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D-4THE STAR: Thursday, May 31,1973Mo/orAll-SESMidwestBy GRETCHEN STANICEK the Indians 4 to 2. Jay Ehlman Casler ramming out doubles.and Glen Nordquist were standouts on defense for the Cubs. Lombardi helped his own cause with two singles with Jay Ehl-man, Kevin Horan and JohnSouthernNobbe HitTriggersBig RallyBy DALE SINKWith his team trailing 8 to 7 in the top of the sixth, Mark Nobbe doubled to drive in two runs and sparked a 10-run rally, and Savannah (3-0) went on to a 17 to 8 win over Jacksonville (1-1)in the Southern association ofPark Forest Boys Baseball.Brad Colbrook topped Savannah with three hits and Bradley Stoltz and Kenneth Treptow each had a pair. David Geever led Jacksonville with two hitsIndians winning 4 to 31 over the anc* ^°bert Brooks and LouisThe Tigers beat the Dodgers, 12 to 2 in Park Forest Major league play as Jeff Paque pitched six strong innings, giving up two hits, and helped his own cause with a home run.Teammate Jesse Iucious hit his third homer in three games. Iveigh Williams, Chris Roache, Roger Zollner, Russell Bartlett and Michael O’Sullivan all hit safely in the game.The Yankees won 3-0 in the seventh inning after Randy Ramus (Yankees) and Alan Weed (Red Sox) each pitched six scoreless innings. Scott Bettin doubled in two runs and scored on Randy Weaver’s single to give Roger Vandergenugten his first win in relief.BILL YERGLER, Carl Nelson and James Gardiner singled for the Yankees. For the Red Six, Brad Hoffman, Steve Stani-cek and Eric Miskow had two hits apiece and Tony Wesley had one.A sixth inning finish found theTigers. Jim Dwyer, Tiger pitcher, struck out four and walked three and was backed by the bats of Mike O’Sullivan and homers by both Paque and Lu-cious.Bill Matre and Stephen Kaka-vas combined mound work for the Indians. Kakavas held theTigers to one run and two hits, striking out four in his first appearance on the mound and collecting his first win. Hitting for Indians were I^e Meyer, Paul Smith, Jim McIntyre and Tim I^o with singles; Mark Egof-ske, who doubled, and Corey Carr's double in the sixth, which won the game.The Yankees defeated the Giants 9 to 1, as Roger Vandergenugten and Kevin Thompson pitched a three-hitter. Scott Bettin got two hits and drove in three runs.Farriols had clutch hits to build the early lead.Jon Cayton, Richard Troester and Barry Siebert divided nine hits between them and BrentTim I am) pitched a good game for the Indians and Jim McIntyre lined a double and Stephan Kakavas a single for the Indians’ only hits.The Giant victory over the Braves was highlighted by an outstanding pitching performance by Bill Smith, who threw only 67 pitches in six innings and giving up three hits to beat the Braves 6«to 3.The Giants put the game away in the third when five runs' w ere scored. Stan Clark w'ent 3-for-3 including a triple. Ted Miller’s triple was good for 8 RBI. Tom Olson and ChuckCarothers doubles and TomVisisiano’s single paced the Giant hitting. The Braves’ three hits were garnered by Jay Williams with two singles and MikeBrownlee’s triple. Jeff Kappelpitched a strong game for the Braves as he blanked the Giants in four of the five innings he pitched.John Growth pitched a three-hitter and Terry Nemeroff got three hits as the Cardinals won a pressure game 5 to 4 against the Phillies. Cardinals got on the scoreboard with Zerex Veal’s hit in the first inning. Carv Macv of the Phillies homePITCHERS: Rich Dobrovich, Hillcrest; Larry Borders, Rich Central; Bob Dillon, TF SouthCATCHER: Darrell Kimzey, TinleyPark.FIRST BASEMAN: Ed Neal, Tinley Park.SECOND BASEMAN: Dave Bendell, TF South.SHORTSTOP: Steve Jones, TF South.THIRD BASEMAN: Brad Partridge, Hillcrest; Frank Howell, Bradley.OUTFIELDERS: Phil Rosati, TF South; Jim AI lie, Bradley; Tom Zych, TF South.SECOND TEAMPITCHERS: John Beachum, TinleyPark, Dan Merten, Bradley; Mike Kocia-ra, TF South; Connie Zefencik, TF North.CATCHER: Mike Scott, Bradley.FIRST BASEMAN: Rich Schoeneman, Rich Central; Doug Sutor, Stagg.SECOND BASEMAN: Mike Smith, Rich Central.SHORTSTOP. Mike Grace, Bradley.OUTFIELDERS: Brian Baldwin, TF