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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 29, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday june 29, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 25 Becker Navratilova reach fourth round Wimbledon. England a defending Cham pions Boris Becker and Martina Navratilova their games As hoi As she weather charged into the fourth round As the Wimbledon Tennis championship ended i hair first week saturday. Bui Sweden s Stefan Edberg the reigning australian open Champion and no. 5 seed at the Looth Wimble Don was upset in his third Rolind Battle by Miloslav Mecir of Czechoslovakia. With inc temperature on Center court soaring to100 degrees under a blazing Sun. Ral Tacolla Reggi upset no 4 Claudia to hic Kilsch or West Germany 6-4,6-1 to become he first italian woman to reach the fourth round at the All England club since 1965. After the first week of Wimbledon Only seven seeds remained in men1 play and nine in the women s sin Gles. And an unseeded player is guaranteed to reach the men s semifinals Tor the i oth consecutive year. Edberg one of the few swedes who seemed to be comfortable on the last grass surface was Defeated saturday by Mecir 6, 6-4c 6a he played out of his mind said Edberg and there was t too much i could do today. He was Loo  Becker seeded fourth dropped a set for the firs time in this year s tournament As he Defeated austra Lia s Paul Mcnamee 6-4. 6-4, 4-6,6-4. Second seeded Mats wander of Sweden downed australian Mark Kratzman 6-4, 6-4, 2-6, 6-1 no. 7 Henri Lecce be of France slopped american Greg Holmes 6-4,6-2, 7-6 no. 12 Brad Gilbert of the United slates eliminated Czechoslovakia s Milan Srajber 7-5, 6-7, 6-3, 6-3and no. 13 Miket perfors of Sweden ousted american Sammy Giammalva 2-6,6-4,6-3,6-1. In the women s singles Navratilova the no. 1 seed was joined in tic fourth round by no. 2 Chris Evert Lloyd no 3 Hana Mandrikova of Czechoslovakia no. 7 Helena Sutkova of Czechoslovakia no. 8 Man Uela male Eva of Bulgaria no. 10 Gabriela Sabatini of Argentina no. 11 carting Bassett of Canada no. 15 Catarina Lindqvist of Sweden and no. 16 Kathy Jor Dan of the United Sites. Navratilova crushed Kristin Kinney 6-0, 6-2 and Evert Lloyd slopped Kathy Horvath 6-4, 6-1 in All american matches it was Mandrikova Over Czechoslovakia s Iva Mudaro a 6-2,6-0 Sutkova Over australian Anne Mincer 6-1,6-4 male Eva Over australian Elizabeth Sevlie 7-6,6-1 Saba Tini Over american Barbara Gerkin 5-2,6-1 Basic to Over Marie Calleja of France 6-4, 6-2 Lindqvist Over austra Lian Elizabeth Minter Anne s sister 3-6, 7-6, 6-3 and Jordan Over american Melissa Toumey 6-4,6-1. The fourth round will finally see seeded players fac ing each other but Only one men s match will Pai r seed i. Seed. Decker will my perfors the surprising French open finalist whose game was honed on the hard courts of american collegiate Tennis in the women s single Bassett will face Mandlik Ovaland Jordan will meet Evert Lloyd in the Only fourth round matchup Between seeded players. Two australians reached the men s fourth round spat Cash Defeated american Jay Lapidus 6-1, 6-4, 6-7, 7-s, and John Fitzgerald upended australian wallymasur7-6,7-6,5-7,6-4. Other women winners saturday were americans Betsy a Getson Lori Mcneil and Robin White Isa Belle do mongol of France Bettina Bunge of Ger Many and Dianne Bales rat of Australia. A Phol Gabriela Sabarin urn against Barbara Gerken. In route to hair raising Victory no Venich nears title in Safe softball Raf Wethersfield England no Venich bunched five hits Good forgive runs in the sixth inning to Down Wethersfield g-6 saturday to move one game Sway from the Safe Smalt units slow pitch softball championship. No Venich finished the round Robin portion of the tournament undefeated at s-0, and meets Well Crofield for the championship sunday. Wethersfield completed round Robin play at 4-1 and would need to beat the Germany team inthe championship and if necessary games in order to secure the title. No Venich trailed 4-3 entering the sixth but rallied to hand the Host team its Only loss in the tournament. Kirk Schmidt s two run triple keyed inc out burst one of two he swatted on the Day. Michael Brouillard of  had the game s Only Homer a two gunshot in the first. Croughton finished third in the round Robin with a 3-2 Mark followed by Irak lion 2-3, accent 1-4 and Naples 0-5. In other saturday games w the fold 7, accent ithe winners collected 12 hits and put the game away Early with a five run Sec Ond inning. Randy Hargel went j for 3 and collected an rib for we Thursfield. No Venich 12, Naples 7 Naples led 34 after three innings Only to see no Venich