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Sports this morning CENTRAL FLORIDA C-2 The Orlando Sentinel, Tuesday, February 1 9, 1 991 Countdown Best Larry Bird is healthy again and' the Boston Celtics have won 7 games in a row, but they face a tough test tonight when they play the Suns in Phoenix. Kevin Johnson and Tom Chambers are among the league's top scorers, and the Suns are doing all they can to keep pace with the division-leading Portland Trail Blazers and LA Lakers. 8 p.m. (ED 10 Number of steals Magic's Nick Anderson needs to break his team record (69) for a season. 56 Consecutive victories needed by UNLV to beat UCLA's NCAA record streak of 88, set in 1971-74 tm ammmmi mm msm mm mm College base- NBA, Magic at College basket- NBA, Magic at American Cup NBA, Sacra- College basketball, Stetson at Indiana Pacers, ball, New Or- Minnesota Tim- gymnastics at mento Kings at ball, George-Rollins, 3:30 7:30 p.m.

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f) John's, 8 p.m. Park ketball, Barry at Memphis State Pitchers and College base- NBA, Los An- 3D Rollins, 7:30 at Florida State, catchers report ball, Miami at geles Lakers at UNLV at New P-m- 7:30 p.m. fJD for spring train- Florida, 5 p.m. Detroit Pistons, Mexico State, ing. 3:30 p.m.

midnight. CBD Royals give Bo $1 million raise Diving titles go to youth, veterans On the air TELEVISION TODAY TO 6 A.M. WEDNESDAY COMPILED FROM WIRE REPORTS By Bill Buchalter HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL (EE) Big Blue Championship: Dr. Phillips vs. Riverview, 4:30 p.m.

QD College, South Florida at Miami, (L), 7:30 p.m. BASKETBALL G3 63 College, George Mason at American, (L), 7:30 p.m. (3D College, Oklahoma State at Kansas OF THE SENTINEL STAFF State, (L), 7:30 p.m. fflD NBA, Boston at Phoenix, (L), 8 p.m. SD College, Texas Christian at Rice, (L), 8:30 p.m.

2D College, Tennessee at Auburn, (L), 9:30 p.m. BOXING (JD Tommy Morrison vs. Pinklon Thomas, (L), 9 p.m. GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL SOCCER (J5) AAAA State Championship, Seminole vs. Lyman, 2 p.m.

(EH) AAA State Championship, Boca Raton vs. Bishop Moore, was Kathy Corsitto-Damon, who finished 13th overall at 2:59.26. TENNIS ERIC JELEN defeated his German Davis Cup teammate Carl-Uwe Steeb, 6-3, 6-4, in the first round of the Stuttgart Euro-card Classic in Germany. Jelen will play Goran Ivanisevic, a 6-1, 6-2 winner against Alexander Volkov. In other matches, Magnus Gustafsson defeated Marc Rosset, 6-4, 6-1; and Jonas Svensson rallied to beat Richard Fromberg, 6-7 (3-7), 6-1, 6-0.

GILAD BLOOM beat Christo Van Rensburg, 3-6, 6-3, 6-3, in a first-round match of the Volvo Indoor tournament in Memphis, Tenn. MISCELLANEOUS THE UNIVERSITY of North Florida will become the eighth member of the Sunshine State Conference, school and league officials announced. North Florida, now a member of the NAIA, will petition to join the NCAA and plans a full conference schedule beginning in 1993-94. The Jacksonville school will add women's volleyball, softball and soccer in the fall and basketball for men and women in 1993. UNF has 2,600 undergraduate students.

Compiled from wire reports BOWLING SANDRA JO Shiery opened the second round of the Ladies Pro Bowlers Tour Athens (Ga.) Open with games of 266, 289 and 253 to take the lead after 12 games Monday. She leads Donna Adamek, with six games of qualifying left. Lorrie Nichols is in third at 2,681 pins, followed by Sharon Todd (2,665) and Leanne Barette FOOTBALL RAYMOND BERRY, former head coach of the New England Patriots, was named the Detroit Lions' quarterbacks coach. Berry was the Patriots' coach from 1984 to 1989, compiling a 48-39 record. Also, Dave Levy was named offensive coordinator, and Charlie Sanders was named receivers coordinator.

