There was a noteworthy wrinkle to an old story Wednesday afternoon at Cleveland High. But when the pairings were announced Sunday, Notre Dame was sent to Chapel Hill for the first round, and the Tar Heels, because of a loss to Duke in the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament final, were sent to Salt Lake City. His only start was against Atlanta in a B-team game, in which he pitched four scoreless innings. And that was how Jerry Halstead took his aches and pains to Pat O'Grady's sweat shop to work them out in a more socially acceptable way The Oklahoma City Police Dept was not to be considered a prescription drug. As a freshman in 1983, he began the final hole of the NCAA tournament at San Joaquin needing a birdie to get into a five-way playoff. Oklahoma (32-3) will play Louisville Thursday in the regional semifinals at Birmingham, Ala. It happened again midway through the Pacific Coast Athletic Assn season.

What happens if the PCAA Council reconvenes in May and decides to really drum up some publicity? SANTA ANA-In an unexpected twist in strategy, council members abandoned plans to change the conference name from PCAA to Big West or Wild West Instead, members voted to rename the conference Jerry West. The council, comprising one representative from each of the 62 Southern Section leagues, meets every two years to discuss new alignments of leagues and teams in various sports. He also said that George Hendrick, who hit . 122 after his acquisition from Pittsburgh and is guaranteed a reported $800,000 in 1986, will be counted on to regain his St Louis form. Of the current top 15 money winners, 13 will compete in the tournament The San Diego-based U. S.

James Blackmon (K) 16. Dallas Comegys scored 21 points, and Rod Strickland contributed 17 to lead DePaul to an 81-72 nationally televised upset over No 6-ranked St John's Saturday at Rosemont, Ill. The playoff pairings: 4-A(Tuesday) Glendale at Santa Barbara; Rolling Hills at Long Beach Wilson; San Gorgonio at Villa Park; South Torrance at Edison; Redlands at Laguna Beach; Harvard at Hoover; Dos Pueblos at Westlake; Marina at Beverly Hills; Newbury Park at Palos Verdes; Corona del Mar at Millikan; North Torrance at Thousand Oaks; Fountain Valley at University; Long Beach Poly at Foothill; Buena at Muir; Canyon at Palm Springs; Culver City at Miraleste. That is, after many months of study and consideration at Keck's home here and on a farm in Kentucky, he decided to mate Ferdinand's mom and pop. Mike Peyroux scored 12 and Mike Francis had 11 for San Marcos Briefly: Newport Harbor 51, Burroughs (Burbank) 38. If the Centurions' pregame music is too loud for Antelope Valley Coach Jack Donnelly, Worley says he will have it turned off.

I didn't know if he could control it in order to become a head coach" Guess what, Ara. For these reasons, it's possible the Chargers might expend two high picks on linebackers. With its fifth victory in the last seven games, Chicago remained six points ahead of second-place St Louis in the Norris Division. Against a team like the Hawks, who are willing to run, it's just a matter of who cracks first" No doubt about it The Hawks were the ones with tongues hanging out afterward.

Jackson has spent time at three community colleges in the past six years, and it wasn't until last season at Cypress that he got to see any game action. Look at it this way: The Notre Dame teams of the late 1940s were probably the greatest college football teams ever assembled They could have gone intact into the pros. But overall, I knew we could not be defeated because we had the attitude that we were going to do this. Mario Gomez, a right-handed junior, won his third game without a loss. She felt Green had an edge in the baseline rallies, especially when Sampras hit the ball with a lot of pace.

With no games, limited contact and only a handful of scrimmages to use as guides, calling five weeks of spring practice a success is guesswork at best. Brian Clark and Angela Brinton were honored as Cal State Northridge's top senior athletes Monday night at the school's senior athletic awards banquet. She asked her mother to move in three weeks ago "when I decided that I really was gonna play" Her motivation is all those mouths to feed and bills to pay. 1 in NCAA Division I softball, plays defending national champion UCLA in a doubleheader today at 1 p. m at UCLA. But no sport places as much of a premium on height as basketball. The same Wayne Cooper who drilled a 22-foot jumper to beat the Lakers by a point here Nov. "I had always thought, 'Well, if I ever get hit on my bicycle, I'd just as soon die because I don't want to live through it' and I realized in the hospital that I didn't want to die" she said She also realized she wanted to attend college.

