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Sunday August 24 1997 C-2 The Modesto Bee FIRST EDITION Durant finish first Stockton start SPORTS Verg Beaty of Ceres charged from the back of the pack to win the NASCAR Street Stock 25-lap main event Friday night at Altamont Raceway Park Aaron Days of Tracy finished second and Brian Koski of Sam Ramon was third Charlie Kramm main rival for the points lead in the Street Stock division did not finish Troy Shirk of Oakley took the lead from Barry Callouette on Lap 21 and went on to win the 30-lap NASCAR Grand American Modified main event DELTA SPEEDWAY Marc Borges held off Guy Guibor to win the Mini Stock Division main event Friday night at Delta Speedway Joe Pack won the Sportsmen Division Kellen Chadwick won the Box Stock Division Chuck Gurney won the 250 Modified Division and David Goodwill won the 600 Multi Division tioned and even Tripp didn't seem to be celebrating after the checkered flag Tripp tied the record previously held by im Brown with a heat race win last week But Street Stock action belonged to Dewayne Apedaile Apedaile won his first main event with an outside pass of Pete Anderson on the 20th lap of the 25-lap main event Apedaile also won the trophy dash and his heat race Apedaile Anderson Tripp and North Dan Dabbs raced bumper-to-bumper side-by-side for the race's final laps But Dabbs spun out with two laps to go and Anderson was spun by Tripp on the final lap spin brought out a checkered-yellow flag giving Apedaile the first main event of his career ALTAMONT RACEWAY PARK LOCAL MOTORSPORTS Nichols had the fastest car during qualifying and was the fastest during the main event He took the lead on Lap 20 of the 30-lap main event and never gave it up Nichols Mark DeBeaumont and San Carlos' Jimmy Screeton raced side-by-side for the final laps But while they could pull even neither DeBeaumont nor Screeton the track record holder could catch Nichols STREET STOCKS In a season when just about everything has gone right for Jerry Tripp chalk up another highlight for the Stockton resident Tripp won his 1 1th heat race and it been the most quiet record ever set at Stockton It never was men AJ Foyt the owner of Indy 500 car raced here in 1959 Midgets have raced at Stockton since 1947 Durant talked a little about his Indy Racing League ride Oct 1 1 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway "1 look at this (1RL ride) as the second big break I've had this Durant told the crowd MIDGETS Even before the Bay Cities Racing Association Midgets came to Stockton 99 Speedway Chad Nichols was the driver to beat And everyone knew it The San Carlos resident had already won the other two midget races at Stockton and his car was the fastest on the track Saturday night So it was no surprise when he blew through the 21 -car field to win the third of three BCRA Midget races at Stockton this season By Will DeBoard Bee staff writer STOCKTON Despite not finishing the race Manteca resident Paul Durant made a triumphant return to the area at Stockton Speedway on Saturday night He was in fourth place with five laps remaining before pitting with an engine problem Durant raced for the first time at Stockton It was also his first time racing in the area since his 21st-place finish in the Indianapolis 500 earlier this vear "After living in Manteca for so long I never got to run said Durant been looking forward to Durant held his own in the comers but couldn't keep up with the field on the straights Durant became the first Indy 500 racer to run at Stockton in 28 years The last driver was Billy Vuckovich in 1969 Nick Price left and Tiger Woods converse as they walk down the first fairway during the World Series of Golf on Saturday Price is in fourth place and Woods in fifth trailing leader John Cook Hometown hero Cook-ing in Akron Kribel reaches championship match of US Amateur GOLF MOTORSPORTS Jarrett gets slick victory Track oil helps him slip past Martin The Associated Press BRISTOL Tenn Dale victory in the Headache Powder 500 got him back into the Winston Cup title chase and gave him his first short track win With the help of an oily track the second-generation stock car star survived a typical Bristol Motor Speedway crashfest and beat new series leader Mark Martin on Saturday night for his first triumph in 83 Winston Cup races on tracks shorter than one mile After Jeff Gordon dropped out of contention in a crash at midrace Jarrett was able to edge Martin to pick up his fourth of the season and the 12th of his career were Jarrett said was able to get by Mark with some oil on the track But Dale Jarrett won on a short track Jarrett dominated the mid portion of the race and held leads of up to two seconds Martin continued to stalk the leader but had trouble getting the momentum to get past until Jarrett had to brake hard on Lap 396 when Bobby Hamilton got sideways on the backstretch Jarrett barely tapped Hamilton but Martin took advantage to race past into the lead was actually my Jarrett said got into Bobby and got him loose and then I was just barely able