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THE OTTAWA CITIZEN SPORTS WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 2003 C3 Lynx get on top of Bulls Gil singles home go-ahead run in Ottawa debut Lynx 5, Bulls 4 rwl fin v-v '-c. 7 4 f- N- -v i.vi';":v-." 'J j--" ii mi' ini.r,..,,, i i nil. ii i JON WAY, REUTERS Expos catcher Michael Barrett tags Todd Hollandsworth as the Marlins baserunner attempts to score during the fourth inning at Pro Player Stadium in Miami last night. Pavano haunts Expos SIDELINES FOOTBALL Crouch packs up career Eric Crouch has quit the NFL for the second time in months. The 2001 Heisman Trophy winner from Nebraska left the Green Bay Packers on the eve of full-squad workouts, which began yesterday.

He had hoped to win a job as one of Brett Favre's backups but coach Mike Sherman said he had little chance at beating out the three QBs ahead of him in that race. Crouch sat out last season after the St. Louis Rams drafted him in the third round and tried to convert him into a wide receiver. CFL mulls running Argos CFL and team officials had little to say yesterday after the Globe and Mail reported yesterday that the league is considering taking over operation of the Toronto Argonauts from owner Sherwood Schwarz. The report said the CFL could decide to revoke the Argos from Schwarz as early as this week.

Schwarz has been attempting to refinance the Argos by selling shares in a limited partnership, but those sales are going poorly, prompting the league to weigh its options as it continues to pay the Argos' mounting expenses. SAILING Ruddy leads Shark event Don Ruddy of Kingston posted a first and a second in three races yesterday and remained in first place with 13 points during the 38th Shark world sailing championships at the Britannia Yacht Club. Greg Cockburn of Toronto moved into second spot with a first, a second and a fifth for 15 points. Mike Lee of the Nepean Sailing Club and Dave O'Sullivan of Britannia were fifth and sixth, respectively, at 34 and 37 points. BASEBALL Ottawa East best in province Winning pitcher Ryan Jacks had two doubles and a single and Mike Ho added two key doubles as the Ottawa West Crusaders defeated the Ottawa East Cobras 9-5 to win the Ontario Little League Big League (ages 17 and 18) baseball championship in Thunder Bay.

Steve Derouin picked up the save with three strong innings of relief for the Crusaders, who had been idle for the past three years. The Crusaders will play in the Canadian Big League championships, starting tomorrow in Lanark. Kanata loses to Windsor JThe Windsor Turtle Club scored four runs in the first inning and defeated the Kanata Cubs 4-2 yesterday in the opening game of the Ontario Little League senior (ages 15 and 16) baseball championships at Heritage Park. Kanata counted single runs in the first and fourth innings. In the later game, the Orleans Red Sox beat the Pembroke Panthers 5-1.

Pitcher J.C. Marquez pitched seven innings to post the victory. Foucault paces Orleans Mike Foucault did it all at the Ontario Little League junior championships at Oakville yesterday. Foucault allowed four hits over five innings and helped the offence with two singles as Orleans thumped Perth 7-2. Spencer Dale chipped in with a double and two runs batted-in.

TRACK AND FIELD Deacon named to team At age 37, former Nepean resident Bruce Deacon of Victoria, B.C., will be the elder statesman of the small Canadian track and field team to the Pan Am Games Aug. 1-18 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He'll run in the marathon. Athletics Canada announced yesterday a team of 12-men and nine women for the Games. RUGBY Kiwi players ineligible players selected to tour Canada with the New Zealand Maori rugby squad have been barred by Canadian authorities because of past driving and assault charges, a New Zealand rugby spokesman said yesterday.

Flanker Matua Parkinson, lock Reece Robinson and fly half Riki Flutey were forced to quit the team on the eve of a three-match tour because Canada refuses entry to travellers who have been charged certain traffic or criminal offences. Citizen staff and news services Former Montreal pitcher hurls complete-game win Marlins 9, Expos 1 got him out of there," Lee said. Pavano led off the seventh with a popup, but Montreal's infielders allowed it to drop for a single. Castillo reached on an infield single, and Ohka hit Rodriguez, loading the bases. "I don't know whether they were trying to hit Pudge deliberately or not, but if they did, they made a mistake," Marlins manager Jack McKeon said.

