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i UNH 21 Maine 13 PAGE D15 W. Connecticut. 13 Coast Guard 10 PAGE D15 Purdue 23 Notre Dame 21 PAGE D16 Penn St. 15 Rutgers 12 PAGE D16 Syracuse 23 Maryland 7 PAGE D17 Michigan St 24; Colorado 21 PAGE D17 SECTION SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 9. 1984 I CLASSIFIED SPORTS Navratilova Rallies To Win By GINNY APPLE Courant Staff Writer FLUSHING MEADOW, N.Y.

If any player has the ability to break Martina Navratilova's stranglehold on the sport of women's tennis, it should be Chris Evert Lloyd. But Saturday, in their second straight U.S. Open final, even the best from Lloyd, the world's second-ranked player, wasn't enough. Lloyd, a six-time U.S.Open champion, lost, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, before a National Tennis Center sellout crowd of more than 20,000. The loss was Lloyd's 13th in a row to Navratilova.

When it was all over, the crowd, aggressively pro-Lloyd, offered a polite, muffled cheer for Navratilova, who won her 55th straight match sixth consecutive Grand Slam tournament. Her $160,000 prize boosted her 1984 tournament earnings to $1,993,256. In a city where there always are tough acts to follow, this women's final seemed doomed to take a backseat to the proceeding five-set men's semifinal in which second-seeded Ivan Lendl beat 15th-seeded Pat Cash, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-7 (5-7), 7-6 (7-4). But tennis' leading ladies managed to upstage the event After Navratilova hit a forehand, crosscourt half-volley winner for match point, she leaped, arms outstretched in joy, and Lloyd sighed, then lowered her head. Both cried emotionally.

Lendl To Face McEnroe in Men's Final, Page D8. The crowd applauded politely, then, an eerie silence filled Louis Armstrong Stadium. It had wanted Lloyd to win, fought every point with her and then was silent with her. A jubilant ripple of voices arose in the northeast corner of Center Court, where Navratilova ran to hug her coach, Mike Estep. But the crowd did not smile or join in the celebration.

Their eyes were fixed on Lloyd. It was a most unusual twist a champion without her laurel wreath. It is not that Navratilova is hated by this New York crowd, it's just that Lloyd is so revered. Navratilova knew it and she, too, was filled with respect for her greatest rival. 'Tve grown as a human being," she said.

"I'm aware of what's going on. I'm pretty sensitive. I'm not feeling sorry for myself, though. I realize the mentality of the crowd. But it's hard." Lloyd, hoping to catch Navrtilova at a weak moment, entered the match as the aggressor while Navratilova played tentatively.

Both were rather testy throughout the match. See Navratilova, Page D8 United Press International Martina Navratilova lunges to return a shot to Chris Evert Lloyd daring the U.S. Open women's singles final Saturday. Sutcliffe Holds Mets Spellbound as Cubs Win, 6-0 clif e. "What you saw tonight is what we've been looking at since we got him," Frey said.

"In all but one game (17 starts), he's done an outstanding job. Even when he's given up runs, he's pitched strong games." The first-place Cubs lead the second-place Mets by seven games in the National League East And the Cubs' magic number is 14. With 20 regular-season games remaining for the Cubs and Mets, a combination of Mets' losses and Cubs' victories that adds up to 14 gives Chicago the division title. Even the most optimistic of Mets seemed to sense the end is near. "I thought we needed five of six," a subdued Manager Davey Johnson said, referring to this three-game series at Shea Stadium and next weekend's series at Wrigley Field in Chicago.

"Now. we need four in a row." The Mets did not manage a hit off Sutcliffe until there was one out in the fifth inning. The Mets did not get a runner past first until the sixth. In that inning, hits by Mike Fitzgerald and Wally Backman put runners on first and third with one out Then Sutcliffe bore down. He got the free-swinging Mookie Wilson to wave at strike three.

Then he caught Keith Hernandez looking. "I had my back to the wall and actually I was looking for a double-play ball," Sutcliffe said. "But I was able to get the ball by him (Wilson)." Sutcliffe (14-1) ran the count to 2-2 against Hernandez, then made what he called "a pitcher's pitch." "It was on the outside corner and down and away," Sutcliffe said. "I rared back and threw it as bard as I could. It was a tough pitch to hit and a tough pitch to throw." "He painted the outside comer with a knee-high fastball," Hernandez said.

"He put five extra miles on it I couldn't swing at it" The situation Saturday was a familiar one for Sutcliffe. On July 27, Dwight Gooden, the winner Friday night had started another crucial Cubs-Mets series with a 2-1 victory here. Sutcliffe pitched the following day and though he did not win, he held the Mets for 6 innings. The Cubs eventually won, 11-4, and went on to win the remaining two games of that series. They left town after that four-game set having trimmed the Mets' 4-game lead to lVz-.

Three days later, Aug. 1, the Cubs went into first place in the NL East They have not relinquished the top spot since then. Even with the success of that July series, Sutcliffe did have some patching up to do, he said. "I had a bad taste in my mouth from that last start here," he said. "They gave me a three-run lead and I got a little upset that I lost a no-hitter (again, after one-out in the fifth inning), and I gave up the lead." But Sutcliffe allowed no such pouting Saturday.

