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The News and Observer Raleigh NC Monday June 4 1990 5D Auto racing Little things mean a lot topple Kinston It was Wright's fourth save of the season "The first pitch is always big but when you know you're going to throw all sliders to a guy to me it wasn't much pressure" Wright said "because I knew my next pitch was going to be a slider and my next one And I was going to hit throw strikesl with two of them but I was hoping I could hit with three of them before I threw four balls "The third one was close but I knew it wasn't there so it didn't bother me too much" He had something else to slide by on I 14' t--'" 1 4' 1: 4' 5: 8e' 4 1 $'' 000idi: or -1: 4 '00''' 'g '4 I 'i: Nii' 7144 N11" 7N IF :5 11 000- 35Alt it sys ''i I -16-- sZ: 1 '1' ti :1: 7 "ii 't 11'14 F'Iii'l: tr 17 4' do i Inst a i t4' 1600o-rti 4-er 1 '1' Ifolilir" I ''iiiae 4 4100 ::4 '1- :4 1' :7:::4 11: 'ft4'' 'f-: 3:: i'' 1 4 4 414 kii 0-- 1" i 1 ta Mississippi State scores early often The Associated Press down swinging as did Pablo Gomez Jim Orsag a left-handed hitter with the capability of making DAP a launch pad then was sent in to pinch hit for Lindsay Foster Uhmmm a left-handed batter facing a right-handed pitcher The wheels in Little's mind were turning at this point "If he had fallen behind in the count we probably would have brought in Dave Karasinski a lefty to try to get him out" Little said But Wright didn't inherit leads just because somebody died and left them he was also busy calculating what to throw Orsag He was going to give Orsag a three-course-serving of sliders And for dessert? Another slider of course The first one was a razor job nicking the outside corner The next one broke to the inside jamming Orsag as he swung and missed The next pitch missed the outside corner but not by much Orsag fouled off the fourth pitch The next slider didn't miss the outside corner Orsag watched it go by for the third out He questioned home plate umpire Doug Irvin's vision on the call but he didn't get an answer KINSTON DURHAM ob bi abrhbe 4 0 1 0 Campbell If 4 0 1 0 4020 Mordecai ss 2100 3000 Mitchell cf 3000 4 0 0 0 Robles lb 3 2 1 0 3 0 1 0 Chomoiondh 3 0 1 1 4 0 1 0 Brust 3b 2 0 1 2 4 1 1 0 Maldonado oh 1 0 00 3 0 1 1 Costleberrv 2b 0 0 00 3 0 0 0 Aliceo 3b 4010 1 0 0 0 Deal( 3000 Cole rt 3000 331 7 1 Totals 28 3 3 3 Ramos If Odor 2b Levis dh Tepper lb lombrano rf Lane cf Johnson Gomez 3b Foster ss Orsog ph Totels Kinston Durham 0i0 000 000 1 201 000 00x 3 Mitchell 2 Kinston 8 Durham 8 Robles Champion Campbell (13) Cole (10) KINSTON IP ER BB SO Kovach (L 7-2) 6 4 3 3 5 4 Howard 2 1 0 0 1 0 DURHAM IP ER BB SO Johnson (W 2-2) 6 5 1 1 3 1 Wright (S 3 2 0 0 0 6 WP-Johnson HBP-Chamaion (by Kovach) Irvin first Stone third Vesple T-2'35 A-2991 Al The Assoctoted Press Unser Jr is all smiles after winning Indy-car race in Wisconsin as tuns By JOEL CHANEY Statt writer DURHAM The Durham Bulls got the max out of the minimum Sunday afternoon in Durham Athletic Park to defeat the Kinston Indians 3-1 The Bulls made a shoestring budget worth of hits five hold up for nine innings to beat the Carolina League Southern Division leaders The win snipped Kinston's lead to five games over the third-place Bulls Four of the five hits were doubles and the Bulls received some unexpected help when Kinston right fielder Eddie Zambrano lost the ball in the sun in the third inning and Durham's third run scored Durham scored all the runs it would need to win in the fit inning on David Brust's two-out two-run bases-loaded double Kinston pitcher Ty Kovach 7-2 contributed to his own downfall by walking two batters and hitting one to load the bases Then Brust slapped a line drive down the right-field line scoring Mike Mordecai and Josman Robles "The hit by Brust in the first inning was awful big" Durham manager Grady Little said "That was just about all we needed But against a club like Kinston more days than not that's not going to be enough "I thought their pitcher came back and pitched a heck of a game after that first inning He showed why he's one of the winningest in the league" From there the Bulls turned things over to starting pitcher Lee Johnson and long relief man Skipper Wright Johnson allowed the Indians five hits and one run in six innings while Wright yielded but two hits and no runs while striking out six Wright entered the game in the top of the seventh with a 3-1 lead in his hip pocket and a hard-to-hit slider in his repertoire of pitches Wright playing up to his name' sailed through the seventh