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Show Hi h of the year for the BYU Cougars, is also taking place this weekend. The first 36 boles of the 54 hole tournament were played today at the Riverside Country Club and the final 18 holes will be played Saturday morning. That golf tournament will bring some of the top intercollegiate golfers in the West to Frovo, and will provide golf fans with some top notch golf. The baseball highlight will have the Colorado State in three Cougars hosting games. One game was set this afternoon and is set for Saturday at the BYU a double-heade-r diamond. High school baseball is also reaching the stage of crucial games as Payson and Springville playoff for the Southern Division title Saturday at 1 : 30 p m. at the Spanish Fork By JOE WATTS Herald Sporti Editor and Sports activities this weekend are wide varied and the highlight of the agenda depends or individual taste. There's a top track meet, an excellait golf tournament, and take some key baseball games scheduled pur pick. The BYU Invitational involves the most participants as it will aUract over 2.C00 high school athletes to compete in track, tennis, and golf. The track meet takes place Saturday in the BYU Stadium with the tennis meet being held on several courts and the golfers are taking their divots today at the Golf Course. The Cougar Classic, the op heme golf meet Tlm-panog- diamond The BYU track team wont be at home, but will be plenty busy. Some of the top BYU performers are entered in the Mt. Sac tack meet in California. L. J. Silvester will also be competing there in the discus event along with the nation's top discus twiriers. Another event whi( .ill strike the fancy of many other sports minded people is the professional motocross race at Manning Cycle Park in Manning Canyon. Professional motorcyclists will be racing throughout the day Saturday and Sunday vying for prize money of $2,000. With all those activities scheduled it could be said that it's a busy weekend in Utah County. Top team competition is expected at the -- ighf Busy Slate BYU Invitational Track Meet. Track experts figure Skyline as a definite contender, but fens will be interested in watching the match between Region Four's two top powers, Orem and Spanish fork. individual championship The will also be of keen interest to track buffs. The Cougars will be favored to win their own Cougar Classic for the fifth straight year, but they will have tough competition from WAC foes Arizona State and New Mexico. Such brilliant golfers as BYU's Ray Leach and Joey Dills, Arizona State's Howard Twitty, and New Mexico's Greg Harmon are expected to battle for medalist honors, but in golf anyone can get hot and win the title. In baseball the Cougars will be favored over the Rams, but whether or net they can get a sweep is the question. The Cougars are 1 in division play while the Rams are in second place with a 2 mark. A sweep for the Cougars could almost put the division title in their hip pocket. 4-- The Schedule Track BYU Invitational, Saturday Tennis BYU Invitational, Saturday Golf Cougar Classic, Saturday morning, Riverside Country Club Motorcycle Racing AMA Professional Motocross, Manning Park. Baseball CSU at BYU, 2 games, 1 pjn. Toros Tip Salt Lake In Page 8 THE HERALD, Provo. Utah Friday, April 4-- Tilt J SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) -The Tucson Toros slipped across three runs in the 11th inning to break up a pitchers duel and take a 1 Pacific Coast League win from Salt Lake Thursday night. Pinchhitter Buddy Bradford singled in the winning run when Pete Varney scored from second on the blast Tucson added two more runs when Bradford scored on Tony Muser's bunt and Wayne Redmond came across on a throwing error charged to Angle catcher John Stephenson. Tucson Lowell Palmer matched Archie Reynolds of the Angels through nine innings as both pitchers allowed only one run in. But both men were lifted in the 10th for pinch batters. Salt Lake scored its only run in the sixth when Frank Baker doubled and took third on a single by Chuck Vonson. Baker scored on Roger Repoz' sacrifice. 