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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Friday, April 5, 19S5
Channelview sets sights on playoff position
By VINCE GOLLE
With all of coach Emory Pustejousky’s seniors
hitting better than .300, Channelvlew’s baseball
team has taken aim on the District IMA title this
season.
“WWe got a chance to win district, along with
about two or three other teams,” Pustejousky said.
“I’d say the challengers would be Huntsville,
Galena Park and C.E. King. We’ve played the King
already and beat them 5-1.”
An example of prime hitting is catcher Darrell
'•Walsh. Already, Walsh has two district home runs.
Wtefibr Btyy PSttS, Who also plays outfield, has
one league homer.
The remaining seniors are outfielders Scott
Bliek and Tony Bloomfield and third baseman
MikeChumley.
Potts and Bloomfield got off to 2-0 starts on the
mound for the Falcons, who won their first four
district outings before suffering a loss this week.
Pustejousky has the mound duties sewn up with
those two. And if the hitting continues to provide
the Falcons with enough runs, there’s no telling
what might happen.
“WeYe playing gqoddefense right now-.Jietter
fHaifwe were last year, at any rate,” he said. “For
us to continue to play well and win district, we need
to score. We’re giving up some runs but we’re scor-
ing well ourselves.”
Channelview isn’t the only Sun area team with a
goal of advancing to the playoffs. Following is a
rundown of the other squads.
Liberty
Eyes are turning toward coach Ricky Witt’s star-
ting senior catcher, Charles Tanton, including
those belonging to scouts from the Philadelphia
Phillies.
Tanton, a senior at Liberty, is a four-year letter-
man who Is batting .400. Witt said that a Phillie
scout was saying Tanton has a good enough arm to
throw in the major leagues.
“He’s one of the best catchers around and by far
the best catcher in the district,” replied Witt, who
is in his first yeaf at Liberty.
Another four-year letterman on the team is left
fielder Greg Davis, who boasts a .442 average.
These two are producing most for Liberty, which
dropped to 2-4 in IMA play Thursday with a 1-0
loss to C.E. King.
“They provide a lot of the offense,” Witt said.
“We’ve got a lot of kids who heat up and then cool
off for a while.”
Although the Panthers’ 2-4 record with one game
remaining in the first round of district play isn’t
exactly to Witt’s liking, the loss margins have been
small.
A major factor on the mound for the Panthers is
junior Matt Hill, who is 3-2 for the season and has
struck out 26 in the last three games.
“He has developed into a good pitcher and he’s
been working out in the weight room, so his fastball
is really improving,” Witt said.
Dayton
With only three seniors — Ricky Eggleston, Ran-
dy Miller and Joe Chapman — on the diamond this
season for coach Riley Burnett, the Broncos could
find themselves with an uphill battle. I
' Burnett will rely on the pitching of Eggleston and
the offensive likes of Aaron Landrum, Miller and
Blake Stovall. D
It is hoped that Eggleston can help fill the void
left by pitcher Dwight Fruge, who. is now a
member of the Lee College team. He has been the
Broncos’ top pitcher, as well as one of the team’s
leading hitters with a plus-.300 average.
At last check, Landrum (left field) was hitting
.384, Miller (catcher) was at .315 and Stovall
(shortstop) was at .304.
Defensively, the Broncos has been inconsistent.
But Burnett believes the best is yet to come. The
young double-play combination of Stovall and se-
cond baseman Don Martin is one reason for that
thinking.
Dayton is 1-4 in district play after Thursday
night’s 12-4 loss to Galena Park.
...... Crosby _____________
■Butterflies may have entered the stomachs of
the Crosby baseball players. But those jitters come
with the territory, when inexperience is the key
word. *
Coach Joe Krauskopf’s team certainly is young
this season.
Krauskopf is only putting two seniors on the
field. And that’s because there are no more. Pit-
cher Mike St. Romain and third baseman James
Gooden are the leaders.
. St. Romain throws “good heat,” according to
Krauskopf, striking out an average of nine batters
per game. On the junior side of the mound, Mike
Otis has provided the Cougars with a lift.
The bats have been steadily increasing in their
activity for the Cougars. Krauskopf’s first five in
the order are hitting better than .300. But after
that, things begin to drop off. The bunt-and-run
plays a major part in the Crosby offensive.
