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D5 THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28. 1993 Bricfh ports Ice Miming with help of former freeloader Compiled by Dave Garhck MOTORSPORTS Bonnett plans limited return Neil Bonnett, who suffered a serious head injury in a 1990 wreck and crashed again in a comeback bid this year, plans to drive in five races during the 1994 NASCAR Winston Cup season. State, compiling a 26-5 record with 17 saves and a 2.24 ERA. He pitched 261 innings, striking out 275 and walking only 85. TRACK AND FIELD McLean promoted Thomas McLean, director of operations for USA Track Field the past two years, was promoted to director of administration, the No.

2 position at the organization's national office. McLean, 39, succeeds Dale Neuberger, who left USATF in March to head the Indiana Sports Corp. McLean previously served as director of the athletic fund at Monmouth College in New Jersey from 1989-91 and executive director of the Jesse Owens Foundation in Chicago from 1987-89. He was assistant director of operations for the U.S. Olympic Committee from 1983-87, USATF is the national governing body for track and field and Is based In Indianapolis Three of the five races on Bonnett's 1994 schedule reportedly are the season-opening Daytona 500, the Coca-Cola 600 in Charlotte and the inaugural Brickyard 400 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Bonnett, who has won 18 of NASCAR's major races, was sidelined after Injuring his head in a multi-car age 76. 1 leart failure was given as the cause of death. Earl Banks, former athletic director and football coach at Morgan State, died Wednesday following a one-car accident. He was 69. HOCKEY Blackhawks trade Muni The Buffalo Sabres and Chicago Blackhawks exchanged dcfensemen today, with Craig Muni going to the Sabres and Keith Carney to Chicago' Muni played in nine games with the Blackhawks this season, with three assists, four penalty minutes and a plusminus ration of plus 3.

Carney, Buffalo's fourth-round draft choice in 1988, has played in 53 games with the Sabres over the past three seasons. He has played in seven of Buffalo's nine games this season, scoring one goal and three assists. The Sabres also will receive a conditional draft choice in the deal. BOWLING Duke beats Williams for title Norm Duke won the $140,000 Greater Detroit Open Wednesday night, keeping Walter Ray Williams Jr. from capturing a record eight PBA titles in a year.

Duke defeated Williams 247-179 in the title match to win the fourth title of his career at Taylor, Mich. Williams was trying to tie Mark Roth's record of eight titles in a year set in 1978. Williams closed within another PBA mark with the second-place finish. The $12,000 runner-up check increased his yearly earnings to $280,170. Indianapolis native Mike Aulby set the PBA mark with $298,237 in 1989.

Gianotti top qualifier Carol Gianotti of Australia took over the lead in the final round of match play and held off Leanne Barrette by 67 pins in gaining the top qualifying position in the championship round of the $50,000 Brunswick Open at South Bend, Ind. Gianotti completed 42 games with a pinfall of 9,616 In moving past Barrette, the Yukon, resident and fourth-round leader who downed 9,549 pins. In third was Michelle Mullen of Matteson, 111., with 9,489, followed by Carol Norman of Oklahoma City with 9,481 and Diana Teeters of Bossier City, with 9,418. The stepladder finals are scheduled tonight. Heroux scored regularly against Indianapolis before joining Ice in trade from Kalamazoo.

ByJohnBansch STAR STAFF WRITER It's payback time for Yves Heroux. The smooth-skating winger, who lived off the Indianapolis Ice for four seasons, is making restitution to the International Hockey League franchise. He began his payments last week after being traded from amazoo to Indianapolis for Alex-andr Andrievski. The Ice are 2-0 with Heroux in the lineup. Before he arrived, they were 0-5.

