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Top 3 seeds in quarters pear to be bothered the rest of thematch. The other quarterfinal berths were filled by No. 10 Sergi Brtf guera and No. 11 Andrei Medve dev. Bruguera, the only playei who has not lost a set, swept zilian qualifier Fernando Melige-ni 6-3, 6-1, 7-5 in less than tWij1 hours.

Medvedev, the 18-year-old clay-court sensation from the Uk raine, outserved Marc Goellner of Germany 6-4, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3. The men's quarterfinal mate chups shape up as follows: Saim pras vs. Bruguera, and Edberg ys, Medvedev in the top half of the draw, and Courier vs. Goran Prpic, and Richard Krajicek Karel Novacek in the bottom half; Sampras has sometimes been criticized as being too lackadaisical, an image reinforced by thq way he hangs his head and slouches his shoulders. But he ap, peared more inspired Monday.

Ju "Maybe it's a different atti; tude," he said. "Maybe I am looking a little bit more intense on the court and not quite as casual out there, a little bit more business-like. It's something I am working on. Maybe I am just get' ting a little bit more mature with my tennis and with French open to try my best." Even though he's the world's top-ranked player and the tournament's No. 1 seed, Sampras has never had great success on clay and is not considered the title favorite.

That distinction still belongs to second-seeded Courier, the two-time defending champipn, who outslugged No. 15 Thomas Muster of Austria 6-3, 2-6, 6-4, 6-2, to extend his winning streak in Paris to 18 matches. Before'the match, Courier said playing Muster would be like looking in the mirror because the two have similar punishing back-court styles. Afterwards, Courier was asked if he had broken the mirror. "I hope I don't get seven years back luck," he said.

Also advancing was No. 3 Edberg, who battled for more than three hours in a late center court match to overcome unseeded Paul Haarhuis of the Netherlands 6-4, 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7-5). Edberg was treated twice for leg problems during the first set, but didn't ap Sampras, Courier, Edberg all advance In men's draw. By Stephen Wilson The Associated Press PARIS Pete Sampras is beginning to look, talk and play like a French Open champion. Sampras exuded new confidence both on and off the court Monday as he reached the quarterfinals with a 6-3, 7-6 (8-6), 6-1 victory over MaliVai Washington.

With Jim Courier and Stefan Edberg also winning, the top three seeds remain in contention. "This is my biggest challenge, winning the French Open," Sampras said. "Expectations are, probably not very high for a lot of people, so I am going to hopefully prove those people wrong." "My attitude is getting better. I am definitely playing well. I have come a long way from losing 1-1-and-l to Michael Chang here (in 1989).

"I still feel clay is a tough surface for me. But anything can happen. Can I win this tournament? I'm not going to guarantee it, but I guarantee that I'm going en m.i i APWIREPHOTO Top-seeded Pete Sampras has his eyes on the French Open quarterfinals after his 6-3, 7-6, 6-1 victory over Malhai Washington Monday. 1 UAJOn LEAGU2 QAC33ALL T7" Dodgers' charm not cutting it in looks 1 APWIREPHOTO The Sun TUESDAY, June 1, 1993 Uleidoscope Maple Leaf does his best to keep family tree healthy Nikolai Borschevsky not only is a good hockey player, he's a good son. The Toronto Maple Leafs winger used the $46,000 he had saved for the down payment on a house to pay for his father's quadruple bypass heart surgery in May.

Borschevsky flew his parents to Toronto from their home in Tomsk, in Siberia, during the first round of the NHL playoffs and his father, Konstantin, had successful surgery. Throughout the ordeal his father is now out of hospital Borschevsky was able to concentrate on his job. "As a hockey player, I have trained myself not to let family problems bother me on the ice," Borschevsky said through an interpreter. "Remember, I played most of my hockey in Russia and, in Russia, if you start thinking about your problems and you bring your problems onto the ice, you will never think about hockey." TOUGH LOSS TO SWALLOW: Texas manager Kevin Kennedy, after the Rangers lost to Boston 15-1: "I don't think you can be any more embarrassed as a ballclub than what we did today. When you see us throw up on ourselves like that, you go numb." WONT DO IN A PINCH: Phillies manager Jim Fregosi on why he doesn't like to give John Kruk a day off and have him on the bench for the whole game: "He kept saying, 'You want me to hit for him? You want me to hit for SHAME BEYOND WORDS: Reds pitcher Jose Rijo on the firing of Cincinnati manager Tony Perez: "This is the height of embarrassitivity." UNIVERSITY ON WHEELS: North Carolina fan Skip Gibson of Chapel Hill on the Tar Heels winning the NCAA basketball championship in New Orleans this year: "This is the greatest place in the world.

