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ports Thursday May 31, 1990 Wausau Daily Herald Section 2B Scoreboard 4B Comics SB Business istons take 3-2 advantaoe Local State tournament tickets are on sale Tickets for the 1990 WIAA State Baseball Tournament are available at the Wausau Timbers' office and the Wausau Area Chamber of Commerce. Single-session prices will be $3 for adults and students. A special $16 pass will admit people to all 12 games. This year, for the first time, Little-Leaguers in uniform will be admitted free of charge if in the company of a paying adult. Bird and Drengler among hitting leaders Jerry Bird and Bill Drengler of the Wausau White Sox are ranked 4-5 in the Central Wisconsin Senior Men's Baseball Association batting statistics.

Both players are hitting .545. Bird also leads the league with two home runs and is third in runs batted in with eight. Wausau pitcher John Pieper is first in innings pitched with 20, second in victories with two and third in strikeouts with 14. Schumacher places 4th in Nationals i5f I J- By Mike Lopresti Gannett News Service AUBURN HILLS, Mich. Time after time, the Chicago Bulls had their1 chance against a Detroit team ripe to be had.

Missed shot after missed shot, the chances slipped away, until the rims had rattled long enough, and the Pistons decided it was time to show who is boss in the NBA Eastern Conference Finals. Chicago's upset hopes froze to death Wednesday night on 33.3 percent shooting, and the Pistons tarried for three periods and exploded in the fourth for a 97-83 victory and a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven series. Game 6 is Friday in Chicago. But Game 7 would be back here Sunday, and that is bad Bull news. The home team has won every game in this series.

Only once in this series (Detroit in Game 3 in Chicago) has the visiting team shot better than 40 percent. "When someone comes into your house, you must take the victory," John Salley said. "That seems to be the trend." The Bulls played their part Wednesday. Michael Jordan was 7-for-19 for only 22 points, or 22.5 fewer than what he averaged In Chicago. Scottie Pippen was 5-for-20.

"When you aren't shooting it well," Horace Grant said, "bad things The Pistons played their part, too. "It was obvious we were at home," Detroit coach Chuck Daly said after the Pistons shot 56 percent to win, led by Joe Dumars 20 points and Mark Aguirre's 19 off the bench. It was that deadly weapon called the Detroit bench that made a close game 72-64 at the end of three periods a runaway. Aguirre scored 13 points that last period, and was 8-for-10 overall. Vinnie Johnson had five of his eight assists in the quarter.

The Pistons had other things going for them. Bill Laimbeer awoke from his weekend nap in Chicago when he had 4 points. He scored 16. And the Pistons began to beat the Chicago press. AP ptioto Double trouble: Chicago's Michael Vinnie'Johnson (center) and Isiah Thomas Jordan (23) is attacked by Detroit defenders during their playoff game Wednesday night.

dottdC I ifltt if oft i Jy LA CROSSE Former Wausau East High School star Chris Schumacher placed fourth recently in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III national track and field meet. Schumacher, a junior, leaped 48-8Ms. His effort helped the Eagles to a 16th-place finish. By Susan Pekar Wausau Daily Herald It was a fairytale ending to a nightmarish streak for the Wausau Timbers. With one out and the score tied 4-4 in the Chris Schumacher bottom of the ninth inning, T.R.

Lewis smashed an 0-1 pitch by Kenosha's Sandy Diaz over the left-field wall, giving the Timbers a 64 victory Wednesday night, and ending a nine-game losing skid. "It's good to get the win," Timbers' manager Mike Young said. "The I i 4.., T.R. Lewis (I tlx guys have really been busting their butts and working very hard, and I'm proud of them." Young had a lot of reasons to be proud of bis club, as they played well on offense and defense. "The guys have been on an offensive drought, and they hit the ball better tonight.

They battled hard and really busted out offensively," Young said. The teams played six scoreless innings before Kenosha went ahead. Steve Morris led off with a walk and moved to second with a stolen base. A long fly ball by Mike Lloyd moved him to third, and he scored when Rex DeLaNuez ripped a Juan Mercedes pitch over the left-field wall. The Timbers responded quickly, as Aman Hicks led off with an infield single and Lewis followed with another base hit.

