Sports in Briefs<\/p>\n
RI spikers
\nto Fukuoka<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Indonesia's men spikers have to at least finish
\nsecond in the June 20-27 Asia Pacific volleyball championships at
\nFukuoka, Japan if they want live up their dreams of places in the
\nnational team for October's Asian Games.<\/p>\n
National coach Wienarto said Thursday that the annual
\ntournament will serve as the final testing ground for the
\nIndonesian men's volleyball squad.<\/p>\n
\"We won't let them enter the Asian Games if they fail to meet
\nthe target,\" Wienarto said. The national sports governing body
\n(KONI) has made men's volleyball a non-priority event for the 2-
\n16 October Asiad in Hiroshima, despite the fact that Indonesian
\nspikers won the gold medal in the last four Southeast Asian
\nGames.<\/p>\n
Indonesia reached the final at last year's Asia Pacific meet
\nbefore going down to Japan. Chinese Taipei, South Korea,
\nAustralia, China and the Philippines have also confirmed their
\nentries at the tournament, with Japan poised to stretch its
\nwinning run. (amd)<\/p>\n
Kafelnikov
\ninto semis<\/p>\n
MONACO (AFP): Russia's Yevgeni Kafelnikov stormed into the
\nsemi-finals of the Monte Carlo Open here yesterday with a
\nstraight sets win over David Rickl of the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n
Kafelnikov, eliminated the tournament's top seed Michael Stich
\nand Andre Agassi on his way to the quarter-finals, won 7-6 (7-1),
\n6-3.<\/p>\n
His semi-final opponent will be the winner of the match
\nbetween American Jim Courier and the Ukrainian Andrei Medvedev.<\/p>\n
Baseball results<\/p>\n
NEW YORK (Reuter): Results of Major League baseball games
\nplayed on Thursday
\nAmerican League
\nBoston 6 Oakland 5
\nNew York 4 Seattle 2
\nCleveland 10 Minnesota 6
\nMilwaukee 6 Chicago 4
\nCalifornia 11 Baltimore 8
\nNational League
\nPhiladelphia 6 San Francisco 1
\nMontreal 5 San Diego 4
\nLos Angeles 13 New York 3<\/p>\n
Badalona wins
\nEuropean crown<\/p>\n
TEL AVIV (Reuter): Spain's Joventut Badalona was crowned
\nEuropean club basketball champion on Thursday after beating
\nOlympiakos 59-57 in a dramatic final decided only in the last few
\nmoments.<\/p>\n
With 17 seconds to go and Olympiakos 57-56 ahead, Badalona's
\nCornelius Thompson sank a three-point jumper to silence the 3,000
\nfervent Greek fans.<\/p>\n
Then Olympiakos's Zarko Paspalj won a foul 4.8 seconds from
\ntime only to miss both shots.<\/p>\n
India restricts
\nPakistan's run<\/p>\n
SHARJAH, UAE (AFP): India needs to make 251 runs to win the
\nAustralasia cup here yesterday after restricting World Cup
\nchampion Pakistan to 250 for six.<\/p>\n
Pakistan looked set to make a big score when off-spinner
\nRajesh Chauhan snapped up three wickets to check them in their
\nstride.<\/p>\n
Opener Aamar Sohail, who made 134 in the semi-final against
\nNew Zealand on Wednesday while sharing a world record stand of
\n263 with Inzaman-Ul-Haq, top scored with a fluent 69.<\/p>\n
Three golfers
\nshare lead<\/p>\n
BARCELONA, Spain (AFP): Jean-Louis Guepy and Thomas Levet, two
\nFrenchmen with a liking for long-distance travel, shared the
\nfirst round lead with South African Gavin Levenson in the Catalan
\nOpen here on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Guepy, a 27-year-old who was born on the Pacific Island of New
\nCaledonia, and Levet, a 25-year-old from Paris, each had six
\nbirdies in a five under par 67. As did 40-year-old Levenson from
\nJohannesburg, a former winner of the Belgian and Majorca Opens.<\/p>\n
Guepy, who has a base in Bordeaux, is in his first season on
\nthe European Tour, having qualified by finishing runner-up on the
\nsecondary Challenge circuit in 1993.<\/p>\n
Chinese woman
\njudoka banned<\/p>\n
TOKYO (AFP): The Judo Union of Asia barred China's Tang Lihong
\nyesterday from competition for two years for testing positive in
\na doping test at the Asian championships at Macao in November.<\/p>\n
The union's technical committee, meeting here, also stripped
\nTang of her Asian women's 48-kilogram (106 pound) bantam-weight
\ntitle and left it vacant in the first doping charge clamped on a
\nfemale Asian judoka.<\/p>\n
The committee said Tang was found to have taken a banned
\nsubstance and she would be banned from competing at the Asian
\nGames at Hiroshima, Japan in October.<\/p>\n
Rangers plot
\ndouble boost<\/p>\n
GLASGOW, Scotland (AFP): Glasgow Rangers could edge closer to
\nthe Premier Division title today and deliver a psychological blow
\nto its Cup Final opponents at the same time.<\/p>\n
If Rangers beat Dundee United at Ibrox and Motherwell slip up
\nat Aberdeen, the Glasgow side will be within two points of
\nconfirmation as Scottish champion.<\/p>\n
And with Dundee United again the opposition in May's Scottish
\nCup Final, the chance to claim a psychological edge will add to
\nthe significance of Saturday's encounter.<\/p>",
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