Friday, July 11, 1986/The Battalion/Page 5
Sports
Goodwill Games
U.S. women's basketball team crushes Soviets, wins gold
MOSCOW (AP) — With Cheryl
I Miller again leading the way, and
Icheered on by a boisterous flag-wav-
ling contingent, the U.S. women’s
I basketball team handed the Soviet
I Union its first major tournament de-
Ifeat in 28 years, 83-60, Thursday
I night and won a gold medal at the
I Goodwill Games.
Miller scored a team-high 18
[points as the United States surged
[from a two-point deficit to a 14-
| point halftime lead. And — sup-
| ported by large group of Americans
[doing a stadium-style “wave” at half-
[time and chanting “U-S-A, U-S-A”
[Miller and her teammates pulled
[away in the second half to win the
■ biggest East-West matchup of the
I games.
The last time the Soviet women’s
I national team had lost in major in-
I ternational competition was 1958,
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in 1957.
The basketball gold was the only
one for the Americans on the sev
enth day of the international sports
festival. Athletes from Eastern block
countries dominated.
Soviet athletes won eight gold
medals Thursday to raise their total
to 43. The United States has 31, and
East Germany has six. The Soviets
have 122 medals in all, and the U.S.
has 87.
A team of Soviet cyclists set a
world record in the 4,000-meter
pursuit for the second day in a row
— their time of four minutes, 12.31
seconds also was good for a gold
medal.
A Swiss cyclist, Barbara Janz,
edged American Melinda Mayfield
for the gold medal in the women’s
sprint.
Mark Gorski, the American gold
medalist in the men’s sprint at the
’84 Olympics, advanced to the semi
finals when his Soviet opponent,
Otar Mchedlishvili, defaulted with
an injury. But the U.S. silver med
alist in Los Angeles, Nelson Vails,
was eliminated by East Germany’s
Mikhaehl Hubner.
In diving, the women’s spring
board gold medal went to another
East German, Brita Baldus, with
493.02 points. Tristan Baker of the
United States was fourth at 476.64,
while U.S. national champion Mich
ele Mitchell finished seventh at
461.40.
Soviet athletes took gold medals in
all four individual events of rhyth
mic gymnastics, with an East Ger
man sharing the gold with two Sovi
ets in the rope event. The best U.S
finish was an eighth place for Diane
Simpson in the ribbon.
But for the Navy Seabees who are
stationed at the U.S embassy and the
other Americans in the basketball
crowd, the United States won the
only game that counted.
The Soviets moved in front early
and led 21-19 with 9:20 remaining
in the first half. That is when the
Americans went to work.
It started getting rebounds, run
ning the floor and hitting all kinds of
shots, while shutting down the Soviet
attack and 7-foot-1% Liliana Semeo-
nova.
Anne Donovan, the 6-8 U.S cen
ter, blocked one of Semoenova’s
shots and the Soviet giant scored just
four points — and had no rebounds.
The U.S. outscored the Soviets
20-4 for a 39-25 half time lead.
In the second half, the lead
swelled to 26 points and the U-S-A
chants became louder. When the fi
nal buzzer sounded, Miller was
handed an American flag. She
draped it over her shoulders and pa
raded around court.
‘Red machine’ gears up for title race
MONTREAL (AP) — Cincinnati
player-manager Pete Rose said the
Reds have moved from trying to re
verse their dismal start to competing
for the National League West’s divi
sion title.
“No question, we’re a contender
in the West,” said Rose. “Our best
ball is ahead of us. You can see we’re
coming. By now, we’re not trying to
turn it around, we’ve already turned
it around.”
On May 17, the Reds, who last
year challenged the Los Angeles
Dodgers into the last month for the
I division pennant, were 5-22 and 10
games out of first place. Fans and
the media were screaming for the
firing of Rose, a native son and the
major leagues’ all-time hit leader.
But in their last 54 games heading
into Thursday night, Cincinnati was
33-21 (winning their last three and
eight of the last 10), putting them
five games under .500 and 5'A
games behind division leaders San
Francisco and Houston.
“We’re just getting good starting
pitching, good relief pitching, good
hitting, it’s a simple as that,” said
Reds outfielder Dave Parker. “We
struggled in the first half but we
picked a good time to put it all to
gether. Hopefully, it will carry us
into the second half.”
The momentum gained strength
in Cincinnati’s recent series against
the New York Mets. The Reds
rapped 45 hits and took three games
from the East Division leaders, the
first time this season New York has
been swept in a series.
“When you get 45 hits in three
games you can even beat the best
team in baseball,” Rose said. “And
that is what we did. We’re playing
good ball and have a chance to beat
anybody.”
One player whose fortunes have
followed that of the club is Tom
Browning.
Browning, who improved his re
cord to 7-7 with a 11-1 victory over
the Mets on Wednesday, started the
season 0-4 before he finally beat the
Pittsburgh Pirates on May 18.
