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CO Exhibition AMERICAN LEAGUE YESTERDAY'S RESULTS At Madison Square Garden Semifinals California 85, Oregon 69 Clemson 79, Xavier 76 Championship Round THURSDAY'S GAMES At Madison Square Garden Third Place Oregon (19-12) vs. Xavier (24-11), p.m. Championship California (21-11) vs. Clemson (20-14), 7:30 p.m. California 85, Oregon 69 Kansas City Seattle Boston Chicago Texas Baltimore Detroit Yankees Anaheim Cleveland Minnesota Tampa Bay Oakland Toronto OREGON (69) FS FT MA Ret 0- APF 1- 3 4 2 NATIONAL LEAGUE UE Pet.

15 6 .714 13 7 .650 12 7 .632 13 10 .565 10 8 .556 9 8 .529 11 10 .524 11 11 .500 10 10 .500 9 11 .450 9 12 .429 8 11 .421 9 13 .409 5 16 .238 13 6 .684 15 7 .682 12 8 .600 11 9 .550 10 9 .526 10 9 .526 11 11 .500 10 10 .500 9 9 .500 9 9 .500 10 11 .476 9 12 .429 9 12 .429 8 13 .381 8 14 .364 5 14 .263 Mhl 36 25 20 29 30 9 20 18 11 5-15 5-14 48 5-7 2-8 00 1-5 34 1-1 Pfl 12 14 8 16 6 0 3 7 3 0 Scales Smith Carson Brown Wright Hartenstein FJones Christoffersen Rosemond Harker 4-6 2 4-5 1 1-3 4 0-4 3 0-2 0 0- 4 2 04 0 1- 2 1 04 3-3 0-0 56 04 04 04 1- 2 04 04 Los Angeles Arizona San Diego Atlanta Pittsburgh St. Louis Mets Colorado Houston Philadelphia Cincinnati Florida San Francisco Milwaukee Montreal Chicago 04 0 2 04 EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Pts GF GA Home Away Div. Devils 38 22 9 85 202 170 14-13- 7 24- 9- 2 11- 2- 1 Pittsburgh 36 22 12 84 215 184 21- 7- 9 15-15- 3 5- 6-4 Philadelphia 32 22 17 81 208 172 18- 8-10 14-14- 7 5- 6- 5 Rangers 29 32 10 68 196 199 15-17- 5 14-15- 5 6- 5-4 Islanders 20 42 9 49 162 209 10-20- 6 10-22- 3 5-10-2 Northeast Pts GF GA Home Away Div. Ottawa 40 20 9 89 203 146 21- 9- 4 19-11- 5 7- 6-3 Toronto 38 27 5 81 217 199 20-12- 3 18-15- 2 7- 9-0 Buffalo 32 23 14 78 181 153 19-11- 6 13-12- 8 10- 4- 3 Boston 31 27 11 73 181 159 17- 9- 8 14-18- 3 7- 7-1 Montreal 28 32 10 66 164 179 18-13- 5 10-19- 5 5-10- 1 Southeast Pts GF GA Home Away Div. Carolina 30 27 14 74 183 178 17-11- 7 13-16- 7 4- 2-6 Florida 26 26 17 69 178 183 14-12- 6 12-14-11 5- 2-5 Washington 29 35 6 64 179 184 15-19- 2 14-16- 4 6- 3-2 Tampa Bay 17 47 5 39 151 249 10-24- 1 7-23- 4 1- 9-1 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Pts GF GA Home Away Div.

