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C4 Monday August 11 1997 SPORTS San Luis Obispo County TetefranvTribune Irabu set to return tolknks MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Hideki second chance with the New Irabu will start against the Kansas City Royals that afternoon at Yankee Stadlum taking Dwight place in tiie rotation man-i ilbrrei agerJoel GOLF SECOND CHANCE: Craig Tomlinson lobbies officials for penalty as Jeremy Ransom gets a save David MMdteeaMpTeJegram-Tribune Roadrunners got a penalty shot two minutes ran off tiie dock it became dear a championship was a championship no matter the score Just to do it again is unreal got goose bumps on my tegs right now" said Beilke following the victory before an estimated 1600 tans "The only other time I've ever felt that this was last year when we won the finals and this year when we beat the Jaguars to play the Clash Three times in my life and I swear tiie tiie best Besides receiving his championship medal Beilke also received a special plaque for his league-leading 118 goalsagainst average USISL Commissioner Francisco Marcos was on hand for the postgame ceremony suggesting that this be the last title for a few years in order to avoid a monopoly by the organization He was retorted by a jeering crowd "But nothing SLO about be joked Gooden baa been pushed back to Friday with Kenny Rogers returning to the bullpen oncehe recovers from a back injury that flared in 94 win over the Minnesota Twins The injury is not believed to be serious Torre said those decisions were made before game The Yankees wanted Gooden available to pitch in relief Sunday he didn't get in the game or Monday That meant moving bis next start back which made room for Irabu to return Wednesday Tbrre said Gooden who matched a career bw by lasting just twothinls of an inning toss to the Twins was unmoved by tiie shift cool" he said have a problem with that ff I don't get in (Monday) it just gives me time to work on the Irabu the controversial Japanese right-hander who shunned tiie San Diego Padres before signing a $124 million four-year deal with the Yankees was 2-2 with a 797 ERA in four games with New York last month i He struck out nine to beat Detroit in his under league debut at Yhnkee Stadium on July 10 but he had 4 1054 ERA in his next three starts and was demoted to Triple-A Columbus He was outstanding with the Clippers posting a 24 record and a L20 ERA He struck out 11 in eight innings in his last start beating Richmond last Wednesday The Yankees also have added! Billy Connors the pitching coordinator to the team for tiie remainder of tiie season to watch over Irabu Career ends for Jackson CHICAGO (AP)-San Diego lefthander Danny Jackson announced his retirement Sunday alter 15 seasons with seven teams He compiled a 112-131 career record and 441 ERA in 353 major league games This season he was 24 with a 758 ERA in 17 games (13 starts) for the Cardinals and Padres San Diego acquired Jackson in a six-player trade with St Louis on June 13 involving Fernando Valenzuela who was later released by the Cardinals time to go home and be with my said Jackson who lives in the Kansas City area with his wife two sons and two daughters know Pm done with the game' Jackson also played with City (198347) Cincinnati (198690) Chicago (199142X Pittsburgh (1992) and Philadelphia (199844) An All-Star in 1988 and 1994 Jackson pitched for two World Series champions (1985 Royals and 1990 Reds) three pennant winners and five division champions He is theonly player in major league history to appear in a League Championship Series with five different dubs Jackson's best season was 1968 when he went 234 with a 272 ERA fin-Cincinnati and finished second to Orel Hershiser in the NL Cy Young voting Tve had my up years when won 20 games and had my down years when lost Jack-son said had everything you could want in He has spent the last three sot-sons fighting health and injury RUNNERS from Page C-1 served second goaL Sanchez would chalk up the assist for footwork second goal was more of a relief" said Tbbias "It was good to finally bang one With a 2-0 deficit blazing in the Expos' faces with just six minutes to play quitting was never an option were a man down and still battling us like said Alan Beilke were just as big a threat with 10 men as 11 They deserve all the