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THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1975 LONG ISLAND TRAVELER-WATCHMAN PAGE TWENTY-THREE Lions Lead Little League The Lions scored three runs in the last of the final inning to pull out a narrow 4-3 victory over the Fire Department in Riverhead Little League’s most thrilling game of last week which featured a pitching duel between Lion southpaw Jim Pipp and the Fire Department’s gritty little rig h t h a n d e r , Vinnie Gallo. The triumph enabled the Lions to take over the league lead with a 3-0 record as the Masons saw their mark slip to 3-1 when they only split with the Moose nine. In other action the Kiwanis took a pair from the Rotary to take over third place in the standings with a 2-2 record. Pipp fanned 10 Fire Department batters while scattering six hits one to an inning in achieving his hill decision. But for a long time it appeared his efforts would go for naught as Gallo blanked the Lions over the first four innings helped by some fine defensive plays. Leftfielder Walt Kielkowski made a diving catch with two outs and two on in the third frame and shortstop G reg Stelzer cam e up with a dazzling pickup of Trent’s hot shot to his left to begin the fourth. The Lions finally got on the scoreboard to trail 3-1 in the last of the 5th with the Fire Department’s only error of the day leading to an unearned marker. But Vinnie got the first man out in the sixth and was just two outs away from victory when the roof fell in. Larry Werner started things by golfing a single to center and Pipp worked Gallo for a walk. Kevin Elwood arched a single into rightfield to cut the score to 3-2 and then little 10-year-old Derron Johnson stung a double over first base to tie the score. Striking while the iron was hot Mark Daniels then delivered the clincher ramming a solid shot into right center that made the Lions a 4-3 winner. The winners collected a total of nine hits, two apiece by Daniels, Steve Troyan and Derron Johnson. The Fire Dept, took a 1-0 lead in the 3rd when Pipp walked two men and Pat Fedun dropped a two out single over the infield. In the 4th a walk, a wild pitch and a single by Kielkowski made it 2-0 and Pipp’s own error followed by Greg Stel- zer’s RBI single plated the other Fire Dept, m a r k e r in the 5th. Fedun and Kielkowski both collect ed two hits apiece for the losers, the latter having his triple go to waste in the top of the 6th. Earlier in the week the same two teams had been knotted 5-5 in the top of the 4th when rain brought an abrupt ending to the tilt. They were going to try and replay the contest last Friday but a late afternoon downpour turned an already soggy field into an unplayable quagmire forcing a postponement now till the end of the season. In the rained out tilt the Fire Department had seen Kielkowski and Reg Underwood clout doubles and Greg Stelzer rip a pair of hard singles. The Lions had amassed six hits, all oddly enough doubles, two by Larry Werner, one each by Kevin Davis, Charlie Trent, Steve Troyan and Kevin Ellwood. Moose Upsets Masons The Masons had been favored over the Moose and form seemed about to hold up in the opener of their two game set when the Masons carried a 12-8 lead with them into the bottom of the sixth. Then Doug Gergela stung a single and Gary Gatz followed with a double. A costly error followed to score one run and after one out a pair of walks pared the score to 12-10. With a chance for a force play at the plate a wild throw allowed two more runs to score to tie matters and the winning marker tallied as Paul Morini put down a bouncer to short. The final score read 13-12 with the Moose showing 11 hits on ROBERT L. WILKINSON Mason Contractor Oaklawn Ave. Ext. Southold 765-3897 GENE'S PRIME MEATS FREEZER ORDERS — PRIME — U.S.D.A. 'There qre.xn a n Y differejit qufllities of meats. We only carry theJjest. USDA Prime Yield 2 & 3. 