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THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1975 LONQ ISLAND TRAVELER-WATCHMAN PAGE TWENTY-ONE Sporting W hirl BY BOB BURNS A previous commitment prevents us from attending the well deserved testimonial the good people of Mattituck are throwing for their long time coach and athletic director, Bob Muir this weekend but we would certainly be remiss if we d idn’t add our congratulations and best wishes for a man who has long held our respect. It seems impossible he has been a part of the Mattituck scene since 1935 which makes it a nice round 40 years of dedicated service to that community's school system during which time he has taught several generations of Tucker boys not only how to be winning athletes but also prepared them with the important desire, teamwork and sportsmanship that would carry over and help them through the rest of their lives. Bob is stepping down as athletic director but will keep his hand in as coach of the Tucker soccer teams which, of course, is good news indeed for his many admirers. Though he was a successful coach at many sports, as will be noted shortly, it was as a Soccer Coach he enjoyed his most fame. His squads have been respected throughout Suffolk County these many years as well they might. If we have our facts straight Mattituck has won no less than eleven Suffolk County titles at the sport, an amazing record considering the relatively small size of the school. We doubt if many high school coaches in the entire nation can match his record of 390 victories in the sport. Since he hasn’t handled Mattituck’s basketball or baseball squads in recent years perhaps some of the younger set do not realize the solid success he had when he did pilot those squads. His basketball teams were some of the best around in their day and Mattituck was considered as much a court power for a long stretch as Southampton has been of late. Bob handled the reins at basketball for 21 years and won ten league championships and in baseball he coached for 27 years and annexed five league crowns as well as one Suffolk County championship. He even had a county championship at track. All told the figures show his teams won 252 basketball victories under his tutelage while the diamond nines chalked up 243 triumphs. Muir came to Mattituck right out of Ithaca College where he played soccer and basketball and even wrestled as a 125 pounder. His success as a coach opened many chances for him to move on to bigger high schools and he attracted the interest of several colleges as well but Bob chose to stay on at Mattituck and that was certainly Mattituck’s gain. Keeping busy even in the summer-time the popular mentor supervised Southold’s town water safety program for the past 30 years and certainly taught a lot of North Fork youngsters how to swim over that period. This list of standout performers he developed would stretch on and on and we will make no attempt to list them all here. We just hope they all turn out this Saturday night to pay tribute to their coach when he will be honored with an affair at the Mattituck Manor. Atkins Takes State Title Section Eleven, which represents Suffolk County had to be content with a Third place finish in the New York State track meet held up near Syracuse last weekend. The Suffolk squad posted 45 points while Nassau County (Section Eight) which annexed the state crown for the fifth year in a row piled up bO'A points and needed it to shade \Section One (Westchester) which scored 58 points. Big news for Eastern Suffolk track followers was the fact that Riverhead’s crack sprinter, Waverly Atkins, corralled a first place finish in the 220 yard dash where he stepped the distance in 0:21.9 to best the best in the state. “ Skeeter” attempted a double and it was figured he might fare best in the 100 yard dash but there he had to be content with a fourth place with the winner’s time being 0:09.9. So all told Atkins piled up eight points which placed Riverhead’s name well up in the lists. While Section scoring is given top billing at the state level, in the matter of individual schools New Rochelle boys amassed 26 points, Mt. Vernon, Baldwinsville and Lynbrook all had their lads score 12 points apiece while Riverhead, thanks to Atkins, rated fifth with those 8 points. Section Eleven had only 2 other first places with Dan McDaniel of Bay Shore winning the broad jump with a leap of 22’ 4 Vi” and the Suffolk two mile relay quartet winning with a sharp 8:00.3 clocking. Running one of the legs on that quartet was Kevin Lockerbie of Stony Brook whose brother Don ran second in the 880 event where the winner’s time was a rapid 1:52.9. The girls meanwhile held their first ever New York State track meet up at West