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Centre Daily Time's WednesdayJune 26 2002 Cards experience emotional night in return to Busch Stadium See Page B3 I Spots Editor Ion Brackca Phone 231-4641 wwwcontrwMlycointporta JV I r'V '-itfi -i -tt-- I Seeds suffer upsetting day at Wimbledon I A I first-round showings by leading players including No l-seeded Venus Williams and Lleyton Hewitt along with Monica Seles and Tun Henman Williams trying to be the first woman to win three straight Wimbledons since Steffi Graf in 1991-93 dismissed British wildcard entry Jane ODonoghue 6-1 6-1 Sister Serena who plays her second-round match today watched from a box alongside heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis just met him Venus said US Open champion Hewitt constructed a 64 7-5 61 beating of Jonas Bjorkman who complained Centre Court played too slowly Hewitt was quickly installed as the new betting favorite over- By Howard Fandriek The Associated Press WIMBLEDON England Even if defending champion Goran Ivanisevic isn't at Wimbledon his considerable spirit is alive and well in the form of another lanky Croatian: Mario Ancic Think of die qualifier as Goran without the goatee or the self-diagnosed multiple personalities Making his Grand Slam debut the 154thranked Andc produced the first mqjor upset by dominating No 7-seed-ed Roger Federer 63 7-6 (2) 63 Tuesday on Centre Court In his Centre Court debut last year Federer upset seven-time champion Pete Sampras in the fourth round Ancic looks like talks like and sometimes plays like Ivanisevic who's home in Croatia after shoulder surgery is Goran not me I just knew him for a king said Ancic whose English syntax mirrors that of his mentor are not too much difference with our Just 15 minutes later over on Court 18 another Wimbledon newcomer finished knocking off a top player 71st-ranked Brazilian Flavio Saretta got by Australian Open champion Thomas Johansson 6-7 (2) 64 7-6 (4) 3612-10 Johansson seeded eighth lost in the second round of the French Open and increasingly looking as though his first Grand Slam title in 25 tries will be his last Other seeded losers were No 13 Younes El Aynaoui No 20 Tommy Robredo No 15 Anna Smashnova and No 28 Paola Suarez who was beaten by Jill Craybas of the United States There were also impressive AP photoDave Cauikin Mario Ancle celebrates a first-round win over Roger Federer at Wimbledon Tuesday Seles had the shortest work day of anyone 37 minutes dropping only 15 points while smothering Eva Bes of Spain 60 66 The Belgian Brigade of No 6 Justine Henin last year's runner- limli up and No 5 Kim Clysters a 2001 French Open finalist also advanced both beating Americans Henin had more trouble needing three sets to eliminate Brie Rippner while Clysters stopped Samantha Reeves 6-2 7-6 (5) BBC-TV commentator Pam Shriver summed up the match this way: vs Goliath in Truth is the 344th-ranked ODonoghue playing her first career tour-level match didn't have a fighting chance against the winner of both Wimbledon and the US Open the last two years When Williams' first serve was on it was untouchable She won 20 of 21 points on her serve in the first set and overall she lost just one point when her first serve went in A couple of times ODonoghue ducked to avoid serves near 120 mph Germans headed to finals By Ronald Bham The Associated Press SEOUL South Korea Only one thing could have stopped the singing swaying sea of red It came in the 75th minute off the foot of German midfielder Michael Ballack no stranger to breaking hearts Ending the most improbable run in an upset-filled World Cup Germany advanced to itsrecord sev-enth final with a UwriUnkM 1-0 victory over cohost South Korea on Tuesday night was absolutely Germany defender Carsten Ramelow said are proud to have beaten not only 11 Korean players but the 64000 spectators" South Korea get to paint the nation red for yet another all-night celebration by its millions of devoted fens Instead it was the Germans in white jerseys who repeatedly took virtory laps at Seoul World Cup Stadium thanks to the goal from Ballack off a rebound of his own shot His game-winner came four days after he eliminated tiie United States with a goal on a header in the 1-0 victory in the quarterfinals Little was expected from this team but now it will get a chance to win a fourth Work! Cup for its country the first for a united German team and get the respect accorded the West German champions of 1954 1974 and 1990 The Germans were just too experienced and well organized for South Korea controlling the ball and doing most of the attacking to advance to Sunday's final against Brazil or Turkey in Yokohama Japan They will seek to equal record for World Cup championships but will do so without Ballack suspended after getting his second yellow card of the knockout phase Four minutes before the goal Lee Chun-soo got away from Torsten Flings and went around Ramelow and Ballack pulled down Lee just outside the penalty area I A quick look at tho paoplo (Mining today's sports news Welsh named Big Athlete of the Year Penn State soccer standout Christie Welsh was named the 2002 Suzy Favor Female Athlete of the Year by die Big Ten Tuesday the second Nittany Lion in three yearsto win the award The junior forward who won the Hermann Trophy as die nation's top collegiate soccer player is the first soccer player male or female to be named Athlete of the Year by the conference The threetime All-American also has been the conference's Player of the Year the last three seasons and holds the conference career records for goals (69) gamewinning goals (22) assists (39) said points (177) Welsh also is a Top Five finalist for die Honda Sports Award Fencer Olga Kalinovskaya in 1996 and volleyball's Lauren Cacciamani in 2000 are past winners of the conference award from Ptenn State Minnesota hockey defenseman Jordan Leopold won the Jesse Owens Male Athlete of die Year award Woman faces charges after going on field AUGUSTA NJ-A woman who attended a minor league game with her 8-year-old daughter and her Brownie troop