Mel Wearing. put Wausau ahead, 3-2, with a three-run home run over the 'Athletic Park' sign in center field. Wearing leads the Timbers in home runs with nine. Once again, Kenosha went ahead in the seventh inning and threatened to break the game open when it built a 4-3 lead with only one out and two men on base. With Joe Siwa on third and Rob Schiel on first, Alex Nunez laid a bunt down the third-base line that brought in Siwa.

Schiel scored on a single by Steve Morris. Catcher Greg Zaun put a stop to the Kenosha run when he threw out Nunez and Morris trying to steal second base. Zaun picked off three runners in the game. Reliever John Boothby came in to pitch Jack ReichertWauuu Daily Herald Following through: Wausau Timbers' leadoff man to first base in Wednesday night's game at Athletic Park. Aman Hicks watches the ball on his first-inning groundout Hicks was 2-for-4.

Soccer clinics beginning next week WESTON The D.C. Everest Youth Soccer Association will hold clinics for boys and girls beginning next week. Youths under age 8 should attend on Mondays, June 4 and 11. Youths ages 8 to 10 can attend on Tuesdays, June 5 and 12. All clinics will begin at 6:30 p.m.

at Kennedy Park Field No. 3. Coaches are reminded to pick up their equipment on June 11 or June 12. Northland basketball camp has openings Northland Lutheran High School in Wausau still has openings for its 1990 summer basketball camp for boys and girls in grades 5 through 9. The camps are scheduled for June 18-22.

The boys will go from 9 a.m. to noon and the girls from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. Entry fee is $30 per person, with each participant receiving a T-shirt. For more information, call Jeff Davis at 845-2448 or 355-1636. Wausau Precision wins league opener ABBOTSFORD Wausau Precision Body Frame edged Abbotsford, 5-4, in its Mid-Wisconsin Baseball League opener Wednesday night.

Frank Volm and Dave Kuhn combined on a six-hitter for Wausau, striking out seven and walking six. Steve Heinrich doubled and singled to lead Wausau's eight-hit attack against losing pitcher Bruce Rayhorn. Steve Klawitter added a double for Precision. Wausau will host Gad in a Dairyland Baseball League game at Athletic Park at 1:30 p.m. Sunday.

Schedule Local Today 7 p.m. Minor League Baseball, Kenosha Twins vs. Wausau Timbers at Athletic Park. Friday 7 p.m. Minor League Baseball, Beloit Brewers vs.

Wausau Timbers at Athletic Park. Sports on TV Today 7 p.m. Major League Baseball, Minnesota Twins at Chicago White Sox, WGN. 8 p.m. Pro Basketball, NBA Western Conference Finals, Portland Trail Blazers at Phoenix Suns, CBS.

9 p.m. Major League Baseball, Atlanta Braves at San Diego Padres, WTBS. Friday 6:30 p.m. Major League Baseball, Milwaukee Brewers at Toronto Blue Jays, WCGV. 7:30 p.m.

Major League Baseball, Chicago Cubs at St. Louis Cardinals, WGN. 8 p.m. Pro Basketball, NBA Eastern Conference Finals, Chicago Bulls vs. Detroit Pistons, CBS.

9 p.m. Major League Baseball, Atlanta Braves at San Diego Padres, WTBS. Trivia Major League Baseball Question: Who holds the Minnesota Twins' career record for innings pitched? (For answer, see Odds and Ends in Scoreboard.) the ninth inning for the Timbers. Boothby threw 11 pitches and struck out the Twins in order to end their half of the inning. "We didn't hit the ball weU early, and they made the most of the opportunities they got," Kenosha manager Steve Liddle said.