South; Tom Groff, Rich Central; Mike Peck, Hillcrest.SPECIAL MENTIONFred Jacobeit, Hillcrest, first base; Joe Arbour, Bradley, outfield; Rick Weber, Crete Monee, outfield.HONORABLE MENTION .John O'Connell, Tinley Park; Dean Sammy, Crete Monee and Rob Snyder, Rich Central, pitchers; Gene Gierek, Rich Central and Corey McPherrin, Hillcrest, catchers; Jaffer A It, Tinley Park and Dave Sutterfield, Crete Monee, second basemen; John Matarresse, Stagg; Robert Charleston, Hillcrest; Bill Turner,Stagg; Robert Marciniak, Rich Central; John Van Dyke, Tinley Park and Steve Bettenhausen, Tinley Park, outfielders.Omaha (1-2) beat Houston (1- aided by the extra base clouts of2) in an eight-inning Midwest league thriller 6-5 when Mark Kuberski pounded out a sharp double with three men on base in the last of the eighth to drive Rod Wilson across the plate for Omaha’s sixth and winning run.Pitchers Mike Fisher (Omaha) and Robert Threlkeld ( Houston) dueled to a six inning draw to force the game into extra play. Tim McGurgan, pitching for Omaha the last two innings, struck out three and allowed no hits.Houston’s James Gangwer at short and Ronald Furgason at first tdrned in excellent fielding performances. Right fielder Emilto Ocanas fielded a powerful blow by Omaha’s Don Bras-ka to put the game into extra innings.Chris Ryan, Kurt Orr and Barry Mead. In addition, they received outstanding defensive plays from Dave Garland, Brent Parker and Bill Taylor, to remain undefeated.Buffalo’s hitting attack was led by Chris Nelson, Mike Green and John Honnold. Key defensive plays were made by Hannold and David Mensch.Ill iniIn a well-played defensive game, Wichita (2-1) toppled Shreveport (1-2) by a score of 4-3. Trailing 3-2 in the bottom of the sixth inning, Keith Nuzzo drove a double into left center, driving in Tim Warneke with the tying run. Nuzzo later stole third and came in with the winning run. Other hits by Wichita were a double by Duane Van-Slvke and singles bv Tim War-Bats Salem to First WinBy BOB BECKWITHIn the Illini league of Park Forest Boys Baseball, Salem won its first game with an exciting 4-2 extra inning win over Peoria.unassisted double play. Lee Watts, Dave Busier and Gregneke, Mike Palackdharry and Mark Keefer.SHREVEPORT’S defense was led by catcher Mark Walsh and shortstop Peter Stanicek. Their hitting attack came from Malcolm Whiteside with a triple. Walsh and Don Stewart contributed singles.Minneapolis (1-2) won over Denver (0-3) after exciting fifth and sixth innings, 10-9. Bill Webb drove in the tying run plate; Tony Vispisiano was 4-for-4 and Tony Voo 2-for-2. Ron Kochman’s double drove in two runs.Denver’s Ken Staven was credited with two doubles. AndyMekuty all hit singles to account McGough and James Hale bothfor Aurora’s only run.BLOOMINGTON chased Joliet 8-3 behind John Hall’s threeDan Greenwald led Salem hits and four RBI. Carl Wil-with two doubles and two RBI. liams and Rich Johnson alsoscored four runs on key hits by Jim Mengwasser and Tom Stephenson and were able to hold the lead.JEFF Jacobson and Jay Williams combined on a five-hitter to give the Braves their first victory over the Red Sox. Mike Brownlee and Greg Compton each had two hits. Del Beard made two great defensive catches in the field, and Todd Harthun and Jim Kochman got their first hits of the season. Steve Stanicek led the Red Sox attack with a triple and a single, Dimitri Mitchell doubled and Brad Hoffman and Alan Weed each singled.Defensively, the Sox pulledoff two double plays — one by the center fielder, Eric Miskow, who after catching the ball threw out a runner at the plate; the other by Tony Wesley, who caught a sinking liner at second and caught the Brave runner before he could return to base.hskoff pitched a two-hitter to run tied it all up. The Cards then keep Little Rock (3-0) unbeatendowning New Orleans (1-1) 10 to 1. Greg Kash and Ed Dean collected the only hits for New Orleans.CHATTANOOGA (2-1) kept pace with the leaders as Patrick Leuser struck out eleven on a two-hitter to key an 8 to 1 victory over Birmingham (1-2).Charlie Dostal, Scot Blatchford and Brett Bontrager shared the hitting