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(lijr Arizona Batln Star Tucson, Saturday, May 27, 1989 Page Six Section NCAA BASEBALL PLAYOFFS Sooners beat Loyoia Marymount John Douglas, Scott Campbell's double, an error by pitcher Darryl Scott and a groundout. With two outs, Oster lined a pitch to the left of second baseman Kevin Van De Brake, who dived for it. But the ball glanced off the end of his glove and rolled into right field. Darron Cox, who had reached base on the error by Scott, scored to put the Sooners on top, 3-2. "I thought it was in his glove until he fell down, and it rolled into right field," Oster said.

Oster scored on a throwing error by Van De Brake, and the Sooners got one more run on the Lions' sixth error of the game. Van De Brake had four of those. Oklahoma reliever Marvin Cobb, 7-2, pitched to two batters for the victory. Scott, 5-8, was the loser. He' relieved starter Steve Surico, who had a no-hitter through four innings but took himself out of the game with a strained back muscle.

"The nine hole doesn't bother me," Oster said. "At the beginning of the season I wanted to do well so I could move up in the lineup. But I just found a home there." By comparison, the Sooners leadoff hitter, Kevin Castleberry, is batting .333. By Oklahoma standards, that's relatively low. Eight of the nine hitters in the Oklahoma starting lineup yesterday began the game batting above .300.

Oster said it's not an insult to be ninth In the order. "It's real comfortable now," he said. "I batted in the one hole for a while, but Castleberry is a lot better base runner than I am. He's the leadoff man, and I'm the second leadoff man. I don't mind batting ninth." By Jay Gonzales The Arizona Dally Star Oklahoma baseball coach Enos Semore is fully aware that his judgment might be questioned when he hands in his lineup card.

Paul Oster, the Sooners' fourth-leading hitter with a .350 batting average, usually finds himself batting ninth. But from that spot, the senior center fielder had three of Oklahoma's six hits yesterday, including the game-winner as the Sooners rallied for a 5-2 victory over Loyola Marymount in the NCAA West I Regional first round at Frank Sancet Field. The victory snapped an eight-game Oklahoma losing streak in the NCAA playoffs. Oklahoma had been eliminated in two games each of the last three years. The Sooners last won an NCAA playoff game in 1985.

Oklahoma, 44-17, will face Cal State-Long Beach at 7:30 tonight. Loyola Marymount, 37-23, drops into the losers bracket. It will face the loser of the Arizona-Eastern Kentucky game at noon today. "Some people might think it's not very good coaching to have a .350 hitter in the ninth spot," Semore said. "As a leadoff hitter, (Oster) is a little too aggressive.

But with our club and what we try to do, he's ideal for the ninth hole." As an example, Oster was the leadoff hitter in the fifth inning. He singled. But he was thrown out trying to take third base on a passed ball. Oster came up in the eighth inning after the Sooners had erased a 2-0 deficit during the inning on a walk to 1 i Holding aces works for Cal Southwest meet draws record field 260 participants include 104 state champions A record number of entrants 260 high school boys and girls from seven states will compete in tonight's 14th Annual Great Southwest Track and Field Classic at ASU's Sun Angel Stadium. The previous record was 225 participants in 1986.

Among the entrants are 104 state champions and 53 state runners-up. Athletes from Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas are scheduled to compete. The meet begins at 5:15 p.m. with the field events. The first running event is at 7.

Casa Grande's Gabe Beechum, who set an Arizona state record this season in the high jump with a mark of 7 feet, 2 inches, will compete. According to the Track and Field News, Beechum's jump is the second-best in the nation. Darrin Plab, of Mascoutah, 111., has gone 7-2 y2. Ted Williams of Glendale Cactus will also compete in the high jump. He has gone 6-1 iy2.

Jayson Lavender, of Wichita Falls, Texas, who jumped 17-3V4 in the pole vault this year, is entered. He has the third-best mark in the nation. Trina Edmonds, the defending champion in the girls 800, returns. The senior from Aurora Central, has run 2:1 1 .00 this season, the second-best time in the nation. Sunnyside's Mark Tobias is among the the AAA-South entries.

Tobias will compete in the long jump and triple jump. His mark of 45-3 in the triple jump is the best in Arizona. Earl Montgomery, of Sparks, is a favorite to win the event. He has jumped 49-0, which is eighth-best in the nation. Rincon's Nancy George will compete in the 1,500 and 3,200 George won state titles in the 800, 1,600, and 3,200 earlier this month.

