June 14, 1989

“Aliow Ben
back:
Lewis

By MICHAEL SMYTH
‘The Canadian Press

Ben Johnson's greatest rival,
American Carl Lewis, says Johnson
should be allowed to race again despite
his admission of years of cheating his
way to the top.

**Ben has done everything he can do
now,"* Lewis told CBC's The Journal
Tuesday night. ‘Of course he went a
long time without telling the truth, but
he broke down and he’s told the truth.
He's giving us an opportunity to
believe him — to support him."*

While some want to forgive Johnson
for his steroid use and answer his plea
for a second chance, others say he
should be banished from the track
forever

But Lewis said Johnson should be
allowed back in the sport after serving
a two-year competition ban he was
slapped with after testing positive for
the banned drugs at last fall’s Seoul
Olympics.

Johnson's admission of long-term
steroid use has already prompted a
move in the united States to strip the
Canadian sprinter of one of the few
laurels he has left — the 100-meire
world record of 9.83 seconds set in
Rome in 1987

Johnson testified he was on steroids
while training for Rome — even
though he passed a drug test after the
race

Should the mark be erased, the
record should shift to Lewis — who
ran°9.92 in Seoul and got the medal
taken from Johnson

“I feel we will do our best to ad
vocate that our athlete, Carl Lewis, get
the world record,” Frank Greenberg,
head of U.S. track's governing body,
said in Houston

Johnson's longtime doctor, Dr
Jamie Astaphan, said **Carl Lewis
is really the ultimate athlete — but as
far as the 100 metres goes, nobody
comes close to Ben Johnson."”

The International Amateur Athletic
Federation — which banned Johnson
from international competition until at
least September 1990 — has said it’s
exploring legal options on’the Rome
record.

Astaphan, who administered John
son’s steroid program during the sprin
ter’s rise to fame, said he hopes his
former patient ‘‘can get his life back
together.

“1 wish Ben the best because he
deserves the best,’’ Astaphan said
Tuesday from his home on the Carib-
bean island of St. Kitts

Johnson was slapped with a lifetime
ban from Canada’s track team after
testing positive for steroids in Seoul.

But Sports Minister Jean Charest
said Mr. Justice Charles Dubin's
recommendations could have some
bearing on Johnson's possible return.

In London, the chairman of the
British Olympic Association was not as
conciliatory

Johnson should never be allowed to
compete again because he no longer
has ‘‘the body God gave him,”’ said Sir
Arthur Gold

Abuse said
product of
blind faith

FERRYLAND, Nfld. (CP) — Blind
faith in an all-powerful clergy allowed
Newfoundland priests to secretly
molest boys for years, an irate teacher
charged at an inquiry into sexual
abuse

**A priest in the outports is as close
to God as you can get,’’ the middle-
aged woman told the public meeting.

“‘We believed all this nonsense,’
said the resident of this fishing village
south of St. John’s. **I think we are the
victims of our heritage

She received applause from the more
than 100 residents sitting in a semi
circle around the inquiry’s five com
missioners in a cavernous Catholic
school hall

The scandal has seen 16 priests,
former priests and other members of
the Roman Catholic community
charged or convicted with sex abuse
against boys.

Ferryland was home to Rev. James
Hickey before he was convicted last
year of sexually abusing 20 boys

The commission, set up by Arch
bishop Alphonsus Penney of St
John’s two months ago, hopes to sub
mit a report by the end of the year

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Top atheletes
for 1988-89

Denis:

(Bottom row from left to right) Dave Kravski,
Chernenkotf. (Middle row) Aimie Chernoff, Clint Dogoplol, Judi
Pottle, Jennifer Rezansoff, Vicki Gritchen. (Top row) Dan Jory, Fernando Amaral,
Jason Schuepter, Devon Turner, Dustin Johnson, Garret Turta, Jeff Bevans, Darryl Furey.

asNews Photo by Guy Bertrand

Carilyn Brisco, Sherry Makortoff, Sheri
Closkey, Carrie Gorkoff,"

SHSS cap off sports year

By GUY BERTRAND
Staff Writer

After a school year's worth ot
screaming and cheering, winning and
losing, celebrating and consoling, it
was time for Stanley Humphries
secondary school to salute its own.

In front of a crowd of students,
teachers, coaches and volunteers at the
Hi Arrow banquet room, awards were
handed out in all high school sports
with special honors for participation,
dedication, leadership and all-around
excellence.

Doug Hickey, SHSS student ac
tivities coordinator, and Judi Closkey,
minister of athletics at SHSS, emceed
the proceedings with greetings given
out by Gordon Turner, chairman of
the Castlegar school board. Guest
speaker Paul Thiessan, formerly of the
national volleyball team, spoke on the
qualities required to become successful
in sports as well asin life.

