Journal Gazette from Mattoon, Illinois • Page 9

PORTS Tuesday, May 10, MB -lUttooailL) Journal Gaxett-B-1 By JIM KIMBALL JG Sports Editor Waveteach MATTOON, Tiny Beecher City High School, sporting only 128 students, treats Its annual baseball meeting with Mattoon High as a "learning experience." The Green Wave gave coach Dave Markwell's Eagles a 12-5 lesson Monday at Grimes Field. "We look at playing larger, schools like Mattoon, Charleston, Salem and Mt. Vernon as like a high school team playing a pro team it's a learning experience for us," Markwell said afterwards. "We know the baseball reouta-tlons of Mattoon and Charleston and we're happy to be on their schedules," he added. Mattoon coach Bob Wiman, overhearing Markwell's comments, said, "I don't think you learned much today we didn't play very well.

"I thought we played awfully ragged. We were as dead today as we were sharp Saturday (a Big 12 Conference doubleheader sweep at Springfield). "I'm sure we experienced a little bit of a letdown today after Saturday," he added. "I guess I expected a little bit of a letdown and I tried to avoid it by playing several kids, but it didn't seem to help." Mattoon constructed a 7-0 lead in the early going and bad little trouble maintaining an upper hand. However, the Eagles did trim the Wave's lead to 7-4 with three runs in the fourth and one in the fifth.

Then, Mattoon pushed the Eagles into a forced landing with five runs in the bottom of the fifth to -construct a 12-4 advantage. The Wave outhit Beecher City 10-9 with Doug Thompson and Darin Scott each going 2-for-3 and scoring twice apiece to lead the way. Both senior standouts have been swining a hot bat of late. Scott has gone 9-for-l6 over the past four games Thompson I i '4? Mattoon's Hal Fairley Photo by Jim Kimball Mattoon's Randy Steele beats outfielder's throw back to first base Monday against Beecher City. Wave fdyrtlhi at Charlestoni 8-of-20.

Mark Stremming picked up the pitching win with four strong innings of relief. The junior righthander entered in the fourth with runners in scoring position, no outs and three runs already in and proceeded to set the Eagles down in 1-2-3 order. He wound up allowing four hits and two runs the remaining way. "He got the job done," Wiman said of Stremming's performance. "He wasn't suppose to pitch until Thursday (at home against Stew-Stras)." Beecher City forced Wiman's hand by sending Wave starter Dave Snapp to the sidelines in the fourth.

The Eagles had their first five runners of the inning reach base, to runs in the top of the eighth for the victory. Rush Record, with one inning of relief help from Ken Gagnon, gained the pitching victory (2-0). He fanned eight batters while 'allowing seven hits. Robert Dort had three hits and two RBIs for Mattoon. Jeff Rutledge had two hits and as many RBIs.

He. leads the team in beatasey PSophsirally Beecher City AB-RH 3-2-2 3- (M( 4- 1-0 3-2-2 Thompson.ss Steele.cl R.SmitA,U,3b HarUe.ri 10 3-1 BMW i t- Ma.Stremmlng,2b,p Fuller.c Owens, ph Gunn.c Snapp.p Dobbcph ShulMf 2-1-1 1-1-0 1-04 1-1-0 1-1-1 1-04 1-0-1 0- 04 1- 1-1 JO-1H0 Totals Score by tamliuB Beecher City 000 310 1- 5- 9-5 Mattoon 304 050 12-102 Kirchbofer and Vincent; Snapp, Mark Stremming (4) and Fuller, Gunn (4). Winner-Stremming; loser-Kirchholer (2-1). Lakers play role of spoiler CASEY, III. Mattoon's unbeaten sophomore baseball team rallied in the seventh and eighth innings here Monday for a 10-5 victory over Casey.

The Green Wave team scored three times in the top of the seventh inning to overcome the hosts' 4-2 lead. Casey scored once in the bottom of the frame to force the game into extra innings. Mattoon then exploded for five Loggeia iilumidy. tie laiieii to record a single strikeout and walked only three batters. "Alan certainly didn't overpower them," Laker coach Gene Creek admitted.

"But, he made them swing the bats and we were able to make trie plays behind him." His mates also supported him with a healthy 11-hit attack led by Brad Wood's two hits and three RBIs. Terry McDevitt and Jack Graham had two RBIs apiece. C.R. Black collected Lake Land's lone RBI in the first game. Mattoon sophomore Tim Gunn suffered the first game pitching loss despite, allowing only six hits.

