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7T WIMP SANDERSON Baseball 4C Scoreboard 5C UT football 6C Secretary claims i.M 15-year affair Page 3C SPORTS SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1993 hoolahan: Coaching field not narrowed yet fey LARRY WOODY John Bibb Sports Writer Vanderbiit Atnienc Director Paul Hoolahan yesterday denied a pub- ished report that he has narrowed Jiis list of basketball coaching candidates to five. been considered viable candidates since Fogler stepped down last Friday. Crews' name was linked to the Vandy job four years ago when it went to Fogler, while Van Breda Kolff is a former Vanderbiit player who just completed his second season at Cornell. Neither Crews nor van Breda Kolff has been available for comment. Tulane's Clark reportedly was a candidate for the Georgia Tech job before Bobby Cremins changed his mind and took it back after three days as South Carolina's coach.

cancy created by Eddie Fogler jump to South Carolina: Evansville's Jim Crews and Cornell's Jan van Breda Kolff. Added to those names in yesterday's report on Vandy's "fab five" finalists were Tulane's Perry Clark, Wichita State's Scott Thompson and Duke assistant Mike Brey. Hoolahan expressed surprise at some of the names. "Did they supply phone numbers, too," he said, "in case we did decide to contact them?" Hoolahan said the new Commo Although Fogler said Vander-' bilt's budget deficit will "inhibit" the school's efforts to hire and keep a top-flight coach, Hoolahan said that is not true. "We have the resources necessary to bring in a great coach," he said.

Fogler base salary at Vanderbiit was around $125,000 a year, second highest in the Southeastern Conference. One source said the school was prepared to give Fogler a $50,000 raise had he stayed. "No, abolutely not," Hoolahan dore coach will not necessarily come from that list of five names. Terry Holland, former Virginia coach who is athletic director at Davidson, has expressed an interest in returning to coaching and has been linked to the Vandy. Some Commodore fans have voiced their support for Wimp Sanderson, the winningest coach in Alabama basketball history.

Sanderson, however, is mired in a lawsuit involving an alleged incident with his long-time secretary. Crews and van Breda Kolff have laid. "There is no 'short list' or even long list' We're still in the process Weathering unexpected tf exploring our options." Two prospective candidates have been mentioned from the start in connection with the coaching va- at Augusta jClash of the titans times two Vandy women ping for TV gold Sy NICK SULLIVAN Sports Writer Their last game drew a packed bouse to Memorial Gym, so the IT Vanderbiit and Tennessee women's "basketball teams will play twice next season, hopefully with a major television audience. With both teams expected to be-gin next season tv" ANDY VANDY ranked among a ir. mi ys.

UT iuv tup IVUt teams in the nation, the two powers will break Southeastern Conference tradition by playing two games during Jan. 31: Memorial I (date tentative). 12: jKnoxville. regular season. Because of the nature of the ipoi port, for it to grow you might have do some things that aren neces- rily in the mix," Vanderbiit Coach AP photos Masters champion Fred Couples, above, blasts out of a sand trap on his way to a 2-under-par 70.

Jack Nicklaus, right, gets help against the rain. He is at 4 under for the tourney and has five second-round holes to complete. im Foster said. Tennessee coach Pat Summitt Maggert in lead; big names lurking MASTERS Vl dbl i THE MASTERS I Beware of a Shark attack, on 3C. AUGUSTA, Ga.

So far, about the only prediction that's come true at this year's Masters Involves yesterday's weather. The experts called for rain, and rain it did. It was shortly after 5 p.m. CDT when officials postponed play until this morning for 10 competitors, including high-profile challengers and former champions Jack Nicklaus, Raymond Floyd, Bernhard Langer and Larry Mize. Nicklaus and Lee Janzen where bringing up the field and had completed 13 holes when the downpour stopped play.

Nicklaus was 4 under par for the tournament and Janzen 5 under. Others unable to finish were John Huston, Craig Parry and Tom Lehman (3 under), Corey Pavin (3 under) and Ted Schulz (even). An Augusta decision late Thursday afternoon to start the second day's competition an hour earlier in view of the weather forecast probably saved yesterday round. Compared to what's happened to other pre-tourmament guesses, the weather folks are one-up on everybody with a minimum of 36 holes to go. The forecast now calls for clear sailing today and tomorrow.