Detroit 34 30 6 74 208 182 19-11- 2 15-19- 4 10- 3-1 St. Louis 30 29 11 71 202 185 16-16- 5 14-13- 6 10- 5- 1 Nashville 24 39 7 55 166 225 13-19- 4 11-20- 3 4-11-1 Chicago 21 40 10 52 166 224 13-17- 4 8-23- 6 4- 9-1 Northwest Pts GF GA Home Away Div. Colorado 35 26 9 79 197 178 14-14- 5 21-12- 4 6- 6-1 Calgary 27 32 11 65 187 196 13-16- 6 14-16- 5 4- 6-1 Edmonton 26 33 11 63 194 193 12-17- 5 14-16- 6 8- 3-1 Vancouver 20 39 11 51 167 216 12-17- 5 8-22- 6 5- 8-1 Pacific Pts GF GA Home Away Div. X-Dallas 44 14 12 100 203 140 24- 7- 4 20- 7- 8 14- 2-2 Phoenix 34 25 12 80 177 170 20-10- 5 14-16- 7 10- 7- 2 Anaheim 31 28 11 73 184 172 18-12- 6 13-16- 5 10- 4-4 San Jose 26 28 16 68 157 161 16-12- 8 10-16- 8 5-12- 2 Totals 200 26-62 9-11 11-29 17 23 Percentages: FG .419, FT .818 J-Poinl Goals: 8- Upton Championships YESTERDAY'S RESULTS At Key Biscayne, Fla Men Singles quarterfinals Richard Kraiicek (7), Netherlands, def. Pete Sampras (2), Orlando, 6-2, 7-6 (8-6).

Thomas Enqvist (14), Sweden, def. Jerome Golmard, France, 6-3, 7-5. Men Doubles third round Andrew Florent and David Macpherson, Australia, def. Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde, Australia, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3. Wayne Black, Zimbabwe, and Sandon Stolle, Australia, def.

Doug Flach, Alphar-etta. and Jeff Tarango, Manhattan Beach, Martin Damm and Cyril Suk, Czech Republic, def. Richey Reneberg, Atlanta, and Jonathan Stark, Seattle, 4-6, 7-6 (7-1), 6-2. Lan Bale and Grant Stafford, South Africa, def. Pablo Albano, Argentina, and Francisco Montana, Miami, 6-2, 6-0.

Gustavo Kuerten, Brazil, and Nicolas Lapentti, Ecuador, def. Ellis Ferreira, South Africa, and Rick Leach, Laguna Beach, Nicklas Kulti and Mikael Tillstrom, Sweden, def. Carlos Moya, Spain, and Marat Safin, Russia, 6-3, 6-4. Boris Becker, Germany, and Jan-Michael Gambit Colbert, def. Brandon Coupe, Granite Bay, and Mark Merklein, Gainesville, 6-3, 6-3.

Women Singles fourth round Martina Hingis (1), Switzerland, def. Marlene Weingartner, Germany, 6-0, 6-2. Lindsay Davenport (2), Newport Beach, def. Elena Ltkhovtseva, Russia, 6-2, 6-0. Serena Williams (16), Palm Beach Gardens, def.

Monica Seles (3), Sarasota, 6-2, 6-3. Jana Novotna (4), Czech def. Patty Schnvder (12), Switzerland, 6-3, 2-6, 6-2. Venus Williams (6), Palm Beach, def. Anke Huber, 6-3, 5-7, 7-6 (7-4).

Steffi Graf (7), Germany, def. Natasha Zvereva, Belarus, 6-2, 6-4. Amanda Coetzer (9), South Africa, def. Mary Pierce (8), France, 6-1, 4-2, retired. Barbara Schett, Austria, def.

Anna Kour-nikova (13), Russia, 6-1, 1-6, 6-1. Doubles third round Martina Hingis, Switzerland, and Jana Novotna, Czech Republic, def. Mary Pierce, France, and Natasha Zvereva, Belarus, walkover. Mariaan de Swardt, South Africa, and Elena Tatarkova, Ukraine, def. Aleksan-dra Olsza, Poland, and Shi-Ting Wang, Taipei, 6-3, 6-4.

