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Show Arizona Tips The Arizona Wildcats clinched the Western Athletic Conference baseball championship as they split a pair of Saturday games with the Brigham Young University Cougars after taking the Friday contest to win two of the series.. The Cougars beat the Wildcats, 1M, in the first game Saturday but they could not maintain the pace and the Arizona nine came back in the nightcap for a 1M victory. Arizona will play Denver, winners over Weber State, for the District Seven Chamthree-gam- e . I pionship. Both games were slugfests as there was little resembling a pitching duel in either Saturday contest The Cougars jumped into a two run lead in the first inning on hits by Lee Berge, Dane Iorg and Terry Sanford, but Arizona struck back in the second as Catcher J. Ray Rokey singled and Jim Williams blasted a home run to knot the count. Home Run A home run was the top feature of the third inning as the Cougars powered back to take the lead. Iorg singled and Doug Howard put the Cougars out in front with a home run over the left field fence. A pair of errors and a long hit by Mike Folster sent another pair of runs across the plate. The Cats added to the margin with three runs in the fourth. Lee Berge was safe on an error, Terry Sanford doubled and Dick Belliston's home run gave the Brighams a 2 7-- B rum lead. Arizona cut the margin with a pair of runs in the bottom of the fifth on Mark Driscoll's single and a home run by Tim eighth inning. Richard Fairbanks climaxed the uprising with a grand slam homer after Dick Belliston, Mike Folster, Maike Staffieri and Steve Easton set the stage with their steady slugging. at 84 and gave Cougar supporters renewed hopes that the Cougars were really on the prowl again. Cougar hopes were short lived however, as Arizona tallied a kne counter in the seventh on Jim Williams hard hit, and iced the contest with a home run by Mikulick in the eighth. There was a steady inarch of pitchers in both afternoon contests. BYU got by in the first game on the nine inning pitching of Steve Easton but Arizona used four elbow men in mat game and both teams cleared their benches in the nightcap as the Cougars sent five pitchers to the mound and Arizona used three moundsmen before the game was Arvnna struck again for three runs in the bottom of the ninth on an error, a fielders choice and Rod O'Brien's home run. The game was anything but a pitching dud but both teams were strong in the batting department and the home run proved to be a formidable weapon. The final game of the series was all Arizona for the first five innings. The Cats picked up one run in the lop of the first inning as John Glenn singled and crossed the plate on a wild pitch and Rod O'Brien's long hit The Cougars took over the lead in the second on hits by Mike Folster, Mike Dtaffieri and Jeff Dusek, but Arizona crossed the plate six times in the third on some steady hitting by Jim Williams, Dave Prest, Larry Dierks, Mark DriscoU, John Glenn and Dave Jacome's home run. The lead in the fifth as Wildcats jumped into a ft rfcw j '! 'a! BYU scored one run in the second inning when Lee Berge walked and scored after hits by Dane Iorg and Doug Howard. back-to-bac- k The Cougars tied the score with one more in the fourth frame with Dick Belliston walking and eventually scoring on a sacrifice fly to shortright field by Brad Meyring. The second basemen took the pop fly, but wasnt in throwing position to catch Belliston in time. BYU got one more in the fifth to take a 34 leal Berge led off with another walk and scored after another single by Dane Iorg and a double by Terry Sanford. The Cougars moved to a 54 lead In the seventh when Dane Iorg started the inning with a walk, the fourth consecutive innipg the BYU leadoff man worked for a walk. Iorg advanced on a single by Doug Howard and both scored on short pop to left field by they Mike Folster that popped out of Dave Jacome's mitt It was a difficult attempt and was ruled a hit. The Cougars