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seW6eai6e6ieyMW 4B The Miami Herald International Edition Wednesday Feb 22 1989 Seton Hall stuns Miami after losing to FHJ Mike three-run homer in the second inning lifted Seton Hall to a 5-1 victory over the University of Miami Monday night in college baseball before 2276 at Mark Light Stadium Earlier Monday Seton Hall lost to Florida International University 9-2 Seton Hall (3-3) won as starter Kevin Morton worked nine complete innings striking out 12 and holding the Hurricanes to four hits Steve Tucker took the loss after being knocked out after one inning Tucker surrendered the home run by Groppuso that drove in Jamie Shriner and Mike Feoli Miami scored its only run in the bottom of the fourth when third baseman Kirk Dulom led off with a single and Scott Sharts followed with a ground-rule double that sent Dulom to third Dulom scored on a passed ball Shriner the Seton Hall designated hitter went three for four with a double On Wednesday Miami faces Florida International at 7 pm at University Park FIU 9 Seton Hall 2 The Sunblazers (10-3) scored six runs in Collages Fullback Gary gets OK to join UM baseball team By GREG COTE Herald Sports Writer University of Miami football star Cleveland Gary was ruled eligible Monday to play baseball and will be in uniform and possibly in the lineup when UM visits Texas this weekend Gary the leading rusher and receiver as a senior fullback last season will become the most prominent football player to appear in a baseball game at the school He plays third base Two-sport players have been rare at UM Former reserve quarterback Bill Turkowski briefly pitched for UM two years ago but only once this decade has a football player earned a letter in baseball That was reserve defensive backoutfielder Willie Martinez in 1984-85 Coach Ron Fraser said Monday chances are slim Gary would play at Texas Saturday through Monday but it is a possibility Gary has worked informally in batting cage and now is eligible to begin taking live batting practice as an active roster player have to see him taking a lot of batting practice and ground balls between now and the Fraser said more likely start playing sometime in home debut at Mark Light Stadium could come as soon as March 1 against Barry University (Notably the Hurricanes play host March 8 to Notre Dame whose football team defeated UM 31-30 last October with the help of a disputed fumble by Gary) Gary would have to prove himself at-bat as well as afield to wrest a starting job from third baseman Kirk Dulom also a senior who was hitting 250 (seven for 28) with six runs batted in going into Monday game against Seton Hall Gary played organized baseball since his fmal season at South Fork High near Indian-town Fla been looking pretty Fraser said just that he has been away a long The option of using Gary became opened Monday when Doug Johnson UM associate athletic director for rules compliance notified the provost and registrar offices in writing (at request) that Gary is academically and otherwise eligible for baseball Test your sports IQ with THE MIAMI HERALD Game-winning RBI Vaughn Tucker LOB Seton Hall 7 Miami 2B Sharts Vaughn Lamitola Shriner Randazzo HR Groppuso SB Dulom Brown Viera Feoli 41 WP Knowles PB Hirsch Reddick HBP Dulom by Morton 2: 37 A 2276 Golden Panthers 9 Pirates 2 SETON HALL FIU ab bi ab bi Lamitola 2b 30 10 Bowmancf 4 120 Feoladh 5 0 10 Vasquez2b 5 0 10 Browncf 3 0 10 Valdez lb 4 12 1 Vaughn lb 110 0 Varela dh 3 3 10 Easterman 3b 3 110 Estevez If 4 2 4 4 Shriner If 40 10 Radford rf 1000 Farmer rf 20 11 Edwards3b 3 0 0 0 Groppuso ss 30 11 Caraballoc 40 10 Feld 3 0 0 0 Barqum ss 4 0 0 0 Rndzzaph-rf 1 0 0 0 Hicksph 10 11 Aiello ph-lb 1 0 0 0 Taylor rf 1111 Stush ph-3b 0 0 0 0 Gonella pr-3b 0 10 0 Kempleph 0 0 0 0 Torres phf 100 0 Arsenault ph 1 0 0 0 Rodirgzph-lf 1000 Sheppard ph 10 0 0 Totals 31 2 7 2 Totals 34 713 7 in the second half St Thomas (19-10) was led by Anthony White with 25 points Darryl Merthie with 18 and Willie Brown with 17 points and 10 assists ST THOMAS 86 Brown 17 Laidler 13 White 25 Fmkley 2 Fabsits 5 Johnson 6 Merthie 18 FLAGLER 91 Bell 7 Lewis 26 Worden 18 Me Cormack8 Webb 2 Gilmore 11 Presley 19 Halftime Flagler 40 St Tnomas 32 Three point goals Fabsits Laidler 3 Merthie 4 Beil Worden 2 Gilmore 3 Fouled out Presley basketball Mercer (Ga) 67 Florida International 62 FIU (19-5 11-1) faded down the stretch in a New South conference game in Macon as three players fouled out and starting point guard Wendy Oaster was injured Oaster suffered a sprained neck late in the second half when she banged heads with a teammate attempting a steal Oaster a freshman