respect in the Cocoa's unwanted determination finally paid off with a 88th minute goal when Damian Willoughby scored off a free kick tbom just outside tiie penalty box Miscommunication and a blocked view prevented Beilke from honing in on the pitch "When it happens like that he said But nobody cared As those final MIMHB fmm paafl r-1 irom rage o-i a chance of promoting themselves the sport and being accepted and respected by the Respect is something the Roadrunners have earned and not just locally but all around tiie country By being ahle to challenge the Clash so evenly word is sure to spread that San Luis Obispo takes its soccer very seriously are obviously a very good outlet far local talent Bryan Taylor st LA and Bryan being named MVP pfiast tournament and going to 1 making it with the Galaxy gives players here an opportunity of feeling that they know there is a said Marcos "If it happened to Taylor and tiie team was only a year old for sure three or four of these guys this year are going to probably get a look So Monarchs WNBA SACRAMENTO Latasha Byears had a season-high 23 points and grabbed eight rebounds Sunday night as Sacramento beat the New York Liberty 7649 tiie Monarchs' third straight victory after a ninegame teeing streak Bridgette Gordon had 19 points and Ruthte Bolton-Holifield added 15 points seven rebounds and four assists for the Monarchs (8-14X who put together their first three-game winning streak of the WNBA season Kym Hampton scored a season-high 17 points for the Liberty (156) and Vickie Johnson added 13 The lead in the Eastern Conference was trimmed to (me game Arshak AbyanU banded the San Gabriel Valley Highlanders their winning goal Saturday night in the thirdidace match of the USISL Premier League National Championship against the Mid Michigan Bucks Grant Shakhbazyan scored first in the game for San Gabriel with an unassisted cross that somehow found its way into the net Mid Mike Rawlins responded in tiie 34th minute on an assist from Paul Snape tying the gameatl-L Just a minute later Ron! Der Saarklssian picked up a 50-yard arching pass from Vrezh Shak-bandaryan 30 yards from tiie goaL He handled things from there tallying a 2-1 Highlander tead at the half Shakhbazyan assisted Abyanli's winning goal in the 88th minute The Bucks would add their last goal with just 0:11 to play off a penalty kick from Snape anywhere near an MLS dty" White San Luis Obispo may have to wait a few years for soccer to fliDy cement before it can expand Roadrunners bead coach Dan To-bias may not Tobias has mentioned an interest in coaching at the A-League level Tm going to help him do said Marcos he decides to try something higher next season rm certainly going to get his name cir cling Either wax the Central Coast Roadrunners have put San Lula Obispo on the soccer map Where and it go from here la any- mission is to make soccer thrive in said Marcos "Ibis is mid-America" eight seconds left for toe final score Kkn Perrot was ttw dfflarence In ttw game' Comets coach VSn Clwnoettor said 11 Perrot hadn't mode that three (at 12) Guyton's two wouldn't have Swoopee entered ttw game wtth 135 go krttwHrat half and ttw Comets tral- to go In kvj 17-8 ttw biggsat dotted of the Drat half She played for me minutes and took her first WNBA shot which was partially ahot Unde Burgee She played In ttw second half Tier performance was about right on srheiMo rtiwroSor ielri Inrreeiofl her minutes but we're not going to tiy to do too much at once Pm Mi amazed at how unaalfleh ah to' Tbmecka Dixon afenoet won It for ttw Sparta She lad Los Angelas wNh 21 potato 10 of them over ttw final 12 minutes of ttw game Toler added 18 potato Cynthia Cooper hod 17 potato tor ttw Comets and Thompson added 14 1 and 10 rebounds it becomes a magnet we go to SLO things will happen Such an image is something teams throughout the leagues want to achieve providing a testament to the quality of people general manager Larry Smyth has assembled to orchestrate the Roadrunners operation As far as growing into an A-League city Marcos explains that it is all a matter of finances and whether the community would respond favorably The A-League is the top professional league behind the MLS and requires a $500000 yearly operating base "Certainly a team could thrive said Marcos Luis Obispo falls into the category of what I call the