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SOUTH JERSEY SPORTS LACROSSE J) Sunday, June 15, 1986 15-E U.S. lacrosse team survives threat A 1 TTT 1 1 Si irum uuiaua in vv unu iup opener mt "1. 4 iff VV S'W "wr. Mfll 'I I VVfcKf Ti vr-v Soeetal to Th Inquirer MARTY O'GRAOV Victimized by 5-run 3d inning, Renegades leave field after 8-3 defeat by Elizabeth in title game For surprising Shawnee, disappointment in final By John D. Harris Jr.

Inquirer Stall Writer The opening game of the 1986 World Cup in women's lacrosse yesterday at Swarthmore College had all the makings of an upset. The United States came up with a 6-3 victory over Canada, but it wasnt easy. The United States, which won the last World Cup, played in 1982, was talented, heavily favored and confident. In other words, Team USA had everything to lose. Canada, far less talented and experienced than Team USA, practiced together for the first time just two weeks ago.

Canada's coach, Elizabeth Williams, is an American citizen who retired this year from Plymouth-Whitemarsh High School, where she coached lacrosse for many years. With nothing to lose, Canada played a relaxed game and led by 2-1 at halftime. Team USA, peppering goalie Julie Norton with shots, was frustrated but not beaten. The breakthrough came midway in the second half, when Team USA delighted the partisan crowd of 2,000 by scoring four unanswered goals. "I think the toughest opponent the United States will face this week is the United States," Team USA coach Josie Harper said.

"There's been a lot of pressure on the girls. Getting that first win makes things a lot easier." In another first-round game, Scotland defeated England, 7-6. Australia crushed Wales, 11-1, in the third game. Competition among the six teams in the week-long, round-robin tournament resumes today. Wales and Scotland will meet at 2 p.m., Australia and Canada at 4 and England and the United States at 6:30.

Betsy Williams, who attended Penn State and Wissahickon High School, had two goals and one assist for Team USA. Her first goal gave Team USA a 1-0 lead early in the first half. In the second half, Williams fed Candy Finn Rocha (one goal, two assists), who beat Norton to tie the score at 3-3. Less than 5 minutes later, Williams scored her second goal to put Team USA ahead for good. Margie Anderson, who entered the game in the second half, added a pair of buffer goals, less than a minute apart, for a 6-3 lead.

"We were very nervous before the game," Betsy Williams said. "It was first-game jitters. We felt some pressure because every team is out to get us." "Everybody's been working hard, and we've been so pumped up and today finally arrived," Anderson said. "The corniest saying is 'This is ELIZABETH 8, SHAWNEE 3 Elizabeth ab bi Shawnee ab hbi Mayers cf 3 2 3 4 Curcio 3b 3 110 P. Frias rf 4 0 12 Meyer ss 3 0 0 1 Munozdh 2 00 0 Myers 1b 3 000 San Pedro ph 1 0 0 0 Urbanski c.p 4 0 0 0 J.

Frias ss 5 0 0 0 Reci p.rf 3 12 0 Deloato If 3 110 Olson dh 3 0 12 Morales 1b 12 10 Carrig If 4 00 0 Randaua 3b 2 10 0 Radichel cf 0 0 0 0 Valtine 2b 4 110 Pike rf 2 110 Feliciano 3 112 Markel 10 0 0 Meiias ph 1 0 0 0 Shinske 2b 3 0 10 Farley 0 0 0 0 Total 29 8 8 8 Total 29 3 6 3 Elizabeth 026 010 0 8 Shawnee 110 000 1 3 Game-winning RBI Feliciano. 38 Mayers. Ricci. HR Mayers. LOB Elizabeth 11.

Shawnee 10. J. Frias 2, Shinske 2. Randazza, Farley. SB Mayers 2.

P. Frias. Munoz. Morales. day by combining a Shawnee error with four hits and a walk to take a 7-2 lead after three innings.

