PAGE EIGHTEEN
THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1975
LONG ISLAND TRAVELER-WATCHMAN
EAST END SPORTS
Miller Place
Eastport Win
Atkins, P ensaStar In Track
Waverly Atkins of Rivcrhcad and
Charlie Pensa of Hampton Bays
w e re th e on ly b o y s from th e ir
respective schools to score points in
the Suffolk County Track C ham p­
ionship Meet staged last Friday and
Saturday but since each of the duo
placed first in two events it enabled
the Blue Waves and the Baymen to
share an eighth place tic in the
te a m s t a n d i n g s w ith 12 p o in ts
a p ie c e . W in n in g th e title w as
Centereach with 25'A points with
Bay Shore, 19, Central Islip 16.
Brentwood 15'/2, H auppauge 15,
Half Hollow Hills 14 and Amityville
13 finishing ahead of the County
Seaters but a far greater num ber of
schools finishing behind them.
When Riverhead failed to score a
point in the field events, where
m o st o f t h e ir s t r e n g t h lay. on
Friday there was no hope for them
to annex the title but Atkins' feat
did bring a ray of solace to the
school’s rooters. “ S keeter" blazed
the 220 in 0 :2 2 . 0 . only a tenth of a
second off the County record for
the event to hand Willie Combs of
Central Islip his first defeat of the
season. Atkins’ expected duel with
Mark Holmes of Amityville who
had m atched “ Skeeter’s ” recordequalling 0:09.7 for the 100 during
th e d u a l m e e t p o rtio n o f th e
season, failed to materialize when
the Crimson Tide runner stumbled
and failed to qualify in a semi-final
heat. Atkins was favored to win
both dashes anyhow and he hit the
ta p e in 0:10.1 w ith R u sso of
Lindenhurst the runncr-up. Waverly thus becomes the only Blue
Waver to qualify for the New York
State Meet to be held this week­
end.
Centereach had just one individ­
ual winner, their Walt Fields taking
the triple jum p with a mighty leap
of 44 ’I 1 '/ 2” , but they picked up
seconds in the high hurdles, the
440 and the intermediate hurdles as
well as third and fourth places in
th e r e la y s to a c c o u n t for th e
majority of its points.
Pensa. who trains almost literally
by himself, was simply trem endous
in ta k in g b o th w e ig h t e v e n ts .
Charlie hurled the discus a mighty
174 feet even and also took the
shotput at 5 4 '6 ” . The Lockerbie
b r o t h e r s g a in e d n in e p o in ts for
Stony Brook. Don speeding the 880
in 1:54.4 and his brother Kevin
placing third in the 440. Westhampton scored all seven of its
points in the discus w here Jack
Sullivan came in second and Sean
Farrell shared a third.
Other schools, who competed in
League Six, Seven and Eight, which
Osborne Inn Leads In Two
Though the league m anagers had
yet to meet and make a decision on
the m atter it appeared very likely
that Osborne Inn took over first
place in the Modified’s Division
Two pennant race last week. Trail­
ing unbeaten W rig h t’s Inn by a 7-2
score when they came in to bat in
the last of the 6 th inning Osborne
Inn had pushed seven runs across
the plate to lead 9-7 when an
unfortunate incident occurred with
a player attacking an umpire that
resulted in the latter calling off the
gam e and awarding the victory to
Osborne. An ugly scene then devel­
o p e d le a d in g all c o n c e r n e d to
justifiably, worry about w hether the
loop could survive many more such
incidents. The players on the field
must maintain proper decorum or
else their fans in the stands are
often incited to distasteful lengths.
