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The management and staff of NRS urge you to support the Castlegar Firefighters and the Fund Drive for Muscular Dystrophy NRS NATIONAL REAL ESTATE SERVICE Mountoinview Agencies Lid 1695 Columbie Ave. Phone 365-2111 of 365-2757 August 23, 1989 Sror's Talk to us today. Savings Where You Belong Jays use miscues to defeat Tigers TORONTO (CP). — The Detroit Tigers gift-wrapped the game but it took the Toronto Blue Jays more than four hours to yank off the ribbon Toronto scored the decisive run in a 3-2 victory on pit cher Paul Gibson's throwing error in the 14th inning, moving the Jays back into second place, two games behind the front running Baltimore Orioles in the Al East The game initiated a 13-game homestand for which Toronto has high hopes, but it began ominously. Against the third-worst pitching staff in the majors, the Jays managed seven hits. The Milwaukee Brewers, who dropped their second straight game to the Orioles, are the only opponent due to visit Toronto during the homestand still in the running for a title. The Brewers visit for four games this weekend, followed by the Chicago White Sox and Minnesota Twins Despite stranding three runners in the ninth inning, the Jays left the clubhouse after the four-hour marathon happy to accept the victory as an omen. “*If tonight shows anything, it was character,”’ said Ryan rules ARLINGTON (AP) — Nolan Ryan turned the A’s to K’s to make some more baseball history Ryan, fanning 13 on the night, became the first to strike out 5,000 batters. He didn't get a win, though, as the Oakland Athletics beat the Texas Rangers 2-0 in American League action Tuesday at Arlington No. 5,000 came in the fifth inning when Ryan struck out leadoff hitter Rickey Henderson with a 96- mile-an-hour fastball “It gave me no chance,"’ Henderson said. ‘*He just blew it by me But it’s an honor. I'll have another paragraph in all the baseball books. I’m already in the books three or four times.”* With 42 records, Ryan has enough to fill a page. Steve Carlton is closest to Ryan with 4,136 strikeouts and Bert Blyleven is second among active pitchers with 3,536. “1'm relieved it’s over, but very disappointed we didn’t win,” Ryan said. ‘It’s just one of those things My hope was to get 5,000 and as a team to have a good game.”’ U.S. Open Lloyd Moseby, who grounded into a double play with the bases loaded in the ninth, dooming the game to run four hours six minutes in length “Even after the ninth,’” he continued, **we could still come back.”” Detroit took the defeat hard — another chapter in a miserable season. The Tigers committed four errors and only good for tune prevented No. 5 and 6. Pat Borders of Toronto failed to see his bloop single skip past left fielder Rob Riche and an errant pickoff throw stayed in the infield only because it hit umpire Don Denkinger Errors figured in all three Toronto runs. BUNTH! Tony Fernandez led off the 14th with a walk and moved to second on pinch hitter Nelson Liriano’s bunt Kiriano came in for Manny Lee, who'd failed to execute the sacrifice in the 11th after Fernandez walked Edwin Nunez, 2-3, issued an intentional walk and got Junior Felix to ground into a fielder’s choice, Fernandez taking third on the play Nunez then left the game with a hamstring strain and Gibson replaced him. On a 1-2 count, Moseby hit a weak tapper to Gibson, who fielded it cleanly, took a couple of steps toward first and tossed it easily to Ward. But the throw sailed high, forcing Ward off the bag to catch it Mauro Gozzo, 4-0, appeared in relief for the first time in the majors and went two innings for the win, With Mike Flanagan set to return from a freak eye injury, Gozzo ap: pears destined for bullpen duty Fernandez went 2-for-3, drew two walks, scored twice and drove in a run. He gave Toronto a chance to win the game in the ninth by stroking a leadoff triple beyond the outstretched glove of diving centre fielder Gary Pettis Pitcher Mike Nehheman walked the next two hitters intentionally. Felix then lined to second for the first out and Moseby grounded hard to Ward who threw home for the force and took catcher Mike Heath’s relay for an inning. ending double play Jays Notes: The crowd of just more than 49,000 represented the 16th consecutive sellout; the remaining 21 games are also sold out ... Mookie Wilson extended his hit ting streak to nine games with an infield singled and George Bell bumped his streak to 13 with two infield singles in the extra innings ... Al