RUNNING CANADIAN PETER Maher defended his title and set a record Sunday in the 20th annual Space Coast Marathon in Melbourne. Maher, of Toronto, ran the 26.2-mile course in 2 hours, 18 minutes, and 39 seconds to break the 2-year-old mark of 2:28.40 set by Carlos Talbott of Miami. Maher coasted to the victory as his nearest competitor, Jim Mu-sante of Winter Park, was more than 23 minutes behind at 2:41.54. The top women's finisher 8 p.m. RADIO TODAY AUTO RACING WHOO-AM (990), WOCA-AM (1270), Bo Jackson received a $1 million raise Monday when he agreed with the Kansas City Royals on a 1-year, $2,375,000 contract.

Jackson had been scheduled for an arbitration hearing today. He had been asking for $2.7 million, while the team had been offering $1.8 million. He batted .272 last season with 28 homers and 78 RBIs last season. Dr. Steve Joyce, the Royals' team physician, has examined the hip injury that put Jackson out of the NFL playoffs in December.

"The injury, in non-technical terms, is a soft-tissue injury," General Manager Herk Robinson said. "It is not considered serious. There was no bone or ligament damage." Teammate Danny Tartabull also avoided arbitration, agreeing to a 1-year contract. Details were not disclosed. In other baseball news: Right-hander Eric King and the Cleveland Indians agreed to a 1-year contract worth $1.45 million, a raise of nearly $1 million.

King, 27, who made $455,000 last season, was acquired from the Chicago White Sox in December. He went 124 with a 3.28 ERA last season. Outfielder Dan Pasqua agreed to a 1-year contract worth $800,000 with the Chicago White Sox. Pasqua made $375,000 last year, when he batted .274 with 13 home runs and 58 RBIs in 325 at-bats. Outfielder Oddibe McDowell was given a raise of $235,000 from the Atlanta Braves with a 1-year contract worth $925,000.

He batted .243 last season with 7 homers, 25 RBIs and 13 stolen bases. NASCAR Live, 7 p.m. A youthful American who aspires to be a future Olympian and a veteran Venezuelan who has competed in three Olympics were winners Monday in platform diving competition at Orlando International Aquatic Center. Jennifer Keim, 13, of Fort Lauderdale, and Veronica Ribot, 32, a three-time Venezuelan Olympian who dives for Hurricane Diving at the University of Miami, won the girls and senior women's titles. "Keim is one of our hopefuls for the '96 Olympics," said Curt McCoy, a diving coach at OAIC.

Continuing the international theme, Arson Djavdian, 27, of G.O. Diving in Los Angeles, and Philippe Comtois, 17, of Montreal, won junior boys and senior men's titles. International Invitational Diving AT ORLANDO INTERNATIONAL AQUATIC CENTER PLATFORM (10 METERS) GIRLS JUNIOR OLYMPIC OPEN 1. Jenny Keim, Fort Lauderdale 366.75; 2. Anne-Josee Diome, Montreal, 31380, 3.

Tracy Wilcox, Ann Arbor, Mich. 269 90. BOYS JUNIOR OLYMPIC OPEN 1. Philippe Comtois. Montreal, 370.85; 2.

Chris Mantilla, Boca Raton, 362.60; a Mike Snyder, Los Angeles 355.25. WOMEN'S SENIOR OPEN 1. Veronica Ribot, Venezuela, 371.30; 2. Jenny Keim, Fort Lauderdale, 366.75; 3. Mary Ellen Clark, Fort Lauderdale, 354.70.

MEN'S SENIOR OPEN 1. Arson Djavadian, Los Angeles, 553.15; 2. Zeke Crowley, Dallas, 485.10; 3. Eric Ogmtoene, Fort Lauderdale, 433.60. WNDB-AM (1150).

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Arena box office and Ticketmaster outlets (839-3900). tkvwvw Attitude makes Harris Thunder's No. 1 catch WLAF draft list AT ORLANDO MONDAY'S SELECTIONS QUARTERBACKS By Nancy Gay OF THE SENTINEL STAFF Fresno Stats. Sacramento. EHiott Searcy, Southern U.

6, London, Dana Bhnson, Nebraska 7, New York, Cornel Bur-bage, Kentucky. 8. Bimiingham, Willie Bouyer, Michigan State. 9, Montreal, Mike Cadore, Eastern Kentucky. 10, Frankfurt, Charles Long Beach State.

Second round 11, Frankfurt, Andy Schillinger, Miami, Ohio. 12, Montreal, WHtk) Snead, Florida. 13, Birmingham, Gary Cooper, Oemson 14, New York, Tony Jones, Florida. 15, London, John Horton, Arizona 16, Sacramento, Calvin Muhammad, Texas Southern. 17, San Antonio, John Garrett Princeton.

