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THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR SUNDAY, AUGUST 17, 1997 C3 HIM! liviii on ESS F. C. Tucker Company, Inc. I Realtors Since Congratulates Karen Hyde on sales of 1, 0 Talk to Karen at 844-4200 Three second-half goals give team a leg up in the first round of Division III Pro League playoffs. IIIDY'S BEST KEPT GOLF SECRET erne of the Caps.

His game-winner came on an assist by Loren Crawford. The Blast still had to survive a Caps shot by David Brown that went off the right post with 2 minutes remaining. With so much at stake, play became rough and prompted angry exchanges. Shortly after the Blast's Obi Monome was left motionless after a collision in which no foul was called, play was delayed when players from both teams began shoving each other. Yellow cards were assessed against Loren Crawford and Brown.

Smith, closely marked by the Blast all night, left the game with 30 minutes remaining. And Phillips was taken down by the Caps goalie on a breakaway with 6 12 minutes on the clock. Monday-Thursday Weekday Special By David Woods STAFF WRITER Alex Morris passed on the obvious birthday gifts for wife Kim. No Jewelry or Caribbean cruise. No fancy restaurant date or surprise party.

He did surprise her, though. Honey, you're the new owner of a soccer team. "A lot of my friends said it was the first time they'd seen me speechless," conceded Kim, who is 40 today. The Indiana Blast rewarded their soon-to-be owners Saturday night, adding an improbable victory to what has been an improbable inaugural season. The Blast scored three second-half goals In an 18-minute span to 6:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m.

s25.00 per player Includes Green Fee Cart Rental Spot it quicker in the Star News Classifieds. odger Bay sets blisterinj pace in 71st Fox Stake run LBRAiMD ESStEW STEEL beat the Cleveland Caps 3-2 in front of a season-high crowd of 3,047 at Kuntz Stadium In the first round of the Division III Pro League playoffs. The Blast (13-11) move on to Friday's game against Chicago, the North Central Division champion, at Arlington Heights, 111. The Blast needed five successive victories just to get into the playoffs, and they needed Dustin Swine-hart's header goal in the 75th minute to advance. "It's kind of been the edge of our seats the whole season," said Swlnehart, a key midseason acquisition along with former Butler University star Steve Weiger.

"It's just another one tonight." The Morris' ownership was announced Aug. 2. the night the Fair," said Dave Magee, the New York Yankees owner's winning driver. "This Is harness country. The Fox has always stood out for me.

It's still a major race." Steinbrenner, who did not attend the race, won last year's Fox Stake with Rod's Deal. "I'm going to be the one to tell him," trainer Dirk Simpson said of his famous boss. "Wherever he's at, I'll find him." The horses that won any of the 21 races this day were usually fast, very fast, as most triumphed with at least personal bests. Gov. Frank O'Bannon and his wife, Judy, literally got the five hours ol racing started by riding in the starting gate car for the first race.

He later made the second Fox Stake plaque presentation. Chip Noble drove Vaporize, a 3-year-old bay colt trotter, to a stakes-record time of 1:55 in winning the $26,670 Delvin Miller Memorial. The colt wired the field to shave better than 3 seconds off his fastest previous best. Chance Berg's Shanla, a 3-year-old bay filly he's owned for Just four races, won the $24,360 Bill Thompson Memorial in a career best-tying time of 1:54.4. Magee drove the Fairfield, 111., pacer.

For Berg, it was a case of the rich getting richer. He recently won $12 million in the Illinois State Lottery. P155R-12 P15580R-13 35,000 MILE WARRANTY P18580R-13 P18575H-14 P19575R-14 P20575R-14 35,000 MILE WARRANTY P20575R-15 P21575R-15 P22575R-15 $1 RVDIUL3! 1 133 33Els P1IV70R-14 P205A0R14 62.99 P20570R15 66.99 P22570R15 69.99 P20565R15 63.99 P22560R16 79.99 60,000 MILE WARRANTY HUNDREDS OF STVLKS AVJU AT FANTASTIC PRICES! Season Laredo All Season (Q)(Q) S(Q) P23575R-15 35,000 MILE WARRANTY P18V75R-14 P20575R14 45.99 P20575R15 48.99 P23575R15 49.99 P18570R14 47.99 P17565R14 45.99 P18565R14 46.99 60,000 MILE WARRANTY P20VT5R14WS P21575R15W8 38.99 P23575R15W8 39.99 P23575R15RWL 47.99 31-1050R15 69.99 23585R16 74.99 Laredo All XW4 XZ4 LKJHT Blast defeated Chicago 2-0. Ferid Poturkovic will remain a minority owner when the change becomes official Sept. 1.

The Caps, who beat the Blast In three of four meetings this season, had what Swlnehart characterized as the ultimate danger in a 2-0 lead. It's easy to get lazy, he cautioned. Freddie Smith put the Caps ahead 1-0 in the 33rd minute, and Chad James made It 2-0 in the 48th minute. However, seconds after Caps goalie Mike Payne made a fine save on a header by George Crawford, Mark Phillips rolled a goal past Payne In the 57th minute. Two minutes later, Phillips left-footed the same shot toward the Caps goal, and Weiger was there for the tap-in to make it 2-2.

