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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1975-07-31, Page 6Grand Bend sports and.. Page 6 Times-Advocate, July 31, 1975 by Ted Rowcliffe Backed by some strong in- dividual and relay efforts, the Exeter swim team won their first meet of the season when they easily out-distanced three other teams at. the local pool, Saturday. The defending Lake Huron zone champs scored 432 points in the event, while the second place Goderich team mustered 356. Listowel arid Atwood finished behind the others in third and fourth respectively. This week, the local youngsters travel to Listowel for another meet. Steve Balazs emerged as the champion of the eight and under boys as he picked up firsts in the four individual events and then teamed up with Steve Batten, Steve Laithwaite and Jeff Pfaff to win the relay. Steve Batten had two seconds and two thirds to go with his relay ribbon. Scott Pincombe was the best in the boys 9 to 10 with two firsts and a second in the individual events, while Alex Balazs had one first and a second, Scott Batten scored Holiday Weekend SAVINGS Tennis Balls Pressure Packed Tin of $285 3 Balls Master Frisbees $299 Silver Hostess Trays $329 Hamburg Molds Reg. 99, $1.99 Chrome Plated Barbecue Broiler $219 * 3- Piece Barbecue Tool Set $2 19 H & K SPORT CENTRE Open Fri, & Mon, TO 9:00 Tuesday Til 3:00 p.m, EXETER 235.2261 Huron County Trotting Pony Club SPECIAL RACES Sunday, August 3 and 31 POST TIME 2:00 p.m. The executive and members wish to express their special thanks to the follow- in g sponsors who have helped to make these races possible. Hors Body Shop Don Taylor Motors South End Service N. T. Monteith Graham Arthur Motors Exeter Sun Service Exeter Flowers Dinney Furniture Tuckey Beverages Snell Bros. 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Catherine Patterson was the only local entrant to score points in the next age division. She had two thirds in the individuals and the relay team was second. Kathy Giffin scored a first in the back crawl for girls 11 and 12 —and she picked up another third as well, C. Wallace placed third in one event. Scott Pincombe Ian Sweet Jill Tuckey Kathy Giffin Dave Atthill Doug Raymond Win first place ribbons in swim meet Brenda Waldeck Liz Giffin Rick Lindenfield Alex Balazs Steve Horn Steve Balazs Tigers win two contests, to meet Clinton in playoffs '1975 MODEL • CLEARANCE 20 Brand New Chevrolets & Oldsmobiles Including 3 Vegas with 5 year 60,060 Mile Engine Warranty 6 Chevrolet Pick-ups Including 2-34 Tons ALL PRICES REDUCED HUNDREDS NOW See Our Selection To-day OK USED CARS glass, defogger, radio, radial tires. Licence 1974 MUSTANG MACH 1 V6, 4 spd, tinted HMR085 1973 PLYMOUTH FURY II, power steering, brakes, 318 V8, radio, 32,000 miles. 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Licence C56116 Chevrolet - Oldsmobile PHONE 2350660 EXETER, ONT, The Home of Guardian MaintenanCe 1967 CHEV 3/4 ton, 6 cyl., 4 speed, Licence C68840 '3200 '2695 1995 1795 '2895 :per '2195 1995 99 '2595 1895 995 695 Snell Bros. Limited IF The Dashwood Tigers con- cluded the regular Huron-Perth schedule on a winning note as they posted triumphs over Zurich and Arva this week. The win gave the Tigers a 10-6 record over the regular route and tied them for second spot with Thorndale, although the latter will get the nod for playoff positions because of abetter win- lost record between the two teams. Dashwood will have to face Clinton in the first round, with that schedule slated to be drawn up last night at a league meeting. Last Wednesday night, Dash- wood clobbered Zurich 15-5 on their home diamond. Eight Tigers hit safely in the contest with John Hayter sparking the attack with two doubles and two singles and four runs batted in. Randy Tieman had three doubles and Dave Parsons connected for three singles. Gary Hartman had a pair and single hits came from the bats of Bob Hoffman, Jim Hoffman, Gary Gibson and Perry Stover. Stover pitched for the winners, while Dave Schilbe and Jim Pfaff shared the beating. Kevin McKinnon had two hits for the losers and hitting safely once were Dick Bedard, Rick Schilbe and Charrette. In the final league game, Sunday, the Tigers posted a 3-2 win over Arva in a game called after six innings due to rain. The Tigers scored in the top of the first on a walk to Bob Hoff- man and a double by John Hayter and added another in the second Crediton bantams ready for playoffs The Crediton bantams tuned up for their WOAA playoffs this week when they eked out an exciting 2-1 margin over Wingham in a regularly scheduled contest. The winners started on their way with a single tally in the second frame when Perry and Paul Pooley hit back-to-back singles, with the former plating the run. They added another tally in the sixth when Paul Pooley pounded out a long triple and was promptly singled home by Brian Rader. That proved to be the insurance tally as Wingham rebounded for their lone marker in the seventh when Ron Johnston unloaded a double and came home on a ground-out. The Pooley twins shared the pitching win, with Perry coming on in relief of Paul in the bottom of the sixth. Paul Pooley was the hitting star of the contest with two singles and