The Prince George Citizen — Monday. April 17. 1989 — 15 G r u b e r

c y c l e d e c i s i v e by Canadian Press Kelly Gruber’s final was the toughest hit of all. “I felt the pressure,” he admit­ ted. Gruber became the first Blue Jay to hit for the cycle — a home , , and single — and drove in a career-high six runs Sunday as Toronto routed the Kan­ sas City Royals 15-8. The Jays did it the hard way, coming back from a six-run first- deficit the Royals mounted off Dave Stieb, with two runs in the first inning, four in the second and Jesse Barfield’s three-run homer in the fourth. “It shows the character this team has,” said Jimy Williams. The same Blue Jays blew a five- run, first-inning lead Saturday and lost 10-5 to the Royals. Elsewhere in the AL on Sunday, it was: the 9, De­ troit Tigers 6; Minnesota Twins 9, 4; 4, Cleveland Indians 3; California Angels 10, Seattle Mar­ iners 0; and 3, Citizen photo by Brock GableChicago White Sox 2. The Balti- Shanti Whittle (right) of Victoria tries to block Burnaby Ichiban in the midget girls’ final. more-Boston game was rained out. Saturday, it was Texas 4, Detroit 1; Kansas City 10, Toronto 5; Balti­ SCHULTZ WINGS FINISH FOURTH more 12, Boston 4; Chicago 7, Kelly Gruber was presented with this reward by his teammates. Oakland 4; Milwaukee 5, Cleveland 1; and California 9, Seattle 2. Min­ nesota-New York was rained out. Did I need an extra base?” The Rangers’ 10-1 record marks The Kansas City starter Satur­ He stayed glued to first and their best start since the franchise day, Bret Saberhagen, appeared as basked in a 30-second standing moved to Texas 17 years ago. De­ Burnaby holds onto title a reliever in Sunday’s game long ovation delivered by the crowd oftroit is 2-7 for the worst record in enough to give up Barfield’s homer more than 35,000 on a sunny spring baseball. and suffer his first loss of the sea­ by BILL SEYMOUR petition and school-level play is advance to the Western Cana­ afternoon. George Bell, who had Twins 9 Yankees 4 son. Barfield hit a fastball on an 0- two doubles and two singles for the Sports reporter the skill. dian midget championship in Gary Gaetti drove in six runs 2 count for his fourth homer. Blue Jays, drove in Tom Lawless Fourth place was the best fin­ “At school it’s not as big a Winnipeg next month. with two homers and a single as Gruber hit a fastball from start­ and Gruber with the final runs. ish by a local team Sunday at thing, they just let you play” White Rock defeated the BCO Minnesota had 15 hits. Allan er Floyd Bannister in the first in­ Gruber went four-for-six and the m idget (14- 16-years-old) said Djordjevic, 15. “But here Selects 15-10, 15-11 for third Anderson, 3-0, scattered seven hits ning for a solo homer, a changeup scored four times to improve his girls’ volleyball provincial club they concentrate on skills.” place. in the seven he worked. Schultz defeated Burnaby 15-7, from Bannister in the second for a batting average to .422. He’s hit Brewers 4 Indians 3 championship in Prince George. Robin Clegg, tournament di­ 8-15, 15-11 during round-robin two-run double and a curve from three homers and driven in 14 Glenn Braggs, who had three The Schultz Pontiac Buick rector and coach of the Arby’s competition Saturday. The Tom Gordon in the seventh for a runs. hits and three RBIs, grounded a Wings finished fourth after de­ Wings, the Prince George B Prince George club finished sec­ two-run triple. David Wells, 1-0, got the win by bases-loaded single in the 10th in­ feating Kelowna Superstar Kiai squad, said he was encouraged ond in its four-team pool. With , the allowing two runs on four hits. ning for the winning run. Pete 15-8, 4-15, 15-1 Sunday. that a Prince George team fin­ Gary Yip, Burnaby coach, Royals’ fifth , on the mound Tony Castillo allowed two hits in O’Brien homered for Cleveland. Defending champion Burnaby ished in the top half of the tour­ the final 4Va innings to get his first said his players were “still a lit­ in the eighth, Gruber blooped “ei­ Angels 10 Mariners 0 Ichiban successfully