left 14 men stranded on base, and saw the inning end in both ths sixth and seventh with the sacks full. 6-- hits. Jim Williams was the big bat for the Wildcats collecting five straight hits in the 8-- 2 secutive singles an a little help on a miscue of what might have been an inning ending double play. A rut scored on the double play failure, and the other tally came when a BYU throw went into the outfield on an attempt to prevent a stolen base. 5--2 finished. Dan Iorg hit three for five, Terry Sanford collected three for four End Mike Folster hit four for five in the first game to lead the Cougar hitters. Lee Berge and Iorg topped the hitters in the second game, each with three back-to-ba- the third round. WeisATLANTA (UPI)-T-om Weiskopf, who had led by as kopf, who appeared en route to as six strokes earlier in Classic Golf the Atlanta many turning into a runaway, was slowed by the round, wound up with a 71 for the day and a late bogey trouble Saturday, total of 204 but still held on for a shaky lead at the end of that left him a stroke ahead of Gary Player and Chuck Court first game and three for five in the second. O'Brien and Prest each hit safely three times in the first gome and O'Brien and Prest each hit safely three times in the final game. It was really a hitters paradise Saturday and there seemed L be little that, the parade of pitchers could do to stop the high powered stick work. In Friday's game Arizona struck for two runs in the eighth, and then pulled out the 1M victory with a six run outburst in the ninth frame. BYU had a lead at the end of the seventh and needed only six outs to preserve the win, but those six outs were hard to come by. The leadoff man in both frames was allowed on base by errors by Mike Staffieri, and each eventually scored. In the ninth frame, however, the BYU pitchers were heavily bombarded as the Wildcats scored six runs on five hits including a three run homer by Jim Williams off of relief pitcher Steve Fitz. Brad Meyring was the losing pitcher for the Cougars and lion Hooten was the winner for Arizona, going the entire distance. Meyring allowed 11 hits in eight innings and struck out four before being relieved by Brad Olson after the Cougars fell behind 5 in the ninth. Olson was short-livegiving up three hits to four batters before Fitz took over and allowed the homer. Arizona scored its first two runs in the second inning on the strength of three con Prest lofted another Cougar pitch over the fence. The Cats knotted the count with an uprising hi the bottom of the sixth inning. Fairbanks was given a walk, Lee Berge singled, Dane Iorg doubled, Doug Howard tripled and Dick Belliston found the range with a double. Some loose ball handling by the Wildcats and heavy stick work by the Cougars knotted the count Gump. The Wildcats used the home run for another score in the seventh as Sfrve Mikulic rounded the bases on his four ply swat The Cougars exploded for seven runs in the top of the Weiskopf Holds Edge In Atlantic Classic 8 In Deciding If "TPS :jppw.- jBWp' .. is, If ' i.i THE HERALD, Provo, Sunday, May 24, 1970 le 11 Utah-P- age one-stro- ney. The BYU, ASU Box Scores O'Brien, lb Mikulic, rf Rokey, c Jacome, ss Williams, 2b Prost, cf Hooten, p Totals RBI 0 1 1 0 0 1 3 3 0 9 42 10 IS AB R H RBI 0 0 BYU Fairbanks, cf 0 2 Berge, 2b 0 0 iorg, If 1 2 Howard, lb 1 0 Sanford, c 1 0 Belliston, rf 1 2 Folster, 3b 0 Meyring, p 0 0 Talbot, ph 0 0 Cardon, ph 5 34 5 Totals 020 000 Arizona 001 110 200- - 5 Brigham Young E Jacome, Fairbanks, Sanford, Y'J Staffieri 2. 1, Arizona 1. 1 026-1- 0 OP-B- LOB Arizona 8, BYU O'Brien, Sanford. HR Williams. SB Prest. S- FHoward, Meyring. IP H R ER BB SO 7 9 11 5 5 Hooten (W) 7 Meyring (L) 8 11 3 Olsen 13. Fitts 2B 1 SECOND GAME AB R BYU Fairbanks, cf Berge, 2b Iorg, If Howard, lb Sanford, c Belliston, rf Folster, 3b Staffieri, ss Easton, p Totals RBI 4 0 0 2 1 4 3 0 0 49 19 18 14 AB R H RBI ARIZONA DriscolUb Gump, If O'Brien, lb Mikulicrf Rokey, c Jacome, ss Williams, 3b Prost, cf O'Hara, p Shields, p Lodge; p & 1 Bingham, p Merache, p Rhodes, ph Totals 43 8 16 8 SCORES BY INNINGS BYU H 19 R 204300072 020020103 18 ARIZ. H 16 R- -8 E Belliston, Staffieri, Gump (2), O'Brien, Rokey, Jacome (2). dptbyu 1. 