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THE COURIER-JOURNAL, FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1991 D3 GOLF Marshall walks out on Red Sox; Bates among six Reds sent down EDITED BY WALLY DEMPSEY W. flcf ASSOCIATED PRESS Houston catcher Carl Nichols put the tag on Pittsburgh's Mike Lavalliere trying to score from second base on a single yesterday. Associated Press Mike Marshall's initial reaction on reporting to training camp with the Boston Red Sox in Winter Haven, Fla, was, "What am I doing here?" Marshall, unhappy with his utility role and the failure of the MAJOR-LEAGUE BASEBALL Red Sox to trade him, was fined $250 yesterday and threatened with stiffer penalties for walking out of training camp Wednesday. Marshall did not show up for yesterday's exhibition game with Detroit, and general manager Lou Gorman said that if he does not return within 24 hours he will be subject to a fine of $1,000 a day. Marshall, a 31-year-old first baseman-outfielder, is guaranteed a reported $1.2 million in 1991 for the final season on a multiyear contract.

"We're looking at our options," Gorman said. Gorman reiterated that he has told Marshall several times he is trying to trade him, but there is little interest by other clubs. If Marshall is not traded, Gorman said, he will remain a member of the Red Sox. Marshall, who has a .270 average in nearly nine major-league seasons, walked out less than 24 hours after going 4 for 4 with a pair of doubles against Cincinnati. He was hitting .464 with one home run and four doubles in nine spring-training games.

Marshall, who was not available for comment went back to being a reserve with the return of regular right fielder Tom Brunansky from the injured ranks. Marshall, acquired from the New York Mets last July, became expendable when the Red Sox signed slugger Jack Clark as a free agent and re-signed Brunansky. All three are right-handed hitters. Reds cut Bates: Billy Bates, whose lone hit for Cincinnati last the seventh inning, then won it in the eighth on Todd Benzinger's two-out pinch single off Alejandro Pena and Luis Quinones' double. It was only Benzinger's seventh hit in 42 at-bats this spring.

Ron Darling, coming off elbow surgery, allowed five hits in six scoreless innings for the Mets. He has pitched 11 straight shutout innings. Cardinals 13, Phillies Omar Olivares pitched five hitless innings and fellow rookie Bernard Gilkey collected four hits to lead St. Louis over Philadelphia. Olivares and Gil-key played for the Louisville Red-birds last season.

The only Phillies to reach base against Olivares (2-1) were Darren Daulton on a first-inning walk and John Kruk on an error in the second inning. "He got people out and kept his pitches down," manager Joe Torre said. Cris Carpenter allowed one hit in the sixth, Scott Terry pitched a hitless seventh and Lee Smith gave up one hit in the final two innings. Gilkey, who has won the starting job in left field, is batting .449. on waivers VLAF to hold first World Bowl at London's Wembley Stadium The World League of American Football will hold its first championship game in London's Wembley Stadium on June 9, league president Mike Lynn said yesterday.

The first overseas National Football League preseason game, between the Minnesota Vikings and St. Louis Cardinals, was held at Wembley in 1983. Three years later, Wembley was the site of the NFL's American Bowl exhibition games between the Dallas Cowboys and Chicago Bears. "We felt the best venue for this game would be Wembley, based on the history of NFL games being held here," Lynn said at a news conference. The stadium seats 63,500 for football.

Lynn said it was appropriate that a European city should host the first championship game of the 10-team WLAF, which has teams in five countries. "We are an international league and feel it's important to play our championship game in an international city," he said. HOCKEY Los Angeles Kings coach Tom Webster was suspended for four games and fined $5,000 by the National Hockey League because of a first-period fight that triggered several skirmishes during an 8-4 win over the Calgary Flames last Saturday. Two Calgary players Doug Gilmour and Tim Hunter were suspended for two games each. Gilmore was fined $500.

Another Calgary player, Joel Otto, was fined $500 but not suspended. COLLEGE BASKETBALL The Nevada Senate approved a bill that would require the NCAA to provide due process to coaches and athletes especially Nevada Las Vegas coach Jerry Tarkanian and his team. Senate Majority Leader John Vergiels, D-Las Vegas, said he wanted action on the bill before tomorrow's Final Four games at Indianapolis "so it wouldn't look like we were being revengeful if we didn't make it to the finals Monday night." The measure must return to the Assembly for concurrence in a Senate amendment before moving to Gov. Robert Miller's desk. UNLV was placed on probation in 1977 for various violations.

