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Lancaster Wednesday, August 24, 1994 I Eagle-Gazette SPORTS 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 runnerup Cliff Rhein, while Jon Decker took the consolation flight title over Kevin Blosser. Winners and run in each flight were: Mark McCrady and Bill Duerson, first flight; John Simon and Pat Rankin, second flight; David Smith and Brian 1 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 Dunphy, eighth 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 to increase their lead to 11 points. In other action, the Mets decked the Cards 25-15, the Bears topped the Jets the Tigers ripped the Colts and the Indians and Pirates battled to a 20-20 tie. Jerry Williamson shot an evenpar 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 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 Indians Braves 164, Pirates 163, Tigers 161, Bears Mets Jets Cards 151, Colts 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 Berne Union 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.

Scouts The Lancaster Scouts widened their second-half lead in the Frontier League's Southern Division to 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 Jeremy 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 strengthen 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 Hebbeler John came in 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 1 the winners. Outfielders Dave Montiel, Lee Cormier and Mike Mora had two hits apiece, as did third baseman Frank Sarver. A different 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 1 team in Under the tag 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) grip on pennant fever Nick Jezierny E-G 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 secondhalf title of the Southern Division on first hits Lancaster 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 losing (See Strike talks may get louder today 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 years. The management team met with the mediators for about 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 Irvan's condition still critical despite pro progress SUPERIOR TOWNSHIP, Mich. slammed into (AP) Stock car driver Ernie Irvan wall during can respond to people by moving his practice for the arms, legs and head, although he still Goodwrench isn't fully conscious and remains in Dealers 400. critical condition, a doctor said. But, are certainly not responses son added: that we would call perfectly normal backs and comor fully responsive or conscious, but plications are they are appropriate," Dr.

Errol Er- certainly a poslandson, a vascular surgeon at St. sibility. A slow, Joseph Mercy Hospital near Ann Ar- progressive rebor, said Tuesday. covery would Erlandson said he was "jubilant" look at this about the progress Irvan has made Erlandson since Saturday, when his car that the hospital's 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.

"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, Youth to play key role for Buckeye football team COLUMBUS (AP) Youth will mores are listed among the top 45 guys will play about as well as you players and others who have waited those guys who left, and all of a sudbe served at Ohio State this season. players on the two-deep chart.

expect them to play." in the shadows throughout their ca- den, boom, they get a chance to play Coach John Cooper is just hoping it "You'd like to have experience It is a curious mix that Cooper has reers. and maybe they'll play a lot better won't be served on a platter to oppo- coming back at every position," been dealing with over the last three "I'm going to give you an exam- than people think they will," Cooper nents. Cooper said. He didn't need to add weeks. He can look out on the field ple: Brian Stoughton," Cooper said, said.

into date that it snows in August about as of- and be reassured by the sight of se- referring to the backup defensive end They may have to. In Fresno State, niors such as split end Joey Gal- who has played all of three minutes the Ohio State secondary will Heading Monday night's be facwith Fresno State in the Disneyland ten as that happens. Pigskin Classic, Ohio State will have loway, flanker Chris Sanders, defen- since joining the team in 1991. ing one of the high-octane passing underclassmen manning some of its sive tackle Randall Brown and cor- "Here's a guy who's been in our pro- attacks in the Speaking at his weekly news conference Tuesday, Cooper nerback Marlon Kerner. With veter- gram about three or four years and said he had most strategic positions.

faith that the young players would do "Defensive backs have got to True freshmen Orlando Pace and their jobs. But he stopped short of ans such as Korey you've very make plays," Cooper said. "I offensive tackle heard little about him. think Shawn Springs will start at offensive saying that a year or two of experi- Stringer, quarterback Hoying, a going get Marlon and particularly Shawn Bob And all of sudden, he's to tailback Eddie George, noseguard a chance to play. And you mark it tackle and cornerback, respectively.

ence for each would work wonders. linebackers better than Springs have the ability to make Luke Fickell and Loren- down, he'll play we ever Eight other first-year players, some "The unusual thing about college zo Styles and Craig Powell, thought he'd play." plays, to get the ball. redshirts and some just out of high football is you can't draft anybody what you "Fresno State's going to complete school, are listed on the second team. and there's no waivers, so you've got know roughly to expect each Cooper said senior safeties Tito some passes. I don't think there's any Eight sophomores will start, and five to take the guys you have," Cooper Paul and Tim Patillo might be in the question about it.

But if he throws a game. others will be backups. said. "There'll always be some peo- But Cooper said there are always same boat. badly thrown pass, then we've got to Twenty-threw4 freshmen or sopho- ple come through.

Sometimes those wild cards, the young, unproven "They played behind some of make him pay for it." owners and the players, 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 Segies 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." a "Set- Irvan be the best we could time." he was encouraged trauma team has 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 Musgrave 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..