He issued, eight free passes while recording seven strikeouts The split leaves Lake Land with a 33-11 record. CHARLESTON, Jl. Mat-toon finished fourth in Monday's Big Trojan Invitational Track and Field at EIU's O'Brien Stadium. Host Charleston won the seven-team event with 85 points Decatur Eisenhower Paris 18andMt.Zion6. Mattoon had two Individual winners.

Jim Chandler won the 800-meter run in 2:00.86 after Travis Owen captured the blue ribbon in the 300-meter steeplechase. Hal Fairley cleared 6-2 to place second in the high jump. Teammate Gary Voudrie placed second in both hurdle events the 110-meter high hurdles and the 300-meter lows. Ken Anderson gained a run-nerup finish in the triple jump. Jim Smith was fourth in the 200-meter dash and fifth in the 100-meter dash.

Mattoon won one of the four relay races conducted. Bess' 3200-meter unit was victorious. This action marks the final tuneup for Mattoon prior to competing in Friday's Big 12 Conference meet in Champaign. Tne complete individual results of the Big Trojan Invita-' tional can be found in the scoreboard on page b2. Cardinals SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -Pinch hitter Dave Bergman singled home the winning run to cap a two-run ninth inning rally Monday night that enabled the San Francisco Giants to defeat the St.

Louis Cardinals, 5-4, and extend their winning streak to six games. After the Cardinals had scored three runs in the top of the ninth to Sports menu TODAY 1 p.m.-LakeLand baseball team at Parkland College(2). 4 p.m.-MHS varsity baseball team at Effingham SLAnthony. 4 p.m.-MHS Wavette Softball teamatMt.Zion. 4 Wavette tracksters host Pans and Teutopolis at Gaines Photos by Brad Patterson places second in HJ.

Travis Owen en route to steeplechase victory lose take a 4-3 lead, the Giants began their comeback against losing reliever Bruce Sutter, 3-1, when Milt May walked. Max Venable went in as a pinch runner and he beat the throw to second on Johnnie Lemaster's sacrifice bunt attempt, putting runners on first and second with none out. Darrell Evans followed with a ground rule double to score Venable and ChilnDavis was walked intentionally farflll the bases. After Jack Clark struck out, Bergman, batting for Jeff Leonard, delivered his game-winning hit to make a winner of reliever Gary Lavelle, 1-0. The Cardinals scored three runs in the top of the inning on singles by Lonnie Smith and Willie McGee, a double by pinch hitter Darrell Porter and a two-run bloop single by Rafael Santana.

Curtis-Mathes meets Mattoon Merchants at 6:30 in tonight's opening game with the winner going against Broadway Joe's In the title game at 7:30. Commissioner Delbert Hamilton has called a meeting o( alfMattoon Softball Association -managers at 6 o'clock tonight at Klnzel Field. four of them with hits, forcing Wiman to switch to Stremming. Snapp had allowed only one baserunner through the first three innings. Mattoon improved to 8-3 with the win, its fifth straight.

The Wave returns to action today in a road game at Effingham St. Anthony. 10-5 runs-batted-in with 11. Record helped his own cause with two hits and two RBIs. Mattoon returns to action Wednesday at Danville.

Score by innlngi Mattoon 200 000 35-10-9-4 Casey 002 002 10 5-7-4 Record, Gagnon(8) and S.Burrell. Winner-Record (2-0). Totals Lakers. L.Land 1S-M Score by inniagi 000 002 0 -2-0-2 100 202 X-5-4-1 Gunn and Eads; Gand and White. Winner-Ganbd; loser-Gunn(3-2).

Second game Laker McDevitt.ss Parkerjf Harpster.lb Black.c Eads.dr K.Turner.cf Graham.dh Caselton.rf Warstler.2b ToUls Lakers L.Land AB-R-H 44-1 4-1-1 2- 24 44-2 0-34 3- 2-2 4- 2-2 2-1-2 44-1 344 30-11-11 Score by innings 200 153-11-114 000 000 0- 2-2 Snedeker and Black; Wright, Mathiotte(5) and White. Winner-Snedeker (44); loser-Wright. No.l: Whilworth-Freeman(M) beat Lyons-Livengood, No.2: R.Helms-Lange(M) lost to Bates-John Fields, 6-1, 6-1. No.3: K. Helms-Ferree(M) lost to Wingo-Hannan, 6-4, 7-5.

