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Show Wednesday. September k3 O Jl If it S p jislk ..IB ll'l ampen Lloyd's Marion Dunn Hum IMH.TOHM,. W NEW YORK ill'li Mats WUander needed 24 hours to win his match. John Lloyd needed seven hours for his Such were the conditions at the National Tennis Center Tuesday when rain played havoc with the I'.S. Open schedule and forced . - four singles matches to be crammed into the night program. Defending champion Jimmy SPORTS EDITOR 7 Page jXsjfe-'- losers and coming events tfSrl i uil) THE HERALD. Provo. Utah. commentary on winners, nthusiasnn in U.S. Open Play 'K- - 5. 1984 ''if 1 j i 'Cry A r - WAC M I 0 JW J Connors, who was delayed only two hours to begin his match, ended the long, wet and chilly day with his usual touch of class, - I crushing Joakim Nystrom. the 16th seed from Sweden. reached the quarters of the Open. And while most everyone else was surprised at the emergence of Lloyd as his next opponent. Connors stressed the faci he wasn't among the majority. Lloyd, ranked 49th in the world, surprised Henrik Sundstrom. No. 9 in the world. in a match that was delayed twice by rain, for a total of 4 hours and 43 minutes. In all four of his victories. Lloyd has beaten a player ranked higher than him. 6-- 6-- . "s . ( " v 7t " - ' ' f W'ilander. the fourth seed, 6-- 7-- 3-- 3 6-- f ' : 6-- (7-2- i, 6-- ' 6-- 6 stopped Tim Mayotte, in a match that was susin the opening set pended at Monday night and completed Tuesday night. Top seed John McEnroe also was delayed twice early in the day before beating qualifer Robert Green, and in the other fourth-roun- d match, Gene Mayer topped No. 13 seed Tomas Smid, ' ' " Two 6-- 6-- 6-- 6-- men's quarterfinals were scheduled for today with Wilander meeting Pat Cash and Ivan Lendl playing Andres Gomez. On Thursand day it will be Connors-Lloy- d McEnroe-Maye- r. The women's quarterfinals were completed Tuesday when unseeded Sylvia Hanika of West Germany beat Petra Huber of Austria,'6-4- , Martina Navratilova, the women's defending champion, had her quarterfinal match today against Helena Sukova, Evert Though ranked only 49th, England's John Lloyd continued his fine play at the U.S. Open . Lloyd was to play Hanika, Hana Mandlikova met Carling Bassett and Pam Shriver faced Wendy Turnbull. Lloyd is the first British man to reach the quarterfinals of the U.S. National championships during the open era, and he aptly described the conditions endured by the players Tuesday. "It was an incredible day, one of those days that just seemed to go on forever," he said. Miami Holds Onto Top Spot UPI Sports Writer NEW YORK (UPI) The defending champion Miami Hurricanes, who knocked oft two ranked 'teams within six days last week, vaulted three places into the No. 1 spot in the UPI Board of Coaches' ratings. Miami received 30 of a possible 35 first-plac- e votes and 513 points to take a comfortable lead over No. 2 Nebraska (415), No. 3 Texas (337), No. 4 UCLA (330) and No. 5 Clemson (311). Nebraska received four first-plac- e votes. Teams receive 15 votes, 14 for points for first-plac- e second, etc. The BYU Cougars, unranked in n the polls, made their first appearance on the list after - pre-seaso- stunning seventh-ranke- Pitts d burgh last week. The Cougars vaulted into the No. 12 spot. Miami claimed the top spot after running its nation-leadin- g winning streak to 13 games with n victories over No. 1 pre-seaso- Alabama, No. 12 Brigham Young, No. 13 Arizona State, No. 14 Iowa, which received one first-plac- e vote, No. 15 Notre Dame, No. 16 Boston College, No. 17 Southern Methodist, No. 18 Washington, No. 19 Florida State and 11 No. 20 Pittsburgh. Boston College soared four win over Westspots after a UPI Rankings Auburn and Florida. 