Petoskey News-Review from Petoskey, Michigan • 11

Petoskey News-Review Wednesday, August 13, 1991 PAGE 11 Ulitmate offensive weapon back I -srv A Photo courtesy Howard Schatzberg Photography Detroit: Pamela Croff of Petoskey and Major's Breeze perform during competition in the recent All-Morgan Horse Show at the Michigan State Fairgrounds. Blue ribbon winner Si Barry Sanders begins practice PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) The Detroit Lions' ultimate offensive weapon returned to the playing field Tuesday. All-Pro running back Barry Sanders, absent from training camp since it began July 10, participated in afternoon practice at the team's outdoor facility at the Silverdome. "It was just like riding a bicycle," Sanders said following the workout.

"Once you do it you never forget how." The return of last season's NFL rushing champion enabled the Lions to showcase their "real" offense for the first time since camp began. Opposing teams set their defenses against the pass in Detroit's first three exhibition games. Sanders' presence will not only change the look of the Lions' offense, but the strategy of opposing defenses. "Teams will have to put one player on Barry when he's out there," Fontes said. "I don't think the linebackers will drop back as deep as they're doing right now, and that will open up the passing game." Sanders will immediately learn two or three new running plays, including a toss sweep.

He also will become more involved in the passing game, according to Fontes. "Barry has to learn to run without the ball," he said. "Look for him to possibly run some corner routes and maybe line up as a slot receiver. We have to get him away from blocking and out of the back-field more." Fontes is still uncertain of Sanders' playing status for this Saturday's preseason game at Kansas City. Sanders said he would like to play a few series.

"The plays are pretty much the same from the two passing camps earlier in the year, but I need the extra work right now," Sanders said. "I guess it will be good to block less. Blocking was never one of my stronger points." Sanders ended his 33-day holdout Monday, signing a one-year contract extension. He entered the 1990 AP photo Detroit: Barry Sanders (left) receives welcome from lineman Lawrence Pete as he headed for his first day of practice with the Detroit Lions. bon and trophy cup in training level dressage and won ribbons in five of six events entered.

Croff plans to return in 1992 to compete in first level dressage. Croff is also seeking Petoskey High School students interested in forming a Michigan Interscholas-tic Horsemanship Club. Deadline for this year's competition is Sunday, Sept. 1. For more information call DETROIT Pamela Croff of Petoskey and her horse, Major's Breeze, recently returned from the All-Morgan Horse Show with several awards.

Croff, a Petoskey area 4-H Horse and Pony Club leader, and her 1 1 -year-old horse wenta up against Morgans from all over the Midwest at the Michigan State Fair Grounds. It was the first time they had entered a Class AA show. Major's Breeze took a blue rib Lions make two more roster cuts RECREATION Birchwood champ HARBOR SPRINGS Julie Holthaus won the two-day Birchwood Farms Golf and Country Club Ladies Championship Tournament that was completed Tuesday. Holthaus shot a 163 in the championship flight to win by 15 strokes. Second place went to Joan Jordan with a 178.

Gross scores were used for the Championship Right scores with all other flights using net scores. Flight 1-Alice Velandia, 144; Flight II: 1 -Betty Behringer, 143; 2-Virginia Satterfield, 143, Behringer winner in one-hole playoff. Flight III: 1-Ruthann Rowan, 139; 2-Patty Temes, 139, Rowan winner in one-hole playoff. Nine holes: 1-Arlene Russel, 75; 2-TriciaGrad, 83. Hole-in-one BOYNE FALLS Gary Oster-beck of Boyne City and sales director for Boyne USA, recorded his first ever hole-in-one Monday while participating in the Northern Michigan PGA Chapter Pro-Am at Boyne Mountain.

Osterbeck was playing on the Alpine Course and aced thel48-yard, 17th hole using a 7-iron. TENNIS Tournament results The annual Parent-Child Tournament was held at the Petoskey High School Courts last Sunday. Eight teams played in two flights with finals consisting of Flight I against Flight II. Tournament results: 1- Ward Bollinger-Ryan Charles over Don Bielas-Jim Bielas, 8-7. 2- Gary Phillips-Nicole Phillips over Dee Kiebel-Korrie Kiebel, 8-6.

3- Sandy Bollinger-Chad Bollinger over Dave Ritt-Sarah Ritt, 8-2. 4- Debbie Bacon-Diane Bacon over Dick Ruemenapp-Karl Kiebel, 8-3. North Country Classic The North Country Junior Tennis Classic will be held Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 24-25, at the Petoskey High School Courts. There will be divisions for boys and girls ages 10-18.

For more information call Margaret Ruemenapp at 347-6312. Soccer registration The Petoskey Department of Parks and Recreation is accepting youth soccer registrations for children grades first through sixth. The program is scheduled to begin Tuesday, Sept. 3. For more information call 347-2500.

Mackinaw tournament MACKINAW CITY The annual Big Mac Men's Slow Pitch Tournament will be held Friday-Sunday, Aug. 23-25. Tere is a 12-tcam limit and entry fee is $130. The tournament is sponsored by Mackinaw City Sports Boosters. For more information call Bob Downing at 616-436-5300.

PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) The Detroit Lions on Tuesday waived linebacker Rob Hinckley and cor-nerback Riley Ware. Hinckley, the Lions' fourth-round draft choice out of Stanford last year, was sidelined all last season with a foot injury. He sustained another foot injury in training camp this season and played very little in the team's first three exhibition games. Ware was signed as a rookie free agent this year out of Western Kentucky.

