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PAGE TWENTY LONG ISLAND TRAVELER-WATCHMAN THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1975 EAST END SPORTS Mercy Loses In Play-off Finals Frankie Frisch used to moan about “ those bases on bails” and how they could i<ill you and Mercy High diamond coach. Tom Murray, can hardly be blamed for echoing that refrain after he witnessed his pitching staff doling out a couple of dozen passes in just two games last week. Unfortunately the siege of wildness struck the Monarch hurl- ers at the worst possible time, when they w e re engaging St. Mary's in the show-down series of the N a s s a u -Suffolk League play offs. and a result St. Mary's won the set in two straight, posting triumphs by scores of 6-5 and 13-4. Mercy hill ace Joe DeCarle was unaccustomably wild in the opener played on St. Mary's field at East Meadow and gave up 11 walks in his four innings plus on the hill. St. Mary's was thus able to win the game though being outhit four to three by the Mercy lineup whose attack was hardly noteworthy ei ther. The Monarchs in fact had all their five runs donated them by the St. Mary defense which had its greatest lapse in the top of the 4th. Mercy had Dave Schaaf single with two outs in that frame and walks to Jo e D e C a r l e an d M a r k H a a s jam m e d the sacks. The inning appeared over when Rick Boden skied a fly to leftfield but it was dropped and with all the runners running with two outs all three tallied to give the Monarchs a 3-1 lead at that point. St. Mary's had gotten a gift run in the first too when Pat Connolly walked, was sacrificed to second, stole third and crosscd when catch er Dave S c h a a f ’s errant throw wound up in left field. St. Mary's proceeded to tie the score in the last of the 4th and retied it again at 5-5 in the 5th after their miscues had given Mercy two more runs in the top half of that frame. Frank Goroleski was pitching in relief of DeCarle when Pete Bradley drove the single that plated the winning marker in the last of the 6th. For the losers Ron Alec went 3 for 3 to account for almost all their safeties. In the second meeting, played on the Mercy diamond it was more of the same as four Mercy twirlers, Frank Goroleski, Russ McGoey, Joe DeCarle and sophomore Bob Bo den. who appeared in that order, dished out 14 walks amongst them to allow St. Mary's to almost stroll their way to the title with a 13-4 victory. Both sides collected six hits in that game but it ceased to be a contest in the very first inning Pump House Douses Firemen Unbeaten Pump House made the R iverhead Fire D e p a r t m e n t its fourth straight victim to continue to hold firmly onto first place in the Riverhead Slow Pitch pennant race last week. The final score was 17-7 with the loop’s defending champs building a 9-0 lead in the first two innings and coasting home from there as Walter Miles knocked over five runs with a pair of home runs and added a triple for good meas ure. Meanwhile in a game that proved quite a contrast, the River head M o o se Lodge nipped J& J Electric 3-1 in a pitching duel between John Kruel and Ray Tim- m a n n that saw the two team s hits, 11 of them singles at that. The victory was the third in four starts for the Moose representing their best start in many a year. Bob Finch who scored twice and Ray Cheshire who contributed the big hit were the major factors in the M o o se trium p h in addition to Kruel's five hit pitching effort. The Pump House pounded out a total of 23 hits in dropping the Fire Department's record to 1-3, their attack helped in part by the fact their foes were playing with but nine men which left them minus a short-fielder. The loop leaders took a 2-0 lead in the first when Rich Ligon opened with a single and combined produce but a total of 12 cam e over on Larry Jo h n s o n 's For Father*s Day . . . IVs Snapper. » 1 7 9 ” ♦ Snapper mowers vacuum as you mow. 