Larisa Neiland, Latvia, and Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario, Spain, def. Alexia De-chaume-Balleret and Amelie Mauresmo, France, 6-3, 6-4. 18, .444 (Wright 2-5, Scales 2-6, Rosemond 1-1, Smith 1-2, Brown 1-2, F.Jones 1-2). Team Rebounds: 5. Blocked Shots: 3 (F.Jones 2, Corsonl.Turnovers: 16 (Rosemond 4, F.Jones 3, Scales 3, Wright 3, Carson 2, Harker).

Steals: 2 (Corson, Wright). CALIFORNIA (85) FG FT tell 0-T A PF Ptl Mia M'A 17 10-14 2-6 1 32 7-12 1-6 1 34 4 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Mets 3, Atlanta 2, 10 innings Yankees 9, Pittsburgh 2 Texas 4, Toronto 3 Cleveland 15, Houston 5 Cincinnati 13, Minnesota 2 Baltimore 7, Montreal 3 Kansas City 5, Philadelphia 2 Arizona (ss) 14, Anaheim 6 San Diego 8, Oakland 6 Chicago White Sox (ss) 9, San Francis Milwaukee 12, Chicago Cubs 4 Detroit 7, Tampa Bay 3 Arizona 5, Chicago White Sox 4 1- 3 3 0-5 5 5-7 0 2- 3 0 M-A 54 2-2 4-4 4-7 04 34 04 04 04 0-1 1 1 Gill Lampley Elson Carlisle Kilgore Boyd Hughes Gates RJones Gordon King Forehan-Kelly Rather Lingle Meyers 04 0 0 4-10 4-13 1-5 4-9 1-2 0-1 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 04 Totals 200 3146 22-31 14-39 15 12 Percentages: FG .470. FT Goals: 14, .125 (Boyd 1-2, Kilgore 0-1, Lamplev 0-1, Gates 0-1, Carlisle Rebounds: 4. Blocked Shots: 7 (Elson 3, Carlisle, Gill, Lampley, Gordonl.Tur-novers: 8 (Kilgore 2, Carlisle, Elson, Gill, Lampley, Boyd. Hughesl.Steals: 9 (Elson 2, Gates 2.

Gill, Lampley, Boyd, R.Jones, Hughes). 27 38 5 59 163 186 16-18- 3 11-20- 2 3-16- 0 Los Angeles 32 37 69 35 SO 15 Oregon California ATLANTA METS ab bi ab bi Williams ss 5 0 10 Henderson 2 10 0 Guillen ss 4 0 0 0 Manumillop 0 0 0 0 DeRosa ss 0 0 0 0 Mora rf-ss 2 12 1 AJones cf 2 0 0 0 Alfonzo 2b 3 0 0 0 Simon lb 2 0 10 Beniiez 0 0 0 0 JLopezc 20 10 Olerudlb 2010 Mahonev 1 0 0 0 Powettelb 2 0 0 0 Hunter lb-lf 4 111 Piazza 3 111 Boutista H-rt 4 0 0 0 Kinkodtc-H 1000 Giles 2b 4 111 Ventura 3b 3 0 0 0 Malloy 3b 4 0 0 0 Wendell 0 0 0 0 Smoltz 0 0 0 0 LLopez 2b 10 0 0 Seanez 0 0 0 0 AAcRoe cf 2 0 10 LocMwtpo 0 0 0 0 AHmvnrltid 20 10 Rocker 0 0 0 0 Cedeno rf 10 0 0 McGlmcHyp 1 0 0 0 Duncan I- 1000 Ordonez ss 3 0 10 Pratt 10 0 0 BJones 10 0 0 Halter ss-rf 3 0 0 0 Totals 13 25 2 Totals 33 3 7 2 Atlanta 000 020 000 02 Mets 100 100 000 13 Devils 1, Sabres 1 Officials-Mike Wood, Carl Hess, Reggie Cofer. Clemson 79, Xavier 76 Buffalo Devils 0 0 1 01 0 10 01 XAVIER (76) FG FT Peg Mhl M-A A 0-T A PF Ptl Frey 17 1-4 04 1-2 2 3 Posey 38 312 7 7 1-1 0 4 14 Turner 36 2-4 2-2 4-7 1 3 6 LBrown 32 4-17 2-2 1-5 3 3 14 Lumpkin 37 4-9 4-5 0-4 7 3 16 McAlee 12 3-3 04 0-2 2 4 Price 23 5-10 1-2 0-2 1 1 13 OHorris 3 04 04 0-1 0 1 0 ABrown 2 1-1 04 04 0 0 2 Totals 200 23-60 16-11 7-24 IS 21 76 X-clinched playoff berth YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Devils 1, Buffalo 1, tie Pittsburgh 5, Chicago 2 Dallas 3. Phoenix 2 TODAY'S GAMES Rangers at Florida, 7:30 p.m. Islanders at Carolina, 7 p.m.

