The Spokesman-Review from Spokane, Washington • 71

1 Spokane, April 27, 1989. THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW D5 1 THE PREP PAGE I I Mead's Kellogg 'fooling them' St. George's team not draggrin' after absence 1 V- 111-HLETE 4 OF THE rfo. il WEEK 4,, 4 ci, 44 4, 4 i 4 11, (- ck 4 4,,, ti. ,1 1 1 ire, ii- 2.,:.

4 i ii II. A' i 2 A 4.4" Ot 1 TZ 4' "'Sp i Zrr 4, -4 7 :74,4 ,..1,:,,.. terr.r..."' t442.at..AL,-.16;7,..lkitAtIr. make the league playoffs. After a decade of disuse, the skin infield at St.

George's had grown over, which was fine with Thomas. He and Tyllia rented a turf cutter last year to carve out some basepaths. That led to the acquisition of a load of clay to firm up the sandy soil. "And that turned the whole thing into a gooey mess," Thomas said. "We rototilled that all this spring and brought in eight dumptruck loads of dirt and baseball mix." "We're in the baseball business now," Thomas said, "and hopefully we'll be there for a few years." St.

George's also has a middle school team competing in the Knights of Columbus league and the Dragons hope to sponsor town teams at all age levels. "We need to have a program, not just a team," Thomas said. This year, at least, he and the Dragons have a team and not just a dream. Sweet 15: Pitcher Pat Leahy of Yaldma's Eisenhower High School has been projected as the 15th pick in the upcoming baseball draft by Baseball America magazine. Another national magazine, Collegiate Baseball, has Leahy and Mead's Geoff Kellogg ranked among the top 15 high school pitchers in America.

Leahy's Eisenhower Cadets currently lead the Columbia Basin Big Nine Conference with a 7-2 record. Kellogg's Mead Panthers top the Greater Spokane League at 9-1. The two pitchers could meet during the regional playoffs, which are scheduled for May 20 at a Big Nine site. Leahy, a 6-foot-7 225-pound right-hander has fired 67 strikeouts in 47 innings and sports an earned-run average of 1.00. His record is 6-1, the lone loss to crosstown rival Davis, which has beaten Ike twice and is second in the Big Nine at 7-3.

Leahy, an all-conference tight end, is also among league's leading hitters with a .537 average, four home runs, and 22 RBI. Around the horn: Though St. George's has joined, the Panorama League hasn't grown. Columbia of Hunters was forced to discontinue baseball for lack of Traditional power Springdale leads the league at 12-2 with losses to Inchelium and St. The Greater Spokane League it's opening week wiped out by rain ends the regular season on May 8, the five-team district tournament runs May 11, 12, 13 and 16 with two teams advancing to the May 20 Regional0 all across the state have adopted the one-day format long used by Class A and schools as a step to save travel costs.

Gaines are scheduled for noon, 2 and 7. This spring the St. George's Dragons have fielded a high school baseball team for the first time in a decade, and right away there was a problem. "Somebody asked me what '21 would happen if they hit one into the river," said St. George's xv-, coach Ross Thomas with a chuckle.

"I told KEVIN them to take all TAYLOR they could get." Considering writer the Little Spokane River is 520 feet from home plate at the St. George's campus diamond, any Panorama League slugger who can chunk a baseball onto a rainbow trout's noggin ought to run straight to the nearest telephone and call George Steinbrenner. And when you do, remember Thomas' advice to take all you can get. Fielding a baseball team at north Spokane private school has long been a mission for Thomas, who has been 12 years at the school. The Dragons dropped baseball 10 years ago and had recently fielded a boys' soccer team in the spring.

But Thomas and former Dragons baseball coach Ed Tyllia each had children of the same age and stayed in touch with America's Pasttime by coaching various summer youth teams. A nucleus of St. George's baseball players formed during the last seven or eight summers, playing together since they were about eight years old. "We went through Mustang, Bronco and Pony leagues," Thomas said, "and last year joined the Knights of Columbus league with parochial school teams." Last year the Dragons, as eighth-graders, went 21-0 on the of circuit and, suddenly, soccer was a fall sport at St. George's.

