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Wednesday, August 16, 1989-Mittoon, (II.) Journal Gxette-B-l Ryder Cup golf team picked. B2 Tuscola's Kalmar living an Illini reality. B3 Bo isn't talking about being No. 1 in nation. B4 Dawson's homer leads Cubs EIU success begins in dorms 15 'V(t By BRIAN NIELSEN Staff Writer CHARLESTON If Eastern achieves football success this fall, it may have originated in the dormitory.

Pairing summer school roommates did not escape coach Bob Spoo's detailed preparation for the season. Last season he expressed concerns about segments of the team pulling apart instead of together. The fact the Panthers' defense was more experienced, and simply better, than the offense apparently raised some dividing lines. So Spoo looked to ease those tensions after two straight 5-6 seasons. "We are accomplishing that," the third-year EIU coach said.

"We're trying to emulate what the Cincinnati Bengals did by integrating, not only by race, but offensively and defensively in Stephenson Tower. "That's so they get to know one another and take away the misrepresentation. You want to have them Interact and have a repsect for their teammates. Not that they have to be genuine friends, but they have an appreciation for each other. "It's been delightful." The cohesiveness still has to be tested, of course.

It's easy for everyone to talk positively when the record Is 0-0. PjEyerybody's upbeat, everyone's getting along together well," Ail-American defensive tackle John Jurkovic said. "It's been a great camp," linebacker Jeff Mills said. "Things are going to change this year," wide receiver Ralph Stewart said. "Eastern will be there playoff time.

We were young last year. Now it's Eastern's Si! Vince Coleman is tagged taken off the field on a stretcher. He was conscious and holding his arm as he left. Dravecky was injured in the sixth inning. He was the winning pitcher in the Giants' 3-2 victory over Montreal.

The Giants said Dravecky had sustained a fracture to the humerus bone, the biggest bone between the elbow and shoulder. That was the same bone that doctors froze when they performed cancer surgery on Oct. 7, 1988. Dravecky will be lost for six to eight weeks, the team said. Because of rehabilitation, Dravecky will almost certainly not be able to pitch again this year.

Dravecky got credit for the Giants' 3-2 victory over the Expos. Mets3, Padres 2 NEW YORK Kevin McReynolds tied the game with a ninth-inning homer, and Kevin Elster won it with an RBI double as New York rallied to beat the San Diego, the Mets' 12th victory in 15 games. X. out By The Associated Press CINCINNATI Andre Dawson hit rookie Mike Roesler's 0-2 pitch over the left field fence for a three-run homer with two outs In the 12th inning Tuesday night, leading the Chicago Cubs to a 5-2 victory over Cincinnati Tuesday night. Dawson, hitless in his previous five at-bats, hit his 13th homer of the season, scoring Mitch Webster and Mark Grace, who both walked with two outs off Roesler, 0-1, the fifth Reds pitcher.

The victory went to Mitch Williams, 2-2, who pitched two hitless innings. Cubs rookie Jerome Walton took advantage of the extra innings to extend his hitting streak to 25 games, the longest in baseball this year. In his sixth at-bat of the game, Walton singled leading off the 12th but was erased on a fielder's choice grounder by Ryne Sand-berg, who then was caught stealing. Cardinals 9, Braves 1 ST. LOUIS Jose DeLeon pitched a three-hitter, Milt Thompson knocked In four runs and Terry Pendleton went 4-for-4, leading the St.

Louis Cardinals to a 9-1 victory over Atlanta, their third in two days over the Braves. DeLeon, 12-11, missed St. Louis' league-leading 16th shutout when Jeff Treadway homered with two outs in the ninth. The right-hander struck out 10 and walked one for his fourth complete game. He also singled home a run and took over the National League lead with 155 strikeouts, eight more than John Smoltz of Atlanta.

Thompson, who had three of St. Louis' 16 hits, had an RBI groun-dout in the fourth, a two-run single in the sixth and his fourth homer in the seventh, when the Cardinals scored five runs to turn the game into a rout. Thompson also had a four-RBI game Aug. 3 against New York. Dravecky breaks arm MONTREAL Dave Dravecky fractured his pitching arm the same one on which he had cancer surgery 10 months ago and likely will be lost to the San Francisco Giants for the season.

Dravecky, 33, hurt himself in his second start since a cancerous tumor was removed from his left arm. He fell to the mound and was Tomczak PLATTEVILLE, Wis. (AP) -Mike Tomczak has the early lead in the Chicago Bears' quarterback sweepstakes. But Tomczak, who started Monday night against the Miami Dolphins and completed 7 of 8 passes including two for touchdowns, said much of his success was due to his receivers. Meanwhile, the receivers were complimenting Tomczak on looking more like his chief rival, Jim McMahon.