I think they should move the school here." Sports in chief Ryan to miss 2 more weeks after cutting foot in mishap Nolan Ryan, already on the disabled list for the second time during his final season, cut his left foot on a water ski Monday and will be forced to stay off it for about two weeks, the Texas Rangers said. The gash, which required seven stitches to close, did not damage any ligaments or tendons. It is located under the big toe on the ball of his left foot Ryan, baseball's career strikeout and no-hitter leader, was hurt while spending Memo- i rial Day with his family on the Guadalupe River near his ranch in Gonzales, Texas. TEXAS ELIMINATES USC IN BASEBALL: i Mark Prather singled home the winning run as I Texas rallied for two runs in the ninth inning and beat USC, 3-2, to advance to the College World Series for the 27th time. Fifth-ranked Texas (50-14) won all four of its games at the regional.

Southern Cal, second to the Longhorns with 17 CWS appearances, finished 35-29. In another game, Oklahoma State ad-' vanced to the CSW with an 1 1-10 victory over Arizona. UCLA LOSES NCAA SOFTBALL FINAL: Arizona took advantage of a UCLA error to de-; feat the defending national champions 1-0 and win the College Softball World Series. UCLA had won seven of the past 1 1 championships, including four of the last five. This was the fourth straight year that UCLA and Arizona, which won its first title in 1991, met in jthe finals.

UCLA reached the title game by defeating Southwestern Louisiana 1-0 in an elimination game earlier Monday. REPORT: WILKENS TO COACH HAWKS: Lenny Wilkens, who quit as coach of the Cleve-i land Cavaliers a week ago, will be named coach I of the Atlanta Hawks, the Atlanta Journal- Constitution reported in today's editions. I The newspaper said Wilkens will sign a multiyear contract today and then be introduced at an afternoon news conference. 1 Wilkens also was being pursued by the Los Angeles Clippers. He would succeed Bob ieiss.

INDY 500 HAS RECORD PURSE: 'A record $7,681,300 were distributed by the Indianapolis Motor Speedway at the tradition-; al victory banquet for the 33 Indy 500 drivers. The purse included $6,150,200 from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Corporation. The balance of the purse was provided by sponsors for designated awards, for participation in the 500 parade and for lap leaders. The speedway prize topped the mark of $6,075,200 set last year when a purse of $7,527,450 was distributed. Brazilian Emerson Fittipaldi, who won Sunday's race, received $1,155,304, which fell short of the more than $1.2 million Al Unser Jr.

received for winning last year. BRIEFLY NOTED: Harb Brooks, who coached the New Jersey Devils to a franchise-record 40 victories, quit after less than a year with the club jockey Pat Day will not appeal a suspension that will keep him from riding in Sat-' urday 's Belmont Stakes. Texas pitching coach and former Dodgers pitcher Clautfa O-toon is expected to rejoin the team tonight after being diagnosed with a bleeding ulcer. Four U.S. starting soccer players Tab Ramos, Thomas Deoloy, Eric Wynalda and Frank Klopas will be missing when the United States plays Brazil on Sunday at New Haven, the U.S.

Soccer Federation said. Masters champion Bombard Langor eagled the 12th hole for the second consecutive day, fired a 6-under-par 68 and breezed to a six-shot victory in the $1 million European PGA Championship. From Sun News Services Roar of the crowd Th Sun publish letter to th Sport editor on Saturday. 8nd letter to Th Sun, Roar of th Crowd, 399 No. Street, San Bernardino, Ca.

92401, or lax to (909) 384-0327. Include your nam, addr and a daytime lejpphon number. Torey Lovullo of the Angels steals second base ahead of the tag by Roberto Alomar during the Blue Jays' 10-5 victory Monday at Anaheim Stadium. Angels cutCrim from pen hitting a home run and a double Sunday. What does this mean for Strawberry's return to the lineup? He is expected to be actl vated when the Dodgers return home for a weekend series with Atlanta starting Friday, but Cory Snyder has hit well in his ab sence.

Snyder is five for his last 12 with two home runs and four RBI in that time. He hit .321 in May: In addition, the Dodgers are 16-9 with Snyder as their starting right with anyone else (Strawberry 23 times, Mitch Webster once). "Don't bet on it," Lasorda said Monday when asked if Snyder would go to the bench when Strawberry returns. "That's all' I'm saying. I just said, 'Don't bet on That doesn't mean anyr thing.

