Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, May 8, 1990                   TAG: 9005080667
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B4   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: Staff report
DATELINE: LYNCHBURG                                LENGTH: Medium

BUCS FAIL TO STEAL WIN

With the score 6-6 and runners on first and third in the seventh inning, Salem went for the delayed double steal.

Armando Romero broke for second with the pitch and stopped between the bases. Tim Hines broke for home as Lynchburg catcher Louis Dorante threw to second. Second baseman Scott Powers gunned down Hines at the plate with a strong throw and the Bucs lost 7-6 in Carolina League baseball.

With the help of three errors, the Bucs jumped on Lynchburg pitcher Pete Estrada for three first-inning runs.

Greg Sims led off the game with a single. Bruce Schreiber reached when Lynchburg third baseman Chris Whitehead missed a grounder.

Domingo Merejo followed with a double to left field that scored Sims. Red Sox second baseman Scott Powers then booted Tim Hines' grounder allowing Schreiber to score.

Merejo scored when Lynchburg left fielder Chris Leach dropped Armando Romero's fly ball.

Unlike Estrada, Salem's Steve Bucholtz cruised through the first three innings, but ran into trouble in the fourth.

With one out Lynchburg's Greg Blosser lined a double to center. He moved to third on a passed ball and was driven home by Les Wallin, who entered the game 0-for-10 with runners in scoring position.

With two on, Willie Tatum doubled to tie the score at 3.

The Red Sox took the lead in the fifth when Powers, Blosser and Wallin hit consecutive singles to load the bases and Chris Whitehead atoned for his first inning error with hit a three-run double into the right-centerfield gap. Lynchburg led 6-3.

Estrada retired 13 consecutive hitters before hitting the showers after six innings.

Howard Landry took to the mound in the seventh inning, giving up Rob Bailey's single. Landry walked Sims and Schreiber flied to right moving Bailey to third.

Chris Estep, who had struggled on this road trip, smacked a three-run, pinch-hit home run to pull the Bucs even at 6.

In Lynchburg's half of the seventh inning, Tatum doubled in the game-winner.

\ BUCSHOTS: Butch Schlopy (1-3, 3.20 ERA) is scheduled to face Scott Taylor (2-2, 1.04 ERA) tonight . . . The Red Sox broke a three-game losing streak with its victory. . . . Entering Monday's game, Lynchburg batted .198 with runners in scoring position . . . Estep's homer was only his second hit of the road trip . . .

Keywords:
BASEBALL