18, Orlando, John Simpson, Baylor. 19, Barcelona, Thomas Woods, Tennessee. 20, Ralegh-Durham, Marvin Hargrove, Richmond. ThW round 21, RaleiotvDurham. Andre Johnson, Ferris State.

22, Barcelona, Rogie Mages, Louisiana State. 23, Orian-do, Strrvle Thomas, BethunCookman. 24, San Antono, Willie Marshall, Temple. 25, Sacramento, Paul Smith, Houston. 26, London, Aatron Kenney, Wisconsin-Stevens Point 27, New York, Greg Lewis, Texas ASM 28, Brmingham, William MacK-al, TemessefrMartn 29, Montreal, Byron Franklin, Auburn 30, Frankfurt Curtis Reed, MAkr.

Fourth round 31, Frankfurt. Solomon Miner, Utah Stats. 32, Montreal, Mike Ford, California. 33, Birmingham, Tyrone Watson, Tennessee State. 34, New York, Monty Giibreath, San Diego State.

35, London, John Javis, Howard. 36, Sacramento, Cart Parker, Vanderb.lt. 37, San Antonio, Bin Hess, West Chester. 38, Oriando, CaMn Nicholas, Grambling Stats. 39.

Barcelona, Tim Egerton, Delaware State. 40, RaletghOurham, Dempsey Norman, St Francis. Fltm round 41, HaleigfvOurham, Paul Jokisch, Michigan. 42, Barcelona, Bill Osbom, Pitsburgh. 43, Orlando, Chris Rot-cot, Hawaii.

44, San Antonio, Gary Gooden, Indiana 45, Sacramento. Paco Craig, Indiana 46, London, Howard Huckaby, Florida MM. 47, New York, Chris Gaiters, Minnesota. 48, Birmingham, Mervin Patterson, Stephen F. Austin.

49, Montreal, Todd White, FuBerton State. 50, Frankfurt, Cedric Gordon, Ferris State. Sixth round 51, Frankfurt Craig Morton, Dartmouth. 52, Montreal, Richard Esteil, Kansas. 53, Birmingham, Harry Metre.

William Mary. 54. New York. Joey CtnkscaJes, Tennessee. 55, London, Chris Harkness, Ashland.

56, Sacramento, Steve Williams, Unas. 57, San Antonio, Wayne Coffey. Southwest Texas State 58, Oriando, Cedric Ttttman, North-am Colorado. 59, Barcelona. Morgan Gregory, Nebraska 60, RaleigrvOuham, Norm McGee, North Dakota.

Seventh round 61, RaieighDurham, Tracy Martin, North Dakota. 62, Barcelona, Marcus Cherry, Boston College. 63, Oriando, Bruce Lasant, Florida State. 64, San Antonio, Glenn Antrum, Connecticut. 65, Sacramento, Al Owens, New Mexico.

66. London, Derek Washington, Long Beach State. 67, New York, Henry Tuten, Pittsburgh. 68, Birmingham, Gerald Mitchell, Vanderbilft. 69, Montreal, Gary Couch, Minnesota 70, Frankfurt Bruce Lang, Fairmont State.

Eighth round 71, Frankfurt, AJvri Lee, Louisiana State. 72. Montreal, Leslie Duncan, Northern Arizona 73, Birmingham, Dale Amos, Franklin Marshall. 74, New York, Jerome Mcintosh, Tiiane. 75.

London, Percy Waddle, Texas 76, Sacramento, Warren Parker, St Mary 77, San Antonio, Lee Morris, Oklahoma 78, Oriando, Alfonso Garcia, Fort Lewis. 79. Barcelona. Brian Gardner, Pram View 80, Raleigh-Durham, Marc Zeno, Tulare. Thunder name Chandler volunteer assistant coach Remember Wes Chandler, the former Florida Gators wide receiver? The player became a coach Monday, when the Thunder named him a volunteer assistant to work with wide receivers.

Chandler, 34, a graduate of New Smyrna Beach High School who played for Florida: from 1974 to 1977, spent three seasons with the New-Orleans Saints, seven seasons with the San Diega Chargers and a year with the San Francisco 49ers. He is the athletic director and football coach at Fa- ther Lopez High School in Daytona Beach and will maintain both positions. "Wes Chandler is an excel-; lent teacher in the mechanics of catching the foot-; ball," Thunder coach Don Matthews said. ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE THE SHOCK of getting picked by a foreign! team was too much for one wide receiver. Hearing; that he had been chosen by the London the player posed this anxious question to public-re- lations assistant Paul Feinberg: "What language do! they speak over there, anyway?" THE RUMOR MILL JACK YOUNGBLOOD, former NFL all-pro dy fensive end with the Los Angeles Rams, isn't say ing why he has been watching workouts all week, just like to go places and start rumors," he said.

