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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1976-09-02, Page 10Page 10 Times-Advocate, September 2, 1976 Sports Spotlight By Ross Haugh Ride 'em Cowboy The Dashwood Tigers have advanced to the second round of playoffs in the Ontario Baseball Association by eliminating Tillsonburg. The Tigers erupted for 10 runs in the seventh inning in Dash- wood Tuesday night to score a 13- 8 victory in the third and deciding game of a best-of-three series. Dashwood won the first game Friday night by a score of 9-5 and the Tillsonburg club rebounded with a 13-9 win in Simcoe, Saturday afternoon. The Tigers will open a best-of- three semi-final series against Corunna on the Dashwood diamond Friday night at 8 p.m. The second contest will go in Corunna Saturday afternoon. A third game if necessary will probably be played Sunday or Monday. In other OBA "B" playoff action, Niagara Falls has eliminated Oakville and will meet either Creemore or Peterborough in the other semi- final round. Numerous bases on balls and the long ball allowed the Tigers to score their sudden-death win Tuesday night. In the seventh when the Tigers scored 10 runs, the Tillsonburg pitchers issued a half dozen walks and hit one batter. The long ball was provided by shortstop John Hayter who blasted a three run homer over the left centre field fence. Other hits during the Dashwood rally were a double by Dave Parsons and singles from the bats of Jim Dietrich and Glenn Thurman. John Hayter continued his strong performance at the plate with another blast over the fence, this time in right centre with no one on in the eighth. In the Dashwood fourth Glenn Thurman was safe on an error and crossed the plate on singles by Brad Gregus and Perry Stover. Thurman also scored in the sixth without the aid of any hits. The Tigers also threatened in the second frame but couldn't Steer This Way By LARRY SNIDER j11111i - If only one edge of a tire tread is worn, it's a good bet the wheel is out of alignment. 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Heading the "C" flight low gross was Fred Wells with a 92. Bob Forrest shot a 59 as the lowest net, The most honest' golfer was mayor Bruce Shaw. Don Cowan came closest to the hole with his first drive from the fourth tee and Glenn Kadechuk hit the longest ball on the ninth. In a junior tournament, Stev e Horn with a 92 turned in the low gross, Dave Shaw's 96 was the low net and Jeff Fuller was the most honest golfer. The first annual Ironwood men's invitational tournament will be held on Saturday, Sep- tember 25. Registrations will be accepted by calling 235-1521. Ladies head lawn bowling David Stormes was second in the bantam boys 800 metres race.' He is the son of Mr. and Mrs, Bob Stormes and the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Mervyn Tiernan, Dash- wood. His father Bob Stormes was a valuable member of the Dash- wood Tigers intermediate baseball team in 1952 and again from 1954 through 1956. David represented a new track and field club, the St, Thomas Legion Family Striders. The coach is Geoff Richardson who will also be David's coach when he enters grade nine next Tuesday at a St. Thomas High School. Edging Stormes by nine-tenths of a second in the Edmonton meet was Dan Boots of Windsor who won the same event over the St. Thomas youngster at the Ontario meet in London on August 7. In London, the winning margin was eight-tenths of a second, During the latest Elgin County public school track meet, David Stormes won the 1500 meter race. Asked about further ambitions in track and field David remarked, "I'll just keep plugging away", but his grand- father added, "Ile will be aiming for the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. David celebrated his 14th birth- day , Saturday, August 28, We have a limited number of special souvenir books that will give you detailed information about the many teams participating in this super tournament, Buy Yours Today 0 I\L1 $4200 Y 1111. Radio DEALER David Stormes wins in Legion track meet Get Set For The • CANADA CUP HOCKEY SERIES Ladies again dominated play at the Exeter lawn bowling club by winning both jitneys played this week. Olive Harvey won Saturday's event with two victories and an aggregate of 22. Ruth Willoughby was in the runner-up spot with the same win record and an aggregate of 21 and Olive Hicks finished third with an aggregate of 20. Elizabeth Lamport and Remus Marsman were deadlocked in fourth place and they were followed by Beth Batten and Edith Love. Leone Brock proved to be the best bowler Tuesday night with an aggregate of 30 to go with two wins. Tied for second were Jim,, Orr and Clarence Down with one lower aggr6gate score drid Olive Hicks was fourth. Completing the prize list were Mabel McKnight, Laverne