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Sheehan burns up course to win LPGA Championship Sunday's baseball Astros 5. Dodgers 3 Jim Pankovits, a rookie second baseman, pushes Bob Knepper and Houston past Los Angeles. Mariners 10, Rangers 4 Ken Phelps is the hitting star as Seattle bounces Texas. Page D3 orcs Page D4 Mondav, June 4, 1984 Section American Statesman ids comes Sp John rfj Maher 11 3 to UT's rescue Soviets lose in this game of politics bs W- 'I 1 1 i --rv- I Stiff Photo by Taylor Johnson All-America catcher Bob Caffrey, greeted at home plate by John Fishel, left and Tom Thomas after homering against Texas, will lead the Fullerton attack. Bates leads 3 Longhorns on All America diamond By KIRK BOHLS American-Statesman Staff OMAHA, Neb.

Greg Swindell made his fourth start of the year on March 30, although he had already had seven relief appearances by that date. For Daniel Pena, that fourth turn came even earlier on March 19. That spot in the rotation came up for Lanny Hengt on March 16, for Bruce Ruff in on March 10 and for Steve Labay on March 9. WADE PHILLIPS fourth start comes tonight in the College World Series. Texas Coach Cliff Gustafson hopes that start is not unlike Phillips' previous three, all of which he has won with an earned run average of 2.86.

It will have to be if the fourth-ranked Longhorns (58-12) hope to sidetrack third-ranked Fullerton State (62-19) In tonight's first CWS game between un-beatens. Gametime is 7:10 (radio: KLBJ-AM, 590, live; TV: Cable channel 43, tape delayed, 10:15 p.m.). March came a bit late this year for the sophomore right-hander from Orange, Texas. Actually, it never came at all since he was sidelined for just over three months with a broken left arm from a Feb. 3 car accident So, Phil-liDS can be foreiven if his arm mistakes June for March.

HE IS OBVIOUSLY entitled since the 20-year-old Longhorn pitcher didn't throw for the first time until May 5 in the regular-season finale against According to the cal- Lakers crush INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) The Los Angeles Lakers, sparked by Earvin "Magic" Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, outran, outshot and outrebounded the Boston Celtics into their worst defeat ever in the NBA championship series Sunday. Abdul-Jabbar scored 13 of his 24 points in the third period as Los Angeles overwhelmed Boston with a record 47 points in that quarter and Johnson had a record 21 assists as the Lakers beat the Celtics 137-104. Boston's previous worst defeat was 127-102 to St. Louis in 1960.

-WHEN OUR FAST break is going the way it was today, there's no defense that can stop it," said Johnson, who also had 14 points and 11 rebounds for the Lakers. "We ran so much better because we got more opportunities. They never made a run at us. That was due to us holding them to one shot" Johnson broke the Championship Series record of 19 assists set twice by Bob Cousy of the Celtics and once by Walt Frazier of New York. The Lakers also outrebounded the Celtics for the first time in the series, 63-44, and held Boston Wade Phillips Sunday's games New Orleans 11, Michigan 3 Miami 13, Maine 7 Today's game Game 7 Texas, 58-12 (Wade Phillips, 3-0, 2.86 ERA) vs.

Fullerton State. 62-19 (Todd Simmons, 14-2, 3.18 ERA), 7:10 p.m. Fulltrton State is red hot, D6 Grand slam paces Privatttrs, Do Hurricane force stops Michigan, D6 endar, Phillips should reach midseason form, say, about the Fourth of July, but Texas's timetable allows no such luxury. "It aint hit me yet that I'm here," Phillips said. "I've gotten a lot of breaks this year, including my arm.

I could have been killed. I could have broken my right arm. I could have been out a lot longer. The Man Upstairs was looking out for me all the time. "I've just waited until my turn came.

