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Thursday, August 9, 1984/The Battalion/Page 9 Sports IP ‘P from wis $5 ■ Please driver to have ent dis- >5 p.m, >C. For m n inter' Sales no the pikanu >ecunn wines- ivs; and > will be 801E. nsonat >es Cham- g Your p.m. at Lewis shatters record on road to third gold United Press International LOS ANGELES — Carl Lewis, re capturing his fans as quickly as he lost some of them, stepped within a heartbeat of the legendary Jesse Owens Wednesday night when he won the 200 meters for his third Olympic gold medal. Drawing away powerfully in his now familiar style, Lewis paced the first American sweep in the Olympic 200 since 1956, crossing the line in an Olympic record 19.80 seconds. Kirk Baptiste, who trains with Le wis in Houston, and Thomas Jeffer son of Cleveland, Ohio, a pair of 22- year-olds moving into world class stature, completed the American sweep of the medals. If he anchors the heavily favored united States 4 x 100 meter relay team to victory Saturday, Lewis will have his fourth gold medal and will duplicate the famous feat owens ac complished in the 1936b Berlin Olympics. Long forgotten were the scattered boos Lewis heard when he passed on his final four long jumps Monday night. When he hit the wire in the 200 final, the sellout crowd of 92,000 at the Memorial Coliseum erupted in a flag-waving celebration to embrace Lewis. Lewis jogged a victory lap with his two fellow Amer ican medalists, locked arm-in-arm. Baptiste was timed in 19.96 and Jefferson in 20.26. Lewis broke the Olympic record of 19.83 set by Tom mie Smith of the United States in 1968. World record holder Pietro Mennea of Italy was seventh in the eight-man field. "The first thing we wanted to do was sweep,” Lewis said. “It didn’t matter what the places were. That’s what made the flag we were carrying more special. “I try to do my hardest. That’s what’s going to be remembered, the way the American team performed, not the boos I got because they wanted to see more, which is even a kind of praise.” In the first finals of the day, Na- wal El Moutawakil of Morocco beat American Judi Brown to win the 400-meter hurdles and Alonzo Bab ers, running without favorite Bert Cameron, upset teammate Antonio McKay to capture the men’s 400 gold medal. Cameron, the world 400 cham pion from Jamaica, decided at the last minute that his muscle cramp from Monday’s semifinals had not healed enough. That appeared to leave a wide-open path to the gold for McKay, the Georgia Tech flash who had boldly predicted a victory. But it was Babers, the 22-year-old Air Academy grad, who controlled the race.Darren Clark of Australia jumped out to the early lead but was caught at 200 by Babers, who pulled away to win in 44.27. Babers was the only person to beat Cameron in 1983 and he beat him again in 1984 in a meet in Northern California. Gabriel Tiacoh of the Ivory Coast won the silver in 44.54 while McKay settled for a bronze in 44.71 after a last-seconds rally passed Clark. In the women’s 200 meters, Vale rie Brisco-Hooks, who set an Ameri can record in winning the 400 me ters Monday, paced herself through the first two rounds of preliminary heats as she began her quest for a second Olympic gold medal. Brisco-Hooks eased to a first- round victory in 23.30 seconds and two hours later came back in the sec ond round, finishing a strong sec ond to Rose-Aimee Bacoul of France. The only other final held was the pole vault. Mike Tully and Earl Bell of the United States and Thierry Vi- gneron and Pierre Quinon of France were expected to contend for the medals. American Mary Decker began ac tion in the 3,000-meter first round along with Zola Budd of Great Brit ain, Maricica Puica of Romania and marathon bronze medalist Rosa Mota of Portugal. Carol Lewis had her long jump qualifying at about the same time as her brother’s 200 final. Toronto blasts Rangers United Press International LOS ANGELES — American Greg Louganis, finally winning the only major international award that has eluded him, Wednesday night captured the gold medal in Olympic springboard divingby an over whelming margin. 4 l Texas Af r ice, says! :he famik areorna can be £ ride (Wi nd child if i'S. where oik r to ana- ; compute liance. Bn for a con ice doesEi ei ^le want if itrol in ih c control! trend no* >r technd :es, insteal controlliif ng curreit ;ure is ft ;hesa technolof Sieves tbit contribuit countrifl with . Comnui' rh to p all batteff ise in tbie grams ;e rdiagno t will bej- 1 a mecW »some uk nmunity 11 progra® United Press International ARLINGTON, Texas — Dave Collins drove in three runs and Er nie Whitt and Tony Fernandez each homered Wednesday night to lift the Toronto Blue Jays to a 7-2 triumph over the Texas Rangers. Jim Clancy (9-11) won his second straight start. The 28-year-old right hander allowed seven hits and struck out six in eight innings and retired 11 straight from the third through the sixth innings. Toronto jumped out tp a 2-0 lead in the third against Danny Darwin (6-7) on an RBI double by Collins, who had three hits, and Willie Up shaw’s RBI single. Whitt’s eighth homer of the year, with one out in the fourth, gave To ronto a 3-1 lead. Collins ripped a two-run single off Ranger reliever Odell Jones in the sixth to make it 5- 1. Fernandez drove in two runs with his second major-league homerun in the seventh to extend the lead to 7-1. The closest the Rangers could get was 2-1 in the third inning off a Gary Ward run-scoring grounder. Photo by PETER ROCHA Aggie Fall Workouts Mark Motley, a freshman quarterback from Ore City and one of five members of the Dallas Times-Herald Blue Chip list to sign with Texas A&M, looks to make a pitch off during a practice session at Kyle Field. The new Aggie recruits will practice once more, today at 3 p.m., before joining the varsity players on Monday to begin full-team workouts. n Louganis’ total of 754.41 points, ust under his previous record of "55.59, gave him a 92 point victory that will enable him to attempt an unprecedented sweep of Olympic diving medals this weekend. Louga nis goes after the platform diving gold this weekend. No man has ever won both in the same Olympiad. Tan Liangde of China edged out Ron Merriot of the United States by less than a point for the silver medal. Louganis’ near flawless perfor mance included four perfect 10s — three from one Sweedish judge. The 24-year-old San Diego native was strong and consistent enough throughout the competition to easily win his second Olympic medal. In 1976, he won the silver medal in the springboard at the Montreal Games. As is usually the case, Louganis took the lead after the first dive and never trailed. Louganis led by 30 points at the end of the compulsories and stretched the margin in the op tional program. Louganis does not have a dive with a degree of difficulty under a 3.0 rating in his six-dive elective pro gram. He consistently racked up scores of over eight to pull away from the field. That left the battle for the silver and bronze medals. The two Chinese divers, Li Hongping and Tan, and Merriott, 24, of Rockford, Ill., staged a battle throughout the rest of the competi tion. Li wound up fourth with Great Britain’s Christopher Snode taking fifith and Piero Italianiof Italy fin ishing sixth. 845-8681 located in tlie 7:45 - 6:00 Mon. - Fri. 9:00 - 5:00 Saturday Introducing a new video movie and video ^ ow x ®^ 1 ^ wirL S equipment rental service on Campus! 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