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10 The Marion Star Saturday June 2, 1984 1 7 North Union Vgiiis win P- (. champs AA Softball championship today. The Lady 'Cats of coach Nancy Rubeck got a pair of key hits from Dawn Eastman and Teresa Parker for a two-run fifth inning, and then made those tallies hold up to take a 2-1 state semifinal victory over Springfield Northwestern's Warriors. As a result of Friday's win, the 'Cats are scheduled to By ERIC DAVIS Sports Writer Sometimes a lapse in control, even a momentary one, can come back to haunt a pitcher. North Union's Lady Wildcats took advantage of such a lapse at Ashland's Brookside Park Friday afternoon, and as a result they'll be back competing for their first-ever state Class meet the defending state AA champions, the 20-2 Knights of Akron Hoban, at 4 p.m.

today on the same Ashland diamond. The Akron club topped Columbus Ready 6-0. The 'Cats made the finals after emerging victorious in a top-notch pitchers' duel between their own Teresa Parker and Northwestern's Mi ndy Backus. The opposing hurlers, both Trevino keys Braves' sweep against Redlegs North Union is senior Barb Parish. The Wildcats won 2-1 to advance to today's 4 p.m.

finals against defending-champion Akron Hoban. (Star Photo By Eric Davis) HITTING AWAY Springfield Northwestern batter Kerry Baker steps into a pitch during action against North Union in the state Class AA Softball semifinals at Ashland Friday. Baker popped out on the pitch. Catching for the sixth. Also rapping singles for the Warriors were Julie Everhart, Baldwin and Wilson.

For the 'Cats, poking singles were Wendy Wilson, Barb Parish, Eastman, Parker and Holly Jamison. Both pitchers hurled themselves out of trouble more than once. Northwestern had three batters reach base in the first, one on an error, and Parker pitched out of the jam. Later, she faced a situation with runners on second and third and only one out in the fourth inning, but got the last two hitters on a popout and strikeout. Backus put on a splendid strikeout show in the first two innings.

After giving up a bunt single to leadoff hitter Wendy Wilson in the first, she faced a really tight spot when Wilson stole second and advanced to third on a bad Backus got Parish to' pop out before striking out Clagett and Eastman to strand Wilson. In the second, the Wildcats had two runners reach base but Backus got all three outs on strikes. Backus wound up fanning nine and walking six, while Parker had just three strikeouts but only two bases on balls. Coach Rubeck's girls will take a 24-1 record into today's meeting with Akron Hoban. Springfield Northwestern ended play with an 18-3 slate.

SNW 000 010 0 1-5-1 NU 000 020 2-5-3 Backus and Baldwin; Parker and Parish. Catholic's Schlitt takes 2nd in state meet action CINCINNATI (AP) Alex Trevino's bases-loaded double highlighted a five-run seventh inning that powered the Atlanta Braves to a come-f rom-behind 7-3 victory over Cincinati Friday night and a doubleheader sweep of the Reds. Craig McMurtry scattered three hits over 8 1-3 innings to help the Braves take the first game 4-2. Tony Perez hit his first home run since rejoining the Reds, a two-run shot that helped Cincinnati take a 3-0 lead in the second inning of the nightcap against Pete Falcone, 4-5. But the Braves scored five times in the seventh inning, with three runs coming on Trevino's one-out double just past third baseman Wayne Krenchicki.

Glenn Hubbard singled to start the winning rally and starter Jeff Russell walked Randy Johnson and Mike Jorgensen to load the bases. Rafael Ramirez singled off reliever Ted Power, 2-1, for one run, and Trevino followed with his bases-clearing double. Bob Watson's groun-dout scored Trevino with the final run. Johnson's two-run homer bunted Hubbard home. Royster doubled McMurtry home to make it 3-1.

