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. on the mark by Mark Mattern

New League Offers Team in Wildwood

It's new and it could be very exciting. Professional basketball is coming to Cape May County this ' summer. The newly-formed United States Basketball League has announced that one 5 f its teams will call Wildwood h.ome. The Wildwood Aces held a press conference last week to explain the new franchise and the league. The USBL will consist of seven teams in its first

season. Teams will play a 40- game schedule beginning in early June and ending in«late August. The seven teams are Wildwood, Connecticut, Rhode Island. Westchester, Springfield. New Jersey and Long Island. Earl Monroe was named commissioner of the USBL on March l . He is president of his own business in New York City. He played in the National Basketball Association for 13 seasons

— most of them with the New York Knicks. The league is not looking to compete with any other established circuit. Ideals presented at the press conference say the league will serve as a breeding ground for future NBA players. All players drafted by the USBL will be signed to oneyear contracts with the understanding that they may move up to the NBA at season's end. NOW A LITTLE MORE about the Wildwood Aces. The team will play at Wildwood Convention Hall and the first game of the regular season is glated Sunday, June 2. Rich Iannarella will serve as the team's general manager under owners John Arbour and Sam Hasty. Iannarella has served in executive capacities for a number of Philadelphia sports teams including ten years with the 76ers. He also directed the marketing of one of the LPGA's premiere golf tournaments. the 1983 McDonald's Kids' Classic. The first move by the new club was to name a head coach. He will be Pete Monska. who coached two state high school championship teams at Moorestown. Monska is a veteran of 14 seasons in the Continental Basketball Association where he won two league championships. Former NBA players who began their pro careers under Monska are Charlie Criss and Rory Sparrow. Monska lives in the Cherry Hill area with his wife and three children. THE NEXT QUESTION that has to enter one's mind would be, who will be playing in this new league0 The USBL held its first draft April 10 in New York City. In a draw of selections, Wildwood picked sixth out of the seven teams. Also, each team had territorial rights to certain schools and players. In the draft, Wildwood took John Ebeling of Florida Southern in the

■ first round. Ebeling stands 6'9" and played power for- ! ward in college. Name players in the Wildwood camp mA include Clyde BradshW of DePaul, Jeff Adkins of I Maryland and Gene Smith I of Georgetown. The Aces drafted the only seven-footer, selecting Mike Brittain in the third round. Brittain played college ball at South Carolina •and has spent a few season with a foreign pro league. The Wildwood club also went for a touch of local influence when they tapped Jay Phillips of Stockton State in the sixth round. Iannarella says Phillips is highly regarded in basketball circles. ON THE PROTECTED LIST of territorial choices, Wildwood has picked two players from the NCAA champion Villanova Wildcats, forward Dwayne McClain and guard Gary McLain. More information on the Aces is available, care of Wildwood Convention Hall, Box 565, Wildwood, NJ 08260. The team's phone number is 522-8877. Last week was spring vacation for many local schools and only Ocean City saw action on the baseball diamond. The Red Raiders picked up a couple of wins. • Ocean City crushed four home runs early in the week as it downed Southern 10-8. Brad Durkin went 3 for 5 with two RBIs and belted a solo job in the fourth inning. Other roundtrippers came from Butch Widmaier. Chris Coulter and David Miller. Miller also picked up the win, his second of the year. Later in the week, Durkin doubled home the go-ahead run in the second inning as Ocean City posted a 7-2 win over High Point. Bob Goudie showed promise at the plate with two singles and an RBI.

Middle Township's standout basketball star, Jennifer Snyder, has made her decision on where she will continue her basketball career — La Salle University, Philadelphia. Snyder, expected to sign formally this week a fouryear full scholarship, decided on LaSalle after visiting with coach "Speedy" Morris. LaSalle finished this past campaign with a 22-8 mark. Virginia Commonwealth, St. Peter's and Fordham were other schools under consideration^ Snyder. REMARKS j The Philadelphia Flyers are in the midst of the playoff season^and doing pretty good. When watching games on the tube, I began to wonder if they're played by two separate sets of rules^-

It seems that the last two minutes of a close game are called as if there are no penalties at all. Overtime periods are even worse. Calls that are made in the early parts of the contest are ignored at the end. That seems to say, referees will not decide the outcome, players will. In the first playoff series, the New York Rangers got away with murder in the closing minutes of each game. I feel that each and every game should be played under the same rules for all 60 minutes. The Phillies can stop worrying about errors and a bad bullpen from last year. They got it all again. If the first week of the season is any indication, Philly fans are in for a long haul.

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