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IM B2 Sports Monday, November 14, 1983 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Star-Phoenix Newmans miss opens door for Cats Sportscope CityProvincial dropped at the Ottawa 19-yard line. I just ran out of gas, he said. "I should have taken it all the way." But Baker credited Scott Collie lor making what he considered the catch of the game. In a third-and-10 situation, quarterback Dieter Brock hit Collie down the middle for the first down and running back John Shepherd carried it in on the next play for the score. He made the great post catch for us, Baker said.

That was the big play. Bernie Iluoff booted the ensuing kickoff into the Ottawa end zone and Newman conceded a single point that put Hamilton up by four points, scuttling the possibility of Ottawa forcing overtime with a late field goal. Brock, who had been criticized by the Hamilton-area media for his role in the Ticats decline in the standings following a mid-season trade that sent Tom Clements to Winnipeg Blue Bombers, refused to talk to reporters following the game. Watts, choking back tears, quietly fielded questions thrown his way. of the Granite, nipped Keith Tara-soff of the Hub 8-7 on an extra end in the C-event final.

Emily Farnham of Nutana edged elubmate Carol Davis 6-4 to win the Sutherland Curling Club's women's cash bonspiel on Sunday. Farnham was backed by Joyce McKee at third, Doreen Thomas at second and Linda Nugent at lead. In the B-event final, Merle Ko-pach of the Hub beat Loreen Talbot of Nutana 6-4 while Nutanas Gayle Howard took the event with an 8-7 decision over Twyla Widdifield of Regina. Frank Kupschera of Kindersley defeated Arnold Anderson from Shellbrook 5-2 to take top honors at the Lobstick cash spiel which was held at the Prince Albert Golf and Curling Club on the weekend. Kupschera, third Murray Mills, second Lome Staples and Dale Hannon, who advanced to the final with a 7-5 victory over Lyle Myers of St.

Gregor, won a total of $3,400. Anderson, who beat Stan Lyell of Saskatoon in the semi-finals, won $2,200. of a game and had a chance to win but didn't," Ticats huge defensive end Grover Covington said he watched the ball pass through Newman's hands and thought: "God just decided its Hamiltons time to go to the Eastern semi-final." A big play for Hamilton came with less than two minutes to play in the game. Trailing 29-25, Mark Young fielded a third down punt at his own 38-yard line, but pitched the ball to wide receiver Keith Baker who was running in the opposite direction. Baker accelerated around several Ottawa defenders and, when it appeared he was running out of ground at midfield, cut back into the middle before running out of steam and stamina and was finally Hockey Rick Ness scored three goals and Bob Southam added a pair to lead Saskatoon Quakers to an 8-6 victory over Hudson Bay Saints in Northern Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League action at Exhibition Stadium on Sunday.

Blaine Miller, Mark Bourgeois and Nick Prpich also scored for Quakers. Wayne Cable, with three, Marlin Johnson, Robert Roy and Ed Saitfert replied for Saints. In another NSJHL game on Sunday, the visiting Saskatoon Canadians defeated Dundurn Wheat Kings 9-4. Brad Korchinsky sparked Canadians with three goals while Ward Thiesen, with7 two, Rob Doherty, Marshall Toner, Steve Smith and Philip Kachwosky completed the attack. Ricci Girolami, Don Mitchell, Terry Block and Tim Benko answered for the Wheat Kings.

On Saturday, Dave Phillips scored two goals as Nipawin Hawks defeated Prince Albert North Stars 6-2. Terry Wright, Curtis Zablocki, John Casavant and Greg Habetler added singles for Nipawin. Boris Rybalka and Graham Toporowski scored for Prince Albert. Larry Clark scored two goals Sunday to pace Lloydminster Bor-, der Kings to a 6-5 victory over Rosetown Redwings in a Wild Goose Hockey League game in Rosetown. Darwin Urlacher, Murray Batty, Bob Deschamps and Mikituk also scored for Border Kings.

Alvin Moore, Perry Kingwell, Craig Oman, Lindsay Doetzel and Ken Loehndorf replied for Redwings. Curling Lloyd Beckett of the Hub defeat -ved Colin Bly 5-1 to capture the championship event of the Granite Gamble men's bonspiel on Sunday. Becketts rink of Jim Walker, Mike and Pat McAvoy won $1,000 while Bly, of the CN, pocketed $750. Ron Feschuk of the host club beat Nutanas Mel Ferster 7-5 to claim the event and Bob Heppler, also Stingy defence leads Queens He refused to put the blame on anyone for the loss. But he admitted that passes were missed and drives stalled because he was unable to hit receivers in the open.

