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4 The Berkshire Eagle, Wednesday, August 7, 1996 C3 Sports from Cl Legion State Legion Area Golf Berkshire Sports Calendar TODAY Pottle is 3 shots back at state Jr. Joey Pohle of Taconic Golf Club is three strokes behind the leaders in the age 16-17 division after the second round of the Massachusetts State Junior Championship at Bass Rocks Country Club in Gloucester. Pohle shot a 1-over-par 71 yesterday, for a two-day total of 146. Pohle shot a 75 in the first round. He is three strokes behind Ian MacAllister of Marshfield Country Club and Ned Yetten of Indian Ridge, who are tied for the lead at 143.

MacAllister smoked Bass Rocks, yesterday, shooting a 3-under 67. Tied for third is first-round leader Shalom Volchok of Quail Hollow and Andrew Mingle of Cranberry Valley, at 145. Richard Kendall of Worthington shot a 79 yesterday, going with his first-day 75 for 154 Kendall is in a five-way tie for 23rd place at for 23rd plac at PRO BASEBALL: Pittsfield Nets at Watertovm Indians, 7 p.m. AMERICAN LEGION STATE BASEBALL Swampscott vs. Needham, Joe Wolfe Field, 3 p.m.

GOLF: Berkshire Medical Center benefit, Pittsfield Country Club Kare Bear Invitational, Egremont UNICO Tournament, Berkshire Hills Dalton Rotary tournament, Wahconah TENNIS: Benjamin Harris W.N.E. junior tournament, Country Club SAILING: Weekly sailing races, Pontoosuc Lake, 6 p.m. NORTH ADAMS 9-10 LITTLE LEAGUE: Lee vs. Pittsfield South, Fallon Field, 5:30 (Al Gatos. Joe YID Ile Field, N.

Adams Saturday, Aug. 3 First Round Swampsoott 3, S. Attleboro 1 Northampton vs. Neviton, ppd. Sandwich vs.

W. Boylston, ppd. Needham vs. North Adarns, ppd. Sunday, Aug.

4 First Round West Boylston 12, Sanchvich 5 Newton 13, NortharTipton 7 Needham 9, North Adams 3 Loser's Bracket S. Attleboro 9, Nottharnptco 6 (Northampton eliminated) Mondays Games Winner's Bracket Swampscott 4, Newton 3 Needham 5, W. Boylston 4 Loser's bracket Sandwich 5, North Adams 3 Sandwich 5, Nevitct1 3 Adams, Newton eliminated) Yesterdays Carnes S. Attleboro 9, W. Boylstm 2 (W.

Boylston elimituited) Needhatn 5, Svampscott 3 Swampscott 6, Sandwid, 5 (Sandytich eliminated) Needharn 3, S. Attleboro 2- (S. Attleboro eliminated) (Al Games Joe Wolf I the inning and then stole second. Sandwich pitcher Dave Murphy then walked Pat Shanahan, setting the stage for Cornacchini. Shanahan had two hits for Swampscott, including a two-run homer in the first inning.

Jim Ingram and Cornaccliini also added two hits. Brendan Nolan picked up the win for Swampscott. Murphy took the loss. In the morning games, Dan Hopkins scored on a wild pitch in the top of the 10th inning to snap a 3-3 tie and lift Needham to a win in a game between the tournament's last two unbeaten squads. Hopkins led off the 10th, with a single and went to third on a base hit by Dave Fussaro.

Hopkins then raced home with the tie-breaking run when Cornacchini uncorked a wild pitch. Fussaro later scored on a sacrifice bunt by Casavant. Swampscott threatened in the bottom of the lOth when Shanahan singled with one Out but winning pitcher Rick Smith retired the next two hitters to end the game. Trailing 3-0, Swampscott tied the game on a base hit by Shanahan in the eighth. Hopkins and Fussaro each had two hits for Needham.

Madden and Shanahan each had two safeties for Swampscott. South Attleboro exploded for seven runs in the second inning then stole see- Tiniamstown eliminates dams from tournament Matt Trapasso of Greenock Country Club did not make the cut for today's final round. The cut was 155, and Trapasso shot an 83 yesterday for a two-day total of 161. Both Jared Geary of Forest Park and David Rice of Greenock missed the cut in the 14-15 division. The cut was 156, and Geary had a 78 yesterday for a two-day total of 157.

