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C4 Akron Beacon Journal Friday, November 4, 1983 Force coverage is better, but. On the air Dick Snippy Today BASKETBALL 7:30 pm NBA: Chicago vs. Atlanta (WGN, WTBS). Hi pm NBA: Dallas vs. Cleveland (WNIR 100-FM).

10:30 pm NBA- New York vs. Portland (WORK FOOTBALL 7:35 pm High School: Louisviiie vs. Alliance tWHBC 1480-AMi. 7:40 pm High School: SI. Thomas Aquinas vs.

Canlon Central Catholic IWHBC 94-FM). 7:45 pm High School: St. Vincent-St. Vary vs. Barberton (WAKR 1590-AM).

7:45 pm High School: Stow vs. Kent Roosevelt (WSLR 1350-AM). 10 p.m. High School game (Ch. 25).

GOLF 7 p.m. Kaoalua International Championship, third round (ESPN). MISCELLANY 5:45 pm Ohio Women in Sports (WAKR 1590-AM). 9 p.m. The World Sportsman (ESPN).

Saturday BASKETBALL 7:15 pm NBA: Cleveland vv Indiana (WNIR 100-FM). 11 p.m. NBA: New VorK vs. Golden State (WOR). FOOTBALL Noon College: Oklahoma vs.

Missouri (Ch. 5, 9-Sleubenville, 23, 33). 12:45 pm College: Eastern Michigan vs Kent State" (WAKR 1590-AM). 1 pm College: Ohio State vs. Indiana (WSLR 1350-AM, WHBC 94-FM).

1 pm Canton McKinlev-Massillon pregame show (Ch. 67). 2 pm High School: Canton McKinlev vs. Massillon (Ch. 67, WHBC 1480-AM).

130 pm College: Pittsburgh vs. Notre Dame (Ch. 7-Wheeling, 27, WHLO 640-AM). 7:15 pm College: Youngstown State vs. Akron (WAKR 1590-AM).

pm College: Virginia State vs. Virginia Union (BET). 8:05 pm College: Kentucky vs. Vaoderbilt (WTBS). 10:30 pm College: Ohio Slate vs.

Indiana, highlights (Ch. 25). 11 p.m. College: Youngstown State vs. Akron, taped (Ch 45, 49'.

GOLF 7 p.m. Kapalua International Championship, final round (ESPN). HOCKEY 7:30 pm NHL: New York Rangers vs. Quebec (WOR). MISCELLANY 9 am Country Sportsman (NASH); also 3 p.m.

ano 7 p.m. 9:30 am American Soorts Cavalcade (NASH). 4 p.m. SporlsWorld: CART Phoenix 150, Women's World Bodybuilding Championships (Ch. 3, 21).

4 pm Amateur Boxing: U.S.A. vs. Ireland (Ch. 5, 23). 5 pm Wide World of Sports (Ch.

5, 23 33). 9 pm Saturday Night at the Fights: 10-round featherweight bout Juan LaPorte vs. Gerold Hayes (ESPN). Sunday AUTO RACING 1235 pm Atlanta 500 (WTBS, WSLR 1350-AM). 7 pm Performance Plus (NASH).

BASKETBALL 8 p.m. NBA: Seattle vs. San Antonio (ESPN). FOOTBALL 11:30 am Earle Bruce (Ch. 27), noon (Ch.

7-Wheeling); 10:30 p.m. (Ch. 67). 11:30 am West Virginia highlights (Ch. 7-Wheeling).

1 pm NFL: Cleveland vs. Green Bay (Ch. 3, 21, WAKR 1590-AM, WNIR 100-FM, WHBC 1480-AM). pm NFL: San Diego vs. Pittsburgh (Ch.

9-Sleubenville). 3 pm High School Football Today (Ch. 8). 4 pm NFL: Miami vs. San Francisco (Ch.

3, 9-Sleubenville, 21). 4 p.m. NFL: Chicago vs. Los Angeles Rams (Ch. 7-Wheeling, 8, 27).

7 pm High School: Canton McKinlev vs. Massillon, taped (Ch. 67). 9 p.m. College: Alabama vs.

Louisiana State (USA). 11:30 p.m. Browns Sunday Night (Ch. 3). MISCELLANY 2 p.m.

