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Tucson, Saturday, June 16, 1990 Section Page Five ghf Arizona Baila Star Consistency has been Moore's forte ARIZONA SPORTWATCH A Johnson tied for first "in tourney By Tom Canavan The Associated Press SOMERS POINT, N.J. Chris Johnson birdied three of the five par-3 holes en route to a 3-under-par 67 yesterday and a share of the 0 second-round lead with ShentStein-hauer in the Atlantic City Classic. Johnson, a former UA player who lives In Tucson, has not won an LPGA event since 1987. Steinhauer 111 has not won in four-plus years on the LPGA Tour. Johnson, 32, was steady in her round.

She did not make a bogey in reaching the halfway point at 4-under-par 136. Steinhauer, 27, had six birdies, including five straight early in a round of 2-under-par 68. But she also had four bogeys. Johnson was tied for the lead with Vicki Fergon after two rounds in last year's tournament. Nancy Lopez Jeat them both by a stroke to win.

"Coming back here and having ood memories helps," Johnson rJsaid. "I seem to think well on this course. It suits my game. i Tl i Staff reports The last time Jack Moore raced his Southwest late model car at Tucson Raceway Park, he used a front row starting spot to win his first race at the track In 18 months. That advantage may be gone when he and the other touring SLMRA drivers take to the fairgrounds track tonight at 8.

Moore added another tour win at Canyon Raceway In Phoenix three weeks ago. Coupled with a string of consistent finishes, he has 414 points, good enough for third place in the standings. After qualifications, the top 10 in the standings will be inverted to begin the 30-lap featured race. That means Moore must start behind the seven drivers between him and 10th place in the standings. "We feel we have a good chance," Moore said.

"Every time we've raced in Tucson recently, we've been in the race for first. "We can compete with (Carl) Trimmer, (Marion) Smiley and (Terry) Belcher anywhere," he said. Trimmer leads the point standings with 508. Smiley is second at 486. Rainouts at two California raceways helped Tucson's Erik Gibson retain an 11 -point lead in the Sunbelt Region of the $10 million NASCAR Winston Series.

This is his eighth week atop the standings. He leads Dan Beddingfield of Huntsville, despite a ninth-place finish last Saturday. Both classes, plus the Rear Engine Modifieds, will be competing tonight in a double-feature Father's Day program. The first 500 fathers in the gate will receive free TRP hats. Gates are scheduled to open at 5 p.m.

Admission is $10 for adults and $5 for children 6-12. Children under 6 will be admitted free. Tucsonans win track medals Seventeen members of the Southern Arizona Games will start Friday at 11 p.m., and continue into Saturday morning. The tourney will resume on Saturday at 6 p.m. and continue until Sunday morning.

Deadline for entering is June 27. For more information, call Sportspark at 744-9496. One-day tourney to be held Sportspark will play host to the Second Annual Budweiser Beer-Ball Blast One-Day Softball Tournament on July 4. Men's slow-pitch teams will compete in a double-elimination format using Sportspark beer-ball rules. These rules include an unlimited pitching arc with an extending home plate mat to be used for strikes.

Also, the pitcher can fake his delivery and base runners may take a lead before the pitch. The entry deadline is July 2. For more information, call 744-9496. Basketball leagues are forming The Lakeside Sportsclub is accepting registration for teams in its summer basketball leagues. The club offers leagues Monday through.

Thursday. The team fee is $145. For more information, call 886-2532. Softball team in tourney The Tucson Thunder, an 18-and-under team in the Arizona Youth Softball League, will play in a regional tournament July 28-29 in Reno, Nev. The Thunder will compete against teams from Phoenix, New Mexico and Nevada.

The Thunder won a 10-team state qualifying tournament by beating the Arizona Senior Cats, 6-3, in the championship game. Biehn wins junior championship Jennifer Biehn of Scottsdale shot a 40 on the front nine yesterday en route to winning the Arizona Junior Girls State Championship. Biehn defeated Erin Maney of Mesa, 3 and 2. team won medals at the ARCO Jesse Owens Desert Junior Regional Championships at Sun Angel Stadium in Tempe last weekend. Three of the gold-medal finalists advance to the national championships in Los Angeles In August.

They are: Fawnla Crump of Tucson, who ran the 100 meters in 13.76 seconds; Amanda Fuentes of Tucson, who had a Softball throw of 145 feet, 4 inches; and Alfred Salvicio, who had a softball throw of 278-2 y2 Invitational to be held Sportspark will play host its first League-Team-Only Invitational during the weekend of June 23-24. Participating teams must be active in the current summer season. The events are men's and coed slow pitch softball and men's, women's and coed volleyball. The entry deadline is Wednesday. For more information, call Sportspark at 744-9496.

Volleyball tourney to be held The Sixth Annual Budweiser Firecracker Volleyball Tournament will he June 30 at Sportspark. Competition will consist of two-man doubles. Coed sixes will be played July 4. For registration information call 744-9496. The Arizona Outdoor Volleyball Association will play host to Moonlight Coed Doubles at Sportspark on June 30, starting at 5 p.m.

The deadline to enter the double-elimination tournament is June 29. For more information, call 529-0858. Softball tourney set for Sportspark Sportspark will play host to its Sixth Annual Budweiser Firecracker Softball Tournament during the weekend of June 29-July 1. The double-elimination tournament will offer men's, women's and coed slow-pitch divisions. Chris Johnson Has not won since 1987 Ayako Okamoto was among three players at even-par 140.

