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6D SPORTS ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1997 FOR THE RECORD ram 1 NEW YORK ISLANDERS Shawn NHL FREE AGENTS ri Anderson, Niklas Andersson, Derek Armstrong, Jarrett Deuling, Jim Dowd, Doug Houda, Brent Hughes, Dave McLrwain, Nick Vachon. is NEW YORK RANGERS Micah Al- vazotf, Eric Flinton, Ken Shepard, Rick Willis. OTTAWA Daniel Guerard, Brett MB Lievers. PHILADELPHIA Yanick Dupre, Darren Rumble.

PHOENIX Mike Hudson. Pat Jab- lonski Igor Korolev, Mike PITTSBURGH Oleq Belov, Phi lippe DeRouville, Brad Lauer, Ed Patterson. SAN JOSE Wade Flaherty, lain Fraser, Dean Grillo, Greg Hawgood, Damn Madeiey. cnns i ancm. TAMPA BAY Paul Brousseau, Alexandre Laporte, Rudy Poeschek.

I umun I rent uii, aeon Tom Pederson, Shayne Topor- owski, Paul Vincent. VANCOUVER Trov Crowder, Rick Girard, Chris Joseph, Brian Loney, mum Bogdan Savenko, Alexander semak, Rod Stevens. Brent Tully. WASHINGTON Joel Poirier, Marc Potvin, Robb Stauber. PGA TOUR Western Open Site: Lemont, III.

Schedule: Today-Sunday. Course: Cog Hill, Dubsdread Course (7,073 yards, par 72). Purse: $2 million. Winner's Share: $360,000. Television: USA (Today-F riday, 3-5 p.m.) and KM0V Channel 4 (Saturday-Sunday, 3-5 p.m.).

Last year: Steve Strieker closed with a 3-under 69 for an 8-stroke victory over Billy Andrade and Jay Don Blake. Strieker, a former University of Illinois star from Edgerton, had an 1 Sender 270 total. Last week: Greg Norman won the St. Jude Classic at Memphis, closing with three consecutive birdies for a 5-under 66 and a 1-stroke victory over Dudley Hart. Norman, who regained the top spot in the World Ranking, had a 16-under 268 total.

Notes: Tiger Woods, returning to the tour after a one-week break, has failed to break par in 11 of his last 12 tournament rounds. The Masters winner played the tournament twice as an amateur, missing the cut in 1994 and tying for 57th in 1995. Nick Price won the tournament in 1993 and 1994. SENIOR PGA TOUR BASEBALL NL Suspended Montreal Expos 1 David segui tor one game ana tinea an undisclosed amount for charging the mound in Florida last Saturday. CHICAGO CUBS Signed 3B-OF Mary ButkusAP The Twins' Scott Stahoviak (right) is congratulated by Marty Cordova after his homer.

Matt Mauck ana assigned mm to tne Cubs of the Arizona Leaaue. CLEVELAND INDIANS Claimed LHP Casey Whitten off waivers from Kansas City and designated him for assianment. COLORADO ROCKIES Recalled CARDINALS REPORT RHP Jamey Wright from Colorado Springs of tne Pacific Coast Leaaue. Cards FLORIDA MARLINS Activated INF Alex Arias from the 15-day disabled list. Sent INF Chris Klapmski to Charlotte of the International League.

MONTREAL EXPOS Recalled 38 NEW YORK (AP) NHL players who became tree agents Tuesday: Qraup2 The following players have been tendered a qualifying otter by their respective clubs and are subject to draft choice compensation and right to match: 1 BLUES Craig Conroy, Chris Ken-ady, Igor Kravchuk, Pierre Turgeon. ANAHEIM Ted Drury, Guy Hebert, J.F. Jomphe, Paul Kariya. Dave Karpa, Dmitri Mironov, Igor Nikulin, Sean Pronger, Jeremy Stevenson, Darren Van Impe. Bob Wren.

BOSTON Dean Chynoweth, Mark Comforth, Ted Donate, Steve Heinze, Dean Malkoc, Trent McCleary, Jozef Stumpel, Mike Sullivan, Robbie Tallas. BUFFALO Bob Boughner, Michal Grosek, Michael Peca, Derek Plante, Darryl Shannon, Dixon Ward, Alexei Zhitnik. CALGARY Joel Bouchard, Aaron Gavey, Ravil Gusmanov, Marko Jan-tunen, Trevor Kidd, Marty Mclnnis, Dale McTavish, Gary Roberts, Dwayne Roloson, Paxton Schulte, Todd Simpson, Cory Stillman. CAROLINA Kevin Brown, Manny Legace, Marek Malik, Kent Mander-ville, Steve Martins, Jason Muzzattl, Steven Rice. CHICAGO Tony Amonte, James Black, Enrico Ciccone, Jim Cummins, Steve Dubinsky, Marc Lamothe, Michal Sykora, Jimmy Waite, Eric Weinrich.

COLORADO Rich Brennan, Rene Corbet, Keith Jones, Jon Klemm, Eric Lacroix, Joe Sakic, Brent Severyn, Pascal Trepanier. DALLAS Manny Fernandez, Der-ian Hatcher, Benoit Hogue, Jere Leh-tinen, Grant Marshall, Mike Modano, Darryl Sydor. DETROIT Sergei Fedorov, Vya-cheslav Kozlov, Martin Lapointe. EDMONTON Dennis Bonvie, Mar-lusz Czerkawski. Greg de Vries, Scott Ferguson, Ralph Intranuovo, Andrei Kovalenko, Daniel McGillis, Boris Mironov, Rem Murray.

