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6 ELKO DAILY FREE PRESS, Elko, Nevada Monday, July 1997 Spnrts summary: Sports Boxing held up again by new tide bout DQ Coed team keeps summer bounce Zcrga and Burner win another Elko doubles volleyball tourney Chris Zerga and Sheila Burner continued to seed Park. The duo defeated Dave Kern and dominate the coed doubles volleyball rankings by Amanda Micheli in the finals to cap the two-day sweeping their fifth straight championship in last tournament. weekend's Elko tournament. Todd Esplin and Allison Cahl were third, while The pair went undefeated to win the coed class, Mike Costa and Diane Zerga finished fourth, which was held yesterday near the Johnny Apple- The coed title went to Tracy Rozelle and many's Jan Ullrich in second, only 13 seconds behind. Ullrich finished second last year.

Bjarne Riis, who won the title last year and is Ullrich's teammate for Telekom, moved up to fourth place, 1 minute, 43 seconds off the lead. BASKETBALL Clippers sign top draft pick LOS ANGELES (AP) The Los Angeles Clippers announced they have come to terms with first-round draft pick Maurice Taylor. The 6-foot-9 Taylor was the 14th overall pick out of Michigan. TENNIS Norman at top in Swedish Open BASTAD, Sweden (AP) Sweden's Magnus Norman won his first ATP title, beating Spanish rookie Juan-Antonio Marin in the Swedish Open final 7-5, 6-2. STATELINE, Nev.

(AP) Henry Akinwande's holding was bad enough. His timing was even worse. One day after a bill was signed authorizing Nevada boxing authorities to take a boxer's entire purse for bad conduct in the ring, Akinwande became the new law's first test case. Lennox Lewis retained his WBC heavyweight title on Saturday night when Akinwande was disqualified in the fifth round for continually holding. For the second time in two weeks, referee Mills Lane called an early end to a heavyweight title fight.

Lane also disqualified Mike Tyson for biting Evander Holyfield. The same Nevada boxing officials who revoked Tyson's license three days earlier suspended Akinwande after the fight and ordered his purse withheld pending a hearing. Under a state law that went into effect only Friday, Akinwande could lose his entire $1 million purse if disciplined by the state boxing commission. Buster Douglas win by KO BILOXI, Miss. (AP) Buster Douglas stopped Quinn Navarre in the fourth round and the impressive victory put the former champion back into the heavyweight title picture.

Douglas, who upset Mike Tyson in 1990 to win the title, knocked down Navarre three times in the fourth round during the scheduled 10-round fight at Biloxi Grand Theatre. CYCLING Brochard wins in mountains VALLEE LOURON, France (AP) -Laurent Brochard of France won the first mountain stage of the Tour de France today in which some of the favorites made strong advances. Cedric Vasseur of France barely stayed in the overall lead with Ger- Marc Hudcovic. Jody Esplin and Andy Bardizic were second, Wayne Pittman and Abigail Ash were third while Dana Sprout and Richard Rodriguez finished fourth. Men's and women's division play was Saturday.

Mike Shanks and Wes Walker took first place in the men's division, rallying from a first-game loss in the finals to win the next two games against runners-up Chris Zerga and Dave Kern. Steve Dunn of Reno and Todd Esplin took third place, while Stewart Wilson and Rick Howe finished fourth. Marc Hudcovic and Scott Rankin won the men's title. Bill Cunningham and Richard Rodriguez were runners-up, while Wayne Pittman and Wade Esplin were third in the three-team division. Sheila Burner and Sheri Johnson went undefeated to capture the women's championship, although they went into the playoffs seeded second due to a point differential.

Bobbi Shanks and Denise Cunningham finished second. Allison Cahl and Jody Esplin ended up third, and Amanda Micheli and Diane Zerga. In the women's category Erica Bendixsen and Nikki Hooper took the title. Cari Anderson Huston were second, and Marina Kim Myers were third and fourth to Dana Sprout and Tammy Muth. for the tournament were Silver State D'Orazios, Dominos Pizza, Gene Russell, Scoreboard, Inkley's, Elko Lawn and Matties, Sport 'n Shoe, Round Table Pizza, WalMart, Dr.

Kurt Alleman, Dr. Matt Papa Murphy's, Newmont Gold 5J Barn, Red Lion, Cedar Creek Clothing Hound. this week off, players will resume and Thursday sessions which everyone next week. tournament of the summer is The King Grass event Aug. 9-10.

