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10 DAYTON DAILY NEWS Sat. Feb. 15, 1986 Richmond feeling aches from crash, but he'll be in race 7- tJ trol of the car." A single engine owned by Hoss Ellington did yeoman's work during the against-the-clock phase of qualifying for the 500. The engine I used in qualifying was borrowed from Hoss," Eddie Bierschwale said, "and was the same one Sterling Marlin used to run 204. "It then went into Slick Johnson's car and he went 200.

"We were fortunate enough to be able to borrow it It showed us our car is stopping wind rather than our engines being weak because all I could wring out of our car was 198." Bierschwale failed to qualify for the 500, but worked out a deal to drive Johnson's car. He'll start 31st "They put in the new (sloped) rear window, painted it white and got Miller and all the associate sponsors on it. Just amazing!" Hillin. the 21 -year-old son of former Indy-car owner Bobby Hillin, started 31st In his qualifying race Thursday and finished 13th. He'll start from the 26th position in the 500.

The damage absorbed in an earlier spin and brush with the wall may have caused Davey Allison to drift up in front of his father's car during Bobby's last-lap duel with Bill Elliott in Thursday's first qualifying race. The front spoiler had been knocked off Davey's car, and he had trouble holding a line through the corners. "I didn't want to help or hurt anyone," he said. "I was just trying to stay out of the way and keep con ByLealBeatti STAFF SPORTS WRITER DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. Notes, quotes and observations from the Daytona Speed Week's notebook: Tim Richmond, the Ashland, Ohio, native who's entering his sixth full season on the NASCAR Winston Cup circuit, was feeling the effects Friday of his crash in one of the twin 125-mile qualifying races a day earlier.

"I'm very sore," he said. "I feel like The Refrigerator fell on me. I'm going to rest today, and I think Til be able to drive (in Sunday's Daytona 500). The doctor said I have severe bruises to my knee and chest" Richmond, who is driving for car owner Rick Hen- drick this season, will start 39th in the 500 (12:15 p.m.. Channels He was forced to start at the rear of the field because he will substitute a backup car for the wrecked vehicle.

"It's a backup car, but I think it's going to be OK," said Harry Hyde, his crew chief. "It's already run over 200 mph, so we're not worried about it This is the kind of luck you have to prepare for." Bobby Hillin who demolished his 1986 Buick in a crash on Tuesday, was forced to switch to a year-old Chevrolet. Between the time he practiced in the car on Wednesday morning and when he arrived at the track on Thursday, some extraordinary things happened. "They must have put a time machine on this piece. They made it into an '86 model overnight," Hillin said.

Richmond SPORTS DIGEST Trail Blazers get the word from a little Bird ASSOCIATED PRESS Last-second shots in regulation, OT cinch it for Celtics sr Mil I Wfc mm: nlllW '4 made it on his first attempt while Volz needed three jumps to clear the height. The vaulters became the first in history to achieve 19 feet in Madison Square Garden. Earlier, Marcus. O'Sulli van remained unbeaten this season, handing fellow Irishman Eamonn Coghlan his first defeat in seven Wanamaker Mile races. O'Sullivan, the former Villanova standout, held off Coghlan's bid for victory with a strong stretch run to win in 3 minutes, 56.05 seconds.

IHL experiments: with instant replay INDIANAPOLIS The experimental videotaped instant replay was used without a hitch three or four times Friday night in an International Hockey League game between the Salt Lake City Golden Eagles and the Indianapolis Checkers, a Checkers official said, The Instant replay, being tested by the National Hockey was called several times merely for the sake of using it, said Tom Surber, the Checkers director of media relations. The goals at the time were undisputed, and scoring was not affected by any of the replays, he said. Srejber scores 3: upset over Becker; BOCA RATON, Fla. Milan Srejber of Czechoslovakia, playing in only his second Grand Prix tennis tournament, rode a powerful serve to a 7-6, 6-3 upset of fourth-seeded Boris Becker at the Lipton International Players Championships. The tallest player on the professional tour at 6-foot-8, Srejber turned the tables on Becker with four aces and 17 service winners during the 97-minute match.

Earlier in the day, sixth-seeded Yan-nick Noah overpowered Tim Wilkison and high seeds Steffi Graf, Manuela Maleeva, Zina Garrison and Kathy Rin-aldi all won third-round matches. )) Jl Ditka loses right to drive for 6 months SCHAUMBURG, 111. Chicago Bears Coach Mike Ditka, who testified he felt "humiliated and embarrassed" when handcuffed following his arrest for drunken driving, had little to say after a judge suspended his drivers' license for six months. Leaving the courtroom Friday, a stony-faced Ditka walked swiftly to an awaiting Mercedes without talking to reporters and was driven away. His attorney, Don Reuben, said the ruling by Associate Cook County Circuit Judge Earl Hoffenberg "speaks for itself." Reuben said he did not know if he would appeal the decision stemming from Ditka's Nov.

