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Sports Tuesday, Aug. 27, 1991 Kokomo (Ind.) Tribune 13 Tipton third INDIANAPOLIS The Associated Press' preseason Top 10 Indiana high school football olls were released today, with ranked third in the Clan orthwestern's ranked fifth in Class 3A. Defending Class 3A jchampion Fort Wayne Dwenger, the team which defeated the Mgers in the regional last season, is- ranked No. 1 preseason. iWestern received seven votes for mention, which meant Panthers had the 21st-most 'Votes in the poll.

Indianapolis Ben Davis is ranked No. 1 in the Class SA poll. Kokomo received six votes for Honorable mention, which placed Kats with the 25th-most votes. Hobart was the No. 1 team in 4A, and Indianapolis Scecina was likewise in Class 2A.

Clinton Central is ranked No. 7 in Class 1A. Springs Valley is No. 1. Tri-Central received the 18th- highest number of votes with eight, placing the Trojans in honorable mention.

For the complete list, please turn to the sports Scoreboard on Page 16. Raderout ANAHEIM, Calif. Buck Rpdgers says his job as manager of; the California Angels is to be available and create a relaxed, positive atmosphere for his players to do their job. fcodgers, fired as manager June 2 by the Montreal Expos, signed a contract through 1994 to take over a which failed to win a divi- title under Rader despite the acquisition of such stars as Dave Winfield, Mark Langston, Gary and Dave Parker. 'Rader, 47, is the seventh manager to be fired this season.

Rodgers, 53, is the first of the group to be rehired. Other fired this season were the Indians' John McNamara, the Cubs' Don Zimmer, the Phillies' Nick Leyva, the Royals' John Wathan and the Orioles'Frank Robinson. Rader was hired before the 1989 season and made an immediate impact as the Angels went from a 75-87 record in 1988 to 91-71 mark and a third-place finish. Rodgers' overall record as Montreal's manager was 520-499. He was in the final year of a contract which paid him about $500,000.

Replaced by Tom Runnells in Montreal, Rodgers was the most successful manager in Expos history. His overall record as a manager is 644-601. Darland again PUTNAMVILLE, Ind. Dave Darland passed Bob Kinser for the lead on the fourth lap and led the rest of the way to capture the 25- lap non-winged sprint car feature race at Lincoln Park Speedway here Saturday night. It was the eighth feature season win at LPS for the defending sprint car champ.

Kinser finished second as he held off Kevin Thomas in a close battle. Joe Roush was third followed by Brian Hayden, Troy Link, Kent Christian, Tray House, Dave Peperak and Jon Stanbrough. Heat winners were Hayden, Tim Bookmiller, Gary Trammel and Peperak. Thomas won the dash and Phil Hedges captured the semi-feature. Jeff Donelson did eight barrel rolls in a nasty flip in the number four corner during the second heat but escaped uninjured.

Plainfield's Doug Thompson won the 20-lap mini sprint feature with Kokomo's Curt Mayhew finishing fifth. Scott Hansen wins ANDERSON, Ind. Wisconsin's Scott Hansen led 368 laps of the AC-Delco Challenge Series Weidner Chevrolet Anderson 400 here Saturday night at Anderson Speedway for his second American Speed Association (ASA) season win. Hensen started from the pole and led 179 laps before pitting and later passed rookie Tim Fedewa of Lansing, for the lead on lap 212. It was Hansen's fourth career ASA win and was worth $10,295.

Hensen, driving a Chevrolet, won by 1.65 seconds over Johnny Benson Jr. in a Chevrolet and Bruce VanderLaan was third in a Pontiac. The top six finishers completed 400 laps, including fourth-place finisher Glenn Allen Jr. in a Chevrolet and Mike Eddy and Dennis LampmaninPontiacs. Fire Dragons win SOUTH WHITLEY, Ind.

Kokomo Fire Dragons' Michael Burthay, Debbie Burthay, Erica Huffman and Ashley Carter won first places at the Karate championships here Sunday. Michael Burthay was first in the minipeewee novice. Debbie Burthay was first in fighting and'sec- ond in kata in the novice belt women division. Huffman was second in fighting and first in kata. Carter was first in fighting in minipeewee intermediate.

