The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, February 09, 1987, Image 13

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    Monday. February 9. 1987/The Battalion/Page 13
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Mayotte snares U.S. Pro Indoor
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Filth-
seeded Tin Mayotte erased a bitter
year-long memory Sunday as he up
set favored John McEnroe 5-6, 6-1,
6-5, 6-1 to capture the $465,000 U S
Pro Indoor Tennis Championship.
Mayotte. 26. earned the $67,MX)
first-place prise as he^ beat a strug-
gling McEnroe for the first time m
six career confrontations
Last year, Mayotte reached the fi
nal of the U.S. Pro Indoor, but had
to default the tide to Ivan Lendl be
cause of pulled stomach muscles suf
fered in his semifinal victory.
Against McEnroe. Mayotte lost
the rust set, but rallied to win the
next three in the best-of-five final.
Mayotte successfully attacked the net
and the fourth-seeoed McEnroe was
unable to pass him in the familiar
manner that made him the world's
top player four of the last six years.
McEnroe. 27, collected $35,750
for second place, but didn't
dose to the form that
year’s 6vy-mooth self-exile from
competition. He took leave to start a
family and take stock of his life.
Mayotte advanced through the
tournament for his third pro tide
with a first-round bye and victories
over Gary Muller of South Africa,
Ben 1 ester man. Paul Annacone and
Milan Srejber of Czechoslovakia
McEnroe, trying to win an un
precedented firth U.S. Pro Indoor,
advanced on a bye, triumphs over
Mel Purcell, Tomas Soud of Caecho-
dmrakit. Jakob HJasek of Switzer
land and Amos Manadorf of Israel.
McEnroe took the first set with s
service break m the sixth game. He
won three of the first four points for
a 15-40 lead. Then, after Mayotte
forced an error to 50-40, McEnroe
finished the break with a backhand ‘
passing shot.
The set then foMowed service wkh
McEnroe closing it out in game nine
From then on, however, it was all
Mayotte, who dominated by racing
out to a 5-0 lead in the second set. a
5-1 margin in the third and a 5-0
lead in the fourth.
Mayotte broke McEnroe for the
first time in the second game of the
second set after trailing 50-0. He
won the next two points on brilliant
passing shots And after McEnroe
went to 40-50 on a netted shot by
Mayotte, the nght-hander from
Springfield. Mass . captured the
next three points
Mayotte broke McEnroe's service
again in the sixth game as the even
tual winner forced two errors, then
took the game when McEnroe al
lowed a return of service to drop just
inside the baseline
In the third set. Mayotte broke
McEnroe’s service in the first and fi- •
nal games
He took the fourth and deciding
set with breaks m the second and
sixth games, holding McEnroe to
Just three points in the last three
games
Ravin takes Hawaiian Open after playoff
HONOLULU (AP) —Corey Pavin
climaxed a six-stroke comeback with
a 20-foot birdie putt on the second
playoff hole and successfully de
fended his tide Sunday in the Ha
waiian Open golf tournament.
Pavra, who started the day’s play
six strokes back of leader Craig
Stadler, npped the Waialae Country
Chib course with mi 6-under-par 64
that put him through 72 holes at
270, 18 under par.
Stadler. playing almost an hour
behind Pavm. came to the par-5 18th
in a tie for the lead and nad a six-
foot birdie pun to win it outright.
But Staole*-, a former Masters
champion who hasn't won in 214
years, missed the little putt and the
playoff was on.
Both made routine pars on the
first hole of sudden death. On the
was closer, perhaps 12-15 feet be
hind the hole
After a lengthy delay to scare
away a persistent pigeon. Pavin
robed his in so the hole for birdie.
Stadler missed and Pavin, who won
the Bob Hbpe Classic three weeks
ago. became the first two-time win
nerof the season
The sixth victory of bn four-year
PCA tour career was worth
$106,000 from the total purse of
$600,000 and pushed Pavtn’s tour-
leading earnings to $507,040 in only
five starts this season.
Stadler, who played the last round
in 70 in the warm, sunny, weather,
collected $64,800
Paul Axmger, who scored his first
tour victory in Phoenix last month.
was in the race until the last few
holes.
He dropped out of a tie for the
lead when he bogevrd the 17th from
a bunker, lipping out a three-to-four
foot par-saving putt.
He had an eight-foot birdie putt
on the 18th to join the playoff, but
again saw the putt slide by
“I had my chances,” said Azinger,
who was alone in third at 271 after a
• losing 70. “I hit rood thou coming
in, but over the last few holes the
putts just wouldn't go in. That’s the
way k goes “
Lanny Wad kins and Larry Mize
were next at 272. Mize had a closing
67. Wad kins a 68.
Fred Couples, who made eagle on
the first hole and once had a share of
the lead, had a 71 and led a large
group at 275.
Heels edge
Cavs 74-73
in overtime
(AP) —- Freshman center J.R-
Reid scored 21 points, including a
three-point play with 1:56 left in
overtime, to boost third-ranked
North Carolina to a 74-75 victory
over Virginia Sunday.
Reid hit a jumper inside the
lane to break a 71-71 tie and was
fouled by Mel Kennedy. The free
throw put North Carolina ahead
74-71, and John Johnson’s basket
with 47 seconds left pulled Vir
ginia within a point.
Richard Morgan missed a
jumper at the buzzer that could
nave given Virginia the victory
North Carcdina is now 20-2
and has not lost in nine Atlantic
Coast (kmference games. Vir
ginia is 14-7 and 4-5.
In other games Sunday, No. 2
Indiana beat Michigan 85-67, and
No. 18 Kansas beat Notre Dame
70-60, winning for the second
time this weekend. The Jay hawks
beat Oklahoma State 88-65 !
day.
Satur-
On Saturday, it was No. 1 Ne-
vada-Las Vegas 83. San Jose State
74; No. 4 Iowa 89, Arizona 80;
No. 5 DePaul 88. Dayton 65; No.
6 Temple 78, St. Joseph’s 69; No.
7 Puroue 86, Northwestern 60;
No. 8 Oklahoma 81, Missouri 78;
Kentucky 70, No. 9 Alabama 69,
and No. 10 Georgetown 89, Villa
nova 86.
Also, No. 11 Syracuse 59, Con
necticut 55; No. 12 Uemson 74,
South Carolina 52; No. IS Puts
burgh 87, No. 17 Providence 81;
No. 14 Illinois 99, Wisconsin 74;
No. 16 Duke 76, Maryland 67.
and Georgia 75. No. 20 Auburn
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