European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 22, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday. January 22,1990 the stars and stripes Page 25 Barons beat Hawks for title b Walt Morrissette Shaft writer Pitburg a. West Germany the Pitburg Barons took the Hahn Hawks Best shot in the Continental sports conference championship game sunday and came away with a Ioi-92 Victory and the 1989-90 basketball Crown. Guy Lynch Sank two free throws with 2 40 left to break a 90-90 tic. The Barons added nine straight foul shots Down the stretch while holding Hahn scoreless until doric Strong scored inside with 19 seconds left. It was the undefeated Barons 27th straight Victory this season and their fifth straight Over the Hawks. Pitburg takes the top Csc seed in the Safe championships at Raf bunt Waters. England feb. 8-11. Where the Barons will try to win their first Safe title since 1978. Hahn will go to bunt Waters to defend its Safe Crown. Kelvin Blevins hit 14 of his 23 Points in the second half As the Barons took a  Lead 84-70 before surviving Hahn s comeback fuelled by Strong s 5 second half three pointers. Ralph Baltimore matched Blevins 23 paints and had 8 rebounds and 5 assists. Lunch finished with 20 Points and eight rebounds. Juba Brown had 14 Points and Kyle James had 13 Points and eight assists. Strong and Mike Owens each scored a game High 27 Points. . Crane and Nathan Trufant had 12 each and to. Johnson had 12 Points and six assists. Pitburg and Hahn staged a fabulous shooting performance in front of a jubilant partisan crowd that packed Mike Mark memorial Field House. The Barons Sank 71 percent of their shots from the Field 22 of 31 mostly perimeter shots in the Hatfield will move to Clemson Clemson. . A Ken hat Field of Arkansas accepted the head coaching Job at Clemson on sunday and a threatened player Boycott was averted after he met with the team. Hatfield. Who coached the Razorbacks for six years and led them to the Cotton bowl the past two seasons replaces Danny Ford. The 41-year-old Ford re signed thursday less than two weeks after the Mcaa accused Clemson of recruiting violations. The 46-year-old Hatfield compiled a 5s-i7-i record at Arkansas guiding the Razorbacks to a bowl game in each of his years As coach. His bowl record at a Kansas however was 1-5, including cot ton bowl losses to Tenn Sec 31-27 in 1990 and Urcla 17-3 in 1989. Arkansas athletic director Frank Broyles said sunday his school will work quickly to choose a successor. You know we have to go fast Broyles told the Northwest Arkansas times in Fayet Mcville. I probably won t have much More to say today unless we have something  the Choice of Hatfield. Who had a 27 31-1 record As the head coach at air Force from 1979-1983. Could have Cre ated More controversy at Clemson. But after Hatfield met sunday with the play ers the threatened Boycott for the 1990 season was called off. On saturday players said that if Ford was not reinstated or an assistant was t promoted they would sit out next season. We decided As a team in dedication to All of our assistant coaches and coach Ford the Best thing for us and our future would be to reconsider playing for the upcoming foot Ball  team spokesman Stacy Fields a tight end. Said we re not 100 percent satisfied but we fell a Little better knowing that everyone out there knows we did our Best to get what we wanted. However we have a new head coach and he s not within the staff that was Here  defensive Back Dexter Davis said some Csc men s basketball first half. Lynch was 5 for 5 and Baltimore was 5 of 6. Pitburg led by Only s2-49 at intermission As Hahn hit 68 percent from the floor 21 of 31. As Blevins got hot in the second half. Tilburg seemingly put the game away with a 13-2 run. Baltimore s two free throws gave the Barons a 84-70 Lead with 11 minutes to go. But Hahn scored the next 12 Points As Strong and Johnson bombed away from 3-Point Range. Strong hit 3 treys in the comeback and Johnson s 3-Poinlcr with 2 53 remaining tied the game at 90-90. After  Crane missed a 3-Pointcr and Lynch missed two free throws. Lynch was fouled again and made those two. Hahn did t get the Ball to Strong Down the stretch. "a.c. Is a  Hahn coach Mel Mungin  can hit the shot they just weren t falling today. It was 90-90 and if he could Maxc hit that we would have been up by three and they would have been playing  Crane hit 5 of 15 shots for inc game. Strong Sank 11 of 20. 7 for 14 in the second half. Tilburg finished at 58 percent from the floor 36 of 62 including 7 of 9 from 3-Poinl Range. Hahn was 52 percent 38 Tor 73 and 7 of 14 from three Point Range. Strong hit 5 out of 8 3-Point attempts. Barons coach George Price said the hot shooting was no Accident. We teach our players How to select their shots Price said. We run drills. We know where they can shoot from. So we run patterns to get them to those places. They Don t just shoot those shots because the feel comfortable. We Price and Wellim coach Oda Phillips know where we in going to shoot from every  in another shocking statistic Vlahn was 100 percent from the free throw line 1 of 9 and lost. The Barons shot 20 free throws in the second half to Zero for the Hawks. Tilburg was 22 of 33 for the game. They out shot us 20-nothing from inc free throw line in the second  Mungin said. It was a Well played game but it was t that  