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CONCORD MONITOR Monday September 8 1997 C3 Capitols are champs Despite playing with a cast on his broken wrist Robbie McQueen pitched six innings and had the game winning hit in the bottom of the ninth inning to lead the Concord Capitols over the Merrimack Brewers 13 12 in the third and deciding game of the Over 30 League championship series McQueen had three hits in the game as did Mark Burdick and Grip Smith while John Butler (home run) Alan Orlosk (home run) Ken Craigue and Dale Emerson had two hits apiece Ronnie Dun lop who was the winning pitcher in Game 1 Saturday pitched to three batters and earned the victory in Game 3 as well Merrimack had won the opener 16 15 in 12 innings despite the efforts of Butler and Burdick who each had three hits and two home runs Craig Weyant Craigue Smith and Orlosk each had two hits in the opener The championship was dedicated to the late Carl Russell Youth soccer The Deerfield Dynamos 14 soccer team opened the fall season with a 4 2 loss to Rochester United Saturday Elspeth Benoit scored twice assisted by Sarah Godbois and Katie Laroche Jenn Bouchard Hannah Eaves and Vanessa Santana anchored the defense Megan Sperl and Erin Woods joined Benoit in leading the attack Keepers Woods and Sam Buffington combined for 18 saves ll girls Bow Grappone beat Timberlane 6 0 in its season opener behind the goals of Sara Ganley (four) Jessica oley and Lauren Herington Marisa rank Allyx Curran Jessica oley and Brady Benton had assists Kara Dugas Brittany Bourgault and Amy Tewksbury led the defense in front of goalies Kaitlyn lanagan and Molly Kidder 14 boys Donnie Church had the game winning goal as Bed ford United beat Hudson yesterday 2 1 Bedford United (2 0) will face Salem Saturday 13 boys Jon Coache and Jared Vaillancourt had two goals each and Andrew Verderame had the other as the Bow Soccer Club beat Nashua International 5 0 Coache Vaillancourt Verderame Eric Low and Bryan Oakland assisted while Mark Wise and Eric McLoud teamed up in the Bow nets Raiders bounced The Granite State Raiders AAU basketball team fell to Newark NJ 63 61 yesterday in the Boston Athletic Basketball Club tourna ment Matt Bonner put up 27 points with 16 rebounds against a Newark frontcourt which averaged 6 feet Colby Sawyer results Tyler Blout scored from 22 yards out at 92:40 of sud den death overtime to lead the Colby Sawyer College soccer team to a 2 1 victory over Skidmore at the Drew University tourna ment Blout converted a cross from Chris itzpatrick as the Charg ers went 2 0 over the weekend Dan Curran opened the scoring at 16:40 on a feed from Abraham Gates Devin Healy made six saves in the nets Colby Sawyer hosts Massachu setts College of Liberal Arts (formerly North Adams State) Wednes day at 4 pm in its home opener all baseball The Concord based Indian Head Athletics split a pair of games over the weekend in the Greater Manchester all Baseball League Angus redenburg had two triples while Nick Durso had three hits and two stolen bases in 11 10 loss to the Londonderry Blue Jays Yesterday Pat Conway (four innings no earned runs) and Bryan Caruso teamed up on the mound to lead the Athletics over Nashua Legion 10 8 redenburg (triple) and Mark Hendsbee (dou ble) had two hits each Concord Track Club The Concord Track Club 14 team competed in the September fest 5K Road Race in Kittery Maine yesterday top five runners were David Anderson (third 19:43) Andrew Milne (fifth 20:02) Brian Lockhart (seventh 20:49) Sam Pennington (10th 21:30) and Brian Anderson (14th 22:40) Beaver Meadow results Lois and Rick Howe teamed up to shoot 134 and capture the cou ples club championship yesterday at Beaver Meadow Golf Course The Howes were followed by Linda and Mike Gagnon (137) Betty and Bob Davis (140) and Jim and Lori Nevers (140) Phantoms lose The Phantoms of New Hampshire soccer team lost in the conso lation game of the USISL national championship yesterday 1 0 to the San rancisco Seals Reinhard Geise scored the only goal at 10:51 beating Phantoms goalie Jeremy Bailey (four saves) Elie Monteiro and Jamie Williams a pair of New Hampshire Col lege alums were named to the all tournament team for the Phan toms UNH results The University of New Hampshire soccer team beat St College 2 1 to improve to 4 0 and claim the Smith Barney Classic championship yesterday in Burlington Vt Michael Keevan and Jeff Rothlein had the UNH goals to help keeper Ethan Holmes (eight saves) earn the victory Keevan who had three goals and two assists in two tournament games was named the offensive Most Valuable Player The UNH soccer team was dominated by Michigan yesterday 6 0 and saw its record fall to 1 1 Nicole Coupland of Lon donderry had the only two shots of the game Sophomore Kristin larrusso scored two goals to propel the UNH field hockey team to its first win of the season a 2 1 victory over Cai Berkeley in consolation game of