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Spo I I Packers edge Bills In final 1 1 seconds Page 3C UT tries for third straight title Page 5C Q-C driver bums up drag strip Page 6C Illinois has 2 of world's top golf courses Page 7C 3 Sunday, Aug. 27, 1989 QUAD-CITY TIMES 1 nnn The rn top 25 Th toe 25 tMmt In ttw Associated Pito IW Pf am cot Mm football pott with flrs-ploc votn, fast ysar record, points ractlwd and final ranking In DUGD hujwi uvi By The Associated Press Micntoan (23) I vA Notrt Dam (29 Nebraska O0 Miami, Fta. (4) Pts Pvs 1,439 4 1.37 ,1 1.333 10 1.322 2 1.2M 7 1,202 3 1,059 19 1,007 99 6 804 12 744 Souttwrn Cal (1) Florida St. (2) LSU Doxsie's picks Don Doxae of the Quad-City Times is the only sportswriter in Iowa with a vote in the Associated Press college football poll Here is the ballot he cast for the preseason poll: 1. Michigan; 2.

Notre Dame; 3. Nebraska; 4. Southern Cal; 5. Florida State; 6. Miami; Auburn UCLA Arkansas St.

495 Record -M 12-04 11-2-0 11-1-0 10- 2-0 11- 1-0 0-44 10-24 10-2-0 10-24 5-4-0 10-24 10- 24 0-44 9-34 t-J-0 11- 14 7- 44 9-44 6- 5-0 9-34 4-5-1 4-4-3 8- 3-1 44-1 9 13 Oklahoma, Alabama, West Virginia, Arizona, Brigham Young, Pittsburgh, Houston, Illinois, Iowa, North Carolina State and Ohio State. The AP is expanding its rankings from 20 to 25 teams this season. Sixty sports writers and sportscasters vote in the weekly poll, which awards 25 points for first place, 24 for second and so on. Although most of Michigan's starters return from last year's 9-2-1 Rose Bowl champion team, Coach Bo Schem-bechler is downplaying talk of a national title. "I don't care about all that," he said.

"We're going to try to have a year like last year. We had a lot of heartaches, but we had a lot of fun, Asked if the preseason ranking puts more pressure on his team, Schembechler said: "Being 1 doesn't bother me. The writers probably like us or they wouldn't have voted that way. Of course, we may or may not be that good." Michigan's football team is picking up where Michigan's basketball team left off No. 1 in the country.

Five months after winning the NCAA basketball championship, the Wolverines are the preseason pick as the nation's top college football team in The' Associated Press' Top25polL Michigan received 23 first-place votes and 1,439 points to edge defending national champion Notre Dame. The Fighting Irish, who visit Ann Arbor on Sept 16, were ranked No. 1 on 20 ballots and received 1,378 points. The only other teams receiving first-place votes were Nebraska (10), Miami (4), Southern California (1) and Florida State(2). Nebraska is ranked third, followed by Miami, Southern Cal, Florida State, Louisiana State, Auburn, UCLA and 430 420 14 17 479 457 319 304 202 11.

Clemson 13. Svrocus 14. Colorado 15. Oklohoma 14. Alabama 17.

West Virginia Is. Arliono t. Brtaham Young 10. Pittsburgh 11. Houston 71.

Illinois 13. Iowa 24. N. Carolina St. 25.

Ohio St. 7. Auburn; 8. LSU; 9. UCLA; 10.

Colorado; 11. Clemson; 12. West Virginia; 13. Arkansas; 14. Oklahoma; 15.

Penn State; 16. Syracuse; 17. N.C. State; 18. Alabama; 19.

Michigan State; 20. Iowa; 21. Houston-22. Pittsburgh; 23. Georgia; 24.

Oregon; 25. Illinois Arkansas. Penn State, coining off its first losing season in 50 years, is ranked 11th. Next are Clemson, Syracuse, Colorado, 281 IS 277 250 138 200V A gels sflaw bfiieff pmi. to r-f4 MA fJk4-.

u.b. team captures -w SfW 1. LL crown M'ivk rA-, $ffX WILLI AMSPORT, Pa. (AP) iKA Wi4 -Trumbull, became JrSA 'v'ii'f the first American team since JV'' 1 1983 to win the Little League 'A 4 World Series, beating Kaoh- '-t-'W'' C-'tlK'-'W siung, Taiwan, 5-2 Saturday iW7T T- If behind Zw: v't f. XW vk 4 Chris 7 li r5l ii Drury's IDavenpOrt I 0 boys return Jt 1 fj-KS1r Marietta, home today MiAll WorTdsl TheDaven- I "tW anniaiue Airoort A 1 from Tm" Placed 7th in the 'iT Wanwere Little League A frZl986- I WorId S61- I 4 88.Lake- Springfield jumps back into first with a 3-1 victory By Steve Batterson QUAD-CITY TIMES Lonnie Maclin made sure the Quad-City Angels stay atop the Midwest League standings was brief.