Only the top in the summer standings will qualify tournament, although a few other teams to compete due to dropouts. information about doubles volleyball, phone Diane Zerga at 738-5748. Dave Kern, right, tried to spike the ball jast Wes Walker in men's division action Saturday. Walker and partner Mike Shanks beat Kern and Chris Zerga for the title. Elko Little League boys start 2-0 CD 4 yru i 4La Li A Elko's major all-star team found it self undefeated today at the Little League Baseball major division District III Tournament.

Northeastern Nevada, meanwhile, still was alive in the losers' bracket while Ruby Mountain's all stars came home after being eliminated last night. The tournament is being played at the Winnemucca city park Little League complex. Elko beat defending champ Fallon on Friday and hammered Hawthorne on Saturday to earn a day off yesterday. The team plays Battle Mountain at 8 tonight in a winners' bracket contest. Winnemucca and Dayton also are 2-0 and will play each other 1 YM tonieht.

Elko beat Fallon, 10-0, on Friday on the 10-run rule in four innings. Tyler Still pitched the shutout for Elko, allowing one hit and striking out six batters. He didn't walk any. Elko won despite getting only four hits. "They walked us 12 times," Elko coach Aitor Leniz reported.

The winners set the tone with six runs in the first inning. The inning included six walks, an error and a hit by Elko third baseman Patrick Jones. Jones went 2-for-2 with three RBIs. Tyler Dillon and Derrick McGhee added the other two hits. Rob Lincoln pitched for Fallon.

He was, relieved in. the. first inning and well-coached. Winnemucca took an early 2-0 lead but Elko National went up for good on a two-run home run by Kelli Miller in the bottom of the second inning. Gina Micheli pitched the final five innings, allowed four runs, five hits, one walk and struck out three.

Stacy Griswold was 2-for-2, Dolcie Leak 2-for-3 and Micheli 2-for-3. On Saturday, the Elko Nationals defeated Winnemucca 12-7 behind a strong pitching performance from Kelli Miller, a starting pitcher on the Spring Creek High School varsity squad. She relieved starting pitcher Sarah Garcia and pitched six innings. Miller allowed three runs, four hits, three walks and struck out 13. Winnemucca defeated Battle Mountain 14-10 in the losers' bracket final to advance to the championship game.

Elko pounded out 11 hits to Winne-mucca's five, led by Jessica Perry, 2-for-5; Stephanie Herr, 2-for-5; and Miller 2for4. Elko American went 0-2 in the tournament despite leading Battle Mountain 8-6 in the fourth inning in the losers' bracket. "We came back with five runs but it wasn't enough," Elko American manager Bill Sutton said. Terra Perkins, Valerie Tate and Elko National softballers win again Seniors down Winnemucca to capture lOlli straight district title (Aoociattd Tnu) Referee Mills Lane, left, warned Henry Akinwande, right, about holding in the second round of his title fight Saturday against Lennox Lewis. Akinwande was disqualified in the fifth round of the fight at Lake Tahoe.

U.S. advances in Fed Cup BROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) The doubles team of Lindsay Davenport and Lisa Raymond beat Naoko Kiji-muta and Nana Miyagi 6-4, 64 Sunday to clinch the United States' Fed Cup playoff victory over Japan. The United States, which took a 2-0 lead with two singles victories Saturday, completed the sweep of the match when Davenport beat Ai Su-giyama 64, 7-6 (7-1) and Kimberly Po beat Naoko Sawamatsu 6-2, 64. In other Fed Cup play, France and the Netherlands won doubles matches Sunday, earning spots in the finals of the Fed Cup in October.

First ATP win for Armenia NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) Sargis Sargsian became the ATP Tour's first Armenian champion, beating New Zealand's Brett Steven 7-6 (7-0), 7-5 in the final of the Hall of Fame Championships. starts camp All-Americans. Roque, 6-foot-8 and 333 pounds, was selected with the 35th overall pick. Detroit also signed Colorado linebacker Matt Russell, the 130th pick, and Wyoming receiver Marcus Harris, the 232nd pick.

Russell, 6-2 and 245 pounds, was the 1996 Butkus Award winner as the nation's top college linebacker. Harris, 6-2, 213, is college football's career receiving leader with 4,518 yards. STEELERS: Even when he was Slash a wide receiver one play, a running back the next Kordell Stewart insisted he was a quarterback. Pittsburgh Steelers coach Bill Co-wher, determined to avoid another three-man quarterback derby like the one that so disrupted and divided training camp a year ago, confirmed that Friday by announcing Stewart will be the starter. Steve Bono of the Packers gave Mike Keyes a bike ride to training camp- yesterday outside Lambeau Field.

