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NEWS CHRONICLEfhousand Oaks CalifMonday August 27 Page 1 Section SPORTS Vols tie Gonzalez does in Mets again yy By The Associated Press See VOLS Page 2 Seles has easy time League reports: 3 Record debut SCORES By The News Chronicle and The Associated Press By JIM THOMAS St Louis Post Dispatch Ivan Lendl defeated Aaron Krickstein 6 4 6 7 (4 7) 6 3 in the final of the WCT Tourna ment of Champions in New York in one of three tuneups Sunday for the US Open which started today At Commack NY Stefan Edberg defeated Goran Ivani sevic 7 6 (7 3) 6 2 in the final of the Hamlet Challenge Cup and at Mahwah NJ Steffi Graf beat Jennifer Capriati 6 3 5 7 64 in the final of the Pathmark Classic exhibition tournament Tennessee scores three fourth quarter TDs in Pigskin Classic Veteran makes most of rare start in yet another one run win BASEBALL National League Los Angeles 2 New York 1 Cincinnati 6 Pittsburgh 2 Montreal 4 San Diego 2 Atlanta 4 Chicago 3 Houston 4 St Louis 2 Philadelphia 5 San rancisco 1 American League California 4 Chicago 1 New York 4 Milwaukee 3 1 1 innings Cleveland 8 Baltimore 3 Boston 1 Toronto 0 Kansas City 8 Seattle 2 Detroit 7 Oakland 3 Texas 1 Minnesota 0 LAKE OREST Ill our time Pro Bowl safety Dave Duerson was among 14 players cut by the Chicago Bears in their latest preseason roster trimming Kent Sullivan a first year punter from California Luther an University was also among those released or Sullivan it was the second straight season he had gone to the camp and been cut Duerson a one time NL player of the year said the move Sunday did not come as a surprise but it still was a disappointment last season I missed the Pro Bowl by only one said Duerson think a cheap way to do Lendl Edberg Graf win tuneups Newcomer Jose Maria Olazabal of Spain shoots a record score in winning his first PGA tour event Page 2 LOS ANGELES (AP) Jose Gonzalez has paid more than his share of dues with the Los Angeles Dodgers But he contin ues to ride the bench An extra inning game gave him an opportunity to be a hero Saturday and perhaps because of that he got a rare start Sunday Again he provided the Dodgers the spark they needed to beat the New York Mets Gonzalez hit a game winning homer in the 14th inning of Ron Darling Saturday to give the Dodgers a 3 2 victory Sunday he scored both Los Angeles runs one on a steal of home in a 2 1 win you have to do those said Gonzalez who has never played more than 95 games in a major league season since signing with the Dodgers as a free agent out of the Dominican Republic 10 years ago always beat them with power You also have to win with a stolen base ora hit and Gonzalez and teammate Mike Sharperson who had two sin gles worked the hit and run to perfection twice in the first three innings to set up both Los Angeles runs Gonzalez walked in the first inning and eventually scored when Hubie Brooks fisted a two strike pitch from rank Viola (16 9) to right field for an RBI single Gonzalez singled his next time up and scored standing up on the front end of a double steal after Sharperson drew a throw to second from rookie catcher Todd Hundley while Eddie Murray was striking out Gonzalez started in the out field for only the 11th time all season and the first time since June 9 COLLEGE OOTBALL Disneyland Pigskin Classic Colorado 31 Tennessee 31 salted away until the final clock ticks he said That proved to be smart thinking especially with what transpired after punt return Over its next 25 plays Tennessee passed 22 times Kelly completed 17 of them good for 235 yards 'and two touchdowns Kelly was Majors said had some timing difficul ties He threw off balance two or three times" Webb who finished with a relatively modest 131 yards in 27 carries scored the final touchdown from 4 yards on a draw play with 2:25 remaining Place kicker Greg Burke who earlier had seen two of his field goal attempts blocked kicked the extra point that made it 31 31 KANSAS CITY Mo (AP) Bo Jackson just seem to do anything ordinary Jackson became the 19th player in major league history to hit four homers in four at bats and the first to do it since Larry Herndon in 1982 But his 450 foot shot off Ran dy Johnson in the second inning of the Kansas City 8 2 victory