baselines Csc sports director buddy Chap Man said he held Hahn guard kick Walton oui for the rest of the tournament because a front Row woman Spectator was Hurt when Walton slapped a chair Inlo her leg. This happened after Hahn s 110-91 loss to Pitburg Friday night. She went to the Hospital to get checked  Chap Man said. Her husband was pretty upset about  Walton should be Able to play in the a Safi championships if his commander does t hold him out. Chapman said. Tilburg s women s team was dealt a sex Ere blow going into the Csc women s championships at Hahn starting thursday. Vanessa Benn. The league s leading scorer with a 2.1.7 average Over ii regular season games just rotated to the slates. Her january rotation was not affected by the current Safe pcs freeze which postpones moves scheduled this summer until later in the fiscal year. Simbach May be the men s team to watch next year. Game scorer Keith Alexander said the tigers will get 6-5 Charles Calyx Voll from the current All air Force team. Ken Hatfield. Leaving Arkansas players had already made up their minds with the hiring of Hatfield. Some people Are ready to Transfer Davis said. Others Don t know what they re going to do. We re not Happy. That s the Bottom  Hatfield met with the team for about 10 minutes before sunday s news conference to announce his hiring but would not com ment on what was discussed. Hatfield was scheduled to meet with inc Clemson assistants later sunday but some of them were seen packing at their offices. Linebacker Kinzil Jackson said the players had met sunday morning with athletic director Bobby Robinson and University president Max Lennon. They told us there s nothing we can do Jackson said. Our efforts arc use less. It s almost like they Don t care what we say. It seems to me our opinion Don t mean anything at All. I Don t Sec a Point in protesting any  Ford s resignation for which he will receive a settlement of about $1 million came on the heels of a second Mcaa probe during his 11-year tenure. The first one in 1982, resulted in Clem son being hit with two years probation. This Lime the tigers Are being asked to explain 14 alleged Mcaa rules violations including payments to players of up to $150. Red sox confident they can Moke Presley Deal by the associated press while the Boston red sox still Hope to Trade for Jim Presley other teams spent saturday working on their own deals. Carlton Fisk signed a two year con tract with the Chicago White sox and the Texas rangers and Pete Incaviglia reached agreement on a one year pact. A Day after clubs and players exchanged salary arbitration figures. Atlanta and Lonnie Smith also seem close. Boston and Seattle have been talk ing about a Trade involving Presley and red sox general manager Lou Gorman said the Deal was going to get  Presley was an All Star third base Man in 1986 when he hit 27 homers drove in 107 runs and batted .265. But Presley 29, has not duplicated those numbers again and last season hit .236 with 12 Home runs and 41 Bis. Presley lost his starting Job last year and mariners manager Jim la fcb vre said he now considers Darnell Coles the team s no. I third baseman. The mariners know i want to be traded and they be said they were working on it Presley said. I be Lieve them and 1 Hope something Hap pens soon. I be done everything but rant and  Seattle general manager Woody Woodward said the mariners have talked to Boston about outfielder car los Quintana 25. Quintana has shown Power in the minors and played briefly for the red sox last season. If the Trade happens Presley Proba Bly would play first base for Boston which has Wade Boggs at third base and also fill in As the designated hit Ter. The red sox lost first baseman Nick Esasky to free Agency and have baseball Roundup been searching for right handed Power. Fisk the american league s All time Home run Leader As a Catcher got a two year pact with an option year. The contract also includes a provision that he will remain with the team either As a broadcaster or in inc front office when his playing career ends. Fisk s contract is believed to be Worth More than $2 million per sea son. At 42. He needs 13 More Home runs to pass the All time record by a Catcher. 327 by Johnny Bench. I m Happy and relieved Fisk said what s exciting is i m Able to go out and do the things some 25-year Olds can t do and that 1 can compete with players half my  Incaviglia the Only Ranger to hit 20 Home runs in four straight seasons had asked for $945,000 in salary arbitration and the team offered $650,000. Incaviglia hit 21 Home runs with is Bis last season. He batted .236 in 133 games in his fourth major league seasons. The braves and Smith might avoid an arbitration hearing. Smith asked for $2 million and the team offered $1.75 million. Smith paid $450.000 last season with an extra $ 150,000 in incentives would gel the largest pay increase on a one year contract if he won his asking Price. But he said that his agent and the braves have agreed in principle on a two year contract. Smith 34. Led the braves with a .315 average hit 21 Home runs drove in 79 runs and stole 25 bases. His .415 on base percentage was Best in the National league. In a Deal late Friday St. Louis Pitcher Jose Delcon signed a three year con Raci Worth $6.5 million. Delcon 29, was 16-12 Wilh a 3.05 earned run average and led the no with 201 strikeouts