Journal Gazette from Mattoon, Illinois • Page 13

I Thursday 10, 1989-Mttoon, (II.) Journal Gtzette-B-1 Giants' Dravecky returns to mound. B2 Bears OK, but can improve. B3 Bezler captures Richey-Butler. B4 t.c-,, i i mi. Hi.

i i win Magrane does it all for Cards nv. -ri; Ul Norman Seve worried HAWTHORN WOODS (AP) ureg rxurnian is up, oeve Ballesteros is down and Mark opening round of the PGA national 5 championship. "I like my chances this week," said Norman, who was optimistic -3 despite still another near miss in the British Open, his last start. stilt searphintr fnp nn pluslvp yjC "something, I don't know what" to few get his game back on track. And Calcavecchla, the brash 55 young man who beat Norman in the British Open playoff, will be missing when the 150-man field begins competition Thursday at the Kemper Lakes Golf Club in the northern suburbs of Chicago.

He withdrew after wife, Sheryl, x'gave birth to their first child, a tjgirl, Briteny Jo, Tuesday. That withdrawal, along with Ballesteros' 2 --month slump, helped open up the tournament to a host of potential challengers. "There's 100 men in the field 5 who could win it," said Ray Floyd, two-time winner of this title and fa former U.S. Open and Masters champion. Tom Watson, who needs this championship to gain a piece of golfing history, is among them.

-( "Winning the PGA is my No. prjlwUya. golf right now. has. f)ein ever since I won the U.S.

ready mained five games behind NL East leader Chicago by beating the Pirates for just the fifth time in 12 games. The Cardinals won the series 2-1, the first series they've won from Pittsburgh in four attempts. With the score tied hi Jose Oquendo walked to start the second Inning against Doug Drabek, 9-9, and moved to third on a single by Tom Brunansky, who had three hits. After Tony Pena grounded into a double play, scoring Oquendo, Magrane hit Drabek's first pitch into the left field seats for his first homer of the season and a 3-1 Cardinals' lead. Drabek has allowed 18 homers this season, second in the NL only to the 23 given up by Cincinnati's Tom Browning.

Magrane, who hit a three-run homer off Cincinnati's Mario Soto in the 1988 NL opener, is batting .181 with four extra-base hits and four RBIs this season. White Sox 3, Athletics 2 CHICAGO Carlton Fisk singled home the winning run in the Uth inning and the Chicago White Sox beat the Oakland Athletics 3-2 for their Uth victory in the last 16 home games. The Athletics scored in the ninth for a tie at 2. Jose Canseco, who has not started two straight days because of a strained quadricep muscle, led off with a pinch-double against Bobby Thigpen and Ron Hassey hit an RBI single. In the 11th, Scott Fletcher, Ivan Calderon and Fisk hit consecutive singles with one out against Jim Corsi, 0-2.

Tom McCarthy, 1-1, got Chicago's Jerome Walton just gets back to first before the tag Wednesday Sweep, Sweep, Sweep Cubs trim Montreal for three-game lead CHICAGO (AP) The Chicago Cubs have swept their way into a three-game lead in the National League East. Rick Sutcliffe pitched a one-hitter for seven innings and Ryne Sandberg hit his third homer in three eames Wednesday as Chicago completed three-game sweep of second-place Montreal with a 3-0 victory. "I can't say I thought we'd win all three games, based on their pitching staff and the fact they'd won seven of the first nine games," Cubs manager Don Zim-mer said. "But this still a four-team race and we're only two or three games up in the loss column on the other teams. So I refuse to get It was the seventh straight loss for the Expos, who have scored only 17 runs during the streak.

"This, to me, was not the big series," Montreal manager Buck Rodgers said. "The big series will come in Chicago in September, PITTSBURGH (AP) A lot of opposing hitters wondered last year just how good Joe Magrane would be if the St. Louis Cardinals scored some runs for him. Now they're finding out. Magrane pitched a six-hitter to win for the seventh time in his last eight decisions and hit his third career homer Wednesday night, leading the Cardinals to a 5-2 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Magrane, 14-7, joined Mike Scott, Orel Hershiser and Ed Whit-son as the only National League pitchers with at least 14 victories by handing Pittsburgh its 10th loss in 13 games. The Pirates completed a 3-7 home stand. The left-handed Magrane was the NL leader with a 2.18 earned run average last season, but got little offensive support and finished 5-9. This year, not only are his teammates driving in runs, so is he. "He's got as much power as anybody we've got and I'm not talking just about his pitching," Cardinals manager Whitey Herzog said.