Watts refused to blame his 'two-game layoff caused by torn, ligaments in his left hand for his inability to hit receivers irt key situations. Head coach George Brancato said, however, that Watts could have been sharper. The layoff showed a little bit, Brancato said, adding that his special teams usually the strong point of the Riders game sadly iet us down. Hamilton blocked a punt and ran it in for a touchdown and Ken Clark was inconsistent-' unable to kick for good yardage late in the game. Dinos Hargreaves said the Gaels defence was designed to contend with pass-happy teams or.

as he described the run-and-shoot offences with a touch of sarcasm touch football with helmets. Bodnar said it was hard for the Toronto offensive line to get firm footing in the slippery conditions. All you have to do is give them a head fake and youve gone he said. The Gaels tied the game 2:39 into the second quarter on an 18-yard pass to tight end Jim Pendergast from quarterback Bob Wright. Bill Barrable kicked field goals of 26.

37 and 36 yards and added our singles one off a 64-yard, wind-aided punt for the Gaels, ire also converted the touchdown. Toronto conceded a safety in the fourth quarter. Queens led 11-7 at the half. Blues coach Doug Mitchell said he tried in the second half to stay with the teams game plan of establishing a ground game. But we got too far behind to do it.

Mitchell said. It was a disappointing loss. We just didn't execute om offence." to Downs by 10 lengths. He also won the Rebel Handicap and the Arkansas Derby this year. His last start was Oct.

16 at Santa Anita, when he finished second behind Ma Maison in the Volante Handicap while carrying high weight of 126 pounds. He's had a continuing problem with a contracted hoof, and there's also a slight ankle problem," said Cross. But those are things we could work with and still get him ready for racing if that's wjiat we wanted to do." to football KINGSTON, Ont. (CP) The potent arm of Calgary Dinosaurs' quarterback Greg Vavra goes up against Queens Golden Gales' vaunted new defensive system next Saturday in the Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Union national football championship. Queens advanced to its first Van-ier Cup appearance in five years by controlling Toronto Blues offence in a 22-7 triumph Saturday before some 8.300 cold, wind-blown supporters.

The Dinosaurs advanced Friday in Calgary with a come-from-be-hind 21-12 victory over defending champion British Columbia Thun-derbirds as Vavra completed 26 of 44 passes for 338 yards and two touchdowns. Shouts of We're going to Toronto!" rocked the Queen's dressing room. "They (the Blues) had never seen our defence before, said defensive tackle Steve Bodnar. Its new, designed specifically for the Quebec conference and all the run-and-shoot offences nowadays. The defence puts five men on the line, four backs about three yards final with deep, two cornerbacks who pick up the wide receivers as come off the line of scrimmage and a safety, who plays about 25 yards deep.

Except for the second series of plays by Toronto, the Gaels defence continually frustrated the Blues, who got out of their own end in the second half only in the last minute of the game. Toronto quarterback John Finlayson was sacked five times three times by Bodnar. Blues running back Trevor Miller No. 2 rusher in the CIAU this season with an average of 114 yards a game was held to just 20 yards on eight carries. Fullback Andy McVey was the top Toronto rusher 44 yards on 11 carries.

A 12-yard pass to tight end Adam Papadakos from Finlayson, gave Toronto a 7-0 lead 6:36 into the game. But that was to be the last time Toronto mounted a serious threat. We made an adjustment, said Queen's coach Doug Hargreaves. The defence played really well. Bodnar probably played his best game ever.

All those guys on the front unit were outstanding." "The way we see it, he has proven everything lie's had to prove and though we would like to win an Eclipse Award with him, we felt there is too much at stake to continue racing him. Cross said. Sunny's Halo has been syndicated at a value of $7.5 million, the trainer said. In 20 starts, the colt won nine races, finished second three times and third twice. He earned $1,247,791.

He won the Kentucky Derby by two lengths over Desert Wine, and the Super Derby at Louisiana "NationalI international OTTAWA (CIM Slot back Dave Newman slouched in his chair, blood trickling out of the corner of his mouth, and admitted he should have caughta last-second pass that would have catapulted Ottawa Rough Riders past Hamilton Tiger-Cats into the Canadian Football League Eastern Division final next week in Toronto. It was eatchable," he said softly to reporters. "Anytime the bail touches your hands you should catch it. Trailing 32-29, Newman caught a 45-yard pass from quarterback J.C. Watts with 36 seconds remaining in the game.

