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Mets, Padres finally pull off deal Gill gets bowl ring back 4 northwestside. The ring was a souvenir of the 1982 Rose Bowl game in which the Washington Huskies defeated Iowa, 28-0. The ring was found Wednesday night when city patrolman Thomas I. Black stopped a motorist. It was unclear what led Black to stop and search the car, and Black could not be reached.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) A commemorative Rose Bowl ring that was reported stolen from Indianapolis Colts' running back Owen Gill, a former University of Iowa star, has been recovered by police. The ring was valued at between $7,000 and $8,000 and was reported stolen after a burglary at Gill's apartment on the city's HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) New York and San Diego completed an eight-player trade Thursday night involving power-hitting outfielder Kevin McRey-nolds for several of the Mets' young talents. To get McReynolds, along with relief pitcher Gene Walter and minor-league infielder Adam Ging, the Mets had to surrender five players. Going to San Diego are two of said he wanted to wait until Friday "to let it sink in" before commenting on the trade.

McReynolds had been one of the most coveted players at baseball's winter meetings. Selakovich said the St. Louis Cardinals had offered 1985 National League MVP Willie McGee and pitcher Ricky Horton for McReynolds, but had been turned down by the Padres. New York's best outfield prospects, Stanley Jefferson and Shawn Abner, multi-purpose Kevin Mitchell and two minor-leaguer pitchers. McReynolds, 27, batted .288 with 26 home runs and 96 runs batted in last season.

He would play left field for the Mets and join Darryl Strawberry and Len Dykstra in the outfield. McReynolds, reached at his home in North Little Rock, Owen Gill Reggie looks for Page 31 Phils get Page 31 Boz gets Butkus Award Page Illini will try to run Page 30 Friday, Dec. 12, 1986 27 4 (0 Vikes, Salisbury St. are itching to show off Wing offenses QUAD-CITY TIMES By Dearrel Bates QUAD-CITY TIMES PHENIX CITY, Ala. Au-gus tana's football team will have just one more practice this year, but Coach Bob Reade wishes even that one were over.

Reade and Salisbury State Coach Mike McGlinchey, both disciples of the Delaware Wing offense, staged brief workouts Thursday and will practice again briefly today in preparation for their showdown Saturday for the NCAA Division III football championship. Both coaches, were wishing Saturday's 12:06 kickoff was here nbw. Augustana has not lost a football game since its 14-0 setback to West Georgia in the 1982 Stagg Bowl title game, right here in Phenix City's Municipal Stadium. That translates into three consecutive national championships and no defeats in 49 consecutive games, with a 0-0 tie in the season opener against Elmhurst snapping a 37-game winning streak. "We can win Saturday," said McGlinchey, whose team was a couple of hours late arriving which meant drills under lights Thursday.

"We can't worry about Augustana winning the past three national championships. We know we have good athletes, good coaches and good ability on our team and so do they. "Certainly, we have to be at our best to win Saturday, but we feel we can do it." Coaches, in the past three AUGIE'S Please turn to Page 29 Whitey's shake flies with Vikes By Dearrel Bates QUAD-CITY TIMES to Phenix City to give to Tucker DiEdwardo, NCAA assistant director of men's championships. In 1985, when Augie hosted the national wrestling tournament, DiEdwardo was taken to Whitey's for a shake. In every conversation with Augustana officials, it always was mentioned.

"He was a happy man when we presented it to him," Augie sports information director Dave Wrath reported. Quad-City Times columnist Bill Wundrum has told a few Whitey's ice cream stories in the past, and what great lengths some people have gone to get those famous shakes. Here's another. Augustana assistant coach Denny Riccio transported a Whitey's shake it was a chocolate Oreo SAN DIEGO (AP) San Diego State Coach Denny Stolz beat Iowa Coach Hayden Fry in a pre-Holiday Bowl contest on a golf course driving range, and the two then settled down to talk about bigger stakes the Dec. 30 football game.

