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THE HARTFORD COURANT: Thursday, June 27, 1991 D3 UConn players' to be studied -j OUie academically eligible By KATHERINE FARRISH Courant Staff Writer i LITCHFIELD With national attention focused on eight basketball recruits at the University of Connecti-? cut, its president vowed Wednesday to keep a tight watch on tne players to mane sure tney graduate. Speaking at a breakfast meeting with business and community Awesome, baby ESPN basketball analyst Dick vitale has compiled his preseason top 1 5 college teams for 1991-92, and he rates the University of Connecticut No. 14. Vitale's list: leaders, Harry J. Hartley acknowledged that, because UConn's recruit-ing class has been ranked fourth nationally by recruiting analyst Bob Gibbons, administrators and coaches must work harder to ensure the students' academic 9.

Seton Hall 10. Ohio State 11. St. John's 12. Oklahoma St 13.

Utah 14. UConn 15. Oklahoma Kay-Chin Tay The Hartford Courant 1. Duke 2. Indiana 3.

Arkansas 4. Arizona 5. Kentucky 6. UCLA 7. LSU 8.

Kansas Mary T. Meagher, who won three gold medals in the 1984 Olympics, Is no longer swimming competitively but does get in the pool to help kids learn correct techniques. eagher finding her niche Yankees, Cubs swap lefthanders Perez working his way back By JACK O'CONNELL and SEAN HORGAN Cmtrant Staff Writers BOSTON Steve Adkins, once a promising prospect in the Yankees organization, was traded Wednesday to the Chicago Cubs for another left-handed pitcher, David Rosario. Yankees-Red Sox notebook Adkins, 26, won 15 games at Triple-A Columbus last year, but control problems during his September callup with the Yankees last year and at Columbus this year affected his status. Adkins was 4-5 with a 5.60 ERA at Columbus.

He allowed 75 hits and 57 walks with 52 strikeouts in 80 innings. Rosario, 25, made 33 appearances, all in relief, for Triple-A Iowa and was 3-1 with one save and a 2.18 ERA. Over 33 innings, he yielded 21 hits with 11 walks and 31 strikeouts. Rosario was assigned to Columbus, Adkins to Iowa. Perez throws without pain Pascual Perez threw for 10 minutes in the bullpen without pain and will throw again Sunday.

Pitching coach Mark Connor said with the rotation in good shape, there is no urgency to bring Perez back quickly. "We want him to be 100 percent when he comes back," Connor said. The Yankees don't expect Perez to return until after the All-Star break. 1 The Yankees aren't likely to have more than one All-Star representative for the second consecutive year. Steve Sax, the starting American League second baseman last year, is second in the balloting to the Blue Jays' Roberto Alomar.

Sax is urging writers to play up the qualifications of catcher Matt Nokes (.283, 11 home runs, 31 RBI) because, he said, "I really don't want to go." Home-field disadvantage? Red Sox infielders' complaints about the condition of the Fenway Park infield are escalating after at least four of the games on the homestand have been decided on a strange infield play. "It's one of the worst infields in the league, right up there with Cleveland," Jody Reed said. "It's the infield dirt. It gets all chopped up and pitted. How many games have to be affected by it before they do something?" Visiting players have long complained about the Fenway infield, but Red Sox players avoid the subject because they don't want to run afoul of superintendent of grounds and maintenance Joe Mooney, who has a cantankerous reputation.

"No comment," said Wade Boggs, when asked if he shared the negative impressions on the infield. "I don't want to say anything that would upset Joe Mooney." Possible deal with White Sox The Red Sox and White Sox continue to talk about Mike Marshall. The White Sox have offered Cory Snyder, who holds little attraction for the Red Sox. They would like to get Melido Perez from Chicago. World-record holder enjoys teaching children success.

"I know they are eight highly visible recruits, and we will be analyzed by everybody," he said. Mi Point guard Kevin Ollie received word Tuesday he had scored well enough on the Scholastic Aptitude Test to be eligible to play the 1991-92 season. Ollie will begin taking classes at UConn in September, along with Rudy Johnson, Donyell Marshall, Donny Marshall, Jeff Cal-houn (son of coach Jim Calhoun), Nantambu lingham, Brian Fair and Rich Ashmeade. Hartley said the university must give them the support to "Now the problem is keeping them in Hartley said. "I want them to be students." Hartley points to former basketball players Gwynn, Phil Gamble and Cliff Robinson as examples of players who are sticking with academics after they have stopped playing at UConn.

Robinson is inquiring about: taking classes again; Gamble received a degree in May and Gwynn will try to complete his degree by December, Hartley said. Graduation rates are now part of each coach's formal job evaluation, Hartley said. "I'm more concerned that our kids graduate and we do things cleanly than I am that we're a national power." The players are required to take part in the Counsel' t. ing Program for Intercollegiate Athletes, where they learn basic study skills and receive tutoring and counsel- v. ing, he said.

r. Provost Thomas J. Tighe, UConn's chief academic officer, said professors are notified when athletes are in ,7 their classes and are consulted when students develop. problems. Bennett A.

Brockman, an associate professor of English, said he has been impressed with the support; program. "Tl "The concern is clearly there, and there's followup when a problem occurs," Brockman said. "It works." Hartley acknowledged it is a fine line support for athletes and favoritism but added that'' average students also have access to a range of counsel--' ing services. the place of all that excitement?" she said of her competitive swimming career. "The business world is not objective.

There's no clock. You don't say, 'I'm going to write this letter in an She plans to leave her corporate job within the month. With a degree in child development from the University of California-Berkley, Meagher may become a teacher. Perhaps she'll land a full-time Olympic job. Maybe she'll coach.

