The Ottawa Journal from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • Page 17

Ottawa Journal Saturday, August 19, 1978 Page 17 Ottawa players among junior tennis finals Que. The other finalist Is sixth-seeded Paul O'Donahue of Calgary, who won his semi-final match by default when Colin McAl-pin of Deep River, the No. 3 seed, was unable to play because of an ankle injury. Michlbata also combined with Martin Wostcnholme, IS, of Ottawa By Jean Southworth Journal Staff Five teams involving at least one Ottawa player advanced to the finals of doubles events in the Pepsi-Cola Canadian National junior tennis championships at the Rideau Tennis and Squash Club and the Ottawa Athletic Club The No. 1 seeds won their semifinal matches in the main under-18 singles events, but in a number of cases the favorites failed to make the finals.

Sixteen-year-old Glenn Michlba-ta of Toronto, the top seed in the boys 18 singles, breezed into the final of that event with a 6-0, 6-3 win over Jean-Pierre Lalande of Laval. to enter the final of the boys 18' y4x acker and Ruth Kilgour of Vancouver. Wendy Gelhay of Montreal and Heather McCarroll of Polnte Claire beat the Ottawa team of Jessica Chutter and Mary Lou Smith 6-4, 6-2 in the quarter-finals and then won 6-2, 6-4 over Cathy and Liz Maher, sisters from Amherst, who are Canadian citizens. Laird Dunlop and Michel Hur-tubise of Ottawa moved Into the final of the boys 16 doubles when Pat Merrigan of Delta, BC, and Rick Hunter of Vancouver were defaulted, apparently as the result of a misunderstanding concerning the time of the match. The Toronto team of Gary Mean-chos and Mitchell Schachter won 3-6, 6-3, 7-5 over the third-seeded Vancouver team of Ric Bengston and John Bowering after knocking off the top-seeded Toronto-Kitchener team off Simon Lavery and Carlos Correia 7-6, 6-0.

Schachter also won the right to meet Dunlop in the final of the boys 16 singles when he beat eighth-seeded Peter Straub of Toronto 6-4, 6-3. In the boys 16 consolation singles Hurtubise defeated Brent Hogan of Regina 6-4, 6-4 and then lost 6-1, 6-3 to Simon Bertram of Burlington in the semi-finals. Two unseeded players entered the final of the boys 14 singles. Alexander Ducas of Pointe Claire upset top-seeded Ray Nakon of Toronto 5-7, 6-2, 6-4 and Ritchie doubles. The fifth-seeded pair beat O'Donahue and Peter Pristach of Toronto 6-0, 6-3 in the semi-finals after winning by a similar score over Arnold Kettenacker ot Vancouver and Peter Smythe of Victoria, the top-seeded team.

Harry Blackwood and Robert Goron, another Ottawa-Toronto team, got to the final in the other half of the draw. They defeated the Vancouver team of Arthur Jung and John Nicolls 6-2, 2-6, 6-4 and then overcame Rob White of London, Ont. and Mike Coffey of Mlssissauga 3-6, 6-2, 7-5. The final was slated for 2 p.m. today.

Wostenholme entered the final of the boys 18 consolation singles when he beat Alan Barg of Montreal 6-2, 6-3. In the other semi-final Michael Kerr of Richmond, B.C., defeated Dan Mida of Winnipeg 6-2, 4-, 6-2. In the quarter-finals Wostenholme beat Louis Despres of Quebec City 6-2, 6-1 and Kerr won 6-4, 6-3 over Blackwood, who previously had defeated Greg Ward-law of Ottawa 6-4, 3-6, 6-3. Wendy Barlow of Victoria, defending champion in the girls 18 singles, defeated Karen Dewis of London, Ont. 6-4, 6-2 in the semifinals.