One rumor is he will do radio commentary for Sacramento. Youngblood: "I'm impressed with the future this; league has to offer. The overall quality of talent is very good." JERRY GREENE AND NANCY GAY Flrat round 1, Birmingham, Brent Pease, Montana 2, Montreal, Kevin Sweeney, Fresno State. 3, Frankfurt, Mike Perez, San Jose State. 4, RaJiegrvDurham, Mark Mays, North Carolina.

Barcelona, Scott Emey, Rutgers. 6, Orlando, Kar-wtn Bed, Florida. 7, San Antonio, Jason Garrett, Princeton. 8, Sacramento, Ben Bennett Duke. 9, London, John Witkowski, Columbia 10.

New York, Todd Hammel, Stephen F. Austin. Second round 11, New York, Michael McCarthy, Cani-sius. 12, London, Lee Safe Temple. 13, Sacramento, Todd Elks, South Carolina 14, San Antonio, Paul Singer, Western Utnois.

15, Orlando, David Dtcut, Houston. 16, Barcelona, Tony Rice, Notre Dame. 17, Raleigh-Ourtiam, Bobby McAUs-ter, Michigan State. 18, Frankfurt, Sammy Garza, TexarrQ Paso. 19, Montreal, Mike Johnson, Akron.

20, Bnrngham, Joe Pizzo, Mars Hi. Third round 21, Bimtngham, Eric Jones, VanderbM. 22, Montreal. Todd Santos, San Diego State. 23.

Frankfurt, Alex Espinoza. Iowa State. 24, PaMghOurham, Steve Gage, Tutea 25. Barcelona, Jay Gruden, Loutsvie. 26, Oriando, Tim Peterson, WVtconsirvStout 27, San Antonio, Frank Bauer, Lafayette.

28, Sacramento, Alfred Jenkins, Arizona 29, London, Mickey Gudry, Louisiana State. 30, New York, Jack Stanley, Nevada Fourih round 31, New York, Andrew Molander, Colorado State. 32, London, Pat Hegarty, Texas-El Paso. 33, Sacramento, Ed Rubbert, Louisville. 34, San Antonio, Gerry Gdowskl, Nebraska 35, Orlando, Dave Sennet, Indiana.

36, Barcelona, Tony Jones, Salem College. 37, RalagrvDurham, Wayne Johnson, Georgia. 38, Frankfurt, Dan English, New Mexico Highlands. 39, Montreal, Michael Proctor, Murray State. 40, Birmingham, Gene Benhart, Western Illinois.

TH3HT ends First round 1, Montreal, Keith Jennings, Oemson. 2, Frankfurt, Chad Fortune, Lousvite. 3, Raleigh-Durham, Dave Ene. South Dakota 4. Barcelona, Mke Hmant Temple.

5, Orlando, Tommk) Stowers, Missouri. 6, San Antonio. Rome WKkame. Oklahoma State. 7, Sacramento, Shane Strain, Minnesota 8.

London, Pat Davis, Syracuse. 9, New York, Adrian Moss. West Vrgjnia 10, Birmingham, Phil Rosa. Oregon State. Second round 11, Brmngham, Mark Hopkins, Central Michigan.

12, New York, Sean Russell, San Diego. 13, London, David Harbour, Mnois. 14, Sacramento. Dave Cotorma, Duke. 15, San Antonio, Charlie Damngton, Kentucky.

16, Oriando, Dtmra Smith, Utah. 17. Barcelona. Todd Miltkan. Nebraska 18, RaJeigh-Durtiam, Joe Meerten, Oregon.

19, Frankfurt, Todd Young. Perm State. 20, Montreal, 0 Dunn, Oemson. Third round 21, Montreal, William Hams, Bishop. 22, Frankfurt, John Dufl, New Mexico.

23, Raleigh-Durham, Kevin Sprinkles, Texas Tech. 24, Barcelona, Demetrius Davis, UNLV. 25. Orlando, Dwayrw Harrison, Nrchoks Stats. 26, San Antonio, Craig Jones.

Fresno State. 27, Sacramento, Mitch Dillard, Washington State. 28, London, Stava Fumi, Miami, Fla. 29, New York, Crarg Davis, Southern 30, Birmingham, Curt Jones, Utah. WIDE RECEIVERS First round 1, Raleigh-Durham, Clarence Seay.

