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i i i vu Tho Masters on TV Today: First round 1 pm USA Network (9 pm taped) highlights 10:35 pm Channel 13 Tomorrow: Second round 1 pm USA Network (9 pm taped) highlights 10:35 pm Channel 13 Saturday: Third round 12:30 pm Channel 13 Sunday: Final round 1 pm Channel 13 Special Tucson Citizen commemorative issue on the Final Four Wildcats INSIDE Index Golf: 2E Major league baseball: 3E NBA roundup: 4E NHL roundup: 5E High schools: 5E For the Rscord: 5E sklj Tucson Toros baseball Today: Vs Phoenix (season opener) 7 pm Hi Corbett Field Tomorrow: Vs Phoenix 7:30 pm Hi Corbett Saturday: Vs Phoenix 730 pm Hi Corbett ports WflRi Scholar Prep scheduIe5 Vegas line5 Thursday April 7 1994 Tucson Citizen SPORTS EDITOR PETER MADRID 573-4635 Infielder has home-field advantage SUCSONJDROS3 Tucoon Toros probabla starting lineup RIGHT FIELD Juan Guerrero CENTER FIELD Brian Hunter nt A SECOND BASE Dave Hajek FIRST BASE Lance Madsen tvrm mm Kellner played for the Toros four years ago and appeared in 19 games at the end of the season He got his chance because the Toros needed someone to fill an infield spot and he was back in his hometown after ending the season at Class A Osceola (Fla) He earned the right to return to Tucson after hitting 301 last season for Double A Jackson (Miss) where he was the Texas League All-Star second baseman Kellner 27- will contend with Dave Hajek and Juan Guerrero for the second base job and on occasion will fill in as the utility infielder plays second base will be much more improved Toros manager Rick Sweet said University of Arizona basketball player Kevin Flanagan will throw out the first pitch tonight The first 2500 fans will receive reDrodnc-tions of the 1993 PCL championship ring The real rings and the PCL trophy will be presented to the players in a pregame ceremony playing at home He need a place to live because he still resides with his parents He need not worry about what to cook or where to eat out because that has been taken care of be nice to go home to a home-cooked Kellner said As a youngster Kellner used to see the lights at nearby Hi Corbett Field while playing Little League baseball at Reid Park come out here (Hi Corbett) a whole lot back Kellner said never once imagined I would be playing After leaving Pima Kellner went to Louisiana Tech University He put up good statistics there but he was overlooked in the amateur baseball draft He attended an tryout camp at Hi Corbett in 1990 and was signed by former scout Clark Crist SHORTSTOP Orlando Miller Catalina High and PCC graduate Frank Kellner is happy to play in his hometown By KEN BRAZZLE Citizen Sportswnter Tucson Toros general manager Mike Feder has no limit on the number of complimentary tickets issued to each player but he might reconsider now that infielder Frank Kellner will play before family and friends be someone here for every said Kellner a Catalina High School and Pima Community College graduate going to be great playing at Kellner is one of 23 Toros who will be introduced before Pacific Coast League baseball season opener against the Phoenix Firebirds at Hi Corbett Field Game time is 7 pm There are some advantages for Kellner who begins his fifth season in the Houston minor league system that come with PITCHER Donne Wall 4 -a THIRD BASE Phil Nevin I LEFT FIELD Ray Montgomery A SOFTBALLS Ex-Cavs player dies of AIDS CARTERET NJ Chad Kinch the Cleveland Cavaliers' No 1 draft pick in 1980 died Sunday He was 35 Cause of death was given as AIDS by the funeral director Kinch had been under hospice care for HIV the virus that causes AIDS but died at home said Henry James director of the James Funeral Home in Perth Amboy Kinch played college ball at North Carol ina-Charlotte The 6-foot-4 190-pound guard was in the starting lineup as a sophomore at the 1977 Final Four The Cavaliers selected Kinch in the first round of the NBA draft the 22nd pick overall and he played in 29 games before being traded to Dallas where he played sparingly the following season Kinch is survived by his wife Kay Cagle-Kinch and a son Chadwick Kinch Jr of Biscoe NC Moon talking with Minnesota Warren Moon moved closer yesterday to joining Minnesota when tne Houston Oilers gave the Vikings permission to talk with the veteran quarterback and his agents Moon a six-time Pro Bowl choice has two years left on his contract ($325 million $3 million) He may need to take a cut or have the deal restructured to fit in Minnesota's plans In other National Football League news Art Monk and Steve McMichael will be looking for new teams this season Monk the NFL's career receiving leader with 888 catches refused a $600000 contract offer from the Washington Redskins and can negoti- ate with any team The Chicago Bears waived defensive end McMichael who was voted to the Pro Bowl in 1986 and 1987 and holds the team record with 191 consecutive games played Braman agrees to sell Eagles PHILADELPHIA Norman Braman agreed to sell the Philadelphia Eagles to Los Angeles movie producer Jeffrey Lurie for a reported $185 million The agreement ended weeks of negotiations Braman a luxury-car dealer in Miami purchased the Eagles in 1985 for $65 million The agreement needs final approval from NFL owners Braman will retain control of the team until the closing of the sale expected within four weeks Token helps Espinoza set homer record By STEVE FOX Citizen Sportswnter Laura Espinoza wipes her hand on her right hip pocket before each pitch not because the hands of the University of Arizona shortstop are sweaty though The pocket contains her lucky token and is a constant reminder of the batting tips her father gave her earlier in