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Hits by Scott Allen and Bill Zilnicki opened matters with one run scoring on a single by Brian Janis, two more on a hit by Vinnie Campanelli and the final two on passed balls or wild pitches. But the Moose tagged Vin Campanelli for five runs in the top of the 2nd to deadlock matters as their big slugger John Gorman produced a grand-slam home run. Gorman doubled home two more markers in the top of the 5th to put the Moose ahead 7-5, connecting after Donald Quinn had double and Gary Gatz had singled. And the way Scott Hackel was pitching it seemed that would be enough. A fter that rocky first inning Hackel had retired 10 bat ters in succession striking out the side even in the fourth frame. But that com p leted the num b e r of innings he could work in a week by Little League rules and the Masons greeted Doug Gergela roughly in the last of the 5th scoring seven runs for a 12-7 trium p h ., Nash Halsey and Bill Zilnicki both doub led and a walk and a dropped fiy ball had tied matters when Larry Foreman connected for a big three run homer that broke things wide open. Later hits by Mike Brown, Darryl Janis and Brian Janis com pleted the wild, decisive uprising. Brian Ja n i s , Forem a n and Bill Zilnicki had two hits each for the Masons. Scott Hackal, Gorman and Gatz duplicated the feat for the losers. Kiwanis Beat Rotary Twice M e a n w h ile the Kiwanis team whipped the Rotary twice. 14-11 in a wild and wooly affair and 7-1 when Jim Diem hurled well in a game shortened to four innings by early darkness. The Kiwanis had to fight from behind in the opening game and got two doubles from Tom White, two singles by John Bogdan, a two bagger ripped by Neil O’Dowd and singles by Lucky Levesque, Fred R o thberg, Steve Spanburgh, Jim Diem and Adam Lucas. There the Rotary had both Mike Soyars and Kevin Keller show a single and a double apiece, Mike Ligon notch a two bagger and Kristenson and O'Rourke both sin gle. In the second game Levesque led the Kiwanis attack with a single and a double while Bogdan posted a two bagger and White, Lucas and Diem all had singles. LITTLE LEAGUE STANDINGS AS OF JUNE 8 Lions 3 0 Masons 3 1 Kiwanis 2 2 Fire Dept. 1 2 Moose 1 3 Rotary 1 3 Games Next Week Mon., June 16 — Kiwanis vs. Moose; Masons vs. Fire Oept. Tue., June 17 — Lions vs. Rotary Wed., June 18 — Moose vs. Fire Dept. Thur., June 19 — Kiwanis vs. Lions; Rotary vs. Masons The Hurricanes ended their season on a high note, sweeping a three game scries from East Hampton. At East Hampton, Vinnie DeGeorgio shutout East Hampton 5-0 while picking up 11 strikes outs. Theoffense was provided by Larry Thorne, A two run home run and Ed Tufano a bases empty home- run. At home, the Hurricanes won by the score of 8-4 behind Tufano. The Hurricanes banged out 14 hits, with Vinnie DeGeorgio, Ed Tufano, Ricky Wilson, Ross Donneson and Stan Pauzer all collecting two hits a picce. For Ed Tufano it was his 6th win of the year. The final game of the year, Senior Vinnie DeGeorgio asked if he could pitch with one d ay's rest, and he came through with fiying colors. Vinnie pitched his second shut-out of the weeek 11 -0 and allowed only one hit, a topped ground ball to the infield in what was probably the best game of his high school career. Vinnie did not allow a runner past second base. All five seniors on the squad, Vinnie DeGeorgio, Andy Toy, Larry Thorne, Mark Nichols and Mike Felton had base hits and contributed to the victory. By sweeping the series, the Hur ricanes ended up with a 10-14 record on the season. They won 7 of their last 10 games and prospects look bright for next year. Of the starting nine, the leading hitters were Vinnie DeGeorgio, 350, Andy Toy 326, Larry Thorne 301, Ed Tufano 301. Sporting Whirl (Continued from Page 21) game versus the Mariners, the County Seaters took a 5-1 lead in the first inning and proceeded to pile 15 runs across the plate in the second frame allowing them to coast the rest of the way to a wide 26-4 final bulge. Shercc Flippen hurled very well for the champs who got home runs from Debbie Parker and Debbie Zarro with the last named making hers a grand-slam wallop... Don Troyan, Riverhead's slugging first baseman, now reportedly heading for St. John's, which plays a very active diamond schedule, next fall...Troyan incidentally was awarded the Most Valuable Playerawardforbasebail when RHSathletes were honored by the Riverhead Varsity Club at its annual banquet for the school's lettermen recently... Voted by their coaches as M . V. P. 