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THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1995 D5 jjm.m..i:i, tt r- TTT1 RYDER Continued from Page 1 Briefly Sports VM 'lib ie on No. 6 to give the European duo the first of three consecutive holes that cut the lead to 1-up. But Pavin kept them In the match with a 35-foot birdie putt on No. 14 and saved par with a 40-yard wedge to 2 feet on No. 16.

Then Lehman won it with his two pressure shots on the last hole. It was an absolutely huge win for the Americans. When Faldo tied it at 13. two other U.S. teams were losing and it looked like Europe could be up 3-1 after morning Play-Fred Couples and Jay Haas ended up losing their alternate-shot match to Rocca and Torrance 3 and 2 and Ben Crenshaw and Curtis Strange dropped their match to Langer and Johansson on the last hole after coming from 3-down with six to play.

Davis Love and Maggert handled Mark James and Howard Clark easily, winning 4 and 3. The emotion of the Pavin-Leh-man win carried over to the afternoon better-ball matches. The U.S. team combined was only 4-14-6 in better-ball play before Friday's 3-1 romp. Compiled by Steve Slosarek TENNIS U.S.

takes command at Davis The United States is on the verge of turning its Davis Cup semifinal against Sweden into a rout. Andre Agassi and Pete Sampras rolled to victories Friday at Las Vegas to give the U.S. team a commanding 2-0 lead after the first day of the best-of-five match competition. Agassi beat Mats Wilander 7-6 (7-5), 6-2, 6-2, and Sampras needed one more set to dispose of Thomas Enqvist, 6-3, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3. In Moscow, Boris Becker and Michael Stich overcame slow, soggy clay designed to sap their power and swept singles matches against Andrei Chesnokov and Yevgeny Kafelnikov as Germany took a 2-0 lead over Russia.

North Central tops Brebeuf hitting it too Lehman said about the approach shot on No. 18. "He said, 'Pick your best club, get committed and swing really "After I hit it, I'm thinking, 'Don't make me Lehman said. "But I think maybe I needed to make a 3- or 4-foot putt to win a match to know I can do It." Friday's strong showing should remove any doubts about whether a U.S. team with only 15 total Ryder Cups compared to 51 for the Europeans is tough enough to win.

"No, we were not surprised," European captain Bernhard Gal-lacher said about the play of the American rookies. "We knew we had to play well." No match was more important on this soggy Friday than the Pa-vin-Lehman contest against Faldo-Montgomerie. The Americans were 4-up after five holes but Montgomerie made a 15-foot bird- Associated Press RIGHT BACK AT YA: Pete Sampras holds his ground on the way to a victory over Thomas Enqvist as the United States takes a 2-0 lead on Sweden in Davis Cup play. share the first-round lead with Russ Cochran and Jim McGovern in the City Classic at Coal Valley. 111.

U.S. Open champion Annika Sorenstam took a six-stroke lead in the GHP Heartland Classic at St. Louis. Sorenstam had a 5-under-par 67 for an 8-under 136. Page Dunlap, who shot 71, is at 142.

Jim Dent and Bruce Devlin shot 3-under-par 69s to share the first-round lead in the Bank One Senior Classic at Lexington, Ky. Simon Hobday, who won last week's Brickyard Crossing Championship, had three bogeys on the front nine and finished at 80. The Senior PGA Tour will no longer be stopping in Dallas after 11 years. THE ORIGINAL SCOREUNE "NOBODY FASTER-NOBODY BETTER!" 100 TV LOCK FREE- 1-800-444-4279 LINCOLN WPMSSf Bigger Better Than Ever The Home Of REAL Sprint Car SATURDAY, SEPT. 23 GRAND FINALE 1st Annual Street Stock Nationals 50 Lap Feature $1200.00 To Win (Rain Date Sunday September 24.) Pits Open At 4 PM Grandstands Open At 5 PM Located On US 40 Halfway Between Indy Terre Haute FOOTBALL Notes: DePauw team honored The last team in college football to complete a season undefeated, untied and uns-cored upon will be among those inducted into the DePauw Athletic Hall of Fame tonight.

The 1933 team is the first group to earn induction into the hall. University of Nebraska officials said they support coach Tom Osborne's decision to allow backup receiver Riley Washington to play while he awaits trial on an attempted murder charge. In The Of Beautiful Downtown Huinamvuie, BOXING Ali returns to Liston site Muhammad All returned to the site of one of his most famous and controversial victories to Join the bicentennial celebration of Lewlston, Maine. All drew cheers from about 200 people attending a bicentennial banquet before appearing at ringside during a six-bout boxing show at the Central Maine Civic Center. The arena was the setting for All's knockout of Sonny Liston in a heavyweight championship fight May 25.

