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MONDAY OCTOBER 27, 1997 Page 6A Telegraph-Forum Owo Bwcvrus, Four Crawford County runners make state cross country meet T-F oy Dan Outer Bucyrus Shelbie Kleinhoffer, left, and Patricia Morris advanced out of Saturday's regional meet in Tiffin. T-F pnoto By Oar Outer Colonel Crawford's Alaina Staiger, right, will be making her first trip to the state cross country meet legs were bothering her a little." problem, according to Colonel an equally convincing 20 08 clocking to place 15th, just qualifying. Tbe top 15 runners in each race make die crip to state. Colonel Crawfords Staiger had her best time of the season, placing 12th with a 20:00 in the Division III race. Tbe two-time North Central Conference champion ran good splits, but the cold was a Crawford coach Jody Grove.

We have to work a little on her third mile. Grove said. It was a little cold and she said her Buckettes move on to regionals By Mark Caupiu. Thomson' News Service WILLARD State champions dorit go away easily. Defending Division IV state volleyball titlist Buckeye Central advanced to the seventh regional tournament of coach Nancy Wei-thmans career with a 15-8, 6-15, 17-15 win over South Central Saturday in the district finals.

-The Buckettes (18-7) will open regional play Saturday at 12:30 p.m. 'at Hudson against the winner of the Lisbon district, 'Buckeye Central twice had to stave off elimination Saturday. The Buckettes faced two match points against South Centra) and 'were wily three points away from against Norwalk St. Paul the semifinals. Buckeye "held off the Flyers 15-.

8-15, 15-13. South Central advanced to the district final with an 15, -16-14, 15-7 win over Colonel Crawford. In the championship match, each team held two match points before Buckeye finally prevailed. It was a matter of who was going to hang there the longest and make the big play," Weith-man said. Their -kids played hard and our kids played hard.

That's what a district final is all about." The Trojans (19-5) were the first to reach match point, holding a pair at 14-13. South Central appeared nervous, -which could be attributed to youth. the Trojans start four underclassmen, -including two sophomores. This is a pressure situation," South Central coach Lisa Muenz said. Buckeye Central has been there quite a few times.

Said Weithman; I just want to give the kids so much credit. After last yean there was stf tfiiich pressure on these kids. We t. -had Slof o'if feSftts coming after us pretty hard. i Kara Delarber paced the Buckettes with 25 kills on 46 of 56 hitting, while Tricia Sheibley was die top server with 13 points.

A lot of times the passers don't get the credit they deserve." she said of Alesha Hoffman, Sheibley. Kara Predmore and Amanda Heydinger 1 think they were the difference." In the semifinals, Buckeye Central rallied from a 12-4 deficit in the third game running off 11 of the last 12 points. There were a lot of momentum swings, Weithman said. We were lucky enough to have it at the end. Delarber went 38 of 41 hitting with 18 kills and eight blocks.

Sheibley served 14 points. In the second semifinal match. South Central somehow survived losing the last eight points of the opening game and the first eight points of the second game. For Colonel Crawford U7-7 Janel Swinehart had 11 kills, and Holly Worden served 13 points. keep or going all night, like the games little kids dream about in so many parks Then came Renterias hit up the middle.

Florida exulted! Cleveland? The most crushing loss of all. This. the 22-year-old Rente- Notes: All Marlins avoided the ria said, is the greatest thing in postgame interview room, anger-hfe." ing reporters and baseball offi- Not so. Only Lrvan Hernandez rials, who blamed Leyland for the really could say the night jrafeSms 'hp My mothers here and we're champions, Hernandez said. Tbe victory, I give to her Youth had triumphed.

A World Series had been redeemed. For one glorious night, baseball seemed back on track. By Dak Clutter T-F Sports Editor TIFFIN Four Crawford County runners qualified for Saturday's state cross country meet, after finishing in the top 15 in their respective races during Saturdays regional meet in Tiffin. Galion sophomore Jessica Strickler wU) be going to Scioto Downs in as will Colonel Crawford's Alaina Staiger and Bucyrus runners Shelbie Kleinhoffer and Patricia Morris. For Kleinhoffer, it will be her second trip to state.

She went with Amanda McCorkle a year ago. Strickler had the best time of any of the Crawford County runners. finishing fourth in'the Division race with a 18:26 clocking. She ran an 18:58 at the Northern Ohio League meet two weeks ago. Gallon coach George Guins said that Strickler is a datura! at the sport.

i think its great genes, Guins said. Her father was a great athlete when he was at Galion and her mothers a walker. 'She just has something special, he added. She loves to run and she does it very well. She was just blessed.

It was certainly nothing special that we did, no training or anything. She just does it on her own. Kleinhoffer and Morris have paced the Lady Redmen all sea- Leyland Cont'nued from Page 5A Bonilla said. 'That's why I had to give him such a big bear hug. For a moment, Leyland's pencil-dun frame nearly disappeared in Bonilla's muscular embrace, a scene that framed his style of running a ballclub better than any other could.

No manager is better loved by the guvs whoplay for him, tfor quite so sltf -effacing. Leyland signed his first pro contract with the Detroit organization in 1863, and tbe day he arrived at training camp he looked around at tbe collected talent and knew he didn't have a chance The best he ever hit was .243 playing in a little bus-stop town called Rocky Mount, N.C. Soon after, he offered to do everything anything to be able to bang around the game. He got his wish But like any love that outlasts infatuation, baseball gave him plenty to regret, too. Enough so that one season ago, he nearly walked away from the game.

