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I Friday July 8 1988 Battle lines drawn in area tourney Digest Each club fields an eight-man team for each of four rounds at four different courses with the best six scores counting toward the team total each day A traveling team trophy and a plaque with the name of each team member goes to the winning team The top four individual finishers win large trophies provided by the Times-News There will be nine teams in this tournament In addition to the four mentioned as contenders other clubs in the tournament are Silver Lake Golf Course of Church Hill Warriors Path Golf Course of Kingsport Moccasin Golf Course of Gate City Cedar Hill Country Club of Jonesville Va and McDonald-Camelot which is a combination of two Rogersville clubs Ridgefields was excluded from the team competition this year because it was unwilling to host a round in the tournament The club remains a member of the GKGA however and its members are eligible to compete for the individual honors The only Ridgefields representative is Hudson who lost to Davis in a playoff last year A tight team race and a three-way individual battle is shaping up for the 15th annual Greater Kingsport Amateur that begins Saturday at Camelot Golf Course in Rogersville With defending champion Ridgefields sidelined last runnerup Meadowview is the odds-on-favorite heading into this area club championship with perennial contender Lonesome Pine 1987 Greater Bristol Amateur team champion Tri-Cities Country Club and Buffalo Valley expected to battle it out with Mead-owvieW for the team title The top three individual finishers from last tournament are back and the absence of some of the players who finished just below them last year makes them even stronger favorites Defending champion Wendell Davis goes in as the individual favorite with runnerup Bobby Hudson and third-place Hunter Howe expected to battle him for the title Team Champions 1974 Meadowview 1975 Meadowview 1976 Meadowview 1977 Bays Mountain 1978 Lonesome Pine 1979 Lonesome Pine 1960 Bays Mountain 1981 Warriors Path 1982 Meadowview 1983 Meadowview x1984 Lonesome Pine 1985 Ridgefields 1986 Lonesome Pine 1987 Ridgefields xMatchplay format use to determine winner Individual Champions 1974 Joe Lane Meadowview 1975 Bill Argabrite Ridgefields 1976 Jim Cooper Bays Mountain 1977 Mike Poe Bays Mountain 1978 Mike Poe Bays Mountain 1979 Mark Houser Warriors Path 1980 Mike Poe Bays Mountain 1981 Mike Poe Camelot 1982 Mike Poe Silver Lake 1983 Scott Negrotto Meadowview 1984 No individual winner 1985 Richie Waugh Lonesome Pine 1986 Mike Heise Buffalo Valiev 1987 Wendell Davis Buffalo Valley 1987 Results Team Standings Ridgefields 1530 Meadowview 1557 Buffalo Valley 1567 Lonesome Pine 1580 Warriors Path 1581 1604 1619 1644 1655 250 250 251 254 254 255 255 255 257 258 258 258 258 258 McDonald-Camelgt Moccasin Hills Cedar Hill Silver Lake Individual Standings Wendell Davis BVCC Bobby Hudson RCC Hunter Howe McD-Cam Bill Barnes RCC Bill Bowers LPCC Bob Smith McD-Cam Junior Marshall SLGC David Coats MGC Gene Laws BVCC Les Ward MGC Rudy Hall WPGC Lindsay Harp MGC Kenny Phipps MGC Jackie Miller WPGC xWon position in piayoff Please see SENIORS page 4C Pirates halt Mets streak son masters Phillies Associated Press SON OF FORMER PACKER QB DEAD TAMPA Fla The 24-year-old son of former NFL quarterback and coach Bart Starr was found dead Thursday in a suburban Tampa house leased by his father police said Bart Starr summoned police after he arrived at the home of his son businessman Bret Michael Starr discovered a foul smell and get in said Hillsborough Capt Gary Terry place was locked up tight The body was lying on the floor in a dining area that opened into a backyard It had been there an estimated two to four days and the air conditioning was said spokesman Jack Espinosa Police said the body was badly decomposed There were no obvious wounds and no signs of a struggle Terry said Two Rottweiler dogs were found alive in the home police said Authorities said they would have to await an autopsy report from the Hillsborough County Medical office to find out how Starr died ALL-STAR TICKETS STOLEN NEW YORK About 600 tickets for All-Star Game at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati have been stolen the office reported Thursday The tickets were taken from a private delivery service employed by the Reds that was delivering them to fans in the Columbus Ohio area The seat locations of the tickets involved have been identified and duplicates are being issued to the rightful owners Individuals arriving at Riverfront Stadium for the game with stolen tickets will not be seated and will be escorted from the facility CONDITION IMPROVING ALLENTOWN Pa Veteran driver Bobby Allison left