Following the, speeches, the

limelight turned to the students as par
ticipation awards were presented to
those with continuing contributions to
the high school athletic teams. Closkey
received the President's Plaque for her
outstanding contributions

The ceremonies then turned to each
individual sport with presentations
made for most valuable player and
most improved player. Each team
member received a participation cer
uficate.

Jennifer Rezansoft was selected tor
the Outstanding Athletic Performance
Award. She was 4 member of the
senior girl’s basketball squad which
grabbed seventh spot at the provin:
cials. Rezansoff performed so well that
she was: chosen for the tournament’s
first all-star team

The Most Dedicated Athlete Award
went to Denise Pottle who stood out in
many sports—but especially for her
golfing contributions. Pottle recently
won the Castlegar and District Goll

WELL DESERVED . . . SHSS senior male athelete of the year, Dave
Kravski accepts his trophy from Doug Hickey at the school’s awards

banquet.

‘osNews Photo by Guy Bertrand

Club Ladies’ Championship Tour
nament

The Leadership Award proved to be
a popular selection as Fernanado
Amaral was honored for his work in
organizing, officiating and con
tributions to high school athletics.

To round out the evening, the Best
All-Round Athlete Awards were
presented. In the junior girls, there was
a tie between Sherry Makortoff and
Carilyn Brisco. Junior boys honored
Clint Dolgopol for his performance
throughout the year

In the senior girls, Closkey was
honored once again for her athletic
performance and Dave Kravski was
chosen the best all-round senior boys
athlete

Hickey reflected upon the con-
clusion of another athletic year for the
Rockers and Rockettes

“We did very, very well this year
We offered 16 teams for boys and girls.
We had three new coaches who also did
very well

“Next year I'll be looking for big
things from both our field hockey
teams, our cross country team and
continued excellence by our swimming
team."

Hickey also spoke prophetically
about the girls basketball program

“The girls gained a lot of experience
at the provincials."*

He noted that some of the junior
girls will see more and more court time
at the senior level which gives them a
solid foundation for upcoming senior
teams.

The filed hockey teams led off the
team proceedings. The junior team,
champions of the West Kootenay
region, capped off its season by
naming Kerry Finney as its MVP. On
the senior girls' squad, Carrie Gorkoft
stood out on a team that finished third
in its league

The soccer team was the next to be
honored. After a couple of successful
seasons, the team dropped in the stan-
dings as it captured fourth place in the
league. The player chosen as most
valuable was David Murdoch

Cross country running took SHSS
all the way to the provincials where
they finished 12th. Darryl Furey was
named it most outstanding member

Motown takes NBA title

INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP)
plished
From the final sorrowful day

championship. It became an obsession

There was nothing close about the way they took the
title from the team that had won it more than any other club
in the 1980s. They dethroned the Los Angeles Lakers in the
minimum four games with a triple-threat backcourt, a
double-teaming defence and single-mindedness

Sure, the Lakers were devastated by injuries to starting
guards Magic Johnson, the NBA's most valuable player,
and Byron Scott. And Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, at 42, was

far from the player he was at 32 and 22

All that made the Pistons’ task easier. But their minds
were just'as tough as they became the fifth team to sweep a

final.

“They lost two key players and that was unfor
tunate,"’ Detroit coach Chuck Daly said after the Pistons
completed the sweep with a 105-97 victory Tuesday night
“Our guys are tough-minded and they believed they could

do it all along.
“We willed this championship,
Laimbeer, who had 16 points

this locker room and some of us cried, like myself

of
Detroit Pistons dedicated themselves to winning the NBA

said Detroit's Bill
Last year, we sat around

Mission aceom.

caressed and kissed the championship trophy as tears

streamed down his face.

last season, the

The Pistons, an NBA member for 40 years but never a
champion, led Los Angeles 3-2 in last year’s NBA title

series. But they lost Game 6 on Abdul-Jabbar’s two fre

throws with 14 seconds left. Game 7 also went down to the
final minute. Again, they fell short in the same Forum
where they stood tall Tuesday night

“From Day 1, we had this set in our minds,"’ said Joe
Dumars, who led Detroit with24 points and was the
unanimous choice for playoff most valuable player
year, Adrian Dantley and | sat there and looked at
other for about an hour after it was over

it was the worst feeling in the world

The Lakers’ hopes of becoming only the third NBA
team to win three consecutive championships were shat

tered in a hurry. After winning all 11 games in their first

three playoff serie:

“It was a disappointment,”’ said James Worthy, who
scored a career high 40 points Tuesday night. **All we can
do now is look back at the memories and relive them and

they lost all four in their final one

then try to get rid of them.””