"After that second one, I think they were down," Swlnehart said "I was born In Vegas," Berg said after the award ceremony. "I guess I've been blessed." The day's first race was a $15,800 feature for 3-year-old filly pacers similar to Thursday's record-setting opener for 2-year-old filly trotters as TG's Magnificent of Connersvllle, finished fastest at 1 :55.4. It was her best time and a new track record for that Indiana-sired class. The bay filly, owned by J.C. Moffett and Francis and Patty Gough and trained by Ran Daily, has won four of five starts.

"I knew off the fractions she was getting that, as long as she didn't slow down, she'd get a good record," driver Eric Ledford said. "The track was extremely fast and all the conditions were good Jor great times today." In other $15,800. Indiana-sired pacer championships postponed by Friday rain, national driving champion Tony Morgan won by five lengths behind 3-year-old bay colt Tres Bien of Greenfield, In 1 :54 and was also first with 2-year-old bay gelding He's A Joh-nathan of Ohio's Miller Brothers Stable in 1:57.4. Walter Haynes Jr. drove 3-year-old bay filly Trendy Bilmac of Greenfield, to a photo-finish victory over JD's Hot Bunny in 1:58.1.

$2.20, and Jeremy's Gambit in third with $2.10. Park Place sneaked a victory in the second elimination of the night. The 3-year-old bay colt by Artsplace out of Deneen's Delight crept up the inside rail down the homestretch to pull a major upset over Direct Bill and Gothic Dream in 1:51.4 for only his second win in eight starts this year. "This colt Is a little lazy," driver Dave Magee said. "When I did call on htm he responded and when the rail opened up he had enough pace to win." The Jim Campbell-trained colt posted $17.00, $6.00, $3.60.

Direct Bill in place paid $7.00 and $4.00. Favorite Gothic Dream paid $2.80. All three advance to Friday's Hoosier Cup. Red Bow Tie held on during a pounding stretch drive for a win in the third and final elimination race. The 3-year-old bay gelding by Raging Glory out of Cheers took the lead in the first turn and dug in to outlast Perfect Art from the Inside and The Big Dog from the outside in 1:51.4.

For the victory. Red Bow Tie posted $4.80, $3.80 and $2.80. Perfect Art returned $9.00 and $4.40 while The Big Dog paid $3.00. These three rounded out the field for Friday's Hoosier Cup. Today is the trotters' turn in the spotlight with two trotting divisions of the Kentucky Standard-bred Sales Company Stakes.

Eighteen horses take the field to compete for the $230,000 prize. once it became known that the Travers had lost another star of the Triple Crown. David Hofmans, who trains Touch Gold, the No. 1 colt in the 3-year-old class, confirmed from his barn in California that Touch Gold will not run Saturday in the Travers. But he said he expected the horse to return to action in the fall, possibly as early as the Pegasus at the Meadowlands on Sept.

20. it out for high purse Stakes at Hoosier Park Laredo All Terrain I By Phillip B. Wilson STAFF WRITER When Dodger Bay paced the first quarter of a mile at 26 and 4 5th seconds In Saturday's first division of the 71st Fox Stake, driver Joe Anderson expected to have company. He didn't. By the blistering finish, the 2-year-old bay colt owned by Nell Miller of Beverly Hills, had captured the $60,656 mile race with a world record-tying time of 1 minute, 51 and 35th seconds at the Indiana State Fairgrounds.

"The colt has a lot of talent," said Anderson, who has trained the horse for Just two months. "That was a tremendous mark today, but I'm not that surprised. He's tremendously fast." Anderson trains another world-record holder, Big Dog. "This means a lot," he said. "The purse here isn't as much now, but it's not what we're racing for anymore.

It's the prestige of the race." The purse actually Increased more than $50,000 from last year eight other horses paced In a $60,656 second division race won by George Steinbrenner's 2-year-old bay colt Fitness Clinic of Tampa, in 1:53. "It's the whole atmosphere and the aura of the Indiana State Fillies battle in Company Suzy Mulligan CORRESPONDENT ANDERSON, Ind. It was one the richest nights in Hoosier Park history, featuring three divisions of the Kentucky Standard-bred Sales Company Stakes 1 mile pace for 2-year-old fillies and worth $420,000. She's So Misty went wire to wire to capture the first division of the evening. The bay filly by Falcon Seekster out of Mystical Mo-" ment held off a late drive by Astronomer's Hall from the outside to finish in 1:59.

"I was going to see how It went behind the gate," said winning driver Michel La Chance. "She never was in front before. She was pretty strong at the wire." The Brett Pelling-trained filly paid $2.80, $2.20 and $2.20. In second, Astronomer's returned $3.80 and $3.00, while Happy To Be Best posted $3.40. Ron Pierce got his victory at Hoosier Park behind Presidential Lady in the second division.

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"About halfway through the stretch she was still pacing strong and I figured nothing was getting to her." Panned Out paid $26.60, $5.00 and $2.80. Natchitoches held on for second and returned $2.80 and $2.10. In third. Sudden Attach posted $2.40. Rounding out the night were the three elimination races, worth $25,000 each, for the $500,000 inaugural Hoosier Cup for 3-year-old colts on Friday.

The top three finishers in each elimination made the final. First to make the field was long shot Northwest, who came from the five hole to take the lead at the top of the stretch. Driven by John Campbell, the bay colt by Western Hanover out of Family Album paced a lifetime best of 1 :52. "The fractions were real strong and that helped him," Campbell said. Northwest returned $24.40, $7.00.

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