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sports THE LINCOLN STAR Saturday, 612821 Pose 13 Tieisas ousfo sril; Penner injury subdues Shockers College World Series ota glance Standinet W-L Team W-L Stanford 1-2 Team Miami Wichita State Main Texas 3-1 Oklahoma State 1-2 2-2 'South Carolina 0-2. 2-2 'Col-St. Fullerton 0-2 eliminated Friday's results Monday's result Miami 4, Wichita State 3 Tuesday's result Texas 8, Stanford 6, 12 Innings Wednesday's results Wichita St. 'Oklahoma State 2 Maine 8, Stanford Thursday's result Miami 2, Texas 1 Friday's results Wichita States, Texas 4 Miami 10, Maine 4 Saturday's game Wichita State (73-13) vs. Miami (53-18-1).

7:10 p.m. Miami 7, Maine 2 Wichita St. 7, Cal lerton 0 Saturday's results Texas 9, Oklahoma State 1 Stanford IS. South Carolina 4 Sunday's results Maine 4, 'Cal St 0 Oklahoma St. 10, South Carolina By Ken Hambleton Staff Sports Writer OMAHA Despite the rally by pitcher Bryan Oelkers and a typical offensive explosion that carried Wichita State to an 8-4 victory over Texas, Friday nigjit in the College World Series at 'Rosenblatt Stadium, Shocker Coach Gene Stephenson was subdued.

"We were all worried about Kevin Penner and it was about all my players could think about," Stephenson said. Penner, of Aurora, was struck in the cheek by a pitch in the first inning. He was taken from the field on a stretcher and was hospitalized. "It really tempers our victory," Stephenson said. "He's a fine young man and was really coming into hi own.

"It's a fracture of the outer area around the eye," Stephenson said. "It was swelling by the second, he was bleeding internally and he couldn't see out of the eye when he left the park. We are all concerned." It was later reported Penner had blurred vision in his left eye at St. Jo- settled into the groove that has helped him post an 18-2 record and become the first college pitcher chosen in the recent baseball draft this season. Texas shortstop Spike Owen was the only Longhorn runner to get past second base in the final five innings.

Oelkers allowed just' three hits in the last five innings and got 14 of the final 15 outs on either groundouts or strikeouts. "They had Bryan on the ropes three or four times, but they couldn't put him away," Stephenson said. "I was up and down the first four innings, but I felt pretty good in the seventh, eighth and ninth innings," Oelkers said. "We were all concerned about Kevin, but we knew we an had a job to do, and the game was going on. "It just took me awhile to settle down," he said.

Stephenson said that his designated hitter Morman was "never more serious after the injury to Penner. "He was playing with a purpose," Stephenson Morman slammed his 23rd home run of the season and boosted his NCAA RBI record to 128 for the season and 10 for the series. "They're certainly a much better ball club than they were the last time we saw them," Texas Coach Cliff Gustafson said. Texas beat Wichita State, 2-0 and 12-0 in early March. "I felt they would get their 10 to 12 hits and we would have to score some runs," he said.

"We had a number of opportunities to score, but we didn't get the base hit when we needed it" Gustafson said that Penner's beaning affected his team two ways. "It fired them up some and it affected Schiraldi's pitching. It's hard to concentrate and do the things you need to do when you're worried if a player is seriously injured," he said. Miami which has beaten Maine all 12 times the two teams have faced over the years, topped the Black Bears in the tourney opener last Friday. Eddie Escribano, who pitched in the CWS two years ago but missed last year Turn to: CWS, Page 14 ters to the plate.

But the Shockers didnt lock up the victory that ousted Texas from the tourney until pitching ace Oelkers regained his usual control in the fifth inning. The Longhoms, who lost 2-1 to Miami Thursday night, scored two runs in the first inning and added single runs in the third and fourth innings. rgryan Oelkers is a tremendously strong person, mentally and physically, but I wasn't sure he'd get through the fourth inning let alone the ninth," Stephenson said. "But he's the kind of pitcher who gets stronger in the later innings, and if you can wait, he's a great pitcher," Stephenson said. With two out in the first, Jeff Hearron singled in a pair of Texas runs to put the Longhoms ahead 2-1.

