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Lebanon Daily News, Saturday, October 3, 1998 3C Sports SPORTS DIGEST Long balls boost Nagy, Tribe ITV1SPORTS 1 Indians take 2-1 lead on Red Sox TODAY Noon College Football: Penn State at Ohio State (ABC) Noon College Football: Miami at Rutgers (CBS) Noon College Football: Illinois at Northwestern (ch. 15) Noon College Football: Wisconsin at Indiana (ESPN2) Noon College Football: West Virginia at Navy (Comcast SportsNet) 1 p.m. Baseball: AL Playoffs Yankees at Rangers (ESPN) 5 1:05 p.m. Auto Racing: All-Pro Bumper-to-Bumper 300 from Charlotte (WTBS) 2:30 p.m. College Football: Stanford at Notre Dame (NBC) 3:30 p.m.

College Football: Michigan at Iowa (ABC) 3:30 p.m. College Football: Florida at Alabama (CBS) 4 p.m. Baseball: AL Playoffs Indians at Red Sox (FOX) 4 p.m. Auto Racing: CART Grand Prix of Houston qualifying (ESPN2) 4:30 p.m. Golf: PGA Buick Challenge (ESPN) 6 p.m.

College Football: Kentucky at Arkansas (ESPN2) 6:30 10:30 p.m. SportsNite: news and highlights (Comcast SportsNet) 7 p.m. College Football: Georgia at LSU (ESPN) 7 p.m. College Football: Nebraska at Oklahoma State (Comcast SportsNet) 7:30 p.m. Baseball: NL Playoffs Braves at Cubs (NBC) 10:15 p.m.

Boxing: junior lightweights Genaro Hernandez vs. Floyd Mayweather (HBO) 11 p.m. Baseball: NL Playoffs Astros at Padres (ESPN) ION RADIO 1 TODAY Noon College Football: Penn State at Ohio State (pregame 10:30 a.m.) WLBR 1270 AM 2:30 p.m. College Football: Stanford at Notre Dame, WQIC 100.1 FM 1 LOCALt CALENDAR TODAY Scholastic Football Donegal at Annville-Cleona, 1 30 Biglerville at Milton Hershey, 1 30 College Football Catholic Untv at Franklin Marshall, 1 Millersville at Mansfield 1pm Wilkes at Lebanon Valley, 1 30 Scholastic Soccer Red Land at Palmyra. 10 am East at Hershey 10 am Fairfield at Milton Hershey.

3 45 Hempfield at Cedar Crest 7pm Schuylkill Haven at Pine Grove, 7 30 BOSTON (AP) Red Sox-killer Charles Nagy again turned a Game 3 into a lost cause for Boston and a big step toward the ALCS for Cleveland. Nagy, the winner in the clincher of a three-game division series sweep over the Red Sox in 1995, pitched eight strong innings as the Indians won 4-3 yesterday to take a 2-1 lead in the best-of-5 Manny Ramirez hit two home runs and Jim Thome and Kenny Lofton also connected. The Indians got only one other hit, but still spoiled the latest stage in Bret Saberhagens long comeback. Nomar Garciaparra hit a two-run homer in the ninth off Indians reliever Mike Jackson. But Jackson retired the next two batters for his second save.

Were still in Boston and we still have to win, Cleveland manager Mike Hargrove said. Thats a tough proposition. Bartolo Colon (14-9) can clinch the series on Saturday against Pete Schourek (1-3). Red Sox manager Jimy Williams admitted he was tempted to use his ace, Pedro Martinez, who won Game 1 Tuesday but would pitch on three days rest for the first time this year. Temptation? Yeah.

Come to my senses? No, Williams said. Thats my opinion. Ill live with it, regardless of what other people believe. Thats the right decision. Martinez said he asked pitching coach Joe Kerrigan to talk with Williams about starting today, but Williams denied the request.

I really believe Ill be pitching-on Sunday when a fifth game would be played, Martinez said. The teams split the first two games at Jacobs Field, but Nagy, a Connecticut native, may have had the home-field advantage in Fenway Park. Hes never been beaten there, winning five games, and is 8-1 in his career against -the Red Sox. It doesnt matter what ballpark youre in, you just have to trust your stuff and go with it, Nagy said. I was able to get some ground balls and, in a game like this, every run counts.

His 1997 postseason ended in disappointment as he allowed Scholastic Girls' Tennis Palmyra at Mid-Penn Championships College Women's Soccer Lebanon Valley at Susquehanna, 11 am. College Field Hockey Millersville at Slippery Rock. 2pm College Cross Country Millersville at LehighPaul Short Invitational, 10 am Lebanon Valley at Susquehanna Invitational, 10 45 a College Women's Volleyball Lebanon Valley at St Mary's (Md Tournament, 9am Minor League Football Jersey Breakers at Central Penn Piranha (City Island, 7pm) Elco Tournament Lower Menon vs Elco, 11am, State College vs Archbishop Wood, 1 1 a championship to follow Scholastic Field Hockey Hershey at Lebanon, 10 a Milton Hershey at Northern Lebanon, 10 am Bloomsburg at Annville-Cleona 11 am Scholastic Girls' Volleyball Cedar Crest at Manheim Township Tournament Scholastic Cross Country Annvil.e-Cleona and Steel City at Coatesville, 10 a SUNDAY Lebanon Valley Midget Football COM at Northern Lebanon, 1 30 Annville at Lebanon. 1 30 Palmyra at Myerstown, 1 30 m. Ebenezer at East Hanover, 1 30 Friendship at Hummelstown, 2pm Fairview hosts golf marathon Tuesday The local portion of the annual Easter Seals Golf Marathon will be held at Fairview Golf Course in Quentin on Tuesday.

