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Am Baseball Scores AMERICAN LEAGUE Anaheim 7 Toronto 5 Baltimore 1 5 Cleveland 3 Boston 13 Minnesota 12 ''bhicago 14 Seattle 2 '''Detroit 13 Oakland 4 Kansas City 11 Tampa Bay 9 New York 6 Texas 4 NATIONAL LEAGUE 5 Los Angeles 2 "Cincinnati 3 Montreal 2 bhicago 6 Houston 4 faewYork 3 Arizona 2 Philadelphia 6 Colorado 2 Diego 7 Milwaukee 0 San Francisco 10 Florida 0 St. Louis 10 Pittsburgh 5 ROUNDUPS on Page 2S RANDY BRUBAKER Assistant Managing Editor, 515-284-8130 Des Hlmncs jB gistcr SATURDAY August 15, 1998 DM Duncan enters Hall of Fame Former Iowa quarterback Randy Duncan was enshrined into the College Football Hall of Fame Friday in South Bend, Ind. Duncan, of Des Moines, led Iowa to a victory over California in the 1959 Rose Bowl. Eddie Robinson, who led Grambling State to 408 victories in 55 years, also was honored. Back strain sidelines Dwight Former Iowa football player Tim Dwight has missed the past nine days of practice with the Atlanta Falcons because of what he described as a lower back strain.

"I'm really kind of frustrated because missed the preseason game (a 31-16 loss to Tennessee) and I'm going to miss another one," he said. Investigation broadens Federal grand jury requests video of 1994 Northwestern football games, says report. STORY on Page 7S Dwight I-Gubs break home run record in 10-5 loss to I owa Cubs Homers Through the Years 1998 176 1993 1997 150 1992 1996 121 1991 1995 92 1990 1994 134 1989 148 100 ..86 102; ..89 exhibition game Thursday, they were not pumped up Friday. "We came out flat and (Edmonton) took advantage of it," Iowa's Jason Maxwell said. "We have to come out ready to play (today) or the same thing could happen." If nothing else, the Cubs were ready to hit home runs Friday.

Pedro Valdes hit a home run off the top of the scoreboard in right field in the bottom of the third inning for the team's 174th homer of the year. That broke the previous record of 173 set in 1984 and tied Wednesday night. Friday's game, which left the Cubs 3' games ahead of Omaha, which lost at Vancouver, 3-2, on Friday, in the Central Division. Edmonton hit four homers two by right fielder Brad Tyler and had 14 hits against Rod McCall in the sixth inning and Robin Jennings in the ninth inning hit solo home runs for Iowa's 46th multi-homer game. Jennings extended his hitting streak to seven games with his 80th career homer.

Home runs were a big part of Rain and Richie Barker retired Edmonton in order in the fifth, sixth and seventh innings didn't matter. That was after the Trappers had done much of their damage. Iowa had the bases loaded in the seventh inning with McCall at bat, one inning after he hit his 28th homer, but Tim Kubinski struck McCall out. The Cubs' problems started early as Iowa starter Kennie Steenstra had his shortest outing of the season. Edmonton touched him for eight hits and six runs all earned in innings.

Steenstra, who made his 101st start for the Cubs Friday, 0 ins (Mais i I fe.s ST 'civ 1 -l i 1 '5 't i. rr i t. i 1 1 'k i ii 1 3 fS A to ii JO Three home runs 'can't get the I-Gubs ipast Edmonton. 111 By DAN McCOOL ,1 Stakf Writkh 'jl" First, the good news. 3'the Iowa Cubs broke the franchise record for home runs ih a season Friday night.

Now, the bad news. Cubs lost to Edmonton, 10-5, in a Pacific Coast League baseball game in front of a crowd of 5,463 at Sec Taylor Stadium. If the Cubs were pumped up to play their parent team in an Menace fall in Dispatch to Thk Reoistkr "'Kalamazoo, Mich. San Gabriel Valley of California took advantage of two first-half goals to defeat the Des Moines Menace, 3-1, in the semifinals of the Premier Deyelopmental Soccer League playoffs Friday night. viiThe Menace will meet Kalamazoo at 4:30 p.m.

today for third place. Jackson (Miss.) beat Kalamazoo, 2-0, in Friday's other semifinal. San Gabriel Valley outshot Des Moines, 21-12, and got first-half goals from Serejah Akopian and Sarkis Banyan. Akppian was assisted by jianyan and Vrech Shakban- bdayan assisted on Banyan's "(San Gabriel Valley) played a Jpt of long balls, which is very because they were vfcry controlled on our end of ihe; field," Menace player-coach Al Driscoll said. "Most teams that build from the back don't play very many long 'balls, but they did." Zwaschka scored for Menace in the 72nd minute on a header that hit just inside far post following Eric corner kick.