4 Heroux figures to play a prominent role this week as the Ice face another three-games-in-three-nlghts assignment. Indianapolis plays at Peoria tonight (7:30, WNDE-1260 AM), is host to Kansas City Friday and travels to Kansas City Saturday. "I've always played well here I love this big rink," Heroux said Wednesday prior to Joining his teammates for practice. "Hopefully, I can do the same thing with the Ice." Last winter, Heroux scored 10 of his 38 goals against the Ice. The numbers were almost as good in three of the four previous seasons when he scored 41, 38 and 43 goals.

The only season In which the 28-year-old native of Terrebonne, Quebec, did not put up a lot of points against the Ice was 1989-90, when he spent most of the year with the Canadian National team. crash during the TranSouth Moii r-. 500 at Darlington, S.C.. in NeilBonne 1990. Suffering from a loss of memory for several weeks, Bonnett did not get medical clearance to return to racing until this summer.

Then, in his comeback race, he crashed again, with his Chevrolet flipping Into the front-stretch fence after getting contact from another car at the DieHard 500 at Talladega. Beth Daly recovering Beth Daly, wife of ESPN motorsports commentator and former IndyCar driver Derek Daly, Is recovering from a fractured right foot, collar bone and shoulder blade suffered in the National Jet Ski World Finals at Lake Havasu, last week. Daly had three fractures in her right foot in the first-lap accident. She was flown to Indianapolis and is under the care of Dr. Terry Trammel.

winning attitude. Maybe we can do some damage around the league if 1 show some leadership. "1 don't care if I score 40 goals or 30 goals as long as the team wins. That's what will make me happy." Heroux has not always been happy playing hockey. He quit the sport a month into the 1987-88 season after participating in five games with Baltimore of the American Hockey League.

"I didn't play much my first three years I was sick of hockey," said Heroux, a first-round pick of Quebec in 1983. "1 didn't understand why I was sitting on the bench." A friend of Heroux's talked him into going to training camp with Flint the following autumn. It was a good move. He scored 43 goals and 85 points that season. "Hockey was fun again," Heroux said.

"It's been fun ever since." Heroux is not a total stranger to his new teammates. He skated with Steve Dubinsky and Hugo Belanger last summer in Montreal, testing CCM skates, and worked with Dubinsky the three previous summers. Sutter was aware of the relationship and paired Heroux with the two rookies. "Basically, I'm on the Ice to try and help the two rookies," Heroux said. "I want to make sure things are OK for them.

I know Chicago (the Ice's parent club) looks at them as big prospects." Ice chips Bob Denver, who starred in the mid-60s as Gilligan, the knuckle-headed first mate from the S.S. Minnow on Gflligan's Island, will sign autographs and pose for pictures from p.m. Friday Indianapolis is third in penalty killing (40 of 47) and fifth in converting power plays (8 of 42) Kansas City had won six straight games going into Wednesday night's contest against Phoenix K.C. goalie Wade Flaherty has stopped 160 of the last 167 shots he has faced Peoria has lost its last three games after winning its first three. COLLEGES ISU safety out for year Free safety Von Ganaway, Indiana State's career leader in punt returns, will miss the rest of the season with a knee Injury.

The senior from Fort Wayne North tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee in Saturday's 41-14 victory over Western Kentucky and will undergo reconstructive surgery on Nov. 22, Coach Dennis Raetz said Wednesday. Ganaway, a two-time all-Gateway Conference defensive back, was a four-year starter with the Sycamores and set school career records for punt returns (77), punt return yardage (628) and punt return average (8.2 yards). Notes: BSU coach passes away Edie Patton, assistant field hockey coach at Ball State for 14 years, has died after a lengthy battle with cancer. Patton, a 1956 graduate of West Chester University, was a high school teacher in New Jersey for 21 years and served at various times as head girls basketball, soccer and tennis coach.

She helped Ball State's field hockey team to five Mid-American Conference championships. She died Tuesday at her home in Muncie. Casfmir Myslinski, the athletic director at Pitt when the Panthers were the national football champions in 1976, died Tuesday at BASEBALL Wichita pitcher gets top honor Darren Dreifort, the No. 2 pick in the June amateur draft, Dreifort signed last month with the Los Angeles Dodgers, was named the Golden Spikes Award winner as the nation's top amateur baseball player. Dreifort pitched three seasons for Wichita Turning on the red goal light will not be Heroux's only assignment with the Ice.