The school served two years' probation and Tarkanian was ordered suspended. But he got a state court injunction and continued coaching. The case went td the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled the NCAA was a private agency and didn't have to provide due process. The same ruling said state agencies did have to provide due process.

The NCAA ruled last year that the Rebels couldn't defend their national title as a final resolution of the Tarkanian penalty. But the penalty was delayed to let the Rebels compete this year. Malissa Boles, a 5-foot-10 forward from Sullivan College in Lexington, was named to the junior college division of the Kodak Women's All-American Team. Boles averaged 23 points and 8.5 rebounds a game this season and is the school's all-time scoring leader with 1,158 points. She has signed a letter-of-intent to play next season at Maryland.

Jerry Welch, coach at Division III Potsdam State College in New York, was named head coach at Iona College Wednesday. Welch, who won Division in national titles in 1981 and 1986, replaces Gary Brokaw, who resigned this month after the Gaels finished with a winning record (17-13) for the first time in his five years. Brokaw's record was 72-74. HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL Travis Best ignited a 24-11 spree to open the second half, and Donyell Marshall scored 12 of his 18 points in the half as the U.S. All-Stars routed the Capital All-Stars 114-89 Wednesday in the Capital Classic all-star game in Landover, Md.

Cherokee Parks, named the outstanding player on the U.S. team, had 14 points and 16 rebounds, while Indiana University signee Alan Henderson got 14 points and 12 rebounds. TENNIS Jim Courier opens in singles against Luis Enrique Herrera today as the United States and Mexico begin their postponed Davis Cup match. Brad Gilbert and Leonardo Lavalle, Mexico's top player, meet in the second match of the best-of-five contest. The match originally was to be played in January but was postponed by the Persian Gulf War.

Lavalle and Jorge Lozano will play doubles tomorrow against Jim Pugh and Rick Leach. On Sunday, the teams will play the reverse singles. In two other World Group matches postponed by the war, Israel is at France and Yugoslavia is at Czechoslovakia. Germany's Steffi Graf charged into the quarterfinals Wednesday of the U.S. Women's Hardcourt Championships in San Antonio with a 6-3, 6-1 victory over Monique Javer.

Also advancing to the quarterfinals was Manuela Maleeva-Fragniere, who defeated Isabelle Demongeot 6-2, 6-2. Pam Shriver, on the comeback after shoulder surgery last year, lost to Eva Vlrglerva 2-6, 7-6 (8-6), 6-3. HORSE RACING What A Spell, under David Flores, led throughout and resisted a challenge in the drive from favored Broadway's Top Gun to win the $83,625 Baldwin Stakes by a head at Santa Anita Wednesday. What A Spell covered 62 furlongs in 1:16 to earn $49,875, boosting his earnings to more than $125,000. Dodgers put Valenzuela Tway's way better than 'Big Six's' Associated Press PONTE VEDRA, Fla.

Bob Tway slipped into the lead and the heralded Europeans slipped back into the pack yesterday in the first round of the Players Championship. "A strange game," Tway said. He was talking about a chip-in for one of his seven birdies in a bogey-free round of 65 over the TPC at Sawgrass, the home course for the PGA Tour. His assessment applied with equal accuracy to the performance of the half-dozen Europeans Nick Faldo calls "The Big Six." Faldo, the Englishman who won last year's British Open and Masters, leads the group that also includes Sandy Lyle of Scotland, Ian Woosnam of Wales, Seve Balles-teros and Jose Maria Olazabal of Spain and Bernhard Langer of Germany. Together, they have dominated golf over the past few years, and are the heart of the team that has held the Ryder Cup for six years.

Faldo, Olazabal and Woosnam are 1-2-3 in a world ranking system approved by both the Tour and the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews. Only Lyle played in this event, billed as the annual championship of the game's touring pros, last year. Olazabal had never played here before. The others, embroiled in a dispute with PGA Tour commissioner Deane Beman over foreign players' access to American events, bypassed this tournament for a couple of years.