Point last weekend and there the Long Island contingent did not rate well at all. Other parts of the state have had their girl's track program operating longer than those on the Island and it showed. Section Eight (Nassau) placed eight with but six points while Section Eleven (Suffolk) had but two points and finished tenth in the eleven section field. Better luck next year. Seabiscult Runs Again Sid Frank, who was quite a runner back in his younger days before he earned fame on the Slow Pitch field as Silent Sid Frank, ACE Pitcher, is about to put himself to the test this coming Sunday for he is ready, eager and champing at the bit to take part in the Huntington-Cross-Township 20 Kilometer Road Race that starts in Lloyd Harbor and finishes in East Northport. The tough course, the first half of which is mostly uphill, covers 12.4 miles and it will be quite an accomplishment if Sid, pushing 49 years of age, can even finish it. But the Silent One is setting his sights on winning a trophy for his age group even the the field, which has attracted over 700 runners from all over the United States, will be a crackerjack one. Frank, who was once nicknamed “ Seabiscult” after a famous race-horse of that name when he was an outstanding runner in his high school days, has been an avid jogger for the past several years and in his latest test has run nine miles and pronounced himself finely tuned for the task ahead. The Sporting Whirl wishes him well and we have his word he will let us know how he fares whether it be good news or bad. Odds And Ends From Here And There Mercy High bowed in two straight to St. Mary’s in the Nassau-Suffolk Catholic diamond league playoffs but it sure was a very successful campaign for coach Tom Murray and his Monarch players. Their prowess was duly noted too when the coaches got toeether to make the All-Division A picks. Picked for the first team was Mercy’s ace pitcher, Joe DeCarle, while Eddie Meier was a repeat pick as an outfielder and junior second baseman, Ron Alec was also singled out for laurels. Three more Monarchs were given honorable mention, catcher Dave Schaff, outfielder-pitcher Frank GoroleskI and sophomore Bobby Boden. Particularly gratifying had to be the announcement that the Most Valuable Player in Division A was deemed to be Joe DeCarle whose strong pitching was perhaps the most instrumental factor in Mercy’s winning its Division crown. Riverhead High’s giri’s softball captured the League VI softball championship last week. The Blue Wave squad finished in a three way tie for first with Southampton and Rocky Point, all three schools sporting identical 5-3 records thus necessitating a playoff. Southampton drew the bye with Riverhead proceeding to knock off Rocky Point. Then in the title (Continued on Page 23; RIVERHEAD HIGH girls who placed in the recent Suffoll< County Giris' Track Championships were Emily Stewart, Donna Harris, Pamela Smith, Virginia Pritchard, Charlene Johnson and Mary Jane Johnson. IVIiss Pritchard was the winner in the 100 yard dash while Charlene Johnson placed 2nd in the long jump. The others annexed 6th place finishes in their events. St. Isidore’s Split, Record 6-3 Things are growing tougher for the St. Isidore entry in the CYO baseball loop the longer the season progresses. Last week M a n a g e r Butch D e n s i e s k i's charges split their two games to give them a 6-3 record on the season which all but assures them of a second place finish. But their chances at the title disappeared last Sunday morning when they were beaten 4-3 by St. John's of Center Moriches which now sports an unbeaten slate of 9-0. It was the third time the Center Moriches team has edged the Izzies by one run in their three meetings and this time Riverhead based squad could show just one hit in absorbing the loss. In fact St. Isidore's had a hard time nipping Sacred Heart of Mat tituck on Saturday afternoon. They had slau g h t e r e d that team by counts of 19-0 and 15-1 in earlier clashes but this time only pulled out a narrow 8-7 triumph. The schedule now has just three more games to run with St. Isidore’s tackling St. John's of Riverhead on the Mercy High field this Saturday afternoon at 1:30. C e n ter M o r iches' ace pitcher Turpin w a s , working , on a no hit game with just one more man ■to retire in the 7th inning Sunday when Phil Pierchanowski spoiled that bid by clouting a double. But Turpin bore down to make the next batter his sixth strikeout victim of the day to hold onto his one run edge. The Moriches hurler made Pump House (Continued from Page 20) of its scoring in the final three innings when Walt Miles homered again with one on. Will Patterson cracked his sixth homer of the campaign also with a mate aboard. Bill Spanburgh whacked a pair of