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THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL MEMPHIS FRIDAY MAY 19 1989 St wins 2nd straight title PRIDE OF MISSISSIPPI CASINO ACTION Luxury Liner Leaving Gulfport Dally 1 to 2 Day Cruise In The Gulf of Mexico FREE ROOM-f 00D-KVEUGE MVCSUMi Turkeys avenge loss with win over Chattanooga Baylor Shelby Metro area are Natalie Kaplan and Shelly Reed of White Station Noa Klnoshita and Sa-toml Nonaka of Lausanne Sacks and Meredith Childs of St and Robin Dalton and Tonya Katsoull of Ridgeway 3985 SINGLES AND DOUBLES TENNIS: Defending champion Germantown's Chip Stearns believes his route to the state boys singles title will be tougher than that of Montgomery Bell Bill Cherry last year's runner-up Boys and girls singles and doubles tournaments start today and finish Saturday in Nashville Stearns who plays Mike Oiser of Johnson City Science Hill today at 8:30 am in the first round is in the same bracket as archrival Christian Bobby Marienchek They could meet Saturday in the semifinals Other Shelby-Metro players in the boys singles tournament are White Alex Kaplan and Robert Stearns Shelby-Metro girls in the tournament are Craigmont's Titanla Turner and Hutchison's Jennifer Hurt Defending champion Susan Gilchrist of Lausanne is not expected to participate because of graduation exercises Shelby Metro teams in boys doubles are Memphis University Matt Rosenberg and Home and Sarko Kish and Chris Lee Pat Vernon and Chris Vernon of Germantown and Chris Williams and Eric Schio-dicke of Germantown Girls doubles teams from the victory came when No 4 Jennifer Cates defeated Stacy Goldate 6463 Sacks beat Alexis Guerry 60 63 Holden missed the loss to Baylor because of an injury but beat Katherine Price 62 63 Chiles normally plays in the top three but played No 5 in the state tournament because she missed some of the regions Is She did not lose a game in the semifinals or the finals In the boys semifinals Germantown and Knoxville Bearden were tied 3-3 with the match riding on the doubles match between Chris Woodruff and Devin Cundall and Germantown's Chip Stearns and his brother Robert Woodruff and Cundall won the first set 63 and took the second 7-6 (7-6 in the tiebreaker) But Baylor which beat Montgomery Bell Academy 61 in the semifinals easily handled Bear den in the boys final Elsewhere: 1 SOFTBALL: Both Shelby Metro teams Sky-View in Class A and Germantown in Class AAA won one of two games in state tournament play at Chattanoo The St girls tennis team avenged its only loss of the season and won its second consecutive state championship 4-1 over Chattanooga Baylor Thursday at Centennial Tennis Center in Nashville was a lot of pressure on us trying to repeat" Turkeys coach Becky Hays said only thing better than winning it once is winning it In the boys tournament Germantown lost to Knoxville Bearden 4-3 in the semifinals The Chattanooga Baylor boys beat Bearden 4-1 in thefinals St Mary's (14-1) shut out Knoxville Webb 5-0 Thursday in the semifinals Baylor whose victory over St came in the season opener beat Harpeth Hall 4-1 in the other semifinal The closest match of the finals was No 3 Elaina Fulgham's 6-1 3-6 6-3 victory over Michelle Kadrie who had beaten Fulgham in the opener No 1 Wendy Sacks No 2 Taylor Holden and No 5 Meredith Chiles won easily Baylor's only A0ER1DM RACING TONIGHT AT 7:30 PM WEEKEND TV SPORTS I MO MS West Memphis All dd mower is worth at least ga They are still alive in the double-elimination event In Class A Sky-View lost its first-round game to defending champion Ezell-Harding 12-2 Jill Booth pitched a one-hitter struck out eight and walked one Booth would have had her sixth no-hitter of the season but Felicia Cook singled in the fifth inning Sky-View came back to eliminate Spring Hill 262 The Lady Hawks had 20 hits Including a home run by Jennifer Jackson Sky-View has a rematch with Ezell-Harding today at 9 am In Ann Porter (16 2) made a three-run fifth Inning stick as Germantown beat Chattanooga Red Bank 3-2 in the first round In the second round Brentwood shut out Germantown 34) Germantown faces Chattanooga Red Bank today at 9 am In Class AA Covington beat David Lipscomb 63 and Sequatchie County 34) DECATHLON: Antonio London of Tullahoma leads the state competition after the first day at Brentwood Academy London has 4400 points followed by Franklin Jay