held its ti­ nament. Club-level competition major-league . tle bit young,” to be considered ther a fastball or a changeup” on a Bert Blyleven, 2-1, pitched a tle against Victoria YMCA. usually begin as high school Bell earned the only other stand­ for college and university-level 1-0 count into left-centre field for four-hitter, striking out six and competition ends, he said. ing ovation for his fielding. He Ichiban’s final score of 11-15, play. The mainly junior high the missing single. allowing only two runners as far as 15-7, 15-13 at Prince George Sec­ school-aged players who form “Club level is basically feed­ made a diving catch in the fourth It drove in a run, giving Toronto second base, for his 56th career the team could compete with ing the provincial program and to rob Bo Jackson of a hit. ondary School was due in part a 13-8 lead, and bounced past shutout. to the play of Dragana Djord- older players, said Yip. the university programs,” ad­ It took two hours to play the first charging centre fielder Jim Eisen- A’s 3 White Sox 2 jevic. The six-foot-one player “The strong (midget) teams ded Clegg. “This is the basis of four innings, during which the reich. Walt Weiss, returning to the li­ from Palmer Junior Secondary would be competitive with sen­ the whole thing. teams combined for 19 hits. Rangers 9 Tigers 6 neup after missing three games School of Richmond said the dif­ ior team s,” he said. “The kids here are going on “I knew I had (the cycle),” said with a flu bug, singled in the tie- Texas Rangers extended its lon­ ference between club-level com­ Both Burnaby and Victoria to bigger and better things.” Gruber, who returned to the lively breaking run in the ninth. clubhouse after the game to find a gest winning streak to eight games bicycle hanging over his locker. as Pete Incaviglia homered and The New York Yankees visit “It was just a matter of going drove in three runs. Rafael Pal­ Toronto today at 4:30 on TSN for two or not. First and foremost, meiro and also ho­ Injuries hasten fall for midget boys (cable 16). did the team need an extra base? mered.

Injuries to key players Satur­ fence off,” said Masson. “It was After defeating the Surrey • HK?* • day held the Prince George Vol­ just a couple of injuries that Eagles 15-4, 15-8 in the final leyball Club Canfor Wings back threw us off our pace and that match of the round-robin, the at the provincial midget (14- meant finishing in the medals Wings fell 15-7, 15-12 to the Pen­ Sutcliffe's arm , bat lethal and 15-years-old) boys’ tourna­ and in the middle of the pack.” ticton Pogos in the semi-finals. ment in Vancouver. In their final match, the Masson said Bartlett was Expos 5 Pirates 4 singles and drove in two runs and Ray Masson, coach of the Wings lost to the Surrey Eagles by Canadian Press sidelined due To severe leg won his third In Pittsburgh, Montreal’s Nelson Joe DeLeon, 2-1, pitched a four-hit­ Wings, said his team’s fourth- blue team 15-13, 8-15, 15-13. cramps, while Boshier suffered game in a row and drove in two Santovenia singled in the tying run ter as New York, the 1988 NL East place finish at the eight-team The Wings won their opener a a jammed thumb. runs with a bases-loaded single as in the eighth, then doubled and champion, continued to slide. championship was caused by in­ against the BCO Knights 15-6, the Chicago Cubs beat the Phila­ scored the winning run in the 11th. Braves 7-1 Giants 2-6 juries to starters Jeremy Bart­ 15-3. In their second match, the The Eagles white team won delphia Phillies 5-3 Sunday for Joe Hesketh, 2-0, pitched two Kevin Mitchell drove in three lett and Darren Boshier. Wings fell to White Rock 15-4, 1- the tournament after defeating their seventh straight National shutout innings for the win. Tim runs with a pair of doubles in San “That kind of threw the of­ 15, 15-13. the Pogos, Masson said. League baseball victory. Burke pitched the 11th for the Francisco’s 6-1 win in the second Sutcliffe, 3-0, allowed six hits, save. game of the doubleheader split. In struck out four and walked