European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 5, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 stars and stripes wednesday february 1986 Baylor ruled out of Sec meet Dallas a Baylor s men s basketball to am will not be eligible to participate in the 1986 Southwest conference postseason basketball tournament in dal Las because of Mcaa probation the Sec executive committee decided on monday. Baylor is under Mcaa probation for rules violations and is also ineligible for the National tournament this season. The penalties include a ban on postseason play and a reduction in scholarships. The bears can be on television this year. The Southwest conference has a Rule prohibiting its members from competing for the conference championship under such circumstances. The Mcaa consid ers a postseason conference tournaments part of the regular season and had no objections to the bears qualifying for it. Sec commissioner Fred Jacoby said Baylor had asked for an interpretation of the conference Rule covering Sec tournament participation after the Mcaa sanctions went into effect last week. The Sec executive committee made the interpretation during a conference Telephone Call monday. The Sec postseason tournament will be held Friday sunday March 7-9, at Dallas reunion Arena. Since it encompasses an eight team format the other eight schools now automatically qualify for the first round of games March 7. Baylor has a 1-8 Sec record and is tied with Rice for last place in the Sec. Baylor coach Gene Iba said i m very disappointed with the executive commit tee s decision. We feel very strongly their decision is wrong. We have adhered to the Mcaa penalties 100 per cent and now the Confer ence is adding to these. Although Haven t been in the league that Long i Don t Ever remember them doing this. Iba said his players were using the possibility of the Post season tournament As an incentive. I thought we played of against Texas am but i wonder How Long we will be Able to do this if things like this keep happening to our players he said. I really Don t know what kind of motivation we will have for the remainder of the year and i Don t think that s right. Ever since our situation with the Mcaa started you Haven t heard me say much but i think this is unjust. Our players feel they have paid for their wrongdoings. If they the Sec Are worried about us beating someone in the tournament then maybe some of those teams Don t belong  athletic director Bill men fee said he regretted the Sec decision. We had Hopes that since the Mcaa had not ruled us ineligible to compete in the conference tournament that we would be Able to do so if we qualified Menefee said. We Are very disappointed for our coaches and our players. We had hoped we would be allowed to pursue the goal of playing in the  Zoeller s 54-Hole 205 wins at Pebble Beach by Bob Green Pebble Beach Calif. A amid vast confusion. Fuzzy Zoeller was named the Winner monday of the on again off again at to Pebble Beach National pro am Golf tournament. Zoeller won when tournament officials reversed an earlier decision and called the tournament off after 54 holes. It s not my Call to make. But i think it s the right decision. A lot of people had a lot of commitments Zoeller said. The ruling that the tournament was completed however represented a rever Sal of an earlier announced decision to extend the tournament to tuesday. This was the Way it transpired Zoeller the 54-Hole Leader and Payne Stewart his closest pursuer had completed eight holes of play when a sudden storm lashed the Pebble Beach Golf links. Play was held up. A Little More than an hour later officials announced that the round was washed out and play would be resumed from the first tee tuesday. A number of amateurs in this unique event formerly known As the Bing Crosby National pro am said they would have to withdraw to fulfil prior commitments. A petition protesting the decision to extend the tournament and requesting that the event be called Complete was circulated among the professional players. We be Given it our Best shot in getting it completed. Now let s Call it off said one Veteran player who asked that his name not be used. The petition noted that the tournament was thrown off schedule to Start with when Friday s play was lost because of bad weather. Still later monday tournament chair Man Lou Russo announced a reversal of the original decision and ruled the tournament Complete after 54 holes. We have decided to Call it off today he said. It will be a 54-Hole tournament and we will pay the full purse. These people have been Here for a longtime and they have played hard and put on a Good show for us so we think they de serve the full  Russo said any protests from players about the Extension had not reached him when that decision was made. Under that ruling the partial rounds played monday do not count. The tournament goes into the record books As a 54-Hole event completed on sunday. Zoeller a five shot Leader after three rounds thus won the tournament and a $108,000 first place prize. And while it does t count he remained five shots in Appio fuzzy Zoeller. Wins thanks to rain. Front of the Field when monday s play was washed out. It was the eighth career Victory for Zoeller who also won the 1979 mailers and the 1984 . Open. He won it with a 54-Hole total of 205,11 shots under Par. Stewart who completed three rounds in 210,-finished second to claim $64,800. Tom Watson Tony Sills and Mark Wiebe tied for third at 211, each winning $31,200. Buckeye Cage coach agrees to step Down Columbus. Ohio