How about those who forecast things such as Texan Tom Kite finally adding a Masters blazer to his wardrobe? Pooh. Not this week, pardner. Kite, the reigning U.S. Open king, will miss the predicted 147 cut by a mile. His two-day total of 151 (73-78) left him on the sidelines where he may continue receiving treatment for his ailing back.

In fairness to the durable Kite, the injury undoubtedly played a heavy hand in his failure. And those who figured Zimbabwe's Nick Price would be a strong contender certainly wound up all wet They may now sheath their bumbershoots and join Price on the clubhouse veranda to watch the last couple of rounds. Price fizzled to 72-81153. His second round included a gigantic 8 blemish on the 14th hole, a 400-yard par-4. His "snow man," in the vernacular of Lee Trevino, included a near-whiff.

Price's 8 began with an errant drive that carried into trees. The ball stopped adjacent to roots. When Price took a swat at it with his iron, he caught just the top of the ball, advancing it approximately 10 yards. The third shot was a chip back into the fairway. A 5-iron screaming over the green was No.

4 and the fifth was a chip back onto the putting surface. Then came three putts and Price, the hottest article around the past few weeks was also veranda bound. There were encouraging stories, too, like the 67 by by Chip Beck after his opening score of par. Beck was written off Wednesday when he wound up winning the annual par-3 contest No par-3 champion has won the Masters the same week. Beck says he'll take his tournaments one at a time and will build on the par-3 championship.

Some may consider it a strike against his chances, a jinx perhaps. "I'm loving the challenge," said Beck, a former journalism major at the University of Georgia, "and looking forward to breaking the Jinx." John Bibb former Tennessean sports editor. By JIMMY DAVY Deputy Sports Editor AUGUSTA, Ca. On a rainy day in Georgia, Jeff Maggert walked out of the mist at Augusta National with the halfway lead of the Masters and a dream. The 29-year-old, making his first Masters appearance, fired a 5-under-par 67 yesterday, playing the last Jpas not in her office yesterday and Could not be reached for comment Vandy and the Lady Vols will fneet Feb.

12 in Knoxville in the tame that counts in the SEC stand-1 bigs. The second game in Memorial fcym, tentatively is scheduled for 'Jan. 31. "I would like to think this would fcelp the sport to grow," Foster said. jBoth Pat and I want to help wom- Sn's basketball reach its potential." In their last game Jan.

30, Van-tferbilt and Tennessee entered the 'lame ranked No.l and No. 2 in the Ration. A capacity crowd of 15,317 Jatched as the Lady Vols beat Van-y 73-68 to take over the No.l na-: jonal ranking 1 Considered by many as the pre-; tiler regular-season women's game two holes in a driving rainstorm and heading to shelter with the lead at 173 7 under par. There were some contenders on the rain-drenched course when play was suspended for the day. As Leadertooard many as five have a shot at the lead when they go back on the course at 7:15 CDT this morning.

70-67- The third round of the tourna The eagle, coming on the heels of a birdie at No. 1 4, was carded with a 229-yard second shot with a 3-iron and an 18-foot putt that was holed from just behind the green. It blew Maggert's mind. "I didn't have time to consider what was happening to me. All of a sudden, I'm in the lead," said Maggert.

"The last two years I've watched this on TV and dreamed of playing, even thought of what it would be like to be in the lead," he said. "I'm in awe of everything I'm looking toward to the next two days to see how I handle myself In his only other good run in a major the last two years, the Hogan Tour graduate briefly held a lead on the final round of last year's PGA in St Louis, but faded. "I was nervous. I'm glad I got it out of my system," he said. Of the players who made it before the greens filled with water on the closing holes, veteran Dan Fors-man, playing in his third Masters, was the only one on the heels of Maggert at 1 38.

"I missed the cuts in 1986 and 1990, so in my dreams I couldn't imagine being just one shot off the lead at the halfway point of the Masters," said Foreman, who has had only one bogey in 36 holes. pst season, the game received only ftatewide television coverage. With 2 I ment is expected to start around 9 am oaches and movers in the sport lushing for greater television expo- MAGGERT 137 -7 138 -6 139 -5 139 -5 141 -3 141 -3 141 -3 141 -3 141 -3 141 -3 141 -3 Jeff Maggert Dan Fortran Chip Beck Russ Cochran JoeySindelar Steve Bkington Howard Twitty Brad Faxon Mark Calcavecchia Lanny Wadkins John Daly The waiting list of 10 includes 72-67- 70- 69-72-69- 71- 70- 70- 71- 71- 70-71-70- 69- 72- 70- 71- lure, Foster is hopeful that at least one of these games will be broad-last nationally. 3 "If they television executives (re ever going to start to make deci- jns along those lines, this is one of ose games that obviously would fte attractive." Ray Floyd and Germany's Bernhard Langer at 6 under after 16 holes. And first-round co-leaders Lee Jan-zen (minus 5) and Jack Nicklaus (minus 4) are on 14.

