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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1965-09-10, Page 6Exeter Greys eliminated from softball semi-finals Brucefield pitcher Bev Wright, clouted a dramatic seventh inning homerun last Wednesday night to give Brucefield a 1-0 victory and take the best of five Ladies Huron Softball League semi-final series three games to one. By virtue of their win Brucefield earned the right to eater the final series against the northern winner which will probably be Brussels. Both Wright and Exeter hurler Pat Down pitched three hitters with Wright striking out 10 and Down fanning one in the seven inning contest. The two pitchers received flawless support in the field as there was only one error committed in the fast moving game. The Greys threatened in the first inning after two were out when Fern Dougali and Audrey Peoley produced back to back singles but Dougali was thrown out attempting to steal to end the threat. The locals threatened again in the fourth when an error and Pooley's second single put runners on first and second with nobody out but Wright bore down to retire the next three batters in order on a popup to the catcher and two strike outs. Other than the final inning Bruceffeld's only serious threat occurred in the fifth when Doris Rathwell doubled with none out. Down, however, retired the next three batters and stranded Rath- well on second base. The locals went down in order in the fifth, sixth and seventh frames setting the stage for Wright's circuit clout leading off the seventh, Wright stroked a 3-2 pitch over rightfielder Connie Kernick's head for the winning tally. Exeter shortstop Audrey Poo- ley was the only player in the game to cellect more than one hit as She had a pair of singles in three trips to the plate, Fern Dougall's first inning single was the only other hit off the bard throwing Wright. The three Brucefield safeties were picked up by three differ- ent hitters with Wright's homer the big blow. Mary Bell with a single and Rathwell with double were the other Brucefield batters with hits. all kick off I Am& Mtl ; Bantam hockey team receives trophies Members of the Legion sponsored bantam hockey team are shown here as they receive their trophies as finalists in the WOAA league last year. The boys received crests for their jackets and team pictures during a short ceremony last week. Following the presentation the boys were treated to an evening in Grand Bend. The team coach is Jim (Red) Loader and the manager, Gord Baynham. (T-A photo) Exeter lawn bowlers take top two spots in tourney Exeter bowlers took first and second place in a tournament that was held at the local club last Wednesday afternoon and evening. A total of 40 bowlers took part in the tourney that was sponsored by Walper's Men's Wear. The Exeter store donated several fine prizes for the tour- ney and the local bowlers are very appreciative of this gener- osity, Art Cann and Ray Mills regist- ered three wins and had a plus of 18 to win the tournament while Ross Taylor and Bob Mid- dleton placed second with three victories and a plus of 17. A Goderich rink comprised of Earl Allan and Pete Bissett took third place with three wins and a plus of 14 while Lorne Dale and Frank Sills of Seaforth finished fourth and Marvin Mercer and Bert Garrett of Clinton came in fifth. The threatening weather on Tuesday evening discouraged quite a few of the bowlers but they still held their weekly jitney with Ray Mills walking off with first place honours with two wins and a plus of 10. Fred Tilley placed second in the event with two wins and a plus of eight while Howard ince took third with two victories and a plus of six. Russ Snell picked up two wins and a plus of three for fourth place. A visiting bowler from Streets- ville g Mr. Feist, won the Saturday night jitney with two wins and a plus of seven while Ray Mills and Clarence Down tied for second place. Both Down and Mills finished the night's competition with iden- tical scores of two wins, plus five and an aggregate score of 23. Ray Smith posted two victories and had a plus of four which was good enough for third place. Second inning runs help Ivy Leafs defeat Zurich Le, /••(''/,/e 9C/ • ‘‘, \ /67 ;i "0 4,mliy-4, FOOTBALL HELMET — WITH DOUBLE BAR FACE MASK Rugged, Cycolac helmet in red or blue with contrasting white stripes. Double bar face mask assures added protection for mouth, nose and chin. Webbed suspension; adjustable leather chin strap. KICK-OFF TEE A—Made of strong poly plastic. A must .29 for every football enthusiast. .59 2' B—Top quality regulation size football. Fabrikoid construction. Sturdy lacing. 