8 conviction on the drunken-driving charge. Hoffenberg also fined Ditka $300 at that time. Anchorage makinp bid for '92 Games LAUSANNE, Switzerland Anchorage, Alaska, has formally presented a bid to host the 1992 Winter Olympics to the International Olympic Committee, an IOC statement said. Still expected before the March 6 deadline are bids from Lillehammer, Norway; Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy; Al-bertville, France; Berchtesgaden, West Germany; and Sofia, Bulgaria. Olson edges out Volz in pole vault NEW YORK American Billy Olson, holder of the world indoor best, won the pole vault event in the Wana-maker Millrose Games, defeating fellow countryman Dave Volz.

Olson was declared the winner after both cleared 19-feet-0'4 because he ASSOCIATED PRESS The Portland Trail Blazers learned that there is no one better than Larry Bird when there's a game on the line and the clock is winding down. Bird sent Friday night's Boston-Portland game into overtime with a 15-foot jumper with six seconds left in regulation, then hit a 10-footer with three seconds remaining in overtime to give the Celtics a 120-119 NBA victory. The two-time Most Valuable Player finished with 47 points, 14 rebounds and 11 assists. "I got fouled three times and I finally hit the shot," Bird said of his final shot. "That was an excellent basketball game to watch and we're very happy to get out of here with a win." "Not very much about him surprises me," Boston Coach K.C.

Jones said. "Tonight, though, I saw more left-hand shots go down for him than I think I've ever It was Larry Bird at his best." Jerome Kersey gave Portland, losers of five straight, a 119-118 lead with a spinning 5-foot bank shot with 17 seconds left in overtime. After a timeout, the Celtics worked the ball to Bird, who drove the center of the key and sank the winning jumper. Kersey's driving lay-up at the buzzer rolled around the rim and fell out. Lakers 141, Hawks 117 Los Angeles outscored Atlanta 40-22 in the third period to break open a close game.

The Lakers, leading by four points at halftime, opened the third quarter with a 10-3 run for a 81-70 advantage and finished off the final 4:55 of the quarter by outscoring Atlanta 16-5 for a 1 1 1-89 lead going into the last 12 minutes. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar scored 25 ASSOCIATED PRESS Boston's Larry Bird lands a left to the head of Trail Blazers' Jerome Kersey James Edwards scored 18 points and tons 30-10 the rest of the way to make Larry Nance had 16 points and 14 re- the final score respectable. bounds for Phoenix. points, Earvin "Magic" Johnson added 18 points and 16 assists and James Worthy had 20 points for Los Angeles. Atlanta's Dominque Wilkins led all scorers with 29 points.

Suns 112, Nuggets 95 Pistons 1 19, Mavs 110 Pacers 104, Bulls 88 Herb Williams scored a career-high 39 points, six of them in the final 3 minutes, to lead Indiana over Chicago. Williams, whose previous high was 38 points against Washington on Dec. 30, hit two straight baskets to give the Pacers a comfortable 96-83 lead with 2:58 left, and they coasted to only their third road victory of the season in 23 tries. Rookie Charles Oakley had 17 points and 13 rebounds to lead the Bulls, who lost their fifth straight game. Backups Vinnie Johnson and Earl Cureton helped Detroit hand Dallas its second loss in 10 games.

Johnson was U-for-16 from the field for 22 points and Cureton 8-for-12 with 18 points for the Pistons, while Mark Aguirre led all scorers with 27 for the Mavericks. After Detroit started the game with an 18-6 spurt and led 109-80 with 9:27 left, the Mavericks outscored the Pis- Walter Davis scored 21 of his 25 points in the second half to lead Phoenix over Denver. The Nuggets, who got 29 points from Alex English, trailed 61-48 at halftime, but they closed the gap to 74-72 with 1:35 left in the third period. Davis then hit two baskets in the final minute for a 78-72 advantage, and Denver got no closer than five points in the final period. Gooden, at 21, agrees to play for $1.32 million 'The Pit' Money entices Kinnebrew to fight the fat, trim down CINCINNATI (AP) The Cincinnati Bengals want fullback Larry Kinnebrew to lose weight, and they've decided to use money as an entice ment.

It appears to be working. In the past, the Bengals have sent overweight players such as Coy Bacon and Gary Burley to fat farms, but others have resisted the team's efforts to 1 "vm trim thoir woioht Kinnebrew, whose weight approached 300 pounds last season, is now a trim 255, his playing weight as a college sophomore. "Hp's wnrkin? his rpar end off literallv." said nmneorew nua ueeu uieuug aim turning iu aiunuey Field three days a week to work out. The club set a goal for him to lose one pound a week. But in the eight weeks since the season ended, he has tripled that.

