St. Lucie News Tribune from Fort Pierce, Florida • 23

0 Mister Frisky heads 116th Derby field Ed Schuyler Jr scene from Puerto Rico where he won all 13 starts Under care the edit has won three starts in California including the Santa Anita Derby and will be the 14th unbeaten Derby starter Still unbeaten after the Derby were Regret 1915 Morvich 192 and Seattle Slew 1977 No one has had a better fime this week at Churchill Downs than Barrera who wen the 1976 Derby with Bold Forbes whose racing career also began in Puerto Rico and the 1978 Derby with Affirmed "He make my life happy said Barrera who had open heart surgery in 1979 and 1984 and who was cleared last year of charges that he doped hia horses Turn to DERBYC6 Post times Jockeys and oddaC4 visit the drde with Pendleton Ridge who has never been to a drde Debbie McAnafly hopes a golden moment for Silver Ending whom she purchased for $1500 as a yearling and is trained by her husband Ron Nick Zito hopes to say "I told you The trainer of Thirty She Red said that if his colt won the Wood Memorial he would win the Derby Thirty Sx Red won the Wood Those are same of the best stories in the field reduced to 15 lets Friday when Country Day was scratched after injuring Ms right front leg during a morning workout Mister Frisky burst on the UR racing LOUISVILLE Ky There are almnat many good story lines in the 116th Kentucky Derby ss there are 8-year-olds And there are 15 of those So when they go to the post at Churchill Downs today: IVainer Las Barrera will try to foresee a perfect ending for Mister Frisky who is trying to become just the fourth colt to win the Derby with a perfect record Neil Howard trainer of Summer Squall hopes finally Derby Day Pat Day is the winningest jockey at Churchill Downs but has failed to win the Derby in seven tries Trainer Bobby Frankel would like to Pioneers begin state tourney play today IRCC challenges a tough Manatee squad in opener Keith Undsey BASEBALL CITY Indian River Community College opens play in the Florida State Junior College Baseball Tournament today 5 pan against Manatee Community College at Baseball City (formerly Boardwalk and Baseball) This is the third straight trip for the Pioneers to the state tourney as Southern Conference Champions They finished third in the state tourney last year and were ranked in the top five teams in the nation for most of the year The Pioneers (29-14) won the conference championship by winning 11 of their first 12 conference games and then holding on in the second half when team pitching went sour to edge Miami-Dade South for the tide "We got moat of the breaks and our pitching held up in the first IRCC coach Mike Easom said of the conference chase "In the second halt our pitching gave up too many walks to strikeouts and we had a tough time winning the Manatee (87-14) received an at-large bid to the tournament after finishing third in the Suncoast Conference at 11-9 On paper Msnstas appears to be a formidable challenge to the Pioneers The Lancers have a team batting average of 816 and an led by outfielder Rim Brown who ia batting 888 with nine homers and 58 RBL Behind Brown is Gino Booker with a 846 average He leads the state with 62 RBI and ia tied for first in home runs with 10 The power stop there for Manatee Outfielder AJ Hernandez is hitting 866 and ia second in the state with 58 RBL Teammates An Cossetta (875) Andy McDonald (829) and Mike Brazer (814) round out the Lancer hitting attack Of course a team win a third- Tum to PIONEERSC6 Ripley named IRCC coach FORT PIERCE Steve Ripley has been appointed head coach for basketball at Indian River Community College Ripley ia currently the head coach of the volleyball team and will continue as volleyball coach "Steve is the best choice for Indian River said IRCC I athletic director Bob 1 Bottger "He knows 1 basketball and is well established in recruiting circles ar-raPleV ound the state" Ripley has been an assistant to Mike Leatherwood on the men's basketball team for four years and has been volleyball head coach for two years "I think this is a great Ripley 'said "IRCC has one of the top athletic programs in the state and I have a solid experienced group of girls Ripley skid he wants his team to play aggressive defense whether it be man-to-man or zone "I would like to play very aggressive defense but know what style to play until I Bee what style the players are best suited Ripley said looking forward to this season' because have 10 or 11 girls coming back And they all played a lot of minutes last year It should make for an interesting FOOTBALL 1 Renegade tiyouts at PORT ST LUCIE The Junior Renegades football team will be holding tryouts today at Park from noon to 2 pjn To participate you must 12 to 14 years old and weigh no more than 140 pounds The Renegades will travel to Mexico City hi July to play a team from Mexico For more information contact Jim Hoeltke at 836-0616 BASKETBALL Bucks Bulls fined for brawl NEW YORK Horace Grant of the Chicago Bulls and Alvin Robertson of file Milwaukee Bucks have been fined $5000 each for throwing punches during a playoff game the NBA said Friday Tem other players involved in Thursday altercation were fined a total of $9000 Greg Anderson of the Bucks was fined $3500 for starting the incident by throwing an elbow at the Ed Nealy and Michael Jordan was fined $1500 for pushing Anderson Fined $500 each for leaving the bench were Bill Cartwright Will Perdue Stacey King and Armstrong of the Bulls and Jack Sfiona Jay Humphries Tony Brown and Tito Horford of the Bucks Chicago won the game 110-86 to clinch the first-round series 8-1 BOXING Tyson becomes father of boy NEW YORK Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson became a father this week