Two plays later, Watts rolled out on third down and fired a bullet into the end zone that- Newman jumped for, but was unable to handle, The missed pass gave Hamilton a 33-31 win over Ottawa in an exciting game that saw the advantage shift continually. The Riders had eliminated the Tiger-Cats in post-season play the last two years and were favored to do it again this year. Across the field, Hamilton coach A1 Bruno agreed it was Ottawa's game to win. They played one hell John McEnroe McEnroe subdues Connors LONDON (API John McEnroe defeated a laid-back Jimmy Connors 7-5, 6-1, 6-4 on Sunday to win a $350,000 Grand Prix tennis tournament for the fifth time in six years. Near the end of a fiercely-contested first set involving the two top players in the United States, Com nors shouted and was warned for an audible obscenity." It was the second time this week he had been warned for obscenities, and Connors appeared to lose interest in the match after that.

He hit loose shots, made flippant comments to the crowd and later renewed his criticisms of the strict way some umpires apply the Volvo Grand Prix code of conduct. "They are taking all the joy and fun out of the game, Connors said. If they go on like this next year, you won't see me around any more." Connors, fined $590 for an audible obscenity in a previous round, was fined $750 this time. He said to American tournament supervisor Keith Johnston: "The number of fines I've had from you this week must be enough to buy yt.it a first-class ticket home." Connors, who was also fined $5ltl fine for a visible obscenity earlier in the tournament, finished the week with penalties totalling $1,750. McEnroe, a model of good behavior throughout the tournament, sympathized with Connors.

He was distracted by what happened. and he never quite got back," McEnroe said. I was a little surprised by his attitude in the last two sets. "lie has always given his best in matches against me before." McEnroe won $48,000 and Connors picked up $24,000 as runner-up. Connors still lias an overall career lead of 12-11 in matches against McEnroe.

For almost an hour, the final was exciting, played before a sell-out crowd of Connors, a service break down, came back with some magnificent returns to level at 5-5. In the next game, the incident happened. McEnroe hit a winner down the line and Connors let him-sself go with one word, shouted at the top of his voice. Violation of the Code of Conduct, said British umpire Ian Stork. "Warning to Mr.

Connors for an audible obscenity." Connors seemed to treat it as a joke. "I low many times do I have to say that word to get disqualified?" he asked. "Go ahead. said McEnroe, and the crowd roared with laughter. Sunnys Halo retired Soccer The Saskatoon Youth Soccer Association will hold its annual general meeting and awards night Saturday, 5 p.m.

at Evan Hardy Collegiate. For further information call Jack Postlewaite at 373-2323. Cross country Mark Cutts of the University of Saskatchewan finished seventh overall in the junior mens division at the Canadian cross-country running championships in Sudbury, during the weekend. Adam Sarty, who ran the last three miles in one shoe after losing a shoe while crossing a stream, placed 19th. Kelly McGrath was 45th and Kevin Wiseman 49th among a field of 76.

Glen Charan-duk pulled out after twisting his ankle. In the senior mens event, John Holliday of Saskatoon finished 20th and Jim Jasieniuk 30th. Curling Joe Gurowka of Toronto defeated Brian DeRooy of Chatham, 4-3 to win the $10,000 first-place prize in the Molson Curling Classic at Toronto on Saturday. DeRooy won $5,000 while Ragnar Kamp of Port Hawkesbury, N.S. and Bill Stoughton of Toronto each won $1,650 in the consolation round.

The women's main event was won by Jill Greenwood of Toronto who earned $2,500 with a 6-5 victory over Iria Empey of Toronto. Olympics F. Don Miller, executive director of the United States Olympic Committee, will retire from the post following the 1984 Games in Los Angeles, a spokesman from USOC headquarters confirmed Sunday. The story is correct, he Miller) is going to leave the USOC. said Mike Moran, a USOC spokesman.

He is definitely going into the business world. lie's been with the USOC for 15 years. He wanted to give the business world a Tennis Second-seeded Kathy Horwath of the United States was forced to a tie-breaker on the final set before defeating top-seed Carling Bassett of Toronto and capturing the Virginia Slims Ginny tennis championship Sunday at Honolulu. Horwath won $22,000 in first-place prize money by beating Bassett 4-6. 6-2, 7-6 1 7-1).