goal came three minutes '4fter a goal by San Gabriel "Valley's Vahe Asatourian. rl It was a completely game in the second half," Driscoll said. "We took away their long service passes and jurt ran them into the ground." jf Goalie Casey Mann had eight aves for the Menace and San tabriel Valley goalie Tudor fezar had five. jj If the Menace win today it Will be their best playoff finish ji the club's five-year history. I hey finished fourth at the 995 nationals.

4 Des Moines was playing jithout four regular starters, forward Nick Olivencia did ot play because he reported Ifa fall practices at North Carolina State. Forwards Mustafa Arikan, Billy Scott and Jamie fhillips were out with injuries. Zwaschka picked up his third yellow card of the playoffs and will miss today's jfliatch. 1 semmnai has lost three decisions and had one no-decision in his last four starts since improving to; 10-0 on July 24 against Las Vegas. ISC In the last four starts, Steenstra has a 9.31 eamed-run average.

"He's lost his aggressiveness," Iowa pitching coach Marty DeMerritt said. "For someone who's trying to get tOi the big leagues, (he's) not real-' ly going about it the right way." The Cubs did not get runner past second base until; Kary Bridges scored on the homer by Valdes, who began aj rehabilitation assignment ins Des Moines Friday. The trick to sprint car is matching the chassis setup: to the racing surface. It's a madter of the right shocks, spacing and stagger, and the right tire: All of this while as more and more laps are burned into the surface the track changes through the course of the night; "You've got to fit the setup on the car with the race-track conditions," Kinser said. "That's where it gets tricky.

Weather has a lot to do with it. There's quite a bit involved in keeping up with all of that The one who gets his car nice for KINSER Turn to Page 5 in a back-and-forth battle. "This race, I just ran as hard as I could," Swindell said. "I just tried to keep the thing as fast as I could around the top and try to win it and gain some points." Meanwhile, cousin Mark Kinser put himself on the pole position for tonight's B-feature, which will send its top finishers to the tail of the A-feature. Tim Shaffer will start next to Kinser on the front row of the B-feature.

He Oh bi ml Mm ft. Looking ahead Schedule Today, 7:15 p.m. Ticket prices Television Live, TNN, today at 9 p.m. RESULTS: Page 4S 1988 Ill 1987 142 1986 115 1985 138 1984 173 five Cubs pitchers. The bottom didn't fall out, but the bottom of Edmonton's batting order fell on the Cubs.

The Trappers' No. 5-9 hitters were a collective 12-for-23, scored nine runs and drove in seven runs. The fact Iowa pitchers Steve Karl Kinser's tiny adjustments often result in victory at Knoxville Nationals. I By JEFF OLSON Rf.c.istf.r Staff Wkitkr He's considered the mad scientist of sprint-car racing, but you can strike the "mad" part. In reality, Karl Kinser is probably closer to being the happy scientist of sprint-car racing.

Sure, he's diabolical. Yes, he's a mechanical genius. Certainly, he has a brain like few others. But mad? Naw. Grouchy on occasion, but hardly mad.

Karl Kinser has set the standard for his form of racing, and an unusual genre it is. Free-form, basic auto mechanics, but something more. In sprint-car racing, there's room to experiment. The idea is to get a massive amount of horsepower to make contact with the ground. It's not as simple as it sounds.

Ask Karl; he'll tell you. The mechanic who's able to do it consistently walks away with most of the money. And Karl Kinser has cashed a few checks in his day. Like, say, 12 for winning the Knoxville Nationals, which he'll compete in again tonight with out the top 10. i Swindell, who appeared to be the runaway favorite heading into last year's A-feature, tempered his victory Friday night with the knowledge of possible disaster.

"I've had so many things go wrong here," Swindell said. "A lot of unusual things that never seem to happen creep up on us on Saturday nights here." Last year, Swindell was leading the A-feature when he and Mark Kinser tangled when SECOND ROUND Par 140 Vijay Singh ..136 Steve Strieker 137 Colin Montgomerie.137 Scott Gump 137 Davis Love III 138 Tiger Woods 138 Brad Faxon 138 Andrew Magee 138 Steve Elkington 138 TV: 10:05 a.m., TBS; 1 p.m., CBS SCORES on Page 6S ns ddd i WWH 1 Hll.I. NEIIiKR(iALITiiK Kkuktkr before qualifying at Knoxville earlier this week. his son, Mark, driving Karl's No. 5m car.

