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S MIAMI (AP) — The New York
dels held a closed-door meeting
Wednesday and reached an uneasy
P ruce with Darryl Strawberry, a day
( liter he blamed Manager Davey
\ ohnson and some teammates for
he club's problems last year.
“I don’t think anybody likes to
lave derogatory things said about
hem,” said Johnson, Strawberry’s
Sad/; )rime target. “But I don’t want to
idawj. hag this out and make it any bigger
han it is.”
The storm started Tuesday when
UCJBm advance copy of Esquire mag-
izine’s April issue appeared in the
dets’ clubhouse, containing a story
ibout Strawberry.
In the interview, he said Gary
t barter and Keith Hernandez “quit”
npj 0[li j ast season and he had some uncom-
ilimentary comments about team-
nates Wally Backman and Len
ed(J )ykstra.
Of Johnson, he said, “I always
vonder how many games this team
would have won if Whitey was ma
naging,” a reference to St. Louis
Cardinals Manager Whitey Herzog.
The Mets failed to repeat as
World Series champions last year
when they were beset by injuries and
off-field problems.
This year, the Mets came to camp
healthy and seemed anxious to go
about the business of regaining their
position. They have been made the
favorites, and had hoped to avoid
the kind of confrontation that Straw
berry sparked.
The Mets held a 20-minute meet
ing at their spring training camp in
Port St. Lucie, Fla., to discuss the lat
est trouble. The team then drove
four hours to Miami for an exhibi
tion game against Baltimore.
Strawberry did not talk to report
ers in Port St. Lucie and brushed
past them before playing against the
Orioles.
“It’s over” is all Strawberry said.
He got mixed boos and cheers when
he batted.
Richie Bry, Strawberry’s agent, of
fered a possible solution to avoid fu
ture problems.
“As long as players talk to the
press they are going to sometimes
say things that they regret — and
sometimes be quoted out of context
— and my answer to that is not to
talk to the press at all,” Bry said in a
telephone interview.
While the Mets wanted to forget
this latest off-the-field rumbles, they
did not seem ready to forgive Straw
berry.
“He’s a moody guy,” said Carter,
who did not attend the morning
meeting. “He says one thing one
day, another thing on another.
That’s Darryl.”
“I know myself. I’ve proved my
self,” Carter said, responding to
Strawberry’s remarks that he
stopped playing hard during last
September’s National League East
race. “But it’s history as far as I’m
concerned.”
Strawberry and Johnson have had
several disputes in the past. There
was a highly publicized incident in
Game 6 of the 1986 World Series
when Johnson removed Strawberry
for a pinch hitter, and Johnson fined
Strawberry twice during spring
training last year.
Earlier this spring, Strawberry
was fined again for missing a team
photo session.
In the Esquire story, Strawberry
said Johnson had one set of rules for
him and pitcher Ron Darling, and
another set for the. rest of the team.
Strawberry also charged that John
son made managerial moves last
year that had the team wondering
what was going on.
McGwire shines in Athletics’ win over Giants
From the Associated Press
Mark McGwire hit two home
uns, including a towering three-run
hot to center field in the ninth in-
ing, as Oakland defeated the San
rancisco Giants 7-5 Wednesday in
C Exhibition play.
w “ McGwire’s first homer, a solo shot
ff Mike Krukow, came in the sec-
nd inning. The three-run homer
ame off Craig Lefferts and cleared
30-foot fence in straightaway cen-
r field, 430 feet from home.
“The public address announcer
S.M.I he’s never seen anyone hit a ball
^ j&ver that fence, and he’s been here
^^■1 years,” Giants Manager Roger
c ^*’raig said of McGwire’s long homer.
Twins 10, Tigers 7
Randy Bush started Minnesota’s
)ur-run third inning with a double,
!nd the defending World Series
champion Twins defeated Detroit.
Jack Morris, the first of four Tiger
E itchers, gave up six runs on nine
its in the three innings he worked.
Twins 6, Royals 5
Sal Butera’s bases-loaded walk off
Luis Aquino snapped a ninth-inning
tie, and the Twins split squad beat
Kansas City. Tom Brunansky hit a
three-run homer in the sixth inning
to give the Twins a 4-1 lead.
Red Sox 2, White Sox 1
Jeff Sellers and Ed Lynch each
pitched three shutout innings, and
five Boston pitchers combined on a
four-hitter as the Red Sox beat Chi
cago.
Braves 6, Expos 2
Gerald Perry drove in two runs
with a double in Atlanta’s three-run
fifth inning, and Rick Mahler
pitched three scoreless innings as the
Braves won their third in a row.
Astros 4, Expos 1
Rafael Ramirez hit an RBI triple
in Houston’s two-run sixth inning,
leading the Astros to a 4-1 victory
over the Expos split squad.
Cardinals 3, Blue Jays 1,11 innings
Mike Laga singled to break a 1-1
tie in the 11th inning, and the St.
Louis Cardinals defeated Toronto.
Cubs 1, Angels 0
Rick Sutcliffe allowed five hits in
five scoreless innings, combining
with three other pitchers on a seven-
hit shutout.
Yankees 10, Rangers 3
Jose Cruz hit his first homer of
the spring season, leading the New
York Yankees to a 10-3 victory over
Texas. Mike Pagliarulo also hom-
ered.
Phillies 4, Pirates 3
Darren Daulton’s two-run triple
helped Philadelphia rally from a 1-0
deficit to a 4-3 victory with four runs
in the fourth inning against Pitts
burgh.
Dodgers 6, Reds 5
Dave Anderson’s RBI single
capped a two-run eighth inning that
carried unbeaten Los Angeles to a 6-
5 victory over Cincinnati.
