Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 12, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba A8 Winnipeg october 12, 1997 editor Julian Rachey / 697-7285 sunday free press sports Nesbitt Burns i Montef till group of compile 7.86% province of Manitoba accrual notes 9 year Bond callable 1999 Call Joe Fiorentino 949-8026 or 1-800-506-0005 annual yield to maturity subject to change a availability timeout sports record a10,11 sports on to a10 Well blow him Over his putt did t drop but he sure did. Fred Funk above reacts to a missed Birdie putt on the 14th yesterday at the Michelob Golf tournament in Williamsburg a. Funk in a five Way tie for second was three shots behind Leader Duffy Waldorf. A see sports Parade on a9 Veteran shines Amanda Yunka Dyce strode with ease to win the women a six Kilometre race at athletics Manitoba a provincial Cross country meet yesterday. But officials Are concerned about declining numbers in the older age categories. A please see Story a12 Ondeck of you hurry you can catch two pretty Good volleyball matches today. At noon the Gold medal match in the Adidas women a tournament will be played at the Bison East gym. At 1 30 ., the championship of the Mizuno cup menus tourney will Start at the Duckworth Centre. Fast fact eight boys and six girls teams Are expected to compete next weekend in the 1997 Manitoba High schools athletic association Rural soccer championships in Strathclair. Play will begin Friday and conclude with two championship games on saturday. The Minnedosa chancellors Are the defending girls champions. The Joe a. Ross flyers from the Pas won the 1996 boys title. Flashback oct. 12 1976 a Don Murdoch of the new York rangers ties an nil record for rookies with five goals in a 10-4 Victory Over the Minnesota North stars. 1986 a Walter Payton became the first nil player to accumulate 20,000 All purpose Yards in the Chicago bears 20-7 Victory Over the Houston oilers. Payton had 76 Yards Rushing and 30 Yards receiving for a career total of 20,045.golden bears ride pick offs Over bosons the University of Manitoba bosons coming off an impressive Victory last week against the University of Saskatchewan huskies came up empty handed Bear Hunting yesterday in Alberta. The Golden bears capitalized on a pair of interceptions by Jason Hutchins As they beat the bosons 28-14 in Edmonton. Hutchins ran one of his pick offs 49 Yards for a touchdown. Running Back Mike Munoz scored two ads on runs of 13 and 70 Yards for the bears. Manitoba running Back Craig Carr had 178 Yards Rushing for Manitoba. With the loss the by sons record stands at 3-3. Blues playoff Hopes ended roughriders Victory leaves bombers out in cold by Ashley Prest sports reporter you could say its All Over but the crying except the Winnipeg Blue bombers weren to doing any of that yesterday. In the Wake of their mathematical playoff Hopes biting the dust in the Saskatchewan roughriders come from behind Victory Over the . Lions Friday night in Vancouver the 3-12 bombers did the Only thing they could do knowing there is not going to be a Post season for them for the first time since 1979 and just the third time in the last 27 years. Get ready for the next game. Winnipeg which still has three More games to play in the regular season will face the 9-6 West division Leader Edmonton eskimos today at i In Winnipeg stadium. At yesterdays Brief practice defensive lineman Colin Scrivener who watched the Saskatchewan-. Game said no one on the team really expect indians win in Twilight zone bizarre ending Caps extra innings de Saskatchewan to lose All of their remaining games to keep the mathematical possibility alive for Winnipeg. A i just wish there Wasny to so much enthusiasm today. It just seems like everybody does no to care they just think they re going to get out of Here now a said Scrivener who is expected to see limited action due to a bruised sternum he suffered in the loss to Hamilton Tiger cats last week. A but As the coach says this is not an Opportunity for All of us to just Slouch off. Its an Opportunity for us to play spoiler. Brett guard Macneil said it Best. Its like a run in in wrestling. You get to run in give Mem the Elbow and run out. People Are going to feel the Wrath of us before the season is Winnipeg a Best Hope is to try to ruin the Hopes of the eskimos clinging to a two Point Lead in the West a first place. Of getting a Bye into the Western final. Punter Bob Cameron who did not watch the Saskatchewan-. Game said the fact that a what they re playing for now makes him feel bad for the bombers Glen Scrivener left his brother Colin and Brett Macneil get ready to practise yesterday after the team was eliminated from the playoffs. A Cal coverage/a10 entire organization where he a spent his entire Cal career. He a never missed the playoffs until now. Coach Jeff Reinebold said the fact that the bombers lost last week bugs him a lot More than the fact that Saskatchewan a win took them out of playoff Contention. A that thing that Sticks in my Craw a associated press Cleveland a one of baseball a strangest postseason games had one of the most bizarre endings Ever in the playoffs As the thrill a minute Cleveland indians surged ahead in the Al championship series. On an afternoon and evening of numerous missed chances Marquis Grissom scored on Lenny websters passed Ball As Omar Vazquel botched a squeeze bunt in the 12th inning giving the indians a 2-1 Victory Over Baltimore. Orioles Roberto Alomar throws to first after getting runner out. Indians 2 orioles i the indians who took a 2-1 Lead in the series overcame a record setting 15 strikeout performance by Mike Mussina and a variety of miscues in the Field and on the bases. The teams used a league championship record 13 pitchers and the game lasted four hours 51 minutes a the longest by time in league championship history. Grissom led off the 12th with a walk off loser Randy Myers and took third on a single by Tony Fernandez. Vazquel tried to bunt on a 2-1 count but missed and the Ball bounced off websters Glove As Grissom scooted Home. Erie plunk got the win by retiring the final two batters in the top half. Down 1-0, the orioles used two inconceivable Breaks to pull even in the ninth. After Chris Hoiles led off with a single Pinch runner Jeff Reboulet appeared doomed when Pinch hitter Jeffrey Hammonds hit a grounder to second. Tony Fernandez fielded the slow roller and opted to throw out the speedy Hammonds As Reboulet hit the ground at the second baseman a feet. Reboulet