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1 0 ST. PETERSBURG TIMES MONDAY, MAY 7, 1990 $30vwHrtll $1S veto fill tftftiialiis lilt faW sajawsJaP eekaesserw $33vJu1S-M I II (nwitimufn) EBay 7a in woms-n's bowBrcg spoht MM VEST I IiiMOOOvcmayMOTHnwarnocoif 4a that who hova) Insuronea competition. I coverage. "I was bowling on lanes 33-34 and I was VACATIONERS WELCOME! IMrUDI UreKMMf OMCMKtOC COMWtANI fOHOftMl OtttOMAC lit mt UCUUtl born in 1933, so I knew good things would happen," Baron said. "I also refused to sign my 7 1 'VI WIBC TOURNAMENT EJLlGUUKt scoresheet until after that big game.

30 Combined Years Treating of Personal Injury Claims. Baron spends six months of the year living in Kissimmee and works the desk at Kissimmee Lanes. She carries a 171 average there and left Tampa right after her big score to bowl in a league. Her performance was 156 pins over her elACKMIN a Hf ADACHES aMNCHtDNHVfS a STIFFNESS 4 aNraiSHOUIDH eWHIfUSrl NUMINESS MUSCIESFASM a MM a C01D HANDS FEET aSUFfEDDiSC aSPIAINS amy alEHAI a OtUOlESS THEATMENT a THEIAFY average. "I wasn't nervous, but I had to keep telling OPEN myself to slow down and keep my elbow in, 7:53 A.M.

Baron recalled. 327-H 71 7 3962-5th AVE. ST. PETERSBURG Bill's Broads of St. Petersburg briefly held 10th place in the Division II team event early last week with a 2,379 series, but were out of it by the end of the week.

Stemilt Growers, staaamsioinTaamioiurfOiNSiiitwi KbmmmmmimammKkwKimmmnaK UVQMBM tO IMI iOvmiUMtft' Hi US MM tMVKI IIUUllOOiHUll The Tampa Bay area certainly is the women's bowling capital of the nation this week. The country's best amateur bowlers are competing in the 71st annual Women's International Bowling Congress (WIBC) Championship in Tampa and Brandon. The country's best professional women bowlers are in Clearwater for the second annual Ladies Professional Bowlers Tour (LPBT) Clearwater Classic at Rainbow Lanes. The WIBC enters its fifth week today of a 91-day run at Tampa's Regal Lanes for the doubles and singles competition and Brandon's Oakfield Lanes for the team event. More than 600 bowlers and their families visit the Tampa Bay area each day to compete and vacation.

When the WIBC ends July 4, more than 52,000 women will have charged after the in prize money. Rainbow Lanes' pot-'o-gold is not as full. Ninety-six of the country's top pros today begin shooting for the $35,000 prize fund and a winner's check of around $7,000. The WIBC and LPBT come together on Sunday, May 13, when the prestigious WIBC Queens Tournament takes place at Regal Lanes. For five straight days, 480 pros and amateurs will match strikes for the $10,000 winner's check and rhinestone tiara.

Australia's Carol Gianotti won the tiara last year at Bismarck and Mandan, N.D. The hard-throwing right-hander from Perth, in only her second year on the American tour, is tuning up for her defense in the Clearwater Classic. She would like to make it a double. "Last year was just great, a year I could only dream about back in Australia," Gianotti said. "I also won the LPBT's Brunswick Open last year Wenatchee, and The Drill Team, Ocean Shores, each rolled 2,381 series to tie for the spot.

and I'm trying very hard to better that this season." Gianotti may be a newcomer to the LPBT, but she's a veteran in international competition. After winning about everything Australian women's bowling could offer, Gianotti took on the world. In 1988, she won the Asian Zone Masters in Hong Kong and the All-Stars Masters in Malaysia, then represented Australia in the 1988 Seoul Olympics. "People in this country like to think we Australians are a friendly people, what with Paul Hogan, Crocodile Dundee and all that, and we are," Gianotti said. "But I've discovered Americans are even more friendly and warm and have a great sense of humor.

I've been having a great time." Lois Baron of Milford, begins each bowling season by telling herself, "Please just let me bowl my average." All bowlers say that one time or another, but Baron was better than her word last week in the WIBC Championship. After bowling a 188 and 202 in her first two games, Baron uncorked a 279 game, the tournament's high so far. She nailed nine strikes in a row before she spared, then struck out. The 279-669 were Baron's career highs and boosted her into fourth in the Open Division singles "We've been bowling together for nearly 18 years, but this is our first WIBC," said Bill's Broads team captain Elizabeth Smith. Sylvia Doyle rolled a 225-534 series and Joan McClain managed a 202-539 to boost the squad, which bowls out of Sunrise Lanes in St.

