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The winner's circle Headline ahead With Classified Jason Breeman, a Notre Dame High School graduate, was a freshman member of the track team at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. The Lords finished fifth in the North Coast Athletic Conference. The New York Mets host the Houston Astros at 7:05 tonight. Dwight Gooden, 10-4, starts for the Mets and Bob Knepper, 8-1, starts for the Astros. Knepper was 8-17 last season after a 17-12 showing in 1986.

Star-Gazette Saturday, July 2, 1988 Page 5B Sportsline Giants confident Manwaring will be back From wire and staff reports Little rolls into du Maurier lead Staff reports SAN FRANCISCO Kirt Manwaring is back in the minor leagues today, but that's not due to the way he played during his four weeks with the San Francisco Giants. The Giants on Thursday returned the former Horseheads High School All-Twin Tiers catcher to the Phoenix Firebirds of the Class AAA Pacific Coast League despite the fact that Manwaring had played well in his 15 Last September, Manwaring appeared in six games with the Giants, getting one hit in seven at-bats. "We've certainly lost no confidence in what Kirt can do," Nelson said Friday. "He's proven he has the ability to become a good major league hitter. We still feel he's going to be our catcher for some time.

"The plan all along," Nelson continued, "was for Kirt to spend the entire (1988) season in AAA. His development is the most important factor." games sincebeing recalled on June 2. The decisiobto return Manwaring to the minors was based "mostly on the fact that Bob Melvin was ready to return to the major leagues," said Ralph Nelson, tht Giants' assistant general manager. Melvin, the Giants' No. 2 catcher who played ir 84 games last year when San Francisco won the National League West title, batted only .191 over the first 10 weeks of this season.

He was sent to Phoenix when Manwaring was brought up and rejoined the Giants on Friday. Manwaring flew to Edmonton, Alberta, on Friday to join the Firebirds and was unavailable for comment. Manwaring hit .294 in 51 at-bats with the Giants, with three doubles and four runs batted in. He threw out seven baserunners attempting to steal. Edberg rallies to beat ecir rt Vj 4k.

f-t 9 Martina vs. Steffi. Page 8B. 1 'rirP fi 19. V.l&w iL COQUITLAM, British Columbia Sally Little overcame damp playing conditions Friday to shoot a 7-under-par 65 and take a one-shot lead after two rounds of the $500,000 du Maurier Classic, the third of the LPGA's four majors.

Little had seven birdies in a bogey-free round that left her at 5-under-par 139 after 36 holes of the only LPGA stop in Canada. Laura Davies of England, Debbie Massey and first-round leader Sherri Turner, the 1988 Corning Classic champion, were next at 140. Davies shot a 1-under 71 and Massey had a solid 68, while Turner matched par with a 72. Jacobsen goes up by two OAK BROOK, HI. Peter Jacobsen scored an eagle-3 on the way to a 7-under-par 65 Friday that lifted him into a two-shot lead after the second round of the $900,000 Western Open Golf Tournament.

Jacobsen, on the rebound from a back injury that has slowed him for four seasons, completed two trips over the Butler National Golf Club course in 135, 9 under par. Ed Fiori and Dan Forsman shared second at 137. Fiori had a 67 and Forsman shot a 69. It was another two strokes back to Horse-heads' Joey Sindelar, Tom Sieckmann, Jim Benepe and Rocco Mediate. Benepe scored two eagles in a round of 68.

Sieckmann matched par-72, Mediate shot a 70 and Sindelar had a 69. Notre Dame High School graduate Mike Hul-bert fired a 74 and stands at 144, nine strokes off the pace. Boggs seeks to dismiss suit TUSTIN, Calif. The attorney for Boston Red Sox third baseman Wade Boggs filed an action Friday in Orange County Superior Court asking that the lawsuit filed against Boggs by a Costa Mesa, woman be dismissed. Margo Adams, 32, filed suit against Boggs on June 7, charging the four-time American League batting champion with breach of oral contract and fraud based upon a continuous four-year relationship.

Adams is asking for $6 million, according to her attorney, James F. McGee. Boggs, 30, is married. He and his wife, Deborah, have two children, a girl 9 and a boy who turns 2 next November. "The action we filed is called a demurrer," said Jennifer King, Boggs' attorney.

"A demurrer is a way of trying to stop the lawsuit before it gets underway. It says facts haven't been stated sufficiently to constitute a cause of action. It's another way of saying, 'Get out of King said a hearing will be held on the matter on Aug. 12 before Commissioner Eleanor Palk at Orange County Superior Court. Yanks' Dotson on disabled list CHICAGO The New York Yankees on Friday placed pitcher Richard Dotson on the 15-day disabled list because of sore left groin and transferred infielder Wayne Tolleson from the 15-day DL to 21 days.