score 12 runs in the fourth through sixth innings. No Venich pounded out 20 hits including four by Terry Skubal. Raymond Luedtk chipped in with two triples and three Bis for the winners. Crourhton7,inmion2 Croughton secured third place behind Mark Schotl who paced the eight hit at tack with a two run single. Timothy Frimberger of i rat lion had the game s Only Homer a first inning Solo blast. Afcentii.napl9 the Belgium team gained its Only Vic tory of the Loumey on the strength of three run sixth that erased a 9-8 Naples Lead in a Sec saw affair. Steve Cam ill s kill single in la sixth keyed the of cent rally. Accent led 4-0, but Naples tied it the second fell behind 8-4, then scored a run in third and four in inc found 10 pull ahead 9-8. Ballsteros wins third straight Mont Aoel France a Severiano Ballestero of Spain captured the $245,000 Montecarlo open Golf tournament by two strokes Over Mark Mcnulty of South Africa saturday for his third straight Victory on the european circuit. The spaniard had won the Brit ish masters and the Irish open in his last iwo tourneys. Bali Estros fired a final rounds Emder Par 64 saturday and surged past eight players who were ahead of him going into the final round. The 29-year-old spaniard finished with an 11-under-Par 265. His $40.500 first prize boosted his season s winnings in Europe to $193.000 and Trego Bened mislead at the lop of the european Money earning standings. Mcnulty took Ute second place prize of j16.30q with a fourth round 67 to finish at 267. American Ron commans the third round Leader by iwo stroke slumped with a 74 saturday for Ashare of Ullh place at 270. Tigers sweep 2 from flyers rockets trip 1 St place rams twice Rhein main a Germany Rhein main Rode the Bat of Vinnie fran co and the Arm of Chad Sumner to sweep a twin Bill from the Ramstein rams to scramble the Continental sports Confer ence baseball picture. The rockets _ 6-5 and 7-3 victories gave Rhein main a 6-4 Mark and dropped the league leading rams to 9-4. The rockets end rams Complete their weekend series with a single game at . Sunday. Andy Mendoza started on the Mound for the Ranu in the opener but failed Toast four innings thank in urge measure to Franco. The rams spotted Mendoza a 2-0 Lead but Rhein main came Back with a four run outburst in the Bottom of the first. Franco i three run Homer capped the inning. Rhein main added two runs in the third to Chase Mendoza who absorbed his second lot against four victories. He came into the game with a league leading Era of 0.67. Right hander Tony Paige went the first five innings for the rockets to up his record to 4-1. Sumner look Over in the sixth and survived a shaky seventh to gain the save. Air Force baseball trailing 6-3, the rams tagged Sumner for four hits and two runs in the top of the seventh. With two out and runner on second and third Sumner formed do Brugh to end the game. Sumner took Over for starter Jimmy Blakley in the fifth inning of the night Cap and earned the Victory when the rockets erupted for four runs in the sixth to snap a 3-3 lie. Franco hit Danny Wolten male s first tics by Rich Lareno Kurt Lineback and Ralph Veras. Wollen Mothe took the loss to even his record at 2-2. Clint Harvin smashed a Solo borne run for the exers in the third  saturday s other Csc twin Bill Zembich 6-7, we Shute 1-5 Sembach a Germany Terry storm s three run Homer lifted the Sec Ond place Sembach tigers to Victory in the Nightcap. Sembach 10-6, won the first game 8-1, helped by eight flyer errors. The two time defending Safe Champion tigers trailed 4-3 in the night Cap before breaking too a for four runs inthe Bottom of the fifth. Alex Clark led off with a walk an moved to third on iwo stolen bases. Two outs later Bill Draper walked. Rich Miller lashed a double to score Clark and hand Draper came Home on storm s round tripper. Wiesbaden which trailed 3-2 after four inning look the Lead in the lop of the Firth with three runs. Robbie Rogers went the distance Topick  Victory scattering nine hits and two walks. Dan Martinez look the loss for the flyers. He yielded sin hit Sand four walks and fanned five. Starr s 12-strikeout Effort enabled the tigers to claim the opener he came within one out of a shutout but Pitcher Dan Martinez stroked a rib single in the top of the seventh. A hit batsman and two errors gave the tigers a 1-0 Lead after one tuning and Draper gave Starr All the runs he needed with a three run double in the second. Starr walked four and gave up seven Hill in running his record to 4-2. Martinez gave up Only five hits but the eight errors crippled his chances. The losses dropped Wiesbaden to 4-9  
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