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Spt. 15, 1982 Daily Times, St. Cloud, Minn 1D Walton's return slowed2D Dodgers add to lead3D Best Bets2D Boxing4D i Scoreboard2D NFL4D gp)(o)rS SECTION 1 I fNVMSJBJ Hirbek finds groove, helps CConmoir win 1. 1 m-kmm great potential. Projecting ahead, he can win 15 games next year, maybe more if he stays said.

Gary Ward's RBI double in the sixth inning capped a decisive two-run Twins' rally, which knocked out Texas starter Jon Matlack, 7-7. Trailing 2-1, rookie Ray Smith led off the Minnesota sixth with a single. Two outs later, Matlack hit Tom Brunansky with a pitch. Hrbek followed with a single that tied the score. Ward then drove home the go-ahead run with his second double of the game.

Gary Gaetti's one-out triple in the fifth and Greg Wells' sacrifice fly brought home Minnesota's first run. Swimming 61 -meet winning streak snapped NEW BRIGHTON The streak is over! St. Cloud Tech, which had won 61 consecutive competitive dual meets dating back to the 1976 season, finally met its match Tuesday night, bowing to Irondale 69-58. Irondale, which jumped to a 12-2 lead in the first event by finishing 1-2 in the 200-yard medley relay, fell behind after the diving competition but rebounded by claiming the first two spots in the 100-yard backstroke. From that point on, the Knights were in command.

"We needed a 1-3 finish (worth 10 points) in the last relay to win the meet, but we wound up with a second (worth four points)," explained Mike Chopp, the Tigers' coach. "We just ran out of swimmers." Chopp, who loaded his first relay only to see the strategy backire, watched his team rally for a 30-28 lead after Mariah Olson and Lia Rei-chensperger placed 1-2 in the diving competition. The Tigers nursed a slim advantage until the backstroke, an event which found the Knights' Deb Dickson and Michele Howard finishing 1-2. "We tried hard," said Chopp. "There's no questioning our effort, but I wasn't pleased with the technical aspects of our performance." Tech will attempt to start a new streak Thursday, hosting Willmar at 6 p.m.

Swim5D McCullum joins Vikings; predicts TEXAS MINNESOTA bi bi GWrght cf MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Minnesota Twins rookie first baseman Kent Hrbek got back in the groove and pitcher Jack O'Connor thinks he may have found one. Hrbek returned to the lineup after a five-day absence due to his father's death and picked up a timely hit that helped the Twins whip the Texas Rangers 3-2 behind O'Connor's four-hitter. "I'm happy my mom and brother me to get back on the field," Hrbek said. "My mom knew best what my dad wanted and he wanted me on the field playing." O'Connor struck out a career-high eight batters to even his record at 7-7. LThe big lefthander didn't allow a hit after the fourth inning and walked -just one.

"I have to go up there and think I'm going to get a strike," O'Connor said. need to find my rhythm. I want to ostay at an even keel and not go up and odown a lot." It was the second straight consistent game for O'Connor, even though he lost the first 2-0 to the Rangers last -Wednesday. 0 "He's pitched well both times against us," said Texas Manager Dar-rell Johnson. "We're in a slump, but he's a heck of a pitcher, I'll tell you that." O'Connor started the season with the Twins but was sent to Toledo April 1 15 before being recalled June 4.

"They sent me down, but they brought me back," O'Connor said. "It told me they see something in me." Twins Manager Billy Gardner sees a bright future for O'Connor. "He has 0 0 0 1 1 1 Mitchell cf Castino 2b 1 1 Brunsky rf Hrbek lb 0 0 OBrien If BBell 3b Parish rf Hostler lb LJhnsn dh Sundbrg Richrdt 2b Dent 88 Totals 1 0 Ward If Gaetti 3b Wells dh Faedo ss RSmith Totals WW B3i ZJ 3 0 0 0 3 110 IS--- 28 3 7 3 1 0 4 30 2 mitgr i. AP photo Texas 002 000 000 2 Minnesota 000 012 OOx 3 Gaetti. DP Texas 1, Minnesota 1 LOB Texas 3, Minnesota 4.

