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SPORTStOOK
FOOTBALL
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Kansas
City quarterback Joe Mor
tana's injured left foot was diag
nosed as a sprain, leaving him ques
tionable for Sunday's game agains
Denver. He was injured in Sun
day's loss at Seattle.
HOUSTON (AP) ? Houstoi
coach Jeff Fisher fined receive
Webster Slaughter one game checl
and threatened to suspend him fo
the season for his critical comment
following Sunday's loss at Cleve
land.
BASEBALL
NEW YORK (AP) ? The Nev
York Mets acquired right-hande;
Pete Harnisch from Houston for a
least one player to be named. Har
nisch, 28, was 8-5 with a 5.40 ER/
last season after going 16-9 with i
2.98 ERA in 1993.
BASKETBALL
STATESBORO, Ga. (AP) Georgia
Southern coach Franl
Kerns and assistants Mike Backuf
finH Mnrlf WTiito rPQicmort Wanaj
of allegations that a recruit was
given improper academic help witl
their knowledge.
Doug Durham, the only re
maining member of the staff, di
j rected the team in an 87-57 loss te
Georgia, coached by his father
| Hugh Durham.
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; WACO, Texas (AP) ? Baylor as
sistant Harry Miller will coach the
' team on an interim basis for the
remainder of the season. Miller replaces
Darrel Johnson, fired this
month amid allegations the program
violated NCAA rules.
NEW YORK (AP) ? Orlandc
guard Anfernee Hardaway, whc
averaged 32.3 points, 6.5 rebounds
and 6.5 assists in four victories, is
the NBA player of the week.
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PALM DESERT, Calif. (AP) ?
1 Tom Watson made a 20-foot birdie
r putt for $160,000 on the first extra
* hole Sunday in the Skins Game for
r his first victory of any kind in the
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united oiaies since iuo/.
Watson finished the 2-day, 18hole
event with $210,000. Fred Couples,
who won his three previous
starts in special events following the
regular PGA Tour season, was secv
ond with $170,000 to increase his
r November earnings to $750,000.
Payne Stewart, winner of the last
three Skins Games, and Paul Azinger
^ each won $80,000, all Saturday in
The Top 25 in the Associated Press college
basketball poll with ranking in previous
poll.
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Maryland (7)
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' 23. Virginia (20)
24. Villanova (21)
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) pay
? A strong finish helped West pet
Virginia land a spot Tuesday Citi
in the Carquest Bowl on Jan. stai
2 against South Carolina, but fea
some money up front didn't Ohi
hurt, either. of t'
"I doubt that there is an- cha
other team in college football
that has the momentum that pro
West Virginia has, winning ets
six out of their last seven sea
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Brad Scott said. lonj
The Mountaineers (7-5),
who won six of their final sev- per
en games, were the unanimous desc
pick of a committee of bowl- that
area residents to play the et) c
Gamecocks (6-5) of the South- I'm
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ever, that a West Virginia- 1
South Carolina matchup 25,(
wouldn't be a good TV draw, Bov
WVU Athletic Director Ed Moi
Pastilong said. The Carquest, reco
which guarantees a $1 million at t'
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Staff Reports
USC head baseball coach Juni
Raines has announced the signing o
five prospects for enrollment next fall
including one junior college sopho
more and four high school seniors
The new Gamecocks sicmees art
outfielder Etienne Hightower o
Okaloosa Walton Community Collegi
in Niceville, Fla.; lefthanded pitchei
David Brooks, of Pittsburgh, Pa.; firs
baseman-outfielder Stephen Saccon<
of Evans, Ga.; infielder Jason Har
binger of Toledo, Ohio; and outfield
er Nick Reilly of Cincinnati, Ohio
Hightower, a brother of former All
Southeastern Conference outfieldei
Vee Hightower of Vanderbilt, is fron
Pittsburgh where he lettered thre<
seasons in baseball and four in socce
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mised to sell 24,000 tickor
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Medal winning East team in the 1992
Olympic festival, and in 1993 played
summer baseball for the Midland Redskins,
a Cincinnati team that won the
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gency fund. Friday and Saturday,
;cocks also ex- lowing week will be
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3,000. tices with the goal oi
that this bowl 10 practices in before t
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plus thousand coach said,
ill game," Scott West Virginia's d
4 start, which includ
five prospects:
innings, he struck out 81 batters with
a 1.25 earned run average. He is 6foot-3-inches
tall and weighs 210
pounds.
Saccone was a pitcher-oufielder at
Evans High School under coach Terry
Holder. At South Carolina he will
likely play the outfield or first base.
He throws and bats lefthanded, is 5fee-10-inches
tall and weighs 170
pounds.
As a junior last spring, Saccone
posted a 3-0 pitching record with an
.80 earned run average and was named
Columbus County All-area In the varsity
summer league, he batted .350
and wa 5-1 on the mound. His team
won the Dixie Pre-Majors 15-16-year
old World Series Championship with
Saccone winning three games.
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le series, "I wasn't thinking about a
ictory in bowl then," said West Virginia
senior fullback Jim Freeman.
;Flori- "I was just thinking about
ing over what we could do to change
jram this the whole season around."
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run included victories over
vill start Boston College and Syracuse
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bowl game in 1984, when it
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led a 31- the Bluebonnet Bowl.
for next season
where he is coached by his father, Rich
Arbinger. An infielder who will likely
play shortstop at South Carolina,
Arbinger is 6-fee-l-inch, bats righthanded
and hit .405 as Stall's cleanup
hitter last spring.
Start was ranked the No. 2 high
school team in the nation by USA Today
and won the Ohio state championship.
Arbinger's high school statistics
included six doubles, two triples,
three home runs, 37 RBIs and seven
stolen bases. In summer baseball, he
batted .450 with five home runs.
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Xavier High School in Cincinnati for
coach Bill Singer. Reilly batted .366
as a junior with 11 doubles, two triples,
17 RBIs and 18 stolen bases. Reilly is
a split end in football and runs a 4.5
in the 40 yard sprint.
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