Osborne Inn had collected only
three hits off th e slants of Richard
Johnson up till the sixth, piling
s i n g l e s b y T o m K e s s l e r , R ay
Cheshire and Bob Cheshire behind
an opening error for two runs in the
last of th e 4 th . By th a t tim e
W right’s was operating on a 5-0
lead. They had tallied twice in the
1st w h en B ru ce B ra u n s k ill h ad
singled, taken second when the ball
was bobbled in the outfield and
scored on Kerry Chandler’s two
bagger. A passed ball got Chandler
to third and he crossed on an
infield error. In the 2nd a triple by
Willie Johnson and a two bagger
off the bat of Bill Taliferro added a
third counter and two errors, a
single by Russell H ubbard and the
la tte r’s alert baserunning delivered
the other pair of markers.
Then in the 5th a single by Marv
Smith, a double by Bruce Braun­
skill a n d a tr ip le by U ly s e s s e s
Edwards, his third hit of the game,
upped W right’s bulge to 7-2. But in
the 6 th Tom Galka got Osborne Inn
rolling with a single. A double by
Tom K essler and singles by Ray
Cheshire and Alex Grzywinski was
followed by a costly W right’s Inn
e r r o r b e f o r e th e firs t o u t w as
Under N e w M anagem ent
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generally encompass Eastern Suf­
folk. to place included East H am p ­
ton with six points. Longwood with
four and Southampton with one.
The Bonackers had Dave Kelsey
run third in the 100 yard dash and
K in g ta k e th ird in th e b ro a d
jum p. Longwood had Terra Phelps
run 4th in the 880 and Arajuo take
4th in the two mile event. South­
am p to n’s lone point stem m ed from
H udgins’ fifth place in the 100 yard
dash.
First place w inners included Jim
Hopkins of Walt W hitman in the
mile run (4:19.5); Bill Goette of
Hauppauge in the high hurdles
(0:14.6); Enrique Best of Brentwood
in the 440 (0:49.8); Joe Libertelli of
Half Hollow Hills in the 330 yard
interm ediate hurdles (0:39.5); Steve
Martinez of Commack South in the
two mile (9:22.4); Willie Combs of
Central Islip in the broad jum p
(23’1'/4” ); Bob Correia of Central
Islip in the pole vault w here he
cleared 12’9 ” ; and Gordon Thomas
of Bay Shore who set a new meet
record by getting over the high
jum p bar at 6 ’9” .
Amityville took the 880 yard relay
in 1:29.7, Half Hollow Hills cap­
t u r e d th e m ile rela y h o n o rs in
3:24.1 while Bay Shore’s two mile
relay quartet hit the tape first in
7:59.9.
recorded. An interference call, a n ­
other error and a single by Bob
Specials had vaulted Osborne ahead
9-7 when the assault on the umpire
occurred that brought an abrupt
ending to the game.
The outcome, if it is allowed to
stand, will give Osborne Inn a 3-1
mark and drop W right’s Inn record
to 2 - 1.
Modified Pitch Standings
as of June 1st
Division One
Carving Board
RPIC
G&G
WRIV
Busch Transportation
Bowl Hi
Middle Road Nursery
3
3
2
2
1
1
0
Division Two
Osborne Inn
W right’s Inn
Neptune Diner
Birchwood
W ading River Merchants
Riverhead M erchants
R iv e r h e a d B Idg. S up p ly
3
2
2
2
1
1
0
0
0
1
2
2
3
3
1
1
1
2
2
2
3
Monday, June 9tli
Rhd. M erchants vs. Neptune (6:45)
Carving Board vs. M. R. Nursery
Osborne Inn vs. Rhd. Building
Tuesday, June lOtii
RPIC vs. Birchwood (6:45)
G&G vs. Busch Trans.
