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Wbt $urlinfiton Jfree 3res INSIDE Scoreboard 6B Morning break 6B Vt. Expos 8B PORTS Watson wins Senior British; Jacobsen takes GHO Golf, 8B SECTION www.burlingtonfreepress.com fr Monday, July 28, 2003 Sports Editor Ted Ryan 660-1855 or (800) 698-2255 Page 5B Sox soar by Yankees in seventh Six-run rally sends Boston to victory in finale LP! Inside team." Casey Fos-sum (5-4) allowed one hit, striking out one in one inning of relief of Derek Lowe. AL East GB N.Y. 63 40 Boston 62 42 1 Up next At Boston, Aug. 29-31 Carter, Murray lead Hall festivities Expos rally stuns Braves MLB, 7B By Jimmy Golen The Associated Press BOSTON The New York Yankees just can't shake the Boston Red Sox.

Jason Varitek tied the game with a three-run homer and Johnny Damon followed with the go-ahead shot Sunday night as Boston scored six times in the seventh inning to beat New York 6-4. The victory gave the Red Sox the edge in the three-game series and moved them VA games behind the Yankees in the AL East. Byung-Hyun Kim pitched the "It's going to be a dogfight all the way to the end," Yankees manager Joe Torre said. "I'm not sure who's going to win, but the division is going to be determined by how we play each other because we obviously proved we play each other very even." Jeff Weaver took a 3-0 lead and a two-hitter into the seventh before he walked Trot Nixon and hit Bill Mueller with one out. Chris Hammond relieved and Varitek homered over the Green Monster as a disgusted Weaver threw a towel in the Yankees dugout.

Damon came up next and hooked a shot inside the foul pole in right on Hammond's 10th pitch, putting the Red Sox ahead 4-3. Damon pumped a fist in the air as he rounded first. "As soon as Jason hit his homer, we knew we were a home run away," Damon said. "It definitely gave a lot of life to the ninth for his sixth save, allowing an RBI fielder's choice Hideki Matsui. New York is 7-6 this season against the Red Sox, with six more games between them this.

7 he Associated Press Boston's Jason Varitek is congratulated as he returns to the dugout following his game-tying three-run homer in the seventh inning Sunday night. Tour de France 1 five Newman prevails at Pocono The Associated Press LONG POND, Pa. Late caution flags helped Ryan Newman stretch his gas to the end, allowing him to barely hold off hard-charging Kurt Busch and win Sunday at Pocono Raceway. Newman, who started on the pole, would not have been able to make the final 46 laps without stopping, but crashes involving rookie Casey Mears and Bobby Labonte slowed the field for a total of 12 laps in the Pennsylvania 500. Newman used the same strategy to win two weeks ago at Chicagoland Speedway, and Jimmie John- Armstrong sets sights on 6 straight son won with a fuel economy run July 20 in New Hampshire.

Newman said he wasn't thinking entirely about -if a Up next Brickyard 400, 2:30 p.m. Sunday (WPTZ) -kut ill By John Leicester The Associated Press PARIS Never did his reign look so uncertain. Never did he savor a victory quite like this one. Only with his Tour de France title finally assured during the last leg on the cobblestoned Champs-Ely-sees, did Lance Armstrong celebrate by lifting a flute of champagne to a resounding "Cheers!" Overcoming crashes, illness, hard-charging rivals and plain old bad luck, the Texan won his hardest but sweetest Tour on Sunday a record-tying fifth straight that places him among the greatest cyclists ever. Unlike previous years, when he won by comfortable margins, the grueling 23-day, clockwise trek around France pushed Armstrong to the limit.

"Before the Tour started I was very confident about winning, but before next year's Tour, I won't be so confident," he said. Armstrong joined Spaniard Miguel Indurain as the only riders to win cycling's most brutal and prestigious race five times consecutively a record Armstrong plans to break in 2004. "It's a dream, really a dream," Armstrong said in French after climbing the podium while "The Star-Spangled Banner" rang out. "I love cycling, I love my job and I will be back for a FLOOR 1 4 1 The Associated Press fuel as Busch made a bid after the race went green for the final 12 laps. "The 97 there at the end, I had to do some stuff to keep his nose in the dirty air," Newman said.

"Fuel mileage and track position paid off." Busch nearly provided the first victory on the mountain-top for Roush Racing. "We could get a good run on him through turn one," Busch said. "We had a good car for that. We were equal in two and he was better than us in three." Newman parlayed his series-leading fifth pole of the year into his series-leading fourth win. Dale Earnhardt Jr.

also played the fuel card and lasted to be third, followed by teammate Michael Waltrip and two-time Pocono winner Terry Labonte. Lance Armstrong holds the trophy after winning his fifth staight Tour de France. The Associated Press American Michael Phelps swims to a world record in the 400-meter individual medley Sunday. Phelps adds to records American teen breaks fifth mark at worlds The Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain Michael Phelps has Mark Spitz in his sights. The 18-year-old American claimed one of Spitz's records Sunday on the final day of the World Swimming Championships when he broke his fifth individual world mark for the 400-meter individual medley.