Erin Huffman was second in kata in minipeewee division. Saber ha gen no-hits slumping White Sox Kansas City's Bret Saberhagen rejoices after pitching his first no-hitter (AP photo) By Ben Walker AP baseball writer By now, almost all of us have seen the play that saved Bret Saberhagen's no-hitter. So was it a hit or an error? Dan Pasqua thought he deserved a hit, and the Scoreboard operator at Royals Stadium thought so, too. But Kirk Gibson thought he committed an error, and the official scorer, whose opinion was the only one that counted, agreed. That resolved, sort of, Saberhagen went back to business.

The two-time Cy Young winner finished the first no-hitter of his career and the seventh of the season, pitching the Royals past the White Sox 7-0. "Now I know how Nolan (Ryan) feels like," Saberhagen said. "I realize what I've accomplished and it's something I'll always look back on." The White Sox lost their seventh straight game. Saberhagen, meanwhile, almost lost his no- hitter in the fifth inning. With one out, Pasqua sliced a long liner over Gibson's head in left field.

Gibson ran back toward the alley, jumped at the front edge of the warning track and the ball grazed off his glove as Pasqua pulled into second base. Kats open at home; Tipton in the Dome The first week of the high school football regular season has arrived. It promises to be a telling one. At 7:45 p.m. Friday, Kokomo High School's Willard Rice makes his debut as the Wildkats' varsity coach.

The Kats meet Elkhart Central in a game which has been moved back 15 minutes from the regular starting time because of Elkhart's needed travel time. Western and Northwestern kick off the season on the road. The Panthers visit Madison-Grant, while Northwestern meets another bunch of Tigers at Lebanon. Taylor hosts Tri-Central and Eastern entertains Westfield. The Tipton Blue Devils open their season at the Hoosier Dome at approximately 2:30 p.m.

Saturday. Clinton Central plays Frankfort immediately following the Tipton-Noblesville game. It is scheduled for a 5 p.m. kickoff. There will be four games in all at the Dome Saturday.

At noon, Martinsville plays Bedford-North Lawrence. At 7:30, Shelbyville plays Greenfield-Central. Tickets for the all-day affair are available at Tipton High School this week for $5. The Tipton High School athletic department will sell the tickets from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

today through Thursday. Tickets will also be on sale from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday. The last chance to buy tickets at the school will be from 8 a.m. to noon Friday.

An additional $1 will be charged at the Hoosier Dome box office Saturday. "I didn't know what the official scorer was going to do," Saberhagen said. The first time Saberhagen looked at the 12-story-high Scoreboard, he saw the hit column change from "0" to "1." Then, as he prepared to pitch to the next batter, he heard a big cheer from the 25,164 fans. "You can pretty well tell by the crowd's reaction. I heard the crowd and I figured what happened," Saberhagen said.

Even though he did not look back until the inning ended, he had guessed right. The Scoreboard operator had made his call before the official scorer made his. And, after scorer Del Black looked at several replays, a big in red letters flashed up. "I thought the ball was cat- chable," said Black, a former baseball writer for the Kansas City Star. "He was there waiting for it.

It didn't appear that he was straining to catch it. It looked like he was under control to get into position to field the ball." Gibson, not exactly a Gold Glover, concurred. "It was the proper call," he said. "I guess it's a side note to the no-hitter. I think it was a good play to get an error on.

"On a play like that, I put myself into the position to make the play and I didn't make it, so the error is appropriate, whether or not it would've been a good catch or not," Gibson said. Saberhagen (10-6) struck out five and walked two. The closest he had ever come to a no-hitter was a series of five two-hitters. "Some guys get no-hitters without no-hitter stuff," White Sox manager Jeff Torborg said. "There was no luck involved here.

He earned it. After the controversial call, he just cranked it up another level. He was really throwing hard after that." Then again, Saberhagen was due for a great game. Throughout his career, the 27-year-old right- hander has pitched poorly in even-numbered years and bounced back with great seasons in odd-numbered ones. Saberhagen won the Cy Young in 1965 and 1989.