Horseshow Jumping: President's Cup (ESPN). 8 pm Women Sports on the Move (WHLO 640-AM). games not broadcast by radio will be televised. That leaves seven games on the schedule not covered on action basis by TV or radio. With one exception, they're home contests, and on those occasions the radio coverage will revert to quarterly reports.

There will be four games covered by TV and both radio outlets. WJW (850-AM) and WAKR (1590-AM) both will carry 17 games. WAKR alone will air six contests and WJW five. Mike Snyder, the Force broadcaster two seasons ago for WJW, now is on the WAKR staff doing high school and college sports. He'll add radio play-by-play man for all Force games to his work load.

League teams are making better broadcast deals on individual bases than the MISL has been able to negotiate as an entity. The league has lost its previous contract with USA cable network, which provided twice-weekly national telecasts. All the MISL has on a national scale is a commitment from CBS to parry a single playoff game next May. The league has been negotiation with Anheuser-Busch the latter reported interested in sponsoring a regional game-of-the-week to be fed to individual stations by Katz Broadcasting. That has not been settled.

3 In that way. That is, it didn't work for Force diehards. It did work for 3WE, which essentially coerced soccer faithful into staying tuned to 3WE programming hoping to stumble across one of those random reports. Programming on 3WE being what it was, no Force radio coverage at all was preferable. Force executive vice-president Scott Wolstein never quite saw it that way, always explaining the team was making money on the deal.

Scant comfort to Force fan-dom. However, Wolstein, in charge of broadcast matters for the team and chairman of the league's TV committee, acknowledged that obtaining greater media exposure for the Force was particularly desirable in 1983, not just to sustain the interest generated by Cleveland's playoff excitement of last year but to make the Force all the more intriguing for the coming season. Well, the Force now has a com That business about the wcll- path before the door of r- the mousetrap manufacturer well, the traps have to be better when the mice get smarter and more demanding. Two years ago, the Cleveland Force went into the MISL season with a contract for live coverage ftf all EVtrviA 1 ul uilc gainira, iiuiutr aim away. Cleveland's WJW Radio provided that electronic outlet for play-by-play and the Force provided the action.

Cleveland also supplied a 15-29 record that in part was responsible for an audience WJW Radio considered minimal. End of season, end of contract. Heading into the 1982-83 MISL season, the Force had assembled a team considered much superior to its predecessor. But it had a radio contract much inferior. There was a station reluctance to accept the Force as an audience lure.

There had to be a better trap than this. And so, while the Force was uuiiuut; un me ivii.Mj par in inp campaign, and greatly enhancing its following in the bargain, WWWE Radio was covering the team on a haphazard basis. Supposedly, 3WE was supplying two-minute reports each quarter for each game, with reports coming within scant minutes after completion of action in the period. It didn't quite work Massillon Continued from page CI and defensive statistical categories. This year, he is more rested and is having another banner year defensively.

He leads the team in tackles with 64 and assists with 29, has six interceptions and two fumble recoveries. With Spielman as the leader, Massillon's defense has shut out four opponents. "I was really beat up after some games last year," he said. "Now I'm mostly a blocker on offense, or I get the call on short-yardage situations, which I like. I'm more rested on defense and I feel I can help intimidate an opponent more.

"I go into every game feeling I to De tne Dest player on the field," he said. "Playing in a Massillon-McKin-ley game is a once-in-a-lifetime thing and this will make my third game. Just because I will have played in three games doesn't 1 take any luster off the game for me. It doesn't matter if we're 9-0 and they're 0-9, it's going to be a hard-hitting game. Last year, we were supposed to beat them easi- iy, but we only won 7-0.

That's the way it always seems to be in this game." Massillon reached the state Division I playoff final last year, but lost to Cincinnati Moeller. McKinley won it all two years ago, defeating Moeller 13-0 in the offense more stable since receivers caught on bination TV-radio package that is its best ever, though still quite a few steps short of optimum coverage. Start with television. Here, the Force cut a three-year deal with WUAB (Channel 43) involving 12 road telecasts this season (a fourth of the schedule), 13 games in 1984-85 and 14 the following year. Also, the contract provides for selected coverage of playoff games involving the Force.

