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Semin( Heels t By DOUG WILLIAMS Sports Editor Louisville, North Carolina and Florida State pose the latest threats to UCLA's dominance of college basketball next weekend, as the NCAA finals begin Thursday in Los Angeles. Henry Bibby and super sophomore Bill Walton combined for 42 points, as the Bruins dropped Western powerhouse, Long Beach State 73-57, in the finals of the West Regionals in Provo, Utah. The Uclans now meet Louisville, a 72-65 victor over Kansas State in the semifinals, while Florida State, which knocked off Southeastern Conference champ, Kentucky 73 54, attacks powerful North Carolina in the other game. UCLA, in pushing their record to 28-0 for the season, got 23 points from All-America guard Bibby, as Walton, everybody's Player of the Year, added 19. The Bruins took advantage of a poor shooting performance by Long Beach, which hit only 29 per cent. Recor "ENCI Last Week! Last V COLU CL A! $598 Li CHOOSE FROM 0 OF COLUMB eANKAMERICARDOUT MON.-SA T. 10 )1es,CaI ai ;o test I UCLA coach John Wooden had stated prior to the game that Long Beach would be the Bruins' toughest test, but declined to comment whether it was or not. The Bruins jumped to an early 14 point lead, a course that surprised even Wooden. "In every game, the boys have gotten off to a good start," he said. "But I expected this one to be a lot closer." Meanwhile, Louisville, 24-3, saw a 20 point lead disappear, as Kansas State twice pulled within three points after trailing by as many as 26. As late as 1:33, the Wildcats were three down, but Jim Price and Mike Lawhon pulled the game out for the Cardinals. Price led all scorers with 25, as Ron Thomas accounted for 18 and Lawhon scored 10. "We got so far ahead, we let down," said Cardinal coach Denny Crum, a former top assistant with Wooden at UCLA. "I guess we lack the killer instinct. I don't know what you can do for that, but we had better find out fast." 'd Bar DRE" leek! Last Week! lABIA1 st LP's PER DISC UR COMPLETE LINE IA CLASSICS SQUARE a.m.-9:30 p.m. rdinals,2 Bruins Perhaps the biggest surprise of the regional tournaments was' Florida State's berth in the finals. The Seminoles 26-5, who were handily destroyed by Cincinnatti on regional television, were able to hold Kentucky without a basket for eight minutes of the second half, before conquering Adolph Rupp's quintet. The Wildcats went from the 14 minute mark down to six minutes without a field goal. Down by four, 43-39, before the cold spell, Ken tucky was on the short end of a 57 45 score, by which time it was too late to recover. Six-four Ron King led the Seminoles with 22 points, while 6-10 Reggie Royal and 6-11 Lawrence McCray added 12 apiece. "It's the most satisfying victory of my career," said FSU coach Hugh Durham. "If it is Rupp's last year, it's nice to beat him in his last game. When a team like Kentucky is averaging over 80 points and you hold them to 54, it's tough to beat you." For Rupp it may have been his last game as a coach, due to a rule requiring a faculty member to retire at age 70. "At least I'll see the finals anyway as a spectator and not as a coach. Florida State just wore us down. We already went so much farther than we should have." Tennis: USC vs. Ohio 2:15 COM P Piz: Highwa 0 On the USC head football coach Pa spring grid hopefuls in a jog du practices. Five run ni lifts Indian (Continued from page 9) 0 fell behind 3-0, battled back to 3-2, t but surrendered five runs in the last frame to lose, 8-2. Despite giving up eight runs and 16 hits, Alan Hilliard worked the complete game for the Gamecocks. Only one of Stanford's 16 hits went for extra bases, as Bob Kammeyer, the Indian's hurler, slammed a two-base hit. Kammeyer also worked the complete game, limiting USC to three runs on nine hits. r Stanford picked up single runs in the first, third and seventh innings, before erupting for five tallies in the final frame to break the game iesday Spe LETE LASAGNE D Plus: Chef Salad Garlic Bread coffee or Tea INLY $2.00 (Tax is in EA HO EARLY To AVOID THE I y 378 or Off I-2 (Exit Rama PEN 3:00 p.m. to 12:00 pn Xr. runTMPie ul Dietzel leads some of the ring Carolina's early spring nth inning S to win pen. In the final Stanford batting how, the Indians sent 10 men to he plate to pick up their five runs. USC secured both their runs in :he bottom of the seventh, when Bob Kleinknecht singled, Tommy Woody reached on a fielder's choice and scored on John Petoskey's triple. Petoskey then scored on a wild pitch let loose by Kammeyer. Stanford stole five bases on Carolina catcher choate, while USC's runners failed to steal in either game, making it five games n a row in which a Gamecock has iot thieved a base. The USC batsmen take this af ternoon off before facing UCLA and Cornell in tournament action on Thursday. cdlI! INNE R dIuded USE= lUSH. da Inn)