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A 1,QQK AT THE MINORS
In a. pcevious column. no made mention 01
the fact Exeter's minor baseball set-up evae flour-
ishing„ This could now probably be ehi6.et-1 as an
understatement because all three teams in the
Exeter program are doing extremely well for them-
selves.
After our last week's baseball action. two
of the three local teams have advanced to their
league finals while a third is just beginning its
playoff round. The pee-woes and bantams disposeu
of their counterparts from St. Marys in easy
fashion while the midget squad has been unable
to work in any games with Clinton tas of last
weekend) because of conflicting dates and wet
weather.
The Exeter pee-woes, under their coach Jim
"Red" Loader., are playing a fine brand of baseball
now and all through the season and certainly de-
serve to be in the final round,
Jim Glover, Gord Baynham. and "Bunny"
Ford have their bantam charges playing to perfec-
tion and their impressive peel:ovum:nee against St,
Marys indicates that this team is capable of going
a long way.
The midgets have been running hot and
cold all season but with any breaks at all the
locals should fare quite favorably against their
opposition, a strong Clinton team. Coaches Bud
Preszcator and Ward Kraft will undoubtedly field
a strong team in their quest for playoff honors.
With the centre of attention on the minor
playoffs at the moment, we are wondering why
the teams have been forced to start their play-
downs this early in the season. We would imagine
that the persons responsible for this early start
wanted to have a team ready for further OBA com-
petition,
However, we feel that the third week in
July is a little too soon to ask the teams to start
playing off, Coaches and parents both have spent
considerable time in developing their teams and
the players themselves have practiced hard and
long for a chance to play during the summer. Now,
with the playoffs sending some of the teams to
the sidelines, they have had little opportunity to
participate to any great extent. Some of the teams
in the area will be knocked out of competition
after playing for only a month and the boys will
have little or nothing to do for the remainder of
the summer,
Guess the only thing for the Exeter squads
to do if they want to keep playing is to keep.
winning. (Elementary, isn't it?i Go to it guys and
lots of luck!
Judging by the results of previous games
and from what we have seen, the three teams in
the local minor set-up are not lacking in talent.
All of the teams have quite a few players who
have developed well in the minor system and play
a fine style of baseball.
Three examples that come to mind are
Peter Lawson, a hard-hitting and fine-fielding pee-
wee; Ron Broderick, a bantam who clubs home
runs like most players hit singles. and Jalce Nyhuis,
who is doing a great job on the mound for the
midgets.
These are only a few of the many fine ball-
players that are toiling in the minor set-up and
things would appear bright for Derry's Mohawks
if he can latch onto some of these Minot' gradu-
ates.
GREYS ARE OFF AND RUNNING
The Exeter ladies' softball team is certain-
ly making a shambles of its league. The locals
notched their eleventh straight win last week and
they have not been beaten this year.
It is indeed a credit to the girls and to their
coach, Lloyd .Cushman. that they have compiled
such an impressive ztec6r0 iir.ottel,,er. a club as
strong as the one /ha'. Exeter has fielded this
year hardly provide -.eemeetition ',then they
can run up such stores as they have
recorded at times .,eason.
We are not .stz;:ge amt. the Exeter ladies
start "throwinr ctt bet ache they }late
worked diligent',y With their best pos-
sible team. HotAteve:, have to be
done to make the mart:-. the !eague more even
so that there will be a keener competition and
more balance /6 'he league. ,Nlaybe the Greys
should use seven playemi
ONE WAY TO BEAT THE HEAT
While most of us Journey to the beach to
cool off during the hot summer months. Lee Learn
has found a new way to keep cool when the tem-
perature soars.
The local dairyman. along with his wire.
recently travelled all the way to Nelson. 'British
Columbia.: to participate in a curling bonspiel
there. The ardent enthusiast and his wife accom-
panied three couples from Sealorth to compete in
both men's and ladies' divisions in the week4ong
"Mid-Summer Bonspier,
Although they haven't been in contact with
the sport for some months, the lay-off couldn't
have •donne too much harm to the area curlers since
both the men's and ladies' teams finished third in
their division and the men placed. seventh in a
competition with 67 other rinks.