his triple, while Randy Parsons and Randy Fisher had two singles each. Other hits came off the bats of Richard Webb, Perry Pooley and Brian Rader. Wingham picked up only three hits and seven batters were called out on strikes. Crediton will face Palmerston in the first round of playoffs. The first game was played last night in Crediton and the second games goes in Palmerston on Friday. If the third game is needed in the best-of-three set, it will be played in Crediton Sunday af- ternoon with starting time at 2:00 p.m. Beat three others in Exeter pool At Listowel this week Swim team win handily in first meet 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 Ugly rumours Last week's sports column, if one can stretch the defini- tion, contained some rather rotten insinuations regarding my knowledge of the world of sports. Since I was to do a "guest" column for the vacationing Ross Haugh this week, Editor Bill suggested that the only sport I was familiar with was girl watching at the beach in Grand Bend. I was naturally more than a lit- tle hurt and in order to keep my reputation clear from such blemishes, I searched the Grand Bend area for activities of a spor- ting nature. Since the focal point of Grand Bend is its sandy beach, it was here that I concentrated my sporting thoughts and luckily, was able to capture the action. Proving my observant nature and eager attraction to the spor- ting world, I thought I would publish this picture as an exam- ple of athletic endeavours which take place in Grand Bend and in my opinion, beach balls are easier to catch on film than some puffing soccer buff. Alas, it's true. My knowledge of the sports world is pretty well confined to shinney and since Editor Bill cooled off with the Canadiens at the Huron Park Hockey School in his column last week, my choice of subjects is restricted to hot weather games. Tennis popularity booms Tennis continues to gain in popularity in the area. One set of tennis lessons is drawing to a close and round robin tournaments for those taking place in the lessons were held. Finals took place Wednesday with the top three winners in each series playing off. ' The idea behind the tournament is that a person learns best by doing and those taking the lessons will have a chance to put their new talents into action, according to rec director Jim McKinlay. Derrick Chin, tennis instructor for the recreation program, expects to hold another round robin late in August when the second series of lessons is completed. The set starts August 4 and ha's two full classes for the evenings and one class for the afternoon. In total, about 50 adults have registered for tennis, lessons this summer which is rather surprising since there was no program last year. Rec director Jim McKinlay says it is mainly because of the time factor. A half hour is plenty for a good workout at the tennis courts while a game of golf requires two or three hours. Also, there is little to buy in the way of equipment. The youngsters seem to be catching on to tennis in a big way too. There are 16 kids registered for lessons in the 13-17 age group and 19 in the 8-12 age group. "We're very pleased. It's off to a good start and one of the reasons is that we have a competent instructor to get things going for us." said Mr. McKinlay. "First im- pressions are important in any sport and Derrick is doing a good job for us." One of the problems originating from the courts is scheduling. Since the courts are public, some tennis players are experiencing difficulties getting on the courts for a game as unthoughtful players sometimes hog a court for an entire evening. "We've got a solution for that as soon as our schedule is approved," said Mr. McKinlay. Once the schedule showing the times for lessons, club activities and public time is posted, tennis players will be allowed to reserve court time by signing up on the schedule at the courts. If players arrive on time to find someone else on the courts, they are quite within their rights to ask for the reserved court. The schedule has 16 hours set aside for instruction, 28 hours for the newly formed Exeter Tennis Club and 61 hours of open time. "We're encouraging people to join the club and take ad- vantage of reserved time, prime time too," added Mr. McKinlay. He mentioned that five mornings a week from six to nine the courts will be reserved for club use. "Anyone can join the club. It's not a snob thing just a good group of people helping get tennis off the ground here," There will be some social aspects to club membership however, the first of which, a wine and cheese party at Pat and Ron Cottrell's will be held Saturday, August 9. Anne Dingwell is sending invitations to all registered members. Mosport — maybe someday! Once again this summer, youngsters will have a chance to build their own soap box and compete in the big soap box derby race on September 1. The event will be held starting at 10 a.m. at the Andrew Street hill beside the swimming pool in Exeter. Competitors will be divided into categories of 8-10 years and 11-16 years. Boys and girls will have separate heats. Entry forms will be appearing in the T-A later in the summer so be sure and clip one out and send it in. Last year, Randy Bowers of