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

DATE: SUNDAY, July 29, 1990                   TAG: 9007290171
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: E5   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Staff report
DATELINE: HAMPTON                                LENGTH: Medium

BUCCANEERS END 11-GAME LOSING STREAK

One of the team's new players helped see to it that this Salem team would not break an old - and hardly positive - record Saturday night.

Catcher Felix Antigua, pinch hitting for Tim Hines in the ninth inning, hit a sacrifice fly with the bases loaded to give the Buccaneers a 2-1 Carolina League baseball victory over Peninsula. The win ended an 11-game losing streak and kept the Bucs from approaching the franchise record of 13 defeats in a row in 1982.

With the score 1-1 in the ninth, Bruce Schreiber led off with a single to left and Domingo Merejo reached safely with a bunt single. Mandy Romero then singled sharply to left to load the bases.

Peninsula starter Jeff Darwin (6-10) was replaced by ace reliever Oscar Rivas, who gave up Antigua's sacrifice fly.

Hines got the other Salem run with a solo homer in the fifth inning, his seventh.

One of the Buccaneers who has been here all season, pitcher Tim Wakefield, had just as much to do with the win. He hurled eight innings of five-hit ball in running his record to 6-11, including 3-0 at Peninsula's War Memorial Stadium.

"It's just a coincidence, my winning here," said Wakefield, the only knuckleballer in the Pittsburgh Pirates' organization and one of only two in the minor leagues. "I really didn't have great stuff tonight to tell you the truth, but I'm learning how to pitch."

In the second of a three-game series tonight, Keith Richardson (0-1) will pitch for Salem against Kevin King (0-0).

SALEM PENINSULA ab r h bi ab r h bi Sims cf4000 Taveras cf4000 Schreiber 2b4130 King ss4000 Merejo rf3000 Holley lf4010 Romero c4010 Bailey dh4110 Hines 1b3111 Boone 2b3000 Antigua ph0001 Campanis c4020 Shelton 1b0000 Pilkington 1b3000 Pennye lf3020 K. Thomas rf2000 Greene ss4000 Robles 3b3010 Trusky dh3000 Manahan 3b3010 Totals31 2 8 2 Totals 31 1 5 0

Salem000 010 001-2 Peninsula010 000 000-1

DP-Salem 1, Peninsula 1. LOB-Salem 5, Peninsula 5. 3B-Holley. HR-Hines (7). S-Merejo. SF-Antigua. IP HRERBBSO Salem Wakefield W, 6-11 851110 Zimmerman S, 2 100002 Peninsula Darwin L, 6-10 882206 Rivas 100011

Darwin faced three batters in ninth.

HBP-K. Thomas by Wakefield.

Umpires-Home, Vestal; bases, Irvine, Stone.

T-2:23. A-1,606.

by CNB