She meets Claire Lardner of Toronto, the No. 3 seed, who downed Angela Walker of Sarnia 6- The Victoria team of Barlow and Jennifer Bland advanced to the final of the girls doubles with a 7- 6, 6-2 win over Karen Kettcn- Lanys of Toronto defeated Davln" Gibbins of Toronto, the No. 2 seed, 2-6, 6-1, 6-2. In the semi-finals of the girls 16 singles Diane Blondeau of Quebec City got a 6-1, 0-6, 7-5 decision over sixth-seeded Christine Plcher of St. Jerome, and third-seeded -Fatima Ravat of Mlssissauga beat second-seeded Sara Pappelbaum 6-3, 6-3.

The latter is a Canadian- -living hi La Jolla, Calif. Ottawa's Shona Brown, already a finalist in the girls 12 singles combined with her opponent In that event, Noreen Simpson of Sarnia, to enter the final of the doubles. They beat Deborah Bowering of Vancouver and Jane Drope of Regina 6-2, 6-2. In the other Sandra Nicholson of Cottam, Ont. and Jane Kravchenko of Toronto- edged Petra de Lima of Charlotte-town and Lisa Dick of Toronto 7-5, Robbie Cartwright, another Ot- tawa player, got Into the final of the boys 12 doubles when he" teamed with Michael Shriqui of Toronto to defeat Chris Smith of Victoria and David Olafsson of Richmond, B.C., 6-2, 7-6.

In the other semi-final the first-1-seeded Toronto-Windsor team of Michael Emmett and John Murray -defeated Ottawa's Ricky Valols and Jean-Guy Sauve of Laval, 6-4, 6-3. Cartwright lost to Shriqui 6-2, 6-1 in the semi-finals of the boys 12 consolation singles. "'4r -'7 Kiss. sdiSLs, as is 1 St fH Lewis upsets Ramirez Armand LegouM Journal-CP Phota 6-2, 7 5 for a berth in the final scheduled for this afternoon against Ottawa's Martin Wostenholme and Toronto's Glenn Mlchibata. Wostenholme and Michi-bata defeated Paul O'Donahue of Calgary and Peter Pristach of Toronto 6-0, 6-3 In their semi-final match.

Ottawa's Harrv Blackwood lines up a solid backhand shot during his under 18 seml-flnal doubles match Friday at the Canadian junior tennis championships at the Rideau Tennis and Squash Club. Blackwood teamed with Robert Gordon of Toronto to defeat Rob White of London and Mike Coffey of Mlssissauga 3-6, TORONTO (CP) Chris Lewis of New Zealand served four aces in one game and returned one shot from between his-Jegs with his back to net in another en route to a 7-6, 6-7, 7-5 victory over fourth-seeded Raul Ramirez of Mexico at the Canadian Open tennis championships Friday. Lewis, who was ranked 132nd in the world last year but has moved up 100 spots in the rankings in 1978, was down 5-3 in the final set before fighting back to break Ramirez in the final game to advance to the semi-finals of the $210,000 tournament. The 21-year-old New Zealander was ahead 5-1 in the first set and was serving' for set point before Ramirez came back to tie the match 5-5. He won (he tiebreaker 97.

In the second set, Ramirez was ahead 3-0 before U-wis fought back to force the tiebreaker, this time with the Mexican emerging the winner 7-4. In the deciding game, Ramirez was ahead 3-0 before Lewis fought back to force the tiebreaker, this time with the Mexican emerging the winner 7-t. In the deciding game, Ramirez was down 30-40 when his attempted cross-court lob went bounding into the net. Earlier, second-seeded Virginia Ruzici of Romania and defending champion Regina Marsikova of Czechoslovakia advanced to doday's women's final with semi-final victories. Ruzici, the 1978 French Open champion, defeated Zenda Liess of the United States 6-2, 6-2, while Marsikova downed Diane Desfor of the U.S.

6-2, 6-3. i Ruzici and Marsikova last met in the final of the Italian Open, when Marsikova beat the Romanian 7-5. 75. The 23-year-old Romanian indicated after her victory Friday that she was perturbed ith tournament organizers and the press for not showing more interest in the women's draw. 'i thought it was bad in Europe for women's tennis, but I expected it to be better here," Ruzici said.

