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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1977
Page
15
Detroit rookie Dave Rozema earned his first major league victory with an 8-0 win over Boston and celebrated by presenting long-stemmed American Beauty roses to teammates and press.
Iowa's spring football game set for 1 30 p m at Kinnick Stadium with free admission Coach Bob Cummings splits staff and lets players pick sides Black and Gold teams list multiple starters and reserves A dozen players are sidelined by injuries or academic duties including Arkenlpane Harrington Hill Hunt Jackson and others in missing lineups
Kathy Brym, a 1967 Czechoslovakia escapee, will be among top performers in the Modern Rhythmic Gymnastics competition at the University of Iowa next Saturday. A former standout at George Williams College, she now serves as a graduate assistant at Iowa.
Keith Hernandez homered double and single drove in five as St. Louis routed Philadelphia 10-1. Ted Simmons added three singles and two RBIs in a 13-hit attack against four Phillies pitchers, with John Denny suffering his fourth loss.
North-Linn scores 60 points to capture the Wildcat Relays boys title ahead of Maquoketa Valley by 12 points in an 18-team meet. Individual winners include Williams Midland shot put and Ahrendsen Midland discus, with North-Linn posting top marks in several relays and events.
Lincoln swept both boys and girls relays at the Swampsie meet. Boys team scored 93 to 90 for second Northeast with Lisbon third. girls dominated with Lincoln 161 over Preston 69. Multiple events led by Lincoln performances in relays and sprints, with standout marks from Pres and Lis athletes in field events and short-distance races.
West Union New Hampton edged West Union North 4-2 to even the season at 1-1. Roger Flaskerud homered for North and Jeff Snyder plus Ron Heying collected two hits each. Bruce Weigel hit a two run homer for New Hampton.
Arkansas anchored by Niall O Shaughnessy led to a meet record 16 minutes 19.3 seconds in the four mile relay at the 52nd Kansas Relays. Texas finished second at 16:21.4 as Anthony Taylor of Kansas posted a 13.82 in the 110 meter hurdles. Debbie Vetter of Iowa State won the women’s 1 500 meters in 4 20.4, and Debbie Carter of Northeast Missouri State set a 100 yard dash mark at 10.44. Tad Scales of Lawrence won the pole vault at 16 6, while Dean Hageman of Wichita State took the 1 500 meters in 3 48.6. Oklahoma’s Greg Byram won the 400 meter hurdles in 51.48. Oklahoma also won the sprint medley and the 880.
University of Iowa hosts the National MRG championships at Iowa Fieldhouse with a three day clinic, drawing participants and guest competitors from Canada and Europe. The event leads to trials in New York and a world championship berth for the top U.S. finishers in Basel, Switzerland.
Iowa hosts Illinois Saturday and Purdue Sunday at 1 p.m. on Iowa field. Pitchers Bob Stepp and Craig Van Syck start Saturday with Mike Boddicker and Rich Carluceci Sunday as the Hawkeyes chase wins after Michigan State and Michigan setbacks.
DeWitt Central won the Raider Invitational track meet at Anamosa on the new 400 meter all weather track totaling 73 points. Cedar Rapids Prairie finished second, Anamosa third, with top marks in shot put, high jump, discus and relays led by DeWitt performers such as Ellis, McCulloh, Kedley, and others.
Iowa City Iowa senior captain Janie Dunleavy from Fairfield qualified for finals in the long jump and 200 yard dash on Friday as the Big Ten meet opened. Michigan State led Illinois by one point after four finals with Iowa scoreless. Iowa qualifiers included Beckwith Mugge Wahl Abel and Dunleavy across hurdles and sprints.
Grinnell led 16 15 over Coe after day one in Wartburg men's round robin. Central sat third with 11 points, Luther 6, Wartburg 4, Cornell 2 as action saw Wartburg lose to Central and Grinnell, Luther fall to Central and Coe, Cornell blanked by Coe then lose to Grinnell.
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