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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 18, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday March 18, 1992 the stars and stripes c Page 27 sports wire Mcenroe stuns Ivanisevic Edberg upset from wire reports key Biscayne Fla. A John Mcenroe made a rare trip to Florida seeking a boost in his ranking and his Confidence. Mission accomplished. Mcenroe upset seventh ranked Goran Ivanisevic 5-7, 7-5, 7-5 monday night in the third round of the International players championships. A a it a a big win a said Mcenroe whose ranking no. 34 is the lowest of his career since before he was a surprising Wimbledon semifinalist in 1977. A any time you can beat a top 10 player its a huge win for  a More shocking upset was orchestrated by Robbie Weiss a qualifier from Ponte Vedra Beach Fla., who surprised second ranked Stefan Edberg 6-3, 3-6, 6-4. At no. 289, Weiss is the lowest ranked player Ever to beat Edberg. Because of the idiosyncratic nature of the at tour computer if Jim courier fails to reach sundays final Edberg will still supplant him As no. 1. A i done to deserve to get up there a Edberg said. A it would feel very strange. In a playing some of the worst Tennis in be played for Many Many  courier barely advanced himself. The defending Champion was struggling against Andres Gomez in their final set when the Veteran from Ecuador retired because of a sore left ankle. Third seeded Boris Becker beat Paul Laarhuis 6-4, 7-6 7-4 to Advance beyond the third round for the first time in six visits to South Florida. Jimmy Connors lost to fourth ranked Pete Sampras 6-3, 6-2 in the first meeting Between the two americans. Connors 39, lost his last seven service games. In women a action the top seeds won every set. Top ranked Monica Seles notched her 26th consecutive Victory beating Larisa Savchenko Neiland 6-0,6-4. In other women a matches no. 2 Steffi Graf eliminated Raffaella Reggi Concato 6-2, 6-2 no. 3 Gabriela Sabatini beat Rosalyn Fairbank Nideffer 6-2, 6-0 no. 4 Arantha Sanchez Vicario topped Ginger Helgeson 6-2, 6-2 and no. 5 Jennifer Capriati beat Karina Hab Sudo a 6-3, 6-1.twins get pirates Smiley fort Myers Fla. Up a the Minnesota twins obtained 20-game Winner John Smiley from the Pittsburgh pirates tuesday for two promising minor league a a. _ a a l. _ a in a 1r%nrvtlf> a tilt. Prospects Pitcher Denny Neagli and minor league out Quot elder Mitre Cummings. Smiley was 20-8 with a 3.08 earned run average last year for the pirates when he finished third in the National league by Young award balloting. He is 60-42 for his career with a 3.57 Era. Smiley who turned 27 tuesday has thrown 200-plus innings four of the last five seasons. The defending world Champion twins will be counting on Smiley to help fill the void created by the loss of Jack Morris who went to Toronto after winning the most valuable player award in the world series last fall. Twins general manager Andy Macphail said that with the addition of Smiley he thinks the team will have a stronger starting rotation this season than it did last year. Smiley will join Kevin Tapani Scott Erickson and Bill Krueger in the rotation. Erickson won 20 games As a Rookie last year. He said that with Smiley a lefty sandwiched Between Tapani and Erickson both right handers and with the earlier addition of Krueger a free agent who won 11 games for Seattle last year a we look to have a stronger starting rotation than we did a year  Neagle was in the running for the fifth starting spot with the twins and Cummings led the Midwest league in hitting last year with a .322 average for Kenosha. Cummings a 20-year-old switch hitter had 54 rib and 28 stolen bases in 106  to get hearing Darmstadt Germany a the German athletics federation will hear the Case of Katrin Krabbe and two other suspended sprinters on april 4, an official said monday. Krabbe grit Breuer and Silke Moeller were sus Pended for four years in february after drug test irregularities. Guenter Emig chairman of the Legal committee of the athletics federation said the hearing will be held at the federation Headquarters in Darmstadt. The three sprinters All from former East Germany were tested for performance enhancing drugs in january while they were training in South Africa. No traces of drugs were found but the German federation said the urine samples All came from the same person in an apparent attempt to circumvent the drug test. All three have denied any wrongdoing. Krabbe won the 100 and 200-meter finals in the world track championships last  fires Sneed Fullerton Calif. A the contract of Cal state Fullerton menus basketball coach John Sneed will not be renewed for next season. Sneed 43, was appointed interim head coach on nov. 3, 1988 after George Mcquarn resigned following eight seasons. Sneeds teams had a 55-59 Overall record and were 31-41 in big West conference games. This season the titans were 12-16 Overall and 8-10 in the big  top european pea Virginia water England a Spanish golfers occupy the top three spots on the pea european tour Money list following Jose Riveros Victory in the catalan open last weekend. Rivero jumped from seventh to second place while Jose Maria Olazabal maintained the top snot and Severiano Ballesteros slipped from second to third. The three spaniards have won five of the seasons first seven tournaments. Olazabal leads with $222,676, followed by Rivero with $211,344 and Ballesteros with $179,477. The top american on the list is Jay Townsend in 31st place with $31,642. Rangers trim canadians in top-2 matchup by the associated press. New York a the new York rangers got another solid performance in goal from streaking John Vanbiesbrouc to beat the Montreal canadians 4-1 monday night in a Battle Between the no la Stop two teams. With their third straight Victory the Patrick division leading rangers improved their Lead to four Points Over the Adams leading canadians for the top record in the league 94 to 90. Vanbiesbrouc extended his personal winning Streak to six games out playing Montreal spat Roy who leads the nil in goals against average. Vanbiesbrouc made 32 saves including 12 in the third period when the rangers killed a four minute Montreal Power play. The rangers used a balanced scoring attack to win getting goals from Sergei nem chinos John Ogrodnick Adam Graves and Mark Messier. Chris Nilan scored for Montreal. In mondays other nil game whalers 4, flames 3 Calgary Alberta Zarley Salapski had two goals and an assist a Hartford took advantage of the Power play to beat Calgary. Zal Apski a second goal of the game a his 19th of the season a came in the third period on a botched save by Calgary goaltender Mike Vernon. Bobby Holik and Yvon Corriveau also scored for the whalers a who scored three times with the Man advantage. A1 Mclnnis breaking out of his offensive slump with the first hat trick of his career was the Lone scorer for Calgary. In other nil news Bruins Neeley out for season Boston a Boston Bruins Star Cam Neely is almost certainly out for the rest of the nil season team officials said monday. Bruins general manager Harry Sinden said it was a almost 100 percent certain that he wont be playing in the  Neely 26, missed the first 38 games of the season while recovering from a Bony growth in his left thigh. He returned to action Jan. 2, but played Only nine games before undergoing surgery feb. 3 to remove surface cartilage in his left knee. Penguins lose Tocchet for week Pittsburgh a Pittsburgh a Rick Tocchet has a fractured jaw and will miss one week of play. A puck fired by Mario  crashed into the left Side of 1 och Etc a head sunday during the second period of the penguins 4-3 Victory Over Chicago. Tocchet received several stitches. He chose to play the final period and scored two goals. Wednesday 6 . 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