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Section 4 Chicago Tribune, Wednesday, April 25, 1984 Colleges High schools Mt. Carmel star picks Arizona St. MT. CARMEL didn't play a baseball game Tuesday, but four major league scouts showed up anyway just to watch the Caravan practice. The object of their attention was senior catcher Erik Pappas, who earlier Tuesday had signed a national letter of intent to play college baseball at Arizona State University.

Sun Devils' coach Jim Brock flew to Chicago Monday night in order to sign Pappas. In doing so, Brock 4 ill! a II mm 4 i if i 5 I L-iJJ; 7 i 1 1 til nfi Highlights IfD jjaj17 LOO SuSlX I -SJy i Tribune photo Dy Can waanar For great deals on great tires, this is the time to buy. For three days only, every Goodyear tire will be priced for savings. This includes all steel missed an Arizona State game for only the second time during his 13-year coaching career. Pappas, however, might not play for the Sun Devils after all because "he has a chance to be the first pick of the June draft," Brock said.

Pappas, who is hitting .462 and has thrown out all five of the runners who have tried to steal against him this season, has indicated that, if the offer is right, he will play professionally. Linda Young Oak Park 6, Proviso West 4 The top-ranked Huskies rallied from a 4-3 deficit with three runs in the bottom of the sixth to gain the West Suburban Conference victory over the No. 10-ranked Panthers 11-2, 1-1 in Oak Park. Eric Amen doubled to open the sixth and moved to third on Jason Klonoski's fielder's choice. The unnerved Panthers then committed two errors that allowed the tying and winning runs to score.

Dave Modder, who pitched a no-hitter Saturday, got the victory in relief of Oak Park 9-1, 2-0 starter Scott Nelson. Bremen 10, Thornton Fractional North 0 Bremen pitcher Tim Flynn may appear small in size to opposing batters, but that notion is quickly dispelled when the 5-foot-6-innh. 1'iO-noiind senior rieht-hander belted radials, white letter and performance radials, all season radials, bias-ply and bias-belted tires, and all light truck tires (including radial At Oak Park High School, Eric Kumerow was an offensive threat. He has moved across the line to play linebacker at Ohio State. Kumerow adopts defensive posture Ex-QB tackles new job at Ohio State construction).

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Kumerow, a two-way football player, next shed his aspirations to play quarterback following a freshman season on the bench. He requested a transfer to defense. Now, after settling comfortably into a linebacker position in spring practices, the 6-foot-6-inch, 230-pound package of promise says he's finally free to begin tackling the sport the way he meant to from the start. "I FEEL I CAN just go out and play and not have the jitters or be nervous all the time like I was at Kumerow said. "I eel a lot looser, and I love the contact.

It's fun hitting somebody else for a change. "See, arouna they didn't let you hit the quarterbacks very much in practice during the regular season. Last fall, I went months without getting hit. I never reallv felt I was on the r.nr i team talizing curves. South Inter-Conference Association Central Division rival T.F.

North got the message Tuesday when Flynn 15-0 hurled a six-inning, 10-0 no-hitter. Flynn struck out seven, did not issue a walk, faced only 19 batters one over the six-inning limit and retired the last 11 batters in a row. Steve Termunde 3-for-3 with a solo home run and Mark Kramer two-run double paced a 10-hit attack for Bremen 11-2, 2-0 in the SICA Central. Joliet Catholic 3, Gordon Tech 1-Jeff Meyer 3-1 worked the first five innings to get the victory, and Mike Papierski mopped up and contributed an RBI-double to the No. 1-ranked Hilltoppers' attack.

Joliet is 11-2. Plainfield 11, Morris 5- Sophomore designated hitter Mike Miller hit three home runs to power the Wildcats 18-3-1, 5-0 in the Little Seven game. Miller hit a three-run homer, a two-run homer and a solo home run to account for six runs. Providence 5, Joliet Central 4 Matt Senffner's two-run home run keyed Providence 11-1 in Joliet. The Steelmen dropped to 4-4.

