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The Herald-Sun from Durham, North Carolina • 13

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The Herald-Suni
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Durham, North Carolina
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3 SC0REB0ARDB2 BUSINESSB6 TELEVISI0NB10 MOVIESB11 THE HERALD-SUN THURSDAY JULY 25 J991 Jr competitors beat the heat JUNIOR OLYMPICS Today's echadule Field events Intermedate 01s Javein 7 am young discus 7:15 am youth boys' long Jump 7:45 am bantam boys shot put 8 am IntemecSate boys Javeln 1130 am young women dscus 11:45 am youth boys pole vault noon midget 01s boys N0i Jump 330 pm young women triple Jump 3:45 pm young men long Jump 4 pm bantam gjrts shot put 430 pm Track events 30005000 meters 7 am 400 200 meter hunSes 8:15 am 1500 meter race wait 10:15 am 200 meters 11:15 am 800 meters 330 pm 3000 meter race wait 6:15 pm 4x400 relay 7 45 pm By JIM FURLONG Herald-Sun correspondent CHAPEL HILL Rosemary Harris looked absolutely ex- hausted She dropped to the Fetzer Field grass around 2 pm Wednesday and laid stretched out flat on her back A wet towel completely covered her face as she strained for big gulps of air After a few seconds she reached down to slip off her shoes and socks feel like I've had a really really late late night" Harris said "This heat is like carrying around the sun in your back pocket Everything you do you are sweating" Harris' natural vitality quickly refreshed her after battling 95-degree heat afid' oppressive humidit She wore a big grin when she stood highest on the awards stand to claim her gold medal Competing against 23 other girls Harris of Windsor Conn won the intermediate heptathlon title at the 25th annual US Junior Olympic Track and Field Championships Phyllis Brooks of South Bay Fla and Amanda Thornton of Lincoln Neb also won Junior Olympia tides Brooks finished first in young women's (ages 17-18) heptathlon Thornton extended her impressive winning streak by dominating the midget girls (11-12) pentathlon This morning starting before 7 an invasion will swarm the North Carolina campus As many as 3000 youngsters including dozens of Durham Strid-ers are entered in more than All-Star win goes to Taylor By MIKE POTTER The Herald-Sun FREDERICK Md Scott Taylor went to the Carolina League All-Star Game and showed just why he has been one of the top hurlers in the league aU season The Durham Bulls' ace struck out three in two innings allowing his only baserunner on an error and picked up the decision in the Southern 6-5 win over the North Wednesday night at Harry Grove Stadium was just throwing a little of this a little of nothing said Taylor who won the inaugural Edge Tobaccoless award for the victory "It was fiin to play on this kind of team had a few jitters when I first got out there in the fourth inning but after that everything was all right It helped some that I had my own catcher Javy Lopez replaced by teammate Eddie Perez in the seventh inning I got some good defense behind me and that helped a Lopez wasn't surprised at performance the way been throwing all said the catcher who picked up an RBI on a sacrifice fly in the two-run first inning didn't change anything His slider and fastball were both working very The South's solid defense -made the difference in the game The host North outhit the Southerners 11-7 with three doubles and a home run in the mix But the winners had the better gloves with just one error to the hosts' four had a little better timely hitting than they South manager Brian Graham of Kinston said we make as many mistakes as they The South also got good pitching under pressure as Kinston's Mike Soper came on with the tying run on second in he seventh inning and got Daryl Ratliff to ground out to short Lynchburg's Boo Moore won the Star of award despite the defeat as he went three-for-four and scored a run Moore who is hitting 245 with 11 homers but has struck out 99 times with just 25 walks said he is on a hot streak right now was just lucky tonight 1 Moore said been taking extra bp batting practice lately and tonight I got some pitches I could NOTES Moore and Taylor had actually tied for the see ALL-STARSB3 50 field events races racewalks and relays Harris a powerfully built 5-8 and 157 pounds totaled a personal-best 4352 points She finished ahead of second-place Shaundra Smith (4247 points) of Belle Glade Fla and Satski Mitchell of Mercer Island Wash (4039) me this is my best performance because of the competition said the 16-year-old Harris the current Connecticut prep champion "I'm impressed I'm glad I didn't come for a letdown I think about what the others could do I did what I had to Harris during seven events over two days won the javelin and shot put She placed third in 200 meters and fourth for 100 high hurdles The 5-6 Brooks 