On Tuesday night, Mark Aguirre cried

‘I've waited all my life for-this,”

The eight-year veteran jsat in the locker room, and

said the forward ob.
tained by Detroit from Dallas for Adrian Dantley on Feb

The Lakers have many,pleasant memories of the 1980s
five titles, eight trips to the final and Abdul-Jabbar,
whose 20-year NBA career ended with Tuesday night's loss

SCORES SEVEN

The greatest scorer in league history with 44, 149 points
in regular season and playoff games, managed seven

Tuesday. He hit two of eight shots and grabbed only three

rebounds in 29 minutes.

JUDI CLOSKEY
. top female

The focus then shifted to volleyball
where different levels of success were
achieved. The junior girls were led by
their MVP Lisa Baker, as they finished
on top of the heap in the West
Kootenay. The junior boys lost out in
the semi-finals of the year-end tour-
ney. Jeff Bevans was recognized for his
MVP year. The senior girls also fell in
the semi-finals but Sheri Chernenkoff
was one of the bright spots on the team
as she was selected as MVP. The senior
boys finished fourth this year and
Dustin Johnson was their most
valuable player

The swimming team had a great
showing this year, finishing fourth at
the provincials with Jason Shuepfer
and Trevor Seville selected as co-
MVPs.

In basketball, the two girl’s teams
advanced to the provincials with some
strong hopes for the future. The junior
girls posted a 1-2 mark in the finals,

continued on pag

LANGSTON WINS

Expos keep
pace in East

ST. LOUIS (AP) — In the absence
of his best fastball, stellar defence and
Busch-Stadium's distances ranked as
ex-Seattle Mariners’ pitcher Mark
Langston’ s allies

“In the Kingdome, (on) tat ball
somebody's got a souvenir,”’
Langston said of what served as his
early wakeup during {he Montreal Ex
pos’ 2-0 victory Tuesday night over the
St. Louis Cardinals. **That got my at
tention real quick

*L thought that ball was way out,”’
Langston said of Pedro Guerrero’s
400-foot out to end the first inning.
“They keep telling me that this is the
biggest park in the National League,
and that definitely verified that.’

Aside from Guerrero’s towering fly,
which was caught by Otis Nixon at the
centre-field fence, few St. Louis hitters
took Langston, 2-1, deep.

He got them out mainly on sliders
and changeups,"’ manager Buck
Rodgers said of Langston, who pit-
ched a four-hitter for his first complete
game in four Montreal starts. ‘He
used his fastball (as) more of a setup
pitch

Langston, whom the Expos
acquired May 25 from Seattle in a
trade, also relied on support led by the
left side of Montreal's infield

“You've got guys out there that can
play,’’ Langston said

“When I came over here, 1 knew
that the defence was going to be very
solid

Guerrero’s long out prompted
Langston to alter the pitch selection he
used when losing 5-2 to the Cardinals
last week

“The last game, I just basically went
right at them,” the 28-year-old pitcher
said. **Tonight | changed speeds and
made the pitches when I had to.”

Langston’s assortment produced a
standoff against Jose Deleon, 8-4, un
il the Expos started runner Tom Foley
off first base following a leadoff walk
in the sixth.

Foley beat third baseman Terry
Pendleton’s throw to second off An-
dres Galarraga’s grounder, with
Galarraga out at first on the relay. Tim
Raines was intentionally walked, and
Hubie Brooks followed with an RBI
single and Tim Wallach witha sacrifice
fly

DeLeon, who surrendered only
three hits before departing for a pinch-
hitter in St. Louis’ seventh, had beaten
Montreal four consecutive times since
June 1985

Montreal's victory was its ‘fourth
straight and third in nine games against
St. Louis. The Expos remained one-
half game behind the first-place
Chicago Cubs.

Long ball boosts
Jays over Brewers

MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Toron-
to Blue Jays have hit more than 60 per
cent of their home runs on the road this
season, a statistic that kelly Gruber
and George Bell padded against the
Milwaukee Brewers.

Gruber’s pinch-hit homer off
reliever Dan Plesac with two out in the
ninth gave the Blue jays a 4-3 victory
Tuesday night

“He threw me a slider and didn’t
have a whole lot of control over it,
Gruber said. **| kind of just figured he
wants me to beat him with nis best
stuff.""

“What's got him here is his fastball.
He’s got to go with that, so I had to
look fastball

After watching batting practice,
Toronto manager Cito Gaston scrat-
ched Gruber from the lineup because
Gruber was suffering from a sore
throat

“He looked a little under the
weather and it gave me the opportunity
to almost rest him,’* Gaston said.

