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COURIER-POST, Tuesday, Jun 1, 1982 TOURNAMENT BASEBALL Euistace state Z-rifffic ions champ hip is By WALT BURROWS Of the Courier-Post WEST WINDSOR Bishop Eustace Prep School's Squad has been an integral part of the Crusaders' baseball program all season. That fact was never more evident than it was Sunday when Eustace came from behind to defeat St. Mary's of Elizabeth, 6-2, to win the State Parochial championship at Mercer County Park. The Squad is composed of three seniors, all of whom at one time during the season lost a starting assignment to an underclassman and elected to make their contributions in another manner. "They gave themselves the identity," recalled assistant Coach Joe Galliera.

"They like to think of themselves as sleeping until the fifth inning or so and then sounding a wake-up call and giving the team a hand." Going into the fifth inning against St. Mary's, Eustace was down, 1-0, and the Squad Vince McAneney, Leon Trevito and Lou Testa decided it was time to act. Coach Bob Wengert always huddles his team as it comes off the field and prepares to bat. This time, McAneney, leader of the Squad, asked if his unit could give the varsity a little pep talk. Wengert, thinking anything was worth a try, agreed and Eustace's climb toward a state title was underway.

Darrin D' Andrea, who had three of Eustace's eight hits, singled and moved to second on Paul Canal's sacrifice. Wengert then sent sophomore George Stillwell to bat for once they found out the rain had canceled us out Saturday." "I don't think it would have mattered what day we played," said McQuillan. "It took us a little time to catch on. Everything we hit in the first four innings when right at somebody. "Then things started falling our way.

St. Mary's had a good team, but not as good as Pennsauken or Cherry Hill East. And our bench really helped us. Those guys are tremendous. It's been that way all year." Eustace is a young team.

It graduates only three starters Scian, Guetens and Canal from its 16-6 season. But the Squad goes, too. The three guys who gave the Crusaders a wake-up call Sunday will be sorely missed. pitcher Paul Elmer. The soph made Wengert look like a genius with a run-scoring single that tied the game.

St. Mary's, 16-4, bounced back to take a 2-1 lead on Rich Fernandez' RBI double in the bottom of the inning. But Eustace, its adrenalin still flowing by the Squad's "Gipper speech," pushed across three runs in the top of the sixth to put the game away. Bob McQuillan, who had two hits and played a fine game at third base, opened the inning with a single, moved to second on Lou Moya's walk and scored ahead of Moya on D'Andrea's triple. Ed Guetens' fly to center field scored D' Andrea with the third run of the inning.

Eustace ended the scoring in the seventh inning when Steve Scian opened with a single and promptly stole second. When Mike Patterson's grounder to third was misplayed, Scian scored and Patterson wound up at third base. McQuillan's second hit of the game scored Patterson. Elmer scattered six hits to the North Jersey champs in posting his eighth straight victory following losses in his first two starts of the year. He retired the side in the sixth and seventh innings.

"Paul was sharp at the end," said Galliera. "He seemed to get stronger as the game progressed. "I'm sure the extra day's rest helped him, although I know the rest of our players had looked forward to playing Saturday. I don't think any of them expected we would play Sunday. They were looking toward Monday Havers pitches Quakers past Pennsville, 1-0 PAROCHIAL Spartans rally to win title WEST WINDSOR Bill Catalano singled home Matt McCabe in the eighth inning and Holy Spirit High School went on to defeat Essex Catholic, 7-4, for the State Parochial A baseball championship Sunday at Mercer County Park.

Holy Spirit, which fell behind 4-0 in the first inning, had forced the game into extra innings with a run in the sixth. Rich Kurtz opened the sixth with a double and rode home one out later when Joe Porch tripled to center field. McCabe opened the eighth inning against loser Ray Ojeda by reaching base via an error. Kurth walked and Catalano followed with his run-scoring single. One out later, Stan Mar-zyk scored Kurth with a sacrifice fly to right and Bergman's doubled chased Catalano in with the third run.

