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PAGE EIGHTEEN LONG ISLAND TRAVELER-WATCHMAN THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1975 EAST END SPORTS Atkins, P ensaStar In Track Waverly Atkins of Rivcrhcad and Charlie Pensa of Hampton Bays w e re the only boys from their respective schools to score points in the Suffolk County Track Champ ionship Meet staged last Friday and Saturday but since each of the duo placed first in two events it enabled the Blue Waves and the Baymen to share an eighth place tic in the team stan d i n g s with 12 points apiece. W inning the title was Centereach with 25'A points with Bay Shore, 19, Central Islip 16. Brentwood 15'/2, Hauppauge 15, Half Hollow Hills 14 and Amityville 13 finishing ahead of the County Seaters but a far greater number of schools finishing behind them. When Riverhead failed to score a point in the field events, where most of their strength lay. on Friday there was no hope for them to annex the title but Atkins' feat did bring a ray of solace to the school’s rooters. “ S keeter\ blazed the 220 in 0 : 22 . 0 . only a tenth of a second off the County record for the event to hand Willie Combs of Central Islip his first defeat of the season. Atkins’ expected duel with Mark Holmes of Amityville who had matched “ Skeeter’s” record- equalling 0:09.7 for the 100 during the dual m e e t portion of the season, failed to materialize when the Crimson Tide runner stumbled and failed to qualify in a semi-final heat. Atkins was favored to win both dashes anyhow and he hit the tape in 0:10.1 with Russo of Lindenhurst the runncr-up. Waver- ly thus becomes the only Blue Waver to qualify for the New York State Meet to be held this week end. Centereach had just one individ ual winner, their Walt Fields taking the triple jump with a mighty leap of 44 ’I 1 '/ 2 ” , but they picked up seconds in the high hurdles, the 440 and the intermediate hurdles as well as third and fourth places in the relays to account for the majority of its points. Pensa. who trains almost literally by himself, was simply tremendous in taking both weight events. Charlie hurled the discus a mighty 174 feet even and also took the shotput at 54'6” . The Lockerbie brothers gained nine points for Stony Brook. Don speeding the 880 in 1:54.4 and his brother Kevin placing third in the 440. West- hampton scored all seven of its points in the discus where Jack Sullivan came in second and Sean Farrell shared a third. Other schools, who competed in League Six, Seven and Eight, which Osborne Inn Leads In Two Though the league managers had yet to meet and make a decision on the matter it appeared very likely that Osborne Inn took over first place in the Modified’s Division Two pennant race last week. Trail ing unbeaten W right’s Inn by a 7-2 score when they came in to bat in the last of the 6 th inning Osborne Inn had pushed seven runs across the plate to lead 9-7 when an unfortunate incident occurred with a player attacking an umpire that resulted in the latter calling off the game and awarding the victory to Osborne. An ugly scene then devel oped leading all concerned to justifiably, worry about whether the loop could survive many more such incidents. The players on the field must maintain proper decorum or else their fans in the stands are often incited to distasteful lengths. Osborne Inn had collected only three hits off the slants of Richard Johnson up till the sixth, piling s i n g l e s by Tom K e s s l e r , Ray Cheshire and Bob Cheshire behind an opening error for two runs in the last of the 4th. By that time Wright’s was operating on a 5-0 lead. They had tallied twice in the 1st when Bruce Braunskill had singled, taken second when the ball was bobbled in the outfield and scored on Kerry Chandler’s two bagger. A passed ball got Chandler to third and he crossed on an infield error. In the 2nd a triple by Willie Johnson and a two bagger off the bat of Bill Taliferro added a third counter and two errors, a single by Russell Hubbard and the latter’s alert baserunning delivered the other pair of markers. Then in the 5th a single by Marv Smith, a double by Bruce Braun skill and a triple by U lysesses Edwards, his third hit of the game, upped Wright’s bulge to 7-2. But in the 6 th Tom Galka got Osborne Inn rolling with a single. A double by Tom Kessler and singles by Ray Cheshire and Alex Grzywinski was followed by a costly Wright’s Inn error before the first out was Under New Management The G rey Goose Tavern Peconic Bay Blvd. Aquebogue, N.Y. • Pool Table • Pin-Ball M a c h in e * Foosball Table Teams Now Being Formed Free Jukebox Fireplace Charcoal Cooked Hamburgers Till 4A.M. Call fo r Directions 7 2 2 - 8 9 8 8 generally encompass Eastern Suf folk. to place included East Hamp ton with six points. Longwood with four and Southampton with one. The