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TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1990 C3 LOS ANGELES TIMES Titans Eliminated After Taking Early Lead Ron Darling Randy Johnson ALLAN MALAMUD Kraft replaced Gettys Glaze, who started the game at catcher, and walked Borgogno intentionally, struck out Matt Hattabaugh and got Charles to hit into a force play. Jenkins, who had three hits and scored three runs, started the Bulldogs' winning rally in the 12th by singling and advancing to second on a one-out wild pitch. Billy Baker, who had two hits and two RBIs, was walked intentionally but Skole lined a single to give The Citadel an 8-7 lead. Manley, a lOth-inning replacement for Fullerton, started the 12th with a bunt single but was forced at second on Mota's attempted sacrifice. But Mota took second when Coker, who moved from first to shortstop in the seventh, threw the relay past first.

Mota took third on Nevin's groundout but was stranded when Borgogno struck out. Rich Gonzales, Fullerton's left fielder who suffered a sprained neck when he ran into the outfield fence in the loss to Oklahoma State, did not play. Oklahoma State 7, Louisiana State 1 Freshman right-hander Brad Gore allowed only two hits in 7V6 innings and struck out six to lead the Cowboys past the Tigers in a winners bracket game. Michael Daniel had two hits, including a three-run homer in the seventh, and Neil Szeryk and Bobby Carlsen each had two hits for Oklahoma State (55-16). Lyle Mouton homered for LSU (53-18).

to win the game, it wasn't funny," said Coach Larry Cochell of Fullerton, which lost to Oklahoma State, 14-4, in its series opener. "We just didn't get the job done." Bulldog shortstop Phillip Tobin was out with a dislocated shoulder and his replacement, Scott Elving-ton, made two errors, one in the third that paved the way for two Fullerton runs. The Bulldogs (46-13) made two more errors in the sixth, including second baseman Dan McDonnell's overthrow of first that allowed Kevin Farlow to score and give the Titans a 4-1 lead. After The Citadel scored two runs in the seventh and three in the eighth to take a 6-4 lead, the Bulldogs gave Fullerton two more runs in the eighth. With Paul Bunch on third and Dave Ayala on first, Ayala broke for second.

Catcher Larry Hutto threw to second, but McDonnell forgot to cover the bag. The throw went into center field, allowing Bunch to score and Ayala to take third. Domingo Mota singled Ayala home to tie the score, 6-6. The Citadel went ahead, 7-6, on Tony Skole's RBI single to right field, but the Titans came back in the bottom of the 10th to tie it. Farlow, who had three hits, led off with a single, took second on Tom Manley's sacrifice and reached third on Mota's infield hit.

Phil Nevin singled to score Far-low. Mota reached third ahead of Anthony Jenkins' throw, and Nevin took second on the play. third base. When Borgogno was called out on strikes to end the game, it brought an end to 3Vz hours of frustration for the Titans. The Bulldogs of Charleston, S.C., it seemed, did everything they could to give Fullerton the game.

They committed seven errors to help Fullerton score three unearned runs. But the Titans, who had 15 hits, failed to capitalize on many other opportunities and left 13 men on base. "It's better to be lucky than good," The Citadel Coach Chal Port said. "That was true in this game." After scoring twice in the third, the Titans had runners on first and second with one out and couldn't score again. They had runners on first and second with none out in the fifth and didn't score.

They had runners on first and second with one out in the ninth and failed to score. After scoring once to tie the game, 7-7, in the bottom of the 10th, Fullerton couldn't score after loading the bases with one out. Fullerton, which committed one error in four regional games, made a seventh-inning error that led to a run for The Citadel. And the Titans' pitching broke down in the late innings, as starter Huck Fle-ner and reliever Chris Robinson combined to allow seven runs in the last'six innings, and Fullerton blew a 4-1 lead. "We had so many opportunities College World Series: Fullerton doesn't take advantage of its chances and loses to The Citadel, 8-7, in 12 innings.

