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Okon jumps to Arizomia 0 (. 167-91 record at Iowa will begin immediately. "It's really hard to say exactly how soon, (a successor will be named), but we certainlywill start Just as soon as we possibly can in observing all the various things that go along with the replacing of a major coach." "There's no question about the fact that time is getting on and we want to get a replacement as soon as we possibly can," he said, "To pinpoint a target date at this moment would be a little premature." Elliott said he expects a smooth transition since Olson built a "sound program" and left the team with a "very firm foundation." Olson was contacted immediately following Iowa's loss to Villanova last Friday night in the NCAA Midwest Regional at Kansas City, and he traveled to Tucson to meet with Arizona's athletic director Cedric Dempsey. Another candidate considered for the Arizona post was Gene Bartow, coach at Alabama-Birmingham. Arizona athletic officials said they had requested permission from various schools to speak with about 25 other coaches, including Olson.

Olson reportedly met with his team Monday evening, although it was unknown what was said. Olson took the Hawkeyes to five straight NCAA post-tournament appearances, a Big Ten record. Iowa finished fifth in the league at 10-8 this year. Seeded No. 7 in the NCAA Midwest Regional this year, Iowa beat Utah State, 64-59, in the first round and Big Eight champion Missouri, 77-63, before bowing to Villanova, 55-54.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (UPI) Lute Olson, the winningest basketball coach at the University of Iowa, has accepted the coaching post at the University of Arizona, Iowa Athletic Director Bump Elliott confirmed today. Olson, who completed his ninth season at Iowa last week, told Elliott Monday night hi decision to accept the head basketball job at Arizona -will be announced at a news conference today in Tucson. "He made the decision that he will accept an offer to move to the University of Arizona as basketball coach," Elliott said. "Olson's decision came rather suddenly, it certainly wasn't pre-planned in any, way, shape or form;" Olson decided to leave because he and his family prefer living in the West, where Olson spent most of his life, Elliott said, and "it wasn't anything that was lacking in Iowa." "The fact that Lute had lived there most of his life and his children had been raised out that way there's no question he had a great desire to move back to that direction. Olson will replace Ben Lindsey, who was fired this season his first at Arizona after his team finished 1-17 in the Pacific Ten and 4-24 overall.

Elliott said Arizona has a "fine program" that will offer Olson an "opportunity for him to suceed there." Olson, who had eight years left on a 10-year contract, reportedly was offered an estimated $150,000 a year for the post, with some $60,000 a base salary and the balance in fringe benefits. Elliott said the selection process to replace Olson who compiled a Wednesday, March 30, 1983 -Mattoon (II. Journal Gazette-B-1 ,5 i i i Avery named to coach in all-star game MU Of ,1 Q. ry vJr i Jim, i i IJ i A bai-il mAA J. iA fir i kV .) i hi rr-t rill ill MATTOON How would you like to coach a prep basketball team that included the likes of Quincy's Dennis Douglas, Springfield Lanphier's Kevin Gamble and Peoria Central's Ivan Stone, among others? Mattoon's Bob Avery will get the chance.

The veteran Green Wave mentor has been selected to coach the Class AA South team in the 8th annual Illinois High School Basketball Coaches' Association North-South All-Star games in Peoria on June 25. The game will be one of two contested in that city's Civic Center. A Class A North-South all-star also will be played. Local fans will recall that Mat-toon's Chuck Sherline played for the class AA South team in last year's game. Four years prior to Sherllne's appearance, former Green Wave standout Mark Fitt was a South participant.

"They must have run out of people," a modest Avery chuckled when congratulated on the honor of being selected. "Really, I'm as happy as a kid about the chance to coach in the game. What a break it's really got me all excited I mean it. "It gives me a chance to work -Sports menu- TODAY 1 p.m. -Lake Land baseball team hosts Wabash Valley at Laker Field.

(The game was originally scheduled for Mt.Carmel). 2 p.m.-Lake Land netters' at Wabash Valley. i THURSDAY No events scheduled. directing Green Wave in Charleston Regional Tourney Lute Olson at today's Avery's South All-Star roster will include; Kevin Gamble, 6-7, Springfield Lanphier; Ken Coplen, 6-7, Belleville West; Mark Dale, 6-5, East St.Louis Lincoln; Dennis Douglas, 6-5, Quincy; Tony Gulley, 6-2, Peoria Manual; Eric Hawthorne, 6-3, Mt.Vernon; Kyle Herrin, 6-1, Bentbn; Craig Reiser, 6-4, Morton; Dave Snedeker, 6-8, Springfield Griffin; Steve Snod- grass, 6-7, Peoria Richwoods; Ivan Stone, 6-5, Peoria Central; Fabian Warren, 5-11, Decatur MacArthur; Tony Wysinger, 5-10, Peoria Central. Alternates: Eric Smith, 6-5, Urbana; Terry Smith, 6-5, Peoria Spalding; Mark Peters, 6-5, Benton.

