BRIEFLY : ST. JOHN'S STORMS TO FIRST TITLE.St. John's finally has a national championship and it came in soccer, of all sports. The Red Storm, a power in basketball and Northeast baseball, beat Florida International 4-1 Sunday in the NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association men's soccer final at Richmond, Va., for the school's first NCAA title in any sport. St. John's (22-2-2) received goals 78 seconds apart in the first half from Jesse Van Saun and Wojtek Krakowiak Wojtek Krakowiak (born August 6, 1976 in Kielce, Poland) is an American soccer player, who most recently played for the Tampa Bay Mutiny of Major League Soccer. Wojtek Krakowiak had a distinguished college soccer career at Clemson University, where in his senior year in 1998 . Ben Hickey and Medufia Kulego also scored for the Red Storm, who had been 0-4 in the NCAA tournament NCAA Tournament can mean: Men's Sports
With former St. John's basketball coach Lou Carnesecca Luigi P. Carnesecca (born January 5, 1925 in New York City) is a former basketball coach at St. John's University. He coached the Redmen's basketball program to 526 wins and 200 losses over 24 seasons (1965-70, 1973-92). among those in the crowd of 20,874, St. John's scored the most goals in the NCAA final since San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden beat Indiana 4-3 in overtime in 1980. Cesare Maldini, who led Italy's Under-21 team to three straight European titles but who was criticized for a poor showing at the Olympics was hired as coach of the national team. Maldini, 64, replaces Arrigo Sacchi, who quit two weeks ago after nearly five years on the job to once again coach AC Milan. BASEBALL Less than two months after closing out the Yankees' championship clincher clinch·er n. 1. One that clinches, as: a. A nail, screw, or bolt for clinching. b. A tool for clinching nails, screws, or bolts. 2. , John Wetteland agreed to a guaranteed four-year, $23 million deal with the Texas Rangers. That means Mariano Rivera, baseball's best setup man and one-half of the most successful bullpen tandems in recent memory, will become the Yankees' closer in 1997. Wetteland notched 43 saves in 47 opportunities in 1996. WINTER SPORTS Battling wind-chill temperatures of 70 degrees below zero, defending champions Axel Naglich and Christopher Reindl of Kitzbuehel, Austria, led from the start to win their third 24 Hours of Aspen ski race in five years. ``This is not healthy at all,'' Reindle said after the race. ``It's dangerous and risky.'' Naglich and Reindl, who also won in 1992 and 1995, completed 75 laps of Aspen Mountain and bested nine other teams, including the second-place U.S. men's team of Tyler Williams and Chris Davenport. Fritz Strobl led an Austrian sweep of the top four places, winning a delayed downhill for his first World Cup victory, in Val D'Isere, France. Italy turned in the two fastest runs to edge USA 1 and win a four-man bobsled World Cup race in Cortina cor`ti´na n. 1. (Biology) a cobwebby remnant of the partial veil which in some mature mushrooms hang from the edges of the cap. Noun 1. , D'Ampezzo, Italy. Markus Prock of Austria, two-time Olympic silver medalist and defending world champion, won his second World Cup luge luge (l  zh), a type of small sled on which one or two persons, lying face up, slide feet first down snowy hillsides or down steeply banked, curving, iced chutes similar to those used in race this season, in Altenberg, Germany. Slovenian teenager Primoz Peterka won a ski- jumping event in Harrachov, Czech Republic, and moved to first in the overall World Cup standings. FOOTBALL Florida State offensive coordinator Mark Richt said he will not accept an offer to replace Johnny Majors as coach at Pitt. |
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