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Only three teams are left in the Exeter Men's Rec Softball loop and the number of teams could be reduced to two before long as the RCAF Centralia Airmen hold a 1-0 lead over Crediton in their best- of-three series. The second game of the set was played Wednesday night and if the Airmen won they would meet the Exeter Legion for the Rec League championship. In the first round of the playoffs the Airmen knocked off the Old Timers in two straight games while Crediton were extended to three games by the battling Kinsmen. The Legion were forced to go four games before they defeated the Bowling Lanes two games to one. The only other local club that is still partici- pating in playoffs is the men's softball club that is entered in the WOAA grouping. The team, which is sponsored by local bowling alley proprietor Aub Farquhar, has not played a game as yet but expect to get into action next week against the winner of the Wingham-Belgrave series. The Exeter Greys of the Ladies' Huron Soft- ball League and the Staffa Merchants of the Huron- Perth are two of the most recently eliminated clubs with the Greys dropping their best-of-five series to Brucefield 3-1 and Staffa bowing out to Corunna in two straight. Up until this year, Staffs has held a 4-0 play- off record over Corunna in OBA competition but this year the Giants turned the tables on the vet- eran Staffa club that took the Ontario Intermediate `C' championship last year. The usually potent Staffa bats were held silent by Corunna pitchers Norm Lockery and Chris Carter who gave up only three runs in 21 innings. Although the Greys were eliminated by the powerful Brucefield entry they had a successful sea- son and provided area fans with a great deal of ex- citement over the season. The ladies had a large following during the regular season and really packed them into the Hensall park during the Bruce- field playoff. After dropping the first game of the Bruce- field series 4-2 the Greys came back strong for an 11-4 victory in the second game behind the lusty hit- ting of Anne Cronyn, Fern Dougall, Audrey Pooley, Jean Weber and Anne Jorgenson. The next two games of the series were washed out by rain but Brucefield won the third 5-3 and then came back to take the fourth game 1-0 in one of the most thrilling games of the year. Exeter pitcher Pat Down who hurled several fine games for the locals during the regular season held Bruce- field scoreless through the first six innings of the -final game only to have her mound opponent lace a leadoff home run in the bottom of the seventh frame. RUSTLINGS — A team of Exeter softballers participated at a tournament in Forest last Monday and made a favorable showing in their first tourna- ment appearance. The club which was comprised of players from the local Rec League defeated Forest in their first game that was played at 1:00 o'clock but were defeated by a tough Sylvan crew who later went on to defeat the Sarnia Juveniles for the cham- pionship. Sylvan defeated the locals 4-0 and pitcher Don Armstrong had a no-hit no-run game until Bob Baynham singled with two out in the last half of the seventh inning . . . Since Hans Bischoff landed his large trout, Black Creek has bcome a very pop- ular spot with a lot of area anglers hoping to dupli- cate Hans' feat. Over the weekend an interested ob- server counted over 20 fishermen trying their luck along the banks of Black Creek . . Last Wednes- day night's bowling meeting was very well attended and men's league officials are looking forward to another banner bowling season. Aub Farquhar re- ports that 22 teams are entered in The men's league and the league is looking for .two more teams to bal- ance the schedule. Staffa pitcher Porky Wallace and Chris Carter of Corunna both went the distance with Wal- lace striking out 10 and giving up five hits while Carter fanned 13 and allowed only four hits. The winners scored a pair of unearned runs in the third in- ning to take a 2-0 lead