The Blue jays had hit 31 of their 53
homers away from hom before Bell
came to bat in the eighth, shortly after
Plesac relieved Milwaukee starter
Chris Bosio.

Bell’s homer provided three runs,
giving Torontoa 3-1 lead

Plesac refused to second-guess him.
self after giving up two home runs in
one game for the first time in his career
as a reliet pitcher

“You do what you think is right at

the time,” said Plesac, 2-3. *‘If they hit
it, they hit

“It’s frustrating, but what am I
going to do? You can’t go home and
cry about it. This is not the first game
I've blown, and unfortunately, it
won't be the last one.””

Plesac leads the team in saves (14)
but has lost five save opportunities

The Brewers and Bosio held a 1-0
lead after Terry Francona’s second-
inning RBI single

With one out in the eighth, Bosio
gave up back-to-back singles to Nelson
Liriano and Junior Felix. After Plesac
relieved Bosio, Bell hit a 1-0 pitch
through fog for his ninth homer of the
season

The mist and fog drifting into
Milwaukee County Stadium oc-
casionally got thick enough that there
was some question of whether play
might have to be suspended briefly till
it blew by

The Brewers tied the score 3-3 with
two runs in the eighth on Jim Gan-
tner's run scoring sacrifice fly and
Robin Yount’s RBI single off the third
Blue Jay pitcher, Duane Ward

With one out and the go-ahead run
at third, Ward, 3-7, worked out of a
bases-loaded jam by getting Glenn
Braggs on strikes and after inten
tionally walking Greg Brock, striking
out Rob Deer

“It’s a tough one, but they scored
one more run than we did," Brewers
manager Tom Trebelhorn said. ‘‘We
couldn't get over the hump."”

Puhl's longevity tops

LOS ANGELES (CP)

league

‘It also means there haven't
Canadians in the league because there have bi
baseball players who have had careers much longer than

mine

Puhl batted 2-for-4 Tuesday against the Dodgers,

A National League
baseball game Tuesday night against the Los Angeles
Dodgers was more than just another jog to the warning
track for Houston Astros outfielder Terry Puhl

When he took his position in right field in the bot
tom of the first inning, the 32-year-old Melville, Sask.,
native was officially in his 1,403rd major-league game,
breaking the previous mark set by former Cleveland In
dian Jack Graney of St. Thomas, Ont.,
games played in the big leagues by a Canadian

+] just became aware of the record the other day, so
I really haven't had a chance to think about it,” Publ
said. “It only proves that I've had a little longevity in the

baseball

for the most

been a

driving in one run in a 3-2 loss to Los Angeles. The

Astros managed just five hits off Fernando Valenzuela

and reliever Jay Howell

Puhl entered the game, his 45th this season, hitting
285 with no home runs and 1 runs batted in. He carried
a .281 career batting average into the current season, his
the second-longest streak of con- mets.
tinuous service in the NL with one team behind Dale

13th with the Astros

Murphy of the Atlanta Braves.

Unlike most Canadian youngsters, hockey never

really appealed to him

“Everybody_puts.on_the skates, but | put _mine
away at an early age because baseball was certainly a

bigger possibility in my sporting career,"’ Publ said. ““I
don’t think i ever had a potential career in hockey. 1
didn’t play a lot of it growing up. | was destined for

“The biggest thing is that when scouts go up to
Canada, they look for players who have good arms.
They’re looking for pitchers because the better athletes
in Canada, I've always felt, are playing hockey. But if
you sign some of the better hockey players and start
developing them at a young age to play baseball, I think
some of them would have potential careers in baseball.”

Puhl, who now lives with his wife and two children
in Missouri City, Tex., was named to the 1978 NL all.
star team but did not play. He was se
baseball’s man of the year in 1981

His best year offensively was 1984 when he hit .301
with nine homers and a career-high $5 RBIs. He hit over
300 in two other seasons
60 games in his initial season with the Astros.

ted Canadian

303 last season and .301 in ©

Puhl was one of Houston's top offensive weapons

the two years they qualified for post-season play. He

batted .526 in the NL championship series in 1980 again
st the Philadelphia Phillies, going 10-for-19, and was 2
for-3 in 1986 when the Astros played the New York

Graney, a left-handed hitting outfielder who had a
career batting average of
much of his time with the Indians from 1908 to 1922, in

0, was the leadoff hitter

cluding the 1920 World Series. he was the first player to

face then-rookie pitcher Babe Ruth in the majors and
the first player to wear a number on his jersey