If it required a stroke of nature for this little-known product of golfs minor leagues to lead the most storied golf tournament in the world, then so be it While big names and pre-tourney favorites fell off the leaderboard, Maggert surged to the front with an eagle on the par-5 No. 1 5. SC CofTipleta toofw, Television schedule Today 2:30 p.m., Channel 5. Tomorrow: 3 p.m.. Channel 5.

i Other Vandy garnet, 2C. ijBo dedicates homer to his mom ak Xpress wins; Sounds rained out CHICAGO (AP) Bo Jackson, ii rtiflcial hip and all, is back. Jackson hit a pinch home run in The Nashville Xpress gained their first victory last night defeating the host Orlando Cute 5-3. The Xpress (1-1), the Class AA team of the Minnesota Twins, got six shutout innings from starting Ditcher Eddie Guardado. He allowed only one hrt.

Steve Dunn' three-run homer In the eighth ning broke a 1-1 tie. Reliever Mike Mteuraca picked up the win. The Nashville Sounds didn't get to play last night as their game at Greer Stadium against the Iowa Cubs was rained out It has been rescheduled as part of a July 9 double-header to beojn at 6:35 pm The Sounds host the Cubs at 75'tonight Point Ind- caught the ball and traded it for an autographed Bo Jackson bat "I'm going to have it bronzed and put on my mother's tombstone," said Jackson, who promised his mother, Florence, before she passed away last April that he would play baseball again. Jackson, who missed all the 1992 season after a hip replacement last played in a regular-season game on Oct 5, 1991. The last time he homered was Sept 21, 1991.

Jackson, who batted for Dan Pasqua, then took over in left field and made a nice running catch. In the eighth inning, Jackson struck out swinging against reliever JohnHabyan. "He said he couldn't wait for his first at-bat and it was worth the wait" Chicago's Frank Thomas said. "He deserved it He worked his butt off." Said Heaton: "I knew it was gone as soon as he hit it "It's a tremendous feat not the home run, but being In the batter's box. He's got more guts than all the major league players in the country." lis 1993 debut with the Chicago White Sox in the sixth inning of a 1 1-loss against the New York Yank-; es yesterday.

Jackson hit an 0-1 pitch from leal Heaton deep over the right-: eld wall. "When I hit it I knew It was something special," Jackson said. After I crossed home plate, I was a Qttle misty eyed. I wanted the ball $ack." Greg Ourednik, 16, of Crown Xpress game, box score; Sounds pitcher Bert, 2C WB5 AROUND THE DIAL Baseball today: Chicago Cubs at BASEBALL SI Belmont's The Colorado Rockies made RESULTS AMERICAN LEAGUE New York 11, Chicago 6 Toronto 13, Cleveland 10 Texas 3, Boston 1 Octroi at Cafifornis Baltimore st Seattle Milwaukee Oakland 151 NATIONAL LEAGUE Chicago It Pnta. 7 Cotoradolt Montreal 4 SanDiegoZRoridal Pittsburgh 6, San FraaS Houston 7, N.Y.

3 (10) Atlanta 2, Lot Angetes 0 Philadelphia, 6 p.rrt, WGN; Los Angeles at Atlanta, 6:05 p.m., TBS; Cincinnati at SL Louis, 7 p.rrv, Channel 30 Kentucky Derby tuneups: The Oak-lawn Handicap will be SOFTBALL 15 batters, 15 Sherry Wright a junior from Overton Hgh School, pitched a per-feet game yesterday, striking out al 15 batters she faced in a 20-0 victory against Bethel. It was Wright's second perfect game of the year and sixth of her collegiate career. their first regular-season home game a big success, defeating the Montreal Expos 11-4 before 80,227 fans Mile High Stadium in Denver. Charlie Hayes and Eric Young led the way with homers. Nolan Ryan began his 27th and final major league season with five strikeouts In six innings as the Texas Rangers beat the Boston Red Sox 3-1.

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