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IHS Girl Cagers Gear for OpenerBrewers Stop Keough Streak at OneMILWAUKEE AP MattWin in 'La'looked good in practice according to AndersonOthers expected to fill out the ten-member varsity are Diane Collins, a 5-6 junior guard-forward; Mary Peter son. 5-3 junior guard and Maria Vuorenmaa. 5-4 junior guard.According to Anderson, Hancock, with four starters and nine letter winners back from last year, has to be the favorite for the Superior Six Conference crow n Ontonagon and Calumet, although both losing most of their starters, should be strong due to theirthe A s in eight days He had failed to last more than three innings in his three starts before that.Everything seemed to be happening to me at once in those three starts, he said. I had never had that happen to me before in three consecutive starts. It seemed like every time somebody hit the ball it would be in the hole You had to wonder a bit, and I started having negative thoughts That's why winning these last two starts has really helped me mentally .”The crowd of 7,527 was the Brewers' smallest at home this year.Ironwood girls’ basketball coach Russ Anderson lost three starters and a first line reserve from last year's 15-6 Class C District championship team; he feels he has the material to be cautiously optimistic about this year's team The telling ingredient will be cohesiveness• Although it lost heavily Irom last year, this team could be as good or better by midseason if the players develop to their full potential,” Anderson cited. The most difficult job will be finding theKeough's winning streak stopped at one game Oakland's hard-luck righthander, who had lost 18 decisions in succession until he beat the Milwaukee Brewers on a five-hitter last Wednesday, pitched well again Tuesday night But Milwaukee's Jim Slaton, helped by two defensive'plays by Gorman Thomas, pitched better as the Brewers beat the A's 5-0 to snap a four game losing string Milwaukee has a super ball club and I was fortunate to hold them down last time. said Keough, 1-15 Tonight I just ran out of gas. probably because 1 threw 151 pitches in the game last week, and 1 made a really bad pitch to Cooper in the first inning tonight Cecil Cooper lined his 22nd homer in the Brewer first inning and added a bases loaded sacrifice fly in the fifth. Successive triples by Jim Gantner and Charlie Moore in the seventh chased Keough, and two more runs scored in the inning on a walk, a sacrifice fly by Don Money, a double by Cooper and a sacrifice fly by Ben Oglivie.Thomas, the center fielder, robbed Mitchell Page of at least a double with a running catch in the fifth An inning later. Thomas leaped in front of the wall to grab a drive by Page to retire the side withbest combination of players to complement one another,” he addedThe Red Devils will be young, with only one senior, Becky Borth, returning An derson looks to Borth. who is coming off knee surgery, to supply much of the leadership Although some of the other Red Devils are young, they are not short on experience Three juniors, Paula Moren, Mary Jindrich and Karen Angwin. have had extensive starting experience The nucleus of the team will probably form around Moren, whoplaying lately I thought something like that would happen I'm glad we beat Keough because he put us in a slump,” Bamberger said Nah, really, it's nothing personal because you alw ays try to w in no matter who's pitching, but I think it’s important that we finish better than last year Last year everything happened quicker than expected and we won 93 games.’' he said. I thought maybe this year we could win 93 games. Now, I hope we win at least 95. Our chances of catching Baltimore are slim, but I want to at least finish second.TigersDETROIT (AP - Inbaseball parlance, a 14-1 ballgame is called a laugher And, sure enough, everybody was laughing after the Detroit Tigers bombed the Cleveland Indians by that score Tuesday night What can you do about it? You have to forget it, Cleveland Manager Dave Garcia said. It gave us a chance to use a lot of our young kids. What the heck, we re liable to go out and score six runs in the first inning tomorrow night You never know in this crazy game.”earned all-Upper Peninsula Class C first team honors last year as a junior. Back to team with the 5-5 Moren in the back court will be the 5-4 Angwin Jindrich, at 5-6, will hold down a forward positionExpected to pick up the slack underneath for gradu ated seniors Jean Semenak and Sue Kutz are 5-9 junior Michelle Paulson and 5-8 junior Lianne Kivi Anderson looks to this tandem for rebounding strength Another letter winner, 5-6 guard-forward Pam Madgziak, hasThe Brewers gained a game on Baltimore and trail the American League East leading Orioles by 11 games. They also increased their lead over the third place Boston Red Sox to 24 games.We knew Baltimore lost We re still peeking at the scoreboard, Slaton said. It will be pretty tough to catch them, but we’ve got real good chance of winning around 95 games and finishing second, you win 95 games and you should be in first place, but Baltimore has had an unbelievable year Slaton. 14-8, scattered tive hits for his second victory overbaseman Jason Thompson drove in four runs with a double in the first and his 19th home run of the season in the eighth.Tiger catcher Lance Parrish belted a two-run homer in the second, his 18th Detroit starter Dave Rozema scattered six hits over the five innings he worked to up his record to 4-3 It was the first victory since June 3 for Rozema ./ho was out w'ith a sore shoulder from June 13until Aug 27 I felt pretty good, the young Detroit right-hander said. I was a little wild, but I lelt strongMv arm foil cDwwl Hnrintfsaid Id have been a lot more upset if we’d gotten beat one-to-nothing The eight runs scored when Detroit sent 12 men to the plate in the first inning were the most runs the Tigers had scored in a single inning since the fourth inning of an Aug 30. 1975, game against the California Angels The Tigers scored their other run in the third.It's games like this that make me look like a genius,” Detroit Manager Sparky Anderson said with a chuckle as he headed for the shower Unfortunately. I ain’t no real genius.”strong benches and outstanding jayvee squads However. Anderson says don’t count us out yet.”A total of 14 girls will fill out the junior varsity squad that is hopeful of improving on a sparkling 16-3 ledger posted by last year's unit Making up Beth Tankka’s squad are: freshmen Chris Johnson, Ann Marie DeCarlo, Kristin Thomas* Debbie Auvinen, Beckett Doman, Carol Vizan-ko, Cheryl Angwin, Nancy Dalpiaz; sophomores - Cheryl Sullivan. Trina Stutz. Jenny Drury. Jodi Sell and Dawn Doman.The Red Devils will open their season with a non-conference game with Waters-meet at home Thursday. Sept 13, before hosting Hancock in a Superior Six Conference opener Tuesday. Sept 18 Schedule:Sept 13 Watersmeet. home, 7 p.m Sept. 18 Hancock, home, 7 D.m.Sept 20 Ironwood Catho lie. home, 7pm Sept 25 — Houghton, away. 6:30pm Sept 27 — Wakefield, home. 7pmOct. 2 L’Anse. home. 7 p.m.Oct 4 Watersmeet, away. 7p.mOct 8 - West Iron County, away, 7 p.m Oct 11 - Calumet, home. 7 p.m.Oct. 16 — Ontonagon, away. t; :{o p m Oct. 18 Bessemer, home. 7 p.mOct. 23 — Hancock, away, 6:30pm Oct. 25 — Houghton, home. 7 p.m.Nov. 1 — L'Anse, away. 6:30 p.m.Nov. 2 — West Iron County, home, 7 p.m.Nov. 6 — Calumet, away. 6:30p.m.Nov 13 — Ontonagon, home. 7pmNov 15 — Bergland, home. 7 p.mNov 19 — Bessemer, away. 7:30 p.m Nov 20 — Wakefield, away. 7pm
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