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Lancaster Eagle-Gazette Wednesday, August 24, 1994 DFootballB2 GolfB3 ScoreboardB3 siP(Q)Trs Scouts strem rim om first gthen A different pennant fever hits Lancaster Nick Jezierny Sports Writer the thick of a pennant race that could land the team in postseason play. The team is the Lancaster Scouts. The league is the Frontier League. And beginning Thursday night, the Scouts play four games at their home Beavers Field with the second-half title of the Southern Division on The Lancaster Scouts widened their second-half lead in the Frontier League's Southern Division to 1 'A game after scoring a 13-4 win against the Portsmouth Explorers in Branch Rickey Park. The win was Lancaster's third straight, matching the team's longest success streak of the season.

The game didn't start out well for the Scouts as Portsmouth scored three times in the first inning to take the lead against starting pitcher Jere- my Martin. But Martin settled down until the fifth inning when he was pulled in favor of John Mowery after the Explorers had loaded the bases with two outs. Mowery pitched out of the jam and went the rest of the way to pick Under the tag 1 il Mi.ir- Strike talks may get louder today V-v NEW YORK (AP) When baseball labor talks resume today, the odds are better for raised voices than a settlement. "Maybe we need a little shouting," Kansas City Royals pitcher David Cone said Tuesday. "I know that there are fans all over America who would like to shout right now." With the strike in its 13th day, there's no sign owners will alter their demand for a salary cap or that players will ever accept one.

"If they stick with a salary cap, players are going to play a lot of golf," Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Brett Butler said after the union delegation met with federal mediators for about two hours. Owners will be at the bargaining table for the first time in nearly 42 years. The management, met with the mediators for about 32 hours Tuesday. "Everyone had a different way of articulating their concerns for the economics of the game," said Boston Red Sox chief executive office John Harrington, the spokesman for the group. "But the unanimity of the final message was that we have to bring about some fundamental change to the player compensation system in order to ensure the future viability of the game." Today's session is the first since Aug.

12, when baseball's eighth work stoppage since 1972 began. The strike canceled 14 more games Tuesday, raising the total to 155. Owners, by their own choice, had refused to attend bargaining sessions. But they changed their stance after federal mediators asked last week. "It is very much a step in the right direction that the stakes holders as they have been referred to the Update Sparks fly at LCC tourneys Bob Sparks and Beth Sparks claimed club championships at Lancaster Country Club in action earlier this week.

Bob Sparks won the men's championship flight over runner-up Cliff Rhein, while Jon Decker took the consolation flight title over Kevin Blosser. Winners and runners-up in each flight were: Mark McCrady and Bill Duerson, first flight; John Simon and Pat Rankin, second flight; David Smith and Brian Kuhn, third flight; Jack Rupe and Karl Justus, fourth flight; Bob Ritchlin and Jon Myers, fifth flight; John Young and Hal Haines, sixth flight; Roger Folz and Larry Glaab, seventh flight; and David Shonk and Paul flight. Beth Sparks captured the women's championship flight over Polly Barry, while Virginia "Pickering took first in the consolation flight over Shelly Denny. Winners and runners-up in each flight were: Pam Redd and Joan Householder, first flight; Cheryl Myers and Sue Glaab, second flight; Deana McClellan and Judy Beal, third flight; and Thelma Morgan and Edith Maus, fourth flight. Eagles hold onto first The Estate Club Classic Golf League played its eighth match of the second round Thursday.

With one match remaining in the regular season, the league-leading Eagles sacked the Braves 232-162 to increase their lead to 11 points. In other action, the Mets decked the Cards 25-1 5, the Bears topped the Jets 202-192, the Tigers ripped the Colts 23-I62 and the Indians and Pirates -battled to a 20-20 tie. Jerry Williamson shot an even-par 35 to take medal honors followed by Tim Morrow at 36, Shawn Evans and Neil Bibler at 37, Don Brewer, Mike Manson and Walter Poling at 38 and Paul Deime, Ben Porter, Brian Simpson, Jamie Black and Bob Black with 39s. Williamson won high-point honors with eight, followed by Jack Sweeney with TA and Don Ireland, Bob Schoonover, Bill Echard, Glen Dillon and Poling with seven. Williamson, Deime, Evans and Poling canned two birdies apiece, while Mike Collier, Gary Elick, Charlie Osbun, Bob Black, Morrow, Manson, Simpson and Schoonover had one apiece.