The Exeter couple also managed to take in
the Seattle World's trail'. the sights of Vancouver,
and the Calgary Stampede while they were away.
Lee reports that curling in the summer has its
hazards, returned borne with a cold that he
picked -up, during one of the 11 games that he
spent on the ice pad.
TOLIkING. THE LINKS
The rain at the first part of the reek was
greatly appreciated by Allan Westoott, proprietor
of the Exeter golf course. The fairw ays and greens
are taking quite a beating from the hot summer
suit this year and Allan is trying hard to keep 'his
course in good shape.
Attually„ we viewed the rain with rather
mixed emotions, When the fairways at the local
course become hard we can always .count on a
good long roll for our ball after hitting the ground
about .50 yards in front of us. Then, too, when the
'creeks are full of water it is always .a lot harder
to find our golf balls than when they ate dry.
(Although„ four balls in six holes isn't that bad, is
it?)
Otiltft. -5E1wN hope we haven't put
ro
All three Exeter minor teams
lost their first game of the
playoffs in their respective di-
visions on Tuesday evening.
The local midgets Y1 ore shelled
by Clinton 13-e In Exeter in the
first game of a hest-of-three al:-
fair in the WOAA semi-finals,
Clinton haute ins shoved their
way to a 3.4 decision over EN.-
eter in Clinton in the opener of
their league finals.
The pee-wee squad was edged
11-10 in a close tilt in Godcrich
by a strong northern team in
their first encounter in a two-
out-of-three final round.
Unearned runs
defeat midgets
Exeter midgets managed to
contain Clinton for three innings
before the visitors broke loose
ft— three runs to start them on
their way to a 13.2 rout,
Exeter hurler Jake Nyhuis
held the Clinton squad to four
hits and only two runs dureig
the first three innings but his
another two fielders' choices that
infield collapsed behind him in
the next frame and the winners
counted four runs, all of them
unearned,
A pair of infield errors and
Crediton
Lanes top
went wild accounted for all the
Clinton scoring and gave them
a big 6-0 edge.
The home squad retaliated in
their half of the fourth and
turned a walk and two singles
into two runs to cut into the
margin,
However, this was as close as
the locals ever came and Clin-
ton tallied seven more runs in
the . next two innings while
blanking the home nine to ice
the contest.
Exeter used three pitchers
during the game, Nyhuis, Rick
Boyle. and Rollie Rumpel and
-they allowed only eight hits but
some shoddy defensive work
hampered their efforts.
Clinton pitcher Joe Livermore
had the Exeter hitters in hand
throughout the 'game and he
gave up only five hits while fan-
ning 1e batters.
Larry Stine picked up Exeter's
only extra-base hit, a double,
and he was called out trying to
stretch it into a triple.
Single base nits for the losing
Exeter nine were registered by
Robert Wolfe, Jake Nyhuis, Tom
Sinclair. and Rothe Rumpel.
Clinton bantams
edge locals 31
A three-run surge in the sec-
nod-last inning provided Clin-
ton bantams with all the runs
they needed to edge Exeter 3,1
on Tuesday evening.
Exeter pitcher Ron Cornish
had been coasting along with
a two-hitter and a 1.0 margin
before lie ran into trouble in
the disastrous fifth inning.
Three straight hits and a
ground-out gave the Clinton
squad their three runs and a
3.1 lead that they never lost.
Exeter had taken a 1-0 lead
in the previous inning on a
walk, a follow-up single, and a
ground out for their slim one-
run margin.
Both Exeter's aye lefthander
and Clinton fireballer Alex Mc-
Gee turned in creditable pitch-
ing performances for Utah. re-
spective clubs. Cornish .whiffed
seven batters in the seven-in-
ning game while McGee tossed
a three-hitter and fanned 12
Exeter hatters.
Mark Hinton, John Noble, and
Cornish were the only players
to touch eleGee foe a base hit
and they were all confined to
singles.
Cornish allowed only seven
batters to reach hose during
the contest but McGee matched
his performance and only four
Exeter hitters made it to first
base settle.
P'wees -lost first
by 1110 verdict
A six-run third inning eartied
Godei'icli to a close 1140 de-
cision over Exeter pee-wees iri
their first playoff match.
