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Phils flip Cards' Hrobosky with Bowa walk By JIM GAUGER Mercury Sports Writer There are days when the Phillies can beat you with their bats. Schmidt and Luzinski and Cash and Allen, etc. And there are days when the Phillies can beat you with their pitching. Lonborg and Carlton and Kaat and McGraw, etc. And then there are days the Phillies can beat you with a walk.

not very exciting. The blood pump a whole lot harder and the fists clench. But effective. There were 37,537 at the Vet Sunday who watched Larry Bowa take four straight balls from reliever A1 Hrabosky with the bases loaded in the 11th to force in Bob Boone with the deciding run in a 3-2 victory. got the said Bowa.

care how. Pop fly, error, walk. It The Phils, of course, have been hotter than taco salesmen pushing el scorcho sauce this month. Danny boys are now 15-3 in May. 23-9 in the National League East with a three-and-a-half game bulge over the Pirates who split with the Cubs Sunday.

They have won 22 of their last 28 and have not lost two in a row since the season opening series against the Pirates. even look at the scoreboard smiled Bowa. just worry about what we do on the Steve Carlton started the Cardinal series with a dazzling 2-1 win Friday night. Reggie Smith smacked three homers and gave Hrabosky his first win in four decisions Saturday night, 7-6. Tommy Underwood got the call Sunday for the Phils against Bob Forsch.

Neither hurler had done much this season. But both were impressive this time. Underwood scattered four hits and allowed two runs on homers by Vic Harris in the first and Hector Cruz in the fifth giving way to Garber after before Gene seven. Mercury photos by Tom Kelly in the 11th. Phils won the game 3-2 in the bottom of the inning when Bowa drew a bases loaded walk from reliever AJ Hrabosky.

LEAPING LARRY Larry Bowa jumps clear of sliding Card Ted Simmons in game at the Vet. Simmons was forced at third on an attempted sacrifice bunt by Willie Crawford Pottsgrove, S-Ford doubles beaten Phantonns'AAcAvoy, Vance ousted in PIAA semifinals bother said Ozark. ball goes out of here pretty quick. We only wanted Tommy to go five. We expect him to do anymore than what he Forsch lasted eight innings, surrendering eight hits and two runs.

Mike Schmidt singled home Dave Cash for the first run in the first while Bob Boone popped a single to left in the fourth to plate Jay Johnstone. The Phils had other scoring opportunities. In the seventh Bobby Tolan singled to right off second baseman Mike glove then advanced to second on a Boone sacrifice. Tim McCarver came up to pinch-hit for Underwood but before he could connect for a double Tolan was picked off second by Forsch. made a hell of a play and we made a said Ozark.

In the ninth Dick Allen, who rapped his first homer of the season Saturday night, rifled a two out single. Cash followed with a duplicate. Bowa was the batter. He flew to right. The next time Hrabosky be so lucky.

Tug McGraw, Saturday loser who had taken over for Garber in the 10th, had to dig deep to escape the 11th. Ted Simmons and Reggie Smith opened the inning with singles. Willie Crawford, who brought a .343 average into the game as a pinch- hitter in the ninth, dropped a bunt. Mercury, Potttfown, Pa. Moy 74 1976 23 mused Bowa.

was a Triple A strike. It was up by my Perhaps a bases loaded walk produces a Triple A win. But going to quibble? HODGEPODGE Phils open a four game series with the Mets tonight at the Vet. be Larry Christenson vs, Mickey guys played hard all said Dick Allen. them take the Allen regained his regular spot at first base with his recent hitting? play is all Ozark would Hrabosky had four wins over the Phils without a loss before the 11th inning walk.

Mike Schmidt scooped it up and fired to Bowa covering third. Goodbye Ted Simmons, Cruz went down swinging and Don Kessinger flew to right and the rest was up to the Phils, Hrabosky started the bottom of the 11th by getting Garry Maddox on a groundout and pinch- hitter Ollie Brown on a slap to right, Boone as cooperative. The catcher belted a single to left, Allen, the most expensive bench- sitter, followed with another bolt, A line single to center which Harris bobbled, permitting Boone and Allen to move up. Cash was intentionally walked. Bowa was unintentionally walked and it was all over.

first pitch was really low and I said right there I was going to make a go of said Mr. Shortstop. can have the best control in the world then all of a sudden lose it, was taking to Hrabosky protested the fourth ball to home plate ump Terry Tata, Bowa said he conserved the energy. even ST LOUIS aD bi If 5 0 10 2D 5 0 0 0 Harris cf Simmons 5 VAnflrsn WCrawfO HecCruz Kessinger Forsch KHranaz HraDOSKy 4 1 4 0 10 4 0 2 0 rf 3 0 0 0 DU 2 0 10 3t 5 1 I 1 SS 5 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 DP 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 PHILADELPHIA aD Di DCasn 2b 5 12 0 Bowa ss 5 0 11 Scfimiflt 36 LuzmsK If Johnstone rf 4 0 1) 5 0 10 3 10 0 cf 5 0 0 0 Tolan V.a'tin McGraw OBrown Boone Unorvi'oa McCarvr Garoe'- RAiien 3 0 2 0 oh 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 Dh 10 0 0 4 12 1 2 0 0 0 Dh 1 0 1 0 Dh 0 0 0 0 Dh 2 0 2 0 Total 40 2 8 2 Total 41 3 12 3 Two out when wnnmg run scoreo St Louis 100 010 000 00- 2 Philadelphia 100 100 OOO 01-3 Smith Hams DP St touis 1 LOB-St LOUIS 12 2B- McCarver Mumohrev HR-Harris HecCruz 4) S-R Porsch. Boone, Schrpifli Forsch HraDOSky Unaerwooo Garner AJJi T-2 38 IP ER BB SO 8 8 2 1 2 4 22341121 7 4 2 2 2 2 2 2 0 0 13 2 2 0 0 0 3 Rob Vance and Tim McAvoy did not play each other in the state tennis finals at Shippensburg Saturday.

