West’s Rally Wins Shrine Game

San Jose State quarterback Jeff Garcia threw three fourth-quarter touchdown passes and ran for the decisive two-point conversion, rallying the West to a 29-28 victory Saturday in the East-West Shrine Game at Palo Alto.

Garcia, who ran for the conversion with 47 seconds to play, was chosen co-offensive player--along with East quarterback Jay Fielder of Dartmouth--of the game.

The East led, 28-7, at the end of three quarters, but the West narrowed the gap with the first two fourth-quarter touchdown passes by Garcia, who finished with 22 completions in 32 attempts for 266 yards.

Winter Sports

Markus Prock of Austria sped to the best time in both runs on the tight-curved track at Oberhof, Germany, to win his third luge World Cup of the season, edging Duncan Kennedy.

Kennedy became the first American to get a medal at Oberhof, winning a silver as he put together runs of 44.806 and 44.792. He also took the lead in the overall World Cup standings.

The race marked the return of the U.S. team to this former East German winter sports capital, where Kennedy was beaten by neo-Nazi skinheads on Oct. 29.

Kennedy is to testify Monday in the trial of two of seven area youths charged in the attack.

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Patrick Ortlieb became the first Austrian to win the famed Kitzbuehel World Cup downhill since Peter Wirnsberger in 1986.

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Katja Seizinger of Germany dominated the super-giant slalom at Cortina D’Ampezzo, Italy, for her second World Cup victory in two days.

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Vladimir Smirnov beat two-time defending World Cup overall champion Bjorn Dahlie of Norway by 22.2 seconds in winning a men’s 15-kilometer cross-country freestyle race at the Holmenkollen Nordic Ski Festival in Oslo, Norway.

Lyubov Egorova of Russia posted a 39.8-second victory over Italy’s Manuela di Centa in the women’s 15K freestyle race.

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Randy Weber and Tad Langlois earned spots on the U.S. Olympic men’s ski-jumping team after finishing third and fourth, respectively, on the 90-meter hill at Lake Placid, N.Y.

Jim Holland of Norwich, Vt., won the event with jumps of 118.5 and 114 meters for 244.6 points in the first leg of the ski-jumping trials.

Tennis

Pete Sampras beat Ivan Lendl, 7-6 (7-5), 6-4, to win the New South Wales Open at Sydney, Australia, for the second consecutive year.

Mary Joe Fernandez and Kimiko Date are scheduled to meet today for the women’s title. The third-seeded Fernandez reached the final with a 7-5, 6-1 victory over second-seeded Gabriela Sabatini of Argentina. The fifth-seeded Date, of Japan, defeated Patty Fendick of the United States, 6-2, 5-7, 6-1.

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Patrick McEnroe advanced to the final of the New Zealand Open at Auckland with a 7-6 (7-5), 3-6, 6-3 victory over Karsten Braasch of Germany. McEnroe will play top-seeded Magnus Gustafsson, who defeated fellow Swede Thomas Enqvist, 7-5, 6-4.

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Michael Chang retained his title at the Indonesian Open men’s tennis tournament at Jakarta, Indonesia, by defeating David Rikl of the Czech Republic, 6-3, 6-3.

Miscellany

Five have been charged with killing a former Illinois State University basketball player Reginald Wilson and his girlfriend. Wilson, 23, and Felicia Lewis, 20, both of Chicago, were shot to death last week in a carjacking.

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John Bertrand, who defeated Dennis Conner to win the America’s Cup for Australia in 1983, heads eight foreign teams announced as official challengers to the San Diego Yacht Club in the 1995 Cup. There is a second Australian challenger, two teams each from France and New Zealand, and single challengers from Japan and Spain.

Names in the News

Forward Anthony Avent was traded by the Milwaukee Bucks to the Orlando Magic for center-forward Anthony Cook and a conditional 1994 first-round draft choice. . . . George Vico, one of 70 major leaguers to hit a home run in his first at-bat, when he played with the Detroit Tigers, died Thursday at his Torrance home. He was 70.