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THE DAILY TIMES Tuesday, July 3, 2007 C2 wwwDalmartaNow.com Shorebirds On The Schedule For The Shorebirds Fbr dad and brother, 1,133 miles not too far to travel for first pitch Mon. vs. Today vs. Sun. vs.

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Hp 7:05 7:05 mm By Tim Brennan SUM wniw 7:05 6:35 7:05 7:05 7:05 This Week's Opposition Statistics as of July 1 Lakewood BlueClaws to watch Hagerstown Suns to watch HR RBI SB Avf. RBI SB Avf. 7 7 .318 31 9 .177 49 13 .290 17 31 .297 HR 0 9 7 0 21 38 80 77 51 67 46 16 3 11 3 4 20 3 .311 35 5 .291 19 6 .249 9 0 .308 Batters Fidel Hernandez Carl Henry Jr. Adrian Cardenas Quintin Berry Team Totals 661 34 313 101 .258 Batters Marcos Cabral Leonard Davis Joe Napoli Marvin Lowrance Team Totals Pitchers Yunior Novoa Erik Arnesen Josh Wilkie Team Totals 663 77 356 62 .262 W-l Sv. ERA IP BB 57 0 3.93 73 13 22 50 3-3 0 4.23 38 13 6 20 24 5 4.22 42 23 16 37 31-46 16 4.86 65013257500 Pitchers W-l Sv.

ERA IP BB Antonio Bastardo 30 0 0.72 25 11 31 Carola Monasteries 75 0 4.87 85 38 63 Robert Swindle 0-1 7 1.26 14 13 3 20 Team Totals 40-35 26 3.9767713279569 South Atlantic League Standings W1 MM Sniff photo The Delmarva Shorebirds' Tim Bascom throws out a pitch during Sunday night's game against the Lake County Captains. SALISBURY Gas for the trip from Duncdin, to I-akewood, N.J.: $150 Food for you and your 18-year-old son during a 19-hour drive: $75 Swing your other son pitch five perfect innings in his first professional start: Priceless. John Bascom, father of Shorebirds staring pitcher Tim, and Michael, Tim's younger brother, found out a couple days earlier that Tim would be making his first affiliated professional start (he pitched in an independent league earlier this spring) last Monday, June 24, at Lakewood. Michael had his own game Sunday lifter noon, so the pair hopped in Tim's SUV, which he would need in Salisbury anyway, at about 8:30 Sunday evening and began the trek toward New Jersey "I explained it (to my wife, Sandra), you've got to take every game as a wonderful opportunity and this was going to be his first true professional start and we were real confident that he was going to do well," John said. "We just didn't know how well, so we wanted to get up there and see it." John and Michael called Tim Monday morning from North Carolina, perhaps waiting that long just to make sure the 22-year-old wouldn't tell them not to bother.

I le has a tendency to not make a big deal out of things. "He tends to minimize the effect of our either being there or not being there so that he can kind of keep his game face on," John said. "He might have said something like, 'What are you coming up here but only from kind of a humorous, sarcastic standpoint." After getting lost in New Jersey, winding up on Fort Dix, the pair pulled into Lakewood about an hour before the first pitch. It turned out to be well worth the trip as the BlueClaws had no answer for the Baltimore Orioles' fourth-round pick in last month's draft. Tim got a pair of groundouts and a strikeout to cruise through the first Northern Division Southern Division Team Pet GB Team Pet GB lake County 7 3 .700 Asheville 7 4 .636 Lakewood 7 3 .700 Augusta 7 4 .636 Hickory 6 5 .545 1V5 Greenville 7 4 .636 West Virginia 6 5 .545 1ft Charleston 6 4 .600 DELMARVA 4 6 .400 3 Columbus 6 4 .600 ft Lexington 3 8 .273 4ft Savannah 6 4 .600 ft Hagerstown 2 8 .200 5 Kannapolis 6 5 .545 1 Greensboro 2 9 .182 5ft Rome 2 8 .200 4ft inning.