He was the World Series MVP in 1985. "This is terrific, but there will never be anything better than the World Series. The World Series thing was an individual award, but this is a team game," Saberhagen said. Red Sox 3, Athletics 0 Roger Clemens pitched a three-hitter and struck out 10, leading Boston over Oakland. Clemens (13-8) walked one and won for just the second time in 10 starts since the All-Star break.

He improved, to 5-0 lifetime against Mike Moore (12-8). The Red Sox had lost three in a row. The host Athletics have dropped four straight. Jack Clark and Phil Plantier homered for the Red Sox. Clark, however, tore a calf muscle on his home run swing and limped around the bases, and may miss for several days.

Tigers 5, Angels 1 Mark Leifer stretched Detroit's winning streak to seven games as the Tigers spoiled the managerial debut of the Angels' Buck Rodgers. In the afternoon, Rodgers, fired earlier this season as manager of the Expos, took over when Doug Rader was fired. Leiter (7-2) has won five straight decisions, the longest winning streak by a Tigers pitcher this season. He gave up seven hits in six innings and Dan Gakeler finished for his second save. Lou Whitaker and Travis Fryman each had three hits for the Tigers.

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and joined Dave Stieb and Jim Clancy as Blue Jays with 100 victories. Reliever Mike Timlin struck out five in two innings and Tom Henke pitched the ninth for his 30th save. Devon White homered off Dave Johnson (4-5) as Toronto won for the third time in four games. Twins 5, Indians 3 Kevin Tapani (12-7) won his seventh straight decision as the Twins improved to 8-0 against the Indians this season. Shane Mack, Brian Harper and Kirby Puckett homered for the Twins.

The Indians helped the Twins last weekend by sweeping a three-game series from the second-place White Sox. Tapani, who gave up two runs and six hits in eight innings, is 10-1 in his last 16 starts. Rick Aguilera pitched the ninth for his 34th save. Rangers 10, Yankees 2 Rafael Palmeiro, Kevin Reimer, Geno Petralli and Julio Franco each homered as the Rangers won at Yankee Stadium. Reimer hit a solo homer, Palmeiro and Franco hit two-run drives and Petralli added a three-run shot.

Petralli's last homer was June 20,1989, a span of 544at-bats. Mariners 5, Brewers 4 Greg Briley's sacrifice fly in the bottom of the 14th inning ended the Mariners' six-game losing skid and stopped the Brewers' five- game winning streak. Friday Elkhart Central at Kokomo (7:45 p.m.) Western at Madison-Grant Trl-Central at Taylor Northwestern at Lebanon Westfleld at Eastern Maconaquah at Mlsslsslnewa Lewis Cass at Twin Lakes Clinton Prairie at Carroll Peru at Logansport Saturday Tipton vs. Noblesvllle at Hoosler Dome (2:30 p.m.) Clinton Central vs. Frankfort at Hoosler Dome (5p.m.) Locals in 10-miler FLINT, Mich.

Steve Kogo of Kenya was the winner at the Bobby Crim 10-miler road race Sunday as he outran 5,500 participants with a time of 47 minutes and 2 seconds. Leslie Lehane was the women's winner in 54:02. Kenny Bennett led the Kokomo, runners with a time of 55:38, Mike Harrell finished at 56:58, Earl Strong came in at 1:08:59 and Steve Kilcline crossed the line at 1:18:18. The race will be shown on ESPN Wildkats, Tigers get opening wins Kokomo High School's tennis squad ran into a little more opposition than it expected Monday afternoon at Noblesville, but still managed to claim a 3-2 season- opening victory. The teams were 'knotted at 2 with only the No.

2 singles match remaining. There, Andy Schuck won the only three-set match of the day, 6-0, 4-6, 6-1 over Dan Meier. The Kats also got points from their No.2 freshman doubles team of Jon Callane and Doug Under and at No. 3 singles, where David Grunow breezed to victory. "It was nice Andy came through in three sets," said Wildkats coach Charlie Hall, "and I was happy to see the freshmen get a win in their first match.

