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DROWLETTEASSOCIATED PRESS Terry McCarl of Altoona is racing full time this season with the World of Outlaws Series for the first time since 1992. On his second place A-main finish Friday at Nebraska's Eagle Raceway: "We had a good car all weekend. Last year we ran top five every time we were at Eagle, so it was good to get back to the area tracks." You finished second to Steve Kinser. How does he continue to be so "He's like Michael Jordan how do you explain MJ when he was at the top of his game. He's just on a different level.

When he's not on his game he's as good or better than anybody." Did you get a tie on Father's "I did not get a tie. I had a happy Father's Day, being able to spend time with my kids who are going with me on the motorhome all summer." Weekly Stats: McCarl stands 15th in Outlaws points and posted second- and 19th-place finishes Friday and Saturday during Eagle Nationals. Modified and dirt truck driver Bill Davis Jr. Davis Jr. picked up his first modified win of the season Friday at the Iowa State Fairgrounds and first since suffering head injuries and torn knee ligaments in a frightening wreck last season.

His father, Bill was a top performer at the track as well. 1. After last year's wreck did you give much thought to quitting? "Not really. Growing up with it, it's the only thing we know how to do. It's just what I know to do and now that the kids are getting of age and playing more ball and stuff, probably next year is what we're calling our last year.

We'd like to have a couple good years." 2. Friday's win: Easy? "It was just a good night. I had no idea I won like I did because I know Pat Graham and Todd Inman were going to be coming. I knew I had to run hard." 3. How was your racing impacted by last year's accident? "When you come back you don't have the timing and stuff that you did before.

It's taken me a while to get back in the groove but I hope I'm there." Sprint car driver Ricky Logan never gave a thought to the height. Last Saturday, he was too busy imagining another rung on the lofty Knoxville Raceway catch fence. "Adrenaline was going," Logan said. "I even thought about flipping over and going over the other side. Maybe I'll do that the next time." Forgive the high-climbing exuberance of the driver from Little Rock, who set an unofficial track record by clawing to the very top of the fence.

He had just won his first 410 feature of the season from the pole at Knoxville Raceway after two head-shaking second-place outcomes. "We started on the pole a couple times and this was the third time," said Logan, who vowed to shave his semi-bearded shadow away after the win, his third in 410s at the track. "The first two we came up a little short. I knew if we kept up consistently ninning in the top three or four we'd get one. Hopefully we'll get some more." Logan lives in Knoxville during race season, and co-hosts the track's cable TV show.

He's not stage-struck, he said, even when describing his own win. "IVe done quite a bit of TV stuff before," Logan said. "I've really got to thank them for letting me do stuff with them." Move over, Michelle Wie: Carmen Bandea, who just turned 15, wants to play on the LPGA Tour next year. If that doesn't work, she plays tennis pretty well, too. Teen seeks waiver to play LPGA Tour 0 YOU TELL US HOT LAPS vJ hit ir io Tickets are on sale for the Mediacom World of Outlaws Shootout Friday and Saturday at Knoxville Raceway.

Reserved Fantasy auto racing info Jimmie Johnson, pictured, lost 74 points to second- seats tor Friday events cost $25. The cost rises $2 for Saturday night's finale. Children 14 and under gain entrance at half-price hoth nitrhts. Call IMh Which type of racing would you be especially excited to see come in the first year of events at Newton's Iowa Speedway? A. NASCAR Busch Series B.

ASA andor ASL stock cars C. ARCAReMax Series stock cars D. Indy Racing League E. NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series F. USAC sprint cars and midgets Log onto DesMoinesRegister.comracing to vote Last poll: With a whopping 26 votes, you told us the most likely thing to happen at the Batman Begins 400 was Dale Earnhardt Jr.

finishing outside the top 20 (38.5 percent). Jeff Gordon winning came next (19.2), followed by Greg Biffle's fifth win which happened (1 5.4), Tony Stewart taking out Gordon and Jimmie Johnson scoring another top 1 0 (1 1 .5 percent each), and another Carl Edwards back flip (3.8). Ottumwa native Tommy ft place Greg Biff le, so expect a good outing from the Californian. Johnson has held the points lead for 12 straight races and is the only driver with 1 1 top 10s this season. He has never led, however, at Infineon Tony Stewart has one win and three top 10s in six races at the track Will Rusty Wallace carry some Newton magic with him? The veteran's last win at Infineon straight semifinal finish last weekend in his Skoal Racing NHRA Funny Car.

Johnson Johnson 71 came in 1996.. Kurt Busch is top 10 in four races at the track, stands fourth in series points. "The performance of the car is outstanding," said in a press release. "The team is moving forward." ARGA interested in running at new track in Newton By PAUL NEWBERRY ASSOCIATED PRESS Atlanta, Ga. A 15-year-old girl wants to play on the LPGA Tour.