Catcher John Feliciano produced the game-winning hit when he drove in two runs by singling to left field with two out and the bases loaded. On the two pitches before his hit, Feliciano took strikes and appeared to be upset about the calls. "Those pitches were high and it made me bear down and get fired up," he said. The next batter, Mayers, then tripled to right field to clear the bases. He scored on a single by rightfielder Paul Frias.

"Getting the lead pumped us up," said Mayers, who also stole two bases and walked to force in a run in the second inning. "We heard they had a good pitcher, and everybody did their job and put everything together." Chris Urbanski, the Renegades' regular catcher, took over for Ricci in the fourth inning and allowed only three more hits and a single run Mayers' homer over the fence in left-center field, 370 feet away. The Shawnee bats, meanwhile, were not productive. The Red Men's big third inning appeared to take the life out of the Renegades. "Once we fell behind, we didn't do a very good job of being competitive," said Gibney.

"That's uncharacteristic of our team." For Shawnee, which tied for the Burlington County Liberty Division title and won its first sectional title in four attempts, the loss ended a season in which the Renegades exceeded expectations at least, the expectations of others. "A lot of people counted us out," said Urbanski. "They thought we'd only win the division and go no further. We proved a lot of people wrong, and we should have won today, definitely." By Kevin Tatum Inquirer Stall Writer PRINCETON The Shawnee High School baseball team played for a State championship for the first time yesterday morning but wasn't able to come up with the kind of effort that earned it a spot in the finals. Facing Elizabeth (25-4-2), the impressive North Jersey champion, for the Group 4 title at Princeton University, the Renegades from Medford were eliminated by the Red Men, 8-3.

Renegades, No. 2 in The Inquirer's South Jersey Top 10, were victimized by Elizabeth's five-run third inning which broke a 2-2 tie and never recovered. In its South Jersey championship and state semifinal victories, Shawnee (20-4) had kept the contests close and then eked out one-run triumphs. Elizabeth was led by centerfielder Rodney Mayers, who singled, tripled home two runs and homered in his three at-bats. "When Rod hits, we win," said Ray Korn, the Elizabeth coach.

"We're greatly disappointed," said Brian Gibney, the Shawnee coach, whose team had won 15 of its last 16 games before the contest. thought the kids would show a little more. When it comes down to this kind of game, you need big plays, and we didn't get them. We weren't totally prepared to play." A recent nemesis stranded base-' runners visited the Renegades again. They left eight runners on base in the first four innings, and in doing so gave the winning pitcher, Scott Farley (7-2), a chance to be tough in the late innings.

He was. Shawnee took a 1-0 lead in the first inning when Farley issued four bases on balls, but the Renegades left a man at each base when Farley struck out Rich Carrig to end the inniDg. The lead was increased to 2-0 in the BASKETBALL Dougherty too (sofV? Sixers don't think so The uncertainties is). of college recruiting lJi II VVY 0 The Philadelphia Inquirer VICK.I VAUHO (4) and England's Di Stern collide than 150 woman lacrosse players in all of Canada. Lacrosse is not played in college, she said, and there are no 4 high school leagues.

1 The candidates for the Canadian! team met for the first time last Octo-; ber. The team was selected in April, and it didn't practice for the first time until June 2. -s By comparison. Team USA was lected last November and has been practicing since January. "A lot of our players have very little experience," said Williams, a I former assistant lacrosse coach for Team USA.

She was selected to coach the Canadian team "after applying for the position to have something to do." "They burned out in the second half," Williams said of her players. "The United States is far more experienced, much better-skilled than us. We fell apart gently. We made a mistake here, a mistake there, and they kept the ball." Brad Daugherty 7 can be a really good player' son by hitting all 13 of his shots against UCLA, equaling the NCAA single-game record for shooting accuracy. He led the nation in shooting (64.8 percent), ending the regular season by hitting 10 of 12 shots and grabbing 16 rebounds in an impossible afternoon at Duke.