Nev Chandler's colleague on Force telecasts will be Jack Cor-rigan, a Kent State University product who serves as Ohio correspondent for ESPN cable. WUAB vice president-general manager Jack Moffitt reports Force telecasts last year had average ratings of 3, approximately that of the Cavaliers. Ohio State basketball, with 6 to 7 ratings, embarrassed the pros. After resolving the TV situation, Wolstein went to work on beefing up radio coverage. There was discussion among a number of area stations, but those most prominent in negotiations were 3WE, WJW and Akron's WAKR.

And what the Force finally hit on, after 3WE had dropped out of the talks, was an either-or-and-both arrangement involving WJW and WAKR. Between the two stations, 33 of Cleveland's 48 games will be aired. Meaning no play-by-play for 15 games? No. Eight of those Massillon quarterback Brian Beacon Journal photos bv Ott Gangl A DeWitz works on a pitchout Beacon Journal photo by Lew Stamp game against Canton McKinley McKinley win would reduce frustration of sub-par year title game. But neither team is a good bet to even qualify for the playoffs this season.

Massillon, beaten only by Garfield, is fourth in its region and has an outside chance. McKinley, beaten three times, is out of the picture. "It makes no difference," said Currence. "Most of these kids know this will be their very last football game and they're going to give it all they've got." Currence, in his ninth season, has a 6-2 record against McKinley, tying former Massillon coaches Paul Brown, Chuck Mather and Leo Strang on the all-time victory list. He has faced three coaches John Brideweiser, Terry Forbes and now Thorn McDaniels, the latter in his second season.

"After you've faced a coach several times, you get a feeling for how he thinks out there," said Currence. "I still haven't faced McDaniels long enough to get that feel. I do know that Thorn is his own man, and some of the things he did last year he abandoned. He doesn't run the multiple offense anymore like Forbes used to, but he has kept their slanting defense, which always has given us problems. "A defense like that hurts your trapping game and gives you problems running effectively inside." football at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday at Rubber Bowl. Tickets cost $5 for reserved seats, $4 general admission. $1 for children 12 and under. Akron students admitted free with valid student identification card. Tickets available at gate and at Memorial Hall ticket office.

Telephone 375-7278 for more information. Eastern Michigan vs. Kent State College football al 1 p.m. Saturday at Dix Stadium. Tickets cost $3 tor reserved seals, J1.50 general admission.

Kent Stale students admitted free with valid student identification card. Tickets available at gale and at Memorial Gvm Ticket office. Telephone 672-2244 for more information. University of Akron vs. Cleveland State College soccer at 2 p.m.

Sunday at Lee Jackson Field on the Akron campus. Tickets cost J2 for adults, $1 for children 18 and under. Akron students admitted free with valid student identification card. Tickets available at gate and at Memorial Hall ticket office. Telephone 375-7278 for more information.

Bodv-Building Championship The first Akron Women's Bodv-Building Championship and the Akron Mixed Pairs Championship will be Saturday at Springfield High School, corner of Canton and Sanitarium roads. Admission is $3 for pre-iudging (3 p.m.), 15 for finals (7 p.m.) and $7 for both shows (presale only). Tickets available at The Muscle Gym, 707 Canlon Road, Akron 44312 733-9473) and The Exercise Shop of Akron, 1305 Brown Akron 44301 (773-7744). Pull-O-Rama More than 30 of the nation's lop pullers are expected to compete in a Pull-O-Rama at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Coliseum.

Purse is expected to exceed 510,000. Tickets cost S9 and are on sale at the Coliseum box office and at Ticketron outlets. Telephone 867-8910 for reservations or more information. Cleveland Force vs. Pittsburgh Spirit Force's during practice this week for stop Massillon." Junior linebacker-guard Leo Caden agreed.

"Massillon has some great backs, so we're just going to have to keep them off the field with long drives, hopefully scoring at the end of them," he said. "They are a big-play team and we've given up a lot of big plays this season. In this game, there won't be a home-field advantage," he said. "In fact, when you're out there, you don't hear much of anything anyway. All your concentration is on the field." Caden is the Bulldogs' defensive leader with 44 solo tackles and 15 assists.

Another linebacker, Marvin Winn, ranks second with 40 solos and 16 assists. Another factor defensively will be the play of end Dale Jackson, 685, 10001 Hudson-Aurora Road, Streetsboro. Today is the last day to register. Contact Ed Humphrey at 626-4626. RUNNING Here is a list of area running events: Sunday Ralph Graves Run, Massillon, live miles, 1 p.m., Steve Cooper 837-5116.

