European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 12, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday March 12, 1991 the stars and stripes b Page 27 sports wire ate captures Honda classic despite 75 from wire sports Coral Springs Fla. A Steve Pate survived a wind blown 3-Over-parusunday to win the $1 million Honda classic by three Strops. Fate led by six strokes after the fifth Hole sunday a and needed that Lead after shooting two bogies and a double bogey on the next four holes. He finished the tournament at 9-under 279. Paui Azinger who carded an Eagle at the rallied to tie for the Lead after the 10th Hole finished in even Par 72 and to share second place at 282, with Canadian Dan Halldorson. A floridian accustomed to playing in the wind Azinger remained in Contention until hitting his approach shot at the Par-4 16th into a Lake behind the Green. He a double bogey. Halldorson who started with a pair of 67s for a share of the Lead through two Days closed with 70. He bodied the first five holes saturday Fon a 78, falling eight strokes behind after the coasts to Lyga Victory Poway Calif. A England s Laura Davies shot a 5-under-Par 67 on sunday to win the Inamori classic by four strokes Over Judy Dickinson and Lynn Connelly. Davies won the fourth tournament of her four year Lyga career a and first since the 1989 lady Keystone open a by completing four rounds with an 11-under-Par 277 matched Davies 67, carding seven birdies against two bogeys to match Dickinson s 281. The latter shot a 69. Third round Leader Tina Barrett ran out of Gas in trying for her second tour Victory. She finished a round of 73 with a bogey on the final Hole a 173-Yard Par-3, to fall Back into a tie with Robin Walton at 6-under 282. Patti Rizzo who began the final round 1-Over Par shot a tournament Low 66 to finish at 283.Girardelli wraps up cup Aspen Colo a Marc Girardelli of Luxembourg clinched a record tying fourth world cup Overall title in a menus slalom race sunday closing out the Challenge of olympic Champion Alberto Tomba of Italy. A it Girardelli finished fourth in the. Race won by Rudolf Nierlich of Austria earning enough Points to equal the feat of Gustav Thoeni of Italy and Pirmin Zurbriggen of Switzerland. Girard Cllia a previous titles were in 1985, 1986 and 1989. Thoeni won in 1971, 1972, 1973 and 1975 and Zurbriggen in 1984,1987,1988 and 1990. Tomba who needed to win the remaining Gate races to have a shot at catching Girardelli self destructed with a major mistake in his first run sunday that left him in 15th place and unable to finish higher than sixth despite having the quickest second out skis Schneider in is Lake Louise Alberta Sweden a Pernilla Wiberg slicing through wet driving Snow and fog won a Battle of world champions sunday by beating Switzerland a Vreni Schneider in a world cup giant slalom. Wiberg the reigning world Champion in giant slalom a posted a winning margin of .68 seconds Over Schneider the 1989 is world Champion and the 1988 olympic Champion in the event. / Wiberg 20, from Norr Koping completed two runs in 2 minutes 11.56 seconds. Schneider was timed i Olajuwon adds h to Akeem Houston apr there soon will be no More Kacem Olajuwon the All Star Center who plans for the Houston rockets. But Olajuwon Isnit leaving professional basketball he a merely adding a Little something to his life. 4the Small adjustment is an a Ufi Quot tacked onto the beginning of his first name. A a it a no big Deal a Olajuwon said. A i just want to go Back to using the original spelling the Way it is meant to be spelled in according to Olajuwon a Shakeem Quot in arabic Means Wise Man a doctor a Quot Akeem Quot which is the Way it has been spelled since he arrived in the United states in 1981, has no translation. A a Kacem is just the Way that Many people write my name when they Are putting it into English a he said. A even Back at Home in Nigeria some of my teachers in High school spelled it one Way and some of them spelled it the 2 12.24. Austria a Sylvia Eder was third in 2 12.89. Eva Tward Okens of Reno nev., was the top american finishing eighth in 2 14.11.courier beats forget in final Indian Wells Calif. A Jim courier capped the Best week of his career with his fourth upset sunday a 4-6, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 7-4 comeback win Over third seed Guy forget at the $1 million Newsweek champions cup. On his Way to the final the 16th-seeded courier dispatched no. 2 Andre Agassi. No. 7 Emilio Sanchez and no. 11 Michael Stich. A this is without question the Best week of Tennis in be played a said courier who won $125,000 for his we hour hard court Victory. It was the second tournament win of his career. He won the Swiss indoors in 1989. In doubles courier and Javier Sanchez of Spain teamed to defeat forget and Henri Leconte 7-6 7-13-6, 6-3. Courier and Sanchez split the $50,000 winners purse. Quot . A . A Sabatini rips Graf in straight sets Boca Raton Steffi Graf so slide in the rankings wont end at no. 2.gabriela Sabatini looking to move up from no. 4, beat Graf 6-4, 7-6 8-6 sunday in the final of the Virginia slims of Florida. The top seeded Graf knew All week that her record 186-week Streak at no. 1 would end monday when Monica Seles moves to the top of the ladder despite taking last week off. The computer rankings Are based on performances during the previous 52 weeks and no longer penalize Seles for her third round loss last year at Boca Raton. The second seeded Sabatini did t lose a set All week in successfully defending her triumphs at Daytona Daytona Beach Fla. A Miguel Duhamel of Canada averaged 93.471 Niph for 57 laps of Daytona a 3.56-mile dirt a Quot track sunday to claim an easy Victory in the Daytona 200 motorcycle race. 1 Duhamel Riding a Honda beat the second place Yamaha of Jamie James by 10.29 seconds. 