"With only 75 in the school we didn't think we could have both sports in the spring," Thomas said. The Dragon horsehiders are comprised of 13 freshman, who have been journeying together through the age groups plus, "six more guys in the school who were players without a team," Thomas said. Despite an all-freshman pitching staff, the Dragons are 8- 10 in their first year of varsity baseball, 5-9 in the Panorama League. They still have a shot to By Bob Coleman Staff writer Averaging two strikeouts an inning is bound to attract attention. And that's exactly what it has done for Mead pitcher Geoff Kellogg.

When the Panther senior takes the mound for a Greater Spokane League contest, a professional baseball scout or two can usually be found with radar gun clocking the right-hander's pitches. And the clockings have been said to be as fast as 91 miles per hour. But an overpowering fastball is not the only weapon in Kellogg's arsenal. In fact, it's not even the most used. An unusual curveball, which he cups in his hand with two fingers, played a major role in his 25 strikeouts in two games last week and his selection as The Spokesman-ReviewSpokane Chronicle Athlete of the Week.

Kellogg has collected 74 strikeouts (and 36 walks) in 37 innings this season, a pace that will likely surpass his GSL record of 121 strikeouts set last season. "I like to strike out guys, but I look more to fool them," said Kellogg, who leads the GSL with a 1.32 earned run average. "If you can fool them, you can get them to hit ground balls or you can strike them out. If you go out to strike everybody out, you'll fall on your face real Kellogg, 6-1, has fooled much of the GSL with his deceptive pitching. In his only loss, 5-0 against Gonzaga Prep, he struck out each of the Bullpup starters at least once.

At first sight, the 165-pounder doesn't look the overpowering type. But he uses all of his 6-foot-3 frame to hurl fastballs by batters, leading the Panthers to a league-leading 10- 1 record. "I finally learned how to use my body as far as my legs and coordinate everything so I can get ''maximum speed," Kellogg said. 1' "There's a lot of guys who could throw harder if they used their legs. It really has nothing to do with how big you are.

You have to know how to throw." In the season opener, a 5-4 win over Central Valley, Kellogg struck out 14 but walked 10. With a bit of fine tuning and concentration, the Panther pitcher has honed in on the plate, evident by last Saturday's 6-1 win over Shadle Park in which he -struck out 10 and walked only two. "At the beginning of the year I was trying to work on some things. Little distance surprises field been getting a kick out of this season. coach Don Ressa said his team was glad to get a shot at Kellogg and would like another in the rematch.

"Everybody gets up. It's not because they dislike Geoff, it's because they respect him and say 'I want a piece of this Mead coach Ron Chadwick said. "A lot of teams actually come wanting to see him and wanting a piece of him." Kellogg's success keeps Chadwick busy. The third-year coach spends much of his evenings talking to scouts and returning letters with statistical information. Several major league Waer's HR paces The Mead Panthers answered the question "Waer's the Beef?" Tuesday afternoon.

Pat Waer crushed a two-run homer in the top of the ninth inning as the Panthers dropped the Lewis and Clark Tigers 15-7 in Greater Spokane League baseball at Hart Field. Waer's home run was part of the decisive eight-run inning for the first-place Panthers, 12-1. The Tigers had tied the score at 7all in the bottom of the seventh on a grand-slam home run by George Helmer. Consequently, Mead pitching ace Geoff Kellogg entered the 1I 'Siii, a of taff photo by Shawn Jacobson organizations and colleges, including highly rated Texas have contacted Kellogg. He has kept his options open and a decision will likely be made after the June amatuer draft.

Any easy decision would come with a call from the San Diego Padres organization and chance to play in Spokane his first professional year, Kellogg said. "I get an average of three or four calls a night," Chadwick said. "We want to be a part of it. We want to help Geoff's dreams materialize. "It's a dream we all have for one our representatives." Mead past LC game in relief and shut out LC to force extra innings.

Kellogg, 6-1, pitched three scoreless innings for the win. Aaron Baxter collected three hits, including a solo homer in the second inning, for Mead. Jason Sampson added two hits. LC trailed 7-1 entering the bottom half of the fifth, but scored six runs the final three innings to force extra innings. LC, which committed seven errors, could not match the Panthers, who had no errors.

