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5- Pasco THE TAMPA TRIBUNE, Saturday, August 7, 1982 SUNDAY GOLF Florida Amateur Match Play ChomptonsNp, 36 Hole Final. Grenelefe. 8 a.m. TENNIS Grenelefe Open and Senior Championships. Finals.

8 a.m.. Grenelefe Racquet Club. 9 10. 4 p.m. Sportsworfd (Replay Of Gold Cup Ununited Hydroplane Race), Channel 8.

4:30 p.m. C8S Sports Saturday (World Swimming and Diving Championships), Channels 6 ft 13. 5:05 p.m. Major League Basebal (Atlanta Braves vs. Los Angeles Dodgers), Channel 17 A.

5:30 p.m. PKA Fud Contoct Korafe. ESPN. 7 p.m. Sports Center, ESPN.

8 p.m. Tennis (Benson Hedges men's Anal). USA; Australian Rules Footbol, ESPN. 9:30 p.m. Horse Racing Weekly, ESPN.

10 p.m. Sports Center, ESPN. 11 p.m. NASI Soccer (Tampa Bay Rowdies vs. Portland Timbers).

ESPN. (Texas Rangers vs. New York Yankees). Channel 8. 2:30 p.m.

Women's Tennis (U.S. Clay Court Championships). Channels 6 ft 13. 3 p.m. Harness Racing (Hombletonlan).

ESPN. 4:30 p.ra Goll (PGA Championship), Channels 9 10: CBS Sports Saturday (Boxing: Tony Tubbs vs. Clarence HW). Channels 6 a. 13.

6:30 p.m. AfiStor Sports Challenge (1977 Dados Cowboys vs. 1977 Denver Broncos). ESPN. 7 p.m.

Sports Center, ESPN. 8 p.m. CR Football (Edmonton Eskimos vs. Toronto Argonauts). ESPN; Soccer (Fff A World AH-Stor Game).

USA. 10 p.m. Boxing (Dwlght Braxton vs. Matthew Sood Muhammad), HBO. 10:05 p.m.

Major Leogue Baseball (Atlanta Braves vs. Los Angeles Dodgers). Channel 17 A. 1 1 p.m. Sports Center, ESPN.

Midnight God (Third Round Coverage of PGA Championship). ESPN. 2:30 a.m. Sports Center. ESPN.

Sports Slate TODAY GOLF Bortdo Amateur Match Play Championship. Quarterfinals and Semifinals. Grenelefe God and Racquet CKib. JUNIOR OOLf TrtCounty Junior Go Association tournament at Pohte West, Port Rlchey. 1 p.m.

TELEVISION 7 a.m. Sports Center. ESPN. 6 a.m. All-Star Sports Challenge (1977 Dolas Cowboys vs.

1977 Denver Broncos), ESPN. 8:30 a.m. CR Football (From The 55-Yard Line). ESPN. 9 a.m.

Auto Racing '82 (SCCA Super Vees), ESPN. 10 a.m. Sports Center. ESPN. 11 a.m.

vmtoge Basebal film (The Old Bo! Game). ESPN. Noon Goll (Second Round Mghlghts of PGA Championship), ESPN. 1:30 p.m. NR.

Footbol Exhibition (Bottimore Colts vs. Minnesota VWngs). Channels 9 8i 10. 2:15 p.m. Mafor leogue Baseball (Philadelphia Phillies vs.

Chtcogo Cubs). Channel 9Chl; Major Leogue Basebal TELEVISION 7 a.m. Sports Center. ESPN. 8 a.m.

Horse Jumping 0 Love New York Grand Prix), ESPN. 10 a.m. Sports Center. ESPN. 11 a.m.

Best of Notre Dome Football (1976 Irish vs. USC). ESPN. Noon Golf (Third Round Highlights of PGA Champion, ship). ESPN.

2 p.m. Tennis (U.S. Clay Court Championships. Men's Singles flnoO. Channels 6 13.

2:30 p.m. Major League Basebal (Phlodetphia Phillies vs. Chicago Cubs), Channel 44 and Channel 9Chl: AAU Junior Olympics, ESPN. 3:30 p.m. Golf (long Driving Championship), Channels 12:30 a.m.

Go (Final Round of PGA Championship). ESPN. 3 a.m. Sports Center. ESPN.

RADIO RADIO None scheduled. None scheduled Pasco Hernando Citrus Sports New York 'fP1 I'M tiiuX Brooksville's own George Floyd, who was a defensive star at Eastern Kentucky University, is busy this summer trying to make the New York Jets' final roster. Tribune Photo by Bob Hannah Experience From Two Mini-Camps Has Helped Me In The REAL Camp Diary of a Rookie George Floyd This is the first in a series of weekly reports on what it's like to be a rookie in the National Football League, as seen through the eyes of Brooksville resident George Floyd. Drafted in the fourth round by the New York Jets, Floyd, who know wears No. 38, will try find continue displaying the skills that earned the Eastern Kentucky graduate consecutive Defensive Player of the Year awards from the Ohio Valley Conference.

