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rC2TheSun MONDAY, September 2, 1991 KALEIDOSCOPE Johnson, Lyford to face off today By CHUCK HICKEY Sun Sports Writer SAN BERNARDINO Mark Johnson and Ted Lyford will attempt to add their names to the record books today. Johnson, of Barstow, and Lyford, of Redlands, are separated by only one shot heading into today's final round of the 22nd annual San Bernardino 'County Amateur Golf Championship. This queen isn't just one of the girls Teri James is the leading vote-getter in balloting for the Humboldt (Neb.) Fair Queen. But she's more concerned about how much playing time she'll get when the Humboldt High School vfpotball team opens its season on Friday. i The 5-2, 127-pound junior is expected to line "up as a wide receiver and cornerback for height-man Cardinals.

And, said coach John James, she won't just suit up and ride the bench. "We're a small enough school that we play' everybody that gets a uniform on," said John James, who is unrelated to Teri. "We try to let everybody that plays earn a letter." That means Teri will likely see action in at least 18 quarters during the Cardinals' nine-game season. "She can take a hit," the coach said. Most of the other players seem to have acr i cepted her, John James said.

Johnson, trying to be- COUNTY AM LEADERS come the second man to win the championship three times, shot an even-par 70 on Sunday at the San Bernardino Golf Club to hold the lead over Lyford. Lyford, trying to become the first three-peat champion and only Mark Johnson 69-70 139 Td Lyford 71-69140 Ryan Smith 7648144 Randy Gray 74-71145 Stave Rude 75-71146 Tom Harp 75-71148 i One possible exception: Her brother, senior Jason James. "He drilled me the first day we had 1 3 ''Tie cn.VO paus on, saiu i en. i Bo knows bikes Bo Jackson said his time away from baseball i while rehabilitating a hip injury didn't dull his skills. "It reminded me of when I was young, going out stealing bicycles.

Once you learn how to i do it, you never forget. You just have to learn how I to stay polished." Keep those card and letters comin' 1 TAirAit manarfai. CvaL-r indaiwAn ic avtunL 99 i ing a 101 oi man once me season enas. "I haven't said anything to all those people who said in spring training that we had a piece of (bleep) team," Anderson said. "But once this sea-ison ends, I may say some things.

And I expect written apologies from anyone who insulted this team." Hie heat goes on i nF.70SR- i Oakland's Jose Canseco, after striking out four times against Boston's Roger Clemens: "He was throwing so damn hard, I had no chance. I ionly hit humans." iThe new math Senior golfer Jim Ferree, on the im-'provement of course conditions: "Fifty percent of ithe fairways we play on today are better than 90 percent of the greens we played 30 years ago." ESS is.t SPORTS IN BRIEF JU CHROME ALUMINUM MODS SPOKES I MOOS EStf If 11111)11 14x7 40.99 15x7 41.99 15x8 43.99 16x7 58.99 Tight Spot wins Arlington Million ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, 111. Tight Spot lived up to both his lineage and his name Sunday. Instead of going to the front as he usually does, the 4-year-old West Coast grass specialist sprinted through a very tight spot just 50 yards fiom the finish and kept his head far enough in 14x7 37.99 38.99 15x8 41.99 58.99 14x7 74.99 15x7 79.99 15x8 91.99 16x7 107.99 ALUMINUM gtf'FtVE SPOKES iVENTURA 11 fSz." DIRECTION AL 14x6 92.99 15x6 95.99 (nWLUMINUM I DIRECTIONAL 14x7 .86.99 15x7 89.99 15x8 98.99 16x7 112.99 14x6 92.99 15x6.5 95.99 four-time winner of the event, shot a 1 -under 69. Johnson, who shot a 69 at the par-72 Victorville Municipal Golf Course in the first round on Saturday, has a two-day total of 139, 3-under par.

Lyford is at 140. Last year, Lyford beat out Johnson and Thomas Mainez on the final day, beating each by one shot. Lyford, Johnson and Ryan Smith, a Cal State San Bernardino player who is five shots back at 144, will be in the final group, which is scheduled to tee off at El Rancho Verde Country Club in Rialto at 11 a.m. today. "I have some memories of last year," Johnson said.

"But I always like playing in the final group. That way, I know I'm in contention and it feels nice to see how the others are doing." "I'm fortunate to be where I am," said Lyford, who had four bogeys on the back nine Sunday and was helped by a Johnson double bogey on 18. "I was not playing very well on the back side. "(Today), I've get to be two strokes better than Mark to win, unless someone tears up the course in front of us." "I expected to be right there, even better than where I am," said Smith, who had a 68 Sunday despite a bogey on 18. "It depends on how I shoot.

