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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1977-09-15, Page 6Sports Spotlight By Ross Haugh GIRLS LEAGUE CHAMPS — Elimville won the playoff championship of the Usborne-Hibbert girls bantam softball league. Back, left, Debbie Taylor, Barb Skinner, Joan Cooper, Beatrice Hunter, Nancy Cooper, Pen- ny Stroud and coach Kathy Cooper, Front, Karen Johns, Marg Pym, Natalie Stroud, Donna Kerslake, Janet Marquardt and Patti Willis, T-A photo On home field, Sunday Tigers meet Whitby next SEE US FOR • CB &TV TOWERS • ANTENNAS • YAMAHA SOUND EQUIPMENT' Gord's Trophies & Engravings 382 Main St. 235-2261 .4 BANTAM BOYS CHAMPS — The boys division of the annual bantam fastball tournament at Kirkton was won Monday by Staffs. Back left, Paul Mahon, Ron Riley, Andy Vivian, Doug Miekle, Rob Quance, Scot McLellan, Steve Miller, Mike Finlayson and coach Bill Docking, Front, Jeff Millar, Wayne Sniale, Ken Millar Bill McPhail, Marl, 'tnd Kev; " u. Missing was coach John Rennie. 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Hockey College — at Scotiabank, Page 6 Times-Advocate, September 15, 1977 Stephen juveniles hit finals with victory in 14 innings Mixed sports This is one time each year when sporting seasons really get entwined with each other, Right now in the area, soft- ball and baseball playoffs are continuing, foot ball is un- derway at South Huron District liigh School and a number of hockey clubs are out on the ice in practice sessions. Two area teams are still in strong contention for cham- pionships of the Ontario Baseball Association, one in a semi-final round and the other ready for the big cham- pionship finale. The Dashwood Tigers will be meeting Whitby this weekend in a series which allow the winner to proceed to the OBA Senior "D" final and the Stephen township juveniles will be starting the juvenile finals, also this weekend. Both area clubs disposed of Woodslee clubs in their last rounds and each went to the deciding game, The juveniles lost the first game in Woodslee a week ago by a close 4 - 3 score but bounced back this week to win in exciting fashion. They won the third garhe Sunday 7 - 6 in 14 innings after squaring the series at a game apiece Saturday with an easy 10 - 1 win. The hero of Sunday's victory was pitcher Dan Heywood who went the full 14 innings for the Stephen team. They now meet Alliston or Almonte, arrangements have not yet been completed. The Dashwood Tigers will probably be facing fairly for- midable opposition in their next round as they take on Whit- by. The Tigers hope to go to Whitby Saturday with the return game in Dashwood Sunday at 2 The football season at South Huron actually begins tomorrow, Friday when senior and junior teams will be in Exeter to meet the local clubs in a controlled scrimmage. In a controlled scrimmage, coaches are allowed on the field to help their players get plays organized properly. The Huron-Perth conference schedule starts Thursday, September 22 at South Huron when Central Huron will supply the opposition. Coach Ron Bogart of the senior South Huron Panthers has had problems in getting enough candidates out for prac- tice. He reported Tuesday that 36 had signed up, but only eight of last year's Huron-Perth champions were back along with a few graduates from the 1976 junior team. A good majority of the seniors will be getting their initiation to football. Assisting Bogart on the coaching staff will be Casey Cook and a student teacher. After a year's leave of absence to further his education; Doug Ellison is back to coach the junior footballers. His assistants will be Dave Cox and Colin Lowndes. Two area hockey teams have already started practices and a third gets underyvay Sunday. The Lucan Irish held their first workout a week ago and the Lucan-Ilderton Jets hit the ice at Huron Park Monday night. The Exeter Hawks will open at the same arena Sun- day at 1 p.m. While all players in the area are welcome to the Hawks practice, coach Ron Bogart sends out another request for help. Bogart needs a stick boy and a goal judge to be available all season long for games at home and away. Anyone interested should contact him at 235-0847. The Hawks preparing for defence of their OHA cham- pionship have scheduled exhibition games October.11 and 18 against Lucan and Mitchell, respectively. Manager Fred Mommersteeg puts out a call to any prospective players within a 25 mile radius of Exeter. They have arrived Despite their lowly position in the American league eastern division, the Toronto Blue Jays proved Saturday at Yankee Stadium that they "have arrived" and belong in the majors. Any team which can send Catfish Hunter and three other Yankee pitchers to the showers with 19 runs and 20 hits is of big league stature. The 19 Blue Jay runs