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Show Jerry Breaux Fires 66to Lead Provo Open Sunday, May 23, 1971 THE HERALD,Provo, Utah—Page it 5byJoewarts ald Sports Editor Breaux holds a three stroke lead over Paul Allen of Billings, Montana, and amateur Max Fillmore of Provo. They finished with rounds of 69. Before they teed it up, most observers felt Bispar weil he. pine to win the vo Open, but Saturday « 25-year-old pro ke Las Vegas, Nev., Jerry Greaux, shot holes in that theory. Breaux turned the Timp course with a fiveunder-par round of 66, and if there was anyone who thought Breaux would soar to a five over par round in today’s finale he couldn’t be found. Breaux has been sizzling hot the past few times out. For instance, last weekend, at the Southwest Open on the Roadrunner Course ii n Phoenix,Ariz.,he shot rounds of 66, 67, and 65 to win the tournament by nine strokes and broke the tournamentrecord by ninestrokes. There were some 80 professionals in that field. In the Pro-A m Friday he shot a 69, which indicates he is a pretty steady pe-former. carding three straight birdies on 15, 16, and 17, Heparred thefinalholefor his sizzling 66, If someone is to catch him, it appears he will have to shoot a plenty hot round. An A Flight golfer, Gray Smith from Las Vegas, Nev., fired a one under par 70 as did professional Jim Baker from Salt Lake City. ‘Three golfers were in at even par 71s. They were Jim Blanksof San Luis Obispo, Calif., Jon Fister from Ogden, and Pat Dolan of Salt LakeCity. Paul Allen and MaxFillmorearejust three strokes back andthus have the best chance. Allen and Fillmore were both one under par oresides, on shooting rounds of 34-35 for Breaux’s father, Harvey Breaux,is entered in the tournament an ee shot a two over par 73 and so can’t be completely counted out ofit either. In the Pre-Am, he shot a 71, the second best amateur effort of Breaux was just another golfer in the field after ten holes. He was even par at that point, having onebirdie and one bogeyto his credit. Theturning pointin his hot round came on the 520 yard par five 11th hole when he hit a driver, then used a driver on the fairway to reach the green in two, and dropped in an eagle putt to put him two under par. Hethen parred the next three holes before that day. Lowest shooters in Friday's Pro-Am were Timp’s Garth Ford, Earle Wilde, and Jim Baker with 68s. The standingsafterthe first round were as follows: Jerry Breaux. ux i) Max Fillmore, A, 34-35; Paul Allen, 34.35 70 Gary Smith, A, 3634; Jim Baker, 35-35. n Jim Blanks, 3635; Jon Fister, 34.37; Pat Dolan, 34.37 Vaughan Barker, A, John Evans, 36-36 Mark Ballif, 36-36. 73 _ Jack Ridd, A, 37-36; Steve Wathen, A, 33-40. Tom Blomstrom, A, 36-37; Harvey Breaux, A, 36 37; Bill Downs, 37.36; Tommy Williams, 37-36 Nolan Wathen, 37.36; Jon Mauss. 74 Sonny Braun, Larry Winchester, Craig Ridd, Gil Torres, Rusty Guernsey, Paul Langager. Ernie Schneiter, Dick Kramer. 75 Frank Eickelberger, Lee Kirkham, Glade Overly, Eldon Reese, Joe Bonsignore, Bill Korns, Dick Huff = Ford. Ed Roark, Lanny Nielsen, Sam Bingham, Bob Murphy, Hamp Green, Spike Henderson, Todd Barker, Paul Jones, JamesBlair, Steve Nelson. Watts. Cookin By JOE WAITS Cloward Climaxes Provo's Successful Baseball Season Provo High baseball coach Leonard Mackay had a hard timedeciding which of the three fine pitchers to start in the Class A state championship game Friday at Timp Park against the Ogden Tigers. Mackay has had his teams in the state finals more often than any other active coach on the high schoolscene. In fact, he is the only coach on the UHSAA record record booksto take his team to the finals in three consecutive years. He turned that trick for Provo in 1967, 1968, and 1969. He missed out in 1970, but there he was, back in thefinals in 1971. His Bulldogs won the championship in 1967, defeating Murrayin the finals, but in 1968 the Bulldogs lost to West and in 1969 lost to Viewmont. This year Mackay wholoves to win, was interested in reversing that two gamelosing streak in the finals. He had three fine pitchers from which to choose. They were