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2B Local sports Sunday. May 22, 1988 Reno Gazette-Journal Bell wins Carson Open by 3 strokes Gould earns a victory at the right time He birdied holes No. 5 and 8 to stay a stroke ahead of Logan, who was playing three groups ahead. Bell, however, put the tournament away with birdies at Nos. 15 and 16.

He made a short putt for birdie on the par-5, 559-yard 15th and followed it up by making a 5-foot putt for birdie on the par-4, 342-yard No. 16. Tom Silva of Santa Clara, finished third with a 7-under-par 209, four shots back of Bell. First-round leader J.B. Sneve of Albuquerque, N.M., led a group of three golfers including Don Levin and Doug Den-akey at 210.

Kirk Triplett of Reno, who won the Carson City Open in 1987, was the highest finisher among local players. Triplett shot a 1-over 73 on Saturday and finished the By Larry BadenGnjoumai CARSON CITY Second round leader Brad Bell bogeyed the first hole of Saturday's final round of the Carson City Open at Eagle Valley's west course, but he didn't bogey another hole the rest of the way to win the $51,000 tournament. Bell, a former golfer at UCLA, entered the final round of the hole tournament with a two-stroke lead over a group of four golfers. Dudley Logan started Saturday's play four shots back of Bell. Logan, though, died within a shot of the lead with four es to play.

Bell, from Sacramento, held onto his lead with birdies on the 15th and 16th holes. In all. Bell birdied four holes Saturday A HARD LEFT: Allen Conrad of San U.S. boxing From page 1B vier that the Soviets can muster? Indirectly, veteran Soviet coach Artem Lavrov provided the answer when he was asked how many of the nine men who boxed Saturday will box in the Seoul Olympics. "One, two of the Soviets will be at the Olympics," Lavrov said.

He would not specify who he expected would make it to Seoul. Ramirez insisted the boxers that the Soviets left home including former world champion Alexander Yagubkin weren't any better than the boxers who made the trip. "They have a great team," Ramirez said. "They didn't travel halfway across the world with a mediocre team." For 156-pounder Frank Liles of Syracuse, N.Y., who began the show with a 4-1 decision over Evgeni Zaitsev, it was a special victory for U.S. boxers who he said are told not to worry about the team score against the Soviets or powerful Cubans.

"I'm glad I was part of the team and contributed to the win," Liles said. "I'm tournament with a 213. eight strokes behind Bell. Triplett earned $900. Bell's victory at Carson City qualifies him for the tour's Tournament of Champions, which will be played Sept.

27 in Reno. Bell also is eligible for a $3,000 bonus, which would go to any golfer who could win the Carson City Open and the Sierra Nevada Open, the next stop on the Golden State Players Tour. The ninth Sierra Nevada Open will be held from Wednesday through Friday at the Incline Village Championship Course. A field of 168 golfers is expected for the Sierra Nevada Open. A pro-am event will be played Tuesday in conjunction with the seventh tour event of the year.

Tom SpitzGazette-Journal during their 165-pound class bout. into the second round of their 178-pound bout. Kobozev entertained the partisan crowd with Sugar Ray Leonard-type! bolo punches. Kobozev's big windup on his right hands puzzled Pemberton. When reporters quizzed Lavrov about Kobozev, he said, "We've got three or four light heavyweights like him." But then he said the others might not be as entertaining.

"Different styles, same level," the coach said with a smile. In Liles' fight, he knocked the Soviet down with a right hook in the first round and put on enough pressure. The Soviet also was handed a standing eight in the first. Liles tired in the final two rounds, but still won convincingly. In Parker's fight, the Richmond, boxer came back from March surgery on his right shoulder to take the 5-0 decision over Andrei Karavaev at 178 pounds.

The Soviet knocked down Parker with a right hand in the second round, but Parker came back strong in the third. Parker's charge was aided by referee Dusenberry, who deducted two points from the Soviet in the third round for holding. Tom SpitzGazette-Journal Charlie Montoya puts on a late tag. game with a home run to left. "The light air popped the ball out of the park," Mcintosh said.

"Back at our park, that ball would have stayed in the park." The Ports scored four more runs in the eighth, all unearned. It was only fitting that the Ports turned a nifty double play to end the game, just a last-minute reminder of what execution does for a club. Brian Stone, 3-1, got the victory, and Fleming earned his sixth save. Strong, fell to 1-6. SILVER SOX NOTES-John Savage (1-5, 7.18 ERA) will pitch for the Silver Sox today at 1:30 p.m.

Jaime Navarro (5-0, 2.48 ERA), who has 38 strikeouts in 36 innings, will pitch for Stockton Ferreti's week-long hitting streak has raised his batting average from .076 to .366. Ted Milner also has a seven-game hitting streak. a hard left from Soviet Andrei Kurniavka what he does," Ramirez said. Joining Liles, Parker and Gould with victories were 178-pounder Alfred Cole of Fort Hood, Texas, and 201-pounder Charlton Hollis of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. In the 165-pound division, Soviet Andrei Kurniavka scored a 5-0 decision over Allen Conrad of San Diego, Calif.

