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Etr Coupirto J3aily JJrtos Monday, June 11, 1984 Section Titans down Texas, will national crown Fullerton's Fishel is MVP of College World Series awe i fey- rJh tL i Mm Jtt "Stm ill I I i i mi "to inir lift I 8 'Jf r-ii lnin.i -jf AukA II 1 Ut OMAHA, Neb. (AP) Cal State-Fullerton left fielder John Fishel says defending champion Texas didn't have the edge heading into the NCAA College World Series baseball title game Sunday night, even though the Long-horns had beaten the Titans three times in four meetings this year. "It was whoever got in front," said Fishel, who was named the CWS most valuable player and tied a CWS record with his 13th hit of the tournament in Sunday night's 3-1 championship win for the Titans. "We had something to prove out there. We had a goal of Omaha all year.

It was in three parts the regular season, the regionals and the College World Series. We won 'em all. "They can't take the MVP away. I'm glad to win," he went on. "I thought I had a chance.

Everything just kept coming up offense." Joining Fishel on the all-tournament team were fellow Titans Bob Caffrey at catcher, Blaine Larker who tied New Orleans' Scott Raziano at third and pitcher Eddie Delzer, who took the win in the title game. Delzer also took a win over Miami and a save against Arizona State earlier in the tournament. Other members of the all-tournament team were Texas' Randy Richards at first base, Oklahoma State's Randy Whisler at second, Oklahoma State's Gary Green at shortstop, Arizona State's Oddibe McDowell and Barry Bonds joining Fishel in the outfield, Oklahoma State's Pete Incaviglia as the designated hitter, and Texas' Greg Swindell and Delzer at pitcher. Fishel said the entire tournament had been an offensive show until Delzer and Scott Wright took to the mound to combine for a three-hitter against Texas; "Eddie pitched a championship game," said Fishel-. "I was throwing strikes," said Delzer, a 5-foot-8 senior left-hander.

"Everything went well." Delzer allowed Texas only two hits, both infield singles in the first inning. Texas' Elanis West-brooks beat out a slow roller to third to lead off the game. He was sacrificed to second by Bill Bates and scored when Richards' grounder over the mound was knocked down behind second by Fullerton's Jose Mota. From that point, Delzer didn't allow a hit and only three Texas' batters reached base until a leg cramp sidelined Delzer while; taking warmup pitches in the eighth inning. Texas Coach Cliff Gustafson said it was only fitting that the championship came down to the two teams with the best pitching.

"It was great Series' battle," Gustafson said. "Cal State did a better job of pitching tonight. He (Delzer) did a great job and he was the guy I had a lot of concern about all week. "He was the type of pitcher who could give us a lot of trouble and he sure did. If it hadn't been for his injury, he could have gone nine innings." Wright came in and kept the lid on the Texas bats.

Only pinch-hitter Doug Hodo's double with one out in the eighth provided any Longhorn hope. Wright, who upped his NCAA record with the 22nd save on the season, then retired the next five batters for the win. Fullerton, ranked third with a 66-20 overall record, scored once in the second when John Bryant was hit by a pitch, stole second and scored on Kirk Bates' single. Bryant then tripled home Caffrey in the fourth and Bryant scored the final run on George Sarkissian's sacrifice fly. "Offense, offense, offense, then the game turns out defensive," Fullerton State Coach Augie Garrido said.

"Baseball's a funny game. We go in with a starter who never starts and we win. I feel a lot older." CWS teams had combined to averaged 16 runs per game dun, ing the 1984 tournament but Delzer, who had started only six games all season, allowed two earned runs in 14 23 innings. He picked up two wins, including the title game and a 13-5 win in relief against Miami in game nine of the tournament, and a save in the Titans' 6-1 victory Friday night over top-ranked Arizona State. AP laserphoto Fullerton coach Augie Garrido is carried by players' after College World Series triumph Lakers tie series with 119-108 win graine for Kareem on Tuesday," said Riley.

He also said he had "hired 5,000 people to pray for rain" in Boston, remembering the stifling 97-degree heat in Boston Garden Friday night when the Celtics won 121-103 and took a 3-2 lead in the series. The heat which has been baking Boston since Thursday is expected to break tonight and temperatures in the mid-80s are forecast for Tuesday. The Boston arena relies on ceiling fans in-. stead otair conditioning. league's oldest player, led the way, the Lakers got a big effort from rookie Byron Scott, at 23, their youngest player.

