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wins Senior event C4 Cal League: Spirit beats StocktonC5 YOU MAKE THE CALL Today's question: Do you think professionals should play basketball at the G.oodwill Games? Yea: 885-2678 No: 88S-1 678 Yesterday's question: Do you think the Goodwill Games are a waste of time? (48) Paul Oberjuerge Sports Editor (909) 386-3865 Fax (909) 384-0327 The Sun Section Monday July 2.5, 1994 I Yes: 75 percent No: 25 percent 1 jliifcFai(g(Q Sporttr Paul Obeijuerge CORNER EXPOS DODGERS. as Dodgers manager. Only three times in Lasorda's tenure has a Dodgers team lost as many as 10 games on a trip, once in 1980 and twice during the 99-loss season of 1992. THE WILD WEST Team W-L Pet GB Dodgers 48-50 .490 Giants 47-52 .475 VA Rockies 47-53 .470 2 Next: at San Francisco, 8 p.m. today, KABCChannel 7 "I don't remember those years, I'm just Cory Snyder for the biggest NL RBI game of 1994.

Snyder homered three times and drove in seven runs April 17 in Pittsburgh. The damage could have been worse, but Dodgers reliever Roger McDowell struck out White with the bases loaded to end the sixth inning. It was small consolation for the Dodgers, whose three-game sweep was capped before a crowd of 34,402 at Olympic Stadium, where the Dodgers are 5-25 in the past five seasons. The Dodgers, who have led the division since May 15, could be in third place by the time this 13-game road trip ends. And what a road trip it has been.

In going 2-8 thus far and having been out-scored 60-40, the Dodgers are approaching record levels for road-trip futility. A San Francisco sweep would leave the Dodgers with a 2-11 trip, the most losses on a single trip in Tom Lasorda's 18 seasons Expos rookie Rondell White drives In seven runs as Dodgers' horrible road trip continues. By Ken Daley Los Angeles Daily News MONTREAL If the state of the Dodgers is such that Montreal rookie outfielder Rondell White can drive in seven runs against them in one game, what does that mean for Barry Bonds, Matt Williams and Darryl Strawberry? The Dodgers will find out starting night, when they begin a three-game showdown series in San Francisco, dragging a season-high five-game losing streak into Candlestick Park. They lost for the ninth time in 1 1 games on Sunday, when White who had driven in four runs in 51 at-bats all season upset, that all, said wearily. "We can't do anything about what's happened, but we can about what's about to happen.

These losses are in the record books. We can't wipe them out. We can't erase them. We just gotta play ball and win." Hershlser will start Tuesday against Giants. StoryC6 knocked in all seven of Montreal's runs in the Expos' 7-4 victory.

White was playing only because Larry Walker's shoulder injury forced Cliff Floyd to move from left field to first base. "I've heard he's a heck of a talent," outfielder Mitch Webster said. "That was one of those days just made for you." i I White had an RBI single in the first inning, a three-run homer in the third, a two-run double in the fifth and a run-scoring single in the ninth to match the Dodgers' APSL has tough act to follow FULLERTON The circus comes to town, Alexi Lalas mused not long ago, and the circus leaves. Members of the Los Angeles Salsa soccer club know exactly what Lalas, the goateed philosopher-fullback for the U.S. national team, was talking about.

The Salsa is part of the Ameri can Professional Soccer League. the biggest thing soccer currently has going in this country now that the World Cup has exited the Angels tall in ninth to Yanks center ring and the roustabouts have taken down FIFA's Big Top. Last week, 2 billion people watched the Greatest Show on Earth, Brazil vs. Italy. Last night, the numbers were 7 down rather sharply to 2,148 for the Salsa vs.

the Seattle Sounders, the biggest game in the neighborhood since Romano and Bebeto left town and took soccer interest with them. i World Cup momentum? New enthusiasm for the game? Not if Sunday's APSL match if "iiaeTri'I -Ji'. .9 at Cal State Fullerton, the Salsa's II 11 Ti mi By Doua Papilla Sun Sports Writer ANAHEIM Don Mattingly grabbed the spotlight once again at Anaheim Stadium, but this time the thundering cheer following his game-winning home run in the ninth inning did not go unnoticed by the Angels. Mattingly hit a three-run, pinch-hit home run off reliever Joe Grahe to give the New York Yankees a 6- Iff i in''; SVC- YANKEES. ANGELS a- 4 victory before 25,754, most of whom appeared loyal to the visitors.