FLORIDA Trevor Doyle, Mark Fitzpatrick, Johan Garpenlov, Rob Niedermayer, LOS ANGELES Philippe Boucher, Dan Bylsma, Byron Dafoe, Craig Johnson, ian Laperriere, Jaroslav Modry, Glen Murray, Sean 0 Dortnell, Yanic Perreault, Jeff Shevalier, Vladimir Tsyplakov. MONTREAL Valeri Bure. Jassen Cullimore, Vincent Damphousse, Dion Darling, Francois Groleau, Craig Rivet, Brian Savage, Scott Thornton, David Wilkie. NEW JERSEY Sergei Brylin, Mike Dunham, Bill Guerin, Bryan Helmer, Randy McKay, Pascal Rheaume, Brian Rolston. NEW YORK ISLANDERS Ken Be-langer, Travis Green, Kenny Jonsson, Scott Lachance, Claude Lapointe, Tommy Salo, Bryan Smolinski.

NEW YORK RANGERS Sylvain Blouin, Alexander Karpovtsev, Alexei Kovalev, Darren Langdon, David Oli-Ver, Mike Peluso, Ryan Vandenbussche. OTTAWA Daniel Alfredsson, Phil Crowe, Justin Hocking, Denny Lambert, Janne Laukkanen, Mike Maneluk, Christer Olsson, Mike Prokopec, Patrick Traverse, Jason York. PHILADELPHIA Brett Bruininks, Craig Darby, Patrik Juhlin, Dan Kordic, Garth Snow, Chris Therien. PHOENIX Kevin Dahl, Scott Levins, Jim McKenzie, Oleg Tverdovsky. PITTSBURGH Josef Beranek, Joe Dziedzic, Patrick Lalime, Ian Mor-an, Petr Nedved, Jason Woolley.

SAN JOSE Jan Caloun, Jeff Frie-sen, Vlastimil Kroupa, Andrei Nazarov, Ville Peltonen, Mike Rathje. TAMPA BAY Chris Gratton, Brantt Myhres, Brent Peterson, Patrick Pou-lin, Jeff Toms, Jason Wiemer, Derek Wilkinson. TORONTO Sergei Berezin, Brandon Convery, Tie Domi, Kelly Fairchild, Mark Kolesar, Matt Martin, Todd Warmer, Brian Wiseman. 1 VANCOUVER Adrian Aucoin, Lonnv Bohonos, Donald Brashear, Doug Strange from Ottawa of the International League. Optioned INF Jose Vidro to Ottawa.

NEW YORK METS Signed LHP lieorrrey uoetz ana ss Marx roctor and assigned them to the Mets of the Gulf Coast League. NEW YORK YANKEES Optioned OF Scott Pose to Columbus of the International League. Activated OF Ber-nie Williams from the 1 5-day disabled list. SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS Op tioned Hnr uan canson to raoenix of the Pacific Coast League. Recalled LHP Doug Creek from Phoenix.

BASKETBALL LOS ANGELES CLIPPERS Waived Terry Dehere and rennounced the riahts to Dwavne Schintzius. NEW YORK KNICKS Signed Pat rick twing to a mumyear contract. PHOENIX SUNS Re-signed C-F Mark Bryant to a two-vear contract. SAN ANTONIO SPURS Re-signed Avery jonnson to a tnree-year contract. TORONTO RAPTORS Re-signed Watt Williams.

WASHINGTON WIZARDS Signed CARDINALS 2, TWINS 1 Minnesota AB Bl Avg. Knoblauch 2b 0 0 0 0 2 .283 Becker cf 5 0 0 0 0 1 .264 Guardado 000000 Kelly rf 4 0 2 0 0 0 .285 Steinbach 4 0 0 0 0 1 .261 Coomer3b 4 0 1 0 0 2' .315 Stahoviak 1b 3 1 1 1 1 1 .292 Cordova If 4 0 1 0 0 1 .252 Meares ss 2 0 0 0 2 1 .285 Tewksbury 200001 .000 a-Jacksonph 0 0 0 0 0 0 .233 Rodriguez 000000 c-Lawton ph-cf 1 0 0 0 0 0 .260 Totals 34 1 5 1 3 10 Cardinals AB Bl Avg. DeShields 2b 4 1 1 0 1 2 .284 Gantlf 3 0 1 0 2 2 .230 Petkovsekp 0 0 0 0 0 0 .111 Lankfordcf 40 1 0 1 0 .326 Gaetti 3b 4 0 1 0 1 0 .260 Mabryrf 3 0 0 0 2 0 .297 Clayton ss 501 000 .258 Difelicec 5 0 2 0 0 1 .228 Young 1b 4 0 1 0 1 0 .288 Al. Benes 3 0 1 0 0 1 .225 b-McGeeph-lf 2 1 1 1 0 0 .301 Totals 37 2 10 1 8 6 Minnesota 010 000 000 0 1 SO Cardinals 100 000 OOP 1 2 10 0 One out when winning run scored. a-sacrificed for Tewksbury in the 7th.

b-grounded out for Al. Benes in the 8th. c-grounded out for Rodriguez in the 1 0th. LOB Minnesota 7, Cardinals 15. 2B Cordova (8), Gant (10), Difelice (6).