Just don't bet on it." DAVIS ON RUN: Eric Davis successfully stole his 20th base of the season in the third inning Monday, extending his string to 34 consecutive steals without being thrown out. That is the third-longest streak in baseball history, trailing only Vince Coleman's record of 50 straight and Davey Lopes' string of 38. Davis has not been thrown out since April 24, 1992, against San Francisco. He is the most successful basestealer in history, based on percentage. In his cap: reer, he has stolen 286 bases in 324 attempts, a success rate of 88 percent.

That's best all-time among players with a minimum, of 300 attempts. REED HURTS FOOT: Second baseman Jody Reed left Monday's game in the fourth inning after fouling a ball off his left foot. 1 "Didn't you hear my Reed said of the foul. "It hit me right on top of the bone. I tried to play (the next inning), but evj ery time I landed on the turf pain would shoot across the top of my By Bill Plunkztt Gannett News Service ST.

LOUIS The green, green grass may not make it home. "I think it's on its last legs. It doesn't look real good right now," pitcher Tom Candiotti said Monday of the Los Angeles Dodgers' new mascot 2V4 yards of sod. "I think Orel (Hershiser) and Pat (Screnar, the team's physical therapist) might have to do something to it. Fertilize it.

Buy a Wee-deater and trim it a little. That might help." Hershiser was the money man behind a group of six Dodgers who purchased the strips of sod from a Pittsburgh nursery Friday. Los Angeles began its current road trip with a 7-16 record away from home (the National League's worst) and an 0-9 mark on artificial turf. Since the purchase, the Dodgers have gone 3-1 in the carpeted confines of Three Rivers and Busch Stadiums with the sod adorning the dugout floor each game. "They walk on it and they think they're playing on real grass.

It's psychological," Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda said. "Everybody has to walk on it so they think they're playing on grass." With two games left on the trip, though, the sod is starting to lose its luster. "We're going to have to cut it and water it," Lasorda said. "Somebody's gotta cut it. It's getting pretty long.

It's starting to look like the infield in Chicago. "You could hold an Easter egg hunt in the infield at Chicago, and right now you could hold an Easter egg hunt in that sod." STRAWBERRY HITTINQ: Darryl Strawberry went 2-for-4 Monday for the second day in a row on his injury-rehabilitation assignment with Triple-A Albuquerque. Strawberry had a pair of singles in Monday's game after closer was called on, instead of enduring the stretches of inactivity fourth- or fifth-inning relievers have to go through. "Mentally it bothered me," Crim said. Assuming he must go through the three days it takes to clear waivers "Nobody else will want to pay me what I'm making," he said.

Crim should resurface with another team. The Colorado Rockies, desperate for pitching, should be among the first to call. "I expected to contribute to the Angels this year, especially with Bryan Harvey gone," Crim said. "I felt I'd get a chance to prove myself. But I guess it didn't matter.

In the first month, when I had a zero ERA, I wondered why I wasn't pitching much." The move was not greeted with universal acclaim among the Angels staff. "Why are they messing with the chemistry when it's pretty good?" groused one pitcher, who asked not to be identified. "I could see them doing something if we were losing. This all comes from not having a regular stopper. The whole bullpen can look shaky.

"Crim was one of the experienced guys out there. He didn't panic if things didn't always go right. We're gonna need that kind of experience in July and August." Angel note Darryl Scott, who was Informed of his promotion in Vancouver on Sunday and pitched there as well arrived In Anaheim on Monday. He was glad to break In the game with a scoreless eighth inning. "I probably had more jitters down in the bullpen," Scott said.

"Once I got In the game I got Ran Qonza-I' two RBI gave him his first multi-RBI game at home since last June 20, and his fourth on the season. The four dingers served up by John Farrell give him 11 homers allowed, the most among Angels pitchers. Although the Angels finished the month 14-15, Buck Rodgers was pleased. "We're gonna have good months and bad months," Rodgers said. "To do all the things we wanted to do and still be close to .500 Is fine.

And there are more things to do in June." By Mike Terry Sun Sports Writer ANAHEIM Rumors of personnel changes have been swirling around the Angels the last couple of days with the impending arrival of Kelly Gruber. But Monday brought a surprise when veteran reliever Chuck Crim was released. Brought up in his place was rookie righthander Darryl Scott from the Triple-A Vancouver team. Scott, 24, had been Vancouver's top reliever 4-0 in 21 games, six saves and a 2.96 ERA. But in a bullpen shaded green as Joe Grahe, Scott Lewis and Steve Frey have three years-or-less experience it did not seem to be an area where California needed to get younger.

