PAGE 4, The

Herald,

Monday May 15,

1978.

Thornhill gym gets unique mural

| Getting ready...

National League 14 inning longest ‘78 game

By THE ASSOICATED PRESS

“Relief pitchers don’t get many chances to hit," said Tom Dixon of Houston Astros. “So we have to make the most of our op- portunities."”

Dixon, as well as Chicago Cubs’ Donnie Moore, did just that Friday night.

Dixon hit a run-scoring single in the 14th inning, his first hit inthe major leagues, to give the Astros a 54 win over New York Mets in a four-hour and 21-minute marathon, the longest game in the National League this season.

And Moore, who had three hits last year, drove in a pair of runs with his second hit in three times at bat this baseball season, a single that was the key blow in a six-run third inning that carried Chicago Cubs to a 9-7 triumph over Los Angeles Dodgers.

Tn other games, Cincinnati Reds blanked Philadelphia Phillies 3-0, Montreal Expos beat Atlanta Braves 5-3, San

Francisco Giants defeated St. Louis Cardinals $3 and San Diego Padres trimmed

Pittsburgh Pirates 6-4.

New York took a 2-0 lead into the ninth before the Astros tied the score on four walks and a hit batsman. Enos Cabell’s tworun homer in the 11th gave Houston a 4-2 advantage, but the Mets rallied to tie in the bottom half of the 11th on singles by Willie Montanez and John Stearns.

Julio Gonzalez, who en- tered the game as a pinch runner in the ninth inning, doubled to the left-field corner off Skip Lockwood with one out in the 14th. Then Dixon hit a single into centre for the winning run.

Dixon did the job on the mound as well, allowing one hit in three innings of scoreless relief to raise his record to 2-0.

Cubs 9 Dodgers 7

The Dodgers knocked out Starter Ray Burris with five runs in the second inning, two of them on a double by Ron Cey and two on Steve Garvey's fourth home run of the year.

Moore; 2-0, hurled five strong innings of relief to get the win.

Students from Thornhill Junior Secondary school finished the third stage of a colorful art project in the school gym depicting the student sports teams.

Fifty feet of wall space was painted during a two

month period by about 10 youngsters in a grade 10 art class,

Each year students paint a mural on a section of wall space to give the Thornhill gym a unique character,

Painting the mural...

American League

Blue Jays equal & game record

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Just when you think you've seen everything, it turns out you ain’t seen nothin’ after

And if you live long enough, you might witness another night like Friday in the American League.

Item: Chicago’s sore- kneed Wilbur Wood was credited with the win in the White Sox' 4-3 victory over Milwaukee Brewers although he only pitched 41-3 innings as the starting pit- cher.

item: Kansas City’s Amos Otis circled the bases with a twoout, two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth in- ning when two New York outfielders crashed together, giving the Royals a 4-3 triumph over the Yankees.

Item: The amazing Oakland A’s rallied for seven runs in the top of the ninth and beat Detroit Tigers 10-4,

Item: Rookie Ron Hassey slammed his first major league home run off California's Nolan Ryan and it turned out to be the win- ning run in the Cleveland In- dans 4-3 victory over the

Item: Juan Beniquez, who brought a .179 batting average into the game, rapped out two singles and two doubles and drove in three runs to lead Texas Rangers over Baltimore Orioles 9-3,

Item: Toronto Blue Jays equaled the longest winning streak in their two-year his- tory—three games-—-by trouncing the Seattie Mariners 8-3.

The Boston-Minnesota game was rained out, Who knows what would have happened there?

Lamar Johnson slammed a three-run double inthe : third inning and scored ona double’

Canadian major junior

By SCOTT ABBOTT

SUDBURY, Ont. (CP) — The Memorial Cup major junior hockey championship game today pits two teams that, by their own coaches’ admission, didn’t really figure to be here.

“T think we pretty well stated at the beginning of the year that this would be a rebuilding year for us,” said Gary Green, coach of

Peterborough Petes of the |

Ontario Major

Junior Hockey League. .

league contended

The Petes, who posted a 3-1 won-lost record in preliminary double round- robin play, meet New Westminster Bruins, de- fending Cup champions from the Western Canada Hockey League, at the Sudbury Arena,

The Bruins are making their fourth consecutive Cup tournament appearance after winning last year at

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Vancouver, but coach Ernie (Punch) McLean acknowledged that even he had not thought the Bruins were favorites to make it out of the WCHL this year. “When you really analyse it correctly,” McLean said after a banquet Friday night, “I felt that Portland (Winter Hawks} should have won it-- they had the talent—but I algo felt that if we got by

Portland that we were going to have an opportunity to win it.”

