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.1 D-5 The Orlando Sentinel, Monday, February 6, 1990 FIT'S rally in 10th ruins UCF's debut Colombia tips U.S. amid drug charges 1 COLLEGirV By Roy Fuoco By Charlie Vincent SENTINEL CORRESPONDENT DETROIT FREE PRESS Western Kentucky and sweep of the three-game series. Eduardo Perez started FSUs rally with a single. Brian Gilliland and Marc Ronan followed with singles, with Ronan's hit driving in Perez with the tying run. Reliever Scott Steinitz was the winner with three innings of one-hit work.

Ronan and Brock led the Seminoles with two hits and two RBIs apiece. MIAMI 8, SETON HALL 2 STARTER OSCAR Munoz (1-0) pitched strong for 5 innings, and host Miami collected 12 hits for its victory and three-game sweep of Seton Hall. Munoz threw 50 strikes out of 78 pitches, giving up five hits and two walks and striking out five. Freshman Charles Johnson, a first-round draft choice of the Montreal Expos in the 1989 draft, was 3-for-4 for Miami. The Hurricanes jumped ahead in the second inning with two runs on a bases-loaded walk by Dan Welk (0-1) and a two-base error.

Compiled from wire, staff reports The Panthers scored twice in the the second and twice in the fourth. In both innings, their first runner reached on an error. When FIT loaded the bases with no outs in the second inning, Turner almost escaped without a run. After two batters hit ground balls which set up force plays at the plate, Dwyer (2-for-5, 3 RBIs) singled to left to drive in two runs. Turner settled down after the fourth and allowed just one runner over the next five innings.

Despite have only one hit during the first six innings, the Knights had a number of scoring opportunities. They loaded the bases in the third and fifth innings and had runners at the corners in the first but came away empty. FLA. 13, W. CAROLINA 1 SECOND BASEMAN Billy Min- nis drove in four runs, and three pitchers combined on a five-hitter to lead host Florida (2-1) over Western Carolina (1-2) Sunday afternoon.

Freshman right-hander John Burke, the winner, gave up five hits and one run and struck out seven in five innings. Brent Stuart pitched three innings of no-hit ball with four strikeouts, and freshman Doug Brennan retired the side in order in the ninth. Herbert Perry and Eric Martinez each had three hits for Florida. FSU 6, W. KY.

4 CHRIS BROCK'S two-run single in the seventh inning gave host Florida State a victory over American of Cali and Millionaries de Bogota. German Gomez, president of the Millionaries, was shot several weeks ago. Colombian reporters covering the Marlboro Cup said as many 15 of the players here played for the four clubs in question. The federation released a statement in Miami, saying: "In view of the publication of reports in Colombian and international print media and radio regarding circumstances that have created a climate of uncertainty there will be a work recess for the Colombia National Team upon its return to its country." The Colombians are listed in early London odds as 40-to-l in the World Cup. The United States is The Colombians are a much better team than the USA, though it didn't show Sunday.

They played as if they were distracted. As if they had something else on their minds. As if they had to keep looking over their shoulders for someone. Colombia finally won when Kasey Keller the final kicker in the shootout round of 10 slammed his kick off the crossbar. And so it was another loss.

Just another loss. So what is the loss of a soccer game? Of 100 soccer games? Here we're unhappy because the Republicans run the country. Or because the Democrats do. At least we have some idea who's running it. Florida Institute of Technology scored four runs in the 10th inning to spoil the University of Central Florida's opener with an 84 victory at the UCF Baseball Complex before a crowd of 670 Sunday.

The game was not pretty from either side. FIT (2-0) walked 10, but UCF could not capitalize. The Panthers' runs all were unearned. The way the Panthers scored in the final innning was indicative on how the game went. Reliever Laurence Heisler (0-1) struck out leadoff batter Charles Dwyer, but the ball got past catcher Damian Torino, allowing Dwyer to reach base.

Consecutive singles by Dave Campbell, Carlos Morales, Chip Greek and Paul Ovellette scored two runs. First baseman Mark Coffey hit a sacrifice fly to drive in Morales. Torino's wild throw to second on Ovellette's stolen base attempt allowed Greek to score the final run. Ernie Martinez's solo homer with two out in the bottom of the ninth sent the game into extra innings. Martinez, a transfer from Brevard Community College who played at Lake Howell High School, had three of UCF's four hits.