Mets 11, Orioles 6
New York won its first exhibition
game after four losses as Barry
Lyons sparked a seven-run eighth
inning with a two-run double. The
Mets had 19 hits.
Mariners 11, Indians 5
Brick Smith had two doubles and
a home run as the Mariners beat the
Indians.
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Nation’s worst team
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EDINBURG (AP) —This team
must really love basketball.
It has been more than a year
since Pan American’s Lady
Broncs won a game, and their
reputation as the worst team in
the nation follows them every
where.
Players say some team’s don’t
even bother to warm up before
playing the l ady Broncs, who
ended their regular season at 0-
26 and 0-9 in American South
Conference play.
Despite their sixth-place rank
ing in a field of six, they get a shot
at the conference title Thursday
night against third-place South
western Louisiana, l/-10and 5-4.
Louisiana Tech hosts the tourna
ment in Ruston, La.
Statistically, it should be the
Lady Broncs’ last gasp of the
year. Yet something other than
the thrill of victory kept them
picking themselves up from
drubbing after drubbing as the
cellar got deeper and deeper.
“If they weren’t so feisty, we
probably would have folded a
long time ago,” said Becky De Los
Santos, a volleyball coach who in
herited the team last summer af
ter the previous coach quit.
“They’re a proud group.”
One of their most humiliating
losses came Feb. 22 at Louisiana
Tech. Without ever playing their
five starters, the Lady Techsters
defeated Pan Am 98-21.
Lady Techsters coach Leon
Barmore’s decision not to use his
starters moved Pan American
Sports Information Director Jim
McKone to write a letter to Bar-
more thanking him for the act of
mercy.
“You could have run up 200
points on us,” McKone wrote.
“You could have gained a na
tional record. You could have
netted a lot of ink nationally. In
stead, you did the absolutely right
thing.
“I have written sports for daily
papers since 1949, and we have
the worst team I have ever cov
ered, in any sport, at any level.
But they are human beings,
trapped by unfair circumstanc
es.”
The Lady Broncs were not pre
pared for what awaited them this
school year, when Pan American
joined the newly formed ASC in
NCAA Division I.
Suddenly, the Lady Broncs
contended not only with nation
ally ranked teams in the confer
ence, but also faced four South
west Conference schools. They
were schools with six-figure bud
gets backing their women’s bas
ketball programs and longer his
tories of taking women’s sports
seriously.
The Lady Broncs were used to
last year’s fare of smaller National
Association of Intercollegiate
Athletics schools, NCAA Division
II and III teams and junior col
leges. Even so, they ended last
year at 7-17.
Pan American, with a total
women’s basketball budget of
$52,118, just couldn’t compete in
the new conference, particularly
in the area of scholarships.
When Ms. De Los Santos took
over the Lady Broncs last sum
mer, she learned the previous
coach had not recruited anyone.
By the time Ms. De Los Santos
was able to call high schools
around the state, all of the poten
tial players had signed with other
teams.
Floyd is ready to win
after narrow Doral loss
CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) —
For just a moment, the look was
there.
Ben Crenshaw saw it.
He saw it in the eyes of Ray Floyd,
and Ben knew he bad his work cut
out for him.
“Raymond chipped in on 16 and
he got that look in his eyes. And
when Raymond gets that look, you
know the game is on,” Crensbaw
said.
As it developed, Crenshaw was
able to prevail, rapping in a birdie
putt on the final hole to win the Do
ral Open last Sunday. Floyd finished
two shots behind.
But the look that is back in Floyd’s
eyes is a worrisome thing for the
other members of the PGA Tour.
“I’ve heard about it. Other players
have talked about it. But I don’t
know what ‘that look’ is,” said the 45-
year-old Floyd.
“If I knew what it was, I’d try to
get it more often,” he said.
It’s one of the phenomena of the
pro tour. It’s an expression of grim
determination, of combative aggres
sion, of single-minded concentration
that settles over Floyd’s face when he
is at his best and in title contention.
It was never more evident than in
his 1986 U.S. Open victory. To one
degree or another, it’s almost always
there when he wins.
And the fact that it was in evi
dence only a few days ago makes
Floyd a prime contender in the
$700,000 Honda Classic that gets
under way Thursday at the TPC
course at Eagle Trace.
“The way I played last week was
very pleasing,” Floyd said.
“I had the feeling things were
coming together. I won’t say I’ve got
everything in order. But I’ve sure
got it moving in the right direction.
“This certainly gives me hope that
in the next few weeks I’ll be able to
make some good things happen,”
Floyd said.
He is in a 144-man field that in
cludes defending champion Mark
Calcavecchia, Sandy Lyle of Scotland
and Bernhard Langer of West Ger
many.
Celtics nip Spurs 119-118
BOSTON (AP) — Dennis John
son hit two free throws to put Boston
ahead by a point with 15 seconds left
and blocked Jon Sundvold’s shot
with two seconds remaining to give
the Celtics a 119-118 NBA victory
over the San Antonio Spurs
Wednesday night.
Johnson scored Boston’s last six
points after San Antonio used a 10-
point run to take a 116-113 lead with
1:31 to go.
His jumper and layup put the Cel
tics ahead 117-116 with 56 seconds
left. Mike Mitchell, who led San An
tonio with 20 points, then made a
jumper to give the Spurs a 118-117
lead with 37 seconds remaining.
Johnson was fouled by Frank
Brickowski after grabbing an offen
sive rebound and sank the winning
points.
Boston’s Danny Ainge fouled
Johnny Dawkins with six seconds
left, forcing San Antonio to put the
ball in play near midcourt. After a
timeout, it went to Sundvold at the
top of the key but Johnson swatted
his shot away and time ran out.
The victory was the Celtics’ 18th
straight against San Antonio since
Jan. 5, 1980.
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