The Rock Island Argus from Moline, Illinois • 19

THE DAILY DISPATCH AND ARGUS Friday June 1 1990 C3 SportsPay Daniels does in old mates Major league roundup Chisox streak snapped CHICAGO (UPI) A few good innings out of four Minnesota pitchers was enough Thursday night to end the five-game winning streak of the Chicago White Sox Mark Guthrie and three relievers combined to scatter eight Chicago hits leading the Twins to a 3-2 victoiy over the White Sox Guthrie 2-0 allowed eight hits and two runs over five innings strik ants to 6-16 at Candlestick Park this year the worst home record in baseball Jim Deshaies 3-2 gave up two runs and five hits for the win 1 and Danny Darwin earned his first save San Francisco starter Scott Garrelts last National League ERA leader dropped to 1-6 6 Royals 4 Rickey Henderson convinced the Kansas City Royals will emerge as late-season challengers in the AL West is directing the Oakland Athletics to build a big lead now eighth-inning home run helped Oakland to a 6-4 victory oVer Kansas City opening up a three-game lead over second-place Chicago and widening its margin over the Royals to 12 games know Kansas City is a late-season type team that can make a said Henderson who added his 23rd steal of the season and 894th of his career we have to do is focus in on each game now so that we have to worry about late-season Henderson shared the offensive spotlight with Mark McGwire who drove in four runs with a double a single and a bases-loaded walk despite a nagging strained quadricep muscle in his right leg strained it again tonight on the double and then two more McGwire said Bob Welch 7-2 earned the victory and Dennis Eckersley recorded the final four outs for his 15th save in 15 save opportunities The win eighth in its last 10 games snapped a five-game Kansas City winning streak United Press internatlonsi Los Angeles Dodgers Manager Tommy Lasorda has been saying his team had to be ready when the Cincinnati Reds hit a slump Thursday night the Dodgers helped create problems Kal Daniels led off the 10th inning with a home run lifting the Dodgers to a 2-1 victory over the Reds Daniels who was traded to the Dodgers last season belted a 1-1 pitch off Norm Charlton 3-1 into the left-field bleachers for his ninth homer of the year and 24th RBI in the month of May still have friends over there (in Cincinnati) but when you step between the lines all Daniels said Charlton said the home run pitch a slider It where I wanted it It was over the plate and up throw that pitch 100 times in that Cincinnati which lost for only the 12th time in 42 games this season still remains eight games ahead of their nearest rivals in the National League West But Lasorda knows it take long to close the gap good to win the first Lasorda said going to take a couple of hot teams to catch (the Reds) In 1982 we gained 10 games in 11 Daniels said: thing with this series is that nobody has to thlk about it bigger for us than for them Hopefully we can win at least three (of four games) or maybe sweep Don Aase 2-1 pitched two innings in relief of starter Mike Morgan for the win The Dodgers snapped Jack streak of 22 scoreless innings when they scored a run in the first Lenny Harris led off with a double and took second on Stan sacrifice bunt Daniels followed with a sacrifice fly to score Harris The Reds tied the score with an unearned run in the third Mariano Duncan reached base on shortstop Alfredo errant throw Joe Oliver followed with a single and both runners advanced a base on sacrifice bunt Duncan who was activated just before the game scored on Chris groundout Duncan had been on the disabled list since May 14 with an abdominal muscle strain Padres 2 Braves 1 At San Diego pinch-hitter Fred Lynn singled home Phil Stephenson with the winning run as part of a two-run seventh lifting San Diego to its fourth straight victory Dennis Rasmussen 5-2 went seven innings for the win and Greg Harris notched his third save Pete Smith 4-4 suffered the defeat Astros 5 Giants 3 At San Francisco Craig two-run single highlighted a four-run sixth inning dropping the Gi ing out four Juan Beren-guer tossed a perfect sixth inning and John Candelaria re- Kirby Puckett tired the side in order in the seventh before giving up a leadoff walk to Dave Gallagher in the eighth Rick Aguil era then struck out three of the six batters he faced while recording his 14th save gave us five good Minnesota manager Tom Kelly said had Berenguer for the right-handers and Candy for the lefties and Aggie to finish up That Kirby Puckett and Gaiy Gaetti each stroked RBI doubles in the first inning to make a loser of Chicago starter Jerry Kutzler The two senior members of Sherrards 1600 relay Matt Viernow (left) and Mike Harris pose with some of their loyal fans cheering in the background (Photo by Kevin Virobik-Adams) Opposites team for golden track finish Frosh Area Pacesetter (Continued from page Cl) extent of our speed She knows how to run the bases and does a good And when the adventures began Rachel Pauwels hit a hard shot to second that was booted for an error Lackey rounding third had to dive back in to avoid being caught off base Then winning pitcher Kari Klier lifted a high fly to medium right field Lackey raced back to the bag and listened for the word from Ebner As the ball was caught Ebner told his freshman speedster to try to score Lackey raced home as a perfect throw headed toward the Evergreen Park catcher The throw beat Lackey but as the freshman hit the dirt her lead foot hit squarely in the mitt and as the umpire started to call Lackey out the ball popped free Al-leman had decisive run Ebner stopped me at third base and said to go hard on a close play at the Lackey said talked about that before the game and all I was thinking was getting to the plate I saw the ball hit the glove and just tried to The Alleman girls celebrate their Class A state quarterfinal win Thursday night in Pekin (Photo by Leon Lagerstam) of our Lackey said know my time to play all the time will come Right now I just know I have to stretch out every inning and always be ready to come into the She was definitely ready Thursday night we have a team full of charms It takes an effort by everyone on the team to get us Lackey has had very few at-bats this season but still has played a significant part in the 23-4 record The wins are all that matter to Her really like it that I can be a part slide as hard as I could I guess it was hard Lackey has become somewhat of a good-luck charm for the Pioneers of late In sue tournament games Lackey has pinch run six times and scored on four of