reached second when the return throw from first baseman Jim Thome hit his outstretched left Arm. Brady Anderson who earlier misread a Looper to Centre Field then hit a routine Fly to Centre that Grissom lost in the lights. The Ball fell behind him for a double and Reboulet came in with the tying run. Grissom who won game 2 with a three run Homer also struck out four times before his walk in the 12th. In the Bottom of the ninth Manny Ramirez got picked off first base and the indians followed with a walk and a single. But with two outs Sandy Alomar was called out at first by Umpire Durwood Merrill on a grounder although replays seemed to indicate Alomar beat the throw. Ken Gigliotti Winnipeg free press much More. That was the first time this season that we went into a game favoured and we did not respond to it a Reinebold said. A i done to want to make Light of the situation but where we re going As an organization one playoff game is not As important As what will happen in the rain washes away Golf at Falcon Lake by Dave sup eve sports reporter the ninth Hole of the Falcon Lake Golf course is an Island. The trouble is the design does no to Call for water around the Green. A fierce rainstorm rare for mid october closed the Falcon Lake course yesterday. The course will be closed today and probably tomorrow. Falcon Lake Golf pro Kelly Boes Hopes the layout will be open tuesday. Golfers with monday tee times should Call the course in the morning before venturing out. A we just got whacked with Over four inches to centimetres of rain this morning a Boes explained last night. A it was pretty fast and the course was heavily booked for thanksgiving weekend. Warm weather has kept All Golf courses in Southern Manitoba Busy Welcome traffic As Many courses opened late due to Spring flooding. A a it a been a real Good october everybody still has the Golf Bug a said Boes who will close the Falcon Lake course on oct. 19. The deluge started at to a.m., lasting about two hours. Pro shop employees in Golf carts rescued golfers caught in the storm. A similar rain in the warmth of july pose nearly the trouble Boes is facing right now. A the ground is a Little harder than in the summer so the rain kind of sits there a said Boes. A and its not exactly drying weather. A if everything went properly we should open unfortunately rain is in the forecast. The House that Jeff rebuilt for the first time since 1979, the Winnipeg Blue bombers will play a meaningless Home game in the month of october. Thanks to Saskatchewan a 26-19 win Over . On Friday night the bombers have been mathematically eliminated from the playoffs with three games remaining. In a sense that a quite sad. After All since 1980, the Blue bombers have been one of the Canadian football leagues powerhouses. The team won Grey cup championships in 1984,1988 and 1990 and went to the big game in 1992 and 1993. Still after last years 68-7 loss to Edmonton in the Western semifinal it was apparent the team needed a change. The club was $4.2 million in debt had just violated the a Fly a salary Cap regulations and had been plagued by so Many off Field distractions that it was obviously time to move in a different direction. No one had any idea How Radical that change in direction would be. Because of the teams internal problems bombers president Lynn Bishop did not sex. The option on head coach Cal Murphy a contract and began the search for a new Boss. Despite the availability of solid proven and Safe choices like Mike Kelly Urban Bowman and Dave Ritchie Bishop selected a Sandal led Reinebold needs to Start Over a again Scott Taylor ear ringed Harley driving sex special teams coach from the . Lions named Jeff Reinebold. Interestingly Reinebold came highly recommended by Edmonton eskimos pm Hugh Campbell. Campbell spoke often with Bishop urging him to hire the 39-year-old former eskimos assistant. Now that the bombers Are heading into week 16 with a record of 3-12 and no Chance at the playoffs you get the feeling Campbell was recommending an Anchor not a life preserver. The �?T97 Blue bombers season has been a disaster and after 15 weeks its become difficult to imagine this team is on the right track simply because it does no to appear to be on any track at All. Remember this was a football department that held off season press conferences to announce the signing of a a can to miss prospects who never made it through training Camp. This was a coaching staff who Cut or refused to sign both Youthful and aging standouts like Dean Lytle Gerald Wilcox Michael Richardson Miles Gorrell Reggie Slack Greg Clark and John Kropke and then tried to convince people that the players they kept were better. This was a coaching staff that decide whether Kevin Mcdougal or Chris Vargas was the no. I quarterback and when it finally made a decision right or wrong the season was Over. This is a coaching staff that talked about a developing a quarterback a and then finally decided that signing a 36-year-old to announcer who had sat out a full Cal season was suddenly a priority. This was a team that was pretty Good going into training Camp and absolutely terrible coming out. Now in fairness to Reinebold he claims he was told by Bishop and the teams executive to a clean he was a a told to rebuild the team and not be afraid to discard the remnants of the Cal Murphy Era. He claims his willingness to make some unpopular decisions probably got him the Job. Assuming what Reinebold says is True it was a very bold position for the teams executive to take. A Little More than a year before the �?T97 training Camp began that same executive had created the third amp Long program a sound financial approach to building a stable Cal franchise through an emotional a save the bombers season ticket Campaign. That Campaign asked football fans and corporate leaders to get attached to a a their team again and Many did. This year however almost All the players Winnipeg fans had taken to their hearts in 1996 a at the clubs urging of course a were blown out before the end of june. Change is one thing. A Radical strip mining of the locker room turned out to be quite another. Now a Money losing 3-12 football club has to rebuild that locker room and then More importantly rebuild its season ticket base. Obviously what happens Between now and next years training Camp will determine the Long term health of the franchise. Jeff Reinebold a next task is significantly More daunting than his original assignment. He now has to rebuild the team he took apart ;