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4B The Advocate SPORTS Saturday, April 8, 2000 1 SPORTS DIGEST Sosa shows Junior i how to hit one deep CINCINNATI (AP) Sammv NATIONAL LEAGUE Cubs 10, Reds 6 Granville softball team edges Liberty Union BALTIMORE A tag out in the sixth inning saved a Granville lead and the Blue Aces went on to defeat Liberty Union 2-1 in a Mid-State League girls softball game Friday. With runners on first and second in the sixth, Liberty Union's Stephanie Pratt doubled to left, scoring the runner from second. However, Pratt was tagged out trying to stretch the hit into a triple and the runner from first was unable to score before the tag out was applied. Granville left fielder Nicole Hiatt began the play, throwing to shortstop Stephanie Vermillion, who threw to third baseman Sarah Freytag. Vermillion and Jessie Vaiea added a pair of singles to the Blue Ace effort.

Teryn Dougan pitched seven innings, allowing 4 hits and a walk and striking out 4. Granville (3-0, 3-0 MSL-Cardinal Division) will play host to Fisher Catholic on Monday. Sosa hit a long homer to center, a sacrifice fly to the warning track right and a fly out to the wall in nr'left. Looks like that third of the NL Central's home run trio is up. The question now is how 3ong it will take Junior and Big Mac to get in the swing with him.

Sosa visited Ken Griffey new home Friday and showed him how it's done. He hit a two- On Deck TODAY: Chicago Cubs (2-4) at Cincinnati (1-3), 1 p.m. STARTERS: Kevin Tapani (0-1) vs. Rob Bell (0-0) TV: WGN(16) RADIO: WTVN-AM (610) run nomer in the first inning and a long sacrifice fly, leading the Chica- Cincinnati pitcher Pete Harnisch wipes his face while talking to catcher Benito Santiago on Friday night. (AP) to see who would get the best of the first head-to-head matchup between Sosa and Griffey in the regular season since 1991.

Sosa got admiring applause when he hit a two-run homer in the first off Pete Harnisch (0-1), a drive to center estimated at 448 feet. "You make a mistake on Sosa, he'll hurt you," Reds manager Jack McKeon said. "Pete got behind and got the ball over the plate." When Griffey came up in the bottom of the first, he looked determined to match him. He took three huge swings against Andrew Lorraine (1-0) and came up with three big misses. "If you make a mistake over the plate, he's going to get you," Lorraine said.

"Except for one mistake I made in his first at-bat that he swung at and missed, I gave him nothing to hit." Griffey went 0-for-4 against go Cubs to a "10-6 victory over the Cincinnati "Reds. After opening the season in traveling back and having his slump reach 0-for-16 in St. Louis, Sosa was feeling much '-'more in sync in Cincinnati. He "nearly had a three-homer game. "We're playing more games every day," Sosa said.

"When you have too many off, it kind of (--. takes you out of your game. "I'm starting to feel much better. I'm starting to feel more J1 comfortable, more patient." Griffey looks anything but comfortable. He went 0-for-4 and Mihad a sacrifice fly in the ninth that was little consolation.

In five games for his hometown team, Junior has gone l-for-18 and got-. ten the ball out of the infield only twice. The crowd of 36,383 turned out ninth. The crowd was up and screaming when he came to bat against Mark Guthrie, a lefthander he has hit hard in the past. Cubs manager Don Baylor knew that Griffey was ll-for-23 (.478) career off Guthrie with two homers.

Baylor also knew how much Griffey was struggling and went with the matchup. Guthrie got Griffey on a routine fly to left that drove in Cincinnati's final run. Lorraine. He struck out and grounded out against the Cubs' Griffey shift, which moved shortstop Ricky Gutierrez to the other side of second. In his next two at-bats, Griffey went the other way and popped out and grounded out to third baseman Shane Andrews.

He heard a couple of boos after that last out. There was one more chance. After falling behind 10-2, the Reds cut the lead to 10-5 and brought Griffey up with the bases loaded and one out in the Big Red men's tennis team falls to Depauw GRANVILLE Depauw edged Denison 4-3 Friday in the men's Great Lakes Conference Association tennis championships. The teams split the six singles matches, but Depauw won two of the three doubles matches. Denison singles winners were: Jeramie Barnes (4-6, 6-4, 6-4 over Yuri Klyachkia) at No.

Karamueer Premmarargon (6-2, 2-6, 7-5 over Matt Baird) at No. and Cam Vincent (1-6, 6-2, 7-5) at No. 5. The Big Red's final win was at No. 3 doubles, where Vincent teamed with Mitch Regefuss for an 8-4 decision.

Dodson smokes lanes en route to a 298 NEWARK Roger Dodson cranked out his fourth career 298 for a 698 series in the Wednesday Commercial League. The right-handed bowler left only the 3 and 10 pins. He averages a 211. Dodson has been bowling for 25 years and has rolled six 300s, four 299s and works for the Ohio Department of Transportation. Cincinnati's Kenyon Martin wins Wooden Award LOS ANGELES Even without an opportunity to shine in this spring's NCAA tournament, Cincinnati's Kenyon Martin continues to be acknowledged as the men's college basketball player of the year.

