HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1973-09-27, Page 8CORBETT WINS BANTAM TITLE — The championship trophy in the Parkhill-McGillivray- Williams
bantam softball league was won by Corbett, Back, left Darrell Hodgins, John Robinson, John
Jongeneel, Dan Isaac, Steve Hodgins and coach Earl Hodgins, Centre, John Arnold, Robert Marshall,
Bill Hodgins, Rick Homer and Rick Hodgins. Parkhill Gazette photo
SQUIRT CHAMPIONS — Corbett won the squirt championship of the Parkhill-McGillivray-Williams
softball league. Back, left, coaches Willis Rock and Raymond Hutchinson. Middle, Doug Smith, Bradley
Breen, Bill Hodgins, Randy Turner, Jeff Horner and Chris Eagleson. Front, David McLinchey, Marty
lssac, Brian Romphf, Steve Lagerwerf, Danny Rock and Martin Eagleson. Parkhill Gazette photo
PEE WEE CROWN TO CORBETT — Corbett won the Parkhill-McGillivray-Williams pee wee softball
championship to sweep all three series. Back left, coach Mac Hodgins, Dan Steeper, Gary Romphf,
Jeff Isaac, Tom Hodgins and coach Norman Romphf. Centre, Glen Bullock, Mike Brannon, Paul Bran-
non, Eric Bullock, Paul Lagerwerf and John Mclenchey. Front, Bill Hodgins and Rick Hodgins.-
Junior girls gain victory
in first basketball start
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Two popular sayings were demonstrated literally at the
Lucan arena over the weekend during the Ontario Horseshoe
pitching championships.
The philosophies we were thinking of were "practice
makes perfect" and "close counts only in horseshoes".
The two finest. horseshoe pitchers in the world met in,
Sunday night's final for the Ontario championship. They were
world chaMp Elmer Hal of Wellesley and Dean McLaughlin
from Ottawa.
1- phi outpointed McLaughlin to win and redeemed a loss
at the recent Canadian finals at the CNE in Toronto.
When we said practice makes perfect we were thinking of
Hohl and McLaughlin. While not actually engaged in a game,
both men could be seen continually throwing practice ringers.
The two men when they met in the final were pretty close
to perfect. They each threw 140 shoes in the championship
round with Hohl tossing 118 ringers while McLaughlin was
successful with 114.
To show how evenly matched the two are, no less than
32 times in their 7Q attempts each man was able to throw two
ringers and, thereby cancel the. scores.
Our knowledge of the game of horseshoes is quite limited
but we were thrilled with the action at Lucen Sunday and cer-
tainly hope the Ontario officials decide to return to the Irish
town for next year's championships.
It's certainly a game of skill and the athlete makes his
own game and doesn't get any help from a team-mate or in
thetese of the final Sunday very little help from the opposi-
tion,
Neither Hob! nor McLaughlin show any emotion when
they are out on the courts and conduct themselves on a truly
professional basis. They take the game very seriously and a
smile is quite infrequent.
We were told by one of the participants that about 70
shoes is the number thrown in an average game. He quickly
added, "unless I'm playing Hohl or McLaughlin and then it's
a lot less."
A hearty word of thanks should go to Lucan Legion
branch 540 for the excellent way in which the tournament was
conducted.
A lot of work was necessary in constructing the 15
horseshoe pits. Gord and Jack Elson were co-chairmen for the
Legion end of the tourney and were ably assisted by president
Bert Thompson.
It sounded good
While talking about horseshoes we wish to clear up a
point which was brought to our attention by a local resident.
In last week's issue we used a picture of Cy Blommaert of
Exeter in action during, the horseshoe pitching at the Huron
County plowing match at Dashwood and the cut-line said he
tossed a ringer.
We were so busy catching Cy's fine throwing form that
we failed to see the shoe actually ring the stake but we can
truthfully say it sure sounded like a ringer.
Congratulations to Elgin Kipfer of Dashwood who
finished third in his class in the provincial championships.
Keep up the good work, Kip.
Crazy happenings
it'te Almost every year, baseball fans are amazed by the
finishes in one of the divisions of the major league but the an-
tics this year in the. National league eastern division is
something else.
When this was written Sunday night only two of the five
teams in contention for the eastern pennant were playing .500
ball and only three and one-half games separated all five
clubs.
In contrast, Houston in the western division had won as
many games as any club in the east and yet they were 18
games out of first place behind the Cincinatti Reds.
We were very interested in the outcome of Thursday
night's game between Pittsburgh and New York and were
able to catch most of the game on KDKA in Pittsburgh.