potential SCARSDALE NY A stunning American combination erf youthfol talent and rock-solid experience was simply too much for Britain-Ireland as the US team reclaimed the Walker Cup 184 on Sunday Altar a near-sweep of the morning matches the United States needed just one point in the eight singles matches to reclaim foe it surrendered when the Tiger Woods-led team lost 14-10 in Wales two years ago The winning point came fittingly when John Harris the veteran star of the US team won the 13th hole to dose out Michael Brooks 6 and 5l Perhaps even more fittingly it came with a par after Brooks missed a short putt a perfect symbol of the problems Britain-Ireland had all weekend The match gave the US team an insurmountable lead with seven matches still on the course been a couple of years of remembering what went on in Wales" said Harris who was 4-0 this weekend and is 64 in Walker Cup singles play in his career came here on a mission This is really very satisfying" The victory gave the United States a 31-4-1 record in the amateur team competition first played in 1922 Joel Kribel who fell 2 and 1 to Steven Ybung was the only American to lose in Sunday1! singles play Jason Gore halved his match with Craig Watson PGA-Buick Open GRAND BLANC Mich admits one of those i the toaderboard He' QOfTRfS wno i had tofts "fSin3i saw sSttSrd-round leader Ernie Els who had said the Buick Open was hie Els wfio had said the Buick Open to win or lose wasn't making charge Whan Eli backed up to the pack It cleared the way tor Singh to aam his second vlctoiy of the year 1 thought Ernie would win this today' Sini said "But alter the front nine we were aH bunched up So on the back I Just got my tai up" While Els the reigning US Open champion could produce just one brae al day Singh played almost perfect golf shoowg a oHjnder-par 66 fora15-under 273 total that was four strokes batter than six others tackxSng Els who dosed with 74 Curtis Strange Joe OzaU Russ Cochran Brad Febto and Tom Byrum al tied with Els at 277 Ozaki doted wttt a 69 Cochran and Byrom 67s Strange and Fabel 71s at Warwick HMs Country Club NorthvHa Long Wand JERICHO NY The joy of Dana first professional victory was quickly tampered father fs death SfSt in the SI made a 214-foot par putt on the hole to defeat Jay Sgel end or PGA third million Senior Northvlle Ctaseic on Sunday After the presentation Tour Quigley received a phone cal from brother Paul Informing him that 82-year-old Wallace Quigley had succumbed to cancer only hours sailer at a hospital in Providence RL 1 saw him on Thursday and seriously thought about withdrawing from the tournament Quigley laid through tears 1 dtant win soon enough for hsn I wished ha could have seen me win 1 should have known he was getting worse since I received tour phone cals from my famfy this i one and one remember this day I LPGA-Frtondly'e Classic AGAWAM Maas Deb Richard shot a 5-under-par 67 Sunday and held off a late charge from Chris Johnson for a one-gke victory in the LPGA Friendly's Johnson who dosed with a 68 eagled the par-5 17th to go 10-under but the could only per No 18 and finished with a 278 total at the 6381-yard Crestvtew Country CM) course Richard than had trouble on No 16 and had to na! a 1-foot putt for bogey but I was enough to keep her at 11-under and avoid a playoff Brandie Burton was third at 280 after a ctostaj) 68 and Pat Hurst had a 71 to Mih Czech Ooen KARLSTEJN Czech Republic -1 his 50th ca Bemtwnf Langer claimed I tournament victory at the Czech Open on Sunday firing a bogey-free 8-under-par 63 to win by four stroma over third-round leaders Ignado Garrido and Nietos Faath 1 ajbaam y4jk jyuiAAjlak taj LonOOr WiO inOVeO into GOnNnQOn W1U1 a 64 In ttw tfwd round finished the $128 mllon event at 264 20-under for Iris third European PGA triumph of ttw season US Women's Amateur NEWTON Mate Silvia CavaDeri to going home to Europe with the US women's Amateur Utto On Saturday she became ttw first Italian native to win ttw tournament as Robin Burta failed to join her husband as a major championship winner Cavaleri was 5-up after ttw first 18 holes of match play and won ttw two-round final 5 and 4 when both goffers conceded short putts on ttw 13i noto of ttw rain-delayed afternoon round 1 don't realize yet whet I means' Cavaleri said "Whan I go home HI think back to ttito week' Burke 34 wasn't