Foster 4160 Nashville Overton Micha Otis 4135 Brentwood Academy's Jason Patrick 4040 and Chris Michael From Page D1 Dodger gone to ever bounce back When Valenzuela took the mound against the Mets Wednesday he not only was winless this season but had not won since June 14 After six starts record was 63 his ERA 491 His prospects seemed as much in doubt as they did in July when Fernando was disabled for the first time ever because of a sore left shoulder Lots of culprits including too many screwballs and not enough caution were blamed But to his credit and undoubtedly to the relief Fernando never partook in the finger-pointing Instead he has channeled what could have been negative energy into his comeback Extensive rehabilitation to regain arm strength still on And a new motion to e-mlnate harmful pitching patterns was incorporated The pain is gone now But the old Fernando still not back The fastball of respectable velocity has slipped drastically from its 87-89 mph range He more often clocked at about 77 In one start Valenzuela reportedly did not throw faster than 75 mph In his start prior to Wednesday's game he was by the Cardinals in the second inning having allowed five hits and five earned runs But what people forget Los Angeles pitching coach Ron Pep ranoski said is that Valenzuela shut out the Cardinals for seven Innings in his previous start will see improvement but there will be peaks and valleys" PerranoskI said have to remember he didn't throw a ball in competition from July through August He spent all winter in physical therapy" He's had to build something up that was damaged Conversely Valenzuela could make some demands of his own and be Justified in doing so Little demands such as some runs some laughers In his six starts prior to Wednesday the Dodgers scored a total of 11 runs on his behalf Seven runs were in one ROOFING We Cbr De ll For Yen Buy fra -I gowioowo yaa fraat 30 yr Owanf-Carninf Rbarflaii CE Thompson Buildsrway MOO iOUTMHN AVI IM-44U The following gives the weekend's top sports events achedulad for television Today BASEBALL: S40 pjn WGN: Chicago Cuba at Cincinnati BASEBALL: M0 pun WWOffc San Francisco at New York Mata PRO BASKETBALL: 7 pj -TBS: New York Knlcks at Chicago Saturday TENNIS: Noon USA: Italian Opan QOLF: 1 pjn WREQ (3k PGA Southwestern Bail Colonial BASEBALL: 1 pjn WMC (5): San Francisco at New York Mats BOWLING: 3 WHBQ (13k PSA AAW Fair Lanas Classic HOUSE RACING: 340 pjn -ESPN: The Pteakneaa Stakes pre- PRO BASKETBALL 200 pjn WREG (3): Phoenix at Los Angeles Laksrs HORSE RACING: 340 pjn WHBQ (13k The Preakness Stakes AUTO RACMG: 400 pun ESPN: Indianapolis 500 time trials BASEBALL: pjn 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second-highest total put together for him this season But when Valenzuela departed after six innings he had to settle for a moral victory allowed the Mets only five hits and six walks but three earned runs Yet the Dodgers gave him only three runs In support So that winless streak slipped up another notch to 16 consecutive starts After Wednesday performance he sounded encouraged walked three or four on close pitches But no matter how many walks I threw the ball pretty good I was surprised it (his control) was all right' Va-to not iy 4 be- lenzuela said referrin having pitched since cause of rainouts The Dodgers are not alone in pulling for Fernanda The Mets' Sid Fernandez a former teammate watches and hopes for Fernando you dominate for so many years people expect a Fernandez said he win 24 games every KICKERS U-19 Boys Tryouts May 20 2 pm Sun May 21 11 am Wilson Field For info: 369-6606 Sat taanGEre- mcmniMsn nas So Closs ifiod oDttoils Decision delayed on WMKW change Louis at Atlanta BASEBALL: pjn WGN: Chicago Cuba at OndnnatL Sunday GOLF: Noon WMC (5k Mazda LPGA Championship PRO BASKETBALL: Noon WREG (3k Chicago vs New York or Detroit SSSSSil 1 1 WM pjn WWOR: San Francisco at New York AUTO RACING: 1 pjn WHBQ (13k NASCAR Winston 500 BASEBALL: 1 pjn TBS: 81 Louis at Atlanta BASEBALL: 1 pjn WGN: Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati BOXING: pjn WMC (5k Glenn Brown vs Dick Tiger GOLF: £30 pjn WREG (3k PGA Southwestern Bell CotoniN BOXING: 340 pjn WHBQ (13): Jorge Paez vs Louis Espinoza AUTO RACING: 4 pjn ESPN: Indlanapolia 500 time trials BASEBALL: 040 pjn USA: Italian Open COLLEGE BASEBALL: 040 pjn ESPN: Arizona vs Mlami-Fla at Chapal