Nashville at Tampa Bay, 7:05 p.m. San Jose at Toronto, 7:30 p.m. Boston at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m. Buffalo at Detroit, 7:30 p.m. Vancouver at Colorado, 9 p.m.

Montreal at Edmonton, 9 p.m. MONDAY'S RESULTS Tampa Bay 6, Rangers 3 San Jose 1, Montreal 1, tie Philadelphia 3, Toronto 1 St. Louis 5, Carolina 2 Calgary 2, Edmonton 2, tie THURSDAY'S GAMES Pittsburgh at Devils, 7:30 p.m. Chicago at Boston, 7 p.m. Montreal at Calgary, 9 p.m.

Washington at Phoenix, 9 p.m. St. Louis at Vancouver, 10 p.m. Pallas at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m. Penguins 5, Blackhawks 2 Hassan Grand Prix YESTERDAY'S RESULTS At Casablanca, Morocco Singles first round Johan Van Herck, Belgium, def.

Thomas Muster (1 Austria, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4. Vincenzo Santopadre, Italy, def. Talal Ouahabi, Morocco, 7-6 (7-0), 7-6 (7-4). Markus Hipfl, Austria, def. Hernan Gumv (8), Argentina, 6-3, 6-3.

Marcio Carlsson, Brazil, def. Charles Auffray, France, 6-3, 7-6 (7-3). Alex Calatrava, Spain, def. Marcelo Fi-lippini, Uruguay, 7-5, 6-3. Jacobo Diaz, Spain, def.

Mounir El Aarei, Morocco, 6-4, 7-6 (7-4). Jens Knippschild, Germany, def. Marcos Ondruska, South Africa, 6-2, 7-5. Fernando Meligeni (2), Brazil, def. DInu Pescariu, Romania, 6-2, 7-5.

Stefan Koubek (6), Austria, def. Renzo Furlan, Italy, 6-4, 6-3. One out when winning run scored. LOB Atlanta 5, Mets 6. HR Hunter (1), Giles (1), Mora (2).

First Period None. Penalties Smehlik, Buf (slashing), Bryltn, Devils (unsportsmanlike conduct), Brown, Buf (slashing), 1:11. Second Period 1, Devils, Nemchinov 9 (Brylin), 2:57. Penalties Arnott, Devils (tripg), Bombardir, Devils Zhitnik, Buf 16:59. Third Period 2, Buffalo, Satan 34 (Grand-Pierre, Barnes), 16:23.

Penalties Grand-Pierre, Buf, maior (fighting), Pederson, Devils, maior (fighting), 18:18. Overtime None. Penalties Brown, Buf (roughing), Arnott, Devils (roughing), 4:21. Shots on goal Buffalo 4-7-8-019. Devils 10-14-5-332.

PPO Buffalo Oof Devils 0 of 2. GoaliesBuffalo, Hasek 26-15-11 (32 shots-31 saves). Devils, Brodeur 32-19-9 (19-18). A 17,089 Ref Dave Jackson. Linesmen Gord Broseker, Brian Murphy.