Dotson, acquired from the White Sox during the off season, has a record of 7-3 with a 4.32 ERA. Television Highlights A 'i WIMBLEDON, England (AP) -Stefan Edberg, staging the biggest semifinal comeback at Wimbledon since countryman Bjorn Borg, rallied from two sets down to beat Miloslav Mecir Friday and put a Swede in the men's final for the first time in seven years. Edberg, the third seed, fought off the bullet service returns and pinpoint volleys of the ninth-seeded Czechoslovak to win 4-6, 2-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-4 and become the first Swedish finalist since Borg lost to John McEnroe in 1981. His opponent in the final will be top-seeded Ivan Lendl or two-time champion Boris Becker. Becker led the rain-delayed second semifinal 6-4, 6-3, 6-7 (8-10) when play was halted by darkness.

That match will be resumed this morning at 9 prior to the women's final between six-time defending champion Martina Navratilova and top-seeded Steffi Graf. NBC will carry both matches live. Lendl saved three match points in the tiebreak, which ended just before officials suspended play. Although it was the first set Becker has lost in the tournament, history will be on his side when the match resumes. The last time a men's semifinal in progress was carried over an extra day, in 1985, Becker beat Anders Jarryd and went on to win his first Wimbledon title over Kevin Curren.

To reach the 1981 final, Borg had to come back from two sets down against Jimmy Connors in the semifinals. Edberg did the same against Mecir, who didn't play for two months before Wimbledon because of back problems. Mecir, nicknamed the "Swede Killer" for his success against top Swedish players, blasted 31 service-return winners and dozens of passing shots in the 3-hour, 10- minute match. But they weren't enough to bury Edberg, who had lost his last three Grand Slam semifinals. The soft-spoken Edberg, who won the Australian Open on grass in 1985 and 1987, answered all questions about his character on Centre Court.

"Believe it or not, I do have guts," said Edberg, who has a London home a short cab ride away from Wimbledon. Mecir, whose only Grand Slam final was the 1986 U.S. Open, had 12 break points in the third and fourth sets and failed to convert any of them. "If I didn't have so many chances, if I was not so close to winning, I would not be so disappointed," said Mecir, who wore a back brace for the disc problem that kept him out of action for two months before Wimbledon. After winning the first two sets, Becker moved to double-match point in the tiebreaker at 6-4 when Lendl netted a running forehand.

On the next point, Becker rushed the net behind a big first serve and appeared ready to put away a match-ending forehand volley. But the 20-year-old West German hit the ball into the net, giving Lendl another chance. Lendl won the next two points with a volley and a delicate half-volley drop shot to move to set point, but his wide backhand return made it 7-7. Becker, who had six aces and eight double faults, gained a third match point when Lendl hit a service return long, but couldn't convert it. After a wide return by Becker and a winning volley by Lendl, Becker hit a backhand volley wide to end the third set.

Associated Press STEFAN EDBERG celebrates a winning volley during his five-set victory over Miroslav Mecir in a men's semifinal at Wimbledon Friday. Oneonta explodes for 11-1 rout of Pioneers Complete llitlngi on Page 11A TODAY'S SPORTS 7:00 a.m. ESPN SportsCenter 9:00 NBC Wimbledon (men's semifinal, women's championship) 2:00 p.m. NBC Baseball: New York Yankees at Chicago White Sox ESPN PGA Seniors: Rancho Murieta Gold Rush, first round 4:00 CBS PGA: Beatrice Western Open, third round ESPN Auto Racing: Sports Car Club of America Series, from Cleveland 7:00 ESPN SportsCenter 7:30 WTBS Baseball: Atlanta Braves at Montreal Expos CNN Sports Saturday 8:30 ESPN Arena Football: New York Knights at Los Angeles Cobras 10:00 WGN Baseball: Chicago Cubs at Los Angeles Dodgers 11:00 ESPN SportsCenter 11:30 CNN Sports Tonight celli's) got to save his pitchers for the big games." The Pioneers managed their lone run off Oneonta starter and winner Andy Cook in the seventh inning. And the ball bounced the Pioneers' way for that run.

Luis Dorante got a bad-hop single past the second baseman and John Spencer's shot towards the second baseman hit umpire Dave Klein, who jumped but couldn't totally avoid the missile. That went as a base hit. Julio Rosario then bounced one over the bag at third and it hopped over the fielder's head to let Dorante score. The Pioneers travel to Little Falls for a three-game set against the Mets before returning Tuesday for a two-game homestand with the Mets. drew not only plaudits from Limoncelli, but from a worthy foe Yankee designated hitter Jason Bridges.

