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Times-Advocate, 1979-05-02, Page 18P°g« 18 Times-Advocate, May 2,1979 Sports Spotlight if? By ROSS HAUGH z*MV Consistency One of the most consistent pitchers in major league baseball over the past dozen or more years is off to another good start. We are talking of Chatham native Fergy Jenkins now with the Texas Rangers. Jenkins is currently one of the top pitchers in the majors with four victories without a loss. Fergie is third in lifetime victories of all active pitchers. The only two hurlers with more wins that Jenkins are Gaylord Perry and Jim Kaat. Highlighting Fergie’s career are his seven seasons of 20 victories or more. Most of these were chalked up with the Chicago Cubs. Jenkins is undefeated in his last 12 starts going back to late last year. In his career he has recorded 40 shutouts and is known for his pinpoint control. His average of giving up bases on balls is 1.45 per game. Toronto Blue Jays manager Roy Hartsfield would like to get a pitcher with control like Jenkins. The big problem with Toronto pitchers this year has been their inability to find where home plate is. The Blue Jays have showed surprisingly well at the plate with more than 10 hits in many games, but, their pitchers have failed to hold the opposition. The most pleasant surprise for Toronto as far as pitching is concerned has to be veteran Dave Lemanc- zyk who didn’t get a starting assignment until the third week of the season. Lemanczyk who couldn’t seem to get anybody out last year has won both starts and went the full nine in­ ning distance in both. In his first start Dave turned in a one hit shutout. If you see some extra clean windows in town they can be directly connected to the very poor start by the Detroit Tigers. The Tigers best supporter in town Batch Wolfe has been releasing a few tears while keeping a number of store windows shiny. He says there is still hope. “Wait until Rusty and The Bird get back.” Ronalee Bogart and Maja Gans are winners WOSSA badminton title for SHDHS South Huron District High School badminton players have won a Western Ontario Secondary School Association championship for the second time in three years. In Woodstock, Friday, Ronalee Bogart and Maja Gans won the junior girls doubles title. The two girls won the same event in the annual Huron- Perth competition in Lis towel Tuesday. Also bringing home a Huron-Perth championship from Listowel were Brenda Pinder and Dave Bell in the mixed doubles event. Greg Prout and Steve Tuckey placed second in boys doubles in H-P and fifth at WOSSA. WIN IN WOSSA BADMINTON — One WOSSA and two Huron-Perth junior badminton titles were won by South Huron District High School representatives. Ronalee Bogart, left and Maja Gans, right won the H-P and WOSSA girls double and Brenda Pinder and Dave Bell, centre won the H-P mixed doubles. T-A photo Hawks bid for mandatory face masks rejected at OH A meeting Best Time To Buy) Irish moving up The Lucan Irish fastball team after two very successful seasons in the Southwestern Fastball league are heading for stiffer competition. Manager Ward Ellyatt told us over the weekend that the Irish will be competing this year in the Lon­ don and district fastball loop. The Irish will be playing their home games at the Lucan park every Tuesday night throughout the summer months. The new league competition will come from Arva, Dorchestor, Petrolia, Camlachie and Ted Dilts from London. • A11 games will be of nine innings in length and the Irish home games will get underway at 8:30 p.m. Ellyatt issues an invitation to any players who would like to try out with the team. He said the club needed another pitcher. Ready to take care of part of the pitching duties are veteran Brian Lightfoot and newcomer Tom Morris. Foreign hockey jobs open We received a news release in the mail this week telling about the opportunities for hockey players will­ ing to go to Europe. Canada/USA Hockey Holiday will be conducting a European tryout camp for players of Junior A,B,C, college and senior calibre who are interested in play­ ing professional hockey in Europe this coming season. Former pros are also welcome. The tryout camp will run from June 4 to June 8 in Port Colborne. Each day participants will receive one hour of drills plus a full regulation time game. Each game will be video-taped to enable coaches from par­ ticipating countries to view the games again in the evening. Coaches and representatives will be present from Belgium, France, Germany, Holland and Italy. Further information may be obtained from Canada/USA Hockey Holiday, 24 Grove Street, Welland, Ontario or phone 416-734-9518. Overtime? The issue of overtime in the National hockey league has been debated for quite a few years without any action being taken. NHL governors could do a lot worse than take a few pages from the book of the North American soccer league. Each soccer game this year produces a clear cut winner. If the score is tied at the end of the regulation time, two sudden death periods of seven and a half minutes are ordered. If neither team scores, each team selects five players and they take alternate turns at penalty shots. We have seen one game on television and heard two on radio where the shoot-outs were needed to decide a