European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 1, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday March 1, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 21 sports yellow jackets hold off Wolf pack in acc showdown by de Shearer a sports writer Atlanta it did t take coach Bobby Crimins Long to assess fourth ranked Georgia tech s latest basketball Victory. We played great defense Crimins said after the yellow jackets blanked no. 18 North Carolina state for the final 5 11 College basketball to Down the Wolf pack 69-57 in an Atlan tic coast conference game thursday night. I thought it was a great basketball game Crimins said. I thought we did it with  tech used a sagging defense to bottle up state s inside game that had seen Chris Washburn score 16 Points in the first half. He finished with 20. We told our guards to dig on Wash Burn because in the first half he was get Ting the Ball too easy and just shooting it Cremins said. Georgia tech built a 54-47 Lead on John Salley s three Point play with 14 39 remaining before state staged a rally fighting Back to a 57-57 draw with 5 11 to go when Washburn hit a jumper from the free throw line. Salley broke the tie on a free throw with 4 38 remaining and then tech took control when freshman Tom Hammonds converted a three Point play off a fast break from Craig Neal. Duane Ferrell followed with a steal and Dunk that pushed the Lead to 63-57 with 2 22 left. Mark Price added four free throws in the final 1 16. Hammonds closed the scor ing with a slam Dunk nine seconds fro the end. I was disappointed when we had the seven Point Lead that we could t build on it Cremins said. But . State is an excellent team. You can see Why they beat North  _ the Wolf pack which lost for the fourth time in five games had knocked off then top ranked North Carolina 76-65 in its last Outing. I thought it was an excellent tournament Quality game state coach Jim Valvano said. It was a disappointing last two min utes of otherwise great  Valvano said his team had shown great improvement during the season but added you need a balance of inside and outside scoring. We did t have  Ferrell Salley and Price All scored 14 Points for tech and Hammonds added 13 As the jackets went to 22-4 for the year and 10-3 in the acc. It marked the first time tech had won 22 games during regular season. . State fell to 18-10 and 7-7. In other thursday games involving top 20 team Kentucky 62, Tennessee 60 Knoxville Tenn. Kenny Walker scored 32 Points and enabled no. 5 Kentucky to break a seven year losing Streak on Tennessee s Home court. Walker hit 10 of 15 shots from the Field Sank 12 of 13 free throws and grabbed nine re Bounds. The wildcats 25-3 Overall and 16-1 in the Southeastern conference made three of seven foul shots in the final 1 17, enough to hold off Tennessee. Tony White who entered the game leading the Sec with a 22.4 scoring aver age was held to 14 Points for the volunteers 12-14 and 5-12. Memphis St. 68, new Orleans 52 Memphis Tenn. Baskerville Holmes scored 17 Points Vincent Askew got 15 and Andre Turner had 14 As no. 7 Memphis state romped in its final Home court appearance of the season. The tigers 25-3, got off to a fast Start when 7-footer William Bedford sent the opening Tipoff to Turner who then tossed a looping pass to Bedford for a slam Dunk. New Orleans 16-9, led by six Points late in the first half before Memphis state rallied to take a 29-26 Lead at intermission. Mike Smith led the privateers with 16 Points. California Irvine 95, univ 88 Irvine Calif. Johnny Rogers scored 32 Points and led California Irvine past no. 9 Nevada Las vegas for the Sec Ond time this season in Pacific coast ath Letic association play. Rogers helped the Host anteaters to a 52-50 Lead at halftime and California Irvine increased the margin to 91-78 with 1 12 left in the game. The Runnin rebels then scored 10 straight Points and got within 91-88 with 12 seconds left but Scott Brooks and Tod Murphy each made a pair of free throws to Seal the Victory. Brooks finished with 27 Points for Cali fornia Irvine 16-10 Overall and 12-5 in the league. Armon Gilliam scored 24 see tech on Page 26 4 others on drug suspension list Parker Hernandez Georgia tech s John Salley tics for file photo team scoring honors new York a Dave Parker of the Cincinnati reds Keith Hernandez of the new York mets Pitcher Joaquin Andu Jar of the Oakland a s and four other base Ball major leagues implicated in drug use were conditionally suspended Friday for one year by commissioner Peter Ueberroth. The suspension included a stipulation that they May continue to play if they meet certain obligations. Ueberroth said at a news conference that he was willing to hold the suspensions in abeyance if the seven players donated 10 percent of their salaries to a drug Preven Tion program in their hometowns submitted to random drug testing and contributed 100 hours of drug related Community service in each of the next two years. The others suspended for one year were Lonnie Smith of the Kansas City royals Enos Cabell of the los Angeles dodgers Jeff Leonard of the san Francisco giants and Dale Berra of the new York Yankees. The suspensions followed meetings the commissioner held during the past two months with 23 players some of whom testified or were implicated during septem Ber s Federal drug trials in Pittsburgh. Ueberroth divided those interviewed into three categories. The first included players with a pro longed pattern of drug use who also participated in the distribution of drugs the commissioner said. The second group was players engaged More in direct use rather than distribution. The third group included players against whom there was Little or no evidence. In the second group were pitchers Al Holland of the Yankees and Lary Sorensen of the Chicago cubs outfielder Lee Lacy of Baltimore and outfielder Claudell Washington of the Atlanta braves. These players were suspended for 60 Days with the suspensions held in abeyance under the same conditions As those players who fell into group one. They would have to donate Only 5 percent of their salaries How Ever and 50 hours of Community work Over the two year period. Ueberroth said the drug testing of the suspended players would continue for the rest of their careers and the suspensions would be immediately reimposed if testing showed the use of drugs. In addition the suspensions would take effect immediately if they failed to live up to any of the other parts of the agreement the commissioner said. At the same time Ueberroth said he found former pirate player Willie Stargell guilty of no wrongdoing thus Clearing Stargell now a coach with the team. The third group of players those against whom Little or no evidence was found included Dusty Baker Gary Matthews Manny Sarmiento and Derrel Thomas. There were no sus pensions levied against them