We'll go right at them like we did tonight" It was a pressure defense that stopped Citrus in the final minutes of Wednesday's game. There's no hook to hang on to like (Muhammad) Ali" Like so much else in the sport, Ali was in the middle when the heavyweight title was first split. If we were to lose every game from here on out, we would still probably be in the WAC playoffs, so from that standpoint, there's not a lot of pressure" The top four teams qualify for the playoffs, and at this point Hawaii, SDSU and Brigham Young appear to have berths locked up The fourth spot is in doubt Still, the next three weeks won't be easy for the Aztecs. A game in Hong Kong on July 2 is tentatively planned before returning to Lexington on July 4 "First of all, it's a great learning experience. CS Los Angeles (4-3-The Golden Eagles have won four straight since losing on the road against Sam Houston State, Northwestern and Wisconsin Cal State L. A. Some thought that would change this season when Syl Saavedra took over for veteran Coach Dan Evans, now in charge of the junior varsity team. SAN DIEGO — Waad Hirmez's left leg and his mind must have very different conceptions of what constitutes speed The muscular leg of the Socker defender produces 71 m. p. h curveballs into the far corners of the net That's fast.

That's about the way Snow does it" Fraternal feelings result "It's a unifying thing" said Tarchione. "I can see why he had the year he did last season"MESA, Ariz. "The 64 teams that we select will all feel like they deserve to be there, but the 10 or 15 teams that were on the bubble, or on the periphery, will all think that we don't know what we're doing" he said. KANSAS CITY — Arnold Ferrin, chairman of the NCAA Division I men's basketball committee, will become both hero and villain today when his group announces who plays where and when in the $32. 6 million extravaganza known as the NCAA basketball tournament. The Childrens Hospital of Orange County Padrinos men's volunteer support group will stage its fifth annual Vic Braden/Choc Padrinos Tennis Tournament this weekend and next weekend at eight area tennis clubs, with the semifinals and finals to be held at the John Wayne Tennis Club in Newport Beach May 10 and 11. Though Benirschke kicked the same amount in last year's training camp as in previous seasons, the Chargers think that by kicking less this year, chances are reduced his injury will recur. "Like I said, I'm getting down to the end of my career-not the end, but we're talking about being close-and probably my last Olympics I would like to really be the best I could be.

Dooley, will receive a six-figure settlement from the Dodgers, who were named in the suit as defendants, along with Smith and Lopes. Only one change was made on the winter tour schedule, switching the Hawaiian Open dates with the Shearson-Lehman Bros Andy Williams San Diego Open The San Diego tournament at Torrey Pines will be Feb. Ventura is where I vacation and now I have a chance to live in my vacation spot. Three weeks later, Cleveland Coach Greg Herrick told The Times that Wilson had been dismissed because of "recent violations of team rules and his continued disregard of our program and its objectives" The next day, Herrick announced his own resignation. On "Sports Sunday" at 1:30 p. m, CBS offers Alexis Arguello, continuing his comeback, against Bill Costello at Reno, and on ABC at 2:30 Marvin Johnson and Leslie Stewart meet for the World Boxing Assn. Mark MacArthur scored three runs and had three RBIs for the Mustangs, who improved their overall record to 14-15. "Mike plays a different defensive game, really hounding the other team and pressuring the ball.

Grant brought Colorado State (21-13) its first postseason bid in 19 years in his first season as coach of the Rams. "They said I didn't have enough range to play second base" said the 6-foot-1 Law without identifying the critics "I felt my range was adequate, but being a big guy. Keck cars driven by Bill Vukovich, who was later killed in the race, won at Indianapolis in 1953 and 1954. A few of college basketball's tradition-rich conferences once again dominated the at-large selections to the NCAA tournament, this time taking 20 of the 34 bids not tied to conference titles. Last season, the Indians' pitching was the absolute worst in baseball. Catcher Steve Guidice hit a two-run home run in the third inning.

