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Albuquerque journal 7 MA 2 Section CZECH US OUT Petr Korda, left, and Daniel Vacek acknowledge cheers for their Davis Cup victory over the U.S. ts LOBOS REPORT The UNM baseball and Softball teams were in action, and the football team scrimmaged. 6 Spo .3 ir A ii Scoreboard Baseball NBA Business H4 Air Force Major Is On Team Roy 1st New Mexican To Qualify for Games ins i'. A 1 i) A From Staff and Wire Reports ATLANTA Bill Roy, an Air Force major stationed at Holloman Air Force Base near Alamogordo, on Saturday became the first New Mexico resident to qualify for the 1996 Olympic Games. Roy shattered 95 of a possible 100 clay targets, holding his lead over the field and winning the U.S.

Skeet Shooting Olympic Trials at the Wolf Creek Shooting Complex. He'll lead the three-man U.S. skeet team into the Olympics, which begin July 19. Saturday's trials actually were the completion of an eight-month series of skeet events held to determine the Olympic team. After the first two legs of the competition, the 1995 USA Shooting Championships last OLYMPICS ANDY ROGERSJOURNAL DOM'S DUGOUT: Dom Zarrella hosted the 1995-96 Lobos men's basketball postgame show on KRZY.

He began his radio career In '88 and has been through a number of format changes while working for a variety of stations. Zarrella says listening to the station is like going to a buddy's house. Animals on the Airwaves July-August and the '95 Fall Olympic Shotgun Selection Match in October, Roy had built a nine-target lead. "In skeet shooting, one or two points is generally the margin of victory," Roy, pleased but calm, said Saturday evening from Atlanta. "Five or six would be considered a wide margin.

"So, with a nine-point lead, I was able to focus on what it would take to win an Olympic medal instead of what it would take to just make the team I was able to shoot consistently here and maybe preserve a little bit of energy for later." Roy sustained his lead Friday and Saturday at the trials, finishing with a total of 675 of a possible 700 targets. Todd Graves of Laurel, was second with 666. George Quigley of Cincinnati won a shoot-off to claim the third and final Olympic spot. Roy, 37, is a fighter-pilot instructor at Holloman. He also is director of the Air Force's shooting program.

A native of Versailles, 111., Roy has an undergraduate degree in literature from the Air Force Academy and a master's in English from the University of North Carolina. He's the reigning national skeet champion and set three world records in the 1991 Pan American Games. Sports Talk Radio Discovers A Home on Dial at 1450 AM By Sean McAfee Journal Staff Writer "ot so long ago, KRZY radio (1450 AM) played its last country song and switched to sports talk. In the volatile world of AM of jobless sports junkies. KRZY has carved out a measurable niche in the Albuquerque radio market.

The recipe for success? A New York morning shock jock slightly less offensive than Howard Stern. A Los Angeles daytime sports host with a straight-razor tongue and an ego the size of California. A wide variety of live play-by-play, including major league baseball, pro basketball and pro football. A 20-something programming director radio, where stations seem to switch formats nearly as often as Dennis Rodman changes hair colors and nobody in the business ever is more than a bad ratings book or a slow sales month away from a pink slip, it was neither an unusual nor even a significant move in terms of Albuquerque radio. Not at the time, anyway.

Little more than a vear and a half after with experience and credentials that belie JEFF ALEXANDERJOURNAL the Sports Animal's first programing day his youth. This Time, Dukes Score Early, Often Busch's Grand Slam In First Gets It Going CAPTAIN OF THE SHIP: Andrew Paul took over as KRZY programming director and Immediately made an impact. July 1, 1994 the station's listeners include more than just the usual handful See SPORTS on PAGE H5 Super Year? Well, Not Exactly Reeling Cowboys Try To Mend the Damage By Sean McAfee Journal Staff Writer For a few minutes Saturday night, it looked like the Albuquerque Dukes were headed for a third consecutive caning at the hands of the visiting Tacoma Rainiers. But this time, the Dukes didn't wait until late in the game to get their bats going. Their pitching held up, and Tacoma couldn't maintain the torrid offensive pace it set in the first two Four defensive starters lost to free agency, eroding the last bit of depth on a team that once was two-deep at almost every position.

