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-THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR- MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1989 back Pay 125-102; Mv-fvii iy St us. msmmmym Hears holds ff Mario CART's 9 finale BlHCK SHAFFER SWR STAFF WRITER Monterey. Calif. Rick Mears ended the 1989 CARTPPG season as he started it in the winner's circle. tMears, the three-time In-dftfciapolis 500 champion, con-srjjed his fuel and held off a (JaRT STANDINGS 1969 FINAL t.

Emerson Fittipaldi 196 2. Rick Mears 186 3. Michael Andretti ISO 4. Teo Fabi 141 5. unser Jr.

136 6. Mario Andretti 110 Z. Danny Sullivan 107 a. Scott Pruett 101 9. Bobby Rahal 68 1u.Arie Luyendyk 75 10- charging Mario Andretti to capture the Champion Spark Plug 300K Sunday before a crowd estimated at 50,000 at Laguna Seca Raceway.

His Pennzoil PC-18Chevy crossed the finish line 1 .846 seconds ahead of Andretti in the KmartHavollne LolaChevy. Andretti had trailed by as many as 1Q.2 seconds at one point. Mears averaged a race-record 94.174 miles per hour in the 184-mile (300-kilometer) event. 4lJThe victory was Mears third this season (he won the season opener at Phoenix and Milwaukee as well) and it made him the winningest driver of the decade with 20 first-place finishes since the 1980 season. Mears win was also his first on a road course since 1982 when he won at Riverside.

Calif. "It is exciting." said Mears. who pocketed $68,160. "I've been trying a long time for one of these (road-course wins). I've been close so many times.

This weekend, everything fell In place. The car was working well enough for this to happen." addition to winning the Mears captured the pole position and led the most laps (47 of 84). It gave the Bakers-ffeld. resident a sweep of 22 possible CARTPPG points, but still kept him behind Emerson Fittipaldi in the overall standings. 196-186.

J1 After his teammate and early race leader Danny Sullivan made Rick Mears flips his cap to celebrate his first road-course win ASSOCIATED PRESS in seven years Sunday. igets Pacers, McCloud By DAVID BENNER STAfl STAFF WHITER St. John's. Newfoundland. Canada Turnablowout was fair play here Sunday afternoon.

Less than 24 hours after the i Indiana Pacers opened their pre-season with a 132109 victory over Denver, the Nuggets came right back with a 125-102 pounding of the Pacers. And it was an ugly pounding, considering two Denver starters, Michael Adams and Alex English, were basically bench decorations because of minor Injuries. English managed to get one minute at the end as the Memorial Stadium crowd of 2.704. un-' aware the All-Star forward had a muscle pull, loudly questioned Denver coach Doug Moe. maybe threatening him with bodily harm.

So much for the excitement. Back to the Pacers. With the exception of Vern Fleming's solid play for the second straight night (24 points) and winded LaSalle Thompson's 13 rebounds, there wasn't much to brag about. Unless game-long foul trouble (Thompson, Chuck Person. Rlk Smlts.

Detlef Schrempf). mediocre shooting turnovers (27), lack of good ball movement (12 assists, no one had more than two), or being beaten to every loose rebound and ball or never having the lead past the second quarter causes you to shout. "We all looked like we had a long night," said Pacers coach Dick Versace. "I'm not going to panic over anything. I learned a lot." Including the painful lesson that rookie George McCloud may have a long way to go as a point guard.

His two-night totals were 33 minutes, one for five from the floor, three boards, six assists, five turnovers, four points and a general look that shows he's tentative. "He's a nice kid. but we're Just not hooping it up on a playground In Daytona," said Versace. "This is the NBA and he's got to produce. He's got to get the ball up the floor, he's got to make entry passes, he's got to defend, he's got to run the court, he's got to understand you can't stand there and think no one will come up from behind and steal the ball.

"Right now. he's struggling. He's a rookie and he's getting attacked. Noboby really attacked him in practice. I Just think he doesn't realize how tenacious he has to be and that you have to be alert at all times." Versace inserted McClouc at the start of the second period and after six minutes had seen enough.

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Mears assumed command with Al Unser Jr. in hot pursuit. Unser, who won Saturday's Marlboro Challenge, remained in second after the leaders their first pit stops on Lap 26. But the driver of the Valvoline LolaChevy took over the lead on Lap 50 during a caution period for Teo Fabi's accident. Fabi was knocked unconscious after his Quaker State MarchPorsche spun on Lap 48 and backed into the concrete.

