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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 26, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday May 26,1987 the stars and stripes Page 25 Texas beats Houston for regional title by the associated press top ranked Texas made the College world series for a record 25lh Lime by routing Houston 13-4 sunday to win the Mcaa Central regional baseball tournament. The Host longhorns 58-9, will play Arkansas in the first round saturday at College baseball Omaha neb Arkansas finished second to Texas in inc Southwest conference and won the South i regional South i Arkansas 4, Clemson 2at Huntsville ala., Arkansas advanced As Mike Sisco s two run single highlighted a four run sixth inning. The Razorbacks 5q-i4- and ranked sixth in the country also had beaten clams of 5-4 in 10 innings saturday. The tigers rated 13th. Finished 54-14. South ii Louisiana St. 7, full Mon St. .1 a new Orleans Gregg i Augrson pitched a five to Itter and leu Oak and a anlage of two balks and sonic Sloppy Fullerton slate Fielding. Leu took the Lead in he High la on Arbi double by Richie Vasqucz and run scoring singles by Mike Pap Dijonn and Rob Hartwig. Northeast Georgia 10, Ford Hun 4 Cornu i 13, rider 5 at Atlanta Georgia swept a double header with its Strong offence. In the opener Derek Lii Iquiel pitched 7v, innings of no Hil Ball and struck out15, including eight straight in one Span. He was supported by a Swift s second inning grand slam and added a two run Sholof his own. Lilliquist was the Star of inc second game win Over rider As he hit two Hom ers a two rim shot in the first inning and a Solo Homer in llu1 seventh when Scott Bolike added a grand  South Alabama 6, Florida Suie 3 Florida slate 9, South Alabama 1 at Tallahassee. Fla., Host Florida stale had to come Back from an earlier loss to South Alabama. The eighth ranked Sam in orcs were victimized by a pair of Field ing errors by Marc Giordano in the opener in which Stuart Fuller pitched 3vj innings of i Hess Relief. Regional map Mike Maksudian had a two run Homer in the Tagus Victory. But Florida stale came Back As Gior Dano nil a second inning grand slam then added another Home run giving him eight hits in 15 Al bats and eight it Bis in the regional. Mideast Oklahoma St. 9, w. Carolina 6 Oun Hont St. 7, to thu a4m 4 at Clarkville miss., Robin Ventura s third inning two run double kept his Mcaa record Hilling Streak going an kept Oklahoma stale alive against Texas am. Fifth ranked Oklahoma stale 55 ii plays the i9lh-Rankcd aggie again monday. Wasll Stanford 12, Washington state 11 Oral Roberts 11, Wichita St 4 at Stanford calif., the hosts advanced to monday s final with a three run rally in inc Bottom of the ninth. The Cardinal will play the Winner of inc Washington slate Oral Roberts game which was moved to monday because of dark Ness. West ii Urcla 16, Hawaii 7 Arbona St. 4, Pepperdine 2 Al Tempe aril., Ihrcke run homers by Steve Hisey and Billy Haselman sparked a nine run sixth inning for Urcla. The win put the Bruins into a late game against Pepper done. Which lost to to it Arizona stale. C Mon Rickey it s just a game Yankee Rickey Henderson cries in Dis belief As an Umpire rules he ran out of Bounds in the i fms inning of sunday s 10-8 Victory Over the Angela. The Fust base Umpire had culled Henderson Safe but the decision was set aside by Lime plate ump Dale Ford right. Al left is Umpire Rich Garcia. American league Roundup on Page 16. Kriek Mcneil foil in French open Lendl struggles Graf romps Paris a Ivan Lindl and Steffi Graf two of the big favourites for the singles titles won Firsi-rpunt3 matches at the French open Tennis championships Mon Day but gave vastly different performances on the Center court at Roland Garros. On a sunny humid opening Day of the year s second grand slam Toum Ameni a shirt sleeved crowd watched Lendl in defending men s Champion struggle