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PAGE 22 â€" WATERLOO CHRON;CLE. WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1985 Home diamond no advantage for Tigers Richard O ‘Brien Chronicle Staft Bechtel Park doesn‘t bring out the best in Waterloo Tigers. It‘s where they play their home games in the Interâ€"County Major Baseball League but they haven‘t played very well at home lately. They split a doubleheader with Guelph on Monday, July 1, two days after lJosing a close 2â€"0 decision to Toronto Maple Leafs, but it‘s been downhili from there for home games. Tigers most recent loss at home came Sunday night when London Majors used a 19â€"hit attack to beat them 13â€"5. In their previous home game Tigers had given up 19 hits in a 125 loss to Niagara Falls Mari ners. Friday in Hamilton, Tigers played good baseball and Nick Noonan threw a fourâ€"hitter in a 51 win over Hamilton Cardinals. Tigers fell behind Majors +0 in the second inning and appeared deflated after a controversial call went against them in their half of the first. Richard O‘Brien Chronicle Staff Now that he‘s a centre fielder with Waterloo CHYM‘rs he‘s still a power hitter but he has a good batting average and onâ€"base percentage to go along with it. Terry Boegel hit a fly ball} down the third base line and Majors left fielder GJen Little was ruled to have made the catch although Tigers argued he caught the ball on the bounce. In the confusion following the controversial catch, Jody Pfaff was caught â€"off first base as Little completed a double play. When Mike Pedersen played for the now â€"defunct Stratford Anavics he was a power hitter with a low batting average. Pedersen demonstrated his ability to come through with a timely hit on Thursday. He drove in his 23rd run of the season when his double in the seventh inning scored John Miller. Pedersen went into Thursday‘s game batting .365 and with nine home runs. In half a season with Stratford last year he hit five home runs. After the double play, J .D. Yari hit a single that could have put Tigers in the lead if anyone had been in scoring position. CHYM‘rs won that Interâ€"City Fastball League game over Newmarket Nationals 6â€"2 and beat Guelph Ingrams 7â€"0 in Gueliph the following night. "I wasn‘t really happy with my average (last season) and we didn‘t win many bail games so it was kind of hard." said CHYM‘rs Pedersen learning fast Young outfielder home run, rbi Noonan, who has had knee liga ment problems, played shortstop on Sunday for the first time in twoâ€"andâ€" half weeks. "The whole team was pretty dead out there," Noonan said with a shrug. ‘"We can‘t use that (call) as an excuse though We had good defence on Friday." Tigers scored all five runs in the eighth inning with rbi singles for Dan Arbic and Terry McCutcheon and basesâ€"loaded walk accounting for three of them. Losing pitcher Greg Yari lasted just oneâ€"andâ€"oneâ€"third innings and gave up four runs on five hits. Dave Drago pitched until the eighth in ning when he was relieved by Steve Konawal. Alex McKay drove in four runs for Majors. He hit an rbi single in the seventh inning, then cracked a threeâ€"run homer in the eighth. Little gave Majors their first two runs with a twoâ€"run secondâ€"inning double. Friday, Noonan‘s record as a pitcher improved to two wins and one loss with an impressive fourâ€"hit ter. Winnuing piicieee Stacy Stolte gave up five runs, just one of them earned, on eight hits in eight in mngs. Tigers play again in Hamilton tonight at 8. They host St. Thomas Elgins Saturday at 7 and on Sunday they travel to Niagara Falls for a game starting at 2. Terry Boegel doubled to score two runs in the first inning. Cardinals scored their lone run in the eighth inning on a sacrifice fly by Jim Hrach. Pedersen, a University of Guelph gradu ate. t\ " TA Pedersen has a high .500 onâ€"base per Mike Pedersen Kevin Pratt of Waterioo Athletics‘ soccer team controls the bail and a Kitchener City player at the same time during Kitchener ‘and District Soccer League action Thursday at Seagram Stadium. Athletics lost 4â€"1. See story on page 28. centage and 19 walks, many intentional. help account for that "I‘ve been getting my share of walks but when you have Barry Musselman and Larry Strathearn around you (in the lineup) they‘re going to have to pitch to a really smart hitter in one of those two guys _ Pedersen also points out that he‘s learned from Musseman and Strathearn, particularly how to be more selective with pitches and how to keep a good eye on the ball. CHYM‘rs hit for three firstâ€"inning runs to beat Newmarket. Strathearn hit a runâ€"scoring single and Jim Millen had a twoâ€"run double. "Coming to Waterloo with experienced ball players to help me I can‘t help but improve," said the 23â€"yearâ€"old Pedersen. "‘The guys stick together as a team and that‘s why we‘re winning. That‘s going to be important in the playoffs, the Ontario eliminations and the Canadians." DOUBLE DUTY CHYM‘rs other run came in the eighth when Millen scored on Brian Hepburn‘s double. Bill Miller pitched a six hitter to pick up his ninth win of the season. Clayton took the loss. In the sixth, Millen hit a runâ€"scoring single and Keeling doubled to drive in two more runs. Hillside John Miller scored for CHYM‘rs in the fifth He doubled, then came home on an error. Brian Schott gave CHYM‘rs another run when he scored in the eighth inning on a wild pitch Winning pitcher Pete Waddington al lowed only two hits in seven innings. Bill Miller allowed two more hits in the final two innings. leader Friday in Guelph, Ingrams pitcher Jim Clayton had a perfect game going until the roof fell in in the fifth inning. Terry Keeling hit a twoâ€"run single and Rob White singled to score Keeling, who was making only his third appearance with CHYM‘rs this season. CHYM‘rs host Ingrams Thursday at 8 at Richard O Brien photo