This years event is held in memory of Ron Krall, an Easter Seals sponsor and avid golfer who died last year. Participants will play from dusk to dawn in an attempt to complete 100 holes in a day. In order to participate, players are asked to raise a minimum of $1,000 through contributions from friends, family members and business associates. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are provided during the day. Prizes will also be available.

The golf marathon will also be held at Heritage Hills in York on Oct. 8, and the Golf Club at Felicita of Harrisburg (formerly Blue Mountain) on Oct. 13. For more information, contact the Lebanon Easter Seals office, 273-7351. followed an 11-3 win.

Finally, the Cy Young award winner at age 21 who rebuilt his career as he rebuilt his shoulder following surgery in May 1996, was in the game he had worked so hard to reach. The former World Series MVP was happy with his 15-8 record, his most wins since 1989, but said contributing in the playoffs was his goal. He gave up his first hit and run when Thome, who missed Thursdays off-day workout with flu-like symp- -toms, led off the fifth with his eighth homer in 33 postseason games to tie it at 1. on strikeouts and one on a fly ball. He finally allowed a single leading off the fourth to Lewis, who scored Bostons first run.

Even that came in on a ground ball, as third baseman Travis Fryman forced Vaughn at second but Garciaparra beat Joey Coras relay to avoid the double play. Nagy ended that inning by striking out Mike Stanley. In all, he struck out three, walked none and retired 15 batters on grounders. The Red Sox had turned to Saberhagen, who was 11-3 after losses this season, to bring them back after Wednesdays 9-5 setback in Cleveland that the winning hit in Floridas Game 7 victory in the World Series. And he was mediocre in the first half of this season.

He was 5-1 in his last seven starts after going 8-6 as he struggled to keep his pitches from rising. He had no such troubles Friday, getting the Red Sox to pound the ball into the ground all day. He faced just four hitters over the minimum and gave up four hits singles by Darren Lewis and Mo Vaughn in the fourth, John Valentin in the sixth and Trot Nixon in the eighth. He retired the first nine batters six on grounders, two Palmyra rolls in field hockey tuneup Yankees rally around Strawberry Tiffany Kiscadden netted a couple of goals for Palmyra, while Tara Hartman and Louise Strano added single tallies. Susan Sattazahn set up two Cougar goals, and teammates Jen Stuller and Strano were also credited with assists.

The Cougars out shot Mecha-nicsburg 22-3 and posted an 8-1 advantage in penalty corners. Palmyra goalie Kristy Hershey made three saves to record the shutout. Bring on the Falcons. The Palmyra field hockey team tuned up for its showdown with Lower Dauphin yesterday by repairing Mechanics-burg 4-0. The Cougars will host the Falcons on Wednesday with first place in the Commonwealth Division of the Mid-Penn Conference on the line.

The win was the Cougars eighth straight. Palmyra is now 7-1 in the division and 12-2 overall. Geib fourth in cross country meet Messiah defeated host Elizabethtown 16-47, but lost to Dickinson 25-34 in womens collegiate cross country yesterday. Messiahs Melody Geib, a graduate of Cedar Crest, finished fourth in the race, with a time of 20:21. a lot.

Strawberry didnt hesitate when asked if he would watch last nights game. Oh yeah, he said, a smile crossing his face. No question about it. Sitting with his wife Charisse, the 36-year-old outfielder was upbeat throughout the interview, reflecting on his family and his faith as keys in his fight against cancer. Strawberry also mentioned his troubled past, in which he overcame drug and alcohol addictions, as something that would prepare him for what was ahead.

Its another hill to climb, he said. Charisse Strawberry was told by doctors about her husbands condition while he was still under anesthesia following a colonoscopy Thursday. They told me there was a tumor and they believed it was 99 percent malignant, she said. Its scary. Then she had to give her husband the news.

We had to go in and tell Darryl, Charisse said. I went into the bathroom first and got myself together. I didnt want to be in there because I was teary-eyed and I didnt want to go in there and tell him, but he was more concerned about how I was feeling, which was nice. Strawberry said the experience of his boyhood friend, Baltimore Orioles outfielder Eric Davis, helped make him aware that he might have cancer. Davis was diagnosed with colon cancer last year and had part of his colon removed.

