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16 Kokomo (Ind.) Tribune Wednesdoy, Oct. 28, 1987 Waves of Twins fans engulf cars carrying players (AP photo) Sports update Braves' swimmers upend Eagles CONVERSE, Ind. Double winners Jill Westerlund and Barb Miller led Maconaquah's swimmers to a 105-67 defeat of host Oak Hill here Tuesday. Each won back-to-back events. Westerlund took the 50-yard freestyle, then proceeded to the 1-meter board to win the diving.

Miller took the blue ribbon in the 100 breast stroke, then swam the second leg of the 8-3 Braves' winning 400 freestyle relay. Maconaquah travels to Carroll Nov. 5. Wlnnlno summary 200 medley relay Oak Hill (Miller, Ball Inner, Evans, Davis), 2:12.85 200Ireestyle Glna Ferguson 1 :23.83 200 Individual medley Lisa Jones (OH), 2:32.01 50freestyle Jill Westerlund (M), :26.M JIM Westerlund (M), 210.35 Patty Koohler (M), 1 Julie Raulerson (M), 59.09 500 freestyle Heather Hensley (M), 6:17.03 100 backstroke Renee Wilson (M), 1:13.47 100 breast stroke Barb Miller (M), 1:20.95 400 freestyle relay Maconaquah (Amy Lar risen, Barb Miller, Annette Eder, Kclli Smith), 4:15.85 Final score: Maconaquah 105, Oak Hill 67 Big 10, Pac-10 say no to playoff CHICAGO (AP) The Big 10 and the Pac-10 football conferences have announced unanimous opposition to a major college football playoff. executive officers of the two major conferences met in San Diego fast week to vote on the matter with the results being announced Tuesday by the two conferences.

Seventeen of the 20 members were present, and three others later concurred. For years the Big 10 and the Pac-10 have been locked in the Rose Bowl contract, which has been financially beneficial for both conferences. In announcing the decision, commissioners Wayne Duke of the Big 10 and Tom Hansen of the Pac-10 said the CEOs emphasized their preference for the current postseason bowl game structure. Colts cut pair, add tight end INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The Indianapolis Colts cut two running backs Tuesday and signed tight end Mark Walczak to replace injured Mark Boyer, the NFL club reported. Boyer broke an arm in Sunday's 30-16 victory over the New England Patriots.

The 6-foot-6, 246-pound Walczak, a first-year player from Arizona, was a free agent cut by the Colts during preseason training camp. Waived were running backs John Williams, signed after Owen Gill injured his leg in September, and rookie Chris McLemore, a replacement player during the NFL strike. Top NL manager NEW YORK Buck Rodgers of the Montreal Expos has been named National League Manager of the Year. In his third season as manager of the Expos, Rodgers received 92 points from a 24-man committee of the Baseball Writers Association of America, easily defeating runner-up Roger Craig of San Francisco, who had 65 points. Rodgers was the only manager named on all ballots.

(AP photo) Seven Devils named all-CIC TIPTON, Ind. Tipton placed seven players on the 1987 All- Central Indiana Conference football team, CIC officials announced Tuesday. The Blue Devils, who for four consecutive years have won or shared the conference crown, placed one player on defense, five on offense and had a kicker named to the squad. Senior Kevin Dane was named at a linebacker spot, while sophomore Brad Green was placed on the team as placekicker. Offensive team members include junior David Kerst at end, seniors Mark Louthen and John Graves at tackles, senior Brian Baird at center and senior Mike Ogden at running back.

The team consists of 28 players, including 13 on each of the offensive and defensive teams, a punter and a placekicker. A SECURITY SYSTEM. ITS ABOUT AS EASY TO USE AS irnr 11 a Right At BUD'S SiCURITY CENTf Corner of Mtotlilngton 4 Call Today VOTE JIM TROBAUGH For COUNCILMAN 6th DISTRICT Dedicated Honest Capable Qualified I A Pel. for by Committee to Elect Jim Trobaugrt. Biad Newton, Treas.

Not just your ordinary parade By Tony Kennedy Associated Press writer ij UL Minn A m( tor cade carrying members of the World Series champion Minnesota Twins inched through a blizzard of confetti and rice as hundreds of thousands of delirious fans jammed cifv streets to glimpse and touch their heroes. "I could cry. That is so nice I could cry," team owner Carl Pohlad said as he rode at the head of the parade Tuesday. "I guess this is the grand finale right here," left fielder Dan Gladden said. "These have got to be the best fans." With 17,500 pounds of confetti and untold reams of toilet paper drifting from skyscrapers onto the parade route, two convertibles carrvine Twins players caught fire.