Hollis felt the agony of victory in his bout with the Soviets' Evgeni Sudakov that gave the Americans their dual-winning fifth victory. Hollis won on a second-round disqualification after Sudakov connected with an apparent low blow. Referee Marco Sarfaraz of Playa del Rey, ruled Hollis couldn't continue. Lavrov was critical of the referee and said Hollis could have continued. "It's possible it was a low blow, but the American boxer made the show (with theatrics)," Lavrov said.

Ramirez said Hollis' pain was genuine and there was no question the boxer couldn't continue, and Ramirez allowed that if the fight had gone the full three rounds, Hollis could have lost. The most impressive winner on the card was the Soviet Union's Sergei Kobozev, who stopped Joseph Pember-ton of Camp Lejeune, N.C., 40 seconds to shoot a S-under-par 69. Bell's 54 hole total was an 11-under-par 205, three shots better than second-place Logan. The victory earned Bell $8,000 and moved him into second place in earnings on this year's Golden State Players Tour. Through six events of the 14-tour-nament tour, Bell has won $13,970.

John McComish, the tour's leading money winner, finished tied for 19th at Carson City with a three-round total of 215. After shooting an opening-round 72 oh Thursday, Bell took control of the tournament with an 8-under 64 during Friday's second round. Bell bogeyed the 395-yard first hole Saturday, but played solid golf the rest of the way. Diego, gets his head snapped back glad we did it as a team tonight." Lavrov wouldn't venture a guess on the number of Americans who will make it to Seoul, but Ramirez wasn't as shy. He said four and named them super heavyweight Robert Salters, light heavyweight Bomani Parker, the light middleweight Liles and welterweight Kenneth Gould.

Gould, of Rockford, 111., who won the 147-pound title in the 1986 World Amateur Championships at Reno, finished strongly in the third round for a 4-1 decision over Alexander Ostrovsky. All but the 6-foot-4 Salters, who weighed 340 pounds a year ago but is now down to a more svelte 245 pounds, won their bouts. Salters, of Fort Bragg, N.C., lost a 4-1 decision to veteran Via-cheslav Yakolev in the card's final bout. "I thought Salters won the bout, although they didn't have it that way," Ramirez said. The bout was the 25-year-old Salters' first international bout, but he fought aggressively against the Soviet and handed him a second-round standing eight count after unloading with a right.

Ramirez said there's no mistaking Salters' ring desire. "You know he has to be hungry in SAFE ON A STEAL: Reno's Mike Garner run of the game unearned. The Silver Sox scored two runs in the second inning. Jim Pace walked, and Jamie Allison hit a blooper to left. Pace rounded second and went to third.

Joe Ortiz lifted a sacrifice fly, scoring Pace with Allison holding at first. Allison advanced to second on a balk and scored on Sam Ferreti's single. Fer-reti has hit in seven straight games. The Ports tied the game in the third with another unearned run. Reno's defensive shortcomings were not carrying over to the plate.

Whitfield, playing in his second game since being signed as a free agent, hit a two-run homer to left field in the third inning. "I was looking for the breaking pitch," Whitfield said, "but I managed to react to the fastball. It felt great. If I can get in AM X. by STATELINE -For one so young, barely 21 years old, he was carrying a back-breaking load of psychological baggage into the ring as he faced a man who has a good shot at Olympic gold in Seoul.

Kenneth Gould, the kid from Rockford, 111., reached the top of amateur boxing's mountain when he won a world championship at 147 pounds at the tender age of 19. But in the two years since he won that title in Reno and his bout Saturday on the USA-USSR Heavyweight Invitational card at Harrah's Lake Tahoe, he hadn't come close to the mountain again. He has gone from one death valley to another only to find another decision he couldn't understand. "I'm not popular," Gould says. "Everybody converses, 'He doesn't have any They amateur boxing's organizations, judges, referees and media like him personally, he says.

But they don't like him when they hear the pitter-patter of his light punches. "They downgrade me. I just overlook it," he says. Gould won Saturday's bout by fighting like a mugger rather than with the stick-and-move tactics that gave him a decision victory over Cuba's Candelario Duvergel and the world championship in May 1986. "The last round wasn't much, but I thought back to the world championship," Gould says.

It wasn't the same tactics. It was the state of mind that he resurrected. "Write this down, it (the performance) wasn't much to me." But Gould says the victory came at the right time for him as he battles to get to Seoul for the Olympics. "I'm on the right foot," Gould says. "I'm on the road again." He had lost his last five bouts against Soviet and Cuban boxers until he took a 4-1 decision over Alexander Ostrovsky.