and eighth without difficulty But in the top of the ninth a couple of yard-sale hits gave the crowd of 2991 some anxious moments With runners at first and second and no outs Wright reached into his bag of pitches chose the slider and just like that one two three strikeouts the game was over Kinston's Brian Johnson went 19' OMAHA Neb John Cohen Tommy Raffo and Jon Shave each had two hits and two RBI during a record 11-run first inning that carried Mississippi State to a 15-1 victory over Georgia Southern in an elimination-round game in the College World Series on Sunday Cohen drove in the first two runs of the game with a double and after a single by Raffo) scored on the first of Shave's two doubles Cohen singled his second time up Raffo followed with a two-run single to make it 10-0 and Shave doubled again to drive in Cohen The 11 runs established a record for a first inning in the College World Series and tied the mark for most runs in any inning Notre Dame scored 10 in the first against Northern Colorado in 1957 and Texas did the same against Seton Hall in 1975 California in 1947 against Yale Seton Hall in 1964 against Texas and Stanford in 1982 against South Carolina also scored 41 times in an inning The winners led all but 14 of the 129 laps around the 225-mile course and averaged 103455 mph They earned $40000 after beating teammates Chip Robinson of Old wick NJ and Bob Earl of Larkspur Calif by 15617 seconds It marked the fourth time in eight races this year the Nissan Performance Technology team has finished 1-2 Nissan has won 24 of the last 33 IMSA Camel GT races dating back to 1988 "I lost my brakes early and that made it difficult" Brabham said CELLULAR PHONE $41L500 4 a et all 11 installed with ant AMIN COMMUNICATION 8 pEcAus ts MEMBIEN 1954 installed with 1954 antenna 2-9121 ACTIVATION PRICE Unser gets first spot' in Miller The Associated Press WEST ALLIS Wis Al Unser Jr couldn't believe his eyes and Michael Andretti couldn't believe his ears Unser chasing Andretti in a battle of second-generation Indycar stars in Sunday's Miller 200 saw the leader slow and roll toward the pit road with less than two laps remaining Andretti just over one mile from his first victory in 10 months heard the Chevrolet engine on his streaking Lola sputter and die out of fuel "I didn't have any indication or clue that Michael was having any problems" Unser said "We were running our race "I knew that I was cutting it close on fuel" he added "I was hoping that as fast as Michael was going he was using the fuel along with the speed And sure enough he was" The bitterly disappointed Andretti said "The last 100 laps I was just trying to save fuel I just can't believe it This really hurts it's always something stupid that costs us "It's a real shame because the car was so good To save fuel I was going one and a half seconds slower Eon each lap than I could have gone I don't know what else to say" Unser trailed Andretti by just over 5 seconds as the leaders drove the 199th lap on the one-mile Wisconsin State Fair Park oval When Andretti slowed and pitted Unser's Chevrolet-powered Lola darted past and into the lead on the main straightaway Andretti pounded his steering wheel in frustration as his crew poured in enough fuel to allow him to finish the 200-mile race Meanwhile Unser easily held off two-time defending race champion Rick Mears for his 10th career victory and first triumph on an oval track beating him to the finish line by 073 Seconds He won $87632 "1 could not have been luckier than I was today" said Unser i Stock cars 'virtually standard' Continued from page 1D are many and their products are highly sophisticated There is little in STOCK car racing that is as it once was Matthews said in a recent interview especially the cars themselves No no dear Jim Bob that is not really a Thunderbird on whose wings Awesome Bill rides But it sure looks the part Same goes for Dale Ironhead's Chevy Geoff Conehead's Ford and Rusty Rubber-head's Pontiac They all make a good impression on the crowds but they're just a reasonable facsimile thereof "The roof panel of a Winston Cup race car is virtually a standard production item" said Matthews who indicated that there may be exceptions and probably are because that's the nature of NASCAR racing the only thing for sure is that nothing is for sure "I've learned over the years" he said "to be evasive that's why I say things like 'virtually' standard" And except for that virtually standard roof skin and that virtually standard rear deck or trunk lid just about everything else on a