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PAGE 6, THE HERALD,

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Thursday, April-6, 1978

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Here’a a Tuesday night training session of the
Kitimat Marlin Swim Club in Kitimat, This year
the attendence is up around “ 50 enthusiastic

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left). Hans is joined in the coaching duties by his
wife Lisa, (pictured right). Watch
Marlins in the Monday Herald. .

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- Seaver shows sparks of promise

Tom Seaver is ac- expec

customed to opening-day
pitching assignments—

’s never missed one in
the last 10 years and he’ll
be on the mound today

- when baseball's National

League opens its season.

The only difference for
Seaver is that his 11th
opening-day assignment
will be for Cincinnati
Reds instead of New York
Mets. Seaver went to the
Reds last June and posted.

a 14-3 record in the half-”

season he spent with
fhem and 21-6 over all.
Beis the No. 1 hurler on
manager Sparky An-
derson's staff and he'll
get ‘the call when the
Reds open against
Houston Astros before an

ted sellout crowd in
Riverfront Stadium. The
Astros will counter with
J.R. Richard, who had an
18-12 record last season
including four victories
over the Reds,

Cincinnati traditionally
plays host to the National
League opener but will
have to share the
baseball spotlight tonight
with three American
League games, two of
them openers.

The American’ League
season got under’ way .
Wednesday night at
Seattle with Minnesota
Twins
Mariners.

Crowds of 55,000 are '
expected in Detroit where

facing

.Flanag

Mark (The Bird)
Fidrych, coming back
om an injury-plagu
season, will start for the .
Tigers against Dave
Lemanczyk and Toronto

Blue Jays.

FLANAGAN STARTS

At Milwaukee, Mike
an has Baltimore
Orioles’ openingday
assignment against the
Brewers’ Jerry
Augustine.

Fidrych, whose antics
on the micund captured

the. imagination. of the

-baseball public when he

‘won ~>s- rookie-of-the-year

- honors for a 19-9 season in
. 1976, battled knee and

arm problems and dipped
to 6-4 last year.

‘Cougars can’t-catch Bruins

George Fritz scored at
9:53 of sudden-death
overtime Tuesday night
to give Victoria Cougars
a 43 win over Portland
‘Winter Hawks in a
Western Canada Hockey
League playoff game
before 3,604 fans.

The victory gave the
Cougars a 2-3 record in
the eight-game round
robin series to determine
Western Division
finalists. Portland is 1-4
and New Westminster
Bruins are 4-0.

In other games,
Brandon Wheat Kings
defeated Regina Pats 5-1
and Billings Bighorns

‘edged Medicine Hat
Tigers 5-3. ©

At Victoria, Fritz took a
pass from Gary Lupul
and beat goalkepper Bart
Hunter with a high
backhander..

Doug Lecuyer, Brent
Peterson and Ron
Chorney scored for the
Winter Hawks, who held
period leads of 2-1 and. 8-1.

Geordie ‘RobertSon
Curt Fraser and Lu ul
were the other scorers for
the Cougars, who held a
97-31 edge in shots on

goal. -
ROOKIE SHINES
Kevin: Eastman, a 17-
year-old. rookie from
Ladysmith, B.C. was in
the Cougars net for the
second straight Victoria
victory.
‘ At Brandon, _ Bill
Derlago scored two first-
patios goals to spark the
t Kings to their
victory over Regina
before 3,753 fans.
The-win was Brandon’s
third in five games in the
couble round-robin East
Division playoff. The loss
dropped the Pats' won-
loss record to 1-3, Flin
Flon Bombers lead the
division: with two wins
against one loss,
Derlago beat, Regina
goaltender Pat Ansell

from close range for both
goals.

Brad Kempthorne also
had a pair of goals for the
Wheat Kings, who held a
$-1 lead after two periods.
Brian Propp got the other
Brandon goal.

Defenceman Kevin

“Krook scored the Pats’

goal on a power play late
in the second period. -
Ansell made 40 saves,
nine more than’ Bran-
don’s Rick Knickle.
NACHBAUR SCORES
Two

At Medicine Hat, Don.
Nachbaur scored two
second-peried goals 14:
seconds apart to help.
Billings to their victory
‘over the Tigers. =
. The teams were.tied 1-1
after 20 minutes but
Billings pulled ahead 4-1
after the second period on

Sports

AUSTRALIA WINS

GEORGETOWN,,

Guyana (Reuter)
Australia completed a
three-wicket .victory in
the third cricket test
Wednesday to cut West
Indies’ lead to 2-1 in the
five-match series, By
reaching 362 for seven,
Robby Simpson's
Australian club achieved
the highest. winning
fourth-innings total in the
history of matches bet-
ween the two sides.
Scores: West Indies 205
and 492; Australia 286
and 362 for seven. —_.
TURF

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WASHINGTON (AP) —
Serious knee, ankle and
foot injuries in “U.S.
college football occur
more often on artificcal
turf than on natural

grads, SAYE a preliminary .
Qo.

studx presented
Congress on Wednesday
by the Nattonal Football

Nachbaur's goals and a
single by Pat Conacher.
Gord Stafford and Mike
Toal were the other
marksmen for the
Bighorns while Jim Nill,
Pave Fnopeck and: Ron
Van Slyke answered for
Medicine Hat.

‘Tim Thomlison turned
aside 29 shots on goal for
the Bighorns and Darrell
Furmanek and Pierre
Lamoureux. combined to
stop $2 for Medicine Hat.

he win gave Billings
the lead in the Central
Division semi-fenal with
eight points followed by
Lethbridge Broncos with
four and: Medicine Hat
with two.