The home run came one day after Next: vs. Oakland Tuesday, 7:05 p.m., KTLA5 Mattinplv rnllortfH hie 9 nnnth 6 I II li hl APWIREPHOTO USA basketball coach George Raveling, who also coaches USC, watches the closing moments of his team's loss to Russia. Cherokee Parks (12) of Duke, Andrew DeClercq (15) of Florida and Jerome Allen (rear) of Penn look on. Without Dream Team, it's nightmare 1994 home-opener, was any indi- cation. Few fans.

Little interest. No television. It indicates again the rough time any professional soccer league can expect in this country. It was not bad soccer on dis- play. The Salsa boasts three for- mer members of the U.S.

national team (JeffAgoos.Yari Allnut and Zak Ibsen) plus two international players of note midfielder Pau-linho from Brazil and London-born striker Paul Wright. If you could ignore the empty I seats and deafening silence, Sun-T day's match wouldn't have seemed markedly different to the casual observer from several World Cup games just played. The Salsa plays an attacking, technically sound brand of soccer. Wright, Allnut and Paulinho looked as likely to score a spec-, tacular goal as anyone the U.S. team has.

The Sounders are solid. But they may as well have been high school kids as much as Southern California sports fans cared. William De La Pena, the eternal optimist who owns the Salsa, is pinning his hopes on the Latino "community; he worked hard to get his club admitted to Mexico's First Division A for the coming season. The Salsa will play in two leagues at once, and you get only One guess at which one will get I bigger crowds. The Salsa could play as many as 30 games in a Mexican season 1 that will stretch from September to January.

The top club in Divi- sion A will be eligible for promo- tion to Mexico's real first division with the Cruz Azuls and Atalantes and UNAM Pumas, the heavy hit-; ters of North American soccer. But it's just the plain oP APSL for now. "It's disappointing," Agoos said moments after the game, glancing up at stragglers from the undersized crowd. "After the Cup, I thought we would do better than this." Agoos was one of the last cuts from the U.S. World Cup team.

Instead of suiting up before 90,000 kn the Rose Bowl, the hustling was making long, overlapping sprints in a small stadium 80 percent empty. Like every professional soccer player in this country, Agoos won- ders about the future of the sport. Tatticularly whether Major League Soccer starts up in April and if the APSL survives. The A PSL isn't as solid as, iay, the NFL. One of its eight franchises (the Houston Force) curled up and died over the weekend.

"There's two or three possibilities," Agoos said. "MLS goes off nd the APSL competes against it. The two leagues have some sort of merger. Or the MLS never cans were only 14-of-27. "We could have gotten out of here with a win if we had made our foul shots," said U.S.

coach George Raveling, who also coaches USC. "The game came down to which team was most successful at the foul line. The Russians made theirs in critical times, we missed ours." The Americans can reach the medal round if they beat China today and if Russia beats Argentina. In other games, Puerto Rico beat Brazil 109-98 and Italy edged Croatia 79-77. American wins hammer throw.

StoryC4 Goodwill games gets its chance at the Russians next month at the World Championships. The original Dream Team won the gold medal at the 1992 Olympics. U.S. college teams have won only the 1993 World University Games since taking the gold medal at the 1986 Goodwill Games. U.S.

teams have been beaten at the 1988 Olympics, Pan Am Games, World Championships and the 1990 Goodwill Games. The game came down to free throws the Russians hit 24-of-28, while the Ameri U.S. basketball team loses to Russians in Goodwill Games. By Bert Rosenthal The Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Russia Where's the Dream Team when we need it? With no NBA stars to carry them, a group of American college players struggled again in international competition, losing to the Russians 77-75 at the Goodwill Games on Sunday.