from Gettysburg Pa was unconscious for several minutes She was taken to Medical Center in Macon but was discharged after an hour Her status for game at FIU against the University of Miami was unknown Baseball scores STATE SCHOOLS Florida 4 Tampa 0 Seton Hall 5 Miami 1 FIU 9 Seton Hall 2 the seventh inning to defeat Seton Hall and record their fourth consecutive victory Junior left fielder Carlos Estevez a transfer from Dade-North led host FIU by going four for four with two homers and four RBI Javier two-out single in the seventh gave FIU a 4-2 lead After a walk to Freddy Varela Estevez lined his second homer of the game and third of the season deep to right-center field putting FIU ahead 7-2 David Taylor followed with his first homer of the year and the Golden Panthers scored their final run of the inning on a Seton Hall error Florida State 5 Baptist 4 Dean home run in the bottom of the 10th inning lifted the Seminoles (7-2) over the Buccaneers (0-1) at Tallahassee FSU is ranked fifth in the latest Collegiate Baseball-ESPN poll and ninth in Baseball rankings basketball Flagler 91 St Thomas 86 Flagler (15-10) jumped to an 11-point lead with seven minutes left in the second half and held off a St Thomas rally in St Augustine The Saints shot 61 percent from the field Seton Hall 020 000 000-2 £IU 010 101 m-9 Game-winning RBI Hicks (1) Bowman Girling Easterman DP FIU 1 LOB Seton Hall 5 FIU 8 2B Easterman Shriner HR Estevez 2 13) Taylor (1) SB Bowman (4) Edwards (2) IP ER BB SO SETON HALL DiNuzzoL0-l t'h 8 4 3 3 7 Gleason VS 2 3 3 1 0 Randazza 022100 Fahrney 1VS 1 0 0 0 2 2 4 1 0 1 1 0 2 1 Edwards WP Dinuzzo 2 PB Feld HBP by Randazza 257 A -189 UM Brown chasing Barry 200 Per call (Additional tolls applicable outside of Dade and South Broward) All You Need Is A True Touch-Tone Phone Program available only in area codes 305 andor 407 Dial 1-305 when calling from 407 area code Answer six sports trivia questions correctly by phone and you're a winner Call 24 Hours a Day In his remaining five games UM senior Eric Brown needs 154 points an average of approximately 31 per game to break Rick school record of 2298 Because Barry played three seasons (1962-65) and Brown four figures for points and rebounds represent per-game averages To play you must be calling from a true push-button phone Some Sports Trivia questions are multiple-choice Others are fill-in-the-blank At the beginning and again at the end of your seven-second answer period you will hear a signal If the answer to a question is a date or a number for example the year 1952 you must press the four numbers in sequence First press the "one" then the "nine" then the "five" and finally the "two" IF YOU ANSWER All SIX QUESTIONS CORRECTLY YOU WIN' IF YOU DO WIN DO NOT HANG UP STAY ON THE UNE AND WAIT FOR FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS court as a No 2 guard in the pros That will be a huge adjustment but Brown is confident he can make it He says he has played and held his own against pros Mark Jackson Walter Berry Derrick Chievous and Shelton Jones in New York He is already working on his shooting range and ball handling after practice Knowing the importance of defense in the NBA he shadows UM teammate Jake Morton up and down the court in other postpractice drills loves to handle the ball and I have to learn to love Brown said going to see a different Eric Brown going to surprise a lot of Foster sells him at every opportunity know of at least three NBA clubs that will invite him in for a full shot if they have the chance" Foster said going to get a good Just five games left at UM perhaps a couple more if the Canes get a bid almost over" Brown said probably really hit home until the last game because I still believe a senior It seems like just yesterday I came here I know my teammates and they know me I had no friends or relatives here and the city was strange But we had such high hopes and Brown paused He smiled enigmatically "Sometimes you don't know how much of a chance taking until taken it funny If you asked me when I was a freshman why I came here I had a million reasons Now not Does he regret the decision? regret the lack of fan support I expect that The school and coaches seemed so excited when we started and there were no other teams here You go through high school dreaming of what going to be like in college You dream of making last-second shots and fans running onto" the court You want the applause if I could do it all over again do it the same way playing well doing well in school made a lot of good friends RUBIN from IB be successful in any career I He batted 500 in interests and ambitions He has been brilliantly successful in