the season In her third at-bat last night against Arizona State Espinoza gave her lucky coin a good stroking before hitting a towering grand-slam home run The homer -her 20th of the year set a single-season record for home runs in the NCAA never go into a game without it (the Eg- XAVIER GALLEGOSTucson Citizen IN THE WAY -Augustine Mendoza (left) and Ray Lopez Damon Stoudamire in last Lame for a Game apply defensive pressure on University of Arizona guard wheelchair basketball game Story 2E dogs nose guard CUASPRING FOOTBALQI By BRYAN LEE Citizen Sportswnter for one person to make by them- Espinoza she said Espinoza has had the token since mid-February when she was in a slump Her father took her to batting cages iq Tempe and got $4 worth of tokens so she could practice her swing She used every one except the last a way of having her words with her in every at-bat used every token except this she said displaying the copper coin I said token means something to me It worked in the cage and I just want it to work out It worked big-time last night Espinoza followed her record-breaker with her second homer of the evening a three-run homer that ended the second game as the first one did with the mercy rule For the evening Espinoza had nine runs batted in giving her 69 for the season one away from the NCAA single season record of 70 FRIDAY American candidate lias already shown he can do the As a sophomore last year Osborne was the UA defensive fourth man filling as a flip-flop tackle at nose and defensive tackle He spotted Waldrop for series or plays in every game Then when Waldrop injured a knee during the second period in 34-20 victory in the' regular-season finale qt Arizona State he basically was OSBORNE continued2E the implication the message is the same: A lot is expected of the 6-foot-2 255-pound junior-to-be Osborne has his backers in pooh-poohing the notion that the question is significant in the first place understand what the whole thing is said UA rush end Tedy Bruschi a likely 1994 preseason All- Chuck Osborne is tired of the question the innocent inquiry sounding thoughtless just the same that suggests he may be hard pressed to replace two-time All-American nose guard Rob Waldrop for the University of Arizona football team next season The question can be translated into: Can you do it? Will you do it? How will you do it if you can do it? No matter what Walls still left at important stop In SportsWeekend: A visit to Dragoon and the old Butterfield Overland Mail Company stage stop I do declare Charlotte hosted the Final Four with grace lasers painting brilliant images on a gigantic several stories high secured to the side of a building Fans from back home from Fayetteville and Gainesville from up the road in Durham and from Tucson walking the streets of Charlotte soaking up this magic moment the Final Four the greatest sports spectacular in the world And finally wondering whether any place ever again will grace the NCAA basketball championship finals with such charm and hospitality Cttan Sport Columntat Corfcy Simpson may be reached at 573-4635 (tax 573-4569) ciency of the security people who checked our briefcases and pockets as we entered the Coliseum because the president was on the premises and wondering how certain Eastern media types could complain about being treated rudely and unfairly by these people Hickory smoke wafting through the closed-off streets of downtown Charlotte as master barbecue chefs prepared their wonderworks The soft delightful jazz pouring from the flute of one Christopher Riley accompanied by keyboard player Wiley Walton in a miniconcert on a sidewalk beside a bank building The sights and sounds and smells of nighttime fireworks and An unsuspecting vendor mouth agape in amazement as he watched former Arizona star Joe Nehls (now a radio analyst for KNST in Tucson) shooting lights out at a downtown street fair tree-throw shooting booth Keeping tabs on President Clinton sitting in the grandstands during the Arizona-Arkansas game only to discover I had been watching somebody else The president was up high in a glass-enclosed sky box Watching bomb-sniffing Secret Service dogs being led on 9 leash out of the Coliseum to a wooded area and doing what ordinary dogs do to trees Noting the courtesy and effi Hie farmer who had to drive a taxi Clinton is shutting down the terbaccer He hoped to see the president (and actually thought he might) to explain his plight during Mr visits here St Episcopal Church its young rector and a friendly congregation whose hospitality brightened an already dazzling Easter morning An opportunity to read the Charlotte Observer a publication that does the newspaper business proud The size and grandeur of Charlotte Motor Speedway the awesome machines assembled on the speedway infield and the thought of what all this must have cost CHARLOTTE NC Some final souvenirs from this Dixieland oasis of culture charm and hospitality a place that enriched the Final Four experience The azaleas dogwood and magnolias the sweet smell of springtime and hope The wide streets and cleanliness of this sprawling Southern community Jogging with Dick Patrick of USA Today through the downtown area and looking at amazement at structures unblemished by graffiti -even tunneled walkways beneath overpasses Charlotte Coliseum home of the Hornets as splendid an arena as you will ever find Too bad at 22000-plus seating is now deemed too small to ever host another Final Four The event will be restricted henceforth to the megadomes The friendliness and warmth of the people of Charlotte even those who gouged us on taxi fares food trinkets to take back home drinks and other essentials and.