"If everything goes as well as I want it to, as I hope to, then maybe I could be going after Mark Spitz's accomplishments," said Phelps, who finished Sunday in 4 minutes, 9.09 seconds a stunning 1.64 seconds faster than he swam in April for the old record. Spitz managed only four records in individual events in the Olympics 31 years ago as he won his legendary seven gold medals. Phelps was the centerpiece of one of the fastest meets in history; 13 world marks were broken and one was tied. He also upstaged his American teammates, who led with 11 golds in the pool and 28 overall their best performance since the Olympics three years ago. Archrival Australia had only six golds and 22 overall.

When diving, water polo, synchronized and distance swimming was factored in, the Americans still led with 12 gold medals and 31 overall. Phelps won three golds with records in each: 200 butterfly, 200 individual medley (he broke this record twice) and the 400 individual medley. He also took silver in the 800 freestyle relay and shattered the 100 butterfly record in Friday's semifinal, only to be upset in Saturday's final by fellow American Ian Crocker. "I've have had a great week of swimming here," Phelps said Sunday, after his final swim of 13 over a marathon six days. "I couldn't ask for anything more.

I left every ounce of energy I had in the pool." His silver in the 100 fly came a day after he became the first male swimmer to ever set records on the same day in two different strokes 100 butterfly semifinal and the 200 individual medley final. urb of Ville d'Avray on the 92.4-mile ride through streets packed with cheering spectators, many waving American flags. Armstrong shared the podium with five-time runner-up Jan Ullrich and third-place finisher Alexandre Vi-nokourov, holding their See TOUR, 8B sixth. It's incredible to win again." So action-packed was this Tour that Armstrong was prepared for the unexpected even Sunday, on the largely processional final stage. "If a plane landed in the race I wouldn't be surprised," he said before setting off from the Paris sub Strictly Streaking Mow Armstrong rates against other title streaks (consecutive titles, team, years): NBA 8, Celtics, 1959-66 NCAA Men's Basketball 7, UCLA, 1967-73 Wimbledon Men 6, Willie Renshaw, 1881-86 Wimbledon Women 6, Martina Navratilova, 1982-87 MLB 5, Yankees, 1949-53 NHL 5, Canadiens, 1956-60 Rundown I Second-half surge thwarts Voltage Cape Cod offsets early goal in 4-2 triumph (-i rift.

i mmmnf "i SCOREBOARD BASEBALL American League Boston 6, N.Y. Yankees 4 Toronto 10, Baltimore 1 Cleveland 3, Minnesota 2 Kansas City 5, Detroit 1 Chicago 9, Tampa Bay 1 Texas 7, Seattle 3 Oakland 10, Anaheim 1 National League Montreal 13, Atlanta 10 Cincinnati 8, N.Y. Mets 5 Florida 7, Philadelphia 6 Chicago Cubs 5, Houston 3 St. Louis 4, Pittsburgh 3 Colorado 6, Milwaukee 1 San Francisco 6, San Diego 2 Los Angeles 1 Arizona 0 WNBA Detroit 81, Washington 71 San Antonio 64, Cleveland 55 MLS D.C. United 4, New England 2 WUSA Boston 1 San Jose 1 TRIVIA TODAY'S QUESTION Who were the members of the first class inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame? Answer, 6B Jordan SILVERMAN, tot the tree Press By Hillary Read Free Press Staff Writer ST.

ALBANS The first 51 seconds of Sunday night's Premier- Development League Eastern Regional soccer final belonged to the Vermont Voltage on the rain-slicked field at the Collins-Perley Sports Center. But the Cape Cod Crusaders dominating the entire second half, popping in four goals after intermission to take a 4-2 win and their second straight regional championship. The loss was Vermont's first home defeat of 2003. "It was exactly what we wanted," Voltage captain Bo Simic said of a fast start that saw Bo Vuckovic find Olivier Occean slicing through the Vermont's Olivier Occean (front) and Cape Cod's Ian Pilarski fight for positioning during Sunday night's game. Occean scored in the opening minute, but Cape Cod prevailed, 4-2, in the Premier Development League Eastern Regional final.

of a corner scramble beat Olivieri left his crease to Olivieri and shushed the snuff a scoring chance with slot for a 1-0 lead before the game was a minute old. Going into the second half, we said, 'Let's go win But obviously we couldn't." Scott Palguta evened the score by popping a header over Vermont keeper Andrew Olivieri (10 saves) with 3:49 gone in the second half. Simic, Geoff Thompson and Vuckovic all responded with good scoring bids that went either wide or into the hands of Crusaders goalie Keith Boudreau (five saves), and David Bulow's header out crowd of 1,673 at the 33:47 eieht minutes to play but com- mark. mitted a foul in the process. Joseph Ngwenya banged the kick home for a 3-1 lead, the See SOCCER, 8B "We were ball-watching," Simic said with disgust, "and their best player, (Bulow), they get him open and score.".