to get by him without really wrecking both of Martin stayed out front until he hobbled on Lap 470 allowing Jarrett to shoot past into the lead just as the 12th and final caution flag of the night waved because of oil on the track The green flag came back out 23 laps from the end of the 500-lap event on 533-mile oval and Martin who leads Gordon by 13 points was not able to mount another challenge Robert Yates Ford finished 0102-seconds about 1 car-lengths ahead of Ford was oil on the track for about 10 laps and I need to said Martin who took the series lead for the first time since Oct 21 1990 at Rockingham NC was more important for us to finish and get those points The yellow came out after he passed us and then I got a bad restart We needed a long long green and we get BELGIAN GRAND PRIX at Spa Francorchamps Belgium Jacques Villeneuve got a break from the weather and broke his own track qualifying record while taking the pole Saturday for Belgian Grand Prix Williams-Renault was timed in 1 minute 49450 seconds on the 4329-mile track in the Ardennes woods He averaged more than 144 mph After early-morning rain the sun came out and that was very much to the liking He shaved more than a second off his 1996 lap of 1:50574 NASCAR TRUCK at Watkins Glen NY Rain and an oil-covered track postponed qualifying for the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Parts America 150 race until today at Watkins Glen International Because of the postponement on Saturday the starting field of 34 trucks will be determined in a single round of trials The wake of a week By Bud Geracie San Jose Mercury News The Sharks are a better team wath Mike Vernon if for no other reason than 19-1-1 lifetime against them Until Tuesday nobody could remember Michael Westbrook ever hitting anybody on the football field How bout them Cowboys tearing up that college dormitory? Next the Anaheim Angels will be ordered to put Tony COMMENT Phillips in the lineup batting first and playing left field if OK by him and the union Garrison Hearst's nickname stems from his childhood fascination with Scooby Doo cartoons an important disclosure in this day and age Proud moments in sports journalism: A poignant interview with Davis Love HI was once interrupted by a guy asking what dad was named it is the ad begins Giants are in first place and the fans are going Yep all 16000 of them Fourteen times Randy Johnson has struck out 15 or more batters in a game The record is 24 times by Nolan Ryan Jose Canseco needs 132 more plate appearances to activate his 1998 contract with the I say he gets 131 or fewer The King Pete Franklin will be flushed by KNBR after next show The latest lie from White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf: would have made that trade even if we'd been five games Eric Young is a real nice pickup for the Dodgers Pedro Astacio is a real stiff price The exhibition against their Triple-A team must have been a real treat for the Edmonton fans who already had seen most of the at one time or another this season On Dec 15 the 49ers will retire No 16 With Chris Chandler and Billy Joe Toljiver the quarterbacks in Atlanta it matter how good a coach Dan Reeves is Niners cornerback Tyronne Drakeield as Frank Gifford kept calling him probably was glad for the name change One thing about a Chris Myers interview it sure makes you pine for Roy Firestone Ray Looze the new swim coach at Pacific has a lot of name to overcome Giant Stan Javier has 22 stolen bases in 23 attempts caught only by the Mike Hubbard on May 10 This could explain the infrequency of Stanley Cup championships in Detroit: Each of the past three times the Red Wings have won one traded their goalie NFL cuts: Kwame Ellis (Stanford) by Dennis Green (Vikings) Luis Tiant make it to Cooperstown but going into the Red Sox Hall of Fame on Sept 8 pitchers lead the league in walks and home runs allowed a bad combination Jamila Wideman is shooting less than 25 percent from the floor as the starting point guard for the LA Sparks Down at Baylor University they stop talking about Troy Hamilton a 290-pound kid from Sacramento who with $20 in his pocket hitchhiked his way to the Waco Texas campus for football practice Hip hip hurray Bee news services AKRON Ohio Other than winning a major championship taking the World Series of Golf before a partisan crowd and accepting the trophy from his father would be about as good as it gets for John Cook had nine wins and proud of that said Cook who shot a 3-under-par 67 Saturday to take a one-shot lead over defending champion Phil Mickelson not a lot of guys who can say they won nine times But I've won nothing of this stature something close to a major Born in Toledo where his dad Jim was a high school football coach Cook spent a lot of his youth in Akron while his father was an assistant coach at the University of Akron He acknowledges that he really consider Akron his hometown now Rancho Mirage but he still realizes that many in the capacity crowds this week at Firestone Country Club consider him a local boy very he said seems that