We wouldn't have had as much trouble without our flurry of injuries the last five weeks. It's a common baseball expression, meaning: Let something unsightly happen to your body if the other guys on your side will think it's cool Take one for the team. My freshman year, I had a couple of good rounds, but I also had a lot of bad ones" At Rolling Hills, Leach was a Bay League player of the year three times and the league's individual champion twice. Talk about giving your all for your career! Lamas endures all of this just so he can get on with his real life's work-risking his life in a 200-m. p. h. 2 in the City all year and didn't get anybody named" Taft finished fourth in the Valley League El Camino Real finished fifth. There isn't much left after winning a state championship, something over 300 other wrestlers here tried to do over the two-day tournament, but only 13 managed to accomplish.

But another is that the voting is sometimes close and controversial and makes for good clubhouse rap Tony Gwynn hit . 402 last August and still lost to Santiago. in a McLaren in 1977, Sneva was barely out of the car when he was saying that the cars were running too fast. Points will be awarded to the schools of all final-round competitors based on how well qualifiers do in the finals. Even Sutton himself has referred to his methods as "methodical, boring-not spectacular" Here is a man only a handful of games from baseball immortality, and still you need a search party to find evidence of his doings Sutton folklore? Forget it One season with 20 or more victories No overpowering fastball No no-hitters No led-the-league-in-strikeouts Or wins Or complete games Or winning percentage. Louis to rout the Montreal Expos, 9-1, and win their third game without a loss.

DeJardin, a senior playing both shortstop and second base for the Lions, is hitting . 360 and showing some pop. But their successes often are tempered by the fact that sports is not always accepted by their parents or their cultures. Proceeds will go to the American Cancer Society and the Orange County Trauma Society. Iowa quarterback Chuck Long, runner-up to Auburn's Bo Jackson in the closest Heisman Trophy vote ever, was named by the Maxwell Football Club in Philadelphia as the nation's best 1985 college football player. The first game was tied, 9-9, before Elmhurst scored six straight points to win, and the second game was tied, 6-6, before Elmhurst took 9 of 14 points to win the game. If form holds over the final 11 days of spring training, Pena will probably return to the bullpen and occasionally fill in as a starter, and Hillegas will probably return to Triple-A Albuquerque Howell could wind up on the disabled list or in Albuquerque.

In the Golden State Athletic Conference: Point Loma Nazarene 7-0, Southern California College 4-2-Southern California College (14-20, 8-6) came back to win the second game at SCC behind the two-hit pitching of Josh Johnson. Free agent Whitson had a 53-56 record when Yankee owner George Steinbrenner rewarded him with a five-year, $4. 4-million contract in December 1984. Myricks, attending a track luncheon Monday, was in good spirits. The Klein family, which owns a home in Malibu, says it is renting an apartment in Carson Vollnogle's reaction: "If he moves, he moves. "Being a good athlete helps him because of the timing of a golf swing" he said. Thomas' left eye was cut by the eighth round, and the other eye was swelling a little. Falling behind to Sharts, 5-0, in the second inning is like jutting out your chin and giving Mike Tyson one free shot Sharts needed only 83 pitches and walked only one batter He struck out 6, giving him 68 in 60 innings.

They used smaller canoes for inter-island transportation, for fishing and for racing. The next eight teams, which finished second or third in their conferences, were seeded into the single-elimination wild-card round, which starts Thursday. It was like trying to turn a gravel pit into a PGA-approved putting green. He was the leading scorer with 20 points, 12 in the second half. Away from football, Ron Brown's mind sometimes wanders into fantasy "I dream about how my life is gonna be" he said.

Scott Taylor (2-1) earned the pitching victory in the opener Loyola 5, St. After one verbal battle with a fan, McEnroe received a warning for a "visible obscenity" McEnroe fought with the line judges, he fought with Gilbert and he fought with himself"Everything is just taking too much out of me" McEnroe said. With Moore back to join Stewart Cliburn and newly acquired Gary Lucas, the Angels will enter the 1986 season with possibly their strongest bullpen ever. They will play Crenshaw, the two-time defending City champion, in the title game. They have five players back from last season's team and are led by All-American center Vickie Mitchell, who is averaging 14 points and 13 rebounds a game. .

After losing their last four games, the Angels beat the Boston Red Sox, 6-2, before 14,072 fans at Fenway Park, but only after Gary Pettis and Brian Downing collided in the outfield for the second time in four days. Hendrick followed with another single, this time scoring Darrell Miller, a pinch-runner for Jackson, who, too, had singled. In a dual meet Thursday against San Diego, a nap caused Outlaw to miss the 300-meter low hurdles. We're going to have a great team' After the Rose Bowl, I told him, 'Bubba, you may have won the little game but we won the big one' " Farr has two sons who will play for UCLA in today's game Mel Farr Jr. Phillips, a 6-9 center, had nine blocked shots on defense but managed only four points while committing numerous unforced turnovers That made things easy for Steve Heard and Nate Reed. Dave Madden, Juan Cardenas and Beto scored goals for the Lazers, whose record dropped to 10-21. . The Wall, topped in 1936 by a 23-foot net to protect windows on Landsdowne Street, was covered for many years with advertisements-dominated by Gem Blades "avoid 5 o'clock shadow) and Lifebuoy soap "the Red Sox use it.

This year, none of the 18 colts Lukas has nominated for the Triple Crown races has the look of eagles. "They had a guy out there who knows exactly what he is doing, who never gives in" And of his starting pitcher, Grant? "You got five walks in five innings, 105 pitches, always pitching behind" Bowa said. Kelly Tripucka had 30 points and Bill Laimbeer 26 for Detroit. The Canadian colt's second-place finish in the Breeders' Cup last fall stamped him as one of the best horses of his generation. Two of Rypien's touchdown passes came in a span of 49 seconds in the fourth quarter and put the North in control. She has not won since 1985, but she opened with birdies on the 435-yard, par-5 No.

And no way were they going to lose to the Rams and wake up today with egg splattered on their faces. And on Sunday, the bitter disappointment Mulligan felt at being excluded in 1984 was replaced by the elation at news that UC Irvine had accepted an invitation to enter the 32-team NIT field this season Word of UCI's opponent did little to discourage Mulligan. To the surprise of Laz Barrera, who trains Mi Preferido, Lively One has been made Saturday's 2-1 favorite by Jeff Tufts, the Santa Anita linemaker. "It's a tragic situation in a sense" Palos Verdes, which will bring a 27-7 record into the state Division II girls basketball finals Saturday in Oakland, has come a long way since the beginning of the season The Sea Kings started 7-6. Williams was disgusted that the Orioles were losing and that the farm system had been mismanaged, but his argument with Peters appeared to run deeper. Michelle Boltz and Jill Trenschel had 10 each for Orange Lutheran (4-10, 7-14. Quebec goalie Clint Malarchuk, who allowed only one goal in three previous starts against Boston this season, appeared en route to a third shutout of the Bruins until late in the second period.