a Ohio stall. Head basketball coach Eldon Miller and Theta University reached a Compromise Day that will put an end to Miller s 10 tenure with the buckeyes at the end c current season. Miller met with Osu athletic Dii Rick Bay Early monday morning to d the Buckeye men s basketball program the result was Miller stepping Down. Bay speaking at an afternoon press confere said Muler had not resigned and had been fired. He came to see me this morning simply said it was in the Best interests of program that we begin to look for a f coach Bay said. But he said he was going to resign because he did not like word resign because of the Conn Otal relating to quitting. I told him i  going to fire him because i did not like word fire. So the Compromise a tally was. That we move ahead at end of the  contacted after his team s practice mob Day Miller refused to comment. Miller to his team of the announcement prior monday s workout. Ohio state is 10-9 this season and has been under increasing Public i during a recent tailspin. The buckeyes a lost five of their last six games and " their last 12, including a 70-45 los Day against a Minnesota team Decimal by the loss of three players charged " sexual assault and two others Susic from the team. I think Eldon Felt Given the Lack of port that was evident in the Community some of the restrictions that we re Curre working under in the basketball program that he just could not take the program an further,1 Bay said. And i tank i am with  t. Bay said he spoke with Miller prior to the Minnesota game about the direction of the men s basketball program but gave Miller vote of Confidence Over the weekend an 86-75 loss at Iowa. I was very surprised. I was shocked Bay said of his conversation with Mulej monday morning. We did t expect  this Point. But he was insistent that i happen  Bay said a National search for a i would begin at once. Miller 46, is in Bis 10th season As 1 coach at Ohio state and has compiled 167-113 Overall record at Ohio state. T year s team is in seventh place in the ten conference with a 4-5 Mark. 0 state plays Host to Northwestern the pm and Wisconsin saturday in conference i lion. Holy Cross football coach s suicide stuns faculty students Worcester mass. A the Sui cide of holy Cross football coach Rick car Ter has stunned students and faculty at this Jesuit College,.where Carter was remembered not Only As a winning coach but someone who cared. Most of the team is just shocked senior quarterback Patrick Mccarthy  had t really sunk in yesterday afternoon. I la remember him As a coach Andas a Friend someone who played a big part in our lives for four  made us winners. He got us to believe said Steve Raqi Iet a former holy Cross line Man who now plays with the Montreal con Cordes of the Canadian football league. Carter 42, was found dead in his Home sunday morning by Bis son Nick a 21-year-old holy Cross student. Worcester county District attorney John j. Conte said Carter bad hanged himself with a Belt and called the death a suicide. Carter s wife Deanna had spent the weekend with Carter s seriously if Mother . During his 20 years of College coaching Carter had a record of 137-58-7 and led the University of Dayton to the Mcaa division Iii championship in 1980 with a 14-0 record. He also bad coached at Hanover College an Earlham College his Alma mater. In his five Yean at holy Cross he had a 35-19-2 record including a 9-1-1 season in 1983, when he was named division i a coach of the year. It had been a difficult year for Carter. Friends said the sudden death of his father last summer hit him hard and said he also had been concerned about his Mother s health. That took a great toll on him Carter s aunt Frances Johnson told the Telegram of Worcester. He and his father were very very close. His father was a sports person. They were two of a  prior to the season the Rev. John e Brooks the College president announced prior to the season that holy Cross was deem Pha sizing football and would eliminate foot Ball scholarships in 4989. Then the crusaders finished 4-6-1, Only the third losing season for Carter in 20 years of coaching. He was the kind of Guy who took his losses personally said George Cook a neighbor who coached Carter s 12-year-old son Andrew in the local pop Warner foot Ball league he described the coach As a quiet family Man who commanded re Spect in the Way he approached life and had a Way with youngsters. Cook said he often would see Rick and Andrew Carter practising baseball an football on the High school Fields. He d Jurt ethere for Toun put Chang to that his players who had expected to see Carter at a football banquet sunday night. Fre told of his death by assistant coach Mark Dufner at an afternoon meeting. Sports information director Gregg Burke said there were tears and stunned silence and the dinner was cancelled.   of feed to let them sit with their thoughts Burke said. It is in this moment of sadness that we need Chest the Rev. Michael Ford told hundreds of students who packed the 4 lege Chapel sunday night i am Sun was the first to  hours earlier students at the 200 Dent College had attended Anothy g service for Sophomore Theresa who was killed in a skiing Accident f Carter s colleagues also were St a Friend i have no higher raise said holy Cross basketball Ceorge Blaney. I am at a loss for words said Joe attic the football coach at Harvard. He full of life full of enthusiasm. I never him when he was  ? a memorial service was scheduled at College on wednesday. Radio pro basketball Wisun Tosi hts at Boston celtics 1 30 Sun. Tamal