Standings: Eagles 1752, Indians 1644, Braves 164, Pirates 163, Tigers 161, Bears 15614, Mets 1552, Jets 1532, Cards 151, Colts H62. BU selling season passes Berne Union is selling season passes for home games for the. fall sports season. An unlimited adult fall sports pass is $40, while an unlimited adult family fall sports pass is $100. An adult volleyball sports pass is $30, and a family volleyball sports pass is $75.

A football adult sports pass is $15, and a family football pass is $45. Sale dates will be the first home football scrimmage on Friday and the volleyball scrimmage on Saturday. Senior citizens are asked to show their Golden Buckeye Cards to receive a green card which will admit them for free. For more information, call the BerneUnion athletic department at 746-9956 or call 746-8392. McGraw gets hole-in-one John McGraw, Lancaster, had a hole-in-one at Eaglesticks Country Club in Zanesville on June 27.

McGraw used a 6-iron to ace the par-3, 139-yard fifth hole. up the victory. "I thought both pitchers did a heck of a job," Scouts manager Mark Hebbeler said. "Jeremy settled down after the first inning, and John came in Hebbeler and did everything we asked him to do." Offensively, second baseman Brandon Chesnut stroked three hits, while designated hitter Mack Chapman homered and tripled for the winners. Outfielders Dave Montiel, Lee Cormier and Mike Mora had two hits apiece, as did third baseman Frank Sarver.

3- slammed into a wall during practice for the Good wrench Dealers 400. But, Erlandson added: "Setbacks and complications are certainly a possibility. A slow, Irvan progressive recovery would be the best we could look at at this time." Erlandson said he was encouraged that the hospital's trauma team has mores are listed among the top 45 players on the two-deep chart. "You'd like to have experience coming back at every position," Cooper said. He didn't need to add that it snows in August about as often as that happens.

Speaking at his weekly news conference Tuesday, Cooper said he had faith that the young players would do their jobs. But he stopped short of saying that a year or two of experience for each would work wonders. "The unusual thing about college football is you can't draft anybody and there's no waivers, so you've got to take the guys you have," Cooper said. "There'll always be some people come through. Sometimes thoue it 1 vf '1.

IN the past, pennant fever in Lancaster meant the Cincinnati Reds were in the hunt for a division championship, and Reds fans were in heaven. But with Major League Baseball on strike, pennant fever has taken a back seat to the NFL preseason, college football hype and talks about which high school football teams are in for good seasons. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, especially if your favorite baseball team is languishing helplessly out of contention. This season, pennant fever in Lancaster has taken on a different meaning. Lancaster has a baseball team in 4 not found any additional injuries since Irvan was brought in.

Irvan suffered head and lung injuries in the crash and remained on a ventilator Tuesday. His lung injury has stabilized, Erlandson said. Irvan began opening his eyes Monday afternoon after drugs given him were decreased. He responded with some body movements Monday evening. The ventilator prevents him from trying to talk, however, Erlandson said.

Brian VanDercook, spokesman for Irvan's racing team, said he was encouraged after visiting with Irvan. guys will play about as well as you expect them to play." It is a curious mix that Cooper has been dealing with over the last three weeks. He can look out on the field and be reassured by the sight of seniors such as split end Joey Galloway, flanker Chris Sanders, defensive tackle Randall Brown and cornerback Marlon Kerner. With veterans such as offensive tackle Korey Stringer, quarterback Bob Hoying, tailback Eddie George, noseguard Luke Fickell and linebackers Lorenzo Styles and Craig Powell, you know roughly what to expect each game. But L-ooper said mere are always ild cards, the young, unproven wi the line.

The problem has been the response the team is getting at the gate. Scouts general manager Lon Cass has said attendance has tripled from last year, yet the Scouts still struggle to draw more than 300 fans for a home game. That's too bad. The Lancaster Scouts in the postseason is another story, one I certainly didn't expect to see this year. About a month ago, this seemed like an impossibility.