Coach Duane Sutter also wants the veteran skater to be a leader before, during and after games. "If that's what he wants, I don't mind," Heroux said. "The big thing right now is to develop a "TV IFVlf? 4 Associated Press SHOT DENIED: LA Kings goalie Kelly Hrudey stops the shot of Detroit right winger Dino Ciccarelli. Red Wings roll to victory, end Kings' run in Detroit NHL ROUNDUP Associated Press Detroit snapped the Los Angeles Kings' four-game winning streak at Joe Louis Arena as Dallas Drake had two goals and an assist in the Red Wings' 8-3 victory Wednesday night. Drake's goals, giving him three for the season, keyed a four-goal outburst In the second period for the Red Wings, who fought back from a 2-0 deficit.

It was the Red Wings' first win over the Kings at Detroit since Nov. 27, 1990. In their first meeting this season, the Kings bombed Detroit 10-3 at Inglewood, Calif. It looked like this might be another rout as the Kings scored on two of their first three shots against Chris Osgood. But after Pat Conacher's fifth goal put Los Angeles ahead 2-0 at 10:26, the Kings didn't get another shot on goal the rest of the period.

Drake snapped a 2-2 tie at 3:36 of the second period, tapping Dino Ciccarelll's rebound past Kelly Hrudey at the right side of the net. It was all Detroit after that. Mike Donnelly scored his second goal of the season at 1:18 of the first period. Detroit's Mike Sll-linger and Ciccarelli, each with their second, pulled the Red Wings even before the end of the period. Ray Sheppard and Bob Probert also had second-period goals for Detroit.

Sergei Fedorov and Mark Howe had third-period goals for Detroit. Bob Blake, with an assist from Shawn McEachern and Wayne Gretzky, scored for the Kings. Gretzky finished with two assists, giving him nine multi-point games this season. The Kings (5-5-2), who dropped a 7-0 decision to the New York Islanders Tuesday night, now ae 1-4-1 on the road. Detroit (4-7) snapped a two-game losing streak.

PHILADELPHIA 5, OTTAWA 2 The visiting Flyers jumped to an early 3-0 lead and then scored twice late in the game for a victory. Rod Brind'Amour scored twice and Eric Lindros had a goal and an assist for the Flyers, who took over sole possession of first place in the Atlantic Division ahead of New Jersey with a record of 8-2. The Senators (1-5-1) got a goal and an assist from Russian rookie Alexei Yashin. Flyers goalie Tommy Soderstrom, who had lost both his previous starts this season, began the game but left due to dizziness after the- first period. Roussel got credit for the win despite allowing all the Ottawa goals, improving his record to 8-0.

WINNIPEG 4, TAMPA BAY 3 Defenseman Teppo Numminen scored his first goal of the season with 12:19 remaining in the third period to give the visiting Jets the victory. Numminen floated a wrist shot from the right point into the top left corner of the net, surprising Tampa Bay goaltend-er Daren Puppa, who was screened on the play. Numminen got the scoring chance when he knocked down a clearing pass along the boards. DALLAS 5, HARTFORD 1 Mike Modano scored his ninth and 10th goals of the season, leading the host Stars past the Whalers. Modano scored in the first and third periods and also added an assist.

Russ Courtnall and Grant Ledyard each had a goal and an assist as the Stars remained unbeaten at home (3-0-2). BUFFALO 5, CALGARY 3 Alexander Mogilny returned to action and helped the visiting Sabres end an eight-game winless streak. Mogilny, who scored 76 goals last season before breaking his ankle in the playoffs, scored a power-play goal in the first period as Buffalo won for the first time since an opening-night victory Oct. 7 at Boston. For over a century, the people who are INB have been reaching out to the cities and towns we serve.

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