W ading River vs. W right’s
Wednesday, June llt li
W right’s Inn vs. M. R. Nursery
Tliursday, June 12th
Bowl Hi vs. WRIV
Miller Place in League Seven and
Eastport in League Eight nailed
down league championships as their
respective loops closed out exciting
pennant chases last week. Miller
Place, winning all three of its tests,
wound up with a 14-4 record in its
c irc u it w h e r e C e n te r M o ric h e s
claimed the runner-up slot and the
other playoff berth by also finishing
its s c h e d u le w ith th r e e s t r a i g h t
trium phs to wind up with a 13-5
mark. Rocky Point, which began
the week knotted for the top rung,
skidded to third position at 12-6
when they could capture ju st one of
its three outings. The key contest
came on the final day of the season
when E astport knocked over Hocky
Point by a 9-2 score. The Ducklings
had dropped their first two tests of
the week and another defeat would
have dropped them back into a tie
with H ampton Bays. As it was the
Ducklings closed with a 11-7 rec­
ord, one gam e up on the Baymen,
who took the other playoff spot with
their 10-8 mark.
Miller Place opened its week with
a 5-2 victory over Mattituck and
then stom ped Southold twice by
scores of 11-2 and 12-4. It was tight
only in the first of the three outings
when the cham ps broke a 2-2 tie in
the top of the 7th when Scott Jam es
sparked the rally with a two run
double. Tony Rickenbacker hurled
two of the mound trium phs for
Miller Place and clouted a home
run to help Ron Niedzwieski to
victory in the middle contest.
In a c ru c ia l m e e ti n g C e n te r
Moriches had its freshm an se n sa­
tion, southpaw Paul Gibson strike
out 16 b atters and hurl a 5-1 win
over Rocky Point. Gibson scattered
five hits very effectively and got the
b a t s u p p o r t n e e d e d fro m Rick
Hamilton who knocked across three
runs with a key single and a solo
home run. The Red Devils then
went on to trim Greenport about as
expected 10-0 and 9-4.
H a m p to n B ays h a d k e p t its
League Seven hopes alive by over­
coming Eastport 2-1 in eight in­
nings in what was "a honey of a
pitching duel between winner Don
Parker and loser Bob H aughn. The
Baymen won despite getting outhit
eight to four. They got on the
scoreboard first with a run in the
top of the 5th but the Ducklings
tied it in the last of the sixth. In the
8 th the winning marker came as
Don Parker singled with two outs
and pilfered his way to second base
to be in position to cross on Pete
Tuthill’s clutch one bagger.
When Hampton Bays won the
next day 9-5 over Mattituck to
fin ish at 10-8 th e o u tc o m e of
E astport’s two gam e set with Rocky
Point becam e of crucial importance.
It w as Rocky P o in t ta k in g th e
opener in Suffolk’s longest school­
boy tilt o f th e y e a r , o n e th a t
stretched through 14 innings before
an error, a sacrifice and a single by
Marty Sorenson gave Rocky Point
the run it needed for a 3-2 victory.
T h e v ic to rs a lm o s t w on it in
regulation time when they scored
twice in the third and their pitcher
George Barris made it stand up till
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St. Isidore’s ran their CYO record
to five wins against two defeats as
M anager Butch Densieski’s gang
defeated its Riverhead rivals, St.
J o h n ’s for the third time in as
many m eetings this sum m er last
Saturday afternoon. However unlike
their two previous clashes when the
Izzies won by lopsided scores this
tim e th e y h a d a few p r o b le m s
before subduing the Johnnies 8-5 in
a gam e that went the full seven
innings. Steve Czeletka was the
winning hurler striking out seven
b atters and giving up a total of six
hits and four walks. He had trouble
w ith j u s t o n e h i t t e r for R andy
J a n i s , o u tf ie ld e r for St. J o h n ’s
rapped out four singles in as many
trips to the plate while the rest of
the losing squad m anaged just two
safeties am ongst them.
The victors had but nine hits off
the slants of losing twirler, Gallo
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Leagues Seven and Eight ended
their diamond schedules last week
and it proved to be a disastrous
week indeed for nines representing
th e N o rth F o rk . A m o n g th e m
Greenport, Mattituck and Southold
wound up winning one gam e and
'dropping seven decisions. The Port­
ers did m anage to eke out a 13-12
victory over Sag Harbor but then
got beaten twice, 10-0 and 9-4 by
Center Moriches to wind up their
loop campaign with a 9-9 record
overall. That was good enough to
place Coach Bob W ells’ squad third
in the final League Eight standings
but left them one gam e behind
second place H ampton Bays and
thus out of the County playoffs
which had been their goal.