Scott provided some spark off the bench after the Lakers were trailing 84-73 with five minutes left in the third quarter. His outside shooting, a couple of key steals and two assists seemed to ignite Los Angeles, which then went on to outscore the Celtics 36-21 in the final period. Scott, a rookie acquired from the San Diego Clippers in the controversial trade involving Norm Nixon, had spent most of the series on the bench but Riley said he called on him in this instance because he is the team's best outside shooter. So, now it's back to Boston where the Celtics have won twice in three final series games there. Riley, worrying about the heat th.ere, said that the Lakers' medical staff was going to.

figure out what the players could do to minimize its effects on the players, including giving them nutrients. Boston Coach K.C. Jones, whose Celtics let the Lakers off the hook with the fourth-quarter letdown, said he expects the seventh game "to be a bang-up, knockdown game." Larry Bird led the Celtics' scoring in the sixth game with 28 points, and also had 14 rebounds and eight assists. INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) Los Angeles Coach Pat Riley never, had any doubt that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar would play.

Abdul-Jabbar, suffering from another excruciating migraine headache, was listed as questionable for Game 6 of the NBA Championship Series Sunday after missing the pre-game warmup and a team meeting. But he was there when the game began, scoring 30 points, nine in the closing minutes, as the Lakers made up an 11-point deficit and beat the Boston Celtics J19-108 to force a deciding seventh game 'Tuesday night. "I had no doubt that he would play," said Riley, "if two trucks ran over his head, he'd be out there. He was an inspiration." Abdul-Jabbar said the headache cleared an hour before the game. The 37-year-old center scored 31 points in the series opener after overcoming another migraine.

"I'm going to try to order another mi Lend! ousts McEnroe in five sets Rangers, Astros notch victories iff It V. I 2 dia Kohde 5-7, 6-3, 6-2. In winning the title, Navratilova also became only the second player in the history of tennis to win the Grand Slam successive victories at the world's four major tournaments in both singles and doubles. She defeated Chris Evert Lloyd 6-3, 6-1 in Saturday's singles final and has now won consecutively in singles and doubles at Wimbledon, the U.S. Open, the Australian Open and the French Open.

Asked to describe his feelings when he found himself two sets down, Lendl said: "I saw a glimmer of hope as soon as I broke his service for the first time in the match in the middle of the third set. "He broke me back, but I felt that once I had broken him once, I could do it again. I just had to hang on in there." Three times in the opening set, McEnroe, who until this year had never gotten past the quarterfinals here, served an ace on game point. When he swept into a 4-0 lead at the start of the second set, breaking Lendl twice and serving two love games, the title looked as if it was his. McEnroe said he could not have asked for any more chances to win the match.

PARIS (AP) Ivan Lendl staged one of the great comebacks in tennis Sunday when he oulasted John McEnroe 3-6, 2-6, 6-4, 7-5, 7-5 to win the men's title at the French Open, his first victory in a Grand Slam tournament. "I had to work hard for it, that's for -sure," said the 24-year-old Czechoslovakian after his four-hour, eight-minute victory on sun-baked Center Court at Roland Garros Stadium. "John was playing great in the first two sets. He was hitting corners and lines all the time. Then I think he got a little tired.

I was in better shape today and could run all day long," said Lendl. It was the fifth time that Lendl, ranked No. 2 in the world, had reached the final of a Grand Slam event. He lost to Jimmy Connors at the U.S. Open in 1982 and 1983, to Bjorn Borg here in 1981 and to Mats Wi-lander in last year's Australian Open.

But this time he prevailed, crushing McEnroe's hopes of becoming the first American man to win the French singles title since Tony Trabert in 1955. "Im very happy that I won my first Grand Slam tournament in Paris and I will be back next year," Lendl told the crowd, which booed when McEnroe refused to take the microphone. Astros 7, Giants 4 SAN FRANCISCO There are some hot bats floating around San Francisco, the ones stolen from the suddenly hot-hitting Houston Astros. "Our bats woke up in this series and we scored some runs. I think the confidence level is coming back," Manager Bob Lil-lis said after a 7-4 victory over the San Francisco Giants.

Burglars hit the visitors' clubhouse at Candlestick Park Saturday night and took most of the Astros' bats, 36 gloves, 25 jerseys, many baseball shoes and other They even rifled the bubble gum supply. By pounding out 12 hits, the Astros supported the theory that the ability of the player swinging the bat is much more important than the shape and weight-of wood being used. In the four-game Candlestick series, which the teams split, Houston totaled 48 hits and 30 runs. "We've been more aggressive Ivan Lendl Earlier, Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver won the first-ever Grand Slam women's doubles title by the same pair when they beat Hana Mandlikova of Czechoslovakia and West Germany's Clau From Wire Reports ARLINGTON The Texas Rangers may be last in the American League West and 11 games under .500 but that hasn't stopped their dominance of the Oakland A's. Texas defeated Oakland, 3-1, Sunday night as Larry Parrish had two homers and Pete O'Brien added a solo homer.

