The Salt Lake Tribune from Salt Lake City, Utah • 41

flje gait Jake tribune Section Thursday August 18 1988 Page 1 For Recorded Scores Call 1-800-662-4354 Local 237-2025 Sports Information Call 237-2001 Reynolds Breaks World Record in 400 zzSports Capsulezz American League Minnesota 2 Detroit 1 Lewis Wins 100 Defeats Johnson By Tony Czuczka Associated Press Writer ZURICH Switzerland Butch Reynolds smashed the 20-year-old world record in the 40U meters Wednesday a mark which shared honors as the longest standing in track and field with a clocking of 43 29 seconds The feat overshadowed Carl Lewis' victory mi 9 93 er archriv al Ben Johnson in the fastest 100-meter dash this year Reynolds shaved more than half a second off the 43 86 set by Lee Evans on Ot 18 1968 at the Olympic Games On that same date on that same field in Mexico City Bob Beamon set a record in the long jump that now becomes the oldest in the sport Only a performance such as Reynolds' could have eclipsed the duel between Lewis and Johnson the world two fastest men Lewis facing Johnson for the first time since last summers World Championships powered ahead of thp world record holder la'e in the race It was Lewis' first win in six duels ith Johnson and he dedicated it to his late father The md as legal at 1 1 meters per second Reynolds who turned 24 last week and competed for Ohio State knew he had made history at the Weltklasse meet a stop on the Grand Pnx track circuit and a major warmup for next month Seoul Olympics This is it No wind-aided no he said as 25 000 spectators cheered his triumph It done and it history now I had determination and guts in the final sprint Reynolds also had thoughts about Evans who has spent the last several years coaching in Africa most recently as a Fulbright professor of sports in Cameroon I want to meet Reynolds said want to share this with him Innocent Egbunike of Nigeria silver medalist in the ev ent at last year orld track championships pulled Reynolds along with a blistering pace over the first half of the race I wanted to win and when I saw Innocent go out there 1 knew it would be a world record pace Reynolds said "1 figured I had the record 10 meters before the tape Reynolds exploded on the fast Letzigrund track hav ing shown he as hot by winning the 400 at last month Olympic Trials in 43 93 the year's fastest until Wednesday night Fellow Americans Danny Everett and teenager Steve Lewas were runners-up as at the Trials But at Zurich they were way behind at teuMv photo American Butch Reynolds streaks to the finish line during a track meet in Zurich Reynolds clocked a with a world record in the 400 meters Wednesday 4329 shattering the old world mark of 4386 44 20 and 44 26 Egbunike finished sixth in 44 97 Tension was evident in the Johnson-Lewis race when Johnson false-started on the first try The second start worked and the chunky Canadian flew off the blocks as usual But Lewis running next to Johnson never let up moved ahead 10 meters from the finish and had his arms raised in victory two meters from the tape The crowd was on its feet cheering Fellow American Calvin Smith finished second in 9 97 edging Johnson into third place by three hundredths of a second sister Carol also a top athlete grabbed Carl immediately after the finish and picked him up Then he triumphantly posed for the crowd hands on his hips before taking a victory lap "He built a lead but it was a small lead not decisive Lewis said after beating Johnson for the fust time since 1985 So 1 was veiy confident at 50 meters 1 ran my own race tonight 1 looking forward to better times While everyone was telling him to improve his start to match Johnson Lewis said I wanted to be consistent throughout the race "What can you say when your training is going right and you know you re readv in an Olympic year sister Caiol added Lewis 27 thus avenged his loss to Johnson at the 1987 World Championships wheie the Canadian ran a world recoid 9 83 Lewis improved his overall lead over Johnson to 9-6 in direct confrontations In other highlights Johnny Gray of the United States bettered his year best tune in the 800 meters bv 0 45 seconds with a run of 1 42 65 Dutch racer Elly van Hulst ran the years Cleveland 11 Milwaukee 7 Oakland 10 Baltimore 4 New Yolk 11 California? Boston 7 Stuttle 2 Chicago 5 1 oi onto 1 Kansas City 9 1 exas 6 National League Chuago5 I mcmnati 0 1'ntsbuigh 2 Mlanta 1 Houston 1 St Louis 0 San Diego 4 Montreal 2 Los Angeles 7 Philadelphia 2 Sail Franc isc 4 New YoikO Pioneer League Salt Lake 16 Billings 4 TV Sports I ESPN i 2 in Golf 1 he lute i national i ttGN 1 5 30 in Baseball Cubs vs Reds Rosco to Coach at ISU POCVI LLO Former Brigham Young Umveisity and Green Bay Backers quarterback Robbie Bosco has been name quaiteibaek coach at Idaho State I niv ei sit head coach Garth Hall announced ednesdav Bosco who was cut Horn the Backers loster this week altei struggling with lecuiimg shoulder injuries will assume his coaching duties at ISU immediately Robbie Bosco is moie than just an outstanding quaiteibaek whos had expel lenre in an outstanding college pio-giam and woiked in the pi os Hall