Crediton cleaned up in the races. Bowers won the 8-10 class while Rob Smith won the boys 11-16. Bowers won in a run-off. In the girls 11-16, Liz Giffin of Exeter was the winner. There weren't too many entries in the girls last year and the organizers would like to see more take part, particularly in International Women's Year, Last year the derby caused quite a stir. Seventeen cars were entered and about125 spectators lined the hill to watch the event. Cross country biking A new activity will be available this year if plans presently being put together for a cross country bike race triateialiZe. Rec director Jim Mcl<inlay told the T-A that a group of youngsters approached him about a bicycle cross-country and set about to plan their own event with his blessing, The Course will include such things as jumps and water hazards and sounds like a rally on two wheels, Final details Will be set before the RAP committee on August 11, two thirds and Scott Jamieson had one second and, a third, The four teamed up to easily win the relay event with margin of over nine seconds on the Goderich competitors. In the 11 and 12 boys, Rick Lindenfield had two firsts and one second. Ian Sweet and Steve Horn picked up one first each, with the latter also scoring a third. Rich Fletcher and Dave Bell had one second and one third each. Lindenfield, Fletcher, Bell and on a walk to Jim Hoffman and a safety by Jim Dietrich, The winning tally came in the top of the fifth when John Hayter connected for a homer. Arva sawed both their runs in the last of the fifth and had runners on second and third when centre fielder Gary Hartman made a sensational catch to halt the rally and preserve the win for Dashwood. Jim Guenther was on the mound for the winners. Simpson is best bowler Harold ,Simpson came out as the leading bowler in this week's jitneys at the Exeter lawn bowling club. He ended up in first place in Tuesday's outing with two wins, a plus of 15 and aggregate of 34, good for a tie with Edith Love. Saturday night, Simpson placed second. Followingthe two top teams in Tuesday's games were John Wilson, Mabel McKnight, Anna Ballantyne and Wes Watson. The winner ahead of Simpson on Saturday was Nelson Squire, with two wins, a plus of 20 and aggregate of 44, Simpson had an aggregate of 41. Behind them were Leone Brock, Clarence Down, Edna Caldwell, Mabel McKnight and Bill Etherington. Winner in Thursday's action was Leone Brock, with two wins, a plus of 11 and aggregate of 24. Charlie Hendy placed second with Anna Ballantyne in third. Completing the top six were Lawrence Wein, Edna Caldwell and a tie between Ari Benndyke and Marinus Marsman. Horn then teamed up .to win the relay event in one of the most convincing victories of the day. They beat two of the other teams by two full lengths of the pool and came within a few feet of doing the same to the second place team. In the boys' events for 13 and 14-year-olds, Doug Raymond came home in front in the back crawl and was second in breast stroke. Dave Atthill won the butterfly and was second in the free style. Brenda Waldeck was the top Exeter swimmer in the eight and under girls, with four consecutive first place finishes. Nancy Brooks leads Crediton nine Paul Brooks came up with two stellar pitching performances over the past week to lead Crediton midgets to a pair of WOAA victories. Brooks came on in the second inning of both games to help his mates post a 7-3 win over Listowel, Friday, and a come- from-behind 6-4 victory over Wingham on the Crediton diamond, Sunday. Wingham scored four times in the first frame in Sunday's tilt before Brooks shut them out over the final six innings. He recorded 14 strikeouts in facing only 20 batters. The winners scored three times in the bottom of the first. Dan Heywood walked, Brooks singled and the bases were loaded with a walk to Ken Govers. Doug Osgood, Larry Ryan and Dale Dinney then smacked out singles. Consecutive singles by Brooks, Govers and Chandler in the second frame accounted for, another tally to knot the count and the teams battled on even grounds through to the sixth. Larry Ryan reached first in that one after being hit by a pitch and singles by Dinney, Graham Kadey and Heywood produced the two runs. In addition to getting the win, Brooks paced Crediton at the plate with three singles. Govers and Dinney had two each, and each player in the lineup except one had at least one single. In the Listowel contest, Brooks fanned 13 batters in his six in- nings and gave up only four hits. His mates pounded out eight hits, including two each by Govers, Dinney and Kadey. Single safeties came off the bats of Heywood and Doug Mclsaac. Crediton spotted their hosts a three-run lead and then came up with four tallies in the fourth and salted the game away with three in the seventh. It is the shadows of life that make us human. Jill Tuckey had two firsts for the girls 13. and 14,, while Liz Giffin had two firsts for the over 15. They combined with Lynne Mercer and Lynne Brooks to win the 15 and over 200 medley relay and also the free style relay, Val Sweet scored a second and third in the same age division to round out the scoring for the female contingent. 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