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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Scott Bry
ant and Arthur Butcher each drove
in three runs to make Louisiana
State’s Ben McDonald the losingest
pitcher in College World Series his
tory as Texas advanced to the
championship game with an 12-7
victory Thursday night.
McDonald, the No. 1 pick in Mon
day’s major league draft, lost for the
second time in two starts in the tour
nament. Added to his two losses as a
freshman in 1987, he became the
first pitcher in CWS history to lose
four games in a career.
Texas, 54-17, advanced to Satur
day’s championship game against
the winner of Friday night’s game
between Florida State, 54-17, and
Wichita State, 65-16. The Long
horns, who won the championship
in 1949, 1950, 1975 and 1983, ad
vanced to the finals for the eighth
time. LSU finished with a 55-17 re-
Icord.
McDonald, 14-4, hurt himself
with two errors during Texas’ four-
run first inning. Lance Jones and
David Tollison started the rally with
singles and moved up a base when
McDonald’s pickoff attempt went
into center field.
Bryant looped a triple down the
right-field line for two runs and
scored on Butcher’s first-pitch sin
gle. Butcher stole second and scored
when McDonald fielded Craig New
kirk’s bunt and threw wildly past
third.
Texas made it 6-0 in the second
on Butcher’s two-out, two-run dou
ble and added another run in the
third on Steve Bethea’s two-out solo
homer.
LSU got three runs in the bottom
of the third. Phil Espinosa led off
with a double and Tookie Johnson
walked with two outs. Both ad
vanced on a wild pitch by Kurt Dres-
sendorfer (18-2) and scored when
Keith Osik’s hard grounder to short
stop bounded off Bethea and into
left field for an error.
Wes Grisham walked and Craig
Gala singled home Osik home before
Mike Bianco fouled out.
Texas put the game away with
four runs in the fourth. Jones led off
with a walk, took second and scored
on Bryant’s single. Bryant has driven
in 112 runs, tops in the nation. The
hit was his 106th of the season, tying
the Southwest Conference season re
cord held by Texas’ Brian Cisarik in
1987 and Mike Patrick in 1988.
Butcher followed with his third
hit, a single, and Newkirk doubled to
score Bryant and knock out McDon
ald.
David Lowery laid down a squeeze
bunt against reliever Mark LaRose,
scoring Butcher, and Jeff Shults fol
lowed with an RBI single. In all, 11
runs were charged to McDonald.
LSU added one in the fifth on a
single by Grisham, a walk to Bianco
and an RBI single by Matt Gruver,
then closed the gap with three runs
in the seventh.
Espinosa doubled and scored on
Kevin Berry’s pinch-hit single. Berry
scored on Pete Bush’s two-out dou
ble. Reliever Brian Dare walked
Johnson and gave up an RBI single
to Osik before striking out Grisham
to end the inning.
The Longhorns added an insur
ance run in the ninth when Lowery
reached on a two-base error by third
baseman Espinosa and later scored.
Pistons nip Lakers 108-105,
take 2-0 lead back to L. A.
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) —
Destiny appeared to be pulling the
Detroit Pistons’ way Thursday night
when Magic Johnson limped off the
court in the third quarter, opening
the way for their 108-105 victory
and a 2-0 lead in the NBA Finals.
The Los Angeles Lakers, already
playing without Byron Scott, the
other starting guard, lost Joh nson to
a strained left hamstring late in the
third quarter.
The two-time defending cham
pions hung tough for awhile, taking
an eight-point lead into the fourth
quarter, but a 12-1 spurt to start the
period put the Pistons ahead for the
first time in the game.
“I felt a twinge early in the third
quarter, but thought everything was
OK,” Johnson said. “I pulled it try
ing to get back on defense.”
Johnson’s injury overshadowed
the brilliant shooting of Detroit’s Joe
Dumars, who had 26 of his 33 points
in the first half. He was 10-for-16
from the field.
Dumars, who had 17 points in a
span of 13:36, scored 10 during a
17-8 Pistons spurt that closed the
gap to 38-37 with 8:54 left in the
first half. Johnson, who replaced
Thomas when he was called for two
fouls in the first 2:28 of the game,
had five points during the run.
Trailing 102-95 with 6:06 left, the
Lakers refused to quit.
They closed the deficit to 106-104
with two free throws each by Mychal
Thompson and A.C. Green, the lat
ter with 32 seconds left. The Pistons
ran the 24-second clock down until
Isiah Thomas took a long jumper
with eight seconds to go that missed
the rim, causing a violation.
James Worthy was fouled with
two seconds to play and missed the
first of his two free throws. Worthy
made the second.
