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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1980
Page
19
Toronto pitcher Dave Stieb flames through a seven hit shutout to stop Detroit's nine game win streak in a 2-0 Blue Jays victory. Stieb improves to 7-5 with 16 straight scoreless innings, while Burns and Proly combine for Oakland victory and other scores noted.
Montreal right-hander Dave Palmer pitched eight strong innings in a 4-1 win over Pittsburgh, extending the Expos' division lead to 3 1 2 games while Palmer drove in the go ahead run. Fred Norman earned the save. Other results included St Louis 9 Chicago 7 and Houston 12 Cincinnati 10.
Tim Painton delivered a run scoring single in the sixth as Clinton beat Cedar Rapids 2-1 before 2,886 fans. Clinton leads the ML Southern Division second-half race at 5-2. Cedar Rapids and Burlington are 3-4. Doran Perdue and Eski Viltz contributed early and Viltz had three hits to lift his batting average to .278.
Fairfax fell 10-8 in the nightcap while winning the opener 12-7 in a home twin bill that produced 10 homers. Corky Summers homered in both Fairfax games, with Hastings and Daryl Henry adding one each. Watkins blasted two homers for Wat kins in game two as Randy Schulte went deep three times in the two games for Norway in a doubleheader sweep of Amana.
Cedar Rapids Blue sweep two games with La Crosse Wisconsin in Ameri can Legion baseball last weekend. Jon Meier led with eight hits including two homers across four games. Chad Loupee and Troy Kowalsky each had six hits with Loupee adding two homers and a triple. Blue won Saturday games 15-5 and 6-4 before dropping 11-9 and 11-7 on Sunday. Winning pitchers were not listed.
Kentucky center Sam Bowie and Indiana star Isiah Thomas praised the chance to face top players in a world class squad. Coach Dave Gavitt noted the team fulfilled its purpose in the stretch, accepting they would not travel to Moscow.
Chicago Cubs slugger Dave Kingman ends his Tribune sports column to concentrate on baseball. He wrote his last column weeks ago and returned to the lineup Sunday after a 15 day disabled list stint with a sore shoulder.
In Eugene Oregon at the Olympic Trials a Iowa State sophomore finished second in the 400 meter hurdles with 58.56 seconds. Kim Whitehead trailed Esther Mahr of KCBQ who won the event, while Debra Melrose of Prairie View placed third.
Four Cedar Rapids Water Ski Club members deliver eight wins at the Waverly Open held Saturday and Sunday. Don Nelson wins two events in Division II, Evan Mengler takes Veteran Men tricks, plus two more podium finishes, and Bob Lewis with brother Bill sweep junior boys events in tricks, jump, and slalom. In Williamsburg, Regis High School improves to 17-9 after taking the district tournament title 16-4 over Williamsburg. Tom Kriegel homers, Hynes and Gradeville pace Regis with multiple hits as Scott Brady tosses a one hitter in the tourney opener against Mid-Prairie, 8-1.
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