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Daly tied for 105th place
after Ist round of GMO
BROWN DEER, Wis. Tiger
Woods and his huge gallery were absent
from the 30th Greater Milwaukee Open
on Thursday.
So was John Daly’s game.
He shot a 1-over-par 72, six shots off
the lead, tied for 105th place.
Several other golfers were on top of
their games, however.
A tournament-record seven golfers
shared the lead after 18 holes, the first
time that’s happened on the PGA Tour
since the 1993 Phoenix Open.
Ten golfers, including defending
champion Loren Roberts and Curtis
Strange, who’s vying for his first tour
victory since he won the 1989 U.S.
Open, were one stroke back, and 32
players were within two strokes of the
lead.
Daly, the biggest name in an other
wise ordinary field of 156 golfers, shot
an even-par 36 on the back nine, then
double-bogeyed No. 1, a 447-yard par-4,
on his way back.
Afterwards, a pensive Daly refused to
discuss his round.
Although there were no official atten
dance figures, the crowd was down from
last year. Daly drew the biggest gallery
by far and attendance will certainly be
affected if he fails to make the 36-hole
cut Friday.
Coach gave investigators
SIO,OOO to clear player
Mississippi State football coach
Jackie Sherrill paid private investigators
as much as SIO,OOO to help Derrick
Taite fight rape charges in 1993, the for
mer quarterback's mother says in court
documents.
The charges stemmed from an on
campus incident in November 1993 that
resulted in a Mississippi State student
filing charges against Taite and three
other players.
A grand jury heard the case but never
issued an indictment.
Documents obtained by The
Mississippi Press in Pascagoula show
that Sherrill paid SIO,OOO to private
investigators to help Taite, a former
Moss Point High School standout,
defend himself after he was charged
with attempted rape.
Taite’s mother, Gwendolyn
Blackmon, testified in divorce proceed
ings earlier this year that at the time the
rape case was under investigation by an
Oktibbeha County grand jury, Sherrill
paid two private investigators $5,000
apiece.
In the court document, dated March
10, Ms. Blackmon testified that she and
her then-husband, Johnny Blackmon,
never had to incur any expenses for
Taite’s legal defense.
In response to questions from attor
neys about Taite’s legal defense, Ms.
Blackmon said, “I didn’t have to pay it.
It didn’t come out of our personal
expenses because it was paid by coach
Sherrill.”
It was unclear that Sherrill’s paying
private investigators to help clear Taite’s
name violated NCAA rules concerning
“extra benefits” for student athletes.
Clay Bolton, the NCAA compliance
officer at Mississippi State University,
claimed that the NCAA apparently
knew of the matter and had thorough
ly investigated it.
Bolton, who was not at Mississippi
State at the time of the incident, said it
was his understanding that the school
had been cleared of any wrongdoing in
the matter.
Bolton said it appeared that Sherrill
had gotten a ruling from the
Southeastern Conference that cleared
the use of an investigator in the case.
Irvan to drive for Skittles
on Winston Cup circuit
DARLINGTON, S.C. Less than
two months after he was let go by
Robert Yates, Ernie Irvan decided to
drive the colorful Skittles car on the
Winston Cup circuit next season.
Irvan replaces Derrick Cope, who
will finish the season with the first-year
team.
"The Skittles team is a young team
with tremendous potential,” Irvan said.
"I’m looking forward to the opportuni
ty to grow with them.”
Irvan, 38, has 15 Winston Cup victo
ries and 18 poles but is most recognized
for returning from a life-threatening
crash at Michigan in 1994.
He was picked by Yates late in 1993
for the No. 28 Thunderbird formerly
driven by Davey Allison, who died in a
helicopter crash that year
Irvan started strong that year with
victories at Martinsville and Charlotte
and followed that up with three wins
(Richmond, Atlanta and Sonoma) the
next season,
That August, he crashed during prac
tice at Michigan International
Speedway and suffered critical brain
and chest Injuries
He was given only a 10 percent
chance of surviving, Inn lie recovered
and rude in Octuhei 1995
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Tar Heels, Lions revisit rivalry
with Saturday’s season opener
■ North Carolina will start
its season for the third
straight year against PSU.