I guess it's come." It comes against a team that drilled Labay and Hengst for two home runs and 13 hits in a 10-2 win at Disch-Falk Field on March 2. Although Phillips saw none of the three-game series with Fullerton in which UT won two, he retired 20 of 21 Titan batters in a regular-season game with Fullerton a year ago before reliever Kirk Killingsworth gave up a homer and later got the win. THAT IS TYPICAL of a pitcher who suf- See Phillips, D6 Celts by 33 to 40 field goals in 101 attempts, for 39.6 percent "Today we were a bunch of sissies," said Boston forward Larry Bird said. "There's no doubt about that We let them play their game. They got too many easy baskets.

WE'RE SUPPOSED to be the physical team and they are supposed to be the finesse team. But they pushed us around." "It all started with our defensive rebounding," Lakers Coach Pat Riley said. "Their greatest strength is offensive rebounding, and we stopped that I don't we'll be caught up in the euphoria. We know what Boston can do." The Lakers, who play host to Boston in Game 4 of the best-of-seven series Wednesday night had survived a 14-0 Celtics' first-half spurt by responding with an 18-0 run of their own for a 13-point halftime lead. Then, Abdul-Jabbar, the NBA's all-time leading scorer, combined with Michael Cooper and Kurt Rambis on a 16-6 streak that put the Lakers ahead 73-52 with 9:15 to go in the third period.

The Celtics never got closer than 16 the rest of the way. Texans going for the gold Archery She was a coach for the U.S. team at the 1979 Pan American Games. It's been a whirlwind romance with the bow and arrow for Green. Only a few months after first taking up the sport in the elective physical education class at she found herself in Baton Rouge, La, at the South Region tryouts for the 1979 Sports Festival.

She made the team, and a few months later found herself competing in the Sports Fest at Colorado Springs. "Here I am, sitting in a cafeteria in Colorado Springs, and sitting right beside me is Bruce Jenner. I'm thinking, 'Wow, is this really happening to Green re-See Archery, D6 The Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee is slated to officially announce today the final list of countries coming to the Summer Games. It will be an event from which no one will walk away a real winner. But it will rather dramatically point out that the biggest loser in this Olympic year is the Soviet Union.

The Russian bear failed to learn anything from America's boycott blunder in 1980. As a result, the Soviets now look petty, paranoid, pushy and downright stupid. SOON AFTER THE Russians dropped their stunning bombshell on May 8, there were widespread predictions that aligned countries would begin pulling out by ones and twos until as many as 40 deserted the Games. The loss of powerhouse East Germany and some athletically strong bloc countries has drastically changed the nature of the coming competition. But they are far from completely gutted.

It's expected that a record 132 nations will compete, including communist countries China, Romania and Yugoslavia. Despite the Soviet's heavy-handedness, only 13 countries joined them. If I was a left-leaning head of a Third World country and needed a great deal on a couple of fighter planes or a dam, I might have tried to score some brownie points by making a big show of keeping the world's 63rd best discus thrower from going to California. No one even thought enough of the superpower, though, to pull a stunt like that. THE MESSAGE IS pretty clear.

The Soviets, who are used to being feared, are in this instance being ignored. The Russians haven't gained anything but firsthand knowledge of how their American counterparts felt in 1980. when not even longtime allies such as France and Great Britain would get in our line. The Soviets have come close to turning LA's Olympics into a glorified Pan-Am Games. But the schedule of Iron Curtain championships is going to be even more provincial.

It won't matter how many world records are set there. The Olympics will sate sports fans throughout the world. And. without the technology and hype of ABC those feats will take place in a virtual vacuum. That won't be lost on Eastern bloc athletes.

Thev certainlv won't feel any closer to their governments because of the pullout. When the Soviets backed out of our games, there was talk that America was just reaping a bad harvest from the 1980 boycott So be it. But the Soviets didn't have to wait four years to get theirs. It wasn't played up much here, probably because this is about the only country where soccer isn't king. But the Soviets had been in contention with Italy to hold the 1990 World Cup.

THAT WORLD soccer championship, staged every four years, is arguably a bigger deal, and a better propaganda vehicle, than the Olympics. Probably more people around the world watch the Cup soccer on TV, and they certainly follow it more fervently. How a country fares there really can change its image in the world. Just ask any Brazilian. Brazilians tend to get warm welcomes all over the world simply because that country produces great and artistic soccer players.