44-2- The Hurri8 and canes edged Auburn topped Florida, ranked 20-1- 18th in 32-2- pre-seaso- n, Auburn fell to sixth in the ratings, followed by No. 7 Penn State, No. 8 Ohio State, No. 9 Michigan and No. 10 Oklahoma. Rounding out the Top 20 are No. 4 ern Carolina. Miami and Clemson, a 40-- 7 winner over Appalachian State last Saturday, each jumped three places. BYU, which sports the second-longewinning streak in the nation with 12 straight, gained the most ground in its jump to 12th, while Florida State also crashed the ratings this 7 blowout of week after a East Carolina. Pittsburgh suffered the biggest drop after the first week of col st 48-1- 20-1- against each other this week, Michigan hosts Miami and Alabama opens its season against Boston College at Birmingharr, Ala., Saturday. In other Top 20 action, Nebraska hosts Wyoming, UCLA visits San Diego State, Penn State hosts Rutgers, Ohio State hosts Oregon State, Oklahoma hosts Arizona State hosts Oklahoma State, Iowa hosts Iowa State, Notre Dame travels to Purdue, Washington hosts Northwestern, BYU hosts Baylor and Clemson visits Virginia. Metsr Tigers' Leads Have Evaporated who has two games in By IRA KAUFMAN UPI Sports Writer The last 40 days have aged Dave Johnson 40 years. The rookie manager of the New York Mets had his team perched pretty in the East July 27 with a record, 4 Vt games ahead of 59-3- 7 second-plac- e pitchers Chicago. took After his their second straight Busch Stadium beating 12-- 2 Tuesday night, dropping a decision to St. Louis, Johnson found his club seven games back of the surging Cubs. George Hendrick drove in four runs and Tom Nieto cracked a two-ru- n homer to highlight a it attack as the Mets dropped to 4 mark giving them an since their bulge over Chicago. The Cubs have won games over the same span. "They (Chicago) beat us seven in a row, why can't we beat them six in a row?" asked Johnson, 17-h- 77-6- 18-2- Pittsburgh before returning to Shea Stadium Friday night for a weekend series against the Cubs. "This one just got away and out of hand." Elsewhere, Chicago beat Philadelphia Pittsburgh defeated Montreal Atlanta edged Houston Cincinnati downed San Francisco 3 and Los Angeles nipped San Diego In the American League, California beat Cleveland 3 in 12 innings, Baltimore downed DeToronto topped New troit York Chicago routed Oakland 12-Boston beat Milwaukee Kansas City defeated Minnesota 1 and Seattle beat Texas 3 in 13 innings. Cuba 7-- 2, 5-- 8-- 8-- 2-- 5-- 4-- 6-- 4, 4-- 6-- 7, Phlllln I At Philadelphia. Scott Sanderson scattered 13 hits in posting his first victory since Julv 29 and Ron Cey drove in three runs with a homer and single to propel the Cubs to their ninth victory in 10 games Cey cracked his 25th homer, a tworun first inning off Steve shot, to cap a three-ruCarlton. Pirates S. Expos 3 V Montreal Jason Thompson singled in two runs to highlight a three-runinth that rallied the Pirates Rod Scurry. picked up the victory and Kent Tekulve earned his 12th save Tonv Pena. who capped the ninth with a sacrifice flv! hit his 13th homer. Braves 8, Astros 7 Atlanta Dale Murphy's two-ruhomer tied it in the seventh and Alex Trevino broke the deadlock with a leadoff homer in the eighth, lifting the Braves Donme Moore. got the victory and took the loss Jose Cruz blasted Frank DiPino. homer for the Astros a three-ruReds 8. Gianti 3 At San Francisco, Eric Davis' second homer of three-ruthe game, a shot, highlighted a eighth inning that lifted Cincinnati Mario Soto, struck out five over seven innings for Uie win took the loss and Greg Minton, Dodgers 2, Padrei 1 At Los Angeles, pinch hitter Sid Bream lofted a sacrifice fly with one out in the bottom of the ninth for the Dodgers. At Baltimore 4. Detroit I three teams bunched within l'j games of each other in the American League West, hardlv anyone has noticed the Detroit Tigers are unraveling in the East. 5 Since their start, the Tigers have remained cumfortably perched atop the But one what week standings ago was a comfortalead has been sliced to 7 li games ble double-digbv the Toronto Blue Jays On Tuesday night, the Baltimore Orioles sent the Tigers to their sixth loss in seven games with a victory The spread represents the closest Toronto has been to first since Aug 14 Toroolo I, New ork 4 Meanwhile. Toronto won for the eighth time in its last 10 games, beating the New York Yankees With uaw Lomns singled in the tying run and George Bell s sacrifice fly drove in the winning run in a three-rueighth that rallied Toronto Angels S, Indian! 