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fff r' 6C SundayMay 1 61 993Star Tribune ilite-a6Eyiifflr 'U' loses 2 to Illinois, 1 7 Willi Wi iv: i- Oi 1 Associated Press A.J. Foyt listened to the national anthem after announcing his retirement Indy 500 4J. Foyt retires 'for sure' Longtime star: Time to stop' By John Gilbert StaflPWriter Indianapolis, Ind. Indianapolis Motor Speedway officials planned a nice preliminary touch Saturday morning for 200,000 race fans who primed for the opening of qualification runs for the Indy 500: The had Rick Mears, the four-time race Jnd six-time pole winner, drive a lap In the Camaro pace car. But, A.J.

Foyt upstaged Mears, 40 othec race drivers all in line on pit row, 'and all the Speedway's public-relations plans when he announced he was retiring again. Foyt was talked into announcing his retirement in a novel way about 20 minutes before yesterday's qualifying. Officials put Foyt in his familiar, black No. 14 race car and he did a ceremonial lap as the crowd and; the race crews paid tribute to climbed out of the car and was; interviewed by the public-ad-dress announcer. "It vas a hard decision," Foyt said.

"But there comes a time Foyt's voice broke with emotion, but a huge ovation gave him time to compose himself. He said it was official this time, although skeptics suggested it might be an annual event, because he first retired two years ago at the Speedway. Yesterday, he said he never had said it "for sure" back then. Foyi; 58, the track's first four-time winner, had practiced at over 221 miles per hour in a morning warmup and figured he had a legitimate shot at the pole position. But Robby Gordon, Foyt's protege driving a matching team- car, had brushed the wall in practice just after 8 a.m., and Foyt said that.

was the catalyst in his decision. 1 4 of lead two outs, the visitors scored two unearned runs in the fourth inning on Mobilia's throwing error. Illinois (32-19, 12-14) added two runs in the fifth on Scott Spiezio's two-out double. The Gophers managed only three hits off Illinois starter Keith Toriani, who owned a 5.71 ERA in the conference. He gave up six walks, but Minnesota got only one runner as far as third after scoring its lone run in the fourth inning on Adam Sobocienski's double.

"The kind of pitching you saw from us today is the kind of pitching we thought we were going to see all year," said Illinois coach Itch Jones. "Arrandale and Toriani are our 1-2 guys, but they haven't pitched like that since early in the season. We also played both games without an error, so our defense was good today, too." The Gophers will start freshman Joe Westfall in one game today, but Anderson is unsure who will be the other starter. Sophomore Jim Brower might have been the choice, but he has a sore elbow. "We got outplayed in the second game," said senior Ryan Lefebvre, who became Minnesota's career hits leader with 266 after getting three hits in the first game.

"But you don't like to lose with errors, and that's what we did in the first game. "We know we're going to need some help now, but we also know we're facing a do-or-die situation because we have to win two games now. That should be enough motivation for us to come out and play the way we know we can play." Catcher Darren Grass also knows what the Gophers face today. "We've got to come out with our hard hats on," Grass said. "We know we're going to have to do it the hard way, but now we'll find out how we can handle it.

Baseball is a crazy game. It will also drive you crazy." Notes In addition to Lefebvre. a senior from Los Angeles. Mark Mcrila also entered the school record books. The junior from Robbins-dale Armstrong became the career walks leader with 134.

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The Gophers dropped a doublehead-er Saturday to Illinois at Siebert Field and now must rely on Penn state beating Ohio State at least once today if they are to win another championship. Minnesota (39-15, 15-9) also must beat the Illini in a doubleheader today (1 p.m.) at Siebert Field. Yesterday's losses 4-3 and 4-1 dropped the Gophers one game be hind Ohio State (34-16, 17-9). The Buckeyes, who swept a doubleheader from Penn State yesterday, are on the road today to face the Nittany Lions in another doubleheader. Indeed, the second-place Gophers aren't even assured of a spot in the four-team Big Ten playoffs this week since Purdue, Indiana and Iowa (each with 1 1 conference losses) are close on their heels.

'We can still win the championship, but now we need said Gophers coach John Anderson after Minnesota gave up five unearned runs in yesterday doubleheader. "You have to execute the fundamentals, and we didn't do that today. We had the chance to close out some innings and we didn't. We also needed some timely hitting, and that didn't happen, either." In the first game, the Gophers were nursing a 3-1 lead in the sixth inning vhen the Illini struck for three unearned runs. Pitcher Kerry Litgen-berg had gotten two outs, but shortstop Bill Mobilia's error, two hits and Ligtenberg's errant pickoff throw led to the unearned and deciding runs.

