_miON PUBLIC LIBRARY suits Cp CP SPORTS & RECREATION WeHmhead cfc Salem stretchs win streak to 4 BY C.J. RISAK SPORTS EDITOR [email protected] Cards win till© It took awhile, but Plymouth Salem's The Canton Cardinals 12-and-under softball team found its stroke in the boys travel basketball team posted a 5- final two innings as it dispatched of 0 record en route to winning the Hart- host Livonia Stevenson 5-2 in a West- land Future Stars Basketball Tourna- ern Lakes Activities Association Lakes ment April 13 in Hartland. Division game Friday. The win, the Rocks' fourth in a row, In the championship game, the Car- boosted their record to 6-3 overall, 3-0 dinals defeated the host Hartland m the division. Stevenson is 4-5 over- team, 48-41. all, 1-2 in the division. Team members are Andrew Tidwell, Ryan Neu, Erik Wright, Lawrence Washington, Brandon Roberts, Navraj • 'It was a great vtak, Sandhu, Ross Davis, Brandt Thomas, but neat week is going to Justin Bader, Michael Wolcott, William Tidwell and Alex Hays. The be a really difficult week team is coached by Chris Tidwell and with North Famrington, George Roberts. (Walled Lake) Western and (Walled Lake) Central.' Gymnasts 6th at state Bonnie Southerland The Sports Club of Novi's Level 8 Salem coach gymnastics team placed sixth at the Level 8 Gymnastics State Meet April 20 in Bay City, scoring 110.9 points. The Spartans got three of their five Among those competing for the hits in the game in the first inning, and Sports Club were 13-year-old Alyssa it resulted in both their runs. Amy Hol- Kelley of Plymouth and 12-year-old landsworth doubled over Salem center- Brittany Young of Canton. fielder Kelly Jaskot's head and went to Kelley, competing in the 13-year-old third on Julie Vecchioni's single. division, finished second in the all- Amanda Jankowski's fielder's choice around with a 36.7 total. She was sec- put runners on second and third; one ond on the uneven parallel bars (9.25), run scored on Lindsay Hollandsworth's third on vault (9.275), fourth on floor sacrifice fly and a second came home exercise (9.175) and sixth on balance on Debbie Gaiefsk/s single. STAFF PHOTO BY BRYAN MITCHELL beam (9.0). It remained a 2-0 game until the Hands on: Salem's Mandy Bradley rocked Canton with a two-run triple in the opening inning Young scored a 34.6 in the all- sixth inning, when Salem struck for around. four runs. The key blow in the rally Wednesday in Salem's 3-1 win. Bradley followed that with a three hits in a win over Stevenson Fri- The top seven all-around finishers in came from Maggie Tudor, who doubled day. each age division, which includes Kel- in two runs. Alicia Murawski, who had ley, advance to the Region 5 meet to be two hits in the game, and Janesse outs, in seven innings. inning off Plymouth Canton starter walk to Sarah Pernak and a passed held May 12 in Cleveland. Region 5 Chapman added run-scoring singles in "It was a great week," said Salem Michelle Roelofs, and that was all ball that allowed them to move up to includes teams from Ohio, Indiana, the rally. Chapman knocked in the coach Bonnie Southerland, whose team Chargers' ace Meghan Misiak needed second and third. Sarah Carter's field- Illinois and Kentucky, as well as fifth run with a seventh-innmg double. also got wins over Plymouth Canton to subdue the Chiefs in a WLAA West- er's choice scored one run and Ashley Michigan. The Rocks' Mandy Bradley was 3-for- and Westland John Glenn, "but next ern Division showdown Friday at Can- Crawley's sacrifice fly scored the sec- 3 at the plate with a double. week is going to be a really difficult Jill Posler got the pitching win, week with North Farmington, (Walled Churchill stayed unbeaten, improv- Canton retaliated in the fourth Newman signs allowing two runs on five hits and two Lake) Western and (Walled Lake) Cen- ing to 9-0 overall, 3-0 in the division. inning with a run, Jonelle Brown dou- Jared Newman, a rugged defense- walks, striking out two in seven tral." The loss left Canton at 4-3 overall, 2-1 bling in her team's only run. man for the Plymouth Whalers from innings. The loss went to Vecchioni, in the division. Misiak gave up one unearned run on Lincoln Park, has signed a three-year who surrendered all five runs on nine Churchill 2, Canton 1: Livonia The Chargers got their first-inning contract with the Carolina Hurricanes. walks, with two strike- Churchill scored twice in the first runs on a