"Other than starting pitcher Brandon Turner and Martinez, no one played today," UCF Coach Jay Bergman said. "When they give you all the opportunities to score and you don't, that's really bad." MIAMI It was, it seemed, another blow at national pride. Another blot behind our name. Beaten again. First Costa Rica a 2-0 loss Friday.

Now Colombia. Little countries. Colombia beat the United States national soccer team Sunday at the Orange Bowl in the Marlboro Cup in: a penalty kick shootout, 9-8, after they tied, 1-1, in regulation. It is a time for national head-hanging and hand-wringing. A pity.

But when it was over and the Colombians had won the game, they packed their bags and slipped off into the night and boarded a flight that would take them home to an uncertain future because evil things are happening in their homeland. While they were in Miami to play against the United States, Uruguay and Costa Rica, a 45-minute taped message was delivered to Radio Caracol in Colombia by a group calling itself Clean Football for Colombia. They did not exactly say that this Colombian National team was riddled with drug users, but there have long been allegations that some Colombian soccer club executives are involved in the drug trade. The Clean Football group (Lifucol) wants Colombian Coach Francisco Maturana to avoid using players from four teams: Independemente de Medellin, National of Medellin, FIT 8, UCF 4 FIT UCF brhbl abrhM Dwyer 2b 5 2 2 3 Lane 2b 3 10 0 Campbell 3b 5 12 1 Joseph 4 10 0 Morales as 5 12 1 Martinez 3b 3 2 3 1 Greek 5 111 Kiser dh 2 0 0 1 Ovellette dh 4 0 0 0 Crone rl 5 0 0 0 Cottey lb 4 0 10 LeCierc It 4 0 0 2 Crane 11 5 13 0 McClllan 1b 4 0 10 Navarro rf 3 2 0 0 Tonno 4 0 0 0 Harmon rl 1 0 0 0 Palm ss 3 0 0 0 Lnobe cl 4 0 10 Hummel ss 10 0 0 Totals 41 812 7 Totals 33 4 4 4 FIT 020 200 000 4 8 Central Fit. 000 000 301 0 4 Sunday's results Kendrlck, Graham (4), Thomas (7) and Raleigh, Senn (8); Bunxe, Stuart (6), Brennan (9) and Linares, Bell (6) Records Western Carolina 1 -2, Florida 2-1 FLORIDA SCHOOLS Lane, Martinez, Labbe, Morales, Torino.

DP FIT 1 LOB FIT 5. UCF 10 2B Martinez, Dwyer. Campbell hh Martinez (1), br Leuerc, coney. ER BB SO IP Florida St 6, Western Kentucky 4 Florida 13, Western Carolina 1 FIT 8. UCF 4 SOUTHWEST Houston 3, Hardin-Simmons 1 Rtce 11.

Arizona St. 4 Southwestern, Texas 13-10, North Texas 0-1 Texas Tech 2, New Mexico 0 Sunday's linescore FLORIDA 13. WESTERN CAROLINA 1 This week's games Tuesday Bethune-Cookman at FIT: Wednesday Flagler at Stetson; Thursday FIT at Bethune-Cookman, Friday Stetson al FIU; ABCA Hali ot Fame Tournament at Boardwalk Baseball (FSU, Wichita State. LSU. North Carolina): Western Kentucky at UCF, Georgia Southern at Florida; Miami at South Ftonda; Saturday Nonh Florida at FIT; Bethune-Cookman at Rollins; Setson at FIU; West-em Kentucky at UCF (2); Georgia Southern at Florida; Miami at South Flonda; ABCA Hail ot Fame Tournament at Boardwalk Baseball (FSU, Wichita State, LSU, North Carolina).

FIT Finney Faino Handley W. 2-0 UCF Turner Heisler 0-1 Huie 3:15 A-670. Western Carolina Florida 000 100 0001 53 312 401 11x 1314 1 Uria leases 1 st victory at SunBank 14-hour run is a picnic for Gordon Grooms cleans up with 1st By Tim Hipps By Tim Hipps By Tim Hipps OF THE SENTINEL STAFF OF THE SENTINEL STAFF OF THE SENTINEL STAFF DAYTONA BEACH Peter Uria, who for six years drove Porsches to several successful finishes, finally found Victory Lane Sunday by piloting a leased Mazda RX-7 to the GTU title in the SunBank 24 at Daytona. DAYTONA BEACH Robby Gordon spent 18 consecutive hours in the driver's seat to win the Baja 1000 off-road race last December. So putting in 14 hours behind the wheel of a Mercury Cougar XR-7 on pavement, no less DAYTONA BEACH Engine troubles encountered early by the defending Camel Lights series championship team of Scott Schu-bot, Linda Ludemann and Tomas Lopez opened the door for John Grooms to earn his first MSA vic ff 1, 1 tory Sunday in the SunBank 24 at Daytona Only 20 minutes into the race the Racing Team was rebuilding its engine.