's of their various sports were the brilliant Lonnie Hughes for basketball: Jim Brcltenbach. who place 3rd in New York State .It his weight level, was named for wrestling: Waverly Atkins, a New York State 220 champ for track; Joe KomousinskI for cross country; Chris Contino, first Blue Wave pick for All Suffolk at soccer; Dave Doroski for tennis while for football Tony James was defensive pick and Bob Timmann named on the offense...Hit of the banquet was young Sue Boomer, statistician for the Wave basketball team, who charmed one and all as she presented cute and amusing awards to the appreciative cagers...Though Greenport had to settle for a 9-9 record on the diamond this year Porter fans were happy with the performance of Jeff Geier who batted at over a .400 clip for the season, best swat mark chalked up by a Porter in several years... Back To Muir Again We started the column writing about Bob Muir and we'll close it the same way this time talking on a personal note. Way back when we first started covering sports out this way, long about 1946, we believe it was things weren’t as rosy for newsmen as they are now. We can remember having to hustle to one school or another, paying our way in and getting there early, before the jayvee games, if we wanted to get a seat and take our notes writing on a knee at basketball tilts. It wasn't till Newsday and the Press came into being and started demanding all sorts of privileges for their sportswriters (who would file a three sentences story) that we rfalized we had been pretty stupid all these years turning out reams of copy under very trying conditions. One of the first to give us some recognition was Bob Muir who used to welcome us at the Tucker games and when we'd come in late he'd usher us up to the privacy of a little projection booth that overlooked the court and thc-then fully packed stands. It wasn't heaven but compared to how we had been operating it was sheer bliss though we did raise several lumps on our head when we had to poke it through the aperture to try to catch a glimpse of the clock. And just as he was the first, over the years Bob has been perhaps the most gracious in welcoming us to the school on our visits making Mattituck one of the most pleasants stops on our circuit. One more reason to say again - best of everything to Bob on his night. Storage - Rug Cleaning - Laundry - Tailoring AS AS YOUR PHONE , , , PftO /Vr S T R E E T . G R E E N P O R T N Y .r O N E S • Irrigation C o n t r a c t o r s Glen Head, N.Y.. IRRIGATION CONTRACTORS Installation and Service Anywhere Peter E. Lynch, Jr. Southold: (516) 765-3891 Glen Head: (516) 671-3536 Reservations & Schedule 516-323-2415 F E ORIENT POINT R .Now thru June 12 .F req u e n t D e p a rtures Y 9 a.m . to 7 :3 0 p.m . Special group tours to Mystic Seaport and U. S. Sub Base. $112.50 Per Person Complete. MERCY HIGH won the Division AA Suffolk (bounty championship and went on to the Nassau-Suffolk finals where they bowed to larger schools. Kneeling, left to right, Bruce Dickerson, Ronnie Alec, manager Nancy Rolle; Craig Maglnski, Rot)ert Zilnicki and Robert Boden; standing, David Schaaf, Kevin Calabro, Joseph DeCarle, Edward Meier, Frank Goroleski, Richard Boden, Allan Barry, Mark Haas and Russell McGory. DeCarle, Meier and Alec were tapped for All League. Boden made honorable mention. DeCarle also won MVP for Division AA. Photo by Prancke Studio RIVERHEAD HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS finished their softball season with a 5-3 record resulting in a 3-way tie with Rocky Point and Southampton. They defeated Rocky Point with a grand slam May 31, recorded for Linda Bouchard and another win against Southampton with a grand slam recorded for Debbie Zarro. MVP’s were Maureen Krieger, catcher; Sheree Flippen, pitcher. All League selections were Krieger, Flippen and Zarro. Top, left to right, Debbie Parker, Lori Szczepanik, Barbara Goleski, Patti Moore, Debbie Zarro, Sharon Underwood, Laverne Tennenberg and (3oach Carolyn Rhodes; bottom, Linda Bouchard, Maureen Krieger, Sheree Flippen and Nancy Underwood. photo by Francke Studio FLYING EAGLES of Riverhead Fire Department are the 1975 champs of the Nassau-Suffolk Volunteer Firemen. Left to right, they include John Gay, Larry Taylor, (Do-Captain John Bilski, Stan Zambriski, Tony Regula, Dan White and Captain William Brooks. Photoby Prancke studio SKIIIi DIP PiLS. te. Just one of many sizes ajid shapes to choose from Prom strictly local pool builder \ow is die time to plan yoitr sninmer fon Spring Savings Now On 1975 Models Call us now to plan the construction of your own fiberglass or vinyl lined pool diis spring. Free Estimates - Take lip To 5 Years To Pay 250 Cox Lane Cntdiogue 734-S319 298-4445 Weslfhalia Road MalUtiHi