"Our bottom of the order isn't hitting right now, and we really couldn't do anything about that last inning." After Wearing's home run in the sixth, Kenosha pitcher Scott Robles was relieved by Sandy Diaz. Diaz was on his was to sealing the victory for the Twins, as he struck out four of six batters in the seventh and eighth in nings, when the Timbers rallied in the ninth. Brad Hildreth led off with a double to the left-field corner, and moved to third when Christian Benitez hit a bunt single. Aman Hicks' sacrifice fly to right tied the game, 4-4, with one out and Benitez on first. Lewis, who was 4-for-5 in the game, took a strike from Diaz, and then ripped the game-winning hit.

"That young man is going to have to swing the bat like that if we want to win," Young said. "If he keeps swinging like that we'll have a good year. "The home run was important, but there were a lot of big hits tonight. The bunt by Benitez was a big play, and Wearing with the homer. We just played a little better tonight, and everybody contributed." Liddle said that his team has been struggling.

"We have a very young team, just like Wausau does, and the consistency just isn't there," Liddle said. "The kid that pitched last tonight (Diaz) is just 18 years old, and he just got the ball up a couple of times." The Timbers will face the Twins again tonight at 7 p.m. in the second game of a two-game series. Pitching quintet stops Brewers, 2-1 CfiAnd this was against fellas who looked like they were hittable. 3 5 SEATTLE (AP) The Milwaukee Brewers faced five pitchers and got only three hits in squandering a complete game by their own starting pitcher, Chris Bosio.

"We just weren't hitting," Brewers' manager Tom Trebelhorn said after Wednesday's 2-1 loss to Seattle, "and this was against fellas who looked like they were hittable." It was Milwaukee's seventh loss in eight games, leaving the Brewers a half-game behind first-place Toronto in the American League East standings. They resume play Friday at Toronto. Mariners' manager Jim Lefebvre was alarmed when starting pitcher Brent Knackert fell to his knees in the fourth inning. "I'll be bald by the end of the season if this continues," Lefebvre said, referring to his receding hairline. Knackert, making his first Major-League start, had allowed only one hit through the first three innings.

He left the game after spraining his right ankle while fielding a ground ball. Knackert was a last-ditch emergency Bryan Clark (2-0) relieved Knackert and pitched 1 2-3 scoreless innings to pick up the victory. Gene Harris got a bases-loaded out, Keith Comstock retired all four batters he faced, and former Wausau Timber Mike Schooler, the fifth Seattle pitcher, recorded the final two outs for his 14th save in 16 opportunities this season. "That's what I call bullpen by committee," Lefebvre said. "Everyone did his part." Bosio (4-3) allowed 11 hits, struck out five and did not walk a batter.

The Mariners allowed seven walks but only one came around to score. "I was on the edge of my seat the whole game," said Lefebvre. "They got some guys who can really swing the bat and if you give them that many walks, you expect someone to get the big hit." The win was only Seattle's third in its last nine games. In the fifth inning, the Brewers could not score despite drawing four consecutive base-on-balls off Clark. With one out, Darryl Hamilton and Charlie O'Brien walked, but Hamilton was thrown out attempting to steal third.

Bill Spiers and Paul Molitor followed with walks but Harris entered and got Mike Felder to line out to third to end the inning. "I was just being too aggressive," Clark said. "The bullpen got the win tonight, not me." The Mariners scored both their runs In the fourth. With one out Jeffrey Leonard hit his seventh home run of the season. Ken Griffey Jr.

followed with a single, moved to third on former Timber Edgar Martinez's single and scored on Scott Bradley's two-out single. Milwaukee scored its run in the sixth. Robin Yount walked and came home on Dave Parker's line-drive double down the left-field line. Knackert had allowed only an infield single to Parker before leaving the game in the fourth. He was injured while attempting to field a ground ball hit by Felder, leading off the inning.

Knackert knocked the ball down, and after retrieving it, his right foot gave way as he started to throw to first. Tom Trebelhorn Brewers' manager starter. Scott Bankhead had already been scratched due to a sore lower back and his replacement, Brian Holman, left town Wednesday morning for Wichita, where his wife is expecting their second child. Lefebvre turned to his bullpen for help..