And it's not Michelle Wie. Carmen Bandea sent a letter to the LPGA on Tuesday asking for a waiver of its 18-year-old requirement to become a member of the women's tour. Bandea, who just turned 15 on Monday, wants to enter Wie LPGA qualifying school this fall, which would give her a chance to earn her tour card for 2006. She has never played in an LPGA event, and failed to qualify for the men's U.S. Open and the U.S.

Women's Open this year. Still, Bandea believes she is ready to become a professional, at least part-time. "If I can shoot the score, why not let me go play some tournaments?" she said from her home near Atlanta. Bandea could play in a maximum of six LPGA events a year using sponsor exemptions the route Wie has chosen. That doesn't appeal to Bandea.

"Exemptions are like cheating," she said. "It's like High Schools BASEBALL: Cascade's Jerry Roling became the eighth coach in Iowa high school baseball history Monday night to win his 800th game. Cascade swept Starmont of Arlington, 8-2 and 5-2, moving Roling's record to 801-351. Boone coach Rick Davis went into Tuesday night's doubleheader against Oskaloosa needing one victory to reach No. 500.

He is 499-361. TRACK: Ashley Miller of Tipton and Greg Offerman of Charles City have been named Iowa's high school track and field female and male athletes of the year. Iowa Scene JUNIOR GOLF: Recent Southeast Polk graduate Sabrina Danielson won the Girls' State Junior Championship by 15 shots Tuesday after posting a final-round 1-under-par 71 at the Boone Golf and Country Club. COLLIS0N IN IOWA: Former Iowa Falls prep Nick Collison, now with Seattle of the NBA, will appear at the Iowa Hall of Pride on Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. isi I they're giving you something on a silver platter and saying, 'Here, take Bandea said she's not interested in a full-fledged pro career.

At most, she only wants to play 10 LPGA events a year. Outgoing LPGA commissioner Ty Votaw can waive the age requirement if a teenager shows she can be competitive, has a strong support system and demonstrates the maturity to be a professional. Aree Song, for instance, was allowed to join the tour at 17. "Normally, we wouldn't publicize requests of this nature," Votaw said from Colorado, where he's attending this week's U.S. Women's Open.

"All I can say is that we have received the letter, and we are in the process of reviewing." Bandea is also a promising tennis player, with her sights on being a two-sport star. Tennis is more lenient about teen players, though it limits the number of events they can enter between 14 and 17. Bandea plans to become a tennis pro in the fall. "I've already been doing them both for a long time," she said. "It may be unique to everyone else, but to me it seems normal." SIGNINGS: San Francisco signed receiver Johnnie Morton, who was cut by Kansas City after refusing to take a pay cut.

Morton, 33, has four receiving seasons during his 11-year NFL career with Kansas City and Detroit. Wide receiver Az-Zahir Hakim signed with New Orleans. Green Bay signed sixth-round draft pick Michael Montgomery, a defensive end out of Texas A M. INJURIES: Washington safety Andre Lott has a hairline fracture just below his knee, but expects to be ready for training camp. NHL BLACKHAWKS FIRE SUTTER: Chicago hired Dale Tallon as their new general manager Tuesday, and he wasted no time firing coach Brian Sutter.

"This is not about the past, it's about the future," Tallon said. "I want to start with a fresh sheet of ice, and move forward." Under Sutter, the Blackhawks were 91-118-37 in three seasons, and made the playoffs in 2001-02. Radio MLB 11:30 a.m. St. Louis at Cincinnati.

KELR-FM (105.3) 6:30 Chicago Cubs at Milwaukee. KRNT-AM (1350), KWBG-AMO590) PCL BASEBALL 6:40 Oklahoma at Iowa, KXNO-AM(1460) PREP SOFTBALL 6:00 Boone at Waukee, KWBG-AM (1590) 6:00 Montezuma at Lynnville-Sully, KGRN-AM (1410) 7:40 Manning at Exira, KSOM-FM (96 5) due: He's notched just one trifecta a home run to every field," Murphy said. But it was a blooper in the 11th that won the game for the Sun Devils. "It felt like four or five games in one," Murphy said. "It's a tremendous testament to our guys.

To do it against Nebraska at Nebraska with their closer on the hill down two in the ninth, a lot of people were assuming it was over." With Larish coming to the plate as the potential tying run, Nebraska coach Mike decided not to walk him despite the big day he xvas having. hat's a rule of baseball a double and he scores," Anderson said. "It wasn't a bad pitch. He just did a good job of hitting it." Johnson really ERIC FRANCISASSOCIATED PRESS Devilish delight: Arizona State's Jeff Larish, right, celebrates his record-tying third home run against Nebraska on Tuesday. The Sun Devils eliminated the Cornhuskers.

