Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!news.media.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!usa-post Newsgroups: usa-today.sports From: usa-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: usa-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: sports Mon, Jun 1 1992 Date: Mon, 1 Jun 92 05:21:13 EDT Message-ID: 06-01 0000 DECISIONLINE: Sports USA TODAY Update June 1, 1992 Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network SELES SURVIVES SCARE: Defending champion Monica Seles, trailing 4-1 in the final set, won the last five games to beat Akiko Kijimuta 6-1, 3-6, 6-4 in a steady drizzle Sunday at the French Open. In a match suspended because of rain, No. 8 Conchita Martinez led Leila Meskhi 6-4, 5-5. A match between No. 5 Jennifer Capriati and No. 13 Mary Pierce was postponed and rescheduled for Monday. COURIER ADVANCES: Men's defending champion Jim Courier gained a quarterfinal berth in the French Open by defeating Andrei Medvedev 6-1, 6-4, 6-2 Sunday. He next plays Goran Ivanisevic, who defeated Carlos Costa 6-3, 4-6, 6-1, 6-1. In a suspended match, Andre Agassi led Emilio Sanchez 6-1, 6-3, 1-1. A match between No. 3 Pete Sampras and Carl-Uwe Steeb was postponed and rescheduled for Monday. TWINS, JAYS ON TOP: Eight months after they played for the American League title last October, the Minnesota Twins and Toronto Blue Jays are once again atop their respective divisions as they open a three-game series Monday in Minneapolis. Toronto moved into first in the AL East with a 3-2 win over the Chicago White Sox Sunday. The Twins moved into first in AL West after beating Detroit 4-1 Sunday. ORIOLES DOWN A'S: Brady Anderson led off the game with his third home run in three games and Rick Sutcliffe pitched the Baltimore Orioles past the Oakland Athletics 4-2 Sunday. Cal Ripken hit his sixth home run, Chris Hoiles his 10th and Anderson his ninth homer for the Orioles. In other AL games: Milwaukee 2, New York 1; Kansas City 7, Texas 6; Cleveland 4, California 3; Boston 7, Seattle 1. GIANTS TOP PIRATES: The San Francisco Giants overcame a three-run deficit to defeat the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-3 Sunday. The Giants went ahead in a two-run seventh after first baseman Jeff King booted a ground ball. In other NL games: Atlanta at New York, ppd., rain; Montreal 6, Cincinnati 2; San Diego 10, St. Louis 0; Los Angeles 6, Chicago 2; Philadelphia 6, Houston 3, 11 innings. PENGUINS GO FOR SWEEP: The Pittsburgh Penguins go for a sweep of the NHL Stanley Cup finals Monday as they take a 3-0 lead in the best-of-seven series to Chicago Monday to face the Blackhawks. History is on the Penguins' side, as no National Hockey League team since the 1942 Toronto Maple Leafs has come back from a 3-0 deficit to win a best-of-seven final. The Penguins have won 10 straight games. GLASSON, MUCHA WIN: Bill Glasson had a one-shot victory Sunday in the Kemper Open at Potomac, Md. Glasson, playing on a medical exemption, shot a bogey-free 3-under-par 68 to hold off John Daly, Payne Stewart and Mark Calcavecchia. Also, Barb Mucha won the LPGA's Oldsmobile Classic in East Lansing, Mich., by one stroke over Dottie Mochrie. Mucha finished with 12-under 276. GANT ROLLS TO VICTORY: Harry Gant's car ran out of gas, but he again broke his record as the oldest man to win a 500-mile race, taking Sunday's NASCAR Budweiser 500 at Dover, Del. Gant, 52, coaxed his Oldsmobile across the finish line out of gas but 26 seconds ahead of Dale Earnhardt in Sunday's NASCAR Budweiser 500 at Dover, Del. Also, Ayrton Senna won the Monaco Grand Prix Formula One race. WOMEN'S FIELD NARROWED: No college players made the cut as the field for the USA women's Olympic basketball team was narrowed from 54 to 18 Sunday. Nine former Olympians remain. All but two players - Suzie McConnell, a high school coach and Cheryl Miller, a broadcaster - play professionally overseas. The average age of the finalists is 26. The USA women have won two consecutive gold medals. MIAMI CLOSES IN ON CROWN: Miami (Fla.) defeated Cal. State-Fullerton 4-3 Sunday night in the baseball's College World Series in Omaha. With the win, Miami (55-8) needs just one win in its next two games to advance to Saturday's title game. Fullerton will play in Tuesday's elimination game against Florida State, a 5-4 winner against California earlier Sunday. Miami will play the winner of that game Wednesday. SCHOLARSHIP REQUEST REJECTED: College athletic directors Sunday rejected a request by football coaches to be allowed to keep 90 players on scholarship. Coaches wanted to change an NCAA rule, reducing football grants-in-aid from 95 to 85 by fall 1994. "Coaches are getting frustrated because losing scholarhips takes away from the quality of the game," Clemson coach Ken Hatfield said. YUGOSLAVIA BARRED FROM PLAY: Yugoslavia was barred from international soccer and tennis competition Sunday, one day after the United Nations passed sweeping sanctions against the war-torn country. International Olympic Committee officials will meet this week to discuss whether to exclude Yugoslavia from the Summer Games. ALL-AMERICAN WORLD BOWL: World Bowl 1992 will match the Sacramento Surge and the Orlando Thunder Saturday in football at Montreal. Sacramento advanced as Cary Blanchard's 46-yard field goal with 3 minutes, 54 seconds left salvaged a 17-15 win against the Barcelona Dragons in a World League playoff semifinal Sunday. Orlando routed the Birmingham (Ala.) Fire 45-7 Saturday before 28,746 at the Citrus Bowl. 24-HOUR TELEPHONE INFORMATION: USA TODAY Sports Hot Line. 95 cents a minute. 1-900-555-5555. Sports Editor: Jason P. Smith. (919-855-3491) Making copies of USA TODAY Update (Copyright, 1992) for further distribution violates federal law. 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