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Barrie Examiner, 10 May 1976, p. 11

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HAVE 10 LEAD IN FINAL SERIES PHILADELPHIA Flyer Gary Dornhoefer grimaces after taking an elbow in the face from Montreal goalie Ken Dryden during alter cation in Montreal crease 11tho marker dos during Stanley Cup final action in Montreal Sunday night CP Photo Perfect baseball nets 103 win for Phillies THE ASSOCIATED PRESS There have been only 11 perfect ames pitched in major eague baseball history No one expects either Brent Strom or Jim Lonborg to be No 12especially Strom and Lonborg dont expect to do it said Philadelphias Lonborg after he pitched perfect baseball for the Phillies for 13 innings Sunday before set tling for 103 victory over Los Angeles Dodgers You have to be lucky to pitch nohitter against any body said Strom who tossed perfect baseball for San Diego Padres against New York Mets for 13 in nings nohit baseball for 13 innings and wound up with 40 twohit shutout You have to have good stuff and you have to be lucky In Sundays other National League games Pittsburgh Pirates beat Atlanta Braves 52 Houston Astros pounded St Louis Cardinals 105 Cin cinnati Reds crushed Chicago Cubs 142 and Montreal Ex pos blanked San Francisco Giants 80 in the second game 0d their doubleheader after losing the opener 42 On Saturday the Mets beat San Diego 72 Pittsburgh downed Alanta 53 Montreal defeated San Francisco 75 Cincinnati humbled Chicago 144 Philadelphia dropped Los Angeles 64 and St Louis beat Houston 51 MAKES BIG PLAY The first batter Lonborg faced in the seventh inning was Dave Lopes who slam med screamer to the left oentre field wall but Garry Maddox tracked it down with tumbling grab But the next batter Bill Buckner turned Lonborg into mere mortal again Buckner hit the first pitch in to the gap in rightcentre field and it eluded both centre fielder Maddox and Ollie Brown for double That was pretty decent slider that Buckner hit for double Lonborg said But after that my pitches didnt Grays fight warmup for try at title TORONTO CP Clyde Grays welterweight bout with Dave Oropeza of Phoenix tonight has been billed as warmup for world title match but the Toronto fighter has his doubts about ever meeting the champ Urv Ungerman Grays manager has said he hopes to get fight with World Boxin Association titleholger John Stracey of Britain by September Ungerman reasons that if nGray keeps fightin and keeps up in the ra ings eventually Stracey will have tocome us Gray the Canadian and SPORTS DYNAMO TAKES TITLE MOSCOW Reuter Mos oow Dynamo beat the Central Red Army Club 32 in over time Saturday to win the Soviet Union hockey cham pionship RETAINSCROWN GRAUDUROI France AFP Olympic champion Serge Maury of France retained his title at the Firm class European sailin cham pionship which ende Satur day Andrei Balashov of the Soviet Union finished second and Gus Miller of the United States was third WATSON SURPRISES ROTHERHAM England Reuter Barry Watson was the surprise winner of Saturdays British Olympic trial marathon with time of two hours 15 minutes 80 seconds Jeff Norman was second in 21517 and Keith Angus third in 21555 Commonwealth champion knows that isnt so Thats the one really bad thing about boxing said Gray Stracey may never fight me unless hes forced to He can get so many fights for easy money why does he need to fight me Gray has been unsuccessful in two previous world title bids against former cham pions Jose Napole and Angel Espada but hes still ranked the No contender by Ring Magazine and No by the WBA Oropeza known as the Ari zona Kid has record of 50 wins two draws and six losses Clydes record is 531 SHORTS BRITAIN DOWNS CANADA LONDON AFP Britain produced an expected victory at the top of pool with an easy 30 victory Sunday over Canada in the fifth world amateur team squash cham ponships Australia won the Apool with Egy tsecond and Pakistan secon to Britain pool The four teams will now play each other in the final matches at Birmingham Iuesda and Thursday to decide overall placings WINSTIILE SAN JUAN AP Esteban de Jesus of Puerto Rico making his third try for world title scored unanimous 15round decision and wrested the World Boxing Council lightweight championship from Guts Ishimatsu of Japan on Satur daynight go where wanted them to Maddox said his racinv af ter Lopes drive didnt give him enough time to position himself for Buckner Meanwhile Strom Met castoff also had it all over Tom Seaver who usually makes patsies out of the Padres beating them in 18 of 19 previous decisions My teammates told me was the sacrificial lamb said Strom who surrendered walk to Bud Harrelson in the sixth single to Joe Torre