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Classified ads Crossword puzzle C-6 Scoreboard C-4 0 Section Green Bay Press-Gazette Monday, August 31, 1987 Twins slug Brewers Puckett collects six hits in 1 0-6 victory Puckett tied a major league record and broke an American League record with his 10 hits in two consecutive nine-inning games. "It's the best Saturday and Sunday I've ever seen a player have," said Milwaukee Manager Tom Trebelhorn. Puckett singled in a run in the first, homered in the third, singled in the fifth, doubled in both the sixth and the eighth and hit his 21st homer in the ninth off Dan Plesac, tying a major league record for most hits in a game. He got his final at-bat with two outs after Greg Gagne reached on a third-strike passed ball. "Gagne made a big play by hustling down to first and giving him another oportunity to swing the said Minnesota Manager Tom Kelly.

"And he puts the icing on the cake by banging another home run. And the catch in center was out standing. What more can you do? There is not much more a person can do in a game. "He makes things happen by his mere presence at the plate." The Brewers scored three runs in the sixth to take a 6-5 lead but would have had more if the 5-foot-8 Puckett had not gone high above the fence to rob Robin Yount of a grand slam homer. "When Robin hit it, I said," 'That's going out, I better get I saw the wall and I said, 'I got a I got to the fence and 1 jumped and timed it perfectly and caught it," Puckett said.

Two runs scored on the play one on the sacrifice fly and another when Gagne dropped Puckett's relay but Minnesota got the lead back with a three-run eighth, highlighted by Gene Lar kin's two-run, pinch-hit single. Li "1: fr I I 'Wi imi i mini ir iiiriiifrf i st-Meg. Ainmimiii'li By Rick Gano Associated Press MILWAUKEE Don't ask the Milwaukee Brewers how to get Minnesota Twins centerfielder Kirby Puckett out. They don't have a clue. Puckett followed a 4-for-5, two-homer performance Saturday night with a club-record 6-for-6 effort Sunday, one that included two more homers, four RBIs and a leaping catch that should make every season-ending highlight show.

Puckett's heroics led the Twins to a 10-6 victory that moved them back into first place in the American League West. "It's been quite a while since I've felt this good at the plate. I feel great up there now," Puckett said. "I'm laying off the high pitches, laying off the ones in the dirt and just going up looking for a good pitch to hit. I don't know what to say.

I'm just doing the best I can." i AP LaserPhoto Perfect Puckett: Kirby Puckett of the Minne- game against Milwaukee. Puckett went 6-sota Twins swings the bat during Sunday's for-6 with two home runs and four RBIs. Johnson races to Stephen fr aarfl using 5 world record sets 1 00 I Track and Johnson's world record. a bog Especially one he applied to FB Kinnebrew By Jim Egle Press-Gazette The hit wasn't as memorable as, say, Lawrence Taylor crashing into Joe Theismann. But Green Bay Packers linebacker Scott Stephen made a lasting impression with a fourth-quarter tackle of Cincinnati's Larry Kinnebrew during the Packers' 28-20 loss Saturday night.

Kinnebrew, 6-foot-1 and listed at 258 pounds, is among the most difficult National Football League fullbacks to bring down in. Stephen made it look easy. Blitzing from his right outside linebacker spot, Stephen grabbed Kinnebrew, who was running a sweep to Stephen's side, from behind. Stephen tossed Kinnebrew to the ground as if he were a 175-pound halfback. Kinnebrew was helped off the field.

"I hit him low and I think he got bent under me," Stephen said. "I think he might have twisted his ankle. "He really bumps you good. All I did was hit him and hung on. To go up against a guy like Kinnebrew is really a challenge for me, because he is such a big guy and he's really physical." That wasn't all the damage Stephen did Saturday night.

Although he didn't start, Stephen led the Packers with five solo tackles, equalling his total in the team's first two exhibition games, and had one sack. Three of Stephen's tackles were for. losses. He also nailed reserve Trebelhorn receives contract extension MILWAUKEE (AP) Tom Trebelhorn says the nature of baseball makes a one-year contract a fair deal and that's why he's happy with an extension to manage the Milwaukee Brewers next season. "The only thing that matters is what you're doing right now.

You're only being paid to do the job right then," Trebelhorn said Sunday when his one-year contract extension was announced. "I made up my mind then that I wanted him to stay with this bail club for quite a while." Harry Dalton "There is no such thing as security. I have the job I want. I agreed to a contract that excites me to no end. I don't care what other people might say about it, whether it's one year or what," he said.

"I have a club that excites me and it's the thing I've always wanted to do. I have the job I want at the time I want and at the terms I want or I would have not signed it." Contract terms were not released but General Manager Harry Dalton said they were accepted by Trebelhorn during the first month of this season. "We just didn't see any reason to announce a 1988 contract signing in the first week of '87 season." Dalton said. "So we just sat on it for awhile until we felt it was appropriate to make the announcement." Trebelhorn is being paid a reported $100,000 on his one-year contract this season, his first as the Brewers' manager. "We generally deal in one-year contracts," said Dalton, who decided to make the offer after watching the rookie manager in spring training.

"I made up my mind then that I wanted him to stay with this ball club for quite a while. I didn't want him thinking that perhaps his retention depended on the way this club performed in 1987," said Dalton. "I think it's unanimous through the clubhouse that the players are very pleased he was signed another year. It's nice to know he'll be around for a couple of years to get to know the players," said Paul Molitor. I I GiSfi t.