double by Sally Kuratko, a see Newman, 6-foot-2 and 200 pounds, ifmm had two goals, 14 assists and 106 penalty minutes in 60 games for the Whalers last season. In his four sea- 10-3 sons with the Whalers, Newman — who was selected by the Hurricanes in After a slow start, Plymouth Canton got its bats two more in the sixth to open up a 7-4 lead. Kowalik the fourth round of the 2000 NHL going, eventually pounding out a 10-3 victory at Livo- BASEBALL and Jon Gordon singled in the sixth, with Thackaber- Entry Draft — had five goals, 48 nia Churchill in a Western Lakes Activities Associa- ry's sacrifice fly scoring one run, but the Rocks could assists and 400 penalty minutes in 210 tion Western Division baseball game, Friday. draw no closer. games. Carl McDevitt. Musselman pitched 5 1/3 innings, The win gave Canton a 9-4-1 overall record, 2-1 in allowing one run on two hits and two walks, striking Bill Marsack led the Spartans with two hits and an the division. Churchill is 4-6 overall, 0-3 in the divi- out seven. RBI. • ' . • Soccer champs sion. The loss went to Jim Krygowski, in relief of starter The Chiefs trailed 2-0 entering the fourth inning, Jon Morairty. Agape 6-11, St. Agatha 0-5: Canton Agape Chris- • The Canton Oaks under-11 select but struck for three runs in the fourth and added tian swept a double-header from Redford St. Agatha A team was undefeated this winter and three more in the fifth. Andy Howald's two-run single Stevenson 7, Salem 5: Pitcher Billy Rabe ran his Friday at Griffin Park, David Donaldson's one-hitter won the under-12 Second Division was the key blow in the fourth-inning rally; Mark record to 4-0 with a four-hitter as Livonia Stevenson in the opener providing the spark for the Wolverines. championship for Winter 1 and the Hanson started things off in the fifth by clubbing a (6-2 overall, 3-0 in the WLAA's Lakes Division) Donaldson walked three and struck out six in earn- championship for under-12 First Divi- solo home run. downed host Plymouth Salem (7-5 overall, 1-2 in the sion Winter 2 at High Velocity Sports ing the victory. Hanson also had a triple, finishing with three runs division) in a WLAA-Lakes Division game. Agape had two-run innings in the fourth, fifth and Center. The Oaks also finished first at batted in. Matt Staley was 3-for-3 at the plate with the Cincinnati Riverhawks Soccer Rabe struck out four over seven innings. Salem sixth innings. Josh Anthony led the attack with three two doubles and two RBI, Joe Kondratek had two starter Neil Kowalik, who went four innings, took the hits (including a double) and one run batted in; John- Tournament April 13-14, winning all of hits (including a double) and an RBI, Nick Mussel- their games. ny Estrada and Matt Ratcliff each had two hits, man had a double and an RBI, Matt Kay and Brent Stevenson built a 4-0 lead, by Salem battled back Team members are Collan Baker, Estrada knocking in a run, and Rob Hough ham- Kwiatkowski each had two hits, and Chris Pirch had to tie it with a four-run fourth inning. Andy Thack- mered a two-run double in the fifth. Jace Bearden, Eric Caron, George two hits and two runs scored. aberry singled in one ran, another scoring when the Demopoulos, Brian Ebert, Mike In the second game, Agape improved its record to Brad Proemba led Churchill with two hits; Tim ball got past the Spartan outfielder. Andy Boyer fol- 7-4 behind a 14-hit attack. Mike Bommerito got the Eimers, Mike Gleba, Joshua Hurst, Knight added a single and an RBI. lowed with a two-run homer, tying the score. Austin Kaczanowski, Joey Krizanek, Musselman got the pitching win in relief of starter Gordon Libby, Connor McKinney, But Stevenson got one run in the fifth and added lease Joshua Pascarella, Daniel Radosevich, Evan Yoder, Scott Zech and Brent Zinn. The team is trained by Billy Joker and coached by George Injured knee won't deter Wisniewski Demopoulos and Rick Caron. • The, Canton Cuties, an ,under-8 He sat there at the top of the bleachers, somewhat In other words, he had to make the trip. In his girls team from the Canton Soccer separated from everyone else, watching a game he third tournament game, against Finland, after U.S. Club, won the under-8 girls champi- wished he was playing. victories against the Ukraine and Belarus, it hap- onship for Winter 1 and Winter 2 at Baseball was the only high school pened — any athlete's most terrifying nightmare High Velocity Sports Center.