the PhoenixUMass Invitational reshman keeper Amy Agulay made five second half saves to preserve the win KSC result Kevin Chevalier had a goal and two assists to lead the Keene State soccer team to a 3 0 victory over SUNY Brockport in the championship game of the Brockport Invitational Doug Ware of Gilford and Jared Bosse of Milford had the other Keene State goals in front of goalie Matt Andrulot (three saves) Keene State is now 2 0 PSC result Shawn Higgins scored early in the first half to break a scoreless tie and propel Plymouth State College past Babson 1 0 in the sea son opener for both teams yesterday PSC keeper Magnus Karsson made six saves to earn the shutout Baseball Red Sox play home run derby Also: Clemens blanks Rangers The Associated Press Jeff rye was surprised to see a cluster of reporters around his locker when he came out of the showers yesterday guys waiting for me are joked the Red Sox second baseman who hit his third homer of the year one of six Boston home runs in an 11 2 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers body hit home runs Troy hit his first career grand slam John Valentin homered twice and rye Bill Haselman and Wilfredo Cordero also homered as the Red Sox tied a season high for homers and avoided elimination in the AL East for the second consec utive day take a cue from those guys playing for Valentin said of the Brewers who came to Boston 3 'z games behind the Indians in the AL Central before losing two of three to the Red Sox play hard every Butch Henry (6 2) earned his first victory as a starter since Aug 10 1995 He missed all of last sea son after having tendon transplant surgery in his left elbow then pitched out of the bullpen before being added to the rotation Sept 1 not overly excited about said Henry who called his perfor mance at I kept the ball if an he said Henry allowed one run on six hits and two walks in five innings striking out two In two starts last ing 10 innings he has an ERA of 180 Blue Jays 4 Rangers 0 Roger Clemens pitched a two hitter tying Jack Toronto club record for wins in a season with his 21st Clemens (21 5) struck out 14 his 12th time this season with 10 or more strikeouts and the 80th in his career He walk anyone in his third shutout of the season and 41st of his career lowering his ERA to a league best 185 The only hits off Clemens were singles by Juan Gonzalez in the fourth and Rusty Greer in the sixth Angels 5 Tigers 4 15 inn Anaheim ended a five game los ing streak when Tony Phillips dou bled and scored on Robert Een sacrifice fly The win pulled the Angels within four games of Seattle in the AL West Anaheim is six games behind the New York Yankees in the wild card race Phillips who Was 3 for 6 led off the 15th with a double off Glenn Dishman (1 2) Shigetoshi Hasegawa (3 6) the last of six Angels pitchers pitched AP rs "1 A fe 4 I 7 JI Blue Jays ace Roger Clemens gets a little love from catcher Charlie after pitching a 14 strikeout 2 hit masterpiece four shutout innings for the win Yankees 10 Orioles 3 Kenny Rogers got his first win in more than a month and New York used four home runs to beat Balti more for the first time this season New York had dropped its first seven games to Baltimore in 1997 a radical switch from last year when the Yankees went 10 3 vs the Ori oles in the regular season and defeated them in five games in the playoffs Rogers (6 6) gave up one run and six hits in 5A innings to snap the six game losing streak Paul and Jorge Posada hit two run home runs off Mike Mussina (13 7) Bernie Williams and Tim Raines also homered Athletics 9 Royals 4 Ludwick (1 1) earned his first major league win and Oakland scored nine runs for the third straight game Jason Giambi recorded his sev enth consecutive multi hit game for the Ernie Young who went 3 for 4 and scored three times hit an RBI single during a six run fourth inning against Jose Rosado (9 12) National League Braves 4 Padres 0 Denny Neagle became the NLs first 20 game winner pitching three hit ball for seven innings as Atlanta beat San Diego Neagle (20 3) joined Roger Clemens who earned his 21st victo ry for Toronto earlier in the day as the top winners in the majors Neagle won his fourth straight start striking out six and walking three The left previous best win total was 16 last season Chipper Jones hit a two run homer off Joey Hamilton (10 6) in the first inning Reds 6 Pirates 3 Dave Burba (8 10) retired the last 17 batters he faced setting up his third win over Pittsburgh this season and Jon Nunnally drove in three runs Burba allowed only two runs on four first inning hits and left the game after his right hand was grazed by a pitch in the sixth inning The right hander is 5 0 in his last six starts against the Pirates Pittsburgh lost three of four to the Reds and has dropped 10 of its last 14 overall wasting a chance to catch Houston for the NL Central lead Jose Silva (1 1) took the loss in relief of Steve