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    European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 19, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday March 19, 1991 the stars and stripes b Page 27 sports Wir Carbajal takes beating but keeps title from wire reports Las vegas a Michael Carbajal retained the in to emotional boxing federation Light flyweight title sunday night with a unanimous 12-round decision Over Mexico s Javier Varquez a substitute for a substitute. Carbajales Clear Cut Victory was booed by Many in a crowd of 2,900 at Bally a Casino resort. At the end of the bruising Battle Carbajales right Eye was almost closed and he was badly marked about the left  the damage the mexican inflicted on Carbajal s head with both hands judge a1 Devito favored Carbajal 115-110 and judges Bill Graham and Paul Gibbs saw it 116-109 for the Chan Pion from Phoenix. It was a Tough fight from the outset with the Rull Varquez often was warned for holding and hitting and he was penalized two Points for hitting Low. Carbajal was penalized one Point for Low blows. Carbajal who weighed 107 pounds 1 under the class limit boosted his record to 20-0 with 13 knockouts. It was his third defense of the title. A the left handed Varquez also 107, was fighting for the first time outside Mexico. He is 29-10-1 with 21 knockouts. . Varquez was a substitute for Hector Patri of Argentina who was a substitute for Melchor  claims title with Eagle san Antonio a Lee Trevino Sank a 6-foot Eagle putt on the final Hole sunday to win the rain shortened senior pea Vantage at the Dominion by two shots Over Rocky Thompson Charles Coody arid Mike Hill. Trevino hammered a 5-Wood second shot within 6 feet of the cup on the 545-Yard, Par-5 18th and needed Only to two putt to win. When he Sank the Eagle putt he had his second Victory of the year and q $52,500 payday. Trevino who started the Day at 5-under, one stroke out of the Lead finished with a 70 on sunday for a 7-under 137 score after two rounds Over the 6,814-Yard course. It was Trevino a ninth Victory since joining the senior pea tour last  holds off Daniel Las vegas a Peggy Hammel shot a 6-Undcr-Par 66 sunday and came from two strokes Back to win the desert Inri Lyga invitational tournament by a stroke Over second round Leader Beth Daniel. Hammel the Only golfer to break Par in the opening round of a tournament plagued the first two Days by bad weather finished at 5-under 211. Daniel scored a Quot 69 sunday to finish the three round tournament at 212. Rosie Jones who matched Hammels 66 sunday finished third at 214. Missie Mcgeorge 68 and Patty Sheehan 73 shared fourth at 217. Hammel whose last tour Victory was in the Jamie Farr Toledo classic in 1989, earned $60,000 for the  Advance Minneapolis a Jeff Stolp regrouped after allowing a Fluke first period goal and made 30 saves sunday night leading Minnesota into the Mcaa hockey quarterfinals for the seventh straight year with an 8-3 first round Victory Over Providence. Tom Pederson and Craig Johnson each scored twice for the gophers 30-8-5who won successive games by a combined 16-7 score after dropping the Best of three series opener 4-3. Minnesota travels to Maine for a Best of three series beginning Friday. After Pederson opened the scoring 4 27 into the game Providence 22-12-2 tied it on a 120-foot shot from inside its Blue line. Rob Gaudreau lifted the puck Way i d Connors is Back Sampras ousted key Biscayne Fla. A Jimmy Connors is Back Pete Sampras is gone and Andre Agassi and Boris Becker Are still Arp rid a barely / Connors won for the first time since october 1989 when he beat Germany a Udo Iglewski in a first round match sunday in the International players championships. A Rusty Sampras who had played in just two tournaments previously this year because of injuries lost to Rodolphe Gilbert of France 6-4, 6-2. Gilbert ranked no. 132, made the 96-Man Field As a replacement for an injured player Agassi and Becker survived scares in their opening matches Agassi ranked fourth overcame a 3-1 deficit in the third set to Edge 18-year-old Fabrice a Intro of France 76 714-6, 7-5. A Becker facing qualifier Steve Devries lost the first set fell behind 5-2 in the third set and trailed 4-1 in a third set tiebreaker. But he rallied rallied and rallied to win 5-7,6-3,7-6 7-5. The 38-Ycar-old Connors trying to come Back after surgery on his left wrist last october beat Iglewski 6-4, 6-4 in a match that took near 24 hours to Complete because of rain delays. In women s play eighth seeded Natalia Zvereva lost her opening match to qualifier Ginger a Helgeson of san Diego 6-2, 6-3. Steffi Graf Monica Seles Gabriela Sabatini and Mary Joe Fernandez a the top four seeds a won in straight sets. Connors was 0-3 in 1990, and he lost to Jaime. Yznaga three weeks ago in his Only previous match this year. Connors the Winner of eight grand slam titles has seen his ranking drop from no 14 last year to no. 961. Into the gophers end. Pederson tried to Glove the puck but instead deflected it Over a helpless Stolp. Ken Gernander who had a hat trick in Minnesota a 8-4 Victory saturday scored with 4 21 left in the first to put the gophers ahead for Good. In another Acca first round series Michigan whipped Cornell 9-3 sunday at Ann Arbor mich., to reach the quarterfinals. Four wolverines scored two goals each with Dan Stiver getting the game Winner. Boston University which Drew a first round playoff Bye plays Host to Michigan 34-8-3 in a Best of three quarterfinal series beginning  nabs race is title Vail Colo. A Vreni Schneider beat hard charging norwegian Julie Lunde Hansen by 38-hundredths of a second in a women a world cup giant slalom sunday giving Switzerland its second title in two