HR McGee (3) off Guardado: Stahoviak (5) off Al. Benes. RBIs Stahoviak (16), McGee (20). Jackson. GIDP Gaetti.

Runners left in scoring position Minnesota 3 (Becker, Tewksbury 2); Cardinals 7 (DeShields 2, Lankford 2, Mabry, Clayton 2). Runners moved up Cordova, Lankford, McGee. DP Minnesota 1 (Meares, Knoblauch and Stahoviak). Minnesota IP ER NP ERA Tewksbury 6 8 1 1 3 5 102 3.35 Rodriguez .3 1 0 0 5 1 53 4.66 Guardado Vj 1 1 1 0 0 8 4.43 Cardinals IP ER NP ERA Al. Benes .8 5 1 1 3 10 125 2.55 Petkovsek 2 0 0 0 0 0 16 3.04 Winner Petkovsek (4-4).

Loser Guardado (0-3). IBB off Rodriguez (DeShields) 1, off Rodriguez (Mabry) 1. Umpires Home, Rieker; First, Kellogg; Second, Poncino; Third, Davis. 3:06. A 30,582.

tne contract or unucx uougias, oirec- tor of player personnel, to a two-year contract extension. FOOTBALL BUFFALO BILLS Re-signed LB Mark Maddox. CINCINNATI BENGALS Signed LB Andre Collins to a one-year contract. PITTSBURGH STEELERS Traded RB Erric Pegram to the San Diego Chargers for a 1998 seventh-round AVERAGES BATTING Avg. AB H2B3BHR RBI Lankford .326 224 45 73 19 1 16 53 McGee .301 146 17 44 6 3 3 20 Mabry .297 269 31 80 15 0 5 34 Young 288 198 25 57 10 3 3 23 DeShields .284 285 45 81 16 8 5 28 Gaetti 260 242 27 63 17 0 6 31 Clayton .258 306 43 79 23 2 6 35 Stottlemyr .257 35 4 9 3 0 0 2 'Jordan .254 114 13 29 4 0 0 9 Sheaffer .250 68 6 17 3 0 0 4 Pagnozzi .250 8 1 2 0 0 0 0 Morris 235 34 2 8 1 0 0 3 Gant 230 274 41 63 10 4 12 38 Lampkin .229 153 16 35 5 1 5 15 Difelice .228 114 10 26 6 1 3 13 Al.

Benes .225 40 1 9 2 0 0 3 An. Benes .222 27 3 6 1 0 0 3 tValenzuela .200 20 1 4 0 1 0 2 tLvngstne .176 34 1 6 1 0 0 5 Gallego .171 41 6 7 2 0 0 1 Osborne .167 12 1 2 0 0 0 1 Bell 136 22 0 3 0 0 0 2 Petkovsek .111 9 0 1 0 0 0 0 Mejia 071 14 0 1 1 0 0 2 Beltran .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 'Painter .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Fossas .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Honeyctt .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Eckersley .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Mathews .000 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 Frscatore .000 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 SB DeShields 29, Clayton 19, Lankford 14, Gant 9, Jordan 5, Young 4, McGee 3, Gaetti 2, Lampkin 2. Difelice. PITCHING ERA IP BB SO Fossas 1 1 1.37 26.1 22 10 25 3 3 1.85 34.0 30 12 32 Beltran 0 1 2.08 8.2 8 3 12 Frascatore 3 2 2.31 39.0 42 17 31 Al. Benes ..7 7 2.56 127.0 90 51 136 Morris 6 4 2.74 98.2 97 26 67 Petkovsek 4 4 3.04 53.1 54 17 27 An.

Benes ..6 3 3.10 87.0 78 28 90 Eckersley ..0 2 3.35 25.1 23 1 22 Osborne ..1 2 3.60 35.0 39 11 26 Stottlemyre 7 5 3.96 116.0 99 35 100 tValenzuela 2 10 4.76 81.1 100 37 59 'Painter 0 0 13.50 4.0 6 2 1 Honeycutt 0 0 13.50 2.0 5 1 2 Saves Eckersley 1 8, Petkovsek. 'On disabled list. tlncludes record with San Diego. UPCOMING GAMES JULY 3 Pittsburgh 7:05 p.m. 4 Pittsburgh 2:05 p.m.

5 Pittsburgh 3:05 p.m. 6 Pittsburgh 1:15 p.m. 10 at Chicago Cubs 1:20 p.m. 11 at Chicago Cubs 2:20 p.m. 12 at Chicago Cubs 12:15 p.m.

13 at Chicago Cubs 1:20 p.m. 14 at Cincinnati 6:35 p.m. 15 at Cincinnati 6:35 p.m. 16 San Diego 7:05 p.m. 17 San Diego 7:05 p.m.

18 San Francisco 7:05 p.m. 19 San Francisco 7:05 p.m. 20 San Francisco 1:15 p.m. 21 San Francisco 7:05 p.m. aran cnoice.

HOCKEY BLUES Fired Bob Berry, assistant general manager. BOSTON BRUINS Signed Dave Ellett to a three-year-contract. CAROLINA HURRICANES Named Kroger Senior Classic Site: Mason, Ohio. Schedule: Friday-Sunday. Course: Kings Island, Grizzly Course (6,628 yards, par 71).