Bonackers had Dave Kelsey run third in the 100 yard dash and King take third in the broad jump. Longwood had Terra Phelps run 4th in the 880 and Arajuo take 4th in the two mile event. South ampton’s lone point stemmed from Hudgins’ fifth place in the 100 yard dash. First place winners included Jim Hopkins of Walt Whitman in the mile run (4:19.5); Bill Goette of Hauppauge in the high hurdles (0:14.6); Enrique Best of Brentwood in the 440 (0:49.8); Joe Libertelli of Half Hollow Hills in the 330 yard intermediate hurdles (0:39.5); Steve Martinez of Commack South in the two mile (9:22.4); Willie Combs of Central Islip in the broad jump (23’1'/4” ); Bob Correia of Central Islip in the pole vault where he cleared 12’9” ; and Gordon Thomas of Bay Shore who set a new meet record by getting over the high jump bar at 6’9” . Amityville took the 880 yard relay in 1:29.7, Half Hollow Hills cap tured the mile relay honors in 3:24.1 while Bay Shore’s two mile relay quartet hit the tape first in 7:59.9. recorded. An interference call, an other error and a single by Bob Specials had vaulted Osborne ahead 9-7 when the assault on the umpire occurred that brought an abrupt ending to the game. The outcome, if it is allowed to stand, will give Osborne Inn a 3-1 mark and drop Wright’s Inn record to 2 - 1 . Modified Pitch Standings as of June 1st Division One Carving Board 3 RPIC 3 G&G 2 WRIV 2 Busch Transportation 1 Bowl Hi 1 Middle Road Nursery 0 0 0 1 2 2 3 3 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 Division Two Osborne Inn 3 Wright’s Inn 2 Neptune Diner 2 Birchwood 2 Wading River Merchants 1 Riverhead Merchants 1 Riverhead BIdg. Supply 0 Monday, June 9tli Rhd. Merchants vs. Neptune (6:45) Carving Board vs. M. R. Nursery Osborne Inn vs. Rhd. Building Tuesday, June lOtii RPIC vs. Birchwood (6:45) G&G vs. Busch Trans. Wading River vs. Wright’s Wednesday, June lltli Wright’s Inn vs. M. R. Nursery Tliursday, June 12th Bowl Hi vs. WRIV Miller Place Eastport Win Miller Place in League Seven and Eastport in League Eight nailed down league championships as their respective loops closed out exciting pennant chases last week. Miller Place, winning all three of its tests, wound up with a 14-4 record in its circuit w h e r e C e n ter M o riches claimed the runner-up slot and the other playoff berth by also finishing its schedule with three straight triumphs to wind up with a 13-5 mark. Rocky Point, which began the week knotted for the top rung, skidded to third position at 12-6 when they could capture just one of its three outings. The key contest came on the final day of the season when Eastport knocked over Hocky Point by a 9-2 score. The Ducklings had dropped their first two tests of the week and another defeat would have dropped them back into a tie with Hampton Bays. As it was the Ducklings closed with a 11-7 rec ord, one game up on the Baymen, who took the other playoff spot with their 10-8 mark. Miller Place opened its week with a 5-2 victory over Mattituck and then stomped Southold twice by scores of 11-2 and 12-4. It was tight only in the first of the three outings when the champs broke a 2-2 tie in the top of the 7th when Scott James sparked the rally with a two run double. Tony Rickenbacker hurled two of the mound triumphs for Miller Place and clouted a home run to help Ron Niedzwieski to victory in the middle contest. In a crucial m e e ti n g C e n ter Moriches had its freshman sensa tion, southpaw Paul Gibson strike out 16 batters and hurl a 5-1 win over Rocky Point. Gibson scattered five hits very effectively and got the bat support needed from Rick Hamilton who knocked across three runs with a key single and a solo home run. The Red Devils then went on to trim Greenport about as expected 10-0 and 9-4. H a m p ton Bays had kept its League Seven hopes alive by over coming Eastport 2-1 in eight in nings in what was \a honey of a pitching duel between winner Don Parker and loser Bob Haughn. The Baymen won despite getting outhit eight to four. They got on the scoreboard first with a run in the top of the 5th but the Ducklings tied it in the last of the sixth. In the 8 th the winning marker came as Don Parker singled with two outs and pilfered his way to second base to be in position to cross on Pete Tuthill’s clutch one bagger. When Hampton Bays won the next day 9-5 over Mattituck to finish at 10-8 the outcom e of Eastport’s two game set with Rocky Point became of crucial importance. It was Rocky Point taking the opener in Suffolk’s longest school boy tilt of the year, one that stretched through 14 innings before an error, a sacrifice and a single by Marty Sorenson gave Rocky Point the run it needed for a 3-2 victory. The victors alm o s t won it in regulation time when they scored twice in the third and their pitcher George Barris made it stand up till (Continuedon Pagc21) PECONIC PAINTING CONTRACTORS Interior & Exterior Roger E. 