The incentives include bonuses If he maintains his Imirav iiraf nlit iinftl t-airilrifr samn arA navt cnacnn "We did work out an arrangement with him," said 0 Mike Brown, the club's assistant general manager. He "I did at least one smart thing," Zawadzki said. "I told our video tape man to turn his camera on at the opening tip and don't shut it off until the lights go out. "Everything is there and just pushed a button that says it can't be erased." You probably won't be able to see it on film, but there were tears coming from the coach during warmups and just before he entered the locker room for his post-game speech to the players. Tears not just for the magic of the moment.

But dedicated to every who ever spilled sweat for the purple and gold. "Every single one of my players, whether he played one minute or every minute, contributed to the success pf this program," Zawadzki said. "There is a brotherhood kids come back. They tell the younger players, 'Hey, you're wearing my Things like that. T-T "They don't just play and don't just finish.

"I remember every one of those kids. As many pleasant memories as 1 have here, I owe to those kids because they put 'em all in my head." And, in Zawadzki's grand plan, there are more fond memories to come. "It always hurts to break away from something after 18 years," the, coach added. "But the time has come. "Sure, I feel sad.

But at the same time I'm excited because of our new place." ASSOCIATED PRESS At the tender age of 21, Dwight Gooden is a millionaire and Bret Saberha-gen isn't far away. Less than three months after his 21st birthday, Gooden, the National League's 1985 Cy Young Award winner, agreed Friday to a $1.32 million one-year contract with the New York Mets. The fireballlng strikeout specialist, who was 24-4 in his second major-league season and posted an earned run average of 1.53 while earning $400,000, was scheduled to go to salary arbitration next Tuesday. He had asked for $1.5 million while the Mets offered $1.1 million. And Saberhagen, who made $150,000 last season when he won the American League Cy Young Award and was named most valuable player in the World Series, will earn $925,000 from the Kansas City Royals in 1986.

An arbitrator who heard Saberha-gen's salary case on Thursday decided in the pitcher's favor. The Royals had offered $625,000. In only his second year in the majors, Saberhagen, who will turn 22 in April, was 20-6 with a 2.87 ERA, then won two games in the World Series against the St Louis Cardinals, including the climactic seventh game. Saberhagen's arbitration was the only case decided Friday and gave the players eight victories to 10 for the owners. Three other players signed with their clubs before their arbitration cases were heard shortstops Onix Concepcion of the Royals and Andre Robertson of the New York Yankees and Cleveland pitcher Ken Schrom.

Concepcion earned $250,000 last season, lost his starting job to Buddy Bian-calana, was offered $240,000 for 1986 and asked for Robertson made $95,000, was offered $170,000 and wanted Schrom made $150,000, was offered $200,000 and wanted $265,000. In another noteworthy development, Los Angeles Dodgers third baseman Bill Madlock, who was mentioned in testimony last year as having dispensed amphetamines, was cleared by Commissioner Peter Ueberroth of involvement with drugs. Four arbitration cases were heard Friday Seattle pitcher Mike Moore (made $227,500 In 1985, offered $400,000, seeking Cleveland shortstop Julio Franco (made $455,000, offered $575,000, seeking Minnesota catcher Tim Laudner (made $145,000, offered $155,000, seeking $250,000) and California pitcher Ron Romanick (made $146,500, offered $250,000, seeking Meanwhile, John Tudor of the St. Louis Cardinals, the top left-hander In the majors last season and the loser to Saberhagen in the World Series wind-up, is close to signing a new long-term contract. Brown said that Kinnebrew is due a bonus for staying slim until the season starts and another if he stays that wav during the season.

Kinnebrew "I'm here to please the Bengals and myself. I'm going to work at it and do what it takes to win and help the team," Kinnebrew said. Kinnebrew has been on a starch-free, sugar-free diet, under the supervision of a doctor. The training program Includes running, weight-lifting and work on a stationary bike. Brown said this is the first time in memory that the club has provided a monetary incentive for players to lose weight.

"We think Larry has got to keep his weight under control or he's going to follow Boobie Clark and Pete Johnson," Brown said. "If he does keep the weight down, he'll be valuable to the team. If he doesn't, he'll be a washout." Kinnebrew was the Bengals' second leading rusher last year with 714 yards. But his productivity dropped at the end of the season. He averaged just 41 yards a game the last five weeks.

CONTINUED FROM8 There was David Amlin leaping into Coach Z's arms after Vandalia crushed Tipp City for the Southwestern Buckeye League title in 1969-70. There was Dean Edgemon's pass to Dan Longley for a layup to beat Trotwood in a game in which the Aviators erased a five-point deficit the final 24 seconds. There was Tim Smith going wild during pre-game introductions. There were Tom Marsh's dunks, Mike Chenderlin's hook shots, Mark Chipman's defense and so many clutch free throws by the coach's son, Ray. "You know, 1 8 years is a long time," Zawadzki said.