3 At Cleveland, Juan Beniquez scored the run from first base with one out in the 12th when left fielder Joe Carter misplaved Rod Carew s double to lift the Angels to within Minnesota in the i games of West Don Aase. was the winner, despite three-ruhomer to Chris Bando yielding a two-oin the ninth that sent the game to extra innings. Red Sox 3, Brewers 1 At Milwaukee, Al Nipper pitched a seven-hitte- r to lift the Red Sox to their 11th victory in the last 15 games and put them 10 games over' 500 for the first time since the end ot 1982 Nipper. struck out six and walked none in pitching his fourth Don took Sutton. the loss. complete game. Royals 4, Twins 1 At Kansas City. Mo . Frank White celebrated his 34th birthdav with a single in the sixth and Dan (Juisenberry earned his 37th save to propel the Hoyals to within a game of the Twins was the winner and Ken Mark Gubicza. Schrom. was the loser Mariners I, Rangers 3 At Arlington. Texas. Al (owens ripped an RBI double to break a tie and the Manners added two more runs in the 13th inning en route to their seventh straight victory in Arlington Stadium Bob Stoddard. got the victory and Dave Geisel was registered his first save Dave Schmidt, the loser White Sox li, A'l t At Chicago, Greg Walker hit two three-ruhomers and Tom Seaver notched his 286th career victory to lead the White Sox in a game delayed 83 . minuie- - at the start by rain Seaver. yielded six hits over eight innings Steve McCatty. took the loss Walker s six RBI was a career high o- -t Hey, I'm not hard to get along with. I just think the WAC worries about pleasing everyone to the extent it doesn't always take a good, hard look at the facts. I mean, a year ago BYU quarterback Steve Young had a fantastic night in a losing cause against Baylor and wasn't named offensive player of the week with that honor going to Air Force quarterback Marty Louthan. I grumbled about the choice in print and drew a few nasty comments from my friends in the Colorado press who sided with the WAC in thinking that Young would have plenty of chances later. Well, I don't happen to think the WAC Player of the Week is designed to give every school ink. I think the original idea was to draw attention to outstanding performances regardless of how often one person might be honored. In fact, I wasn't in the meeting, but I was in the same motel in Sante Fe, N. M. that spring when the sports information directors held their annual meeting and went on record in favor of giving the award to the most deserving player and not worrying about making sure every school had its turn. Well, this week the WAC announced its first 1984 players of the week. BYU wide receiver Adam Haysbert was named offensive player as he caught nire passes for 141 yards including the winning score, a catch and run effort. Well and good. But the defensive choice was line- backer Nikita Blair who played very well as the Miners gave Texas A&M a real scare before losing, Hey, I am sure Blair deserved recognition. I am proud of the fact UTEP played that kind of game against the Texas Aggies. And ordinarily Blair would have been a logical choice. But let's look at the facts. That same afternoon, BYU took on the third ranked Pittsburgh Panthers in Pitt Stadium. Pittsburgh went into the game credited with having the best offensive line in college football, according to less an authority 20-1- 7. lege play, dropping 13 spots to No. 20 after bowing 4 to BYU. Florida and Georgia, who was 19th last week and has yet to play, both dropped out of the rankings. In games pitting ranked teams Stanford, happen to think the personthe Western Athletic Conference office are the best of any collegiate conference in the country. But after today they probably think there's no way they can please me when it comes to naming the WAC players of the week. I nel who comprise UTEP's strong outside lougars Rated No. 12 By UPI By DAVE RAFFO voidin year Connors has nsecutive N vx 1 . (7-4- ). 