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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1976-07-29, Page 6LOCALS WIN SWIM MEET — The Exeter swim meet won a three team invitational meet at the local pool, Saturday. Some of the Exeter winners of individual events are shown above. Back, left, Annette Vermaeten, Brett Batten, Steve Balazs, Jack Vermaeten, Vicki Pfaff, Brenda Waldeck and Alex Balazs. Front, Kathy Wallace, Danette McLeod, Debbie Waldeck and Doug Raymond, T-A photo Outscore St. Marys, Teeswater Swim team scores victory Sports Spotlight By Ross Haugh Off to Dashwood All roads in this area should lead to the police village of Dashwood this weekend. What's the special occasion? It's the sixth annual presentation of Friedsburg Days when the entire communi- ty gets together to provide a wide variety of entertainment for the many visitors. While the appetites and entertainment needs of all in attendance are taken care of, all profits will be channelled to the betterment of the community. We dropped into Merner's Meat Market in Dashwood on Monday, July 19 and found more than 40 volunteers hard at work. They were preparing the large amounts of food which will be gobbled up. About three-quarters of a ton of sausage will be available along with some 900 pounds of sauerkraut. Food will be available from 5 p.m. Friday and noon on Saturday. Friday night's activities will feature a talent show and selection of Miss Friedsburg. The judges will have a real chore here as 10 area beauties are entered. Saturday morning on the hill south of Dashwood near the Earl Stebbins farm a soap box derby will be held. En- tries will still be accepted this week by contacting Herb Piper or Jack Ford. The highlight Saturday afternoon will be the annual parade. This promises to continue Dashwood's record of having one of the best parades in the district. Later in the afternoon, the popular tug-of-war and arm wrestling events will be held along with a pet show. This year for the first time, all events will be held at the Dashwood Community Centre grounds. Civic Holiday action Exeter Community Park will be a busy spot when Civic Holiday rolls around Monday, August 2. Through the efforts of mayor Bruce Shaw a pee wee 'baseball tournament will be held with activities expected to begin during the mid-morning hours and the final com- pleted by the supper hour. Shaw has organized a pee wee ball team in town and the youngsters have played a couple of exhibition games to date. The Monday tournament is expected to draw teams from Exeter, Crediton, Dashwood, Goderich, Clinton, Seaforth and possibly Listowel. The same night, the action will become a little more hilarious with the appearance of the California Cuties. This is a softball team of men dressed up in female attire. Some of the Cuties are known as Madam Hilda, Hefty Helen, Hedda Hooker, Lotta Fanny, Dumpy Dora and Main StreetSally. The 'Exeter opposition is being rounded up by Ron Bogart and the SHDHS athletic director is expected to; come up with formidable opposition. So, don't forget Mon- day night at 8 p.m. at the Exeter Community Park for an hour or two of laughs. Straighten out the stories In last week's edition we left out a bit of information in two stories which appeared on the sports pages. In the article about area harness race horses winning top races recently we said Missile Almahurst, a fine two year-old pacer was owned by Bill Ellerington of Exeter. This was only partly correct. Ellerington has a partner in the ownership of this promising youngster. He is Lee Paul of Kirkton. Now, we aren't really sure which end Lee actually owns but he tells us he has a 50 percent share. Missile Almahurst has chalked up four wins, a second and a fourth in his first five starts and was timed in only a shade over two minutes and one second in the latest victory at Blue Bonnets track in Montreal. The other missing bit of information regarded the pigeons from the Lucan and Exeter areas winning gold medals in a flight from the Olympics in Montreal. We mentioned in last week's story that birds owned by Mert Culbert, George Noyes and Tom Hardy were among the 80 pigeons receiving double bands prior to their release from the Olympic dome. Added to this list should be a bird owned by Harry Winters, president of the pigeon club. Race track controversy While talking to Jack Morrissey of Crediton recently about the efforts of his group, the Exeter turf club to save the race track at