The Bruins were 2-2 in roundrobin play, - which included Trols-Rivieres Draveurs from the Quebec Major Junior League.

*T guess probably both hockey elubs are a little ner- vous going into tomorrow's game,” said Green, a 25- yearold ‘protege of coach Roger Neilson of the National Hockey League's Toronto Maple Leafs. .

The finished product.

Czechs or Russians to get gold

PRAGUE (CP)- Goalkeeper Denis Herron is one member of Team Canada who shouldn't feel homesick at the world hockey championship.

The way the Czechoslovakians _ treated him in their 3-2 win over Canada Friday night, he must have felt he was back home in Pittsburgh's Civic Arena, tending goal for the Penguins.

“We're the team in the Nationa] Hockey League that has the most shots against it, “Herron said after the Czechoslovakians fired 49 shots at him - 40 in the first two periods.

“Pm sure used to it.”

In contrast, the Canadians managed only 24 on Jiri Holecek. But despite the disparity, it was a game they might have won if their shooting had been more accurate and the puck had bounced right for them around the Czechoslovakian net.

The win left Czechoslovakia undefeated with a 9-Orecord and facing a Showdown. game against the Soviet Union on Sunday in its bid for a third consecutive world championship,

COULD GET BRONZE

Canada has a 45 record, the same as Sweden which lost 7-1 to the Soviets. Anda tie or win for Canada over Sweden on sunday will give the Canadians the bronze medal.

The Russians now must beat Czechoslovakia by two goals to take the title. A win by anything less gives the Czechoslovekjans the crown on a better tournament-goal spread.

After Czechoslovakia played almost flawless hockey to beat Canada 5-0 in their first meeting, coach Harry Howell said he doubted they could play that well again. Thus far he has been right.

For although they had the best of the play in this game they made a fair number of mistakes, especially in the first period when they were forced to cough up the puck in their own zone several times.

The Canadians jumped intoan eariy lead on goals by Wilf Paiement at 1:45 and Jean Pronovost 25 seconds Jater. Czechoslovakia tied it up on goals by Milani Novy'at - 4:48 and Bohusliv’‘Eber- mann at 14:10. :

The score remained tied until 2:33 of the third period when a shot from the right point by defenceman Oldrich Machac deflected in off a Canadian player. Herron said it hit Brad Maxwell's skate but it appeared to bounce in off Dennis Kearns’

p.

Marcel Dionne and Pat Hickey had a couple of good chances each in the first period. If they had scored that might have been the game,

Herron was brilliant in the first period when the Canadians were outshot 21-12 and in the second with the margin was 19-6. He had things a little easier in the third when it was 946.

“He played one of the finest games I’ve ever seen," said Howell. ‘‘He kept us in the game when it could have got out of hand.”

Pronavost said the two Canadian goals were the result of aggressive play. “They were fram going in and forcing them to make a mistake and it shows that if you force them they'll give youthe puck.”

Canada took four of the six “‘ynindt’ penalties assessed by Stig Karlsson of Sweden

Punch for Canucks?

SUDBURY, Ont. (CP) — Ernie (Punch). McLean, coach of New Westminster Bruins of the Western Canada Hockey League, said Friday night he would seriously consider a possible coaching offer from Van- couver Canucks of the National Hockey League.

“There's been talk about the Canucks, and after I get back home I'm going to meet with (Canucks general manager) Jake Milford and discuss with him what he wants ina coach,” McLean said on the eve of his junior club’s meeting with Peterborough Petes of the Ontario Major Junior league for the Canadian title.

“Tlove; junior hockey, but think once you're a coach it’s simply a question of adap- ting to the level you're coaching at.”

McLean said Vancouver was the only NHL city in which he would think about taking a coaching job.

“I wouldn't leave the Coast. I love it out there.”

But, he suggested, the Ca- nucks could offer new fields to conquer.

“T have no more challenge left in junior hockey unless it's to go five times to the Memorial Cup. I’ve done everything in junior hockey,

‘and ] love it.”