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owl Super Alliance self or 98 2G Lincoln Journal Star Wednesday; JuJjLltf-1! Zom wins city junior title I rgs afuiwck Cfccn George Vecsey BY MARK DEROWITSCH Lincoln Journal Star 6 I didn't start out too well. When I birdied No. 8 by making a long putt I knew I i i was having a good day. Sport CEOs have higher standards V' Michelle Zorn attended an awards banquet Tuesday night for winning the Lincoln Junior Girls' Golf Tournament, and she provided her own hardware. Actually, Zorn will keep the trophy her older sister, Deb, won last year as the city junior champion.

The younger Zorn returned the traveling trophy to the banquet for her sister, only to take it back home again. "I'm going to bring it in and they're going to give it back to me," Michelle Zorn said. "That's kind of cool." She earned the right to keep the trophy for the next year when she shot an 87 Tuesday during the second round of the tournament at Highlands Golf Course and finished with a 2-under-par total of 184. Amber Uffelman finished second after shooting a second-round 94 for a 191. Whitney White placed third with a 204.

Zorn took a two-stroke lead into the final round after shooting an 89 at Holmes Golf Course in the first A Michelle Zorn tees off on No. 1 0 nine of the Lincoln Junior Girls' Golf Course Tuesday. Zorn shot an 87 to Thompson takes skills to the world Junior Girls' round. She struggled Tuesday on the first three holes at Highlands, recording two double-bogeys and a bogey, before recording four straight pars and a birdie to take a commanding lead. The birdie came on the par-3, 114-yard No.

8. Zorn's tee shot landed 20 feet from the pin, but she sank the long putt to end the string of pars. Zorn finished the front nine with a6-over42. "I didn't start out too well, but I settled down and made a lot of pars on the front nine," said Zorn, a 14-year-old sophomore-to-be at Lincoln East. "When I birdied No.

8 by making a long putt, I knew I was having a good day." Zorn played the back nine in 47 by if i. 6 The NFL can be BY MARK DEROWITSCH Lincoln Journal Star Nebraska's Tressa Thompson attracted national attention during the college track and field season because of her ability in theshotput Next month, Thompson wants to prove herself on a much larger scale. Thompson, a 22-year-old native of Bloomfield, will compete in the shot put next month at the World Championships of Track and Field that will be held in Athens, Greece. Thompson qualified for the U.S. team by placing third at -the VS.

Track and Field Association Championships. Thompson wants to make a positive impression in Europe, the world's hotbed for track and field. "I want to do well and get my name in good standing with everybody over in Europe said Thompson, who will be a senior at Nebraska this fall "They don't it if GAIL FOLDALmcoln Journal Star A Nebraska shot putter Tressa Thompson takes a break before the NCAA championships last May. Thompson will compete next month in the world track and field championships in Athens, Greece. i.

9 recording two pars, three bogeys and four double-bogeys to win the tournament by seven strokes. "But I was coasting more or less," she said. "It was nothing special." Before the tournament, Zorn had problems with her swing, but a few sessions with Firethorn Golf Club pro Lincoln Blackman was all it took to get her back on track. Deb Zorn wasn't able to defend her city junior title because she was in Florida playing in a national Optimist Club tournament. That was OK with her sister.

"She's a better golfer than I am," Michelle Zorn said. "I'm glad I was able to win it." calls it quits 9 "The NFL can be hard on you," Alberts said. "My body just fell apart Sooner or later, you have to retire. I saw it coming. I'm looking forward to my second career." The team said Alberts had been evaluated by Dr.

Gary Misamore of Indianapolis, who determined Monday's scheduled surgery was necessary and that the problem dated to previous surgery. Alberts first dislo- More on ALBERTS, Page 4C $ptains MUMA SWINEY Papio-La Vista Lincoln NE "I think this might be a tribute to the guys who let their playing do their talking." Both the North and the South fly to Minneapolis on Wednesday to visit the Stunners Children's Hospital, the beneficiary of the proceeds of the game. "We backed off on practice this week, with just one on Tuesday, so we're looking forward to the hospital trip," said Petito. Michelle Zorn Golf Tournament champion 1 1 I Injury-plagued Alberts If the various sports halls of fame banned drunks, drug addicts, wife beaters, check bouncers, philanderers, racists, bullies, foulmouths, sneak punchers and general misanthropes, you would have yawning gaps in Cooperstown, Canton, Springfield and Toronto. At every sports banquet you have been forced to attend, there has undoubtedly been a gaseous speech about the character-building aspect of sports.

But in fact, is there any place for even a minimal character requirement in sports? The question comes up because a couple of baseball players have recently been charged with unpleasant behavior. Wil Cordero of the Boston Red Sox was charged with battering his wife last month, and it turned out Cordero had also been charged with assaulting a previous wife. The Red Sox tried to trade him, but when no other team would meet their demands, they put him back in the lineup. He is apparently seeing a counselor about his behavior. Now the Yankees must deal with Mark Whiten, who was arrested Monday on suspicion of sexual assault on a woman in Milwaukee.

The charges are being investigated, and no conclusions should be reached, but Whiten has admitted having consensual sex with the woman in his hotel room two days after his wife gave birth to their second child. Charming. Athletes have skewed view I don't want to sound disillusioned. I'm not from the sentimental school that expects athletes to be role models for children of all ages. All the evidence I have seen is that athletes have a skewed view of the world, that they learned as teen-agers they can get away with things other people cannot Just once I'd like to see a team owner dismiss a player who still had a few base hits or fastballs left in him.