said He a young man that mentally leally knows ihe game and I think he 11 bung an expertise in terms of coaching quaitei backs and a dimension to our offense that haid to duplicate Hall beginning his first season at Idaho Mate is a foimer BYU assistant under head coach La Veil Edw aids Taylorsville Wins Special to The Tribune ALBUyUhkylE Taylorsville cap-tuied a 4 3 extra innings victory over Arizona Wednesday in the fust round of the Western Kcgionals American Legion baseball tournament Because of rain the tournament opener was postponed until Wednesday and cut from nine to seven innings Taylorsville which is representing Utah in this tournament was tied 3-3 with Arizona after seven innings The Wairiois rallied for the winning run in the ninth to advance to the second round Shane Johansen started for Taylorsville He was relieved in the seventh by Tioy Peterson who went on to pick up the victoiy 'swf -v iW A fr J- runs His replacements Tomas Rodriguez and Bnan Nichols didn do much better That had Bovce speculating that Billings didn throw it best pitchers at the Ti appers Moss didn ant any of that They made some ifieldingl mistakes tonight and thev usually don I said the Salt Lake rnanagei They had to go to their long ichevers early Once you have a big lead going against you vou don want to use up your best relief pitchers so we may not have seen their best relievers fastest womens 3 000 meteis outdistancing Ametican Man Decker Slaney by moie than half a second Shot putter Randv Barnes iec oided the second best heave of the vear with 76 teet 6G inches about tlnee inches short of the US recoid by John Bienner Among other Americans Rogei Kingdom won the 110 meter hurdles in 13 11 seconds less than a week aftei narrowly missing the world recoid with a 12 93 timing Kevin Young and Damn llairis shared the in in the 400-meter liui dies in the absence of world recoid holder Edw in Moses both docking 47 74 Joe De Loach took the men 200 in 20 03 with two-time world champion Calvin Smith second in 20 08 Said Aouita of Morocco set an earlv world i ecoi pace in the men rmle but faded to win 3 50 82 if to- Traps Explode Past Billings 2T 'Mr- 1ninllir-it y'b "4- kvfti' Irv "is- jk -J 'V Inbune btaf Photo by Pajl Ftougnton left But teammate John Kdward backed him up on the play and thtew Danny Ferozto out at second base in the lineup Thursday Boyce said batting in the third spot him a lift adding that it was probably his best hitting night of the "1 knew we were slumping I felt I had to try and get something going was nice to see the ball fall in for said the Trapper left fielder referring to Salt Lake's hitting against Great Falls Ehmig has been on a mini-tear since was benched for three games Great Falls Ehmig has gone 5-for-12 since returning to the lineup Monday night with two home runs doubles and five RBIs His three-run shot Wednesday tied Verdugo day-old Trapper record for most dingers a season "Were not said Salt Manager Barry Moss about his current relationship with Ehmig He laughing when he said it but added He responding I'm not going to his buddy When I was his buddy was in a slump "Twenty-one Moss said 1 it The biggest hit was Ehmig homer That made it a different early While the Trapper batsmen were pounding 21 hits pitcher Willie Am-bos w'as coasting along with a no-hit-ter until Mustang Duane Mulville started the fifth inning with a bloop This bloop hit in the fourth inning Wednesday night is beyond the reach of Trapper second baseman Kelly Zane single to shallow center field Ambos who retired 10 of the 21 hitters he faced with groundouts worked out of trouble with a couple of ground balls and fly ball to left While things were looking smooth for Ambos on the mound Trapper trainer Jeff Macfarlane was working hard between innings to keep the right-hander shoulder loose But a muscle spasm grew worse each inning and Ambos gave up a leadoff single just the second Billings hit of the evening in the sixth inning and walked the next batter dropped a double heailet 5 3 and 5 1 to the lowly Medicine Hat Blue Jav Wednesdav night at Medume Hat After Salt Lake and Billings finish this series Thursdav night at Dcrks Field the rappers move to Butte for a two-game series It the last turn the teams will meet this season and both teams have just nine games left the regular season after the Fridav Saturday showdown Billings starter Bnan Landv 4 5 lasted only 21 i innings ednesdav He allowed nine hits and eight earned He left the game ith his throw ing arm hanging limply at his side Trapper reliever Bobby Edwards allowed both runners home plus one of his own If Ambos was disappointed about the runs hp didn let on after the game 'Individual stuff doesn matter much when you re in a pennant rat said Ambos who moved his reioid to 8-2 with the win A a The moved the tappers 33 23 back into a tie ith Butte fm fust place in the Pioneer League Southern Division The Coppei Kings By Bob Donohoe Tribune Sports Writer Greg Ehmig's home run keyed a first-inning explosion and touched off a Wednesday night of offensive fireworks for the Salt Lake Trappers who blasted the Billings Mustangs 