"I think I'm as close as I'm ever going to be to where I was three years ago" Leonard told the Associated Press. In addition to the MVP award, Gonzalez-Tate had the outstanding hitter (Chris Cassels) and Golden Glove (Mike Emmons) honors. Gilmore: Lenn Gilmore of Northridge leads the California Collegiate Athletic Assn with 7 home runs and 30 runs batted in. Their opponent is, of course, nicely constituted to prey on the minds of a nervous team. Open champion Kathy Baker and Hall of Famers Kathy Whitworth and JoAnne Carner shot 75s. Gonzalez first attracted Sneddon's attention in the 1984 Orange County North-South All-Star Game by hitting a ground-rule triple into the right-center field corner at Glover Stadium in Anaheim.

"We don't want Montana in the game" Once Montana got into a game against the Rams, it was all over. After all, he directed "E. T" and these guys can be a rather extra-terrestrial bunch. team flight to Denver Wednesday morning because the Clippers had a last-minute change in the itinerary Wilkes arrived later in the day He was fined a minor sum. "But I felt I had to say what I said for my professional life. After all, the Golden Cougars had given the Pointers a tougher game than many expected. For the second time in as many days, Chatsworth High reliever Derek Wallace found himself smack in the middle of a seventh-inning soup consisting of a bases-loaded jam, no outs and a game on the line. The Orioles already had sent outfielder Gary Roenicke to the Yankees for pitcher Rich Bordi and infielder Rex Hudler. .

You can get 100 guys to show up for your workouts, but mostly they'll be 100 guys who nobody else recruited very hard Pierce is probably in that situation. Salkeld, one of 17 high school players invited to join the team, became a personal favorite of the craggy-voiced King, 69, who affectionately refers to Salkeld as "The Kid" Aside from a pitching career, Salkeld almost lost three fingers on his left hand trying to complete a speaker box for his pickup truck "I was lucky" he said. We expect to see him get drafted this year (in the June baseball draft, yet because he has a year left in football, he'll get drafted low. Montgomery weighed in at 232 pounds, usually plays at 225 and wants to get down to 220. VALLEY-Goodrich 14; Lewis 13; Windham 12; Lopez 10; Harden 10; Andrews 4; Shane 4; Wright 2; Fontenette 2. . As it is with Lyle, the situation with Zoeller is also a little ticklish Zoeller shot a 66, then really teed off.

Van Berg said that the Clarence Scharbauers, who race Alysheba, were sold on the idea of keeping the 1987 Kentucky Derby winner in California for a while. The Clippers' third straight win was impressive even though Olajuwon, coming off a 36-point effort Friday at San Antonio, left the game early in the second quarter with a sprained ligament on the inside of his left knee. Coffman, middle blockers Raphael Tulino and Mark Root, and setter Rob Campbell are the force behind the Chatsworth attack. Life at the Top led for six furlongs, then faded in the 1 1/16-mile stake. The games were rough and they shaped Snow into a hard-nosed player "We'd just pick up and play ball in the pasture" Snow said. In 15 playoff games between the teams over the past three seasons, the Sockers have outscored the Stars, 32-10, in the final quarter.

Now Busby is planning strategy again as manager of the two-car team for Sunday's Times/Ford six-hour race, but he has made one significant change This year, he will share a car with Morton. — Defending team champion Ohio State and five returning champs in individual events will be part of the field this week at the NCAA men's gymnastics championships. They were wondering if they belonged here" OCEAN VIEW (45-Hazely 9, Vogtmann 2, Butler 16, DeBrouwer 10, Panzica 8. It was the first loss for Valley Christian (12-1, a team that has shut out 10 opponents this season. Rick Honeycutt, Gene Nelson and Greg Cadaret have been effective as well. DeFresco thought she would enter the fish with the Department of Fish and Game and have her name in the record books Sounds simple enough "I was feeling great" she said.

Even though his team lost, Santa Paula Coach Joe Magdaleno was impressed with its performance. Coach Don Nelson of the Milwaukee Bucks was warned about wearing commercially endorsed sneakers on the sidelines. I told (jockey) Chris (McCarron) that she might be only ready to run seven-eighths of a mile in that last race" Twilight Ridge ran second to Life at the Top in the mile Las Virgenes at Santa Anita on March 1. They managed to draw even on two free throws by John Lucas and a jumper by Robert Reid, but it took a three-point play by Olajuwon to give them the lead for good with 56 seconds remaining Lucas finished with 29 points.

