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Editor: Wilt Browning 232-5863 ASHEVILLE CITIZEN-TIMES 731 Scores, call InfoPhone: 257-2900 iO( Tpv 1T Till fi CLMM) jmUS 7n I I r-Nv-' rH lMRKS rami i-f' Benes had no-hitter through 8 23 Wilt Browning SPORTS EDITOR Bones was a Tobacco Road Joe Borowski (1-0) pitched a scoreless 13th for the win. Jeff Blauser went l-for-5 and struck out four times, tying an Atlanta club record. The Braves struck out 15 times. Delino DeShields, Willie McGee, and Ron Gant each struck out three times apiece as the Cardinals had 18 strikeouts. St Louis couldn't do much against Maddux in the first eight innings.

Maddux, pitching on three days' rest to fill in for John Smoltz, gave up seven hits, walked two and struck out a season-high nine in eight innings. The Braves had a chance to win it in the 10th, loading the bases off Mark Petkovsek, who got Kenny Lofton to line to left THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTA Alan Benes lost his no-hitter on Michael Tucker's two-out double in the ninth inning Friday night and the Atlanta Braves scored in the 13th on Andruw Jones' DraVp 1 infield dribbler for a vf A l-o win over the St Cardinals 0 Louis Cardinals. Benes, bidding to pitch the first no-hitter of the season and the first in Turner Field's brief history, more than matched Greg Maddux for eight innings before 46,626, the largest crowd ever at the new ballpark. In the ninth, Benes got Keith Lockhart on a soft liner to short to open the inning be- three shy of matching the NL record for an extra-inning game last done by the Giants and Mets in 23-inning game in 1964. In the 13th, Tucker singled with one out off John Frascatore (2-2) and stole second.

Chipper Jones' fly to right moved Tucker to third and Fred McGriff was intentionally walked. Andruw Jones then beat out a slow roller between the mound and first base, allowing Tucker to score. Tucker had three of the Braves' seven hits. fore retiring Kenny Lofton on a grounder. Benes got a strike on Tucker, who then hit an opposite-field double to right After allowing the hit Benes walked off the mound and dejectedly pulled off his glove.

However, he sent the game to extra innings by striking out Fred McGriff. When he returned to the St Louis dugout Benes got a hug from his brother, Andy, also a St Louis starter. Benes walked three and struck out a career-high 11. The teams combined for 33 strikeouts, treasure hen Horace "Bones" McKinney died late Friday afternoon at the age 122ND PREAKNESS Charm vs. Free House Silver forces (Samue 7 Two top grays will battle at Pamlico Saturday THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BALTIMORE The Preakness can't be considered a two-horse race, yet in a way it is -Silver Charm vs.

Free House. These Knicks suffer without suspended Ewing, Houston THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK What remained of the New York Knicks wasn't enough to finish off the Miami Heat Alonzo Mourning and Dan Majerle had Heat 95 PREAKNESS TV: 4:30 p.m. (ABC) FAVORITE: Captain Bodgit (2-1) LONGEST SHOT: Hoxie and Jack At The Bank (50-1) two gray colts from California will meet for the fifth consecutive time Saturday at Pimlico. While it might not be Affirmed vs. Alydar or Sunday Si Knicks 90 games ui uie series and Heat the of 78, North Carolina lost one of its treasures.

He was an original, a man of quick wit and a passion for his game, basketball. Former Greensboro sports editor Irwin Smallwood, like McKinney a member of the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame, once wrote that his old friend was the most accomplished athlete in the history of the state. With due respect to generations of stars from Justice to Jordan, Smallwood was probably right McKinney played on one of the greatest schoolboy teams ever at Durham High School, became an all-Southern Conference player at North Carolina State, took time out for World War II, then led North Carolina to the national title game in 1946. He played for the Washington Capitols and legendary Boston Celtics boss Red Auerbach once said that of all the early NBA players, McKinney was one of the few who could have played for Auerbach's Celtics of Cousy, Russell and the rest He became Wake Forest's head coach in 1958 and took the Deacons to their only Final Four appearance. In 1962, his Deacons became the last team to defeat John Wooden and UCLA in the Final Four before the Bruins made history by winning 10 of 12 national titles from 1964 through 1975.

McKinney wound up coaching the ABA Carolina Cougars and confirmed his reputation as a great analyst and entertainer by later serving on CD. 0168168 early telecasts of ACC basketball games. If that were all there had been of McKinney, that would be enough. But he was as renowned as a bona fide character as he was as a coach. An ordained Baptist minister who served as assistant chaplain at Wake Forest and as chaplain at Central Prison in Raleigh, he was so afraid of flying that he used to sing the old hymn "Bringing in the Sheaves" as his plane made its way through the skies over the Southeast There remain classic photos of McKinney the player with his used a flurry of 3-pointers in the fourth quarter to pull away from the suspension-weakened New York Knicks for a 95-90 victory Friday night It forced a Game 7 in Miami on Sunday afternoon with a chance for the Heat to become just the sixth team in NBAfiistory to successfully come back from a 3-1 deficit The Heat will have that chance because they overcame an emotion-charged New York team still reeling from the NBA's suspension of six players five of them Knicks -for a brawl in Game 5.