winner. This method certainly provides plenty of excite­ ment as the teams cannot fall back and play for a tie which we fear hockey teams do on many occasions. The point structure in the soccer league is also different from hockey. Six points are awarded for each victory and one additional point for each goal scored up to a maximum of three. One of the drawbacks to the soccer type overtime for hockey would be television coverage. Games could last well past the stipulated maximum time for televi- i sion, especially if it continued into a penalty shot method to decide a winner. This is the only sport we know of where a losing team could pick up as many as three points. In this situation the winner would get nine points. Boost IR HOME TOWN It’s Good For You The Exeter Hawks failed in their bid to have face masks made mandatory for the coming season, but coach Ron Bogart said Monday morning that such a resolution will probably pass at next year’s OHA meeting. The resolution just failed to get the required votes at Saturday’s annual meeting in Toronto and was so close that Bogart said it may have passed if it had gone to a ballot rather than a show of hands. “We got far more support than we anticipated,” he said, noting that most of the teams within the Junior “D” ranks supported the resolution, as did many of the squads in the Metro Toronto Junior “B” league. He opined that if the resolution comes to the floor again next year, it could possibly pass and make face masks mandatory for several OHA groups, not just Junior “D”. This year’s resolution was only to make them necessary for Junior “D” teams. Despite the support, Bogart said he didn’t expect the Western Junior “D” league would make a move on its own to have masks compulsory for member teams this coming season. After the resolution was defeated at Saturday’s OHA meeting, the delegates were I thanked for not supporting / the resolution. “Thank you for giving us a few more hockey players,” was the comment from one speaker. He was the president of the Blind Hockey Association of Canada. His back-handed comment silenced the meeting, and he said he had not spoken prior to the vote on the resolution because he was not a voting delegate. Exeter was represented at the meeting by EMHA president Shirley Pratt, Ron Bogart, Fred Mommersteeg, Larry Taylor, Kathy Whiteford and Bob Osgood Jr. Representing Lucan were Jim Freeman, Bill Ban­ nerman, Bob Taylor and Clare Stanley. None of the other resolutions passed at the meeting will affect the Brenda Pinder and Dave Bell won the silver medal at WOSSA. Listowel won the Huron- Perth team championship with 82 points and South Park team ready to go Huron Park will again compete in the Southwestern Fastball League. The league consists of eight teams, with Parkhill and Lucan dropping out and Ailsa Craig joining. The teams include Sylvan, Poplar Hill, West Corners, Lieury, Lieury Juniors, Nairn, Ailsa Craig and Huron Park. A double home and home series will be played totalling 28 games. The Huron Park team will be playing out of Exeter this year with most of the home games on Thursdays at 9 at the diamond beside the Rec Centre. Players who may be suiting up could include Dennis Bierling, Dave Walker, Jerry Glavin, Paul McKnight, Doug Pearson, Ken Bergman,Dan Heywood, John Gillespie, Bryon Penhale, Bill Brock, Brian Hodgins, Gery Hartman and Harvey Vincent. Doug Johnson will be the playing coach of the team. All spots on the team are still open and anyone wishing to play good competitive fastball should contact Doug Johnson at 237-3547 or John Gillespie at 234-6425 for in­ formation on practice times and exhibition games. The schedule will com­ mence on May 15. It was not finalized at press time. Anyone wishing to assist Doug Johnson in a managerial or base coaching role should also contact either of the above numbers. Huron was second with 75 points. There is no further com­ petition for junior high school players beyond WOSSA, so the local winners will have to wait until they are seniors for the op­ portunity to reach all­ Ontario competitions. The South Huron seniors found WOSSA competition in Woodstock Saturday ex­ tremely strong, but, put up a worthy struggle. Mona Hodgins and Dave Bogart placed fourth in mixed doubles and Sheila Snider and Lisa Stretton were fifth in girls doubles. Mona Hodgins and Dave Bogart were defeated by the eventual winners from London Banting by scores of 15-11 and 18-15 which is an indication of how close the local players are to top calibre of play. The two top finishers in each event at WOSSA will go to the all-Ontario cham­ pionships this weekend in Thunder Bay. w Car k------------TETER WARNER STARTS FRIDAY MAY 4,5,6,7 IN THE WATER BOAT SHOW GRAND BEND Don't miss this oreat opportunity to "try before you buy" and have a fun day doino it. Try them out — 15' outboards to 36' crulslno yachts. PHONE NOW FOR MORE INFORMATION Authorized Trojan 8. Grew Dealer IHOVIPSON-kWRNER Op«n 7 days ‘Nico Poayrio ta D«al Wlrti' GRAND BEND 238-2391k. ATTENTION BALL PLAYERS: Players interested in playing recreational fastball in the Exeter and area men's rec softball league starting May 14 are asked to drop this form off at the Times-Advocate no later than Friday, May4. 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