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W inning pitcher Joe Erickson rapped three hits, half his team total, as both he and his rightfield- er Gallo wound up the game with three RBI's apiece. Nine of the winners' runs were scored by boys who got on the paths via passes. For Mercy the six hits went one apiece to Dickerson. Bob Boden, Eddie M e ier. Mark H a a s , Rick Boden and Ron Alcc. The losers could have used their number two pitcher Daryle Tirico but the sopho more had been dismissed from the team for disciplinary reasons. double. Willie Patterson’s fly to deep center then got Johnson home from second. Things got out of hand in the 2nd. The w inners loaded the sacks on a walk and singles by Will Johnson and win ning hurler Dick Benjamin. Two runs were knocked over by sacrifice flies then after a double by Will P a tterson it was W a lter Miles unloading a three run hom e r. Singles by Jesse Miles and Bob Spanburgh followed and both those men raced over on a two run double by Bob Quinn and that made it 9-0. The Pump House piled the rest (Continuedon Page 21) Mercy Girls Unbeaten With Jane Hartmann, Chris Kel ley and Mary Hogg showing the way the Mercy High girl’s track team annexed the championship of the Nassau-Suffolk Catholic League last week as they closed out an undefeated campaign making Holy Trinity its sixth straight victim. The score, though comfortable at 53-38 was slightly closer than in most of the Monarchs' previous triumphs. Coach Frances Stelzer and the Mercy students can rightfully be proud of the team's accomplish ments this spring. Jane Hartmann won the 220 yard dash for Mercy with a clocking of 0:31.8 and also placed second in the 100 yard dash where her time read 0:12.7. Chris Kelley scored in three events for the Monarchs. She led a Mercy sweep of the 50 yard dash, clocked in 0:06.9, took second in the long jump where her dis tance was 14'7%\ and ran third in the 440 yard run. Mary Hogg’s contributions included a first in the 50 yard hurdles where she topped the timbers in 0:08.1 and a 2nd in the 440 yard run. Mercy did well in the field events where Carol Minerva nipped her teammate Cindy Gergela by half an inch with her toss of 25’8‘/ j ” in the shotput to give the Monarchs first and second, and Cindy Ruskowski cleared 4’7” to snare the high jumping honors. But the Monarchs, who had taken 1, 2, 3 in the 880 yard run in each of its prior meets, had to be content with Rosemary Junk's second place finish on this occasion, that young lady turning in a time of 2:52.3. Besides those girls already men- . Maura Sullivan ran 3rd in the 50 and placed 3rd also in the long jump, Terry Brown placed 3rd in the 50 yard hurdles, Theresa Lech ran 2nd in the 220 and Mary Lou Williams ran 2nd in the 50 yard dash for the victors. The quartet of Maura Sullv\an Theresa Lech, Anne O'Connell and Betty Ann Herbst then teamed to hit the tape first in the 440 yard relay in 0:57.6. The final again read 53-38 and that Mercy record on the year showed that spotless 6-0. Whitman, West Islip In Finals PICKWICK SHOPPE ANTIQUES ■ FURNITURE BRIC A BRAC AND GLASS WARE BOUGHT AND SOLD WE BUY CONTENTS OF HOMES Appraisals Ruth & Herman Bering Props Tel. 516-765-3158 . West Main Road, Soiithold, L.I. 11971 LUCITE House Paint Proven to last longer than other paints Dries to a proteclive sheet Seals out the weather Soap and water clean-up C.P. Tuthill, Inc. Plumbing & Heating Route 25, Cutchogue, N.Y. 734-6779 ^ It will be undefeated Walt Whit man High School of South Hunting ton and West Islip vying for the Section Eleven diamond title this week as action pared the original list of 16 playoff teams down to that pairing last week. Walt Whitman, generally favored to annex the championship, won its opening test 4-0 over Hampton Bays as Joe Massaro let the Baymen down to just two singles. Next came a 1-0 conquest of Centereach when hurler Mike Heiser spun his third no hitter of the season and the winning run scoring in the last of the 7th on Gary Lamberta triple and a wild pitch. And finally there was an 8-6 victory over William Floyd in the semi-final round on Saturday to push the Walt Whit man winning streak to 26 games in a row. W e s t Islip m e a n w h i l e had trimmed Ward Melville 4-1, defeat ed Comnequot 5-3 and then nipped Amityville 6-5 in extra innings to advance to their berth in the finals. A bases-loaded walk plated the deciding marker in that one. Walt Whitman, with its big three pitch ing staff of Massaro, Heiser and Lamberta figures to have too much for West Islip the smart money says. William Floyd, the runner-up in League Six this spring when it came down the stretch with seven straight victories, went farther in the playoffs than did any of the other schools from Leagues Six, Seven and Eight. The Colonials took their opening foe, Eastport, the League Eight champs 5-1 as Floyd hill ace Keith Scanlon pitched a four hitter during which he struck out nine of the Ducklings. Scanlon, who rapped two of his team's five hits off of loser Bob Haughn, helped his cause