Cooke Rockies 7 Cardinals 4 Ellis Burks and Todd Helton had RBI hits that triggered a five run burst in the eighth inning and led Colorado past St Louis Mark McGwire hit his 48th home run of the season and 14th for St Louis in the first inning The Cardi nals scored twice in the ninth but McGwire hit a weak grounder to pitcher Jerry Dipoto for the final out as the Rockies won for the 11th time in 12 games Burks and Helton both finished with two RBI helping give the win to Pedro Astacio (10 9) who went eight innings and allowed just three hits and two runs Mark Petkovsek (4 6) took the loss Mets 9 Cubs 2 Bobby Jones gave up four hits over seven shutout innings and Butch Huskey hit his third homer in three games leading New York Huskey extending his hitting streak to 15 games hit his 21st homer leading off a three run fifth inning and added an RBI single in the eighth for the Mets who have won seven of their last 10 games Jones (14 8) improved to 8 1 in his career against the Cubs strik ing out four and walking three Steve Trachsel (6 11) lost for the fourth time in his last five deci sions Phillies 2 Expos 1 Rico Brogna hit a tie breaking home run with two outs in the eighth inning and Philadelphia won for the sixth time in seven games With the game tied at 1 Brogna hit a 2 2 pitch from Anthony Telford (4 5) for his 18th home run Rookie Ryan Karp (1 0) got two outs for his first major league win Ricky Bottalico pitched the ninth for his 28th save in 35 chances Giants 5 Astros 1 Kirk Rueter (11 6) pitched 6 strong innings and San rancisco capitalized on eight walks by Dar ryl Kile (17 6) to beat Houston The Astros who have lost three in a row and nine of 11 lead Pitts burgh by 2'a games in the NL Cen tral The Giants are two games behind Los Angeles in the NL West Kile lost his third straight start lasting just five plus inningsRueter allowed one run and six hits Dodgers 9 Marlins 5 Todd Zeile hit a grand slam and Mike Piazza had three hits includ ing two RBI singles for Los Ange les The third straight loss combined with win over San Diego dropped them five games behind the Braves in the NL East race Indians 5 White Sox 2 Matt Williams extended his career high hitting streak to 23 games and Cleveland held Albert Belle hitless in his second home coming series as the Indians com pleted a three game sweep of Chicago Rookie Jaret Wright (6 3) allowed two runs and seven hits in 6'3 innings walking three and strik ing out two for the victory CART Title belongs to Zanardi race to Vasser Ganassi teammates share the spotlight The Associated Press MONTEREY Calif Team mates Alex Zanardi and Jimmy Vasser picked up all the spoils in Texaco Havoline 300K with Vasser winning the race and third place finish clinch ing the PPG CART World Series championship It was almost a reversal of last race when Zanardi won cap turing rookie of the year honors and Vasser wrapped up the title for the Target Chip Ganassi Racing team by finishing fourth Vasser was dominating yester day coming up with his first victory in 16 months dating to the US 500 in May of 1996 Zanardi who came into the race knowing he needed only to finish eighth or better to shut out runner up Gil de erran had some rough moments but was never below sixth and never fell behind de er ran who wound up fifth The aftermath of the 83 lap race on Laguna Seca 2238 mile nine turn road course was somewhat bizarre as the victorious teammates attempted to drive a victory lap side by side and wound up banging together with car spinning to a stop Zanardi continued around to the pit lane while Vasser got out of his car and hitched a ride back on the sidepod of Max race car When Vasser got to the pits he jumped into the celebra tion hugging Zanardi I have to give up the (PPG) Cup to Zanardi anybody this is the guy I want to give it Vasser said smiling at his Italian teammate planning to make the said Zanardi whose victory ritual earlier this season included doing doughnuts making circles on the track with his car were just going to drive around together going to go home happy added the 30 year old Zanardi who earned a $1 million championship bonus from series sponsor PPG De erran who clinched second place in the championship said: knew it was going to be a long shot (to catch Zanardi) We were counting on the unexpected and the unexpected Vasser who led the last 58 Japs beat Englishman Mark Blundell to the finish line by 0543 seconds about four car lengths Zanardi moved from fifth to third over the last five laps On Lap 79 Zanardi gained two spots when Scott Pruett and Andre Ribeiro banged slowing Ribeiro and sending Pruett into a sand trap He then moved up to third when Mauricio Gugelmin Blun teammate went off course and hit a tire barrier on the final lap The early part of the race saw the most action with pole winner Bryan Herta and Zanardi battling at the front 14a 2 GREAT RACES! 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