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\ \^\\*~™™\•••••••MMHHMWMMMHiMM—«•>HMMBaMaMMMa Hoii grifie-s Lair Balers Take Region Crown JS ~ 2*' a ?° rd ng , to We £ ters New World Dictionary, means to offer or give of one s free will. This encompasses responsibility on both the giver and the receiver. When we ask for help we ask you to come of your own free will and donate whatever time or help that you can spare. We know that everyone isn't free to dedicate 40 hrs a week to unpaid charity work. We ask for noset hours that you can spare and we know that things oftencome up at the last minute stop you from giving your time. But whatever time you give we at least are grateful. We do not choose to threaten you with severe penalties if you do not choose to help because we realize that they are just idle threats We are here doing this work because we like children and we also like to see them enjoying themselves in an athletic manner. This is what it all comes down to when all the high sounding platitudes are finished. Wedo get something out of this and this something cannot be seen or touched and has no material value but instead has an intrinsic value It is real and hopefully it can be felt inwardly by both the volunteer coaches and the children We the volunteers get inward satisfaction at seeiiig progress where before there might not even have been hope. We get satisfaction at seeing the teamwork of human kindness take effect among youngsters of varying abilities. We take satisfaction in knowing that someday, somewhere one of our young charges will be doing the same thing, helping children. The volunteers need this satisfaction as much as the boys and girls need their help. A coach or a volunteer helper does get someting in return for his efforts and all the money in the world could not change that fact. The Wolverines are extremely proud and thankful for their coaches and their volunteer helpers, but I think that they are a little hit proud that we gave them the chance to satisfy themselves and maybe repay their old coach from years gone by for his hard work. BobDarienzo In The Sictiit The Nassau County Swim Conference Relay Carnival was held on July 26 at the Wantagh pool for the 12 and under relay teams and on July 28 at the Park- wood pool in Great Neck for the Sr. relays. In the senior freestyle relay, Scott Adams as third man on the relay, team pulled out a lead for the 4th place seeded Bethpage team and through his outstanding performance Bethpage's anchor man was able to hold the lead edging out Plainview for 1st place. In the crescendo relay, Scott's relay also placed first. Scott is On the High School team and has been a member of the Farmingdale Youth Council A.A.U. Swim Team for the past four years. As a member of the Town of Oyster Bay Park pool at Bethpage this summer Scott has achieved some outstanding wins. In the 12 and under Junior relays swimming with Bethpage, Scott Gregorchuk's medley relay placed 1st and the freestyle relay placed 2nd. Swimming with Wantagh Craig Mangio's Jr. butterfly relay placed* 1st and the Crescendo relay a 2nd. Placques are presented to all first place winning relay teams with the team members names inscribed thereon and then displayed at the pool of the winners. Presentations are made by the Nassau County Swim Conference each summer. Many dual meets in the Con- ference scheduled for July 30 were cancelled due to rain. In Division I Bethpage was to swim at Wantagh - meet postponed. DIVISION II - swimming with Marjorie Post against Syosset, Boys 10 and under, Eric Solnick placed 2nd in the 25 yard fly and 3rd in the 50 free; Greg Solnick placed 1st in both the 25 fly and 50 breast, tri the Boys 15-17, Ken Bossen took a 1st in the 100 breast, Joe Bunster 1st in the 50 fly and 100 free and Bruce Gitlin 3rd in the 50 fly. Marjorie Post lost to Syosset by 6 points. DIVISION IV - swimming with Cantiague at Freeport, Jef Martin placed 1st in the 100 back and 1st in the 50 fly in the 13-14 age group. Nan Martin, 15-17 took a 1st in both the 100 back and 50 fly. Both Nan and Jef's relays placed 1st. Cantiague lost to Freeport. Try outs for the A.A.U. Swim Team will be held in the early part of September. Please keep posted for the exact dates. For further information please call Mary Ann Senecal, 249-1493, Peter Gregorchuk 249-2007, Marie Martin 249-2728 or Tom- masina Penzes 694-5811. w 10 6 6 3 2 2 2 L 0 3 3 6 5 7 7 STANDINGS AS OF JULY 30th Farmingdale Devils Garden City Blue Bethpage Panthers Garden City Gold PlainedgePlaygirls West Islip Bigwigs Farmingdale Pony tail SCORES FOR THE WEEK Garden City Gold 5 Bethpage Panthers 14 Bethpage Panthers 8 West Islip Bigwigs U Farmingdale Devils 6 Bethpage Panthers 1 Farmingdale Devils 25 Farmingdale Pony tail 2 Farmingdale Ponytail 5 West Islip Bigwigs l Garden City Gold 3 Farmingdale Ponytail 4 Farmingdale Devils 9 Garden City Blue 4 Trip To Phila. A trip to the Fine Arts Museum in Philadelphia has been planned by the Farmingdale Public Library for Wednesday, Sep- tember 28. Departure will be from the South Farmingdale Branch at 7:30 a.m. Tickets are available at both libraries and the charge will be $10. for tran- sportation. Eugene Leyendecker National League has won the District 32 Little League Championship by winning three more games (the first was described here two weeks ago). They now must meet the other Long Island District winners in their effort to reach the Williamsport World Series. July 22 they met a tough Island Trees team in a game that went 10 innings, before they won 8-6, after having opened a 6-2 lead. Russo led off the game with a single, took 2nd on a wild pitch and scored when Soete reached on an error. They got three gift runs in the 2nd, without a hit, as Freshour walked and moved up on Van Wickler's bunt. With two out, Island Trees made con-' secutive errors on balls hit by