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Section Pres 3ournal Thursday February 6 1992 pDirtt SAPgAMIlTiEEUD )ws pH tfm HiU Daniels Strawberry Try To Patch Up Quarrel LOS ANGELES (AP) Outfielders Darryl Strawberry and Kal Daniels of the Los Angeles Dodgers Strawberry met privately with general manager Fred Claire on Wednesday In an effort to clear the air after reports that the two outfielders were not on speaking terms say It was a constructive meeting'' Claire said following the 10-mlnute discussion In the Dodger Stadium trainer's room "I think It was helpful and It helps us move on The main thing Is to put It behind us" Strawberry and Daniels who feuded earlier this winter when Strawberry suggested that Daniels be traded reportedly were avoiding each other during the Dodgers' winter workouts Strawberry declined comment while dressing for Wednesday's workout and a couple of hours before the meeting with Claire a dead Issue" Strawberry said "It's not a big thing to me Getting ready for baseball Is all I'm concerned about" "These things happen and these things pass" Claire had said before he spoke with the two players "It really will be Darryl and Kal resolving any conflict that Is there That's the way it should be It can't be forced upon them" But Claire apparently changed his mind and decided to talk with them after the workout Daniels will be tried at first base In spring training because of the trado with Cincinnati for left fielder Eric Davis closest friend and may not get much playing time in the outfield In the Anal year of his contract The friendship between Strawberry and Davis may help explain the reported rift but Daniels denied suggestions that a cold war exists between them "How can there be a cold war when I haven't even seen Darryl and Darryl even seen me?" Daniels said about 90 minutes before Strawberry's arrival "You guys (reporters) write that stuff In the papers Me and Darryl don't do It Everything was perfect at the end of the season The guy (Strawberry) Just had an opinion he said It and I responded to It That was It That happens every day In baseball and every other sport" Teammate Orel Hcrshlser doesn't expect the misunderstanding to carry over Into April If Indeed Daniels Is still getting his mall at Dodger Stadium by then awkward comments definitely were made but I don't think It's anything that can't be smoothed Hcrshlser said "It's not like the Garvey-Sutton stuff where they came to blows These two guys are actually communicating and talking so I think we're fine" Hcrshlser was referring to a fight between ex-Dodgers Don Sutton and Steve Garvey In the visitors clubhouse at Daniels Shea Stadium In the late 1970s Nothing that drastic has occurred but Hcrshlser feels Daniels' productive bat can help erase any real or Imagined acrimony In the clubhouse "I think best that we have the best 25 guys on the Hcrshlser said "And If Kal's one of the best 25 guys I want to have him on the team He's been a good guy he's hit and he's driven in runs" Defense Stops Astronaut Tar Heels Knock Off No 1 Duke CHAPEL HILL NC (AP) Christian Laettner missed two potential game-tying shots In the final seconds Wednesday as No 9 North Carolina knocked off No 1 Duke 75-73 ending the nation's longest winning streak at 23 games The loss by Duke combined with No 2 Oklahoma State's loss at Nebraska left no undefeated Division I teams Derrick Phelps hit two foul shots with 445 seconds remaining to give the Tar Heels a two-pomt lead The Blue Devils trying to work the bal for the last shot got the bafl to Laettner but he missed an inside one-hander over Erie Montross with 24 seeondslefL Duke recovered and tried once more but Laettner missed again and Phelps came away with the rebound drib-bang Into the comer and preserving the victory Hubert Davis led North Caro-Ina with 16 points Montrose and Kevin Salvador! had 12 and Brian Reese 10 Brian Davis led Duke with 17 points Thomas Hil had 16 Laettner 12 Bobby Hurley 11 and Grant HM 10 for the Blue Devils North Carolna also snapped Atlantic Coast Conference regularmason winning streak at 11 games The Tar Heels (16-3 6-2) opened the second half with 10 straight points but Duke kept the game dose As the second half wound down North Carolina had to rely on free throw shooting and came throudi by making 12 of 14 in the stretch The Blue Devils missed their first four shots in the second half and committed five turnovers in five