Kingsport Times-News from Kingsport, Tennessee • 11

Inside: Scoreboard i 2 NFL Draft 2 Major League Baseball 4 Classified 612 Kingsport Times-News Saturday July 8 1989 ormer UT standout fatally shot IT 1 Digest From staff and wire reports injury cut short his career late in the 1985 season Williams lettered in football at the university in 1984 and 1985 as an offensive tackle He is the first Knoxville po- 1 liceman to be shot and killed since 1953 Arnett said University of Tennessee athletic director Doug Dickey offered his condolences Friday are deeply saddened at the untimely death of Knoxville police officer Tony said Dick- ey remember well his time as a member of the Vol football squad and pay tribute to his service to this community as a law enforcement police department spokesman Foster Arnett Jr said Williams a Knoxville policeman was off duty at the time of the slaying which Arnett said occurred about 12:40 am EST He said police yet know whether death was related to police business He had been a full-time policeman since last year and had worked with the department since 1986 Williams was riding a motorcycle that was headed the wrong way on the Interstate 40 entrance ramp Arnett said but he said police do not know why Williams was going the wrong direction Williams was last seen when he stopped by a business on Cherry Street owned by former UT teammate Ddvid Ledford He asked if Ledford was there and when told he had left rode off on his motorcycle Williams was a standout in high school for Sullivan Central where he was a two-way starter at tackle under former coach Tom Pugh Williams one of the top linemen ever to come out of Northeast Tennessee was the subject of an intense recruiting battle between Tennessee and Alabama He was recruited for Alabama by Ken Donahue who became defensive coordinator in 1985 Williams signed with Tennessee in 1982 and redshirted his first year He lettered in 1984 and 1985 A back KNOXVILLE Knoxville homicide detectives are investigating the death of former Sullivan Central and Universtiy of Tennessee football player Mark Anthony Williams who was shot and killed early Friday morning on an interstate entrance ramp The 24-year-old Williams a Kingsport native was shot several times in the back Williams LIGHTNING STRIKES COACH'S HOME NASHVILLE Tenn Vanderbilt University football coach Watson Brown says he and his family could have been killed when lightning struck their home No one was home Wednesday when lightning destroyed the chimney tore a hole in the roof and sent brick in all directions could be dead We all could be Brown said if we had been in the house when it Brown was nearby filling a gas tank to mow his lawn His wife and children Gini 11 and Steven 4 also were away walked outside and see our he said describing the scene after he returned home After this nothing bad can happen to us going to have a great THREE AREA PLAYERS IN 16-UNDER Three area high school players will be members of the Tennessee Travlers team from Newport that will be playing in the 16-under AAU National Basketball Championship in Frankfort Ky beginning this weekend Jeff Miller a 6-1 player from Sullivan South Jeff Lyons a 62 player from Sullivan South and Trevor Head a 6-6 player from Dobyns-Ben-nett were picked up by the Travelers to play in the tournament The first game will be at 10:30 Sunday morning against Jersey Shores McEnroe eliminated in semifinals By DIANE PUCIN Knight-Ridder Service MEADE CARDS HOLE-IN-ONE Ron Meade of Kingsport shot a hole-in-one Friday on hole eight at the Meadowview Golf Club Meade who was using a 6-iron drove the ball 168 yards for the ace Maline Meade and Jim and Laura White who were joining Meade in a couples tourney witnessed the shot A tumbling John McEnroe saw his title bid at Wimbledon fall by the wayside Friday McEnroe was beaten by defending champion Stefan Edberg in the semifinals PISTOL SHOOT SCHEDULED A series of pistol shoots will be held at 11 am Sunday at the Wilderness Road Gun Club The matches will feature a bowling ten for nine millimeter and 45 autmatic pistols a team bowling ten team match for both pistols an El Presidente match for revolvers 22 automatics and big bore automatics and a Rattle Battle for big bore automatics CICCI DRIVER TO BE REPLACED Randy LaJoie will replace Jimmy Spencer as driver of the Cicci Racing Buick in the Busch Grand National Series team owner Frank Cicci has announced LaJoie