By MIKE DiGIOVANNA TIMES STAFF WRITER OMAHA The Cal State Fuller-ton baseball team that swept through the NCAA Central regional at Austin, must have missed a connecting flight to Omaha. The Titans were in Rosenblatt Stadium and on ESPN Monday, but they didn't appear to be the same team. The Fullerton team that lost to The Citadel, 8-7, in 12 innings and made a quick exit from the College World Series bore little resemblance to the team that beat Texas twice on the Long-horns' field to earn the trip to Omaha. Gone was the consistent, effective pitching, the clutch hitting, the solid defense and the killer instinct that helped the Titans get ahead of their regional opponents and stay ahead of them. Fullerton (36-23) spent much of Monday afternoon watching ing opportunities pass them by, and the game and season ended with Mate Borgogno, the team's leader in runs batted in, watching three consecutive fastballs from Hank Kraft hit the outside corner with the potential tying run on BASEBALL AMATEUR DRAFT brother! Dodgers Pick a Pitcher for Fourth Year in Row rUI-flMBLE I Yr'CVVrll I Cri vaive tuui vaiciu vain To Write Home About! Ult-Otl Correction Word OutUne Out Dalsywheei Printer Auto Centering Carrying Handle And SnapOn Ud Special! UA Groups 2 STOCK THE BOX! wrm us for MODELS! Immitrlce '399 Automatic Speed Dialing 90-Day Warranty lap- Notes on a Every once in a while well, really, too often we are reminded that the most dangerous job in sports belongs to the jockey.

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He came out of the fourth race with only two broken legs and a broken forearm. A horse in front of him fell, he went down, and then he was trampled by a horse coming from behind. The spill could have cost him his life or most of his body functions. McCarron should be back riding well before next summer's Hollywood Park meeting. By then, track publicist Jack Disney will have enlarged his biography in the media guide.

Another couple of sentences under the "major injuries" section that is included in nearly every jockey bio. Manager Tom Lasorda's new salary reportedly $557,500 a year is lower than that of 12 players on the current 25 -man Dodger roster. Despite reports to the contrary, 6-foot-10 Randy (No Hit) Johnson never played intercollegiate basketball at USC. Only intramurals. However, he did write a couple of stories for the Daily Trojan sports section.

And he's still in the USC baseball record book for most walks in a season. He walked 104 batters in 1985 when the rest of the pitching staff walked 187. The Milwaukee Brewers are lavish in their praise of new hitting coach Don Baylor. He's actually on leave from the front office, where he was supposed to be an administrative assistant to General Manager Harry Dalton. New York trade rumor has pitcher Ron Darling going from the Mets to the Yankees for catcher Bob Geren and minor league outfielder Bernie Williams.

Barry Larkin got two hits at Dodger Stadium Sunday, raising his average to and then read in the paper the next morning that he was 57 points behind National League leader Lenny Dykstra. Old-timers must laugh at the quality start statistic, which rewards pitchers for completing as few as six innings. Roger Clemens is showing that 1989, when he went 17-11, was an off-year. San Francisco could get some much-needed pitching help by trading third baseman Matt Williams, but General Manager Al Rosen is saying, I nu rata FAX Group 3-9600 BAUD Auto uoc r-eea IN NEW check OTHER ioliuetti Think about the versatility of the Olivetti Letter Quality Dalsywheei Printer for your i i i and a Stand Alone Office Typewriter for your oftice. IBM style keyboard.

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UCLA shotputter-discus thrower Tracie Millett accomplished something former Bruins Jackie Joyner-Kersee or Florence Griffith Joyner couldn't when she won two events in the NCAA track and field meet. The next Flo Jo could be Marion Jones, the 14-year-old ninth-grader from Rio Mesa High in Oxnard who won the 100 and 200 meters in the State meet last weekend. Where do you think Penn State will finish in the 1995 Big Eleven football race? Sunday Silence's unspectacular three-quarter-length victory over Stylish Winner in the Californian Sunday at Hollywood Park shouldn't have scared off any potential starters in the Gold Cup June 24. Upbeat Tom Durkin, the voice of the Breeders' Cup, will replace low-key Marshall Cassidy as track announcer at Belmont, Aqueduct and Saratoga in New York. Paul Gonzales, who was voted the outstanding boxer of the 1984 Olympic Games, finally gets his chance at a world professional title Sunday when he challenges International Boxing Federation bantamweight champion Orlando Canizales in El Paso on NBC.