George ran the 3,200 in 11:28.05. Kristie Brown, of Provo, Utah, is entered. She has the fourth-best time in the nation Among the other AAA-South athletes competing are Santa Rita's Sharon Woods in the girls 100, Cholla's Tami Ards and Santa Rita's Dawn Mortensen in the girls 400, and Cholla's Amber Saarinen in the girls 800. I i I The Associated Press Pained driver Scotsman Jim Crawford is one of Indy drivers whose injuries make 200 laps a painful experience. INDY 500 FACTS Indy By Jay Gonzales The Arizona Daily Star The temptation to show his aces never materialized, Cal State-Long Beach Coach Dave Snow said yesterday.

Snow chose to go with spot starter Eddie Lopez in the 49ers' first-round NCAA playoff game, leaving his regular three-man pitching rotation on the bench for future consideration in the double-elimination West I Regional at Frank Sancet Field. The maneuver worked as the 49ers took a 14-7 victory over Hawaii. But it didn't come without anxious moments. The 49ers spotted Hawaii three runs in the top of the first inning. Lopez walked four and hit a batter, and reliever Robby Corsaro walked one.

But the 49ers rallied with the help of nine walks from five Hawaii pitchers, who hit three batters. The 49ers, 47-13, advance in the winners bracket to face Oklahoma tonight at 7:30. Hawaii, 40-26, plays Arizona at 4:30 p.m. "We were disappointed in those two kids because because they're a lot better than that," Snow said of his first two pitchers, who combined to walk seven batters in less than three innings. "But we felt confident.

We came right in and went to business on offense. We had the whole game in front of us." The same wildness that struck the 49ers' pitchers hit the Rainbows' staff as the two teams combined to walk 17 batters and hit four. Hawaii starter Rocky Ynclan. 7-3, walked four and hit a batter in two innings. Cal State-Long Beach erased the three-run deficit in the bottom of the first inning on a hit batter, a walk, two singles and Perry Sanchez' two-run triple to go ahead, 4-3.

The 49ers also benefited from three walks and a hit batter to score five runs in the third inning and build an 11-5 lead. Cal State-Long Beach had one hit in the inning. Hawaii Coach Les Murakami said the walks made It doubly difficult to swallow the loss. "Without a doubt, that's why we kept changing pitchers," he said. "Rocky disappointed me.

That didn't even look like Rocky." The 49ers restored order in the third inning when Snow called on Andrew Croghan, 11-0, who pitched four shutout innings and walked one in earning the victory. "This is my favorite place to throw," said Croghan, who pitched four innings in relief here when the 49ers swept a two-game series from Arizona earlier this season. It was 6-5 when Croghan entered the game. Greg Hayes relieved in the eighth inning and allowed the Rainbows' last two runs. When: Tomorrow, 9 a.m., Tucson time TV: Channel 9, 8 a.m., Tucson time Top qualifier: Rick Mears Defending champion: Rick Mears Continued from Page ID staying in the game he once put non-skid pads all over his car so he could wriggle out of the cockpit in the 30 seconds required by U.S.

Auto Club rules. Never mind that he drove every race one-handed during the decade or so following a 1974 crash. "And all the medical experts said he'd never be able to do anything with the (left) arm again," recalled Mark Stainbrook, who became Bet-tenhausen's chief mechanic shortly after the crash and has been with him since. "He's got at least 30 percent use of the arm now, and it's getting stronger all the time." Jim Crawford will need a cane for the short walk across the pit to his car, the result of a 1987 meeting with the wall that left him staring down at his feet and both ankles, twisted grotesquely, staring back. "I had to turn away," he said.

"But now I can jam the throttle down all the way with the right one, and that's about all it takes," said Crawford, a Scotsman. "That, and a brain that still works every once in a while." Hansen Danny Sullivan was the most recent member ushered into the fraternity. A May 11 crash here will force him to drive today with a steel plate and seven screws inside his right arm. On the outside is a space-age, Kevlar cast. Because there is only one direction to turn in left and the only time the clutch gets used is entering and leaving the pits, drivers often can operate an Indy car when they can't take the family car down the expressway for a Sunday drive.

"Once you've got them trussed up and the cars adapted to their limitations, the only real question becomes the pain threshhold," Dr. Terry Trammell said. "And I can tell you from dealing with these guys first-hand that they'll routinely overlook stuff that would send the rest of us home to collect Social Security checks." Continued from Page ID That is, in the whole history of college baseball, only seven men have won more games in a season than Erickson has won this spring. Don't be deceived by the number of runs EKU scored against Erickson. Five Wildcat errors were more responsible than any pitch from Erick the Great.