When Dwight Gooden got into a scuffle with a cabdriver this spring the recovering addict had gone to a strip joint with none other than Whiten George Steinbrenner was clearly furious with Gooden. But Doc is hanging on as a regular starter, and he's off the hook with the owner for a while. Even if Whiten is not charged with assault, I would like to see Steinbrenner eat the guy's contract, even if it hurts the Yankees. There are $100,000 players in the minor leagues who can replace him. The players association might protest, but Steinbrenner could say "Hey, Whiten is hitting .245 and sinking fast.

We needed to make a change." It won't happen, but it's just a thought. The courts will decide The standards are higher for sports officials, however. And thank goodness for that. Thomas K. Welch, president of the Salt Lake Olympic Organizing Committee, has been charged with assaulting his wife, Alma, apparently after she confronted him about an extramarital affair.

The police and courts will decide whether Welch is guilty of assaulting his wife. But Welch had promoted the Mormon-dominated Salt Lake City region as the ideal site for the 2002 Winter Games because of its high moral environment. Francois Mitterrand had a mistress while he was president of France, but Utah as somebody once observed is not France. Vive la difference both ways. If there is any truth to the charges of the affair, Welch will be seen to have fallen below the minimal standards of his community.

"The one area where people have to watch their sex lives, or drinking, is in the area of diplomacy," Ted Wilson, a former mayor of Salt Lake City and director of the Hinckley Institute of Pontics at the University of Utah, told Thi Associated Press. Welch is apparently on safari in Africa. When he gets back, he should prepare to buy his own tickets to the 2002 Games. If he does not resign immediately, his friends will spell it out for him. ft hard on you.

My body just fell apart. Sooner or later, you have to retire. I GAIL FOLD ALincoln Journal Star after shooting a 42 on the front Tournament at Highlands Golf win the tournament. like Americans coming over there and having bad appearances. Next summer when I'm done being a Husker athlete, I plan on going pro and throwing over in Europe and making the world team again.

So I want to be remembered." A top 10 finish at the World Championships would definitely be an attention-grabbing performance for Thompson. And H's a real possibility. She enters the competition, which begins Aug. 2 and runs through Aug. 10, ranked 13th in the world thanks to a personal-best throw of 61 feet, 7ht inches.

In order to place in the top 10, she will likely ha ve to break her individual record and toss the shot at least 62-5. "Usually at the big meets, people don't PR (set a personal record), but when you do you're going to finish higher than where you were ranked," said More on THOMPSON, Page 4C WW i winnine it all; loosened football's grip on the speedster from Chadron State College who has bucked the odds for eight NFL seasons and hasn't lost a step along the way. "Last year I wanted the Supir Bowl ring. That's the only thing that I really hadn't accomplished in my career," said Beebe, a member of the Buffalo Bills' four Super Bowl busts. "This year, my life in football's been so fulfilled that I'm just having fun.

I mean, for the first time More on BEEBE, Page 4C saw it conning. Trev Alberts Former Indianapolis Colts linebacker BY ASSOCIATED PRESS and Journal Star writers ANDERSON, Ind. (AP) Linebacker Trev Alberts retired Tuesday after three injury-plagued seasons with the Indianapolis Colts that kept him from fulfilling the promise that made him the No. 5 pick in the 1994 NFL draft. The Colts announced Alberts' retirement a day after he failed to show up for scheduled re-constructive surgery on his right shoulder, ALBERTS former Husker ending a training camp soap opera.

"It was something that was hanging out there that needed to be aft I Bi''wM leaders elected pKoid tor Cftoij viagY. closed, and now it is," said Bill Tobin, the Colts' vice president of football operations. "I'm just glad it's over," Colts Coach Lindy Infante said. "I'm glad we can put this thing to rest and finally go on with the rest of our lives both he and us." Alberts complained of pain in the shoulder earlier this month while participating in the team's early training camp for rookies, free agents and veterans who were injured at the end of last season. CROUCH Millard North MEHL Crete Goering and Jones are defensive ends for the South and Coach Tim Aylward of Lincoln Pius said that may have affected the balloting.

"With both of them very visible as defensive ends, they've been defensive leaders so far. They have really stood out and have led the defense," said Aylward. "Mike has done a good job offensively, throwing the ball and running the offense. And we've had Levi on both sides of the ball, so people have noticed him. Shrine, i in ii (nun ASSOCIATED PRESS A Green Bay Packers wide receiver Don Beebe hauls in a pass during a drill at training camp Tuesday in Green Bay, Wis.

Beebe, a former Chadron State College player, insists he won't care of the Packers cut him. Competitive Beefie is now Both the North and Smith squads of the 1997 Shrine Bowl didn't seen to be interested in boisterous captains. The North team elected Heath Podany of Battle Creek, Erwin Swi-ney of Lincoln Northeast and Eric Crouch of Millard North to serve as captains in Saturday's game at 1:30 p.m. at Memorial Stadium. The.

South elected Mike Muma of Papilli-on-LaVista, Levi Mehl of Crete, Wade Goering of Auburn and Tim Jones of Millard South. "I know Eric is pretty quiet and he's probably the gabbiest one of the three," said North Coach Fred Pet-ito, who coached Crouch at Millard North. "They're all pretty quiet kids, but even here in this group of athletes, they are good leaders. "Erwin has communicated well and he's well respected. He's having a very good camp.

And Heath is very businesslike. Not a day goes by but what he asks what he can do to get better." carefree after BY ARNIE STAPLETON Associated Preti 1 GREEN BAY; Wis. Don Beebe wants to become the first player to make it to six Super Bowls. However, he insists he won't care if the Green Bay Packers cut him. He'd just spend his autumn at home in Aurora, 111., and see what it's like to play football with his kids and tussle in the leaves, something he's never had a chance to do.

Faith and family along with that elusive Super Bowl ring have.