I wonder how Mel Kiper Jr. analyzed the baseball draft. Whatever happened to Robin Givens? A couple of hours before Mexico and the Soviet Union kicked off the 1970 World Cup, a fan stood outside Azteca Stadium holding up a sign that translated to "Mexico wins, or I kill myself." The Mexicans and Soviets then played to a 0-0 tie, leaving the guy with a hell of a decision to make. 328 5671 Interface UmLUa PERSONAL RJLWORD II Complete All-ln-One System! 'Large Display Uses Standard 3.5 Inch Memory Plus Disk Im ibeps LetteMJuaiiiy uaisywneei printer I SAVE '100 SSSl I I By GARY KLEIN SPECIAL TO THE TIMES For the fourth consecutive year, and eighth time in the last 15, the Dodgers used their first pick in the annual June draft Monday to select a pitcher. With the ninth pick overall, they took Ron Walden of Blanchard, population 2,100.

A 6-foot-3, 180-pound lefthander, Walden was 11-0 with a 0.36 earned-run average and 162 strikeouts in 68 innings this season at Blanchard High. He follows Dan Opperman, Bill Bene and Kiki Jones as pitchers who were No. 1 Dodger picks. "We just felt that when we drafted, this boy was the best player available," said Ben Wade, Dodger scouting director. Walden, 17, is excited about the prospect of playing for the Dodgers.

"I'm happy because I heard they were a real good organization for pitchers," Walden said from Blanchard. "I talked to the Dodgers quite a bit before the draft and I was pulling for them to select him the last week." The commissioner's office in New York releases only the names of first-round selections, a practice major league baseball adopted a few years ago to prevent colleges and agents from using the draft list as a recruiting aid. The Angels did not have a first-round pick, losing it to the Montreal Expos as compensation for the free-agent signing of Mark Langston. The Angels selected in the second round, the 64th pick overall, but declined to reveal the player's identity. Last year, bonuses for the 23 first-round selections signed by major league teams averaged $183,000, an increase of more than 25 from 1988.

Walden, who has signed a letter of intent with the University of Oklahoma, said he is aware of those figures. "You bet I am," he said. "I've got that written down." Last year, 14 of the 26 first-round picks were college players, among them Louisiana State righthander Ben McDonald, who was chosen first overall by the Baltimore Orioles. This year, 16 of the first-rounders were high school players, including eight of the first 12 picks. Other highlights: The Atlanta Braves made SPREADSHEET "li SOFTWARE I at-INCLUDED! -J oyuiiuu: FACTORY I NEW MjjJ Chipper Jones, a shortstop from The Bolles School in Jacksonville, the first player selected.

Jones, 18, was Florida's high school player of the year, batting .488 with five home runs and 25 runs batted in. The Braves hoped to select Todd Van Poppel, a right-handed pitcher from Martin High in Arlington, but backed off when Van Poppel insisted that he will attend the University of Texas. The Oakland Athletics, with seven of the first 66 picks, made Van Poppel the No. 14 choice. Van Poppel was 9-3 with a 0.97 ERA this season.

Six players from Southern California were selected in the first round, four in the top six picks. The Detroit Tigers made 6-7 outfielder Tony Clark of Christian High in El Cajon the No. 2 choice. Clark batted .543 this season and has signed a letter of intent to play basketball at Arizona. The Philadelphia Phillies took catcher Mike Lieberthal of West-lake High in Westlake Village with the No.

3 choice and signed him later in the day. Lieberthal batted .448 with 13 homers and 43 RBIs. The Pittsburgh Pirates chose right-handed pitcher Kurt Miller of Bakersfield West High with the No. 5 pick. Miller was 9-1 with a 1.41 ERA.

The Seattle Mariners chose first baseman Marc Newfield from Huntington Beach Marina High No. 6. Newfield batted .467 with six home runs and 20 RBIs. The St. Louis Cardinals made shortstop Aaron Holbert of Long Beach Jordan High the No.

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