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Bonnctt To Race Here. 21 Imcrtcon League Baseball 21 iVFL Still Negotiating 25 Liettfce's 65 In Front 27 Pro, lmafetir Scoreboard. 28 Wccffrir SloirsFte ftif 3ft FRIDAY 73 1989 Page 23 o)PJJ I By MIKE MORROW Tennessean Sports Writer BIRMINGHAM, Ala. For old times' sake, Erik Peterson, and Jeff Reynolds teamed up in a special way to help beat the Atlanta Braves 7-4 here last night. Reynolds, the former Nashville Sound who was dealt to Knoxville earlier this season, slugged a two-run homer to spark a four-run eighth inning and the Southern League All-Stars marched past the major league Braves before 11,111 fans crammed into Rickwood Field.

BUT IT WAS A tip from Peterson, a buddy from the Sounds, which gave Reynolds the key to his towering left field blast off hurler Jeff Twitty, ultimately bringing Most Valuable Player honors to the Knoxville third t)3S6m3n "Erik had batted in front of me, and he told me to wait back on the ball. He said the guy was throwing slow, a lot of changeups and curves," said Reynolds. Reynolds followed Peterson's tip and sent the ball towering over the left field wall, putting the All-Stars ahead 5-4 before a pair of insurance runs iced the decision. TWITTY WAS one of a number of minor league prospects inserted by Braves manager Joe Torre, resting his regulars be- -AP Laserphoto Nashville's Brian Dayett played the entire game in left field, going l-for-4 and sloshing around in a rain-drenched field which featured hundreds of fans roped off around the warning track. "THE WATER seemed knee-deep out there," said Dayett.

"I've never played in water that deep before, but I'm so excited about this game it didn't bother me." Sounds hurler Stefan Wever was used in a relief role, working a perfect fifth inning. "I was a little disappointed at not starting the game, but it was no big deal," said Wever, who was top vote-getter among the pitchers. "I only wanted to work one inning tonight anyway. It was just a thrill to be on the team. I enjoyed this." NASHVILLE'S CLAY Christiansen worked the sixth inning, allowing no runs and two hits.

"It was a blast," he said. "I felt good out there, and I had a good time." Braves regulars Claudell Washington, Dale Murphy, Bob Horner and Glenn Hubbard were lifted after only one inning but tacked a 3-0 advantage on the board before they left. Murphy walked and Horner doubled before Bob Watson's RBI single. Hubbard doubled one and Biff Pocoroba forced another run in with a groundout before the All-Stars got a bat. "I HAD PLANNED all along to have most of the regulars leave the game early," said Torre.

"We got a lot of people in, people got to see everyone, and besides we have a couple of double-headers coming up next week." The Braves will be in Pittsburgh tonight, resuming their ouwt of the Western Division tille. "This is the last time we can lose and still have fun," said Torre, noting his club has no other exhibitions this season. The All-Stars knotted the score 3-3 in the fourth inning on a three-run homer by another Knoxville standout, Tim Thompson. Reynolds and Memphis' Mike Fuentes had both singled before Thompson planted a Tommy Boggs pitch over the right-center field fence. BOGGS, MAKING a comeback attempt after a rotator cuff injury, lasted four batters into the fourth inning, with Dayett's" (Turn to Page 24, Column 4) BIRMINGHAM, Ala.

The Atlanta Braves' Jerry Roytter step back on first base just in time during the Braves' annual exhibition game against the Southern League All-Stars. Royster was leading when the All-Stars' pitcher turned around to Knoxville first baseman Tim Thompson. minor league All-Stars stunned the big Braves 7-4. Just In Time KTTC: off first and threw The league SLPQD Tracy Ctns In Breaststroke oooooooooooooooo by F.M..WUIiams A Friendly Feud THE TELEGRAM was on my desk when I returned to work after a week off because of what most people would call minor surgery, although I agree with Bob Woodruff, who once said surgery is only minor when it's on somebody else. There was an opening sentence from John Majors and his football staff saying how they had missed me at Tansi, but the real message came afterwards.

It said, "I wanted you to know that Bibb finally bit the dust on the golf course. Get the gory details from him." THAT TAKES A little explaining. For the six years that the Tennessee football coach has held his media tournament at the Cross- who broke Caulkins' 200 breaststroke American record tuesday night, in 1:11.73 and Caulkins in 1:11.96. Caulkins, who has not met the press after her events this week at the request of Nashville Coach Ron Young, was said to be concerned by her loss, but hopes to regain her standing as America's top breaststroker at the U.S. Long Course Championships in Indianapolis next month.

Meanwhile, Patty King, another Nashvillian, missed a berth on the team by just .12 seconds and settled for fourth place in the 100-meter butterfly. Louisville world record holder Mary T. Meagher won the event in 59.44 seconds, followed by 15-year-old Melanie Buddemeyer of Penn Hills, who was timed in 1:01.31. Texan Jill Sterkel was. ville resort, it has always been preceded on Sunday by a little private friendly feuding between Majors and Ben Bvrd.

sports editor of the Knoxville Journal on one side, and John Bibb, sports editor of ti. 1 6s to The Tennessean, and his playing partner, this time Edgar Allen, publicity director at Churchill Downs. It's just what you'd expect when friends engage in athletics, full of advance charges that one side or the other has been practicing up, a dispute over handicaps claimed, and considerable needling as the players charge around the course. If you think it doesn't matter who wins, you're nuts. About that, they're deadly serious.