Another groundout and two strikeouts and he was through the second unscathed as John and Michael filmed the game and got plenty of still shots. Two more ground outs and another strikeout in the third and John and Michael began to realize what was going on. "It happened so fast, I would've gotten choked up if I had any time to think about it, but I'm sitting there watching it happen and at some point or another, Michael and I are just sitting there going, 'Whew John said. "Maybe in the third inning it looked like he was maybe in total control, like he was, and I put down my beverage and held out my left hand and said, 'Hey Michael, look at And my left hand was shaking, so I knew I was pretty nervous, pretty hyped up and enjoying it all at the same time." Tim ended up going five perfect innings, striking out nine along the way, and was taken out for a nice celebratory dinner afterward, though he didn't make a big deal out of the start. "That was pretty cool to see them there and for them to drive that far all night," Tim said.

"To be there to watch it was pretty neat, I couldn't have really explained it to them on the phone, so I'm glad they came." John, who is retired, and Michael flew home from Salisbury this past Sunday morning, missing Tim's start that evening. Against Lake County, Tim retired the first three batters in order, but a chopper through the left side to lead off the second, ended his perfect Inning streak at six. With the way Tim has started his first season of affiliated professional ball, John and Tim might get to know that drive to the mid-Atlantic area well in the next couple of years. tbrennandmg.gannett.com 410-8454646 Shorebirds' Statistics A of July 1 Steal Shorebirds batters Names. 28 HR Brandon Tripp 218 42 65 16 1 10 51 18 53 3 298 Chris Vinyard 286 38 80 19 0 9 55 20 64 0 280 Todd Davison 55 7 15 2 1 1 6 10 13 4 273 Miguel Abreu 259 40 69 13 4 7 37 6 33 10 266 Billy Rowell 125 19 33 9 1 2 22 13 38 2 264 Brandon Snyder 263 34 68 13 0 6 33 27 77 0 259 Victor Castillo 118 10 30 0 0 0 7 15 20 1 254 David Cash 233 28 57 9 1 1 24 13 49 10 245 Bobby Andrews 204 34 50 6 3 0 19 18 40 11 245 Danny Figueroa 217 39 50 8 4 0 12 26 51 13 230 Michael Pierce 116 9 26 13 0 1 8 17 52 0 224 Pedro Florimon 209 27 41 8 1 2 21 21 61...:....8 196 Stu Musslewtiite 170 13 31 5 0 0 13 7 25 0 182 Team Totals 2,620 .....364 646 129 16 40 318 225 ....610......70.

247 Shorebirds pitchers Name W-l ERA IP ER HB BB SO Brent Allar O0 0.00 1 23 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Tim Bascom 00 0.90 0 10 3 1 1 0 2 14 0 Wilfrido Perez 22 1.89 5 33 13....22 8 7 2 12 50 4 Jeffrey Moore 5-3 2.08 0 91 63 35 21 5 37 60 2 Brett Bordes 1-1 3.32 2 19 12 11 7 3 19 16 2 Pedro Beato 3-3 3.36 0 83 80 38 31 1 38 67 6 Kyle Schmidt 34 3.58 5513....54 25 22 6 23 65 2 Chad Thall 1-2 3.79 11 38 34 19 16 2 9 33 4 Bruce Gallaway 4-3 5.28 1 30 23....27 .26 18 3 26 36 3 LuisLebron 0-1 6.18 2 27 23....25 21 19 0 31 40 3 Reid Hamblet 50 6.45 0 44 23....51 34 32 4 27 34 3 Team Totals 38-39 3.99 24 ..687 23..628 387 305 45 ....352 ....600 46 anything where he would tip it off, if he's timing, if he comes set one-thousand-one one-thousand-two (then continues his delivery), we work on all that," Bartee said. "On first base, it's right away. If we see something, we say, let's go. We don't waste time on the bases, we like to run." Normally players get the majority of their steals going to second base, but the Orioles have put an emphasis on its minor league affiliates to work on stealing third base with one out, putting added pressure on the defense. As a team, the Shorebirds are 70-for-104 (67 percent) in stolen base chances this season.

The percentage is up two points from last year, but the Birds are on pace for 125 steals, which would be 24 more than the 2006 team. Steals mean more RBI chances, more RBIs means more runs and more runs means more wins. Sounds so simple, doesn't it? blessed to even get up to the big leagues and I was asking them straight up, face-to-face, give me what you know. I think that helps a lot, technique is huge, because when I was this age that they're in now, I didn't have any technique. I was just faster than everyone." While speed is what you think of with base stealers, they need more than that.