After WSU took a 7-2 lead, Texas tallied a run in. the third when Mark Reynolds doubled with two men on base. Tracy Dophied singled in a run in the fourth to cut the margin to 7-4. But after the fourth inning Oelkers seph's Hospital in Omaha. Miami, now 4-0 in the tournament, broke away from a 4-3 lead with a six-run ninth inning to post a 10-4 win over Maine in the second gameof the double-header.

The Hurricanes, winners over Wichita State, 4-3 on Monday, will meet the Shockers Saturday at 7:10 p.m. A Wich-' ita State win would force a Sunday 7:10 p.m. finale. "Miami was the team we wanted to play Saturday," Stephenson said. "They're the team we've wanted since Monday." Despite the loss of Penner, the Shockers, in the CWS for the first time, burst the Longhorn bubble with a six-run third inning that included a two-run home run by Russ Morman and a two-run single by Dave Lucas.

Wichita State, the top hitting team in series, scored four of the six runs with two outs and sent a total of 12 bat McG uire to forego Hdinftss irtiS)Oin)S WEC cowm pro pact to attend NU Holmes took that anger out on Cooney, turning his face into a bloody mask and pounding him relentlessly until Cooney's trainer, Victor Valle, leaped into the ring and stopped the carnage at 2:52 of the 13th round. Holmes retained his World Boxing Council heavyweight title with the victory and sent Cooney to his first pro loss after 25 victories. About an hour after the fight referee Mills Lane LAS VEGAS, Nev. (UPI) The anger had been building up in Larry Holmes for months and he turned it loose on Gerry Cooney with a savage fury Friday night Holmes had suffered through a massive publicity campaign and the media attention focused on Cooney had driven him to uncharacteristic fits of anger. And on a hot, steamy night in the Nevada desert, -cew '-frfr i 1 1 1 hi i gin ii i ii flMi I'm in in i i iiiLQUMiHew rfiiiMBj! ymyjt 0 -fL i "'imp' By Mike Babcock Staff Sports Writer When the Cleveland Indians selected.

Bill McGuire in the 25th round of the major league baseball free agent draft, Nebraska secured one of the top high school catchers in the "There's no money in the 25th round, and there'd be no way I'd think about signing (a professional contract)," McGuire said by telephone from his home in Omaha on Friday night Earlier this spring, the Omaha Creighton Prep athlete signed a national letter of intent with Nebraska, but his becoming a Corn-husker depended on how high he was drafted and whether or not he would choose professional baseball over college. Some scouts said he had the skills to be a first-round pick, though "I knew I wasnt as much of a major league prospect as some other guys, and that I probably wouldn't be drafted as high as people thought," said McGuire. "But after everyone kept saying I could go in the first round, I began to think maybe I would." As the draft drew near, however, the scouts began to say other things, that McGuire needed a lot of work on Jus hitting and more work behind the plate. They said things that hurt, "like they think I'm nonchalant or lazy," he said, adding: "I always try my best "All the scouts are saying I'm cocky, and right now I just want to get to Nebraska so I can get rid of that image." This summer McGuire is playing on an Omaha American Charter Legion team comprised of his Creighton Prep teammates, and he's already beginning to prepare himself to meet the demands of collegiate baseball. "I don't think I've got it made; I know I've got a big chore ahead of me because Ben Amaya and Nick Richards are both good McGuire said.

"I just hope I can play some. I'm willing to develop, and I know the Nebraska coaches want me to develop, so that should be a good situation." McGuire has accepted whatever disappointment there might have been with a maturity that belies the scouts' evaluations of his attitude. Being drafted in the 25th round "is an honor," he said. "It's a big thrill for me just to be considered one of the elite out of high school. I realize I'm only 18 years old and have a long way to go yet "I'm really excited about going to Nebraska.

