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www.tneTimesHerald.com TIMES HERALD, PORT HURON, MICHIGAN 1 BUSINESS -lPAGEIOC. WHOM TO CALL A New satellite phone FOR SPORTS SCORES PORTS I Rick Jakacki, sports editor I SportsTalk contender struggles fgj to attract customers SUNDAY, AUGUST 13, 2000 ligei' Wis rain lead BUICK OPEN LEADERS '2 Chris Perry 201 Rocco Mediate 202 Hal Sutton 203 Woody Austin 203 Paul Azinger 204 JoeOzaki 204 NOTE: gollers tieJ at 205 THIRD-ROUND LEADER: Chris Perry reacts after missing a birdie putt on the 15th hole Saturday during the third round of the Buick Open at the Warwick Hills Golf Country Club in Grand Blanc. Perry leads the event by one stroke. British Open champion Tiger Woods is six shots off the pace. By DUANE BURLESON, The Associated Press was only interested in a Tiger.

"Nobody was out there the last couple of groups. Nobody" said Rocco Mediate, who had a 70 and finished one stroke behind Perry. "That was the strangest final pairing I've ever played in. It was like playing a practice round. I guess Tiger took them home with him." What they missed was Perry holing a 45-foot eagle putt after driving the green on the 322-yard 14th, and Woods fires 67, within 6 shots of top The Associated Press GRAND BLANC Tiger Woods got the loudest cheers Saturday in the Buick Open.

Chris Perry was more than willing to settle for the lead. Perry went virtually unnoticed Saturday despite MORE ON BUICK, EC TIGER MAKING CHARGE making a crucial par save on the 17th. What they might not have noticed was that 17 players wound up within six strokes of the lead. What made them cheer is that Woods is among them after a 67 put him at 207. Perry wouldn't trade his spot on the top.

But how he got there he started the See BUICK, 60 V- a 7-under 65, and it had nothing to do with the fact he's an Ohio State alum deep in the heart of Wolverine country. A gallery that made the Buick Open feel like a major championship AREA ATHLETE GETS PART IN BASEBALL MOVIE mnti f4 'ffi -ffi yhx Hanson pushes Lions to victory The Associated Press PONT1AC Jason Hanson's 50-yard field goal with 5:42 remaining capped a second-half comeback Saturday night and lifted the Detroit Lions to a 15-13 exhibition victory against the Buffalo Bills. After Detroit (1-1) scored a touchdown in the first quarter, the Bills (1-1) responded with 13 unanswered points in the second quarter. But the Lions rallied by scoring eight points in the fourth quarter. James Stewart scored on a 1-yard run and Hanson added a 33-yarder for the Lions, who also got two points on a safety.

Rob Johnson, who played into the third quarter, hooked up with Eric Moulds on a 72-yard TD pass play for Buffalo and Steve Christie kicked two field goals for the Bills. The Bills, who lost six yards while going three-and-out on their first possession, had a second-and-10 situation from their own 2 on their next possession when linebacker Allen Aldridge stepped in front of a pass intended for Shawn Price. Aldridge lumbered nine yards to the Bills 3 before being hauled down by Jonathan Lintoa Two snaps later, Stewart slanted into the end zone. Aldridge, who also snaps on punts, drew a penalty for double-pumping early in the second quarter. After the penalty, Fred Jones blocked John Jett's punt.

The Bills took over on Detroit's 28, setting up a 37-yard field goal by Christie. On the first play of Buffalo's next possession, Johnson found Moulds wide open in broken coverage. Moulds turned the catch into a touchdown and a 10-7 Buffalo lead. Christie capped a 57-yard, 10-play drive with a 32-yard field goal with 23 seconds left in the quarter and the Bills went off with a 13-7 lead when Hanson missed from 56 yards out as time expired. Marquis Walker's interception of Alex Van Pelt's pass in the third quarter led to Hanson's first field goal, cutting the lead to 13-10 early in the fourth.