It did not return to the track until 11 Saturday night, yet still managed to salvage a third-place finish two spots better than in last year's opener, after which they went on to win the series points race. "It's been very frustrating," ASSOCIATED PRESS Derek Bell escapes with just a cut lip after being pulled from his overturned Porsche 962 LeMans race in question for Lammers-Wallace team seemed like a weekend in the park for Gordon, 21, who teamed with Calvin Fish and Lynn St. James to win the GTO division of the SunBank 24 at Daytona. Gordon made his debut on pavement for Roush Racing, one of the most formidable teams to hit Daytona, and he drove 14 of the 24 hours to earn the team a sixth consecutive GTO title here. "I drove the first two hours, the last two and 10 more in between," Gordon said.

"I got one hour of sleep that's all I needed. I think I can still do this for a couple more years." Owner Jack Roush hopes so. "This is an endurance race seeing who has the best car and the best driving ability," Roush said. "It's who is the strongest and who has the most will. The motivation on our team is so, so high.

We have a lot of youth and commitment. That's a significant part." St. James chose to credit another significant part. "The car's perfect," she said after driving a two-hour stint. "It was a little bit frustrating because we have such a good lead.

You've got to be easy on the car and make sure you stay out of trouble. "I didn't want anything to happen. I even looked up a few times to make sure no missiles or anything were falling out of the sky. It's so rare to have a flawless race." It wasn't just any Mazda that allowed Uria to realize his longtime dream. It was the most successful chassis in Daytona's racing history the car that Amos Johnson drove to victory here in 1985, '86, '87 and '88, along with a third-place finish last year.

"The car is a hero," said Uria, who teamed with Bob Dotson, Jim Pace and Rusty Scott in completing 620 laps around the 3.56-mile course. "This car is capable of winning this race all by itself. I don't think it needs any drivers. Peter Uria Racing finished third or fourth in every 24-hour race here since 1984 always behind Johnson's car. "I got tired of chasing it," Uria said.

"I figured if I can't beat it, I'll lease it." Johnson reluctantly agreed in January to let Uria lease the car for the SunBank 24 at Daytona and the 12 Hours of Sebring on March 17. "After that, we'll have to play it by ear," Uria said. "I'd love to race it as much as I can." Said Johnson: "It sure increased my car's value. It's like we have a button on the dash marked You push it, and off it goes. Peter always said he wanted to drive this car at Daytona.

He finished behind me here so many times that the only way he felt he could get to Victory Lane was in my car." able to make six of his scheduled turns in the car," team manager Tony Dowe said. "Martin and John had to double up to help Price out. We'll have to work with Price a little better so he'll be more fit for other races." Because he missed so much time in the car, Cobb didn't get credit in the points races, missing out on the 23 his teammates picked up. STILL RUNNING MARK KENNEDY of Daytona Beach was one of the few Central Floridians who finished the race in a car that was still running. Kennedy, driving with Anthony Puleo of St.

Augustine, Jerry Walsh of Jacksonville and Ken Painter of Fort Collins, finished sixth in the GTO class, completing 531 laps in a Chevy Camaro. HERE COME THOSE TEARS PETER URIA, who won his first professional title by claiming the GTU title, was overcome by joy. "I think the last two laps were the most enjoyable just knowing the checkered flag was coming. It was so emotional to know that I was going to realize my dream. After coming here for so many years and doing so well in my Porsche but never getting a victory.

I just could not believe I was finally going to win a race. I was crying like a little baby when I took the checkered flag." BETH RHODES Schubot said after the setback. "But we're still rolling. I just want to get some points." Meanwhile, the trio of Grooms, Frank Jellinek and Michael Greenfield cashed in in their Mazda Argo. They completed 642 laps and finished running in ninth place overall for $20,000.

Grooms said the triumph was long overdue. "We led every time here in the past four years. Two years ago we were second and on the lead lap at 11 a.m., and got a rock in the radiator and that put us out. Three years ago we had gearbox trouble and finished third. "So I'm not surprised at all to be winning; our car always runs well here." This the second time in three years that Tom Walkinshaw's Jaguar team has won the SunBank 24 at Daytona.