Scott Atkinson, Veldon Law, and Rick Cloward. He chose Cloward and nobody can argue with the decision. True, the Bulldogs may have also won with either Atkinson or Law, but that is speculation now. They won with Cloward, andthelittle lefty fired a no-hitter, the first ever in the state high school championships. The Cloward’s have been a big help to Mackay over the past few years. Rod Cloward, now catcher for Brigham Young University, was a standout member of the Provo teams during the years when Mackay was taking a team to the finals every season. Rod is the older brother of Rick aud they make great battery combination, Rod the catcher, and Rick the pitcher. It’s an ideal practice situation for a brother combination. They can both practice their specialties at the sametime, and still enjoy a close association together. They are both fine athletes in addition to being outstanding representatives for their schools. While Cloward’s spectacular _pitening performance wascertainly the individual highlight of the season, Provo’s success came as a team. It wasa well balancedteamthatdidn’t haveto rely on perfect pitching. The Bulldogs were good hitters and were strong on defense. Good Year for BYU Brigham Young University has already won two spring sports championships and the baseball team has a chance to makeit three spring sports titles this weekend when they travel to Mesa, Arizona for the WAC playoff with ArizonaState. BYUwon three spring sportstitles pack in 1968 whenit won the baseball, track, and golf championships. No other team in the WAC has ever been able to win that manyspring sports titles in one year, but the Cougars are knocking on the doorin an effort to duplicate that record, BYUhas won 1i spring sport championships since the WAC wasorganized. New Mexicois in second place with nine, ArizonaState third with seven, and Arizonais fourth with four. Utah has won three, UTEP one, and Wyoming and Colorado State arestil! looking for their first wins. The chances of Wyoming and ColoradoState improving on that dismal record aren’t very good. The two schoolsare dropping someof their spring sportsin orderto place greater emphasis on the major sports. In addition to track and tennis championships this year the Cougars also won the WAC basketball, wrestling, and cross country titles. That's five of the eleven WACsportstitles and the Cougars could makeit six with a baseball championship. You would have to agree — that’s pretty good halance MAX FILLMOREis the leading amateur in the Provo Open afterthe first round with a two underpar 69. “JOEY BONSIGNORE, who won top pro moneyje watches anxiously as puit goes beyond the hole. He thotsa15. Orioles Down Bosox; Mets Tip Braves 8-7 By United Press International Brooks Robinson triggered a two-run third inning with his e fifth home run and Cuellar pitched a four-hitter as the Baltimore Orioles turned back Boston 5-2 Saturday and reduced the Red Soxlead in the American League East to three games. Robinson tagged Boston starter Ray Culp, 43, for a solo homerun thattied the score at 22, Paul Blair followed Robinson with a single, took third on a one-out single by Elrod Hendricks and scored on a sacrifice fly by Mark Belanger. Don Buford cracked a solo homer, his fourth, in the Orioles’fifth. Cuellar, 5-1, survived a tworun homer by Reggie Smith in the third inning. Tommy Harper and Ellie Rodriguez drove in three runs each, lifting the Milwaukee Brewers to a 12-0 victory over the Kansas City Royals behind the five-hit pitching of Marty tin. Harper's two-run single capped a three-run second inning and his run-scoring double ignited a three-run fourth. He also had another single and double in a 4forday. The Brewers completed the rout with four runs in the sixth on a run-scoring single by Bill Voss, a groundout by John Briggs and a two-run single by Rodriguez. Steve Dunning scattered seven hits in picking up his fourth victory of the season and scored the winning run on an error by catcher Jake Gibbs in the seventh inning as the Cleveland Indians handed the New York Yankees their fifth straight defeat, 2-1. Graig