five in With the score 4-4, Santovenia the first game, Atlanta’s Gerald 8V4 innings and took a 5-1 lead into doubled off the top of the left-field Perry drove in four runs with a the bottom of the ninth. wall to lead off the 11th. He moved three-run homer and a single. “I don’t know how I got by to­to third on Damaso Garcia’s Dodgers 2 Astros 1 Philadelphiadefeats Knicks day,” Sutcliffe said. “There was a groundout and scored on pinch-hit- , 2-1, took a two-hit ter ’ sacrifice fly off by Canadian Press are the division champs," he said. lot of luck involved. shutout into the ninth and wound Pistons 104 Bullets 98 reliever Jeff Robinson, 1-2. Mike Gminski scored 25 points, “All that goes out the window.” “Nothing I did was pretty. It’s up with a five-hitter. The Dodgers’ Mark Aguirre scored four of his hard to believe we won the game.” Charles Barkley had 22 and both The 76ers led by as many as 26 Cardinals 5 Mets 3 Mike Marshall extended his hitting 19 points during a 9-0 third-quarter Regardless, the Cubs’ winning made crucial free throws in the points in the first half but fell be­ St. Louis’ had three streak to nine games. run and Detroit held off a late ral­ streak is their longest since June last 10 seconds, leading the Phila­ hind 112-111 on a 15-foot jumper by ly to beat Washington and sweep 1985. delphia 76ers to a 115-112 victory Patrick Ewing with 10 seconas left. the five-game season series. Mitch Williams came on after Sunday over the New York Knicks Barkley then made two free throws Detroit’s 18th straight victory at in one of six NBA games. Sutcliffe walked two. He surren­ and Gminski made two more. home reduced the Pistons’ magic Philadelphia, the Knicks’ prob­ dered RBI singles to Tommy Herr Hersey Hawkins scored 21 points, number for clinching the NBA Cen­ and Chris James before retiring able opponent in the first round of tral Division title to one. The Pis­ the playoffs, has beaten New York while Jackson and Ewing led the Mike Schmidt on a fly to right with tons raised its home record to 34-4, in four of six games this season. Knicks with 16 each although Ew­ two men on for his sixth save in matching the club-record for home But neither team is putting much ing missed most of the second half six opportunities. victories in a season. Their 59 vic­ stock in the season series. with a sore right knee. In other NL games Sunday, it tories this season also represent a “Winning the series and winning was: the 5, Pitts­ Cavaliers 111 Bulls 92 club record. today gave us a little confidence, burgh Pirates 4; St. Louis Cardin­ Larry Nance scored 10 of his 26 but it by no means gives us a bye als 5, 3; Atlanta points during a decisive 12-2 run at Bucks 100 Nets 96 into the second round,” Gminski Braves 7, San Francisco Giants 2 the end of the first half as Cleve­ Ricky Pierce scored 22 points, in­ said. “I expect very low-scoring, in the first game, then San Fran­ land sent Chicago to its sixth cluding six straight in the fourth defensive games, with each team cisco 6, Atlanta 1 in the second straight loss. quarter to keep Milwaukee’s hopes scoring in the low 100s and running alive for fourth place in the game of a doubleheader; Los when they can.” Rockets 114 Mavericks 112 Eastern Conference. Angeles Dodgers 2, Mark Jackson offered the Otis Thorpe’s basket with 1:34 1; and 5, San Die­ Knicks’ viewpoint succinctly. left in overtime culminated a Lakers 121 Heat 108 go Padres 0. “It doesn’t mean anything in the comeback from a 22-point deficit Magic Johnson scored 18 of his Saturday, it was: Pittsburgh 6, playoffs about how many times as Houston clinched its fifth con­ 24 points in the second half and By­ Montreal 4; St. Louis 3, New York they beat us this season or that we secutive winning season. ron Scott added 21 points as Los 2; 3, Houston 1; San Angeles celebrated Kareem Abdul Francisco 1, Atlanta 0; and Cincin­ Jabbar’s 42nd birthday by beating nati 6, San Diego 3. Chicago-Phila- WOMEN'S BASKETBALL Miami. delphia was rained out.

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