of Norwalk Conn a former champion of the old NASCAR North Series "will drive his first race for the Cicci team in the Pepsi 200 at the Hickory Speedway on Saturday July 22 Spencer who is leaving the team after being selected to drive the remainder of the season for BakerS-chiff Racing in the Winston Cup Series will complete duties with Cicci at South Boston Speedway on Saturday July 15 WIMBLEDON England John McEnroe was in continuous motion He walked in more circles than a cat chasing its tail He tugged at his shirt his tennis shorts his ears his unruly hair He asked for one two three different balls every time he served Until the ball came into play Stefan Edberg just stood staring stoically from behind his hooded blue eyes Then he returned serves deep into the corners And his volleys kissed lines And he won all the crucial points And he beat McEnroe 7-5 7-6 (7-2) 7-6 (7-5) in Wimbledon semifinal Edberg the No 2 seed and defending champion will not know who his opponent in the final will be until Saturday afternoon Because rain delayed the Edberg-McEnroe match for 3 hours 23 minutes top-seed Ivan Lendl and No 3 Boris Becker never got to Centre Court Instead they will play at noon Saturday (7 am EDT) before Steffi Graf and Martina Navratilova meet in the final The final still is scheduled for Sunday though a postponement is possible More rain is forecast for Saturday match was closer than the final score indicates and yet on the other hand not as close There were only three service breaks all in the fist set and only nine break points in the match Neither player ever had more than a two-game lead McEnroe once led by 4-2 in the first set was not much difference between Edberg said on the big There the difference was huge McEnroe for all his twitching and turning for all his furrowing of brow and tortured glares at his offending -racket could never win the one point that might Have given him some momentum Navratilova out for revenge Former champ meets Graf in Wimbledon women's final By DIANE PUCIN Knight-Ridder Service here Graf dominated tennis last year by winning what was dubbed the Golden Slam titles at the Australian French and US Opens and Wimbledon plus a gold medal at the Seoul Olympics Navratilova seethed She felt her own singular accomplishment winning six straight Grand Slam titles (though not in a calendar year) was being only once has she stepped onto Centre Court at the All England Club and not won a Wimbledon final Last year Graf put on as brilliant a display of tennis for two sets as has been seen in the finals and beat Navratilova 5-7 6-2 6-1 The loss has been eating at Navratilova ever since Saturday the 32-year-old Navratilova the No 2 seed will meet the top-seeded Graf 20 again in the Wimbledon final Revenge is the operative word WIMBLEDON England Eight Wimbledon singles titles should be enough for anyone Martina Navratilova has beaten Chris Evert five times in the final Andrea Jaeger once Hana Mandlikova once Steffi Graf once Only Helen Wills JMoodynow83jmd retired in Carmel Calif has Navratilova has needed tie-breaks and won love sets but CARRIER PREPARES FOR BATTLE Less than a week after his marriage to Sherry Jones hard-hitting heavyweight Mark Carrier was back in the gym preparing for a July 14th bout against Tony Dewar Carrier 17-1-1 will meet Dewar 18-3 from Birmingham Ala-bama as part of aseven-bout card at Fort Knox Kentucky The bout is scheduled for eight rounds Please see FINAL page 3B Please see McENROE page 3B TKeet tfie AAU national tourney spotlights future stars Scheffler pleased with move LIBERTY BOWL STAYS ON WEEK NIGHT MEMPHIS Tenn The Liberty Bowl will be staged on a week night again this year despite talk that a weekend game would boost attendance an organizer says AF Dudley executive director of the Liberty Bowl Classic also said the company that televises the game Raycom Inc of Charlotte NC is looking for a sponsor for the bowl This Liberty Bowl is set for Thursday Dec 28 at 7 pm Last game between Indiana University of the University of South Carolina was held on a Wednesday night and drew an announced crowd of 32210 the lowest attendance for the bowl since 1967 By RAY GLIER Times-News Sports Writer By JODY CALLAHAN Times-News Sports Writer played mostly during the day at four sites D-B Sullivan Central Sullivan South and Sullivan Central The teams have been divided into 13 pools 11 pools with four teams and two pools