Leiter, on rehabilitation assignment with Class A Dunedin, went 3 2-3 innings in his third ap pearance, giving up five hits, a walk and one run will signal final tourney for Evert NEW YORK (AP) — Chris Evert, . represent the United States in Oc- tournaments than any other player, who burst onto the tennis scene at the — tober’s Federation Cup in Tokyo and male or female. She has won the U.S. U.S. Open in 1971 when she reached that she and Martina Navratilova will Open six times, Wimbledon three the semifinals as a 16-year-old, saysshe play exhibition matches this fall and _ times, the Australian Open twice and will retire from serious competition af- winter the French Opena record seven times. ter this year’s Open “But as for Chris Evert, serious For 13 consecutive years, 1974-86, ‘No more maybes ... My mind is | competitor, yes, | guess! reallyamout- she won at least one Grand Slam tour made up. The 1989 U.S. Open will be ta here,"’ she writes. ‘1 don’t feel the nament. And she holds the best record my final tournament,"’ Evert writes in same intensity I know I’ve lost onclay of any player for any single sur the Aug. 28 issue of Sports Illustrated. some confidence, and I just don’t want face with a 125-match win streak set Evert, 34, is playing this week at the to pay the price any Player's Challenge tennis tournament A native of Fort Lauderdale, Fla more.”’ from August 1973 to May 1979. “I'm in better shape than I was five in Toronto. She said she will still Everthas won more matches and more — years ago," she said. mre 2 SLO-PITCH SILVER . . . Membe: row) Faye Hill, Al Ambrosio, Sterling Chambers, Ken Campbell, Betty Price. (Front row) Billi i of the silver medalist NRS slo-pitch team. (Left to right, top Syrja, Terry Ward, Barry Brown, Tom Denise Evans, Joanne Liber, Lori Brown, jean Price Mike Roch, Carolyn Rempel. Missing from photo is John Phillips. NRS squad takes silver TIP OFF . .. It's the boys turn to learn the finer points of basketball at the Stanley Humphries inal wi secondary school summer basketball camp. This marks the second and camp at the school. cosnows photo by Guy Bertrand ek of the TWO GAMES BACK Expos beat L.A. MONTREAL (CP) — In the end, Buck Rodgers toted up several pluses as the Montreal manager watched the Ex pos’ 4-2 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday night “1 was pleased with the outing by Kevin Gross,” Rodgers began, referring to the Expos starting pitcher was pleased with the four runs we got after two out.”” He also noted ‘the plays the defence made to get Kevin out of jams,” and reliever Tim Burke’s work Those factors ended Montreal’s two-game losing streak and nudged them within two games of the East Division lead The third-place Expos, who conclude a 13-game home stand with a game against the Dodgers tonight, pulled within two games of the first-place Chicago Cubs and a half-game of the second-place New York Mets. Both teams were losers Tuesday GETS OFF EASILY The Expos often looked as though they might join their rivals in defeat. Gross escaped the first inning withthe bases loaded and a 1-0 deficit on Mickey Hatcher's sacrifice fly Andres Galarraga’s 18th homer got the run back in the Expos’ half of the inning Marquis Grissom, recalled from the minors a day earlier and hitless in two previous at-bats in his major league debut, handed Gross a 2-1 lead with a two-out, RBI single off Fernando Valenzuela, 8-12, in the fifth Gross promptly walked the first two batters he faced in the sixth, but wriggled out of danger. A single by Mike Scioscia and Galarraga’s error put the first two Dodgers on base in the seventh, but again Gross was unscathed A two-out, RBI single by Mike Fitzgerald and Valen- zuela’s third balk of the game, which allowed Tim Wallach to score, boosted Montreal’s lead to 4-1 in the seventh Gross was in another predicament in the eighth, after an error by shortstop Spike Owen and Eddie Murray's single had runners perched at first and third with none out Burke was summoned from the bullpen and walked Jeff Hamilton to fill thebases But he retired Jose Gonzalez on a run-scoring groun- dout and induced two more groundouts, the first of which resulted in Murray being caught in a base-running blunder, as he was tagged out while half-heartedly breaking home Expos notes: Catcher Nelson Santovenia was replaced in the starting lineup by Mike Fitzgerald prior to the game. Santovenia is bothered by a tender right knee and °. day-to day ... First-base coach Rafael Landestoy left tc attend a family