Tampa Bay Times from St. Petersburg, Florida • 44

FANFARE 2C TIMES MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2000 Tampa's Hays wins PBA Southern Region CAPTAIN'S CORNER A daily guide to fishing in the Tampa Bay area west young man was a phrase often heard when referring to western settlements in the 18(X)s. -JT Juan Carlos Ferrero clinched Spain's first Davis Cup by beating Lleyton Hewitt. 1 This can be applied to fall gag grouper. There is an area west of John's Pass called "The Little Middle Grounds" because of the abundance of structures ranging from ledges 8 feet high to numerous smaller domes of limestone. This area is about 20 miles from shore and is a stop for gags on their winter trek inshore CAPT.

dave zaiewski where bait is more abundant. It is best to target smaller ledges, rockpiles and domes of limestone. Several "hats" are in this area and are great fish holders. A hat appears on the fish finder screen over a pointed ledge. The bottom will be flat on the low side, raise up, then drop again over the other side.

Careful anchoring allows you to fish both sides of the structure simultaneously. It is best to start with squid and frozen sardines. Mangrove snapper are abundant and can be targeted with small pinfish and sardine tails fished with 10 or 20 hooks and 1- or 2-ounce sinkers if the current is not too strong. Dave Zaiewski charters the Lucky Too out of Madeira Beach. Call (727) 397-8815.

WATER TEMPERATURE AND TIDES Gn 0 Sunday at Egmont Key, southwest of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. first day of the inaugural Women's United Soccer Association draft in Boca Raton. Philadelphia took defender Heather Mitts 15th overall, defender Erin Baxter went 27th to Carolina, forward Carlene Sten-son went 53rd to New York and former Seminole High midfielder Michelle Demko was picked 64th by Philadelphia. China's Sun Wen was the first player taken overall, by Atlanta. Rounds 9-15 are today.

Cindy Parlow scored twice in five minutes to rally the U.S. women over Mexico 3-2 at Houston. Mexico, which had never scored against the Americans, led 2-1 with 25 minutes left before 11,121. LUGE: Armin Zoeggeler of Italy won the men's singles and moved into first place in the World Cup standings at La Plagne, France. Germany's Georg Hackl was second; the top American was Tony Benshoof, ninth.

GOLF: Tiger Woods and David Duval won the World Cup at Bella Vista, Argentina, beating Angel Cabrera and Eduardo Romero of Argentina by three strokes. The Americans shot 4-under-par 68 in the alternate-shot format to finish with at 34-under 254. Raymond Floyd made a 12-foot birdie on the first playoff hole as he and son Robert beat Johnny and Scott Miller in the Father-Son Challenge at Paradise Island, Bahamas. Trevor Immelman won the Vodacom Players Championship at Cape Town, South Africa, beating Ernie Els and Titcb Moore by three. Peter Lonard won the Ford Open at Adelaide, Australia, by six over Paul Gow.

HORSES: Stewards waived the final day of a five-day suspension for Laffit Pincay who then rode Men's Exclusive to a 3-length win in the Vernon O. Underwood stakes at Hollywood (Calif.) Park. PHIL GUUCK, TIMES WIRES atian recovered from an 0.73 second deficit and finished 0.33 seconds ahead of Sarah Schleper of Vail, Colo Johnny Spillane of Steamboat Springs, won a Nordic combined World Cup-B meet at Midway, Utah. Jillian Vogtli edged fellow American Hannah Hardaway to win a dual moguls freestyle event at Winter Park, Colo. SPEED SKATING: Canadians won two long-track World Cup races at Seoul, South Korea.

Olympic champion Catriona Le May Doan won the women's 500 meters and Mike Ireland took the men's 1,000. Hiroyasu Shimizu of Japan won the men's 500. B0BSLEDDING: The United States finished first and third in a two-woman race at Vienna, Austria. USA 1, with Jean Racine and Jennifer Davidson, won in 1:50.17. Germany was second, half a second behind, and USA 2 (Bonny Warner and Vonetta Flowers) was third.

Also, Germany won the four-man event with the United States fourth. Americans Joe Sisson and Kurt Prusse won a two-man America's Cup race in Lake Placid, N.Y. SURFING: Sunny Garcia won a record fifth Vans Triple Crown at 1 Sunset Beach, Hawaii. Garcia was declared the winner when Kaipo Jaquias, his closest competitor, was eliminated in pre-trials. OLYMPICS: The first round of ticket requests closes at midnight Tuesday for the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City, but premium packages remain available.