4-3 Alejandro Pena. Jody Davis led off with a single and was forced by Jenkins. Larry Bowa then singled and Jenkins moved to third with Bowa taking second on the throw to the plate. Bill Buckner then drove in Jenkins and Bowa with a single to center. Chicago went ahead in the top of the sixth 3-2 as Ron Cey, making his first appearance at Dodger Stadium since Los Angeles traded him to the Cubs, singled for his third hit of the game, took second on a passed ball and scored on Jenkins single.

Freeman post key win The Lakers piayeu wunuui starters Joe Riddle at second base and Curt Turner in the outfield. Both are sidelined with injuries sustained in last weekend's Sectional tourney at Olncy. Darin Muzzarelli had to set out the second game Monday with a pulled leg muscle. Following are the Laker box scores from Monday's two games: First game Laker McDevilt.ss Parker.K Harpster.lb Black.dh K.Turner.cl Caselton.rf Eads.c AB-R-H 4-04 2-1-1 344 34-2 2-14 34-1 34-1 244 34-1 6-2. No.S-Benji FerreelM) lost to Jim Bates, 64, 6-3.

No.6-Kevin Lange(M) lost to Mike Graff, 6-1, (-1. nip Cubs er, took the loss in his first decision. Landreaux's solo homer in the sixth inning, his fifth of the season, tied the score at 3-3. The Dodgers then loaded the bases but Phil Campbell relieved starter Ferguson Jenkins and retired the side. Los Angeles took a 2-0 lead in the second Inning when Pedro Guer rero led off with a single and Greg Brock followed with his sixth homer.

The Cubs came, back with two runs in the fifth to tie the score off SPRINGFIELD, 111. Lake Land's Lakers played, the role of spoiler here Monday The Lakers split a doubleheader with Lincoln Land winning the nightcap 11-0 after dropping the opener 5-2. The split assured Kankakee Community College of a share of the Central Illinois Athletic Conference crown. Lincoln Land and Kankakee both finished with, title-sharing 13-3 marks. Lake Land, who closes loop play with a doubleheader at Parkland College in Champaign today, is presently in third place with an 8-6 mark followed by Parkland (4-10) and Danville College (0-16).

Mattoon freshman Alan Snedeker spun a two-hitter in blanking the DANVILLE, 111. Doug Whitworth and Stan Freeman should have assured themselves of a No.l seed in doubles play for the upcoming District here Monday. They defeated Danville's top duo. 6-0, 6-1 for practically the only bright spot in a 7-2 Green Wave loss to the Vikings. "Doug and Stan have now defeated four (Charleston, Urbana, Danville and Paris) of the six schools entered in the District," Green Wave coach Tom Epperson points out.

"The only two they haverit defeated are Neoga and Casey, but I don't think they'll have any trouble with them," he added. Mattoon hosts Neoga next Epperson escorts his club to Casey for a dual match on Thurs-day, May 19. Following are the complete results ofhe Danville match: Singlet No.l-Doug Whitworth! M) bet Terry Lyons. Whitworth 6-1, 4-6, 0-3. No.2-Stan Freeman! M) lost to John Livengood, No.3-Rob Helms(M) lost to RonWingo, 64, 6-1.

No.4-Ken Helms(M) lost to Phil Hainan, 6-3, Dodgers LOS ANGELES (UPI) Ken Landreaux, who earlier homered to tie the score, beat out an infield single with two oit in the ninth inning to drive in Bill Russell with the winning run Monday night, leading the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 4-3 victory over the Chicago Cubs. Russell reached on an infield single, was sacrificed to second by pinch hitter Dave Anderson ami took third on Steve Sax' infield out) Dave Stewart earned his third victory of the season against no losses. Lee Smith, the third Cubs' pitch Softball finals tonight MATTOON The Mattoon Slowpitch Softball League preseason tourney concludes tonight at Klnzel Field, Three games were played Monday. Curtis-Mathes defeated Roik chetti Distributing 10-3; Broadway Joe's blanked Mattoon Merchants 10-0 and Curtis-Mathes belted.