Petersburg. Fran Barbour, Carlisle, also moved into the standings with a career best. Bowling for the first time in the WIBC, Barbour rolled a 267-635 to move into fifth place in Division I singles. Bowling on the adjacent lane was Barbour's daughter, Air Force Sgt. Jessica Otten.

They celebrated a reunion at the center and Utten cheered her mother on to the big score. OK i PALMS OF PASADENA HOSPITAL Presents a FREE COMMUNITY SEMINAR "Osteoporosis Are You At Risk" Wednesday, May 16, from 7 8:30 p.m. at Pasadena Community Church Corner of 2nd Avenue South 70th Street St. Petersburg Reservations Required: Call 341-7555 Gynecologist M. Ruth Perry, M.D., will provide insight on the topic of osteoporosis a disease which can occur in women of all ages.

What are your options? Pigg holds on to win Fun 'n Sun Run By DAVE THEALL Times Correspondent O'Halloran is right at home with Blue Jays CLEARWATER BEACH For the second con secutive year in the Fun 'n Sun Run, former University of Florida teammates Jeff Pigg and Bart Sellers ran I was a No. 1 prospect, if I wasn't having fun I would get out." Is he in a rush to get to the next level of the organization? "The biggest thing for me to do is just take each game as it comes. I try to think about where I am now and try to do the best I can each day. "If I think about where I want to be, or where I may be in the future, I'm thinking too far ahead." O'Halloran, Timlin honored: O'Halloran and Dunedin Blue Jays relief pitcher Mike Timlin were honored as the Toronto organization's Minor League Player and Pitcher of the Month respectively for April. It marked the first time two players from the same Jays minor league club had been honored as Toronto players of virtually shoulder to shoulder most of the 3.1 miles.

This time Pigg decided to try to open a gap at the two-mile mark as he and Sellers headed onto Mandalay Avenue to- By MIKE PAYNE Timet Correspondent hUi.ii.nU ward the finish line near the Civic Center. Pigg's 10-yard lead shrunk to five, but his strategy worked as Pigg held on to win in 15 DUNEDIN Signing with the hometown Toronto Blue Jays and playing for the Canadian Olympic Team are among the highlights of Greg O'Halloran's two-year pro career. raKir2UJir ALL 25" ON SALE TABLE MODELS CONSOLES ZENITH 25" Diagonal CUSTOMSERIES Remote Uontrol Uoioriv asrMtt IK a Chromacolor Contrail Picture Tube Electronic Tuning Computer Space Command 3800 Remote Control Sleep Timer Flashback minutes, 18 seconds. Sellers finished in 15:19. Last year Pigg won in Sellers was second in 14:53.

"Bart's got good leg speed so I had to keep an eye on him," said Pigg after the race, explaining why he kept glancing over his shoulder. Sellers, a member of the Sunshine Running Team, felt good about his effort. "My time was much better than at Beach to Bayou two weeks ago (15:57, good for second place) and I feel I'm coming back after favoring a leg injury," said Sellers, who didn't compete between September and March. In the women's division, George Mason University track standout Cassie O'Neill showed up on the starting line. But at the finish line, it was Clearwater's Judy Mercon in front for the third straight race as she lowered her best time for 5 kilometers from 17:29 to 17:26.

O'Neill was second in 17:54, followed by Beth Farmer and Isabel Turn. Similar to the pattern in the men's race, Mercon and O'Neill ran virtually together through mile one (5:20) and mile two (11:07) before Mercon made her move. "I thought she was going to stay with me," said a surprised Mercon, "but she didn't." Mercon, 31, a member of the Dianetics Running Team, was ninth overall in the field of 300 runners. Last year, she finished second in this race in 18:00. After pinning defeats on two of Florida's outstanding women runners (Miami's Ena Weinstein and Gainesville's Marcia Wentworth) in recent races Mercon moves on to Washington, D.C., this weekend for the women's national 8K championship.

Palm Harbor physician Joe Daly, who turned 40 last week, won the masters division in 17:24. The first finisher over-40 runner was actually Keith Happel, 42, of Canada in 16:05. But because he finished third overall, he was scored separately. Dana Carlson of Safety Harbor was the first woman over 40 in 21:41. In the 1-mile fun run, Mike Hoffman of Countryside High was the winner in 5:38.

Nine-year-old Colleen Cassidy of Clearwater's Southern Oak Elementary School was the first woman in 7:44. VCR RepairAll Brands Antenna Installation And Repair Available iH BIBOs ST. PETE'S OLDEST AND LARGEST EXCLUSIVE ZENITH DEALER 347-62nd Ave. St. Petersburg (4th St 62nd Ave.) But meeting Dunedin Blue Jays coach Garth Iorg rivals them both.