Worthy, who had 16 points in the first half, and Scott, who had 15 before the break, led the Lakers with 25 points apiece. His last double-double game (points, rebounds) was against UCLA Jan 29 when he scored 20 points and grabbed 11 rebounds. LAS VEGAS — For George Foreman, tonight marks the end of his mannequin-of-the-month club. There were a lot of forced shots-another pass and we'd have had better shots. Cal Baptist defeated Cal Lutheran, 5-4, in eight innings in the first game, forcing the Regals to play three more times, including another two games against the Lady Lancers.

1s" said Detroit lawyer Jerry Vainisi, the former Chicago general manager who helped build the 1986 champion Bears. Carolynn Blake struck out 14 and recorded her ninth complete game of the year. Its basketball program is better known for producing top coaches (Tom Young, Jim Lynam and Gary Williams preceded Tapscott) than players, and it plays its home games at Fort Myer, Va, an Army base. "In this game, you have to be mentally tough and know that you'll come out of it if you keep working hard enough" Watson predicted another siege of low scores in this year's San Diego open, maybe even a 59. The Strikers scored on a power play and on a shootout goal by Thompson Usiyan to make it 2-0. Even so, I cannot resist tinkering with systems when the Kentucky Derby approaches.

Seeking the Gold, whose debut at Saratoga last year was delayed by a summer-long cough, didn't run his first race until December, but he's won four times by combined margins of more than 18 lengths. In Empire League action: Esperanza 50, Kennedy 38-Sharon Warmus scored 22 points and had 8 rebounds to lead the Aztecs (12-2, 19-5) at Kennedy Ursula Lovely scored 16 to lead the Irish (2-12. Mariusz Podkoscielny of the Nadadores finished third in 7:58. 71. Zosa finished 28th in the Olympic all-around competition as a member of the Canadian team but Service has eclipsed her at the college level and has scored the best all-around mark in the nation this season In an exhibition, Tracee Talavera, a member of the U. S Olympic gold-medal winning team, will perform on the beam. Resting them for future tournament games? Letting everyone get tournament sharp? Or following USC Coach George Raveling's suggestion that Olson ease up and give the rest of the conference a chance? Olson said: "We came out determined to contest every foot of the court.

But he failed to drive in a run in the next three games, and it appeared that Don Baylor's league record of 28 and the major league mark of 29 held by Ron Cey and Dale Murphy were safe. Abdul-Jabbar finished with 10 rebounds in 21 minutes, while Gilmore had 6 rebounds in 37 minutes but attempted only six shots. For those impressive numbers he was paid the princely sum of about $135,000, a salary he received only after holding out that spring in tandem with Don Drysdale. Reportedly, the pitchers had asked for $200,000 apiece, a sum that probably shocked Dodger owner Walter O'Malley as much as Koufax's retirement Koufax did not, however, quit over money. — Hal Sutton sank a 12-foot birdie putt on the first extra hole Sunday to break up one of golf's most crowded playoffs and win $55,000 first-place checks for himself and partner Ray Floyd in the Chrysler PGA Team Invitational golf tournament.

I said I'd be satisfied with an 8-8 season or better-and we've got a chance to have a winning record" Spanos said he would have a definitive statement on his plans Monday, the day after the Chargers close the season at Kansas City. "We don't think they can keep up with us running" Laker forward Kurt Rambis said. "Up until my junior year, all I thought about was being a pro ball player. "All of the focus in our planning from the first weeks on this project was for 1996. It was the second extra-inning game between the teams this season that was called because of darkness.

13-Bears avenge NFC championship loss with 26-10 win over 49ers at Candelstick Park Oct. There was some kicking, and we were getting feisty and angry. It was the top of the ninth inning at the time, but it wasn't over until St Louis won, 9-6, after 17 By then, the Angel game was over, too Don't fret. "The commissioner said he felt such tactics had no place in the NFL. In the last three games he has scored 93 points, a 31-point average, and has 31 rebounds and 14 assists He has hit 27 of 36 shots, or 75 Perhaps more important, Barkley appears to be calming down. It was gradual and I had time to condition myself to the weight I definitely feel better with it.

The Titans did it with defense in the opinion of USD Coach Hank Egan "That's by far the quickest team we've played" Egan said "Their quickness made it a struggle to get into our offense "I didn't think we played badly to say the least. PALM SPRINGS — Saturday's traveler along the Angel comeback trail was Donnie Moore, and unlike those who preceded him, disaster did not await him on the first off-ramp. A meeting of the minds? "A meeting of the idiots" Brock said with a grin "All of us. I don't think he turned the ball over once" Turner agreed that the guards on his team may have abandoned passing to the big men inside at the end "We should have kept with what we were doing well" he said. And in the meantime, Wohl has even managed to start a feud with the New York area press.