2B Fairbanks, Sanford (2) Folster. 3B Belliston. HR Howard, Belliston, Fairbanks, Williams, O'Brien, Gump, Merache, SB- ARIZONA Driscutl, ss Glen, If O'Brien, lb - Sanford. All R 5 H RBI 2 0 Mikolicrf Rokey, c Jacome, 3b Williams, 3b Prest, tf aim Mi J toll ti" 0 ! g Ohioan had surged to through 11 holes Saturday and seemed well on his way to winning the $125,000 tournament But he drove into trouble at No. 15 while trying to take a Baseball FIRST GAME ARIZONA AB Driscol, 2b Glen, If long-hittin- it. shortcut across a dogleg and when he blasted out of the rocky rough into a creek, two strokes of his lead were gone. Weiskopf managed to match par on the next hole, but then bogey ed the final two as his once wide lead eroded away. Weiskopf wasn't very talkative after his disappointing finish. "I feel terrible," he said. "1 felt like I wasn't going to be able to make it those last couple of holes." Player, the favorite from South Africa, managed a 69 despite missing seven putts of .eight fee or less 205 and for his Courtney, who started the day one stroke behind Wiskopf, equalled Player's total with a Vy YSfest A --r ( T By United Press International Rookie outfielder Terry Crowdouble in ley cracked a two-ru- n the sixth inning to pace the Baltimore Orioles to a 0 victory ever the Boston Red Sox Saturday behind the seven-h- it pitching of Jim Palmer. iihiwimm. cats to the Western Athletic Conference baseball championship. (Photos by Meb Anderson, Herald photographer.) JIM WILLIAMS, the big bitter for Arizona who went 11 for 14 at the plate, is congratulated by his teammates after clouting a home run which helped the Wfld- - 42 10 17 BYU AB R H game-winni- 5-- HR-Ml- kolic 5-- 5-- Frank Beard, with a 67, and Aaron, with a 70, sharfor fourth place at 206. .anx iwv&r f 5-- game-winni- si I r J3 ! - i Al 4--2, 578-ya- rd ajsW J DOUG HOWARD goes high in the air to bring down a high throw in time to get Arizona's Steve Mflmlic in a dose play at first base, -- llii J" tniniiiiiiiiirti i ir"""-- ' f - . ' 7 I - Indianapolis 500 San Diego Nips Frisco In Slugfest I I Mikulic, the leading hitter on the Arizona team, went bitless in the first two games, but hit a borne run in the deciding game. ,W Unser Grabs Pole For run-scori- 500-mi- le high-spee- - Benvenuti Wins Bout UMAG, Yugoslavia (UPI)-W- orld middleweight champion Nino Benvenuti retained his 10 RBI title Saturday night by knocking 17-1- 200-la- lf le rlen, 6-- 14-h- , out challenger Tom "The Bomb" Bethea in the eighth lorg,hf round of the first championship Howard, lb Sanford, c bout ever staged in a CommuBelliston, rf nist country. Folster, 3b The Italian, deStaffieri, ss Dusek, d fending his corwn for the fourth Faux, p consecutive time against an DuNann, p American, dropped Bethea for Gordon, ph the count at 2:43 of the eighth Garrett, p Talbot, ph with a hard right to the face. Cloward, ph Bethea, who 90 days ago Dalton.p stopped Eenvenuti in the eighth Goodman, p round of a non-titGreen, ph bout, tried 39 Totals to get up at the count of seven but fell back to the canva? of SCORE BY INNINGS I 0 6 0 1 0 1 1 0 an outdoor ARIZ. ring in this Adriatic R 10 H 17 E- -2 spa. BYU 020006000 ft 0 M 12 E 2 Benvenuti scored with several E Glen (2) Belliston, Staffieri, left hooks and jabs that opened Oerks, Berge, Iorg, a tiny cut over Beihea's right Belliston, Staffieri. Jacome, Prest. SB Iorg. eyt in the fourth. 