Thomas was fouled with one sec
ond left and made both for the final
margin.
The Lakers were unable to get off
a final shot as the ball went out of
bounds on the inbounds pass.
Detroit, 13-2 in the playoffs this
year, went into the game giving up
an average of barely 90 points in the
postseason, four less than the best
points-allowed playoff average of
any championship team.
It was 51-50 with 3:39 remaining
before Cooper’s second and third 3-
pointers gave the Lakers their six-
point advantage at halftime.
The Lakers played brilliantly on
offense until the final period, ma
naging only a record-tying 13 points
and going without a field goal for
the first 8:20 of the quarter. Los An
geles still broke Detroit’s 16-game
streak of allowing less than 100
points.
The next three games of the best-
of-7 series are scheduled for the Fo
rum in Inglewood, Calif., starting
with Game 3 Sunday, but the Lakers
face a challenge only two teams have
been able to meet — coming back
from a 2-0 deficit to win the Finals.
Only the 1977 Portland Trail
Blazers and the 1969 Celtics have
done it.
Besides money, what could be gained, or lost, in 6 The War’
It has been aptly titled “Leonard vs
Hearns II —The War, Once and for All,”
but fight promoter Bob Arum has
shortened it to simply “The War.” The title
doesn’t have the style of the “Thrilla in
Manilla,” but with a purse of $24 million,
you have to cut costs somewhere.
It’s been seven years since Sugar Ray
Leonard won the welterweight title with a
14th round TKO of Thomas “Hit Man”
Hearns, a victory that Hearns says has
haunted him since.
A victory in Monday’s rematch could
prove to be the crowning achievement for
both fighters, at least that’s what they say.
Hearns can get the revenge he has been
seeking for the past seven years and prove
to himself, if not anyone else, that he is and
will always be one of the greatest fighters in
the world.
Leonard has said his return to the ring is
simply “for the'Iove,”'anrd the feeling of
being on top of your industry.
Steven
Merritt
Sports Editor
Both feel that they have a chance at
boxing immortality.
The fight has been promoted as a battle
in which money is not the underlying
reason for bringing the two together. By
the way, Leonard will get $13 million and
Hearns will receive $11 million, but money
is not the issue here.
However, this matchup is easier to
believe, in terms of not fighting for the
money than many bouts of the past. The
Larry Holmes/Gerry Cooney debacle comes
to mind as does the Holmes/Tex Cobb
massacre. Both Cooney and Cobb had no
chance against the Heavyweight Champion
Holmes. But they were smart enough and
were in some semblance of physical shape
to allow themselves to be punching bags for
a few million in reward.
The chemistry between the two fighters
is also another factor to consider in
addressing the “not for the money”
question. There seems to be genuine bad
blood between the two, and this friction
isn’t all media hype. Hearns has had a
genuine obsession with defeating Ray and it
seems that Leonard’s belief in
predestination could be his underlying
reason.
In looking back at the careers of these
two fighters, there is no question that these
two men are among the best in the world.
Leonard’s domination in the 1976
Olympics gave an early indication of the
greatness that was to come. His current 35-
1 record — 25 of those wins came by
knockout — speaks for itself in more ways
than one. Leonard’s finesse can truly be
called an art form. The grace and
seemingly effortless movements he uses in
the ring sets him apart from any fighter
today.
Hearns is a bomber, he wastes no
punches and generally takes the offensive
early. As with all great fighters of our time,
however, Hearns has used this style
effectively.
He is the first man ever to win four world
titles and has achieved on of thehighest
winning percentages in boxing history. One
of Hearns’ most memorable bouts came in
1984 against Roberto Duran, as he knocked
Duran down three times in less than two
rounds to end it early.
But one question still remains to be fully
answered when the media, rhoney and hype
are taken away: Why do these men want to
risk their health in an effort to win a fight
that might not prove anything?
In the 1981 bout, Hearns’ legs and chin
were proven to be less than perfect and the
eye injury suffered by Leonard would lead
to a detached retina. They weren’t
indestructible. Many of the boxing faithful
have predicted that this match will take on
the same drama of the third Muhammed
Ali-Joe Frazier bout in Manilla. Both men
were considered past their primes and were
also thought to be far from complete
athletes after the fight. Leonard is 32;
Hearns, 30.
Leonard put it this way: “You want
immortality. You want (this feeling) to
continue for the rest of your life, and you
never want your life to end....I want to keep
doing this, because I never think about
history, but (down deep) I’m doing it for
history, to leave a legacy.”
Boxing immortality does have its price,
however. Ali can a ties tto-that.
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Vocalist: Rita Sahi, Hindustani Classical Vocalist
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