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ostto, NEW YORK (UPI) — Burly

center Phil Esposito, the most explosive scorer in hockey history,

- war-dealt away by Boston in a shocking five-player swap with the

~FKiTYoW dangers Fftttojr^rr-ex^ change for former All-Stars Brad. Park and Jean Ratelle and minor league defenseman Joe Zanussi.

Completing what ranks as one of the more noteworthy hockey trades ever made, the Bruins also sent defenseman Carol Vadnais to New York.

'~~~~ "Qeneial Mof&fs rrand -neonlthiwrib' come out with new

models and that's what we have set out to do," said beleaguered

* Ranger General Manager Emile Francis, who now has traded away six players in four separate tran­sactions during the last two weeks and has been the scornful object of disappointed New York fans. "It is time forustoputouta new model."

Both the Bruins and Rangers, two outstanding teams during the

last decade,-*** have slipped noticeably since last year and Francis, admitting he was "very disappointed" in his club, pointed out that only seven players remain from the- H-ma»v roster that, completed the 1973-74 season in a New York uniform,

The 33-year-old Esposito, gruffly outspoken off the ice and un­stoppable in front of the enemy net, has won the National Hockey League scoring championship five times and has led the league- in

rt\Minikli*ximi. 1976-71, he set all-time standards of 76 goals and 152 points in 78 games.

Since he was traded from the Chicago Black Hawks to Boston in another blockbuster deal in 1967, Esposito has totaled 459 goals, including six thus far this season. Twice he was chosen the NHL's Most Valuable Pl*yer and he was selected to the first Ail-Star team six times/

'Tve always admired Esposito,"

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said Francis. "He PTf>mpHftoa— toe-^beWSfen^rlpT wing Rod wen ** ability. He Qilbert ^nd left wing Steve

Vickers The Bruin* *ri at Van" cottver Saturday night, and it is probable that Park and Ratelle will be available to them.

In Boston,. Bruins* General Manager Harry Sindeh said of the trade. It was the toughest decision I've ever had to make in hockey. I felt a change had to be made Tight away and we are thrilled to have picked up such fine players as Park and Ratelle and a player wfth such

was a key player in Boston winning two Stanley Cups. He's a big hockey player with stamina and durability and I think he's going to be a leader on this hockey club."

Francis said that Esposito promised him in the morning that he would be in a Ranger uniform by Friday night when his new club met the California Golden Seals at Oakland. Coach Ron Stewart planned to place him on the No. 1

outstanding potential as Zanuisi. "I said two years ago that Phil

Esposito is the finest center in hockey and I meant that However, we felt in the best interest of the ^ t o n B n i ^ hockey eiub for now an<f the T&ture^Wat this musTBe done. Park and Ratelle have been established stars in this league for many years."

Park, 27, the New York team captain for o>ore than a yearT is the key player as far as the Bruins are~ concerned. He had been to the Ranger organization s t e a m * Wftg drafted in 1966 and he is their all-time leading scorer for a defen­seman with 95 goals and 376 points. Twice he has registered more than 20 goals in a season, a rare feat for a defenseman, getting 24 in 1971-72 and 25 in 1973-74.

Park was named to the first NHL All-Star team three times, but was slowed by injuries last season and

has not been play tog as well as he did, earlier in his career.

Like Park, Ratelle also has spent his entire NHL career with the Rangers, Joining them for the first time in I960. Now -»> the qui* — mannered and gentlemanly Ratelle long has been overshadowed by fellow center Esposito in AiUStar team voting. StilC he is the second highest scorer in Ranger history with 336 goals and 461 asfists for

~ 617 points, placing him second on the team scoring list only to ff"rm. t ^**'«"^ Hrnrt

Zanussi, 28, has played only eight NHL games, all with the Rangers last season, and currently is the leading scorer in the American Hockey League with Providence.

The 3$-year-old Vadnais, who also can fill in at left wing, was the fourth highest scoring defenseman in the NHL last season with 16 goals and 74 points.

Elizabethtown's g runner-up durln Southern Dfvlstor underdog odds to *

Hornets top MA J, 23-14

Hornets oh the move MAI defender trips up Plattsburgh High runner Tim Tanner (24) after a

gain of 14 yards during first quarter Hornet scoring drive. (PR photo)

Peru, Irish/Eagles all puIf fbr Ti upset of Mori ah today

- PLATTSBURGH — Can the Ticonderoga Sentinels beat Moriah? That burning issue has stirred almost as much debate this week as some of the hotly-con­tested election races and probably more in the vicinities of St. John's, Peru and Beek man town.

The Irish of St. John's, Peru

beating or even tieing the Sentinels this afternoon on Mineville's Linney Field. A. Viking victory or a tie would clinch it for Moriah and leave it to Peru, St. John's and Beekmantown to fight it out for second place.

While Peru and St. John's do battle in Peru this afternoon, the

By ED STRANSENBACK Sports Editor

PLATTSBURGH — Plattsburgh High's rock-ribbed defense staved off a determined MAI upset effort while quarterback Brian O'Leary sparked the Hornet offense en route to_a_23-14 victory. ~^__ .