Days. Saturday Chantal Bou Nissen of Switzerland won the seasons downhill title. Schneider a giant slalom Crown was the fourth is title of her career. It _ the United states continued its Strong showing placing three in the top 15 after having four crack the top 15 in each of the two downhills held at Vail Julie Parisien of ize Auburn Maine led the was. Playing fifth in 2 20.62. Eva Twar Dokins of Santa cru7, calif., was ninth in 2 21.24, and Edith this of olympic Valley calif., finished 15th in 2 23.10. Nil owners of Sale of giants Kona Hawaii a the National football league owners opened their annual March meeting in Kona on sunday by unanimously approving the 50 percent Sale of the giants to Robert Tiseth president of Loews corp. And former postmaster general. Tiseth purchased 50 percent of the franchise from Helen Mara Nugent and her children Timothy Mara and Maura Mara Concannon Oil feb. 20. Wellington Mara still owns 50 percent of the team and remains As president and co chief executive officer in charge of football operations. Tiseth is a co chief executive officer and chairman of the Board in charge of finance and  Means Tough sledding Lake Placid . The . Bobsled and Skeleton federations Board of directors has resigned amid allegations of financial mismanagement officials said Mori Day. .  a. The directors made the decision saturday and the resignations Are effective immediately Jim Hickey the federations executive director said. Problems within the federation had been brewing for years and came to Light last fall. In november the . Olympic committee confirmed it was auditing federation books a first for the 41 National governing bodies that receive funding from the soc. The soc also suspended funding to the federation whose bobs edders Are under the direct financial control of the soc. In january the soc said it would move to de certify the federation As a National governing body if bobsled officials did not come up with certain financial  said ready to enrich Pippen Chicago a t he Chicago bulls and Scottie Pippen Are near agreement on a five year contract Extension that would make the Forward one of the highest paid players in the Aba a published report said monday. The two sides Are close to an Extension through the 1997-98 season that would pay Pippen an average of about $3.5 million a season the Chicago t Tribune reported quoting unidentified  Piniella gets raise Plant City Fla. A Cincinnati a Loti Piniella says he has received a pay  last years championship season that puts him in the a higher Echelon a of the Best paid big league managers. But Piniella who was paid $350,0 m lust year in the first season of a three year contract still thinks major league baseball managers Are underpaid the daily news in new York  that Piniella has renegotiated the final two years of his contract and had received a $300, m 0 raise this year to r $650,000, while the new York tines reported he would get Between $675,0 m and $700,000 each year. �?o1 just got rewarded for winning a a Piniella said. A basically that a what it amounts to. But that number s not accurate. I wish it  the Best paid managers include Tom Lasorda of Lars. Angeles Sparky Anderson of Detroit and Tony la Russa of Oakland All of whom reportedly get about $500, my per year. Lake Louise Alberta a Alberto Tomba the italian skier at the Center of a controversy that prevented him from racing in a world cup giant slalom sunday says he has nothing to apologize for. Tombas chairlift privileges were revoked and a written apology demanded by the Mari Gerof the Lake Louise ski resort after he allegedly knocked Down a recreation skier in a lift lineup during training saturday swung his poles at a female lift attendant and was abusive to staff and four Royal Canadian mounted police officers Quot there was no Way id apologize Quot said Tomba a double Gold medallist at the 1988 olympics. Quot i spoke to the girl i knocked Over 1 went on the ski lift with her everything was  he also denied swinging his poles at anyone. It had Good memories of Alberta from the olympics a he said a now they re not so Good. People make fools of. Us european skiers because they done to understand our  Tomba is considering Legal action against the Lake Louise resort and could Boycott further world cup races at the resort. A maybe 1 won t be the Only one who wont he Back Quot he said. Ski resort manager John Worrall said he told Tomba that unless he made a Public apology his lift privileges would be revoked. When no apology was forthcoming Worrall made Good his threat and Tomba missed sundays race. A we have one person who for a Short period of time decided to act like a neanderthal and we have dealt with it a Worrall said. A the rest of the european team the italians and All the people Are Welcome to race Here and we have no feelings whatsoever that this upsets the established rapport Between us and ski racing in  Luxembourg s Marc Girardelli withdrew from the race to support Tomba. But the rest of the italian team competed. The italian delegation has protested the outcome of the race won by Germany s Markus Wasmeier in i minute 28,75 seconds. To further add of the controversy the race results Are in doubt because the suit worn by second place finisher Patrick Holzer of Italy did no to carry an International ski federation approval Seal. Federation officials took the suit and will test in t hey will announce within the next few Days whether loll or s result stands. In ulcer clocked 1 29,Ltd. With Stefan i bar Hartr of Austria third in 1 29.27. Switzerland s Franz Heinzer who clinched the season downhill title on Friday added the super a title to his Cache despite finishing 3ijth. A  
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