' * * ' • <• s 46 ^sports Herald & Lantern 18 April '84

on the mark by Mark Mattern % . %

Warriors Squeeze Win Over Capers

It was a grand slam of a ball game Last week Wildwood and Lower Cape May hooked up in what turned out to be a real shootout In. the fourth inning. Kill Osborn smashed a grand slam to give the Warriors a 7-5 lead. Osborn 's, round tripper offset a Sean Brennan grand slam for Lower as the Warriors wound up with an 11-10 victory

Loy Ehlers and Greg Cardaci backed Osborn with five hits between them. The contest went rjght down to the wire as the Capers scored five runs in the sixth inning to close the gap to just one run. At that point. Mother Nature took over and the game was called due to darkness. 'Wildwood upped its record to 3 and ,1 on the season while the Capers

slipped to 2 and 4. i Home runs also played a i wry big part in Wildwood Catholic's 4-3 win over Hammonton. Joe Aita clubbed a solo shot in the sixth inning to provide Mie margin of victory. Earlier in the contest. John Fareja and Jim Kurtz had homers for the Crusaders. Dave Valardo notched the win on .the mound for Wildwood Catholic. With the win the Crusaders posted a 2 and 3 record. MIDDLE TOWNSHIP got a two-run homer from Mike Donovan but it wasn't enough as the Panthers lost 6-3 game to Buena. Two walks and an error cost Middle two runs right off the bat and it never caught up. — - Ocean City ran its record to 4 and 0 on the year with a 5-3 victory over Holy Spirit. The number two was in the cards for David Miller in the win. Miller hit two home runs and tossed a two-hitter. Control was a bit of a problem for Miller, he walked 10 batters while striking out the same number. In other games last week. Ocean City topped Egg Harbor 4-3. Wildwood beat St Augustine 4 to 1. Wildwood Catholic defeated Pleasantville 12-6. and Absegami beat Middle Township 5 to 2. Sally Pomykacz topped the girls softball circuit last week^with three extra base hits in leading Lower Cape May past rival Wildwood 13 to 2. fiomykacz collected two doubles and a triple while pitcher Michelle Wanner tossed a two-hitter. Also - contributing two-baggers were Josee Back and Michele Boyd. Wanner upped her record to 2 and 0 and the Panters stood at 3-2 with the win. SONDRA REEVES combined with Carol Calise in f allowing Millville just one hit as Ocean City won 5-3. Lisa Crompton had three hits, including a triple, for the Red Raiders. The win gave O.C. a 3 and 1 record. Also last week. Ocean City lopped Holy Spirit 12-11 behind freshman Cristv Miller. Laurie Collins did her Ricky Henderson impersonaiion last week against Buena as Middle Township won big. 16-1. Collins stole six bases and collected two

hits to back a six hit pitching performance' from Doris Ross. Jennifer Snyder added to the hit column with three safeties. Snyder also swiped two bases. In all, the Panthers collected 12 steals. Kelly Gallagher looked more like George Brett at the plate than a Wildwood Catholic infielder Gallagher banged out a four-for-five day as the Crusaders beat Pleasant- - ville 14-6". IN BOYS TRACK action, doubles from Jim Grams. Willie Beyce and Joe Default propelled Lower Cape May to an 83-48 win over Wiidwood Catholic. Jim Malinowski took two firsts for the Crusaders in. the distance running events. Elsewhere. Joanthan Dice and Eugene Watts won three events apiece as Ocean City topped Egg Harbor 85-46. Dice took first in the 110^ higher hurdles, the discus and the shot put. Watts won the high jump and two hurdle events. In the sprints. Leon Brown won twice for the Red Raiders. Absegami captured three triples in an 89-42 win over Middle Township and Oakcrest ran all over Wildwood. The score. 100-31. Speaking of triples. Dot Watkins. a junior, had one against Absegami as Middle posted a 67-45 win in girls track Susan Laird, not to be outdone, took a triple of her own for Absegami. Middle's record went tp 1 and 2 with the victory. Ocean City's Melody Sye won three events and anchored a winning relay team in a 77-45 win over Egg Harbor Township. Marge 'Bonnet won two events for the Red Raiders as they raised their record to 4 and 0. Earlier in the week Ocean City nipped a tough Cumberland squad 62-60. TWO VERY GOOD ten nis teams met last week and Low er Cape May came away with a close 3-2 win over Wildwood Scott Swain and Mark I.oCascio won singles for Lower while Bruce Blake took his singles match for the Warriors. Lower upped its record to 4-1 with the win. Wildwood lost match number one. and is 3 and 1 on the season. Wildwood Catholic lost its third against two victories when it was blanked by Hammonton 5-0.

Middle Township lost a close match to Absegami 3-2 with the doubles team f<fr the Panthers performing well. Wayne Towson and Tim Romig and Ed Spaulding and Tony Boyd were the winning combination for Middle. Ocean City's top match of the week proved to be a 5-0 beating of Egg Harbor Township. Lou Paone 'and Scott Poling led the way. REMARKS: So far" so good on the Phillies trades. The new members of the team have proved to help out in big wins so far. We'll still have to see how Gary Matthews treats the Phils when they go to Chicago later on.

I was glad to see Pete Rose get hit number 4.000. He still looks great — as good as hedid when he joined the Phillies five years ago. - All the talk about the Sixers' first draft pick is a waste of time 'because I have the answer. No matter who is going pro or not. the Sixers should draft the player they need the most. If he stays in school, the Sixers will still have the rights to him rnext year. Remember. Julius Erving is going to play only one more season. The Boston Celtics had to wait one year for a player . and it paid off. That player \was Larry Bird.

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