"That's half the age of this building. I didn't realize I was that old." Zawadzki said the evening was "very, very chaotic," and that he was so excited after the game that he left his clipboard and some of his other coaching paraphernalia at the field house. He went back to retrieve them and all those memories came flooding back in the debris of victory. "The custodians were kinda cleaning up but they were in the locker rooms," he said. "The bleachers were pushed back.

There was crepe paper, toilet paper and a lot of trash. "It was kinda like a party was.there, but now it's over. It's like: I can rest Vandalia Butler's final victory in The Pit was captured with a series of surges. Sidney going ahead at the half, 27-26. The Aviators storming ahead, 44-33.

The Yellowjackets fighting back to tie it at 47, 49 and 51. And then the home team's final push in the last two minutes. "It's not going to be any one play that stands out," Zawadzki said. "It's going to be an awful lot of things; an awful lot of good things. "The fans' enthusiasm.

The standing ovation when we came onto the court. The large amount of players that came back. M. Byron Morton, the superintendent of schools and the man responsible for having The Pit built, was there. So was Bob Anthony, who made the first bucket In the junior varsity game when the field house opened in the 1949-50 season.

And just about every team since then was represented by players, all of whom took shots at the basket during a spirited halftime ceremony. Gretzky's 7 assists prime Oilers' 8-goal gusher Lakeland College defeats Sinclair Lakeland Community College led all the way in handing Sinclair Community College a 77-73 setback In Ohio Valley Junior College Conference men's basketball Friday. Lakeland, led by Kevin Edwards' 25 points, led by as many as 16 points with a little more than seven minutes remaining In the game in posting Its 23rd victory in 27 starts. Sinclair, 15-13, was topped by Rick Helenthal's 20 points. Three other reached double figures: William Calhoun at 16, Todd Higgins 14 and Anthony Archie 13.

i LtkiM Hml trtM It, hftn II, Fit 4, liKtr 8, WimnllTHKiJM-n, IMW HtoM BNt Cilwa Ik H4MM Hum Ardm II riMt B-7-tt tamm kc umm im a torn raca UMM S-i IMMr IS-II Craig MacTavish also scored for Edmonton. Quebec's goals came from Mark Kumpel and Alain Cote. Sabres 3, Flames 3 A goal by Joel Otto at 15:47 of the third period earned Calgary the tie at home. Otto scored on a 10-foot shot from the slot to spoil an outstanding performance by Buffalo goalie Jacques Cloutier, who made 45 saves. Bill Hajt, Paul Cyr and Gilbert Perreault scored for Buffalo.

Perreault's goal was the 498th of his career. The Sabres took an early 2-0 lead but the Flames rallied on goals by Jamie Macoun and Hakan Loob. Calgary has lost only once in Its last 12 games and is unbeaten In Its last eight. Jets 5, Whalers 4 ASSOCIATED PRESS When Wayne Gretzky gets an assist, It means that one of his teammates has scored. And In the midst of his worst goal-scoring slump now at nine games Gretzky is making sure the rest of the Edmonton Oilers don't join him.

Gretzky picked up a record-tying seven assists Friday night, including one on Kevin Lowe's first goal in more than a year, as the Oilers blew away the Quebec Nordiques 8-2. "I was always taught that an assist Is just as good as a goal," Gretzky said. "I'm not concerned with scoring because I'm playing well and getting chances. When the other guys have better chances, I give them the puck." Gretzky tied the single-game assist record he already shared with Billy Taylor of Detroit. It was the third time he had seven assists in a game.

Paul Coffey, with two short-handed goals, Jari Kuril, Ken Solheim, Mark Napier, Dave Semenko and cles, scored twice for host Winnipeg. MacLean fought off a check from Dave Babych and pushed the puck inside the post on the short side past Hartford goalie Steve Weeks for the winning goal with 28 seconds left in the third period. Also scoring for Winnipeg were Doug Smail, Mario Marois and Bill Derlugo. Stewart Gavin scored twice for Hartford while Torrie Robertson and Sylvain Tur-geon got the Whalers' other goals. Rangers 7, Red Wings 5 Pierre Larouche, Tonms Sandstrom and Don Ma-loncy each scored two goals to lead New York to its third straight victory and lift the visiting Rangers Into a tie for fourth place in the Patrick Division with the Idle Pittsburgh Penguins.

The two goals gave Larouche, exiled to the minors at the start of the season and recalled just eight games ago, 350 in his 12-year career. Paul MacLean, playing with strained stomach mus-.