“I’m more aggressive, challenging
the hitters,” said Browning who was
a 20-game winner last season as a
rookie. “I’m just going at them, not
trying to get fancy. I just wasn’t
pitching my type of ball game earlier
in the year. I feel like I’m in the
groove now.”
Rose said his club still has to
continuing its winning pace through
its current series with the Montreal
Expos and then concentrate on the
last half of the year.
All-Star Game
tickets still
available
HOUSTON (AP) — The As
trodome ticket office will begin
selling 2,000 tickets to the All-
Star Game at 7 a.m. CDT today, it
was announced Thursday.
The tickets are from allotments
returned by other major league
teams and are expected to be sold
quickly, making the 57th annual
classic a 45,000 sellout, said Rob
Matwick, a spokesman for the
Houston Astros.
The tickets will be sold on a
cash-only basis, Matwick said.
Surprised Hernandez to start for NL
NEW YORK (AP) — Unseating 10-time All Star
Steve Garvey from the starting first base position on
the National League team for Tuesday night’s game
was not easy. And for Keith Hernandez it was also un
expected.
Hernandez was one of three New York Mets se
lected in fan balloting to the starting team for the All
Star Game in Houston in results announced Thursday.
“I’ve been watching this with quite a bit of interest
the last 10 days,” Hernandez. “I don’t want to get into a
lot of detail about why, but I am surprised.”
Hernandez was one of the players who admitted
during last year’s federal drug trials in Pittsburgh to
using drugs. He was the only player of 21 censured by
Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth for previous
drug use to be voted to a starting position on either the
NL or American League teams.
Hernandez since the trial had been booed in many
parks. But his .286 average with six homers and 36
RBI were good enough to get him 995,279 votes,
137,000 more than Garvey, who was the first NL
Gooden, Clemens
to start for All Stars
NEW YORK (AP) — Roger Clem
ens of the Boston Red Sox and
Dwight Gooden of the New York
Mets on Thursday were named to
their leagues’ pitching staffs, setting
up an anticipated matchup of
young, but struggling, pitchers in
baseball’s 57th All-Star Game at the
Houston Astrodome Tuesday.
The American League, which has
lost 13 of the last 14 All-Star Games,
selected eight pitchers, while the Na
tional League chose 10.
Clemens, a right-hander who has
the most victories in the major
leagues this season, was off to a 14-0
start, one victory short of the Ameri
can League record, before losing his
last two.
Gooden, 10-4, who won the 1985
Cy Young Award in the National
League, has split his last four deci
sions, losing his most recent outing
Wednesday, 11-1, to the Cincinnati
Reds.
The other AL pitchers will be Don
Aase of Baltimore, Mike Witt of Cal
ifornia, Ken Schrom of Cleveland,
Willie Hernandez of Detroit, Ted
Higuera of Milwaukee, Dave Rig-
hetti of New York and Charlie
Hough of Texas.
The rest of the NL squad includes
Gooden’s teammate Sid Fernandez,
Mike Scott and Dave Smith of Hous
ton, John Franco of Cincinnati, Mike
Krukow of San Francisco, Shane
Rawley of Philadelphia, Jeff Rear
don of Montreal, Rick Rhoden of
Pittsburgh and Fernando Valen
zuela of Los Angeles.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
East Division
NATIONAL LEAGUE
East Division
w
L
Pet.
GB
w
L
Pet.
GB
Boston
54
29
.651
New York
56
25
.691
—
New York
48
38
.558
716
Montreal
46
36
.561
1016
Cleveland
45
37
.549
816
Philadelphia
40
42
.488
17
Baltimore
45
39
.536
10
Chicago
34
46
.425
2116
Toronto
46
41
.529
10
Pittsburgh
34
46
.425
2116
Detroit
41
42
.494
13
St. Louis
34
49
.410
23
Milwaukee
40
42
.488
1316
West Division
West Division
California
46
37
.554
—
Houston
46
39
.541
Texas
45
40
.529
2
San Francisco
46
39
.541
Chicago
38
45
.458
8
San Diego
44
41
.518
2
Kansas City
38
46
.452
816
Atlanta
42
43
.494
4
Minnesota
36
49
.424
11
Cincinnati
38
44
.463
616
Seattle
Oakland
36
32
50
55
.419
.368
1116
16
Los Angeles
38
46
.452
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Late Games Not Included
Thursday's Games
Late Games Not Included
Cleveland 9, Texas 6
Thursday’s Games
Toronto 8, Oakland 4
Houston 11, Philadelphia 4
Baltimore 5, Chicago 3
San Francisco 6, Pittsburgh 3
New York 11, Minnesota 1
San Diego 4, St. Louis 3
Detroit at Kansas City, ppd., rain
Montreal 8, Cincinnati 6
California at Boston, (n)
New York 5, Atlanta 1
Seattle at Milwaukee, (n)
Chicago at Los Angeles, (n)
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and the only player ever to be voted in as a write-in, in
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