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Mansfield's May picReeN Ithaca rolls over Elmira Heights, 5-1 fS -V round of draft LEGION BASEBALL second inning explosion as Tioga handed host Wellsboro a 10-5 loss in Tioga County American Legion baseball. NORTH PENN 10 MANSFIELD 0 Andy Davidyock tossed a one-hitter, while Bill Woodward continued his hitting tear as North Penn blanked Mansfield, 10-0. COWANESQUE VALLEY 4 GALETON 3 Cowanesque Valley's Matt Phelps pitched his team by Gale-ton, 4-3. (V- IV Star-Gazette Elmira Heights rallied to score an unearned run in the bottom of the seventh inning to tie Ithaca at 1-1, but Ithaca answered the Heights rally by scoring four times in the top of the eights to notch a 5-1 American Legion victory. Kevin Wilder got the win in relief for Ithaca, 3-1, while Jason Hoodak suffered the loss in short relief for Elmira Heights, 2-1 Dan Amici belted a double and added three RBI for Ithaca.

TIOGA 10, WELLSBORO 5 Bill Borden's grand slam in the second inning keyed a nine-run AMERICAN LEAGUE Fislc leads White Sox to 8-2 win The Associated Press Carlton Fisk went 4-for-4 and Fred Manrique drove in three runs Monday night as the Chicago White Sox beat the Boston Red Sox 8-2 and averted a four-game sweep. Fisk's first four-hit game since Sept. 6, 1985, raised his average to .324 against his former team. He got his 12th career four-hit game. Shawn Hillegas pitched 5 2-3 shutout innings in relief, allowing just three hits, for the victory.

Don Pall finished with three scoreless innings for his third save. Ivan Calderon hit a two-run triple during a six-run third inning against John Dopson, 6-5. Dopson lost for the fourth time in six decisions. Calderon's triple made it 2-all, Greg Walker got an infield single and Fisk's single put Chicago ahead. Dan Pasqua followed with a ground-rule double that drove in Walker and Manrique greeted reliever Wes Gardner with a two-run single.

Chicago's six hits and six runs in the third inning were each season highs. Calderon has 37 RBI this season, two more than he had last year. The White Sox added two runs The Associated Press BEATING THE THROW: Boston catcher Rich Gedman waits for the throw as Dan Pasqua of the Chicago White Sox slides home safely in the third inning Monday. Pasqua scored on Fred Manrique's single. a .366 average.

In 161 trips to the plate, May pounded out a team-high 59 hits that included 16 doubles to lead the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference. MAY May also scored 44 runs, had 26 RBI and a team-leading 26 stolen bases. May was selected to both the 3-1 with a 3.60 ERA on the road. Deer hit a three-run homer in the first inning. Brock's fourth home run of the season came in the third against Steve Shields and made it 5-1.

Deer had an RBI double during a three-run sixth as the Brewers took a 10-3 lead. The Twins, who rallied to beat the Brewers on Saturday and Sunday, scored four times in the sixth. Castillo and Gagne homered, finishing Krueger, and Jay Aldrich gave up Kirby Puckett's RBI single and threw a wild pitch that enabled another run to score. Paul Molitor tripled in the Milwaukee seventh and scored on Gary Wayne's wild pitch. burg," said Moore.

"But the last week of spring training I got hit in the (right) cheekbone in a scrimmage game. I broke it in three places. It didn't really hurt, but there was a dent in the side of my head. After the surgery, Gary Allenson (the Lynchburg manager) said I was going to come back here. I was upset but happy because I knew I'd get to play everyday." Although the injury wasn't life-threatening Moore was back playing baseball three days after the surgery and even finished the inning after it happened he said it took some readjustment in attitude.

"At first I would kind of gun-shy," said Moore, unintentional that. It's not the typical relationship you have with a coach at a major-college university." By his own admission, Switzer ran a loose ship at OU. His theory: The players are adults and should be treated as such. He didn't intrude on their individualism tolerating Bosworth's punkish appearance and quarterback Jamelle Holieway's earring and shoulder purse. That, in the end, may have contributed to his downfall.

More and more, off-the-field activities made headlines. Start PSAC-East and East Coast Athletic Conference-South all-star teams this past season. "He is one of the finest short- stops in Mansfield history," -said Mountie head coach Harry Hillson. "He is a hustler and a team player and he has a good shot at making the majors." May has been assigned to the Giants' team in Pocatello, Idaho, in the Pioneer League. Before coming to Mansfield University, May was a star on the Monroe County Community College team that was eighth in the country in 1987.

NATIONAL LEAGUE Abner, Clark: lead Padres to 5-1 win c. The Associated Press SAN DIEGO Shawn Abner hit, a three-run homer and Jack Clark a two-run shot off Orel Hershiser as the San Diego Padres, behind the six-hit pitching of Eric beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-1 Monday night. Abner's homer off 8-j 6, snapped a scoreless tie with; two out in the fifth inning. It was Abner's first homer of the year third of his major league career! and first since May 16, against the New York Dwight Gooden. Clark's ninth homer, his sec ond two-run shot in three came in the sixth, Heshiser's fi" nal inning.