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Salonga HOURS: 9 A.M. to 4 P.M. Monday thru Thursday; 9 A.M. to 6 P.M. Friday ITTCX)K A THIRD of the Miller Place Team to pick off Settler’s Berry at first base. Shown in the action are Miller Place’s second baseman Jimenez handling the ball, baci<ed up by teammates Baci<er and Austin. North Fork Nines Close Season Leagues Seven and Eight ended their diamond schedules last week and it proved to be a disastrous week indeed for nines representing the North Fork. Among them Greenport, Mattituck and Southold wound up winning one game and 'dropping seven decisions. The Port ers did manage to eke out a 13-12 victory over Sag Harbor but then got beaten twice, 10-0 and 9-4 by Center Moriches to wind up their loop campaign with a 9-9 record overall. That was good enough to place Coach Bob Wells’ squad third in the final League Eight standings but left them one game behind second place Hampton Bays and thus out of the County playoffs which had been their goal. On the other hand, Mattituck, beaten 9-5 by Hampton Bays and 5-2 by Miller Place, occupied the cellar position in League Eight with a 4-14 slate while Southold, whipped solidly twice by Miller Place and surprised 11-1 by Stony Brook, closed with but a 5-13 mark and thus shared the basement berth with Stony Brook in League Seven action. Greenport was trailing Sag Har bor 8-3 before the Porters came up with five runs to tie matters in the last of the 3rd. Whaler pitcher Paul Dorego regained himself the lead by walloping a home run with two mates aboard in the top of the 4th and when each team added a solo tally in the 6 th frame Greenport was on the short end of a 12-9 count when they came in for their last swings. Then Steve Deduck drew life on one of the Harbor’s eight errors of the day and he stole second while the next batter was striking out. A single by Bill Richter then plated Deduck to cut the gap to 12-10 and Bill took second on a fruitless throw to the plate. A walk to Ken Meklenburg then put the potential tying runs on the basepaths and all kinds of action followed when Jeff Geier bashed his second hit of the afternoon. The single scored Rich ter to make it 12-11 and when the throw-in was messed up it allowed Meklenburg to cross to deadlock the game. While all this was going on Geier kept running and was nearing third base and when a throw to that station went wild Jeff kept right on coming to tally his fourth run of the afternoon and give Greenport a 13-12 decision. Ken Meklenburg had cracked a two run homer for the Porters earlier in the fray. But the Porters failed to win either game in their two game set from Center Moriches, a team then very much in the League Seven pennant race. They couldn’t even score against the slants of Mike Lake in the opener losing 10-0 when they could manage only four hits. Steve Deduck had twirled well for Greenport and was only trailing 2-0 till the Red Devils went on an eight run rampage in the bottom of the 6 th inning to lock matters up tight. To make it even worse, it was Lake's first mound start of the year. Though they did tag C e n ter Moriches' freshman hill ace, Paul Gibson, for 10 hits, far more than the lefty star usually gives up the Porters still wound up on the short end of a 9-4 count in ringing down the curtain on their season. The Red Devils also had 10 hits off a trio of G r e e n p o r t hurlers. Ken Meklenburg, Jeff Geier and Jim Getches and included in that cluster were home runs clouted by Mike Lake and Mark Privett. Six runs in the third inning built Moriches an 8-1 lead and Gibson coasted home from there. Mattituck gave Miller Place, gun ning for the League Seven title, a real scare early in the week, getting a pair of first inning runs. Miller Place which had tallied once in the top of that frame, did not tie the score till the 5th and the deadlock still held till the 7th stanza when Miller Place got around three runs to take a 5-2 decision. Ricky Rickenbacker was the winning hurl- er, allowing the Tuckers five hits. Tom Mileska hurled extremely well for Coach Lee Ellwood’s crew and lim ited the victors to just four safeties, one of them a double by Scott James which broke the tie in that final inning. In their final outing of the year Mattituck broke on top 3-0 when Tim Haas and Rich Krupski singled in the first and both were able to score on a single by Rick Polecki St. Isidore’s Now 5 - 2 St. Isidore’s ran their CYO record to five wins against two defeats as Manager Butch Densieski’s gang defeated its Riverhead rivals, St. John’s for the third time in as many meetings this summer last Saturday afternoon. However unlike their two previous clashes when the Izzies won by lopsided scores this tim e they had a few problem s before subduing the Johnnies 