Purse: $1 million. Winner's Share: $150,000. Television: ESPN (Friday, 1-3 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday, p.m.). Last year: Japan's Isao Aoki closed with a 5-under 66 for a 5-stroke victory over Rocky Thompson and Mike Hill. Aoki, a five-time senior winner, had a tournament-record 1 5-under 198 total.

Last week: Australia's Graham Marsh won the U.S. Senior Open at Olympia Fields, surviving a final-round 74 for a 1-stroke victory over South Africa's John Bland. Marsh, who won the Nationwide Championship two weeks ago, had an even-par 280 total. Notes: Hale Irwin, a four-time winner this year, leads the money list with $1,115,769. LPGA TOUR Jamie Fair Kroger Classic Site: Sytvania, Ohio.

Schedule: Today-Sunday. Course: Highland Meadows Golf Club (6,319 yards, par 71). Purse: $700,000. Winner's Share: $86,250. Television: The Golf Channel (Today-Friday, p.m.; Saturday-Sunday, p.m.).

Last year: Joan Pitcock won her first tour title, finishing with a 1 -under 70 for a 1-stroke victory over Marianne Morris. Pitcock had a 9-under 204 total. Last week: Michelle McGann won the Shoprite Classic at Somers Point, N.J., closing with a 7-under 64 for a 3-stroke victory over Annika Sorenstam. McGann had a tournament-record 12-under 201 total. Notes: Sorenstam, a four-time winner this year who leads the money list with $781,463, is skipping the tournament to prepare for her title defense in the U.S.

Women's Open. The Swedish star will be seeking a record third consecutive title next week at Cornelius, Ore. PGA EUROPEAN TOUR Irish Open Site: Dublin, Ireland. Schedule: Today-Sunday. Course: Druids Glen Golf Club (7,025 yards, par 71).

Purse: $1.25 million. Winner's Share: $208,000. Television: The Golf Channel (Today-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-noon and 7-10 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. and 7-10 p.m.; Sunday, 8-11 a.m. and 7-10 p.m.).

Last year: Scotland's Colin Montgomerie closed with a 3-under 68 for a 1-stroke victory over countryman Andrew Oldcorn and Australia's Wayne Riley. Montgomerie had a 5-under 279 total. Last week: South Africa's Retief Goosen won the French Open, finishing with a 2-under 70 for a 3-stroke victory over England's Jamie Spence. Goosen had a 1 7-under 271 total. Notes: Nick Faldo is making his second European tour start of the year.

The English star is a three-time champion, winning in 1991 and 1992 at Killarney and 1993 at Mount Juliet. Nike Tour HersheyOpen Site: Hershey, Pa. Course: Country Club of Hershey, East Course. Schedule: Today-Sunday. Purse: $200,000 Winner's Share: $36,000 Notes: Mark Carnevale is the Nike Tour's leading money winner as it makes its first-ever stop in Hershey.

The Nike Tour is in Philadelphia next week before stopping in St. Charles July 17-20. William Hawkins and Susan Schmidt account executives for the marketing department. From page one player first. Gracious, a quality person.

Then you think of the career he's had. Actually, I'm lucky that I played with him. I played with one of the best players in the game." Alan Benes, who pitched brilliantly in a no-decision, has known McGee for only two years but can see what terrific pressure he is under. "The fans make it tough on him," Benes said. "They expect him to go four for four every game he plays or to hit a home run or a double every time he pinch-hits.

"The reason they expect that out of him is that he has shown time and time again he can make the big play." The Cardinals allowed themselves little margin for error in their inter-league dusting of the Twins. They scored just two runs in each game but prevailed by scores of 2-1, 2-0 and 2-1. "We did everything right except step on home plate," Kelly said. McGee ripped his third homer of the season with one out in the 10th off lefthander Guardado as the Cardinals finally scaled the mountain that has been the .500 mark. Their 41st victory in 82 games drew them abreast of that mark for the first time this season and kept them one game ahead of Houston in the National League Central Division.

1 "We got to one level we've been trying to get to since the first week of the season," La Russa said. "The next job is to get over it. But we've got somebody coming to town (Pittsburgh) which has played just as well as we have the last three days. "We are still hot a winning club." It was an excruciating climb to .500 after the Cardinals had dropped their first six games. They were nine games under .500 six weeks ago.

"But this isn't the last time we're going to be excruciated," La Russa said. "We can't stop here," said second baseman Delino DeShields. "We have to go on from here like we're 0-0." Before McGee's heroics, the Cardinals had stranded an unwieldy 15 runners in the first nine innings. The home run "was very much unexpected," McGee said. "That was the farthest thing from my mind.

"I've got to make pitchers get the ball in the strike zone and get the ball up. I'm learning those are the balls you hit hard. Mabry and I are similar. When we swing at strikes, we hit." A star of the Cardinals' past and a DALLAS STARS Signed Ed Bel-four to a three-year contract. NEW YORK ISLANDERS Agreed to Bret Hedican, Alexander Mogilny, Mar-kus Naslund, Leif Rohlin, Mike Sil-linger, Steve Staios.

WASHINGTON Andrew Brunette, Eric Charron, Martin Gendron, Sergei Gonchar, Kevin Kaminski, Stewart Mal- terms with Sergei Nemchmov and Claude Lapointe. Renewed their affiliation with Utah of the IHL. NEW YORK RANGERS Named Don gunas, Andrei Nikolishin, Stefan Ustorf, Scott Walker. Group 3 Maloney assistant general manager and Martin Madden director of The following players have Qualified scoutinq. PHOENIX COYOTES Signed Mike Stapleton to a two-year contract.