New York was without its two leading scorers, Patrick Ewing and Allan Houston, as well as backup point guard Charlie Ward. The Knicks will have to play Game 7 without starters Larry Johnson and John Starks, who will serve their suspensions Sunday. lence vs. Easy Goer, it definitely is a rivalry. Each has beaten the other twice, but the edge in the series would have to go to Silver Charm, -who won the Kentucky Derby.

Free House finished third, 3Vz lengths back. Still, trainers Paco Gonzalez of Free House and Bob Baffert of Silver Charm don't talk about their encounters in terms of a rivalry. They respect each other, and each envisions a stiff challenge from the other's horse in the 1 3-16-mile Preakness. "Of course, you don't want to meet top horses every time, but there's nothing you can do about it" Gonzalez said Friday. "I think he feels the same way." Baffert also knows what he's up against "I've watched him here," he said of Free House.

"He's training well here. He's taken to the track." While Baffert and Gonzalez have been keeping an eye on each other's colts, Captain Bodgit, who finished second by a head to Silver Charm in the Derby, has been preparing for the Preakness at nearby Bowie. Captain Bodgit was the 2-1 second choice to 9-5 Silver Charm, while Free House was third at 9-2. Next at 5-1 was Touch Gold, winner of his only two starts this year and one of six 3-year-olds debuting in Triple Crown competition. mm arms around the shoulder of a ref 7 A eree who had whistled McKinney for a foul.

"But I didn't mean to do it" he would say, grinning as he did. Red bow ties and red socks became his trademark when he coached at Wake Forest and he was so much a man of motion on the bench that he once had seat belts installed to help him remain in control. It didn't work. In McKinney's days, officials (Best of sewn) FRIDAY'S GAME Eastern Conference Semifinals Miami 95, New York 90 (Series tied 3-3) Winner faces Chicago FRIDAY'S GAME Wosteni Conference SemYflnilft Seattle at Houston, 3 (NBC) (Series tied 3-3) Winner faces Utah Chicago, Utah hold home-court advantage in conference finals THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BALTIMORE Concerto, with exercise rider Willie Delgado up, works out at Pimlico Friday. took much more seriously than do their modern counterparts the rule which stipulates only players GERMAN OPEN TROUNCING can ask for timeouts.

Once, with the legendary Charley Eckman officiating a Wake Forest game, McKinney screamed for a time out Eckman rushed across the floor ready to assess a technical foul against McKinney. "Did you call a time out Bones?" Eckman asked. "No, sir!" McKinney respond 5'i- NT ed. "I was just trying to tell you my watch is a Timex." McKinney was a master storyteller and after dinner speaker Socks covered, Lindsey lifts Tourists By Bid BaTlew SPORTS CORRESPONDENT A more superstitious bunch than the boys of summer would be hard to find. Take John Lindsey, for example.

In an attempt to alter his struggling ways at the plate, the Asheville first baseman changed his attire Tuesday night by pulling his Jourjsts 6 pants legs high on his calves, W-pviis showing nearly all his socks. Af- BOll WeevilS a ter coming away with two hits, he repeated his actions Thursday and went O-for-4, causing the pants to come back down to his ankles on Friday. Don't expect to see the socks for awhile. Lindsey thrilled the 1,012 fans at McCormick Field with a 3-for-3 evening, hitting a two-run homer in the rMCmtey dies at age 78 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WINSTON-SALEM Former Wake Forest basketball coach and ACC television personality Bones McKinney died Friday following two weeks of treatr ment for a stroke he suffered May 2. He was 78.

McKinney coached the Demon Deacons to their first two Atlantic Coast Conference tournament titles in 1961 and 1962, and to their only Final Four appearance, 1962. McKinney was head coach at Wake Forest from 1958 to 1965. He eventually coached the Carolina Cougars of the American Basketball Association but later returned to college basketball as a color commentator. As a coach, McKinney was known for his sideline antics and showmanship. He often wore red socks and a bow tie for good luck and once had a seat belt fastened to his seat on the bench as a way to keep him away from harassing the referees.

and his next appearance was to be as one of the featured roasters next weekend at a farewell dinner for retiring ACC Commissioner Gene Corrigan. It would have been, like all the others, a classic Bones McKinney was so much a man perfectly placed in time and place that there has nev er been one like him and never can be again. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BERLIN South Africa's Amanda Coetzer returns a serve in her match with Steffi Graf in Friday's German Open. Coetzer handed Graff her worst-ever defeat, 6-0, 6-1. Tennis Roundup, D2.

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