The 6-foot-9 senior, who broke his right leg in Cincinnati's first-round game of the Conference USA tournament, was a runaway winner of the 24th John R. Wooden Award, presented Friday at the Los Angeles Athletic Club. He was previously honored as player of the year by The Associated Press, the Atlanta Tipoff Club and the United States Basketball Writers Association. The awards handed out earlier were based on the regular season; the 1,047 sports writers and sportscasters who voted for the Wooden Award had until March 27 to cast their ballots. Martin received 4,365 points to 2,993 for runnerup Marcus Fizer of Iowa State.

Mateen Cleaves, who led Michigan State to the NCAA championship title, was third with 2,296. Duke's Shane Battier was next with 1,990, followed by Indiana's A. J. Guyton Notre Dame's Troy Murphy Duke's Chris Carrawell Michigan State's Morris Peterson Texas' Chris Mihm (1,160) and Stanford's Mark Mad-sen Compiled from Advocate staff, wire reports Cincinnati sends White to Colorado for Aybar "I haven't pitched in over a year," White said. "I went from pitching every day to hardly pitching.

Tonight was a perfect game for me to get some work in, and I knew something was up when I wasn't the next guy." White further jeopardized his job this spring, when he 10 earned runs and 18 hits in 14 innings. He gave up a two-run homer to Tyler Houston in an 8-5 loss to Milwaukee on Wednesday, his only appearance of the season. With rookie left-hander Hector Mercado getting used more often, White could see what was happening. "I'm leaving a great bunch of guys," White said. "That's the biggest thing.

I have a lot of great friends here. I'm leaving a great ballclub, too. I think the sky's the limit for this team." White agreed to a one-year, $630,000 contract to avoid arbitration in the offseason. Aybar, 25, makes $270,000 this season. Aybar is 12-16 in the majors with a 5.37 career ERA.

Like White, he appeared in only one game this season, taking the loss last Wednesday in Atlanta by giving up five hits and three runs in 1 innings. Aybar went 4-5 for St. Louis with a 5.47 ERA last season, his first full season in the majors. He went to the Rockies as part of the Darryl Kile trade in November. CINCINNATI (AP) Left-hander Gabe White knew something was going on when the Cincinnati Reds fell behind by eight Friday night and he didn't even get called to warm up.

In the eighth inning of their 10-6 loss to the Chicago Cubs, the Reds announced they'd traded White to Colorado for right-handed reliever Manny Aybar. The Reds and Rockies swapped struggling relievers late Friday, looking for a better fit for their bullpens. White, 28, was the least-used member of the major leagues' stingiest bullpen last season, throwing only 61 innings. He went l-2 with a 4.43 earned run average. iBrown a nice fit on defense -it "Regrow New Hair" By STEVE DOERSCHUK Thomson News Service 2 BEREA Courtney Brown Jhad a plane to catch Thursday.

He'd enjoyed a night on the "town with the big boys Wednesday. Dinner was at Moxie's. Al 'Lerner picked up the hefty check. Soon enough, Brown can afford to buy Moxie's. The defensive end from Penn Revolutionary new formula stops hair loss to give back your youthful appearance State will find out in eight davs if he will finish first.

But there are a lot of other guys who deserve it also. Have you and LaVar talked about which of you will be No. 1 BROWN: Briefly. He's just like me. I mean, there's a lot of talk out there, a lot of hype.

We just want to wait until the 15th and go from there. Do you leave Cleveland a little surer or a little less sure of what's going to happen? BROWN: I will say this. I'll leave here knowing more about the Cleveland organization and Cleveland itself, I feel very comfortable with the people here, and the environment. If I am selected to come here, I'll be happy to be here. What kind of impact can you have on the field, as a rookie? BROWN: My perspective and attitude is first of all I've got to come in and learn everything.

I've got to study the defense, learn it as well as I can. It's all a learning process. I've got to think about what I'm going to do and have an open mind. I've got to keep the attitude I'll help the team the best I can and give my best effort. You have been called the next Bruce Smith.

How does that hit you? BROWN: It's great to be mentioned in the same breath with someone like that. He's been in the game a long time. He has a lot of experience. I haven't played one down of NFL football yet. It would be great to be mentioned like that in the future.

PRO FOOTBALL owes to Brown's distrust of some individuals in the media. During an interview Thursday, however, Brown seemed cooperative and comfortable under the watchful eyes of Head Coach Chris Palmer and Defensive Coordinator Romeo Crennel. Brown talked about wanting to get a deal done with the team that drafts him, whether it is the Browns or the Redskins, who own the No. 2 and no. 3 picks.

The Browns are placing a premium on drafting a player who won't become a training camp holdout. Will Brown's agent, Marvin Demoff, be calling all the shots? Or will Brown direct Demoff through the process? "It's going to be a little bit of both," Brown said. Here's more of what Brown had to say before he flew to Washington to meet with the Redskins: QUESTION: How will you react if the Browns draft you? BROWN: I think it would be very good. My visit here has been tremendous. The people have been nice.

From what I hear, the fans are very supportive here, very enthusiastic. It just seems like a good place to be. Is it important to you to be the No. 1 pick? BROWN: It would be a true blessing and an honor to be No. 1.

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