SOCCER for Group 3 free agency (age 32 or older with at least four years of NHL experience) and are therefore unrestricted free agents: BLUES Gary Leeman, Craig MacTavish. ANAHEIM Brian Bellows, Jari MLS Suspended Tampa Bay Mutiny Mr Ivan McKiniey tor two games ana fined him $750 for head butting Los Angeles Paul Caligiuri during a game on June zb. Kurri. BOSTON None. BUFFALO Garry Galley, Charlie Huddy, Anatoli Semenov.

CALGARY Dave Gagner, Corey RHI Minen. -CAROLINA None. EASTERN CONFERENCE CHICAGO Denis Savard, Steve HOW THEY SCORED Cardinals' First DeShields, leading off, safe on bunt single to first. Gant doubled to left, DeShields to third. Lankford walked on a full count.

Gaetti grounded into a double play, shortstop Meares to second baseman Knoblauch to first baseman Stahoviak, DeShields scored, Gant to third, Lankford out. ONE RUN. Cardinals led 1-0. Twins' Second: With one out, Stahoviak homered to left on the first pitch. ONE RUN.

Game tied 1-1. Cardinals' Tenth: With one out, McGee homered to center on the first pitch. ONE RUN. Cardinals led 2-1. LOTL Pts GF GA Orlando 10 2 0 20107 81 Smith.

COLORADO None. DALLAS Neal Broten, Mike Lalor, Grant Ledvard. Andv Mooa. Montreal 4 New Jersey 4 Ottawa 4 Buffalo 0 5 1 9 68 70 4 0 8 59 60 3 0 8 60 52 7 0 0 34 65 DETROIT Viacheslav Fetisov, Joe Kocur, Igor Larionov, Mike Ramsey, Tomas Sandstrom. WESTERN CONFERENCE OTL Pts GF GA EDMONTON Bob Essensa, Petr Anaheim Klima, Kevin Lowe.

FLORIDA Mike Hough, Brian 3 0 14 74 56 2 1 13 65 59 4 0 10 71 62 2 2 10 57 53 San Jose 6 Vipers 5 Los Angeles 4 Sacramento 1 Skruaiano. LOS ANGELES None. MONTREAL None. 8 1 3 44 81 NEW JERSEY Bob Carpenter, Dave Ellett NEW YORK ISLANDERS Randy WEDNESDAY'S GAME Los Angeles at Sacramento TUESDAY'S RESULT Orlando 10, New Jersey 6 TODAY'S GAMES Vipers at Los Angeles, 9:35 p.m. Montreal at Buffalo Orlando at Ottawa wooo.

NEW YORK RANGERS Russ Courtnall. Patrick Flatlev. Glenn Healv, Doug Lidster, Mark Messier, Esa i iKKanen. OTTAWA None. PHILADELPHIA Michel Petit.

PHOENIX Brad McCrimmon. ters in 96 innings. Scott Stahoviak tied the game for Minnesota with an opposite-field homer to left-center in the second. The Twins nearly took the lead when Marty Cordova doubled and Tewksbury sent a hard grounder headed to left field. But, shortstop Royce Clayton fielded the ball deep in the hole and threw out the slow-running Tewksbury at first to end the inning.

"That was probably the game," Kelly said. Tewksbury said, "Can you believe it? Hardest ball I've hit in two years." one run and five hits in eight innings, striking out 10. But Benes said, "I never thought for a moment that we were going to lose this game. It was just a matter of time before we scored." Wonder of wonders, Tewksbury walked two St. Louis hitters in the first inning the Cardinals drew eight passes for the night and neither scored.

The Cardinals did get one run, though, on Gary Gaetti's double-play grounder with the bases loaded Tewksbury had passed just 18 hit AREA RESULTS PITTSBURGH Joe Mullen, Craig Muni. SAN JOSE Ed Belfour, Bob Errey, Tim Hunter, Ron Sutter. TAMPA BAY John Cullen, Jay HOLES IN ONE 1 Old Warson: Garth Bayer with a 5-iron on the 182-vard No. 13 hole. Whitmoon Sharon Kilcullin with a 7- HIGH SCHOOL POLL wood on the 125-yard No.

8 hole. star in their future hooked up in this third pitchers' duel in three nights. Tewksbury, who won 17 games for the Cardinals in 1993, held the Cardinals to one run and six hits in six innings. Benes limited the Twins to BLUE RIBBON CLASSIC wens. TORONTO Don Beaupre.

"VANCOUVER Dave Babych, Sergei Nemchmov, Mike Ridley. WASHINGTON Rick Tocchet. i Potential Group 5 The following players have complet ASHLAND. Kv. (AP) Standings Wednesday after the sixth round of the $65,000 LPBT Summer Motion Blue St Peters: Max Mitts with a 9-iron and Robert Spinks with a bitching wedge both on the 12rj-yard No.

5 hole. Country Lake: Al Geriing with an 8-iron on the 1 14-yard No. 2 hole. Spencer T. Olin: Terry Bristow with 6-iron on the 1 82-yard No.