"The thing I like about Daugherty is that, when he rebounds, he never brings the ball down," said Sixers owner Harold Katz. "He gets the rebound, and, in the same motion, he puts it up." With Daugherty joining Moses Ma- lone and Barkley on the front line, the Sixers no longer would be the shortest team in the NBA, the only one without a player taller than 6-10. Boston has two 7-footers, in Robert Parish and Bill Walton, plus McHale, who has the arms of a 7-footer. Atlanta has three 7-footers. So does Manute Bol.

The Sixers need a 7-footer the way Imelda Marcos needs closet space. "Brad would give Philly another dimension," said Dudley Bradley, who plays for the Washington Bullets. "He could play backup center or power forward. They already have Moses and Barkley on the boards. -With Brad, they would be an even better rebounding team.

And since Brad can shoot from 15 feet it would open some room up inside. That's what they got IBobl McAdoo for." What about Daugherty being too soft? "He just has to get in there and play," Bradley said. "They said Be-noit Benjamin was too soft, too. The first half of the year, people won- dered why the Los Angeles Clippers drafted him. The second half, he was unbelievable.

It's just a matter of getting confidence. "Remember, Brad is young. Only 20. Next year is supposed to be his senior year. Given time and the right situation, I think hell be a good pro." Good enough, maybe, to prove that people who thought he was too soft were soft in th bead.

i Scotland's Nicki Reid Edwards like a dream come But for three-quarters of us, I swear, that's what it feels like." Team USA more than doubled Canada's shot total, 40-15. However, Team USA won because it exercised intelligent shot selection in the second half opting for quality over quantity. "We needed to compose ourselves and just wait for the open shots," Betsy Williams said. "That was the difference in the second half. We were more patient." Norton's uncanny reflexes and stick action prevented Team USA from turning the game into a blowout.

Gail Cummings, a native of Hunts-ville, Ontario, who attends Temple, scored two goals. Her second goal put Canada in front, 3-2, early in the second half. "They had to be worried," Coach Williams said. "To be upset by us would have been the ultimate Williams said there were no more Barkley? Since when is there no room for an unselfish utility man. one tall enough to play center and mobile and strong enough to play power forward? "Brad is a very, very good player," Atlanta general manager Stan Kasten said.

"I look for him to have a very long, very productive pro career. Some people say he's soft. He has a body a little like IBilll Cartwright, but hey, that's not bad. "Who else do you take? So what if he's not a IPatrick Ewing. What are you going to do, hold out and not draft for a year? Just because he's not Ewing doesn't mean he can't be damned good." Daugherty smiles at all this talk of being soft.

He has heard it before, when the scouts came looking after former teammate Perkins. "Sam heard that all the time," Daugherty said. "'Soft' was almost his middle name. It's amusing. People want to label you.

When I first came here, I was known as a hatchet man, a big rough guy who would knock the hell out of you. The referees picked up on it. When I was younger, I could hardly play a whole game because of fouls. I had something like 302 fouls in my career. I only had 80 or so the last two years.

I calmed down, learned how to play my role smoother, and now I'm sup- posed to be a docile figure. It amuses me. It amuses Jordan, too. "Everybody starts out soft" Jordan said. "You just have to develop.

You can tell by playing against Brad that he is getting more aggressive. He'd be a good pick for anybody." Said Davis: "You have to learn to push and hold to play in the NBA. Otherwise, it's awfully tough. Sam Perkins h3d to learn that I'm sure Brad will learn." The Sixers are not unfamiliar to Daugherty. He grew up watching them on television in the mid-70s.

"When I was 8, 9. 10, Philadelphia was always the team to beat," Daugherty said. "I'd enjoy playing in Philadelphia. It would be a wonderful opportunity to play with Dr. J.

He's a class person. He plays hard, and you never see him complaining to the referees. He's the guy who invented the small-forward spot that opened up the game." In Daugherty, the Sixers would be getting a center-forward who won 111 games in college and lost only 26. Sure, he has some deficiencies. Daugherty is not a particularly quick jumper, he is not a defensive intlmi-dator (only 36 blocked shots last year) and he could shoot free throws better.