plenty with perfect control, walking nary a batter. Floyd took a 3-0 lead in the top of the 2nd with Eastport getting its lone tally of the day in the same frame when Ted Nowa- kowski singled, stole second, moved to third on an infield out and scored on a wild pitch. A home run by Frank Angeletti with a mate aboard padded Floyd’s winning bulge in the 5th. Nowakowski and Cliff Com b e s split the E a s t p o r t hits evenly between them. On the same day Bayport, League Six's champions, whipped Kings Park 6-1 behind Guy Kirouac’s four hit pitching and two slick double plays afield. Kings Park got an unearned marker in the first for a brief lead but went scoreless the rest of the afternoon. Bayport loaded the bags in the 2nd on two walks and a single by Tom Fraczak and then saw Kevin Zorn wallop a three run triple to score himself a moment later on Chuck Zahradka’s two bagger. Unfortunately somehow the sched ule makers had contrived to put the two representatives from League Six against each other in the quarter-finals. In regular season play Bayport had beaten William Floyd three straight times but on this occasion it was Floyd finishing atop a 6-4 score as Scanlon re turned to the hill to hurl another complete game with only one day’s rest. Both clubs rapped out nine hits on the occasion. Scanlon, who whiffed 10 Phantoms, hurled run- less ball for the first five innings and held a 6-0 lead when Bayport came in to score four runs in the last of the 6th to make it a close affair. Scanlon was tiring in that frame and got a break when the final out was recorded as a Bayport runner overslid third base and was tagged out. In the 7th Bayport got the potential tying runs in scoring position with only one out but Scanlon rose to the occasion and ended matters quickly with a pair of clutch strikeouts. Frank Angeletti walloped another homer to pace the Colonials at the plate, his fourth circuit clout in two weeks. But when Scanlon attempted to return and make it three games in a week on Saturday he and his reliever in the sixth inning, Ed Balzer, were rapped for a total of 14 hits by Walt Whitman in the semi-final game. Whitman scored four runs in the 1st and added pairs in the 2nd and 5th frames to open up a fat 8-0 lead. The Colonials cut that deficit in half in the last of the 5th when they scored four times on an error, a single, a walk, another error and a two run single ripped by Gary Weber. They drove starter Lamberta from the hill in the 6th and scored twice to make the score read 8-6 before reliever Massaro, Busch, G & G Modified Winners Scoring five runs with a thrilling last ditch rally which was aided by a costly miscue on the part of their foes, Busch Transportation came from behind to edge the Riverhead Merchants 10-9 last week to get their record in the Riverhead Modi fied Pitch league to 2-2. In another league test the G&G Good Guys humbled Bowl Hi 19-1 on the slick three hit pitching by Bob Szczepan- ik. A triple off the bat of Ernest Tucker capped the Busch rally that decided a game in which both sides had exhibited porous defenses. For the Good Guys Greg Stawski, Danny Dolan, Szczepanik, Ron Tau- riello. Bob Salom o n e and Joe Raynor all swung hot bats as that club pounded out a total of 19 hits off the slants of Carl Oliveri. It gave G&G a 3-1 record, good enough for a third place berth at the moment in the Division One standings. Busch Transportation trailed the Riverhead Merchants 9-5 when they came in for their last swings. A hit by Art Dutcher, a walk and a sacrifice fly plated one run but when the second out followed it appeared all over. But another marker crossed on a passed ball and singles by Bill Hysell and COMPLETE WITH REMOVABLE SUN ROOF The beautiful FIAT X1/9. Spirited. Styled by Bertone. Styling award-wlnner. 4-speed synchromesh _________ transmission, 4-wheel disc brakes, removable top, all standard. See it and price it now, and make an outstanding summer deal. America discovers FIAT '75 . . . there must be a reason. The Irving Garage Factory A u t h o r i z e d Fiat Dealership 2 8 3 -0 2 5 3 -2170,•S o u th a m p to n , L.l. O p e n Every Day, 7 : 4 5 o m ~ 6 : 4 5 p n n ^ Roger Tuthill kept hopes alive. Then came an error that not only prevented the game ending but left the door ajar long enough for Tucker to produce his winning triple. Prior to that losing pitcher Ray Lindeman had kept Busch pretty well at bay. They had scored one in the first on two walks and a two out single by Bill Murray. Trailing 