on Sunday came more than six weeks after the first three Jackson had three homers in as many at bats in New York on July 17 when he dove for a drive by Deion Sanders and landed heavily on his shoul der Sanders circled the bases for an inside the park home run and Jackson landed on the disabled list KENT SULLIVAN Sullivan Duerson among Bears' cuts Although the Mets and Dodg ers did not duplicate the pulsat ing drama of the 1988 National League playoffs in this four game series it bad for a regular season series in late August Three games were de cided by one run the other by two runs All four were secured by the respective bullpens after out standing work by the starters This time it was Mike Hartley (5 1) who outdueled Viola and kept the left hander tied with Doug Drabek for the NL lead in victories Hartley thrust into the start ing rotation from the bullpen after Tim Belcher went on the disabled list won his fifth straight decision with six plus innings of three hit ball He has surrendered only two runs and seven hits in his first 18 innings as a starter Viola allowed seven hits over seven innings with four strike outs and two walks The layoff obviously hurt his swing His first pitch homer landed in a water foun tain behind the left field fence measure them I just go out and try to see the Jackson said particular pitch I saw it so good I saw the seams I started playing I felt like the 17th was only he said was ready to play two weeks ago but they said it was a six week injurj and they wanted to give me the full time to rest I convinced them to let me Bo comes back hits 4th straight homer Kevin McReynolds greeted Tim Crews with a run scoring single just inside the right field line but Crews struck out Tom and pinch hitter Mack ey Sasser with the bases loaded Jim Gott pitched a scoreless eighth and Jay Howell then retired the Mets in order in the ninth to earn his 13th save The Dodgers now seven games over 500 for the first time all season remained 6 games behind first place Cin cinnati in the NL West The Mets trail the first place Pirates by three games in the NL East PRO OOTBALL Exhibition Minnesota 22 Houston 21 The Mets scored their only run in the seventh Hartley left with two on and no one out in the seventh before the Mets loaded the bases on Darryl single off rookie Dave Walsh who then struck out Howard Johnson over Shippensburg Pa taking its 14th World Series title in 17 appearances Pitcher Sun Chao Chi at 5 9 Vi the tallest player in the tourna ment kept the offense in check striking out 16 including the first eight batters he faced No runner got past second base Shippensburg pitcher Bobby Shannon limited Taiwan to one run on four hits in the first three innings before fading in the fourth COMICS ENTERTAINMENT pursued by Tennessee's Mark Adams after a Volunteers' field goal kick was blocked in the first quarter of the Pigskin Classic But all that enough to hold off the Volunteers who got a school record 33 pass comple tions in a school record 55 attempts by Kelly looked like we had victory a couple of times and we keep them from an swering our two touchdown ad Colorado coach Bill McCartney said The 55 yard touchdown plays by Pritchard and McCloughan gave the Buffaloes a seemingly safe 24 10 lead with 9:34 to play The Buffaloes defending Big Eight Conference champions were keeping Tennessee All America tailback candidate Chuck Webb in check Kelly who threw three interceptions seemed to do one thing wrong for every two things right Still McCartney rest easy been in coaching too long I never feel like victory is tie the score California hung tough and resorted to the long ball for the win guys are profession als they are not supposed to Rader said should be congratulated for getting the job done But by the same token I think anything should be made of going about things in a professional manner ex In making his third start in the major leagues Angel pitch er Joe Grahe (1 1) was able to withstand nearly everything the White Sox threw at him Grahe said the key to the victory was the number of strikes he threw at the White Sox That was something he was unable to accomplish against See ANGELS Page 3 in opener NEW YORK (AP) Monica Seles got the US Open off to a running start today taking only 44 