8 hole. Innsbrook: Martin Meyer with a 3-iron on the 207-vard No. 1 7 hole. ed 10 pro seasons or more (NHL or minors, excluding junior hockey), in the 1996-97 season earned less than the Ribbon Classic at the Blue Ribbon Lanes, with hometowns, 32-game match-play records, 48-game pintails totals and earninos. (Tod five advance to stepladder finals) (a-amateur): Lankford Final rankings of St.

Louis area large-school high school baseball teams, as selected for the Post-Dispatch by a panel of coaches: W-L 1. Edwardsville 34-4 2. Francis Howell 22-10 3. Belleville East 24-8 4. Fran.

Howell North 21-5 5. Alton 26-9 6. Belleville West 18-11 7. Parkway North 19-6 8. Fox 18-8 9.

Marquette 17-7 10. Collinsville 22-10 11. (tie) Fallon (21-10), Highland (25-11); 12. Parkway Central (16-8); 13. Parkway West (17-15); 14.

(tie) Patton-ville (16-7), Oakville (17-7); 15. SLUH (14-9). Creve Coeun Denny Reagan with a 5- iron on the 1 56-yard No. 2 hole. Sherwood: Matt Shockley with a 8-iron on tne lao-yara no.

a noie. NiKki uianunas, vauejo. zt-6-0, 11,484. 2, Liz Johnson, Niagara Falls, N.Y., 19-11-2, 11,116. 3, Carolyn Dorin-Ballard, N.

Richland Hills, Texas, 16-16-0, 11,089. 4, Anne Marie Dug-gan, Edmond, 18-13-1, 10,969. 5, Cindy Coburn-Carroll, Tonawanda, N.Y., 18-14-0, 10,966. 6,. Jan Schmidt, Rochelle, 18-13-1, 10,889, $2,200.

NORTHWEST CLASSIC league average salary of approximately $981,000 and received a qualifying offer. These players have the right to elect once in their careers to become unrestricted free agents. Should one of these players not elect to become an unrestricted free agent, since his prior club has tendered him a qualifying offer he shall remain subject to draft choice compensation and right to match as applies to Group 2 free agents. The players listed below have until July 15 to elect Group 5 status: COLORADO Mike Keane (Group 2) (elected Group 5). DALLAS Brent Gilchrist (Group 2) (elected Group 5).

EDMONTON Luke Richardson WIMBLEDON WIMBLEDON (AP) Results Wednesday of the Wimbledon tennis cnampionsnips: Men's Fourth-Round Sinalea AREA RESULTS Kruk's comical at-bat against him a few years ago. Not the biggest follower of baseball when he first arrived in the big leagues, Lankford has much more appreciation of the game now. He's watched chunks of recent All-Star games. And he always watched the game as a Even then, he could detect something truly unique about that game in addition to the talent of the players. "It's some of the best guys in the American-League and National League all together at one time, competing and having fun," Lankford said.

"All the guys who go out there will be having fun. The rest of the time on the field, it's turned into a business. But when guys do something like strike out in the All-Star Game, they'll be able to smile." ago. "I think for every guy who comes to the ballpark and is working at the game day in, day out, this is one of the things you try to accomplish," he said. "What's going to be great is to be in the locker room with a lot of special players.

It'll be a good chance for me to pick the brain of someone like Tony Gwynn and talk to him about hitting." Someone on the NL squad might want to talk to Lankford about hitting. After struggling so often in the past against lefthanders, he's batting .300 with six homers against them this year. If he does have to step into the box against Seattle southpaw Johnson, La Russa said, "he won't bail out on him." Lankford chuckled when thinking about facing Johnson. He saw John Tim Henman (14) det. Richard Krajicek (4) 7-6 (9-7), 6-7 (7-9), 7-6 (7-5), 6-4; Pete Sampras (1 def.

Petr Korda (1 6) (Group 2). o-, o-o, o-r (o-iuj, o-r W), o-. Second-Round Doubles From page one He was back in the lineup April 22 and immediately played as well as he has in his career. Though he's cooled off slightly a .280 batting average in June he still ranks among the league leaders with a .327 batting average and 16 homers, and he's driven in a team-high 53 runs. He can take special satisfaction in being chosen not because of his popularity and ability, as the starters are by the fans, but because of his performance on the field.

Still, Lankford didn't start triinking about whether he'd be invited to join the NL team until a couple of weeks FLORIDA Terry Carkner (Group Jacco Eltingh and Paul Haarhuis (2) def. Marcos Ondruska and Grant 2 PHOENIX Jeff Finley (Group 2), Kris Kina(Grouo2. btanora t-4. 6-3. Third Round BEAVERTON, Ore.

(AP) Standings Wednesday from the third round of the Showboat PBA Northwest Senior Classic at Valley Lanes with eight-game match-play records and 26-game pinfall totals (SS-Super Senior): 1 Earl Anthony, North Plains, 7-1, 6,151. 2, Ron Winger, Tarzana, 4-4, 6,132. 3, Gary Dickinson, Edmond, 5-3, 6,131. 4, Les Shearer, Wilsonville, 6-2, 6,102. 5, Jim Brenner, LeClalre.

Iowa, 6-2, 6,095. 6, Pete Couture, Titusville, 6-2, 5,994. 7, Roger Workman, Kenova, W.Va., 4-4, 5.992. 8, Ernie Schlegel, Vancouver, 6-2, 5,989. 9, John Hande-gard, Las Vegas, 4-4, 5,934.