During this first installment of "Diary Of A Rookie," Floyd discusses his first two weeks of training camp at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., as told to Tribune Writer Craig Dolch. The biggest surpise for me has been the number of people that come to watch practices. They bring busloads of people in here and they always want your autograph. Some of the players spend their whole time walking to and from the practice field sign- ing autographs. I signed a few when I was at -Eastern Kentucky, but nothing like this.

The vets don't talk too much about last year (when the Jets failed to live up to preseason predictions), but they do talk about having a better team this year. The game of football hasn't changed that much now that I'm getting paid for it There's not really that much pressure. You just go out and play as hard as you can. You have to keep proving yourself. Overall, I'm satisfied with the way I've played the past two weeks.

I know there's still plenty of room for improvement Got to go to a meeting now. See you soon. now, and what little I have I spend studying my playbook. On a normal day, my schedule is like this: 7 a.m. wake up call; 7:30 a.m.

eat breakfast; 8 a.m. go to the training room to get taped for the morning practice. a.m. the morning practice. 12 noon eat lunch; p.m.

take it easy and rest up for the afternoon workout; p.m. the afternoon practice session; 6 p.m. eat dinner; 7 p.m. team meetings; p.m. lights out.

Most all the players are strictly business out here. They don't harrass the rookies like you may have heard. Some of the vets play around some with the new guys, but not that often. Everybody has other thoughts on their mind, like making the team. My goal right now is just to make the team.

I won't feel confident until the final cut is made and I'm still around. Anybody can get cut here. That's something you find out early. sive system, they also gave me the opportunity to get in shape. That was the one thing the coaches stressed to us at the mini-camps: be in shape when the real camp starts.

The heat has not been that bad here at our training site at Hofstra University. Some days it gets really muggy out, but it's not that bad. The big difference between this camp and the mini-camps is the intensity. You could see the practices really pick up1 when the veterans started to report. The quarterbacks took it easy for a while, throwing only short passes to the receivers.

Now they've really started to open things up. I'm currently working as the No. 3 free safety behind starter Darrol Ray and Jesse Johnson. I'm also returning punts. I think I've got a good shot here.

My main competition is coming from my roommate, Lonell Phea, who played at Houston. The biggest thing I need to work on the mental part of the game. Since I'm the free safety, I have to know where the other defensive backs and linebackers are on pass coverage. It's a lot harder to cover the receivers here than in college. There's way more speed in the pros.

Even the tight ends are fast No Spare Time We don't have a lot of spare time right HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. Because I've already been to two mini-camps, the past two weeks of training camp have not been that hard for me. Not only did the mini-camps give me a chance to learn the Jets' defen Mississippi To. Play Hernando In Ma or Coach's Psychology Was Pefect Strategy In Dade City's Win man is expected to start his ace, Tim Sims, today. The dual World Series the Dixie Boys are also holding their championship tournament simultaneously here began noon Friday with the World Series banquet which featured Mississippi State Baseball Coach Ron Polk and Texas humorist Bob MuFphy.

"I'm happy the Dixie Association asked me to speak at the banquet" Polk said. "The next five or six years of the lives of these youngsters will decide what the rest of their lives will be like. "If you are distracted in your young, life, your entire life will be distracted, but if you concentrate, you will grow to be a leader," he told the young athletes. "We're very happy that everyone made it safely," Nacogdoches Baseball Association President Leland House said prior to the banquet "Everyone seems to be well-satisfied with the housing and other arrangements. We hope everyone is just as happy next Thursay, the final day of the tournament "We wish everyone a succcessful tournament Of course, we realize someone has to lose.

But we hope everyone that competes can learn something and enjoy this By MARK KRUEGER, Special to the Tribune NACOGDOCHES, Texas Eleven teams from 10 states have converged for the 1982 Dixie Majors (ages 15-18) World Series, which begins here today. The championship game is scheduled to be held Thursday. Four of the teams in the 1982 World Series, Nacogdoches, Madison Heights, Monroe National of Louisiana and Phenix City, were in attendance at the Dixie Pre-Major World Series, held here two years ago. Phenix City forced Nacogdoches into the championship game before the latter won the title. Hernando County will tee off World Series play at 10 a.m (Central time) today against Moss Point, Miss.

It will be followed by Tennessee vs. Virginia at 12:30 p.m.; Alam-bama vs. South Carolina at 3 p.m.; host Nacogdoches vs. Georgia at 6 p.m.; and Texas vs. North Carolina at 8:30.

The winner of the Hernando-Moss Point game will play at 6 p.m. Sunday against the winner of the Tennessee-Virginia game. The losers of those two opening ganes will play each other 12:30 p.m. Sunday. Hernando Manager Ernie Chat- waiting for since the loss (Monday's night's 5-4 loss to Sarasota).