"AH week long, I've seen two lines in the paper on the women's draw, and that's only the results." She said she thinks the public is interested in women's tennis. "I guess I'm getting used to it, but if the press and tournament people don't care about women's tennis, how can we expect the public to know about us." Royals an obliging team third, Patek threw wildly to first on Bobby Bonds' infield hit. Bonds then moved to third when Zlsk Cock threw the ball into left field on an attempted double play, allowing both runners to score. In the Ethier adds silver to collection The Outaouais juvenile boys in the-4xI00 relay placed sixth and the Outaouais girls were no better than eighth in the same event. struck out and Porter couldn't handle the ball.

John Lowenstein brought in one run with a single and Toby Harrah's sacrifice fly delivered the winner. In other AL games, California edged Baltimore 3-2, Boston downed Oakland 6-3, New York dumped Seattle 6-1. Milwaukee blanked Detroit 2-0, Chicago belted Cleveland 7-1 and Minnesota defeated Toronto 4-3. In the National League, it was Cincinnati 8, Chicago San Diego 3, Montreal San Francisco 6, Philadelphia Los Angeles 7, New York Pittsburgh 6, Houston 3 and St. LOuis Atlanta 1.

Angels 3, Orioles 2 Don Baylor's two-out solo homer in the bottom of the ninth won it for California. Chris Knapp, 12-7, pitched a seven-hitter. Eddie Murray and Doug DeCinces hit back-to-back homers to put the Orioles ahead 2-0 in the fourth but the Angels tied it in the seventh. Twins 4, Blue Jays 3 Glenn Adams' one-out double scored Hosken Powell with the winning run in the' bottom of the 10th for Minnesota. By IIP1 The Texas Rangers went into Kansas City needing a win Friday night and the Royals were more than happy to oblige.

With the aid of two errors, two wild pitches, a passed ball on a third strike and a hit batsman, the Rangers beat the Royals and rookie Rich Jale 4-3 to move to within 4 games of Kansas City In the American League West. "Neither club played very well defensively but the good guys survived," said Texas Manager Billy Hunter. "The worst thing we could have done would be to come in here and lose three games. The good thing can still happen. We can't lose any more than one game (in the standings) to them and the most they can lose is three." Throwing errors by Pete La Cock and Fred Patek led to the four Texas runs, but a passed ball by catcher Darrell Porter led to the eventual winning run.

With runrters at first and second in the first inning, first baseman La- JOLIETTE (Special) Gatineau water skier Marc Ethier added a silver to his gold Friday on the second day of Les Jeux du Quebec. Ethier, who won the figure class Thursday, Friday picked up a second in the slalom event. Stephen Gauthier of Blue Sea Lake, placed fifth in the same event. The performance of the 38 Outaouais competitors in the track and field events continued to disappoint the coaches. Only Marc Lauriri who won a silver medal in the pole vault was able to pick up points for the Outaouais region.

After two days of competition, Outaouais athletes rank 13th with Montreal Concordia and Quebec City dominating. Esther Mignault was fourth in the shot put. Celine Hamelin seventh in the javelin, John Hoag ninth in the broad jump, Giselle Supper, fifth in the two-kilometre walk, Lorraine Ouimet, fifth in the three-kolometre walk. Psyche job by U. S.

swimmers Expos edged once again MONTREAL (CP) Right bander Erie Rasmussen and rookie reliever Mark Lee combined on a five-hitter and Gene Tenace drove in the winning run with a sacrifice fly as San Diego Padres rallied for a 3-2 victory over Montreal Expos in a National League baseball game Friday night. Expos ace Steve Rogers, 13-8, issued Oz.ie Smith a bases-loaded walk to tie the game 2-2 in the seventh inning, and pinch-hitter Tenace then greeted reliever Harold Knowlcs wjth his run-scoring fly ball to centre field. Stan Bahnsen came in to end the inning on a foul pop by Dave Winfield, but Lee entered the fray for starter Rasmussen, 12-9, who had left for a pinch hitter during the San Diego rally, and pitched three perfect innings for his first major league save. It was a situation that might have called for relief star Rollie Fingers, except that he had returned home to San Diego to be with his wife, who was expecting another child. "That's the first game I've ever finished," said I.ee, who worked in the Padres' minor league camp at spring training but who was called up from Hawaii Islanders of the Class AAA Pacific Coast League in April.