Buck Rodgers, however, disagreed. "If a decision was to be made on a kid for a veteran with everything being equal, we would give the kid a chance," Rodgers said. "That's our game plan. We wouldn't release a vet just because a kid is available. We have to feel he can do the job of the vet." Crim, 31, who came to California last year in a trade with Milwaukee felt nothing but sadness, followed by numbness.

While his $1.1 million guaranteed salary may have played some part in his exile, his long relief numbers didn't help. In 11 games, this season he had a 2-2 record with a 5.87 ERA. More telling was his May totals 0-2 and 11.74 ERA. His last appearance came on May 24, when he was the loser of the 14-inning contest against Seattle. "I never saw this coming.

I'm in shock," Crim said, while cleaning out his locker. "I didn't think I was on the bubble during the spring, though maybe I was. I really didn't think I pitched myself out of here." But Crim also said he was not adapting well to the long relief role the Angels designated for him. Through most of his career, now in its seventh season, he had been a setup guy, working just before the X-rays of Reed's foot were negative. He is listed as Braves' Maddux wins 100th in complete fashion NL ROUNDUP Reynoso (3-2) pitched Colorado to, an end of a four-game losing streak.

T. REDS 6, PHILLIES 4: Cincinnati rallied when JefT Branson singled' home the go-ahead run in the eighth inning after a balk call put the winning runs in scoring poslJ tion and led to the ejection 6f Phillies manager Jim Fregosi and, catcher Darren Daulton. METS 9, CUBS Bobby Bonilla homered for the fourth time in three games, and Howard John son led the Mets' 11-hit attack' with a bases-loaded triple during a five-run fifth inning for New York. ASTROS 2, EXPOS 1: Craig Bigf, gio doubled twice and scored on' Steve Finley's eighth-inning sacrifice fly, and Ken Caminiti made, a diving over-the-head catch to end the game for Houston's third" consecutive victory. From Sun News Services' Leibrandt shuts out Twins, 1-0 The last time Charlie Leibrandt Al ROIINnilP pitched in the Metrodome was In 1991, nwwniwr With career win 100 tucked away, Greg Maddux is now looking ahead to his next 100 victories.

Maddux got No. 100 when Damon Berryhill doubled home the winning run in the ninth inning Monday night, giving the Atlanta Braves a 2-1 triumph over the San Diego Padres. Maddux (5-4) allowed five singles, walked four and struck out seven in his second complete game of the season. He is 100-78 in seven seasons. Sid Bream opened the ninth with a double off reliever Roger Mason (0-2).

Brian Hunter ran for Bream and Berryhill followed with his double to the right-center field wall. The Braves had seven hits, six of them doubles. Maddux got the game ball for a keepsake, but "I forgot all about it until I got in the clubhouse. "Then Ned (coach Yost) tossed it to me," said Maddux, who placed it in his locker. "It's great and I'm happy to win 100 games, but my thoughts are on 200." ROCKIES 6, PIRATES 2: Alex Cole and Andres Galarraga each drove in two runs, and Armando backed Cone with more than four runs for the first time in his 1 1 starts.

ORIOLES 3, ATHLETICS 1: Mike Mussina (7-2) limited Oakland to six hits, helping Baltimore break a three-game losing streak. Mussina struck out five and walked one in his third complete game. Ron Darling (0-3) took the loss despite his best outing since a seven-inning, four-hit no-decision on May 15. YANKEES 8, INDIANS 2: Melido Perez (3-4) gave up only seven hits and two runs in eight innings as New York won its fourth consecutive. Paul O'Neill and Hensley Meulens hit back-to-back home runs in the seventh.

when Minnesota's Kirby Puckett hit a game-winning homer in the 11th inning of World Series 6. Back then, Leibrandt was with the Atlanta Braves. On Monday, he returned with Texas and allowed six hits in 7 innings as the Rangers beat the Twins 1-0 and stopped a four-game losing streak. "I remember the home run, sure. Who wouldn't?" Leibrandt said.

"I didn't give it a whole lot of thought. I also remember some good games here. I try to think positively and not worry about what has gone wrong." ROYALS 5, RED SOX 3: David Cone (3-5) won his third consecutive game, striking out seven in seven-plus innings. The Royals 1 From Sun News Serves.