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â€"Sport Wate: Night of the following play oi Rick Campbell righe Sports Editor It was a blowâ€"pyâ€"bJow account. First, KitchenerpPanthers tried to blow Waterioo Tigers trikd to blow it. But ultimately {t/was Panthers who were su blowing it Tuesd4y night at Bechtel Park : But ultimately lywns Panthers who were successful in blowing it Tuesday night at Bechtel Park when they allowed Tigers to score five runs in the bottom of the ninth inning to virtually steal a 10â€"9 Interâ€"County Major Baseball League victory. It is not every day that a near noâ€"hitter turns into a 10â€"9 slugftest just two innings later but that was all part of the craziness surrounding the latter stages of Tuesday‘s tempest. . ~ The lefty Kaspryzk, keeping Tabbies off balance all evening with a tantalizing curve, got out of that inning anscathed and with a 3â€"0 lead courtesy of three runs his Panther starting pitcher Bob Kaspryzk was tossing a beautiful noâ€"hitter at Tigers for six and twoâ€"thirds innings before Waterloo first baseman Mark Fagan tightâ€"roped a double down the third base run to spoil the masterpiece. By Rick Campbell Chronicle Sports Editor You would think after priming for the occasion for the past 19 years, Marney Galawray would be well prepared when the time came to declare her Master Bowlers‘ Association women‘s national champion. _ Instead, she quite understandably considâ€" ering the magnitude of her accomplishment, was in the proverbial "state of shock". ___ In fact, when she closed out her incredibly fantastic season at Ottawa Preston Lanes a few weeks back with strikes from the fifth through 10th frames to beat Willie McCoshen two games to one, Marney wasn‘t even aware the match was over. "Everyone started coming over and shakâ€" ing my hand in the ninth frame, saying ‘lovely tournament, congratulations Marney‘ but I was concentrating so hard, I didn‘t even know it was the 10th frame coming up. ‘"They kept telling me all I needed was a moderate count to clinch the title, but I just kept saying to myself ‘throw strikes‘. When I realized I had won it, my first reaction was ‘it can‘t be ...}. I was really surprised, shocked." No more so than the rest of Canadian women‘s bowling elite who watched the 27â€"yearâ€"old Waterloo Lanes bowler emerge in her first year of tournament division play as the best there is. No fluke either. Marney led the total aggregate standings from the very first tournament back in September and stayed there right through the yearâ€"ending 10% Tournament, finishing the year with a 251 average arid earning an individual berth in the recent nationals along with the next five finishers in aggregate competition, who comprised the Ontario team. "It was like I had to prove myself over again, no one had ever heard of me in the tournament division", said Galawray, who spent six years in the OBA‘s less competitive teaching division before moving up this year. "Everyone was asking who I was, 1 was just another bowler to begin with." But the mo native changed that way of thinking q in preliminary match play when she compiled a 10â€"5 record to tie for first with Mary Bakewell of Port Coquitlam, B.C. Actually, Galawray had been led to believe it V_ WA' L_'|, AUTOMflflC p[N AbEL!_ Bowilers Association national title in Ottawa in her first year of tournament competition. Marney Galawray of Waterioo Bowling Lanes d\oek_od the mates pushed across in their half of the seventh. But Panthers, notably clurer Bill Byckowski showed signs of losing their cool after Fagan‘s hit, and the wheel of fortune spun drastically in Tigers favor from that They pieced together five runs on only two hits in the eighth, then after relinquishing the lead when Panthers exploded for six runs of their own in the ninth, rallied for the necessary five runs in their final ups as Jeff Zapfe‘s oneâ€"out fielder‘s choice with the bases loaded scored Brad Schnurr from third with the winning digit. The threeâ€"ring circus before a sizeable crowd actually started when the irate Byckowski was tossed from the contest after Fagan‘s double, which came on the heels of what appeared to be an inningâ€"ending third strike. ‘"*No, it missed the corner by about this much," said Fagan, indicating just over an inch. "Actually, he (plate umpire Rob FEiliott) made a very good call on the play." _â€" Fagan‘s next plate appearance was also an important one as he doubled again off Kaspryzk to clear the bases in the eighth and give his club a 5â€"3 lead at the time. | "The hit that scored the runs was a bigger hit than the other (seventh inning) one," said Fagan. "I was WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY., JULY 1§, 1981 â€"â€" In addition to Fagan‘sâ€"doubles, the hotâ€"hitting Dunc MacDonald with his seventh and eighth hits in four games had two singles for the winners. tonight.. But even when we did get them, I knew we had aaother(lulutogoyet." * And in that ninth Panthers rallied to knock starter Dan Smith from the box, then touched reliever Bob Schnurr for three hits and another pair of runs. But Schnurr helped earn his own victory in the ninth when he singled to drive in two runs, and left fielder Mickey Kozlowski delivered another key blow when his beginning to think we weren‘t going to get any runs another pair of runs batted in. "It was an Astroturf special," laughed‘ Koziowski about the highâ€"hopper which just went over the overstretched glove of movedâ€"in rm‘bcsemn Ken Schilling. "It was nice to see a nder (reliever John Collier) again after Kas (Kaspryzk) all night, his curve was absolutely unreal." Collier, the third Panther pitcher was tagged with the loss, while rightfielder Tim Pickett had a brilliant fiveâ€"forâ€"five night at the plate. ‘"When I‘m bowling in competition, I just try to remember that chances are just as good you‘ll have a bad day as a good one, and accept that on some days you‘re going to be better than others. I don‘t let other bowlers get the best of me though, when I‘m bowling, I don‘t even know they are there." Even in the final frame, of the national she was first all by herself, which would have given her a bye into the best of three finals while second and third fought it out to be her opponent. She didn‘t relish the tieâ€"breaker necessary to establish firstâ€"place finisher. Despite losing the first game of the bestâ€"ofâ€"three resoundingly 257â€"197, Galawray bounced back to blow away her opponent 247â€"196 in game two and 292â€"230 in the championship rubber match. Though her rise to stardom in tournament play has been meteoric, almost unheard of, there is ample proof in her bowling backâ€" ground to justify Marney Galawray‘s position atop the Canadian Master Bowlers ladder. Veteran vs. rookie. Favorite vs. underdog. Experience against inexperience. Former champ against the nobody. *"I started bowling 19 years ago, and when I came here with my family in 1966 I wanted to continue," said Galawray, who does secreâ€" tarial work in her father‘s office. ‘"And when Howie (Waterloo Lanes proprietor Howard Totzke) found out I was carry{ng a 212 average back then, he encouraged me to try the ladies‘ league competitions. * The product of the Youth Bowling Council has returned into the program as much as she has taken from it. Galawray to this day is YBC assistant program director at Waterloo Lanes, and prior to her success in Ottawa, her biggest thrill was coaching the 11â€"14â€" yearâ€"olds to the Four Steps of Stardom national championship seven years ago when she was but 20 herself. ‘She handled the situation with ease, however, disposing ofâ€" Bakewell 259â€"174. Bakewell in turn lost out in semiâ€"final playoff artion to McCoshen, the veteran North Battleford, Sask., "keggling queen", and so the classic confrontation was drawn up for the final. Forget it. The cliches went out the winâ€" over third tied the contest with W 2 s PAGE 13