bom when her hue-band Jack now 74 won ttw PGA and Masters championships in 1956 They met 13 years ago In Houston where ilw went to him for putting tips Cavaleri 24 Is the flret Nalan native to win any ol ttw US God Association's 13 national championship And tow's only the second European folowtag France's Catherine Lacoste In 1969 to ww the US Amateur showing few signs of letting up All-tournament team members included Jeremy Oetman Clay Italy Munoz and Befika a coach I was i with our level of summed up Tobias says that on tiie Central Coast we get the kind of support that is needed to keep this type of soccer coming added general manager Larry Smyth As far as the significance of achieving every goal they set this year and defending their national title most of the Roadrunners were too busy cherishing the moment to realize the consummation guess it hit me yet" said Oetman really sunk in" Don't worry plenty of time to think about it and plenty of time to celebrate San Gabriel Valley Highlanders 3 Mid Michigan Bucks 2 (been Bay of Green 100JXX) population is known throughout tiie country for ruling the football worid in fan support and commitment The marketing ambition from a ticket point of view is to be ahle to get to a point where we can basically count on 5JXX) people coming to most games in most explained Marcos nowhere near that now as a Marcos would like to see teams be able to pull in 3JX to 500 fins on a regular basis no different than AAA he said noting that such cities are big enough for success yet not near traditional baseball towns certainly want to be Guyton scored the winning basket Saturday as Houston railed over tfie Los i Sparks i who gave birth to her eon Jordan Eric Jackson on June 25 played live minutes on Thursday night againet Phoenix in her WNBA debut and got in another eight plus minutes against ttw Sparks This is what I want to Swoopss said "gradually work my way back Into ttw Ineup and contribute more I don't expect to play a lot of minutes I juet want to leam the plays and not mess up any of the team Perrot hft a pair of 3-polnt basket ov the Inal 2:44 mat kept She Comats in tie After Loe Angelas took a 6642 lead with 333 to go Parrots pointer wlh 2:44 to go cut I to 6845 and her Spotter with 1:42 to play gave the Comets a 70- 66 lead Los i Angelas Penny 7-foot onda left but Guyton went back ahead 71-70 on jumper with 2ft na hnt uJtfi tymi hkx wan said guy was crying when we got back to the lodge: Tve been here 30 years never caught a you know how to fish for them I answered over the Houston Comets New York's Rebecca Lobo was held to seven points cm 2-of4 shooting and one rebound in 38 minutes Lobo who did Nock three shots but also committed eight turnovers struggled last week against Los Angeles when she was 2cf-14 from tiie field and finished with four points The Monarchs shot 48 percent from tiie field (26-for-54) while New York was 26-for-62 (42 percent) Sacramento had 10 more points than the Liberty at the foul line going 21-far-29 compared to tiie ll-for-13 The game at Arco Arena drew a crowd of 10162 Comets 72 Sparta 71 HOUSTON siwiyTSwoopes took another step In her comeback from chld-bklti but Kim Perrot made the difference with a season Njji 19 point end Wends the fass was about know what it said Joe Sweeney marketing agent understand tiie significance of 'Havre was fishing for walleye was no big deal for Havre Playing football not only talent Attention GREEN HAY Wis (AP) Brett Havre it turns out is as fine a fisherman as he is a football player Or at least as charmed an angler as he is a great athlete The two-time MVP who led the Green Bay Packers to their first Super Bowl in 29 years last 1 recently accomplished what countless others have failed to achieve during a lifetime of trying No not winning another football trophy but reeling in a trophy fish White taping a commercial and fishing show on a small lake outside Minocqua in northern Wisconsin Havre caught a 36-inch foll-bod-ied muskte on his second cast Any angler will tell you a 1-in-10000 kind of catch And for a novice? like a golfer hitting a hate-in-one tm his second swing ever a gambler hitting the jackpot on his second pulL Yet Havre had no idea what all ILWIHIMr COMPUTER SHOW SALE Pay Retail Prices Fairgrounds at Santa Marla ONE DAY 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