Skinner, Nelson Squire, Edna Caldwell, Mabel Skinner, Gordon Hoggarth, Mabel Blackburn, Wilfred Shapton and Olive Harvey. score despite singles by Jim Guenther, John Hayter and Brad Gregus. Jim Guenther went the distance on the Dashwood mound scattering 10 hits while striking out 11. He walked only three. Two bad innings In Simcoe, Saturday, Tillsonburg did most of the damage in only two innings with four runs in the first and a half dozen in the fifth. The Tigers counted two runs in each of,the third and fifth innings to reach the scoreboard. They added single markers in the sixth and seventh and hit for three runs in the eighth. Glenn Thurman's double sent Gary Hartman and Bob Hoffman across the plate in the third. In the Dashwood fifth, Bob Hoffman walked, Jim Dietrich doubled and were able to score as Dave Parsons, walked, Glenn Thurman singled and Jim Hoff- Huron stars place well The Huron County all stars placed third in the Ontario all star mosquito soccer tournament played over the weekend in Guelph. The Huron club known as the Flyers finished behind only the Canadian champions from Oak- ville and highly rated Bramalea. The Flyers are also among the nine teams remaining in con- tention for the 1976 Michigan- Ontario Cup. In an attempt to stay in condition, the Flyers will be meeting the Sarnia all stars in an exhibition game to be played Friday night in Grand Bend at 6:30 p.m. In the opening round in Guelph, Huron scored a convincing 4-1 victory over last year's runners- up from Waterloo. Carl Krohmer scored two goals and singles were added by John Hicknell and Sean Van Dongen. The second round found the Flyers facing Barrie who had disposed of the favorite Guelph team in round one. Much to the surprise of the large crowd, the Huron youngsters again came out on top with a 3-1 decision with centre- forward Sean Van Dongen scoring all three goals. The Canadian champions from Oakville finally put a stop to the Huron winning streak, but not without a fight. The Flyers were always in the game, trailing only 2-1 at the half with Dave Murray the scorer. Two quick breakaway goals in the last five minutes of play sealed the victory for Oakville. The Huron Flyers were cheered on by nearly 50 die-hard supporters who gave up their weekend and voices to support the "country boys" in Guelph, This will be our last chance to talk about the 1976 Ex- eter Midwestern Rodeo before it takes place on the Satur- day and Sunday of Labour Day weekend. The executive and directors have shown a lot of in- itiative and enthusiasm this year in an attempt to make the rodeo presentations not only bigger and better but possibly more crowd pleasing. Exeter and area merchants are being encouraged to participate with displays and exhibits along Frontier street. It appears as if a large number will be taking advantage of the opportunity to let folks know about their products and services. The addition of chuckwagon races to at least the Satur- day afternoon performance should add plenty. ft is quite possible that the chuckwagon folks will stay around and perform again for the benefit of the expected large crowd Sunday afternoon. We were up at the rodeo facilities Wednesday night and a large number of directors and volunteers were busily engaged in installing extra seating and generally improving condition of the facilities. We would like to encourage all area residents to attend the rodeo. Despite the fact some people contend a rodeo is a rodeo and if you have seen one you have seen them all, each one has some different excitement and entertainment. A special reason for attendance this year is that all profits of the rodeo will be channelled to the Exeter recrea- tion centre fund campaign. All service clubs and organizations taking part in assisting the rodeo committee in operation of the annual event have agreed to let their share of the proceeds go to the arena fund. Activities will start on Friday night, September 3 with a mammoth dance slated for the recreation centre at Huron Park. This event is under the supervision of the Exeter Lions club. The Exeter Kinsmen club is in charge of looking after the food concessions and this is being very capably super- vised by Ben Hoogenboom and Bill Dinney. They have arranged for at least four food booths on the grounds. The Exeter Saddle club will be in charge of a special Sunday morning cowboy breakfast featuring bacon, eggs, sausages and fried potatoes. See you early Sunday morning in the breakfast lineup. Races at the fair The newly formed Exeter turf club is wasting little time in reviving local interest in harness racing. The turf club will be sponsoring a six heat meet at this year's Exeter Fall Fair which is scheduled for Saturday, §eiitember 25. Turf club president Jack Parsons told us this week that his group