Larish leads Devils with three homers NEWTON, from Page 1C Cup and they said, 'OK, you've got a date, go build the they'd all do it. They want to see the commitment not only of the racetrack but of the infrastructure system, the roads, the excitement level of the people, the elected officials can we work with these people or are they knuckleheads and hard to work with? They won't touch it if that's the case. Fans number one, a great facility number two, and you've gotta want it. And this track will want it." ARCA a minor-league stock car series that sometimes serves as a springboard to NASCAR expects to be involved with racing at the track. "Based on its length, based on the market, based on the people involved, it definitely fits into our future," ARCA president Ron Drager said.

"Timetable, construction and all that will determine what we feel we can get realistically moving forward, but we're long-term committed to being here." USAC president Rollie Helmling said eventually racing at the Newton track would fit in "perfectly" with plans for the sanctioning body, which features its signature Silver Crown series as well as sprint car and midget racing. "When they originally contacted us and told us the plans were being made here, we supported it with letters and phone calls and did everything to encourage the community and the state to back it," Helmling said. Fans backed the investors in US Motorsport Entertainment the group behind the track, with cheers, and also applauded nearly 20 state NEXT ARCAREMAX SERIES RACE: Iowa Speedway OPENING DAY: Mid-July 2006. TRACK LENGTH, SHAPE: Seven-eighths of a mile D-shaped oval. Safety barrier envelops perimeter of track.

BANKING: 12-14 degree compound banking for turns; 10 degree banking on frontstretch; four degree banking on backstretch. RACES: ARCAReMax Series stock cars; USAC Silver Crown, sprint cars, midgets; hopes for NASCAR Busch and Craftsman Truck Series races as well as possible Indy Racing League involvement. OTHER EVENTS: Concerts, car testing (by Wallace, his son, Stephen, and Frank Kimmel, among others), car shows, driver training, police training. SEATING: 25,000 lawmakers in attendance who helped push through a multimillion-dollar sales tax break for the track. They also saluted Wallace who will retire from full-time NASCAR competition after this season by forming an autograph line hundreds of people deep.

"I'm way back in the line, but hell be worth it," said Wallace fan Sherry Bokhov-en of Pella. Bokhoven also is involved in sprint car racing, which runs weekly at Knoxville Raceway, about 30 miles from the Newton track. She said the tracks should complement, not compete with, each other a belief Wallace shares. "With having not one race track but two race tracks this close, that gives much more things to do for the fans," Wallace said. "The fans can make a week of it now.

Instead of coming to a race they can come to an event, a happening." Kansas Lottery $200 Grand, July 2 CalendarTVRadio Calendar WORLD SERIES, from Page 1C to get back down to that flat line." Larish's two-out, ninth-inning drive over the center-field wall off former Eagle Grove pitcher Brett Jensen made him only the third player in CWS history to hit three homers, matching Florida State's J.D. Drew in 1995 and Stanford's Edmund Muth in 2000. The homer also negated Andy Gerch's three-run blast for Nebraska (57-15) in the top of the ninth that gave the Huskers a 7-5 lead. Larish, who bats left-handed, led off the game with an opposite-field shot and homered to right in the third. He has 23 homers.

"That's ridiculous. It's like a Joey Hooft led of the 11th with a single and moved to second on Seth Dhaenens' sacrifice. Sferra, a 150-pound freshman who was the bat boy when ASU last appeared in Omaha in 1998, popped a Tony Watson pitch into short right center to score Hooft. "I was trying to drive the ball somewhere, but I didn't do a good job," Sferra said. "I just got the barrel on it and slapped it over second.

We caught the break, and we'll take it." Zechry Zinicola (44), who was held out of the starting lineup as designated hitter because of a bloody nose, came on in the 10th and earned the win. Jensen (3-5) took the loss. Linescore, Sports Roundup Television MLB 6:00 New York Mets at Philadelphia (ESPN) 9:00 Texas at A Angels IESPN2) PCL BASEBALL 1:00 Oklahoma at Iowa, replay (Mediacom) COLLEGE WORLD SERIES 1:00 Florida vs. Arizona State (ESPN) 6:00 Texas vs Tulare or Baylor IESPN2) PREP BASKETBALL 7:00 Boys Goalsetter All-Star Game, replay (Mediacom) TENNIS 9 a.m. Wimbledon (ESPN2) AUTO RACING 6:30 At Oskaloosa PREP BASEBALL 6:00 Valley at Kennedy PCL BASEBALL 7:05 Oklahoma Iowa CAPITAL CITY HOOPS 5:30 Coca-Cola vs.

Cochrane 6:45 Gratias vs Km Folks 6:00 Central Iowa Orthopedics vs Peak Performance PREP SOFTBALL 6:00 Mason City at Fort Dodge (2) 6:15 Marshalltown at Newton (2).