BY FORREST EBER
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
On paper, the North Carolina and
Penn State field hockey teams seem to
be opposites.
On the field, they are much closer to
identical twins.
The Tar Heels begin their bid for his
tory this weekend as both teams open
their seasons Saturday at 1 p.m. at Navy
Field.
North Carolina will open its season
with a familiar foe as they attempt to
become the first team other than Old
Dominion to win three straight NCAA
titles.
Penn State has opened its season
against the Tar Heels for the past two
years, and North Carolina has walked
away with a victory each time. And,
each of the last two seasons, North
Carolina has walked away with a
national championship. UNC defeated
Princeton 3-0 in Chestnut Hill, Mass., in
last season’s national championship
game.
The road to this year’s finals in Storrs,
Conn., starts this weekend, but none of
the Tar Heels are looking past Saturday.
Pair of women’s veterans survives wet afternoon at U.S. Open
■ Pete Sampras had his
match delayed and moved
to the grandstand court.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK Forgotten figures
amid all the talented teens, Arantxa
Sanchez Vicario and Mary Joe
Fernandez carved out victories in the
only matches finished on a gloomy
Thursday afternoon at the U.S. Open.
Miserably reminiscent of this sum
mer’s wet Wimbledon, rain soaked the
Open as fans and players angrily waited
four hours before the first ball was hit.
Padres end skid by topping Angels
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN DIEGO Paul Menhart
earned his first National League win
and John Flaherty and Ken Caminiti
each had three hits as the San Diego
Padres opened the third round of inter
league play with a 9-2 victory over the
Anaheim Angels on Thursday.
San Diego snapped a four-game los
ing streak, all of which came against the
Philadelphia Phillies, who have the
worst record in baseball.
The Padres improved to 5-6 in inter
league play while the Angels fell to 2-9.
Menhart (1-2) allowed only four hits
in 7 2/3 innings. He gave up two runs,
struck out four and walked two.
Menhart was making his fourth start
since his contract was purchased from
Triple-A Las Vegas on Aug. 11. He was
acquired earlier this year in a trade with
the Seattle Mariners.
Flaherty was 3-for-3 with three RBIs
and Caminiti was 3-for-5 with two dou
bles, an RBI and two runs scored. Wally
Joyner also scored twice.
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“I expect a very
tight game,” UNC
coach Karen
Shelton said.
The Nittany
Lions are a very
young team, a
stark contrast to
the senior-domi
nated Tar Heels.
Penn State lost
their leading scor
er of last year,
Tara Maguire,
while the Tar
Heels return with
their top three
scorers.
UNC coach
KAREN SHELTON
and the Tar Heels will
begin their quest for a
third straight NCAA
title Saturday.
But, Shelton said, “There are a lot of
similarities between the teams and the
schools.”
According to Shelton, the similarities
start with the goalies. Two of the
nation’s finest will be on display this
weekend. Penn State’s Jamie Smith, a
junior and national team member, and
UNC’s All-American Jana Withrow will
be given the daunting task of stopping
two wide-open offenses.
Still reeling from Maguire’s depar
ture, Penn State has patched together a
makeshift front line.
Tracey Larson, the 1996 Big Ten
Freshman of the Year, will be expected
to lead the Penn State offense. Kim
Hicks, one of Penn State’s stronger for-
Matches were shifted all around the
new National Tennis Center complex as
officials scrambled to keep the singles
competition rolling as long as the weath
er permitted.
Four-time champion Pete Sampras,
scheduled to play in Arthur Ashe
Stadium during the day, was sent to the
old grandstand in the evening.
Weather postponed all mixed doubles
and most doubles matches. Fans search
ing for their favorite players were left to
wander around the complex with puz
zled looks.