1965. McCall leaves thieves alone St. Louis police helped boxer Oliver McCall recover a stolen $1 .4 million check, but when he didn't press charges, they let the suspects go. McCall, 30, arrived in St. Louis carrying a check for $1,405,238, earnings from an unsuccessful defense of his World Boxing Council title Sept.

2. Police said McCall and his wife were on a flight from Las Vegas when they had a quarrel. In Kansas City, McCall decided to take a bus to St. Louis. When he arrived, he had trouble getting a cab, so he accepted a ride from two men.

They robbed him of $400 and stole the check. Once they were caught, McCall declined charges. HOCKEY Cyclones upend Ice Noblesvllle native Jamie Spencer had two goals for the Indianapolis Ice, but that was Just about the extent of the good news. The Cincinnati Cyclones jumped to a 3-1 lead after the first period and coasted to a 5-2 exhibition hockey victory over the Ice at Oxford. Ohio.

The teams meet again tonight at the Pepsi Coliseum, with the opening faceoff at 7:30. Flames sign Fleury Free-agent right wing Theoren Fleury. who held out of the Calgary Flames' training camp while attempting to work out a contract, signed a five-year pact reportedly worth $2.5 million per season. GOLF Notes: Weibring takes lead D.A. Weibring shot a 6-under-par 64 to In the last regular-season match before the Marion County Tournament begins Monday, top-ranked North Central (14-0) defeated second-ranked Brebeuf 4-1.

North Central, led by No. 1 Adam Schumacher, swept the singles competition. Brebeuf won in No. 1 doubles but lost in No. 2.

BASKETBALL Notes: Barros returns home The Boston Celtics signed former Philadelphia 76er Dana Barros to a six-year deal reportedly worth between $21 million and $22 million, bringing the guard home to the city where he grew up and went to college. Oakland, and San Jose, are in a high-stakes bidding war to house the Golden State Warriors. Both cities' offers are about $20 million. Warriors owner Christopher Cohan wants to move to a bigger building than the Oakland Coliseum Arena, the smallest In the NBA. The Miami Heat re-signed free-agent forward Keith Asklns to a multlyear contract.

Two prominent sports attorneys Mike Glazier and Christopher Strobel and a former Metro Conference official Dale Smith were hired to help the University of Louisville complete an internal investigation of the men's basketball program. Junior Derrick Carroll, a starter for two years at Florida State University, was kicked off the team for violation of a school policy. AUTO RACING Irvan's return delayed Ernie Irvan's return to racing was postponed at least one more day when Friday's qualifying for the Goody's 150 NASCAR SuperTruck race at Martinsville, was postponed by rain. Barring more rain, the SuperTruck time trials were scheduled to be run this morning, before the postoned qualifying for Sunday's Goody's 500 Winston Cup race. Hill wins provisional pole Damon Hill took the provisional pole position alongside teammate David Coulthard at the Portuguese Grand Prix in Estoril.

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gains a victory, but no ground on Jacques Villeneuve for the season. ent procedure than that used on other cars in the race. Two of the technicians who had found the car In violation at Portland passed when recreating the process for the appeals panel. But an IndyCar crew using both measuring methods found the car to still be In violation. The panel sided with Penske because the Inspectors who cleared the Unser car during this week's hearing had used that same measuring procedure to pass every other car at Portland.

Roger Penske, who owns the team for which Unser races, said Vh yh he was "pleased with the court's decision and we believe this proceeding clarified many significant issues raised as a result of the Portland race." Kirk Russell, IndyCar's vice president of competition, said the sanctioning body was "extremely disappointed by the panel's decision but fully accepts the appeals court's ruling." The verdict had no bearing on the outcome of the driver points in the race, which was won by Jacques Villeneuve of Canada, with Unser finishing second. IndyCar appeals panel sides with Penske Racing in Portalnd race dispute. Associated Press DETROIT Al Unser deprived of a victory at Portland, when his car was ruled to be in technical violation of road-clearance requirements, had the win returned to him on Friday by an IndyCar appeals panel. The three-member panel headed by appeals court judge Philip C. Elliott sided with Penske Racing, which had argued that a different inspection procedure was used for its car than for others in the race.

Unser dominated the Portland race, only to have the victory set aside when the car was found to be in violation of the 2-inch clearance requirement between the bottom of the sidepods and the bottom of the car. The victory was awarded to runnerup Jimmy Vasser. Penske Racing appealed the disqualification to IndyCar stewards, who denied the appeal. Penske then carried the matter to a three-member appeals panel, which heard three days of testimony this week before Issuing its decision. Penske Racing argued that Its car was measured using a differ HOME SPECIALISTS FALL SALE ifcpaiwa srrsfs fenfire MEN'S li WOMEN'S k.

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