Show, 8-6, struck out eight and; walked four in pitching his first: complete game of the Davis' third homer, in thel sixth, accounted for the only Eos" Angeles run. Luis Salazar reached safely when second baseman Willie Randolph committed only his third error of the season to start the decisive rally. Show followed! with a single and Abner hom-4 ered to left on an 0-1 pitch. y. Ater Davis' homer cut the nrH gin to 3-1, Tony Gwynn opened.

the sixth with a single, his ninth hit in his last 10 at-bats. Clark then lined the first pitch into the. left-field seats. ly rubbing the spot that was now everything seems Catcher Frank Morelli, who in jured his knee in the season', opener at Oneonta on a close; play at the plate, was sent home-Saturday. Morelli, from Melrose will undergo arthroscopic surgery sometime this week.

Replacing him on the Pioneers ros ter is Chris Rosefeld ex', Rosefelder, also a catcher, will wear No. 35. In the first three games, relief pitcher Tony Mosley nas coached; first base and pitched in He starts the game on the line at first then when needed ra.ces! down to the bullpen and thrower a tew warmup tosses betore com ing into the game. ing cornerback Jerry Parks was charged with shooting a team1 mate in the football dormitory. Three players allegedly raped a woman in the dorm and now await trial.

Starting quarterback Charles Thompson was arrested for selling cocaine. Before that, Bosworth's autobfc ography recounted rules violations, steroids and cocaine and general lawlessness in 'the football program. And the NCAA; stepped in in December with stiff, three-year probation that charged Switzer and the universe ty with failing to exercise appro priate institutional control. rks-L A rUin Air Filtor nmur lUarinn till. I Chassis.

Inflate your tirvsi vacuum ywut imm ivi Honahaad in 23rd Star-Gazette MANSFIELD The tradition continues. Mansfield University senior shortstop Shawn May became the 26th member of Mansfield baseball since 1969 to be selected in the major league baseball draft. May, a native of Liverpool, N.Y., was taken by the San Francisco Giants in the 23rd round of the recent 82-round draft. May led the Mountaineers this past season in hitting with home runs. Greg Brock hit a two-run homer as every Milwaukee starter got at least one hit, and eight had two apiece.

Carmen Castillo hit two solo home runs and Gary Gaetti and Greg Gagne each homered for the Twins. Gagne had four of Minnesota's 12 hits. Bill Krueger, 3-1, won despite allowing five runs on seven hits in 5 'A innings. Dan Plesac relieved after Gaetti's leadoff home run in the ninth inning and got his 17th save. Francisco Oliveras, 3-3, continued to struggle at the Met-rodome, giving up five runs in two innings.

He is 0-2 with a 6.21 earned run average at home and doesn't do alone. "I just stretch more and make sure my quadriceps are loose," said Moore. "I run a couple more sprints than the other guys do before the game. (John) Spencer, (Richard) Witherspoon and I all do." Although the Pioneers got off to a slow start losing their first two games, Moore believes it isn't indicative of the team. "The way I see it, we should have won the first two," Moore said.

"I think it has taken us all a while to get used to the lights here." Moore's return to Elmira was precipitated by an spring training ending injury. "I was all set to go to Lynch any other coach I've had," said Anthony Phillips, an academic All-American and team captain last season. "He's in his early 50s, but when he's around here, he acts like somebody your age his mannerisms and stuff like prejudiced commissioner." ABC's World News Tonight reported Monday that it learned Rose bet $2,000 on the Reds on April 10, 1987. Cincinnati beat San Diego 6-3 that day. Peters, in an interview shown Monday on CBS Evening News said Rose bet $20,000 a day on baseball games between 1984 and 1987.

Peters said that on July 7, 1987, Rose bet $17,500 on baseball games. "He always bet on his team," Peters said. "He never bet against his team." HIKE LOPRESTI Switzer tired of fighting NCAA rules It was too bad about Barry Switzer. He left with the right message. Only it was coming from the wrong person.

In Oklahoma City, the TV stations cut into regular programming to carry the press conference live. The fourth winningest coach in college football history was saying goodbye in a state where a good goal line stand is holy. General Hospital could wait. was tired, he said. Drained.

"I'm quitting for the right reasons, my reasons," he said. "I'm not jumping ship. I'm just docking it." Besides, he had had a bellyful of the NCAA. The rules with no reasons. The wall of insensitivity that you bashed your head ffgainst so often, you needed a new order of helmets.

Like the solider who once said in Vietnam that they were burning a village to save it, some of the NCAA rules wrong the athletes to make them righteous. "It's been hard for me to say no to people who needed help," Switzer said. "We have created a system that does not permit me to buy a pair of shoes or a decent coat for a player whose family can't afford these basic necessities. How can any coach stick to the rules when a young man's father dies many miles away and the son has no money for a plane ticket home to the funeral?" Switzer won 157 games and lost only 29. His teams won three national championships.