Scott Stephen Made big impression running back Marc Logan for a two-yard loss in the second quarter. "(Stephen was) all over the field," Packers Coach Forrest Gregg said. "He's making an impression, a favorable one. "Right now is not the time to talk about that (the possibility of Stephen starting). But he certainly played well." Said Stephen: "This was my best game of the pre-season.

I cut down on my mistakes. I just felt better playing, and I had a chance to play more." The Packers have been using Stephen in a role similar to that of Tim Harris. Stephen, 6-foot-2 and 232 pounds, has played outside linebacker in the 3-4 and at times as a down lineman. At Arizona State, Stephen played defensive end. The Packers are converting Stephen into a line- Please see StephenC-5 Seven free agents were announced as waived: Wide receiver Derrick Harden, tight end Craig Jay, center Vince Rafferty, defensive tackle David Caldwell, corner-backs Kevin Wyatt and Charles Washington, and free safety Matt Grimes.

Gustafson said Carl Sullivan, a free agent defensive end, would require medical examination. Defensive end Tony Leiker, a seventh-round, draft choice from Stanford, was in the hotel here this morning and did not report for practice. There was speculation he might be placed on injured reserve. The Packers acquired Woodley, a seven-year veteran, in a June 30 Please see CutsC-5 f. I it Vk I AP LaserPhoto Field Championships in Rome.

time of 9.83 seconds was a Leaving Lewis behind: Ben Johnson, right, runs ahead of Carl Lewis en route to victory in the 1 00-meter race at the World Johnson Woodley, Hobbins among 1 2 players cut by Packers :0 er to break the 100 record since Armin Hary of West Germany in 1960, and the first Canadian to do so since Percy Williams in 1930. "This record is the best ever in the history of track, in all events," Johnson said, and then promised to go after it again. "I can do better next year," he said. In finishing second, Lewis equaled Smith's old record and ran the fastest 100 meters of his career. "He deserved to win today," said Lewis.

"He had an unbelievably good race. But he is not always unbeatable. Nobody is." Another world mark fell when Bulgaria's Stefka Kostadinova cleared 6 feet, 101A inches in winning the women's high jump. She improved her mark of 6-934 set last year. By Nesha Starcevic Associated Press ROME AP) It took Ben Johnson exactly 9.83 seconds to several goals.

Johnson, of Canada, entered the history books as the fastest 100-meter sprinter ever and proved beyond any doubt that he is the fastest human by beating archrival Carl Lewis of the United States at the World Track and Field Championships Sunday. Johnson catapulted out of the blocks for an explosive start and blazed across the finish line to shave an amazing one-tenth of a second off Calvin Smith's four-year-old world record of 9.93. In dropping the record by an unheard-of one percent, Johnson became the first sprint By Bob McGinn Press-Gazette OCONOMOWOC Quarterback David Woodley, a seven-year veteran, and guard Jim Hobbins, a Green Bay native, were two of 12 players waived this morning by the Green Bay Packers. Cuts reduced the Packers' raster to 74 players. Burt Gustafson, an administrative assistant, said injured reserve moves and additional releases will follow as the Packers reach the mandatory 60-player limit by Tuesday at 3 p.m.

Tackle Greg Feasel and wide receiver Mike Moffitt were the only Packers veterans waived. Fullback Freddie Parker, who spent last season on injured reserve, also was released. record Mario Andretti Is second in Indy-car wins VJ 1 wmi ivauy viiivivi ivim Andretti breaks own track record in is uu ivuvi ni i iwi iua cruising to easy Indy-car victory He said he was also concerned because he had been given the black flag for reasons unknown five laps from the finish. "I was screaming to my crew to find out what it was for," Brabham said. "Just as I was about to peel into the pits, they told me not to come in." The victory was Andretti's 49th of his Indy-car career and his 20th on a road course.

Only A.J. Foyt, with 67 victories, has won more races. He has won three of six Indy-car races held at Elkhart Lake- The only other drivers finishing on the lead lap Sunday were Al Unser Jr. who was third in a March-Cosworth, and Arie Luyen-dyk, who was fourth. After 25 laps, he held a 17.9-second lead over Emerson Fittipaldi.

Fittipaldi ran out, of fuel and rolled to a halt on the 33rd lap, and Andretti was left with a 57-second lead. Only on the final lap did he pause to worry. He decided against a final stop for fuel although his crew expected it. "They were ready, but it was up to me," Andretti said, "and I had everything pretty much under control. "I was really running a minimum amount of revs," he said.

"After our last fuel stop (on lap 33), I started to conserve them, so I felt I should make it to the end." It was Brabham 's second consecutive second-place finish. ART LAKE (AP Mario Andretti, who hadn't had an Indy-car victory since April, bettered his own track record in winning the LivingWell-Provimi 200-mile race at Road America Sunday. "It was absolutely perfect, absolutely flawless," Andretti said of his Lola-Chevy. "I don't know when I've had a car working so beautiful." Andretti, 43, whose last Indy-car victory was at Long Beach, averaged 120.115 miles an hour on the four-mile course, topping his 1984 victory average of 116.347. He finished 41.08 seconds ahead of Geoff Brabham in a March-Honda.

After the first ten laps of the 50-lap race, Andretti was already 10 seconds ahead of Danny Sullivan. i Inside: Charlie.Hough's knuckleball proves to be too good for the Texas RangersC-2 The St. Louis Cardinals rally in the ninth to beat Atlanta 4-3 C-2 The UW-Green Bay soccer teams begins its season Tuesday at Brigham Young C-3 Mike Richardson of the Chicago Bears ends his holdoutC-5.