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California pasted the Sox 7-0 to stay throw to White Sox catcher Carlton Fisk to one game behind Kansas City in the American score in the third inning of Tuesday's game in League West. Baseball roundup, page 3D. Brothers allowed to play for Cathedral Golf Tom Weiskopf beats sleet, captures Vail tournament team against Crosby-Ironton Friday night. "It's a good feeling," Tim Gerchy said. He has been practicing since the beginning of the season with the Cathedral football team but has been unable to play in the Crusaders first two games of the season.

"I should be able to play football Friday." The Gerchy's had planned to appeal Fure's refusal to sign the waiver to the Minnesota State High School League's committee on eligibility today in Anoka, but the board's decision changed their plans. "We just felt it was better to decide the matter before the board," Tim's father, Ed Gerchy said. "We'd rather have it settled here than go before the high school league." "I've been involved with a number of eligibility cases that have ended up being decided by the high school league," Fure told the board. "Frankly, I feel this is a highly unusual case that the board is getting involved with." By MIKE KILLEEN Tims Sports Writer A football player like Tim Gerchy could appreciate the efforts of the Sauk Rapids Board of Education Tuesday night. The board took the "ball" out of the superintendent's hands and forced a change in thought during a special session to decide the fate of 17-year-old Tim and 14-year-old John Gerchy's transfer to St.

Cloud Cathedral High School. The school board voted 5-2 to direct W.F. Fure, superintendent of schools at Sauk Rapids, to sign a transfer waiver allowing the Gerchy brothers to participate in varsity athletics at Cathedral. Fure, who earlier had refused to sign the waiver because he felt the move was based on athletic rather than academic need, said he would sign the waiver this morning. Fure's signature on the waiver form apparently clears the way for Tim Gerchy to play for Cathedral's football tage of athletics at Cathedral," Ives said.

"In my mind, no one knows why they have made a decision to transfer to Cathedral. Maybe they (the Gerchy's) don't even know why. But we just don't know why," board member Dan Lyons said during the meeting. Lyons, citing the evidence Fure and Sentz used in refusing to sign the waiver, said that "pratically nothing" would stand up in court, which would have been the Gerchy's next step in the appeal process if both the school board and the high school league had ruled against them. Fure and Sentz had based their initial opposition to the waiver on several elements inaccuracies on the transfer form and their belief that the transfer was based on the Gerchys taking advantage of Cathedral's athletic programs.

The Gerchys initiated the transfer Gerchy5D "A group ol persons studying the evidence came up with a different conclusion," Fure said after the meeting about the boards' findings. "I guess Mr. (Lyle) Sentz (principal at Sauk Rapids High School) and I have some real reservations about it, but we'll both abide by their decision. "We had no intention of harming Tim Gerchy," Fure continued. "Our opinion is that you have to carry out the rules of the high school league." "It's different, but in many ways, it's the same," board chairperson Mary Ives said about the board ruling on the eligibility requirements.

"As a school board, we are the last step in an appeal process." What swung the board in favor of the board member's C. Perry Schenk's motion, directing Fure to sign the waiver form? "I'd guess I'd say from a personal standpoint that I was not convinced that the evidence provided showed that his parents were not deliberatly transferingTim simply to take advan players will strike EDEN PRAIRIE (AP) Controversial wide receiver Sam McCullum, who became a Minnesota Viking on Tuesday, says a strike in the National Football League is inevitable. "I'd say right now a strike's definitely going to happen in pro football," McCullum told The Minneapolis Star and Tribune. The 29-year-old wide receiver was the NFL Players Association representative with the Seattle Seahawks before being cut last week. "I'd also say if it (the season) last until the fifth game (without a strike), I'd be totally surprised." Vikings General Manager Mike Lynn said McCullum was signed for the same contract he had with Seattle, which goes through next year.