Krenchicki's third homer of the season leading off the seventh cut the lead to 3-2 but Chris Chambliss belted his fifth homer leading off the eighth for Atlanta to make it 4-2. Women's Golf Mar-O-Del's Tuesday morning Ladies' League will have a new starting time of 8:30 and tee-times for this Tuesday have been announced. 8:30 Evelyn Baker, Ruth Imbody and Tomi Bacon; 8:36 Elaine Arms, Sally Dunnan and Emily Stevenson; 8:42 Marion Harris, Doloris Jerew and Genny Swigart; 8:48 Carol Markey, June ClapsadcQe and Norma Shipley; 8:54 Annice Vande Water, Fern Alexander and Kathy Ridenour; 9:00 Miram Hart, Connie Gibson and Carol Daniels; 9:06 Evelyn Wolbert, Florence Sabel and Fannie Wine. 5 Marion Catholic's Dan Schlitt cleared 13-6 in the Class A pole vault to claim second place in the State Track Meet Friday at Ohio Stadium in Columbus. Schlitt finished three inches behind David Bell of Newcomerstown and recorded the same height as third-place Troy Keysor of Spencerville and fourth-place Andy Wilson of Newberry.

The Irish sophomore cleared 13-6 on his first vault to get the second place nod. Catholic's Venessa Albernaz turned in a personal record 15.3 in the 100-meter hurdles but did not qualify for the finals. Albernaz teamed with Mary Millisor, Pattie Cook and Renate Hartline to run 52.3 in the 400-meter relay which was also short of qualifying for the finals. Ridgedale's Melissa Marks hurled the discus 106-2 and Becky Briggs had 15-0 in the long jump which not qualify the Rocket juniors for the finals. Elgin's Jennie Gracely had 32-6V4 in the shot which did not qualify her for the Class AA shot finals won by West Holmes Lisa Cline at 41-10.

Count Fleet, the 1943 Triple Crown champion, was never out of the money in his 21 starts. He won 16 races, was second four times, and third once. Betsy King holds 5-stroke margin iv-; 18-4, set last year by Lisa Ezzo of Girard, by nearly 10 inches. Diggs also ran the anchor leg on the Hawks' 800-meter relay team, which set a Class AA standard in a semifinal heat with a time of 1 minute, 43.80 seconds. In addition, she was the top qualifier for Saturday's finals in both the 100-and 200-meter dashes.

Seven individual and four team records were set and a 12th mark was tied during the first day of the two-day event. Finals took place in 14 field events, with semifinals being held in most of the track competition. 'Finals are scheduled in 82 events Saturday. Other individual girls records were set by defending champion Susan Nash of Zanesville Rosecrans in the 400-meter dash with a time of 56.7 seconds and Karen Larke of Malvern in the Class A high jump with a 5-7 leap. LaVonna Martin's 13.82 clocking for Trotwood-Madison in the AAA low hurdles tied the mark she set last year in winning the event.

Tara Frayne of Hawken in Class Lexington's Traci Au in AA, and Laura Kirkham of Centerville in AAA were winners in the 300-meter low hurdles, a new event on the girls program, with their winning times setting automatic records. Chris Bean of Cleveland Heights Lutheran West, the defending champion in the Class A long jump, was the only boys record-breaker of the day as he soared 23 feet, 9 3-4 inches. Toledo Scott's girls set an all-class record in the 800-meter relay, winning the AAA segment of the event in 1:40.24. Cleveland John Adams did the same thing in the AAA boys relay with a time of 3:13.57, while Cincinnati Academy of Physical Education posted a Class A standard with a 400-meter relay time of 43.42 seconds. Urbana, Claymont and LaBrae, each with one event winner, shared the Class AA boys team lead with 10 points apiece.