In their much-publicized return, only Langer could break par 72 on the American-style course more water and bunkers than usually encountered in Europe. He had a 70 that left him behind about three dozen players. Ballesteros, Faldo, Lyle and Woosnam, a winner last week in New Orleans, all shot par 72. Olazabal is at 74 and must improve today if he is to qualify for the final two rounds. Four golfers are a single stroke off the lead at 66, six others are at 67 and more than half the field of 144 broke par.

Greg Norman, the Australian who is No. 4 in the world rankings, is not among them. He shot a 75. Veteran Bob Eastwood, lefty Russ Cochran of Paducah, Peter Persons and Australian Steve Elkington made up a quartet at 6 under. Paul Azinger leads a group at 67 that includes Mike Smith, DA Weibring, Blaine McCallister, Phil Blackmar and Joe Don Blake, a winner earlier this year in San Diego-Tom Watson and U.S.

Open champ Hale Irwin top a large gathering at 68. Tway, who won the PGA championship in 1986, missed only three greens one of those in the fringe and one fairway. He was in danger of making bogey only on two holes, and played those holes 1 under. The birdie came on a 25-foot chip-in on the 14th hole. He came out of a bunker and made an 8-footer to save par on the fifth.

Tway reached two of the par-5s in Itwo and 2-putted for birdie, and scored the others on putts of 15, 20 and 20 feet. Scully voted Continued from Page 1 1 themselves have won the fourth-year coach friends and admirers throughout the state. And this year they helped her earn enough votes to be named The Courier-Journal's girls' Coach of the Year. Scully edged Clay County's Don-nie Gray and Central Hardin's Terry Buckles 15-14 in the voting from 137 of the state's 270 coaches. In typical fashion, she deflected praise to those around her.

"Leslie Scully doesn't make this program," she said. "Everyone does. This award is really for the kids. This was a more talented team and a more balanced team than I've ever had. And I feel bad for (assistant coach) Mark (Evans).

He doesn't get the recognition. Any thing I win is his, too." Evans said Scully, who also serves as athletics director, has nev er been a prima donna. "As a coach, it's really wonderful to feel a part of something like Les lie makes you feel, he said. "It a real special situation. She loves the place.

The only way it can be with her is like family." The Jaguars had several strong personalities on a team that earned the school's first State Tournament berth since 1982. Scully also had do to in a season didn't go far but was a big one, was among six players cut as the Reds trimmed their spring-training roster to 30. Bates, a 27-year-old infielder, had no hits in five at-bats for the Reds during the regular season and was 0 for 27 in his major-league career against right-handers when he beat out a chopper against Dennis Eck-ersley to ignite the winning rally in the second game of Cincinnati's 1990 World Series sweep of Oakland. The Reds also sent pitchers Keith Brown and Milt Hill, catcher Dave Liddell, first baseman Terry Lee and outfielder Leo Garcia to their minor-league camp for reassignment. Braves waive McDowell: Atlanta cut outfielder Oddibe McDowell, moving Deion Sanders closer to the starting lineup.

McDowell was in the final year of his contract with the Braves. In exhibition games yesterday: Reds 3, Mets 2: After falling behind 2-0 on home runs by Rick Cerone and Mark Carreon, Cincinnati scored one run on an error and another on a balk to tie the score in "I'm sorry, he was not good enough to be in the top five, and I talked to him and realized he could not pitch out of the bullpen." Tommy Lasorda what the future holds for this unique athlete." Los Angeles had until Tuesday to release Valenzuela without having to guarantee his $2.55 million, one-year contract. If not claimed by another team before 2 p.m. EST Tuesday, the Dodgers will owe Valenzuela 45 days termination pay $630,494.50. "I spoke to Fernando, and he understands the nature of the game," DeMarco said.

"When he was informed by the Dodgers, he thanked them and that was it. Our relations continue to be positive and friendly. That will never change. Fernando has done a lot for the Dodgers, and the Dodgers did a lot for Fernando." Valenzuela was routed Wednesday by Baltimore, allowing eight runs, eight hits and four walks in 3Va innings. He struggled in the final month last season before becoming a free agent and re-signing with the Dodgers.