The team was in the midst of a nine-game losing (See FEVERB3.) owners and thcplayers, will sit down with each other and have a dialogue," management negotiator Richard Ravitch said. Ravitch said owners will stick to their salary-cap proposal. He repeated that owners want to have a fixed figure or percentage of revenue assigned to player compensation. Players made clear that no progress is possibly as long as owners insist on a cap. "Once you take the salary cap off the table, we're willing to talk about all aspects of the game," Butler said.

"But that's got to come first." With players standing behind him during a news conference, union head Donald Fehr continued to attack management, saying "all of their public statements are choreographed." Ravitch and Fehr continued their public debate later Tuesday night on CNN, appearing jointly with Labor Secretary Robert Reich. "You've got to allow the collective bargaining process to go on," Reich said, adding that if there is no settlement, baseball's antitrust exemption could be reexamined by Congress. Players, who have lost about $53 million in salary since the strike began, said the money wasn't the issue. "We like the idea of in a free agent year not worrying about what a salary cap looks like," Jay Bell of the Pittsburgh Pirates said. Atlanta Braves pitcher Tom Glavine said if owners don't remove their demand for a cap, the World Series is doomed.

"If that's the way they're thinking," he said, "tell us now because we'll take our vacations and take the rest of the year off." according to track observers, when he struck debris that cut a tire and sent him into the wall on Turn 2 at Michigan International Speedway. NASCAR has completed its investigation without videotape to review. Drivers Joe Nemechek and Ted Mus-grave were behind Irvan at the time of the accident; they told investigators the car dipped on its right front side, then headed into the wall at an angle. VanDercook said an announcement about the Yates racing team was expected today. those guys who left, and all of a sudden, boom, they get a chance to play and maybe they'll play a lot better than people think they will," Cooper said.

They may have to. In Fresno State, the Ohio State secondary will be facing one of the high-octane passing attacks in the "Defensive backs have got to make plays," Cooper said. "I think Marlon and particularly Shawn Springs have the ability to make plays, to get the ball. "Fresno State's going to complete some passes. I don't think there's any question about it.

But if he throws a badly thrown pass, then we've got to make him pay fot it." i Ashley Atherton of the Saudi Arabian Little League team slides safely Into home as Nova Scotia pitcher Jason Snow applies a tag in front of umpire Jeff Wilson. Saudi Arabia won the game 6-3. For more on the Little League World Series, see page B2. (AP photo) Irvan's condition still critical despite progress SUPERIOR TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) Stock car driver Ernie Irvan can respond to people by moving his arms, legs and head, although he still isn't fully conscious and remains in critical condition, a doctor said.

"These are certainly not responses that we would call perfectly normal or fully responsive or conscious, but they are appropriate," Dr. Errol Er-landson, a vascular surgeon at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital near Ann Arbor, said Tuesday. Erlandson said he was "jubilant" about the progress Irvan has made since Saturday, when his car Youth to play key role for Buckeye football team "I was confident when I left the room that he knew it was me who was talking to him, that he understood what I was saying to him about the support of his teammates and his friends and thousands of concerned fans. "His left leg was moving like he was pedaling a bicycle" in response to voices, VanDercook said.

"I've never felt better than I did talking today to Ernie." There are no immediate plans to try to move Irvan to a hospital closer to his home in Rockwell, N.C. Irvan, 35, was traveling 176 mph, players and others who have waited in the shadows throughout their careers. "I'm going to give you an example: Brian Stoughton," Cooper said, referring to the backup defensive end who has played all of three minutes since joining the team in 1 99 1 "Here's a guy who's been in our program about three or four years and you've heard very little about him. And all of a sudden, he's going to get a chance to play. And you mark it down, he'll play better than we ever thought he'd play." Cooper said senior safeties Tito Paul and Tim Patillo might be in the same boat.

"They pfcyed behind some of COLUMBUS (AP) Youth will be served at Ohio State this season. Coach John Cooper is just hoping it won't be served on a platter to opponents. Heading into Monday night's date with Fresno State in the Disneyland Pigskin Classic, Ohio State will have underclassmen manning some of its most strategic positions. True freshmen Orlando Pace and Shawn Springs will start at offensive tackle and cornerback, respectively. Eight other first-year players, some redshirts and some just out of high school, are listed on the second team.

Eight sophomores will start, and five others will be backups. Twenty-thml freshmen or sopho.