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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1979-05-24, Page 12Times-Advocate, May 24. 1979 Spotlight 3y ROSS HAUGH Exercise? from Lyleweek about one of the SEAFORTH CLEANS UP — The Seaforth entry in the Exeter Men's Industrial Bowling League took the league title, the playoff championship and the overall championship. Presented with their awards Wednesday were (back row) Bill Coleman, Eric Mat- zold, Don Jackson and Ross Corbett. In the front row are Rick Wood, Garry Black and Doug Hildebrand. Missing was Murray Benneiwi. Keen shooters at Kippen Received a news release this McLeod of Ailsa Craig telling us special activities being held in conjunction with Craig Gala Days on the weekend of July 21 and 22. A 10 kilometre road race is being held Sunday afternoon, July 22 with starting time set for 4 p.m. Last year more that 100 participants were in the race and McLeod hopes this figure can be doubled this year. The entry fee is still only $1 if received by July 16. The post entry fee has been increased to $3. Entries should be sent to co-chairman Lyle McLeod at Box 39, Ailsa Craig. Could be prosperous Supporters of the four new teams in the National Hockey League for next season will likely run into the same problem that a few of the existing teams already have and the balance would like to have. The problem will be in getting tickets to watch their favorites play in the new atmosphere. Early tickets sales released by the Edmonton Oilers, Winnipeg Jets, Quebec Nordiques and New England Whalers show that only eight of the 17 NHL clubs sold as many season tickets last year as the four new teams are projecting for their first season. At Edmonton, the Oilers have already sold 14,600 season tickets for their home games at the 15,248 seat Edmonton Coliseum. Owner Peter Pocklington is currently attempting to get the present arena expand­ ed by some 3,000 seats. Edmonton publicist said the fans are really ex­ cited about the NHL franchise. He added, “I have no doubts that we could sell 17,000 season tickets. When they first went on sale we had people standing in line for as long as nine hours. We had 7,400 season sub­ scribers in the WHA last year.” In Winnipeg, the Jets have pledges for 9,000 season tickets. In the last WHA season their pre-sold seats were 7,100. The Winnipeg arena seats only 10,151 but the capacity is being increased by 16,000 by early September. Jets general manager John Ferguson expects the season ticket sales to go close to 12,000 when the arena enlargement is completed. The situation will be similar in Quebec where the Nordiques expect to sell every one of the 10,000 seats in the Coliseum which will eventually be expanded to take care of 16,000 customers. Expansion of the Coliseum is slow with a comple­ tion projection of December 1,1980. The New England Whalers will have the , same arena problem for at least part of the 1979-80 season. They will open at the 7,625 seat Springfield Civic Cen­ tre and then hopefully move to the new 15,000 seat Hartford Civic Centre by mid-season. The old arena in Hartford collapsed under the weight of snow about a year and a half ago. WHA president Harold Baldwin who is a part owner of the New England franchise has said about 8,- 000 season tickets have already been acounted for. Is long training necessary? The theory that professional baseball players need a lengthy spring training period was weakened a bit by the recent performance of veteran Rusty Staub of the Detroit Tigers. Staub who had prolonged salary problems with the Tiger front office needed only two days of batting practice before he hit the regular lineup. After missing more than three weeks of the schedule, Staub stepped right in and looked like he was in mid-season form. He got six hits in first 11 trips to the plate and five of these were doubles. Anyone that has seen Staub run know he hit the ball pretty far to get to second base in one try. He has already gone through one short slump but is still whacking the ball at more than a .350 clip. Persons in blue Umpires are needed for the Exeter minor softball association for the summer months. Anyone interested in being a volunteer is asked to call the recreation office at 235-2833 or sign up on the list which is posted at the Rec Centre. Carded and non-carded umpires are needed to handle pee wee and bantam games. r OVERALL B WINNERS — The winners of the B league regular championship in the Exeter Men's Industrial Bowling League was Fleck. In the back row are Dan Brintnell, Mike Diagre and Pres Lavier. In the front are Joe Vautour, Gary Lavier and Ray LaCourse. Missing were Al and Brett Lavier. T-A photo T-A photo Centennials beat Lucan A misplayed ball and Bomb Crediton Tigers Exeter Minor Softball Requires Umpires People who would like to be a volunteer umpire for the Exeter Minor Softball Association are asked to call the Recreation Office at 235-2833 or sign up on the list which is posted on the Bulletin Board at the South Huron Recreation Centre. Carded and non-carded umpires are required to umpire the Pee Wee and Bantam games. ------------------------------------- -------------------------- DONKEY BASEBALL LUCAN COMMUNITY CENTRE Tuesday, May 29 7:45 p.m. Admission $2.00 adults, $1.00 children/ pre-schoolers free Two teams of Rec League Players The Dashwood Tigers opened the 1979 Huron-Perth baseball season quite suc­ cessfully with two con­ secutive victories. In the season opener in Clinton Friday night, the Tigers downed the Clinton Colts and Sunday afternoon in Crediton they outscored the Mets 12-2. This week the Tigers will be in action on three oc­ casions. Friday night they will be at home to Thorndale, Saturday