If Ted or Mark shoot a 68 to 70, there's no way (for him to win). I need to have about a 69 or 70 to have a chance. I'm just going to go out there and play my game." Besides Johnson, Lyford and Smith, Randy Gray of Rialto is in the hunt, six back at 145. Steve Rude of Redlands and Tom Harp of Loma Linda are at 1 146. Three others are at 147.

"I give myself a chance," said Charles Delorey, a Cal State San Bernardino graduate who is at 147. "Anything can happen. I need to get hot early and put the pressure on the leaders." County Amateur notes Randy Hobbs (78 on Sunday) of Rialto and Jerry ErlcKson (75) of San Bernardino share the lead by one stroke after two rounds of the first flight. Kenneth Miller (80) of Rancho Cucamonga leads the second flight by one shot In the third flight, Joseph Bruno (84) of Rancho Cucamonga has a three-stroke lead. Jose Neva (90) of Bloomington has a two-shot lead heading into the final round of the fourth flight Gene Perchan (89) leads the fifth flight by five shots.

Play continues today on three courses. The championship and first flights will play at El Rancho Verde CC in Rialto. The second and third flights go to San Bernardino GC and the fourth and fifth flights play at Victorville Municipal GC. Sunday's best championship-flight round was turned in by Bill Franklin of Highland, the co-leader after the first round last year. Franklin shot a 66 that included two agtes (second and 18th holes), four birdies (Nos.8, 9, 10 and 11), two bogeys (12 and 13) a double bogey (three) and nine pare.

Franklin is tied for seventh at 147, eight shots back. He had an 81 in the first round. i Mavericks' success wasn't by the books By PETE MARSHALL Special to The Sun ADELANTO They say that when playoff time comes around, the stats can be thrown out the window. In the 1991 California League Southern Division playoff, that was certainly the case. Bakersfield won 12 more games than the Maver-: icks in the regular season.

Who won the playoff? The Mavericks in three straight. In Game 2, Mavs starter Royal Thomas was 0-4 against Bakersfield in the regular season, and Dodgers starter Greg Hansell was 3-0 against High esert. Who won? Thomas, 7-2. Matt Mieske, the league's leading hitter, went 2-for-14 in the series, but the Mavs won anyway. And what were the odds that catcher John Aber-crombie, who hit one homer in 235 regular season at-bats, would hit his second in the playoffs? Abercrombie was as surprised as anyone.

"I didn't think it would go out," he said. "I thought it was going to go off the wall." Abercrombie needed a little help, and he got it. "He (starter Mark Mimbs) hung it a little, and I knew it was coming," Abercrombie said. It's hard sometimes to believe that the Mavericks' big bats of Matt Mieske, Jay Gainer, Mark Gie-seke, et al may actually need some help from a coach. But whether they do or not, batting coach Lonnie Keeter is there to help.

Even when he's not fine-tuning their swings, Keeter is using statistics to help them. He keeps a pitch chart, showing how each hitter hits with a certain count. Keeter's main point in keeping the stats is to illustrate the importance of getting ahead in the count. "A two-strike count is a breaking-ball count," Keeter said. "That's usually a tough pitch to hit." Keeter uses the information gathered to help the players in deficiencies.

"Matt Mieske early in the season had problems with the breaking pitch," Keeter said of the Cal League MVP. "But look at his two-strike average now (a team-high One of the points Keeter often makes is the im-portance of patience. He points to leadoff hitter J.D. Noland as one who needs to work on that. "He's working too aggressively early in the i count," Keeter said, showing as proof Noland's high frequency of first-pitch swinging.

Keeter doesn't make a lot of drastic changes in Gainer's or Mieske's swings. Instead, he works on their mental outlook. "There's a lot of positive talking," he said. "(Gainer) might strike out, but I find the good things they do." Tickets for the championship series will go on sale today at 10 a.m. Prices are $4.50 for box seats, I $3.00 for general admission and $2.50 for senior citizens, children and military with I.D The Mavericks will face either San Jose or Stockton in the series, and Games 1 and 2, Wednes-'; day and Thursday at 7:05, will be at Maverick Stadi-! urn.

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Notre Dame coach Lou Holtz said he will discipline quarterback Rick Mirer and linebacker Demetrius DuBose for breaking team rules stemming from their weekend arrests, but they will not be dismissed suspended from the football team. Both could start Saturday in the seventh-ranked Irish's opener against Indiana at home, Holtz added. Mirer and DuBose, both juniors, were arrested for public intoxication and disorderly conduct Friday after police were called to break up fin off-campus party that had grown too large. iThe two football players were released on $100 pond apiece early Saturday. Neither Mirer nor Dubose have publicly re-' iponded to the charges.

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