European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 9, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday March 9,1992 the stars and stripes b Page 25ncaa gets flying camels Bison by United press International the Campbell flying camels and Howard Bison put their exotic nicknames and their less than overwhelming reputations into the National spotlight saturday when both won trips to the Mcaa basketball tournament. The camels and Bison became the third and fourth teams to qualify for College basketball a climatic show. Campbell made it to the Mcaa tournament for the first time by winning the big South conference tourney saturday overcoming an Early nine Point deficit to defeat Charleston Southern 67-53. Howard won its Way into the Field of 64 by coming from 17 Points behind Early in the second half to Down Florida a amp a 67-65, in the mid Eastern athletic conference tournament. Campbell and Howard joined Princeton and Mississippi Valley another first time entrant with bids to the Mcaa. That number will swell to eight sunday with the addition of tournament champions from the Ohio Valley conference Sun Belt conference Southern conference and Southland conference. In the four league tournaments that were to decide their champions sunday a East Tennessee state and Tennessee Chattanooga made it to the finals of the Southern conference tourney in Asheville . East Tennessee Defeated appalachian state 77-69, and Tennessee Chattanooga Elim College basketball tourneys Ina Ted Marshall 84-68. A top seeded Texas san Antonio stormed into the finals of the Southland conference tournament on its Home floor with a 94-75 win Over Texas Arlington. A southwestern Louisiana edged Arkansas Little Rock 64-61, to make it into the championship game of the Sun Belt conference tournament in Biloxi miss. A at the Ohio Valley conference tourney in Lexington ky., Murray state won a finals spot by Downing Morehead state 109-77. In the other semifinal Eastern Kentucky beat Tennessee tech 72-67. In Early round games of other tournaments a Richmond hosting the colonial athletic association tournament moved into the semifinals with a 7459 Victory Over George Mason and was to meet old Dominion which Defeated North Carolina Wilming ton 77-67. In a saturday evening quarterfinal James Madison advanced past William amp Mary 77-53. A Iona and Lasalle moved into the semifinals of the metro american Atlantic conference at Albany . A Iona edging Loyola Maryland 59-53 and Lasalle Downing Fairfield 88-66. Sienna also moved on with an 83-57 win Over Niagara. A the Missouri Valley conference quarterfinals at st. Louis saw Southern Illinois Downing Wichita state 67-63, and Tulsa fighting off a late charge to Down Indiana state 77-65. The Salukis and Hurricane will meet in sundays semifinals. Illinois state moved into the semifinals As Well with a 70-58 win Over Northern Iowa saturday night. A the North Atlantic conference quarterfinals were held on Home Sites and All four Home teams won saturday a Drexel defeating new Hampshire 78-72 Vermont beating northeastern 74-64 top seeded Delaware swamping Hartford 92-56 and Maine ousting Boston University 68-51. A in the Patriot league tourney at Bethlehem pa., Lehigh beat Colgate 86-71, and Bucknell had no problems with army 74-55. Lehigh and Bucknell will meet in the semifinals with Fordham advancing to the semifinals As Well with a 77-59 win Over Navy. A the Atlantic 10 tournament began with a qualifying game in Philadelphia a Rutgers advancing to the quarterfinals with a 93-72 win Over st. Bonaventure. A at Portland ore., Tomas Thompson made eight of eight 3-Point baskets and scored 29 Points As san Francisco upset third seeded Loyola Mary mount 10085 in the West coast conference tournament. In other games saturday Pepperdine downed Portland 97-83, Gonzaga Defeated san Diego 61-48 and Santa Clara beat st. Mary a 59-57. Tom Watson follows through with his first Victory in five years with a 74 on sunday in Hong  struggles to Victory by the associated press Hong Kong a Tom Watson won his first tournament in five years when he survived a final round Challenge sunday from Ronan Rafferty for a three shot Victory in the Hong Kong open. Watson wingless since his Nabisco championships of Golf