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Local Digest D2 Major Leagues D3 Scoreboard D4 Kicking it off Silver Black push proceedings aside for an 'fa- exhibition game against; St. Louis. PAGE D3 Borland opens Nasdaq market CEO Dale Fuller 1 kicks off day of trading in New York. BUSINESS, PACE D6 A NT A CRUZ SENTINE lea, Editor: Mark Conley, 429-2417 SPORTS Impressive local lineup for S.C. City Am 2002 champ Marc Lawless will use this year's City Am as a tuneup for the U.S.

Amateur later this month. Dan Coyro Sentinel file Santa Cruz CHy Am WHEN: Saturday-Sunday, start. WHERE: DeLaveaga G.C. DEFENDING CHAMPION: Marc Lawless. OTHER LOCALS TO WATCH: Issac Weintraub, Nate Smith, Eddie Olson, Bobby Powers, Joe Hlavaty, Steve Pacheco, Peter Israel DeLaveaga is a shotmaker's course.

Being long off the tee doesn't mean much, even on the 537-yard 10th hole or 504-yard 17th. Isaac Weintraub, who had a solid showing at the U.S. Public Links Championship last month, points to his short game as the breakpoint. "I always hit the ball pretty much the same (off the tee)," said Weintraub, a former star at Santa Cruz High who was the 2001 DeLaveaga men's club champion and the No. 1 scorer for San Jose State last season.

"It depends on how my chipping and putting works. This is a big tournament. My nerves will be there. If they weren't, I wouldn't be playing." See CITY AM on PAGE D2 ByJIMSEIMAS SENTINEL STAFF WRITER SANTA CRUZ The last time Aptos' Marc Lawless played DeLaveaga Golf Course was last August, when he earned a 5-stroke victory at the Santa Cruz City Amateur. But the former Ail-American for Cal State Stanislaus says he isn't at a disadvantage as he returns to defend his title in the two-day, 36-hole tournament that begins "I know.all I need to know," said the former Aptos High and Cabrillo College star, "I just need to hit the shots." Each August, dozens of local golfers and talented out-of-towners flock to the par-72 course, claiming to know it like back of their hand.

This year, Lawless is one of 12 golfers in the championship flight carrying a plus-handicap (less than zero). The tournament also has three handicapped flights, a women's flight and a senior men's flight. Players like Lawless say a stacked championship flight is of little concern. How he plays is all that stands between him and the title. "If you're meant to win it, you'll win it, regardless of who is there," said Lawless, who is using the tournament as a warmup for the Amateur Aug.

18-24. "If it's your week, it'll happen." NATIONAL CLUB WATER POLO TOURNEY Zito still can't buy a victory A's lefty hasn't won in a month SENTINEL WIRE SERVICES New guy makes good for Giants Hammonds' homer wins it SENTINEL WIRE SERVICES K. Ok DETROIT The Detroit Tigers gave themselves and their fans a chance to forget about a miserable season for one afternoon. Eric Munson hit a three-run homer, and the Tigers kept Barry Zito winless in more than a month with a 3-2 victory over the Oakland A's on Thursday. Detroit has won just 30 games while every other team in baseball has more than 40 and is on I SAN FRANCISCO Two months ago, Jeffrey Hammonds was out of baseball wondering when he'd get another chance.

Hammonds got that opportunity with San Francisco and on pace to threat- en the mod few? 4rJpw rJB Thursday hit his first homer for the Giants, a two-run shot that broke a seventh-inning tie for a 7-5 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates. ern major league record of 120 losses set by the 1962 New York Mets. But none of that stopped the crowd of 19,664 from Giants 7, Pirates 5 TODAY'S GAME Phillies at Giants TIME: 7:15 p.m. Tigers 3, A's 2 TODAY'S GAME A's at White Sox TIME: 5:05 p.m. TV: Channel 36 1 1 I it 4 'Hi i Former Olympians hand UCSC group a royal throttling By FRED DREIER SENTINEL CORRESPONDENT SANTA CRUZ Their shooting.

Their passing. Their size. The way they swim circles around you. UC Santa Cruz senior water polo player Casey Moon wastes no breath describing what separates Olympic-caliber water polo "I was at home sitting on the couch wondering if I'd ever hit another one," Hammonds said. "It's a blessing I'm here." San Francisco took two of three from the Pirates at Pacific Bell Park and have taken 10 straight series against them since May 1999.

"It's disappointing because we came back," said Pirates manager Lloyd McClendon. "We had many opportunities. We didn't cash in." It was 5-5 when Jose Cruz Jr. drew a leadoff walk in the Giants seventh from Brian Boehringer (5-3). Hammonds tried to sacrifice but fouled it off before homering into the left-field stands on a 3-2 pitch.