"It used to be we said with Jim McMahon, you've got to run every route full speed because you might get the ball even if you're a decoy," wide receiver Ron Morris said Monday. "Now with Tomczak, the same thing goes." Pilson leaves team (T at third base by Atlanta's Orioles 2, Tigers 0 DETROIT Rookie Bob Milacki's three-hitter kept Baltimore undefeated in six games at Tiger Stadium this season and the Orioles beat Detroit. Brewers 1, Yankees 0 MILWAUKEE Teddy Higuera continued his career-long mastery of the New York Yankees, pitching a six-hitter for his sixth straight victory as the Brewers climbed over .500. Royals 10, White Sox 6 CHICAGO Kurt Stillwell drove in three runs with a pair of triples and Danny Tartabull and Mike Macfarlane homered, leading the Kansas City Royals over the Chicago White Sox. Terry Leach, 3-3, replaced starter Charlie Leibrandt after Oz-zie Guillen's two-run triple with none out in the fourth and shut down the White Sox on three hits through the eighth inning.

MacFarlane had three of Kansas City's 15 hits and five other Royals coach Mike Ditka as a real possibility in the starting slot, went 5 for 8 and gained 52 yards while working with reserve players in the second half. Ditka has said any one of the three could end up starting when the Cincinnati Bengals show up at Soldier Field for the first regular season game on Sept. 10. Ditka reiterated that Monday night, saying he "didn't have any problem with any of them." "It means I can't make a wrong decision," he said. But on Tuesday, Ditka was silent on his choice for the regular season or even next Saturday's contest against the San Diego Chargers.

Tomczak, however, sounds more more dreamed a pro basketball pinyer could have been unhappy. Berry had a good rookie season and what seemed to be a fine future. "We had no indication that he had any form of depression or anything like that," Kings executive Greg Van Dusen said in Tuesday's story. "He had excellent relations with the coaching staff, his teammates and the entire organization." We probably will never know what made Berry take MS life after a quarrel with his wife. I only know something was missing.

Perhaps he grew up as blindly as I did, thinking athletic success and reaching a worldly dream would mean a fulfilled life. Finding out differently can be devastating. When problems hit Berry, athletic success wasn't enough to save him. Neither was money and jfc. Bob Spoo year." The previous paragraph may have Spoo choking on his morning coffee.

The coach talks with a bright outlook but isn't predicting playoffs or records for a team picked fourth in the Gateway Conference's preseason poll. "I don't want to get into that," Spoo said. "I did that the last two years. I gave perhaps the impression early in the year we had arrived and we haven't arrived yet. But we have experience and I think experience is a great teacher.

"I couldn't even tell you our schedule. I just know we play Austin Peay the first week." While some players undoubtedly wish preseason practice was done, Eastern can still use the time between the 7:30 p.m. Sept. 2 opener atClarksville, Tenn. Junior quarterback Eric Arnold, still not cleared by doctors to take part in contact drills, is racing the clock to be fit for the opener.

The Panthers are refining their new one-back offense, which won't have Warren Pearson, last year's second leading rusher who did not return to school, or Mattoon's Jamie Pilson, the Indiana transfer who quit the team. But Spoo sees good signs too. "I think a lot of them worked hard in the offseason, not all of them, but a lot of them, the ones who care," Spoo said. "The seniors especially did. They ran the tests very well.

I'm very pleased. Everything is going as planned." Jamie Pilson with attitude and desire. I just don't know if he has the body to stand up to the battering a fullback takes." Spoo added that Montgomery, from Downers Grove North, might have to step In where needed. "We look at all freshmen as possible redshirts," Spoo said. "But sometimes they can't because things like this happen.

Montgomery Is big and has looked fine In practice." avoid her. "I think she was dead before she ever hit the track," said Reese. "An autopsy will be conducted." Reese said the Cooper Lobell filly had shown no signs that anything was wrong. "She was training perfectly and racing real well," he said. "I thought she would develop into a top filly." In racing action Tuesday, Jo Belle became the fastest Illinois-bred 2-year-old trotting filly of all time, with a 1:59.3 clocking in the final mile heat of the $44,100 State Fair Colt Stakes-Filly Division event.

Owned by James and Barbara Taylor of Crawfordsville, Jo Belle won for the fifth time in 14 starts. She was driven by DaveMagee. 1 i t- I 6) Km is ahead, but it's AP Lat.rPhoto Jeff Blauser Tuesday night had two. Tom McCarthy, 1-2, was the loser. Athletics 5, Indians 2 OAKLAND, Calif.

Rickey Henderson hit a leadoff home run for the 39th time and Jose Canseco celebrated his return to the lineup with a two-run homer as the Oakland Athletics held off the Cleveland Indians 5-2. Mariners 2, Rangers 0 SEATTLE Charlie Hough pitched his second career one-hitter both of them losses as the Seattle Mariners beat the Texas Rangers 2-0. Hough allowed only Harold Reynolds' solid single leading off the sixth inning. Reynolds later scored on a balk, a wild pitch and Jeffrey Leonard's sacrifice fly, and the Mariners added a run in the seventh on an error. Angels 3, Twins 2 ANAHEIM, Calif.

