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Decatur, Illinois, Monday, August 18, 1986 B. Review Sports. 'Tilings went well again this week for three more touchdowns. I took what the defense gave me, I had gwd protection and -the guys made some great Mike Tomczak CHICAGO (AP) Mike Tomczak will start against the Cardinals this week because Bears Coach Mike Ditka wants to see what the second-year quarterback out of Ohio State can do against first-string defenses. want to see how Tomczak performs against the Cardinals' first defense," Ditka said Saturday night after his Super Bowl champion Chicago Bears mauled the Indianapolis Colts 38-21.

For the second successive week, Tomczak took over in the second half and threw three touchdown passes. And while Tomczak sparkled, the mystery surrounding regular quarterback Jim McMahon deepened. McMahon, who has had a groin injury and complained of a sore arm, was slated to play against the Colts. But when the game started, McMahon was not even dressed. "It was his idea not to dress, not mine," said Ditka.

"It wouldn't have, mattered, he wouldn't have played anyway. He's hurt and that's all I know." Ditka repeatedly said "You'll have to ask him" when pressed on questions concerning McMahon, but the quarterback wasn't around after the game to supply any answers. The Bears didn't miss McMahon at all as they rolled to their third straight preseason victory. Walter Payton scored on a 1-yard run behind the blocking of William "The Refrigerator" Perry in the first quarter. The Colts tied it late in the first half when Donnell Thompson stripped starting quarterback Steve Fuller of the ball, picked it up and returned 19 yards to the 3-yard line.

On the next play, Gary Hogeboom hit Keli McGregor with a touchdown pass. Tomczak took over in the second half and directed an 81-yard touchdown drive which ended with a 12-yard touchdown pass to David Williams. He also threw touchdown passes of 1 yard to Dennis Gentry and 11 yards to E.J. Jones. "It will be nice to start and work with the big guys," said Tomczak.

"Things went well again this week for three more touchdowns. I took what the defense gave me, I had good protection and the guys made some great catches." The Colts managed two consolation touchdowns in the closing minutes directed by rookie quarterback Jack Trudeau. AP LaserPhoto Chicago's Bob Dernier dives back into first base. Trill sparks Cubs Sicker number fights By JOE COOK Herald A Review Sports Writer ST. LOUIS Although his chances of sticking with the St.

Football practice starts Louis Cardinals are as un--likely as Someone pronouncing his "last name Evan hoping he has opened some eyes. Used arilv It's time to rise and shine and put on the football pads and helmets. High School football practice starts today for the state's 570 teams. St. Teresa players started earliest among Decatur teams.

Coach Dale Patton is holding two-a-day practices from a.m. and 5-8 p.m. Eisenhower Coach Steve Smith has practice from 7-9 a.m., p.m. and 6-8 p.m. MacArthur practice is 8-10: 30 a.m.

and p.m. Stephen Decatur has practice from 8 a.m.-2 p.m. and 6-8 p.m. Optimism is particularly high at St. Teresa and MacArthur.

St. Teresa qualified for the State Class 2-A playoffs last season, losing to Sullivan in th first round. MacArthur reached the quarterfinals of the Class 5-A playoffs. Both teams are expecting banner seasons again. cutt bested Vida Blue, giving up two hits in eight innings, and Alex Trevino homered to lead the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Honeycutt, 9-7, combined with Tom Niedenfuer on a four-hitter before a crowd of 49,496, the biggest at Candlestick Park this season. Niedenfuer started the ninth and got his 10th save. Boston 7, Tigers 5: At Boston. Marty Barrett ignited a three-run fifth inning with a single and doubled home the tiebreaker in a three-run sixth as the Red Sox beat Detroit. Barrett.

Bill Buckner. who had a three-run double in the fifth, and Don Baylor, who had a two-run double in the sixth, all got hits following intentional walks. Five of Boston's nine hits were doubles. Royals 5, Yankees 0: At Kansas City, Mark Gu-bicza pitched a six-hit shutout and struck out a career high 10 batters. Willie Wilson hit a two-run homer while George Brett and Frank White added solo shots.