However, it became clear this spring that he couldn't make the starting rotation. "I'm sorry, he was not good enough to be in the top five, and I talked to him and realized he could not pitch out of the bullpen," Lasorda said. "The two bad outings against Philadelphia and Baltimore convinced us it was time to decide who were the top five." Valenzuela came up to Los Angel Red Barons Special to The Courier-Journal ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. Scran-tonWilkes-Barre scored two runs in the second inning off starter Dave Osteen and held on to beat the Louisville Redbirds 3-1 yesterday in Triple-A exhibition baseball action.

The right-hander settled down after the second and posted three scoreless innings before giving way to Fidel Compres in the sixth. Compres threw two perfect innings and Steve Parker followed, surrendering one run on four hits in the eighth. Louisville's lone tally came in the seventh when Julian Martinez's es late in the 1980 season and went 2-0. Then he took baseball by storm, winning his first eight starts in 1981 with five shutouts and seven com- plete games. He compiled a 0.50 ERA during the streak and finished the strike-interrupted season 13-7 with a 2.48 ERA, becoming the first player to win Rookie of the Year, and Cy Young Awards in the same, season.

Dodgers owner Peter O'Malley called Fernandomania the most ex- 1 citing time for him in the 21 years he's been president of the club. "Fernando has been a very valuable and integral part of Dodger history," O'Malley said. "We are very proud of the man, his accomplishments and what he has meant to the Dodgers, the city of Los Angeles and baseball throughout the world." With the move, right-hander Mike Morgan becomes the Dodgers' fifth starter when the season opens April 9. It appeared Valenzuela had locked up a starting berth March 16 with an outstanding five-inning per-. -formance against Milwaukee, but the starts against Philadelphia (when he gave up four runs in less -than five innings) and Baltimore fol-, lowed.

The top four starters are Ramon Martinez, Tim Belcher, Bob Ojeda and Jim Neidlinger. Orel Hershiser is still recovering from shoulder' surgery last April. "I'm just struck dumb by Dodgers reliever Tim Crews said. "I just don't understand this. I'm not even going to try." "Of course we're all shocked," Hershiser said.

"I think all of us pretty much thought Fernando had made the team." "I was expecting something to happen before April 2," Valenzuela said. "Today was the day. These things have to happen Probably the reason they let me go was they know and I know that I can't help this team if I'm in the bullpen." Continued from Page 1 107 complete games. He won the National League's Rookie of the Year and Cy Young Awards in 1981 and led the league with a 21-11 record in 1986. And with his eyes-to-the-sky delivery and his assortment of pitches, the-five-time All-Star generated a Fernandomania craze that transcended his on-field performances.

"This was an extremely difficult decision to make because Fernando has established himself as one of the all-time great Dodgers," Los Angeles general manager Fred Claire said. "He has pitched with great heart and tremendous ability, but we had to make a decision based on the needs of our pitching staff." Valenzuela was in danger of being let go in each of the past two seasons. He slumped to 14-14 in 1987 and 5-8 in 1988, when he spent two months on the disabled list with shoulder problems. He was 10-13 in 1989 and 13-13 last year, a season which included his first no-hitter, a 6-0 victory June 29 over St. Louis.

"He has written history with the Dodgers," Valenzuela's agent Tony DeMarco said, "and he'll continue to write history in baseball with another team, there's no doubt in our minds. We'll wait until somebody contacts us. We'll just wait and see HOW COACHES VOTED 1. Leslie Scully, Mercy 15 2. Donnie Gray, Clay County 14 2.

Terry Buckles, Central 14 4. Jerry Troutman, Bullitt 13 5. John Bond, Cumberland 7 6. Bob Tripure, Henry Clay 6 7. Tim Shields, Conner 5 THREE VOTES David Elliott, Graves County; Bill Hill, Woodford County; Von Macklin, Mala; Nancy Oldham, West Hopkins.