Jan Goossens scored on a penalty kick to make it 6-1 late in the third quarter. In the next inning Laudner did it again and the Indians lost for only the fourth time in 18 games. The rest of the American League may not be convinced, but the Milwaukee Brewers know Roger Clemens is the best pitcher in the league and maybe in all of baseball. Now tennis is still most important to him, but there are other things as well" Tennis is still No 1 And Stewart wants to be No 1. Jay Hollis hit a two-run home run in the fourth for Dana Hills and Jack Bailey homered for the Diablos in the bottom of the same inning. University High School's Jeff Baker scored on a two-out single by Todd Krueger in the sixth inning to give the Trojans (1-1, 3-5) a 3-2 Sea View League win over Estancia Thursday in Costa Mesa. The other time was seventh-seeded Oregon's upset of Arizona last season. TUCSON — Let it be duly noted that USC did not go softly into the defeat that made this team the losingest Trojan basketball team and the first one eliminated from the Pacific 10 tournament.

The team receives 20% if the ticket is renewed for a second year and 15% for each year thereafter. Then, four years later, they can right the other wrong by coming over here. . He's a great perimeter shooter and a very determined competitor. There still is a question if Calvin Muhammad, who didn't catch a pass for the second time in the last three games, will be replaced in the starting lineup by Gary Clark, who caught a 10-yard touchdown pass Monday. "I'm going to make every effort to have Juan come back and hurt the Angels with his ability" agent Ray Negron said Sunday as baseball's winter meetings opened quietly, as anticipated.

Then Welch balked Mark McLemore to second in the third, McLemore took third on a fly ball, and then scored on Welch's third balk A hat trick for Balkin' Bob, a win for the Angels Very encouraging. Carter, a senior, surpassed his previous best, 63-0, that he set as the runner-up at the 1987 state meet last June He achieved his winning mark in his very first attempt Carter followed with marks of 62-7, 62-10, 61-6 and 63-0. In the little-guy league, he's a giant. Greg Taylor caught a lob pass in midair and ripped the ball through the basket with both hands. House of Representatives' version calls for an annual fee of $25; the Senate version seeks a $25 per-time fee, with an annual maximum of $500. . Martinez gave up four runs in the fourth inning and three in the fifth, including a two-run home run by Nick Santa Cruz.

"She'll even say to someone on the other team, 'Nice block' " teammate Wyndee Bailey said. Cleveland 10, Minnesota 2-Steve Carlton wasn't the answer in the Metrodome for the stumbling Twins. UCLA's record fell to 11-10 overall, 6-6 and out of the running for the Pacific 10 lead Arizona State rose to 12-11 overall, 6-7 in the conference. A men's collegiate field that includes Brad Pearce of UCLA and Steve DeVries of Cal, and a women's field that features Caroline Kuhlman of USC, will highlight this week's traditional Ojai Valley tennis tournament. Alfonzo Gutierrez was 2 for 3 with an RBI triple in the second inning and a run scored, while pitcher Rick Gonzalez allowed only six hits and struck out eight for St Genevieve. Today and Sunday, they will compete in the actual Hahnenkamm downhill and slalom, with Wirnsberger having closed within three points of World Cup overall leader Marc Girardelli of Luxembourg (109 to 106. Digress would have been the second betting choice in a Blue Grass that is probably the weakest in the 64-year history of the race.

But I see no reason why they wouldn't be" Oops dept: Jim McMahon was chided in this column last week for wearing sunglasses while on "NFL Today" the previous weekend An apology is in order. The Fish and Game Commission has adopted 1986 fishing regulations and the 12-page booklets are now available at most state sporting goods stores. first sanctioned a national volleyball tournament, and still no team from outside California has won it. Basically, teams in selected conferences receive automatic bids either by winning their league's postseason tournament or by capturing the regular season championship in conferences that do not have such tournaments. Santiago 10, Loara 8-Loara (2-3) was ahead, 6-3, after six innings, but Santiago (2-3) scored seven runs in the seventh at Loara. The A's also expect to break their club record of 1. 7 million, set in 1982.