.0 CP III I II M. I. Arlml Prm) (Mark LenzFree Press) Anthony Rodriguez. Elko then walloped Hawthorne, 24-2, on Saturday, pounding out 17 hits. Again, Elko struck early with nine runs in the first inning.

The team also pushed across nine runs in the fourth inning. "The first inning got us going," Leniz noted. Danny Eklund pitched all four innings for Elko. He allowed only two hits, one earned run and one walk. He struck out six batters.

Eklund went 4-for-5 with a double and a triple. Dillon was 3-for-5 with two doubles. Pedro Marin and McGhee was 2-for-2, Matt Milligan came off the bench to finish 2-for-3, Jory Rhoden Dain Uriarte; Patty Saldana each hit one double for Elko American. "They played with a lot of spunk," Sutton said. "None of them had senior all-star experience and only had played major all stars.

I think the inexperience came into play there." Majors The Elko County major all-stars battled close with Winnemucca for five innings but Winnemucca pulled away for the Nevada District III championship. Winnemucca won 20-8 with a eight-run sixth inning in the Little League Softball Tournament in Dayton. "We started out good but then we started making errors," Elko manager Joe Gallegos said. "We started walking batters and committing errors in the outfield." Elko was down 12-6 after four innings when Winnemucca blasted four hits, including a triple, walked two times and reached on three errors in the sixth inning. Elko was led by Lea Wetzel with a double, single and three runs scored.

Alesha Piccinini added a single, Christina Lespade a double, Krissie Tate a single and Courtney Stazak continued her torrid hitting with two singles. On the mound, Whitney Gallegos Green singled, hit a ground-rule double and drove in three runs to pace the winners. On Saturday, Elko edged host Fallon, 3-2. on a combined three-hitter. Jose Marin was the winning pitcher with five innings of work.

Armijo threw the last two innings for a save. Elko scored single runs in the second, fourth and fifth innings to go up 3-0. Fallon scored two runs in the seventh inning and had the tying run on base when Marin at shortstop handled a grounder for the final out Madigan led Elko with three hits. Marin, Armijo and Jason Zander each had two hits, and Wines hit a triple. "We had no errors," Ballew pointed out The kids played just a tremendous ballgame." Elko's 13-year-olds' team went 1-2 to drop out of its state tournament in Sparks.

Elko lost 13-2 to Sparks National on Friday. "It was tight for the first two innings, there was no score. Then they scored four runs in the tterd and blew it apart in the fifth," Elko manager John Marvel reported, voe Golden was the starting and Crystal Sirotek and place went Sponsors Liqour, The Hub, The Garden, Pizza Hut, Lipparelli, Music, Pizza and Sports After taking weekly Tuesday are open ti The final Queen of eight teams for the may be able For more persons can l-for-3; Brett Diaz l-for-2. Northeastern Nevada with Car-lin, Wells and Eureka players stayed alive in the tournament yesterday. The team had lost on Friday to Pahrump, but bounced back to beat White Pine on Saturday.

Yesterday, the squad went seven innings to eliminate Yerington. No other results were available. Spring Creek's Ruby Mountain all-star team was eliminated with a 1-2 record. The team lost 9-3 to Yerington on Friday, rebounded to knock out Fernley, 9-8, on Saturday but was ousted by Pahrump in a close game yesterday. pitched 3 113 innings and allowed 11 runs, one hit, 13 walks and struck out one.

Ashley Perkins pitched 1 23 and allowed one run, two hits, three walks and struck out one. Julie Mun-son finished, pitching one inning, allowing eight runs, four hits and two Elko runners crossed home plate safely four times in the fourth inning on two walks, two singles, and a Lespade double. Little League Softball District Tournament Majors Wednesday Winnemucca 13, Elko County 2 Battle Mountain 19, Silverado 9 Thursday Elko County 26, Silverado 4 Winnemucca vs. Battle Mountain, score unavailable Friday Elko County 22, Battle Mountain 13 Saturday Winnemucca 20, Elko County 8 Seniors Friday Elko National 20, Elko American 10 Battle Mountain vs. Winnemucca, unavailable Saturday Battle Mountain 19, Elko American 18 Elko National 12, Winnemucca 7 Sunday Winnemucca 14, Battle Mountain 10 Elko National 12, Winnemucca 8 still alive pitcher for Elko.