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After Kellogg came in relief and squelched a would-be rally recently, University High dude' Lewis of sprinters NOTEBOOK 3,200. Lewis leads each category with his 4:15.59:04.67. Nathan Davis of Mead is at 4:20.59:18 and Stuart Burnham of Ferris has clocked 4:23.69:16. In girls' racing, Spokane has three of the top five marks in the 3,200 Dressel leads at 10:41.3 and three of the best four in the 1,600 Dressel again at 4:53.9. Speaking of distance marks, Dory Reeves of LC is among the national leaders in the shot and discus.

Her discus best of 160-feet, 3-inches is the fifth best prep mark nationally, and her shot best of 47-5'h ranks second in the nation. On the basis of those throws, Reeves will likely be invited to compete at the TAC junior nationals June 14 at Columbus, Ohio. Cinderella: The cinder track at Ritzville was site of a Cinderella story. You recall reading about Reardan two-miler Andrea Wegner, who was the only entrant in the girls' 3,200 at a Bi-County track meet? Well, there's more to the story. After the girls' race was scrubbed, Wegner entered the boys' 3,200 and placed fourth in a field of nine, clocking a personal best 12:30.31.

"There were some boys that didn't want me to beat them, I know that," Wegner said. "There was one guy right in the middle of the race. I passed him and he sprinted ahead of me and took off. Ile finished one place ahead of me. "All around the track people were cheering me on.

It was kind of neat," Wegner said, On the schedule: Saturday's Rivaside Invitational has grown from 15 to 21 teams. Field events begin at 11 a.m. at Riverside High, and running events begin at noon with the girls 3,200. Idaho's akeland High, Cheney, Clarkston and Colville from the AA Frontier League, all the Northeast A League except Medical Lake and Colfax and "a myriad of teams," will be at Riverside, said Rams track coach Tom St ra 'set Meanwhile, over the mountains, Mead's boys will head to the Shelton Invitational, a twilight meet which attracts 60 teams. HANDMADE ALL-LEATI IER ROPERS Suggested SALE PRICE By Kevin Taylor Staff writer at the Mooberry Relays prep track and field meet oozed into their starting blocks like so many sleepy cats in the late afternoon sunshine last Saturday at Spokane Falls Community College.

Down on hands and knees, lithe runners stretched one muscular leg at a time out behind them, gave each a little shake and then arched their backs, preparing for the start of a 400-meter relay race. All except for one guy. Mead's whip-thin Chris Lewis looked like he stepped out of a history book, standing stiffly upright in knee-high white stockings. His elbows and knees were cocked akimbo as he waited for the starting gun. The standing start has long since gone the way of the dinosaurs as sprinters have thrown evolution into reverse going from a fully upright position to down on all fours in a quest for speed.

Lewis drew puzzled looks from the rest of the runners as they crouched like bullets in their blocks. But when the gun went off, Lewis shot out dead even with his piston-legged foes and, in fact, was the first man back around the track to hand off his baton, clocking 51.3 seconds. In the aftermath of the race, Rogers sprinter David Potter was in a position common to many runners after completing a 400-meter blast. That is, he had hands locked onto hips and was bent nearly double while trying to quench the fire in his lungs and legs. "Man, I didn't pay any attention to Lewis," an astonished Potter said between breaths.

"Those little long-distance dudes got some speed." Spokane's little distance dudes Cast a long shadow across the nation. National distance powerhouses such as the University of Wisconsin were here to woo Mead's Lewis and Kentucky is among a crowd of school's courting Lisa Dressel of Rogett Dressel has been invited to today's Penn Relays and recently went to Arcadia and beat California runners on their own tracks. Runners from this area have prodtKed four of the states seven fastest til11C3 in boys' 1,600 meter races and eight of the top 12 performances including the thrift istest in the $4995 Available in several Ci IliVtl flurry! Limited Time Only. GT-1100 Reg. Ust $179.99 NOW $159.99 Mtg.

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