The locals exploded fur fie e
the kiss or death on the Mohawks. After winning
four straight, they tied one game and lost two
others hi their only three games since our feature
on them . The swimming program at River-
view Park is going full swing under Jack Stephen
and Heather Strom. Over 200 youngsters have
enrolled for the swimming lessons this year . . .
The New York Yankees are finally' starting tti
move. They have been having a little bit of trouble
so far this year but we have supreme confidence
that they will he bi front by at least eight games
again at the end of the season, (Where are Batten's
Indians?) , Taking a peek at the calendar we
note that ottr annual holidays will be upon us next
week. However, it looks as if Boom has lots lined
tip for us to do during our vacation and well be
back in two weeks time
more run in the sixth inning
but they left one mo an standing
and they alto left the doing Ten
on base in the final inning.
Third-haseinan Peter Lawson
once more paced the locals at
the plate with his .three-for-four
performance, One hit went for
two bases.
Ricky Weber and Allan Diller
both smashed a pair of singles
for the Exeter squad while Bill
Fairbairn, John Loader, and
Randy \Veber each contributed
singles.
Randy 'Weber started the
game tor Exeter but he was
lifted after pitching 2 1-3 innings.
John Loader then went in and
he blanked the victorious Gode-
rich lads with a neat two-hit
performance through the final
four frames.
Exeter out-hit Goderich 10-9
but the local youngsters were
having one of their poorer days
in the field and they committed
five errors to hamper 'their
efforts,
Exeter Lanes, retaliating from
a 6-5 defeat the previous Mon-
day, handed Crediton an 17,-6
thumping on Thursday evening
in Crediton.
The Lanes squad rattled Cred-
iton pitcher Gard Staght for 14
hits during the seven-inning
game while Crediton could only
manage eight safeties off win-
ning pitcher Jack Fuller.
Three Exeter batters crashed
three hits during the night's
performance and two others
picked up two hits apiece,
Catcher Jim "Red" Loader
paced the Lanes by clubbing
two doubles and a single for a
three-for-three record at the
plate.
Bill Gannett and Gary Mid-
dleton both s 111 a shed three
straight singles for the winners
while Tommy Burke collected
the Lanes only home run of the
game, a three-run blast in the
first inning.
Fuller aided his own cause by
smacking two singles in two
trips to the plate and Ron Hey-
wood collected t h e Exeter
squad's only other hit, a single.
Credilon managed to turn five
of their eight hits into extra-
base blows and Roy Smith led
the way with a home run, triple
and a double.
Don Dinncy pounded a triple
and a double and Bob Gallo-
way had a double and one sin-
gle. Mete, Finkbeiner also sin-
gled once,
The Lanes, the home leant on
the Credi ton diamond, ,jumped
into a big 4.0 lead in the first
inning. mainly on the strength
of Burke's circuit smash.
They added three more in the
next frame while holding Credi-
ton to one and then matched
the losers run-for-run through
the last five innings,
The victory-and-loss combina-
tion gave the two league-lead-
ing learns records of six wins
and three losses for the season.
'Rec' lead
to Crediton
The Huron-Perth will have
four teams going into ODA
baseball playoffs according to
plans drafted this week by the
team representatives.
At a meeting in Mitchell
aioeday evening, Exeter Mo-
hawk Manager Deere. Boyle
consented to his team continu-
ing on in the "13" division. This
separated the five teems in the
league into four categories
and the clubs will continue ill
live divisions.
playoff; Retie') in these respee.
The only ealegory Thal has
two teams from the area lout)
\woo d to their league finals and Ilensall will have to play
Zurivh Exeter Legion bantams ail- Is the "I)" division.
off to determine which team on the strength of a 12.8
thumping they gave Si. Marys lel'itlittues 'ep e ractscegnotrythe Huron-Perth
Thursday evening.
The game, which was play-
ed in St, Marys, was only the
first between the two clubs but
the quarry town had to forfeit
the first game of the series
and so the locals wrapped up
the best of three series in two
straight games,
The Exeter squad pounded
out 18 base hits during the
encounter while St. Marys
could only counter 'with six.
