University Daily Kansan / Wednesday Aug. 23, 1989
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Little League championship attracts international teams
The Associated Press
WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — This year's Little League World Series offers a trailblazer and a tradition. A female umpire is making calls at the World Series for the first time, while the Taiwanese seek their fourth consecutive championship.
Little League's eight best teams gathered Monday for the annual weeklong World Series as the youth sports organization marks its 50th year. Representing the four U.S. regions are Trumblum, Conn.; Tampa, Fla.; Davenport, Iowa; and San Pedro, Calif.
"It's a dream come true. We just hope we do well," said Tom Galla, Trumbull manager.
Teams from the Far East have won the series 18 out of the last 22 years. Marietta, Ga., was the last U.S. team to win the series, defeating Baharona, Dominican Republic, 3-1, in 1983.
Also competing in the World Series are Canadian champion Toronto, Ontario; returning Middle Eastern champion Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; and Latin American champion Maracaibo, Venezuela.
On Tuesday, Far East champion
Kaohsiung, Taiwan, meets Dhabran, Saudi Arabia in the opening game of the series; Betty Speziale is umpiring at first base.
"I'm not here to be the first woman. I'm here because I worked very hard at it and they gave me a voice," said Speziale, of Dunkirk, N.Y.
Dhairan, comprising mostly sons of Americans working in the oil industry, has made the World Series for the past three years.
Central champion Davenport was scheduled to play Eastern champion Trumbull Sunday night. Monday's schedule had San Pedro playing South champion Tampa and Maraciao against Toronto.
Starring for West champion San Pedro is Victoria Brucker, a 12-year-old right-hander who hit nine home runs in the 17-game tournament preceding the World Series.
Victoria is the only second girl to play in the Little League World Series, the first was Victoria Roche, the second was the champion Brussels team in 1984.
players, now has 2.5 million participants in 33 countries.
Little League, which began in this small north-central Pennsylvania city in 1939 with three teams and 30
those joining the Little League this year include China, Jordan, Peru and Singapore.
"I think you'll find particularly in the next 25 years a great expansion of Little League baseball," said Creighton J. Hale, Little League's president.
Hale attributed Little League's rapid growth to the International Olympic Committee's decision making baseball a gold medal sport at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.
Little League's golden anniversary has attracted the attention of President George Bush and Major League commissioner A. Bartlett Glamati
Bush, a former Little League coach, held a ceremony at the Rose Garden last month to commemorate the anniversary, Giamatti, in a speech at the International Little League Congress in June, said the youth sports organization was "a great idea born out of innocence."
Carl Stotz, who worked at a local sandpaper plant, had the idea for Little League while playing catch with two young nephews.
USC coach seeks continued success in his third Pac-10 football season
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Southern California will attempt to "three-peat" with no Peete.
Rodney Petee, who led the Trojans to the Rose Bowl the past two years and set 17 school records, is now a member of the NFL's Detroit Lions.
Thus, Southern Cal is without an experienced quarterback this year. But Coach Larry Smith has confirmed that team will be just fine at the position.
"Rodney Peete was a great player, a leader," Smith said. "We are fortunate we have some outstanding seniors back. We have experience at almost every position, especially on defense.
"I feel good about our quarterback position. I'm not that worried about it now. My main concern is not the quarterbacks, but to make sure we get the whole team playing team football."
The starting quarterback figures to be either Pat O'Hara, a four-year
junior who completed five of seven passes for 61 yards with one interception last season, or Todd Marinovich, a redshirted freshman.
O'Hara came out of spring practice as the starter.
"Pat O'Hara knows the offense; he had an excellent spring for us." Smile. "If we had to play tomorrow, the starter would be O'Hara."
"Marinovich progressed very well in the spring. I expect him to come in this fall and challenge to be the number one guy."
Smith, who will be going for his third Pacific-10 Conference championship in three seasons at Southern Cal, said the Trojans' offensive scheme wouldn't change from the past two years, despite the absence of Petee.
"I would like to throw the ball as much as we did last year," Smith said. "I think the key to our offense last year was balance. Maybe we'll throw the ball more. The key is the
quarterbacks. If they show us they're consistent and can throw for a high percentage, we'll throw."
Among the returning starters on defense are linemen Tim Ryan and Dan Owens, linebackers Scott Ross and Delmar Chesley and safeties Cleveland Colter and Mark Carrier.
The defense allowed 14.7 points per game last season, 11th-best in the country, and 76.6 yards rushing, 2nd-best in the country. As for the secondary, both Colter and Carrier are being touted as All-Americans.
Southern Cal enters the 1989 season on a two-game losing streak. The Trojans lost their last two games last season after winning their first 10.
The Trojans dropped a 22-14 decision to Michigan in the Rose Bowl. Southern Cal was ranked second behind Notre Dame before the teams played each other Nov. 26 at the Los Angeles Coliseum. This year, they'll meet at South Bend, Ind., on Oct. 21.
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