Last season, the Cougars boasted a .326 average
compared to the sub-,250 mark in the early going
this spring. Second baseman Winston Gilbert is
tops in the slugging department with a .368
average.
Krauskopf undoubtedly misses the likes of col-
lege freshman Keith Denman.
“He was the best-hitting shortstop in the
district," Krauskopf said.
Denman, who originally signed a scholarship
witli Kansas State, Is a student at Lee College. ~
Crosby doesn’t appear to have the bats, the
speed or the experience this season. But there will
be no lack of effort, as far as the Cougars’ coach is
concerned.
“Next year will be the year, but we’ll surprise a
few,” Krauskopf said.
GANDERS TRIUMPH -
From Page 1-B
runs.
The Eagles jumped on Moak
early, as they welcomed him to
the varsity level with a pair of
hits and a run in the first. But a
double play cut the juice out of
the rally. .
Moak, the only lefty on the
Gander pitching staff, then took
the Eagles in order in the second
and third. Lee didn’t have much
luck of its own in that span. Ex-
cept for a Jeff Hamilton lead-off
single in the first, only Andy
Duke reached base in the first
three innings. He walked. Gaitan
kept the Ganders quiet with five
strikeouts up to that point.
In the wild fourth inning, the
Eagles reached Moak for
another run. Eddie Duron led off
with a single, then stole second.
Two outs later, Wes Fojt singled,
followed by a Leggett error that
let Davin Cate reach first. Duron
scored on the play.
With Sandy Morris at bat, Lee
catcher Joe Pompa tried to pick
off Cates at first, but Brian
Bonczynski dropped the ball. Fo-
jt and Cates took off. Bonczynski
relayed to Leggett at third in an
attempt to nail Fojt. The throw
was late, so Leggett relayed to
Duke at second but Cates was
safe.
Duke then rifled the ball home
to a waiting Pompa. Fojt com-
mitted himself down the third-
base line and was past the point
of no return. Pompa stradled the
plate and waited. Fojt plowed in-
to him but Pompa held on.
Home plate umpire Clarence
Matthews, his orfly. concern to
see if Pompa held on to the ball
in the collision, didn’t notice the
velocity at which Fojt powdered
Pompa. Field umpire Dennis
Clark did and ejected Fojt from
the game with a stringent wave
of his arm.
Down 2-0 in the fourth, the
game could have been a “lights
put” affair for the Ganders.
Four Lee hits in the bottom of
the inning altered the script.
With one out, Mark Bookmyer
and Byington singled, then ad-
vanced a base on a Gaitan wild
pitch. Gaitan had four of those in
the game. * ,
With Duke at the plate,
another wild pitch sent
Bookmyer home for the first Lee
run. Duke then drew Jiis second
walk. With Bonczynski at bat,
Herrington flashed the squeeze
sign. Bonczynski took a called
strike, but Byington had already
committed himself. Four throws
later, he was tagged in a run-
down by Duron in front of third.
Bonczynski singed to right to
score Duke on the next pitch.
Leggett followed suit with a
screaming hit up the middle that
allowed Bonczynski to trot
home. The Ganders led 3-2.
The Lee edge was transitory
as the Eagles didn’t waste any
time getting back into the.game.
Troy Edge singed with one out
in jhe Eagle fifth. Joe Brown .
took an 0-and-2 Moak pitch and
knocked it over the center field
fence for a homer that Kevin
Warren could only watch float
by.
“Athletics is humbling,” Herr-
ington said. “If you hit one out of
the ballpark the one time, it
seems they strike you out the
riext.” Brown would later tally
Pasadena’s second out in the
seventh.
If the past scenario would hold
up, Lee would go down in order
the next three innings and drop
its seventh in a row in district
play. But again, another script
change.
After Warren popped out,
Gaitan loaded the bases with
walks to Hamilton, Rusty Bar-
nhill and Bookmyer. Byington
regained the lead (for good) for
the Ganders with a two-run
singe to left, Bookmyer later
scored on a passed ball for Lee’s
sixty run.
Nfoak held toughen the sixth
and seventh as he retired the
sides in order. A stumbling
Bonczynski caught Jason Teel’s
pop-foul for the third out in the
seventh to seal the win.
