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MOHEY PAGE STOCKS INSIDE Mm SECTIOND 6-3, 6-4. 6-4 Marc Rosset def. Mark Woodforde 4-6. 1-6. 6-3, 7-6 (7-5).

6-3 Steffi Graf def. Anne Mall 6-2. 6-1 Kimiko Date def. Rika Hiraki Lindsay Davenport def. Marzia Grossi 6-1, 6-1 Gabriela Sabatini def.

Larisa Neiland 6-0, 6-1 SCOREBOARD U.S. Open Stefan Edberg def. Lars Jonsson 7-5. 6-1. 6-1 Michael Stich def.

Olivier Delaitre 7-6 (7-3). 6-3. 6-3 Todd Martin def. Guillaume Raoux 6-7 (4-7). 4-6.

6-3, 6-4. 7-6 (7-1) Jim Courier def. Aaron Krickstein PNJ SCORELINE Dial 469-8290 Press Code 3001 Final results of major national and local sporting events updated throughout the day starting at 4 p.m. Call every day, 24 hours a day. Newsjonrnal Pensacola, Florida TO REPORT A SPORTS STORY (AFTER 4 P.M.): 435-8521 Wednesday, August 31, 1994 Ml nn 1 A to mm DDI I Veff liCavallin 4 Outdoors I Huskers nipping at Gators' heels for top spot More football3D APJOP25 The Top 25 teams in The Associ- 14.

UCLA 0-0-0 667 14 ated Press college football poll, with 15. Texas 577 15 first-place votes in parentheses, re- 16. Oklahoma 553 16 cords through Monday, total points 1 7. Southern Cal 0-0-0 545 17 based on 25 points for a first place 18. North Carolina 0-0-0 523 19 vote through one point for a 25th 19.

Texas 0-0-0 503 18 place vote, and ranking in the previ- 20. Ohio St 1 -0-0 457 20 ous poll: 21. Virginia Tech 258 22 Record Pts Pv 22. Illinois 0-0-0 249 21 1. Florida (14) 1,456 1 23.

Washington 186 23 2. Nebraska (23) 1-0-0 1,449 4 24.Clemson 114 25 3. N. Dame (12) 2 25.Stanford 95 -4 4. Florida St.

(8) 1,352 3 Others receiving votes: Georgia 5. Michigan(1) 1,254 5 91. Brigham Young 89, Virginia 69, 6. Miami(1) 1,201 6 Boston College 43, Kansas State 7. Arizona (2) 1,146 7 41, California 31, Michigan State 8.

Colorado 0-0-0 1,075 8 28, Syracuse 21, Mississippi State 9. PennSt 0-0-0 1,007 9 15. West Virginia 14, Kansas 13. 10. Wisconsin 937 10 South Carolina 8, Arizona State 6, 11.

Alabama (1) 921 12 Indiana 5, Georgia Tech 4, Louis- 12. Auburn 904 11 ville 4, Arkansas 3, Utah 3, Baylor 2, 13. Tennessee 812 13 Kentucky 1, Western Michigan 1. abama, Auburn, Tennessee, UCLA, Texas Oklahoma, Southern Cal, North Carolina, Texas, Ohio State, Virginia Tech, Illinois, Washington, Clemson and Stanford. Arizona received two first-place votes, while Michigan, Miami and Alabama each got one.

Ohio State remained No. 20 after defeating Fresno State 34-10 Monday in the Pigskin Classic. The Pigskin and Kickoff classics were the only games played during the opening week. West Virginia, No. 24 in the preseason, dropped out of the top 25 after getting shut out for the first time since 1986.

Stanford, which opens against Northwestern on Sept. 10, moved into the rankings at No. 25. The Cardinal went 4-7 last season. The Gators, who open Saturday against New Mexico State, received 14 first-place votes and 1,456 points from a nationwide media panel.

Nebraska had 1,449 points. Notre Dame, which trailed Florida by two points in the preseason poll, fell one spot to No. 3. The Fighting Irish, who play Northwestern on Saturday, got 12 first-place votes and 1,417 points. Florida State, the defending national champion, dropped from No.

3 to No. 4. The Seminoles, who open this weekend against Virginia, received eight first-place votes and 1,352 points. The rest of the top 10 stayed the same. Michigan is No.

5, followed by Miami, Arizona, Colorado, Penn State and Wisconsin. Rounding out the top 25 -are Al By Rick Warner Associated Press Florida remained No. 1 in The Associated Press college poll Tuesday, while Nebraska jumped to No. 2 after routing West Virginia in the Kickoff Classic. The Cornhuskers, fourth in the preseason poll, climbed two spots after beating the Mountaineers 31-0 Sunday.