doubles and both Bob Quinn and Bob Ruth rapped a pair of singles. On the night then Spanburgh shook his slump with a 4 for 4 outing which included three two baggers while Quinn knocked across four runs with his 3 for 4 plate production. Walt Miles’ big outing had already been mentioned while Patterson picked up three ribbies with his homer and a double and Larry Johnson went 3 for 4 with two doubles to his credit. Twelve different Pum p House players crossed home plate at least once and all shared in the hit production. The Fire D e p a r t m e n t got to Benjamin for two runs in the 3rd on doubles by John H u b b a r d and Sonny Zaneski and a single by Harry Jackson. They pecked away for solo tallies in the 4th and 5th and scored two more in the 6th on a walk and three straight singles his task more difficult by issuing nine walks and the defense in back of him was shaky at times but St. Isidore’s helped with some less than alert baserunning. In the first for example, the losers had one man picked off first base and another out stealing third and in the 6th. trying to break a 3-3 tie a runner was out at the plate. Pierchanowski, on the hill for St. Isidore's, was tagged for eight hits, walked eight men and fanned six. The winning marker was forced across the plate in the top of the 7th when three walks were issued after Balzano had doubled with one out. In between those walks Bal zano had been thrown out at the plate on a fielder's choice for the second out and finally Steve Czelet- ka came in to put out the fire getting the third out on a fly to center after the damage had been done. The Iz/.ics had taken a 2-0 lead in the 2nd when Turpin walked a pair and had them score on an error and a balk. Errors helped the losers to get their third marker in the 5th. St. John’s got their first three tallies in the 5th after having left the bags filled in the 2nd and seen Pierchanowski strike out their side in the third. Marczyk began that inning with a double and Eaderesto walked. T u r p i n ’s fly to center plated Marczyk and a single by Morgan scored Eaderesto. Balzan- o’s double knocked home the third run. Balzano by the way had a single and two doubles for his four trips to prove the batting standout. St. John’s stranded a total of 12 baserunners. St. Isidore's seven. A tremendous crowd was on hand for the game it should be noted. The day before three St. Isidore pitchers struck out a total of 13 Sacred Heart batters. Mark Kozak opened with a strikeout but then gave up a single and walked four men to force in two runs before Steve Czeletka came on to leave the bags loaded by tossing two strike outs. Steve worked the third in sharp order and then Kozak came back for awhile with Pierchanowski finishing up in grand style to protect a one run lead. St. Isidore’s tied it at 2-2 in the 2nd on a hit batter, a walk and a single by Steve Szczepanik. The Riverhead team went on a five run spree in the 3rd when they loaded the bags on two walks and an enem y error. A hit by Robert Lombardi tied the score at 3-3, a walk to Charlie Zilnicki forced over a run after which hits by Steve Szczepanik and Mark Kozak and a walk to Bill Zilnicki did the rest of the damage each leading to a run. But the score was tied 7-7 when St. Isidore's came in to bat in their half of the 6th. It took a hit batter and three straight walks, the last to Steve Czeletka forcing across the winning run, to win it. The winners had just four hits on the afternoon, the losers five with Cox, Crofts and Norton connecting for timely safe ties. by Bill Conklin, Hubbard and Joe Pipp. Spider Ligon hurled the 7th for the winners and an error and a double by Butch Young plated the final run of the night for the losers who had a total of 13 hits, two each by Hubbard, Pipp, Leo Jasinski, Jackson, Bruce Edwards and Young. Lou Waski was the Fire Depart ment's losing hurler. In the other match J&J Electric scored an unearned run in the first on a single by Paul Troyan and a dropped outfield fly with two outs. Thereafter John Kruel had them eating out of his hand scattering four singles and three walks over the final six frames. The Moose tied the score in the 3rd and their marker was also a gift. Bob Finch had begun matters with a two bagger and an error got him over the plate. But in the 5th the Moose broke through to win. They loaded the bases when Timmann walked two men around a single by Adam Gatz. Ray got one batter to hit into a force play at the plate but then Ray Cheshire delivered the game breaker sending two runners over. J&J pulled two double plays on the night and the Moose one with Bob Harrison of the winners and Paul Troyan of the losing side the only batters to hit safely on two occasions. 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