The "determined TWounties played Plattsburgh High on even terms

ttarfttSI h&lf of ^fionTal^ ffiough the Hornets managed to-' scratch out an opening 60-yard scoring drive for an 8-0 lead.

However, continuous pressure by John Momot, Raiil Leon, Jay Passalacqua, Alan Francis and a host of other Hornet linemen finally wore down the Mounties, allowing the PHS offense to score twice within a five-minute period mid­way through the second half.

Those two scores all but salted away the Hornets' fifth victory of the season and concluded their 1975 season with three consecutive: victories. The loss tumbled MAI's season record to 2-6.

Bob Allen's Mounties managed to throw a brief fourth quarter scare in the Hornets, scoring on a 68-yard touchdown pass from Jim Lesage to Shawn Young. The Mounties received possession minutes after their initial score, but the alert Hornet defense caused the third Mountie fumble of the evening to stall all Mountie hopes. J Plattsburgh HlghLjEQjM'che^ 6<L yards in their opening drive for an easy touchdown. Tim Tanner, who carried nine times in. the drive, bulled-over from a y^rd out and Jeff Carpenter dashed in with the conversion and an 8-0 PHS lead.

Judging from the ease in which -the Hornet ^offense—moV opening drive, it appeared the Mounties were headed for a long

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Keyed by fumbled punt attempt giving PHS possession of the ball

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score when Mike Carter wove his way through the Mountie defense for a 23-yard touchdown run. Tanner's kick lifted PHS to a 23-0 lead.

MAI came back with Young leaping high at midfield to haul in a Lesage pass, then dodging two PHS defenders en route to a 68-yard touchdown. Young accounted for the final MAI score, but by that time the game was far out of reach. With 19 seconds left, he again hooked up with Lesage for an 11-yard . touchdown strike. Miles Frechette bolted over for the conversion, the last MAI effort for 1975.

lonely night. But the spunky city-rival of the Hornets bounced back to control the next quarter and a

Indians *nd Beekmanjgyn Ffigles Jteekmanlown Eagles, defending ^aJHwrvexfisToptimistic eyes in the

Sentinels' direction this week, hoping the Ti gridders can come through today in their annual grudge match with Moriah.

A Sentinel upset of the front-run­ning Moriah Vikings would be the crowning blow in this year's madcap CVAC chase, opening the

. door to a possible three-way tie for first.

Entering the final day of the '75 grttf campaign, ortly a game separ* ates the top four teams with ail still eligible for a piece of pie today. However, since St. John's and Peru are meeting head-to-head, the beat anyone could do to guarantee the wildest wind-up would be a three-way tie.

Of cwwerff ie TKWiSr^rategr, with their game edge, bold the trump hand and they can ptft

champs, will be adding the finish­ing touches to the '75 season in Saranac against the 1-6 Chiefs. All games have 1:30 starting times:

The Moriah Vikings have beaten Ticonderoga with regularity, holding an 11*2 series edge. The last time Moriah lost to Ticonderoga was in 1971 when the Sentinels pre­vailed 28-12. Ticonderoga went eight years between victories over the Vikes.

However, the

Rotella, the CKamplain Valley Ath­letic Conference's leading scorer, is still listed as a doubtful starter with an aggravated knee.

Moriah c*pi be expected to try to establish the ball control offense which worked £o effectively for them last week. Ticonderoga, on , L . the other han&Jilh~~ihe potent ~~^JT~TZ^ I w mm**"-* passing combination of Mike Kerr 7 f c T € * ^ I P f S 1 * to Brett Putliam, Is likely to work W • W V * I W • %* the air lanes this afternoon.

in which—Lesage scrambled to—• PHS needed just two plays to complete a 20-yard pass to Claude Piquant, the Mounties put together a testing drive against the strong PHS defense. *

Greg Brown, who later in the game was carried from the field with a leg injury, gave MAI first down on the 14 yard Kite. Joe Landry carried to the 12 before a personal foul whipped out the Mountie drive and sparkedthe PHS defense into, action and they squelched the MAI drive.

MAI threatened in again on the opening drive of the second half. Lesage guided the Mounties inside the PHS 40 before the Hornet defense fought back. Twice they sacked Lesage for losses and the Mounties relinquished the football.

Still in the game,, the Mounties aided Plattsburgh High's victory hopes with two costly mistakes in the next five minutes. The first miscue was a piling on call that gave PHS first down on the Mountie 46.

The Hornets quickly capitalized on the opportunity as O'Leary sprinted wide on an option, danced through the Mountie secondary before being tackled from behind at the two-yard line by MAI speedster Piquant. Two plays later,

tied in for the touch* down.

Another 15-yard penalty stifled the Mounties and the Hornet defense did the rest, sacking Lesage for a 10-yard loss oh the 22,

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vastly-improved team and defin­itely stronger thai the Ticonderoga ballclub that bowed to Moriah 144) last year. On top of that, Moriah has to be concerned with key in­juries to running backs John Rotella and John Harris.