As mightily as Leyland suffered losing the NL Championship Series three straight years while managing in Pittsburgh, what finally drove him out of that town was the realization he might never get the chance to do it again. He had settled into Pittsburgh, married late in life, started a family and made a borne there But first the cost-conscious Pirates' organization let guys like Bonilla and Barry Bonds go, and then they started cutting to the bone The Marlins Gary Sheffield, a quiet type, reminded players how much they owed Leyland in a closed-door, players-only session before Game 7, and afterward they went out and kept their part of the bargain Meanwhile, Ley-land played cat-and-mouse with Mike Hargrove, his Cleveland counterpart. They matched wits, pitchers to hitters, lefties to right-ies. and didn't quit until Renterias line-drive single split the night. Always Open better than any other, Before the game, he saw his pother for the first lime in more than two years.

He had defected from Cuba to play in the majors, and he became the MVT of the NL championship series, Now. with Floridas victory, the 22-year -old was MVP of the World Series, too. getting two of the Marlins' four wins Cleveland 002 000 000 00-2 Florida 00 000 101 019 Two outs wen winning run scored TFenanOez 121. Ramirez OP i Pionds 2 LOB Cleveland Florida i2 2B Reme-la HP Bonllia SB VQj 2 i5: JrWngiv. SF Cotrseli Score broadcasts his final game for Indians For Saturday, Staiger will run at 11:05 a with Strickler, Morris and Kleinhoffer set to run at "tneffia.

eftmbmei for 76 walks; Series redord. The previous mark was 68 set by the Yankees and Dodgers In 1947, when Brooklyn pitchers walked 38. Marlins pitchers set a record for walks by one team with 40. The 76 runs scored 42 by Geve-land were six short of the record, set by the Yankees and Pittsburgh in 1960. Rookie of the Year Award.

He joined the Indians' television broadcast team in 1964 and took over radio play-by-play duties in 1968. Known for his deep voice and low-key style, Score has been the voice of the Indians for generations of Cleveland fans TU just fade away, and that's tbe way it should be. Score said in a recent interview. This is how Score signed off on the Indians' flagship station, WKNR in Cleveland: And so that is the season for 1997. he said.

And theres very little else we can say except to tell you its been a pleasure. I would like to thank all the fans for their kindness over the years. You've been very good to me. And we hope that whoever sits in this chair next, you'll be as kind to them as you have been to me. The final score in innings, its tbe Marlins 3, the Indians 2 The Florida Marlins are the world champions.

son. Usually, however, it was the freshman Morris that held the lead, with Kleinhoffer running closely behind. Not Saturday, however. Klein-boffer placed L2th in the Division II meet with a 19:57, the first time this season she has cracked tbe 20 barrier. Morris, on the other hand, ran Series Continued from Page 5A Bobby Bonilla in the seventh.

Because of what happened in the ninth, none of what Wright did My performance is separate, Wright said, it's a team. We go out there together. Next year, there'll be a fire to go out there and celebrate like the Marlins did tonight. Afi you can do now is wait. Hargrove, like be has through the postseason, used a bunch of pitchers to get to the ninth, trying to get to Mesa with a lead Paul Assenmacher, Mike Jackson and Brian Anderson followed Wright with scoreless relief.

For Cleveland, it 11 came down to whether Mesa could hold the lead for- three final outs. Finally, the curse of Coiavito would end, the one that supposedly began with Rockys i860 trade to Milwaukee. In 1995, Mesa converted 46 of 48 save chances a record. This year, he began tbe season in a courtroom facing rape charges, was acquirted, then stumbled and wound up with only 21 saves in 26 tries. He already had wasted two in six chances this October.

This is the one that will be remembered, As Mitch Williams found out after a disasterous Series in 1993. when closers fail in October, they may never bounce back. Ainu, his first batter, singled up the middle, He struck out Bonilla, but Johnson singled to right. Counsel's fly to right was deep enough that Ramirez had no. chance.

All of a sudden, the play in the top of the inning when Renteria threw out Sandy Alomar at the plate on an infield grounder was all-important. This has been a crazy year for us an adventure year," Alomar said, Cleveland didn't get a runner past first in the 10th or llth off Rob N'en or Jay Powell. Floridas two-on threat in the 10th was snuffed when Nagy threw a third strike past John Cangelosi. then 1690 Marlon fid. Bucyrus, Ohio 44820 562-9143 MIAMI (AP It was the last hurrah for Herb Score.

Score, retiring after 34 years as an announcer, made the last call of his career on Edgar Renterias game-winning angle in the llth inning of Floridas 3-2 victory in Game 7 of the World Series on Sunday night. This is the final play, this is it, said Score, who has been involved in about one-third of the Indians more than 15,000 games as a player or broadcaster. (Giarles) Nagy has the sign that he wants, Score continued. Line drive, base hit, the game is over. As always, Score said it simply.

Now recognized for his announcing. Score was once best known as a promising, prolific strikeout pitcher whose career was derailed by injury. He was struck in the face bv Gil McDougald's line drive in 1957 ar.d was never tbe same pitcher after that. Score pitched for the Indians from 1955-59, winning tbe 1955 AL FHeredie pnened it batte- the 9th Um ores Home Montague Frst FonJ. Second.

West Thi-c Kosc Left. Ma-s-Rigi'. atse 0 A 07.204 11.055) got Alou to fly out. Both teams and their fans will replay the Uth for a long time Bonilla singled to center, Gregg Zaun popped up a bunt and Counsell hit a grounder to the right side that rolled past Fernandez at second, It was a play I should have made. Femande2 said.

"It wasn't going to be a DP All I wanted to do was get the lead runner. I gambled. I tried something I shouldn't have by charging. It was my decision, my fault. Jim Eisenreich was intentionally walked.

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