faces disorderly person charges after she went onto the field to argue an umpire's call Lois Collinson hopped the fence Friday night in the bottom of the seventh inning of die New York-Penn League game between New Jersey and Staten Island after the Cardinals' Justin Hileman was thrown out on an infield grounder like die call the umpire made" Chief Michael Reidi of the Sussex County Sheriffs Department told The Star-Ledger of Newark IBy the numbers! Detroit Red Wings goal-tender Dominik Hasek 37 retires with a career record of 288-189-80 61 shutouts a 223 goals against average and one Stanley Cup ITcy In sports? June 26 1910 For the second consecutive year Hazel Hotchkiss wins the singles doubles and mixed doubles tides at the US Lawn Tennis Association championships 1959 Ingemar Johansson knocks out Floyd Patterson in the third round at Yan-kee Stadium to win the world heavyweight title On Television 7 am: Tennis Wimbledon second round TNT 7:25 am: World Cup Turkey vs Brazil ESW 7:30 pm: NBA Draft TNT On Radio 5 pm: Blue White Illustrated WMAf 1450 5:30 pm: Sportsline WRSC1390 WBLF970 6:40 pm: Baseball Montreal vs Pittsburgh WMAJ1450 Ksmsmm 1 ou get on the phone and get your checkbook ready" Steve Yzerman Detroit Red Wings captain on (he search for a goalie after retirement of Dominik Hasek COT photoCrag Houtz Penn State offensive line recruit Lee Lis pi center of Plttston Area High School is reedy to face tome tough competition In this weekend's PSFCA East West All-Star Game In Altoona and later with the Nittany Lions Lispi hopes work in weight room will pay off with Penn State taking Henman despite the easy 6-1 6-3 6-2 win overJean-Francois Bachelot never bought him an ounce of immunity let alone benefit of tiie doubt In feet if anything Geoige Patemo would privately fret that he might have bent too far on the other side of objectivity never wanting to appear guilty of favoritism much like a father coaching his son He had a horror of seeming to come off as house mouse" Often he was the mouse that roared If the Nittany Lions looked stodgy if the head coach was again lapsing into that predictable conservatism if the team was playing without verve and nerve he said so into the microphone into the camera See Patemo Page B4 who hard worker liked him" Penn scholarship Lispi who and drew Michigan said if jump on It was a the Nittany and Courtney watching who Lee's Penn State growing mer Penn is on Pittston facility See Lispi 18 on April 27 a chance to practice in the spring take a redshirt year in 2003 and still have four years of eligibility remaining fine by all of Ray Lispi said going to help tiie team and it's going to help Lee would give me the extra Lee Lispi said just for my age it would be a better opportunity for me so I could be there got that all-important upside and plenty of raw potential but what he doesn't have yet is a ready-for-prime-time body to bang with the Ohio States Mlchigans and Nebraskas of the world got big-time size and a big-time frame and a couple of years in a weight program and going to be a big son of a East coach Ted Jackson Lispi's coach for game said frame now is 295 and he's thin Hell carry 320 in no time at all He's a tough kid and a good drive blocker I think he has some good tilings ahead of Lispi probably as time goes on will get considerably bigger and said Anderson works with the guards and centers a very conscientious kid a good We had him in camp and really State surprised Lispi by offering a last July It didn't take long for also camped at Boston College interest from Pitt NC State and State to pounce on the offer that was the first offer I would said Lispi no-brainer Lispi got hooked on Lions watching LeVar Arrington Brown He spent Saturdays games with his father and grandfather Lee describes as Penn mother Brenda graduated from and lived in the same neighborhood up as Jimmy Cefelo tiie foe State wide receiver whose name High School's new athletic Page B4 By Marc Watazar mweiszerPcentredailycom ALTOONA Penn Lasch Football Building houses a 12000 square-foot weight room Lee Lispi hopes it will help make him a lean mean muscular blocking machine do lift a kit but not like I Lispi said this week in between practices for East-West All-Star game in Mansion Park "I've got to get into a college weight room to transform me" The 6-foot-6 293-pound Lispi from Pitts ton Area High is one of five offensive line recruits Penn State reeled in last February but Lispi likely wont practice with the Nittany Lions this The plan now is for Lispi to delay going on scholarship until January his father Ray said Penn State coach Joe Patemo and Offensive line coach Dick Anderson stopped by the home in Pittston for breakfast before signing day and presented the option to Lispi He will pay his own way in the fell take part-time classes and begin his eligibility in January That would give Lispi who turned Voice of Nittany Lions fades out older brother by two years In that familiar thick and nasal Brook-lynese with tiie names of players sometimes tumbling out in hopelessly yet charmingly mangled fragments Geoige Patemo would look down from his radio booth and call 'em exactly as he saw And the feet that his brother happened to be on his way to winning more games than anyone else in Division I-A history Theo retically no way it should have worked One brother analyzing another? In a public forum? No be way too much tiptoeing No sorry But it worked and it worked because George Paterno made it work made it work with his wit quick and frequently barbed made it work with his uncompromising penchant for saying exactly what he thought blunt as tiie fullback off tackle Across three decades George Paterno described dissected diagrammed and disassembled the football teams of Penn State Who were of course coached by Joe Patemo of whom you might have heard He is tiie COT photoMicMle Klein Penn State football coach Joe Paterno third from right la greeted by friends at the Mass of Christian Burial for his brother George at Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church on Tuesday I.