Russo, O'Sullivan and Orobona. Freshour added another in the 3rd on a solo home run and the sixth came as Koenig reached 1st on another error, followed by O'Sullivan and Orobona singles. Manager George Krug put all boys in, and it almost cost the victory as the defense sagged in the sixth inning. Island Trees scored four runs with two out, tying the game at six-all. Pitcher John Booth kept his cool and threw.bullets thru the next three minutes. He struck out 6 of those 9 batters. In the 10th, O'Sullivan took the mound and yielded a lead off single, but this runner was thrown out stealing. The next two went out easily. Farmingdale clinched it when Freshour walked. He stole second as Dooley fanned and they had runners on 2nd and 3rd when Kiendle f lied to short right, and it was dropped. Russo lined a hard bouncer over the center field fence for 2 runs (his 6th hit in 2 games) and Farmingdale had a hard won victory. On July 26 Farmingdale Federal League was the opponent and for 3 innings it was scoreless as Orobona and Boyle matched zips. Each had struck out 5, with Maday having the lone hit for the Federals; the Nationals were hitless. In the 4th the Federals put two on as Russo and O'Sullivan erred, but could not get the hit they needed to crack thru. When the Nationals came to bat, it was suddenly all over, as Orobona went to 2nd on an error and scored on Booth's double. Freshour walked but Flynn forced Booth at 3rd as Boyle made a good play on his bunt. Van Wickler walked to load the bases, but Magrane struck out for that big 2nd out. It looked like the Federals might get thru the in- ning, except that pesky Russo was up. He doubled to left center scoring two, and after O'Sullivan walked (his third), Soete singled for a run. Orobona singled in two more, Booth walked, and Freshour hit a tremendous home run (three runs scoring) to cap a 10 run inning. The Nationals added a final run in the 5th when Kass reached 1st and scored on another Russo hit and sacrifice. Orobona had pitched a one hitter with nine K's. July 27 was the final against a very strong team from Bethpage South, with John Booth pitching. Bethpage got two hits in the 1st, but could not score as a boy was out at the plate on a \lucky\ play. Farmingdale also collected two hits in their turn, but did not score as O'Sullivan doubled and Orobona reached on an error. Soete struck out, but Booth helped himself with a little trickier down third for a run scoring single. And that run held up into the sixth, as they went hitless and both teams made many good defensive plays. The,sixth inning was heart- breaking for both sides as Lady Luck smiled first on Far- mingdale then on Bethpage, and finally on Farmingdale. Ford hit Booth's first pitch hard into right center for what should have been a double, ex- cept that Soete made a magnificent throw to second after taking the ball off the fence and Russo put a good tag on the sliding runner ~ a big play. The next batter hit a tremendously high pop fly near the mound, and Orobona almost bent double backwards as he caught it. Two out, and the next batter hit an easy come-backer to Booth, who made a sure throw to O'Sullivan for the final out. But NO! The ball was dropped and they had a life. A rattled Booth hit the next batter and a wild pitch moved runners to 2nd and 3rd. He gave up a walk and the bases were loaded. Manager George King's 3rd > trip to the mound calmed Booth <£ and he got a quick strike on the t batter, and another as the boy & tried to bunt an inside pitch. But ** Lady Luck was still with them as \^ the ball ticked off the catcher's » glove and rolled toward the »* dugout. Freshour grabbed, but too late. The umpire ruled \dead ball,\ all runners advanced, and it's tied at 1-1. Booth then K'd the batter. Now Farmingdale came up and Bethpage went to their \top\ pitcher (Ford) and he promptly hit Orobona. Soete came up, and the 1st pitch Was wild, enabling Orobona to take 2nd. Soete lined the next pitch hard to right, a one hopper to the fielder, and Orobona should have held at 3rd. But, there he goes, there goes the ball - it had him beaten. But it skipped past the catcher. FARMINGDALE WINS! Far- mingdale is the Champion of District 32. The Champions are: John Booth, Timothy Dooley, Peter Flynn, Michael Freshour, Bradley Kass, Keith Kiendle, Kevin Koenig, Joseph Magrane, Kenneth Orobona, Neal O'Sullivan, Vincent Parrella, Frank Russo, Karlheinz Soete, and Richard Van Wickler. Mgr. George Krug, Coach Dick Van Wickler, Presd. Angelo Bellia, 1st V.P. (Majors) Frank Galuppo. FYC Leagues Going Strong The basketball and softball leagues, part of the overall summer recreation program, are finishing up their regular schedule and are trying for a playoff spot. Woodward Park- way's 5th & 6th grade basketball team & 7th & 8th grade basketball team are both undefeated at this point. They are looking to get top seeded for the playoffs which start on August 4th. In the softball league, Florgate Park's team is showing it's supperiority over the other teams. Closely challenging them is the Pinehurst Park Pirates, a much improved team that has been picking up momentum the past few games. Supplying strong defense has been Robbie Gengrich, Jim McLaughlin and Jim Hoenings. Brad French, Leo Ferrity and Billy Benner have added offensive punch. All teams are eagerly awaiting Wednesday and the annual trek to Shea Stadium to see the Mets and the Los Angeles Dodgers. Pinehurst held their Crazy Hat contest with the following win- ners: Carl Rogers in Rag Bag Hat; Laura Ann Milaneer'as Mexican Mary; Paul Ritchie as the most comical; Mary Parsons in the garden of flowers; Jodi Kase as pinehursts finest; Janine Cbmpetello in Multi Hat; Adnon Kahn in hot & furry; John Competello in the everything hat; Jeff Kase with the tiniest hat; Laura Logan with the squirmiest hat. 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