Erickson did not give up an earned run after the first inning and, as is his style, he was at his best in the clutch. Giving a how-to clinic of pitching out of jams, Erick fB ti r1 ITiirri day, the most sensible prediction may be this: Cal State-Long Beach is going to be a nasty opponent for anyone. Beating Eastern Kentucky is one thing. Finding someone, anyone, to beat the 49ers not once, but twice, may be the weekend's most demanding assignment. CSLB Coach Dave Snow has more in the bank than any of the other contenders.

He did not use his best pitcher perhaps the best pitcher in the West 14-2 Kyle Abbott, and is not saying when he will. "We might save him until Sunday, sure," said Snow. It goes unspoken that the 49ers have an edge over the field, even Arizona's home-field edge, because Abbott seems to be the equivalent of sudden victory. Snow knows precisely what Arizona's advantage is Sancet Field. The Wildcats, for example, are 27-7 here and 13-7 on the road.

They are batting .328 here and .286 on the road. Runs? Arizona gets 9.1 per game here and 6.8 on the road. The crowd, 6,134 last night, Arizona's largest home crowd in eight years, is the UA's best ally. "This is why Arizona got the regional," Snow said after his club had dispatched Hawaii, 14-7. "They'll be tough here." Arizona catcher Alan Zinter, for example, "is tough here." He batted .237 in Arizona's last 10 games, nine of them on the road.

But he reached base three times and had two RBI in friendlier confines. Zinter bats .452 at Sancet Field, almost .200 points better than he does on the road. It is a good omen, perhaps the best omen, for the Wildcats, who must know that now it gets tougher by the day. Star sports columnist Greg Hansen's commentaries can heard Monday through Friday at 7:50 a.m. and 5:20 p.m.

on KA1R (1490-AM). HE son got double-play grounders to end the fourth and fifth innings, and in the eighth, after two EKU singles in an 8-6 game, Erickson struck got two strikeouts and a grounder. It is difficult to get a fix on what Arizona's brush with a mini-disaster means. Could it be that the UA isn't that good, and that it is ready to be had in its own regional? Or could it be that the Wildcats were resourceful enough to win on a night that the opposition was better than expected? There is no way to explain a school record-tying four errors from UA second baseman J.J. Northam.

I mean, in Arizona's first 59 games this year, J.J. had committed all of six errors. One every 10 games. Last night he was almost an error-an-inning man. But the Wildcats survived and, perhaps, it is a testament to their ability to win when not at their best.

At this stage of the season, one cannot expect to out-hit his mistakes. Devereaux, who had four hits, three of them doubles, can't keep up that pace all weekend. But of all the developments at Sancet Field yester nirrrr itr mmr rum irit i mm iItii mm ifvmmi mm urn mwi 3 Wildcats bLil'iVJiIl'brflTil mm T1 7flW III single to right field. Zinter loaded the bases with a walk and Snow hit a sacrifice fly to center field for a 6-5 lead. Ward went to the bullpen again for reliever Robert Teague, and the Wildcats greeted him by running a squeeze play.

With Devereaux on the run from third, Fowble bunted down the third-base line and beat Schoen's throw to first base while the run scored. a pitch to load the bases. Brad Welker relieved White, and Northam grounded sharply to Schoen at third base. He couldn't handle it, and was charged with an error as Zinter scored the tying run. The Wildcats pushed two more runs across in the sixth for their first lead.

Long started the inning with a double and went to third on De-vereaux's third hit of the game, a BUDGET CAR SALES Continued from Page ID against Custer with his second double of the night and Zinter sent him home with a single to right field. Zinter stole second, and with two outs, went to third when shortstop Siemer booted Hoffman's ground ball. Brian Eldridge was then hit by 1 1 Memorial Just arriving, 10 special purchase 1989 Dodge Caravans and Plymouth Voyagers. Hurry in for early selection! ASU advances on a 154 rout of Penn Budget sells rental fleet cars and other splppt nre-nuneri WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) Tommy Adams had a double and a three-run homer to lead Arizona State to a 15-4 win over Penn yesterday in the NCAA Northeast Regional baseball tournament.

Kevin Higgins and Anthony Mana- han each had three singles and two runs batted in. Earlier in the day, Illinois defeated LeMoyne, 7-0, and top-seeded Arkansas eliminated George Washington from the tournament, 8-2. Arizona State's win made it the only undefeated team in the double-elimination tournament, with a 2-0 record. Arizona State scored four runs each inning in the second, sixth and ninth innings. On all our 1988 and 1989 vehicles, vehicles.

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