IP ER BB SO Atlanta Smoltz 5 3 2 2 2 3 Seanez 1 0 0 0 0 0 Rocker 2 2 0 0 2 3 McGlinchv L.0-2 11-3 2 1 1 0 4 Mets BJones 5 3 2 2 2 2 Manzanillo 1 1 0 0 0 0 Wendell 2 0 0 0 1 0 BenitezW.2-1 2 1 0 0 0 2 2:39. A 4,453. turn 0 2 02 2 3 05 Chicago Pittsburgh Stars 3, Coyotes 2 Percentages: FG .383, FT Goals: 14-37, .378 (Lumpkin 4-9, L.Brown 4-14, McAlee 2-2, Price 2-6, Frey 1-1, Posey Rebounds: 6. Blocked Shots: None. Turnovers: 11 (Posey 5, L.Brown 3, Frey 2, Lumpkin).

Steals: 4 (Posey 2, Frey, Price). Technical Fouls: None. CLEMSON (79) FG FT Peg Mm M-A M4 0-T A PF Pts Jomison 30 6-9 4-7 1-5 0 4 16 Jurkunas 30 2-8 4-4 1-4 3 3 8 Widemon 32 2-3 64 4-15 3 4 10 Christie 28 6-10 2-5 0-1 2 1 16 Mclntyre 40 7-11 2-2 1-2 5 3 20 Allenspoch 12 1-2 0-2 0-2 0 1 2 Solomon 22 24 2-2 0-12 1 7 GBmore 4 04 04 0-1 0 0 0 Braddick 2 04 04 04 0 0 0 Totals 200 26-49 20-21 7-31 IS 17 79 Percentages: FG .531, FT Goals: 7-21. .333 (Mclntyre 4-7, Christie 2-5, Solomon 1-3. Jurkunas 0-6).

Team Rebounds: 1. Blocked Shots: 4 (Widemon, Christie, Allenspoch, Solomon). Turnovers: 12 (Mclntyre 3, Widemon 3, Christie 2, Solomon 2, Allenspoch, Gilmore). Steals: 3 (Christie 2, Jamison). Technical Fouls: None.

RGH PITTSBU Dallas Phoenix 1 1 13 0 0 22 YANKEES abrhbi 4 0 10 0 0 0 0 2 2 10 110 0 3 3 2 0 abrhbt 3 0 10 2 0 0 0 3 0 10 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 10 10 10 0 0 3 0 0 0 10 0 0 2 0 0 0 10 0 0 2 0 0 0 4 110 4 112 4 0 2 0 32 27 2 SojoTb Raabe lb Jeter ss Soriano ss O'Neill rf Spencer rf Williams cf Ledee cf Davis dh Martinez lb Cedeno 3b Posada Figga Curtis If Brosius 3b Totals Kendall Osik Meares ss Wardph BouniHKls Giles If Garcia If Young lb Cruz lb BBrowncf ABrown cf Sprogue 3b Guillen rf Martin dh Morris 2b Totals 10 0 0 3 12 5 10 0 0 3 0 12 4 12 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 112 3 0 0 0 34 9 10 9 Xavier Clemson 29 47 40 39 First Period 1, Dallas, Hull 27, 13:18 (pp). Penalties Keane, Dal (slashing), Roenick, Pho, major-game misconduct (boarding), Sloan, Dal (holding), 17:35. Second Period 2, Dallas, Lehfinen 19 (Hrkac), 15:30. Penalties Hull, Dal Drake, Pho (ob. -hooking), Sydor, Dal (cross-checking), Keane, Dal (interference), 18:27.

Third Period 3, Dallas, Nieuwendyk 22 (Langenbrunner, Hogue), 1:18. 4, Phoenix, Tkachuk 31 (Drake, Reichel), 17:38. 5, Phoenix, Tocchet 23 (Tkachuk), 18:32. Penalties None. Shots on goal Dallas 12-6-5 23.