Fresno State, trying to make a name for itself in big time hoops. DePaul is a slight favorite on the grounds that the Broadway odds-makers know coach Ray Meyer runs a first-class operation and are largely unfamiliar with Fresno State's basketball background. 3 A crowd of about 10,000 is expected for the final of a tourna "uavui una iiiiie homers ana 21 Ktll In 17 games. First, basemanientj Hrbek added a three-run homer for" the Twins. Detroit starter Dave Rucker yielded one of Gaetti's homers, and Larry Pashnick was the other victim.

Hrbek homered off minor-leaguer Craig Eaton. rw-nit's Lance Parrish hit his cinu daunt vtiin State. The home team won the first game 9-4, handing Eastern its first loss of the season. The Panthers are now 6-1 on the season. Crutcher, a senior out of Tower Hill, pitched 6 23 innings, struck press Photo by Jay Kimball earlier this month.

North roster: John Bajusz, 6-2, Benet Academy; Chris Berg, Arlington; Len Bertolini, 6-3, Chicago St.Patrick; Larry Bush, 6-5, Chicago Corliss; Eric Johnson, 6-6, Galesburg; Eric Kumerow, 6-6, Oak Park; Eric Moore, 6-5, De-LaSalle; Dave Moran, 6-4, Ottawa; Pat Rangel, 6-1, Rock Island -Alleman; Tony Reeder, 6-7, Westchester St. Joseph; Tom Schafer, 6-7, Algonquin Jacobs; Joe Stiffend, 6-3, Chicago Marshall; Tyrone Thigpen, 6-6, Harvey Thornton. Alternates: Bob Bolen, 6-0, Chicago DeLaSalle; Pat Metcalf, 6-0, Rock Island; Chuck Taylor, 5-11, Chicago Roosevelt. final ment which back in the days when DePaul won it out-ranked the NCAA tournament in prestige. DePaul, led by all-time great George Mikan, won the tournament in 1945.

DePaul, which advanced to the finals with a 68-58 victory over Nebraska, has a 21-11 record, while Fresno State, which whipped Wake Forest, 86-62, in the semifinals, has a 24-10 mark. fifth home run in'his last six games, a two-run "shot off Jack O'Connor, who' was the winner. O'Connor allowed all five Tiger runs in the sixth innings he workerd. The Twins, who have a team batting average tf .325 in exhibition play, ran their record to 14-5. The Tigers are 12-8.

out three and did not walk a batter in picking up the win. "Marshall pitched a superb game," raved Eastern skipper Tom McDevitt. "He pitched like the Crutcher of old. He was awesome." The Panthers play a doubleheader against the Tigers in Memphis again today. i I enjoyed playing high school basketball more than any other sport.

We won 26 games in a row my junior year 1962-63). "I really have fond memories of my high' 'school basketball days in Areola. That was when they had only one class. We beat Champaign and all the big teams before losing to Stephen DeCatur in the Supersectional. "I've certainly had some Nnice things happen to me recently," Avery replied when this columnist touched on Miller's sterling comments.

"You have some down moments in this business but there's also some good times." It couldn't happen to a nicer guy. with some excellent athletes. It will simply be a fun three days," he added. The two all-star teams gather a couple days in advance of the Saturday game for practice sessions. "I served as an assistant for Lee Cabutti a few years ago and all we tried to do was put in a simple offence and defense.

"We tried to keep things pretty low-keyed. We wanted to the kids to have some fun," Avery recalled, "That's pretty much the same approach I'll take." Avery says he plans to ask his longtime assistant Steve Parker to serve on his three-man coaching staff. Avery didn't reveal who his other assistant would be. Chosen as head coach for the North team was Dick Campbell of York Township High School in Elmhurst. Campbell was a former Illinl assistant under Harv Schmidt and also enjoyed coaching stints at Newton (basketball) and Charleston (baseball) high schools.