HW NC Staff Reporter He talked to Warner about the proposed switch discussed Cavagnaro said was asking my advice I Just told him I think it would be the right thing to do told him I thought it would be confusing to the public I think their natural reaction would be that the station was a university Cavagnaro said the university applied for the call letters for its campus radio station several years ago but the call letters were in use SportsChannel America has signed an agreement with Notre Dame to become the national carrier for Fighting Irish sports events a pact that will represent an unprecedented amount of coverage of a university by a national cable network The agreement between SportsChannel and Notre Dame begins this fall and games will be telecast nationally via SortsChannel's regional filiates and through cable operation that carry programming on a stand-alone basis SportsChannel America is not available on Memphis-area cable systems According to terms of the agreement SportsChannel will have rights to live coverage of Notre Dame football and basketball games not carried on national television rebroadcast rights to all Notre Dame football games and weekly telecasts of the Lou Holtz and Digger Phelps coach's shows Television which forced the Chicago Cubs to install lights at Wrlgley Field last season for night games is moving a Cubs night game to the afternoon next weekend NBC Sports will exercise its authority to switch the game time of the CubsCindnnatl Reds game May 27 from 7:05 pm to 14)5 pm to accommodate a national television audience An NBC spokesman said Tuesday the network any SuMctlocidSipnwl Foiictchaigaw4Uccw)aalaiaawhchwitliiaiThaAPPaiartactewrat iwPhoiaa atloltccnwdlwwf aniinaiirincachtigaa not satisfied with the performance of your Snapper product return I within 14 deya after purchase tor a full refund Applies to new Snapper lawn and garden products purchased at pertidpeting dealers tor noncommercial uee See your dealer tor details AT PARTICHWING DEALERS NelyaMwaliNiyeSiarpioiBahaw I a snap with a Snapper MSU uneasy about move SMKW-TV (Channel 30) has been considering changing its call letters to WMSU but nas delayed making the change because Memphis State officials are uneasy about the proposed switch and how it would be perceived before the university awards its television rights for Tiger basketball WWPTY-TV (Channel 24) and Creative Sports Marketing of North Can have bid for the i Carolina to carry Memphis State basketball Memphis State is expected to TV-RADIO announce the winning bid in about two weeks WMKW general manager Jim Warner confirmed that MT Communications which owns the station applied for the new call letters but has refrained from making the change because of Memphis State's concern two months ago an educational station somewhere gave up the call letters WMSU" Warner said felt they were unique so we applied for them to use them here when we talked to (MSU athletic director) Charlie (Cavagnaro) he decided if we activated those on our takeover it might place him in a compromising situation in making a decision on the basketball rights And if the rights were to come our way in a bid process we certainly didn't want to place him in an embarrassing situation so we held MT Communications recently bought WMKW from the TVX Corporation MT Communications also owns a station in Nashville WMKW signed on six years ago and was named for its first owner Memphian Kemmons Wilson call letters (WMSU) are still ours for some time and we will make a decision further down the road on Warner said are still very Interested in them They are unique call letters I think anyone hears the letters MSU without connecting them to i' Cavagnaro said he was more worried that people would hear the call letters and make a connection wlthjhe university URRYl OFFER ENDS SOON 3 PARTICIPATING Get help for' sexual impotence lake the first step toward recovery Attend a free educational seminar and informal discussion covering the causes and treatments fix male impotence A panel of physicians and patients will he able to answer your questions This seminar is another example of our commitment to helping people improve their lives Eastwood Medical Center Respected care Unexpected attention Seating ii limited so call (901) 7942861 now to reserve your place Thursday May 25 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