TWO VOTES Howard Beth, Marshall County; B.J. Elswick, Elkhom City; Lisa Goo-din, Clark County; Jeff Halle, Henderson County; Robin Harmon, Sheldon Clark; John High, Whitesburg; Walter Hulett, Laurel County; Dave Weedman, Oldham County; Wendell Wilson, Leslie County. ONE VOTE Crystelle Beaver, Rockcastle County; Bill Brown. Southern; Brian Buck, East Carter; Delmas Castle, Owen County; Cheryl Crews, South Hopkins; Curt Cundrff, Rowan County; Blane Emory, Warren East; Bob Matthews, RusseMlle; Willis McClure, Apollo; James Mercer, Belfry; Rick Powell, Hofy Cross; Paul Rice, Boyd County; Gary Richardson, Metcalfe County; Many Rudd, Western Hilts; David Ryan, Green County; Gerry Simon Kenton; Greg Schod, Casey County; David Young, Allen County-ScottsvMe. Coach of the Year winners 197S Bunny Daugheny Sacred Heart; 1978 Daugherty, Sacred Heart; 1(77 Peggy Fiehrer, Butler; 1978 Roy Bowling, Laurel County; 1979 Bowling, Laurel -County; 1990 David Young, Allen County-Scottsville; 1981 Dan Hempel, Clark County; 1982 Charlie Just, Mercy; 1983 Various Lloyd, Warren Central; 1984 Howard Beth, Marshall County; 1985 Beth, Marshall County; 1988 Beth, Marshall County; 1987 BIN Brown, Southern; 1988 Bowling, Laurel County; 1989 Ken Smith, Manual and Dave Weedman, Oldham County (tie); 1990 B.J.

Elswick, Elkhom City. problem, I knew I could talk to her one on one. She'll talk to the real Amy." girls' Coach of Year stars such as Jansen, a junior point guard who will be a top candidate for Miss Basketball honors next year, and Brickley, a forward who has been invited to try out for the Kentucky All-Star team and is also a volleyball All-American. But the underlying theme on this team was togetherness. "If you went into my family and took someone out, it wouldn't be my family anymore," Brickley said.

"It's the same thing with the team. She never said to one person, You're the One person can't it without every person on the team." Mercy, which ended the season ranked third in The Courier-Journal's Litkenhous Ratings, lost only No. 2 Henry Clay, No. 5 Graves County, No. 6 Conner and No.

7 Clark County. Ballard, which Mercy beat 61-60 on Dec. 12, was the only Seventh Region team to come within 14 points of the Jaguars, who defeated the No. 18 Lady Bruins 64-45 the Seventh Region final. Other season highlights included 76-73 win over No.

10 Marshall County for the Louisville Invitational Tournament championship and a 65-54 win over eventual state champion Laurel County. No. 13 Bullitt East (twice), No. 15 Sheldon Clark and No. 19 Holy Cross were other victims.

"We don't play a whole lot of teams in town," said Scully. "We schedule people out of town. It's good for the kids, and people in the state get to know us. When they played us they probably thought since we were good, we were real cocky. But they discovered we're not like that." Scully, who has an 88-32 record, learned some of her coaching philosophies from Bellarmine College women's coach Charlie Just, who won Coach of the Year honors at Mercy in 1982.

Scully was an assistant coach at Mery for nine years before succeeding Jim Protenic in 1987. Scully lends her own touch in dealing with her players. The maturation of players such as junior starters Kristie Stuckenberg, Kristy Schuetter and Katie Roalofs is just as important as their improvement on the floor. "It's neat to see the kids grow up," Scully said. "These kids are.

your friends. We're like parents. Mark and I consider them to be our children." Brickley said that attitude makes Scully a special coach. There's a lot more to her than X's and O's. "She's a great coach, there's no doubt about that," Brickley said.

(But), when I had a personal trip Birds 3-1 two-out double scored Mike Fox. "Even though we didn't have much offense, our pitchers did a pretty good job," Redbirds manager Mark DeJohn said. "Fidel Compres impressive in his two innings of. work. And we got Terry Francona back in the lineup today, which is a good addition." Francona singled in four at-bats after being out with an injured hams'-! string.

Utility infielder Mike Ross contin ued to swing a hot bat, accounting for half the Redbirds' six hits. Ross has a .417 average with 15 hits. The Redbirds dropped to 2-5-1 this spring. They take on Syracuse' today in Dunedai, Fla..