired a few months short of age 60, with not a trace of front-office pressure. Thirty-three years, five Super Bowls, four Super Bowl championships, 11.

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