SAILING: The third and toughest stage of the 'round-the-world BT Global Challenge, a leg, began at Buenos Aires. It will end in New Zealand. First to leave was overall leader LG Matron. SOCCER: Four Tampa Bay Extreme players were chosen on the SUN AND MOON Sunset S0LUNARS Minor Major Tampa's Darin Hays rolled 26 strong games over two days to gain the top seed, then defeated Patrick Allen to win the PBA Southern Region tour-DIGEST nament Sunday at Clearwater's Countryside Lanes. Hays moved into first during the 16th game of match play.

Tampa left-hander Chris Hayden defeated James Kilanowski of Venice 206-181, then lost to Allen 238-219. Allen stopped Tampa's Roger Kossert 224-215 to set up an all-left-hander final. Allen struggled and failed to convert a washout in the seventh frame. Hays rolled four strikes in a row to close the match 256-202 for his 15th region title plus $2,500. "Saturday, I had a feeling a left-hander would win this tournament," Hays said.

"I don't know why, but I just had an instinct. And, hey, it was me!" Hays rolled a high game of 279 and low of 159. Randy Weiss finished sixth and Steve Wilson of Like Worth was seventh. Pete Dohan, Dave Olm and Ken Fishman, all from Tampa, finished in the top 15. Clearwater's James Campbell, recent winner of the Southern Region resident pro title, was 16th and Clearwater's Billy Finnochi 18th.

Ocala's Walter Ray Williams the PBA Tour's No. 1 player, was 11th and PBA Senior Tour player Steve Neff of Homosassa Springs finished 15th. Other big-name players missed the cut, including Tarpon Springs' Steve Hoskins, Clermont's Jason Couch, Palmetto's Kent Wagner and Ocala's Roger Bowker. TENNIS: As Juan Carlos Ferre-ro provided the winning point, Spain's King Juan Carlos joined a singing, flag-waving crowd at Barcelona in celebrating the country's first Davis Cup title. Ferrero beat Lleyton Hewitt 6-2, 7-6 (7-5), 4-6, 6-4 for an insurmountable 3-1 lead over defending champion Australia.

"It's one of my best victories, well, the best," Ferrero said. "I'm on cloud nine." An avid tennis fan, 6:50 a.m. 7:25 p.m. 12:40 a.m. 1:10 p.m.

the king embraced the Spanish players and captain Javier Duarte as he handed over miniatures of the 101-year-old silver bowl. The American girls, led by Ashley Ilarkleroad of Wesley Chapel and Bethanie Mattek of Boca Raton, beat Estonia 2-1 to win late Saturday's final of the ITF Sunshine Cup at Key Biscayne. Boca Raton's Andy Roddick, the top-ranked junior in the world, and Robby Ginepri led the U.S. boys over Spain 2-0. Pat Cash won the Honda Challenge seniors in London over John McEnroe 6-7 (3-7), 7-5, 14-12.

RUNNING: Jimmy Muindi kept ahead of fellow Kenyans Eliud Kering and Mbarak Hussein to win his second straight Honolulu Marathon in 2 hours, 15 minutes, 16 seconds. Lyubov Morgunova of Russia set a women's course record, 2:28:31. FIGURE SKATING: Svetlana Kor-neitchenko, 37, a Russian who coaches in Ohio, suffered massive chest and brain injuries in a car crash Tuesday and remains in critical condition in Cleveland. Philippe Candeloro won his first event on the World Professional Championship tour in Washington. Other winners were Elena Leonova and Andrei Khvalko in pairs, Americans Elizabeth Pun-salan and Jerod Swallow in dance and Yuka Sato for the women.

SKIING: Hermann Maier took the giant slalom for his second win in 24 hours at Val D'Isere, France. Maier led an Austrian sweep with Heinz Schilcheggcr second and High Low High Low High Withlacoochee River Ent 12 2ba 8 25a CederKey Bavport Tarpon. Anclote River 6 15p St. Joseph Sound ll OBp Clearwater 5 43p Indian Rocks Madeira Beach Cswy Johns Pass St. Pete Beach Cswy Pass-aGrilie GuKport St.

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