28, 1972 4-- Lions Force Playoff For Division Crown By SCOTT CANDLAND Herald Sports Writer The Payson Lions, realizing that their Southern Division title hopes demanded a victory, fought back from a two run, fourth inning deficit to defeat the and Springville Red Devils force a play-of- f game to decide the division champion. 5--3, the game's first run to it's final score. The Lions scored the contest's initial run in the bottom of the second inning. Mark David singled with two men out. He stole second base and scored when Sprineville's centerfielder dropped a fly ball deep in the The play-of- f game will be held on the neutral Spanish Fork diamond tomorrow at 1:30 . The winner of that game will meet the Northern Division champion Provo High Bulldogs Tuesday, May 2, in the first of a three game series to decide the Region championship. Miscues played en important role in Payson's scoring, from outfield. The lead didn't last long however. Sid Sorenson led off the third for Springville with a walk. Singles by Roger Davies and Chris Jenson loaded the bases. Mike Elmer then lofted a sacrifice fly to left field to drive in Sorenson with the tying run. Lion pitcher Scott Wilson toughened up and struck out the HOW WAS IT CALLED? The runner, Ernie McAnally of the next two Red Devil Litters to a guy was late we always end that Springville threat. Montreal Expos, Is obviously safe. His foot Is clearly on the seemed to help him out." base and the ball is obviously not quite in the mitt of Wes The Red Devils couldnt be Laker Coach Bill Sharman stopped in the fourth inning. said after the fiasco, "New Jerry Jackson singled to right York just played a great game. and stole second base. Sid They had great movement and Sorenson followed a Springville always seemed to hit the open strike out with a double to deep man." left field driving in Jackson. A Sharman pointed out that single up the middle by Roger only one of the Knicks' first 20 Davies drove in Sorenson with baskets came from inside. the third Springville run. Kelly Descite Wednesday's bad Jensen was brought in to replace news for Lakers fans, Scott Wilson on the mound and Thursday gave the was able to strike out Chris National League title in 1970 on By FRED DOWN hometown audience something Jenson to end the inning. At the UPI Writer the strength of big bats, traded Sports to cheer about. The network end of Vk innings, Springville for speed and defense last That Red of Machine announced second Big led Sunday's the National League winter after finishing fourth in game will be televised in Los Payson fought back for a 1970, Cincinnati Reds, has the Western Division, 11 games champion NBA the of Lion in half the Angeles, the lifting single run new look a this season, and behind the San Francisco blackout of local games in fourth. should be renamed Giants. hometown areas. perhaps Jensen lion pitcher Kelly "The Road Runners." ABC said the NBA has an They acquired Joe Morgan swept through the Red Devil The Reds, who surged to the and Denis Menke from the agreement with the network that batters in the top of the fifth five home games can be blacked inning. Then in the bottom of the out after the regular season fifth the fortunes of baseball and the Lakers already have smiled down upon the Lions. blacked out five, including the Leadoff batter Brent Loveless Wednesday night Los Angeles-walked. A sacrif.ee bunt by New York opener, three Steve Tachiki moved him to seven set. The fifth game will By GARY KALE home matches in the Laker-Bucsecond. A throwing error by the be played in Hampton, Va., Writer UPI Sports playoff, and the Jan. 13 Springville shortstop allowed afternoon and the Saturday Yes, Virginia, there is a Nets game. Loveless to score the games Nets host the sixth game team the momenand it's got tying run, and left Lion Mont Monday night. Gee on second tx.se. Another tum to eliminate you from the The Western Division finals AssociaAmerican Basketball infield error on a ground ball also followed the script of tion playoffs. to for the sent Gee flying plate New York, down 2 after two winning at home and the Utah Payson's fourth run of the game, American League in Virginia, took advan- Stars have a decided advantage games to second Ron and sent Durrant East w. I. pet. g.b. base. tage of a nine-da- y layover to over the visiting Indiana Pacers Detroit 3 .625 in the next two Monday night in the rubber victories post of second the hit Mark Davis' Baltimore .500 1 home encounters level game of the series that is tied at and .444 Vj contest drove Durrant to the Cleveland at Boston 2 the series at .375 a ended with The inning plate. 