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DAN O'MKAKA, EDITOR
953-2141
THURSDAY, AUGUST 5,1993
CANTON
SPORTS
SCENE
Incredible All-Star game
The Incredible Girls Softball League will
have ita Third Annual All-Star Game at
7:30 p.m. Saturday at Maasey Field in
Plymouth. There is no charge for admission.
The league-champion Farmington Hills Diamonds
have six players on the National team:
Melanie Cheney, Allison Stein, Becky Thursam,
Kate Mackie, Amy Kelman and Wendy Roy.
Thy are joined by Nicole Kovachevich, Laura
Logsdon, Jffovie Sikora, Amy Regissart and ___ _ __
Heather LaGrow of the Canton Cobras; Jaclyn
Dean, Sarah Wojtowicz, Ann Bagazinski and Julie
Simpson of the Livonia Lasers; Courtney Pines,
Debbie Pelton, Heather Meyers and Shannon
Bradshaw of the West Bloomfield Bombers.
The American all-stars hail from the Northville
Niners: Sarah Johnson, Anclrea Moretti, Melissa
Petro8ky, Mandy Sabo and Jenny Sheehan; Farmington
Hills Hornets: Erin Lacosse. Amy Geary,
Jenny Myslinski, Kathy Schneider and Kristen
Koziara; Farmington Hills Majesties: Heather
Jonna, Lindsey Moeller, Kim Sanders and Debbie
Sobczak; Canton Commanders: Jenny Sikora,
Amy LaGrow, Amber LaGrow and Shelley Butske;
Farmington Fantastics: Wendy Novak, Dian Aon
and Suzanne Major.
Dave Brubaker of the Diamonds will coach the
National team, and Frank Friemand of the Niners
will direct the American stars. Commanders coach
Jim Arnold will provide the voice for the public
address system.
The final league standings: Diamonds, 16-0;
Niners, 11-4-1; Hornets, 11-5; Majesties, 9-6-1;
Cobras, 9-7; Lasers, 6-9-1; Bombers and Fantastics,
4-12; Commanders. 3-12-1.
Cobras win 3-on-3 title
The Canton Cobras, a 10-and-under boys
soccer team, won the Recreation Division
championship last weekend in the Pizza
Hut 3-on-3 World Series at Bicentennial Park in
Livonia.
The players — all Canton residents — are Chris
Miron. Kyle Hennessy, Shon Washington and
Scott Cooper. The Cobras are coached by Morrie
Cooper.
The first-place finish qualified the Cobras for
the national tournament in Colorado next year.
SC women's basketball
The Schoolcraft College women's basketball
program has two roster positions open with
scholarships for the 1993-94 season, coach
Jack Grenan announced.
The loss of two players created the openings.
Becky Piotruchowski will not attend SC because
of transportation problems, and Tonya Bedoin
joined the navy.
SC students, athletes who might be interested
in attending SC or area high school coaches
should call Grenan (531-0377).
Used equipment sale
The Plymouth-Canton Hockey Association
will have its annual Used Equipment Sale
on Sunday, Aug. 29, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
at the Plymouth Cultural Center.
Used equipment can be brought to the center at
10 a.m. Ten percent of the sale price goes to the
association. For information, call 454-9979.
Canton (Observer
SPORTS
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Entertainment, Page 4B
Business, Page 10B
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Hockey
piayoffs: Stacy
Kitlin of the
Wildcats skates
away from
Christo Henry
of the Wildcats
in a Metro
Summer Hockey
League semifinal
game
Tuesday. The
Bulldogs won
7-4 and will
play the Wolverines
for the
championship
at 8 tonight in
the Plymouth
Ice Arena.
MSHL will decide champ tonight
The Huskies were upset in the semifinal round of the
Metro Summer Hockey League playoffs, leaving a
surprise team in the championship game.
Tonight's Metro Summer Hockey
League championship game matches
a team that expected to be there
against one that's surprised to be
there.
The Bulldogs, who won the Bakes
Conference regular season crown, will
meet the Wolverines, who placed last
in the Eagle Conference regular season
race. Game time is 8 p.m. at the
Plymouth Cultural Center.
There is a $1 donation taken at the
door to benefit the Neil Carnes Scholarship
Fund.
The Bulldogs advanced to the final
with a 7-4 semifinal victory Tuesday
over the Wildcats. Chris Smith
scored two goals and had one assist
and Chuck Carvey added three assists
for the Bulldogs. The winning
goalkeeper was John Weidenbach.
Kevin O'Connor had two goals and
two assists and Andre Sioui (Westland)
contributed four assists for the
Wildcats.
The Wolverines advanced with an
8-4 upset win in Tuesday's semifinal
over the Huskies, the Eagle Conference
regular-season champion.
The Wolverines outscored the
Huskies 3-0 in the third period to add
to a 5-4 lead.
Matt Corriveau (Livonia). Jason
Weber (Livonia) and Matt Brush
(Birmingham) scored a goal each in
the third period. Corriveau finished
with two goals and three assists and
Duane Roe added two goals and three
assists.
Kevin Brady was the winning goalie.