Illinois starting pitcher Matt Arran-dale gave up nine hits, but the Gophers never got a runner past second base the rest of the game after scoring three runs in the third inning. Arran-dale entered the game with a 6.69 ERA in the Big Ten. In the second game, the Illini got only six hits off Gophers starter Andy Hammerschmidt. But after Hammerschmidt had gotten the first 1 McCann gets 2 victories in softball sweep From Staff Reports The Minnesota softball team (32-24, 16-9 Big Ten) ended its season by sweeping Michigan State 4-1 and 6-1 Saturday in a doubleheader at Bier- man Softball Stadium. Gophers sophomore Jennifer McCann (10-5) pitched two complete games for the second straight day, giving up six hits in the first game and five in the second.

The Spartans finished 1 1-38 and 4-24. In the opener, senior third baseman Lezlie Weiss had three hits to lead an eight-hit attack, while Kerby Norman had a two-run double. In the night cap, the Gophers used a 16-hit attack to complete a four-game sweep. Melissa Wold had four hits and scored three runs, while Jennifer McGuin-ness had three hits and two RBI. Men's golf Minnesota trailed leader Wisconsin by six strokes heading into today's final round of the Big Ten men championships in Bloomington, Ind.

The Gophers, tied for second after 36 holes, were third yesterday with a 54-hole total of 879. Wisconsin led with 873, with Ohio State second at 878. Minnesota's Phil Ebner shot a 72 to move into a sixth-place tie at 218. Illinois' Jamie Fairbanks led with 213. The Gophers' Joe Gullion shot a 74 and was tied for ninth at 220.

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HH nun. Saturday. Foyt has won the Indy 500 Soma fact about A.J. Foyt, who retired Saturday: Bom January 16, 1935. Rldnc Houston, Texas.

Traditional car numbor 14. Victoria (all clasaea) 172 (record 67 Indy car, 41 USAC stock car, 28 USAC sprint car, 20 USAC midget car, 7 NPtS-CAR stock car; 7 sports car; 2 dirt car). Victories at Indianapolis 4 (1961 '64, '67, 77). Foyt is the only driver to have won the Indianapolis 500 in both a front-engine roadster and a rear-engine monocoque. Other major victories 1972 Daytona 500, 1967 LeMans 24 Hours, 1983 and 1985 Daytona 24 Hours.

1 Other facts Started Indianapolis 500 a record 35 straight years. First victory, 100-mile race at DuQuoln, on Sept. 5,1960. "I realized this morning, when Robbie hit the wall, that the time had come. It seems like when I'm there with him, he's fine.

Then this morning when that happened, I realized that I can't worry about the other car and concentrate the way I have to on driving." Someone asked if he had ever felt as emotional about any race occurrence, and Foyt said: "In 1961, when I won my first race here." He said it was the fans and all his coworkers who had kept him coming jr i vl days ago, then yesterday we were only eighth or ninth fastest. "We tried something else this morning and it didn't work, so we tried something else for our first qualifying try, and that didn't work either. Our plan was that if it didn't work, we would wave it off and wait to try later." Luyendyk's first qualifying lap on his 1 1:30 a.m. try was only 215 and he promptly waved it off. "I had to get out of the throttle big time," Luyendyk said.

"We had to go another direction completely. When I went out the last time, I wasn't thinking 'Put it on the but just 'Put it in the top two After Luyendyk and Andretti, who was born in Italy, came Raul Boesel of Brazil on the outside of Row 1 at 222.379. Canadian Scott Goodyear, who finished second to Unser by the closest margin in Indy history last year, will start on the inside of the second row next to Unser, and Good-year's 222.344 meant the top four qualifiers were driving cars with Ford V8 engines, built by Cosworth in England. The next three spots went to Al Sweden's Stefan Johansson and Canada's Paul Tracy, all in cars powered by Chevrolet V8 engines, built by Ilmor Engineering in England. Next to Tracy in Row 3, last year's Formula champion, Nigel Mansell of England, is joined by Emerson Fittipaldi of Brazil, who jumped into teammate Tracy's backup car after the Penske team's computer indicated the engine in Fittipaldi's car was about to blow.

Qualifying resumes at noon today, although even if one of the remaining drivers turns the fastest time of the tour times, dating to 1961, right. back to Indianapolis. And he said the whole ceremony was a spur-of-the- moment thing. All that happened in the last half hour," Foyt said. "I had no intention of quitting until Robbie got into the wall again.

My car had telt super. The speed ran this morning was very easy. But for some rea son, when I saw the yellow, I thought it time to stop. Let face it, the years have passed me by. "When I made the decision, they sug gested I take a last lap in car 14 to say goodbye to the tans.