A full count, single off of J.R. Phillips' shoe by Maclin in the bottom of the eighth proved to be the difference as Springfield defeated the Angels 3-1 to regain the lead in the Midwest League's Southern Division by one-half game. The two-out hit then bounced off Phillips chest as John Sellick and Charlie White crossed the plate. thing against us all year but the game we need to win, we couldn't do anything," Rodriguez said. "He mixed a little more off-speed stuff than usual but he didn't show any- thing new." Scott Lawrence relieved Satterfield in the eighth, retiring six of the seven batters he faced.

Angels starter Glenn Carter worked Th innings, allowing just two hits, before Rodriguez went to Gary Murphy in the bullpen. Murphy yielded Sellick's single before Jim Townsend came in to strike out Fred Langiotti and walk Charlie White before Maclin hit his game winner. "Carter pitched a hell of a game," Rodriguez said. "It was just too bad we couldn't do anything." Neither team managed a base-runner until Satterfield, issued a one-out walk to Jeff Oberdank in the Angels' half of the fourth. Carter, whose seven strikeouts increased his season total to a Midwest League best of 190, didn't allow a Cardinal to reach base until Ross got on with a lead off walk in the Springfield fifth.

Quad-Cities designated hitter Hedi Vargas picked up the first hit of the game for either team with a fifth inning single. Vargas was then caught in a double play when Chad Curtis lined out to first just before Springfield Manager Dan Radison complained about the Curtis' bat in an argument that delayed the game for more than five minutes. "He was just begging," Rodriguez said. Sellick gave the Cardinals a brief 1-0 lead in the top of the sixth with a leadoff home run that followed Radison's grumbling. Mike Erb (11-3) is scheduled to start for the Angels in a 5 p.m.

game today at Cedar Rapids. Springfield begins a two-game series at Clinton today. Playoff race Page2C aellick had singled and White had walked to reach base in the game watched by 6,932 fans at John O'Donnell Stadium. It was just V-' ----y- wood, N.J., was the last Eastern Regional champion to make the finals and the last one to win the tournament, in 1975. A Connecticut team last made the finals in 1965, when Windsor Locks, defeated Stoney Creek, Ontario, 3-1.

Drury, a 5-foot-l, 126-pound right-hander with a 66-mph fastball, struck out two, walked four, two of them intentionally, and went 2-for-3 at the plate. His Texas-leaguer with two outs and the bases loaded in the fourth inning scored two runs and opened up a 4-1 lead. Drury allowed a run in the top of the fifth, but Ken Martin answered with a solo home run in the bottom of the inning for Trumbull, a suburb of Bridgeport, Conn. In the sixth inning, Drury walked the leadoff hitter but our night to get Carter beat," Angels Manager Eddie Rodriguez said after the Quad-Cities' seven-game win streak, was snapped on a three-hitter. "We put the ball in play but we hit it right at people." The Angels had tied the game at 1-1 in the bottom of the sixth with an unearned run.

Leadoff hitter Kevin Flora, who was struck by a Cory Satterfield pitch and moved to second on a Charlie Romero groundout, scored oh when Beban Perez reached on an error by Cardinals' second baseman Mike Ross. Satterfield, who hadn't beaten the Quad-Cities in three previous outings this year, held the Angels to just two hits through seven innings while improving to 15-8. 1 "Satterfield hadn't done any- THRILL OF VICTORY Chris Drury, a Taiwan Saturday afternoon in the pitcher for Trumbull, celebrates after championship game of the Little League getting the final out in a 5-2 victory over World Series. (AP photo) Illinois is expecting bigger, better things 3 Illinois facts Coach: John Mackovic (second year at Wisconsin, 20-25-1 in four yeare as a head coach, 6-6-1 at Illinois). 1988 record: 6-5-1 overall, 5-2-1 in the Big Ten.

Usual offensive formation: Multiple Pro Set. Usual defensive formation: Multiple 4-3. Lettermen returning: 40. Lettermen lost: 17. Offensive starters returning: Craig Schneider, Tim Simpson, Curt Lovelace, TE Jeff Finke, SE Mike Bellamy, FL Steve Williams, FB Howard Griffith, QB Jeff George, PK Doug Higgins.