when a baby boy was bom to his 24-year-old girlfriend at a hospital in the CatakQl mountains fiie New York Poet said Friday Said Tyson very happy to be having a family" The newspaper says the child as yet unnamed was bom Wednesday to Los Angeles divorcee Natalie Fears HOCKEY 1 Page tapped GM ofNordiques QUEBEC Pierre Page head coach of the Minnesota North Stars was named general manager of the Quebec Nordiques Friday Page replaces Maurice FiUon who was hired on an interim basis last Feb 2 when Martin Madden was fired Staff and Wire Reports Osceola dumps St Lucie 7-1 Furmanik hurt i 4 A STAFF IMPOST 1 OSCEOLA Jeff Juden allowed three hits in seven innings to lead the Osceola Astros to a 7-1 victory Friday night1 against the SL Lucie Meta It was fifth victory in as many starts this season St James Morrisette got a fifth-inning home run for the only score It was his first homer of the season! Derrick Young waa 2-for-3 Dozier and Lee May each added a hit for the -Meta Meantime in Vero Beach John MeUo was 3-for-4 with a home run and two RBI to lead the West Palm Beach Expos to a 4-2 win against the Dodgers i Rob Kerrigan (2-0) got the victory in! relief The Expos scored a pair of ninth- inning runs to break a 2-2 tie At Osceola Meta starting pitcher Dan Furmanik (3-2) was the losing pitcher He was shelled for four runs on five Mts in the third inning Furmanik left the game after 2Vi innings with a sprained ankle Osceola had 18 hits in the contest David Henderson and Lance Madsen each had two hits and drove in three runs Mike Beams had three hits for the Astros It was the first meeting between the two Florida State League teams this season The Astros improved to 19-10 while the Mets fell to 16-13 The two teams square off again tonight in Osceola The Mets return to the St Lucie County Sports Complex Tuesday to play the Fort Lauderdale Yankees Meantime two ailing Meta were to be examined after 7-3 victory against the Dodgers Second baseman Doug Saunders had a swollen left wrist and outfielder Loy McBride pulled a hamstring trying to beat a groundout In the longest back-to-back series of the season the Mets beat the Dodgers four games to two before heading to Osceola The Dodgers and the Mets will meet again in Vero Beach on May 12 and 13 Turn to ST LUCIEC3 threatened to jump the Red Sox at the end of the season if he was not traded Brunansky 29 is expected to step right into the Boston lineup playing right field while Dwight Evans serves only as the designated hitter because of a back problem contract also expires at Turn to CARDINALSC6 Montgomery 3-shot leader at Gub Med BillWbods PORT ST LUCIE Veteran professional Ray Montgomery of Fort Pierce fired a 8-under-par Friday to take a three-shot lead in the 65-69 year old division of the South Florida Seniors Open at Club Med Sandpiper 69 put him just three strokes behind 50-year-old Marion Heck of the Beach Club at Naples with 86 hotel to go in the third annual open round included a 88-88 (66) card on the par 72 layout which coven 6800 yards The Sinners Course is a rolling Turn to LEADERC3 BM MitcheVThe Tribune (back) and John Mazzocca are shown be in action today in state tourney Cardinals trade Brunansky to Red Sox for Smith Dave BOSTON The Boston Red Sox acquired right-handed slugger Tom Brunansky from the St Louis Cardinals in exchange for reliever Lee Smith on Friday in straight swap at unhippy veterans threatening to enter the free agency market at the end of the season Knicks remain alive with 135-108 win over Celtics IRCC second during regular play The deal climaxed several weeks of talks as the Red Sox tried to unload Smith for either a starting pitcher or a power Utter and the Cardinals sought a closer to replace disabled Todd Worrefl After announcing his first major league trade since Dec 18 1988 Red Sox general manager Lou Gorman hurried from his office to attend a college flmetion south of Boston "The only way to end their home-court advantage ia to win the Jackson said hung our heads a little bit the last time we were in Boston I think that will happen "We had our turn at being Celtics coach Jimmy Rodgers said played great in Boston and they rose to the challenge at New York Now we have to counterpunch at New York won the third game 102-99 Wednesday and sent the two teams back to Boston Garden for Game 5 behind the inspired performance of Ewing who waa 18-for-24 from the field and fell two points short of Bernard team single-game playoff scoring record "I thought that right from the opening tip we did a great job keeping the tempo Turn to KNICKSC3 Bryan Fsctsrman ptay Ilia two win However he was been trying to trade Smith for what he considers equal talent since the Red Sox signed reliever Jeff Reardon as a free agent for $63 million for three yean on Elec 6 With Reardon and Smith Boston had two right-handed dosen in the bullpen Smith in the last year of a contract signed after he was obtained from the Chicago Cuba on Dec 8 1987 had APLaserphoto Patrick Ewing (left) and Celtics' Larvy Bird battle for a rebound Bill Barnard AP BASKITBAU WRITER NEW YORK The Garden party continued for the home team In the opening-round playoff series between the New York Knicks and Boston Celtics Patrick Ewing scored 44 points Friday night aa New York forced a fifth and deciding game In the series with a 135-108 victory at Madison Square Garden surprised at the margin of victory more than anything else" Coach Stu Jackson said after the Knicks set team playoff records for points in a game and a half The finale will be Sunday at Boston Garden where the Celtics won the first two games of the series including a 157-128 rout last Saturday and have beaten the Knicks 26 consecutive times since Feb 29 1984 if rr- I iAwwWSKi Fji.