but the Merchants knotted the score in the fifth when Line Rohfritch walked, reached second on a wild pitch and scored on Bill Murphy's single to left. Murphy took Second on the throw to the plate and then scored when Geo- rge Coveney slapped a single to left. Staffa threatened to go ahead in the seventh frame when left- fielder doubled with One out but carter settled down to force Rohfrttch to ground to first and Bill Murphy to fly out to end the threat. Both pitchers pitched effec- tiVely until the 12th inning when Wallace Walked leadeff batter Norm LOckety. Lbckery stole second base and reached third on a wild pitch and then Caine in to score when second base- man Bill Pleckie puriehed a hit The Corunna Giants came up with one run in the bottom half of the 12th inning on Sunday to defeat Staffa 3-2. The win gave Corunna a victory in their best Of three OBA Intermediate Semi-final series two games to none. Exeter man wins Kippen trap shoot Harry MatherS of Exeter won the Club trophy at Kippen in the annual Labor Day Shoot at the Kippen Gun Club. Mathers won in a shoot off with Dr. Gilbert Jarrott Of Stratford after both had registered a score of 47 hits out of 50 in the regular competition. Third place went to George Hamm of Blyth. John Anderson of Hensall and 11. Mandersoh of Goderieh, won the two man teani trophy in ano- ther shoot off withliedley Prouse of GOderich and Glen Greb of Exeter, both teams had regis- tered 46 out of 50 in the regnlar competition. The Ivy Leafs staved off elim- ination on Monday afternoon with two runs in the second inning as they went on to register a 3-1 win over the Zurich Lumber- kings. Ivy lost the first game of the best of three series in Zurich last Sunday by an 8-2 score and the two teams will now meet in the deciding game in Zurich this Sunday at 2.30. The winner of this series will meet the winner of the Wilke- sport-Walsingham set. Neither team scored in the first inning of the Monday en- counter but the winners came up with two runs in the bottom of the second with two out on two sin- gles, a hit batsman and a fielders choice to take a 2-0 lead. The Kings plated a single run in the sixth to cut the Ivy lead to one run. Bob Johnston opened the inning with a single but was forced out at second by Don O'Brien who came home on Phil over shortstop to score the win- ning run in the tightly played contest. MORE SPORTS PAGE 8 BOWLING EXETER LANES will be open Saturday Night BOWL 200 get a FREE GAME Overholt's long double. Ivy pitch- er Don Mary who gave up five Zurich hits settled down after Overholt's double to blank the Kings the rest of the way while his mates added an insurance marker in the eighth on an error and two straight singles. Phil Overholt with a pair of doubles was the top Zurich batter while Don O'Brien with a double and Bob Johnston and Rick Stade with a single each picked up the other Zurich safeties. Jim Pfaff went the distance on the mound for Zurich and ab- sorbed the loss. Pfaff struck out seven batters while allowing six hits while Mary fanned seven and gave up five hits. The Kings took a 1-0 lead in the OBA series last Sunday when they rapped out a total of 10 hits to record an easy 8-2 victory. Veteran righthander Dick Be- dard went all the way on the hill for the winners and scattered five hits while his mates committed four errors In the field. The homesters took a 3-0 lead in the second inning on a base on balls and three straight Singles off the bats of Dick Bedard, Geo- rge Haggitt and Jim Bedard and they were never headed. Eight men went to the plate in Zurich's third inning as the Kings increa- sed their lead to 5-0. Don O'Brien Phil Overholt and Rick Stade pro- vided key blows in the two run uprising. Zurich sent eight men to the plate again in the fourth frame and scored twice and then closed out their scoring with a single run in the fifth while Ivy scored single runs in the fifth and eighth innings. Phil Overholt and Rick Stade paced the Zurich batting attack with a pair of singles while Don O'Brien's double was the Kings 'only extra base blow. Dick Be- dard, George Haggitt, Jim Be- dard, Bob Johnston and Angus McIntosh all had singles for the winners. . . . . DON'T JUST NSBUIY1( 4":"RA A POLICYUG 141— GET PROTECTION M. J. Geiser W. H. Hodgson J. 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