Nettles staked Dunning to a 1-0 lead in the third when he smacked his seventh home run overtheleftfield feace but Jimmy Little tied it for New York with his first round-tripper in the seventh, With the Score Aurelio Rodriguez and Jim Northrup with one out in the first inning propelled the Detroit Tigers to a 3-1 win over the Washington Senators. mitt. Detroit got only three hits in Back-to-back home runs by the game but loser Dick Bosman, 2-6, sealed his own fate by serving up the two homers,It was the fourth home run of the season for both Rodriguez and Northrup. Tommy Davis drove in three runs with a single and Jim Hunter pitched a two-hitter ing on second, Ted Fordsliced a single to right. Lyttle threw to Gibbs who tagged Dunning but the ball popped out of his Liquori, Silvester Gain Wins EL PASO, ‘ex. (UPI)— Villanova miler Marty Liguori, ae against a 25 mile an hour wind and glancing back every 20 yards or so to check on runnerup Rex Maddaford, hit the tape with a 4:10.9 time in the first El Paso Invitational Track and Field MeetSaturday. Liquori paced alongin fourth place through thefirst half mile, but took control on the third leg aud stretched his lead to i0 yards at the tape over Eastern New Mexico's Maddaford. Jay Silvester, world record holder in the discus, set a stadium record in that event (211-10), finished second in shotput with 64 feet even, and was named the meet’s outstanding performer. Other fine performances came from Mark Winzenried of Wisconsin in the 880, 1:52.5; Randy Matson of the Texas Striders with a stadium record 66-5 in shotput; George Fren of the Pacific Coast Club with a hammer throw stadium record 27 feet; Norm Tate with 27 feet, 1-4 inch in the long jump, also a stadium record, and Bill Skinner, who threw the javelin 5-8. Silyester's plane arrived late at El Paso, and he all but missed the discus event, which was originally scheduled for 4:30 p.m. but was moved up to before a crowd of 42,970 the largest of the year in Oakland, as the A’s defeated the Minnesota Twins5-1. Davis drove in two of his runs in the first with a single and added his first homer of the year in the seventh after Reggie Jackson hit his seventh homer. Hunter, now 8-2, struck out six and did not issue a walk as he went the distance for the seventh time. Donn Clendenon’s two-out single in the 11th inning scored Tim Foli to give the New York Mets an 87 victory Saturday overthe Atlanta Braves. Foli gotan infield single with one out in the 1ith and stole second after Tommie Agee had flied out for the second out. Clendenon, who doubled home the Mets’ first run in the first inning, then grounded a single into centerfield to score Foli. Orlando Cepeda drovein four runs for the Braves as he collected four hits and Sonny Jackson had a perfect day at the plate for Atlanta with ‘our hits in four at-bats and three runsscored. Mult Pappas survived a shaky second inning Saturday and wenton to hur! the Chicago Cubsto a 5-2 triumph over the Los Angeles Dodgers, Pappas, who picked up his fifth win against five losses, gave up four singles in the second inning but the Dodgers scored only one run because leadoff man Duke Sims, in an The delay cut sharply into attempted steal of second 2:15. Baseball Standings American League Standings By United Press International Night GamesNotIncluded EAST W.L. Pet. GB TOMMY WILLIAMS,former Utah Open champion,clenches his fist with joy as his birdie putt on the 18th hole drops in. 500 Trials End Today at Indy INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (UPI) Bakersfield, Calif., 171,600; —Stock car veteran Donnie Roger McCluskey, Tucson, Allison of Hueytown, Ala., Ariz., 171.241; Wally Dallenousted briefly from the lineup, bach, East Brunswick, NJ, New Yor! 16 21 432 9 Cleveland 16 22 421 9 was the fastest of 13 qualifiers 171.160; Johnny Rutherford, Washington 15 24.385 11 Saturday as a record smashing Fort Worth, Tex., 171.151; Sam EST field for the Indianapolis ‘‘500” Sessions, Nashville, Mich., W.L. Pet. GB 170.358; Larry Dickson, Marietauto race was assured, Oakland 29:15 .659 Minnesota 21.20 .512 6’ Qualifications