Bob Wright pitched for Holy Spirit and permitted only one hit after the first inning when Essex combined two hits, two walks and an error to build its 4-0 lead. Wright fanned seven and walked six. VOORHEES Mike Havers fired a six-hitter and had four strikeouts yesterday as Moorestown High School's baseball team upset defending state champion Penns-ville, 1-0, in the South Jersey Group 2 championship game at Eastern High School. Havers went the distance for the Quakers, now 17-3 on the season, and survived two jams in the late innings to post the crucial victory over the Eagles, and ace Ron Bennett. "This was a well-played game between two fine teams," Moorestown Coach Russ Spicer said.

"Havers pitched one of his finest games of the season. His ball was lively today and he was able to keep the ball low the whole game." Moorestown scored the lone run of the game in the first inning by taking advantage of some Bennett wild-ness. Marty Lawler started things with a walk and went to second when Todd Powell was safe on an error. After Joe Gregorio sacrificed the GROUP 2 runners along, John Melosky walked to load the bases. It appeared Bennett was going to get out of the inning when he got Havers on an infield pop.

However, he walked Jeff Beam to force the lone run of the game home. "Bennett was having trouble getting his curve over in the early innings," Spicer said. "Heck, we got only two hits off him all day. He seemed to be getting tougher as the game went along. In fact he retired the last 10 batters he faced.

"I never thought one run would win this game," Spicer added. "But as the game went on I felt we weren't going to be able to score much off Bennett. It was just a matter if Havers would be a.ble to hold them off, and he managed." Moorestown will now face the winner of today's Ridge-Rumson game tomorrow at Rider College starting at 3 p.m. Not their day Pennsville High School's Rickey Buon-core is slightly off target with this swing at a Mike Havers pitch in yesterday's South Jersey Group 2 championship baseball Courier-Post photo by Marty O'Grady game at Eastern High School. Buoncore wasn't alone, however, as Pennsville, the defending state champion, got just six hits off Havers and lost to Moorestown, 1-0.

TOURNAMENT SOFTBALL Luck runs out for the Irish in loss to Morris Catholic replaced by Gina Savarese, who took second on a wild pitch and moved to third on a sacrifice. Rampone then hit a 3-2 pitch into short center to plate the deciding run. "It was a heartbreaking loss," said Ferraro. "Graves really pitched well and both teams played great defense. We hit the ball hard, but they (Morris) came up with the big plays.

We had some good scoring chances, but Morris turned well-hit yielded seven safeties, four of which came over the last two frames. Camden Catholic, the South Jersey champion which finished its season with a 17-7 record, scored when Nancy Lenaghan walked, stole second and came home on a double by Lisa Brown. Morris, after scoring its first run in the sixth, won its 16th game in 22 outings in the seventh. With one out, Chris Cerchione singled and was second inning and the run held up until Morris tied the score in the sixth. The North Jersey champions went on to get the deciding tally with two out in the last half of the seventh on an RBI hit by Dede Rampone.

The game was marked by a torrid pitching duel between Morris Catholic's Amy Acker and the Irish's Joann Graves. Acker gave up only five hits. Graves, a righthander who fanned five and walked only one, WEST WINDSOR Camden Catholic High School's girls' softball team has ended its season and the way Coach Jerry Ferraro sees it, luck just deserted the Irish at the finish. The end came Sunday when Morris Catholic beat the Irish, 2-1, in- the New Jersey State Interscho-lastic Athletic Association's Parochial A championship game. Camden Catholic scored in the balls into double plays." One chance came in the third 1 inning after Cindy McBrearty singled and Lisa Brown reached base on an error with one out.

Maureen Karbach cracked a liner toward third, but Lori Acker caught the ball and threw to first to double off McBrearty. "The same thing happened again in the fifth," said the Irish coach. "In the sixth, Amy Walters was on first base when McBrearty hit a liner which was turned into a double play. We're a hit and run team. When the ball is hit, we go.