they travel to Dorchester and Sunday they are in Thorndale. The only contest for the Crediton Mets will be Sunday afternoon at the Crediton athletic field when they play host to the London A juniors. In Sunday’s win over Crediton, Perry Stover went the distance on the Dash­ wood mound curtailing the opposition to only four well scattered hits. Both Crediton runs scored in the sixth inning by Bill Hodge and Bruce Hodge came without the aid of any hits and two Dashwood errors. Larry Clarke was the top hitter for Crediton with two singles. Adding one hit each were Pete Wuerth and Bruce Hodge. Ford wins at Gully Randy Ford of Grand Bend was the winner of the pee wee A division in Thursday’s house league motocross at Hully Gully. Next in the same class were Randy Marriage, Clinton and Brad Armstrong, Goderich. In pee wee B Scott Wilson, London and John Waddell and Kevin Talbot, both of Goderich were the winners while Wayne Ryerson, Clinton, Chuck Collins, Varna and Drew Little, Atwood were best in junior A. Ryerson was also the winner in junior B with Scott McGregor, Kippen in the runnerup spot. Steve Williams, Hensail and Danny Ryerson, Clinton were tops on enduro A and Rick Carmon and Charlie Maaskant, both of Goderich took novice A honours. The hove B winners were Steve Boyce, Goderich and • Don Oettihg, Sarnia. The Tiger started in the first inning when Dave Parsons slammed a home run after the first two batters retired. Three straight singles by Glen Thurman, Perry Stover and John Bruijns added a second run. In the Dashwood fourth Mike Desjardine singled and came home on a similar hit from the bat of Bob Hoff­ man. Mike Desjardine bashed a home run over the left field fence in the fifth inning sending Doug Fairbairn and Kevin Hern home ahead of him. Both had walked. Four more Dashwood runs crossed the plate in the sixth frame as Barry Baynham knocked in two on a double and Kevin Bestard’s single added another. Dave Par­ sons also singled. In the seventh Rob Dickey singled, stole second and third and scored on a groundout by Dave Parsons. John Hay ter followed with a walk and came home on a double by John Hayter. Dan Heywood and Larry Clarke shared pitching duties for Crediton. Against Clinton Friday night, the Tigers scored seven times in the fifth in­ ning to build up a 10-0 lead only to have the Colts come back and come within four runs. In the Dashwood first Bob Hoffman and Barry Baynham walked and scored on a double delivered by Dave Parsons. The third Tiger tally crossed the plate in the second when Kevin Bestard walked and scored on a single by Rob Dickey. Singles by Dave Parsons and Jim Guenther combined with a flurry of walks and Clinton errors allowed the Tigers to score seven times in the fifth. The final two Dashwood runs were chalked up by John Hayter in the seventh and Perry Stover in the eighth. John Bruijns singled twice in the last two innings. Lefty Jim Guenther was the Dashwood starting hurler. He went the first six innings giving up four runs and five hits while striking out three and walking one. John Bruijns tossed the final three frames. He fanned eight Clinton batters, but, had a little trouble a penalty-kick brought Exeter Centennials a 2-0 win over Lucan in Ausable soccer at Canner’s field Sunday. With one minute left in the first half, Exeter's Mike Janyu worked the ball off a Lucan defender who turned it into his own net. Exeter’s second went in at five minutes into the last half from a penalty-kick taken by fullback Tony Markus. The previous Sunday, Markus also scored on two penalty­ kicks when Exeter topped Huron Park 4-0. Lucan had few chances ' against a strong Centennial defence and tight midfield. And on two of their best opportunities were stopped by Exeter goalkeeper Paul Van Esbroeck coming aggressively off his line to sweep up the ball. Exeter had complete domination throughout most of the game, but failed to make it pay. Time after time the Centennials pushed attacks into the Lucan zone with excellent displays of soccer but couldn’t finish cleanly within the 18-yard box. The Centennials play away at Grand Bend next Sunday with game time at 2 p.m. June 3 they play at Taxan- dria, again at 2 p.m. Their next home game at Canner’s field is at 4 p.m., Sunday, June 10, when they host West Williams. Competition was keen at the Victoria Day shoot Monday at the Kippen gun club with 17 shooters par­ ticipating. Terry Baker, Al Kyle and John Hessels each hit 24 targets to take the top prizes. Next with scores of 23 apiece came John Henderson, Brad Mann, Jamie Caldwell, Dan Crerar and Kevin Lamport. In with scores of 22 each were Elgin Kipfer, Merv Batkin and George Hamm. Brian Beer and Kevin Kipfer were next in line with 20 WINS AGAIN Dave Holtzmann con­ tinued his supremacy at the regular Tuesday men’s night league play at the Ironwood course with his second straight victory. Holtzmann fired a 38 to win low gross honours in the A flight. Ian Smith recorded the low net score of 30. Rob Jolly with a 46 was the lowest gross scorer in the B flight and low net honours went to Stu Homuth with a 35. In C flight, Bob Forest turned in the lowest gross card with Stan Frayne in second place. Heading the low net scorers were Bill Gilfillan and Chan Livingstone with 36 and 37, respectively. successful shots each. McGregor 16. Rounding out the scores The club wishes to thank were Lloyd Venner 19, Grant Grant and Jim McGregor for McGregor 18, Allan Bell and their donation of bales of Roy Lamport 17 and Rob straw. KIPPEN GUN CLUB Hwy. 4 OPEN TROPHY TRAP SHOOT Sunday, June 10, 1979 $500 cash prize for 100 straight targets 16 yd. A Class 1st & Runnerup Trophies 16 yd. 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