hopes to hold at least one more day of racing this fall. Parsons feels there are plenty of horses and enthusiastic spectators to allow successful racing here. The last attempts at harness racing at the Exeter track were far from successful. They were during the town's Centennial celebrations and again at a later edition of the fall fair. Since that time a lot more local residents have taken up the sport and purchased horses. At least four owners from Crediton have been racing at Clinton and Goderich this summer and more are getting the bug to claim or buy a pacer or trotter. A good tiger year Despite the fact they are not in contention for the World Series this fall the 1976 edition of the Detroit Tigers has produced much better than their supporters could have really hoped for. Thanks to the surge to prominence by a couple of rookies, the Tigers have provided exciting baseball for not only their own fans at Tiger Stadium but throughout the American league. The most popular of course is rookie pitcher Mark "The Bird" Fidrych who is the most refreshing arrival on the entire baseball scene in a long time. Fidrych who has shown an unusual approach to the game with his enthusiasm has drawn large crowds wherever he pitches and he hasn't disappointed fans on very many occasions. With the help of Fidrych the Tigers passed last year's attendance figure several weeks ago. Including his start Wednesday night when he picked up his 15th victory against only five defeats, attendance has averaged 42,000 when Fidrych has been the starting pitcher. This included all games, home and away. Fidrych appears to thrive on lots of work and manager Ralph Houk has been sending the young right hander to the mound on many occasions with only three full days of rest. Since the start of the season, Fidrych, first baseman Jason Thompson and shortstop Mark Wagner have been summoned from the minors and all auger well for the Tigers for the next decade or two. We saw Thompson in his first game as a Tiger and were very impressed by his play. He has missed very few games since that time. Another key to the moderate success of the Tigers this year is the great improvement shown by Ron LeFlore. LeFlore has kept his batting average near the .320 mark most of the time with more than 150 hits and should make a good run at beating the all-time Detroit base stealing record of 50 bases in one year held by the late Ty Cobb. A lot of the credit for LeFlore's improvement should go to former Tiger great Harvey Kuenn who coached the young Tiger in a winter baseball league. Lots of coverage It was interesting to note while watching Wednesday's telecast of the Montreal Expos game that six different radio and television broadcast crews were working the game from Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. Two former stars with the old Brooklyn Dodgers are keeping Montreal fans up-to-date on Expo happenings. Duke Snider does the colour commentary on television and Don Newcombe has the same position on a network of Mon- treal area radio stations. The wide knowledge of baseball by fellows like Snider and Newcombe is really invaluable in making broadcasts interesting to all fans. man was safe ion a fielder's choice. Hoffman singled and scored for the Tigers without the Jim aid of any other hits in the seventh.eighth, a single by Dave the eighth, Parsons and Jim Hoffman's double were responsible for sending the last three Tiger runners across the plate. Perry Stover went the full nine inning distance on the mound for the Tigers. He gave up 10 hits while fanning two and walking five. At home Friday night, the Tigers were forced to overcome an early deficit with four runs in the sixth inning and three more in the seventh, Tillsonburg led 5-1 after five innings of play. The first Dashwood score came in the opening inning when Bob Hoffman walked and scored I on a couple of walks and a single from the bat of Dave Parsons. A pair of home runs helped the Dashwood club explode for four runs in the sixth frame. Brad Gregus led off with a blast over the right field fence and after Rob Dickey slammed a double Gary Hartman hit the ball over the left field fence. Jim Dietrich followed with a single, moved to second as Dave Parsons walked and across the plate on Glenn Thurman's double. In the Dashwood seventh, John '`Hayter was safe on an error, Bill Schade was safe on a fielder's choice, Bob Hoffman singled and all scored on a double delivered by Jim Dietrich. The final Dashwood counter was plated in the eighth when Glenn Thurman cracked his second straight double and Jim Guenther followed with a single. Southpaw Jim Guenther went the distance on the Dashwood mound holding the visitors to seven well scattered hits while recording 10 strikeouts. 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