were the most scored against a Yankee team at home in more than 52 years. It also tied the Cleveland Indians for the most runs in the junior circuit this year. The Toronto waltz over the Yankees ended an 11 game losing steak. The Blue Jays had only scored 14 runs in their last seven games. We have one criticism of Toronto manager Roy Hartsfield and thats' his little use of pinch hitters. He failed to use any substitute batters in the game we saw a-week ago and another prime situation came up Monday night. Losing 6 - 0 to Baltimore, the first two Blue Jays in the ninth reached the bases but Hartsfield didn't send a pinch hitter in for the ninth man in the lineup Tim Nordbrook Nordbrook had already struck out twice. You guessed it, he fanned again, stalling an apparent good rally. Two hits followed to score three runs, but in the previous situa- tion a pinch hit instead of a strikeout could have made a big difference, The Dashwood Tigers suc- cessfully continued their Ontario Baseball Association Senior "D" playoff march during the weekend by disposing of Woodslee in the second round. The Tigers now move into the provincial semi-finals and will be taking on Whitby. The first game of this series is expected to be played in Whitby Saturday with the second contest back in Dash- wood Sunday afternoon with game time slated for 2 p.m. The Dashwood club downed Woodslee 10-4 in the first game on their home field Friday night but dropped a close 5-2 decision in Woodslee Saturday, forcing a third game Sunday which the Tigers were able to win 6-3. Final rally decides A three run outburst by the Tigers in the top of the ninth inning in Woodslee Sunday provided the necessary margin of victory. The Tigers scored one run in the first inning and held the lead until Woodslee counted single runs in each of the third, fourth and fifth frames to move ahead by two runs, The Tigers tallied twice in the sixth to get on even terms and that's the way the score stayed until the ninth, In the Dashwood first, Bob Hoffman drew a walk and scored on a single from the bat of Glen Thurman. A couple of walks again helped the Dashwood scoring cause in the sixth as two runs crossed the plate. The only hit was a double delivered by shortstop John Hayter. Doug Fairbairn and Glen Thurman walked to start off the Dashwood ninth, Joe O'Rourke followed with a single and the three Tigers were able to score on another single by Perry Stover and a ground-out. Glen Thurman started on the mound for Dashwood and went the first three innings giving up a single run and five base hits. Lefty Jim Guenther toed the mound in the fourth and was able to settle down after a shaky start. Woodslee touched Guenther for four hits in the first frame he tossed but scored only once. They scored again in the fifth without the aid of a hit. Guenther's only other anxious moment came in the seventh when the opposition loaded the bases with only one out but he was able to retire the next two batters on strikeouts. The Dashwood hurler con- tinued with three up and three down in the last two innings to get the victory. He threw only three pitches in the eighth inning. Silent bats The Dashwood bats were very quiet in Woodslee Saturday as they could only ring out four hits and never more than one an in- ning. The Tigers went down in order in four of their nine turns at the plate, The only two runs came in the sixth when Joe O'Rourke was safe on an error, Glen Thurman doubled, Rick Schilbe hit •a sacrifice fly and John Hayter's ground out sent the final run across, The other Dashwood hits ere singles delivered by Glen Thurman, Dave Parsons and Rick Schilbe, Perry Stover went the full eight inning route on the mound for the Tigers and was touched for a total of 13 hits, He struck out four. Good sixth inning Four runs in the sixth helped the Tigers achieve their 10-4 win in the opening hame on home ground, Friday. The Woodslee club helped the Dashwood cause a lot with eight fielding miscues as the Tigers scored 10 runs only seven hits. In the opening inning, Dave Parsons walked and scored on consecutive singles by Rick Schilbe and Bob Hoffman. Paul Brooks led off the Tigers .second with asingle and scored on an error and sacrifice. In the fourth Glen Thurman and Kevin BeStard scored without the help of a base hit, Dave Parsons collected his second single of the night in the fifth and scored on a similar hit by Bob Hoffman, The final four Hawks set top ractice The first practice of the new season for the Exeter Hawks will be held Sunday afternoon at 1 p.m. at the Huron Park arena. Coach Ron Bogart has called additional practices for Friday, September 23 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, September 25, again at 1 p.m. Bogart and manager Fred Mommersteeg attended a league meeting Monday night to draw up