It's been said that Karl Kinser can predict the width and consistency of the racing groove at Knoxville's half-mile on the morning of the race just by sticking his head out the window. It's not that easy, of course, but there is a certain science to it a science of experience. Maybe Karl just makes it look easy. "If you're here enough, you kind of get familiar with the track," he said. "It's like going to school.

You either pay attention or you fail." a red flag came out. Swindell fumed afterward; this time, he's taking a practical approach, "Last year, we knew we had a car that probably could have won the race on Friday," Swindell said. "I probably should have pulled away with it further than I did, but I was trying to be careful and take care of the car. That didn't work." This time, he let go, slicing and dicing with Haudenschild Swindell earn front-row spots" position after a spirited duel ended with Swindell edging Haudenschild in a pole scramble race Friday night at Knoxville Raceway. Haudens Swindell Front row child, second in points behind Steve Kinser coming into the race, added 25 -If Karl Kinser works on a tire By JEFF OLSON Rkcistf.r Staff Writf.r Knoxville, la.

Sammy Swindell, whose troubles at the Knoxville Nationals have been well-documented, may have tipped his hand Friday night. It's likely that the pre-race favorite, Jac Haudenschild, did the same. Haudenschild won the pole position for tonight's championship feature and Swindell secured the other front-row chance to become the first player in 61 years to repeat as champion and the first back-to-back winner since the PGA went to stroke player in 1958. For Singh and Colin Mont-gomerie, a chance to chase off the demons of past PGA Championships that have slipped away. Singh's 66, tying the record set a day earlier by Tiger Woods, put him at 4-under 136 after two cautious rounds at Sahalee.

"Each year you play, you gain a little more experience, a lot more know-how to handle a situation like I'm in now," said Singh, who came strokes short of a playoff in the Haudenschild, 3 ingh takes 1-stroke lead Collison: Kansas or Duke more to his total by coming from the back row of the inverted pole scramble race. Swindell clinched the outside front-row position for tonight's championship feature by scoring 23 points in the race, moving him up from seventh. Danny Lasoski will start third tonight. Kinser will be fourth, Jeff Shepard fifth and Paul McMahan sixth. Donny Schatz, Kenny Jacobs, Garry Brazier and Dale Blaney round at PGA finish second," said Montgom-erie, who has done just that in three previous majors.

"The hardest thing to do is get into contention. We'll go from there." Woods, not nearly as sharp off the tee or on the green, shot 2-over 72 and was at 138 with Love, former PGA champion Steve Elkington, Andrew Mag-ee and Brad Faxon. Iowa Falls, la. (AP) Nick Collison, the Iowa Falls basketball player who is one of the nation's top college "Each year you play, you gain a little more experience, a lot more know-how to handle a situation like I'm in now." Vyay Singh prospects, has narrowed his college choices to Kansas and Duke. He will visit Duke on Sept.

11, Kansas the following weekend, and then make his decision. "It's pretty much Duke and Kansas," Collison said Friday, although he did seem to leave the door slightly ajar for Iowa State. "I talked to Coach (Larry) Eustachy he said. "I'm still bilking to them. I eness djlis 66 ties course record set by Tiger Woods on Thursday.

Redmond, Wash. (AP) The tight, tree-lined fairways of Sahalee created a wide-open PGA Championship on Friday. Vyay Singh matched the course record at Sahalee Country Club with a 4-under-par 66 that gave him a one-stroke lead going into a weekend with endless possibilities: For Mark O'Meara, a chance to join Ben Hogan as the only player to win three major championships in one sijfison. i 0 For Davis Love III, a 1993 PGA Championship. But there wasn't much room at the top.

Right behind was Montgom-erie, in pursuit of his first major championship and in contention for the first time since he lost by one stroke to Ernie Els in the U.S. Open last year. He made three key par saves in a round of 67 that put him at 137, along with Scott Gump and Steve Strieker. "I haven't come over here to The 6-foot 9-inch forward had elimi- WWISOn nated Iowa earlier because of the uncer- Iowa Falls tainty over the coaching situation. Coach Tom Davis will resign after the 1998-99 season and a successor has not been named.

Collison told the other schools on his list Kentucky, Minnesota and Notre Dame earlier this week he was no longer interested. PGA Turn to Puge 4S.