On the other hand, Mattituck,
beaten 9-5 by Hampton Bays and
5-2 by Miller Place, occupied the
cellar position in League Eight with
a 4-14 slate while Southold, whipped
solidly twice by Miller Place and
s u r p r i s e d 11-1 by S tony Brook,
closed with but a 5-13 mark and
thus shared the basem ent berth
with Stony Brook in League Seven
action.
Greenport was trailing Sag H ar­
bor 8-3 before the Porters came up
with five runs to tie m atters in the
last of the 3rd. Whaler pitcher Paul
Dorego regained himself the lead
by walloping a home run with two
mates aboard in the top of the 4th
and when each team added a solo
tally in the 6 th frame Greenport
was on the short end of a 12-9
count when they came in for their
last swings.
Then Steve Deduck drew life on
one of the H arbor’s eight errors of
the day and he stole second while
the next batter was striking out. A
single by Bill Richter then plated
Deduck to cut the gap to 12-10 and
Bill took second on a fruitless throw
to th e p la te . A walk to K en
Meklenburg then put the potential
tying runs on the basepaths and all
kinds of action followed when Jeff
Geier bashed his second hit of the
afternoon. The single scored Rich­
ter to make it 12-11 and when the
throw-in was messed up it allowed
Meklenburg to cross to deadlock
the gam e. While all this was going
on Geier kept running and was
nearing third base and when a
throw to that station went wild Jeff
kept right on coming to tally his
fourth run of the afternoon and give
Greenport a 13-12 decision. Ken
M eklenburg had cracked a two run
homer for the Porters earlier in the
fray.
But the Porters failed to win
either gam e in their two gam e set
from Center Moriches, a team then
very much in the League Seven
pennant race. They couldn’t even
score against the slants of Mike
Lake in the opener losing 10-0
when they could manage only four
hits. Steve Deduck had twirled well
for Greenport and was only trailing
2-0 till the Red Devils went on an
eight run ram page in the bottom of
the 6 th inning to lock m atters up
tight. To make it even worse, it was
Lake's first mound start of the
year.
T h o u g h th e y d id ta g C e n te r
Moriches' freshm an hill ace, Paul
Gibson, for 10 hits, far more than
the lefty star usually gives up the
Porters still wound up on the short
end of a 9-4 count in ringing down
the curtain on their season. The
Red Devils also had 10 hits off a
trio of G r e e n p o r t h u r le r s . Ken
Meklenburg, Jeff Geier and Jim
Getches and included in that cluster
were home runs clouted by Mike
Lake and Mark Privett. Six runs in
the third inning built Moriches an
8-1 lead and Gibson coasted home
from there.
Mattituck gave Miller Place, g un ­
ning for the League Seven title, a
real scare early in the week, getting
a pair of first inning runs. Miller
Place which had tallied once in the
top of that frame, did not tie the
score till the 5th and the deadlock
still held till the 7th stanza when
Miller Place got around three runs
to ta k e a 5-2 d e c is io n . Ricky
Rickenbacker was the winning hurler, allowing the Tuckers five hits.
Tom Mileska hurled extremely well
for Coach Lee Ellwood’s crew and
lim ite d th e v ic to rs to j u s t four
safeties, one of them a double by
Scott Jam es which broke the tie in
that final inning.
In their final outing of the year
Mattituck broke on top 3-0 when
Tim Haas and Rich Krupski singled
in the first and both were able to
score on a single by Rick Polecki
who completed the circuit later on
an error. But Polecki, who started
for Ell wood, did not survive the
first inning. He gave up two singles
and was tagged for a double by Jim
Schleicher with a third run cross­
ing on the play to knot the score
when the boy trying for a triple
kept on running to score on an
overthrow. Rick struck out the next
b atter but the catcher missed the
third strike giving the man a life
and after two walks had loaded the
bases Rich Krupski came on to do
the hurling. A run scored on a
b o o te d g r o u n d e r b u t M a ttitu ck
wound up getting two outs before
the play had run its course, both
recorded at home plate it might be
n o te d . But th e n J o h n P re ze lsk i
stepped up and clipped a home run
to make it 6-3.
