The Gazette from Montreal, Quebec, Canada • 44

D-2 Montreal, Thursday, October 27, 1988 rWoiiniasi calls sEiots fiw Dawson caoir Expos may try to sign vet Mahler Gazette News Services By STUART COWAN ol The Gazette Olga Hrycak is a woman who can't resist a challenge. latest one is coaching the Dawson College Blues basketball team. The men's team, that is. The Dawson men won the national Junior college championship last season under Varouj Gurunlian, who later resigned as head coach, opening the door for Hrycak. is definitely a big challenge," Hrycak said last night prior to Dawson's 72-62 victory over Mai-sonneuve, which boosted the Blues 'A with the men's national team as it toured Europe in preparation for the Seoul Olympics.

She was recently reelected as Basketball Canada's vice-president of athlete development-and national championships. "Men's basketball is just a much more explosive game," said Hrycak. "That doesn't mean that there aren't good women players. It's just that the men are so much stronger and quicker that it makes the game much more exciting to coach." Hrycak said that she has a good reputation as a coach in Canada and is accepted by other male coaches. But south of the border, it's a different story.

"There have been a few coaches in the States who wouldn't shake my hand after we beat them," said Hrycak. "At other times, their coach has walked up to my assistant coach to ask him for our lineup and other things like that." Hrycak's assistant coach is always a man. "I think you have to have a man there," said Hrycak, who is a physical education consultant with the Montreal Catholic school board. Male assistant necessary "There's just some things that the players aren't going to walk into my office and talk to me about. Sometimes they have to talk to a man." Blues forward Rodney Hampden, in his second year at Dawson, sees no problem having a woman coach.

"We all just want to play," said Hampden, a social science student. "(Hrycak) really knows the sport and I think she can take us all the way." Hrycak was asked what the ultimate challenge in coaching would be for her. She paused for a second and replied: "Head coach of the Olympic team." The men 's team, that is. In women's basketball action last night, the Dawson Lady Blues were dumped 72-53 by Maisonneuve. 'V record this season to 2-0.

Winning tradition "The last four head coaches at Dawson have all won national cham-; pionships, and everyone here seems to keep reminding me of that," ad- ded Hrycak. "I guess that's what you call pressure." Especially when the other four coaches were men. But men's bas-i ketball is nothing new to Hrycak. She started her coaching career in 1968 with the girls' team at Holy Names High School after graduating from the University of Montreal with a degree in physical education. In 1976, she became one of the boys, so to speak.

"It wasn't really by choice," said Hrycak. "There was nobody to coach the boys' team at Holy Names, so I ended up coaching both (girls and boys)." season the Holy Names boys won the city championship and the girls finished last. In 1979, Hrycak became head cpach of the Champlain College men's team in St. Lambert. She stayed there through the 1986-87 season, winning the provincial cham-; pionship in '81 and finishing second at the nationals.

Hrycak spent last season as an as-: sistant to head coach Jack Donohue Veteran Atlanta Braves pitcher Rick Mahler may be on the Expos' shopping list during the off-season. Mahler was one of 12 players who filed for free agency yesterday. That brought the total number of players who have filed to 26 since the end of the World Series. The Expos have made the acquis-tion of another veteran pitcher one of their goals. Last season, they were involved in trade talks with the Braves which centered around Mahler, who earned $837,500 in 1988.

Meanwhile, Richie Bry the agent for Texas Rangers shortstop Scott Fletcher, who filed for free agency Tuesday said yesterday he had received a phone call from Expos vice-president of player personnel David Dombrowski inquiring about his client's services. Fletcher is one of the players targeted by the Expos. But Texas has offered him a two-year contract worth $800,000 with an option for a third year, and he has indicated a preference to stay with the Rangers' organization. "Until the deadline, you can only speak in generalities," Bry said. "All that happened is David expressed a very real interest in Scott's services, as have a number of teams.

"He asked if there was any reason Scott wouldn't be interested in coming to Montreal. I said I didn't know of any and that, before we signed anything with anyone, we would certainly give the Expos a chance to match the offer." Bob Forsch and Dave LaPoint, pitchers traded to pennant contenders for stretch runs that failed, were among the dozen players who filed for free agency yesterday. Forsch was 1-4 with a 6.51 earned-run average for the Houston Astros after his Aug. 31 trade from the St. Louis Cardinals.

LaPoint was 4-2 with a 2.77 ERA after the Chicago White Sox traded him to the Pittsburgh Pirates on Aug. 13. Other pitchers filing were Bud Black of Cleveland, Frank DiPino of the Chicago Cubs, Larry Mc Williams of St. Louis and Mahler. Catchers Bruce Benedict of Atlanta and Jamie Quirk of Kansas City also filed, as did infielder Manny Trillo of the Cubs and outfielders Randy Bush of Minnesota, Gary Re-dus of Pittsburgh and Joel Youngb-lood of San Francisco.

Gazette, AP v-' hy -c: Gazette, Dave Sidaway Strategy session: Rookie Dawson coach Olga Hrycak discusses game plan. Lohr shoots 1 0-under-par 62 in Disney tournament TAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) I Bob Lohr, a four-year PGA Tour veteran looking for his first victory, shot a 10-under-par 62 yesterday for two-shot lead after the first round of the 700,000 Walt Disney World golf tournament. Lohr had 10 birdies and shot 31-31, missing by one stroke both the PGA Tour's low round this year and Mark I Lye's Palm course record. The Palm is one of three courses played in the 72-hole'tournament.

said. Lohr started slowly, missing birdie putts of eight, 15 and 18 feet on the first four holes. But he hit two 140-foot wedge shots to within a foot of the cup for birdies, and later made birdie putts of 15, 25 and 15 feet. Lohr birdied all four of the par-5 holes and tied his personal best score. "The key was I drove it really well, and that set me up on the fairways," he said.

"Today was fun, needless to say," Lohr said. "I felt like I'd birdied just about every hole." Fuzzy Zoeller shot a 64, his best score this year, but found himself in second place. "That (62) was a marvellous round of golf," Zoeller said. "Are you sure he played all the way around?" Zoeller, seeking his first tour victory since 1986, was 8-under-par at the Lake Buena Vista course, the shortest and easiest of the three lay outs. Mark Calcavecchia, rookie Jay Don Blake and Mark McCumber all shot 65 at the same course and were tied for third.

Five golfers shot 66: Chip Beck, the tour's No. 2 money winner this year and Rick Pearson at Lake Buena Vista, Robert Wrenn and Tom Kite at Palm, and David Edwards at Magnolia. Paul Azinger, Donnie Hammond and Russ Cochran each shot 67. Nineteen golfers, including Dan Halldorson of Brandon, shot 68. Ray Stewart of Vancouver was among 14 tied at 69, while defending champion Larry Nelson and Dave Barr of Richmond, B.C., each carded 72.

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