Softball Riverside-Brookfield 10, Morton East 0 Deanne Kaleta 6-1 hurled a five-inning six-hitter and Melody Dvorak was 3-for-3 for R-B 8-2, 5-2 in the Des Plaines Valley League. Marshall 39, Young 6-Doris De'Berry was 6-for-7 with three home runs and 12 RBIs as the Commandos 3-1, l-l romped in the Public League West Section. Thornwood 10, Bloom Trail 3 The Tribune's eighth-ranked team upped its record to 9-2 with Sue Kause, Kris Johansen, Kim Rid-dering and Jo Ann Bagnara each driving in two runs (or the Thunder-birds. Maria 10, Lourdes 0 The Tribune's 15th-ranked team 7-2, 3-0 remained unbeaten in the Girls' Catholic Athletic Conference South Division with Eve Alexander 6-2, tossing a five-inning two-hitter. Washington 33, Harlan 1 Cindy Coyer 2-0 held Harlan to one hit, struck out six and hit for the cycle single, double, triple, home run to pace a 36-hit attack as the Minutemen 6-1, 3-0 breezed in the Public League's Far South Section.

Eric Kumerow first when I said I was going to do it," Kumerow said. "I mean, they probably hadn't seen too many quarterbacks come over to play the position. But I think after a few days they saw I could hit. I think I changed a few minds." The move shouldn't be much of a jolt to the many college coaches who recruited Kumerow. Most projected him as a linebacker from the start.

"He made a play on us two years ago I'll' never forget because it cost us a conference championship," Glenbard West's Jim Covert said. "He was playing safety about five yards off the ball. It was fourth and one at their 6-yard line late in the game. We sent our All-State running back Alex Green outside, and he came up to stop him with a great tackle." PAGAC, AN ex-Chicago Bear and Ohio State alum who made switches from tight end to linebacker during his pro and college careers, was well aware of Kumerow's two-way skills. "I don't know how the whole thing got started, with him switching to defense, but I know I was more than happy to get him," Pagac said.

"Right now, his big adjustment is being on somebody's nose. He was a safety in high school and that's lot different on defense. He's got to learn to fight off blockers and read keys at the same time." But Kumerow, who has added about 10 pounds of muscle in Ohio State's weight room, relishes the challenge. "Last year, toward the end of the season, I felt I was just going through the motions at quarterback," he said. "But this is different.

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"We're counting on getting a lot of playing time out of him this fall," said Fred Pagac, the Buckeyes' linebacker coach. THE PROSPECTS are certainly brighter than they were at quarterback, where Kumerow faced a battle with two-year starter Mike Tomczak, a graduate of Thornton Fractional 'North High School in Calumet City, and No. 1 reserve Jim Karsatos. Late in the 1983 season, when Kumerow first approached his coaches about the move to linebacker, he came to the conclusion the battle was one he could not win. "There are a lot of places Eric could Play," said Ohio State coach Earle Bruce, noting Eric's size and talents.

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There is as vet no coach and no nickname for the team. According to league commissioner Bill Byrne, Chicago will play its games at Triton College in River Grove. The league is scheduled for a fall debut. Byrne was the founder of the now defunct Women's Pro Basketball Association, which lasted three seasons. "We might have been five years too early with the WBA," said Byrne.

"A shorter season of only 22 games, 11 home and 11 away, will help us. The season was too long before. And the No. 1 thing is television. We've got a good television deal.

I can't talk about it now, but it's with cable." Other teams will be in New York, Baltimore, Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, New Jersey, Columbus Ohio and Milwaukee. One more team is supposed to be added in the next few weeks. Former Old Dominion star Anne Donovan 6-8 was Chicago's first free-agent pick. 1 Ironllv women's nrn lpncnip fnrminc CHICAGO 4809 N. Broaowey 334-5553 2819 N.

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