Rice shot a 92 for a two-day total of 188. Missing the cut in the 13-14 division was Evan Pinsonnault of Forest Park. The cut was 170, and Pinsonnault shot a 90 yesterday, finishing up with a 177. upwitha177 Dt make the cut Little League Today. Championship Games Swampscott vs.

Neectiam, 3 p.m. Second. championship (it necessary), 7.30 p.m. and cruised past West Boylston, aldo prepares for eliminating them from the do prepares for tournament. In the second, South At GA champions ip A championship NORTH ADAMS Williamstown knocked Adams out of the North Adams age 9-10 Little League baseball tournament yesterday, rallying for eight runs in the fifth inning and scoring a 12-6 victory.

The loss eliminated Adams from the double-elimination tournament. Williamstown advances in the loser's bracket and will play the loser of tomorrow's game between Cheshire and Pittsfield North. Today's tournament game features Lee and Pittsfield South. It will be played at Fallon Field, at 5:30. Williamstown trailed Adams 6- 4 after four imlings, when the visiting team put eight runs on the board on only one hit, a two-run double by Kyle John.

Williamstown tallied the eight runs on one hit, three walks, two hit batters and three errors. Reliever Greg Holland gave up two hits in three scoreless innings to get the win. Damon George was the starter. Trevor Skrocki pitched the final two innings for Adams and took the loss, Tom Oxton started and was relieved in the third inning by Derek Pinsonneault. By Larry Dorman New York Times News Service Larry Dorman York Times News Semce tleboro sent 12 men to the plate and had six hits.

Dean, Brian Lako and Brett Poirier all had two hits for South Attleboro. Tim Leonard and Mike Mercer each had two hits for West Boylston. John Casey was the winning pitcher for South tleboro sent 12 men to the plate MetS 'from Cl Area Sports tILL va 3jJUI IL3 times it rains." The late after- noon cloudburst saturated the warning track and center field. missed another at the seventh. "I had the chances, and that really sort of set the day up," Ido said.

"If something different had happened on those, then who knows what would have happened? But that's the game. IL" If? If Fa Ido had been able to pull that off, he would have become a golf god of mythological proportions. Two major championship comebacks from six strokes behind in the same year? Unfathomable. Now that would have made a perfect script, Faldo corning into Valhalla, the golf course that was named after the great hall of mythic Norse gods and warriors, seeking one of the two major titles that have eluded him. It isn't that perfect anymore, but it isn't bad.

Fa ido, fallibility and all, will be a factor this week. He has worked on his putting stroke with his instructor, David Leadbetter missed another at the seventh. had tho rhanac and that "I had the chances, and that Pittsfield now goes on a tough, eight game road trip, which begins tonight against Pinckney Division-leading Watertown. The Mets then travel to Jamestown for two games against a Jammers team that has been leading the Stedler Division most of the year. The Mets will visit Erie and Williamsport, before returning to Wahconah Park on Aug.

15 for a home game against the Lowell Spinners. After the eight game road trip, the Mets will play 14 of their last 21 games at home. Mountain. eers players get EFL honors Berkshire Mountaineers running back Eric Taylor and linebacker Ron Smoak earned Empire Football League player-of-the-week honorable mention honors for their play in Saturday's 14-12 win over the Capitaland Thunder. Taylor gained 119 yards on 18 carries, while Smoak had five solo tackles, four assists and three sacks.

Taylor is currently fifth in the Empire Football League with 205 yards gained on 35 carries. The grounds crew spent the better part of three hours removing water from the field, and while the infield was in good shape, the outfield was deemed too. The Mets were coming off an 11-0 win over the Expos Monday night, and were in the midst of a three-game winning streak. LOUISVILLE, Ky. Not even he, the most precise of preci- sionists, could pinpoint the moment But something happened three weeks ago in England that unsettled him.

Nick Paid became fallible again. The same icy predator who had so calmly, so dispassionately hunted down and dispatched Greg Norman at the Masters, became, well human. "I guess I was disappointed, what happened," Paid said yesterday during a break in his preparations for this week's PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club. "I His voice trailed off. What he didn't do at the British Open was what everyone seemed to expect him to do.