Autumn Leaves, Lake County, 10 kilometers, 11 a.m., Glen Hanley 942-1006. Nov. 12 The Athlete's Foot will sponsor a 10-kilometer race and 2-mile fun run beginning at 9 a.m. at the main entrance of the store at Summit Mall. Entry fee is race-day registration is from a.m.

Race benefits the Muscular Dislrophy Association. For further information call the following Athlete's Fool stores: Rolling Acres (745-6355), Summit Mall (867-7434), Belden Village (492-2366). Meetings The Athletic Congress, Lake Erie Association, will its annual meeting and election of officers Nov 12 at 1 p.m. in Room 201 of the Physical Education Building at Cleveland Slate University. Contact Gary Easter at 696-1542 tor more information.

On Nov. 13, there will be a meeting for people who plan on directing a road race in 1984. Meeting will begin at 1 p.m. at Westlake Holiday Inn, Interstate 90 and Crocker Road. Contact Gary Easter at 696-1542 for details.

SKIING The 24th annual Cleveland Ski and Winter Sports Fair will be at Public Hall today through Sunday. Times are 2-11 p.m. today, 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday, and 10 a.m.

to 7 p.m. Sunday. The fair will have the largest representation of ski equipment manufacturers and shops in the history of the event. National Linebacker Leo Cadden Halfback Troy Jenkins Continued from page CI quarterback trying to break open the game with a big play only to have it backfire. "I'm stronger than I was a year ago," said Jenkins, "so I try to get that extra yard.

Sometimes I'm extending myself to get an extra yard and I expose myself to take a hit from the side, which jars the ball loose." Jenkins, an offensive guard on McKinley's state title-winning team of 1981, returned to tailback last season. "Massillon is a big-play team. We're a team that depends upon sustaining a long drive and scoring at the end of it," said Jenkins. "We're going to have to do that to keep their offense off the field. If we can put together some long drives, that will allow our defense to rest up and be ready to BICYCLING The Akron Bicycle Club's schedule: 10 a.m.

Saturday 34-mile Pace B-ll ride from Copley High, 3797 Ridgewood Road, lo Wadsworth. Call Pat Powers at 836-8902. CANOEING At 7 p.m. Saturday, the Ohio Historical Canoe Route Association will meet in the Peninsula Library, south of Ohio 303 on Riverview Road, to discuss the 1984 canoe voyage from Lake Erie to the Ohio River via the Cuyahoga, Tuscarawas and Muskingum rivers. Meeting is open to everyone.

For further information, write to Rich Cates, officer, Division of Watercraft, 4183 Melton Akron, Ohio 44319 or call 644-2265. GUN MILITARIA SHOW A Gun and Militaria Show will be held 'Saturday and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days in the Old School House Building, Ohio 60, in Vermilion, Ohio. For more information contact Gil Sanow at 365-5321 or Sonny Saunders al 967-9685.

HIKING Nature walks will begin at 3 p.m. the following davs. Call 867-5511 for more information: Sunday Silver Creek Metropolitan Park, Medina Line Road. To get there, take Ohio 21 south lo Ohio 585, go southwest lo Eastern Road, then west to Medina Line Road. HUNTING Wildlife District Three hunter safety courses will be taught the following days.

Pre-registration required: Nov. 5-6, 2-6 p.m. Sports Unlimited, 190 E. Buckeye West Salem. Contact Roger Johnson al 853-4801.

Nov. 7-, pm American Legion Post a 6-foot-4, 230-pounder who is back after successful knee surgery early in the season, and middle guard Robert Gilmore. Jackson, who missed three games, has 19 solos and 12 assists. Gilmore has 36 solos and 15 assists. "Massillon has the better record, but statistically, both teams are about even," McDaniels said.

"Massillon averages 29 points per game and we average 19. They average 299 yards total offense, we average 297. We average one more first down, 16 to 15. We average 60 plays to their 55. Our rushing average is 182 to their 168.

Our passing average is 115 to their 131." What everybody agrees on is that it won't be an average game. It never is. and area experts will be using the latest scientific equipment to demonstrate the mounting of bindings, ski sharpening, ski fitting and information on product improvements. A question-and-answer session also wiH be held. Peter Dodge, the No.