The country that wins the World Cup gets an enormous boost in prestige, and the home team has won more than once. SOON AFTER the Russians withdrew from the Games, though, the Federation Internationale de Football, governing body of soccer, awarded the Cup to the Italians. Too bad countries probably won't learn from Russia's lesson. College All-America team, D5 becomes only the second All-America second baseman in the school's history and the first from UT since Pat Rigby in 1962. Even second baseman Andre Robertson, the starting shortstop for the New York Yankees, did not make All-American.

Although the 5-foot-7, 155-pound Bates has not hit as well as he did as a freshman when he had a .296 average and made the All-College World Series team last year, he has improved in every other hitting category with 40 RBI and 16 doubles and also has 36 stolen bases. A superb defensive Bill Bates player, Bates has made only 10 errors all season for a .974 fielding percentage. He has not committed an error in the playoffs or his last seven games. He had been part of the preliminary roster for the U.S. Olympic team but did not make the 30-man team.

TODD SIMMONS, Fullerton State's starting pitcher against UT tonight, also made the All-America first team. Texas Tech's slugging catcher, John Grimes, who hit 24 home runs this season was placed on the second team as the only other Southwest Conference representative. Green takes 3 By KIRK BOHLS American-Statesman Staff OMAHA, Neb. Despite hitting just .272 this season. Texas's outstanding defensive second baseman.

Bill Bates, was named Sunday to the NCAA Division I All-America first team. Longhorn pitcher Greg Swindell, who is 13-1 this season, made the second team and third baseman David Denny, who is hitting .350, was selected to the third team. The team is chosen by the All-American Committee of the American Baseball Coaches Association of which UT coach Cliff Gustafson is a member. THE SOPHOMORE from Houston Aldine Baseball pairings set Three area baseball teams will open their state tournament title runs with semifinal games Thursday. In a Class 4A doubleheader at Disch-Falk Field, New Braunfels Canyon (23-9) faces DeSoto (28-6) at 1 p.m., followed by Westlake (26-8) vs.

Everman (28-1). In Class 2A, Dripping Springs (17-7) takes on Huntington (22-7) at 7:30 p.m. at Burger Center. State tournament pairings, DS Newcomer (First in a series) By RANDY RIGGS American-Statesman Staff Tricia Green took an archery class at Texas as a sophomore in 1978 because, "I thought it would be an easy She never dreamed how easy she'd find it or to what it would lead. The Houston native, to her surprise, discovered a natural affinity for the sport.

She was good at it so good that she now is being touted as a prime candidate to become the first Texan to ever make the U.S. Olympic archery team. The sport is relatively new to the Olympics, beginning In 1972. "A few years ago," Green said with a giggle, "I never would have believed all this would have happened to me." As a student at Houston's North-brook High School who, "was never active in sports and always having a hard time finding something I was really good at" Green never believed she would one day be giggling about the Olympics over the phone from an intensive and exhaustive archery training camp in Montgomery, Ala. r' i 1 aim at Olympic team i i i i i Ml Green, 24, spent 10 weeks at Auburn University's branch in Montgomery honing her skills for the archery trials which begin today and continue through Saturday at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

There, she'll be among 40 to 50 women vying for one of three spots on the U.S. team. Ann Ortwein of the National Archery Association calls Green, "a very strong contender" to advance to Los Angeles. In the last major competition before the trials. Green finished a strong third at the Brown County (Ind.) Open with 1,248 points, only 37 points behind winner Benita Edds of Indiana.

Green represents the best hope for Texas in the sport but also competing is Kathy Tate, coach of the Texas Longhorns' archery team. UTs top prospect Kelly Shand of Wimberly, will miss the trials because of a jammed finger she suffered in a basketball class. Tate, 45, has been active in recent years in archery coaching and administration. In addition to coaching at UT, where archery is a club sport and not an intercollegiate sport with scholarships, the Altus. Okla native is South Governor for the National Archery Association.

Photo by John Terhune Tricia Green, center, comes a long way in a hurry..