stock car isn't Wheels aren't engines aren't seats aren't The closest thing to stock in fact may be the cigarette lighter in driver Dick Trickle's Pontiac and that took a special order and some special wiring Not even the windshields would fit into a showroom car Ford only recently solved a windshield dilemma Several inches of all windshields had to be cut across the bottom to afford clearance for air intake by the engine through a cowl at the base of the windshield And almost every time the glass was cut the windshield broke "They broke" Matthews said "because of modern technology Windshields used to be big and heavy plate glass But today because of lighter-weight cars the windshields are thinner and lighter They started safety-laminating windshields and now they're tnade so they come apart chip into little bits so they don't hurt you as much when you hit them The problem in racing was when they tried to cut a part of the windshield off it chipped But it was supposed to come apart" NI (re I 11 -1- I r' I ME GREATER 0 WAkE COUNTy AMATEUR Aft 111111e-NIf 0 1-1 1- ii i ME UREATER WAKE COUNTy AMATEUR Aft A- or -I I part Of VeLlif 1 tvx! 1--HnPKnHY Wake County's Growing Golf Tradition who also survived an incident in which he bumped a slower car and spun Unser who added to his CART PPG series point lead with his second victory in four starts this season averaged 133670 mph That broke the race record of 130160 by Mears last year But Unser too nearly lost it on fuel "The fuel warning light was on pretty much the last four laps" he said "I was hoping and praying I would make it We were slowing down a la and I was starting to worry about Rick" "Michael was gone It was his race' They blew us ff" Brabham Daly team up LEXINGTON! Ohio Geoff Bra Ilam of Australia teamed with Irishman Derek Daly to capture his third straight victory at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course Sunday handily winning the Nissan Grand Prix of Ohio IMSA Camel GT prototype sports car races I An outside glass vendor solved FOrd's problem and now those racing windshields carry the Ford stamp though they're hardly virtually standard "But you can stand back and look at the car and you can't tell the difference in the windshields" Matthews said "except where the air goes into the cowl" Perhaps the most virtually standard piece of metal is that rear deck or trunk lid NASCAR even prohihits the removal of the inside support structures because "If you removed it" Matthews said "because of aerodynamics the wind pressure would push down and bend it But on the hoods the superstructure is cut out and replaced by rods to fit around air filters and other parts" Ditto hoods: Hardly virtually standard "Everybody that fools with aerodynamics' Matthews said "does things to one race car that might not work on another one When styling is done by the car companies is 'done for eye appeal not because a rounded or squared-off fender makes the car a better race car So NASCAR steps in and governs that and onto center court steps The BODY MAN 1 "Every Winston Cup team and most Of the sportsman teams" Matthews said "have a body man who is capable of shaping a car body from sheet metal and painting supplies He has to make the ear look like a Ford but the fenders must cover the tires and the metal he bends must meet specific clearance requirements These cars today are about three inches wider tthan production showroom cars'' so what these body men had to do was sort of swell the body up" Fenders Doors Hardly virtually standard From artificial rear bumper to the front fiberglass snout and under the hood and in the cockpit what you see ain't necessarily what you can get down at the local Ford or GM parts window A few old-timers may know where to come by the parts that are stamped with the car maker's logo Matthews said "but Idon't think you could go to a dealership and buy the parts and pieces to build a race car Most dealers wouldn't know where to look for it You would have to have someone who is familiar with racing "Most parts are made outside made to the car manufacturer's specifications and shipped to the manufacturer whose stamp is on the part" The engine 'There are a lot of hardly virtually standard items inside The basic cylinder block is a high-perforMance derivative of a production engine from years past a block designed to make 300 Wildwood Green Golf pub Raleigh Country Club Lochmere Golf Club Qualifier: July 20-22 Championship: July 27-29 Hoerr wins Dallas race ADDISON Texas Iry Hoerr kept his Olds Cutlass on or near the lead from