"That outfielder pitched as well as their regular pitchers," said Bridges, who was 5-for-5 until Warfel got him on a soft liner to the second baseman in the ninth. "I made up my mind I'm going inside on him," Warfel said of Bridges' last at-bat. "I got it right in his kitchen and he hit it right off the fists." Limoncelli said he might use Warfel in relief again because three pitchers are sidelined with injuries and illness. He also said that Warfel pitched well in relief twice last year. Asked if he'd consider taking up pitching, Warfel said, "If it's a last resort to stay in baseball, I will.

And I'll do anything to help this team. The pitching staff is low and he's (Limon- of St. Joseph's Hospital. It was postponed until tonight because of threatening weather. "You know it's one of those nights when two of your best pitchers get shelled," Limoncelli said.

Starter Pete Estrada and reliever Carlos Rivera each yielded five runs in the first four innings. The only Pioneer pitcher who could stop the Yankees, now 11-5, was an outfielder, Brian Warfel. The strong-armed right-hander blanked Oneonta over the last three innings and struck out three in a row at one stretch with a fastball clocked at 90 miles an hour. "I used to throw harder than that," said WarfeU a three-year Pioneer. "I pitched in high school but I hurt my arm as a sophomore.

I used to throw it over 90 (mph)." The 6-3, 190-pound Pennsylvanian By TOM PAGE Staff Writer Bill Limoncelli, manager of the El-mira Pioneers, thought a postponed fireworks display had been moved to Dunn Field Friday night. "It looked like St. Joseph's fireworks, the way they were hitting the ball," Limoncelli said, referring to the hot Oneonta Yankees bats that produced 17 hits and an 11-1 rout of the Pioneers in. a New York-Penn League game. After winning the first game of this four-game set at Oneonta Tuesday to tie the Yankees for first place, the Pioneers dropped the next three and are 8-8 on the year.

The reference to the fireworks was a concert and fireworks display scheduled for Friday night in the parking lot Our phone numbers The Sports Department's telephone numbers for calls from outside our local dialing area are: IN NEW YORK 1-800-962-7827 and IN PENNSYLVANIA 1-800-245-1414. Brabham breaks Glen record in practice for Sunday's race Horseheads native Roller will produce Glen telecast I -mm C.3 during today's single-car qualifying. He has started on the pole in three of the last four races. IMSA track records can only be established during official qualifying sessions. Brabham's lap time of 1 minute, 34.360 seconds was more than two seconds quicker than the Jaguar XJR-9 of Jan Lammers of The Netherlands, who was clocked at 126.060 mph.

Camel GTP points leader John Nielsen of West Germany was third in another Jaguar at 124.788 mph. Today's schedule also includes qualifying for Sunday's 100-kilometer IMSA International Sedan race and 100-kilometer IMSA Barber Saab Pro Series Race. A 100-kilometer SCCA Pro Sports 2000 race is scheduled for 4 p.m. today. Staff and wire reports WATKINS GLEN Geoff Brabham continued his dominance of IMSA Camel GT sports car racing Friday by unofficially shattering the Watkins Glen International track record during practice for Sunday's Camel Continental.

The 500-kilometer Camel Continental begins at noon Sunday. Driving the Nissan GTP prototype that has won the last four races, Brabham turned in the day's fastest practice lap of 128.838 mph around the 3.377-mile road course. That was more than 4 mph quicker than Davy Jones' 1986 track record of 124.487 mph. Jones is a native of McGraw, N.Y. Brabham, a native of Australia now living in Noblesville, will be favored to win the pole position By DAVE POTTER Special to the Star-Gazette WATKINS GLEN Sunday's Jifth annual International Motor Sports Association Camel Continental at Watkins Glen International, a 500-kilometer race for Grand Prix prototypes, will be Jelevised live by ESPN as part of RaceDay America, 7V4 hours of racing that includes Formula 1 land Indy cars.

The Glen portion, which begins tat noon, will be produced by Horseheads native Jim Roller. Roller hopes to put some of his knowledge of the area to good use. "This really brings back some memories for me," he said. "This is the area I grew up in, and my roots are in sports car racing here, so that makes it even more special." Roller is returning to racing this summer after producing the National Hockety League playoffs for ESPN, and later this month will be involved in the first-ever pay-per-view NASCAR event from Pocono. Between hockey games, Roller was able to sandwich in some racing, then went from Edmonton, the site of the NHL finals, to Lime Rock and Le Mans.

"I didn't realize how much I missed racing until I did Miami (a Grand Prix race) earlier this year," he said. "It was like a breath of fresh air. For this race (or any race), we try to find the best racing. (See Telecast on Page 6B) TERESA HURTStor-Gazette HORSEHEADS NATIVE JIM ROLLER will produce Sunday's Camel Continental at Watkins Glen International ifor ESPN..