minutes Duke (17-1 8-1) had Its best run early in the game a 9-0 stretch that turned an 11-7 deficit to a 16-11 edge The Tar Heels clawed their way back taking a 20-19 lead on a three-point play by Hubert Ifevis at 9:27 The teed would be exchanged ten more times down the stretch before Thomas HU connected on a jumper from the right baseline with two seconds left before Intermission for a 39-38 edge PraM-JounMl atafl photo by Dan Hughs Vero Beach High School's Kenny Holmes hugs his grandmother Mary Arm Smith after signing a letter of Intent to accept a football scholarship from the University of Miami Never Any Doubt In Mind By DOUG BIALECKI Press-Journal Staff Writer For one quarter it looked similar to Saturday's loss to Cocoa but history would not repeat itself Wednesday The Vero Beach basketball team played hard defense and capitalised on fourth-quarter mistakes to defeat Titusvllle-Astronaut 67-62 in a Cape Coast Conference game "This was what you would call a good high school basketball game we really came through in the final three quarters and did what we had to do to win the Vero coach Chuck Loe-wendlck said "We did not execute the press very well in the first quarter but our defense was excellent from then Leading 54-58 with 3:12 left In the game Tony Parks scored seven of his team-high 14 points including three foul shots and a breakaway lay-up as the Indians (15-7 10-8) pulled away "We played hard and we decided to play good ball and come away with a Parks said "At halftime we were determined to put this game away and get a Kenny Holmes fresh off signing a commitment to play football at the University of Miami scored 13 points while Jason Rockhlll added 12 "We made the most of the final minutes they threw the ball away a few times and we hit key free throws and Rockhlll said "We dug deep and gave it our best For the War Slagles Corey Freeman led all scorers with 17 points Tim Parker had 13 "We we but that" Ewm JouimI rtrfl photo by John SiSm Vero Beach guard Tony Parks (4) knifes his way between TitusviHe-Astronaut defenders for a shot during Wednesday's game Parks scored 14 points including seven In the final quarter to lead the Fighting Indians to a 67-62 win Skater Enjoys Improbable Journey just didn't play well had them in the first quarter the effort there after said Astronaut coach Kirk Stewart Please See INDIANS2B UF UM Run 1-2 In Recruits By The Associated Press Florida's three college football powers got even atronger Wednesday The University of Florida had the best recruiting class in the county Miami was second and Florida State was eighth according to prep expert Alim Wallace and Miami are the big said Wallace publisher of SuperPrep magazine In Costa Mesa CaKf recruits are cut above everyone Miami won The Associated Press national championship last season whHe Florida State finished fourth and Florida was seventh the strangest Mever by one state in poll If this year's recruits are any Indication the Sunshine State could continue to dominate for many years freshmen class includes a host of homestate stars The most prominent are quarterback Danny Wuerffei of Fort Walton Beach 6-foot-S 300-pound offensive lineman Reggie Gram of Bradenton and fullback Dwayne Mobley of BrooksvOle SuperPrep ranked recruiting class as third best in the nation followed by Michigan Texas ASM Ciem-son Notre Dame Florida State Texas and Oklahoma By DAN HUGHES Plcas-Journal Staff Writer It seems there never was a question about whether Kenny Holmes would play college football at least not in mind or his always knew I'd do Holmes said Wednesday morning after signing a national letter of Intent to accept a football scholarship from the University of Miami "I just knew Holmes a 6-foot -5 220-pound all-state defensive end at Vero Beach High School who plans to study physical therapy joined what recruiting experts were hailing as a bumper crop of outstanding prospects signed by the national co-champion Hurricanes Wednesday was the first day high school seniors across the nation could sign letters of intent for football "He always liked said Holmes' grandmother Mary Ann Smith who has been his guardian since his mother Margie Smith died two years ago from cancer said he was going to be a football player and he was going to get a It seems athletics were in his blood from the start His father Clyde Brinson is a former Vero Beach High School football and track star Brinson played cor-nerback