Fabl was taken to Community Hospital in Monterey for tests after suffering a minor concussion and a compression fracture of the sixth cervical vertebrae. CART physician Dr. Steve Ol-vey said that Fabi was "slightly confused, but his vital signs were good and there was no evidence of a chest injury." The caution period lasted for seven laps and provided Mears an opportunity to make his final fuel stop, but it played a major role in Unser's chance to win. Although the Albuquerque, N.M.. chauffer built a seven-second lead over Mears, he stayed out on the track and was forced to make his final fuel stop on Lap 63.

That allowed Mears and Andretti to get past, but Unser was able to return in third place where he would stay. "We didn't feel as early as they (Mears and Andretti) pitted, the yellow was going to be as long as it was for them to go the distance," Unser explained. "It was a gamble. It worked against the guys who finished behind me, but it didn't work against these guys (Mears and Andretti)." Mears, who found himself out front by 10 seconds, pretty much maintained that margin until the final 10 laps, where he let up a bit. "The fuel wasn't too bad," Mears continued.

"The Chevy ran well all day and the only time I started backing off was the last 10 laps. And that was Just to make sure." Mears knew what was happening, but to the fans it appeared that Andretti, the 1969 Indy 500 winner, was reeling him in. Andretti began to cut into the margin by as much as a second a lap. He simply ran out of laps but made the finish the closest of the 1989 season. "I knew he (Mears) was not in any kind of trouble," Andretti "But you never know about shaky DENVER 11251 Mm FO-A FT-A OR Une ........33 5-15 1- 9 12-17 4 A si Pt 11 2 13 16 8 11 26 12 2 22 0 2 125 3 3 Schayes 5 1- 1 0- 0 0- 0 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 2 1 1 1 Rsmssen ..35 4- 9 5- 6 1- 5 4 1 Ltvef 7.17 2- 5 2- 4 1 10 Huaftes -26 4- 9 0- 0 0- 0 4 4 Cutnght ...21 4-14 3.

3 3- 5 2 Davit 2512-16 2- 3 0- 0 4 Uchti 20 4- 7 4- 8 0- 3 4 Hanzlik 17 1- 6 0- 0 2- 6 5 Kempton ..23 7-13 8- 8 4- 7 4 Crite 5 0- 0 0- 0 2- 3 1 Enalish 1 1- 1 0- 0 0- 0 0 0 0 Totih 50-108 2M22M4 34 29 12 17 INDIANA 11021 Wn FO-A FT-A OR-T Thompson 32 5- 8 4- 10-13 Person 16 2- 4 2- 3 0- 2 Smits 1. 4 2- 2 0- 2 Fleming 9-15 8- 8 1-3 Miller 29 4-13 8- 8 2-6 Schrempf .23 1- 615-18 0- 6 Green 6 0- 1 0- 0 0-0 Wittman ..20 1- 4 0- 0 0-0 A SI 14 6 4 24 16 17 0 2 2 4 0 2 8 2 2 McCloud 12 1- 3 0-0 0-1 7 2- 4 0- 0 0-1 3 0- 0 0-0 0-1 Stephens Frederick Nix 6 1-40-01-2 Sanders .29 3- 3 2- 2 1-3 Dreiling 10 1- 1 1- 1 0- 0 1 0 0 2 3 Touts 314940-4715-42 34 12 12 27 102 Denver 27 28 38 32-125 Indian 26 24 32 20-102 Three-point shooting: Denver 0-1 (Hughes); Indiana 0-2 (Person, Miller). Blocked shots: Denver 4 (Kempton 2. Rasmus-sen 2): Indiana 7 (Smits 4, Thompson 3). Team rebounds: Denver 16; Indiana 12.

Officials: Jim Capers, Earl Strom, Blane Rei-chelt. Technicals: Indiana, Thompson; Denver, illegal defense. Attendance: 2.704. very hard, so I let" him think about it." said Versace. "So then I brought him back In when there was basically no decision, so now he can play with a little less pressure on him.

"He played a little better, but we're talking inching along here. Nov. 3 (the opener at Atlanta) is going to come pretty quick. And Versace wasn't done. "He's got a lot of talent, but he doesn't have a clue right now.

He spent the better part of three weeks before training camp shopping for furniture. He should have been busting it in the gym. He doesn't know what he's getting into, that's true for all rookies. "We'll get him minutes when we can. but I want to try to win basketball games and he'd better get himself ready through the preseason or it will be Rickey Green or Everette (Stephens) or somebody else who is the backup guard.

I want to play this guy, we've got a big Investment In him, but he has to understand we don't have forever." Said McCloud. "I'm not making any excuses. Today. I Just wasn't ready. I came off the bench cold, stiff, everybody else was loose and warmed up.

