Banner Graphic, Volume 18, Number 214, Greencastle, Putnam County, 17 May 1988 — Page 9

Joint venture to handle TV for Big Ten CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) Raycom Inc. and Rasmussen Communication Management Corp. have formed a joint venture to handle Big Ten basketball and football telecasts, the companies announced. The companies said Monday they will produce and market telecasts for the conference and three of its members Purdue and lowa. Rasmussen Communication, based in Champaign, 111., has done Big Ten basketball for two seasons and Big Ten football for one season. Raycom, based in Charlotte, will be the managing partner in the venture. Raycom, which produced more titan 200 events last year, is the largest independent sports network in the country.

Phillies produce much better in San Francisco than Mets

By The Associated Press After a weekend in San Francisco, the New York Mets were delighted to head for San Diego. But a visit to Candlestick Park was just what Mike Schmidt and the Philadelphia Phillies needed. The Mets, who sewed just five runs in three weekend losses in San Francisco, got more than that in the opener of their three-game series at Jack Murphy Stadium Monday night, rallying past the Padres 7-4. The Phillies, who followed the Mets into San Francisco, got a twohitter from Shane Rawley and a slump-breaking 4-for-4 night from Schmidt to beat the Giants 3-0. Mets 7, Padres 4 * Gary Carter, who hits well in San Diego, broke a 4-4 tie in the seventh with a three-run homer that gave unbeaten Dwight Gooden his seventh victory. Carter couldn’t explain his success at Jack Murphy Stadium, but said the Mets were glad to get out of San Francisco. “Certain parks, you just like playing in them,” said Carter, who also had a run-scoring single. “I just like playing in San Diego. This park just seems bright. “Some ballparks you go into, you can’t pick up the ball too well like San Francisco, you can’t see the ball because you have the wind

Johncockready to take turn on 500 speedway INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Gordon Johncock stood surveying the scene as crewmen prepared his car for its first trip around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway track this year. The last time the day-glow orange car ran on the 2 Vi-mile oval, Colombian driver Roberto Guerrero drove it to second place behind A 1 Unser in the 1987 Indianapolis 500. Now, after a week of trying either to put together a sponsorship deal with the Vince Granatelli Team or to buy the car from Granatelli, Johncock finally was ready on Monday to climb into the cockpit of the 1987 March. It was first announced last week that Johncock would drive the car for Granatelli as a teammate to Guerrero. On Monday, however, the Royal Motor Racing Team, owned by longtime Johncock friend David Anderson, bought the car and is making its own sponsorship deals. “I wish it had been a week ago today,” Johncock, winner of the 1973 and 1982 races, said. ‘‘But I’m just glad we got it together.” “We would have to go to a twocar team in order to give Gordy the attention he deserves and, with the additional work resulting from Roberto’s crash (last week in practice), it would be difficult to accomplish,” Granatelli said. “However, we are supplying extra parts and a crew to further aid the Johncock effort. There’s no doubt the car will be competitive.” The 51-year-old Johncock, one of the nine former Indy winners entered here, missed the first of two weekends of qualifying for the May 29 Indy 500. He came out of a oneyear retirement last May, qualifying 22nd and finishing 18th when his engine failed after 76 laps. It was Johncock’s only Indy-car start last season, and he hasn’t driven a race car since. “If w<» cap get the car working ..~.out a lot of problems, it won’t take me long,” the white-haired Johncock said.

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DOMINIQUE WILKINS Keys Atlanta win

blowing in your face.” Carter’s homer was the 299th of his career, his 33rd against the Padres and 16th at Jack Murphy Stadium. It followed a leadoff walk to Darryl Strawberry and a single to ex-Padre Kevin Mcßeynolds, who had three hits. Phillies 3, Giants 0 A visit to Candlestick was just what Schmidt needed to break an 0-for-30 slump. He singled through the legs of Giants starter Rick Reuschel to start the 12th 4-for-4 game of his career. “I got that so-called monkey off my back. It was more like an ape,” Schmidt said. “The worst I’ve gone the last few years is 0-for-7, I think.” Lance Parrish broke a scoreless tie in the sixth when he followed Schmidt’s third hit of the night, a one-out single, with his sixth homer, a drive to left-center. Craig James added his fifth homer of the season one out later. “We beat a good pitcher and we beat him on his birthday. He was the only guy on the field older than me,” Schmidt said. Meanwhile, Rawley pitched the first two-hitter of his career, allowing singles to Candy Maldonado in the fifth inning and Jose Uribe in the eighth. He walked one and

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Hawks keep Celtics at bay to tie series

ATLANTA (AP) The Atlanta Hawks knew it wasn’t going to be as easy as a 19-point third-quarter lead might make it appear. They were right. The Boston Celtics cut that deficit to 101-99 with 7:31 remaining before Dominique Wilkins keyed an 8-0 burst with six points as the Hawks regained control and went on to post a 118-109 victory Monday night that squared the best-of-seven NBA Eastern Conference semifinal playoff series at 2-2. “The key was we didn’t let them tie us,” Atlanta’s Randy Wittman said. “Psychologically that’s a big thing. They didn’t quite get there.” “We didn’t want to panic, we didn’t want to get nervous,” Wilkins said of the Boston rally. “When you panic, you make more mistakes.” The series moves back to the Boston Garden on Wednesday night, an arena where the Hawks have lost 14 games in a row, includ-