When last they met at Orlando, in 1987, Ostrovsky stopped Gould in the third round. Ostrovsky, who carried the Hammer and Sickle flag to lead his teammates into the ring at the start of the card, was the heart and soul of this Soviet team. Gould was the guy with distant glories, and only a No. 5 ranking in the current USA Amateur Boxing Federation rankings for 147 pounds. The last time Gould met a Soviet, the American dropped a decision to Vladimir Ereschenko in March.

There was much to think about for Gould for two rounds Saturday. His father and coach, Nathaniel Gould, says those thinp preyed on the boxer's mind again. "If he lets that get in his mind every time he gets into the ring, he's going to be tentative like he was tonight (for two rounds)," the coach says. "He was fighting the last fight against the Russian (Ereschenko). He was fighting the Cuban (Juan Lemus) in the (1987) Pan American Games," the coach says.

The boxer also hadn't forgotten the disqualification loss to Tony Robinson in this year's U.S. Amateur Championships. Officials saw a Gould low blow. The boxer saw what he thought was an exceptional acting performance by Robinson. There had been so much to think about, but for three minutes the boxer had thoughts only of beating the Soviet.

"I think he's got his confidence back," the coach says. "We'll do it again. He'll be on the Olympic team." The boxer hasn't qualified for the U.S. Olympic Trials in Concord, but he is confident he will. Amateur boxing insiders say he'll receive an at-large berth before June 1.

the boxer oozed with confidence after Saturday's victory. The smile and the words brought him back to what he was in May 1986 in Reno. "I'm going to look forward to competing against him (Ostrovsky) in Seoul if he's on the team." Gould was still in the valley Saturday, but from where he was standing he could see amateur boxing's highest mountain. "I've got my dream of Olympic gold." Lassen is knocked from Region play SACRAMENTO The Lassen College baseball team ended its season with a 6-1 loss to American River College Saturday in the California Community College Northern Region Championships. It was the second loss for Lassen, 29-1S, in the double-elimination tournament.

American River starting pitcher Bob McElderry and reliever Matt Moore scattered eight hits, all singles. Lassen stranded 12 runners. American River scored four runs in the top of the seventh inning to lead 5-0. Lassen scored its run in the eighth inning when Randy Ridgway reached base on an error with the bases loaded and on out. STEVE SNEDDON Errors, walks costly to Silver Sox in 1 2-4 loss By John EvanGazette-Journal A baseball adage says good pitching and good defense win games.

So it makes sense that the Reno Silver Sox lost, 12-4, to the Stockton Ports Saturday at Moana Stadium. Four Reno errors and six Silver Sox walks led to 11 of the 12 Stockton runs. "We didn't make the plays we needed to make," Sox pitching coach Alan Fowlkes said. "We usually manage to do something to lose." Fowlkes isn't kidding. The Silver Sox are 12-32 this season.

Stockton, 32-10, usually manages to do something to win. The Ports committed no errors Saturday. They walked six batters but got away with it. "We're getting good pitching and good defense," Ports manager Dave Huppert said. "We worked on fundamentals in spring training, and it has carried over into the season." In defense of Huppert's case for pitching and defense: With the bases loaded in the seventh inning of an 8-4 game, Reno's Ken Whitfield, always a long-ball threat, represented the tying run at the plate.

Stockton reliever Keith Fleming came into the game and promptly threw strikes. "I was looking to get a ground ball preferably something back to the mound, because that's the easiest way to turn a double play," Fleming said. Presto! Whitfield rapped one back to the mound. Fleming gloved the ball and threw to the plate for one out. The relay to first brought an inning-ending double play.

"I got overanxious," Whitfield said. "I wanted to come in and help the team with the big hit." Reno wasted no time in giving the Ports the advantage. On the first pitch of the game, Bill Spiers hit a grounder to third baseman Cary Grubb. Grubb threw wildly, and Spiers motored to second on the error. Charlie Montoya followed with a single, scoring Spiers.

Just like tht, the Ports had the first is safe at second on a steal as Stockton's the groove, I can help this team out." Now, the Sox's pitching would partici- Eate in Reno's downfall. The culprit: ases on balls. Starting pitcher Joe Strong walked Charlie Montoya leading off the fifth inning. After one out, Strong threw four wide ones to Tim Mcintosh. Sandy Guerrero singled, scoring Montoya.

Snon Ashley doubled, scoring Mcintosh and Guerrero to give the Ports led 5-4. Three more runs scored in the Ports' sixth. Again, Strong walked the leadoff batter, John Jaha. After Strong recorded his fifth and sixth strikeouts of the game, Ferreti made a high throw on a grounder to short for another error. Jaha, who had stolen second and third, scored.

Mcintosh knocked Strong out of the.