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Robert Pena shows his putting form during a recent golf outing
Bay town golfer hits gold, sinks
hole-in-one on Florida course
ByG. MICHAEL GRAHAM
Staff writer
Baytown’s Robert Pena
picked a good time to shoot a
hole-in-one.
Pena and two golfing bud-
dies, Gary and Lynn Fisher of
Toledo, Ohio, traveled to
Hawk’s Landing Golf Course
of the Mariott World Center
Resort in Orlando on April
28. He used a 9-iron to sink a
135-yard shot on the 15th
hole and win a few prizes.
The prizes include a four-
person, seven-day, six-night
trip to the eight-course
Pinehurst, N.C., golf resort
and a $1,000 Fila gift certifi-
cate. Fila, the course sponsor,
is a sporting goods manufac-
turer.
Pena, 41, said “shock,
amazement and disbelief”
best describe his reaction to
the hole-in-one.
“It’s never happened
before,” Pena said. “Lynn
shouted, ‘It went in.’ She got
more excited than I did. The
unique thing about it ,is the
ball didn’t roll or anything. It
was a slam dunk. It went in
out of the air. A lot of times,
hole-in-ones will bounce then
role in.”
Pena said he will head to
Pinehurst in September.
However, he said the hardest
part will be deciding who gets
to be his guests.
“It’s a tough decision on
who will accompany me on
the trip because I have so
many golf friends and fami-
ly,” Pena said. “The funny
part is it’s been a topic of con-
versation at family gather-
ings. It’s weird that family
and golfing buddies have
been nice to me lately know-
ing there’s a chance they may
go”
As for the Fila products,
Pena said he’ll give a dozen
Fila golf balls to Gary and
Lynn Fisher and lots of Fila
apparel to his family.
Pena and his wife, Lisa,
have a daughter, Alex, 6, and
a son, Jack, 3.
When not working at
Houston’s Baker Hughes Inc.,
an oil field service drilling
company, Pena can some-
times be seen golfing at
Evergreen Point Golf Course
or Eagle Point Golf Club.
Contact G. Michael
Graham by e-mail at ggra-
ham@baytownsun.com or by
phone at (281) 425-8024.
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UTTLE LEAGUE
Call in results
Coaches for all area Little
League all-star teams are asked
to send in results to The
Baytown Sun sports depart-
ment. We will accept results by
e-mail, fax or at the office at
1301 Memorial Drive.
All results must have the first
and last names of the winning
pitcher and leading hitters.
Results must have first and last
names for players on both
teams if both are from
Baytown.
E-mail results to
sunnews@baytownsun.com or
fax to (281) 427-1880.
The deadline is 10:15 p.m.
for the next day’s paper.
For more information, call the
sports desk at (281) 425-8028.
BASKETBALL
Lee College plays
host to hoop camp
Area students will have an
opportunity over the summer to
shoot hoops like their favorite
players in the Lee College gym-
nasium.
Students from kindergarten to
12th grade will be able to learn
fundamental basketball skills
from Lee College basketball
coach Roy Champagne during
the Lee College Runnin’ Rebels
basketball camps.
Camp dates are July 9-13
(girls in kindergarten through
fourth grade), July 16-20 (girls
■in fourth through ninth grade),
July 23-27 (boys in kinder-
garten through fourth grade)
and July 30-Aug. 3’(boys in
fourth through ninth grade).
; The camp runs from 8 a.m. to
noon daily.
The fee for the camps is $75.
Discounts will be given for
children in the same immediate
family.
After one registration at fall
price, the second registration in
the same immediate family is
$45. Additional family mem-
bers can register for $35.
Each participant will receive
a camp T-shirt and certificate of
merit.
Registration is at the cashier’s
office in Rundell Hall.
Credit card registrations can
be faxed or mailed. The fax
X number is (281) 425-6855.
Mailed registrations can be sent
i to, Lee College Continuing
< • ’ Education, PO. Box 8 f 8,
I Baytown, TX 77522-0818.
| For more information, call
' ■ Champagne at (281) 425-6594.
FOOTBALL
Bandits tryouts slated
for Saturday
• The Baytown Bandits semi-
pro football team is seeking
players, coaches, cheerleaders,
announcers, officials and spon-
sors for the fall season.
I Player tryouts are scheduled
for 5 p.m. July 14 at Britton
Park on Arizona Street. Players
are asked to wear athletic
shorts, T-shirts and cleated
shoes.
‘ Players must be 18 or older,
drug-free and have high school
varsity or college football expe-
rience. Players will also be
asked to attend practice twice a
week.
For more information,
prospective players can visit the
learn’s Web site at
■freeweb.pdq.net/manitonl/bay-
1 Jownbandits.htm or contact Sam
."Woodard at (281) 660-2236.
S A map to Britton Park is
^available on the Web site.
« Anyone interested in being a
“sponsor, cheerleader, coach,
“announcer or official may con-
tact Scott Sockwell at (281)
■701-4132.
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Sports
Astros dethrone Kansas City Royals in 14-5 victory
Berkman extends hitting streak to 21 games
were ejected in the first Nelson issued a warning to
inning, which also included both dugouts after Lugo was
three hit batters and a player hit.