Sanchez Vicario, the champion in
1994 and now seeded No. 10, finished
reading a book during the long wait,
Rickey Henderson returned to
Qualcomm Stadium for the first time
since he was traded from the Padres to
the Angels on Aug. 13 for three
prospects. He was honored in a pregame
ceremony and came in as a defensive
replacement in the seventh inning.
Henderson grounded out in the eighth.
Greg Vaughn, who became the every
day left fielder when Henderson was
traded, went 0-for-3 with a walk and a
run. He is 5-for-54 with 16 strikeouts
since Henderson was traded.
Jim Edmonds hit his 21st homer, a
solo shot with two out in the Angels sev
enth. He also made a spectacular diving
catch of Steve Finley’s fly to the warn
ing track in left-center in die sixth, land
ing on his stomach in a cloud of dust on
the warning track.
The Angels were sloppy, with a wild
pitch by Jason Dickson (13-6) allowing
Caminiti to score in the fifth, and an
error by first baseman Darin Erstad with
two out in the fourth leading to two
unearned runs.
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wards last year, will move back to her
original midfield position, leaving the
front line without much playing experi
ence.
The North Carolina front line,
though, has habitually worried opposing
coaches.
The front line trio of Kate Barber,
Nancy Pelligreen and Cindy Werley is
on pace to break several UNC scoring
marks. After playing together for over a
year, they have become even more com
fortable with one another.
“It is nice to play with them because
we know where each other will be,”
Pelligreen said.
Confident in the Tar Heel offense,
players and coach concentrate their
efforts on an untested North Carolina
defense.
“This year with such a young defense,
we might have some rough spots in the
beginning,” Withrow said.
UNC has passed the Nittany Lions’
test for the past two seasons. The Tar
Heels topped Penn State 3-0 last season
and 6-0 in 1995.
UNC boasts an 9-3-1 record all-time
against Penn State, including a thrilling
2-1 penalty shootout win in the national
semi-finals in 1993.
But, as Shelton quickly pointed out,
what has happened in years past doesn’t
affect this team. It is anew season. This
is anew team.
Yet the goal remains the same.
then went out and looked like a lethar
gic, female version of her brother,
Emilio. She rarely left the baseline in an
uninspired, sloppy 6-2, 5-7, 6-2 victory
over 19-year-old USTA prospect Meilen
Tu.
Sanchez Vicario hit only 12 clean
winners in the matches, while spraying
30 unforced errors.
Tu attacked more, hitting 25 winners,
but paid for her aggressiveness with 61
unforced errors.
The top-ranked player during much
of 1995, Sanchez Vicario said she was
determined to overcome a slump that
sent her plummeting this year.
“If I do the right things I will come
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Tar Heel forward Nancy Pelligreen returns to a front-line trio that has played
together for more than a year. UNC has a 9-3-1 record against Penn State.
back in the rankings,” said Sanchez
Vicario, who won her second French
Open in 1994. “I lost weight, but I feel
fitter and I feel better. I played a lot the
last couple of years, more than anyone,
and maybe that’s why I was tired in the
beginning of the year.
“I’m not too happy the way I started
the year. But I don’t have to defend any
(points). I don’t have any pressure at
all.”
Fernandez, the No. 12 seed, also was
pushed to three sets in a more interesting
duel against No. 47 Rita Grande.
Fernandez rushed the net more than
usual and survived seven aces to win 4-
6,6-2,6-2.
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Fernandez, 26, put to rest rumors that
she’s thinking about retirement, saying
she’s still eager to pursue her dream of
winning a major. She’s come close a few
times, reaching the final at the
Australian Open in 1990 and 1992 and
the French Open final in 1993.
“Every youngster dreams of winning
a Grand Slam or being No. 1 in the
world,” Fernandez said.
“Those dreams are still there until
you fulfil] them. I still feel I have a good
chance. I think a lot of things can hap
pen in two weeks.
“If I’m playing well and I’m healthy,
anything is possible. It’s a matter of per
severing.”
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