But he and Rod Griffin, formerly of Wake Forest, are the only ACC players to average 20 points in a season while shooting 60 percent or better from the field. Daugherty started the 1985-86 sea- Elizabeth Farley fW. Shawnee IP 7 IP ER 2 ER 7 BB SO 5 9 BB SO 7-1) Ricci (L. 10-2) Urbanski 3 4 5 3 3 2 1 Umpires Ron Cathel, Mike Migliori, Dick Lee. Time 2:40.

second on a singles by rightfielder Glen Pike and third baseman Mike Curcio, and a ground out by second baseman John Meyer. The Renegades left men at first and third, and Farley settled down after that. He allowed only four more hits, and didn't walk another batter. The final Shawnee run came in the seventh, when Chuck Ricci tripled and scored on a ground out. "I was overly pumped up and nervous at the beginning of the game," Farley said.

"I had to adjust." Like his counterpart, Ricci (10-2), Shawnee's starter and loser, struggled in the early innings. He walked five batters in the first two innings, and two of four bases on balls in the second inning forced in runs to tie the score, 2-2. "I had no control. I couldn't throw strikes," Ricci said. "There's no excuse.

They were a good team, but I think we beat ourselves today." Elizabeth finished Ricci for the Football notebook will always come first. They look at the college and the curriculum and the chance to graduate with a meaningful degree. We tend to do well with those kids. "Other families may be dreaming of pro ball and how much money the kid can make in four years. Those families may be more susceptible to some of the dishonest things we hear of in other parts of the country." Pitt's new head football coach, Mike Gottfried, was at the Stadium Hilton in Philadelphia on Thursday, speaking to Pitt alumni from the local area.

After three years at Kansas, Gottfried got the Pitt job in December. He said he was satisfied with the recruits Woodrow Wilson's Henry Tuten and Gateway's Tim Yowler among them he got in so abbreviated a season. "The thing I liked abou' getting them was that they both were heavily recruited," he saia. "It speaks well for Pitt's tradition that we got both of them at that late date." But Gottfried emphasized that he had built a much deeper foundation for recruiting next year. "The assistant coaches were out the whole month of May," he said.

"Now we have an idea of who we want to recruit next year." Gottfried said four assistants were assigned to New Jersey. He also said the focus of Pin's recruiting would be the East and mid-Eastern states. "I think the East is a great recruiting area," he said, "but you can't get everyone. You're limited in numbers, for one thing. But there's a lot of talent out there.

People last year said Pennsylvania was 'down from the year before, but there were still 80 players from Pennsylvania who got Division I scholarships." Gottfried indentified a Wildwood graduate. Bill Osborn, as one of his most pleasant surprises. The junior wide receiver was the star of Pitt's spring game, with five receptions at a position he had occupied for less than two 'weeks. DAUGHERTY, from 1-E only 20 years old. And he is also 7 feet tall, which would help the Sixers scale the mountainous front lines that tower over the Eastern Conference landscape.

"We like his size, his upbringing, his college training," said Sixers general manager Pat Williams. "He's impressive. A bright, sharp, good kid. Sure, he's got some deficiencies. There are no perfect players in this draft.

But there's no down side with Daugherty. No risk. Can he be an all-star? I don't know. But I do know we don't have to worry about him bottoming out." If the Sixers don't draft Daugherty, they won't be able to sweep him under the carpet. Because if they don't take him, the Boston Celtics almost certainly will with the No.

2 pick. "He reminds us very much of Kevin McHale," Celtics general manager Jan Volk said. "We would give very serious consideration to taking him. Absolutely. But I'm under the impression that the Sixers are taking him." Still, there are whisperings in the smoky back rooms of the NBA that Daugherty is too "soft" to be worthy of the No.

1 pick in the draft. Not tough enough or aggressive enough. "A 7-foot Sara Perkins," is what one NBA general manager called Daugherty. "Soft? I don't know what that means," Williams said. All Daugherty did at North Carolina, besides getting his degree on time, was to break Bobby Jones' school record with a 61.99 career shooting percentage.