When George Foster's single in the fifth ended the no-hitter, Sutcliffe calmly retired the next two battersJie faced. When the Cubs acquired Sutcliffe See Sutcliffe, Page D6 By CLAIRE SMITH Courant Staff Writer NEW YORK Chicago Manager Jim Frey keeps saying the difference between this year's Cubs and the also-ran Cubs of previous seasons is pitching. In the past, Cubs pitchers would have collapsed by now. But this season, they keep getting stronger. Rick Sutcliffe has been a major factor in the turnaround.

Saturday, he won his 12th straight game, shutting out New York, 6-0. The 12-strikeout four-hit performance, Frey said, was vintage Sut- Yankees' Miami Falls Short By STEVE LOVE Knight-Ridder Newspapers No. 1 Miami, Fla. ANN ARBOR, Mich. The University of Miami, the No.

1-ranked act in college football, failed to deliver its usual cliffhanger heroics in Michigan No. 14 Michigan ts Top 20 Report, Page D1 6. He intercepted three of the six passes Michigan took from Bernie Kosar, the sophomore from Boardman, Ohio. (Miami also fumbled twice.) Miami had beaten No. 1-ranked Auburn, and" rival Florida in five days to regain the No.

1 it took from Nebraska in the last Orange Bowl. Miami was used to miracles. Not only did it come here with the longest winning streak in college football (13 games), but three of its last four vie-; tories came in the final minute of those games. See Michigan, Page D16 Stadium Saturday, as the 14th-ranked Wolverines defeated the defending national champion 22-14. "It seemed like they were a little nervous," Michigan linebacker Rodney Lyles said.

"I don't know if it was all the people or what" If the 105,403 onlookers didn't bother Miami, one Rodney Lyles did. Gamble Robs Conn Notebook, Page D15. Eruption Beats Sox ByTOMYANTZ Courant Staff Writer BOSTON New York Yankees Manager Yogi Berra had planned to attend 5 p.m. mass Saturday. He had no idea the Yankees would spend 25 minutes in the top of the ninth scoring five runs against the Red Sox.

"I guess I have to change my plans and go to mass at eight in the morning, but that's OK because that ninth made the game a lot easier," Berra said after the Yankees slugged the Red Sox, in a three-hour, 27-minute game that ended well past 5 o'clock. The Yankees, who led, 7-6, after eight innings, beat the devil out of Red Sox reliever Mark Clear in the ninth. Ken Griffey doubled and Dave Winfield walked. Don Baylor and Toby Harrah singled home runs before Don Mattingly walked. Charlie Mitchell relieved Clear, who was booed by many of the 34,607 spectators.

Omar Moreno lashed a one-hop two-run double that bounced off Bill Buckner's forehead. The final run scored on catcher Rich Gedman's passed ball. "We just couldn't keep them from Red Sox Manager Ralph -Houk said after watching his team collapse in the ninth for the second straight game of this series. The Yankees' three-run ninth inning Friday gave them a 4-2 victory over the Red Sox. Clear was the principal culprit Saturday, surrendering five runs, three hits and three walks in only one-third of an inning.

Red Sox starter Bruce Hurst (11-9) gave up three runs in the first inning on consecutive doubles by Griffey, Winfield and Baylor and a single by Harrah. Hurst left after five innings. $ee Yankees'. Page D7 By GEORGE SMITH Courant Staff Writer HAMILTON, N.Y. When the chips were down, Colgate tried a Gamble.

Colgate cashed in. The University of Connecticut went home empty-handed. Kenny Gamble, a 6-foot, 180-pound freshman tailback, came off the bench in the second half to spark Colgate to a 9-3 football victory over the University of Connecticut Saturday in the season opener for both teams. Gamble carried 13 times for 123 yards and the game's only touchdown. Before he came on the scene, Connecticut was leading, 3-0, and beating the daylights out of the Red Raiders' offense with a swarming defense.

IJConn Coach Tom Jackson rolled his eyes toward the sky when Gamble's name was brought up in a postgame interview. "Yeah, I knew about him. I knew Be'd probably turn up on our schedule someday." Jackson said Gamble came to his attention during his scholastic football career in Holyoke. Mass. On Colgate's touchdown drive midway through the third quarter.

Gamble ripped off runs of 11. 4 and 16 yards, spinning left then right, bouncing off UConn tacklers like a pingpong ball before 6,500 spectators at Andy'Kerr Stadium. The score came on a third-and-four play from the UConn five-yard line. Gamble took a pitch from quarterback Steve Calabria and blew into the end zone with startling ease. "He probably was the difference now that I think of it" said UConn linebacker Associated Press of two Alabama defenders Saturday night BC rallied for a 38-31 victory.

Story, Page D16. Troy Stradford of Boston College carries the ball to the three-yard line despite the pursuit See Colgate's, Page D15 Soviets Tip U.S. Scholastic Kickoff Scholastic football kicks off this week with much interest. The Central Connecticut Conference is now reality. Hand QB David Thompson is attracting many recruiters.

And mgny new coaches will Sindelar's New Role Joey Sindelar, usually chasing instead of leading, shot a 2-under 69 for a one-shot lead over George Archer and Calvin Peete entering today's final round of the Bank of Boston Classic. Not surprisingly, Sindelar likes his new role. Page D4. Owen Canfield Page D3 NBA Notebook Page D5 Boxing Notebook Page Q9- NFL Report Page D13 Up The Country Page D14: The U.S. hockey ieam suffered its first defeat in the Canada Cup tournament falling to the first-place Soviet Union; 2-1 Saturday night.

The loss left the U.S. team in a second-place tie with Canada at 1-1 i ne Soviets are 4-0. Page D3. be pacing the sidelines. Pages D10-12..