Detroit closed to 13-12 on a safety with 9:09 left in the game on a safety. By CARL CLARK, Special to the Times Herald THE BIG PICTURE: Port Huron's Ron Cook looks out onto the field at Tiger Stadium.on Monday during the filming of Billy Crystal's movie 61 Cook, a Port Huron High graduate who played for the Detroit Tigers in the minor leagues, earned a role as a pitcher for the Minnesota Twins. Cook enjoys brief moment in spotlight JIM WHYMER TODAY IN SPORTS SC4 honors ex-coach with scholarship Linda Jackson has not set foot in the St Clair County Community College gymnasium in seven years. But she plans to return to the college sometime this fall when her late husband, Paul, is honored. The Paul Jackson Memorial Scholarship will be presented to a Blue Water Area studentathlete after the start of the 2000-2001 school year.

"I think it's great the college is giving a scholarship in Paul's name," Jackson said. "There are a lot of people responsible for making this happen." Paul Jackson died July 13, 1994 after a short battle with cancer. He coached the SC4 women basketball team from 1989-90 to 1993-94. Dale Vos, the SC4 athletic director and men's Paul Jackson basketball coach, plans to present the scholarship at either a Skippers' sporting event or a board meeting. Funds for the scholarship were raised from the past four AlumniSkipper golf outings.

This year's scramble is set for Monday at St. Clair Golf Club. Since 1988, the outing has raised over $65,000 for SC4 and the Paul Jackson Memorial Scholarship. "Since the start of the golf outing, half of the proceeds went to the athletic department," Vos said. "With the 1995 tournament, we took the proceeds and switched them to the scholarship fund.

"The past four golf outings have raised $13,000. We could support the scholarship each year right from the golf outing. If something would happen to the outing, we can keep the funding going off the interest." The scholarship fund is up to $20,000 since money raised by Joe Roehl and Terry French was donated to the college in 1998. Linda Jackson worked for Roehl at the Wadhams Road Animal Center. Roehl started a scholarship fund in Paul's name, but decided to take the money and give it to the college, Linda said.

Before heading to the college, Jackson coached and taught at Croswell-Lexing-ton and Marysville high schools. He coached football, basketball, golf and baseball. Jackson also enjoyed playing fast-pitch softball, golf and recreation basketball. "Paul loved all sports," Vos said. "The coaching staff decided to not limit the scholarship to just women's basketball because he had interests in a lot of different sports.

We eventually want to be able to give out more than one scholarship. "The individual has to play on one of the college teams and has to be from the college service area." SC4 recruits students from St. Clair, Macomb, Sanilac, Huron and Lapeer counties. Lynne Jackson-Sampier kept the scorebook and was an assistant under her father during his final season. "My dad really enjoyed those years at the college," Lynne said.

"Many of his former players have stayed in touch with our family. They seem to have established a life-long bond." And Paul Jackson will be a part of SC4 athletics forever. Jim Whymer is the Times Herald senior sportswriter. He can be reached at 989-6267. grad lands bit part in HBO film Port Huron High By JIM WHYMER Times Herald DETROIT Ron Cook was sitting in the bleachers behind home plate at Tiger Stadium when a youngster tossed him a racquetball.

The lanky left-handed pitcher played a game of catch with the young boy as the crew set up another scene for actor-director Billy Crystal's HBO movie 61. "I was having a good time playing catch," said Cook, a 1986 Port Huron High graduate who plays a member of the Minnesota Twins in the movie about the 1961 home run race between Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris to beat Babe Ruth's record. "After a while, some of the movie people asked if they knew who I was playing catch with. "It was Mickey Mantle's 4-year-old grandson. I had no clue, but it was pretty i LL By PAUL WARNER, The Associated Press ACTION: Billy Crystal directs actors on Monday during filming of his movie 61 at Tiger Stadium.

HBO Films held try-outs at Wayne State University for players in the movie. among those making the cut. "I was just hoping for a shot to pitch. "I really expected to do more, but all the players probably thought the same thing. It was a neat experience and I'm glad I did it.

It will be something I'll always remember." The shooting of the film began last Sunday and is scheduled to run through Thursday. As of Friday afternoon, however, the crew was running three or four days behind schedule. "It looks like they'll be staying on in Detroit a little bit longer than they expected," said Carl Kudla, a former Marine City resident who plays an umpire in 61. The right look Cook reported to the stadium three days before the shooting for a uniform fit. Shortly after showing up at the stadium at 6 a.m.