John Nielsen and Martin Brundle were in the winning car two years ago when the team took the title in its U.S. debut. Jan Lammers and Andy Wallace went on to sweep the world's 24-hour events for TWR, winning the LeMans that June. The team may not get a chance to try to repeat the feat with LeMans in question this year. "Unless it LeMans is licensed by FISA," Walkin-shaw said.

"We would not want our drivers to drive in an unlicensed race." Though LeMans might mean more emotionally to the British drivers with all of Europe looking on, the Daytona event certainly means more to the team competing for the Camel IMSA series title. "You'd love to say you've won both," said Lammers, just after completing his set. "It's fantastic to win this race. I don't think I've realized it yet." PRICE GOES DOWN THE NO. 60 Jag wasn't the only part of the team that had overheating problems.

Driver Price Cobb wasn't able to complete the race after being overcome by heat exhaustion. "Price wasn't 3 SUNBANK From D-1 wasn't actually damaged but had to be taken behind the wall for clean-up. The No. 84 was called back into action when the No. 83 went behind the wall with engine trouble at 1:48 a.m.

But nine hours later, it would retire a second time. "The engine quit," Geoff Brabham said. "I'm not exactly sure what the problem was. Basically, we were trying to get manufacturers points." The team, which has won 20 of 29 races the past two seasons, needed to complete 70 percent of the race for it to count toward the Camel IMSA series points race; neither car was able to do that. The winners collected $66,000 of the $339,700 purse, and the British team picked up another $25,000 for second.

Walkinshaw said that had the teams ended up sprinting 1-2 to the finish, there was a plan. "We had the strategy worked out before; fortunately, we didn't have to bring that into play," Walkinshaw said, conveniently avoiding the issue. "Fortunately, we can wait till we have to do at to answer that." Lena. Thierry Winters and Tom Winters, Pontiac Spice, 1,000, John Hig-gins, Howard Cherry, Tim McAdam and Charles Monk, Porsche Fabcar, 1,000, 242 39 (56) David Duda, Bob Speakman, Jim Novatne and Mike Speakman, Dat-sun 240Z. 1,000, 231 (38) Hoyt Overbagh, Ed DeLong, Mark Montgomery, Guy Church and Del Taylor, Chevrolet Camaro, 1 ,000, 229.

41. (14) Gianpiero Moretti, Derek Bell and Stanley Dickens, Porsche 962C, 1,000. 186, (45) Max and Rusty Schmidt, Jorge Mendoza and Jim Bnody. Mazda Argo, 1,000, 186. 43.

(28) Richard McDill and Bill McDill and Jim Burt, Chevrolet Camaro, 1 .000, 167:44 (37) Bob Leitzinger, Chuck Kurtz and Butch Leitzinger and David Lonng, Nissan 240SX, 1,000, 147. 45 (4) Jean-Louis Ricci and Henri Pescarolo and Frank Jelinski, Porsche 962C, 1,000, 145; 46. (46) Mike Davies. Robbie Bhul and Stuart Hayner, Dodge Daytona, 137. 47.

(8) Bernard Jourdain, Hiro Matsushita and Jeff Kline. Chevy Spice SE90C, 90:48. (48) John Hogdal, Lance Stewart. Al Bacon and John Finger Mazda MX-6. 85 I 25.

(6) Kevin Cogan, John Paul Jr. and Mauro Baldi. Nissan GTP-ZXT, 1.500, 397, (57) Henry Bros-naham, Steve Burgner, Bill Cerveny, Tom Caniglia and Robert McElheny, Chevrolet Camaro, 1,500, 369 27. (7) Raul Boesel, Jochen Dauer. Al Unser Jr.

and Robby Unser, Porsche 962C, 1,500. (3) Chip Robinson, Derek Daly, Bob Earl and Geoff Brabham, Nissan GTP-ZXT, 1,500. 360, engine. 29. (55) Reed Kryder.

Henry Camfer-dam Alistair Oag and Phil Pate, Nissan 300ZX, 3,500, 354:30. (2) Geoff Brabham, Chip Robinson and Bob Earl, Nissan GTP-ZXT, 1,000, 327, engine. 31 (43) Gary Wonzer, Bill Bean, Don Abreu, Bill Wolf and Bruce Westcott. Mazda Lola. 1 ,000, 322:32.