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -
Jeff Bagwell hit a three-run
homer, and Lance Berkman
extended his hitting streak to
21 games with a two-run sin-
gle as the Houston Astros beat
Kansas City 14-5 Sunday.
The Royals have lost seven
straight games, their longest
drought since a nine-gamer
April 14-23,2000.
Bagwell, who drove in seven
runs Saturday, hit a fall-count
pitch from Chad Durbin (6-8)
over the right-field fence in
the third inning for his 21st
home run.
Berkman went 3-for-6 to
raise his league-leading aver-
age to .365.
He has 14 multihit games in
his hitting streak, the longest
in the NL this season.
Houston’s Moises Alou had
two hits to extend his hitting
streak to 16 games and is sec-
ond in the NL with a .362
average.
Astros starter Scott Elarton
and manager Larry Dierker
taken to the hospital — Royals
second baseman Donnie
Sadler, who was woozy after
being upended by a sliding
runner.
The game opened with
Royals pitcher Chad Durbin
hitting Craig Biggio and Julio
Lugo. Plate umpire Jeff
Jeff Bagwell’s slide into sec-
ond forced Sadler to leave the
game with blurred vision and
dizziness.
Sadler was taken to St.
Luke’s Hospital for observa-
tion, and the Royals said he
should be able to play after the
All-Star break.
Williams
doesit
again
American wins
Wimbledon for
2nd year in a row
By ROBERT MILLWARD
The Associated Press
WIMBLEDON, England — Venus
Williams won the Wimbledon
women’s singles title for the second
straight year Sunday, surging through
the last set to defeat Belgium’s
Justine Henin 6-1,3-6, 6-0.
The final, which should have been
staged on Saturday, had been delayed
a day because of rain.
The second-seeded Williams
Williams started the final with two
double faults and didn’t get her first
serve in until the fifth point when she
served an ace. But she won four
points in a row to hold serve.
Henin, who defeated Williams 6-1,
6-4 in their only previous meeting on
clay in Berlin in May, had two aces in
a confident first service game.
« Williams captured five break
points in the fourth game but Henin,
powerful and accurate hitting from
Henin led 5-3.
When Williams put another back-
hand out, Henin had two set points
and, luring the American to the net,
punched a backhand past her to take
the set.
Williams said she was “a little bit
angry” after losing the second set,
but was more relaxed afterward.
“I thought I could have played bet-
ter,” she said.
breezed through the first set in 20
minutes before Henin, 19, the first
Belgian in a Wimbledon final, hit
back with her powerful ground fall.’
strokes to even the match.
But Williams’ power took control
in the third set as she broke three
times, winning the title when Henin,
under pressure on the baseline, was
unable to control her shot and fired it
tamely wide.
Unlike last year, when she celebrat-
ed with a victory leap, Williams was
more reserved this time.
“I couldn’t leap because it was
raining,” she said. “I didn’t want to
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Venus Williams blows a kiss on Sunday while Justine Henin waves after the women’s singles final on the Centre Court at
Wimbledon. Williams won the match 6-1,3E, 60 to retain the championship.
the baseline, saved four. Williams points to the Belgian and, when the
gained the break with a volley at the defending titleist 1/4 netted another,
net to lead 3-1, and then gained three
set points with her powerful serves.
The defending champion squan-
dered the first when she fired a back-
hand wide, but when Henin sent up a
lob under pressure, Williams
clinched the set in 20 minutes with an
easy smash.
After a 15-minute rain delay, both
players held before Williams fired a
backhand wide to hand two break
Ivanisevic beats Henman in men’s semifinal
By HOWARD ULMAN
The Associated Press
WIMBLEDON, England - Tim
. Hejiman was unable to end Britain’s
63-year wait for a men’s singles final-
ist at Wimbledon, losing to Goran
Ivanisevic on Sunday in a match that
took three days to complete.
Ivanisevic now gets a chance to take
one more step in his climb from tennis
oblivion when he faces Patrick Rafter
for the championship today.
Ivanisevic won the semifinal 7-5,6-
7 (6), 0-6,7-6 (5), 6-3 as thousands of
disappointed fans on Henman Hill
watched on a huge video screen from
their perch inside Wimbledon.
The match was suspended because
of darkness Friday and rain Saturday.
On Sunday Ivanisevic ended it in just
four games.
“Today was match of nerves, noth-
ing to do with tennis,” the Croat said in
broken English. “Who’s going to have
more nerves and guts going to win the
match.”
Ivanisevic, who entered Wimbledon
with a No. 125 ranking, is the first wild
card to make the final.
There’s no telling what Ivanisevic —
a surefire crowd-pleaser — might do
today.
This is how important a Wimbledon
title would be to the mercurial left-han-
der, who flung his shirt into the crowd
after two earlier victories:
“If some angel comes tonight in my
dreams and say, ‘OK, Goran you going
to win Wimbledon tomorrow, but you
not able to touch the racket ever again
in your life,’ I say, ‘OK, I rather take
that and then never play tennis again.’”
For Rafter, this Wimbledon may be
his last. He plans to take six months off
after this year to assy’s his future.
Henman, stone-faced as he left
Centre Court and unruffled as he spoke
later, plans to be back.
“I’ll be back for many more tries,”
said the 26-year-old Henman, who also
lost in the semis in 1998 and 1999. “I
believe I’ll win this tournament.”
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