16-4 Ehmigs high fly cleared the left-field fence for his 13th homer of the year giving Salt Lake a 5-0 lead before many of the 9265 boisterous Trapper boosters even found their seats Most of the fans were employees of Hercules Inc the West Valley rocket builder and the Salt Lake blast off was just what they came to see It was only the start for the Trappers who added five runs in the third inning three more in the fifth another two in the sixth and a lone run in the eighth inning Everybody got a hit for Salt Lake Tommy Boyce led the way for the Trappers with two doubles a total of four hits and four RBls Marty Peralta banged four hits Kelly Zane and Mando Verdugo had three each and Chris Sloniger and Ehmig ended up with two hits apiece Boyce moved up to the third spot in lineup Wednesday replacing Kerry Shaw who was hit by a pitch in his left leg Tuesday He was on crutches Wednesday but promised he be NauahVs Phil Nauahi Makes Switch to Center back gave season and "It a slump he against two Lake was be he like game Quickness Put Him in Center of BYU Offense me and I reallv didn care about plav nu ol lege ball But I came out of mv mission weigh mg 260 pounds My brother Kent is a foot hall nut and he knew the roaches at fulleiton He told them that I be mining the team I still was undecided abou playing I returned home at 10 a was released fiom my mission at 11 and put on football pads at noon the same dav They put me at guaid and I didn know the first thing about plav ing that position Less than two years latei Nauahi had learned his lessons so well that he became an honuiable mention All American and caught the eve of BY I iec inters I went down there to watch some fdin of him and I liked hat I saw said assistant line coach Mel Olson His quickness was the fust thing that i aught my attention Nauahi will snap for a line that aluies one ol tin lop tar kb the eslei Ythletu on-feiciu lb lan White The bite Nauahi 1 1 it ml snip goes bai a long wavs and i i ies unusual 1" 1st In 1982 tin 170 pound not mteiested football Nauahi was a student at Biigham Young He struck up a dormitoiv friendship By Ray Herbat Tribune Sports Writer PROVO Phil Nauahi mov ed a step to his right and became the center of attraction on the Brigham University football team A starter at left guard after the fifth game of the 1987 season Nauahi a 6-foot-3 250-pound senior from La Habra Calif answered an SOS call from offensive coordinator'hne coach Roger French last spring to fill the vacant spot left by Brian Kodoni graduation Rodoni backup Chris Bisho left school leaving the center position rather bare Why Nauahi over other possible candidates'' "We liked his quickness explained French In our system the center must have good quickness and Phils was the best He also knew all the line calls since he plaved guard last year French said that quietness more than anv other ingredient is significant for a BYU center Most teams double-team with the center and guard said French Our center gets no help And he must do a lot of lateral movement He must fill bolli the right and left gps himself and he also must be able to pick up pass rushers from the outside The center on our team must be one of the line top three best athletes Nauahi fills that role and he play ith tremendous intensity Nauahi remained on campus all summer studying films of former BYU great Bart Oates who has had a distinguished pro caieer in both the USFL and NFL I wanted to watch Oates in paticular said Nauahi because of his quickness Cougar quarterback Sean Covev has worked with Nauahi only a short time but he said one of the things he likes about his new snapper is that he never gets rattled He really cool said Covev I tiv to keep a level head while I in playing Nauahi added Nauahi is a quick learner This switch marks the second time in his playing careei that he had to adjust and learn a new pusi tion The firsl tune was when he went out tm the Fullerton Junior College Ram altei sen ing a church mission 1 was a 170 pound tight end and Imeback er in high school he said N'ohodv recruited I with White a native 1 londiati who was playing for thi ougar pmioi amity team at the time Nauahi soon departed for Florida for his i hutch mission 1 remember the da well he began I wus this home and all I knew was that the people were named White hev asked me if I wanted sone thing to drirk and I said sure As I walked down ihe hall 1 saw all these pictures of Bnan White on tin wall I cuuldn believe that it was the same Bnan hite back at BY Nauahi who made the Piesidt ut Academic List at Fuili 'ton had five pioductive starts last year until he biokt a leg in the Utah game He missed plav mg against Colorado 'state in the Meibom ne Ausiialia game but did return for the All Ann man Bowl game against iigmia on Dec 22 I was filled with a special brace and extra piotei lion so 1 could plav that night but I was bulling piettv good he temembered Nauahi said he doesn nnnd the switch to (inter except its a lot difteient than I thought Mv lnggt st adjustment is living to make the snap and punch block all in the same motion But he It ui nmg tealh fast 7.