Well, I checked with Bibb, who was sitting about 10 feet down the office and he grimaced and admitted that Majors had birdied the 18th hole and had won the match. That was the second time that the coach had been a winner. Jeff Reynolds Sparks Win fore they head back into the heat of the National League Western Division pennant chase. It was a night of mass substitutions, and all four Sounds all-stars saw action, including the advisor Peterson, who went 0-for-2 himself in a reserve role at second base. Upset Swim third in 1:01.42 and then came King at 1:01.43.

KING, A 17-year-old rising senior at Saint Bernard Academy, gets a second shot at the team tomorrow night in the women's 200-meter butterfly. King, who competed in the USA-USSR dual meet last year in the Soviet Union, finished second in the 200 butterfly at April's U.S. Short Course Championships. Amy Caulkins, however, ran out of chances to qualify for the team when she finished 29th in the butterfly in 1:05.18. In other events, Bruce Hayes (3:53.19) and George DeCarlo (3:54.17) finished 1-2 in the men's 400 freestyle; and John Moffett (2:17.99) and Glenn Mills (2:19.53) were 1-2 in the men's 200 breaststroke.

it Staff photo by Dale Ernsberger day. He lost 4-0, 6-2. A- John Majors From STAFF REPORTS MISSION VIEJO, Calif. American record holder Tracy Caulkins failed last night to qualify for a second event at the World Swimming Championships as she was stunned in the 100-meter breaststroke at the U.S. qualifying trials.

Cincinnati's Kim Rhoden-baugh and Hawaii's Jeanne Childs beat the Nashville native, the winningest swimmer in U.S. history. Only the top two finishers in each event here earn the right to represent the U.S. at the World Meet later this month in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Caulkins qualified earlier this week in "the 400-meter individual medley RHODENBAUGH finished in 1 minute, 11.04 seconds, Childs, 0) pi Tv ryes James Schor tumbles over the vain to giT a shot back to Patrick (, tA i I zzl "'v, net By TED POWER You can see Aaron Krick stein's forehand coming.

You can see the 14-year-old run around his backhand and then wind up that right arm. But there's not much you can do to stop it. NASHVILLE'S Ricky Brown learned that lesson yesterday as the second-seeded Krickstein of Grosse Pointe, defeated Brown 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 to advance to the semifinals of the USTA Boys 16s Clay Court Tennis Championships at Belle Meade Country Club. Patrick McEnroe, who romped to a 6-0, 6-2 win over James unseeded Steven Kennedy of Fort Lauderdale, and Richey Reneberg of Dallas, also, reached the semifinals, which' start at 10:30 this morning. McEnroe, whose famous brother John once won a national 16s clay court title, will meet Reneberg, while Krickstein takes on Kennedy.

Krickstein's blistering, low-flying forehand shot kept Brown, an admitted reaching the net and eventually finished the 15-year-old Overton High student HE SPRAYED the shot with a military rhythm. Left, left, left, right, left. Sometimes It was right, right, right, left, right. Either way, it forced Brown to scramble across the baseline and more times than not forced the Nashvillian to return a chipping backhand, that simply set up an- -other Krickstein forehand. fi A hjijiuii mm.

ii. twiiMui.Mnlai Jl, yniit trf j.4.t.t I-. 1 It was, Majors said, the most deeply gratifying victory of his life, although he stopped short of saying it exceeded the thrill of his hole-in-one during the tournament two years ago. HE SAID he was surprised that he had seen no report in the paper about his victory. "I was sure that The Tennessean, being a newspaper that prints all the sports news of consequence, would have had something about the match," Majors said.

"I didn't say anything about it, but I thought it should have been mentioned." "That is not true," said Bibb. "The first thing he asked me when we came off the 18th green was if I was going to put anything in the paper about it and I told him absolutely not. "And, incidentally, the greatest development in Tennessee golf is the decision at Tansi to plow up the hole on which Majors made his hole-in-one." MAJORS SAID he had never seen a man's personality change so much as did Bibb's from the 14th hole on in Sunday's match. "Normally, Bibb has one of the most gregarious personalties In the world, especially when he's winning. But at the 15th hole, I've never seen such a change.

You can tell him, though, that if he will promise to play the way he did after the 14th hole, that he will definitely be Invited back next year. In fact, we might even arrange to play again before next July." i Pat Head Summitt, women's basketball coach at Tennessee, says she has decided that if she is given the opportunity, she will accept the Job of coaching the. 1984 U.S. Olympic team. That decision will be made by the Olympic Basketball Committee the Sports Festival in Indianapolis at a meeting on Friday, July '30.

Pat is a member of the committee that will make the nomination. "I do not consider it a sure thing that I will be selected," she said yesterday. "I think it's wide open. "BUT AFTER a lot of thought, I finally made up my mind that If offered the job, I would accept It." Insiders say she's a cinch to get the post, primarily because of her international experience over the last five or six years. She has won 30 games and lost two as head coach of various U.S.

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