Gubicza, 7-5, did not walk a batter. He retired 10 straight after 'Wayne Tolleson and Don Mattingly singled to open the fourth inning. Gubicza completed his second game of the season and got his second shutout. Indians 11, Orioles 6: At Cleveland, Cory Snyder, who hit two home runs, keyed a six-run sixth with a three-run shot, and both Pat Tabler and Tony Bernazard had three of Cleveland's 13 hits. Snyder, who was recalled from the minors June 13, has hit 16 home runs and driven in 40 runs in his 58 games with Cleveland.

Tabler went 3-for-3, giving him 35 hits in his last 82 at-bats, a .427 average that lifted his overall mark to .302. Blue Jays 8, Rangers 7: At Toronto, Ernie Whitt's 11th homer of the season, in the bottom of the 1 1th inning off reliever Jeff Russell, gave the Blue Jays the victory and a three-game sweep of the Rangers. Whitt, who entered the game in the seventh, hit a 1-1 pitch off reliever Russell, 4-2, against the right field foul pole. Mark Eichhorn, 10-4, was the winner with four innings of three-hit relief. Angels 7, A's 3: At Anaheim, Don Sutton, joining Atlanta's Doyle Alexander as the only active pitchers to defeat each of the 26 major league teams, spaced six hits over six innings.

Gary Pettis led the California attack with three hits, two walks, three runs scored and one run-batted-in. Mariners 11, Twins 1: At Seattle, Alvin Davis homered for third consecutive game. Ken Phelps hit a three-run homer and Scott Bradley homered and drove in three runs to support Mike Morgan's six-hitter. MONTREAL (AP) Manny Trillo doubled in the ninth inning and scored on Terry Francona's sacrifice fly, giving the Chicago Cubs a 2-1 victory over the Montreal Expos on Sunday. Trillo, who hit a sacrifice fly in the fourth for Chicago's first run, led off the ninth against Jeff Reardon, 6-8, with his double and was sacrificed to third by Chris Spe-ier.

Francona then hit a fly to deep center field and Trillo scored uncontested. Scott Sanderson and Lee Smith held Montreal to six hits. Smith, 9-7, went two innings, allowed two hits and got the victory. He stranded Tim Raines at third in the ninth inning. Sanderson retired the first 12 men he faced before Andre Dawson led off the fifth with a double over the bag at third.

Dawson scored when Tim Wallach followed a base hit to left, tying the score 1-1. Braves 4, Astros 3: At Atlanta, Bob Horner broke a seventh-inning tie with a sacrifice fly that scored Rafael Ramirez as the Braves ended the Astros' three-game winning streak. Ramirez had three hits in the game and scored twice. He singled leading off the seventh, stole second and went to third on Houston catcher Alan Ashby's throwing error. An out later, Horner's fly brought Ramirez home.

Padres 9, Reds 5: At Cincinnati, Bruce Bochy hit a two-run double in San Diego's four-run fifth inning and Tony Gwynn scored three times for San Diego. San Diego starter LaMarr Hoyt, 7-9, didn't allow a hit until the fourth inning and entered the sixth leading 8-1, but was chased by three home runs back-to-back homers by Buddy Bell and Barry Larkin, then one by Ron Oester an out later. Hoyt left leading 8-5. Four more Padre pitchers finished; Rich Gossage pitching the last two innings without allowing a hit. Phillies 5, Pirates 1: At Philadelphia, Gary Redus' leadoff homer started a four-run first inning and the Philadelphia Phillies won a five-inning, rain-shortened game.

Bruce Ruffin, 5-3, allowed four hits in the five innings. Redus hit the first pitch from Rick Reuschel, 7-14, for his 10th home run of the season, and three straight doubles followed an out later by Von Hayes, Mike Schmidt and Glenn Wilson. A single by Ronn Reynolds scored Schmidt with the fourth run. Dodgers 2, Giants 0: At San Francisco. Rick Honey- "kickoffs and Evan Arapostathis quarterback Jim Hart's old number 17.

the Eastern Illinois University graduate consistently put his kickoffs into the end zone during Saturday night's 27-26 National Football League exhibition loss to the Kansas Chiefs. His kicks drews ahs from the Cardinals' fans, who are not accustomed of seeing such power from their recent stable of kickers. "They put a lot of emphasis on putting the ball into end zone, but I don't think it's such a big deal. I've always done it," said Arapostathis. Arapostathis appears to be biding his time until the next cut Tuesday.