Leading the, locals was hard-
bitting L a 1' ry Willert who
crashed out four straight
doubles in four trips to the
plate.
Bryan Baynham and Ron
Cornish both banged three hits
apiece for Exeter with one of
:Baynham's going for two bases.
Ron Broderick continued his
long-ball hitting with a long
home run in the fourth frame
and a single in the next, John
Noble clubbed a double and a
sin etc.
Single base hits for Exeter
were registered by Billy Far-
nutter with two and Mark
Hinton, Ricky McDonald and
Keith Strand with one each,
Ron Cornish was the winning.
pitcher although he didn't start
the game. The big lefthander
came on in relief in the second
inning to retire the side on a
stripe-out and a ground-nut.
The smooth lefty turned in a
masterful perform anee (twine
the next five innings as he
yielded only four hits and
walked one to keep the home
team off the scoresheet.
St. Marys counted all eight
of their - runs in the first two
innings but the locale 'foueht
back with four runs .in the
second, one in the third, four
more in the next frame and
two in the fifth.
Exeter Greys nailed down
their twelfth straight decision
without a defeat with a 15.8 vic-
tory over RCAF Centralia here
Tuesday,
The Exeter ladies cracked
out 15 hits during the contest
and they were aided along the
way by a number of Centralia
errors.
Every member of the. Greys'
squad picked up at least one hit
during the game and six bat-
ters banged out two hits.
Shortstop Audrey Pooley
turned in a three-for-four per-
formance with a double and
two singles to account for sev-
en Exeter runs,
A n n Jorgenson. clouted a
three-run home run in the first
inning and came back with a
run-scoring double in the fifth
Ira me.
Norma Coleman knocked out
a double and a single while
Ann Cronyn, Dolly Mattson, and
Mary Gravett all punched out
Locals gain
area finals
Greys get
12th win
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The other three teams in the
league. Exeter, Staffa, and Lis-
towel, received a bye into play-
downs because there are no
teams in their separate divi-
sions in the league.
Listowel intends to continue
in "A" although they could
ploy in the "B" division if they
wished. The northern team
will probably bring In one or
two players when they step up
to the higher division.
Exeter Mohawks will play
off with teams in the "B" rate-
gory while Staffa will continue
in the "C" grouping,
At the same meeting the
team representatives decided
to forego the remainder of the
league schedule and begin the
playoffs immediately.
The five teams were sepa-
rated into two categories with
Exeter and Listowel playing
off in one and Hensel], Zurich
and Staffa in the other,
Exeter and .Listowel, the top
two „finishers in regular-season
action, will play off in a four-
out-of-seven series that begins
in Listowel tonight (Thursday).
Hensall, Zurich and Staffa
will play a home-and-home
round-robin series. The team
that compiles the most points
in the six-game set will play
off with the winner of the Lis-
towel-Exeter series for the
Huron-Perth championship and
The London Free Press Trophy.
Although all of the teams in
the league have -four or five
postponed games left to play,
the teams decided to forget
about these genies in favor of
starting playoffs right away.
The schedules far playoff
dates in both divisions ,for the
eluron-Perth playoffs are list-
ed below:
"A" DIVISION
JULY
26—Exeter at Listowel.
30—Listowel at Exeter
31—Exeter at Listowel
AUGUST
2—Listowel at Exeter
(Remaining games, if neces-
sary, to be decided on later).
"B" DIVISION
JULY
30—Zurich at Hensall
AUGUST
1—Staffa at Zurich
a—Hensel] at Staffa
6—Hensall at Zurich (3:301
8—Zurich at. Staffs
10—Staffa at Hensel].
Zurich Lumber Kings turned
out to be the better "Mudders"
in a baseball game Against. the
Exeter Mohawks here Monday
evening.
The visiting Zurich squad
flailed their way to an 8.3 vic-
tory over Exeter en a muddy
diamond in a game that was
featured by lots of walks and
errors and, much slipping and
skidding,
Dick Bedard had the Mo-
hawks sliding away from the
plate most of the evening and
he tossed a four-hitter despite
the muddy playing conditions,
Zurich collected six hitt in
return off Mohawk loser Jim
"lessen. Russell was bothered
with his control most of the
evening and he walked eight
he
during the sic innings
he .worked.