Dream Team II, stars from the NBA, Sheehan edges out Green for Women's Open title TM fl 11" .1 career hit and received a standing ovation at Anaheim Stadium. "I'll tell you what, it wasn't like that when I was a kid," said frustrated Angels outfielder Jim Edmonds, who grew up in Diamond Bar. "I've been stomping these grounds since I was eight years old and it wasn't like that." It's an annual debate when teams from the East Coast file in to what is becoming another Orange County tourist site. "This is just a tourist area like Florida and Arizona, which is full of snowbirds," Angels outfielder Chili Davis said. "All the people migrate from Minnesota, Boston, New York.

Their teams have tradition." The Yankees appear to be building more as they maintained their 4 game lead in the American League West after the four-game sweep of the Angels. "People were walking around our stands with brooms," Davis said. "You don't do that in Boston, New York or in Candlestick." With or without the brooms, the fans enjoyed a classic pitching duel between Mark Langston and the Yankees' Jim Abbott. Abbott pitched eight innings and allowed seven hits and four runs, three on solo home runs from Rex Hudler, Mark Dalesan-' dro and J.T. Snow.

But whgn he left after eight, he trailed 4-2. Langston appeared in control having given up just two runs in eight innings, but in the ninth he looked out of gas after giving up a single and a walk with one out Angels manager Marcel Lache-mann said he was left with no choice but to take a gamble. The right-hander Grahe was brought in to relieve the left-handed Langston, and Yankees manager Buck Showalter countered by bringing Don Mattingly to the Plate as a pinch hitter and placing Wade Boggs on deck. The two left-handed hitters rested with Langston pitching. Mattingly did the damage with his homer on a 2-2 pitch "Mark Langston pitched his heart out for 8', innings," Lache-mann said.

"I brought in Joe Grahe, who is the closer, and he Grahe eventually gave ud nn other run in the inning before he" was replaced by Mark Leiter Lachemann walked with Grahe back to the Angels dugout Lachemann may be loofcln for new do r. Notebookca 1 DVTHE NUMBERS .1 Green's 12-foot putt for a birdie and a tie rolled just outside the right edge of the cup. "It just didn't end up the way I would have liked to have it end up," Green said. "I felt like I made a good go at it." Green, who won a major in 1989 at the du Maurier Classic, has one victory this season and was seventh on the LPGA money list at the start of the Open. Sheehan came into the Open at 24th on the list after a strong showing in the Skins Game.

"It doesn't matter," Sheehan said. "Saturday taught me that you don't have to go out and shoot By Harry Atkins The Associated Press LAKE ORION, Mich. Just when she was beginning to tire, tust when a mistake could have leen fatal, Patty Sheehan showed why she is one of the best players in women's golf. She scrambled for a birdie on the 16th hole Sunday and went on to win the U.S. Women's Open by a stroke over Tammie Green.

"I stayed home and practiced all last week," Sheehan said. "I worked pretty hard. That seemed to pay ofr." In capturing the Open for the second time in three years, the LPGA Hall of Famer used a deft putting touch to win her fifth major championship. "It's just a great feeling to have my name on that trophy again," Sheehan said. "There are a lot of names on the trophy of people who have repeated as U.S.

Open champions. But to do it in this day and age is amazing." Sheehan and Green closed with par-71s on the Old Course at Indianwood Golf and Country Club. Sheehan finished at 7-un-der 277, sealing her triumph with a par on the final hole after numbers to win an Open. I stayed steady. I didn't beat myself up when I hit a bad shot." shot a 69 and finished third at APWIREPHOTO FOURPEAT Miguel Indurian of Spain raises his trophy after winning his fourth straight Tour de France cycling race.

StoryC2 TV HIGHLIGHTS Baeeball Dodgers at San Francisco, 8 p.m., KABC7 TV-Radio llstlngsC7 281. Spain's Tania Abitol and Pe-1 ru's Alicia Dibos tied for fourth at 283. Helen Alfredsson of Sweden. Happens and the APSL goes on alone. "Who knows?" Indeed.

After Sunday's match, you're tempted to add, jwno cares?" who was at 13-under after the first seven holes of the third round, finished at over 285 after a 77 in the final round. Brandie Burton of Rialto finished at9-over293. in I vuviiuwui ingm niiur ui inv APWIREPHOTO Patty Sheehan leaps into the air after sinking her par putt on the 18th green to win the U.S. Women's Open at Lake Orion, Mich. Sheehan finished at 7-under-par for the championship, one stroke ahead of Tammie Green.

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