They need to study, particularly the opposing pitcher; knowing his move to first, how fast he is to the plate and his motion to the plate. "It doesn't matter how hard the catcher can throw to second, you steal off the pitcher," Figueroa said. "That's one thing (Bartee) stresses a lot." Much of the diagnosis of the information about an opposition pitcher comes from Bartee, who coaches first and is looking for all the same minute details of the pitchers that the Shorebirds base runners are. "We are constantly looking for any kind of tendencies (from the pitchers), From Page CI working on their technique, learning from other players and coaches alike. "We have one of the best base stealers, probably to ever play baseball (field coach Kimera Bartee) as our coach.

He stresses on (technique) a lot and it's an advantage for us, the guys that can run, because we're learning from pretty much the best," Figueroa said. Bartee stole 20 bases in his rookie year with Detroit while stealing a total of 36 in his six-year big league career while being caught 19 times. He also stole 254 bases in 10 minor league seasons. "I grew up watching a lot of tapes. I watched a lot of Ricky Henderson, Vince Coleman, Tim Raines, a lot of those guys that I grew up watching in the 80s," Bartee said.

"I watched them and learned from them and I was Flounder Pounder Fishing Tournament Olympics Handshake could lead to a win for bid cities Two anglers win first place in OC tourney 6 rr i Staff Report V- 1 A i Peter i. Casey photos 1 V-'lT Gusenbauer arrived in Guatemala on Saturday, and South Korean President Roh Moo-hyurr arrived Sunday. "I think it is very essential," Russian IOC member Vitaly Smirnov said of the show of support from the national leaders. Blair made it so. IOC members cited his llth-hour campaigning as the winning edge in London's narrow victory against Paris (London won by four votes) for the 2012 Olympics.

IOC president Jacques Rogge said last week he is expecting another close vote Wednesday because "the three candidates are of the same high quality." The momentum of early leader Salzburg, which is selling the charm of a Winter Olympics in a traditional Alpine setting, has waned in recent months. The bid could suffer effects from the 2006 Olympic blood doping case that in May prompted the IOC to ban six Austrian athletes for life and impose a $1 million penalty on the Austrian Olympic Committee. "I have been through many electoral campaigns," Gusenbauer said Sunday "Before the last vote is cast, the race is not over." By Vicki Michaelis USA Today GUATEMALA CITY With the officials bidding to host the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, calling him "the captain of our team," Russian president Vladimir Putin was due to arrive here Monday evening amid hopes he could provide the winning handshakes in a close race, much as then-British prime minister Tony Blair did for London in the 2012 Summer Olympic vote two years ago. "This is a sign of the great passion and great desire of Russia to become a partner for the Olympic movement," Sochi bid chief Dmitry Cher-nyshenko said of Putin's presence. Sochi is up against Pyeongchang, South Korea, and Salzburg, Austria, in Wednesday's vote by more than 100 International Olympic Committee members meeting in Guatemala.

While the 2014 Winter Games race has not captured global interest at nearly the levels of the 2012 competition in which London, Madrid, Moscow, New York and Paris were finalists it has commanded top government priority in the countries involved. Austrian Chancellor Alfred OCEAN CITY Ake Marine held its third annual Flounder Pounder Tournament on Saturday in the Atlantic Ocean and SinepuxentAssawoman Bay. Anglers dropped their lines in the water from 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and weigh-ins were held from 7:30 a.m.

to 5:30 p.m. All fish were weighed, tagged and placed on ice until the last fish was weighed at the dock at 5:30 p.m. An awards ceremony was held at 6 p.m., with prizes going to the following winners: First place flounder winners were Chris Ludlow and Danny Cox with their 4.9-pound flounders worth $1,025. Third place flounder went to Ray Blevins Jr. with a 4.7-pound catch.

In the kids division, first place flounder went to Nick Dietrich with a 2.8-pound flounder. Dietrich was awarded a rod and reel comho. Second place went to Cole Buffington with a 2.3-pound flattie. He took home a trickle box and tackle for hi- el forts. Third place winner was Brittany Ferry with a 2.1-pound flounder.

Perry won a $25 gift certificate and fishing tackle. Above, Cole Buffington takes his prize for winning second place in the kids division of the Flounder Pounder fishing tournament in West Ocean City. At right, Danny Cox checks out his winning fisli that tied for first at 4.9 pounds. 1 if 1.