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Show Sunday, April 1, 1979 Page 8—-THE HERALD. Provo, Utah Cougar Baseball Team Wraps UpDivision Title at Riverside now has 26 stolen ba! shatter a school record at mid-season By MIKE TWITTY Herald Correspondent RIVERSIDE. Calif. — Stan Younger’s teammates call him “Tank,” a childhood nickname. “Mis sle” or “‘Rock2t’ would be moreappropriate Friday evening BYU split a double header to clinch a division title in the Riverside Baseball Tournament andit was the sensational sophomore who had scouts drooling with a home run, a triple and three stolen bases. Younger The Cougars wrapped up the Gold Division by switching the script from previous as s. Instead of jumping to rout BYU wasfine in the middle six innings as Scott Nebeker allowed only two hits. But the Highlanders spent an early lead, BYU spotted Seattle a 4 1 advantage and then roared back for a twoinnings pounding Dave Beck, who had a 15 earned run average, and History and some erratic pitching worked against BYU in Friday's se. first inning. Four more runs scored in $-4 victory cond game No team has ever gone through the week-long tournament unbeaten and Cal-Riverside wasn't about and a sacrifice fly. Two walks, two hits to let the Cougars be thefirst in a 9-2 jumped on reliever Bob Blyth in the final frame Four walks gave UCR a run in the and a wild pitch accounted for three more runs off Blyth in the eighth Younger scored both runs for the Cougars. He hit a towering drive over the right field fence in the sixth and in the eighth he walked. stole second and scored on a single by Ken Clayton. But there were other opportunities In the third Jeff Burton and Mark the second on an error, a walk and three straight doubles. The only run off Adamiaksingled to put runnersat first and third. Burton doubled and Len Nebeker came in the sixth on a triple Tsuhako walked to put runners at the corners again in the fifth In the seventh Cliff Pastornicky singled and stole second. Adamiak then walked but once again the Cougars came away scoreless. And then there were twc walks and two hits in the eighth but they produced only one run Against Seattle, the Chieftains tagged John Bottorff for threde runs in the first and anotherinthe third before hesettled down to scatter three singles in the final six innings Burton drove in a run in the second inning with a sacrifice fly and the Cougars got five more runs in the fifth Burton doubied and singles were con tributed by Pastornicky, Adamiak Younger and Mare Thomas BYU added thre runsin the ninth Adamiak reached on an error and a a sacrifice by Mike Davis pled and Murphy Su’a ar ed with doubles In other games Friday Oregon| 5 to Indiana and to Army 4-3 Roberts nipped Indiana 3-2: and Arr downed Maine 6-2 Rose, Carew Open Season With Different Uniforms Wednesday NEW YORK (UPI) Amid glowing first base for the Angels when they christen the start of the AL season against the Marinersat the Kingdome prospects for another record-breaking year in attendance, the major league The world champion New York baseball season opens this week with — Yankees and the National League Pete Rose and Rod Carew — wearing different uniforms and the traditional umpires’ uniforms probably being worn byunfamiliar names. The Yankees entertain the Milwaukee Brewers and the Dodgers host the San two of the game's top attractions champion Los Angeles Dodgers will have their home openers on Thursday Diego Padres. The season officially begins Wednes. Because of the cold weather in their citiesat this time of year, the Montreal Expos and the Minnesota Twins will havethe latest homeopeners. Montreal day with gamesat Cincinnati and Seattle but for the first time in 16 seasuns Rose will not be in the Reds’ lineup when they host the San Francisco Giants in the traditional National League opener, The 37-year-old Rose signed with Philadelphia as a free agent last December and will be starting at first base for the Phillies in their openerat St. Louis on Friday Carew will be the majorattraction in the American League opener at Seattle Wednesday night The seven-time American League batting champion, traded to California after 12 seasons with the Minnesota Twins. will be at doesn’t playits first game at Olympic Stadium until April 14 and Minnesota opens at home April 17 Although the task of unseating the Yankees as world champions is for- midable, the early signs are encouraging that this will be another recordbreaking year for major league attendance. Eight clubs have already topped categories. sign individual contracts for the 1979 I find considerable reason tobe en: season couraged over the strength of baseball Uniess something is resolved by with our fans’ says Commissioner Wednesday which appearsunlikely Bowie Kuhn. “‘These impressive ~ substitute umpires will be called in reports on preseason ticket sales are to to work the start of the season. the credit of our players the game The umpires however will not be itself and to those who marketit.’ the only newfaces. Five new managers What isn't so encouraging is the will be making their debuts this season situation with the umpires. The um and several prominentplayers. in addipires have refused to work since the tion to Rose and Carew wil! be in difstart of spring training in a demandfor ferent uniforms. more money. Since their contracts Four of the new managersarein the have expired the 51 umpires decided to American League. Don Kessinger has ban together and, under the direction of taken over as managerof the Chicago attorney Richard Phillips plan to con- White Sox, Less Mossis at the helm of tinue their boycott. the Letrait Tigers. Pat Corrales in‘The two major leagues had sought an herits the job as Texas Rangers’ skipinjunction to get the umpires to return per and Jim Marshall guides the to work but a district court judge. Oakland A's. Joseph L. McGlynnJr., said last Tues‘Thereis only one new managerin the day he had no authority to end the um- National League but it may be the pires’ walkout since they had refused to “hottest seat’’ of all. John McNamara their all-timerecord for season tickets andanother 10 teamsare ahead oflast year’s pace in one or more ticket matchof the seasonto be played Monday against the University of Southern California, the nation’s number one team. “I'm excited and nervous for the match, but I know that we'll all do our best,"’ said second seeded Cougar Charlene Murphy The Cougars played close to their best Friday, losing only32 out of = in- gift certificates are among the many prizes which will be awarded to winners of the April 21 tournament. Entry fee is $20 LLOYD TAYLOR, chairman of the Rotary - sponsored Spanish Fork Amateur golf tournament, accepts gift certificates from MicolMiller of Royal Cycle Shop period. Despite the weather and a few injuries, the Cougars have had some impressive hitting sessions. The play on the offensive and defensive lines has been encouraging, according to (top) 3,000th careerhit (he needs 73). bids by Carew and Dave Parker for thi league batting titles in a row dir Rice's attempt at baseball's triple crown, pitcher Ron Guidry’s effort to duplicate last year’s magnificent achievement and Mark Fidrych’s com eback bid Although it will be difficult to achieve the dramaof !ast year’s Al East division playoff between the Yankees and Red Sox. there is reason to believe that this season's raceswill be even morehotly-contested than they a year ago The Yankees remain the teamtobeat in the AL East Bowness counter flipped in an unassisted Thompson then scored both goals for Salt Lake in the second period, and Rick Bourbonnais made it 6-0 in the third period. Shinske and Thompson both had assists in the gamefor three points each. The scoring tied Shinske with Mike Eaves of Oklahoma City for the CHL scoring lead. Both have 82 points Salt Lake set a club record for most team winsin a season — 44 — with the victory. And :he Eaglescan tie a team record for most points in a season — 97 — if they can win one of their final three games or pick up two ties. The Eagles were at OklahomaCity Saturday. They host the Stars April 2 and April 4, before opening the CHL first-roundplayoffs beginning April 6 in Salt Lake City. cates Cit 2 and should be sent to course pro MaxB. Gardner at P.O. Box 276 in Spanish Fork. and Karl Koyle of All- American Realty (bottom). The A NAME YOU" CAN TRUST FOR 79 YEARS PISO Se ee A reports. The Cougarswill open the '79 season Sept. 8 against Texas A&M in Houston. with mononucleosis, which has kept players two, three and four off the courts “The absence of some of our top players puts more pressure on the girls we do have,’ com- though,’ FRONT END ALIGNMENT AN Two — SPIN BALANC! Lebedeff ad- ded Utah and the Cougars have deserved to beat us because they've played better than we have.”” Asfor the health of the Cougars, ‘I’m very happy with everyone on the team tonight,”’ commented BYU coach Ann Valentine. ‘‘Wendy's wrist is much better, well in spite of her weak ankle, and Tracy’s shoulderis better. We're in good shape for USC." Singles Maria Rothschild (BYU) def Casey Esparza, (U of A) 6-4, 6-2 Charlene Murphy a dei Sue Hunt (U of A) 63 Wendy Barlow yt def BethSiegler (U of A) 60, 6-1 Tracy Tanner (BYU) def Sandy Sutherland (1! of A) 6-1, 6I Lan) Wilcox (BYU) def Tina Olsen (U of A), 6-1, 6 Barbara Barnes BY ) def Julie Dehayen (U of A) Mindy Watts (BY! 