It just wasn't our day." This is the first year Parochial girls' softball championships were up for grabs. Camden Catholic had reached the South Jersey Group 3 semifinals the last two years. TOURNAMENT State tracks the best Quakers feel oats in big second half into a tie with Princeton at the seven-minute mark and into the lead just minutes later. As the half progressed, that lead steadily grew to seven on the fine shooting of sophomore Beth Delaney and juniors Mariann Sowney and Kathy Delaney. The entire Moorestown team sparkled on defense.

Goalkeeper Betsy Ylagen had eight key saves, while the Quaker line defense, captained by Mary McCarthy, held Princeton to one lone second-half tally. Moorestown will now travel to Lawrence Prep to face Montville in the semifinal round today. Collings-wood faces Lenape today at Cherry Hill West. The winners of these matches will face each other June 4ih for the state championship at a site yet to be announced. MOORESTOWN Moorestown High School came from behind to defeat Princeton, 14-7, yesterday in the quarterfinals of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association lacrosse tournament.

Trailing 6-4 at the half, Moorestown put on an awesome offensive second half that tallied 10 goals in 25 minutes. Defensively, Princeton was held scoreless until the last three minutes of the game. "Never giving up and playing smartly turned things around in the second half," stated Moorestown Coach Kate Gehret. "I'm very proud of our team. They realized the fine team they were up against and used their skill and good sense to beat them." Making two key changes in the second-haif lineup, Gehret found the right combination to move her team By CURT HOLBREICH Of the Courier-Post The first Garden State Invitational Track and Field Meet, an event organizers hope will grow intean Eastern alternative to the prestigious Golden West Invitational, will be held at 1 p.m.

Saturday, June 19 at Stockton State College in Pomona. There will be 16 individual events and two relay races in the boys only meet, which is open to graduating high school seniors. "We're going to try to attract some the best athletes from the East Coast," said Wilbur Ross, the noted hurdles coach and a member of the games committee, from his Somerdale home yesterday. "We want to provide a meet in the East to give the kids who can't afford to travel to California an opportunity to run in a quality post-season event. "We have some of the best kids in the country right here in the East and it seems senseless that they should have to go all the way across the country to get some national exposure." The meet is being held in con Another hurdle to cross couner-Post photo by Curl Hudson Hurdles coach Wilbur Ross is one force June 19 at Stockton State College.

Ross, behind the Garden State Invitational who resides in Somerdale, is shown work-Track and Field Meet, which will debut ing with Renaldo Nehemiah. Eastern blanks Trenton field consulting firm is conducting June 8-July 4 at Stockton. "With the symposium at the same time, it will give the high school athletes an opportunity to mix with some of the world's best," Ross said. "This will also be a chance for them to be seen by Eastern college coaches instead of the East losing its best talent to the Western coaches at the Golden TRENTON Host Trenton State College failed to hit in the clutch here Sunday afternoon and had to settle for second place in the NCAA Division III softball championships. The Lions dropped a 2-0 decision to Eastern, Conn, and were eliminated from the two-loss tournament.

Trenton State, which needed to defeat Eastern twice to win the national title, finished 2-2. Westf ield (Mass.) gained the third-place trophy with a 1-2 mark and 7 "but it something that is needed for the Eastern kids, and we're hoping it will develop from year to year." Events to be held include the 100, 200, 400, 800, 1,500, 3,000, 110 high hurdles, 400 intermediate hurdles, 1,500 race walk, long jump, triple jump, high jump, pole vault, shot put, discus, javelin, 400 relay and 1,600 relay. Auroa (111.) was fourth. Trenton State, which finished the season 31-15, had three players named to the All-American squad. Janice Noffsigner at third base, Karen Youngman at first and Donna Michael as the designated hitter were so honored.

Eastern, 27-10, managed only five hits off loser Gina Lamandre but managed to score single runs in the second and fifth innings. Trenton Please see EASTERN, Page 10B I I West." The Stockton meet will not conflict with the Golden West, which will be held June 12 in Sacramento, but it will bump heads with the International Prep Invitational, another national class high school meet scheduled for June 19 in Elmhurst, 111. "We realize this, was put together very quickly," Ross said, junction with an international track symposium Ross tracxana.