"Flames were coming out of the sides," said catcher Sal Butera noting that hot engine manifolds sparked the fires under his car and one occupied by pitcher George Frazier. No one was reported injured and a third confetti fire broke out under a parked convertible just after the Twins arrived at the parade-ending rally at the state Capitol. State Patrol troopers extinguished it Police estimated that more than 200.000 fans turned out for the start of the parade in Minneapolis. Its arrival in St. Paul was delayed by more than an hour because fans slowed progress to a stop-and-go crawl "I have had all sorts of details in my 20 years and I have never had close to the sea of humanity that turned out today," said John Laux a deputy chief in the Minneapolis Police Department.

"They tried to cooperate as best as they could, but they themselves had no place to go It was such a mass of humanity." Some officers had their toes run over by cars in the motorcade as they struggled to buffer the pressing crowd. Fans stood on traffic lights at NFL's owners run into snags By Dave Goldberg AP football writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) NFL owners, picking up the pieces from the 24-day players' strike, hope they can restart negotiations with the union to forestall new repercussions such as the possibility of postponing the two-team expansion scheduled for 1989. But the union isn't interested and the stock market problems of the last two weeks, which the Management Council says has wiped out $39 million of the $40 million pension fund surplus, may add a new snag to the league's labor problems. At their annual fall meeting Tuesday, the owners did little to recoup from the strike, voting only to maintain a 50-man roster for the rest of the regular season with 45 allowed to dress for any game.

They also gave teams all eight free moves off injured reserve they were supposed to have from the start of the season, meaning that in effect, they have 13 extra players. But a much ballyhooed proposal to split the season or add teams to the playoffs never came up it TC Continued from Page 15 of quarterback Jeff Durham, who completed 9 of 15 passes for 165 yards the first game; sophomore halfback Brett Law; and senior fullback John Walton. The first game saw Law gain 85 yards on 15 carries and two touchdowns. Walton picked up 46 yards on the ground and 80 in the air with three touchdowns. Last week against Clinton Central, the Blackhawks ran a wishbone offense, with a tackle at fullback.

"We need to stop their power game," said Miller. "We need strong play from our linebackers. Treadway (Aaron), Barr (Scott), Butler and (Les) Brumbaugh have to have a good game." Lack of players in practice has been a problem for the Trojans. However, "we had enough players to scrimmage," said Miller. "We've practiced well this week." Hopefully that will carry into Friday's home game against Sheridan, as it did against Lapel.

"Our kids were ready to play," concluded Miller. "We were really intense, there was fire in their eyes. If we come ready to play, we can play with Sheridan, and then anything can happen." AS LOW AS $80 INSTALLED Full Size Pickups Mini Pickups Vans Most Sizes In Stock! TRUK SPECIALTIES 317 W. Jefferson 457-8224 nearly every intersection, where the masses were up to 50-deep MI struction workers waved from steel girders nearly 60 stories high, people hung from openings in every parking ramp and most buildings. With temperatures in the mid-40s, a brisk wind held much of the fettiintheair.

"It makes you want to start playing again tomorrow so you can do again next year," said pitcher Bert Blyleven, who like many of teammates was wrapped in a knee-length fur coat. "It's the best rec nition that any club could ever want." As the parade headed east on an eight-mile stretch of freeway tween the two cities, fans waved from nearly every overpass. "It's something that a president deserves," designated hitter DC Baylor said. "It's the best I've seen." In St. Paul, where many waited five hours for the motorcade's arriv al, fans nearly mobbed center fielder Kirby Puckett, and his wife Tonya, looked on in fear.

Crowd estimates were a crap shoot at best, ranging at 400,000 to on million for the entire event. Capitol security officers estimated tli crowd at the rally there to be more than 100,000. About 300 children reported themselves as missing to the Capitol's security staff, but by the end of the day they were all reunited with their parents, said Katherine Dwyer of the Minnesota Historical Societv'd Capitol Historic Site Staff. Gov. Rudy Perpich gave most state employes the afternoon off ar many Twin Cities schools followed suit.