Bobby Rose got his first three major-league hits, including a tiebreaking triple in the sixth inning as the California Angels beat the Minnesota Twins 3-2. not over and more like a starter. On Tuesday, he said the team would "do a few things offensively a little differently" against San Diego. "A couple of different sets, and we'll try to feature different receivers and running backs," Tomczak said. "We've got to get Dennis McKinnon and Ron Morris the ball.

They didn't touch it last night." And at least one receiver Dennis Gentry, on the far end of a 28-yard touchdown pass from Tomczak gave the quarterbacl a vote of confidence. "I give Tomczak most of the credit," Gentry said of the pass. "He put it on the money, and that's what I needed." to life a nice house. Suddenly, I have no desire to change shoes with this pro basketball player. Nothing's wrong with trying to be one, mind you.

Obviously, for every Ricky Berry story there are hundreds of happier ones. Athletics have plenty of merit. Lessons from striving for goals can be very valuable. But they must be kept in perspective. Maybe it's time that every once in a while kids reading sports pages see the name Jesus Christ along with the ideas of giving HO percent to win a ballgame or dedicating an entire summer to making a team.

It's time we remember the word save has uses beyond relief pitchers and goalies. Some may say this kind of talk doesn't belong in sports sections. But I can't think of any good page for a suicide story i MATTOON Despite being listed as the No. 2 fullback on Eastern's depth chart, Mattoon's Jamie Pilson chose not to play for the Panthers this season. "I'd lost a lot of my enthusiasm for football," said Pilson, who transferred to Eastern from Indiana.

"It's just not as fun as it used to be. I gave 100 percent physically, but not mentally." i Pilson said he planned to continue to go to school at Eastern and to major in business management. Football just isn't in his plans anymore. "I wasn't real sure when I came here from Indiana whether or not I was going to play again," Pilson said. "I didn't get pushed into it; it just kind of happened.

I just didn't enjoy it as much as I used to. In high school, it was different. I went nuts on the field. My attitude just went downhill after that." Pilson's absence, plus the foot injury of two-year starter John Sengstock, leaves Eastern coach Bob Spoo to conduct practices with Sullivan transfer J. R.

Elder, a 5-foot-8, 180-pound junior, as the No. 1 fullback and freshman Broc Montgomery (6-2, 195) as the backup until Sengstock is due back Monday. R. is a fine player and we're really happy to have him here," Spoo said. "He gets the job done There must be Tomczak, for his part, on Tuesday said the receivers were "explosive weapons," but said he felt he was coming into his own after four years of NFL play.

"I've got to give a lot of the credit to the receivers, but I'm starting to feel a whole lot better," he said. "That comes with maturity." McMahon on Monday completed 4 of 6 and led the Bears to a touchdown in his one 84-yard, 10 minute drive. That, McMahon said, must have been enough for the coaches to see what he was made of "I got to play one series," he said. "It's fine with me." Former third-stringer Jim Har-baugh, who has caught the eye of Brian 'P Nielsen NMmo ItiportitdHoroftlMTImefrCourlw. now.

Berry is dead. What chills my spine Is he had everything I thought I needed when I was growing up. With no pride in the statement now, I as a high school kid probably would have sold my soul to become an NBA player. That seemed like everything. The answer.

I would have never 71 Horse dies at state fair I almost ditched this column Idea. Too emotional, I thought. But Tuesday's story of Ricky Berry shooting himself to death won't go away. It hits home too hard. No, I didn't know the pro basketball player or even follow him, really.

If I ever watched one of his San Jose State basketball games on TV, I forgot it. I know I didn't see any Sacramento Kings games the past season. My only memory of Berry In action, or not In action actually, was when the U.S. lost to Brazil' for the gold medal in the 1987 Pan American Games. At the time I was furious at coach Denny Crum for not using Berry more against Brazil's high-scoring Oscar Schmidt.

How trivial of a point that is SPRINGFIELD AP) Harness racing results took a back seat to an on-track Incident Tuesday at the Illinois State Fair as a 2-year-old trotter, I've Got Style, suffered an apparent heart attack and died. Owned and driven by John Reese of Chesterfield, I've Got Style went down suddenly just past the second turn of the mile oval. "I don't really know what happened," said a visibly shaken Reese. "She just got wobbly on me all of a sudden, and I started screaming so people would know I was in trouble and steer clear." I've Got Style, who had one win In six starts and earnings of $4,198 before Tuesday, was about In the middle of the 12-horse field when she started to go down. Amazingly, all of the other fillies were able to.