the fairgrounds, we learned he is involved with operation of the Goderich Raceway this year. Morrissey has taken over the general manager duties at Goderich. His knowledge gained in all aspects of the harness racing game over the past 40 years will stand in good stead in operating the lakeport track. The Crediton racing enthusiast has owned pacers for many years and also has a lot of experience as a judge. Dur- ing the last few years he has been presiding judge at a number of tracks in Western Ontario and also spent a cou- ple of summers in Western Canada performing the same duties. In the same vein we talked to a member of the Exeter fair board this week and the chances of having harness races at this year's fair are excellent. He also suggested several dates of racing could be possible in 1977. Morrissey and members of the Exeter turf club feel the local track is one of the best in Ontario and several days of racing each year could not only be popular but financially successful. Swimathon for team Last week in talking about the success of a recent swimathon at the local swimming pool we were incorrect in saying where the proceeds would be going. The monies collected which amounted to near $1,500 will be used for operation of the Exeter swim team which is busy almost every weekend participating in swim meets throughout Western Ontario. 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The local swimmers churned their way to a total of 495 points to easily out-distance their guests from St. Marys and Teeswater. The Stone Town crew had 376 points and Teeswater finished with 269. Annette Vermaeten and Brett Batten topped the eight and under events. Brett scored two first and two seconds in the boys' four events, while Annette had three individual firsts and was on the third place relay team in the next category. Marlene Vermaeten picked up a first in the eight and under class, while Karen Wells had one second and two thirds and Heather Jamieson scored two seconds and one third. Alex Balazs led the local 10 and under boys with a first, second and third, while Steve Balazs and Jack Vermaeten had one first each, Scott Jamieson picked up a second and third. The four lads easily won the relay. In the girls' division, Brenda Waldeck. had one first and a second and Lori Stephens had a second and third, Vicki Pfaff contributed one first and Catherine Patterson scored a second. The girls also won their relay event. Rich Fletcher was an easy winner of all three races in which he competed for the boys 12 and under. Scott Pincombe picked up the other first and finished behind Fletcher in another event. Danette McLeod had twofirsts and a second for the girls in that age division and Debbie Waldeck had a first and second. In the 14 and under class, Exeter swimmers provided their own best competition. Doug Raymond was the leader with Pee wees play Monday The baseball diamond at Exeter Community Park will be the site Monday, August 1, of a pee wee baseball tournament featuring eight teams from this part of Western Ontario. The tourney is being staged by the newly formed Exeter pee wee team which has been playing exhibition games only this year. Participating Monday in ad- dition to the local club are ex- pected to be Crediton, Dashwood, Clinton, Seaforth, Goderich, Wingham and Listowel. Preliminary games will begin in the morning with the cham- pion ship final scheduled for the supper hour preceding the exhibition fastball game between the California Cuties and a local team. three firsts and Ian Sweet had one first and a second. Steve Horn chipped in with a second and third, Rick Lindenfield had one second and two thirds and Doug Fletcher scored one-third. The lads won both the free relay and the medley replay. There were upsets galore at the site of the Exeter claybird gun club in Hay township this week. Wednesday night, some of the top shooters so far this year were defeated and Friday night the Fords get shutout win Doug Willard scored his first and second goals of the season Saturday as the Exeter Fords recorded a 6-0 victory/ over Walkerton in Huron Minor soccer league play. After Willard scored his first goal, Doug "Hotfoot" Hoffman notched the first of two for the afternoon giving the Exeter club a 2-0 lead on the scoreboard. Helping the Fords to their victory was newcomer Wayne Parsons who notched a goal and right half Richard Helm. Exeter's fifth shutout of the year was posted by Chris Mit- telholtz playing in goal