McCullum's release from Seattle raised questions as to the team's motive. The NFL Players Association filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board asking that the Seahawks be enjoined from releasing McCullum. The Vikings appear to be ambivalent to the controversy. Coach Bud Grant called McCullum "one of the better wide receivers in the league We never had any trouble with him when he was with our club and we have no reason to believe that we would have any problem with him now." McCullum was a Viking in 1974 and 1975. Seattle obtained him in the 1976 expansion draft Minnesota was the only one of 27 clubs to claim the former Montana State wide receiver after he was waived last week.

But McCullum declared himself a free agent instead. Lynn said the Vikings wanted McCullum before they knew of his problems. "We didn't know any problems existed until we claimed him," Lynn said. McCullum said the NLRB advised him that, "If a job was available I would have to pursue it. So I did.

However, I am anxious about the decision on my grievance (due next week)." The 29-year-old McCullum said he has not enjoyed the past week. Sophmore pushes Cathedral past SR Voiiaybsi. "I VAIL, Colo. (AP) Tom Weiskopf i says his triple bogey on the first hole ji of play in the final round of the Jerry Invitational golf tournament gave him a goal. He had shot a 5-under-par 66 during jj the opening 18 holes on Monday.

"I thought seven or eight under would win, so it gave me an incen-tiive," Weiskopf said Tuesday after shooting a 1-under-par 70 for a win- ning total of 136. I The victory was good for $25,500, Which included the winner's check and his share of the pro-amateur cash for 1 team play. Defending champion Tom Purtzer I and Fuzzy Zoeller came in with 137s tie for second in the tournament, played on the Singletree and Vail golf Courses. Each won $10,000. Miller Barber, the reigning U.S.

I Open senior champion, shot Tuesday's I best round, a 67, to place third and I collect a $7,000 check. The tournament was marked by two jdays of foul weather that included rain, sleet and cold weather. I I 'The last time I played in snow was when I was in college," said Weiskopf, j'a graduate of Ohio State, "when I was crazy, or else when we made a bet in a jbar. But I've been rained out in Ha- waii, and I'd like to defend the weather here. They've had five years of per-' feet weather, and this is a late time to 'be playing in the mountains." Weiskopf said his next stop after Vail would be Anchorage, Alaska, he plans to build a golf course.

By Times sports writers Meg Sobieck received a quick lesson in the rivalry existing between Sauk Rapids and St. Cloud Cathedral Tuesday night. Sobieck, a sophmore playing in just her third match for the Crusaders, combined with Jane Muenzhuber to help the Crusaders to a three-game nonconference victory over the Indians. The Indians won the first game of the best-of-three set 18-8, but the Crusaders came back to claim the next two games 18-15, 18-10 to win the match. Sobieck had six ace serves and four ace spikes.

Muenzhuber, senior hitter, added three ace serves and 10 ace spikes for the Crusaders, who raised their record to 3-0 with the victory. "I think it was our first real test of the season," Cathedral coach Norma from Eden Valley-Watkins in the Central Minnesota opener for both teams. Big Lake def. Kimball 18-4, 18-4 BIG LAKE An inspired Big Lake squad, with one senior in the starting lineup, upset the Kimball Cubs. "We're a very young team basically," Big Lake coach Joan Rosengren said.

"My team was up for it. We played one of our best games. It shocked the heck out of me." Sophomore Sheri Angell and senior Pam Stein were the leading spikers for the Hornets. Princeton def. Cambridge 18-4, 18-4 PRINCETON The hometown Tigers clobbered Cambridge with the help of Barb Blomberg's six ace hits.

Senior Amy Hoffman and sophomore spiker Lena Ornstrand added 1 1 Volleyball5D tell's 90 percent serving attack. Sartell (1-2 overall) challenges Monticello Thursday and takes on Class AA rival Apollo Monday. Albany def. Paynesville 18-3, 18-12 ALBANY Senior Diane Achman contributed 14 points at the service line as the undefeated Huskies swept past Paynesville. "We didn't attack well," Albany coach Pat Schleper said.

"It was kind of a scrappy game. Of course I thought we'd win, but not this handily." Husky captain Carol Oehrlein led the defense with four ace blocks. Albany is 2-0. The Bulldogs dropped to 1-2. Becker def.