"I wouldn't trade Joe Magrane for any young pitcher in the league. I said it last year and I still mean it." Magrane is 11-2 with a 2.10 ERA and six complete games in his last 13 starts, but said his latest victory was hardly a masterpiece. "I test my defense to the limit every game, and I did that tonight," Magrane said. "I've always said we have the best defense in the league, and it would be silly not to exploit it. It was a struggle at times.

I got a lot of balls up and had a lot of balls hit hard." "I thought we hit some balls real good, but we definitely can some real good pitching," said Pirates manager Jim Leyland, whose team produced only 27 runs on its 10-game homestand. In his last eight starts, dating to July 4, Magrane is 7-1 and has allowed 17 earned runs in 65 innings, a 2.35 earned run average. "I don't think Magrane is in the great category yet, but he has that kind of future," Leyland said. "He throws hard with excellent stuff on the ball, and he's only going to get Vince Coleman had two hits and scored a run on Pedro Guerrero's first-inning single as St. Louis re- Spoo watches his team run Eastern's veterans open football drills vJOpen (in 1982) and it will be until I the PGA," Watson said.

His fascination is founded on an to join Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player and Jack T'JMicklaus as the only men to complete career sweeps of the 'Masters, U.S. and British Opens Watson lacks only the PGA title. Although mired in a severe slump that has produced only one yictory in the last five years, the 39-year-old Watson gave indications at the British Open in Troon, Scotland, in his last start, that he is returning to the form that gained jj-him a record six Player-of-the-j'Year awards. tf "For the first time in a long, jong while I feel like I'm in control ipf my game again," said Watson, missed the British Open title Ijl playoff by two shots. 1 Some other major figures in the ij' chase for the winner's $200,000 'Share of the $1.2 million purse Masters qhampion Nick Faldo of England, U.S.

Open titleholder Curtis Strange, Bob Tway, Fred Couples, Mark Mc-ftjCumber, Payne Stewart, leading jnoney-winner Tom Kite, Paul Az-Jlnger and Steve Jones, the only three-time winner on the American 'Tour this year. r' Also on hand are defending Ktitleholder Jeff Sluman and a pair 49-year-old former PGA cliam-, Tpions, Nicklaus and Lee Trevino. Despite the latest in a series of defeats in the game's major Norman could be the man Kmost likely to succeed, however. 0 and hopefully by then, we'll be on top. "Right now we are playing the poorest ball we've played all My pitching was good but not good enough to win.

Their pitching was outstanding but this is no time to get down on anyone. With a 13-game home stand starting on Friday, I expect this team to Sutcliffe, 12-9, retired 10 straight batters after giving up an infield single to Andres Galarraga in the fourth. He was replaced by Mitch Williams after giving up a leadoff walk to Spike Owen in the eighth. Williams finished to earn his 29th save, tying him for the major-league lead. He gave up three hits, but pitched out of jams in both innings.

A pinch-hit single by Nelson San-tovenia and a two-out double by-Mike Fitzgerald gave the Expos runners on second and third in the ninth, but Williams retired Owen in the Gateway Conference preseason poll and have been fourth or fifth in most major foot-hall magazines. "Based on the number of returning players, I think defense will be our strong suit," third-year coach Bob Spoo said. "I think there's tremendous leadership on that side of the ball, in terms of quantity and quality. We have a bunch of guys playing with emotion and with team unity in mind. "The three players you'd have to start with are John Jurkovic, Daryl Holcombe and Jeff Mills.

Those three were preseason All-Gateway picks at defensive line, defensive back and linebacker, respectively. -Jurkovie was anAssociated Press first-team All-American last year while Holcombe earned AP honorable mention honors. NOTES Although the offensive line is inexperienced this unit does have three players who started every game in 1988 Brent Fischer at left tackle, Eric Thorsen at left guard and Pat Munda at right guard. Every incoming recruit expected to show up reported to camp on Sunday. The only missing scholarship players from the recruiting class were defensive back B.C.