Texas-S Paso 2. Barcelona, Gene Taylor. Fresno State 3, Oriando, Wyatt Harris, Southern U. 4. San Antonio, Dwght Pickens.

backfield, all qualities that will make Harris invaluable on a team where versatility sells. "I felt like I had a good workout, plus my 40 time was good," said Harris, who started three years at Southern. His competition at wide receiver will include former Florida State star Bruce LaSane, who the Thunder drafted in the seventh round. "I'm disappointed that it took so long for me to get picked, but I'm happy to stay in Florida," LaSane said. Other wide receiver picks: second round, John Simpson, Baylor; third round, Steve Thomas, Bethune-Cookman; fourth round, Calvin Nicholas, Grambling (La.) State; fifth round, Chris Roscoe, Hawaii; sixth round, Cedric Tillman, Northern Colorado; eighth round, Alfonso Garcia, Fort Lewis (Colo.) College.

The Thunder selected Dennis Smith of Utah with their second pick in the tight ends draft and Dwayne Harrison of Nicholls State with their third pick. For a team so bent on a high-speed, deep ball, run-and-shoot type offense, the question begs to be asked: Why should the Thunder even draft tight ends? Because they have to. "We don't know how many receivers we'll carry," Matthews said. "A lot depends on how well the tight ends catch and run. Let's just say it will help those guys tight ends make the team if they can do more than just catch the ball." He caught many balls and more importantly, many eyes Sunday during the wide receivers workout at the Florida Citrus Bowl, and Monday morning, speedy Wyatt Harris from Southern (La.) University caught on with the Orlando Thunder as their top pick in the receivers draft.

Tight ends also were selected Monday. The Thunder made Tommie Stowers of Missouri their top pick in that positional stocking draft All told, Orlando added 15 players to its squad Monday four quarterbacks, eight wide receivers and three tight ends bringing the total to 36 after seven position rounds. Three rounds remain in the draft, which concludes Sunday. That also is the first day of the Thunder's training camp, which will be held at the Citrus Bowl practice facility. Teams must cut down from their original 65 to a final 36-man roster (plus four developmental players) by March 19.

The 10-week season begins March 23. Harris small at 5 feet 9 but swift with a 4.4 in the 40 was the standout receiver during tryouts. He impressed many coaches with a bubbly, enthusiastic attitude. "That's the thing we noticed," Thunder coach Don Matthews said. "He's got a great personality, a real team-type of guy.

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The first quarterback selected Brent Pease from Montana was a mild surprise. Sweeney, a product of pass-happy Fresno State, was the consensus pick of WLAF scouts. The Birmingham Fire, however, said it came here wanting to draft Pease, 26, an llth-round pick of the NFL's Minnesota Vikings in 1987. Pease was Houston's starting quarterback during the three weeks of "replacement games" in '87 and spent two full seasons with the Oilers. "I'm excited, but being picked first doesn't really mean anything," Pease said.

"But I like this league because they really plan on picking up the pace." With a mandatory no-huddle style, the WLAF does plan on being a passing league. That's why the Montreal Machine were delighted to get Sweeney with the second pick. He played for Dallas of the NFL in 1987-88, starting two games, after being a seventh-round draft choice. Sweeney played for his father, Jim Sweeney, at Fresno State and passed for 10,623 yards. about Kerwin, and all the information was positive," Matthews said.

One factor is that Thunder offensive coordinator Galen Hall was Bell's head coach in college. "I have no doubt that Kerwin will get the job done," Hall said. "He's always been a winner." Oddly, Bell's greatest fear before the draft was that he would go too high. "I was worried that something was going to happen before Orlando," Bell said. "I did have a good workout and thought one of the first five teams might select me.

"I want to be a part of this franchise, because I know it's going to be one of the best All we have to do is win some games and, like the Magic, we will win the support of the community." Bell will have competition. The Thunder drafted three other quarterbacks and will keep two. In order of selection, the others are: David Dacus, 24, who was a run-and-shoot quarterback at the University of Houston; Tim Peterson, 23, a prospect with potential from Wisconsin-Stout; and Dave Schnell, 24, hampered by spending most of his time iluuLJ IIIHI iEBALL CITY Ticket Hotline 813-424-2500 SPORTS COMPLEX Group Services 813-424-7124 AT MAISON BLANCHE, SPEC'S, SOUND WAREHOUSE, PRIME TIME VIDEO INFINITE MUSHROOM (407) 839-3900 (904) 353-3309.