"Because that was the key to that inning." Julio Manon relieved and walked Mike Lowell on a 3-2 pitch, Lowell's second bases-loaded walk of the series. Encarnacion singled in a run for a 4-1 lead, and Lee hit a sacrifice fly. Manon walked Todd Hollandsworth, reloading the bases. Rocky Biddle relieved and got Alex Gonzalez on a popout that ended the inning. Castillo hit an RBI double in a four-run eighth that also included a run-scoring single by Lowell.

The Associated Press with a pitch in the seventh inning. Pavano had hit Vladimir Guerrero with a pitch in the top of the inning. "It just got away," said Pavano. "I wanted it inside, and if it hit him, it hit him. Everyone knows in this league that you've got to throw him in.

I didn't mean anything by it." Ohka said hitting Rodriguez was an accident, but other Expos players were not so forgiving. "This guy (Guerrero) has been taken advantage of all year," Michael Barrett said. "He gets hit and we never retaliate. "We just continue to try to win ballgames. We try not to let those things consume you, but I don't know how long we can let it go.

It's almost as if teams know we're not going to come back with anything." Florida overcame a 1-0 deficit in the sixth when Lee hit a two-run homer following a double by Juan Encarnacion. "Ohka was pitching good, and I think (the homer) kind of rattled him a little bit, and we 32-18 start, hadn't been at .500 since opening 4-4. Expos manager Frank Robinson said it would be up to the players to figure out what is wrong with the team. "They have to find out what's missing, what they're not bringing to the ballpark and taking on the field with them especially on the road," he said. "There's no intensity.

Their heads weren't in the game." Jose Vidro, Montreal's all-star second baseman, left in the fifth inning because of a strained right knee. He will miss today's game against the New York Mets. Montreal starter Tomo Ohka (7-10) took a shutout into the sixth but wound up giving up five runs and eight hits in 6 innings. Both benches were warned after Ohka hit Ivan Rodriguez By Darren Desaulniers The insanity is finally over. After five straight losses to the Durham Bulls this season, the Ottawa Lynx got into the win column against the reigning International League champions with a 5-4 victory last night.

Catcher Geronimo Gil, the Lynx lineup for the first time after the parent Baltimore Orioles optioned him to Ottawa, singled to score Larry Bigbie, ho had doubled, with the go-ahead run in the seventh Inning. Bigbie' hit added to a number of streaks. It marked the fifth straight game in which he's had an extra-base hit, the 11th straight game in which he's hit safely and the 25th straight game he's reached base. Pedro Swann then scored a very important insurance run coming home on a wild pitch from Talley Haines, giving the Lynx a 5-3 lead. "Gil's hit was big, but Swann's run was huge.

He didn't hesitate at all, he was going all the way and it was a good read," said Lynx manager Gary Allenson. "I knew he was throwing a lot of changeups and off-speed stuff and I anticipated he would throw something in the dirt," said Swann. "I knew that if I could be ready and get a good enough jump I could score." Not all of the 2,261 in attendance left the ballpark happy, though. After a very successful homecoming Monday, Hull native Pierre Luc Laforest wasn't as fortunate in his second career game at Lynx Stadium. The Bulls catcher had two hits, including a double, and a run scored in the Bulls 3-1 victory Monday.

Last night Lynx starter Matt Riley made sure there would be no encore as he struck out Laforest the three times he faced him, much to the dismay of the Laforest family and friends. He finished the game hitless in four at-bats. Riley allowed seven hits and struck out seven in 5 innings. Reliever Mike Mohler (6-3) posted the win and Darwin Cu-billan earned his 10th save as Ottawa improved to 55-47. Todd Belitz (0-1) took the loss for Durham (51-48).

Canadian leads world harness race By Darren Desaulniers Third-generation horseman Jody Jamieson is on pace to accomplish something that only two men have done. Jamieson, defending the World Driving Championship title he won in 2001 when the harness racing event was held in Finland and Sweden, is trying to become just the third multiple winner since the inaugural edition in 1970. Jamieson, who was born in Truro, N.S., and now resides in Dundas, won two of four races in the second leg of the event last night at Rideau Car-leton Raceway and now leads with 77 points. Mark Jones of New Zealand led going into last night, but fell to second place in the 10-driver field with 70 points. France's Pierre Vercruysse is third with 62 points.