Perry, who will be red-shirted because of knee surgery; running back Martin Ellens and defensive back Trevor Terry, who are in school but academically ineligible because of Proposition 48 requirements; and receiver Cecil Hawkins who is not enrolled. will coach the quarterbacks this year but has assigned play calling to receivers coach Eric Holm. At this time no one has been given the title of offensive coordinator. Saturday is the first day both rookies and veterans will be In pads. Two-a-days run through Aug.

22. AP LaurPhoto on a fly to right to end the game. Sandberg's two-run homer in the third, his 19th of the season, came off Bryn Smith, 9-6. Smith gave up six hits, walked two and struck out four in seven innings. "We swept a great team today, a team with first-rate pitchers and hitters," he said.

"I never dreamed it ctyld happen. But then they swept us here earlier and I'm sure they'll be ready for us in late September." The Cubs took a 1-0 lead in the second on a walk to Mark Grace and singles by Andre Dawson and Damon Berryhill. It was only Dawson's fourth hit in his last 49 at-bats. Jerome Walton extended his hitting streak to 20 games In the third with a one-out single. Sandberg followed with his 128th career homer, ninth on the Cubs' all-time list.

Galarraga beat out a chopper to shortstop in the fourth for the only hit off Sutcliffe. Eastern football coach Bob JjLJMd Mets6, Phillie PHILADELPHIA Bob Ojeda scattered seven hits for New York's second straight shutout over the Philadelphia Phillies and the Mets gained their fifth victory in six games, winning 6-0. Gary Carter had his first four-hit game since Sept. 23, 1987, raising his average from .116 to .152 with two doubles and two singles. Dar-ryl Strawberry homered for the second consecutive game, a two-run drive that capped a five-run fifth inning.

Photo by Brian NMun through drills Wednesday: -4 -I CHARLESTON Quarterback Eric Arnold wasn't full strength and top returning rusher Warren Pearson was gone. That's the news as Eastern's football Panthers, solid on defense with a new look offense, had more than 100 candidates report Wednesday. Offensively, the Panthers have switched to a one-back set. The strength of this unit, though, may depend on the speedy recovery of Arnold, who a month ago underwent his third arthroscopic knee surgery since the end of last season. Arnold worked out on a stationary bike but did through opening day tests at the O'Brien Stadium track.

He can throw but is still waiting for a-doctor's-OK-to- make cuts. "We're hopeful Eric's ready, but, If not, we have capable backups who don't have his experience but do have talent," Spoo said. "At the end of spring no one had stepped forward, though, to establish themselves as the No. 2 man. We're confident someone will this fall.

Another problem for the offense is the loss of Pearson, who has not returned to school for his sophomore season. Pearson was EIU's second leading rusher behind graduated James Marable last year with 313 yards in 83 carries and was the team's second leading scorer with seven touchdowns. "We're also inexperienced on the offensive line. Injuries could really deplete us. But we do have skilled athletes who are very energetic.

The prevailing attitude as we left spring ball was positive and enthusiastic. That is still very much evident as fall practice starts." The season opener is at Austin Peay Sept. 2 with the home opener the following Saturday against 1988 NCAA Division I-AA playoff participant Northwestern Louisiana. The Panthers were picked fourth "I still have all those things, all k'jhose good things from the 64 in jhy system," said Norman, who from seven shots off the pace 'to force the British Open playoff. It was his last previous start.

"I'm disappointed in the out come, of course, but I'm very pro ud of what I did. Not many guys Man fight their way back from seven shots behind," Norman said. jH "I'm proud of the way I played fefh the British Open. I'm using that as a step in the right direction for ft this week. Pis "I like the golf course.

The golf course sets up well for me. I'm Splaying extremely well. I'm put-Hing well. I'm very relaxed," he I said. however, was anything but confident.

"I haven't played very well for 2V4 months. I don't know what It is. Something. don't know," the said with a shrug. Floyd, on the other hand, said he Ms "hitting' the ball better than I have in five years." 'y.

But his attention is divided between his own play and his duties as captain of the American Ryder Cup team that will play Europe's best In the biennial matches in England next month. i.