
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, June 15, 1990                   TAG: 9006150060
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B-6   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: HARRISONBURG                                LENGTH: Short

DRIESELL INVITES PAIR TO RETURN

Less than a year after persuading two players to quit, James Madison basketball coach Lefty Driesell has invited the pair to rejoin the team, the players say.

Doug Lowrey said Wednesday that he rejected Driesell's offer. Alan Dorsey said he is undecided.

"I don't think there would be anything to be gained by it, going through the whole thing," Lowrey said by phone from his home in Gaithersburg, Md. "I kind of lost my desire. It would be a lot of hard work to get back."

Lowrey and Dorsey said they met with Driesell in late April, five months after he told them they were not good enough to play at the major-college level.

Driesell would not say why he invited the players back.

"That's between me and them," he said Wednesday.

In November, facing the spring signing period with no scholarships available, Driesell told Lowrey and Dorsey they could travel with the team if they gave up their grants.

The players refused and kept their scholarships. But Driesell left them home during a Thanksgiving trip to the Maui Classic in Hawaii. - Associated Press

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