in the sixth and single to Harrelson in the ninth BRAVES TUMBIE The Pirates riding high with six successive victories handed the Braves their 13th successive defeat Houston has three homers in the last 10 games all by Cliff Johnson who drove in three runs with four hits to help beat St Louis Tony Perez hit pair of homers and Ken Griffey un loaded his first major league grand slam as the Reds com bed Chicago pitching for 21 hits Steve Rogers pitched the Expos first complete game and first shutout of the season tossing twohitter at the Giants in the second game oftheir doubleheader John Montefusco 41 and reliever Gary Lavelle who recorded his sixth save teamed together to stop the Expos in the opener Expos end with split MONTREAL CP Steve Rogers turned in timely twohitter in an 80 mm and Montreal Expos escape with split of their National League baseball doubleheader Sunday against San Francisco Giants The Giants won the opener 42 but managed only single by Bobby Murcer in the first inning and base hit by Dave Rader in the third against Ro gers who ignored his pre game problems and found himself in top form as he won his first shutout of the season felt absolutely terrible before the game so that wasnt important said Rogers 23 How you feel before the game doesnt really meana lot Rogers contributed two run single to the attack that permitted the Expos to gain at least doubleheader split at home for the 15th straight time Giants starter Greg Mill ton 03 took the loss as Tim Foli and Larry Parrish each had tworun double for Mon treal while Gary Carter and Jerry White drove in the other runs with sin les San Francisco pi ed up 40 lead in the first game and held on as the Expos grabbed two runs in the eighth and showed signs of threatening again in the ninth MONTREAL CP Somehow in the roar of 17582 frantic fans Steve Shutt heard teammate Guy Lapoin te yelling at him uick flick of his stick and utt deposited the uck on Lapointes stick an the Montreal defenceman moved in to the dot in the leftwing faceoff circle and fired shot by Flyers goaltenfer Wayne Stephenson at 1838 of the third period Sunday night to give the Canadiens 43 win over Philadelphia and 10 lead in their National Hockey League Stanley Cup bestof seven final series Jim Roberts Larry Robin son and Jacques Lemaire scored the other goals for the Canadiens who trailed 20 af ter ons period and 32 with 517 gone in the third period after Larry Goodenou had put Philadelphia ahea with powerplay goal Reggie Leach with recor dbreakin 16th goal in post season ayr the most goals scored in one playoff yearand Ross Lonsberry gave Philadelphia 20 first period lead which they lost when Roberts and Robinson scored in the second CAME SUDDENLY The winning goal came sud denly as many were ex pecting that both teams would engage in their first overtime game of the playoff season heard the yell so just put it where the yell was ex gleained Shutt Thats the st way to describe it If Lapointe hadnt yelled wouldnt have given it to him La inte said Shutt was fighting along the board with Tom Bladon so screamed at him that was loose at cen ire He ot the puck to me sol went own twoonone with Guy Lafleur Jim Watson threw out his stick in front so Idecided to take shot and it hit the post and went right in It was low shot right on the ice Stephenson who was out standing at times during the game thought he had the angle covered the Montreal defenceman didnt think he had an thing to shoot at said Stepil enson Obviously he had little bit That little bit was enough for Lapointes third goal of the playoffs which helped snap the Flyers winning streak at four HAD CHANCE The Flyers came close to forcing overtime but Mon treal goaltender Ken Dryden tame up with gamesaving stol on shot by Jim Watson with less than 20 seconds to play thought it was in said Watson let it go and he mine across the net and got it was trying for the corner and did hit the corner and he got the shot Ill remember him for thatone While the Canadiens had an 114 edge in irstperiod shots it was the Flyers who left the ice with 20 lead with Leachs goal just 21 seconds after the opening faceoff and Lonsberrys effort at 1322 It was race for the puck and Bobby Clarke got it and Lesson for Aeros in 41 loss HARTFORD AP New England Whalers taught Houston Aeros lesson Sun day night and it wasnt how to score goals Our forechecking came right out of the scrapbook aid Whalers coach Harry Neale after New Englands victory over the Aeros in the third game of their World Hockey Association series The win gives New England 21 lead in the bestofseven United States final Fourtt game in the series is here Tuesday night If anyone wanted to make an instructional film on fore checking