start to finish Sunday in winning the featured Trans-Am race in the rain-marred Grand Prix of Dallas The victory was the first of the year for Hoerr who was second in Trans-Am point standings the past two years Banjo Matthews horsepower that at 700 would crack So more cast iron is added to make it physically larger and heavier "The oil filter used in today's race cars is equivalent to what's used in trucks" Matthews said "You might use the same spark plugs that are in your (street) car to warm up a racing engine but because of the cylinder temperature and the horsepower output it takes a colder heat-range plug same identical plug but you probably won't find them on a regular parts house shelf" So what can you buy off the parts house shelf that is STOCK and that is used in or on stock cars? "Pop rivets nuts and bolts duct tape That's about it" Banjo said "Our sport has become a modern-day version of Barnum and Bailey We have come from the days when you whitewashed a number on the car door and used street tires to these race cars that resemble street cars From whitewashed numbers we moved on to sign painters to multicolors like Petty blue and STP red Within the ranks the competitors policed who came in and the cars had to be neat and clean If a car wasn't other teams complained "Big money sponsorships had an effect and a fellow found out that if he wanted to stay he had to shape up and that led to better craftsmen "The thing that hasn't changed is that if a person is talented with his hands and his mind he doesn't need money to do good work So it's still the innovation factor" Some store-bought a whole lot homemade but hardly any of it at all virtually standard I i tit 04:: Nr i 7- 1 4 1 'f I Sunday July 29 (Raleigh Country Club) AM: 4 compete 2 winners advance 2 losers get semifinal trophy and $225 PM: 2 compete runner-up receives trophy and $320 Champion receives Phillips Cup' 1991 free entry and $430 ($500 total equivalent) INFORMATION For more information contact the Cary Jaycees at Mike Stevens 467-6483 Scott Morningstar 870-0572 ENTRY FEE AND DEADLINE The Entry Fee is $70 and includes all green fees and cart fees (carts are mandatory) Entrants must signify first second and third preferences of qualifying groups on entry form ENTRIES RECEIVED BY FRIDAY JULY 13 will be eligible for a FREE practice round at the one course NOT used for qualifying as listed below: Group Practice round at Wildwood Green Golf Club Tuesday 717-719 Group a Practice round at Lochmere Golf Club Tuesday 717-719 Group Practice round at Raleigh Country Club Tuesday 717-719 Entries received after July 13 not eligible for practice round Entries will not be refunded after July 16 Entry forms are available at any Wake County golf course or golf-related business or from: The Cary Jaycees-GWCAC PO Box 212 Cary NC 27511-0212 Revenues generated by this event will be used to fund various Cary Jaycee Community Projects throughout 1990-91 THE TOURNAMENT The Greater Wake County Amateur is a Match-Play Championship Qualifying is by 36-Hole Stroke Play Entry is open to any amateur golfer who has reached the 16th birthday by July 13 but the field will be limited to the first 186 entrants received Entrants will play in one of three qualifying groups: Group Play Friday July 20 at Raleigh Country Club and Saturday July 21 at Lochmere Golf Club Group Play Friday July 20 at Raleigh Country Club and Sunday July 22 at Wildwood Green Golf Club Group Play Saturday July 21 at Lochmere Golf Club and Sunday July 22 at Wildwood Green Golf Club Match Play for 60 Qualifiers and 1989 Semi-Finalists will be the following weekend: July 27-29 PRIZES Prizes will be in the form of Gift Certificates from the Pro-Shops of the participating courses (Gift Certificates are cumulative with the tournament winner receiving prizes totalling $50000) (1990 USGA limit) Low round medalist trophy EACH DAY Low 36-hole group medalist trophy: Long Drive EACH DAY: Closest-to-Pin Shots Deluxe Par 3 and Par 5 Contests (airline tickets courtesy of American Airlines!) Match-Play Championship: Friday July 27 (Wildwood Green Golf Club) AM: 64 compete 32 winners advance 32 losers receive $25 PM: 32 compete: 16 winners advance and get 'Final 16' plaques 16 losers receive $60 Saturday July 28 (Lochmere Golf Club) AM: 16 compete 8 winners advance 8 losers receive $105 PM: 8 compete 4 winners advance and get 1991 qualifying exemption 4 losers receive $160 A AlllerteenA4rtifWIS Win Airline Tickets to Savannah and Charleston Courtesy of Sponsored By: The News Obsagivar 1 And The CARY JAYCEES.