the schedule. - The first regular home game for the Hawks will be October 21 at the new South Huron Rec Centre with the Lucan Irish supplying the opposition. Two exhibition games have been scheduled for the Hawks. They are October 11 against Lucan and October 18 versus Mitchell. Both games will be at Huron Park. Manager Mommersteeg in inviting all players within a 25 mile radius of Exeter emphasizes that all positions on the team are wide open. The only players of last year's Ontario championship Hawks team who are ineligible because of age are Gerald Weido, Rick Ingram and Noel Skinner. OHA president Hugh MacLean is expected to be at the league opener on October 21 to present a championship banner to the Hawks. • runs came home in the sixth. Powering the attack were Rick Schilbe's single and a double from Bob Hoffman, his third hit of the game. Paul Brooks tossed the first two innings for the Tigers. He allowed two hits which produced three runs. Jim Guenther toiled the last nine innings and gave up only one run and two hits the rest of the way. Guenther threw only 63 pitches during his seven inning stint, Three teams in rec loop playoffs As the Exeter Recreational softball league winds down three teams are still in contention for the league playoff plaque.; Prior to last night Hensall and Usborne were deadlocked with one win each in the best two of three series. Hensall took Wednesday's encounter by a score of 14 to 8 while Usborne won Monday night's game by the identical score. The winner of this series meets the Crescent Rolls who received a bye into the finals by virtue of their win over the Rookies. The Stephen juveniles have reached the final round of playoffs in the Ontario Baseball Association after an exciting win over Woodsiee. After dropping the first game 4- 3 a week earlier, the Stephen youngsters came back with two wins this weekend. They scored an easy 10-1 win in Woodslee Saturday and then perservered on the Dashwood diamond Sunday to pull out a 7-6 win in 14 innings, Team representative Marty Becker told the T-A shortly before press time Wednesday that arrangements for the finals Centennials a goal down John Michelsen gave West Williams a 1-0 jump over Exeter Centennials on Sunday in an 'A' Division Ausable district soccer semi-final. The match, first in a two-game total point series, was played at West Williams. Michelsen, at inside right, early in the game turned a floating ball past Centennial keeper Paul Van Esbroeck during some crowded action in the Exeter penalty area. The score came off one of scant chances for West Williams but it was enough for the lead. Figuratively, it was a game in which Exeter couldn't have bought a goal, and West Williams had money ,enough for only one. Exeter worked hard and well at trying throughout the match to better that single goal, however. And in the closing minutes of the ganie were pressing without luck for at least a draw. The Centennials missed a quick answer on an open net after being stuck 1-0 in the first half, and near its end had the ball tapped off the goal-line in a last-second effort by a West Williams' defender. In the second half, Centennial forwards Wes Abbott, Al Hern, Matt Muller and Ron Funston were each foiled by having headed balls and shots strike parts of the West Williams goal- frame. The teams meet again for the last game of the semi-final series this coming Sunday at 2 p.m,, at Canner's Field. had not been made but he hoped play would start on the weekend. The opposition will be provided by Alliston or Almonte, Sunday's deciding game was tied at 6-6 after the regulation Try to organize old-timer hockey Attempts are being made to organize an old-timers' hockey league for Exeter area players, To be eligible, players would have to be 35 or over. There would be no body contact nor any slap shots allowed. Tentative ice time has been set aside for a Sunday morning "fun" session. Anyone interested in joining in this type of activity is asked to contact Bev Skinner or rec centre manager Kirk Armstrong before September 25. nine innings of play and it took an extra five innings to produce a winner. Dan. Heywood walked to open the Stephen 14th, moved to, second on Tom Hayter's second single of the game and scored as Paul Gaiser's hard grounder went past the Woodslee short- stop. Dan Heywood went the 14 in- ning route on the mound for the, winners and scattered nine hits, The Stephen bats boomed out 15 hits in Saturday's 10-1 romp to tie up the series. Paul Brooks who left Sunday to attend an American College was the winning pitcher for Stephen going the full distance. Heading the Stephen batters with three hits apiece were Ken Pinder and Dan Overholt, Dan Heywood, Tom Hayter, Jeff O'Brien and Marty Becker checked in with two hits apiece and Paul Brooks added the odd hit,