his hospital room in a wheelchair Thursday for the first time since his June 19 racing accident Ed Gossage spokesman for sponsor Miller Racing said Allison has been eating solid foods since early this week Gossage said Allison 51 who suffered a concussion and several broken bones in the first-lap accident in the NASCAR Miller 500 at Ppcono International Raceway in Long Pond remains in guarded condition at Lehigh Valley Hospital Center He acknowledged it will be before it is known whether Allison will be able to drive again BONNETT RECOVERING t'ROM SURGERY BIRMINGHAM Ala NASCAR Winston Cup stock car driver Neil Bonnett is recuperating from an appendectomy and the removal of his gall bladder Tuesday and is expected to be released from the hospital this weekend However the driver from Hueytown probably will miss a July 24 race at Pocono and is questionable for a July 31 race at Alabama International Motor Speedway VOLS LOSE CAGE RECRUITS Tennessee basketball signee Chip Jones and Kentucky signee Sean Woods have failed to qualify for admission to their respective schools under Proposition 48 Jones a 6-1 guard who was the Cincinnati Player of the Year still plans to enroll at Tennessee and lose his freshman year of eligibility Woods a 6-2 guard from Indiana apparently will enroll in a junior college rather than enroll at Kentucky Questions remain about two other Kentucky signees 6-10 Shawn Kemp and 6-7 Chris Mills Kemp is still awaiting results of his last SAT test while Mills is the focus of an investigation by the NCAA that leaves his future with the Wildcats questionable KINGSPORT WOMAN MAKES HOLE-IN-ONE Susan McJunkin of Kingsport recorded her first hole-in-one when she aced the par-3 137-yard hole No 7 at Warriors Path Golf Club Thursday playing partner was Eddie Adams WARREN TURNS DOWN UCLA East Tennessee State golf coach Fred Warren who has led a resurrected Buccaneer program to the top of the Southern Conference turned down an offer from UCLA Wednesday to become head coach of the national champion Bruins Warren a 1972 graduate of UCLA said it was the toughest decision he had ever made but that he had a commitment to rebuild the program at East Tennessee and was going to stand by it CARDS NIGHT WELCOMES FANS JOHNSON CITY Area residents are invited to attend Johnson City Night at Cardinal Park July 14 officials announced Tuesday The city commission is sponsoring the event waiving the admission charge to the game between the Cardinals and the Bristol Tigers Door prizes will be given away By RAY GLIER Times-News Sports Writer For the record the game took 2 hours and 40 minutes But as things turned out it took Princeton just 15 minutes to dispose of the Mets Thursday night The Pirates scored seven runs in the first inning and made that stand up for a 7-4 win before 647 at Fred Johnson Stadium cutting off the Mets three-game winning streak Austin Manahan hit a two-run homer as the second batter and Armando Romero bashed a grand slam later in the inning to key triumph and ruin the first start of the season by Archie Corbin But while the K-Mets took a fall a sparkling relief job by Luciano Medina and John Hudson provided some cushion Medina 5 innings 3 hits) and Hudson (3 innings no hits) silenced the visitors bats with 8' shutout innings That at least gave the Mets a crack at a comeback win But after scoring four runs in the fifth bats went back in the rack as Princeton received some glittering relief work itself from Garland Slaughter Craig Juran and Bias Minor (2 hits 0 runs in 4Vi innings) should have scored earlier than we did before their relief pitchers got in said Vince Zawaski who drove in his 19th run of the season second best in the league first guy was throwing nothing but fastballs and we should have scored early As it was Princeton scored all the runs early Romero highlighted the first inning assault by hitting a 3-2 fastball from Corbin over the right-field fence with the bases loaded was a good pitch from where I said Pirates manager Jim Thrift who was in the third base coaches box was low he just turned on Princeton got nothing done after that Medina who joined the team last week brought a nice curveball with him to the mound in relief of Corbin in the first The right-hander from the Dominican Republic who gave up seven runs in two innings in his first action Saturday in Bluefield (a 17-2 loss) struck out five Please see METS page 3C CINCINNATI Danny Jack-son scattered seven hits over 6 1-3 innings to beat Philadelphia for the fourth time this season and Chris Sabo singled home a pair of runs to lead the Cincinnati Reds to a 5-2 victory over the struggling Phillies Thursday night Jackson 10-4 allowed only two runs to continue his mas- tery of the Phillies The lefthander has allowed 14 