Nebraska got the most first-place votes (23), but trailed Florida by seven points. not a nice guy on Florida lineman takes mean attitude into games "Goodworks Team" for his involvement in the community. He carries a grade point average in the "high range as a zoology pre-pharmacy major. One of his idols is defensive back Michael Gilmore of Chipley, the state's only finalist for a Rhodes Scholarship last year. 'Mi.

Carter looks the 1994 season as his last chance to convince everyone the NFL, fans, media 'that he can be one of the best Gator defensive linemen ever. Florida is 7. a 7 Carter 1 t'W By David Jones Gannett News Senice GAINESVILLE Kevin Carter is too nice. The Florida Gators' 6-foot-6, 265-pound senior defensive end cringes when he hears the words. His eyes become dark and angry.

He's heard it all. And he doesn't agree with it. Known for his academic excellence and community involvement, he read the critical stories last year as Florida's defense tumbled to the bottom of the Southeastern Conference in pass defense and in the middle of the pack in total defense, allowing 336.5 yards a game. "I don't think, if you asked (opponents), they'd think I was very nice," snorted Carter, a second-team all-SEC pick last year who had 59 tackles and 6.5 quarterback sacks. Off the field he is president of the university's chapter of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, speaks at more than 20 churches a year and visits schools around Gainesville, where he reads books to youngsters.

"Everybody looks at what he does off the field," comerback and co-captain Larry Kennedy said. "He's a nice guy, that's true. But he also has a mean side on the football field. "He's really not so nice on the field. But people have had problems distinguishing between the two, and he was an easy target last year." "Anyone who says he is too nice," said fellow defensive lineman and co-captain Henry McMillan, "then I'd say you don't really know him." Carter was one of 11 players named to the 1993 College Football Association's national ft if Whibbs' big cobia enters record book It's official: Pensacolian J.P.

Whibbs 114-pound, 8-ounce cobia will knock Gulf Breeze's Tom Hardy out of the International Game Fish Association recprd book, according to the latest IGF A newsletter. Whibbs, who landed his record fish April 10, now owns the cobia world record in the 20-pound saltwater line class. But Hardy will have two new world records when the 1995 record book comes out. On March 12, he set two records for redear sunfish, also called shellcracker and stump-knocker a 2-ounce entry in the 16-pound flyrod tippet class and a 1-pound entry in the 20-pound flyrod tippet class. Two other cobia records were broken close to home.

Robert Cunningham set a 20-pound flyrod tippet record with a 48-pound, 6-ounce fish, then five days later, fishing off Gulf Shores, on April 27, he blew away his own record with a 62-pound, 3-ounce fish. Red snapper rules The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council will propose total allowable catch (TAC) for red snapper in federal waters for 1995 at its Sept. 19-22 meeting in New Orleans. 1. The meeting will be held at the Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza on333Poydras.

In setting the TAC, the council will specify recreational bag limits and commercial quotas for next season and may specify changes in size limits, commercial trip limits and seasonal closures. BIG MOUTH REGATTA: Skipper Jim Oyler earned bragging rights for a year after steering the monohull vessel Rush to the Big Mouth Trophy on Saturday out of Pensacola Beach Yacht Club. The Big Mouth Regatta, an original PB YC event, raced to the sea buoy and back and was limited to non-spinnaker and open multihull classes. Rush won monohull Class followed by Sirocco and Fensalir. Delphina captured monohull Class Wild Hair was second and Mudpuppy third.

Rick Zem won the spinnaker multihull division. Wrote Karen Harp of the PBYC in the club's report, "The winds held until early afternoon when they faded as if someone pulled the plug on the big wind machine and the entire fleet ground to a halt. "Aboard Thriller (Capri 30), skipper David Dunbar had just rounded marker 2 and was sailing north in the Pensacola ship channel off Fort Pickens when our sails collapsed onto the deck. There we sat for over 2Va hours waiting for the sea breeze to return. The limp sails flapped to the rocking motion of the sailboat and some of the crew grew queasy and restless.

"Finally the decision was made to start the motor and at least be one of the first boats back at the club. We were not the first to give in and return, many others did also, but we weren't going to be the last group back for the party." Bass report Randy Stryker won the Pensacola Bass Club tournament Saturday at Millers Ferry Reservoir near Camden, weighing his eight-fish limit at 15.41 pounds. He used worms and spinner baits to catch his winning haul, which included the 5.14-pound lunker. Don Edgar finished second with a 13.55-pound total, caught on crank baits and spinner baits. Mark Duncan took third at 1 1 .08 pounds.

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1 going into Saturday's game against New Mexico State. "I think the change in this year's defensive scheme is def initely going to help," Carter said. "The defense last year was not really designed to stop the pass." He said the team frequently seemed to be trying to defend five receivers with four Gators. "There was always a man wide open, so you're going to complete passes," Carter said. But he is, by no means, shirking responsibility for last year.