Phoenix 10-8-10 28. Power-play Opportunities Dallas 1 of Phoenix 0 of 5. Goalies Dallas, Belfour 32-12-9 (28 shots-26 saves). Phoenix, Khabibulin 27-19-7 (23-20). A 15,997 Referee Steven Walkom.

Linesmen Jay Sharrers, Don Henderson. "We have to head east this weekend. Suzy "Remember. Mighty, we have the Mary Grasso-Bill Rothwell wedding on Friday." "Then maybe Saturday, Suzy Q. Kenny DeNicola.

the manager of Cafe Spasso in Carle Place, invited us out. Kenny named a dinner after me 'The Mighty Quinn Fish "You know I don't eat fish. Mighty. Nothing from the sea for me." "Order something else, Suzy Q. But there's one drawback to Cafe Spasso." "What's that.

Mighty?" "Kenny tells me players for the New York Islanders hockey team eat at Cafe Spasso all the time. Where you have Islander players, you have Islander fans. That alone could upset my stomach." Mighty hit with California last night. Tonight it's the Hornets. Ten units.

The deficit is 65 sirignanos. A 9,455. Officials John Hughes, Will Bush, James Hanev. 000 020 000 2 204 201 00x 9 Pittsburgh Yankees i First Period 1, Pittsburgh, Hrdino 11 CTitovh 15:18. 2, Pittsburgh, Jagr 34 (Miller," Lang), 19:26.

Penalties Marha, Chi (tripping), Kovalev, Pit 12:39: B.Brown, Chi (roughing), Barnaby, Pit (toughing), 20:00. Second Period 3, Pittsburgh, Kovalev 19 (Miller, Jagr), 5:21 (pp). 4, Pittsburgh, Long 21 (Titov, Straka), 7:06 (pp). 5, Pittsburgh, Moron 4 (Jagr, Straka), 10:23. 6, Chicago, Zhamnov 17 (Gilmour, Mironov), 13:31 (pp).

7, Chicago, Simpson 4 (Muir, Olczyk), 14:27. Penalties Probert, Chi (roughing), Manson, Chi (crosschecking), Manson, Chi, major (fighting), Barnaby, Pit, maior (fighting), Simpson, Chi (roughing), Moran, Pit 13:06. Third Period None. Penalties Wilkinson, Pit (slashing), Gilmour, Chi (tripping), Simpson, Chi, major (lighting), Wilkinson, Pit, maior (fighting), Zmolek, Chi (roughing), Brown, Chi, double minor (slashing, roughing), Wright, Pit (roughing), 20:00. Shots on goal Chicago 11-13-5 29.

Pittsburgh 9-11-9 29. Power-play Opportunities Chicago 1 of Pittsburgh 2 of 6. Goalies Chicago, Thibault 15-26-4 (16 shots-11 soves), Fitzpatrick (10:23 second, 13-13). Pittsburgh, Skudra 15-7-5 29-27). A 15,123 Referee Dan O'Hal-loran.

Linesmen Scott Driscoll, Mark Pore. Bournigal. LOB Pitt, 9, Yankees 7. HR Williams (3), Curtis (2), Martin (1). Championship YESTERDAY'S RESULT Arkansas 67, Wisconsin 64 IP ER BB SO Pittsburgh Schourek L.0-2 3 2-3 7 8 8 4 2 Dessens 1 1-3 2 0 0 0 1 Sauveur 1 1110 1 Ritchie 1 0 0 0 0 0 Loiselle 1 0 0 0 1 0 Yankees Cone W.1-0 4 1-3 6 2 2 3 5 Nelson 1 2-3 0 0 0 0 3 Tessmer 1 10 0 12 Stanton 1 0 0 0 1 1 Rivera 1 0 0 0 0 1 Schedule 1975 Muhammod Ali knocks out Chuck Wepner in the 15th round in Cleveland to retain his heavyweight title in Cleveland.

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