10, Gene Stus, Allen Park, 6-2, 5,919. 11, Larry Laub, Tucson, 4-3-1 5,880. 12, George Pappas, Charlotte, N.C., TAMPA BAY Bill Houlder (Group Z) i TORONTO Rob Zettter (Group 2) Unrestricted free agents SLABA Varsity Sportsprint 8, Tigers (JV) 2 Junior Varsity Johnny Mac 10, Ellisville Redbirds 3 Under-16 Raiders 10, American National 1 3 Under-15 Ellisville Redbirds 1, Ellisville Blues 0 Johnny Mac 10, American National 1 0 Meramec Valley Cardinals 6, Stars 3 Sportsprint 16, American National 2 6 Under-14 Florissant 5, Stars 4 Meramec Valley Tigers 3, Pirates 2 District 10 Seniors Eureka 9, Brentwood 0 Junior Manchester 6, Brentwood 0 The following players were not ten Jonas Bjorkman and Nicklas Kultj (9) def. Rick Leach and Jonathan Stark (8) 6-2, 3-6, 6-3; Neil Broad and Piet Norval (1 1 det. Ellis Ferreira and Patrick Galbraith (6) 7-6 (7-5), 7-6 (7-4); Donald Johnson and Francisco Montana (12) def.

Stephen Noteboom and Fernon Wibier 6-4, 6-4; Wayne dered a qualifying offer and are therefore unrestricted free agents not subject to right of first refusal and cumptjnsamjii. BLUES Paul Broten, Mike Buzak, Didun wkj Jim uraou oe. Dill Ben-rens and Chris Haaaard 7-5. 6-1 Alexander Vasilevskn. David Williams.

ANAHEIM Ken Baumgartner, Bri Todd Woodbridge and Mark Wood-forde (1) def. Jens Knippschild and Jeff Tarango 7-5, 6-4; Mark Philip- 1 an Corcoran, J.J. Daigneault, Chris Herperger, Valeri Karpov, Adrien uuu5si5 ano raincx naner u) del, Sandon Stolle and Cvril Suk not 6-4 navsic. BOSTON Bob Beers. Todd Elik.

7-6 (7-4); Martin Damm and Pavel Vizner (13) def. Mark Knowles and uaniei Nestor (4), 6-4, 6-4; Jacco El- Sheldon Kennedy, Scott Kirton, Troy Mallette, Kevin Sawyer, Cameron Stewart, Tim Sweeney. BUFFALO Ed Ronan, Paul Rush- er 7). New York 42 (Hampton 9). AssistsHouston 15 (Cooper 6), New York 13 (Weatherspoon 6).

Total fouls Houston 22, New York 19. A 8,792. tinqh and Paul Haarhuis (2) def. Sander Groen and Sasa Hirszon 7-6 forth. Terrv Yake.

WEDNESDAY'S RESULTS New York 70, Houston 67 Utah 73, Sacramento 68 (ot) TUESDAY'S GAMES None scheduled TODAY'S GAMES SI Louis Times Los Angeles at Cleveland, 6 p.m. Phoenix at Utah, 8:30 p.m. FRIDAY'S GAME New York at Houston, 8 p.m. (8-6). 6-4.

Women' Singles Quarterfinals KT.I;MJ1;M.II?M-. WOMEN'S NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE Pet GB New York 5 0 1.000 Houston 4 2 .667 IVi Charlotte 1 3 .250 3 Cleveland 1 3 .250 3'A WESTERN CONFERENCE Pet GB Phoenix 2 2 .500 Los Angeles 2 3 .400 Vi Sacramento 2 3 .400 Vi Utah 2 3 .400 V4 CALGARY Yves Racine. Pavel Torgajev. CAROLINA Mike Harding, Derek King. Brian Mueller.

CHICAGO Denis Chasse, Kip Mil Jana Novotna (3) def. Yayuk Basuki 6-3. 6-3; Anna Koumikova def. Iva Ma-joH (4) 7-6 (7-1), 6-4: Martina Hingis li; uvi. uviiisa ifiiiauftuva o-j, o-i; Arantxa Sanchez Vicario (8) def.

ler, Matt uates, (jaetan Hoyer. COLORADO Craiq Billinqton raamane lauziaio-, r-o. Second-Round Doubles Mike Hartman, Yves Sarault, Steffon Naoko Kijimuta and Nana Miyagi (11) Lobo's Streak Hits 100 With Liberty's Victory By The Associated Press NEW YORK Sophia Witherspoon scored 14 points Wednesday night and the New York Liberty remained the only unbeaten team in the WNBA with a 70-67 victory over the Houston Comets, the 100th straight game Rebecca Lobo has played in without losing. Lobo, who had nine points and five rebounds, has not played on a losing team since March 26, 1994, when Connecticut was beaten by North Carolina in the NCAA Tournament in her junior year. The next season the Huskies went 35-0 in winning the national championship.

Lobo was a member of the U.S. national team that won 52 straight games and then won eight more on the way to the Olympic gold medal in Atlanta. Starzz 73, Monarchs 68: Dena Head hit five free throws in the final 47 seconds of overtime to lift Utah to a victory at Sacramento. Walby. DALLAS Neil Brady, Pat Elynuik, Brent Fedyk, Bill Huard, Arturs Irbe, aer.

Anna ivourniKova ana tiena Ul hovtseva 4-6, 6-2. 7-5. Third Round Mike Kennedy, Jim storm. DETROIT None. Els Callens and Ginger Helqeson Niel EDMONTON Jeff Daw.