It was a bang- bang-bang thing, put together in 10 minutes. I've always been one to do things on the spur ot the moment. In the press interview room, where he had spent many hours challenging and barking at reporters for 35 years, Foyt finished and was given a round of applause by reporters. Foyt said: "I love you all. and I'll probably be nicer now.

Other drivers paid tribute to Foyt's great career. Some expressed sur prise, some relief. Danny Sullivan said: "I thought, after he had gone 221 in the morning, A.J. would go over after Gordon's little incident and say, 'Out of the way, son, this is how it done. Paul Tracy said, simply: "I don't believe it.

He's running too fast, and once he gets Gordon in, he'll still have that car sitting there." Tha tentative partial lineup for the Indianapolis 500, listing each driver's hometown or country, car number, chassis-engine, and four-lap qualification average apeed (r-rookie; more qualifications today and May 22-23): Rowl 1. Arle Luyendyk, Netherlands, No. 10, 1993 Lola-Ford Cosworth, 223.967. 2. Mario Andretti, Nazareth, No.

6, 1993 Lola-Ford Cosworth, 223.414. 3. Raul Boesel, Brazil, No. 9, 1993 Lola-Ford Cosworth, 222.379. ROW 2 4.

Scott Goodyear, Canada, No. 2, 1993 Lola-Ford Cosworth, 222.344. 5. Al Unser Albuquerque, N.M., No. 3, 1993 Lola-Chevy C.

221.773. 6. r-Stefan Johansson, Sweden, No. 16, 1993 Penske-Chevy C. 220.824.

Row 3 7. Paul Tracy, Canada, No. 12, 1993 Penske-Chevy 220.298. 8. r-Nigel Mansell, Britain, No.

5, 1993 Lola-Ford Cosworth, 220.255. 9. Emerson Fittipaldi, Brazil, No. 4, 1993 Penske-Chevy 220.150. Row 4 10.

Roberto Guerrero, San Juan Capis-trano. No. 40, 1993 Lola-Chevy 219.645. 11. Scott Brayton, Coldwater, No.

22, 1993 Lola-Ford Cosworth, 219.637. 12. Danny Sullivan, Aspen, No. 7, 1993 Lola-Chevy 219.428. RowS 13.

r-Nelson Piquet, Brazil, No. 77, 1993 Lola-Menard, 217.949. 14. Kevin Cogan, Palos Verdes Estates, No. 11, 1993 Lola-Chevy 217.230.

15. Scott Pruett, Crystal Bay, No. 45, 1991 Lola-Chevy 216.794. weekend, the first-day qualifiers are set and today qualifiers fall in be hind them. Once the field of 33 is filled, a faster qualifier today or next weekend can bump the driver with the slowest time from the field, but the new qualifier goes in at 33rd.

Andretti was second in line and first to accept his speed, with laps of 223.964, 223.303, 224.081 and 222.316. "I don't know when I've been more nervous trying to guess this thing," Andretti said. "We were following the weatherman. We do have a hot-day set-up, but it was supposed to be cloudy and cool until noon. It warmed up considerably and we had to make some changes at the last minute.

Several drivers waved off early runs that looked good in retrospect, be cause all the times were slower than they had anticipated. Thirty-nine drivers predicted the pole-winning time, and the winner would have to be Pruett he had the slowest pre diction at 224.316, which was 0.349 mph faster than Luyendyk turned. Gary Bettenhausen didn't wave off his run, but after laps of 217, 219 and 218, he spun coming through Turn 2 and smacked the wall. He was exam ined and released to drive. iin i i Til Associated Press Emerson Fittipaldi, right, congratulated Arie Luyendyk after Luyendyk won pole position for the Indianapolis 500.

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The crowd was as big as expected, estimated at more than 200JG00; the sunny weather was warfjver than expected, hitting a 79-degreje high; and the greatly restrained speeds because of track and car revisions were exactly as expected tuyendyk's speed was almost 9 mplj ilower than Roberto Guerrero's record 232.482 of a year ago. Twojjf the biggest surprises of the dayfoame just before and just after qualifying. First, A.J. Foyt decided to retiife and the surprise announce-merrtxame as Foyt took a ceremonial lap jost minutes before the 1 1 a.m. start qualifying.

The'Jiext biggest surprise came when the day's qualifiers were put onto a gridlsheet: Nine of the top 10 qualifiers were born somewhere other than the Ignited States. Al Unser from Albuquerque, N.M., was the lone U.S-born driver able to find a spot in the first three rows, qualifying in the 'middle of Row 2. America's greatest race has become a premier international attraction. Pivotal in winning the pole was that Luyendyk and his crew coordinated so many delicate imbalances at the right, time. "We changed so many things from this morning to now that it's hard to believe we had the set-up we started today with," said Luyendyk.

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