for the May 29 ta, Ohio, 170.285; John Mahler, Kansas City R a 487 7% miliion dollar race end late Bettendorf, Iowa, 170.164; Steve California 476 8 Chicago 400 10% Sunday and with a full field of Krisiloff, Parsippan, N.J., Milwaukee is 2 41710 33 cars tentatively set, the 169.835; Denny Zimmerman, Saturday’s Results slowest qualified machines will Glastonbury, Conn., 169.755; be eliminated through the George Follmer, Arcadia, Calif, “bumpii ‘ocess, Six cars 169.205, and McElreath, 1689,165. Baltimore 5 Boston 2 were ousted in that fashion Posey averaged 168.776 before Oakiand 5 Minnesota 1 Saturday Chicago at California night he was ousted by Krisiloff, the Sunday’:o Games The field after Saturday's day’sfinal qualifier. All Times EDT Minnesota at Oakland 4:30 p.m qualifying runs averaged a Zimmerman, Mahler and Chicago at California 5 p.m. record 171.604 miles per hour, Milwaukee at Kansas City compared with last year’s Kcisiloff were “500” newcomers 30 p.m, to makethe tentative lineup— washinaton at Detroit 2 167.139, From there on, the field Krisiloff only hours after his 0 p.m, car hit the wall in practice. New York at Cleveland 2:10 p.m average can only go up. Boston at Baltimore 2:20 p.m McCluskey eliminated a car Allison, fourth when he won Monday’s Games the speedway’s “rookie of the originally qualified hy McElWashington at Boston night year’’ honors last year, and reath; Dickson ousted rookie Only Game Scheduled Bill Simpson, Torrance, Calif., winner of the Talladaga ‘400” Nascar stock car race in and McElreath bumped Art National League Standings Alabamalast Sunday, averaged Pollard, Medford, Ore. ByUnited PressInternational 171.903 on his four-lap test, only Night GamesAL) Included minutes after the car he EA! W. L. Pet. GB qualified originally a week ago was withdrawn by owner A. J. Pittsburgh 2415 .615 New York 2315 605 Ve Foyt, a three-time ‘‘500” winner, when it became obvious St. Louis 23 16 590 1 Chicago 20 20 500 ai it was too slowto remainin the SEATTLE (UPI) —UCLA’s Montreal 47 452 6 Wayne Collett ran the fastest field. Philadelphia 13 24 .35) 10 “T just took a long shot and 440 in the world this season WEST W.L, Pet. GB it paid off,” said the jubilant Saturday as the Bruins roared Foyt. The smiling Allison from behind to wipe out a big SanFrancisco 29 12.707 Atlanta 202) 488 9 added, , “Foyt should get a Oregon lead and win their third Los Angles 2022 476 9%2 medal. straight Pacific-8 Conference Houston 1921 475 94 Denne the recordfield, none trac’ andfield championship. Cincinnati ¥ a 410 12 The Bruins piled up late San Diego 308 16 of Saturday’s qualifiers came Saturday’s Resuits points in the pole vault, triple close to the average of 178.696 while Elreath, Arlington, Tex., jump and high jumpto finish Chicago 5 Los Angles New York 8 Atlanta 7 4 innings another ‘500’ veteran and with 126 points over Oregon's Pittsburgh at Montreal night winner of the inaugural ‘Cali- 117, Collett and John Smith Cincinnati at Philadelphia night fornia 500” last year, also revenged an earlier ivss this San Diege at St. Louis night regained a spot in the field season to USC's Edesel GarriSan Francisco at Houston night after his original machine was son by placing 1-2 in the 440. Sunday's Games Collett had a 45.3 clocking ousted. All Times EDT Pittsburgh at Montreal 2:15 p.m The dramatics of bumping and Smith finished at 45.5. Atlanta at New York 2 p.m saw one owner-driver, Jerry gtr was well hack in third Cincinnati at Philadelphia Grant, Seattle, Wash., eliminat- at 46 0 p.m. Los Angeles at Chicago 2:15 p.m ed by his driver, Sam Posey, southern California was third San Diego at St. Louis 2:15 p.m in the meet with 102 points, San Francisco at Houston 3 p.ni Sharon, Conn. But Posey followed by California, 77; himself remained in the lineup “"s Games Atlanta at Montreal night Washington, 45; Stanford, 36, less than five minutes. Cincinnati at Philadelphia night other successful qualifiers Oregon State, 29; and WashingSan Diego at St. Louis night tndindnne Aaswes Baltimore Detroit 2215 595 3 2019 513 6 Bruins Roar Past Pac-8 Opponents |