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SPORTS SHORTS
HOCKEY / WE WIN! WE WIN!
October 28, 1996

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 HOCKEY/ WE WIN! WE WIN!
 Nancy Deschamps broke a scoreless tie at 11:30 of the third period
to give Canada a 1-0 win over the United States in the final of the
inaugural Three Nations Cup women's hockey tournament yesterday in
Ottawa.
 Deschamps, of Montreal, had all sorts of time to lift a fat rebound
over fallen Team USA. goaltender Erin Whitten and keep Canada's
international supremacy string alive, for the females, anyway.
 The American men, of course, beat Canada in the inaugural World Cup
of Hockey in September.
 The Canadian women's team, with players drawn from Fredericton to
Wilcox, Sask., to Vancouver, has not lost a major international
tournament in the six years such events have been staged.
 Women's hockey becomes a full medal sport at the 1998 Olympics in
Nagano, Japan and the game was a likely preview of the Olympic finale.

 Whitten was the difference in the first 40 minutes. Canada was
somehow credited with just five first-period shots; Whitten made five
spectacular saves, including stopping Hayley Wickenheiser of Calgary
four times.
 SOCCER/ FOWLER GETS TWO
 Robbie Fowler scored two goals in four minutes early in the second
half to give Liverpool a 2-1 soccer victory yesterday over Derby,
moving the club into third place in the English Premier League behind
leading Arsenal and No. 2 Newcastle.
 Playing on a rain-soaked field, Fowler got his first in the 47th
minute on a rebound that Derby goalkeeper Russell Hoult couldn't
control as the ball came loose in front to Fowler.
 Four minutes later Fowler scored on a header from 12 metres - his
sixth goal this season - off a perfect cross from defender John
Scales.
 AUTOS/ IT'S A FIRST!
 Bobby Hamilton won the Dura-Lube 500 at Phoenix International
Raceway yesterday, earning his first Winston Cup victory and giving
car-owner Richard Petty his first win in 13 years.
 With a record raceway crowd of 104,000 on its feet and shouting its
approval, Hamilton's No. 43 Pontiac, decked out in the traditional
Petty Blue and STP Red colors, led the final 30 laps on the one-mile
oval.
 "We've come close before this, but we didn't quite have it
together," said Petty, who was the driver when a Petty Enterprises car
last won, in October 1983 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
 Baltimore pitcher Jesse Orosco and third baseman Todd Zeile,
Cleveland outfielder Mark Carreon, and Texas infielder Mark McLemore
and pitcher Mike Stanton filed on the first day of the 15-day filing
period.
 There were 129 players potentially eligible to file as of yesterday,
but many are subject to contract options for 1997.
 RUGBY/ ANOTHER LOSS
 Canada's under-19 rugby team fell to 0-3 on its tour of Wales
yesterday, losing 25-14 to the Wales Tertiary Colleges team.
 Playing in a torrential downpour with gusting winds, Canada took a
9-3 halftime lead but wilted under adverse conditions.
 Toronto's Simon Rogers kicked three penalties for Canada in the
first half before Wales took the lead for good.
 Ryan Ferry of Edmonton had Canada's lone try in the second half.
[1]EDMONTON SUN

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