First-round leader Liselotte Neumann is five shots back after a 5-over-par 75. Johnson, who started the round 1 -under, birdied three of the first 10 holes. She rolled in a six-footer on the 165-yard second hole, added a five-footer at the 185-yard seventh and used a "Texas wedge" to make a 20-footer from the fringe on No. 10. Eggeling, who hasn't won since 1980, started on the 10th hole and was at 6-under through nine holes.

There, she knocked her drive into the rough, failed to chip out and eventually three-putted for a double bogey 6. Eggeling parred the next six holes but bogeyed the two closing par-5s to finish 2-under. Rittcnhouse, whose best finish this year is a tie for 27th, birdied four of her final 10 holes and trails by two shots. Tucsonan Anne Kelly is at 146 after rounds of 74 and 72. 1 mi a in nut 5umg iu luuaiiuuiy Change the way I play.

I'm just going 4 to go out and try to play my game." Dale Eggeling, who reached 6- tinder midway through the round, faltered down the stretch with a double bogey and two bogeys. She "finished tied with Lenore Rittten-. house, two shots behind the leaders. Eggeling had a 1-over-par 71; Rit- tenhouse a 68. Lopez, seeking her first victory of the year, was three strokes behind leaders, tied with Beth Daniel, a "two-time winner this year.

Former UA players sign with Brewers Open Former UA golfer loses in Scotland DUNBAR, Scotland (AP) Former University of Arizona golfer Martina Koch of West Germany was defeated yesterday by England's Julie Hall, 8 and 7, in the quarterfinals of the British Women's Amateur championships. In today's semifinals, Canada's Terrill Samuel will play Helen Wadsworth of Wales, and Hall will play Aline Van Der Haegen of Belgium. Samuel rallied from three holes down to beat French champion Delphine Bourson, 1-up. By Steve Meissner The Arizona Dally Star Former UA baseball players Todd Edwards and Don Pruitt have signed contracts with the Milwaukee Brewers. They will begin playing next week for the Brewers' Pioneer (Rookie) League team in Helena, Mont.

Pruitt, a right-handed pitcher, was 2-5 with a 5.92 ERA as a senior this year. Edwards, a junior outfielder-first baseman, hit .319 in 69 at-bats and had 11 RBIs. Both reported earlier this week to the Brewers' training complex in Peoria. Both were picked after the 20th round and both said the money they received was less important than the opportunity to play professional ball. "Basically, all I wanted was a chance," said Pruitt.

"The money was kind of secondary." Edwards said he is off to a good start in Peoria, hitting about .357 in 69 at-bats. "I'm glad to be here," he said. "I may never get another chance." Five players with UA connections have signed contracts after being picked in the major-league draft Pitchers Lance Dickson, a first-round pick, and Troy Bradford, selected 23rd overall, signed with the Chicago Cubs organization. They will be teammates in Geneva, N.Y. Outfielder LaRue Baber, who had signed a letter of intent with Arizona, signed with the Brewers.

He also was assigned to Helena. Still negotiating are freshman baseball-basketball recruit Tony Clark, the Detroit Tigers' No. 1 pick, who was second player taken overall; senior pitcher Jason Hisey, a low-round pick by the Chicago White Sox; senior outfielder Steve Gill, a 13th-round pick by the San Diego Padres; and, freshman pitcher Mike Schiefelbein, a second-round pick of the Texas Rangers. moist. There is a 40 percent chance of rain today and tomorrow.

Brooks started with the next-to-last threesome of the day when the course should have been either chewed up or faster after a sunny day. "It stayed soft. If a green was firm in the afternoon, it was probably firm in the morning," said Brooks. Tim Simpson, who hit every fairway and every green during his opening round, found himself in the trees twice and the rough several times yesterday. He saved his round with putts of 40 feet off the front edge of No.

3, 30 feet on No. 6, a downhill 1 5-footer on No. 13 and 18 feet from the fringe on No. 16. "This course is like fighting Mike Tyson.

You get through and you're glad. You don't have the energy to get excited," Simpson said. Nevertheless, the record-low scores are making Chicago-area courses a welcome site for the pros. They also played well at Kemper Lakes in last summer's calm and rain-softened PGA, where the cut also was at 1-over 145. "It will start putting like Medinah and get dangerous," said Nicklaus, who putted like it was already dangerous during his round of 74.

Sixth on the PGA Tour money list, Tim Simpson remains one of the more unsung members. "If I won, it would change my life," he said. "That's something I'm going to try not to think about." Continued from Page 1C ''i Curtis Strange remains back in the pack. He finished his round of 70 swith a 35-foot putt to go 1-under, eight strokes off the lead. I In 1975 at Medinah, leader Tom LWatson was 7-under after 36 holes, and Lou Graham and John Mahaf-fey played off for the title at 3-over.

"Maybe I still have some hope," Strange said. ai- Barely making the cut were Greg "Norman, Jumbo Ozaki, Tom Kite and three former Open winners Jack Nicklaus, David Graham and Andy North. Other former Open i winners besides Strange, Irwin and Scott Simpson to survive the cut were Fuzzy Zoeller and Larry Nelson. Missing the cut were former Open Champions Tom Watson, Raymond Floyd and Hubert Green. PGA champion Payne Stewart shot 73-75 and is gone.

British Open champion Mark Cal-cavecchia also is gone. Sandy Lyle, Fred Couples, Peter Jacobsen, Ben Crenshaw and Western Open champion Wayne Levi also failed to advance. i Simpson is the only player to 'Ml together back-to-back sub-70 scores. "I feel comfortable leading. I'm not scared," said Simpson.

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