"I had a good sinker ball tonight, and when I get that going I get a lot of ground balls. That was the case." vs CALGARY STAMPEDERS Wednesday Aug. 30th Lansdowne Park 8 p.m. Wadkins sloshes to CPGA lead Visrt our Booth at Itio -EX" WT- s. i rim i ii' Hetp us support the r- WEST BERLIN (CP) The world aquatic championships began Friday with' the United States scoring some psychological points at the opening ceremony.

The U.S. team trooped into the Olympic stadium with the longest column of marchers and thrilled the 40,000 spectators by tossing frisbees up from the track. The U.S. has the largest contingent here, but several other countries with large teams, including Canada, decided to leave some of their people behind, making the American team look that much bigger. The reception the Americans received was almost as exuberant as for the host West Germans, who were the last to enter the stadium.

Officials made the brief but colorful ceremony part of an evening of diversified entertainment, which explained the large crowd. After the athletes' parade, there was a major international track meet interspersed with appearances by several top European rock groups. Canada was led into the stadium by pretty Poulin, 22, of Quebec City, one of the veterans of the synchronized swimming team. Canada has 61 competitors in the four, sports water polo, swimming, synchronized swimming and diving second only to the 68 Americans here. Competition begins today in water polo, with Canada playing the powerful Soviet squad, and in diving, where Janet Nutter, 25, of Toronto, and Eniko Kieffer, 18, of Dollard-des-Ormeaux, will do their preliminary dives In the women's springboard events.

The swimming starts Sunday with five finals on the program. Canada's best medal hopes will be riding on Graham Smith, 20, of Edmonton, and the women's medley relay team. The synchronized swimmers will be the last of Canada's athletes to start competing. They do their compulsory stunts Monday. Ottawa chapter ot the Muscular Dystrophy Association Before end after 'the game vtert the N.E.O.F.A.

BOOSTER CLUB Satoe CMc Centre Al proceeds to help trouble on the greens Friday, as did several other players. Pinero had a 77 for a 145 total, while James truggled to a 75 and was at 143. The rain left parts of several greens very wet and spongey and had the golfers shaking their heads in disbelief as putts Just stopped on the way to the hole. "The greens were very inconsistent," said Wadkins. "Some were softer than others because of the way they sit, and it made it very difficult to judge how hard to hit a putt." Hayes, a thrcc-tlme winner of the Spanish PGA, had five birdies and only one bogey en route to his 68 a score that was not really Indicative of the way he played.

"I missed a couple of putts In the middle of the round, but then made a couple at the end," said Hayes. De Vicenzo, 55, had seven birdies and two bogeys for his 67, only one shot off the competitive course record held by Lou Graham of the U.S. and George Knudson of VANCOUVER (CP) Lanny Wadkins, playing II of 18 holes in a steady rain, fired a four-under-par 68 Friday to take the halfway lead in the Canadian Professional Golfers Association international championship at Shaughncssy Golf Club. The 1977 United States PGA champion has a 36-holc total of 137, one stroke better than Dale Hayes of South Africa and three strokes up on Arnold Palmer of the U.S. Hayes and Palmer also shot 68s Friday.

Roberto Dc Vicenzo of Argentina, had the best round of day a 67 and headed a large group at 142. It included the top Canadian, Dave Barr of Vancouver, who had a. 69 to match his opening-round 73. Wadkins, one of the early starters In the rain-delayed round, bird led the first three holes and was three-under at the turn when play was halted for 1 hours. He picked up another birdie on the back nine, but missed certain rtoottxa.

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