3 5 .375 New York 2 two in the The Nets' Virginia may have relied too play 2 Milwaukee .286 2', Payson strike out, but the Lions, on rookie Julius Erving West thanks to a leaky Red Devil triumphs was inferior to their heavily first-roun- d in two losses to New York. the w. in the effort pet. g.b. infield led supreme 5 2 .714 Coach Al Bianchi said series that Squires' Kentucky 7 3 Frustrated Springville, .700 Chicago eliminated the Eastern Division the club too often "stood 5 3 .625 Oakland realizing that a loss would mean 5 Texas 5 .500 IVj champs. Still, New York took around and let Erving carry the not could play-ofretaliate a 5 2 6 .455 Kansas City advantage of some poor Virgi- attack." 4 6 .400 California 2"! and lost the game nia shooting to knot the best-of- Erving didn't score a field behind based on AB R H leader Springville 3 2 11 Sorenson 2 3 Davies Thursday's Results 2 4 Jenson (No games scheduled) 0 Elmer Today's Probable Pitchers 0 Hansen American League 0 Ollerton (All Times EST) 0 Cleveland at Lamb (Perry Kansas City (Splittorff 11), Jackson Preston Gomez, a sensitive, By MILTON RICHMAN 0 Roberts 8:30 p.m. Writer UPI Sports perfectionist, who 6 Totals Boston (Siebert 20) at Texas believes in many of the same (Broberg 2 0), 8:30 p.m. H AB Payson NEW YORK (UPI) -P- reston things the late Vince Lombardi California (Ryan 11) at Loveless Baltimore (Palmer 0 2), 7:30 Tachiki 2 Gomez had been forwarned did even though he comes from p.m. 1 Gee would what happen. the Province of Oriente in Cuba Oakland (Holtzman at Durrant Milwaukee (Slaton 11), 8:30 Olson and not Brooklyn, knew well in 0 The warning came from a p.m. 2 Davis advance what would be expectMinnesota (Blyleven 2 0) at Kester 0 man he had worked for and of him. ed New York (Stottlemyre Jenson been associated with 14 years, 7:30 p.m. 0 Wilson He was Answerable at Tasker Chicago (Bahnsen 0 a man who like so many others, He also knew that even Detroit (Timmerman 9 Totals I has come to admire the way p.m. though he had done everything H Preston Gomez conducts himAB SPANISH FORK Saturday's Games he humanly could, and maybe 0 self Cleveland at Kansas City Boyack and the consummate 1 Boston at Texas then some, he was answerable Swenson dedication he brings to every1 Howell Chicago at Detroit for the fact the Padres had not 0 thing he undertakes. D. Taylor Oakland at Milwaukee been able to climb out of the Minnesota at New York Searle 0 Calif at Bait., night Gardner Walt Alston, who has been NL West cellar the past three Brockbank seasons. 0 managing the Dodgers uninterNewitt San Diego is a vastly 19 for now had Johnson ruptedly years, 0 Johnston club from the one rt talk with improved the a 0 Francom Gomez first took over, Preston conalmost 1 fanatically proud, Rosenbaum 1 New York 020 001 10- 0- 4 9 0 Gallegos scientious Gomez before the and it is improved largely Can Lakers Stop (nicks' Shooting? INGLEWOOD, Cfilif. (UPI)-T- he Los Angeles Lakers a hard-luc- k team when it comes to National Basketball Association titles have to find some way of countering New York's awesome outside shooting before Sunday's second game of the championship series. In the opener at the Forum here Wednesday, the underdog bombed Los Knickerbockers Angeles much the same way B17s bombed Germany during World War II from outside artillery range. The Knicks simply passed the ball around until someone got open, then fed him the ball and let him plop it in from 25 feet away. Using this formula, the Knicks hit 72.1 per cent from the field in the first half of which Wednesday's opener, The Knicks' they won overall percentage was 53.8. 114-9- 2. New York Coach Red n said the secret was accurate shooting and good defense. "We were getting back well on defense," he addid. "If Holz-ma- United Press International National League East w. I. pet. g.b. 7 2 .778 ... 