1 professional skier in the world and a member of the Peugot Pro Tour will make appearances throughout the fair For more information, call Ann Nolan or J. V. Madigan al 621-0393, or call 771-3678. SPORTSMAN LEAGUE The Medina Farmer Sportsman League will hold its monthly meeting at 2 p.m. Sunday at Medina Branch of TransOhio Savings, 830 N.

Court Medina TENNIS The Thanksgiving Holiday Junior Tournament will be Nov 24-27 al Towpath Racquet Club, 2108 Akron-Peninsula Road, Akron. Tournament is open to everyone. Singles divisions, for both boys and girls, are 18-and-under, 16-and-under, 14-and-under and 12-and-under Every player is assured of at least two matches. Entry fee is $10 per event, limit of two 8763 IS Nov- For enlry '28 TRAPPING Wildlife District Three trapper education courses will be taught the following davs: Nov. 6, 1-5 p.m.

Don Myers Driving School Classroom, 7451 Middlebranch Ave. N. North Canton. Today is the last day to register. Contact Don Myers at 877-2546 or 494-6236.

If voy would like an event listed in the Beacon Journal's weekly activity calendar, send the informa-fton at least two davs prior to the event to: Akron Beacon Journal Sports Department, Attn. Activity Calendar, 44 E. Exchange St, Akron, Ohio 44328. Here is where you can get tickets to sporting events this weekend in the Akron area. Cleveland Cavaliers vs.

Dallas Mavericks Tonight at 8 05 at the Coliseum. Tickets are S5, $8.50, 111, 13.75. Tickets available at all Ticketron outlets and at museum du uirne iaeTroni i railways will provide bus transportation to all Cavs' home games this season. For each game, buses will leave Higbee's in Beioen Village Mall, North Canlon, al 6 and will stop at 6 30 at J. C.

Penney's al Rolling Acres Mall in Auron before going to Coliseum. All buses will leave Coliseum for those locations 10 minutes after the game. A round-trip ticket costs $4 per person. For 'more information, call 867-8910 (Akron) or 659-9100 (Cleveland). Youngstown State vs.

University of Akron College tablet indicate beginning mh and gam feeding and migration times. Major neriodi up to two hours, minor up to an hour. Standard time. t1983 MISL season-opener at 6:35 p.m. Sunday at Coliseum.

Tickets cost $10, $9, $6 and group rate (20 or more) is $2 discount on $6 and 5 tickets. Tickets available at ail Ticketron outlets and al Coliseum Box Office. Call 376-9001 for further information FUTURE EVENTS Cleveland Browns vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers 1 pm Nov 13 at Cleveland Stadium. Tickets are $13, $12 and $8 Tickets available at Stadium ticket office (located at Gate B) Monday through Saturday from 9 6 and a' Ticketron outlets.

Telephone 575-1000 for more information, Cleveland Indians vs. Baltimore Orioles Indians' home-opener, April 14 at Cleveland Stadium Tickets will be on sale every Monday through Friday from 9 APm' atjfibe's Gate A Box Office at Cleveland Stadium. Tickets include a stub worth $2 off the regular price of an $8 box seal or a $6 reserved seal. As of now, general admission tickets cost $3 50 Tickets can be charged to VISA or MasterCard by calling the Indians at 241-5555. Indians' season tickets Season tickets for Indians' home games cost $525 for box seats, $400 for reserved.

Plan includes an exchange program for all unused tickets, free copy of Indians' 1984 Media Guide, Tribe's ticket charge card, preferred parking option and post-season ticket priority. In the weekend plan, box seats cost $275, reserved $200. Included are post-season ticket priority, Tribe charge card and exchange dales for unused tickets. Ticketron outlets in the area are located at all Sears stores in Akron and at Sears in Belden Village in Canton, tne Tux Shop at Summit Mall, Record Theater at 1100 E. Tallmadge Ave.

in Akron and the National Record Mart at S2S2 Dressier Road in Canton. AM PM Minor Major Minor Major Nov. 4 11:46 6:22 5:11 5 12:07 7:09 5:35 12:25 6 12:42 7:54 5:58 1:01 7 1:16 8:43 6:21 1:36 8 1:50 9:33 6:41 2:12 9 227 10:32 7:03 2:53 10 3:07 11:44 7:13 4:03.