He could have been the forefront of the call for sensible reform. If only there had not been the rape charges. The gunfire charges. The drug charges. The rumors.

The stories. The whispers. The books. If only the Sooner program had not been as adept at chaos as it was at victory. No coach can be held totally accountable.

Boys will be boys. But felons will be felons. If only Barry Switzer had tended his own backyard, before the weeds grew so high as to eclipse the monument to success he built on the prairie. Then he would have been easier to hear today. You could have better accepted his pain, agreed with his reasons and sympathized with his feeling of entrapment in a system he cannot comprehend.

"It's no fun," he said. "I used to look forward to staff meetings. don't even enjoy walking into the office today. I really don't. It's been occurring for several months." He is not the world's most popular person.

He could be a bit of a rascal. No doubt about it. But there was always something admirably honest about a man many thought was running a dirty program. 'This is the way I am. Take me or leave me.

But you know where I'll be New Year's Day. ntRemember. He was 21 when his mother committed suicide on the porch while he was in the house. He was 34 when his father, a bootlegger, was shot and killed. Whether Switzer took the high road or the low road to get to Oklahoma, it was never the easy road.

A female reporter asked him Monday if the team would suffer this fall without him. he said in that Arkansas drawl, "The University of Oklahoma will win regardless. "I think they may be ever more determined." "That was a lot of Barry Switzer right there. Mischievous, proud, optimistic, a fighter. Look at how he left.

For months, half the world has been after his head. And just when the fire died down and he seemd safe for another year or until the FBI showed up in Norman again Switzer called the folks together and said goodbye. On his terms. At 52, he hardly seems finished. You have to think one day he may turn up on another sideline.

It is too bad. He could have been such a dashing figure on the college landscape. Instead, to many, he was a villain. If only he had created discipline like he created a gameplan. If only he governed as well as he coached.

Mike Lopresti writes for Gannett News Service. New stealing policy thrills speedy Moore agianst Gardner and Dennis Lamp in the seventh on RBI singles by Manrique and Ozzie Guillen. Boston knocked out Adam Peterson with two runs in the first. Wade Boggs walked, advanced on Peterson's wild pickoff throw and Luis Rivera singled. Danny Heep and Dwight Evans got RBI singles that finished Peterson.

BREWERS 11, TWINS 4 Rob Deer hit his 16th homer and drove in four runs as Milwaukee matched its season high with 17 hits and beat the Minnesota Twins 11-8. Deer, who also doubled, tied Bo Jackson and Mickey Tettleton for the American League lead in PIONEERS NOTEBOOK in Saturday's home-opener, Moore stole third base. He figures the new approach is going to mean a lot to him personally as well as the team. "I figure if I hit enough, it could mean 30 or 40 points on my average," said Moore. "And if I get on base, then get a chance to steal, it'll mean more runs for the team." Knowing he's going to get the chance to steal a lot more has change Moore's pre-game workouts a little.

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Only three games into the New York-Penn League season, Moore has broken his professional record for stolen bases. Moore has stolen a base in each of the Elmira Pioneers' three games. All of last year he had two stolen bases. "It feels good," said Moore. "Last year, skip (former Pioneers' manager Bill Limoncelli) wouldn't let us steal much.

I ran all through college so I really missed it last year." But this year is different for Moore and the Pioneers. In fact, Switzer Continued from Page 1C many of our young athletes." Legally, he coufdn't buy shoes or a coat or a plane ticket home for a player who grew up poor like he did. "I've taken care of kids who needed things. Other coaches do it, too," Switzer said. "That's just doing the human thing.

But that's a violation. That's the hypocrisy we live in." His bottom line: "I'm tired. It's no fun anymore. I don't have the energy and drive to take this program where it needs to go." So ended the career of one of college football's biggest names. Switzer, 52, was its winningest Rose Continued from Page 1C accusations of betting on baseball that have been levied against him." Asked for unspecified monetary damages "which will fairly compensate him for the destruction of his reputation as one of baseball's foremost living participants." Giamatti originally had scheduled baseball's hearing for May 25 but postponed it until next Monday at the request of Rose's lawyers.

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He won three national titles. He built a reputation as a recruiter and a motivator. As a players' coach. "He's definitely different than Rose's lawyers claimed in court papers that baseball's investigation was "the result not of a fair and impartial investigation but rather a misguided and onesided attempt to prove that Pete Rose bet on major league baseball games." The suit said that unless the court intervened, "Rose will be forced to rebut false accusations that he bet on baseball that are contained in an error-ridden report prepared by agents of the commissioner of baseball in proceedings before a biased and Mil tor ur VS Now Opan: 7:30 AM to 4:30 PM Daily Abo, Saturday Mow tAM-IPM laka.