(29) Martino Fmotto and Paolo Guatamacchi, Ferran Spice, 1 ,000. 306. 33. (44) Kai Showket, Don Knowles and Neil Hanneman, Dodge Daytona, 1,000, 280; 34. (52) George Sutcliffe, Mike Dow, Mike Allison, Chris Hodgetts and Andrew Hepworth.

Pontiac Spice, 1,000, 263. 35. (11) Drake Olson, Rocky Moran and Juan Manuel Fangio II, Toyota Eagle, 1.000, (49) Craig Rubright and Kermit Upton, Chevrolet Camaro, 1,000. 247. 37.

(27) Ken Knott Claude Ballot- 12. (50) Peter Uria, Bob Dotson, Jim Pace and Rusty Scott. Mazda RX-7, 19,150, 620 (GTU division winners). 13. (26) David Rocha, Craig Carter, and Oscar Manautou, Pontiac Spice, 13.500, 609; 14 (53) James Jager, Bob Schneider, Jim Stevens and Rick Man-cuso, Chicago, Mercury Capri, 13,000, 605.

15. (51) Dick Greer, Mike Mees and Colin Trueman, Mazda RX-7, 585; 16. (39) Roger Mandeville. Kelly Marsh, John Finger and Lance Stewart, MX-6, 7,000, 577 17 (20) Scott Schubot, Linda Ludemann and Tomas Lopez, Buick Spice, 544, 9,100, engine; 18. (61) Anthony Puelo, Mark Kennedy and Jerry Walsh, Chevrolet Camaro, 5,000, 531 19.

(35) Mario Magana, Tom Hunter. Kaming Ko and Carlos Bobeda, Chevrolet Tiga. 7.000, 503; 20. (40) Steve Johnson, Gary Pierce, Buick Argo, 5,500, 498. 21.

(47) Joe Varde, Don Wallace, Brad Hoyt and Bob Young, Pontiac Fiero, 4.000. 469; 22. (23) John Morrison and Ferdinand de Lesseps, Buick Spice, 3.500. 443. 23.

(33) Charles Morgan, Tom Hes-sert and Hendrick Ten Cate, Buick Spice, 1.500, 440:24. (24) Tim Beverly, Andy Swett, Tom Winters and John Heinricy. Pontiac opice, 1 ,500, 409 SunBank 24 AT DAYTONA INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY'S RESULTS I. (10) Davy Jones, Jan Lammers and Andy Wallace, Jaguar XJR-12, $66,000, 761 laps, 112 857 (9) Price Cobb John Nielsen and Martin Brundle, Jaguar XJR-12, 25,000, 757. 3,.

(1) Bob Wollek. Sarel van der Merwe, and Dominic Dobson, Fairfax, Porsche 962C. 16,500, 755 4. (13) Rene Herzog, Harold Grohs and Hurley Haywood and Hans Stuck, Porsche 962C, 11,000, 704. 5.

(25) Robby Gordon, Calvin Fish and Robert Lappalainen, XR-7, 21,100, 689 (GTO division (15) John Hotchkis John Hotchkis Jr. and James Adams, 962, 7.000, 688 7. (21) Jim Downing, Amos Johnson. John O'Steen and Pete Halsmer, Mazda RX-7. 15,000.

671; 8 (19) Dorsey Schroeder, Scott Pruett, Max Jones and Robert Lappalainen, Mercury Cougar XR-7, 13.000, 653, transmission. 9. (30) Frank Jellinek John Grooms, and Michael Greenfield, Mazda Argo, 20,000, 642 (Camel Liqhts divison winners). 10. (34) James Jager, Bob Schneider, Jim Stevens and Rick Man-cuso, Mercury Capri, 1 1 .000, 634.

II. (22) George Robinson, Johnny Unser, Paul Dallenbach and Wally Oal-lenbach Mercury Capn, 7,500, 21; with another car and an oil-line problem, ended up two laps behind No. 60. But the results created an illusion of it being in the hunt. In reality, it was an all-Castrol Jag show for almost the final 14 hours.

The old, normally aspirated XJR-12s, which will be replaced by turbo-charged V-6s in the sprint races, proved more reliable than the rest of the turbo-charged GTP field. "Everything went just according to plan. We couldn't ask for more," Wallace said. Nissan, the final team with a realistic shot, saw its chance of challenging end about 2 a.m. Nissan switched back and forth between two GTP ZXT cars but never could find one to go the distance.

Both fell victim to engine problems. Nissan had decided to put all its efforts in the No. 83 car after its No. 84 car caught fire in the pits during refueling. The car.