everybody has got something to say either or something 67 followed earlier rounds of 68 and 69 on the Firestone Country 7179-yard South Course That left him at 6-under-par 204 Mickelson made the biggest charge He shared the first-round lead with Tiger Woods after a 67 but followed with a 72 A Georgia Tech sophomore with little match play experience Kuchar rolled to a 6 and 5 victory over Walker Cup player Randy Leen in the other semifinal LPGA at Beavercreek Ohio Dottie Pepper a four-time winner last year who has only two top-five finishes this season shot a 6-under-par 66 to Kim Williams (67) Kelly Robbins (67) and Colleen Walker (69) were two back at 136 while Lu-ciana Bemvenuti (67) and Karen Weiss (69) followed at 137 SENIOR PGA at Belton Mo Hugh Baiocchi shot a 5-under-par 65 to take a one-stroke lead over Jay Sigel in the Saint Classic at 12-under 128 the lowest 36-hole score on the Senior PGA Tour this year EUROPEAN TOUR Stockholm Sweden Annika Sorenstam overcame a triple-bogey on the 13th hole to extend her lead to four shots over Nancy Lopez going into the final round of the Compaq Open The top-ranked player Sorenstam checked in with a 73 for her worst round in the European Tour event after starting with successive 67s Lopez had a 74 also her highest score EUROPEAN OPEN at Dublin Ireland Defending champion Per-Ulrik Johansson shot a 6-under 66 in a soaking rain to move into a four-stroke lead in the European Open At the turn of the third round he had lost another shot to par and was even for the tournament But then he picked up birdies at the 10th 12th 14th 15th and 17th holes for a course-record tying 5-under 30 on the back side He rolled in a 60-footer at the 14th and followed that with a 35-footer at 15 thought 4-under was my goal for the back nine to get in Mickelson said ended up getting one more than Woods troubled by ongoing putting problems still managed a 69 and was tied for fifth at 2-under The winner collects $396000 and a 10-year tour exemption US AMATEUR at Lemont 111 -One year after losing to Tiger Woods in the semifinals Joel Kribel advanced to the championship match of the US Amateur get back into the same position and come out on top this time just feels Kribel said after defeating Walker Cup teammate Brad Elder 3 and 1 the experience of playing against (Woods) makes any other match going to play seem a lot Kribel of Pleasanton will meet Matt Ku-char of Lake Mary Fla in 36-hole match at Cog Hili Golf Country Club SERIES: Alvarez is hitless until his home run double treat for the players a team spokesman said pointing out that the World Series championship came 40 years after a team from Monterrey Mexico recorded that first Little League World Series title with a victory over a team from La Mesa on a perfect game from pitcher Angel Macias Macias and his teammates have become legends around metropolitan Monterrey which includes Guadalupe In preparation for game the Mexican players spent part of Friday night watching a 16-millimeter movie that had been transferred to videotape that detailed the accomplishments of that earlier team Players said it was inspirational Meanwhile Gattis said his team was less than inspirational said it was his fault The pitcher who gave up the home run said it was his fault Everybody was trying to take the blame for it Gattis said we lost this one as a That seem to bother the South Mission Viejo moms who rhpprpH cnns jnf0 night CONTINUED from C-1 two batters to open the inning and went to a 2-0 count on Alvarez manager Jim Gattis replaced him with Sorgi He threw two strikes before 250-foot drive to left-center his first hit in nine series at-bats was like Mexico manager Jaime Luna said Sorgi who threw four scoreless innings earlier in the series then walked two batters and was replaced by Ryan Torres hit a single to center that White charged intent on throwing home to keep De Isla from scoring But the ball glanced off glove and rolled to the warning track as De Isla came home While the Mexican players celebrated White son of 1979 Heisman Trophy winner Charles White buried his face in the grass unable to believe the change of fortune going to play sports going to have to learn to endure things like said the elder White now an assistant at Southern California all part of the game hoping that bounce Fabian had been trying for the The Associated Press Gabriel Alvarez celebrates his three-run sixth-inning homer first no-hitter in a championship game since a Taiwanese player threw one in 1979 He said he was little tired when he gave up the two walks but felt he could finish the no-hitter baseball you get what you deserve" Gattis said today we got what we deserved We did not play well and when you play a fine team like Mexico you are going to get beat if you are not ready to Indeed this was not a typical game for South Mission Viejo (21-2) which had scored 33 runs in four previous tournament victories in Williamsport think we wanted this one too Fabian said wanted to win real bad too hard 1 Guadalupe on the other hand could only celebrate It was a i i I.