If I have flaws catching, I can work them out there, and I know I can become a better hitter. I want to play at Nebraska for three years and become a first-round draft pick." McGuire has drawn inspiration from NU first baseman Steve Stanicek who turned down what he considered a token contract offer from the St Louis Cardinals as a 12th-round draft pick out of high school and developed into a top choice three seasons later. Stanicek was the 11th player selected in the first round of the draft last Monday, a dramatic improvement and a much better bargaining position. Wednesday, McGuire took a Jbreak from catching and pitched a four-hitter against the Burke Legion team, striking out 12. Friday, he was back behind home plate as American Charter split a tournament double-header defeating a team from Fargo, N.D., but losing to one from Rapid City, S.D.

Nebraska's prize recruit is emphasizing this American Legion season because "it'll affect next fall," he Said. NU head coach John Sanders, who was conducting a summer camp in Lexington, was disappointed for McGuire but happy to have his' services. "It'll all work out" Sanders said. Bill McGuire thinks to, too. explained that the fight according to Nevada State rules, technically goes in the books as a disqualification because Valle climbed into the ring.

Cooney, who went down in the second round and almost went down twice more, was bleeding profusely from a cut above the right eye and a gash across the bridge of his nose. Cooney, who had never gone more than eight rounds as a pro and had fought only 86 rounds as a pro before the fight was near total exhaustion and was taking tremendous punishment at the end. Holmes was using Cooney for target practice in the 13th round, propping him up with his left hand and then delivering one hammering right after another to the face. Cooney was draped along the ropes and was going down when Valle raced into the ring, pushed aside referee Mills Lane, who was beginning his knockdown count and led his fighter back to the corner. Doctors ordered Cooney to be taken to Valley Hospital immediately after the fight for repairs to his face.

"I might sound angry and I might have an attitude but who cares," said Holmes. "I want to compliment Gerry Cooney. I think he's a great fighter. I don't think he has anything to be ashamed of. You all should give him a round of applause.

"Once again, I've done it again. It seems like I have to continue to prove myself. A lot of you have the wrong idea of who I have to prove it to. I don't have to prove it to you. I have to prove to myself.

I didnt fight this fight for the blacks or the whites or the Spanish. I fought it for my family and for the people who have supported me. We are all God's children. I see no color. I'm not prejudiced.

"When I see Gerry Cooney, I see a human being who is trying to take my head off and I'm trying to protect myself. I fought this fight for myself and my family and people. I'm sorry I cant be what you expect I'm sorry I cant be a Muhammad All or a Joe Louis or a Leon Spinks. But I wasnt born to be those people. I was born to be Larry Holmes." "I shook Gerry Cooney's hand before the fight and I shook it after the fight and I hope he understands what Larry Holmes is all about now." The fight was lopsided as Holmes was in control, for all but two rounds and also benefited from three points taken from Cooney for repeated flagrant low blows.

A lead right to the head put Cooney down in the second round and he was staggered on several other occasions before total exhaustion set in in the 13th round. Cooney's legs were leaden and he was barely able to move around the ring as Holmes administered brutal punishment In Cooney's corner following the fight the chief examiner of the Nevada State Boxing Commission asked Cooney's handlers how they wanted to repair. the damage their fighter had sustained. of first big Sports on TV test for amateurs Associated Press Saturday Baseball College World Series, Game 13, 10 a.m., CD California at Chicago, 1 p.m.. WBC heavyweight champion Larry Holmes lunges with a left to the body of Gerry Cooney in Holmes' successful title defense.