and safety at Kansas State from 1975-80 a super athlete no said Brinson who has lived in Kansas City since Holmes was a small boy a lot of athletic ability in this family I was a long jumper and high jumper and his mom was a track star It was just natural for One of Holmes' uncles KJ3 Smith revealed where the player gets some of hard-nosed on-field attitude we played tackle football his mom would get right out there with said Smith who then spread his hands far apart she were here her head would be like As with most boys Holmes was active and liked to roughhouse When he got too rambunctious his grandmother stepped In knew what switches and belts were she said "He like it then but he thanks me for it ALBERTVILLE France (AP) She laughs at Olympic pressure and everything else a crackling high-pitched guffaw that gushes out of her tiny frame and bounces around the arena the moment she glides off the ice smallest oldest and least likely figure skater a heroine for every underdog-loving fan Calla Urbanski can no more contain her laughter away from the rink than she can hide her smile while skating a 4-foot-ll bundle of energy and fun a 31-year-old cocktail waitress at a bar called Kid 8helleen's in Wilmington Del and whirling around the Olympics with a truck-driving pairs partner named Rocky Marval five years her junior Urbanski and Marval blue-collar skaters may not be the favorites for a gold medal but they're everything the Olympics are about athletes who worked hard to get to the top despite all kinds of obstacles This is their moment as absurd as it may seem to others and Urbanski is here to enjoy every bit of the experience she's worked 24 years to achieve Three times Wednesday she tried to answer a rather simple question kept you from and three times she question with another cackle Hamilton an old friend who one of her five partners turned around and waved "Hey she said kidding him about his equally diminutive size let me borrow your box" Then she hitched up her too-long pants stretched up to Marvel's height and said "If I was this tall my pants would fit I have to roll them down on top and roll them under three times on the A team for less than two years Urbanski and Marval surprised everyone last month by winning the pairs at the UJJ Figure Skating Championships in Orlando Fla been on a high ever since that said coach Ron Ludlngton "There's been so much happening in their lives to keep them up so their skating has just been wonderful It was a combination of two people going together who should have been together a long time ago So It clicked We've had many combinations where we've put skaters together and it hasn't worked This one They skated together briefly in 1986 but split up because Marval have the experience at that point to mesh their styles Jordan Suspended PHOENIX (AP) Michael Jordan suspended for the first time in hla NBA career wished his teammates well Wednesday and then left for the All-Star weekend Earlier In the day the NBA fined Jordan-15000 and suspended him for one game for bumping a referee in Chicago's triple-overtime loss Monday night to the Jazz at Utah The Bulls minus Jordan lost to the Phoenix Suns 126-114 Wednesday night Jordan who played golf Tuesday at the Phoenix Country Club was not available for comment However Jordan arranged before the six-game road trip to have his private jet fly him from Phoenix to Orlando site of the All-Star Game on Sunday team spokesman Tim Hallam said would Imagine he's probably going straight to Orlando" Hal-lam said "I think his family was coming down for the broke out with that spontaneous uncontrollable laugh after only a few words It was only a television Interview and after each failed take the reporter would say worry we have plenty of she stood on a big metal box so she be dwarfed by her 5-foot-9 partner A second later four-time world champion and 1984 Olympic gold medalist Scott Hamilton passed by "Is that the Scott Hamilton who used to skate with Calla she shouted punctuating the He excelled in baseball becoming an all-star first baseman in Little League and developed into a fine basketball player he is the Vero Beach basketball team's leading rebounder and third-leading scorer really thought he'd excel in basketball but football was always his Brinson said Please See HOLMES2B VBHS Girls Soccer Team Bows Out In Tourney 2B Heat Magic Post Wins 3B.
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