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Barry Bows Out
Lucas, Maryland Spoil Parkhill's Party
By JOHN MARKON
Maryland employed both a
crushing inside game and the
brilliant play of freshman guard
John Lucas to spoil Barry
Parkhill's going-away party,
92-81, in University Hall
Saturday night.
Out-rebounding the Cavs,
44-31, and getting a nine for
13 shooting performance from
Lucas, the Terps jumped out to
an early 17-9 lead and were
only mildly threatened
afterwards in running up their
20th win against six losses.
"If this team isn't in the
Top 10 next week," said Terp
coach Lefty Driesell, "then the
coach's poll ought to be
investigated. This is the first
time any of us have ever won
in Charlottesville, and the game
was, I think, our best effort of
the year."
CD/Saxon Holt
Center Gus Gerard Drives Around Maryland's Startled "Bozo" O'Brien
It wasn't, alas, the best
effort of the year for the Cavs,
now 12-11 on the season and
dismal 4-8 in the ACC. The loss
tied Virginia with Clemson and
Duke for fourth through sixth
places while Maryland's 6-6
ACC final mark was good for
third, behind champion N.C.
State and North Carolina.
Never In Doubt
Unlike some of the Cavs
earlier defeats, however, the
outcome of this game was
never really in doubt. Virginia
came closest to reentering the
game in the first minute of the
second half when two Parkhill
baskets cut Maryland's lead to
43-40 with 18:26 remaining.
It was then that Terrapin
big men Tom McMillen and
Jim O'Brien teamed with the
mercurial Lucas to do the
Wahoos in. Reacting coolly to
the Cavalier challenge,
Maryland refused to lose its
composure at this key juncture
and ran off 14 of the next 16
points to put the game on ice.
Lucas Stars
Lucas' 24 points and eight
assists were both game high
totals while McMillen's 15
rebounds paced everyone off
the boards. Highest-scoring
Wahoo was Parkhill, a star in
his last U Hall game with nine
hoops in 13 attempts, 20
points and seven assists.
Honored before the game
along with fellow fourth-year
men Jim Hobgood and Larry
Gerry, the departing "Mr. BP"
was by far the Cavs' best on
the floor as he avenged himself
against Terp guard Bob Bodell,
a long-armed defensive
specialist who held Parkhill to
a mere two points in the teams'
first meeting, also won
convincingly by Maryland.
Also playing well for the
Wahoos were frontliners Wally
Walker and Gus Gerard, each
of whom scored 16 points. A
fourth Cavalier in double
figures was reserve forward
Bob McKeag, who hit on six of
seven shots and finished with
13 points.
Terps Accurate
Maryland won the game, in
the end, from the foul line
where the Terps were a strong
24 of 26. Virginia, two of eight
in the first half, hit only five of
11 and lost despite outscoring
Maryland from the field,
76-68.
| MARYLAND-92 | FGM-A | FTM-A | R | A | PF | PTS |
| Tom MC MILLEN, c | 7-17 | 6-7 | 15 | 0 | 3 | 20 |
| Darrel BROWN, f | 6-10 | 0-0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 12 |
| "Bozo" O'BRIEN, f | 6-12 | 4-4 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 16 |
| John LUCAS, g | 9-13 | 6-7 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 24 |
| Bob BODELL, g | 4-8 | 4-4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 12 |
| Tom ROY, c | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Howard WHITE, g | 0-0 | 2-2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Maurice HOWARD, g | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Owen BROWN, f | 1-3 | 2-2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| TOTALS | 34-67 | 24-26 | 44 | 15 | 15 | 92 |
| VIRGINIA-81 | FGM-A | FTM-A | R | A | PF | PTS |
| Jim HOBGOOD, f | 2-5 | 2-2 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| Wally WALKER, f | 8-17 | 0-0 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 16 |
| Gus GERARD, c | 8-16 | 0-2 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 16 |
| Barry PARKHILL, g | 9-13 | 2-5 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 20 |
| Larry GERRY, g | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Al DRUMMOND, g | 3-6 | 0-0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 6 |
| Bob MC KEAG, f | 6-7 | 1-1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 13 |
| Andy BONINTI, g | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Dan BONNER, c | 1-5 | 0-0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| Stevie MORRIS, g | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
| Lanny STAHURSKI, c | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| TOTALS | 38-72 | 5-11 | 31 | 24 | 22 | 81 |
Barry Parkhill (20 pts.)
Played before an
honest-to-goodness sellout
crowd of 8,250 the game did
not lack for spectator appeal as
the two teams started out hot
and broke into a scrambling
running game in the second
half. It was just a case of too
many men under the boards,
however, that made a Maryland
slump improbable and a
Virginia win impossible.
With McMillen, O'Brien and
Darrel Brown throwing their
weight around underneath and
getting more than a few tip-ins,
Maryland cold spells just
weren't that serious. The Terps
never had the kind of extended
slump Virginia required of
them to get back in the game.
Jersey Retired
For Parkhill, whose jersey
was retired in a pre-game
ceremony, the game was one of
personal triumph in the midst
of team tragedy.
Barry fouled out of the game
with 19 seconds left and
Virginia behind 90-77. On their
way to the dressing room both
O'Brien and Driesell paused to
shake his hand and wish him
well.
"Barry's the best guard I've
ever played against," said
Bodell after the game as the
Terp guard; another senior
ready to call it quits after three
ACC seasons, prepared to go.
Last Date
Unless the two meet again
in the ACC tournament, their
classic duels will be a
much-remembered, much-missed
thing of the past.
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