in place of Doug Brooks who was away on holidays. The Fords scored all six goals in the first half totally controlling play. The second half saw Walkerton hold the Exeter youngsters at bay and break into scoring position but good defensive play by Jeff Fuller and Murray Heywood helped Mit- telholtz keep his goal area clear. The Fords, a pee wee team now have reached the midpoint of the season having played eight games, winning six and losing two. They have scored 51 goals while allowing only 10 successful shots to the opposition. The 12 points put the Fords in second or third place in the nine team league. A i Sheila McLeod paced the girls of the same age with two firsts and one second and Kathy Wallace had a first and second. Liz Giffin was the only com- petitor from Exeter in the 15 and over class and she scored a first in each of the freestyle and backstroke events. violent storm demolished the shooting facilities. Randy Stanlake came on strong in the latest competition to edge regular winner Bill McNutt by a score of 24 to 23. In the team events previously undefeated teams consisting of Carl Hefford and Randy Stanlake and Doug Bender and Bill McNutt were upset by Neil Romphf and Larry Dobson. In the individual competition, Glenn Vickery, John Hessels and Paul Middleton checked in with scores of 21 following Randy Stanlake and Bill McNutt. Carl Hefford was next with a score of 20, Larry Dobson checked in with 18, John Griedanus hit 17 and Neil Romphf and Tim Oliver scored 16 apiece. Jim Angus followed with 15, Terry Romphf and Brian .Wedlake scored 14, Steve 11/fathers and Larry Mason hit 13 each and Doug Bender and Gilbert Pratt shot 12. Other new shooters included Charles Dalrymple and Lynda Oliver. In the junior division Bill Hefford defeated Kevin Stanlake 10-8, Construction of the demolished shooting facilities are already underway. The only local action in the Huron-Perth intermediate baseball league this week oc- curred Thursday night when the Dashwood Tigers scored a convincing 20-4 victory over the Zurich Mets. The game limited to six innings by darkness was played in Zurich. In regular league play this week, the Tigers were in Clinton last night, Wednesday and Friday night they will be on their home field to meet Listowel with game time set for 8 p.m. Against Zurich, the Tigers scored four times in the first inning and were never seriously threatened thereafter. In the Dashwood first, Gary Gibson and Glenn Thurman singled and John Hayter was safe on a fielder's choice and Dave Parsons cleaned the bases with a blast over the left centre field fence. Another homer, this time from the bat of Jim Guenther powered the Tigers to a five run uprising in the second frame. Rob Dickey and John Hayter singled and Glenn Thurman banged out a double to account for the other Tiger base hits. The Mets hit the scoreboard for the first time with a single run in their half of the second. Steve Bedour singled, moved to second as Glenn Weido walked and home on a single from fhe bat of Doug Jeffrey. Percy Bedard's single along with a couple of walks and a Dashwood miscue sent the other three Zurich runs across the plats in the fifth. The Tigers hit for another five Only goal on penalty Graham Solomon scored on penalty shot for Exeter's under 12 soccer team's only goal ih a 5-) exhibition loss to the Exeter Fords. Doug Hoffman booted twc goals for the Fords to boost his season total to 16. Bradley Scott and Wayne Parsons scored their first goals of the year and Phil De Haan netted his sixth to complete the Fords scoring. In the first round of the Michigan-Ontario pee wee soccer tournament, the Huron 2ounty all-stars scored a convincing 5-0 victory over the Brothers of St. Louis. runs in the fourth. This time Jim Hoffman slashed the ball over the centre field fence to provide the big blow. Other hits during the rally were singles delivered by Jim Guenther and Brad-Gregus. Singles by Thurrhan and Gregus produced a single Tiger tally in the fifth and they wound up the scoring with their third five run rally of the game in the sixth, The only hits in the sixth inning were a single by John Hayter and Jim Guenther's .second round tripper of the game over the centre field barrier. Jim Guenther went the full six inning route on the mound for the Tigers. He gave up only two hits while recording four strikeouts, He walked seven. Kevin McKinnon and Dick Bedard shared hurling duties for Zurich, Top shooters upset, storm also damages