Maybe she'll compete in masters swimming in Japan. For the next three weeks, she will return to Willimantic for her one-day clinic at the swim camps. This summer is her third at ECSU and she said she enjoys teaching the campers, who range in age from 8 to 16, even if some don't know who she is. "It's always fun to work with kids," she said. "Especially the ones who are not only talented but have the ability to hear what you say and implement it.

"It's just refreshing. They're honest, they're a little naive about a lot of things. They give you a reminder of the way it used to be." didn't learn of the record until 15 minutes after the race because she didn't understand Spanish. "I was naive, my family was naive. We didn't have a clue as to what kind of potential I had." Meagher (pronounced MAW-her) won three gold medals at the 1984 Los Angeles Games and a silver and a bronze at the 1988 Seoul Games.

In 1981, she set world records in the 100 (59.93) and 200 (2:05.96) butterfly that remain intact. Now 26, she lives in her native Louisville. She works part-time for a corporation there, serves on the Olympic Committee and will be a liaison a cushion between coaches, administrators and athletes at next month's Pan Am Games in Cuba. She also is competing for a job with NBC-TV for the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. "I come here, I'm a hero," she said amid the poolside splashing.

"I go back to the corporate world and I'm low man on the totem pole." Her competitive career over, she continues to search for a niche. "What am I going to do to take By GLENN JORDAN Courant Staff Writer WILLIMANTIC Jordan Fur-nans of West Hartford has been swimming competitively since he was 7. He knew little of Mary T. Meagher, but there he was Wednesday, standing in line to get her autograph on a T-shirt. All he needed to know was that Meagher taught him in a few minutes what he had been trying years to master: how to turn during the butterfly.

"I've been lost," he said. "I had no clue. But I think I've got it down now." Furnans, 14, is one of about 125 young swimmers attending a week-long session of United States Sports Camps at Eastern Connecticut State University. In 1979, when Meagher was 14, she competed in the Pan Am Games in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She set a world record to win the 200-meter butterfly and stood on the victory platform clutching a stuffed frog named Bubbles.

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Gardiner walked Espinoza for the second time to put runners at the corners. Gardiner threw one pitch to Pat Kelly and then signaled to the dugout because of some physical problem. Manager Joe Morgan and trainer Charlie Moss went to the mound. Gardiner threw two warmup pitches and indicated he was ready to go. But he only threw one more pitch to Kelly before Pena and Reed waved to the dugout Gardiner walked off with what turned out to be a strained muscle in his lower left ribcage, and Joe Hes-keth came into the game.

Hesketh picked up the count at 0-2 on Kelly and struck him out. But he walked Sax to load the bases and Roberto Kelly delivered his two-run single to left for a 5-0 lead. Brunansky finally ended the inning when he raced back and caught Matting-ly's shot in front of the bullpens. But in the sixth, Burks lashed an 0-2 pitch into the net to make it 5-1 and end Sanderson's streak of 21 scoreless innings against the Red Sox. Reed followed with a double off the wall But Sanderson got Boggs to bounce out to third, Clark on a fly to the center field wall and Greenwell on a fly tq left Continued from Page Dl The Yankees kicked in their singles-only of erfe in the third to score tjiree runs.

They added two more runs in the sixth on Roberto Kelly's Bases-loaded, two-run single before Burks' homer in the bottom of of the inning made it 5-1. Gardiner started his sixth game and his fourth at Fenway Park. He got a no-decision in his most recent Start last Thursday against the A's, and had won his prior two starts. I Gardiner set the Yankees down in Order in the first and opened the second by striking out Mel Hall. Kevin Maas then got the first hit of the a double off the padding in ront of the Yankee bullpen.

Right-fielder Brunansky appeared to have a play, but could only wave with his glove with his back to the plate as the ball whizzed by his head. No matter, Gardiner got Jesse Barfield and Matt Nokes to bounce out to end the inning. Scott Sanderson was making his 15th start and his second against the Red Sox. He beat Boston 7-0 in Yankee Stadium May 29. Lifetime Jigainst the Red Sox, Sanderson came in 3-0 with a 2.36 ERA in four Starts and was 1-0 at Fenway.

It appeared he was going to improve on those numbers early in ame using an assortment of slow, slower and slowest breaking pitches mixed with a fastball here and there. Burks opened the Red Sox first by reaching on Alvaro Espinoza's error. Having received that gift, Burks decided to give it back and was thrown out stealing with Jody Reed at the plate. Burks has been thrown out six of the 11 times he has attempted to steal this season. In his career, Burks is 87-for-124 (.702) in steals, but most of those came in his first three years, when he was 27-f or-33, 25-f or-34 and 21-for-26.

Reed then singled, but two fielder's choices ended the inning. Mike Greenwell opened the second with a fan-interference double into the triangle in center field, but Sanderson struck out Brunansky and got Carlos Quintana and Tony Pena to bounce out. The Yanks broke through in the third. Gardiner walked leadof hitter Espinoza and Pat Kelly followed with a single to right. Steve Sax scored Espinoza with a single to center.

Roberto Kelly's single off The Wall loaded the bases and Don Mat-tingly hit a sacrfice fly to right to make it 2-0. Mel Hall then singled to center to make it 3-0 before Gardiner struck out Maas and Barfield to end the inning. New York was back at Gardiner in the sixth. Barfield led off with a single to left and Nokes dumped a DLOOMFIELD EAST HARTFORD East Hartford Tire 339 Main St. 568-2160 EAST RANDY Tire Auto 170 Hartford Ave.

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