1 3 .667 New York Montreal 4 5 Philadelphia Pittsburgh St. Louis Chicago .600 .500 .300 .182 7 9 Vj 2V, 4"a 6 West I. pet. g.b 2 .818 ... Houston Los Angeles 9 5 4 4 4 San Francisco Cincinnati San Diego Atlanta .750 .417 6 8 8 Vi 4Vj .400 4"j .333 5''2 .333 5"j Results Thursday's Phila 7 San Francisco 6 Cinci 5 Pittsburgh 4 New York 4 San Diego Montreal 7 Los Ang 5 3 Today's Probable Pitchers National League (All Times EST) Cincinnati (Billingham at Chicago (Jenkins 0 2), 2:30 p.m. Atlanta (Jarvis 11) at 8 p.m. Pittsburgh (Moose St. Louis (Cleveland at Houston (Dierker 8:30 ) ) p.m. New York Lcs Angeles p.m. 10) at (Matlack (Singer 11 00) at Philadelphia (Fryman San Diego (Kirby p.m. Montreal (Renko Francisco p.m. (Carrithers Saturday's 10:30 at San 11), U Games Atlanta at Pittsburgh Cincinnati at Chicago St. Louis at Hous (night New York at Los Ang (night) Phila at San Diego (night) Montreal at San Francisco. Parker of the Los Angeles Dodgers, bat It was very close. The ump was right. He called the runner safe. Naturally, the home crowd booed the decision. The xBig Red Machine' Now Become xThe Road Runners' 3--1. ks All-St- ar 0-- 2--2. 3-- 5-- 3. f, 5-- Los Ang 001 201 30-0- 7 16 1 000 010 220 5 11 0 Lemaster (4). Mar- .McNally, shall (7), and Boccabella; Downing, Wilhelm (6), (7), Richerts (9) and Sims, Dietz (7). WP Lemaster (2 Of. Garvey (1st). HR 7 2 00-- 14 2 Palmer, Acosta (10), (11) and Varney; Reynolds, Foster (10), Skogan (11), Sells (11) and Hutto, Stephensen (34)); Foster (10) 623. (1-T: 2:58 A ta - 5-- f tying Blames Teammates for Short Circuit HAMPTON, Va. (UPI)-T- he Virginia Squires are blaming a single. Morgan's steal forced short circuit in their communications system for their sudden the Pirates to intentionally walk Bobby Tolan and then tie with the New York Nets in Morgan and Tolan executed a their ABA Eastern Division goal in the fourth game until he double steal. semifinal playoff series. hit from the floor with five "We had a breakdown in otr Johnny Bench pepped out but minutes left in the second Tony Perez was intentionally communications in our game period. walked and Uhlaender, hitless plan," said sensational Virginia Utah, defending ABA cham- in 11 previous appearances as a rookie Julius Erving after the 7 win Wednesday pion, lost a chance to clinch the National Leaguer, delivered his Nets' Western playoff title Wednes- key hit. night. The win, New York's second straight, pulled the Nets day night when the Stars Reliever Clay Carroll picked into a 2 tie in the verdict to dropped a 105-9- 9 up the victoiy for the Reds series. Indiana. while Dave Giusti, the world "When we got to a point The Stars, however, have a champion Pirates' ace reliever, where we realized that time great psychological edge in was charged with the loss. was against us, we didn't follow next Monday's deciding contest. The Stars are riding an The New York Mets beat the the game plan," continued home winning string and San Diego Padres, the Erving, who was well off his with Willie Wise and Zelmo Philadelphia Phillies downed game even though he led the Squires with 27 points. Beaty going all out for the the San Francisco Giants, hometown crowd, Utah became and the Montreal Expos topped The game plan, according to favored to meet the survivor of the Los Angeles Dodgers, in Erving, is to go to Erving. And the New series Thursday's only other major his teammates didn't do that often or well enough. for the ABA crown. league games. 118-10- 2-- 4--3, York-Virgin- ia Gomez Held in High Regard, But Still Fired 1 soft-spok- 1 1 1 ) But Derrel Thomas, the Padres' rookie second baseman, messed up a pickoff play allowing one run to score. Then with two cut, Larry Stahl waved off Thomas on an easy pop behind second, the ball dropped, another run scored and San Diego lost, That could've been it right there although the Mets took 2--1. 