That have been too hard to take, had at least one of them reached the finals. Neither of them did. The top McAvoy was stunned in the semis by Bishop Pete Tschernoff 6-3, 7-6. Tschernoff won a 5-3 tiebreaker for the second set, and got his fourth point with an ace, Vance had similar difficulties in his semifinal bout, bowing to Tom Liebenguth of North Allegheny, 6-3, 6-0. Liebenguth, who defeated McAvoy in the semifinal round last year, took Tschernoff 6-1, 67, 6-3 to win the state title.

McAvoy and Vance had battled each other in the Ches-Mont League and district finals with McAvoy coming out on top each time. Upper Kathy Jordan became the AP Laserphoto BAD TASTE Janet Guthrie shows her displeasure at not qualifying for the Indy 500 Sunday. Story page 24. state singles champion when she stumped top seeded Berta McCallum of Mount Lebanon, Jordan seeded second in the tournament. The Mount Lebanon doubles team of Cathy Kolankiewicz and Sue Seay made out slightly better, winning the state title with a 6-3, 6-0 win over the Iroquois team.

Among the victims of Kolankiewicz and Seay was the Pottsgrove doubles team of Maryellen LaHoda and Joann Crater. Lower Dave Berman and Oleh Hnatiuk took the boys doubles championship, beating Pat Monaghan and Dick Marks, 4-6, Mark and Richard Trach bowed out in the quarterfinals after a 6-3, 6-4 loss to Peters Bill Fleischman and Joe Priest. District One Doubles Champs LaHoda and Crater went down 6-1, 6-1 to the eventual state champs in the quarterfinals. were pretty conceded LaHoda. hit our best shots and they got our winners back.

But the games were a lot closer than the LaHoda then cited the Falconette biggest problem. play together at she said, Joann played well, I When I did, she The Trach brothers opened their quarterfinals contest with a double fault and ended it the same way. In between, they were tortured by Joe Priest. was just poaching at the net all said Spring-Ford coach Dick Powell. was catching all our shots in the air and putting them away.

He was all over the The Ram duet got down in both sets 2-0. very atypical of us to lose Powell said. never had that problem before and it really hurt us. We were forced to play The Trachs missed opportunities in both sets, failing to execute shots they normally make at the net. After dropping the first set 6-3 and falling behind 2-0 in the second, the team began to gain some momentum and pulled into a 4-4 tie.

Fleischman and Priest won the next game for a 5-4 lead. Then came the second, and fatal, double fault. The senior Trach brothers won the Ches-Mont League doubles championship and qualified for state competition with a second place finish in distj-ict play. only disappointed that we play as well as we usually Powell said. HIGH STEPPER Umpire John Kibler puts his best foot forward as he calls out Jay Johnstone on force play at second in the eighth inning.

Shortstop Don Kessinger made the putout for the Cards. Rogers pegs 2nd in AA discus St, Pius Mike Rogers got the word from coach Ed Dobry Friday night. have to throw the discus 160 feet if he expected to win the event in the state Class AA finals Saturday at Shippensburg. Dobry called it a little long, Rogers threw it a little short, Morris Pagni of Pen Argyl distanced 158-2 to win it. Chris Faber was second at 1557, and Rogers hurled it 155-0 to finish third.

felt he could do it said Dobry. was reaching a peak at 155, His previous best was In the finals, Rogers fouled on his first try, did 155-0 on his second, and fouled again on his third, might have gotten Dobry said. guy that tooksecond (Faber) was averaging 145,146, but he got hold of a good one for his Rogers was the only senior on a Winged Lion team which advanced to the state finals for the first time ever. He was district champion in the discus and shot put. Junior Rick Fontaine, a district champ in the 330 intermediate hurdles, finished third on Friday and failed to make it to the finals, Pius had its district champion 880 relay team disqualified Friday when Joe Kushnerick collided with anchorman Fontaine on the handoff.

Kushnerick, only a sophomore, ran the third leg behind Mike Lack and Bill Gibbs, both juniors, changed our handoff style last said Dobry. old way was easier but we were sure we could lower the time with the new one. Nervousness played a part in the mess up. Fontaine left too Perkiomen Valley coach Conrad Wiser thought Bill Neill had the best chance for a state title among the Vikings, who took a host of thin- clads to Shippensburg, Wiser based the judgement on consistency. Consistency kept Neill from finishing better than fifth in the javelin Saturday.

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