The Pittsburgh announcers had a lot of trouble believing
what they were seeing on the field at Shea Stadium.
Early in the game, a double play was executed. This
achievement certainly isn't unusual but the one in question
was. The play went from the first basemen to the shortstop
hack to the pitcher.
Veteran announcer Bob Prince said, "that's the
doggondest double play I have ever seen." The ball was ap-
parently hit wide of first forcing the first baseman to go
•,)wards second and the pitcher quickly covered first.
The Expos still with a mathematical chance to survive
lost seven games in a row and several of the losses were the
result of mental lapses, something a team can't afford in a
critical situation.
To give themselves a tie for first place.. the Expos must
win all remaining seven games while the New York Mets split
their six contests.
Hockey practices start
Practices started over the weekend for two area hockey
clubs. The Exeter Hawks opened their pre-season training at
Huron Park Sunday afternoon and the Lucan-Ilderton Jets
followed Monday night at the same arena.
The Jets will open the exhibition season when they travel
to Stratford on Tuesday, October 9 to take on the Stratford
Perths, the club they defeated to win the OHA Senior "B"
championship last spring.
One of the stars of the Jets in the 1972-73 season may not
be back with the club this season. He is. Bill Fairbairn of Ex-
eter who has been invited to attend the training camp of the
Port Huron Wings of the International league.
The Wings camp opens at the McMorran arena in Port
Huron on October 5 and runs for a couple of weeks. Best of
luck, Bill,
By TEReseONDREJICKA
The South Huron junior girls
basketball team started the
season off with an exhibition
game played here September 20
against Seaforth. Seaforth
narrowly edged them 19-18.
All through the game South
Huron led until the last minute of
play when Seaforth scored. It was
a game full of action from
beginning to end. The girls
played well and should be
commended for the hard fought
effort that they displayed.
Top scorers of the game were
Gayle Ecker chalking up six
points, followed closely by Wilma
Vanderlaan who put up five
points in our favor.
Other scorers were Patsy
Randall, a junior who for a small
girl has a lot of power, scoring
two points as did Marie Jarvis
and Heather Wein. Gail Fuller
also scored a one point shot for
us. It was a good game and
through out the rest of the year
we should see a lot of action.
On Monday, South Huron
travelled to Parkhill for the
second game of a two part
exhibition series. Again we were
narrowly edged by the score of
15-12. The game was a hard
fought battle all the way through.
It was a game where the
components of speed and agility
along with good co-ordination
played a very important part.
Parkhill is a strong defensive
team and can be noted as worthy
opponents. They lost but I think it
is safe to say they played well for
so early in the season.
The scoring honors went to Gail
Fuller with see points, Janet
Pryde with four and Heather
Wein with two. With a few more
practices they should be in tip-top
shape and ready for their first
game at home against Stratford
today Thursday at 2 p.m.
Members of the team this year
are Tammy Baker, Julianne
Brittain, Ellen Eveleigh
(manager,, Gayle Ecker, Gail
Fuller, Marie Jarvis, Beth Keys,
Janet Pryde. Patsy Randall.
Donna Riddell, Wilma Van-
derlaan, Cathy Vriese, Heather
Wein, and Cathy Wooden.
The regular season as men-
tioned above starts today and
continues on for the next few
months. All games start at 2 p.m.
and everyone is more than
welcome to come out and watch.
Here are the schedules for both
the junior and senior teams.
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The Smith Huron District High
School, football teams chalked up
their second win of the season
Thursday as they travelled to
Stratford,
in the first Huron-Perth con-
ference games, the seniors
downed Stratford Northwestern
by a score of 1.6-7 while the junior
club also won their game with a
score of 24-18.
The two South Huron clubs will
be back in action this afternoon,
Thursday when they play host to
the seniors and juniors from
ListowelThe following week the
Panthers travel to Wingham.
Throughout the H-P schedule the
senior games begin at 11 a,m.
with the junior contests following
at 1:30 p.m.
In downing Northwestern.
Thursday afternoon, the South
Huron senior Panthers were
forced to come from behind a 7-1
deficit at half-time to take a 16-7
decision.
While outscored in the first
half, the Panthers held an edge in
territorial play running 31 plays
to 21 by the opposition. In the
second half each club managed 25
plays from scrimmage.
On the first play of the second
quarter, Paul Robinson kicked a
35 yard single to put the Panthers
in front 1-0.
Only a couple of plays later,
Northwestern scored on a 45 yard
pass and run play which caught
the South Huron secondary
napping.
Midway through the third
quarter, the South Huron ground
game materialized. The Panther
march started when Gord Pryde
intercepted a Stratford pass.
