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Show The Summer Chronicle. ITiursday, July 28, 1977 Strings struggle but foil to Soviet team, 33-2- 9 BRUCE BAKER Chronicle Staff The Soviets slid by the Ijos Angeles Strings last night by 33-2- 9, at the University's Special Events Center. The spirited and close U'oild Team Tennis (WTT) match saw three sets come to tiebreaker, before a cheering crowd of 3,468. The first set featured men's doubles. Ille Nastase and Charlie Pasarell teamed for the Strings to face Vadim Borisov and Teimuraz Kakulia for the Soviets. It immediately turned into a battle of the servers. The air siwled w ith aces and winners and had a served by both sides interspersed with short 3-- rallies. Each team held its serve, forcing the set into a nine-poifor the nt er 3, 6-- Nastase really let loose in serving and covered the net w ith a vengance. The Sov iets one-gam- 4, Anthony managed only one point before Nastase served an ace for L.A.'s fifth point, to take 7-- 0 game point away into the net. This gave the Soviets the e and a game, lead in total games of 12-Hie third set was a mixed doubles matchup of Julie decision. the set, A lead when Casals broke back to even it to only to smash the 3-- and Charlie Pasarell for L.A. and young Nastasha Chmyreva with Teimuraz Kakulia for the Sov iets. Eac h team held serve for what was peihaps the finest set of the match, to bring it to another tiebreaker. Chmyreva cleat ly serves shone with laser-likas she picked off live volleys at the net to w in it 51 for the set at putting the Sov iets 6. The second set featured Rosie Casals for the Strings and Olga Morisova for the Soviets in women's singles. Morisova served for the set 6-a- ll e 7-- ahead. Men's 19-1- fourth singles was the set played. Ille Nastase faced Vadim Borisov of the Soviets. Both played suiK'ib tennis, but Nastase seemed to falter under 0 riJ it Borisov' v in I: LiJ pressure Do you know who won the Davis Cup in 1901, or the British Ojn in 1861? If not, and you would like to. read the book A Century of Champions by the Assoc- iated Press SjKJits Staff. The book is a complete history of almost all major sports, the from all-Americ- baseball to the Id Olympics. It has all the dates and name of imjjottante. such as "Otto Graham was magnificent at quarterback for Cleveland, throwing four tout hdown cusses to Dante I .aw Hi. and running 99 yards. But the name all-w- everyone ot tossed around after the game on Dec. 21. 1950. be longed to No. 16. 1 .ou Groza." They are Staff Macmillan Publishing Co.. Inc.. New York.. 256 pages. J 12.95 talking of the 1950 title game auto racing, soccer (vvorld between the Cleveland Cup and NASL) and even a Brow ns and the lxs Angeles chapter on yachting. At the end of each chapter Rams. Another quote from the is a list of the champions of book... "Lusty Song gave the each year since sports I laves family of Du Quion a officials began to keep Hambleonian winner in records. There is also a section 1950, defeating two standouts. Star's Pride and called Color Cavalcade of Flore ran, in straight heats." Champions, a from harness that's the Yes, spread of full color pictures sec from each srort. Each lion. racing book the in are individual section has Featured the usual outstanding chapters on all as such baseball, photos of its own. s(xtts, The book is well written football, basketball, (in and researched, would be a football and basketball, ihete tool to the sports useful is also a sec tion on colleges), ice hex key and boxing, but writer, and hours of entertainment to both the there are also chapters on golf, tennis, horse racing, sjkjiis and regular trivia nut. 19-pa- black-and-whi- harness racing, Olympics, te Kempner and esfKfially from his sizzling backhand. The with ninth game saw Nastase serving. A questionable call (Nastase ami the crowd thought he had an ate) brought out the worst of Nastase's notorious behavior, which the crowd seemed two-hande- d 5 to love. Nastase was told to play the ixint over and of served an ate to the c lowd. and won the game to biing it to Borisov took command however, served his way to win the next game, and broke a rattled Nastase to I his take the set. stteuhed the Soviets' lead to 1 BOOKS century of Champions by the Associated Press Sports t ARNOl DRME-I- N 221 South 1300 East 8Qh3IB 5-- 7-- 2ti-2- 5- The final set was women's doubles, Casals and Val Zcigenfull teamed for I ..A. lo face Moiisova and Manna Ktoshina for the Soviets. Because the team that was behind won the last se t, the match went into WTT overtime. I..A. needed to win four games straight to take it. but the Soviets had only to win one more to clinch it, which they did. for a final - score ? Strings .ami. Vadim Borisov of Soviets 3.H, 'Where You Get A GoodMealForA Good Deal' THE SPECIAL EVENTS CENTER PRESENTS MJBY COLLINS L.A. 29. Sportsgram byanadaraban To improve Utah's standard of softball there has to be more public involvement. Along with this involvement there has to be more business sponsorship and more tournaments. The Pioneer Days Slowpitch Softball Tournament is one of the largest and well known tourneys in the nation. It features nationally ranked teams like Kerr of Phoenix.Ariz., and Foothill Dairy of Azusa, Calif. The Arizona team comes from a town that has a very large population so their turnout for a game can be big. Azusa, though, has only 25,000 people the size of Murray, Utah yet they get big crowds also. These teams have good coaches and players but with that public support, they have more opportunities to improve their teams. Utah's softball games are often attended by wives.children, Iriends and some softball freaks.; Most of the time the crowd ranges from 100 to 200 persons, filling only one section in four of the grandstands. When businesses supporting these teams hear about the low turnouts, they lose interest and don't supply them with the needed money. Kerr, the Pioneer Days champs, is being sponsored with approximately $15,000 per year. This money has bought the best coaches, players and equipment available. The result a national ranking. Once all of these are attained, the third vital element is more tournaments. According to offic ials of the tourney, this is this Kerr's 15th major comrxtition I summer. When asked some coaches of stion, they said the Utah te ams the sam-qu- they only attended five or six tournaments each summer. There is one factor, though, that does make a difference between Kerr and the rest of the teams; Kerr plays softball nearly year-roun- d. This makes it overqualified for many teams and explains why it is champion of the West. The softball season isn't over yet. Some of these same Utah teams will be competing in the American Softball Association (ASA) Qualifying Tournaments in August. The competition will be held at the Cottonwood in the Complex from August divisions: men's fastpitch, men's following fastpitch A, men's slowpitch, men's slowpitch A, women's fastpitch, women's slowpitch and slowpitch A. The difference between an open competition and the A competition is that the open is for large cities in Utah, such as Salt Lake, while the A is for areas like Farmington. The two top teams in each division will advance to the ASA Regionals. The men's fastpitch categories will compete in Salt Lake, while the slowpitch competition will be in Bountiful. The women's fastpitch regionals will be held in Colorado Springs, Colo., and Greeley, Colo., for the slowpitch. With in concert in the Special Events Center Arena August 20th 8:00 p.m. Student and Faculty ticket prices teams like Farnsworth Construction, Utah has much potential for national recognition as a softball power. But without more spectators and the interest and revenue they generate, the possibility of Utah' fielding contending teams is dim. $6.00 and $5.00 - ALL SEATS RESERVED &SSSSSSSSS$S$SSS$$SSSSSSSSSSSS$$SSSSSSSSSSS |