6 It marked the 12th co- 6-- than Sports Illustrated and backed up by a story in the game program. Are you with me? Okay. Now Pittsburgh, behind that great offensive line, couldn't mount a genuine scoring drive all afternoon. The Panthers scored 14 points, but both came as the result of mistakes by the BYU offense. The first came on an interception and return for a touchdown. The second followed another interception and a return that gave Pitt the ball on the BYU 20 and they drove from there to a score. But for all practical purposes, BYU's defense shutout the Panthers and dominated the line of scrimmage against that big offensive line. Not only that, Pitt quarterback John Congemi was operating behind that line after taking Most Valuable Player honors in the 1984 Fiesta Bowl against Ohio State. BYU's defense dominated the line of scrimmage, intercepted two Congemi passes, stopped a Pitt touchdown bid with a first and goal from the four, and then shut off a final Pitt threat that was helped considerably by a questionable personal foul call. The win was the WAC's biggest football victory and came at a time when the conference is begging for recognition. BYU beat Pitt because of the Cougar ucfense. It was Dee-Fenall the way. Few college teams ever have come up with a better defensive performance. But does the WAC recognize this performance? 20-ya- rd se No. Cornerback Mark Allen de- - served it with his two interceptions and excellent defensive , play against the pass and the run. Linebacker Leon White de-- . served it with his great effort that included eight tackles. Tackle Jim Herrmann deserved it ', for neutralizing tackle Bill Fralic. Free safety Kyle Morrell deserved it as he was all over the field and in on almost every play. Conrerback Jeff Sprowls and safety Steve Haymond deserved it for their . big plays. Nose guard Brad Smith deserved it and so did tackle Larry Hamilton, and line- backers Cary Whittingham, ( Marv Allen and Kurt Gouveia. Hey, if the WAC office had, used its imagination, and truly appreciated what BYU's defensive unit did for the conference, it would have grabbed a rare opportunity and named the entire BYU defensive unit as its players of the week. Sports Briefs Seahawks Eyeing New Power Runners - SEATTLE (UPI) Rehearsals have begun to find the running back who can do the best impersonation of Curt Warner. Warner, last year's AFC Offensive Player of the Year, underwent knee surgery Tuesday and e while the prognosis is long-rang- good for the Seattle offensive star, he's out for the rest of 1984. Seahawks coach Chuck Knox said the club will "explore every possibility" in trying to find a replacement for Warner and even expressed some interest Tuesday in Franco Harris. Lack of Second Bout Axes Spinks Fight - Those RENO, Nev. (UPI) looking forward to a rematch between light heavyweight champion Michael Spinks and Dwight Muhammad Qawi will have to wait longer. Efforts to salvage this Friday's title defense for Spinks fell through Tuesday when promoters could not line up a substitute fight because of television commit-- , ments. Detroit Pistons Ink Stars to Millions - ForPONTIAC, Mich. (UPI) ward Kelly Tripucka and backup guard Vinnie Johnson had big smiles today with Tripucka saying he felt like had had just won the lottery. The two free agents Tuesday inked contracts with the Detroit Pistons, who dug deep into their ,r match a seven-yea- r, : ' offer Tripucka had received from the Cleveland Cav- aliers and the three-yea- r, $1.5 million the New York Knicks offered Johnson. $6.3 million The Pistons had until the end of this week to match the offers. New York had offered Johnson $500,000 a year for three years , |