It was their third victory in a row in the four-game series that concludes tonight. Not only has Texas made a habit of downing the A's recently. Oakland has now dropped 10 straight and 13 of their last 14 games at Arlington Stadium. Oakland has not won at Texas since September, 1982. Rangers starter Charlie Hough, 6-6, who has won in his last four starts, and has taken four in a row from Oakland, added to the Rangers dominance.

He allowed seven hits, one run, walked four and struck.out seven. Bill Krueger, 4-2, suffered the loss for Oakland. "I was just flipping it up there and hoping they would hit it at somebody and they did," said Hough, whose, knuckleball was clocked between 54 and 68 mph. "I was throwing about 50 or 60 mph and it was almost embarrassing throwing so slow," said Hough, who is 7-2 lifetime against Oakland. "I have no idea why they dominate us so," said A's Manager Jackie Moore.

"It's not just this Hough stuff either. I am sick of it and the players are sick of it." Parrish and O'Brien have almost singlehandedly beaten the A's in this series. Parrish had a solo homer in the sixth just inside the left field foul pole to score the game's first run. It was his eighth homer of the year. "When you're swinging good, it doesn't matter who is throwing," said Parrish.

"And when you're swinging bad, it doesn't matter who is throwing." Simpson captures Westchester Classic at the plate. We had a meeting, and Bob (Lillis) told us we should treat every at-bat like it was the last at-bat of our careers, that if we swung and missed a pitch over our head we shouldn't worry about it," Ray Knight said. He used a bat borrowed from the Giants' Joel Youngblood to rap three hits. He'll have a bat of his own again tonight, when the Astros are home against the Cincinnati Reds, but he'll have to start breaking in a new glove. "Losing the gloves hurts the most.

I had two that I loved. They were perfect. I'd pay $1,000 to get one of them back," Knight said. "A good glove is worth its weight in gold," said Jerry Mum-phrey, lucky enough not to lose his glove. "It was found near the door.

They (burglars) must have dropped it on the way out." Mumphrey's regular bat was missing, but he had use of a new. model of his own, and he had three hits. i history. Miss Sheehan won the McDonald's Kids' Classic at the White Manor Country Club here and was awarded a $500,000 bonus, which combined with first-prize money made it the largest single payout ever given to a professional golfer. "With that kind of money hanging over my head, I had to force myself to be myself and concentrate," Miss Sheehan said afterward, displaying the even disposition she maintained for all but the last few holes.

"I started thinking about the five-hundred thousand on the 16th hole and I said to myself, 'just hit it straight, put it on the fairways and everything will be O.K. Miss Sheehan earned the big prize for having won two of the last three Ladies Professional Golf Association tournaments. The award was offered by the sponsors of the Cbrliing JoAnne Carner captured in Corning, N.Y., two weeks ago, the LPGA Championship, which Miss Sheehan won last weekend in Kings Island, Ohio, this McDonald's tournament. were playing for second place." They were, indeed. Simpson, who started the sweltering final round two shots behind, started his four-birdie string with a 30-foot putt on the fourth hole.

By the time he reached the turn, he was four strokes in front and no one ever got closer. Simpson's winning total of 269 was 15-under-par par for the hilly Westchester Country Club course. His final round was a no-bogey, 6-under-par 65. Simpson's second victory in six seasons on the PGA Tour was worth $90,000 from the total purse of $500,000 and boosted his earnings for the year to $145,813. It marked the fifth consecutive season in which the quiet, steady Simpson has gone over $100,000 in winnings.

Sheehan nabs McDonald's Classic MALVERN, Pa. Patty Sheehan resisted thoughts of fancy almost all afternoon and for that reason, among others, she set golf From Wire Reports HARRISON, N.Y. A stunning four-hole burst in which he made up six and seven shots on the two men he was chasing fashioned an easy victory for Scott Simpson in the Maufacturers Hanover Westchester Classic. That decisive spurt, with Simpson reeling off four consecutive birdies, while Chip Beck and Jay Haas chopped around in the deep, difficult rough, removed any doubt about the outcome before the leaders reached the turn Sunday. Simpson won by five strokes, matching the largest victory margin of the season on the PGA Tour.

"Walking up the eighth fairway," said Mark O'Meara, "I told my caddy, 'Scott Simpson is going to win this golf "I'd played with him a week ago. I knew how well he was playing, how well he was swinging the club. "And, with a four-shot lead, I knew he wasn't going to back up. I just figured we all.