Ever since that stunning spring day when Paid came from six behind to beat Norman by five strokes at Augusta, 67 to 78, he had worn an aura of invincibility. One Sunday headline at Royal Lytham and St Armes, where Paid began the final round exactly (cue spooky music here) 1 six strokes behind Tom Lehman, declared, "Paid Looming!" The bloom came off the loom quite early that day. Falclo had an opportunity to apply the same sort of opening-hole heat to Lehman that he did to --NOrman. for birdie missed weakly. He horseshoed a pair of birdie putts out at the filth and sixth and tnd sixth and St Joe soccer workouts open Tuesday Captain's practices for the St Joseph's High boys soccer team begin Tuesday at 6 p.m.

at Clapp Park. All soccer candidates are welcome. Workouts will run Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings. Canada's Bailey considers challenging Johnson to race el Track and Field TORONTO (AP) Donovan Bailey's agents are toying with the idea of matching the Olyrnr pie 100-meter champion against U.S. star Michael Johnson over 150 meters.

"It's purely speculative at this stage," Ray Flynn, one of the up by Time Warner, Century Berkshire and Adelphia Cable in Berkshire County. The station will carry 75 regular season games and five spring training games next season. Bailey's agents, said yterday. Pittsfield Lacrosse Club sets clinic ti The Pittsfield Lacrosse Club will host an instructional clinic for players with no or limited experience. The clinic will run Monday, Aug.

12, through Friday, Aug. 15, at Osceola Park in Pittsfield, and the sessions run from p.m. Registration is scheduled for 3 p.m. on Monday. The.

St Tee--is $40, or $55 with a camp T-shirt. Interested players should bring equipment if they have it. Helmets and a limited supply of "I sticks, gloves and other equipment is available for players new to id the game. For more information, call Bob Newton at 442-4999. -Bud Light tourney at Softball Complex 01 The 15th annual Bud Light Slow-Pitch Softball Tournament will be 4( Flynn said.

"They A'ere adding the 100-meter times of Donovan and equating them with what Johnson was running. It's cornpItyridtcu1us. Flynn said he and partner Mark Block haven't talked to Johnson's agent, Brad Hunt, and that so far there is nothing in the works. Thi-Red-Soi-ggriedon Arial WAB1.1-11 after ending a 21- year relationship with INSBKTV, Channel 38 TV, Channel 38. More Sports Page C8 Page C8 "We haven't gone past just the Bailey, of Oakville, Ontario, won the Olympic 100 with a world record time of 9.84 seconds.

Johnson won the 200 in a world record 19.32 and took the 400 in an Olympic-record 43.49. "It only came to the fore because American TV was so pro Michael and the commentators were so full of the fastest man in the world sort of thine "At some stage it may come to fruition, but at this stage we've just now finished the Olympic Games and we have a European season to finish out so there are other priorities at this moment," Flynn said held this Saturday and Sunday at the Berkshire County Softball Complex in Pittsfield The double elimination tournament will include and Division teams. The entry fee is $130, and the drawing for opponents will be held tomorrow at the Complex, beginning at 7 p.m. For more information, call the Softball Complex at 499-1491. or more iniormation, can me boIloall uomplex at 4uu-1491.

Greenfield softball event is Aug. 23 The 1996 Greenfield Men's Softball Association's Kortz Cup slow- pitch tournament will be held Aug 23 pi 25 at Abercrombie Field in Each team is guaranteed four games, and each game has a three home run limit. The registration fee is $175 per team, and the deadline for registration is Aug. 21. Checks should be made payable to the Greenfield Men's Softball Association.

For more information, or to register, contact Tim Gochinsld, 5 Gromacki Greenfield, 01373, or call 665-3058. reenfield softball event is Aug. 23 he 1996 Greenfield Men's Softball Association's Kortz Cup slowth tournament will be held Aug. 23-25 at Abercrombie Field in ach team is guaranteed four games, and each game has a three ne run limit. he registration fee is $175 per team and the deadline for regis- ion is Aug.

21. Checks should be made payable to the Green- Men's Softball Association. or more information, or to register, contact 'rim Gochinsld, 5 imacki Greenfield, 01373, or call 665-3058. I 1 fi IQ 4 4 r' tat I e- 1Ift6 I kktti tI -011 0E10MT1111T THS grirls- soccer practices Aug. 12 Captain's practice sessions for the Taconic High girls' soccer team will begin Monday, Aug.

12, at the high school, beginning at 6 p.m. The captain's practices will be held the weeks of Aug. 12 and 19. Regular double sessions will begin on Aug. 26, at the high school, beginning at 8 am.

IS girls? soccer practices Aug. 12 aptain's practice sessions.for the Taconic High girls' soccer team begin Monday, Aug. 12, at the high school, beginning at 6 p.m. captain's practices will be held the weeks of Aug. 12 and 19.

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