In fact, he said the line is a key to this year's pass defense. Putting more pressure on the quarterback will -give opponents less time to pick apart the secondary. "We sort of talk about that group every year," Coach Steve Spurrier said of the defensive front. "Until they do it in games, it's just potential." "I feel challenged," Carter said. "I feel that way every year.

I know a lot depends on how well (the defensive line) plays." -V 4 fill C- 111-' f. Florida Today Florida's Kevin Carter had 59 tackles, 6.5 sacks and a classroom average last season. "He's a nice guy, that's true," said cornerback Larry Kennedy. "But he also has a mean side on the football field." Report: Jelks received money after accusations against Tide Jones-Toney fight a rarity: 2 good boxers in their primes Last Thursday, Jones relinquished the IBF 160-pound middleweight title to challenge Toney for the 168-pound championship instead of making a defense against Philadelphia's Bernard Associated Press TUSCALOOSA, Ala. Former Alabama football star Gene Jelks has received about $37,000 from an account handled by his lawyer since accusing the Crimson Tide of breaking NCAA rules, The Tuscaloosa News reported Tuesday.

Court documents on file in DeKalb County, detail a series of payments made to Jelks over a 17-month period from a fund overseen by his attorney, Stan Kreimer of Atlanta, The News reported. Jones outpointed Hopkins on May 22, rV 1993, for the. middle- 1 weight title after Tonev had vacated it to seek the super middleweight championship. There's a lot more money for Jones in fighting Toney than in a rematch with Hopkins. Jones Rflirl Tnnpv Kreimer did not return messages seeking comment Tuesday.

Neither did an attorney for Pullen, former Alabama football player Randy Edwards. Jelks nearly two years ago publicly accused Pullen and another former Alabama assistant coach, Rockey Felker, of improperly paying him to play for Alabama in the 1980s. Both men denied any wrongdoing. Jelks supported his claims with tape recordings of telephone calls that later were acknowledged to be made from the Atlanta office of Auburn booster Corky Frost. Frost paid Jelks $1,500 and sent Jelks on a shopping spree the same day Jelks made the tape recordings, Pullen contends in his motion.

Kreimer also failed to disclose those payments, Pullen claims. Frost is the Aubum backer who was aci cused of making improper payments t5 former Tiger defensive back Eric Ramsey, who also backed his allegations with secret tape recordings. Auburn is on NCAA probation because of Ramsey's claims. The NCAA, meanwhile, is investigating the Crimson Tide athletic program, at least partly in response to Jelks' claims. Jelks, a Gadsden native, moved to Atlanta after making his allegations against Alabama, where he began as a running back but was switched to the secondary.

A hearing in Pullen's suit is Oct. 10. i From staff and wire reports NEW YORK Pensacola's Roy Jones vs. James Toney will be something new. At least, it will seem like something new two good boxers, each under 30, fighting one another because many name fighters are well into their 30s and some are over 40.

"Boxing's almost a substitute for social security," said promoter Bob Arum at a news conference to announce the 26-year-old Toney's International Boxing Federation super middleweight title defense against 25-year-old Jones on Nov. 18 in the MGM Grand at Las Vegas. By the way, Arum will promote 45-year-old George Foreman's heavyweight title bid against Michael Moorer on Nov, 5. "This is what boxing needs, a fight like this," said Toney, of Ann Arbor, Mich. "It's no good, the old guys fighting each other." "As I understand it, I guess I'm in for a hell of a fight, and I'm prepared for a hell of a fight," said Jones, 26-0 with 23 knockouts.

"All I've got to say to Roy Jones is that he's finally ready for the big dog on the night of Nov. 18, and he's going to get bit," said Toney, 44-0-2 with 29 KOs. The records, however, do not show where Kreimer got the money. The paper said Jelks was paid $36,946 from Nov. 24, 1992, to April 21, 1994.

Jelks went public in September 1992 with his claims of being paid to play at Alabama. Details of the payments were inrlnHpH with a mo -i' '( Jones is getting 45 percent and he is getting 35 percent of the gross revenue for the pay-per-view match. "I think out of this fight will emerge the best fighter pound-for-pound in the world today," IBF president Bob Lee said. The IBF's vacant middleweight title will go to the winner of No. 1 contender Hopkins against No.

2 contender Sequando Mercado of Ecuador. They meet Sept. 10 for negotiations, and must fight by Nov. 26, said IBF executive secretary Marian Muhammad. tion by former Alabama Jelks assistant coach Jerry Pullen, who filed suit accusing Jelks of defamation.

Pullen asked a judge to remove Kreimer as Jelks' lawyer because of his failure to disclose the payments. Pullen also asked a judge to rule in his favor without a trial, but no decision was immediately made..