Two players, Leon Lett and Clayton Holmes, suspended for testing positive for illegal substances. Erik Williams and Cory Fleming were convicted of driving while intoxicated, and Williams was charged with sexual assault on a 17-year-old. It's an outlaw image, and to many Texans the head outlaws are Jones and Switzer. Jones hasn't hidden his own fondness for late nights and living large, and Switzer's tenure at Oklahoma ended when several of See COWBOYS on PAGE H4 By itself, Michael Irvin's indictment on drug possession charges would have been bad enough. But it only capped a series of Cowboys lowlights over the past 18 months: Jerry Jones' war with the NFL over marketing and revenue sharing policies.

It has resulted in suit and countersuit $300 million by the league, $700 million by the Cowboys. A troubled 1995 regular season that included injuries and controversies, some over the coaching. "Bozo the Coach," blared one headline after a loss in Philadelphia for which Barry Switzer was blamed. "I never had a game in which I had fun," quarterback Troy Aikman moaned during the playoffs. Bv Dave Goldberg The Associated Press Amid drug suspensions and drug charges, suits and countersuits, one good thing did happen to the Dallas Cowboys this year.

They won their third Super Bowl in four seasons. It has become an almost forgotten accomplishment during this time of trouble for the franchise that likes to think of itself as "America's Team." THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE LAST STRAW? Michael Irvin's Indictment on drug charges wasn't the Cowboys' only problem In a trying year. games in which the Rainiers hit three home runs in each. Saturday, Mike Busch hit his second career grand slam in the first inning, catcher Ken Hucka-by added a 3-run shot in the third and Juan Castro hit a bases-loaded double in the sixth for insurance. The Dukes piled up 16 hits, and starting pitcher Mike Harkey turned in a solid performance as Albuquerque took a 14-6 win at the Sports Stadium, its first of the sea Sights Set on a Strong Finish I.

Saturday Dukes 14 Rainiers 6 Today Dukes vs. Rainiers, Sports Stadium, 1 p.m., KOB (770 AM) Men, Women Focus On Winning WAC Tourney 7 11 LOBOS GOLF "They're tired, and I'm sick," she says. Meanwhile, Fields was tired tired of not seeing golf receive more attention in the area, in spite of the recent success of former Lobos teams and players. One of those players is four-time letterman Tim Herron (1990-93), who will be strolling the links of Augusta National later this week in the Masters. Herron, a three-time All-America selection, won the Honda Tournament to qualify for the Masters.

He'll be the fourth former Lobo to play in the Masters; the others were Brad Bryant, Curt Byrum and Tommy Armour III. Fields thinks more will qualify in the future. Neither Hindi nor Fields would guarantee a WAC title, but both seem to have their players peaking at See UNM on PAGE H6 By Gary Herron For the Journal University of New Mexico golf coaches Sarah Hindi and John Fields are sick and tired. Both might be feeling better pretty soon, as their teams are poised to win Western Athletic Conference championships in the coming weeks. Hindi's women golfers have won the last three WAC titles.

Fields' men last won in 1993, the only time UNM captured the men's and women's league crowns. Hindi was ill with a cold as the weekend arrived, but she still planned to accompany her team to St. George, Utah, for the Utah Dixie Classic. son. The Dukes can salvage a split of the four-game series with a victory in this afternoon's finale.

"This was a good win," said Dukes manager Phil Regan. "We scored early, and we hadn't done that (in the first two games)." The Rainiers took a lead in the top of the .1 JIM THOMPSON JOURNAL HOW 'BOUT A ROUND: UNM golfers (front row, left to right) Jennifer Kern, Mendy Cooper and Rob McMillan; and (back row, left to right) J.J. McCormick, Ryan Murphy and Mike Sauer. See BUSCH'S on PAGE H3 1.