"He's a quality player who knows what needs to be done," said Cruz. "We have guys here who have been successful in the major leagues. There's no lack of confidence." Hammonds started the year with Milwaukee and hit 58 with a home run and three RBIs in 10 games. He was released by the Brewers on June 4, signed a minor league deal with San Francisco on July 2 and was promoted to the majors at the end of the month. "This is where everybody wants to play," said Hammonds, a Stanford grad.

"I was dreaming about this two months ago. The Bay Area has always been good to me and I've always wanted to come back here." Hammonds was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded during a four-run third. J.T. Snow also drove in three runs for the NL West leaders. giving the Tigers a standing ovation when they ran off the field in the eighth, and after the game.

"This is definitely a baseball town, but we've got to give them something to cheer about," said Jeremy Bonderman, who gave up one earned run and improved to 5-15. Zito (8-10) has gone seven starts without a win and his victory on July 3 against Seattle is his only win in 12 starts. The reigning AL Cy Young winner didn't pitch poorly against the lowly Tigers, allowing just six hits without giving up an earned run over eight innings. But after shortstop Miguel Tejada's two-out error in'the fourth inning, Zito walked Carlos Pena and allowed Munson's home run. "I felt pretty good and that's the most important thing," Zito said.

"I had pretty good stuff." Oakland had won three straight and 10 of 13. Detroit had dropped three in a row and eight of nine. Bonderman avoided being the only 16-game loser in baseball with his third win in five Bonderman gave up two runs one earned on three hits and a career-high six walks over five-plus innings while striking out three. Oakland sent the 20-year-old to Detroit last year in a three-team trade, which included the New York Yankees. "I'm not going to lie, it's good to beat Oakland," Bonderman said.

"But this game is strictly business." players from college players. Dan CoyroSentinel photos TOP: Radian Brian King fires nome one of tne team only goais past NYAC goane Dan Hackett and defender Sergey Bushuey. ABOVE: The Slugs, overmatched but having fun against the bigger, more physical New York squad. If you go WHEN: Today through Sunday. WHERE: UCSC's East Fieldhouse pools.

SCHEDULE: www.radianwp.org "Pretty much everything. They just have tons of experience, and in this game that's everything," said Moon after his club team Radian comprised of current UCSC players was an all-star team." Those all-stars, including 2000 U.S. Olympic team members Gavin Arroyo, Chi Kridell and Dan Hackett and 1996 U.S. Olympic team member Alex Rousseau, dominated the game from the first whistle. NYAC flexed its offensive muscles early, scoring six unanswered goals in the game's opening minutes.

But the New York squad's most impressive play came on defense. NYAC defenders successfully kept the Radian offense from the goal, making the collegiate players force bad passes and outside shots most of which were easily gobbled up by goalie Dan Hackett. "We're basically just trying to control the ball and let our guys rest on offense," said NYAC's Mike Burke, who played on the U.S. National Team from 1988-96. "We're not in as good of shape as these college kids, so we have to slow it down a bit." See POLO on PAGE D2 pummeled in the opening round of the National Club Water Polo Tournament's open division, 22-3, by the New York Athletic Club (NYAC) team Thursday.

NYAC has six ex-Olympians dotting its roster. "Each guy on their team is a legend in the sport," Moon added. "It's like playing 'He wasn't perfect, but he was perfect for girlfriend jessica de la rosa Dennehy memorial focuses on life, not death The program for the memorial service of Patrick Dennehy, the Baylor 1 player shot dead in Waco, Texas. The Associated Press By DON SEEH0LZER THE NEW YORK TIMES SAN JOSE Patrick Dennehy did not die. He just went home.

That was the prevailing sentiment on Thursday at a two-hour memorial service for Dennehy, the Baylor University basketball player whose badly decomposed body was found July 25 in a field near Waco, Texas. Not far from where he had lived in Santa Clara, in the same Jubilee Christian Center church where he had become a born-again Christian a year earlier, about 300 of Dennehy 's friends, family members and former coaches and teammates gathered not to mourn his death, but to celebrate his life. Dennehy, 21, died of gunshot wounds to the head; his former Baylor teammate and roommate Carlton Dotson Is charged with his murder. But there was nothing downbeat about the service, which featured gospel singing, a Scripture reading by the hip-hop artist M.C. Hammer and stories.

Plenty of stories. Nelson Washington, who coached Dennehy on an Amateur Athletic Union team, recalled how he used to turn his socks inside out to make them last through the week. Creighton Lane, who coached Dennehy at Wilcox High School in Santa Clara, told of how he gave him the nickname Similac because he was the baby of the group, and of how that motivated him. Jessica De La Rosa, Dennehy 's girlfriend of two years, recalled how he would steal her facial masks and lip balms and spend 90 minutes or more in the bathroom until his hair, nails and everything else were just perfect. See DENNEHY on PAGE D2 I At'iw'rlaf(rJcrtipt'r 1 1 i I' i'i 1.