"I'll probably be gone," he ad- mits. "I'd sure like to stay with the Cards. I know everybody and it would be nice to be part of the team." If Arapostathis is cut, it won't because his strong right leg couldn't cut it. Like a lot of rookies, the numbers game is working against him. The Cards' No.

2 draft pick was John Lee, the National Collegiate Athletic Association's top percentage kicker. The punter is Carl Bird-song, who has six years of experience. So it appears Arapostathis' timing is off. He's not in the right place at the right time. "I hope I've been able to impress some other teams," he said.

"If I don't make it here and nobody picks me up, I'll just go back to my home in San Diego and work on a masters degree in sports psychology. Regardless of what happens, this has been a great opportunity for me." Arapostathis averaged 37.8 yards a punt for Eastern last season. He also hit on 23 of 27 extra point. attempts and 10 of 21 field goals. Arapostathis transferred to Eastern from Grossmount Community College in California.

adds RoDer to memories Niemann gives Mets split with Cardinals Coors-AUen Crowe Memorial 100 Dean Roper -gg By MARK TOPPER Herald Review Associate Sports Editor SPRINGFIELD Whenever Dean Roper feels down, he can boost his spirits by thinking about the Illinois State Fair. "It sure has been good to me." the Fair Grove, stock car driver said before Sunday's running of the Coors-AUen Crowe Memorial 100. Roper surveyed the dirt track and smiled. He has so many fond memories. Add one more to Roper's memory bank.

He took the lead on the 94th lap when Bobby Jacks of Huber Heights, Ohio, ran out of gas, and sped to his seventh victory on this track. Four have come in the Allen Crowe Memorial. Roper positioned himself for a run at the lead, then took over when Jacks' fuel gamble failed. "He felt he could run all 100 laps on one tank of gas," said Roper. "I don't believe we can make 22 gallons last that long.

I think he has proved that, now." Jacks held the lead and was the only car not to use a pit stop. But just as the race was restarted following a yellow caution flag on the 93rd lap, Jacks' fuel tank went dry. That opened the door for Roper, who had battled past Bob Strait of Mokena for second place. Roper's fate wasn't certain until the end, however, because an oil leak caused his car to smoke for the last 10 laps. "It was a slow leak and I watched my gauges real close," he said.

"All of it was draining onto the exhaust pipe so it smoked a lot and looked worse than it really was." This marked a significant comeback for Roper, who was involved in a frightening wreck in February at Daytona, Fla. "I hit a wall head-on at about 195 miles an hour, flipped into the air and came down hard," he recalled. Although injury-free, Butch Garner of Forsyth, and Randy and Jerry Huffman of Maroa were feeling poorly about the feature race outcome. Garner qualified 21st, moved up three positions by the 20th lap, then sprung a leak in his oil cooler and had to pit. The trouble was fixed, but not before losing seven laps on the leaders.

"When the car started smoking I figured my luck was holding up par for the course," said Garner, who has had a string of tough-luck, showings at the Illinois State Fair. After returning to the track, the windshield on Garner's car was smashed by debris but he kept running until the end. Driving a car owned by G.W. Pierce of Muncie, Garner finished 17th. Randy Huffman finished right behind Garner in 18th place.

His mechanical headache occured on the 57th lap. "The teeth were torn off the quick change gears," he said. "The car ran well other than that. We took some parts off Jerry's car to get it fixed." That was made possible when his brother, Jerry Huffman, blew an engine coming into the third turn and crashed on the 33rd lap. "I was hanging back, waiting for some of the race to go by when it blew," he said.

"It was unexpected. Everything seemed to be going good." Jerry Huffman finished 27th. NEW YORK (AP) Emergency starter Randy Niemann pitched six strong innings and Danny Heep, Tim Teufel and Len Dykstra homered, leading the New York Mets to a 9-2 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals and a split of their Sunday double-header. The Mets broke a four-game losing streak, their longest of the season.

The fourth loss came in the opener, when John Tudor scattered seven hits in seven-plus innings and Tommy Herr scored two runs in a 2-1 St. Louis victory. New York won the first and last games of the six-game series, which included two doubleheaders made necessary because of early-season rainouts. Heep hit a two-run homer in the fourth inning and doubled in a run in the fifth. Teufel-hit a pinch-homer in the sixth, and Dykstra added a three-run homer in the eighth.