As a junior. Daugherty led the Atlantic Coast Conference in rebounding (9.7 per game). Last year, he finished second in the ACC in rebounding (9.0) and third in scoring (20.2). That scoring average was the highest at vorth Carolina since Ford average 20.8 points in 1978. Is that soft? "Kevin McHale was supposed to play soft but he doesn't Dennis Johnson was supposed to play soft, but he doesn't," said an NBA general manager who asked not to be named.

"Daugherty has an ability to carry his body in such a way that it doesnt look like he's working hard. I donl believe he is soft "He's not (Chicago forwardl Charles Oakley in terms of bumping people around. But Brad's deceptively big. He plays big. He can rebound above the rim.

But just like McHale, he doesn't always have to. That's the one knock on Brad that he's soft But it's just a perception." A perception that is by no means shared by every front office in the league. So what if Daugherty is not being hailed as a franchise player? So what if he does not display his skills as garishly as does Charles By Don McKee Inquirer stall Vnur Since recruiting is the Iifeblood of college football, you'd think there would be some consensus on how to evaluate it and succeed at it. Not that some people don't try. In recent years, there has been a spate of publications analyzing college football recruiting, ranking teams by their recruiting seasons and looking ahead to how teams will fare down the road.

But even one of the people who is acknowledged as being among the nation's best recruiters says he has trouble reaching conclusions. "I've never really been able to figure out why you have a good recruiting year," Joe Paterno, the Penn State coach, said last week. "Kids now want to play so early. Kids want someone to tell them they'll play right away, and I've been reluctant to tell kids that." On Friday, Paterno was at the Wes-tover Country Club, near Norris-' town, to speak to the area's Penn State alumni. He covered a variety of topics, but was most interesting in his insiehts into rprmitin; Penn State was judged to have had a very average recruiting season by its lofty standards, anyway last winter.

That was the case mainly because the Lions had only about 15 scholarships to give, although NCAA rules permit up to 30 per year. But Paterno was speaking philosophically about recruiting in general, and, as usual, made some prescient comments on the topic. "The better kids dont worry about getting the chance to play immediately," he said. "A really confident kid won't ask you 68 times if hell get a chance as a freshman. "And a mature kid looks at where hell be as a senior not where hell be as a sophomore.

That kid knows hell practice against really good players at our place, so hell get better and better, and, after four or five years, pro football will be there, if that's what he wants." Paterno acknowledged that most recruits dream of pro football as a goal, but said others look at the broader spectrum of collegiate life. "There are some kids, and some families," he said, "where academics Joe Paterno 'Kids now want to play so early' Osborn had gone to Pitt as a quarterback and spent most of the last two years as a defensive back. "He really did good things at wide receiver," Gottfried said, "and it happened so quickly because we're so limited in that area. We're very young there, and it's a big concern." Osborn 's chances to contribute at wide receiver got another boost last week when Matt Stennett decided to forgo his senior year of football and sign a baseball contract Stennett had been expected to start. The latest Handbook of College footfall Recruiting, by Joe lerran-ova, the recruiting guru, contains the usual examples of the author's wit, plus a rating of every major recruit in the country.

Terranova rates Deptford's Zack Dumas, who will attend Ohio State, as the eighth-best defensive back in the country. Dumas was The Inquirer's South Jersey player of the year. In addition. Terranova lists Pem-berton's Octavius Gould as a four-star running back. Gould will attend Florida.

No other South Jersey players earned the highest rating, although a Woodstown resident, Mike Flanagan, received four stars as an offensive lineman. Flanagan, who is headed for Penn State, spent two years at St James before transferring to Salesianum School in Wilmington, to finish high school. But one of the best things about the Terranova report is its irreverent tone. Terranova reminded the new Notre Dame coach, Lou Holtz, that "the only difference between a losing season in South Bend and the Titanic is the Titanic had better restaurants.".