with three teams each The teams in each pool will play each other once with the top two teams from each pool advancing to the championship bracket The names mean much to you now They are just ninth 10th and some rising 11th graders who had time to make a name for themselves But the players who gather here next week for the AAU National Basketball Championship 15-and-under division will be the college perhaps NBA stars of the future When Kingsport Mets pitcher Jim Scheffler was drafted by the New York Mets he was hoping to get the chance to play shortstop as well as pitch just as he had done while playing at Joliet (111) Junior College This was not to be the case for the young hurler however as the Mets drafted him in 41st round solely as a pitcher I wanted to play every day but the decision was made for said Scheffler LEMOND LEADS TOUR DE FRANCE FUTUROSCOPE France Greg LeMond retained the lead in the Tour de France Friday after an easy ride in which the most of the pack rode together on the longest stage Frenchman Joel Pelier took the sixth stage in 6 hours 57 minutes 45 seconds winning by 1:34 But the rest of the pack finished close enough for the overall standings to remain virtually unchanged not complaining about the stage Pelier is more than nine minutes behind LeMond said LeMond has a five-second margin over two-time winner Laurent Fignon of France after stage of the 23-day 2020-mile event who throws a fastball more than 80 mph a curveball a slider and a changeup just think about it I thought I could play infield but they thought pitching was my best shot I guess it matter as long as I get a chance to There will be a consolation bracket for the 24 teams not advancing to the championship round If last under-14 tournament is any indication the Potomac Valley AAU squad from the Washington DC area The 50-team tournament tips off Sunday night at 7:30 pm at Dobyns-Bennett High School The Kingsport AAU squad the host team will face Rochester New Hampshire in the first game which will start a whirlwind of play over six days Teams from 31 states will be involved in the tournament with games being Please see SCHEFFLER 3B Please see POTOMAC page 3Bj 3 GKA team race a toss-up Howe favored who took up membership at Buffalo Valley after moving to Jonesborough are gone this weekend but both are in reserve and could give the team a push on the final weekend Meadowview (7-2) Consistent play and home-course advantage on the final day makes the Meadowview boys the favorite if Davis and Poe come to rescue Lonesome Pine (9-2) Like Meadowview Lonesome Pine always challenges Tri-Cities (9-2) Unfamiliarity with the courses being played will hurt the Blountville crew Elizabethton (5-1) Elizabethton should take a first-round lead but but also will be playing all four rounds away and Silver Lake a first-division finisher last year lost GKGA points leader and five-time champion Mike Poe and former champion Jimmy Cooper from its membership That leaves Meadowview one of the most consistent teams in the tournament But even a negative against Meadowview For possibly the first time in the history of the tournament Lindsay Harp will not be playing Favorite favorite got the favorite? tempted to say but that would be a cop-out So for the sake of posterity here are the odds on the team competition and why: Buffalo Valley (7-2) Davis and Poe Favorite favorite got the favorite? there is a team favorite in the 16th Annual Greater Kingsport Amateur no one is claiming it as play begins in the 72-hole team tournament today at Eliza-bethton Golf Club Subsequent rounds will be played Sunday at Warriors Path in Kingsport July 23 at Cedar Hill Country Club in Jonesville and July 24 at Meadowview Golf Club in Kingsport Buffalo Valley won last title by a single stroke over Tri-Cities Country Club of Blountville but Buffalo Valley will be without last team leader Wendell Davis at least for this weekend and is also without a home-course advantage Buffalo Valley hosted a round of last tournament So did Tri-Cities Both will take their acts on the road for all four rounds this year And like Buffalo Valley team is somewhat depleted this year only got about half the players we had last said Tri-Cities No 1 man Mark Wingate this week Morrell is not playing this year Neither are Steve Burnette or Larry Reynolds And Glen Cowan make it in qualifying our top Lonesome Pine is perenially strong i Please see NEW page 3B.