for the winners. Brian Wilke and Billy King belted doubles for Birmingham and Wilke turned in three fielding gems topped off by a double play in the sixth.Brad Bailor’s strong pitching was backed by a fine team defense highlighted by two rally-killing catches by center fielder Bryan Paterson in Nashville’s (1-2) 13 to 4 decision over Atlanta (¥2-2*2). Michael Hopper took hitting honors for Nashville with two doubles and a single, while Marshall Melcer, w ith two hits, and Anthony Scott were the offense for Atlanta.Augusta (2-0) stood on top in the National division after besting Mobile (V2-2Vfe) 8 to 1 on a two-hitter bv Steve Deitsch-wman. Deitschman struck out 10 and was touched for a harmless single by Roger Clark and a run-producing double by Andy Rickus. Brad Greenwood had three RBI for Augusta from hisdouble and single.Steve Nuss, with two doubles,Billy King and Brian Wilke, with a bases-loaded double,John Landwehr pitched a strong game for the A’s giving up only four hits and four walks.’ Bobby Swanson batted 3-for-3. Pat Reynolds and Randy Schaefer were defensive aces as was Scott Miller, up from Ft. Worth, got a single in his only time at bat.A SLUGFEST between Indianapolis (2-1) and Louisville (2-1) ended with Louisville onMW Mtop, 19-8. The game was highlighted by some timely hitting by Rich Alvarado, Steve Sebastian and Scott Smith. They were backed up by fine defensive plays by Doug Alba, Bruce Paterson and Bill McMurray. John Toomey pitched three no-hit innings.St. Paul (3-0) downed BuffaloSalem was helped by excellent pitching from Paul Jach, Don Gayton and winner Mike Dunn. Ed Filec and Jim Bonfiglio contributed RBI for Peoria, while Filec and Rich Seddon shared the pitching.Belleville had two big innings as they romped 7-1 over Aurora. Terry Simental, Mike Leuser and Richard Schmelkin had consecutive hits in the three-run first inning. Carl Willis starred(0-3) by 6-4. The winners were defensively by completing ancontributed important hits in the attack while Mark I^ng struck out 10 Joliet batsmen. Dave Norris’ hitting helped the Joliet cause while Keith Van Lysebettens sparkled defensively.Joliet was also victimized by Decatur in the makeup of a postponed game. Greg Johnson, Jim Fullmer, Mark Hansen and Steve Abelman all had hits in the 9-0 win. Phil Rockrohr struck out seven Joliet batters.were 3-for-4 at the plate.In a fine defensive battle, Dallas edged Fort Worth 3-1 to remain undefeated in the Midwest league. Dallas scored first with two runs in the second inning as Jeff Koranda singled to open the inning, stole second, then advanced to third on a single by Ernie Tanner. Koranda and Tanner both scored on consecutive RBI singles by Mike Wolke and Keith Hospodar.In the Building Trades? Read the Business Directory for allVkinds of Services — Materials that can Benefit You!The Athletics won over the each drove in three runs asWhite Sox, 9 to 8. Gregg White-bloom pitched a no-hitter until a White Sox uprising in the fifth when they scored eight times, taking advantage of four hits and four walks. Pat Reynolds came in to put the fire out with one out.Matt Dentine poled a long triple and double, Bob Mauck and Terry Enright had all four hits for the White Sox. Athletics had 10 hits, two apiece for Bob Swanson, Pat Reynolds and Randy Shafer. Jon Halperin sparkled defensively for the White Sox while standouts for the Athletics were Bill Risner and Scott Miller.Birmingham scored four runs in every inning of a four-inning game to outlast Nashville 16 to 8. Nashville also scored in everyinning of this free-swinging game with Darrell Carver rapping a pair of safeties and Ed O’Malley stroking a double.Pitching and defense highlighted the battle between Miami (1-1) and New Orleans (1-2) with Miami’s Brad Randle andDanny Maravich outduelling Mike Wilson and John Mengwasser for a 5 to 1 decision. Brian Harris had two of Miami’s eight hits, and John Sweeney anchored the defense that allowed only Ted West’sTONY Lombardi pitched a two-bagger and Mengwasser’s two-hitter to lead the Cubs past base knock to get through them.
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