Eden Valley-Watkins, 18-7, 18-14 EDEN VALLEY Lynn Lindboom was again a vital force at the net. Lindboom hammered eight ace spikes as Becker swept two games Dobbs said. "I figured that if we did well in this match, we could have a good season." Cathedral opens its Central Gopher Conference season Thursday, visiting Melrose. Ruth Ferkinhoff served 14 points, including five aces, and Lisa Carlson served 13 for the Indians, but Sauk Rapids dropped its first match of the season. Sartell def.

Maple Lake 18-5, 18-12 The Sabres started Central Minnesota Conference play with a bang Tuesday night behind the service play of Tina Knettel. Knettel was 12 for 12 from the line with nine service aces, according to coach Marie Berry. Jo Sasen, 16 for 16 from the line, also contributed to Sar- PqTa 2 minute rLV drill Dallas in 1952. He won the American national championship again 11 years later, beating Arnold Palmer in a playoff. Whitworth, 42, the first woman to surpass $1 million in career earnings, is still an active competitor on the LPGA tour.

She won two tournaments this year, the 82nd and 83rd of her career which began in 1959, and went into the No. 1 spot in all-time tournament victories, ahead of Mickey Wright Today's teaser: Who holds the NAIA record for most touchdowns scored in one season? Tuesday's answers: The last five winners of the Heisman Trophy have been Texas' Earl Campbell (1977), Oklahoma's Billy Sims (1978), Southern California's Charles White (1979), South Carolina's George Rogers (1980) and Southern Cal's Marcus Allen (1981). DAVE ANDERSON Sanchez, who was killed in a car-truck crash Aug. 12 in his native Mexico. LaPorte is 21-3 with 12 knockouts.

Miranda is undefeated in 19 bouts, and has 14 knockouts. The luxury of using All-Pro defensive end Fred Dean in a somewhat limited rather than full-time role may have to end, says Bill Walsh, coach of the San Francisco 49ers. "Not yet, but we're getting closer," said Walsh. "The injury to Dwaine Board brings us closer to being forced to use Fred more." Dean, one of the NFL's best pass rushers, hardly ever plays in first-down situations, when the 49ers use a three-man line. He always plays in passing situations, when the team uses four linemen.

Board will miss the rest of the NFL season because of a knee injury suffered in last Sunday's loss to the Los Angeles Raiders. Julius Boros and Kathy Whitworth were inducted as the 41st and 42nd members of the World Golf Hall of Fame at Pinehurst, N.C., Tuesday. Boros, 62, won the first of his 18 tour titles in the U.S. Open in night at Halenbeck Hall against Southwest State University at 7 p.m. Former Minnesota Twins pitcher Mike Marshall pleaded innocent Tuesday to two charges stemming from an incident in which he allegedly threw a baseball at a dog catcher's truck.

Marshall was ordered to appear before a municipal court judge in Minnetonka on Nov. 3 on charges of disorderly conduct and fourth-degree assault resulting from the incident at his Shorewood home in July. Dean Taylor, football coach at Sartell High School, has changed the date of an instructional clinic originally slated for Thursday. "Football for Moms (and Dads)" will be held Sept. 23 at 7 p.m.

at the high school library. Juan LaPorte, fighting on familiar turf, meets Mario Miranda, who has never fought outside his native Columbia, in New York tonight for the vacant World Boxing Council featherweight championship. The title was left vacant by the death of Salvador The St. Timid State University volleyball tearr. dropped a marathon five-game match to Macalester College Tuesday night in St.

Paul. The Scots rebound-! ed from a two-game-to-one deficit to score a 15-9, 0-15, 1 9-15, 15-10, 16-14 decision over the Huskies. Macales-; ter, the defending Minnesota Association of Inter-' collegiate Athletics for Women (MAIAW) Division I III state champions, have handed the Huskies (6-2) their only two losses of the season. St. Cloud State opens its Northern Sun Conference schedule to.