Perpich proclaimed the rest i 1987 "Twins' Year," and promised individual days in honor of eachl player and members of the team management. He also declared Dec. a special day of recognition for Minnesota Twins fans and awarded state flag to each player. Stipo, Fleming pace Indiana to victory barely had more than one vote let alone the 21 it needed to be approved. The owners did approve two exhibition games outside the United States next summer.

One will pit the Chicago Bears against the Minnesota Vikings in Goteborg, Sweden Aug. 12 or 13, and the other will be the Cleveland Browns vs. New York Jets in Montreal the next weekend. For the first time in three years, however, there will be no preseason game in London, where the Bears and Cowboys played two years ago and the Rams and Broncos played last year. The owners also set next April 24 as the opening day of the 1988 draft, the first time it will be conducted Sunday.

The final eight rounds will be conducted the next day, making it the first two-day draft since 1982. And a proposal over whether to allow teams to sell stock publicly was tabled after a long and vociferous debate. The Green Bay Packers are a community-owned non-profit corporation with 1,800 shareholders but no other NFL team allows public ownership. Instead, the talk was of trying to resume negotiations on a new contract with the NFL Players Association, which filed an antitrust suit seeking free agency and an end to the draft at the same time it sent its players back to work Oct. 15.

Jack Donlan, the executive director of the Management Council and the owners chief negotiator, said he hoped to be back in touch next week with union head Gene Upshaw. BOARDS I RUNNING BOARDS FOR S-10, S-15 FORD RANGER PICKUPS FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) Steve Stipanovich scored six of his 12 points in the final four minutes and Vern Fleming added 18 for the game as the Indiana Pacers held off a late rally and beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 103-95 in an NBA exhibition game Tuesday night. Indiana, which built a 91-83 lead with 4:45 to play on a Reggie Miller dunk, saw the Cavs score six successive points to cut the lead to 91-89 on two free throws by Dell Curry with 3:44 to play. The Pacers then scored eight straight points and hit their final six free throws, including four by Stipanovich, for the victory.

Stipanovich scored six of the Pacers' final 12 points. The Pacers, trailing 7-5 with 9:40 remaining in the first period, outscored Cleveland 16-2 in a 5:21 spurt to open a 21-9 lead, and they never trailed again. Chuck Person scored six points and Fleming four to pace the run. Person finished with 17, Miller had 14 and Herb Williams had 14 as the Pacers had five players score in double figures. Curry led Cleveland with 19 points.

The Pacers improved to 2-4 in the preseason as the Cavs fell to 2-3. CLEVELAND Hubbard 0-5 0-0 0, West 59 1-4 Dauahertv J-6 Harper 5-9 t-4 12, Price 4-11 JJ 15 Bailey 2-2 0-0 4, Ehlo 0-2 0-0 0, Ke. JoftnxMI 0-1 0-0 0, J. Williams 1-2 5-6 7, Newman 2-30-04, Corbln 1-2 2-J 4, Curry 7-15 4-5 19, Ka. Joltroon 1-1 0-0 I Dudley 3-5 2-2 a.

Tolals 35-73 J3-31 95. INDIANA (101) Person 6-14 5-6 17, H.Williams 6-12 2-2 14 Stipanovich 3-4 6-7 12, Fleming 9-1) 0-0 It, Long 1-4 0-0 2, Sklles 4-9 0-0 8, Richardson 1-4 0-0 2 Anderson 18 22 4, Tlsdale 3-4 3-3 9, Miller 5 10 4-4 14, Drelllng 0-0 2-2 2, Gray 0-0 1-2 l. Tolals 39-8225-28103. Cleveland Indiana 21111(19 i 3 point goals-Price 1-1, Curry 1-3, Person 01, Miller 0-1. Fouled out-j.

Williams, Tlsdale indlr ctewelBnd (WeM ln an (Williams 8). 14 (Price 7), Indiana 20 (Long 5). Total 35 lndlana32.A—2,761. Eastern tickets on sale Nov. 9 GREENTOWN, Ind.

Eastern High School's season tickets for the 1987-88 boys basketball season will go on sale at 8 a.m. Nov. 9 in the middle school office. The tickets, good for 10 home games, are $20 each for adults and $14 each for students. They include a reserved seat for all home games and second priority on tournament tickets, following all- sports ticket holders.

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