Beck, Nichols claim top state trap crowns GRAND ISLAND The Tournament of Champions, the summer's first golf test to bring together all the top amateur players in the state, unveils its 21st annual edition at the Riverside Golf Club here Saturday and Sunday. The tourney, originally conceived as an invitational only for those who won a smaller city meet during the previous summer, lost its defending champion to a national tournament organized on a similar format Dave Maurstad of Beatrice, the 1981 Tournament of Champions titlist has accepted an invitation to play in a Pennsylvania tournament open only to state champions. This weekend's of meeting would be the 22nd annual except the 1380 tourney was blown off the schedule along with much of this city by a tornado. The two previous champions Omaha's Tom Olson (1979) and Mike Ley of Grand Island (1978) will be on hand to seek a second crown, while Kearney's Dan Bahensky, the winner in 1972 and 74, will try to join ex-Lincolnite Matt Taber as the only player to win the event more than twice. Handicap-flights, something new for the Tournament of Champions, will supplement the scratch division players.

Golfers with a handicap of six or less will battle for the tourney title, while the others will be divided into flights with no more than a three-stroke separation. pro Jack Hoskins reports a total field of well over 100 golfers. of my gun." The lone event on tap Saturday is the Nebraska Singles Championship, consisting of 200 targets at 16 yards. 14-yard Class Championship Instate: AA Jim Beck, Omaha, 199x200; A Brian pritchord. Pleasonton, 197x200 (won shootoft); Aaron Shad, North Platte, 197x200; Garv Klein, For-nam, 196x200 (won shootoff); Verne Dedrickson, Clay Center.

189x200. Open: AA Frank Hoppe, Lincoln, 198x200 (won shootoff); -A Frank O'Brien, Lewis. 190x200 (won shootoff); Or. J.A. Green, Lincoln, 198x200; Ivo Jorvis.

Philllpsbura. 196x200 (won shootoff); Jeff Klein, Fornom, 187x200 (won shootoff); veteran Lorrls Corr, Casper, 193x200 (won shootoff) ladies Marilyn Vvhnalek. Crete, 187x200; iunior Kevin Nielsen, Mlnden, 196x200; sub-iunior Bob Behrens, Crete, 182x200. Open Handicap Champion Tom Nichols, Omaha. 97x100; Runnerup Todd Vvhnalek, Crete, 95x100 (won shootoff); ladles Mary O'Brien, Lewis, 91x100; veteran wode Pfost.

Phillipsburs, 95x100 (won shootoff); iunior Scott Kvhlmon, Oaallala, 93x100; sub-iunior Bob Behrens, Crete, 89x100. hasn't been doing much shooting recently, and despite the fact that he admitted feeling pressure. "I've been around shooting long enough to know there is pressure (when you're shooting good). The last five targets, that gun feels it weighs 25 pounds," he said. Veteran Lincoln gunner Dr.

J.A. Green continued to have a good meet Thursday he won the veteran's title in the Director's Open Handicap. Friday he followed that up by taking the Open Class crown in the Nebraska 16-yard championship, firing a 197x200 card. "Yesterday I went out and missed eight on the first two stations. But then I Telaxed." Out of the three targets he missed Friday, the Lincoln man explained with a smile, "they were high rocks and I raised my head, instead The fact that he was able to regain his timing so quickly was the key to his triumph.

Beck said. "I got it back real good," he said in what must have seemed an understatement to the other competitors. Beck admitted that he was surprised at the" lone target he missed. "It was an easy bird. I just asn't quite ready." The fact that there were no perfect 200x200 cards on the relatively good day didn't surprise the Omahan.

"There was a little wind picking up every once in a while. When that happens, a bird can get up on you." Lincoln's Frank Hoppe won the open AA title, shooting 198x200. Hoppe gained the title by going 100x100 in a shootoff. Nichols won his title despite the fact he" By Gary Svoboda Outdoor Editor DONIPHAN Good weather and trap-shooting usually mean shootof fs galore. Well, at Friday's 104th Nebraska State Trapshoot the weather was good and there were a lot of shootoffs, but the top two event titles were decided without having to go to extra targets.