"This turned out to be a lot tougher match than we expected. Noblesville had an all-stater (Jason Richey) move in at No. 1 (singles), and that made them stronger all the way down the 7 Tipton coach Mike Tolle will be on familiar turf Saturday when his Blue Devils return to the Hoosier Dome, site of the 1988 state finals, for a game with Noblesville (Tribune photo by Jon Ham ill) 322-oound Paris should Coach Ed Moon's junior-varsity team also claimed a 3-2 victory. It doesn't get an easier for the Kats. After playing Maconaquah this afternoon, No.

3 ranked Camel visits the south campus Wednesday. In other prop events Monday Volleyball Northwestern defeated host Oak Hill, Wendy Coleman led the Tigers with 10 service points which included an ace. Heather Hurlock had one ace in her seven service points. Coleman had five spikes which included two kills, and Michelle Biddle contributed five spikes which included three kills. "We played extremely well as a team," Northwestern coach Lorri Schuler said.

"Along with all 10 varsity members, three junior- varsity players contributed to the win. I was pleased with our attitude, intensity and level of play for our first match." Northwestern hosts Hamilton Heights Wednesday. Golf At the Dykeman course at Logansport, the host Berries defeated Kokomo 191-206. Amy Evans was the low shooter for the Kats with a 46. "The scores are coming down, but we still have a ways to go," said Wildkats coach Dave Pettay.

Kokomo (0-2) visits Lebanon Wednesday. For complete results, please turn to the prep Scoreboard on Page 16. bolster Colts 1 frontline INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The Indianapolis Colts have signed former San Francisco tackle Bubba Paris to a two-year contract and waived 14 players to meet the 47-player limit. Paris signed Monday and returned to the. West Coast to pack his bags.

He is not scheduled to begin practice with the Colts until Wednesday. Paris, who was waived by the 49ers last week, worked out for the Colts' staff Saturday, and coach Ron Meyer said he was impressed. "He was quicker than I thought and in a little better condition than I thought, too," Meyer said after Monday's practice. "He had good movement and a nice pass set. The things he did in the air drills were very Players the Colts released Monday included offensive linemen Chris Conlin, Pat Cunningham, Rob Luedeke, Phil Pozderac and Darin Shoulders.

The Colts also waived wide receivers James Bradley and Darvell Huffman, linebackers Cedric Figaro, Walter Johnson and Frank Giannetti. running backs Howard Griffith and Brian Lattimore, defensive back George Streeter and tight end Robert Tyler. Bradley was the Colts' seventh-round draft pick this year; Griffith, a ninth-round pick; Giannetti, a loth-round selection; and Luedeke, a 12th-round pick. Cunningham was a fourth-round pick last year. Figaro was acquired through Plan and the rest were signed as free agents.

Paris' new salary was reportedly quite a bit lower than the $725,000 he was scheduled to make for San Francisco this year. He reportedly will make about $400,000 with Indianapolis, but he could earn more with several built-in incentive clauses. Colts General Manager Jim Irsay said Monday the acquisition provided the team with some much-needed help on the offensive line. "I think the addition of Paris gives us more depth, especially at tackle," Iraay said. We think he's still a good football player and he is in good shape.

Weight- wise he may be in the best condi- tion he's been in in a long time. The Colts' line has been hurt by injuries to guards Pat Tomberlin and Randy Dixon. Paris, 30, a second-round draft pick by San Francisco in 1982, started every game at left tackle last year and has started 97 of the 117 games he has played in his career. But his weight, which reportedly hit 375 pounds, was seen as a factor in his release by the49ers. "We do address the weight issue, but it's in a positive vein," Paris said of his contract with the Colts.

"I'm just happy to be a Colt. I have a renewed sense of dedication and pride because I'm in a new place now." Paris passed a physical Saturday and weighed in at 322 pounds. "I think it may be premature to think that he would play any significant minutes this weekend," Meyer said of Sunday's season opener against the New England Patriots. "We're looking forward to getting him in practice, and we'll take a good look at what he can do. I just think it's a little too much to ask though to expect him to play much on.