—Harris, wliu iajm ed his hip in last weekend's 28-12 win; over St. John's, has responded to treatment and is lately to see action today, but

•-The Su John's-Peru rivalry has been one of the league's hottest football feuds going back to 1970 when the Irish handed Peru its only loss, forcing the Indians to share first with PHS. St. John's also won the nejct three meetings before Peru stemmed the tide last year with a 21-7 victory. -~ . '

finth rhib« have had greater success running than passing-this year and it seems unlikely that this tussle will develop into an air war.

The National Football League has passed the midway point of its 56th. season and 10 of its 26 teams still claim a first place standing in the six divisions.

In two of the sectors—the NFC Bast and the AFC Central —three teams w e clogging the top spot. Dallas, Washington and St. Louis have all put in claims for first place in the NFC East with S*2 records while Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and

Houston all profess to be the best in the AFC Centrahwith'«-1 records.

There should be some juggling this week, especially in the AFC Central where Houston visits Pittsburgh. Cincinnati, which lost to Pittsburgh last week to relinquish its undisputed claim on the top spot, travels to Denver.

Minnesota is the only unbeaten tram Vitft in th?1>jyT *"^ lrtrfw to fr* one of the three shoo-in (fivisionsil

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the Eagles* first football cham* MILWAUKEE (UPI) — Rookie pionshtp, Tim C^\A*T> PoyV> rm**A fPrW^r^P^l^L j ^ y ^ g . from UCLA into today's schoolboy final with 36 got a crucial rebound and made touchdown .passes hi his three- two free throws with It)seconds left year varsity career. to lead the Milwaukee Bucks to a

winners. The Vikings have a three-game lead over-Detroit in the NFC Central, Los Angeles has a four game bulge over the other three teams in the NFC West and Oakland has a comfortable two game advantage over Kansas City and Denver in the AFC West

Miami, 6-1, has its hands tied up in the AFC East with 5*2 Buffalo, which pulled out a last minute victory over the Jets last weekend to make up for the 11th hour set­back it suffered at the bands of the Dolphins the week before.

USC loss opens (

By United Press Intern Coach John McKay n

team in Florida sooner McKay's Southern Ca

California last week, U Saturday in a now shak Bowl participant. The T in tn ^ y f l n f ] |>)ft^P tn tha> V

put Southern Cal on call Contestant in Miami, Fla

Lc st Friday, McKSyl the Job as Head coacn Leaguers new Tampa operations in 1976.

The ninth-ranked Tro, Pasadena depend on th win its three remaining Washington and UCLA, two league tilts left, wit] and a nonconference cc

''We're still alive in ! as he notes the Trojans

Cards close out year in Albany PLATTSBURGH — The Platts­

burgh State football Cardinals, already assured of a winning season, close out the 75 campaign today against host Albany State minus running backs Bobby Mehan, Jim Fraser and Dave DeCirce.

The 4-2-1 Car<finaU. needlets to say. are the underdogs this af-

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ternoon with 5-2 Albany State looking to even the series with Plattsburgh State at three games apiece. Albany has taken the last two games by scores of 324 and *~ 8.

Mehan, the Plattsburgh junior and the Cards' leading ground gainer, missed last weekends game with a sboukter injury that turned out to be more serious than

_JErst believed- His replacement, Dave DeCirce. was banged up in last week's 444 loss to Bridgewater

"{Mass.) Sta&T and U definitely out of ua iy ' s coram ~eaU wft* a variety of injuries.

Fullback Tim Fraser is also out on account of the shoulder he in-jiaed mu mmX*

practice this week- We're just hoping for the best tomorrow," Coach John Williams said Friday evening.

Albany State is coming off a 2M loss to Albright that dropped the Great Danes to J 0th place in Lambert Bowl competition. The Lambert Bowl goes to Q>e top Division Three football team in the Eajt.

Hockey officials sch^ule cfffiic

104-101 win over the Boston Celtics Friday night.

The Bucks led 100-W when Meyers rebounded a Winters jumpabot and was fouled by Charlie Scott. He made tike two free throws, assuring the Bucks of the win.

Area Sports Schedule

Jazz y/in string cut

Forward Campy Russell came off the bench to score 22 points and lead the Cleveland Cavaliers to a

New Saturday night and snap the J a n siz-game win streak.

Saratoga Results

Right or wrong, this pas protest filings by Peru Cen Plattsburgh High were i low point for -such an_ season of high school foot

they not only threw a sft cloud over title, but they many area fans second-their players, coaches ficials.

Coaches have hollered ficials have claimed missc judgment. Basically right 1 is not the problem in t week's game protests.

Coaches and officials ai the same. They are sv game-by-game, minute-b review by the areas moi fans. All too often fritirin warranted.

Saturday's Peru-PHS wasn't without its close calls that only add frustrations of a hotly < contest.

But Saturday, Peru ca Beauvai& and PHS coa Nicotera believed their c were just, and thus c protests.

A problem does exis Cham plain Valley Athl< ference. There appear

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Dave Tompkins ticketed

PLATTSBURGH — Champiain Adirondack Hockey Officials AmmaUoe clmte Nov. 12 at 7 Hawkins Hall Room 144 on the Ptattsbcrgh State campus The cew rules and their effects wifTB«T explained in detail.

AO coaches, area directors

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