A pair of Omahans won those championships. Jim Beck, an all-state and all-american trap shooter, captured the Nebraska 16-yard class title by going 199x200. Tom Nichols, owner of Guns Unlimited, was the winner of the Nebraska Open Handicap crown, breaking 97 out of 100 targets from the 23-yard line. Beck won his champpionship after battling a case of the flu all week, and in only his second meet of the year. DmLDLrQ(3ir Biuiirils dtjo'S ffair firearm mtajosr Beagles By Mike Babcock Staff Sports Writer Buffalo, N.Y., isn't all that far from the Pittsburgh Pirates and Three Rivers Stadium.

Tim Burke knows it. Pirate management regularly reminds him and his Buffalo teammates that the Class AA Eastern League might be just a step away from the major leagues. "They say 'You never can ten. You're getting close to the big People can go right to the Pirates from Class AA," Burke said in a telephone interview from Holyoke, Mass, Friday morn- 3 y' I through the Pittsburgh organization. After signing two seasons ago, he sat out a summer to rest a tender arm, then played at the Pirates' Class A Carolina League team in Alexandria, last season.

Though his record was 8-10, his earned-run average was a creditable 3.30 and he was promoted to Buffalo. "The average fan probably looks a won loss record and reads everything into that" said Burke. A major league front office considers many other factors, among them a pitcher's walks-to-strikeouts ratio and his hits-per-innings-pitched. At Nebraska, Burke-was a strikeout pitcher, but "I dont blow it by anybody any more," he said. The eight strikeouts in his last start "was pretty good for me.

In the three games before that, I had only one. (total). "I've definitely had to adapt I'm not an overpowering-type pitcher here. In college, I could throw the ball by a lot of guys. There were maybe only two or three batters to be concerned about but now, I'm facing those two or three batters every time up," said Burke.

The velocity on his fastball hasnt changed; he can still throw 90 miles-an-hour. But Burke has learned to rely on his control and hard sliders and sinkers to get batters out When he's on, "I get a lot of ground balls." When he isnt pitching in Buffalo's five-man rotation, Burke coaches first base "to stay in the games." His arm "feels great" and it's becoming accustomed to the demands of pitching in a regular rotation, a dramatic ad-jiistment considering college starters are asked to work maybe once a week. ning. In the Bison's 20-37 season, Burke is 6-2 He's pitched 77 innings, allowed 74 hits, and struck out 48. Burke has walked only 28, and his earned-run average is 3.24, lowest among the staf rs regulars.

According to the Pirates' office, Burke "is one of two or three bright spots" on the Buff alb team Burke has lasted at least seven innings in each of his 12 starts. Two days ago, he went the distance and beat the Reading, Pa, Phillies 6-3, striking out eight in nine innings. Considering Burke's pitching coach at Buffalo is Rick Peterson, the son of Pirates' executive vice-president Harding Peterson, his consistency is not going unnoticed. "That helps," Burke said. The former Omaha Roncalli multi-sport has moved steadily up.

In order to become a professional starting pitcher, "your arm needs to get stronger," Burke said, adding: "Right now, my arm feels stronger than ever." The all-night bus rides arent much fun, "especially when you're supposed to pitch the next night" and Tim and his wife arent enamored with Buffalo. "I'd much rather be in Omaha as far as towns are concerned," Tim said. "But Buffalo is our home for this summer, and this is where my job is." Geographically, Pittsburgh is a pretty good jaunt from Buffalo. But considering the pitching problems the Pirates have experienced this major league season, the two cities might not be so far apart That's why Burke lives for the moment rather than worrying about the future. "I'm just concerned about my next time out" he said.

tng Just a few hours earlier, be had arrived following a five-hour bus ride from Buffalo. Burke, a former University of braska pitcher from Omaha, is one of two consistent starters on a Buffalo i team which has had Its problems win- Tim Burke Step away, i.