James Kikumoto followed with three innings and Brandon Brodsho finished. "Our defense made a bunch of errors. The kids were tight, first-game jitters if you want to use that cliche." On offense, Brodsho drove in both Elko runs. He and Kikumoto were the team's top hitters. Dusty Marvel walked three times and scored one run, and Kikumoto scored the other.

"We have a good little team. They just didnl demonstrate what they can do," Marvel added. On Saturday, Elko beat Fallon, 11-1. Trevor Merrill, Golden and Chris McGhee pitched for Elko, striking out seven batters. Elko had five batters Merrill, Marvel, Kikumoto, Harasymczuk, and Michael Daley each scored two runs.

"Everybody was hitting the ball that day," Marvel said. Yesterday, Elko was eliminated 17-7 by South Reno, which includes players last year's Nevada Little League state champion team. Elko rallied to cut the margin to 7-5 before South Reno pulled away late in the game. Jay Butler, McGhee and Kikumoto pitched for Elko. By Allen Gemaehlich The Elko National senior all-stars captured their 10th straight Nevada District III title Sunday and will aim for a 10th straight state Little League Softball title after defeating Winnemucca 12-8 in the championship game.y.

The Elko American senior all-stars lost 19-18 Saturday to Battle Mountain after losing to Elko National Friday. The American all-stars rallied for five runs in the bottom of the seventh inning but fell short. Elko National went 3-0 in the tournament and will face Red Rock Little League in a repeat matchup of the Nevada State Little League Softball Tournament from last year. The series will be the best of three games with the first game slated at a time to be determined Thursday in Henderson. "We only had one 15-year-old who has played on the all-stars before so we weren't sure if we could do it," Elko National manager Bert Sargent said.

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"I'm pleased, but I'm not satisfied." A year ago, the Packers were still smarting after yet another playoff loss to the Dallas Cowboys. They came to camp determined to win the Super Bowl, yet when they started telling everyone, Holmgren put a lid on all title talk. He won't ban the word "repeat" from the team's vocabulary this year. The Packers didn't waste any time in making their first roster move, placing receiver Ryan Yarborough on waivers and signing former San Diego Chargers wideout 'OMar Ellison between workouts. RAIDERS: The Oakland Raiders signed fullback Derrick Gark, who spent the past two seasons in the World League, to a free agent contract Thursday.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Clark, who spent the 1994 season with the Denver Broncos and was cut by the Broncos after training camp each of the following two seasons, played for the Rhein Fire of the World League in 1996 and 1997. RAMS: Camp likely will begin without offensive tackle Orlando Pace, the No. 1 draft pick from Ohio State. Coach Dick Vermeil said hell be patient He also said if Pace isnt with the team by the end of the second week the lineman probably wont be ready to start the seasoa BILLS: Buffalo enters training camp with its biggest question at quarterback.

Todd Collins, Jim Kelly's backup for most of the last two seasons, is competing with Billy Joe Hobert and Alex Van Pelt The three are a combined 2-9 as starters. End Bruce Smith was the top defensive player last season but is holding out of training camp in a contract dispute. LIONS: Tackle Juan Roque, chosen in the second round of the draft, agreed to terms along with two other Elko's 14-15 Babe Ruth Baseball all-star team was still alive at its state tournament in Fallon today, while the 13-year-olds' team was eliminated yesterday in Sparks. Elko's 14-15 team plays Carson today at 5 p.m. If Elko wins today it plays tomorrow at 5 against the survivor of the Fallon-Sparks National game.

The 14-15 team lost to Sparks American, 11-3, yesterday. Sparks jumped ahead 4-0, Elko rallied "It wasn't a bad ballgame. The kids hit the ball fairly well but when they hit it, it ended up in their hands. There were a couple of errors that hurt us but other than that they played a pretty good ballgame." Both teams had nine hits. Robert Armijo was Elko's starting pitcher.

Mike Ike and Marcus Huerta finished in relief Tyler Madigan had two hits including a double for Elko. Ike, Ryan Still, Justin Wines. Jose Marin, Danny Naranjo. Steve Bitton and Joe Bal-lew each added one hit for the locals. Sparks lefthander James Stussle-beam was the winning pitcher.

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