"I'm probably the only coach in America who doesn't play golf," Fry quipped before taking the first of his three swings Wednesday to see which coach could land the ball closest to a pin. Fry tried to talk Stolz into seeing who could throw the golf ball the farthest. Stolz, obviously more comfortable swinging axhib, politely declined. The Iowa coach promptly hit three grounders that missed the pin by some 200 feet while Stolz managed to ge't one of his balls on the green. Stolz was awarded a stuffed "Shamu" from Sea World as the winner of the competition at the Stardust Hotel and Country Club, which is staging a million-dollar hole-in-one promotion in conjunction with the ninth annual Holiday Bowl.

Fry got a "Willie the Whale" floating cup holder as his consolation prize. At a news conference later, Fry said the Hawkeyes, hurt badly by injuries during the regular season, should be in good shape for the Holiday Bowl. Iowa, which finished 8-3 overall and in a second-place tie in the Big Ten, lost seven starters early in the season, including quarterback Mark Vlasic, defensive tackle Jeff Drost and fullback David Hudson. Drost and Vlasic returned toward the end of the season and Hudson may be able to play in the Holiday Bowl, Fry said. "We'll be a much stronger football team than we were most of the season," Fry said.

The Hawkeyes arrive in San Diego Dec. 23 to prepare for the game. Stolz guided the Aztecs to the Western Athletic Conference championship in his first year at the school. San Diego State also is 8-3, but Stolz said the Aztecs will be meeting their biggest challenge of the year in playing Iowa. Though Iowa is favored, both coaches noted several factors that could help the Aztecs, not the least of which is the home field advantage.

The other is San Diego. Jack Murphy Stadium's grass field. The Hawkeyes played all their games on artifical turf this season. The last time they played on grass was in the most recent Rose Bowl, where they lost to UCLA, 45-28. "We looked like we were standing in mud and they were on roller skates," Fry said.

7 Locally Area boys and girls basketball teams take the court tonight with most varsity contests starting at 8 p.m. For a complete list of games, see Scoreboard. On if Rock Island at Quincy, 7:50 p.m.onWBHF(AM1270). West at North Scott. 8 p.m.

on WOC (AM 1420). Aledo at Monmouth, 7:35 p.m. on WRMJ(FM 102.3). DeWitt at Clinton Mater Del, 7:45 p.m. on KROS (AM 1 340).

Maquoketa at Vinton, 7:45 p.m. on KMAQ (FM 95.3). On TV Los Angeles Lakers at Boston Celtics, 7:05 p.m. on WTBS. Chicago Bulls at Milwaukee Bucks, 8 p.m.

on WFLD. Tim Witherspoon vs. Tony Tubbs for the WBA heavyweight championship, scheduled for 15 rounds, 9 p.m. on HBO. iwsm Augustana (11-0-1) vs.

Salisbury St. (13-0) Saturday, 12:06 p.m. Phenix City Stadium, Phenix City, Ala. Augie Salisbury Strength Speed Pass offense nun onense Pass defense Run defense Special teams intanqiDies Salisbury State will be out to snap Augustana's 49-game unbeaten streak, plus prevent the Vikings from winning a fourth consecutive Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl chamlonship. The only mar In that long string of wins was a 0-0 tie against Elmhurst In this season's opening game.

The Vikings advanced to the title game with 34-10, 16-7 and 41-7 triumphs over Hope, Mount Union, Ohio, and Concordia, Minn. While being In the final game Is something new for Salisbury State, the Maryland team has been in the Division III post-season tourney three of the past lour years. The Sea Gulls reached the semifinals in 1983 before losing to eventual runnerup Union, N.Y., and made It to the quarterfinals In '85 before falling to Gettysburg. Salisbury made It to the final with 34-20, 31-17 and 44-40 wins over Emory Henry, Susquehanna, and Ithaca, N.Y. bench and took the Panthers out of the game.

Nurse was hit with a foul, then a technical when he argued the call. Iowa State capitalized on Nurse's mistake by picking up four quick points to put the game away. Freshman Terry Woods sank a pair of free throws and Schafer got loose on a break, taking the ensuing inbounds pass on the fly. "He reacted to the official. It was a mistake and he knows it," Miller said of Nurse.