How does the selection of coaches come about for the all-star game? "Somebody has to nominate you," Avery revealed. "Then, a four-man board votes on which coaches will be chosen." Serving on the four-man selection board are Don Morris of Rock Island Alleman; Keith Baldwin, Junior Michelle Newman was the leading rebounder with 194 boards. Perry, Arnholt and Newman moved up to second, third and fourth respectively on the girls career scoring list with the performances this season. Perry has 992 poinrs behind Kim Maxey with scored 1,405 points in her four-year MHS career. -sAmholt ended with 675-career points.

Newman has 657 career points with one more season left. The complete statistics for the past season: Field Goal Snooting DePaul favored in NIT Arnholt sets record NEW YORK (UPI) Two good teams which missed out on the thrill of competing in the NCAA tournament will seek the satisfaction of being a "Consolation No. One" when they tonight in the finals of the National Invitation Basketball Tournament at Madison Square Garden. It will be DePaui, for 40 years a formidable contender for top honors in college basketball, against Coach Bob Avery Watseka; Stan Borgman, Fulton and Ron Ferguson of Bradley University. It's been a good week for the hard-working Mr.

Avery, one of the real class guys in the Illinois high school basketball coaching ranks. He was paid quite a compliment by former Areola all-stater and Illini and St.Louis football regular Terry Miller in a Champaign News-Gazette article. think the highlight of my career was having Bob Avery as my high school basketball coach, Miller was quoted as saying. "He's probably the nicest guy I've ever met. He's a great person." Miller went ahead to say, think Racette Martens Swick Player Mullen 1- 4 .250 2- 4 .500 2-2 1.000 Polnts-Avg.

116 4.6 349 I 13.9 423 16.9 371' 14.8 61 2.4 33 1.5 12 10 85 3.9 -31 .1.7. 20 1.3 25 2.1 8 1.1 8 1.1 Scoring Arnholt Perry Newman Huggins Shepley Weaver King McCullough Reynolds Racette Martens Swick Other Player Reb. Asst. Mullen IT-" 102 89 Arnholt 147 57 Perry 40-62 Newman 194i 78 Huggins 34 61 Shepley 42' 6 Weaver 5 King 63 10 McCullough 6 6 Reynolds 25 11 Racette 12 4 Martens 9 2 Swick 2 3 Career Scoring Player Potato. 1.

Kim 1,405 2. Dreama ...992 3. Cheryl ..675 4. Michelle Newman 657 5. Kristin Newman 627 6.

Lisa Neman 616 7. lindaNuxoll 599 (. Nancy Saegesser 594 S. AngieAllee. 573 10.

Anne Lawrence 454 11. Sandie Mullen 425 12. Sheila Trower 343 13 Julie Morgan 302 14. 265 LoriDilU 265 Gaetti cracks two homers MATTOON Only one record fell during the 1982-83 season of the Mattoon High School girls basketball team. Senior Cheryl Arnholt broke the season field goal percentage record.

She hit 142 of 247 attempts from the field to set a new season percentage record of .574 Senior Dreama Perry ended the season as the leading scorer with 423 points. Perry averaged .16.9 points per game. Cheryl Arnholt' LAKELAND," Fla. (UPI) -Gary Gaetti (former Lake Land-Laker standout) smashed a pair of two-run homers Tuesday pushing the Minnesota Twins past the Detroit Tigers 1 10-5 in exhibition baseball. Gaetti raised his spring batting, average to .385 with a 4-for-5 day.

EIU splits doubleheader Player FG-FGA Pet. Mullen 43-121 .355 Arnholt H2-247 574 Perry 183-366 .474 Newman 140-286 .489 Huggins 23-60 .383 Shepley 15-37 .405 Weaver 6-14 .429 King M-6 .395 McCullough 12-38 .315 Reynolds 8-20 .400 Racette 14-37 .378 Martens 3-5 .600 Swick 3-5 ..600 Free Throw Shooting Player FT-FTA Pet. Mullep 30-41 .731 Arnholt 6541 .800 Perry 57-90 .474 Newman 93-121 .768 Huggins 15-26 .577 Shepley 3-12 .250 Weaver 9-3 .000 King 12-20 .850 McCullough 7-13 .538 Reynolds 4-11. .333 MEMPHIS, Tenn. The Eastern Illinois University baseball team split a doubleheader with one of the best teams in the nation on Tuesday.

Marshall Crutcher pitched a five-hit hutout in the second game to lead the Panthers' to a 2-0 win.