hits and five earned runs in his four starts against Philadelphia covering 33 1-3 innings He had stopped Philadelphia on a pair of two-hitters and a three-hitter in his previous starts He became the first pitcher to beat the Phillies four times in a season since Joe Nuxhall did it in 1965 Jeff Treadway hit a solo homer and Sabo drove in two runs with a tie-breaking single in the third off right-hander Kevin Gross 8-5 to send the Phillies to their fifth consecutive loss and their sixth in seven games Jackson Sabo and shortstop Barry Larkin were the players named Thursday to the NL All-Star team Bob Dernier gave Gross a first-inning lead when he opened the game with his first homer of the season Dernier left in the third when he strained his right hamstring while chasing a fly ball second homer tied the game in the third Times-News Ned Jiiton II A dream begins Tim Mcllvaine son of New York Vice President Joe Mcllvaine appears to be preparing for his turn at bat during a recent Mets contest i v4 4 A' Five Twins chosen Maddux gets bid Associated Tress Associated Press were among the pitchers and reserves selected by AL President Bobby Brown and Twins manager Tom Kelly Starters Roger Clemens of Boston Mark Gubicza of Kansas City Dave Stieb of Toronto Doyle Alexander of Detroit and Viola made the team Bypassed starters included Dave Stewart of Oakland Please see TWINS page 2C David Cone San Diego's (lark' Davis Kevin Gross Danny Jackson and the Todd Worrell Rounding out the nine-man staff are New Dwight Gooden making the All-Star team for the fourth time and Bob Knepper and the Orel Hershiser Please see MADDUX page 2C NEW YORK Five players from the World Series champion Minnesota Twins were among the American League All-Star reserves named Thursday a day after no Twins were elected to start Pitchers Frank Viola and Jeff Reardon catcher Tim Laudner infielder Gary Gaetti and outfielder Kirby Puckett NEW YORK Greg Maddux the National League leader in victories was among six pitchers selected for the All-Star team for the first time Thursday as the pitchers and reserves were named for game in Cincinnati Also making the team for the first time were New mpprf I '4 -Vid sAsf-Sv MU 44 Wtiiwm VitfWUJ II lifiti It Ilf I iHiirifi I irimrtm'lirt Former Buccaneer outfielder to sign with Orioles By REX GREENE Times-News Sports Writer Smith of the Twins has been my biggest Meredith said year I went to camp with the Twins as a free agent but they sign me kept telling me I was good enough to play weeks ago I went to him and told him I trusted his opinion and asked him if he thought I could play He said That helped me keep Smith then spoke with Bluefield manager Glen Gulliver He put in a good word and arranged a tryout with the Orioles last Sunday held me for an hour or an hour and a half after everyone else had Meredith said told me call but I get excited I anymore he called he said he he might have a place for me After I hung up I rattled the rafters here with the In another story out of Johnson City Buccaneer track and cross country coach Dave Walker is reportedly mulling over an offer to become track coach at Clemson University Walker has been at ETSU for 25 years and has been the driving force behind the Kodak Invitational Track and Field Meet great Mike Bucci the Burlington Indian manager said he like what he saw and was going to call his bosses they called me back and told me they have a That was just one of the disappointments Meredith had experienced since the college season ended early in May After not being drafted he attended several tryout camps where he was left with the impression that he was going to get to play But the Indians no one had room But through the encouragement of Elizabethton manager Ray Smith Meredith stayed after it and has finally landed his contract going to be an infielder even though in college I played said Meredith a native of Campbell Calif played infield in high school but coach Stout need me there got a call from an scout and he asked why I play infield at the tryouts That got me tuned up for when I did That was just a small part of the role the Indians played in what had turned out to be a long soap opera for Meredith who expected to be drafted in June thought I was going to be an Indian last he said tried out with them at Cardinal Park and I did 1 JOHNSON CITY Former East Tennessee State outfielder Steve Meredith announced Thursday that he would sign a professional baseball contract with the Baltimore Orioles Friday morning as an infielder Meredith who hit 420 with three home runs 28 RBI and 15 stolen bases in 17 attempts for the Buccaneers in the spring will be signed as a third baseman and report either to Bluefield Va of the Appalachian League or Eric Pa of the New York-Penn League.