funeral and was replaced in the coaching box by bullpen coach Ken Macha ... Kevin Gross has allowed 10 first-inning runs in his last nine starts By BETTY PRICE Castlegar’s NRS Slo-Pitch Team travelled to Nanaimo last weekend to represent District 10 at the Inter mediate ‘*A’’ Mixed Slo-Pitch Provin cial Championships. This champion ship, the first in this new category, was a 14-team, double-knockout tour nament. Teams from Richmond, Ab- botsford, Fort St. John, Terrace, Vic toria, Nanaimo, Parksville, Campbell River, as well as Castlegar participated in the tournament The Castlegar team received a bye in the first round of play, then faced Fort St. John in the ‘Second round Castlegar started the scoring in the top of the third inning with two outs when Al Ambrosio, Joanne Liber, and Ken Syrja hit consecutive doubles to score two runs. Fort St. John answered in the bottom of the fourth with one run In the top of the fifth inning base hits by Barry Brown, Carolyn Rempel and Ambrosio gave Castlegar the game winning run as Fort St. John added only one more run in the bottom of the sixth and Castlegar advanced with the 3-2.win In their second game Castlegar came up against the Richomond Eagles, and once again started the scoring, this time on a home-run by pitcher Mike Roch, in the top of the second inning Barry Brown added one more run i the third after his base hit, a sacrifice by Billie-Jean Price to advance the runner into scoring position, and a single by Liber. Richmond scored their only run in the bottom of the fourth making the score 2-1 going into the top of the seventh Castlegar shut Richmond out with consecutive outs in the fifth, sixth and seventh innings to advance with a 5-1 win Next Castlegar came up against the Victoria Ingrahams, which proved to be a defensive battle. Castiegar's only run of the game came in the top of the continued on 82 By BRIAN KENNEDY SEATTLE (CP) — Melvin Jenkins has only to pick up a local newspaper to remember the old days in the Canadian Football League In my three years with Calgary (Stampeders), I never knew if I'd get paid or if the club was going to fold the next day,"” the Seattle Seahawks cornerback said during a break at training camp ‘From what I've read and heard I assume nothing has changed Jenkins, entering his third season with the Seahawks, is feeling so secure in his new job that he and his wife recently purchased a new home in the Seattle area I'm making about $200,000 a year more than | made in Calgary. That is alot of security,” he said “But Jenkins, 27, still remembers the CFL fondly asa stepping stone to the NFL !When I first started out a lot of NFL teams ad. vised me to sign with Calgary to get the professional ex * he said. ‘*It was the right decision.” Jenkins had 11 interceptions in his three-year CFL career, returning three for touchdowns. In 1987, he signed with the Seahawks and last season started all 16 games playing both left and right cornerback Playing in Calgary we didn't know if anyone would turn up to watch us," he said. ‘Here (Seattle) we have sell-outs every week.”” PROBLEM GROWS Jenkins is not surprised by the financial woes of Seahawk cornerback recalls CFL career CFL teams like Ottawa and B.C He said the problems were serious when he played for the Stampeders and have continued to get worse “People down here love football and will line up to see it. That isn’t the case in Canada because there isn’t the money to bring in good talented players and keep them.”” Despite starting last year, Jenkins is being pushed by second-year cornerback Dwayne Harper and fourth: year pro Patrick Hunter He said his speed gives him an advantage on the smaller American field “The receivers are bigger and faster than those in Canada; so speed is essential if you want to play."* Jenkins worked hard in the off-season and says it has paid off in training camp. “1 exercised regularly by playing a lot of raquetball and basketball and it has left me in the best shape I've ever been coming into a camp,” he said. *‘I don’t take the starting role for granted but I feel it’s mine to keep or lose."” Jenkins is one of the few exceptions in the league where the survival rate of former CFL players is not that impressive He gets moral support from defensive back James Jefferson, a former Winnipeg Blue Bomber who played out his contract in the CFL last season ‘We both know how hard it is to make an NFL team especially coming out of Canada,”’ Jenkins said. So it’s always nice to have someone to talk to about it.