Pasadena dropped to 2-5 in the
league standings and 7-8 overall.
Warren broke out of his six-
game hitless streak when he
slammed a lead-off double in the
sixth. He was left stranded.
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JOHN BYINGTON is tagged out at the plate by Robert E. Lee gained a 6-4 victory, which was its
Pasadena catcher Sandy Morris during Thursday first in seven league outings this season,
night’s District 23-5A game at Memorial Field. (Sun staff photo by Carrie Pryor)
Broyles considers 3 for cage job
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) - Athletic Direc-
tor Frank Broyles of Arkansas says it may be this
weekend or later before a new head basketball
coach is named for the Razorbacks.
“It may not be done until Saturday,” Broyles
said Thursday after he had interviewed three
coaches for the job.
Broyles said Wednesday he had three names of
passible successors to Eddie Sutton, who resigned
to take the head coach’s job at Kentucky. That list
of names seemed to grow and shrink throughout
the day Thursday as Broyles interviewed three
coaches: Bob Donewald of Illinois State, Nolan
Richardson of Tulsa and J.D. Barnett of Virginia
Commonwealth.
Broyles said he would make more phone calls
and Interview more candidates. “Within the next
24 hours, two or three more will come in here. Or I
may have to go out there, ” Broyles said.
Wednesday night, Broyles slipped Donewald
past a television camera crew at the Fayetteville
airport. He interviewed him Thursday morning,
and Donewald then flew home.
Barnett was interviewed during the early after-,
noon, and Richardson had a late-aftemoon talk!
with Broyles.
Other names continued to surface throughout the-'
day including that' of Duke Coach Mikei
Krzyzewski, who guided the team to a 23-8 record
and a berth in the NCAA tournament this year.
“'We’ve got some names you wouldn’t believe,I
who have let it be known in a roundabout way that:
they are Interested,” associate athletic director;
Lon Ferrell said. ‘
RANGERS
From Page 1-B
ches that they hit hard. He did a
great job with his curve;*I bet
nine of his 10 strikeouts were
with the curve. Throwing
against that wind tonight was
tough, too. I give him a lot of
credit for that.”
The Rangers will travel to
Pasadena Memorial again Tues-
day to face the Pasadena
Rayburn Texans. The Texans
handed the Rangers their only
loss of the district season on
March 21, shutting them out 4-0.'
The game will likely feature a
pitching matchup between Sterl-
ing’s Donovan Forbes and
Rayburn’s Bruce Aguilar.
JV gains victory
Smith, Warriors stop Rockets
PLANTATION
OAKLAND (AP) - At 6 feet, 8 inches, the
Gulden State Warriors’ Larry Smith is far from
towering by National Basketball Association
standards.
. “He is as big and strong as anyone in the
league when he plays against us,” Houston
Rockets Coach Bill Fitch said in tribute to
Smith after a 113-108 loss to the Warriors Thurs-
day night.
The Rockets’ inside game featuring “Twin
Tower” 7-footers Akeem Olajuwon and Ralph
Sampson was awesome early in the game.
Houston made its first eight shots. But in the
end, the Rockets had been outrebounded
decisively, 55-38 in a loss which made the
playoff-bound team’s record 44-32.
Smith had 16 rebounds, nine of them off the of-
fensive backboards, and the hard-working for-
ward equaled his season scoring high with 21
points to help the Warriors come back from a
15-foot deficit.
Mickey Johnson took over for Smith in the
closing minutes, broke a 108-108 tie by making
two free throws with 1:31 remaining, and added
another free throw in the final minute. Johnson
had nine of his 16 points in the final period and
finished just behind Purvis Short, 27 points, and
Smith among Golden State scorers.
“It didn't bother me that I wasn’t in there at
the end. The bottom line is to win,” Smith said
after his team ended a five-game losing streak
and won for only the 21st time in this rough
season.
Jerome Whitehead, the Warriors’ 6-10 center,
turned in a 14-point, 13-rebound performance.
“I don’t know if that’s the first time we’ve
outrebounded them. I’m like Larry, not a
numbers man,” Whitehead said.
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Cowen pitched seven innings,
striking out nine and allowing
six hits.
Leading hitters for Sterling (6-
1) were Mark Sappington, Steve
Christman, Cowen and Erwin
TUlon. , . ____
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