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Hey, don't forget college football on Thursday nights! c.s. 701 University Dr., Ste. 300 691-0484 * Across from Blockbuster SPORTS Thursday. September2jl THE BATTALION Victories in Sydne USA baseball team wins big, U.S. wrest defeats Cuba for Olympic gold SYDNEY (AP) — It took a rag tag band of minor leaguers to bring down a dynasty and finally bring home the gold for America. Led by Hall of Lamer Tom La- sorda, a collection of draft picks and major-league misfits beat mighty Cuba 4-0 on Wednesday for the United States’ first Olympic gold medal in baseball. The team known as the Big Red Machine got only three hits off Ben Sheets, then had to stand and watch in disbelief while he and his teammates rolled in the dirt as part of their joy ous celebration. The long- awaited matchup of baseball archri vals was remark ably free of the dust-ups and dis putes that have colored virtually all of the other games they have played through the years when Cuba won the <i<ir They come out and try to intimi date you. That's not our game. ...We just come out and beat you.” fingertips of Sheets, an unflappable right-hander who got 16 ground-ball ,outs in the first eight innings, setting up a pulsating ninth. He got Cuba’s first two hitters swinging — Luis Ulacia threw his helmet at the side of his dugout after going down for the second out. When Neill made a sliding catch of Yasser Gomez’s fly in left field for the final out. Sheets fell to his knees and raised his arm in celebration as players streamed toward him for a huddle on the mound. Soon, they piled up near the dirt at third and Lasorda — wear ing a U.S. flag over his left shoulder, hugged his coaches while the players took a victory lap. “I can’t be lieve how great I feel!” Lasorda shouted as he ran off the field. The Cubans pins down top medal — Adam Everett Team USA shortstop only other baseball gold medals at the 1992 and 1996 Olympics. Also unlike those other games, this time the United States won — and won convincingly. “They come out and try to intim idate you,” Everett said. “That’s not our game. We don’t come out and play that way. We just come out and beat you.” They found all sorts of dramatic ways to win: two walk-off homers and an eighth-inning grand slam. Their only loss was 6-1 to Cuba on Saturday, a game remembered for angry exchanges and cleared bench es. There were no dust-ups this time, no late-inning dramatics. Right from the start, it was no contest. Mike Neill hit a first-inning homer as the Americans cranked it up early instead of late. Ernie Young — at the center of Saturday’s bench clearing inning — more than got even with a bases-loaded single. Catcher Pat Borders, who was spiked at home in that first game, also had an RBI double as an ex quisite payback. Those hits put the upset on the sat in their dugout, knowing their dy nasty was done. The best team in international baseball had its 21-game winning streak snapped with a loss to the Netherlands during the tournament, then had its hold on the gold broken by its biggest rival. The long-awaited matchup had the trappings of a seventh World Se ries game — and all the finality. Llashhulbs twinkled around the sta dium as the U.S. team stood on the first base line and the Cubans as sembled along the other one for pregame introductions. Lasorda, who wanted to beat Cuba for the exiles in Llorida, walked over and shook the hand of manager Servio Borges in front of the plate. Moments later, the Americans spilled out of the dugout after Neill’s tension-breaking homer in thje first - his second big homer of the tourna ment. He also won the opener against Japan with a game-ending homer in the 13th. His two-out solo homer on Wednesday came off Pe dro Luis Lazo, a closer who got a surprise start in the big game. SYDNEY (AP) - f Gardner did the unthinkabi proved Alexander Karelini perfect — and won a gold® virtually nobody in the thought he could win< Gardner, an American wit major title to his name, net world medalist, ended Kate string of three Olympic gold m: mid the Russian’s 13-year streak by winning the Olymp, per heavyweight wrestlin medal 1-0 on Wednesday. “When did 1 think 1 con him? About 10 minutes ago,"Ci | ner said. “I kept saying, ‘Idt can. 1 think I can.’ But it wasn til it was over that I knew Icon Karelin is universally coni ered the greatest Greco-i wrestler of all time, a man who never lost in international c(E| tition. who had not cbncede;| point in 10 years. And Gardner beat him. 't.l ning a crowd that included 1(1 president Juan Antonio SaJ ranch, who had come to ppl Karelin his fourth gold medal-1 medal he will never get. I "What does this mean? He beat the best wrestler in the hi! of wrestling — a wrestlerwho never been beat,” U.S. national^ co-Roman coach Steve Frasers The upset was so stunniiri virtually no one in the crow#: Sydney Exhibition Bailouts;: Gardner’s immediate family,ra believe it. Nor could Karelin.«; Gardner said, "Mumbled a 1 words at me in Russian toward( end. I don’t know what he said “He's so big and nasty, ifsli a horse pushing you.” Gardi said. “I'm not as strong as him aj even close. 1 knew' if I lethimpif me around, get even twoorttoj points on me, it was over.” But Gardner, a formerUnivffi ty of Nebraska wrestler, id walked onto the football team\): quit to wrestle full-time, said forehand he had a strategy counter Karelin’s dreaded life* relentless pressure. 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