Heinz Wewering of Germany became world champion in 1993 and 1997 while Norway's Ulf Thoresen won the event an unprecedented four times. Jamieson is also the third Canadian to win the title and second in a row. Sylvain Filion won the championship in 1999 and his distant cousin, Herve Filion, won the first championship in 1970. There are five legs to the WDC, each consisting of four races. The 10 horses were in Charlottetown on Sunday and will travel to Montreal for races tonight.

The fourth leg is scheduled for Dundas on Friday and the final leg is at Woodbine in Toronto on Saturday. MIAMI The Montreal Expos must hate to see Carl Pavano on the mound. Pavano pitched a four-hitter as the Florida Marlins beat Montreal 9-1 last night and dropped the Expos to .500 for the first time since April 9. It was Pavano's third career complete game and second this season against the Expos, who traded him to Florida on July 11 last season. "I just look at them as another team," said Pavano.

"I have a lot of friends over there, but it's good to get the wins." Pavano (7-10) struck out two and walked one while throwing 108 pitches. Derrek Lee backed Pavano with four runs batted-in, and Luis Castillo went 4-for-4 Montreal, 18-32 following a Renegades out to turn the page jjgfcuipi 1 1 1 1 1 AM (f 1 Preparation for B.C. rematch means forgetting Lions trouncing By Tom Casey Ottawa Renegades head coach Joe Paopao and his defensive coordinator, Kit Lathrop, share a common belief: Good football players should have short memories. The two agree that the Renegades should try to forget Friday's humiliating 48-14 loss to the British Columbia Lions in preparation for tomorrow night's rematch at B.C. Place Stadium.

"It's like a play that gets away on you," Lathrop said, following yesterday's practice. "If you dwell on it, you are going to get your tail kicked on the next five plays. I knew there would be days like this, and I told the guys, 'Let it go and move Paopao said there was no sense in over-analysing the loss at practice this week, nor was it a time to panic or lecture his players. He sees tomorrow's game as an opportunity for Ottawa to redeem itself and even its record at 3-3. "It's only our sixth game," said Paopao.

"I don't want the guys to be uptight. I want them to be relaxed. That's how you play your best." miss the game and his spot on the roster will be taken by import receiver Sherrod Gideon Josh Ranek, who has dressed for the first five games, but was used sparingly, will be the featured running back. Canadian running back Mike Vilimek is expected to see more action as a ball carrier. Backup linebacker Matt Ro-bichaud, sidelined with an ankle injury, will be replaced by Jason Kralt.

There will also likely be more changes for the Renegades' game July 31 against Edmonton Eskimos at Frank Clair Stadium. General manager Eric Tillman expects three new deep backs to arrive by the weekend. Yesterday he traded the rights to import receiver Damon Hodge to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats for those of wide receiverreturn specialist J.J. Moses, who is currently in the training camp of the NFL Houston Texans. Hodge played five games with Ottawa last season and was released to pursue an NFL job.

He is expected to report to Hamilton today. Moses played college football with Davis at Iowa State, and the Renegades' running back says he's an exceptional talent. "The problem with him is that he's only 5-7," Tillman said yesterday. "This is his third NFL team. Kansas City and Green Bay also have taken a look at him.

I talked to Houston people today and while they like him, I think we have a chance to get him." HA! MCGKAIH. THF OTTAWA CITIZEN Renegades defensive backs coach Kavis Reed goes over a play with wide receiver Andre Kirwan during practice yesterday. However, there's a feeling among the players that jobs are on the line. After allowing a whopping 554 yards passing in Friday's loss to the Lions, the Renegades have gutted their secondary. Only free safety Donnavan Carter has kept his job.

Deep backs Chandler Smith and Herb Craft have been added to the roster to replace veterans Byron Capers and Vernon Mitchell who were released earlier in the week. George McCullough, Eric Lee and Mesene Louisdor will be playing new positions in the secondary. Lee, Louisdor, Smith and Craft are also CFL rookies. Defensive lineman Mike Moten was dropped from the active roster yesterday to make room for Derrick Ford, the team's leader in sacks last year, because the Renegades want to intensify their pass rush. A pulled hamstring will force running back Darren Dayis to More Sports on C17 Tour goes head to head: Ullrich focuses on trime trial to upstage Armstrong.

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