They (Sarasota) haven't have to contend with a loss since the tournaments began. So, it will be interesting. Some can recover from it some can't!" In the meantime, the 33-year-old Case, who manages his father's hardware store in Dade City, said he would enjoy the extra day away from work. "Last week, during the section tournament, I took two days off. This is the longest I've ever been away.

I'm beginning to like it." Case's team was beginning to enjoy it, too. Givens' first home run a three-run blast and equally impressive round-trippers by Roger Hart and Poncho Broner keyed a six-run second inning as Dade City jumped to a 6-1 lead. Givens' second homer upped the margin to 8-1 in the third, before Sarasota charged back. Bill Gregory cracked a two-run single and teammates Kevin O'Sulli-van, Ray Suplee and Tony Ferreira each had RBI hits as Sarasota scored five times in the fourth. And J.R.

Showalter's lead-off homer in the fifth knotted the score at 8-8 and brought Bryan Gregory whom Case had hoped to save for Friday to the mound. "I wanted him and (tired ace) Alfred Floyd for Friday's game," Case explained. "But I realized that without Thursday, there would be no Friday." Gregory supplied the go-ahead run in the three-run sixth with a one-out RBI single, then struck out the side in the bottom of the inning to preserve the triumph. Smith had three hits for Dade City, which outhit Sarasota 9-7. Showalter doubled and homered for the losers, who had enterd the game undefeated in 10 post-season contests.

Dade City move to 13-2. But what everyone wanted to know afterward was, would there be another note Friday? "Unless we run out of paper, there will." chuckled Case. By DONNIE WILKIE Special To The Tribune PORT ST. LUCIE Twelve-year-old Bryan Gregory found a present at his motel room door Thursday morning and proceeded to stuff it down the alleged author's throat. Unlike those left by Santa Claus, this one a hastily scrolled note was signed and stuffed under Gregory's door.

It read: Dade City: We're going to beat you tonight. You play like my grandmother. It was signed, "Sarasota." With the note hanging from the dugout fence, and 14 angry tots behind it, Dade City whalloped four runs and used a timely three-run, sixth-inning rally to overpower Sarasota National, 11-8, and force a one-game playoff Friday night for the state Little League championship. The winner advances to the Southeastern Regional tournament that begins Aug. 16 in St.

Petersburg. In defense of the innocent losers, a Dade City little league official not a loud-mouth ballplayer authored the poisonous literature. "The biggest thing that wins Little League games is psychology," pointed out Manager Bob Case, whose team needed two straight victories over Sarasota (including Friday night's decisive game) to claim the championship. "When you have a close matchup like this one, you need every advantage you can get." Was it the note that inspired No. 8 batter Scrappy Givens to smash two home runs and drive in five runs? Was it the note that enabled Gregory to take the mound in the fifth inning and retire six straight batters? "It could've been," Case devilishly smiled.

"At this point, I'll take anything." Dade City was to play its 16th post-season game Friday night including five this week but Case was claiming a small advantage in the final battle. "The kids now know it's an even fight. This is what we've been Trib- Tim Sims is expected to start on the mound for Hernando, une Photo by Bob Hannah 1 Pre-Majors To Face A 'Good Team' By DAVID TEEL Special to the Tribune LYNCHBURG, Va. If pre-game coaches' rhetoric has any value, shouldn't even show up for today's first round of the Dixie Pre-Majors (ages 15-16) World Series here against North Charleston, S.C. While Hernando Coach Chuck Alderman was cautious and reserved Friday, North Charleston Coach Jim Steen was cocky and vocal.

"I have been coaching baseball for eight years and this the best team I have ever had," Steen said. "We've got good sticks, from No. 1 to No. 9. Anybody that beats us is going to beat a good team." Alderman, who put his team through a light workout Friday, said, "We've got a bunch of pretty fair ballplayers no superstars.

We don't know anything about the other teams. We are just going to go out there and play." The Florida State champions meet North Charleston at 3 p.m. in the third game of the opening round. Right-hander Mike Walker is the scheduled starter for Hernando, but the 18 innings he pitched in the state tourney have taken their toll. "My upper body and arms have been tight," Walker said.

"I loosened up today. And I just hope I can go tomorrow (today)." If Walker is unable to pitch, right-hander Carl Lighthouse will start. Hernando will see several North Charleston pitchers. "We are not looking for complete games," Steen said, "We will throw our starters three innings and then bring two others in for two innings each." Southpaw Bill Seigler will start for North Charleston, which has never been to a Dixie World Series. Hernando hopes to disrupt North Charleston's exact pitching plans with an attack that scored 57 runs in five games at the state tournament.

The catalyst for Hernando's offense are center fielder Chad Sims and shortstop Troy Smith. "We will do a lot of running if we can," Alderman said. "Sims and Smith have the green light. They can go at any time. The rest of them have to watch the signals." Chad Sims is Hernando's catalyst at the plate.