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Texas & Harvey) Open 10 a.m. - 7 p.m. Monday - Saturday, 12-5 p.m. Sunday. No sale is ever final. 52 locations in Texas, New Mexico and Louisiana. Major credit cards accepted. DALLAS (AP) — Steve Alford will not make anyone’s all-rookie team. He will finish this NBA season with a field goal percentage that be lies his celebrated touch. But none of that matters much to Sam Alford. He drove from New Castle, Ind., to watch a recent Dallas Mavericks’ homestand and saw his son replace the injured Brad Davis as the team’s backup point guard. In two games, in which Steve aver aged eight points and 26 minutes, the elder Alford said he was struck by how far his son had come since filling in for Davis the first six games of the season. “That was the big thing,” Sam Al ford said in a telephone interview af ter his return to Indiana. “The first of the year, he looked very appre hensive — a scared kid. He re minded me of his freshman year in high school, when I brought him up to varsity. But when he played this weekenct, he looked like he belonged on the floor.” It is not certain how much longer the former Indiana University star will see extended action, now that Davis’ bruised thigh has improved. The NBA expansion draft is com ing in June, and the Mavericks can protect only eight of their 12 play ers. Dallas can lose only one player, to either Miami or Charlotte. Al though there has been speculation that Dallas will keep him and leave former Indiana teammate Uwe Blab unprotected, Alford said he expects to be available to the new teams. While Miami is likely to be more interested in 7-footer Bill Wenning- ton or Davis, Alford is coveted by the Charlotte front office. Owner George Shinn said re cently he “would love to have Steve Alford,” adding that “we need to build our franchise with quality peo ple.” Alford said, "I would imagine I’m not going to be protected. Where I’d be is hard to say. My wife (Tanya) and I love Dallas. I obviously don’t have any control over things. If I go to an expansion team. I’d play a lot of minutes. “But you’re going to lose a lot, and I’m not used to that. I’m used to be ing on a winning team. If I stayed here, I know that when I’m given a chance, I can accomplish things.” In one of the recent games where he played while Davis was hurt, Al ford played a season-high 30 min utes against Utah. He was l-for-4 from the field, but had four steals, three assists and made all four of his free throws. After the game, in which Blab started for James Don aldson, Alford cracked, “It was just like old times — Uwe and I playing 30 minutes and winning big.” In the next night’s rout of Denver, Alford scored a season-high 10 points in 22 minutes. He marie four of six shots from the field, improv ing his field goal percentage to 37.3 percent. Alford was in the lineup during the Mavericks’ 51-16 second-half run. He had a couple of major league passes, including one 1) pass the length of the court toD 1 larper for a 3-point play. It is worth noting that .41 working against the likes of iijj John Stockton and Denver'sMitl Ad ams, two of the NBA’s class d guards this season. This year has been an edtiQj f or Alford. Not only has he waid the team’s backcourt stars, I had to work against them rej in practice. "Those two guys (Harpera vis) have really done a lot foi» l hey worked me, and I’vegotij of confidence now. 1 really ini know what to expect at thestarj the year. "I was going into thegamemi make mistakes, just tryingtoli Now, after a year, 1 know 10131 ft's no big deal. 1 knew I cotrfc a the job." ■ I 9 Alford is signed to a twijftli guaranteed contract worth atotiHn around S250.000. His fathers gtin also his agent, said the twogarrelnm watched Steve play did notsuddtloni prove that Steve could play in IN* NBA. “We were always of the wAv that Steve could play baskethiilmi any level,” Sam Alford aid l-sc time you have an individualvBt works as hard as he does, uh ines the uiuic i standing of the. Itf he does, and w ho shoots thehaill t he c an, there's a place you can pM ierc Hassey s three-run homer in 8th leads Oakland to win over Angels Ida le rne. OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Ron Hassey’s three-run homer in the eighth inning gave the Oakland Ath letics a 9-8 victory over the Califor nia Angels Wednesday. Hassey’s homer came off reliever Donnie Moore, who came out of the bullpen with two men on after the A’s scored an unearned run off Stu Cliburn. Moore struck out Dave Parker and Mark McGwire before facing Hassey, who hit his first homer of the season. stop Ozzie Guillen’s glove and scored on Cotto’s first homer of the season, off Chicago starter Rick I Ini ton, 2-2. Glenn Wilson then singled and scored on a triple by Mickey Brant ley, who came home on Brick Smith’s single to give the Mariners a 5-4 lead. Fi lth. VCh ■a singled and Jeff Reeddtt'fOl Ulnf EXPOS 5, CUBS 1 CHICAGO — Light-hitting Tom Foley singled in the tie-breaking run $*iifc the eighth inning and Hubie raga walk. I °i Foley, batting .167, singlftRl 1 (.ul)s st.win Rick Sutcliffe, :-l* : score Galarraga. R Luis Rivera singled and iB Is.wo. s w.ilked in the nind R 1 Brooks hornet ed off Cubs teif I.es Lancaster. B* Jeff Parrelt, 1-0, went sen ant ^ Johnny Ray’s bases-loadod>jingle ^..Brooks hit a tht.ee-mn homer in the tighlighted a five-run, sixtn-inning ' ninth as the Mqntreal Kxpo.s scored ally that gave the Angels an 8-5 a 5-1 victory over the Chicago Cubs. Angels hi rally lead. MARINERS 5, WHITE SOX 4 SEATTLE — Henry Cotto’s two- run homer keyed a four-run sixth inning as the Seattle Mariners rallied for a 5-4 victory over the Chicago White Sox Wednesday. Rey Quinones singled off short- ago |r it Andres Galarraga increased his hitting streak to 10 games with three Singles and a sixth-inning homer that tied the game 1-1. The Cubs’ fourth loss in a row came in a game delayed for 93 min utes at the start because of rain. With one out in the eighth, Galar- nings before giving way Burke, who pitched two inn® bis second save. PIRATES 8,CARDS 1 PITTSBURGH — Darnell Cole a tie-breaking two-rundoublen fifth inning and Jose Lindidi two-run single in the sixtliii Pittsburgh Pirates defeatedil« Louis Cardinals 8-1 Wed® night. The Pirates, whose 10-3 ff their l>est since they openedii 1962, won for the eighth tis their last nine games.