
DATE: Monday, May 12, 1997                  TAG: 9705120165

SECTION: SPORTS                  PAGE: C7   EDITION: FINAL 

SOURCE: STAFF REPORT 

DATELINE: ISLE OF PALMS, S.C.               LENGTH:   36 lines

6TH LEG WIN IN A ROW FOR THE WORRELL 1000 LEADERS

Randy Smyth and Jason Sneed of Team Chick's Beach continued to dominate the Worrell 1000 Saturday night and Sunday morning as the catamaran race dwindled from 13 starters to but seven boats.

Smyth and Sneed have won all six legs of the 960-mile race.

Team Russia became the sixth crew forced out of the race when it struck an object off Folly Beach, S.C., in early Sunday's darkness. Uninjured, the two crewmen and their broken boat came ashore.

Smyth and Sneed, lead second-place Team Holland by more than 3 1/2 hours. Team Pomodoro, being sailed by Hans Meijer of Virginia Beach, remained fourth, less than two minutes behind third-place Team Rudee's Restaurant.

Sunday the teams sailed their second night leg, from Isle of Palms, S.C., to Myrtle Beach, with the first boats not expected to finish until early this morning.

The next leg will not set sail until Tuesday morning at 10, an 83.7-mile run to Wrightsville Beach on the southeast North Carolina coast.

The standings:

1. Team Chick's Beach, 1st on leg, leg time 7:23:01, elapsed time 43:08:42.

2. Team Holland, 3rd, 8:06:23, 46:39:25.

3. Team Rudee's Restaurant, 6th, 8:38:31, 47:01:20;

4. Team Pomodoro, 2nd, 7:50:00, 47:03:07.

5. Team Florida, 5th, 8:29:37, 48:50:29.

6. Team Nokia, 4th, 8:20:57, 49:26:48.

7. Team Key West, 7th, 9:48:40, 50:58:18. ILLUSTRATION: MAP

The Virginian-Pilot

WORRELL 1000