1 1 Major League Linescores Montreal 03- -4 Harten-stei- n Houston Astros in exchange for a tie in the ninth inning and home run hitter Lee May in pave the way for the Reds' 4 their big winter deal and they victory over the Pittsburgh showed Thursday night why Pirates. The victory was the their new lock gives them new fourth in 10 games this season for the Reds. hope. The Reds displayed their new Morgan singled, stole second and third and rode home on kind of baseball to 12,504 fans Ted Uhlaender's single to snap in Pittsburgh Thursday night when Morgan stole second after leading off the ninth with his 1 National League 010 014 0017 7 0 Phila 000 301 200- -6 9 0 San Fran (7), and Selma, Twitched Ryan; Cumberland, Johnson (6), Bryant (8) and Healy, WP Twitchell (10). LP Bryant (01). HRs Money 2 (2nd and 3rd), Johnson (2nd) , Luzinski (4th), Kingman (5th). Linescore: 000 000 100 Tucson 000 001000 Salt Lake New York Has Momentum Major League Standings By I v The Toros came back in the top of the seventh. Jim Lyttle singled and later scored whe.i Jim Redmon hit into a fielder's choice. Alan Foster came on for Salt Lake in the 10th and was nailed for the loss while Cecilio Acosta, who pitched a scoreless 10th for Tucson, picked up the win. San Diego 020 000 010 heart-to-hea- 3 7 0 Gentry, McGraw (8) and Grola; Norman, Ross (8) and Barton, Kendall (8). WP Gentry man (1st), Cincinnati Pittsbrgh Staub 000 020 102 5 12 0 002 100 001 4 9 0 jjilett, Sprague (5), Borbon (7), CaTOli (8) and Ben-h- ; Briles, Kison (6), R. Hernandez (7), Giusti (7) and Sanguilien. (10). (1st). (0-1- (1st), American League (No same sctodui'jd) Sten-net- t Nelson 0 C. 0 0 Taylor Forsling Hunter Totals 1 8 AB CARBON Tomsic H Talmloos Borla 0 2 2 Jensen Cowley Tone Hensen 1 0 Craven Totals accepted his first major league managerial job with the San Diego Padres. 2 1 Sandoval Ellington Strong 1959 baseball season, shortly through his efforts. But the after his former coach had Padres have not drawn and 1 0 y 1 0 19 "Preston, you know the job you're gettinc is tough," said Walt Alston in that down home Ohio way of his. "It'll be the toughest job you've ever had. It's an expansion club. They'll expect you to build and win, too." every now and then they revert to their early ineptitude like so many of the expansion clubs do. Last Tuesday in San Diego was one of those nights. one of the Steve Arun, if Padres' better righthanders who practices dentistry on the side, had the Mets on his hip, when they put runners on first and second in the seventh inning. PRESTON GOMEZ another one from the Padres, Wednesday night also. Gomez' phone rang at home around 9 Thursday morning and the caller was Buzzie Bavasi, 5-- 1, the Padres' president and a e friend of Gomez. He told the manager he'd like to long-tim- see him in the office. When Gomez got there, Bavasi didn't take long to get to the point "Preston," he said, obviously unhappy with what he had to say, "There are three men I respect in this game. The late Charlie Dressen, Walt Alston and you. But I ha'e to make a change. I have to do this. I want to shake up this town." Bavasi spoke with emotion. There were tears in his eyes. Preston Gomez felt a heaviness, too. He felt it beneath the shock. "It Tore Me Up..." "It tore me up mside," says the Diego manager. "But I know inside it hurt Buzzie, too. He did what he felt he had to do. I thought he handled it very good. After all, I worked for him 14 years and he gave me the job in the first place. That's something I will ex-Sa- n always remember and thank him for. I enjoyed working with Buzzie. The news media all over the country were wonderful to me, and I wish to thank them also. Yes, I took this thing hard, but I'm not the first manager to be fired and I'm sure I won't be the last. All that's needed with the club now is a little more patience. The potential is there. Someone is gonna have a lotta fun with this club some day. I'm only sorry it won't be me." Preston Gomez received the news Thursday morning some hours before the Padres were to meet the Mets again. He is so well thought of that he had calls from two other clubs with job offers less than an hour after he was fired, but there was one more important thing he wanted to do. He wanted to stop by the ballpark and say goodbye to his players. He wanted to tell them he hoped they would put out for Don Zimmer, the new manager, the same way they did for him. Then Preston Gomez would walk out of the San Diego clubhouse the same way he always did whether he won or lost. 1 Head high and erect, |