struck out four. Reds 4, Braves 2 Tom Browning allowed five hits over eight innings as Cincinnati downed Adanta. Browning, 2-0, had a four-hit shutout entering the eighth when Paul Runge walked and Ron Gant followed with his second homer. He walked one and struck out two. Browning, 2-0, said he wasn’t upset at being lifted when interim manager Tommy Helms opted to try to score more runs. “I could have gone nine innings, but we had a chance to score more and the victory was the important thing,” Browning said. Paul O’Neill singled home a run off loser Kevin Coffman, 2-3, in the first. Astros 9, Pirates 2 Jim Deshaies allowed a run on five hits in eight innings and Denny Walling drove in three runs to lead Houston over Pittsburgh. Deshaies, 3-2, walked two and struck out one before Larry Andersen came in to pitch the ninth. The left-hander allowed only a solo homer to Barry Bonds in the third. Houston put the game away by scoring four runs in the third off Bob Walk, 4-2, the last two on a

ing the first two in this series last week. Game 6 will be played in Atlanta on Friday night and Game 7, if needed, will be back in Boston on Sunday. The winner will move to the conference final against either Detroit or Chicago. Detroit leads that series 3-1. The game was the only one played Monday night Tonight, Utah is at the Los Angeles Lakers and Dallas at Denver. Those series also are tied at 2-2. “We’ve got to go to the Garden and play recklessly and not get down by 40 points in the first quarter,” said Atlanta’s Glenn “Doc” Rivers, who tied an NBA playoff record with 15 first-half assists and finished the game with 22, two shy of the playoff mark held by Magic Johnson of the Lakers. Wilkins, mired in a shooting slump in the first three games, hit 15-of-29 shots and scored 40 points.

single by Glenn Davis. Athletics 3, Red Sox 0 The Boston Bruins once had a shutout-conscious goalie named Frankie Brimsek, who was known as Mr. Zero. The Boston Red Sox have a pitcher who might adopt the same nickname if his teammates don’t get him some runs pretty soon. For the third start in a row, Jeff Sellers was victimized by the Red Sox’ futility. They had seven hits, received seven walks and were the beneficiaries of three wild pitches on Monday night. But they also stranded 14 baserunners, falling one short of the major-league record for a nine-inning shutout for the second time this season, and lost to the Oakland Athletics 3-0. Dave Parker hit a two-run homer for Oakland and Storm Davis worked out of two bases-loaded jams. Davis allowed six hits, walked five and threw three wild pitches in six innings. Greg Cadaret went 1 % innings, Eric Plunk finished the eighth and Dennis Eckersley pitched a perfect ninth for his 14th save.

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Larry Bird scored 30 points to lead the Celtics, who bolted to a 38- lead in the final minute of the opening quarter, before Atlanta went on an 11-0 run sparked by Spud Webb’s six points to take a 39- lead. Danny Ainge’s basket put the Celtics back on top with 9:04 left in the half before Wilkins hit two free throws and a basket and Antoine Carr scored on a tip-in to give the Hawks a 45-40 advantage. The Hawks led the rest of the way, with Boston cutting the lead to 52-51 four minutes before halftime and then falling behind 88-69 late in the third before staging the late rally that fell two points shy of a tie. Jazz-Lakers Los Angeles center Kareem Ab-dul-Jabbar, who made only six of his 27 field goal attempts in Games 2 and 3, came to life Sunday and had 20 points and 11 rebounds as the Lakers evened the series with a 113-100 victory.

Blue Jays 5, White Sox 1 Something good generally happens when Toronto’s Dave Stieb faces Chicago. He pitched a fourhitter as the Blue Jays beat the White Sox 5-1 and is 15-4 lifetime against Chicago, 9-1 at Comiskey Park. Stieb struck out four and didn’t walk a batter in pitching his first complete game of the season. He got home run support from Pat Borders and Kelly Gruber. Borders hit his second home run of the season off Rick Horton in the fifth inning after Gruber walked. Yankees 3, Mariners 1 Jack Clark hit a two-run homer as New York scored all its runs with two out in the first inning. Clark’s seventh home run followed a two-out walk to Mike Pagliarulo off Mike Moore, who allowed only four hits in 7 I A innings. The Yankees made it 3-0 when Claudell Washington doubled and scored on a single by Dave Winfield. Winner John Candelaria allowed eight hits in 7% innings, including Alvin Davis’ eighth home run of the season and 100th of his career.

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The 41-year-old Abdul-Jabbar, the NBA’s all-time leading scorer, gave an indication of things to come when he made a skyhook and thrust his fist into the air on the Lakers’ first possession of the game. “He looked like he was (again) the 18-year-old kid from New York,” Utah coach Frank Layden said of Abdul-Jabbar. Ma veric ks-Nuggets Denver’s Doug Moe, named Monday as Coach of the Year, is hoping for more intensity than his team showed in its 124-103 loss Sunday. “We could have had (Larry) Bird, Magic (Johnson) and (Michael) Jordan and it wouldn’t have made any difference,” Moe said. Lafayette Lever, sidelined with a strained right knee but given a 5050 chance to play tonight, refused to blame the loss on the injuries.

Brewers 3, Tigers 1 Robin Yount became Milwaukee’s all-time RBI leader with a seventh-inning double and the Brewers beat Detroit behind the pitching of Chris Bosio and Dan Plesac. Bosio scattered nine hits in seven innings-plus and has allowed only one earned run in his last 24 innings. Yount’s double off Walt Terrell enabled him to pass Cecil Cooper as the Brewers’ career RBI leader with 945. Royals 7, Rangers 6 Bo Jacteon and Kevin Seitzer homered and Floyd Bannister raised his record to 18-4 since the 1987 All-Star Game. Bannister allowed two runs and five hits in eight innings and left with a 7-2 lead as Kansas City handed Texas its second straight setback after it had equaled the club record with an eight-game winning streak. The Rangers trailed 3-2 after Steve Buechele’s solo homer in the fifth inning. But Jackson hit a from loser Paul Kilgus went 426 feet into the left-field stands, scoring Frank White, who singled. It was Jackson’s seventh homer.

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