Louie De- sen def. Amy Frazier arid Kimberty STARZZ 73, MONARCHS 68 UTAH Palmer 8-19 2-6 18, Carter 2- 4 0-0 4, Baranova 7-15 2-2 17. Head 3- 4 5-6 1 1 Williams 3-9 O-O 6, Reiss 1 -4 0- 0 3, Booker 2-3 1-25, Hardmon 3-9 1-1 7, Hicks 1-4 0-02. Totals 30-71 1 1-17 73. SACRAMENTO Gordon 8-18 2-2 18, Mosley-McAfee 2-6 0-0 4.

McGee 4- 13 0-0 8. Bolton-Holifield 8-22 0-0 20, Tremitiere 3-8 1-2 7, Yasen 1-1 0-0 2, Abraham 3-60-06, Hagiwara 0-11-21, Graves 0-0 0-0 0, Byears 1-1 frO 2. Totals 30-76 4-6 68. Utah 34 30 973 Sacramento 33 31 4 68 3-Point goals Utah 2-6 (Baranova 1- 2, Reiss 1-2, Palmer 0-1, Williams 0-1), Sacramento 4-19 (Bolton-Holifield 4-14, Hagiwara 0-1, Gordon 0-4). Fouled out Bolton-Holifield.

ReboundsUtah 55 (Palmer 11), Sacramento 40 (Mosley-McAfee 9). AssistsUtah 18 (Williams 5), Sacramento 20 (Tremitiere 10). Total fouls Utah 13, Sacramento 17. A ,6,156. brusk, Dominic Fafard, Joaquin Gage, Rvan Haoaertv.

Nick Staiduhar. ro it) i-o o-j; Mary joe rer-nandez and Lisa Raymond (51 def. FLORIDA Gilbert bionne, Jamie FAIRMOUNT INTERTRACK THURSDAY'S SCHEDULE Calder Race Course, post 11:30 a.m. Monmouth Park, post noon Laurel Park, post noon Belmont Park, post noon Arlington Park, post 1 p.m. Foxboro(H)post 1:30 p.m.

Ellis Park, post 3 p.m. Hollywood Park, post 3 p.m. Lone Star Park, post 6:30 p.m. Atlantic City, post 6:30 p.m. Canterbury, post 6:30 p.m.

Meadowlands (H) post 6:30 p.m. Rosecroft (H) post 6:30 p.m. Evangeline Downs, post 6:45 p.m. Prairie Meadows, post 7 p.m. Sportsman's Park (H) post 7:30 p.m.

Cal-Expo (H) post 9 p.m. Los Alamitos (Q) post 9:15 p.m. (H) Harness racing. (Q) Quarter Horse. tr LIBERTY 70, COMETS 67 HOUSTON Thompson 6-10 1-1 1 5, Arcain 4-12 0-0 8, Guyton 3-7 0-0 6, Woosley 3-9 0-0 8.

Cooper 6-12 6-7 19, Jackson 0-1 0-0 0, Perrot 1-1 0-0 3, Harris 1-2 2-4 5, Pollini 1-2 1-2 3. Totals 25-5610-14 67. NEW YORK Lobo 3-11 3-4 9, Johnson 4-141-29, Hampton 2-84-68. Weatherspoon 4-7 4-4 12, Witherspoon 6-9 1-414, Trice 4-4 1-210, Ford 1-5 2-2 4, Blades 0-1 0-0 0, Wicks 1-3 2-2 4. Totals 25-62 18-26 70.

Houston 29 3867 New York 27 4370 3-Point goals Houston 7-16 (Thompson 2-3, Woosley 2-7. Perrot 1-1, Harris 1-1, Cooper 1-3, Arcain 0-1), New York 2-9 (Trice 1-1, Witherspoon 1-3, Johnson 0-1. Weatherspoon 0-1, Blades 0-1, Lobo 0-2). Fouled out None. Rebounds Houston 38 (Coop Linden, Eric Montreuil, Geoff Smith, Rheft Tromblev.

Katrina Adams and Lori McNeil (9) 6-1, 7-6 (7-1); Lindsay Davenport and Jana Novotna (3) def. Alexandra Fu-sai and Rita Grande (13) 6-1, 6-1; Martina Hingis and Arantxa Sanchez By Michael "Roiy" Roxborough BASEBALL Favorite Odds Underdog BREWERS Pikm Twins Orioles 7-8 TIGERS Yankees 5V4-6' BLUE JAYS WHITE SOX 6V4-7'4 RedSOK PHILLIES 6-7 Cubs Braves 6-7 EXPOS METS 5Mi Marlins ASTROS 6-7 Reds CARDS 6Vt-7Va Pirates RANGERS 6-7 Rockies Mariners even-6 PADRES Dodgers even-6 ANGELS GIANTS 7-8. As LOS ANGELES Mark Astley, J.C. Beraeron, Paul DiPietro, Brent Grieve, Vicario (2) det. Chanda Rubin and Brenda Schultz-McCarthy (15) 7-6 Ken McRae.

Kai Nurminen, Barry Po-tomski. Stephane Soulliere. MONTREAL Alan Letang, Pierre o-i (o-oi, m-ii; Lansa and Helena Sukova (4) def. bevtony. NEW JERSEY Shawn Chambers, Nathalie Tauziat and Linda Wild (10) Jeff Reese.

Mark Strobet. Home team CAPS.