Sandy Valley, Perry and Dayton Jefferson were next with 8. Newcomerstown's boys with 11 points had a single-point edge over North Gallia and Lutheran East in Class A. No finals were run in Class AAA boys events. Yvette Dalton's victory in the discus throw, the only Class AAA girls final event, fave her team 10 points, oledo Whitmer and Toledo Rogers were second and third with 8 and 6 In the Class AA 400-meter prelims, River Valley's Mystie Lewis turned in a 60.8 which was short of qualifying for the finals. Riverdale's Kayla Vermillion picked up a pair of places in the girls' Class A shot and discus.

Vermillion was fifth in the shot at 36-6V4 and sixth in the disc at 115-8. The Falcons also got a place in the boys long jump from Don Zimmerman with 21-11 V4. Buckeye Central's Teresa Luidhardt was second in the girls' Class A long jump with a leap of 17-3. On today's slate Harding's Lester Hill is scheduled to long jump at 2 and Kathy Hart will represent River Valley in the discus at 11. Pleasant's Chris King and Dan Hirneiss will both be in action at 9.

King entered in the long jump and Hirneiss in the shot. Cardington's Robert Lloyd will be in the Class A high jump also at 9. Teresa Diggs of Columbus Hartley broke one meet record and helped her relay teammates to a second mark in Friday's events. Diggs' leap of 19-2 inches in the Class AA long jump broke the existing mark of loaded the bases on walks to Carew and Jackson, sandwiched around shortstop Julio Franco's error on DeCinces' ground ball. Cleveland, scored a run in the fifth on a walk to Brett Butler and singles by Tony Bernazard and Mike Hargrove.

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Amy Buyer led off that fifth with a base on balls, and was soon standing on third following a wild pitch and a ground out to first by Wendy Wilson. That seemed to rattle Backus, as she walked the next two batters, Barb Parish and Michelle Clagett, to load the bases. Dawn Eastman, the Wildcats' big 6-2 senior first sacker, then stepped into a pitch and lined it into right to drive in the game's first run. A followup RBI shot up the middle by Parker gave the 'Cats a 2-0 lead before Backus got the side out. Backus did her best to keep the Warriors in contention when she stroked a triple to left after Parker had fanned leadoff hitter Kelly Justice and speared a hot comeback liner off the bat of Kim Wilson.

Backus scored on a basehit up the middle by Raeleen Baldwin, but then Parker slammed the door. In the seventh, the steady North Union nurler was credited with a complete-game triumph as pinch hitter Dawn Rust popped out to Shelly Neel at LtWrd, Lori Helfrich lined to Neel and Annette Frock popped out to second. Both teams collected five hits. Backus was the only player with two safeties, as she singled in the first inning to go along with her triple in offers a Bmlted lifetime 'V 'V' Friday. Amy Buyer.

Springfield p.m. final By Eric Davis) Angels clip Tribe after 5-2 struggle in the eighth inning ac- counted for Atlanta's final runs. Steve Bedrosian finished both games to earn a pair of saves, giving him seven for the season. In the first game, McMurtry won his fourth against six losses before being relieved by Bedrosian after walking Krenchicki with one out in the ninth. McMurtry gave up a first-inning single to Dave Parker, then held the Reds hitless until Krenchicki drilled a solo homer in the seventh.

The only other hit by the Reds was Dan Driessen's two-out single in the eighth. Cincinnati scored a run in the first when Gary Redus walked, stole second, took third on a grouind ball and came home when third baseman Jerry Royster muffed Dan Driessen's grounder. Atlanta tied it in the third when Hubbard singled and scored on Bruce Benedict's double off Bruce Berenyi, 2-6. In the fifth, Hubbard walked, stole second and continued to third on catcher Brad Gulden's throwing error. McMurtry then drew a one-out walk and Ramirez Another stroke back, tied for third place at 142, were Alice Ritzman, non-winner Robin Walton and rookie Amy Benz.