NEW YORK (AP) Darryl Strawberry wiped away a tear as he recalled the get-well video sent to him by his New York Yankees teammates. They mean so much to me. I want them to know my heart is with them, Strawberry said yesterday, the eve of his surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from his colon. Regardless of what I may be going through, I know their prayers and their heart are with me, but at the same time, my heart is with them while theyre down in Texas trying to win, he told ESPN in an interview from his home in Fort Lee, N.J. In Arlington, Texas, the Yankees watched a taped message from Strawberiy before warming up for Game 3 of their division series against the Rangers.

We just watched a video that Darryl had for us telling us to get going, beat them. He pointed at us and said, Do it! Guys got a chuckle out of that, manager Joe Torre said. He thanked the ballclub, the players said he loves the organization, talked about the fans and said at the end, Go get em. He said he was fine." The Yankees had Strawberrys No. 39 embroidered onto their hats.

Rangers manager Johnny Oates said several of his players wore the number in some manner. That doesnt say they want the Yankees to win, Oates said. Its just the care for another human being. Oates said he, too, has Strawberry on his mind. Bobby Gerhart 1 1th in ARCA race Ill give the shirt off my back to any guy on that team.

Thats how much they mean to me. When youve been with a group like that and youve been successful, it means a lot. Darryl Strawberry I took time this afternoon to pray for Darryl that he gets well soon, that the surgery is a success and that he gets back on the ballfield soon, Oates said. Baseball is very, very, very important to all of us. But the bottom line is sometimes we have to step aside and think about human beings.

The video Strawberry watched was made Thursday in Arlington by his teammates. Tim Raines stood before his somber teammates and said the team was praying for Strawberry. I mean, you know, I dont want to get emotional here, Strawberiy said during the ESPN interview, his voice choking with emotion and brushing a tear from his right eye as he thought of the video. Ill give the shirt off my back to any guy on that team. Thats how much they mean to me.

When youve been with a group like that and youve been successful, it means ished third, Mark Gibson was fourth and Gus Wasson fifth. On Wednesday, Lebanon stock car racer Bobby Gerhart finished 11th at the ARCA-sanctioned EasyCare Certified 100, contested at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C. Gerhart started 20th and was one of 15 cars to finish on the lead lap. The race and the $21,250 first-place prize went to Adam Petty. Petty beat Mike Wallace by a half-car length to the finish line, while Bobby Hamilton fin CORRECTION In Fridays Lebanon Daily News, a Lebanon Valley College field hockey player was incorrectly identified in a photo caption.

The pictured LVC player was Lora Zimmerman, not Trisha Fatula. TODAY IN SPORTS Goal with 21 seconds left sinks Flyers The Penguins need a center to replace FYancis, who worked between Jaromir Jagr and Stu Barnes last season. Those three players combined for nearly 40 percent of Pittsburghs goals. Francis signed with Carolina as a free agent during the summer. Oct.

3 1942 A victory in the Jockey Club Gold Cup made Whirla-way the first horse to reach more than $500,000 in lifetime earnings. I 1971 Billie Jean King wins the Virginia Slims-Thunderbird tournament in Phoenix to become the first women tennis player to win $100,000 in one year. 1973 The World Football League is formed. 1974 Frank Robinson signs a player-manager contract with the Cleveland Indians, becoming the first black manager in major league history. 1981 Southern Cals Marcus Allen rushes for 223 yards against Oregon State, his fourth straight 200-plus rushing game.

1990 Cecil Fielder homers for the 50th and 51st times as the Detroit Tigers beat the New York Yankees 10-3. Fielder is the first American Leaguer since 1961 to hit 50 home runs. 1993 The Toronto Blue Jays become the first American League team to have players finish 1-2-3 in the batting race. John Olerud leads the league with a .363 batting average, Paul Molitor finishes at .332 and Roberto Alomar at .326. Brind Amour skated behind the Devils net and slipped a pass to Desjardins, whose shot from the right circle beat goalie Martin Brodeur.

The Devils were given a penalty shot at 16:49 of the third period after Flyers defense-man Chris Joseph pulled Devils forward Brendan Morrison down from behind on a breakaway. But Hextall made a glove save on Morrisons penalty shot. The Devils tied the game with 6:53 left when Kevin Dean knocked in a rebound of a hard shot by Patrik Elias. Penguins 3, Avalanche 3, OT PITTSBURGH The Pittsburgh Penguins are trying to fill one of their biggest vacancies with one of their smallest players. Martin Straka is trying to claim Ron Francis old spot as center on the Penguins big line, and he made his case Friday night with two points in the 3-3 tie with the Colorado Avalanche.

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) Patrik Elias scored on a deflected shot with 21.6 seconds left last night to give the New Jersey Devils a 2-1 preseason victory over the Philadelphia Flyers. Biyan Muir intercepted a clearing pass at the blue line and flipped a shot toward goal that deflected off Elias stick and beat goalie Ron Hextall. The Flyers took a 1-0 lead on Eric Desjardins third preseason goal with 14:02 remaining in the first period. Rod Jagr scored his first two goals of the preseason in the third period Friday after going scoreless in his previous three games..