Hampton Bays added three more
runs in the 2 nd without too much
hitting and then were blanked the
rest of the way by Krupski and
so p h o m o r e J e r r y B u r k h a r d t who
twirled the final two innings. But
Mattituck, though it got solo home
runs by both Rich Krupski and Rick
Polecki before the afternoon was
complete could not mount a big
rally and bowed by a final score of
9-5 in a gam e in which both sides
had the same num ber of hits, 10 .
Southold simply w asn ’t in it at all
in any of its three outings. The
S e ttle r s g o t m a s s a c r e d 11-1 by
Stony Brook and then fell by scores
of 11-2 and 12-4 at the hands of
Miller Place who used them to lock
up the League Seven title. Southold
managed only three hits off of
Stony Brook’s Matt O’Farrell while
the Brookers got to Neil Berry and
his reliever Ron Stankiewicz for a
dozen safeties. Berry gave up five
runs in his four innings on the hill
and Stankiewicz yielded six in three
frames.
Again the Settlers had ju st three
hits in bowing 11-2 to Ron Niedzwieski of Miller Place with Kevin
Terry and Fred Milner both treated
roughly by the latter’s hitters and
finally Miller Place took the finale
12-4 as they broke a close 6-4 score
open by pushing across six runs in
the last two frames. Neil Berry
went the distance there and allowed
ju s t fo u r h its b u t h a d con tro l
problems.
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by dishing out an even dozen bases
on balls and they, along with some
untimely errors, were too much to
overcome. Catcher Larry Danowski
who swung at a 3 for 4 clip knocked
three runs across the plate to spark
the Isidore attack while Greg Stelzer, a mid-game replacement in
right, had two singles in as many
chances. The defensive play of both
sides left something to be desired
and many of the runs for both sides
were unearned.
Two walks, a single by Danowski
and a balk called on Gallo made it
2-0 in the first and St. Isidore’s
added a run in the second on two
walks and a basehit by Bill Zilnicki.
But with a chance to lock it up the
izzies stranded six base runners in
the next two frames and so led just
3-0 after four frames were com­
plete. Then in the top of the 5th St.
Jo h n ’s drew close when they loaded
the bases on two walks and a
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two-out error and had Randy Ja n is’
third hit of the afternoon plate two
runners. Czeletka escaped that jam
with a strikeout to close the frame.
His team got those two back and
one to spare in the home half of the
5th with a walk, a single by Stelzer,
a hit batter and Danowski’s third
hit of the tilt that plated two men.
St. Jo h n ’s came back to cut the
score to 6-4 with a pair in the 6 th
on a hit batter, a single by Chuck
Harrison and a St. Isidore error but
again St. Isidore’s rebounded as
soon as they got back to the plate
again. This time between walks,
errors and Stelzer’s bingle they
upped their advantage to 8-5.
Hits by Koller and Janis and a
dropped fiy ball gained St. J o h n ’s a
final marker in the 7th but when
Danowski cut down a man pilfering
third base it took the heart out of
any chance for a budding rally.
Besides those already mentioned
others hitting safely for the victors
were Ken Densieski, Robert Lom­
bardi and Steve Szczepanik.
T h is w ee k St. I s i d o r e ’s will
entertain Sacred Heart of Mattituck
at 1:30 on S a tu r d a y . T h e n on
Sunday comes a crucial meeting
with St. J o h n ’s of Center Moriches,
the unbeaten, league-leading club
which has taken a pair of close
decisions from the Izzies previous­
ly. The tilt has been moved up to
10 a.m . and will be played on the
St. Isidore diamond.