against Ronald Agnor a hard Hilling haitian before gelling through 7-5, 7-6, 0-6,6-3 in 3 hours 26 minutes. Graf who preceded Lendl on the main show court took less than an hour to dispatch the Swiss based Csilla Cserepy 6-1, 6-1 and Celend her unbeaten Recordo 31 matches stretching Back to nov. 23 ast year. Two seeds went out on an otherwise predictable opening Day. Johan Kriek no. 16 in the men s draw and a semifinalist last year had the misfortune of meeting one of the world s toughs Daj court players Joakim Nystrom in the first round. Kriek edged the opening set but fell away badly to lose 6 -7, 6-2, 6-2, 6-1 10 inc swede. American Lori Mcneil the no. 9 women s seed playing in her 1 Ullh tournament of the year lost 6-3, 6-3 to another american Lisa Bonder. Other men s seeds to Pojl victories on the opening Day included no. 4 Mats Wizander of Sweden no. 6 Yannick Noah of France the 1983 till isl and  4 Martin Matte of Argentina. Wizander Hod a Battle with Italy s Simone Colombo but rallied to win 3-6, 6 2, 6-1, 5-3, when Colombo was forced to retire with leg cramps. Noah was much too powerful for Ivan Kley of Brazil and with the crowd screaming him on overpowered his opponent 6-0,6-2, 6-2, jail also won in straight sets 6-2,6-3,6 4, Over Hans Schweier of West Germany. Four More seeded players in the women s draw joined Graf in the second round. And like Graf Alt of them dropped Juil two games apiece. No. 7 seed Gabriella Sabatini of Argentina the youngest French open Sero finalist when she reached the last four in 1985, cruised into the second round with a 6-0, 6-2 Victory Over Marianne Van Der Torre a dutch qualifier. America s Kathy Rinaldi seeded no. 10, whipped compatriot Vicki Nelson Dunbar 6-0,6-2 fifth seeded Helena us Scova of Czechoslovakia was a 6-1, 6-1 Victor Over Dinky Van Rensburg of South Africa and the 113th seed West germ by s Sylvia Hanika beat Neige Dias of Brazil 6-1,6-1. Lindl who lost just one set on his Way to last year s championship dropped one in the very first match of his title defense the world s no. 1 player out for six weeks earlier his year with a knee in jury Laboured for Long periods As he was matched for Speed and Power by he French based Agenor 82 places lower than Lendl in the rankings. That was a dogfight said inc de fending Champion. It was a real Strug Gle. I won because he got  in a match of Long punishing rallies Agnor played with More finesse bul lend had most of the Luck. Graf bidding for her first grand slam title at age 17, went Imp her match against Cserepy Riding a string of six successive Virginia slims titles that have taken her to no. 2 in the world. She was far too powerful for a limited opponent but was not at pc Best often struggling with her timing in front of sparse morning crowd. But the Young West German a Happy enough with her form at the Post match news conference. It was not so hard a match. I be been Here since thursday and feeling very Good much better than at previous grand slam tournaments she said. Graf acknowledged she was one of the favourites along with Chris even and Manina Navratilova both of whom open play tuesday. They have More grand. Slam experience than me said Graf. Kriek said organizers of the leading tournaments should prevent a repeat of first round pairings such As the one Pil Ling him against Nystrom. Kriek is ranked 17 in the rankings Nystrom 18. Joakim and 1 Are world class players and Here we have to play each other Atixhe Start said the South african bom american. I Don t think two Guys in the top 20 should play each other in the first round of a grand slam event. That s it. Case closed an sports television Tennis Mcaa men s championships tap delayed10 to Pau tue Jay. Radion a playoff Detroit pistons to Boston celtics 2 a a wednesday. Nil playoffs Philadelphia flyers a Edmonton oilers 3 30 lib. Or alter Aba playoff Gam wednesday  
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