"The offi-. rials might blow the game for you but you still can't do his job for him. "I'm the head coach, I can get the technicals and I've had a few." Iowa State 79, Northern Iowa 60 UNI mm fefga Ho rb pi a to Francis McGroth McOermoH Cox Boilev Reese Newbv Narse Socho Kuhnert Ouinn Mulienbura Team TOTALS 35 8 IS 4 4 3 1 28 19 21 25 21 12 "19 1 II 2 6 3 10 4 3 14 7 1 14 14 12 5 6 2 4 2 0 0 200 24 42 J7 14 40 mln fo toa It Ha rb pf a ISU Graver Schafer Hill Robinson Thompklns Woods 37 7 12 7 0 34 4 9 10 13 2 4 21 4 3 1 22 3 8 3 4 39 7 11 7 2 4 17 12 3 4 18 1 2 Rhodes 4 Marsenthaler 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 Poole Moore Spinks Doerrleld Team 1 0 1 1 0 0 4 TOTALS 200 28 SO 21 32 32 IS 19 79 Holftlme score lowo State 34, Northern lowo 58. Technicals Nurse; Three-point boo Is Bollev 1. Nurse 1.

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Harris. Zetcher. A 14,112. Cyclones shake off UNI 1 tr 1 Jim Criner Craig Cooper By Craig Cooper QUAD-CITY TIMES AMES, Iowa Iowa State struggled as much with itself Thursday night as it did with Northern Iowa before pulling out a 79-60 victory in Hilton Coliseum. The 4-1 Cyclones, coming off a tough victory over Drake and facing difficult road games at Michigan State and Iowa in the next nine days, seemed intent to just get by for its 21st straight home victory.

Northern Iowa, playing hard especially on defense under new Coach Eldon Miller, finally slipped in the final 10 minutes after staying within range for 30. "We had a tough time tonight," ISU Coach Johnny Orr said. "We couldn't get fired up at all. "UNI really hustled and did a heckuvajob." One of the bright spots for the Cyclones was senior forward Tom Schafer, who had a career-high 22 points plus 8 rebounds. Schafer, who started his career at Illinois, was especially strong down the stretch.

Schafer had 14 of his total in the second half, including a stretch of eight points for the Cyclones late in the game. "I thought we played them hard, but it was tough to pull away. We had them down, then we let them back in the game," Schafer said. Northern Iowa, falling to 2-3, was still in the contest at 59-52 after a 3-point goal by Nick Nurse when Nurse made a mistake that got him a seat at the end of the AMES, Iowa Major surgery was successful. The patient, in this case Iowa State football, will recover.

When university President Gordon Eaton suggested recently that NCAA sanctions against the troubled football program weren't nearly as bad as they could have been, he wasn't exaggerating at all. It was disclosed Thursday by the university that the Cyclone football program was hit with little more than a slap on the wrist by the NCAA for rules infractions. The only major penalty is that the football program will be stripped of four scholarships in 1987. The program will also be on probation for two years but will not denied television and bowl appearances. According to ISU officials, a one year ban on TV money was suspended because of Iowa State's cooperation in the probe.

Firing football Coach Jim Criner two games before the season ended may not have helped, but it didn't hurt the Cyclones either in the NCAA's eyes. As reported earlier, sanctions of Johnny Orr's basketball program were limited to a warning to keep its act clean. "I'm happy we were cleared of our allegations," Cyclone basketball Coach Johnny Orr said. "It's a shame we couldn't have gotten it over with two or three months ago and we'd have had a couple more good players in here next year." Considering the fact that the NCAA could have stung Iowa State much harder, university officials were happy with the results. "I'd prefer not having any penalties, but they weren't as bad as they could have been," athletic director Max Urick said.

"I think the NCAA is showing that it sincerely wants schools to take care of their own problems. "I think we have shown our sincerity in everything we have done." What the Cyclones mainly did was fire Criner before facing the NCAA's Committee on Infractions last month. Urick said he thought the timing of Criner's dismissal two weeks before facing the NCAA had little to do with the leniency shown by the NCAA. But as another athletic department official said, "we showed that we had cut out the cancer. "I think the NCAA is saying that this is the response if you cut out the cancer yourself." On the subject of a replacement for Criner, Urick said it could be another week before an announcement is made.

"Things could fall in place and it could be in less than a week or they could fall completely apart and it could be two weeks," he added. Urick said the results of the NCAA probe will probably not add to the list of candidates. "I think most of the coaches at other schools knew what the situation was," Urick added. i.