his UM career especially this season but the Hurricanes will not be a national power in his time at the school Not even close That goal was probably unrealistic You walk before you run First the Canes have to get off the 500 treadmill At 16-10 poised to do that Next they have to get a postseason bid That will depend on the results of the remaining five games the first of them at Texas Wednesday night There are all sorts of reasons why they accomplished more A biggie was the failure of the great Tito Horford Experiment It slowed the team (literally) for two years while everyone waited for the Big Kid to mature as a player and person Waited in vain as it turned out hurt us a Brown said "We tried to make something of him he He ready mentally We had four experienced players and one who He set us Brown pushed the Canes forward Whatever success had is in large part because of him A 6-6 forward he has led the team in scoring all four years currently averaging 246 points (shooting 582 percent) and 78 rebounds in 328 minutes per game He has led the Canes in scoring 19 times including the last 10 straight In one recent stretch he had 30 or more points in five of six games He has led the team in rebounding 13 times He has led in scoring and rebounding 12 times including the last four games in a row He needs 154 points to break Rick Barry's career UM scoring record of 2298 He has been the best of the Cane pioneers a credit to the program on and off the court What kind of kid is Eric Brown? Here are a few clues: UM players must spend a certain amount of time weekly with a tutor the time dependent on how doing in school Last week Brown The Miami Herald Wake Up to whats Going On put in more time than was required usually have to take a whip to the Coach Bill Foster said A business major Brown will graduate this summer He hopes to play pro ball but if it work out he wants to be a high school coach and guidance counselor in an inner-city school district the kind he grew up in role models are the drug dealers with their fancy jewelry and he said like to show them not the only way to make One more After a victory over South Florida Saturday night in Tampa Brown went out for a bite with UM sports publicist John Hahn Brown made a long-distance call and Hahn assuming it was to a woman kidded him Brown put Hahn on the phone It was a woman Yvette Brown mother father died when he was 6 months old been a mother and father to me but more like a he said can talk about anything with her And my biggest fan She came to every game I played in high school and coming down for my last few games here" Brown is an iffy NBA prospect He has lived around the basket at UM but at his size he probably would have to move to the back- Sports Trivia Ruloo Regulations 1 The Miami Herald Sports Trivia Contest sponsored by Revenue Sharing Programs is a game ol skill requirma knowledge ol sports It can be played 24 hours a day on any Touch-Tone phone 4 9 2 The caller (player) is charged $2 00 per call plus any additional toll charges where applicable During any phone call phone31 'S 3 0WG seven secons 10 answer each ot six questions by depressing appropriate keys on his or her 3 Player who correctly answers six out of six questions posed during one phone call becomes an instant winner of 9'Ven ld n9 COd0 and IS nstucted 10 ca" 1-800-842-6006 Mon -Fn 9 a -5 to comp tote 4 SS Revenue Sharing has reached an agreement with The Miami Herald Publishing Company which permits the game to use The Miami Herald in its promotional advertising a permits me 5 Void where prohibited Officers shareholders and employees of The Miami Herald Publishing Comoanv and CSS Revenue Sharing Programs and their families are not eligible No purchase of Tho MiarrU Miami Herald Herald Plaza Miami Honda or in copies of The Miami Herald available in many public libraries 6 All federal state and local laws apply Payment of taxes is the solo responsibility ol winners This contest mav be canceled at any time Participants waive any claim or right in the event of any ambiguity in any question answer By be bWJnd by lhese rules and atL which are ma by toe sr whose decisions are final No person may win Sports Trivia moro than four times 7 Revenue Sharing Programs is not responsible for any problems regarding the placing connection transmis sion raving recording computerization or monitoring ol Sports Tnvia phone calls For answers to Sms about Sports Tnvia pteasecall 1-800-842-6006 For a fist of prize wmners after the conclusion! tois gamS? separate stamped self-addressed envelope to Sports Trivia 1 Blue Hill Plaza PO Box 1516 Pearl Rver NY 10965 4 4 I 8 1 I BBS fpwgs i in iimi mill bwt ir i.