Niemann, recalled from the minors Saturday to help fill in the rotation, gave up one earned run on five hits. He was making his first start in the major leagues since May 21, 1983, while with Pittsburgh. The lefthander, 2-3, began the season with the Mets and made 22 relief appearances before being sent to Class AAA Tidewater on July 16. Roger McDowell pitched the final three innings for his 12th save. Wally Backman's run-scoring double gave the Mets a 1-0 in the third inning, then Heep hit his fifth homer of the season in the fourth, against Danny Cox, 7-10.

Mariners make trade SEATTLE (AP) Seattle Mariners' captain Spike Owen and outfielder Dave Henderson were traded Sunday to the Boston Red Sox for shortstop Ray Quinones, right-handed pitchers Mike Brown and Mike Trujillo and a player to be named later, the Mariners announced. Owen, a shortstop, batted .246 and drove in 35 runs in 112 games. Henderson batted .276 with 14 home runs and 44 runs-batted-in. Quinones hit .237 with two homers and 15 runs-batted-in in 62 games. Brown was 4-4 with a 5t34 earned-run average.

In three games, Trujillo had no decisions and a 9.53 earned run average. John Morris' two-run single, set up by a throwing error by third baseman Howard Johnson, pulled the Cardinals within 3-2 in the fifth. The Mets scored twice in their half of the fifth on center fielder Vince Coleman's error and a run-scoring double by Heep. Teufel homered with the bases empty in the sixth off St. Louis reliever Ricky Horton.

It was Teufel's third home run of the season, and he has both of the Mets' pinch-home runs. Dykstra broke an 0-for-21 slump with his seventh home run of the season, off Ray Burris. The first game was delayed by rain for 14 minutes in the middle of the first inning. Goraey finds an penin By MARK TOPPER Herald Review Associate Sports Editor -SPRINGFIELD Looking through his windshield, Chuck Gurney saw something that made his heart race an open track. Nationals at Belleville, Kan.

Hatton won his heat and finished fourth in Friday's feature, then finished 8th out of 74 cars in the main event Saturday night. Sunday's crowd of about 9,000 received a scare when Mel Ken-yon's midget got airborne in the fourth turn during a heat race. "My left front tire caught under the guard rail and through me in a big hurry," said Kenyon, the winn-ingest midget driver in USAC history. Kenyon's front end was ripped off and the car sailed into the fence on the outside wall. Motionless for a few seconds, Kenyon crawled out of the wreckage and said he felt fine.

"I hope the local fair board won't mind taking care of the fence," he said, laughing. tioned by the United States Auto Club and completed a successful weekend for Gurney. On Saturday, Gurney started last in a field of 32 championship dirt cars and fought through traffic to finish second in a 100-lap feature. "I was battling through traffic all day," he said. "Today was more like it." Gurney started on the outside of the front row and moved quickly past pole-sitter Steve Lotshaw of Indianapolis, Ind.

Also passing Lotshaw was runnerup Tom Bigelow of Whitewater, Wis. Making a bold move early was Decatur's Scott Hatton, who started in 13th position and zoomed to seventh before half a lap was completed. He has worked his way nicely to fifth place when Arnie Rex Eastern Memorial Knepper of Belleville dropped out, then found trouble on the 17th lap. "Jerry Russell (of Springfield), got under me and nudged me," said Hatton, who battled as his car spun high on the fourth turn, a misfortune that allowed three cars to pass him. "It takes so long to gather it back tip after something like that," Hatton said.

He held on for eighth place, however, something that pleased his father and car-owner, Jerry Hatton. "There were 40 other cars that didn't do that well," he pointed out. Scott Hatton had a fine weekend, competing Friday and Saturday at the Miller High Life Midget "That's something I never saw yesterday," the Livermo-re; Calif, driver said Sunday after piloting his midget racer to victory in the Rex Eas-ton Memorial rafA at the Carlton triumphs CHICAGO (AP) Steve Carlton allowed three hits in 7 1-3 innings for his first American League victory, and Ron Hassey, Daryl Boston and Ozzie Guillen had three hits apiece Sunday to lead a 16-hit Chicago attack as the White Sox beat the Mil waukee Brewers 7-4. Carlton, 42, posted his first victory since July 26, when he labored for the San Francisco Giants. Carlton, whose career record is 320-227, had four strikouts to give him 4,008 for his career.

Illinois State Chuck Gurney Fair. The 25-lap feature was sane-.