minutes to move into the second round of the final Grand Slam tournamenL Seles the No 3 seed had no problems eliminating Elena Pampoulova of Bulgaria 6 0 6 0 to open the two week tourna ment Pampoulova won just 23 points in the match six in the second set Seles won 54 points Other opening day winners were Dink' van Rensburg of South Africa Natalia Medvede va of the Soviet Union Sandra Cecchini of Italy and Julie Halard of rance an Rensburg defeated Eva Sviglcrova of Czechoslovakia 6 3 6 1 Medvedeva beat Terry Phelps 6 4 6 2 Cecchini defeat ed Jana Pospisilova of Czecho slovakia 6 3 6 1 and Halard defeated Brenda Schultz of the Netherlands 6 2 6 4 Seles is one of the favorites along with defending champion Steffi Graf and Martina Navrati lova to capture the crown at the final Grand Slam tournament This Open is a start of sorts for Mats Wilander Two years after he won the Open Wilan der may be happy just to get past the first round where he meets No 8 seed Brad Gilbert tonight months from now I want to be top 20 top Wilander who in 1988 won three of the four Grand Slam tournaments and was ranked No 1 in the world said last week that happen then got to think about He might begin thinking to night when by the luck of the draw the Swede is forced to face Gilbert one of the top players Returning the favor swept by Pittsburgh last weekend makes it three of four against the Pirates Page 3 ANAHEIM or nearly three quarters Sunday Tennes see and Colorado provided am ple evidence of why college football should not be played in August The inaugural Disneyland Pigskin Classic the major col lege season opener was full of enough Mickey Mouse plays Goofy mistakes and Dopey blun ders to script a Disney cartoon But oh what a fourth quarter If the rest of the college season is like finish it will be one wild year Nearly four hours of football resulted in 62 points nearly 1000 yards of offense eight turnovers and three blocked Ralrl rtAnln 4U: iioviucuilUUHIlg The Associated Press Tennessee No 8 in The Asso Colorados David Gibbs (15) picks up the loose ball and is ciaiea tress preseason rank ings rallied with two touch downs in the final 5Mi minutes and tied fifth ranked Colorado 31 31 before 33458 fans at 69 000 seat Anaheim Stadium Volunteers quarterback Andy Kelly who passed for 368 yards and Colorado tailback Mike Pritchard who rushed for 217 were the most outstanding play ers But give Tennessee coach Johnny Majors an award for best pregarne prediction talked to our squad before the game and I told them I thought this would be a game of big Majors said Boy was he right Pritchard playing in place of suspended Eric Bieniemy scored on runs of 55 and 78 yards for the Buffaloes who also had a 62 yard run by fullback George Hemingway called back be cause of a holding penalty Dave McCloughan returned a punt 55 yards for another score Angels salvage pride with victory over Sox CHICAGO (AP) The Califor nia Angels are two games under500 and are out of contention in the American League West but Manager Doug Rader said the team is still competing and he is pleased by that In winning game against the Chicago White Sox 4 1 the Angels were able to salvage a split of the four game series and to head home from a 10 game road trip with a 5 5 record salvaged the series and the road Rader said think every game this series we had the tying or winning run up in the ninth Our guys really competed" But unlike the first two games of the Chicago series the Angels jumped out to a quick lead Although Chicago was able to The Associated Pi ess Winning pitcher Sun Chao Chi (20) of the San Hua Little League is mobbed by teammates after defeating Shippensburg Pa 9 0 in the championship game of the Little League World Series Taiwan resumes Series streak after year layoff WILLIAMSPORT Pa (AP) A one run lead enough for Taiwan manager Wang Tzyy Tsann halfway through the title game of the 1990 Little League World Series He feared his players were choking first time up they were too anxious They were swing ing for the Wang said told them to relax choke up and go for base hits when the hits started Taiwan scored four runs in each of its last two at bats Sunday and took a 9 0 victory Diins i 1L vl if 1 a I Es wr 'i 5 1 I5 il fl KN'Zi i Jo A I I Mr ESWTW tpM 'J.