"The Blue Jays were the only team I ever watched," said O'Halloran, who grew up and attended high school in the Toronto suburb of Mississauga, Ontario. "I had never heard of any of the guys from the other teams, except for the superstars. But I knew all the old Jays. Meeting Garth Iorg was bigger than meeting anyone else. And meeting (former Dunedin manager) Doug Ault was a thrill, too." The fact that O'Halloran didn't play high school baseball (his school didn't have a team) didn't hurt his development as a player.

The Blue Jays had seen him play in several competitive summer leagues. "Baseball was something I did in the summer when I wasn't playing hockey," O'Halloran said. At 17, he caught the baseball bug in a big way when he made the Canadian National Junior Baseball Team, a traveling squad representing the best youth players the country had to offer. "I remember that year I told my parents that I wanted to play in the major leagues, and everyone laughed," he said. "This winter I even found a journal I had kept where I had written what I said and how people told me, that's great Greg.

Hope you do it. But nobody took me seriously." But nobody chuckled when O'Halloran became the starting catcher for the 1988 Canadian Olympic Team the same team that handed the United States (a team that included current St. Petersburg Cardinals Mike Fiore and Mike Milchin) its only loss in the Seoul games. After a season at Orange Coast (Calif.) Junior College, a school he discovered through a friend and borrowed $7,000 from an uncle to attend, O'Halloran began hearing from major league teams. The Philadelphia Phillies were interested.

So were the Minnesota Twins, Milwaukee Brewers, and, of course, the Blue Jays. O'Halloran knew who he wanted to ANY MAKE ACCEPTED AS TRADE Hours: 8-3, Sat. 10-3, Eves, by Appt, Phone 321-2428 the month. O'Halloran hit .370 for the month with two home runs and 22 RBI. Tim-- lin went 4-0 in April with five saves and a 0.54 earned run average.

O'Halloran was also honored as the Florida State League's Player of the Week for April 22-28, hitting nearly .500. Notes: St. Petersburg Cardinals catcher Tim Redman was promoted to Class AA Arkansas last week and the Cardinals filled that vacancy on the roster by acquiring catcher William Fie-litz from Class A Savannah. Entering Saturday, Cardinal outfielder Lon-nie Maclin's .377 average was second best in the league. Clearwater Phillies' outfielder Pat Woodruff went 5 for 5 against Miami Thursday, driving in two runs in a 9-6 loss.

The Phillies released pitcher Kevin Fynan and first baseman Jimmy Barragan last week. Barragan was signed in 1987 out of Oklahoma State and was considered a top prospect after a .318 season at rookie league Utica in '87. To replace Barragan, the Phillies called up 6-foot, 235-pound first baseman Brian Cummings from their extended spring training camp. Cummings hit 22 home runs in his two seasons with rookie league Batavia, but isn't certain he'll go on a tear in the Florida State League. "The parks are a lot bigger here," he said.

Tony Trevino was named the Philadelphia organization's Player of the Month for April. Trevino hit .292 with 14 RBI. The Cardinals placed relief pitcher Danny Hitt on the disabled list early last week with a broken hand. They then added left-hander Don Green from Class A Savannah. Another Cardinal reliever, Dean Weese (five saves), is among the league leaders in saves along with the Blue Jays' Timlin (six saves).

The Cardinals had a five game win streak snapped Friday with a 5-2 loss to Fort Lauderdale. Phillies pitcher Andy Carter struck out 10 in just six innings in the Phils' 7-1 win over Winter Haven Friday. They're rare, but the Blue Jays and Cardinals pulled off triple plays last week. The Jays' triple play came Friday against the Tigers. With runners on first and second and the score tied 3-3 in the seventh inning, Jays pitcher Vince Horsman leaped to snag a liner up the middle, then threw to second baseman Jeff Kent who then threw to first baseman Chris Beacom to complete the play.

Dunedin went on to win the game. The Cardinals pulled off their triple play in a 5-0 win over the Yankees Saturday in Fort Lauderdale. With Yankees runners on first and second, Jay Knob-laugh lined to Cards first baseman Henry Hernandez who tagged first and threw to shortstop Tripp Cromer who tagged the runner sliding into second base. VISION SPECIALIST Fun 'n Sun results At Jim Ward, 29:06 Eye MEN 1. Jeff Pka.

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Bam Ryan, 25:30: 3. go to school. "I said the only thing I wanted to do I was play big time college in the U.S.," he 2000 OFF OFF i OFF said. Toronto made O'Halloran its 32nd Trifocal or I Sinale Vision Bifocals pick in 1988, and he signed after the I rmlflri Da.r I Pnmnlata Dair I PrOQrGSSIVGS I Olympics. He's been ranked among To I CombletePair.

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