Defensive starters returning: Mel Agee, John Wachter, NG Mo Gardner, I LB Darrick Brownlow, ILB Steve Glasson, OLB Romero Brice, CB Henry Jones, CB Chris Green, Marlon Primous, Brian Menkhausen. 1989 schedule: Sept. 4 at Southern California, 16 at Colorado, 23 Utah State; Oct 7 Ohio State, 14 at Purdue, 21 at Michigan State, 28 Wisconsin; Nov. 4 at Iowa, 11 Michigan, 18 Indiana, 25 at Northwestern. cess," Mackovic "Both Bo (Schembechler) and Tom (Landry) used to always say one of the most difficult things in sport when you achieve success is to go back to the basics and rebuild every single year." Building depth will be one of the crucial elements for the 1989 edition of the Fighting Illini, who return 10 starters on defense and eight on offense, including second team all-Big Ten quarterback Jeff George.

"Our backups this season will all be ILLINOIS Please turn to Page 6C "Whenever you get ready to start a football season you start at the beginning; concentration on the fundamentals and the basics of the game," he said. "This year we do have a new set of obstacles and challenges. If we only set our selves to meet the obstacles that arose last year, we'd fail." What Mackovic believes Illinois must do is find the problem- solving approach that proved successful last year. "If we can find the answers the way we did a year ago, we can have suc (First in a series) By Steve Batterson QUAD-CITY TIMES CHAMPAIGN, III. What a difference a year makes.

A year ago, Illinois' football program was shrouded in questions with a first-year coach, an inexperienced team and the remains of an NCAA probe hanging over the turf at Memorial Stadium. Now, following a 6-5-1 season, an Ail-American Bowl berth in Coach John Mackovic's first year and with 18 returning starters, the stage is set If we can find the answers the way we did a year ago, we can have some success John Mackovic 93 for bigger and better things in 1989. But as Illinois prepares to improve on a third place Big Ten finish a year ago, Mackovic went back to square one. Highlights National League Saturday's results Atlanta 5, Chicago 3 Cincinnati 6. Pittsburgh 4 San Francisco 8, Montreal 3 St.

Louis Houston 3 New York at San Diego, late Philadelphia at Los Angeles, late ON THE WAR PATH Jeff Blauser smashed two homers to lead Atlanta past Chicago, giving the Cubs their seventh loss in eight games. Page 2C GIANT PITCHING Scott GarreKs pitched San Francisco past Montreal, notching his 1 0th win. Page 2C Trivia corner Best arbiters i-The top official in pro sports: 1. Baseball Bruce Proemming 2. Jim Tunney 3.

NBA Earl Strom 4. Andy van Hellemond I -Survey of athletes, GM's, managers, coaches, PR directors and media Source: The Detroit Free Press Playoff bound? What was the last year the Quad-City Angels were in the Midwest League playoffs? Answer on Page 4C. On TV Chicago White Sox at Cleveland Indians, baseball, on WFLD at 12:30 pjn. E3 Norstar Bank Hamlet Challenge, tennis, on ESPN at 1 jn. E3 Atlanta Braves at Chicago Cubs, baseball, on WTBS and WGN at 1:15 p.m.

E3 St. Louis Cardinals at Houston Astros, baseball, on KLJB at 1:30 p.m. 0 NEC World Series of Golf, on WHBF (Ch. 4) at 3 p.m. 0 Kansas City Chiefs at Chicago Beam, NFL preseason, on ESPN at 7 p.m.

On radio 0 Quad-City Angel at Cedar Rapids Reds, 5 p.m., on KSTT (1170 AM). Complete list Page 4C. American League The Quad-City Angels travel to Cedar Rapids to play a key game against the Reds. The Angels are close to clinching a playoff spot. The game starts at 5 p.m.

Sadaharu Oh "Rose was always a fighter, and that produced his great records." Japanese home run king Sadaharu Oh on Pete Rose. HIGH FLYING BIRDS Joe Oruslak smacked two homers as Baltimore defeated New York. Page 2C BLUE JAYS BLANK BREWERS Dave Stieb hurled his fifth career one-hitter as Toronto beat Milwaukee. Page 2C Saturday's rssuns Baltimore 6, New York 4 Toronto 7, Milwaukee 0 Boston Detroit 2 Seattle 1, Minnesota 0 Chicago 4, Cleveland 3 Kansas City 2, Oakland 0 Texas 3, California 2.