Ritzman and Walton posted 69s. Benz matched par of 72. Then, at 143, came two-time U.S. Open champion Hollis Stacy, Pat Bradley and Japan's Ayako Okamoto, first and third in 1984 earnings; and Hall of Famer Sandra Haynie JoAnne Carner was 11 strokes behind in her quest to win a second successive LPGA tournament and collect a $500,000 bonus. If the 45-year-old veteran should win here and the next tournament in Malvern, she would qualify for a $1.5 bonus, posted by the three tournament sponsors.

lower than sixth in this major in the last six years, shot 76 for a 150 total. King was surprised over her putting round, at least five strokes better than any of her 1984 performances. "I had a putting lesson Tuesday and I haven't felt comfortable over the ball since. I feel like I am pushing every putt," she said. King, the winner in Hawaii and Orlando earlier this season, strung together six birdies to offset a single bogey.

She also saved three pars with 1-putt greens. King has missed only one of the 15 LPGA tournaments this year. On The Sandlots Whirlpool came up with a four-run rally in the top of the sixth to turn back Y-Men 9-7 in Bronco League West action Friday night at Scott Field. Chris Dunn was on the mound for Whirlpool and scattered four base nits while his mates were rapping 11. Jeff Brown was the losing pitcher.

He helped his own cause by rapping a single and double. Steve Dailey also had a single and double. In another league contest, and slipped past National City Bank in a 10-4 battle. The winners had two big innings, scoring five in the third and four in the fourth. Lin Adams was the hitting star of the game with a single and a double.

CLEVELAND (AP) -Mike Brown and Bob Boone each drove in two runs and Doug Corbett saved Mike Witt's fifth victory with 2 2-3 innings of perfect relief pitching as the California Angels downed the Cleveland Indians 5-2 Friday night. Witt, 5-5, yielded both Indian runs on 10 hits over the first 6 1-3 innings, striking out ight, before Corbett came on to pitch hitless ball and fain his second save. It was Cleveland's 23rd loss in its last 30 games. Rick Sutcliffe, 3-5, took the loss, allowing six hits, walking eight and striking out before being relieved with one out in the ninth by Ernie Camacho. i California's Rod Carew 'slapped a single leading off the fourth inning, and after two outs Reggie Jackson walked.

Brown singled home Carew, Rob Wilfong's infield single loaded the bases and Boone lined a two-run single for a 3-0 Angels lead. Brown hit into a force play to drive in another run in the fifth after the Angels had Looking on is Wildcat left fielder The Wildcats defeated the club 2-1 to make it to today's 4 against Akron Hoban. (Star Photo DOUBLED UP North Union shortstop Wendy Wilson takes a throw from first baseman Dawn Eastman to double up a sliding Lori Helfrich of Springfield Northwestern during Class AA state tourney semifinal action at Ashland's Brookside Park MASON. Ohio (AP) Betsy King, bidding to become the first three-time winner in women's professional golf this year, parlayed her best putting round of 1984 into a 5-under-par 67 Friday and the midway lead in the LPGA Championship. King, 28, needed just 22 putts on the Nicklaus Golf Center's Grizzly greens, leading her to a 36-hole total of 139, five strokes better than par in this major tournament.

The member of Furman's 1976 national college champions, second in money-winnings and third in stroke average this year, led defen-ding champion Patty Sheehan by two strokes going into the third round today. Sheehan shot 70 for a 141 total and said, "I don't think anybody is going to tear this course up. I feel calm, confident and blase. I like my attitude," she said. 3 contests played in coed loop Dannie's Pizza shoved across a run in the bottom of the seventh inning to clip Lake Erie Sports 7-6 in a Coed League duel Friday night at Garfield Park.

Dannies had taken a 3-0 lead in the first inning but Lake Erie came back with four in the second. The winners added single runs in the fifth and sixth before that winning spurt while Lake Erie had runs in the fourth and fifth. Wanda Mitchell was the winning pitcher with Beldon DeVito taking the loss. was a 29-0 winner over MACC in the nightcap Dntest. The game was called after the winners erupted for 10 runs in the third and 14 in the fourth.

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