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Monday, January 19, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Sports Briefs
U.S. crew needs 1 victory for America's Cup finals
FREMANTLE, Australia — Dennis Conner's Stars & Strikes pulled within one victory of a challenge for the America's Cup, whipping through blustery gusts Saturday to defeat New Zealand by 3 minutes and 38 seconds.
The triumph left Stars & Stripes with a 3-1 lead in the best-of-seven challenger series, with the winner earning the right to compete for the America's Cup.
Conner took the start and never faltered around the 24.5-mile Indian Ocean course, leaving the fiberglass KZ7 with the formidable task of winning three in a row.
"Everything broke and everything went wrong."
"It was a disastrous day," said New Zealand skipper Chris Dickson, sailing for six legs with no runners, a broken backstay, a bent masthead crane and damaged electronic equipment.
revenge broke and everything went wrong." With extensive damage to the rigging, Dickson requested and was granted yesterday off by the international jury overseeing the series.
One more rout of the Kiwis guarantees Conner the coveted spot on the starting line Jan. 31 against the top Australian boat.
It was New Zealand's fourth loss in 42 matches, with every defeat dealt by Stars & Stripes.
Conner, who has spent $15 million on a three-year, five-boat campaign to bring the trophy back to the United States, governed the terms of the race, relying on straight-line speed and keeping the Kiwis safely behind.
Officials may resell bowl tickets
PASADENA, Calif. - City officials in Pasadena who receive Super Bowl tickets can resell them for profit despite NFL efforts to impose sanctions, a deputy city official said.
The NFL wanted scalping restrictions imposed on tickets sold to the city, but Deputy City Attorney Gary Gillig said the city refused because scalping was legal in California.
Pavin victorious in Hope Classic
City officials purchased 1,200 tickets at face value. Each of the seven city directors was allowed to purchase 100 Super Bowl tickets. The other 500 tickets were sold to other Pasadena officials.
LA QUINTA, Calif. — Corey Pavin roiled home a 15 to 18-foot birdie put on the 90th hole and scored a one-stroke victory yesterday over Bernhard Langer in the Bob Hook Classic.
Pavin leaped high in the air, both fists raised to the sky in triumph, when his last-hole put finished off a no-bogey. 5-under-par 67 — the best score of the week on the new, controversial PGA West course.
Langer, the West German who led through the third and fourth rounds, smiled broadly at Pavin's antics, then flung his arm around Pavin's shoulders.
Pavin captured the fifth victory of his four-year PGA Tour career with a 341 total, 19 shots under par. The victory was worth $162,000 from the total purse of $900,000.
Langer once was two strokes ahead of the field, but had to make a two-putt birdie-4 on the 10th hole to
But he couldn't match Pavin's heroes on the final hole and finished one shot back at 342.
regain a tie for the top.
Mark Calcavechia, playing in the final threeseason with Pavin and Langer, finished third for the second week in a row. He had to overcome a bogey-double bogey on two balls in the water on the front side to match par-72 over the final 18 holes. He finished at 345.
Andy Bean and South African David Frost were next at 348 and were the only men within eight shots of the lead. Frost had a 68 and Bean a 70 in the final round.
PGA title-holder Bob Tway was 71-351 and U.S. Open champion Ray Floyd was 74-354. Tom Watson, making his first start of the year, shot 71-357.
Fight erupts after MU-OU game
COLUMBIA. Mo. — A short fight erupted between the Missouri and Oklahoma women's basketball teams after a Big Eight Conference game Saturday night.
After Missouri's 72-70 victory, Tiger forward Lisa Ellis reportedly went over to Oklahoma Coach Maura McHugh and some Sooner players to apologize for rough play during the game. Witnesses said the scuffle apparently began with finger-pointing between McHugh and Ellis.
University police and other officials broke up the fight about one minute.
McHugh said the incident was a rather ironic ending to a great game.
"I guess my thing is always to try to shake the opponents hand," said Missouri Coach Joan Rutherford. "It's really unfortunate that this thing had to happen. It casts a bad light on both teams and the whole Big Eight. That's not basketball."
French upset decathlon medalist
Missouri's record is 15-3 and Oklahoma is 14-2.
PARIS - Two-time Olympic decathlon gold medalist Daley Thompson of Great Britain lost a competition for the first time since 1978 yesterday when he finished third in a special team event pentathlon won by the French duo of Nadine Debois and Christian Plaziat.
Thompson had not lost a decathlon or pentathlon since the European Championships in Prague nine years ago. He had only the fourth best individual performance among the men.
Both Thompson and West German Siegfried Wentz were well off their best form in the competition. Jurgen Hingsen, Thompson's chief rival, did not compete.
Plaziat set a French national record with 4,294 points leading the winning team, which had a combined 9,037 points. Wentz and teammate Bright Dressen were seceded with 8,759 and Thompson and Kim Haggger had 6,341.
Plaziat had the best score among men while Alain Blondel of France was second with 4,249 points. Wentz was third with 4,217 and Thompson was fourth with 4,093.
Debois led the women with 4,743 with Dressen second at 4,542 points.
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