Sports Peddler rallies back season in the third year of a five-year, $5.9 million contract. The Lions guaranteed Sanders S3.2 million to end his holdout a $2.1 million signing bonus and an additional $1.1 million if the Lions choose to exercise the option for 1994. He will reportedly make approximately $7 million overfour years. Sanders also said Monday he would pay an unspecified bonus out of his own contract to each of his offensive lineman. "That's really the type of guy Barry is," starting left guard Eric Andolsck said.

"He takes care of us and we take care of him." The amount will be based on Sanders' production and was not added to his new deal. Sanders won last year's NFL rushing title gaining 1 ,304 yards on 255 carries. Linebacker Mike Cofer and linenman Harvey Salem remain holdouts. Send a Piece of Honne Back to College while Merle Carson Jr. and Craig Napont hit home runs.

For USA, Mike Robarge had three hits and Mike Anzell two. Merle Carson Sr. was the winning pitcher. CHARLEVOIX LEAGUE Buy Low wone's champ CHARLEVOIX Buy Low clinched the Charlevoix Women's Slow Pitch League title in the season's final Tuesday with a 7-0 victory over Townhouse. Buy Low and Investment Management and Research both finished but Buy Low beat Investment twice during regular season play.

In Tuesday night's game, Martha Bradley had two hits for Buy Low while Mary Carver was the winning pitcher on a three-hitter. In one other game, Investment Management and Research took Skyline 19-9. The winner's 19 hits included a home run by Angie McClanaghan. Colleen Tripp had two hits for Skyline. Winning pitcher was Laura Kemp.

The Women's League will hold a weekend City Tournament starting Saturday, Aug. 17. In the 9 a.m. opener Skyline meets Arnold's, at 10:15 a.m., Townhouse faces Investment Management and Research, at 11:30 a.m. Buy Low faces A Shade Better and at 12:45 p.m.

Kwikie Duplicating plays Flight Deck. Tournament finals are set for 3:15 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 18. The Men's League City Tournament opened Tuesday night with one game as Pine Hill Nursery beat Irish Boat Shop 18-3.

Dave Rose had three of the 21 hits for the winners while Kirk Ikens had two hits for Irish Boat Shop. Jason Towe was the winning pitcher. Today, Charlevoix Cinema meets Quality Limo-Ironworks Gym at 6:30 p.m., Townhouse faces Paul Bunyan Lanes at 7:30 p.m., Bay Shore Steel takes on Pine Hill at 8:30 p.m.with a game also scheduled for 9:30 p.m. A full slate of games is scheduled for Thursday, Aug. 15, with finals Friday, Aug.

16. Tuesday's Youth Recreation: Boys' ages 11-13: Mariners over A's, 14-0, and Twins over Tigers, 3-1. STANDINGS (Women's League-final) Buy Low 12 2 Investment Management 12 2 Arnold's 10 4 Flight Deck 10 4 Skyline 5 9 Kwikie Printing 4 10 Townhouse 2 12 A Shade Better 1 13 The Sports Peddler from Petoskey overcame a five-run deficit in the final two innings Tuesday to take a 6-5 Class Regional softball (fast pitch) tournament victory from Gold Front of Cheboygan. Regional play in two tournaments will resume Friday, Aug. 16, at Petoskey's Ed White Field and continue throughout the weekend.

On Friday, in Class Dairy Queen of Petoskey faces Fred's of Roscommon at 7:30 p.m. and Birchwood Resort of Cadillac meets Burns and Eustice Insurance of Cheboygan at 10:30 p.m. The Class tournament has a 9 p.m. game the same night when Lakeshore Auto of Petoskey faces Gage Well Drilling of St, Helen at 9 p.m. Tuesday night, Goldfront of Cheboygan built a 5-0 lead over Sports Peddler through five innings.

In the top of the sixth inning Sports Peddler pushed over five runs on four hits, the key blows a two-run home run by Mike Loper and run scoring hits by Tom Burley and Mike Cool. Sports Peddler then broke the 5-5 tie in the top of the seventh inning when back-to-back singles by Bur-ley and Cool got the run home. Winning pitcher was Cool who took over in the fourth inning from Steve Hamlin. Losing pitcher was Ron Brandau. Sports Peddler collected nine hits as Loper had three, Burley doubled and singled, Cool had two hits and Tony Oberg doubled.

Goldfront collected eight hits, one a home run by Kurt Blaskowski while Mike LaLonde had two hits, Steve Mar-jerle tripled and Pete Blaskowski doubled. Sports Peddler 000 005 16 Goldfront 021 110 05 SLOW PITCH Boyne City tournament BOYNE CITY The two remaining unbeatens Victories and IMI will headline a three-game card today in the Boyne City Men's Slow Pitch League's City Tournament. The contest begins at 7:30 p.m. on the Rotary Park A-Field with the winner advancing to the tournament finals. In other games today, Boyne USA faces Standard on the A-Field and LexaMar meets Century 21 on the B-Field with both games starting at 6: 15 p.m.

Monday's results: Standard edged B.C. Pizza 8-7. For Ramie Leist, Brad Elzinga, Bill Wicker, Rob Hutchinson and winning pitcher Bill Kuhn had two hits while Tom Ford had two hits for Pizza. IMI nipped Century 21, 9-8. For IMI, Bob Courtright had three hits and Brian Vroman, Dan Thorpe and Mike Spence two while for Century 21, Kyle Fitzpatrick had four hits and Justin Kelts and Dan McGe-orge three each.

Rip Williams was the winning pitcher. LexaMar downed Kinetics 10-2. For LexaMar, Brian Hess and Glen Stevens had three hits with one of Hess's a home run. Kinetics had seven hits by seven different batters off winning pitcher Bill Bobola. Victories downed Boyne USA 7-3.

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