Large crowd at
motorcycle races
More than 1,100 spectators
were in attendance at Hully Gully
Sunday afternoon to watch the
first Canadian Motorcycle
Association sanctioned Moto in
Southwestern Ontario.
Bob Kelly of Hamilton, an
official of the CMA was the
referee and Huron Cycle
members were the track mar-
shals for the afternoon.
The Hully Gully course
presented an exciting challenge
to the 232 riders competing.
The open expert class winner
was Jeff Wecher of Davison,
Michigan while Terry Mattenly
of London was the open expert
championship.
More draws
in bowling
The close competition which
has featured this year's activities
of the Exeter lawn bowling club
continued Tuesday and Saturday
nights.
After all the action was com-
pleted, Elizabeth Lamport and
Harold Simpson were deadlocked
for first place with identical
scores of two wins, a plus of 18
and 32 aggregate.
Clarence Down was close
behind with a plus of 17 and
aggregate of 26 to go with a
double victory. Alvin Pym was in
fourth place followed by Russ
Snell,
Saturday night, Alvin Pym and
Edith Love finished in a dead
heat for the top position. They
each scored two wins, a plus of 14
and 31 aggregate.
Thursday's winner was the
efficient greenskeeper of the
club, Wilfred Shapton. Shapton
was tops with two wins, a plus of
20 and 33 aggregate,
In second place came Gertrude
Hamilton on a record of a double
victory, plus of 15 and aggregate
of 27.
Third position went to Alvin
Pym who was in the money in
each of the three nights. Placing
fourth was Tom Yellow.
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Good carries by Brian Taylor,
Dave.Lovell, Wayne Regier and
Perry Stover took the ball to the
Northwestern six yard line and
Gary Levier went off tackle on a
third yard effort to score six
points, Robinson was good with
the convert attempt.
Late in the fourth period,
Panther tackle Wayne Riddell
broke through the Stratford line
and caught the.ball carrier with a
hard tackle forcing him to
fumble. Brad Oke was jolmny-on-
the-spot and picked the loose ball
up and galloped 37 yards for a
touchdown. Robinson again
converted.
Wayne Regier led the South
Huron backs with 72 yards gained
in an even dozen attempts and
Dave Lovell picked up 31 yards in
seven carries.
Juniors start quickly
In the junior half of the double
header, the Panthers wasted
little time in getting on to the
scoreboard.
Northwestern fumbled the
kickoff and Doug Mclsaac was
quick to recover the ball for South
Huron. On the third play from
scrimmage, Doug Mclsaac
galloped 20 yards for a touch-
down.
On a third down Stratford punt
attempt, Terry MacDonald broke
through to block the kick and his
mates recovered. On the fourth
play from scrimmage from the
Stratford 30 yard line, quar-
terback John Van Gerwen hit
Steve Knight with a successful
pass and the Panthers were in
front 12-0.
Late in the second quarter after
neither club could gain much
ground, the Panthers were able
to move the ball in close and
Doug Mclsaac picked up his
second six-pointer from the two
yard line.
The third period was nearing
completion when the Panthers
were able to get a good drive
going which was again
culminated .by Doug Mclsaac.
This time Aticisatte scored ea a
halfback sweep starting from the
Stratford 15 yard line.
Stratford Northwestern took
over in the fourth quarter and
scored a pair of touchdowns
without a reply from the Pan-
thers.
Doug Mclsaac led the Panther
running game with a total of 161
yards in 16 carries for an, average
of better than 10 yards per rush.
Kevin Baker picked up 66 yards
in 9 carries and John Van Oerwen
was good for 48 yards in six at-
tempts.
Terry MacDonald was named
the best defensive member of the
Panthers due to six key tackles
and a blocked kick. Other
defensive stars were Tom
Hay ter, John Gould, John Nelson,
Gregg Beattie and Steve Jen-
nison.
Five points
for Canners
The Canners started off in a
blaze of glory in the first week of
play in the Exeter Legion mixed
dart league by gaining a
maximum five points.
The complete scores this week
were as follows:
Canners 5 - Swimmers 0
Sharpshooters 4 - Shiphunters 1
Scotties 4 - Itchy Niters 1
Winkers 3 - Dark Angels g
BJ'$ 3 - Last Chance 2
DR's 3 - BA's 2
Dart Sharks 3 - Doublers 2
Friday's schedule is as follows:
8 p.m,
DR's vs BJ's
Swimmers vs Sharpshooters
Dart Sharks vs Winkers
9 p.m ,
Scotties vs Shiphunters
BA's vs Last Chance
Canners vs Itchy Niters
Dark Angels vs Doublers
PC ALL. GOOD SPORTS
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