4-- 3-- 0 0 Fairbanks, cf Berge, rb g game-winnin- 1 Derks,p Berger, p Shields, p Totals inning on Jack Heide-mann-'s first inning on single to give Cleveland singles by Sal Bando and Alou, a 3 victory over New York. and a two-ru- n bases loaded New York reliever Steve single by John Donaldson. Hamilton hit Sims with a pitch Oakland added three in the to open the 13th and Larry third on Frank Fernandez' two-ru- n Brown followed with a double. double and Donaldson's Jack Aker replaced Hamilton RBI single. Alou hit his homer Palmer scored his sixth and Intentionally walked Ray in a three-ru- n fourth. Bill followed Melton and John Matias hit Heidemann victory against two losses as Fosse. g the Orioles extended their home with his hit homers for the losers, who Sims gave the Indians a 1 absorbed their sixth loss in the winning streak to nine games. Paul Blair hit his sixth homer lead with a two-ru- n homer in last seven games. of the season in the eighth for the fourth, and tied the score at Ed Brinkman's fourth hit 3 with a homer in the eighth, drove in John Rosevoro with Baltimore's third run. run in the Leo Cardenas slapped an Felipe Alou batted in four the outside pitch into right field for runs with two singles and a ninth inning as the Washington a single with two out in the homer in three appearances at Senators surmounted a 1 it deficit to gain a 5 vkltory eighth to drive in Jim Holt with the plate to spark a run and give Oakknd attack which gave the over Detroit The Senators tied the the Minnesota Twins a 1 win Athletics a 12-- 2 triumph over the score at 5 in the eighth the Chicago White Sox. when Rick Reichardt hit his over the California Angeles. The Athletics knocked out fifth homer of the season. Ike Holt doubled with two out in the eighth, after the game was White Sox starter Joe Korlen Brown drove in four runs with seven-ru- n his first mi second homers of delayed 54 minutes by rain, and with a seven-hi- t, Cardenas followed with the assault before two were out in the year and Elliott Maddax blow off reliever the third. Jim Hunter went the also homered to build a 4 Ken Tatum. Stan Williams took distance for the A's, yielding Detroit lead. Washington's Frank Howard hit a two-ru- n over for the Twins in the eight hits for his sixth win. for The A's scored four in the homer, his 13th, in the sixth. seventh and received credit his fourth straight victory. Both teams scored two runs in the second inning. The in the Angels went ahead, third on Alex Johnson's sacrifice fly and Ken McMullen's triple. The Twins tied the score with two unearned runs in the fourth. Duke Sims drove in three runs By KURT FREUDENTHAL averaged a record 156.867 mile with a pair of homers and INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (UPI) per hour. scored the winning run in the Al Unser has the pole, but Besides Unser among the Saturday's 54th running of the obvious favorites are the three Indianapolis "500" auto race former winners Andre tti, Un has all the makings of an ser's brother Bobby, and Foyt unpredictable finish. along with such noted speed Barring major accidents demons as Mark Donohue, Dan which slows the pace, it will Gurney, Roger McCluskey and take the winner slightly more Art Pollard. than three hours to go the chase could But the distance probably at a record also come up with a sleeper in like Johnny speed. Victory Lane Unser predicted at least a Rutherford, who lost the pole By United Press International dozen drivers will have a good position to Unser by a split Billy Williams belted two shot at the Speedway championsecond. home runs and Johnny Callison Parnelli Jones, his car The most hectic finish in drove in three runs Saturday, ship. was the last to win from modern speedway history came owner, but it was three of Chicago's the in 1963, but nobody in 1961 when the lead changed weaker hitters who started the has pole, ever led this race from 20 times. Eventual winner Foyt Cubs on their way to a 144 start to finish. and Eddie Sachs, the runnerup, victory over the New York d each made four pit stops. The of hours Three Mets. crowd wasn't sure of the wide this a make open huge running Paul and Geo James (.130) until they came roaring winner that chase a for may jackpot had runPoDovich (.067) The racing down the homestretch for the reach $900,000. in second the producing singles a combination last time. inning and pitcher Ferguson fraternity Jenkins