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The Eagles added another goal in the period when Rick last fall, is still recovering from knee plagued Dehaven 6 Mindy Watts, a quickly Philadelphia) Shinske scored the game winning goal in thefirst period at the 7:36 mark cluding transfers Homer Jones and Eric Lane, two running backs, have been sidelined for part of the practice Esparza and Sutherland. Second-seeded doubles team of Barlow and Wilcox easily handled Wildcats Dehaven and Hunt 6-1, 6-2, while BYU's Murphy and Barnesblitzed Ivy Block and Olsen 6-0, 6-0. ‘Arizona may have been harder to beat if the players had been healthy. The team recently upset Arizona State for thefirst timein 30 years but has been Julie (from Texas), Toby Harrah of Cleveland (from Texas) BuddyBell of Texas (from Cleveland) Mike Hargrove of San Diego (from Texas and Richie Hebner of the Mets (from beginning in one week Sophomore quarterback Jim Mc- ” men Minnesota), Bobby Bonds of Cleveiand Salt Lake’s win. combined with Dal- mented Arizona coach Ann Lebedeff. “Also, the 148 games and winning team is physically and all their matches in emotionally exhausted Wehadaterrible flight straight sets In numberonesingles up — we were caught in Maria Rothschild an electrical storm, and struggled through a because the flight was tough 6-4 first set before delayed we didn't get dumping Wildcat Casey done with our match Wilcox (BYU) def Esparza 6-2 in the se- against Utah until 2:30 Dehaven Hunt (U of A) 6-1, 62 Murphy Barnes (BY) def cond. Murphy then took this morning Block Olsen ( U of Ai 6-0, 6-0 “These aren't excuses Sue Hunt 6-3, 6-1 and third-seeded Wendy Barlow blasted Arizona's 3PM TOON, Beth Siegler 6-0, 6-1 Fourtc Cougar All-American \ Cai Stat teoms Tracy Tanner took her SWMissc int ondClan competein the Danski fourth - seeded singles giate Gymnastics Classic match6-1, 6-1 over Sandy Thies. former nationa Sutherland. In fifth singles, Lani Wilcox handed Wildcat Tina Olsen a 6-1, 6-2 defeat and in sixth singles hard. hitting Cougar Barbara Barnes the las’ 5-4 overtimeloss to OklahomaCity gave the Golden Eagles the CHLtitle over the second-place Blackhawks. Salt Lake and Dallas will finish 1-2 in the league standings and both will host the first-round best-of-seven playoffs GOSSSSSSSSSOOSSSECC® stage for their toughest are pitcher Tommy John of Yankees (from Los Angeles) pitcher Luis Tiant of the Yankees (from Boston), Dan Ford of California (from night to clinch the 1978-79 Central Hockey League regular seasontitle Cougar Women Blitz Arizona BYU's women's tennis team finished off a perfect week Friday by shutting out the University of Arizona at the BYUindoor courts. The 9-0 victory was the Cougars’ third of the week. The win made the Cougar’s perfect season record 24-0, and set the whohave joined new teamsthis season as Salt Lake defeated Tulsa 6-0 Friday Mahon, who shared the starting chores Several other players, Reds’ manager. Among the more prominent players TULSA, Okla, (UPI) — Rich Shinske BYUcoach has had that worried look, eventhough the outlook for nextfall is promising Some of Edwards’ concern may stem from the fact that several players, people he and his staff have been counting on, have been on the sidelines with injuries surgery. five divisional titles and two world championships in his nine years as and Floyd Thomson each scored two goals and goalie Terry Richardson produced his second shut outin two nights Cougar Gridders Await Blue-White Contest BYU football opponents may have learned one thing from the Cougars’ Spring drills — the best way to stop BYU’s offense may be with inclement weather. That's been the story in Provo this past week as the Cougars braved wet weather on the practice field Conditions were so bad Friday that a scheduled scrimmagein the Stadium was cancelled. Asa result, the Cougarswill have to settle for the annual Blue - White game next Saturday at 10 a.m. That particular contest will bring to an end the off-season practice sessions for the Mountain Cats. “The weather has been far from favorable,’’ said Coach LaVell Edwards, ‘but we've managed to make the progress as a team. We're putting down the foundation for next fall, so this has been an important period for us."’ From time to time this spring the replaces the popular Sparky Anderson as Reds’ manager andhe is being asked to bring back the NL West pennant to Cincinnati. McNamara has some shoes to fill since Anderson produced q TWO “Woo ‘working Plans” a $2.95 value yours absolutely free whenyou present this certificate toyour Shopsmith_ NAME representative atthelive ADDRESS demonstrations. You will }\ also receive, free, a one- city year subscription to TELEPHONE t ideas and renair FREE GIFTS zp \ No obligation.,.Nothing to buy, Firestone Discount Cards For BYU STUDENTS |