8-5 in a game that went the full seven innings. Steve Czeletka was the winning hurler striking out seven batters and giving up a total of six hits and four walks. He had trouble with just one h i t t e r for Randy Ja n i s , outfielder for St. Jo h n ’s rapped out four singles in as many trips to the plate while the rest of the losing squad managed just two safeties amongst them. The victors had but nine hits off the slants of losing twirler, Gallo im t-ths. latter complicated his task by dishing out an even dozen bases on balls and they, along with some untimely errors, were too much to overcome. Catcher Larry Danowski who swung at a 3 for 4 clip knocked three runs across the plate to spark the Isidore attack while Greg Stel- zer, a mid-game replacement in right, had two singles in as many chances. The defensive play of both sides left something to be desired and many of the runs for both sides were unearned. Two walks, a single by Danowski and a balk called on Gallo made it 2-0 in the first and St. Isidore’s added a run in the second on two walks and a basehit by Bill Zilnicki. But with a chance to lock it up the izzies stranded six base runners in the next two frames and so led just 3-0 after four frames were com plete. Then in the top of the 5th St. John’s drew close when they loaded the bases on two walks and a [B INEWOOD LANDSCAPING LTD. SOD & SEED WORK - RETAINING WALLS & PATIOS LANDSCAPE DESIGN ■ CUSTOM PLANTING 734-6912 CUTCHOGUE 734-6007 who completed the circuit later on an error. But Polecki, who started for Ell wood, did not survive the first inning. He gave up two singles and was tagged for a double by Jim Schleicher with a third run cross ing on the play to knot the score when the boy trying for a triple kept on running to score on an overthrow. Rick struck out the next batter but the catcher missed the third strike giving the man a life and after two walks had loaded the bases Rich Krupski came on to do the hurling. A run scored on a booted grounder but M a ttituck wound up getting two outs before the play had run its course, both recorded at home plate it might be noted. But then John Prezelski stepped up and clipped a home run to make it 6-3. Hampton Bays added three more runs in the 2 nd without too much hitting and then were blanked the rest of the way by Krupski and sophom o r e Jerry B u r k h a r d t who twirled the final two innings. But Mattituck, though it got solo home runs by both Rich Krupski and Rick Polecki before the afternoon was complete could not mount a big rally and bowed by a final score of 9-5 in a game in which both sides had the same number of hits, 10 . Southold simply wasn’t in it at all in any of its three outings. The Settlers got m a s s a c r e d 11-1 by Stony Brook and then fell by scores of 11-2 and 12-4 at the hands of Miller Place who used them to lock up the League Seven title. Southold managed only three hits off of Stony Brook’s Matt O’Farrell while the Brookers got to Neil Berry and his reliever Ron Stankiewicz for a dozen safeties. Berry gave up five runs in his four innings on the hill and Stankiewicz yielded six in three frames. Again the Settlers had just three hits in bowing 11-2 to Ron Niedz- wieski of Miller Place with Kevin Terry and Fred Milner both treated roughly by the latter’s hitters and finally Miller Place took the finale 12-4 as they broke a close 6-4 score open by pushing across six runs in the last two frames. Neil Berry went the distance there and allowed just four hits but had control problems. two-out error and had Randy Janis’ third hit of the afternoon plate two runners. Czeletka escaped that jam with a strikeout to close the frame. His team got those two back and one to spare in the home half of the 5th with a walk, a single by Stelzer, a hit batter and Danowski’s third hit of the tilt that plated two men. St. John’s came back to cut the score to 6-4 with a pair in the 6 th on a hit batter, a single by Chuck Harrison and a St. Isidore error but again St. Isidore’s rebounded as soon as they got back to the plate again. This time between walks, errors and Stelzer’s bingle they upped their advantage to 8-5. Hits by Koller and Janis and a dropped fiy ball gained St. J o h n ’s a final marker in the 7th but when Danowski cut down a man pilfering third base it took the heart out of any chance for a budding rally. Besides those already mentioned others hitting safely for the victors were Ken Densieski, Robert Lom bardi and Steve Szczepanik. This week St. Isid o r e ’s will entertain Sacred Heart of Mattituck at 1:30 on Saturday. Then on Sunday comes a crucial meeting with St. J o h n ’s of Center Moriches, the unbeaten, league-leading club which has taken a pair of close decisions from the Izzies previous ly. The tilt has been moved up to 10 a.m. and will be played on the St. Isidore diamond.