The Zurich squad followed the
policy of "let 'cm hit the ball''
and it worked very well as the
heavy infield gave the basemen
easy chances to pick up the
ball. However, the infielders still
Kings excel
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crediton 7--Legion Lanes11—erediton . .
An unearned run in the last
inning gave Staffa elerclients
lel. lie with llensoll in a game
played in Hensall Thursday,
Bonsai] had counted their lone
run in their first time at bat
and Ilensall playing coach
had. to be light on their feet or Gerry Bell made the slim lead
they would find themselves sit- stand up for the next six innines
ling in the mud. before Staffa counted the Heine
run after two men ivere gone
in the last inning.
Bell turned in a fine job on
the hill for the 'home team and
he tossed a nifty four-hitter in
going the distance. The ace loft-
bander waled only one batter.
George Coveney of Stalin
also turned in a neat perform-
ance for the visitors with his
six-hit effort.
Jack Chipchase led the Hen.
salt nine at the plate with a
pair of booming triples, How-
ever, the Hensel] team couldn't
.convert any of the losing hits
into scoring plays and he was
left stranded both times,
Jack Bell cracked a double
and Dennis Mock, Gerry Bell
and 'Bob Baynham added singles
for the other Ilensall hits.
Coveney was also the hitting
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A strong wind blowing in to-
wards home plate also aided
the pitchers and only two of the
evening's 10 base hits managed
to find their way out of the in-
field.
Don Gentener provided the big
blow for the Kings with a bases-
clearing smash in the second
inning. The hit should have been
good for three bases but the
Zurich shortstop slipped round-
ing first and he had to hold up
at second.
The other five Lumber King
hits were all of the "scratchy"
infield variety and they were
collected by Earl "Cuss" Wag-
ner, Don O'Brien, Doug O'Brien,
Phil. Overholt, and Ron. Diech-
ert.
George Wright beat out two
infield hits for the losing' tribe
while Ron Bogart and Glen Ben-
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.nelt picked up the other two
safeties.
Bennett belled the teat 3:1
innings of the six-inning game
for the Mohawks and he el-
lowed only one man to. reach
base,
The encounter was the last Of
the year between the two area
clubs and the Moliewks finish-
ed up with a record or two
wins. e tie, and a loss iu tile
four-game
Late all
ties tilt 1-1
three minor du
playoff openers
more in the second and it looked
as if they would rim away with
the -contest,
However, the home Goderich
nine played heads-up ball and
got hack two runs in 'the first
and three in no second before
adding their game-winning six
talkie; _in the third frame.
The .Exeter squad counted one — Please turn to page 7
single by Keith Hodgifis gave e
them a 2.0 lead.
Legion managed to come up
wlilt A pair of runs in the next
inning on Reg Stagg's single,
Crediton error, and a long sift-
Goyetelie that tied the
game at 2-2.
However, this was as close as
runs in th e fir st inning anti four the losing Legion ever came and.
iNVO singles apiece.
Gail Farquhar and winning
Crediton climbed back into pitcher Rose Carey doubled and
first place in the ree softball Darlene Snell singled once intwo official at bats, standings with a 7-2 win over
Legion Monday evening, th e i r
The Greys bunched most of
scoring into the first and
The victory gave the Crediton fifth innings. tallying 10 of their lads a slim one-victory margin 15 ru n e in th e two frames anti
over second-place Exeter Lanes nine of their 16 hits,
in their battle for top spot in the Leslie led the Centralia girls popular grouping. at the platter with a triple and
Crediton used the long-hall to two doubles in three appear-
great advantage throughout the Ance s,
contest and five of their rune The, Greys managed to count
were due to extra-base blows. at least a couple of runs in
The winning Crediton squad every inning but the second
opened the scoring in the bet, and the first four players in
torn of the second inning when the lineup were a t the plate
two straight Legion errors, a five times in six innings.
walk, a ground-out and a sharp .
Creditor completely dominated
play for the reMeinder of the
game.
Creditoti counted another run
in the bottom of the third when
Russ Beaver clubbed a hoint
run, Gord •Slaght singled for his
first 114 of the evening, but he
was left stranded.