f.0501 drove in another 9 Mvuig skill, smooth work Foyt grabbed the lead on the with a sacrifice fly to put the by the pit crew and a large 198th lap when Sachs made an luck will determine the unscheduled Cubs ahead to stay, after dose of pit stop for 223 outcome. seconds to change a tire. Only Tomrnle Agee had tripled and Last year, only 13 of the 33 minutes earlier, scored for the Mets on Cleoit Foyt's chances were running at the appeared dashed when he went starters Jones' sacrifice fly in the first finish-ab- out par for the into the pits after his frustrated James drove in another run Four course. ago, only crew realized a pump malfuncyears with a single in the third and when tion on his third and supposedly seven were running the in same did the Jenkins the final stop left him without Hill aham Ci got 11-England's fourth as the Cubs built an 1 that's a sufficient fuel to finish. lead before the Mets managed checkered flag, and modern-da- y a minor uprising, teginning An extra pit stop cost with Art Shamsky's solo homer In 1952, twenty cars were still Foyt 17 precious seconds on the in the fourth. going at the finish and that 184th lap and Sachs blazed past Steve Huntz drilled a home record for the modern era still him. But 13 laps later, Sachs run over the rightfield fence stands. But when A. J. Foyt was also forced to make a leading off the 15th inning won for the third time in 1967 fourth stop for a tire change. Saturday to give the San Diego he was the only driver to finish This cost him the race as Foyt p Padres a 6 win over San the grind due to a three-ca- r took home most of the loot with accident on the home a winning margin of 8.5 seconds Francisco in a hour game. stretch that forced officials to the second closest in SpeedThere were rune home runs stoD the race as soon as the way history. sprinkled among the 44 hits Houston charger had twisted In 1967 and 1968 Andy during the long struggle, his way around the wreckage. Granatelli's famed turbine-powerincluding the 609th and 610th of That too. was a record. machines, first of their The great majority of SaturWillie Mays' career. The total of hits and the 33 runs were day's starters will be in cars kind in the race, were favored with first Jones and then Joe both nigh for a single game this Kwered byFord or Leonard at the wheel Jones led year in the National League. In night games St Louis was turbo charged Offenhauser en- 171 laps but went out four laps at Philadelphia, Cincinnati at gines. The Fords have won four from the finish when a $6 ball ' Houston, and Atlanta at Los of the last five races, including bearing went sour' and Foyt last ywar when Msrio Aadretti won. Angeles. 13th 3-- 68, Tommy ed a tie There were five players tied for seventh at 207, including de- -' fending champion Bert Yancey, Bob Stanton, Lee Elder, Dan Sikes and George Knudson. Weiskopf, who started the with a 133 day at total for his first two rounds, birdied his second hole and bogeyed the third, but then really got going with birdies at four and five, an eagle at the eighth hole and another birdie at No. 11. At that point, Courtney and Player were closest to him at and no one else seemed to have a chance to cut into that vast lead. "There are a lot of people who have a chance to win this thing on Sunday," said Nicklaus, who also had an eagle at No. 8 and who shaved six strokes off par over his last 14 holes. Nicklaus was asked what might happen if the Atlanta Country Club course, which has played extremely short during three hot, dry days, should receive rain Saturday night "That's when the better players whould have the advan- -' tage," Nicklaus said, "because everybody would have to make a quick adjustment" Ji 7 3-- 71. Jack Nicklaus, with a wft Baltimore Continues Hot Downs Boston Sox Streak, 3 ed ...... , .'4 (ZA Jj U 1 eight-cylind- four-cylind- THIS BUNT BOUNCED on borne piate and went higliia me air, bat it came cVwita time for Arnxaa to pet BYlTi Richard Fairbanks tut at first bate o& a dose play. I t .2 |