By the time I was warm, I made some mistakes. "I just need to pick up the NBA system. I know by the time the regular season starts. I'll be ready." That's what the Pacers are counting on. In the meantime, they will prepare for their next exhibition game Wednesday night at Fort Wayne against Dallas.

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843-3958, 844-6281 ii breaks Howe's scoring mark those things. I knew we were OK on fuel. "The car was working good enough and I knew It would take a strong car to get by me. Once Rick got ahead of me. there was just no way I was going to catch him unless something went wrong." Following Mears, Andretti and Unser home were: Scott Pruett in the BudwelserTrue-sports LolaJudd.

Fittipaldi in the Marlboro PC-18Chevy. Bobby Rahal in the Kraco LolaCos-worth, Michael Andretti In the KmartHavollne LolaChevy. Kevin Cogan In the SchaeferPlay-boyMachinists MarchCosworth. Arte Luyendyk In the Provlml-Dutch Boy LolaCosworth and Raul Boesel In the Domino's LolaJudd. FOLLOWING THEIR theatrics In Saturday's Marlboro Challenge.

CART fined Fabl and Rahal for "unsportsmanlike conduct." Rahal was fined for "blatantly blocking Fabi" on the last lap of the race while the Italian was fined for passing Rahal and "short-braking" him. Fabl was also placed on probation until the June 17 race at Detroit next year. seconds left to give the host Canucks the victory. Stanley's turnaround shot from 40 feet hit Boston netminder Rejean Leme-lirr in the catching glove and dribbled into the net. CHICAGO 3, DETROIT 0 Goalie Jacques Cloutier stopped 21 shots for Chicago's first shutout in more than two years as the host Blackhawks beat the Red Wings 3-0, their first shutout in ibD games.

Cloutier, making his second start since he was acquired from Buffalo just before the season, stopped six breakaways in posting his second career shutout. Adam Creighton started the scoring with a 30-foot slapshot at 12:18 of the second-period and assisted on Steve Larmer's power-play goal 2'2 minutes later. Denis Savard scored an empty-net goal from center ice with 1:48 left to play. All Trust imr- longer Jonnauon about ATTX. A Nam.

Gretzky fROM STAR WIRE SERVICES Wayne Gretzky of the Los Angeles Kings returned to the scene of his greatest accomplishments Sunday night and eclipsed the NHL scor-ng record held by his boyhood Idol, scoring a third period goal to pass Gordie Howe on the all-time list with his 1.851st jwint. Gretzky Gretzky, who entered his -1 1th NHL season needing 14 points to surpass Howe, backhanded a shot Into the left-hand corner with 53 seconds left in Regulation to tie the score, 4-4. Ptey between the Kings and Edmonton Oilers at Northlands Coliseum was then suspended for a rteentation by NHL President John Ziegler. Gretzky added to the record -by scoring the winning goal 3:24 tlrAo overtime to give the Kings a 5-4 victory. He had assisted on a sr I 0 N.Y.

RANGERS 4, PITTSBURGH 2 Tomas Sandstrom scored the tie-breaking goal in the third period as the host Rangers beat the Penguins in a game that featured Mario Lemieux's first goal of the season. Lemieux, the league scoring champion the last two season, had gone goal-less in his first four games until connecting in the second period to give the Penguins a 2-2 tie. CALGARY 3, PHILADELPHIA 2 Joe Nieuwendyk had a goal and assist and Mike Vernon turned back 23 shots as the visiting Flames withstood a third-period rally to defeat the Flyers. The victory was the Flames' 10th straight over the Flyers in a string that started Dec. 11, 1986.

VANCOUVER 7, BOSTON 6 Daryl Stanley ended a wild shootout by scoring his first goal of the season with 21 IkeqlMrlFnfe Source: Doooghurt Money Fund Awrage Tun vMrii STJ 8.29 10.83 ill NHL ROUNDUP goal in the first Howe's mark. period to tie Howe, who has been accompanying the Kings since Oct. 8. came on the Ice to offer congratulations and Edmonton captain Mark Messier embraced the new scoring leader. Howe, who played 25 seasons with the Detroit Red Wings and one with the Hartford Whalers, set his record over 1 .767 games.

Gretzky. 28. needed only 780 games to surpass the mark. Howe, the only NHL player to play in five decades, had held the record for 29 years since passing Montreal's Maurice Richard on Jan. 16.

1960. with his 947th point. "Mr. Hockey" still holds NHL records for seasons, games, goals (801). game-winning goals (122) and All-Star selections (21).

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