‘Playoff action resumes
tonight with Regina at
Flin Flon, Portland at
New Westminster and
Lethbridge at Billings.

Shorts

League. Players’.

Association. The report,

for the seasons 1975-1977;

says knee injuries for all
three years are higher on
artificial surfaces even
though 59 per cent of the
practices and. games
were played on natural

DUNEDIN, Fla. (CP!
— Toronto Blue Jays of
baseball’s American
League optioned out-
fielder Sam Ewing to
their .

Syracuse on Wednesday.
Ewing, who was acquired
by the Blue Jays from

icago White Sox in the
1978 American League
expansion draft, was
used. mainly as 4

designated hitter and

ch hitter last season,

home runs and 34 runs
batted In, ;

EWING OPTIONED

International |
‘League farm. club at ©

itting 287 with four: |

Lemanczyk, who. went
from Detroit to the Blue
Jays in. the American
League expansion draft,
posted .a 13-16 mark. in
Toronto's first season.
After the ceremonial
HoustonCincinnatl
opener the remainder of
the National League gets
going Friday with
Montreal Expos at New
York Mets, Chicago Cubs

‘at Pittsburgh Pirates and

San .Diego at San
Franciso Giants in day
games and St:- Louis
Cardinals at Philadelphia

. Phillies and Los Angeles

Dodgers at Atlarita’ in
night action. © |.
Two American League
openers arescheduled for
Friday with Boston Red
Sox getting under way at

-Cmicago White Sox in an“

afternoon’ game and Cali-
fornia Angels —en-

tertaining Oakland A’s in

a night game.

The final American
League openers are
scheduled for Saturday
when New York Yankees
open at Texas Rangers
and Cleveland ‘Indians.
play host ‘to Kansas City
Royals.

(CP) — The line of Garth
Morgan, Peter Morris
and Nels Venerus did
most of the damage Tues-
day night as Spokane
Flyers defeated Kim-
berley Dynamiters 6-4 to
square. their best-of-
seven Western — In-
ternational Hockey
League final at 1-1.
Morgan scored twice
and Morris and Venerus

added one apiece as the:

Flyers led 2-1 after the

first period and blanked

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Minnesota Twins and
Seattle Mariners aren't
considered contenders in
the American League
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_ sometime tonight. os
; The major - league

baseball season fed
under way when those
two teams square off in
Seattle's Kingdome. The
National League kicks off
Thurfday afternoon in
Cincinnati with the Reds
playing host to Houston
Astros, and all 26 major
league clubs are
scheduled for action by
Saturday.

In their sophomore
year, the expansion
Mariners hope to better
last season’s mark of 64-

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people expect less from.

the Twins, who held on to
‘first place for all of May,
most of June and even as
late as Aug. 15-16 before
fading to fourth, 17%
games Off the pace.
Although Rod Carew and
his .368 bat are back, the

» Twins lost league RBI

‘Rendle Larry Hisle and
tting runner-up Lyman
Bostock in the free-agent

drait.

Seattle’s Glenn Abbott,
a 12-game winner, will
the honor of

the first pitch of
the season. He be op-
posed by Dave Goltz, who.
won 20 last season.

SEAVER STARTS

The National League
opener pits Cincinnati’s
‘Tom Seaver against
Houston’s J.R. Richard.

As the exhibition
season wound down, the
defending NL champion
.Los Angeles Dodgers
suffered their seventh
consecutive defeat,
bowing to Oakland A’s 6-5
on Jeff Newman's two-
run single in the eighth.
inning even though third
‘baseman Ron Cey,

_ Sidelined since March 26

with a pulled hamstring,
returned to action and
rapped out four hits.

As. the various teams
struggled to cut down, to.:
‘the openingday limit of 25,

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couple of surprising

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Kansas City Royals
sent slugging first
baseman John Mayberry
to Toronto Blue Jays for a
player to be named later,
opening a spot for rookie
sensation Clint Hurdle.
With Duffy Dyer out
with a broken thumb,
Pittsburgh Pirates
catcher
Manny Sanguillen from
Oakland A's for relief
itcher Elias -Sosa, out-
ielder Miguel Dilone and
‘a player to be nam
later. .
In exhibition action:
Philadelphia Phillies
crashed seven home runs
and crushed Toronto 17-4,
The long-ball hitters were
Greg Luzinski, Richie
Hebner, Bob Boone, Bake
McBride, Larry Bowa,
Mike Schmidt andnJay
Johnstone. .
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San Diego Padres got a
_threerun homer from
Dave Winfield and a pair
of solo shots from Oscar.
Gamble and defeated
California Angels 9-7. -
Milwaukee’s Ben

Oglivie drove in four - .

runs; three with a homer,
and Gorman Thomas
added a two-run blast in
the Brewers’ 10-8 victory
over Cleveland,

Lamar Johnson
‘-eollected his 18th RBI
with a sixth-inning triple,
helping Chicago ite
‘Sox beat Atlanta Braves
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murled six scoreless
ennings as Kansas City
ripped Baltimore Orioles
1.1

Home runs by Bill
Robinson and John
Milner helped Pittsburgh
Pirates turn back Boston
Red Sox 3-1.

Greg Gross had two
singles and a double and
drove in three runs to
lead Chicago Cubs over
San Francisco Giants 9-4.

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