Chris Evert Lloyd of the United States won a $125,000 women's tennis tournament at Deerfield Beach. for the fourth consecutive year Sunday, battering third-seeded Bonnie Gadusek 6-0, 6-4. Lloyd, ranked No. 2 in the world behind American Martina Navratilova, won $22,000. Basketball Philadelphia 76ers have acquired 6-foot-8 forward Sam Williams from Golden State Warriors for a second-round draft pick in 1984 and an undisclosed amount of money, the National Basketball Association club announced Saturday.

Williams. 24, averaged 7.3 points and 5.2 rebounds per game with 53.7 per cent field goal accuracy in his three years as a reserve with the ARCADIA, Calif. (AP) Sunnys Halo, winner of the Kentucky Derby and Super Derby this year, has been retired to stud. Trainer David Cross of Toronto said Saturday that the colt will leave Santa Anita in about 10 days for Kentucky, where he will stand at Domino Stud Farm. Sunny's Halo is owned by the D.

J. Foster Stable. Cross said he and the owner had debated whether to start the Halo colt in the Meadowlunds Cup or the Hollywood Derby, but had decided to retire him. Eirikson wins third Canadian rodeo title Golf Eight golfers representing the United States won the team cham- pionships in the $440,000 U.S.-Japan Goldwin Cup golf matches Sunday at Kobe, Japan. The U.S.

team, led by Hale Irwin and made up of the eight top U.S. money-winners, beat its Japanese counterpart 29-19 over the four-round competition. Tsuneyuki Nakajima, the top money winner in Japan, captured indi-: vidual honors. Other members of the American team were Johnny Miller, Lanny Wadkins, Tom Kite. David Graham, Hal Sutton, Calvin Peete and Ben Crenshaw, The Americans each received $30,000 and the second-place Japanese $20,000.

Pat Bradley of the United States shot a final-round 64 eight under par and won the Japan Golf Classic for women by seven strokes Sun-' day with a 10-under par 206 for the 54-hole tournament. Bradley won $37,500 while runner-up Laurie Itinker earned $24,500. Soccer Paolo Juventus and Italy striker, has been fined $3,100 by the Italian Football League for wearing the national team's blue jersey without permission. Rossi, the hero of the World Cup last year, donned the shirt to advertise a brand of sunglasses without authorization, the league's disciplinary commission concluded at a meeting. Paul Smith scored a goal with one minute to play in overtime as Lau-rentian Voyageurs defeated defending champion McGill Redmen 2-1 to capture the national collegiate soccer championship Sunday.

Harness racing Canadian-owned Cam Fella breezed to a 2'2-length triumph in the $50,000 Bret Hanover Pace at Roosevelt Raceway on Saturday to tie Bret Hanovers all-time singleseason record of 25 consecutive vic- tories. Driven by Pat Crowe for the Clements-Faulknmer-Jefs Stable of Far Hills, N.J., the four-year-old ridgling by Most Happy Fella was clocked at 1:58 for the mile. It was Cam Fella's 26th win in 32 starts for the year. The $25,000 first-place money boosted Cam Fella's season earnings to $1,031,556. He is the only aged pacer to top $1 million dollars in one season.

cliff, with 73 while third was taken by Dan Lowry of Yalleyview, with 67. Robin Burwash of Air-die, was bareback champion with 125 points and placed first in the final performance with 85. Steer wrestling honors went to Wayne Pederson of Amisk. with a total of 125 points. Novice bareback champion was Rod Bevans of Cardston.

with 135 points. Glen Kecley of Nanton. was named boys steer riding champion with 145. He split first place for the day with Shawn Vant of Millet, with 73. Mel Coleman of 1ierce-land captured the saddle bronc championship with 120 points, just five points ahead of Jim Kells of Mil-larville, Alta.

Joe Lucas of Sundre, took calf roping honors with 125 points. Carol Stewart of Raymond. won the women's barrel racing championship with 125 points EDMONTON (CP) -Tom Eirikson emerged with his third all-around Canadian Finals Rodeo title Sunday with a score of 155 points. The Longview, cowboy admitted he had an advantage in knowing he was the winner prior to the final performance. To win the title Eirikson competed in both the saddle bronc and steer wrestling during the rodeo's six performances.

lie finished second in the steer wrestling, but was out of the -money in saddle bronc. Dale Johansen of Strathmore. was the big money-winner at the 10th annual competition, taking home $4,050 and the bull riding championship. Johansen was bucked off in the final ride, but nobody could catch him with his aggregate 155 points. In Sunday's final performance.

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