The Post-Crescent from Appleton, Wisconsin • 55

September 4, 1 988 Sunday Post-Crescent, Appleton-Neenah-Menasho, Wis. C-J Roskom takes full advantage of Kenosha opportunity By Gary Shriver Ot The Past-Crescent Opportunity knocked, and Apple-ton's Bryan Roskom was there to open the door. Baseball Ros- knm and Rockford coming into the league, but all 12 teams that were in the league last season also drew more people to games this season," said Spelius. With a few exceptions, ML teams have solid player devlopment contracts with major league clubs going into next year. "Everyone is intact except Bur-lington, Wausau and Waterloo," said Spelius.

Burlington was a farm club of Atlanta in 1988, Wausau was in the Seattle Mariners' organization and Waterloo was an affiliate of Clevfr land. A number of area minor league players have been invited to instruct tional leagues starting this month: They include Roskom and pitcher Rusty Kryzanowski with Minnesota; catcher Kevin Murdoch with the Chicago White Sox and pitcher Todd ern Division first half, had three selections. Members of the Twins selected included shortstop Shawn Gilbert, outfielder Jarvis Brown, catcher Lenny Webster and right-handed relief pitcher Pete Dalkus. Making the team from Cedar Rpaids were first baseman Reggie Jefferson, outfielder Jeff Forney and left-handed starter Butch Henry. The rest of the team consists of second baseman Rich Casarotti of Burlington, third baseman Bob Rose of Quad Cities, outfielder Jamie Cooper of Clinton and left-handed relief pitcher Greg Becker of Springfield.

Webster was honored as the Most Valuable Player in the league, and Cedar Rapids' Marc Bombard was the Manager of the Year. Midwest League President George Spelius projects that final league attendance will top 1.5 million this season, a new record. "We were helped by South Bend "I started at shortstop, but they (the Twins) had six or seven playing that position," said Roskom. "When I found out they had an opening at second base, I volunteered. I had never played that position before, even in Little League." While Roskom impressed the Twins with his fielding at Elizabeth-ton, his hitting left something to be desired.

Roskom was only hitting around .200 when the call to move to Kenosha came. "I struggled with the bat, but then they had me checked out and I got contact lenses. After that, I hit a little below .300," Roskom said. "I really haven't noticed that much difference between the pitching at Elizabethton and in the Midwest League, other than they seem to have better control up here, and that makes things a little easier." Roskom was drafted by the Twins in the 42nd round after his senior 1973, when Burlington's Chet Lemon led with 88. The only offensive category that was was up was stolen bases, where Ramon Sambo of Cedar Rapids set a new league record with 98, eight better than the old mark established by Wausau's Mike Frierson in 1980.

Despite being with the Appleton Foxes for only slightly more than half the season, right-hander Tom Gordon's 172 strikeouts were good enough to lead the league's final statistics. Gordon was also named by Midwest League managers as the league's All-Star right-handed pitcher, and as the Prospect of the Year. The Foxes had one other player selected to that team, designated hitter Bobby Knecht. Kenosha, which won the first-half title in the Northern Division, had four players named to the team, and Cedar Rapids, winners of the South year at East in 1987, but decided to forego professional baseball in favor of Indian Hills Junior College in Iowa. Midwest League fans who felt they were seeing less hitting than in recent seasons are backed in that opinion by the final statistics.

Wausau's Ruben Gonzalez led the league in hitting with a .314 average. You have to go back to 1969 to find a lower league-leading average. That season, Waterloo's Ted Parks won the batting crown at .307. Burlington's Brian Hunter and Cedar Rapids' Steve Davis each slammed 22 homers to tie for leadership in home runs, the lowest total for a home run king since 1980, when Wisconsin Rapids' Gary Gaetti, now with the Minnesota Twins, also had 22. The same story held in the RBI race, where Cedar Rapids' Reggie Jefferson led with 89, the lowest since spent most of his first season in professional baseball with the Minnesota Twins' rookie club, Elizabethton, of the Class A Appalachian League.

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A player movement in their organization forced the Twins to look for a player who could shore up the middle of Kenosha's infield as that team went into the Midwest League playoffs. "We had just moved an infielder to Visalia (of the California League) and we needed a good fielder to replace him at Kenosha," said Bill Smith, Minnesota's assistant director of scouting and minor, leagues. "We felt that Bryan was the best fielding infielder at Elizabethton, and was perfect for what we wanted at Kenosha." The Twins also wanted a second baseman at Kenosha, a position Roskom began playing this season. Continued from page 1 ball more this season. However, he would have preferred to do it under different circumstances.

With the running game stopped, the Badgers went to the air in the second half. The results weren't encouraging. Lowery and Otis Flowers, who split time at quarterback, completed just 18 of ,39 passes and had three interceptions between them. The Badgers never attempted more than 23 passes as a team last year. If.

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Flowers also suffered a knee injury of undetermined severity in the final minutes of the game. Wisconsin didn't look like it was going to have any trouble in the first quarter. It jumped to an 11-0 lead, scoring 11 the hard way: a 52-yard field goal by freshman Rich Thompson, Vinci's run, a missed extra point and a safety by defensive end Dan Batsch, who caught Kruse in the end zone. The Badgers took the ensuing free kick and were driving toward another score when the game turned around dramatically on a fumble by Flowers on fourth-and-1 from the Broncos' 3. "When it was 11-0, we were thinking right away 18-0," said Vinci.

"We drove it down and turned it over inside the 10. That was our problem last year." "We had them on the edge and we couldn't push them off," said Badger senior guard Todd Nelson. "We have to have a sense of urgency." The Badgers' only points after the first quarter came on a 36-yard field goal by Thompson with 11 :34 to play in the game. But by then, the Broncos had scored three times and still led 21-14. They went on a 48-yard drive after a short UW punt in the second quarter, with Rob Davis scoring on a 19-yard run to make it 11-7 at half.

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