League commissioner A.J. Baker,
who coaches the Spartans, isn't sure
the Bulldogs are heavy favorites.
"The Wolverines played with 10
guys for the last few games and they
got sort of comfortable with a short
bench and not have to route 14 or 15
guys," Baker said. "I've seen that
happen a number of times. It should
be a very - good game. Both teams have
quality guys who are very level-headed
and win or lose will have a good
time."
Offense prevails in summer contests
Some people use
swimming as a
retreat from the heat
of summer.
A.J. Baker offers
another way to beat
the heat.
The Metro Sum-
STEVE
KOWALSKI
mer Hockey League,
founded by Baker,
finishes its 11th season
with tonight's 8
p.m. championship game at the
Concealed in AABC regional
Lou Pirronello made good on
his promise to shave his mustache
after his Concealed Security
18-and-under team won the
American Amateur Baseball Congress
district tournament last
weekend in Flint.
And now the Concealed manager
may have to join the Hair
Club of America if his team gets
through this week's AABC regional
at Bailey Park in Battle Creek
(opening Wednesday againBt the
Grand Rapids Royals).
"We had a team meeting Monday
night and the kids reminded
me that if we win the regional, I'll
have to shave my head, too," Pirronello
said.
But before Pirronello books airline
tickets to Farmington, N.M.,
for the AABC Connie Mack age
group World Series, Concealed
must win seven straight games
against the top regional qualifiers
from Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and
Missouri.
Concealed took a step in the
right direction Sunday by defeating
Mount Clemens m the district
finals at Broome Stadium, 11-4
Winning pitcher Brian Paluk, a
pick-up from Westland Federation,
threw a complete game
In seven innings, the Saginaw
Valley State-bound right-hander
scattered nine hita and five walks
A Redford Catholic High School
product who was drafted earlier
this summer by the Kansas City
BASEBALL
Royals. Paluk struck out five.
"He came up big," Pirronello
said. "He got us to the dance."
Offensively, Concealed out-hit
Mount Clemens, 12-9.
Brett Walter, formerly of CC,
went 3-for-4, including a threerun
triple to give Concealed a
commanding 10-0 lead in the
sixth inning.
Eric Marcotte (Plymouth Canton),
JR. Taylor and John
Raasch (CC) also added two hita
apiece.
Marcotte's two-run single in
the fourth gave Concealed a 4-0
advantage Westland John
Glenn's Greg Nesbitt made it 6-0
in the third with a two-run double.
Earlier in the day, Mount
Clemens forced a decisive final
game with a 5-3 victory as Tim
Dubbe five-hit Concealed with a
complete game.
Tim White, who also went the
distance, gave up only one earned
run, but wss pinned with the loss.
Walter went 2-for-3 in a losing
cause.
On Saturday, reliever Craig
Petersen, s red-shirt freshman
from Madonna University, gave
up only one hit and struck out six
in 2V» innings to gain the save in a
9-4 Concealed win over Durand.
Nesbitt, the left-hander,
worked the first 4VS innings to
pick up the victory. He struck out
nine, while allowing six hits and
two earned runs.
Taylor and Petersen combined
for four hita and three RBI.
In the winner's bracket earlier
in the day, Concealed pitcher
Craig Benedict (Canton) five-hit
Mount Clemens over seven innings
in a 7-4 triumph
RBI sacrifice fiiea by Petersen
and Taylor in the third inning
gave Concealed the lead for keeps,
4 3.
Shortstop Paul Kuhn (CC and
Western Michigan) doubled twice
and knocked in two runs for the
winners. White also had a tworun
double.
Pirronello added two pitchers
from Little Caesars League rival
Tecumseh — 6-foot-4 lefty Derek
Dubois (a Kansas City draftee)
and 5-11 right-hander Ron Roelens
— for the Battle Creek regional.
Other area teams headed for
Battle Creek include the Trenton
Trsvlers, Little Caesars League
champions, and North Fsrmington/West
Bloomfield.
Plymouth Cultural Center — where
temperatures hover in the 50s on
game nights.
Wear a jacket and long pants and
get ready to see a lot of goals scored.
The MSHL has quality goaltending
but in the summertime, even defensemen
like to showcase their offensive
skills.
"There's shots galore from every
single angle," said Broncos goalie
Steve Tratechaud, a recent Farmington
Hills Harrison graduate who
plays for the Lakeland Jets Junior
team in the winter. "People who walk
in probably think it's a football
game."
The MSHL isn't for washed-up
players.
Some MSHL alumni include the
Los Angeles Kings' Mike Donnelly
(Livonia Franklin) and Warren
Rychel, the Washington Capitals'
Todd Krygier and the San Jose
Sharks' Mark Beaufait (Livonia Stevenson).
Some of the best current
See HOCKEY, 3B
players include Garden City's -Joe
Burton, Wayne's brother tandem of
Jeff and Jim Mitchell, Redford's Jim
Hubenschmidt and Livonia's Scott
Lock and Jason Weber.
Baker gets help from his mother.
Edna Baker, but for the most part he
is the MSHL commissioner, secretary
and treasurer wrapped in one.
The 1977 Redford Union graduate
started the MSHL when he was in his
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