title in 1987, entered the final round with a seven shot Lead but almost blew it with a 3-Over- 74. Rafferty from Northern Ireland had a final round 70 to finish second to Watson a 10-under total of 274. A it feels great to have won a Watson said a and i Hope this feeling will go  Watson who has career earnings of More than $5.7 million collected $41,650 for sundays Victory. Ballesteros wins on sixth playoff Hole Palma de Mallorca Spain Spain use Veriano Ballesteros shot a four under  68 sunday then bested Sweden a Jesper  Evik in a six Hole sudden death playoff to win his third bal cares open. The Victory which earned him $71,000, was the Sec Ond european tour win of the year for Ballesteros the no. 4-ranked player in the world who won the Dubai desert classic last month. A a in a already 35 years old a Jesper is younger a he said. A the has lots of time to win  both players ended the regular four rounds at an 11-under- 277, but Ballesteros outplayed Arnevik in the shoot out. Arnevik who was tied with Ballesteros for third place going into the final Day had a Chance to win it All with a  on the 18th Hole. His putt went wide however and the bogey sent him into the playoff. A i think i gave it to him a  Evik  enjoys 3-shot Lead by the associated press Miami a Over 30 years of Competition at the highest level of Golf Ray Floyd has built a reputation As one of the games most successful most intimidating front runners. Floyd at 49 the oldest of the old folks clogging up the Leader Board put that reputation to the test sunday in the final round of the 1.5 million doral open. The Hall of Fame member who will join the Over-50 set on the senior pea tour later this year opened a three shot Lead saturday with a third consecutive 67 and was praying for just one More. A let me have one More and ill just sit and watch television and watch them try to catch it Quot Floyd said after completing three trips Over the Blue monster course in 15-Undcr- 201. Fred couples who has not made a bogey in the tournament shot a 3-under- 69 in the shifting winds and was tied with Larry Nelson at 204.Rodriguez Grebe Lead Ojai Calif. A Chi Chi Rodriguez shot a 4-under- 66, his second straight bogey free round for a tournament record 128 and a one shot Lead saturday through 36 holes of the get West classic. At 12 under  Rodriguez leads Bruce Crumpton who shot a 63 on the strength of 10 birdies. Jim Colbert the senior Tours leading Money Winner is third six shots behind Rodriguez. In the Competition for players 60 or older Miller Barber took the championship at even . Dickinson sets Pace by 3 shots Poway Calif. A Judy Dickinson fired a 3-under- 69 for the third straight Day saturday to take a three shot Lead Over Elaine Crosby at the Lyga Inamori classic. Dickinson who started the third round tied for the Lead with Crosby and Meg Mallon shot a 9-under 207. Crosby matched  with a 72 and was second at 210. Mallon struggled to a 74 that left her in third at 212.Zmeskal, Hanks give . Gymnastics sweep Orlando Fla. A Kim Zmeskal and Jarrod Hanks led a United states sweep in the All around Competition at the Mcdonald a cup gymnastics Competition on saturday. Zmeskal the current world Champion scored no lower than a 9.912 in four different exercises to out Point Henrietta Onodi of Hungary 39.786-39.299. The Mcdonald a cup is one of the final International meets leading up to the summer olympics. Hanks scored a 9.8 on his final apparatus the horizontal bars and Dmitri Kar Bonenko of the Community of Independent states missed a flip and fell to drop from the All around Lead to a second place tie with american Scott Keswick. Hanks of Lafayette la., was ranked seventh in the United states last june. He moved onto the . Team after Tom Schlesinger and Nance Ringnald were injured. In the past nine months Hanks has gone from being an alternate to the no. 1 menus gymnast in the country. The United states lost a Chance for a one two women a finish during the final exercise. Shannon Miller the highest scoring woman during the preliminaries fell off the mat during her floor exercise and dropped to third Overall. Miller who trailed Zmeskal by .034 Points going into the final exercise garnered a 9.212 to drop behind Onodi in the final All around standings