See COOK, 5C Athletics Giambi joins Jose Canseco (1986-88) as the only Oakland players to drive in 100 runs in three straight years. "It sounds like a broken record, but he's having a great year," As Manager Art Howe said. "He's doing the job day in and day out and giving us opportunities to win." The As seem to be an all-or-nothing team against the Tigers. Catcher Ramon Hernandez, for instance, is 0-18 against them this year. But Hudson is 4-0 with a 1.86 earned-run average in his career against the Tigers.

Not only that, he'd given up just two hits in 13 innings against them this year before Dean Palmer's 22nd home run triggered the four-run seventh. MORE ON MOVIE, 5C UMPIRE GETS CALL amazing." Cook, a former minor-leaguer for the Detroit Tigers, never had the opportunity to toe the rubber on the pitching mound at Tiger Stadium during the movie. His acting career lasted three days. He was hoping to pull on another uniform, maybe that of the Baltimore Orioles or Boston Red Sox, so he could see some action on the field. "I know I'm in the movie, but I probably won't even be recognized," Cook said.

hit through six innings against right-hander Tim Hudson (13-4), the Tigers scored four in the seventh and had runners at second and third with two out and Juan Gonzalez up. Gonzalez hit his 17th home run in Friday night's 11-4 victory over the As and would have put the Tigers in front if he had connected this time but he grounded out to short. Still, the Tigers cut the lead to 6-4, but right-hander Matt Anderson let the reprieve slip away when Ben Grieve hit a three-run home run in the bottom of the seventh. Jason Giambi hit a two-run homer for the As in the third inning. It was his 30th of the season.

He also has 101 RBIs. Ron Cook Tigers slip against I Beach volleyball tour stopping inPort Huron Port Huron's Ron Cook was wmm SATURDAY: Oakla SATURDAY: Oakland Athlet ics 9. Tigers 5 RECORD: 54-61 STANDINGS: Third place in the AL Central, 15V6 games behind Chicago White Sox NEXT GAME: 4:05 p.m. today at Oakland TV: FOXS RADIO: WPHM 1380-AM "What makes Hudson so tough to hit?" Brad Ausmus said. "His right arm.

Everything from his shoulder down to his fingers. To me, after Pedro (Martinez), he's the best in the league." Adam Bernero (0-1) suffered his first loss in his third start, lasting 4 23 innings. "I didn't do a good job of keeping anyone off balance today," said Bernero, a native of nearby San Jose. "They roughed me up a little." Early deficit too much for Detroit to overcome, 9-5 Gannett News Service OAKLAND, Calif. Now you see it, now you don't.

The Detroit Tigers got back in the game and even gave themselves a chance to take the lead after being six runs down on Saturday, but the opportunity vanished quickly in a 9-5 loss to the Oakland As. A rather chippy loss, mind you, in which umpire Ted Barrett warned both sides in the eighth inning. By then, however, the Tigers had been out of it, in it and out of it again. Down 6-0 with only one Times Herald Pro beach volleyball is coming to Port Huron. The Midwest Professional Volleyball Association is having the inaugural Port Huron Open on Saturday at Lakeside Beach.

It is the eighth and stop on this year's tour, with the finale set for Sept. 2-3 in Muskegon. Play begins at 8 a.m., with the final rounds beginning in the afternoon. The women's final is set for 4 p.rru with the men's final starting immediately after its conclusioa Admission is free. The tour, which has been around for 10 years, promotes itself as having the best men's and women's pro beach volleyball teams in the VOLLEYBALL FACTS WHAT: Port Huron Open WHEN: Saturday; begins at 8 a.m., with women's finals set for 4 p.m., followed by men's finals WHERE: Lakeside Beach ADMISSION: Free Midwest.

There are 32 teams in the event Among the top men's teams are Russ Ettinger and Rob Thompson, Mark Fay and Brent Vandewege, and Jay Oliver and Dave Chapman. Women's teams to watch include Tree Jones and Shelly Ritchey, Emily Bridson and Jeri Arnold, and Chris Rehor and Heidi Grun-wald..