7-1 Busch next scored in the last of the fourth, a pair of unearned runs with hits by Murray and Reiny Huber instrumental. A triple by Dutcher and a single by Dan Turbush produced a solo tally in the 5th and in the following frame Roger Tuthill had singled, stolen both second and third and tallied on winning pitcher Stan McCormick's one bagger. The Merchants meanwhile had scored four times in the 2nd when there were doubles by Pete Mulli gan, John Fleischm a n and Bob Jablonski along with a single by Bobby Hynds and a Busch error that made three of the four runs of the unearned variety. The Trans portation crew was charged with three errors in the 3rd inning and the M e r c h a n ts got three more unearned runs as a result with another double by Mulligan and a single by Jablonski instrumental in getting the m a r k e r s around. A single by Russ K n ights and a double by Lindeman helped add two more runs and build the lead to 9-3 in the 5th but after that McCormick pitched scoreless ball over the last two frames despite getting rapped for doubles by Joe Pierro and John Horgan. All told who had blanked Hampton Bays earlier came on to leave the potential tying runs stranded at second and third. Massaro also set the Floyd team down in order in their last swings. Gibson Wins a Shutout Center Moriches, runner-up in League Seven, got past one foe, Islip, 1-0, thanks to the slick hurling for its freshman sensation Paul Gibson. All that youngster did was spin a three hit shutout fanning six and walking three. The Red Devils, who got just three hits themselves off of losing hurler, Vic Nicotra, got the only run of the gam e in the first inning. Josh Henderson and Maurice Henderson opened the game with singles and then essayed a double steal. The ball seemed to be at third base in time to nip Josh but his hard slide broke it loose and it rolled into dead territory causing the ump to wave Josh on home with what proved to be the winning run. Gibson stranded John Brezinski at third after the latter’s two out triple in the 2nd inning and got out of a third inning jam when a relay from centerfielder Maurice Hender son to second baseman Josh Hen derson to catcher Dennis Donovan nailed a runner at home plate. Nicotra lost despite striking out 11 Red Devil batters. But Moriches was eliminated in the quarterfinals when they lost an early 5-0 lead to get edged 6-5 by Amityville as the Crimson Tide had three run uprisings in both the 6th and 7th stanzas in a game in which each side garnered eight hits. Mike Lake hurled shutout ball for the Devils for five innings but ran out of steam in the 6th and when Gibson tried to come back in relief he didn’t have his usual sharp stuff and suffered the eventual defeat. Amityville had earlier knocked out Miller Place, League Seven winners, 6-3 in an opening round gam e despite solo home runs rapped by Ron Niedzwieski and Tony Rickenbacker who shared the mound duties in M iller P lace’s losing cause. Other opening round gameshad seen Centereach squelch East Islip 7-1 and Connetquot nip Huntington 9-8 but both those clubs were eliminated also in the quarter finals. the losers included seven doubles amongst their bag of 10 hits. For Busch Art Dutcher had two singles and a triple to pace their 12 hit attack. Larry Mack opened the game against Bob Szczepanik with a double but failed to score and after that all Bowl Hi could manage was harmless singles by Ray Dohren and Tom Woodward as Szczepanik turned in a real mound gem. Bob walked four batters but it was an error behind him that allowed the only Bowl Hi run to cross in the 6th fram e , knocked over finally by Woodward’s sacrifice fly to left. Meanwhile G&G scored in every inning but the 5th in piling 19 runs across the plate, their big frames the 2nd in which they scored five runs and the 6th and 7th when in each case they sent four markers clattering over the plate. Greg Stawski, off to a flying start in his rookie year, kept up his hot swinging with three singles and a double and knocked across a run with each of his safeties for a four RBI outing. Danny Dolan also picked up four ribbies with a triple and two singles while Szczepanik helped his own cause with three singles in his four trips. Ron Tauriello had a single, a double and two sacrifice flies to bat over three teammates, while Bob Salomone crossed home plate on four occasions with a single, double and triple for his four official trips. 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