35 see JUNIORSB4 COOL CHAMPION: Phyllis Brooks of South Bay Fla gets sprayed after winning 17-18 heptathlon Gutsy Duke recruit Redmon takes decathlon vii7r7ijTi wit to party but I need a Duke TL TUAN REDMON Blue Devi footbal recruit By DAVID GOETZL I The Herab-Sun CHAPEL HILL Tijan Redmon came to North Carolina with hopes of escaping the unrelenting South Florida heat After two days of sweat and lactic acid bums that caused a collapse at the finish line of the young men's 17-18 decathlon competition he will now leave NC knowing it's not exactly Ithaca New York That knowledge all Redmon will walk away from the 25th US Junior Olympic Track Field Championships with Redmon also exits with a gold medal strong around his rather sizable neck Redmon who will return to the Carolina heat next month as a fresh man running back at Duke snagged the decathlon gold Wednesday evening To do it he fought off 95-degree temperatures a pulled groin muscle a seven-and-a-half hour pole vault competition a' mediocre performance in the 110-meter hurdles and perhaps the biggest obstacle of all: the silent treatment Redmon of the Track Florida team held a 117-point lead over second-place finisher David Pelosi entering the 1500-meter run the final event Pelosi was unable to beat Redmon by the 13 'seconds needed to take tary buzz met for the first time Tuesday watched him throughout the meet and thought he deserved to Doyle said knew I have a chance of finishing in the top six so I ran to help the other people I kept yelling to Tijan it push Redmon was able to overcome a discouraging first day in the competition see RECRUITB4 the overall title Redmon ran the taxing race with his left leg wrapped in an Ace-bandage holster to protect his aggravated groin but said it did not bother him so wired on Advil I feel Redmon said An exhausted Redmon crossed the finish and fell into the arms of event officials Paul Doyle of Holliston Mass helped pace Redmon Redmon with his flat-top haircut and Doyle with his mili Motorsports inductees American basketball wins University gold West All-Stars rip East 41-14 By AL CARSON The Herald-Sun GREENSBORO The East was in a giving mood and the West mind taking The East surrendered a 200 lead in the first quarter which allowed West to roll to a 41-14 victory -in the North Carolina Coaches Associa- tion East-West High School All-Star Football at Grimsley High's Jamieson Stadium Wednesday night The East fumbled on the opening kickoff and the West's Chucky Aiken recovered and ran for a touchdown with only eight seconds gone in the game Northern High quarterback Judd Welbom was on target but twice had passes bounce off receiv-" ers to become interceptions setting up West touchdowns He was 9-of-16 passing for 130 yards but had four passes intercepted Welbom had some trouble with the center snap fumbling four times but he battled back and helped the East drive for two touchdowns to trim the lead to 20-14 at the half cant give them 20 said East coach Chip Gill from Southern High still thought we could come back We regained our composure and started doing some' see ALL-STARSB4 Associated Russ reports SHEFFIELD England Bobby Hurley now has a gold medal to go with the national championship trophy The Duke play-maker and his American teammates completed a perfect run through the World University Games by crushing Canada 96-56 in Wednesday's final joining the United States team in a sweep of the basketball tides 'To represent your country and see the flag go up it really feels said Hurley a point guard on the US team that had to settle for silver at last Goodwill Games summer I was on a team that win so it feels good The Americans who won their six games by an average of 40 points were too quick inside for a Canadian squad that never recovered from a 10-0 run by the Americans midway through the first half The US team led 40-23 at halftime and blew it open early in the second half scoring 29 of the first 37 points after intermission North Carolina's Hubert Davis and Calbert Cheaney of Indiana had 14 points each to lead the Americans Rodney Rogers had 12 points George Lynch had 11 and Eric Anderson had 10 Davis led the US in scoring averaging almost 18 points per game for the tournament He also had the best 3-point field-goal percentage of the tournament is the best team I've ever played said Anderson a senior at Indiana this team could be kept intact it could win a national championship" Spencer McKay led Canada with 15 points and point guard Joel Vickery had 13 No other Canadian had more than six in the game played before nearly 7500 "We hung in there the first 20 min-see UNIVERSITYB4 Ned Jarrett Carroll Shelby and Tim Flock were Inducted last night Into the Motorsports Hall of Fame Story on B5 iti twfiStff -fr 0ii itin Ara i iA ymr £31 BS.

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