this game would have been perfect one to filmsaid Neale That was the key to our victory We forechecked with gusto and had them off balan oeall night Another strong per formance by rookie goalten der Cap Racder and first period goals by Rosaire Paiement and Don Borgeson sparked New England SPOILS SIIUIOUT Raeder turned back 29 Houston shots and was working on his third playoff shutout when Mark Howe broke through at 1620 of the final period He would have tied WHA record for most playoff shutouts in one season New England just turned the tables on us tonight said Aeros coach Bill Dineen In last Fridays game 52 Houston victory we scored three quick goals in the second period and got them offbalance Tonight they got the early scores and made it im possible for us to come back Their forecheckng was as good as Ive seen all season We just couldnt get anything going After the Whalers built their 20 firstperiod lead Ihommy Abrahamsson ad ded to the lead with his second goal of the playoffs at 953 of the second period and Bob McManama closed the New England scoring with his fourth goal at 1435 of the tinalperiod When youve got hot goaltender between the pipes gure going to be tough to at said Houstons Gordie Howe That kid Racder is excellent for youngster Houston had plenty of chan 065 to get back in the game in the first period and at one stage enjoyed twoman ad vantage for 55 seconds The Aeros were able to netrate but were turned ck each time by Racder Gordie Howe had two shots from point blank range but Racder kicked one out near the left post and made glove save on the other Hayes golf win almost DALLAS AP Mark Hayess first victory on the professional golf tour was laugher Its been long time coming but this is the greatest thrill of my life he sighed just hope its going to be easier to win next time If it were much easier it would be illegal The lean handsome young Oklahoman leading from start to finish blazed home with 69 Sunday and won the $00000 Byron Nelson golf tournament almost in breeze It was his first triumph af ter four years on the tour He assaulted the par 71 Preston Trail golf course with rounds of 66 67 and 71 before the closing 69 that left him 11 under par at 273 and two shots ahead of runnerup Don Bies Next time grinned Hayes 26 tucking $40000 check in his pocket Im going to come from behind and win Its nmt much fun to lead every day was so afraid of losing that it was really bad form Bies banked $22800 for lllS Brampton wins lacrosse tilt BROOKLIN ONT CP Brampton Excelsiors defen ding league champions defeated Brooklin Redmen 218 Saturday in the first game of the 1976 season in the Ontario Lacrosse Association Major series Brampton led 65 at the end of the first period and 147 at the end of the second breeze secondplace finish that in cluded closing 68 really thought if shot 67 or 68 today Id have an ex cellent chance of winning said Bies who actually never diallenged until twoshot swing with couple of holes remaining Of course it didnt turn out that way he continued Nobody got close to him on the first nine and nobody really put any pressure on him felt the pressure was on Mark and that hed be doing good to break par Hayes led Bies by three shots as the final round unreeled and with twin five foot birdie putts on the second and third holes retty much discouraged his allengers He rammed in clutch 15 footer for scrambling par at the fourth hole and con cluded That might have been the turning point FLOYD THIRD At any rate Masters win ner Ray Floyd who once got within three strokes of the leader matched Hayess 69 and took third at 277 seven under par and good for $14200 Hale Irwin had final mund 68 to nail down fmurth place and $9400 with 278 while little Ben Crenshaw ad ded to his growing stature and bank account with 69 for 279 fifth place and $8200 Despite sparkling eagle Jack Nicklaus twice win ner here failed to mount charge finishing with par 71 for 261 and tie foreighth George Knudson of Toron to who dropped out of con tention with thirdround 81 had 76 Saturday for 302 total it for Canadiens apparently passed it back to Leach indly Montreal goalie Ken Dryden said Leach was moving in and drew his stick back He didnt stop it He just shot it Gets judo team berth MONTREAL CP Joe Meli was rather reserved during the tumult which followed his victory over John Davina of British Columbia in the light heavyweight final at the Canadian judo cham ROOF PROBLEMS THEN TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OUR Average Onestorey Home SPRING srrcin 40 24 Reshingled with lst Quality 210 selfseal shingles THIS MONTH ONLY Two Storey Homes Slightly Higher COMPLETE LAURIER SHEET METAL 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