them consider myself a good-luck Lackey said think Alleman By Tom Johnston Staff sports writer Matt Viernow was a four-year track letterwinner Mike Harris might have been performance was built around confidence Harris thought he was going to be sick before he ran Viernow knew he belonged on the track as anchor man Harris had never even run a competitive race at the distance he was about to cover Viernow was a regular on 1600-meter relay Harris was an llth-hour fill-in Matt Viernow Mike Harris While the Sherrard teammates may not have much in common on the surface an underlying desire drove both of this SportsDay Area Pacesetters to great legs on the final race of the Class A State Track Meet last weekend There was a common goal at which both were sprinting for during the 1600-meter relay a state championship It was a goal that those two seniors along with freshman Eric Lawson and junior David Williams knew was within the realm of possibility But it took some convincing Harris a short sprinter had never run a 400-meter race in his life heading into the state meet But injuries to Rod Hartman and John Carlson who ran on the relay team that qualified at sectional forced coach Mike Patterson to make some moves Insert Lawson and Harris felt lots of said Harris of the first 400 he ran on Friday in the preliminaries know if be able to run it well and I want to be the one messing up the Says Patterson as late as Thursday night he sure he wanted to run the Added Harris I was real nervous I was about to get sick but after I got out (on the track) I was all All right? He ripped off sub-50-second splits in both the preliminaries and in the finals His run in the finals was almost unbelievable He took the baton from Lawson in sixth place but had given his team the lead by the end of the first curve 100 meters later He settled in and handed off to Williams in the lead just kept telling him over and over that he could do said Viernow of Harris think we ever did convince Williams kept the team in front and then it was turn After getting the handoff Viernow backed into second place on the inside until the homestretch when he blasted into the lead closed out his own sub-50 leg and gave the Tigers the win Once he got thead it was as good as gold literally ag- Matt Viernow Favorite music: Country: Randy Travis and Hank Williams Jr Favorite TV show: Quantum Leap Favorite class: History Hobbles: Racketball golf Wheels: Mustang Favorite sport: Toss-up between track and football Mike Harris Favorite food: Spaghetti Favorite music: MC Hammer BBB Favorite TV show: The Cosby Show Favorite magazine: Sports Illustrated Favorite class: Architecture Hobbles: Swimming all sports gressive and 1 hate to lose at said Viernow always wanted to get down there and I always wanted to place I know if a state championship was a goal but it was something I wanted maybe it was a dream" And finally the two had something in common Maybe even more than they thought By the end of Saturday both were state champs Both came home with medals from their fourth-place finish in the 800 relay and fifth-place in the 400 relay And this week in addition to getting a limo ride to school on Monday along with Williams and Lawson Viernow last Most Valuable Runner and Harris were voted co-Most Valuable For Viernow who ran track and played football for years it was a fitting finish to a great career For Harris who has suffered through three years of problems while playing football wrestling and running track this year it was a coming of age had been a real discipline problem attitide problem had bad grades and care if he said Patterson of Harris who is graduating with his class got his life turned around I think we concentrated on his work ethic and made him realize some things Kids here are used to working hard in practice and seeing dividends was the missing link on our relay teams last But Viernow who had one goal of being named a Pacesetter this season has been solid for four years was one of our team captains and definitely one of our team said Patterson was definitely the backbone of our sprinters this And he found plenty of help when Harris saved his best for last Valley Hall 6-2 in nine innings schedule has Farming-ton-Pinckneyville doing battle at 10 while Alleman and Casey (Westerfield) hook up at 11:30 The third-place contest will take place at 6 pm with the championship battle set for 7:30 (Continued from page Cl) and had a great pitcher You had to figure the winning runs would score on mistakes and too bad they scored twice on plays that could have been Two runs were plenty for Klier who allowed just five base runners and the one hit a questionable one at best pitched another great Ebner said know the girls thought they should have scored some more runs but as long as we scored one more than they did all that It matters most because the Pioneers will be playing two more times today for a trophy and the Mustangs are done for the season going home empty-handed In other opening-round action defending state champion Farming-ton beat Breese (Mater Dei) 3-1 in the first game of the day while Pinckneyville handled Riverton 6-0 and Casey (Westerfield) beat Spring Giants continue to hold upper hand over Q-C Angels times and lined a single down th right-field line only to get thrown out trying to stretch it into a double me that was a heckuva the Q-C manager said of try for an extra base are the kinds of aggressive plays we need to The Angels will try to get back on the right track tonight with a home game against anybody but Clinton Q-C will take on Madison at 7:30 with Marcus Moore (3-2) due to get the pitching nod by Bellinger who came into the game hitting 132 opened the gates for a pair of runs the last coming home on a balk by reliever Les Haffner Q-C starter Erik Bennett lasted into the seventh giving up three runs to drop his record to 4-4 got a little said Long he have the fastball had What caught the eye of the Q-C manager was the play of second baseman Henry Threadgill Hitting only 053 going in he walked three Giants again until Aug 1 Despite the dominance in the season series Q-C manager Don Long see it as being a thorn in the Q-C side not a matter of them playing that much Long said with his club hitting a lackluster 142 in those eight games just have to start playing better the little things got to take advantage of things to make the routine plays We need to get our confidence Clinton pitchers Carl Hanselman (3-4) and Steve Callahan did little to restore that confidence They held the Angels to just five 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