1 Here were nine Lead changes among six riders. Duhamel led twice for a total for 32 laps. James passed teammate Thomas Stevens just before the finish line to take second. Richard Arnaiz Duha melts teammate finished fourth and Kawasaki rider Scott Russell rounded out the top nabs Recac title Boston a Hugo Belanger scored his third goal. Which proved to be the game Winner in the first minute of the third period to Lead Clarkson to a 5-4 Victory Over for the championship of the Recac tournament. The Victory guarantees Clarkson 25-7-2 an invitation to the 12-team Mcaa tournament that starts next weekend.,. Wins hockey East Crown Boston a Shawn Schachern scored at 2 19 of overtime to give Boston University a 4-3 Victory Over Maine on sunday night for the hockey East championship and an automatic bid to the Mcaa Anita suspends jockey Arcadia Calif. A Santa Anitas Board of stewards on sunday suspended jockey Chris Antley five racing Days for interference in an incident that unseated la fit Piney in the Santa Anita Handicap. Piney broke two ribs in the spill on kills sex Oriole Hardin key West Fla. A former Baltimore orioles Pitcher Jim Hardin 47, was among three people killed when their Small plane crashed nose first into a shopping Center parking lot police said sunday. Hardin was piloting the single engine Beechraft when it developed engine trouble in stiff crosswinds after taking Oft from key West International Airport saturday night key West police dispatcher tres car Nevale Hardin pitched for Baltimore from 1967-71 and later played for the new York Yankees and the Atlanta braves before retiring in 1972. His Best season season came in 1968, when he was 18-13 in his second major. League still leads Lemond still 27th never France a Tony Rominger of Switzerland kept the Overall Lead after mondays second stage of the Paris Nice cycling race a team trial. The Toshiba team won the 30-mile team trial around never finishing in 57 minutes 21 seconds. Greg Lemond of the United states and his z team placed sixth in the team trial 1 23 behind Toshiba. Lemond a three time Winner of the tour de France remained in the 27th position 1 40 behind Rominger. French cycling Star Laurent mignon dropped from 10th to 12th. Frankie Andrew of the United states fifth after sundays first stage dropped to 13th. Tuesdays third stage is a 98-mile-leg from gusset to Saint Etienne. The race ends sunday in nice.7 teams in nit Field boast 20-win seasons new York a seven of the 12 20-game winners ignored by the Mcaa selection committee were among the 32 teams chosen sunday night for the 54th annual National invitation tournament. Among the interesting first round matchup in the nations oldest postseason basketball tournament Are an All Oklahoma affair when Tulsa 18-11 goes to Oklahoma 16-14 a double 20-Winner matchup with Fairleigh Dickinson 22-8 at Siena 23-9 and future great Midwest conference mates hooking up with Alabama Birmingham 18-12 at Memphis state 16-14. Although the nit has a history of pairing regional teams Tulsa athletic director Rick Dickson was upset that Tulsa is scheduled to play Oklahoma. A a it shame a Dickson said. A i asked them nit officials their reasoning and they said it was the consent of the committee. In other words there a not much rationale to Lloyd Noble Center where Oklahoma had been nearly invincible before this year lost some of its mystique this year when Duke snapped the sooner so 51-game Home winning Streak. A it s hard to figure out what the motives Are a Dickson said. A if its tickets they ought to move it to the myriad in Oklahoma City. Why play in Norman i done to think they looked real hard at play gets under Way on wednesday with James Madison 19-9 at Providence 17-12 Ball state 21-9 at Cincinnati 17-11 Michigan 14-14 at Colorado 15-13 Southern Illinois 16-13 at Boise state 18-10 Houston 18-10 at Stanford 15-13 and Bowling Green 17-12 at Wisconsin 14 u. _. On thursday in addition to the three matchup featured it will be Fordham 24-7 at South Florida 19-10 Coppin state 19-10 at Southwest Missouri state 21-11 and Rice 16-13 at Arkansas state 21-8. First round play will be completed Friday when its Furman 20-8 at West Virginia 16-13 la Salle 19-9 at Massachusetts 17-11 Butler 18-10 at Wyoming 19-11 and George Washington 19-11 at South Carolina 19-12. The second and third rounds will again be played at Campus Sites with the second round set for March 18-19 and the third round March 20-21. The semifinals and finals will be held at Madison Square Garden on March 25 and 27. Three conferences had three members invited to the nit. The Missouri Valley conference is represented by Tulsa Southern Illinois and Southwest Missouri state. The metro conference has Memphis state Cincinnati and South Carolina and the Atlantic 10 has West Virginia Massachusetts and George Washington. Vanderbilt won last year s nit beating St. Louis in the championship. The five 20-win teams overlooked by both tournaments were southwestern Louisiana 21-10radford 22-7middle Tennessee state 21-9texas Arling ton 20-9 anti Texas san Antonio 21-8
