Times-Advocate, 1978-06-08, Page 10Ip Times-Advocate, June 8, 1978
Sports
Spotlight
By Ross Haugh
Hockey again
The hockey season for the Exeter Minor Hockey
Association was completed only a little more than a
week ago with the Hawks banquet but officials are
raring to go for next year.
The annual meeting of the EMHA is being held
tonight, Thursday, June 8 with proceedings getting un
derway at 7:30p.m.
All interested in minor hockey are invited to at
tend this annual meeting when plans will be discussed
for next season in all divisions.
Included in the business will be the election of of
ficers, setting of bylaws, planning tournaments, etc.
4 grudge match
Want to see a grudge softball game with no holds
barred and all tricks used to get a victory.
Well, then, don’t forget to drop around to the dia
mond at Exeter Community Park Sunday afternoon at
lp.m.
Facing each other on the diamond will be the Ex
eter Lions and the Leos, who are in most part, sons
and daughters of Lion members.
The Leos who expect to win quite easily have
decided that the president of the losing team should
ride a tricycle down several blocks of Exeter’s Main
street later in the summer. Get ready, Doug Knowles.
The president of the Leos is Liz Giffin.
Actually Doug Knowles is the one who called to
tell us about this special competition which will be
part of the Lions special weekend celebration. As
Doug said, “Come out to the ball game and stay for
the barbecue.”
Edge Lucan 2-1
GRAND CHAMPIONS — The Itchy Niters won the grand championship of the Exeter Legion
mixed dart league and won the Saveway Lumber trophy. From the left are Ed and Barb Hearn
and Annie and Gerry Lawson. The Itchy Niters were sponsored by Hensall Motors. T-A photo
LEAGUE CHAMPS — The league championship of the Exeter Legion mixed dart league was
won by the Sassenachs. They received the Exeter local of the Postal Employees Union trophy.
From the left are Bob and Marg Hedley and Dot and Bill Lenk. T-A photo
Centennials score victory
Goals at 20 minutes apart
by Exeter’s Paul Van
Gerwen and Wes Abbott
brought the Centennials a 2-1
win in Ausable district
soccer league at Lucan
Sunday. All the scoring came
in the second half of a game
excellently played by both
clubs.
Left-winger Van Gerwen
scored for Exeter at 60
minutes with a high and
curving ball into the top right
corner of the Lucan net. His
goal nullified a Lucan score
five minutes earlier when
Peter Bakker capitalized on
a penalty-kick against
Exeter.
Abbott, the starting left
winger got the winning goal
20 minutes after Van Ger-
wen’s on the relay of a
crossed ball from centre
midfielder Dick Lord.
Both Lucan and Exeter
had missed goals in the first
half, with Centennial right
winger Al Hern starting it at
three minutes into the match
by rattling the ball off the
Lucan goal-frame.
Afterward, it seemed the
ball wouldn’t work past the
keepers for either club; until
Bakker got Lucan’s only goal
at 55 minutes on a penalty
kick that scraped Exeter’s
right post to rob Paul Van
Esbroeck of any chance at a
save.
For the locals, the win was
a shared team effort propped
solidly with Paul Van
Esbroeck in goal, fine
defensive work by fullbacks
Tony Markus, John
Rasenberg and Al Beattie,
and an outstanding con
tribution from centre-back
Rene Kirmse.
The Centennials play at
home this Sunday against
the “A” Division champion
West Williams United. Game
time at Canner’s Field is 2
Horse show Saturday
One last word of reminder of Saturday’s Mid
Western quarter horse show which will be held at the
Exeter saddle club grounds on Concession 3 of Stephen
township at the southerly edge of Industrial Park
property at Huron Park.
The saddle club horse show facility is now com
pleted and is one which will stand up in quality to any
in the country.
Saturday’s event is expected to bring more than
400 entries from some of the top quarter horse com
petitors in not only Ontario but many spots in the
northern United States.
The local show has been in the “A” class for a
number of years providing the utmost in quarter horse
entertainment.
The halter classes which get underway at 8 a.m.
may not be the most exciting to watch but the after
noon games program does provide plenty in the way of
excitement and entertainment for all ages.
As the show’s most enthusiastic supporter told us
a week ago, “We get good support from local
merchants, but, it’s the general public that we need to
get behind us.”
The admission for Saturday’s show is only one
dollar. It will provide anyone with lots of entertain
ment.
Kirkton midget girls win
first game of new season
The Kirkton midget girls
softball team won their first
game of the season 6-1 over
Shakespeare and were con
solation runner-ups in a
tournament at Tillsonburg
over the weekend.
The Kirkton girls are in
volved in a 10 team league
with Rostock, Tavistock,
Shakespeare, Stratford, St.
Pauls, Dublin, Kinkora and
Goderich.
Patti Down went the
pitching distance and allow
ed only two hits in the
regular schedule victory
over Shakespeare. She
recorded 10 strikeouts.
Patti Down also led the
seven hit Kirkton attack
with two hits while Lori
A promising contender
Local racing fans may still have the opportunity
for special cheers in two of Canada’s top thoroughbred
races. Bobisque, a three year-old filly owned by four
area men remains eligible for the Canadian Oaks and
the Queen’s Plate.
We talked to Dalt Finkbeiner, one of the owners
Monday night and he said the filly is expected to race
this Friday at Woodbine and the performance then
will determine if participation in the Oaks on June 17
or the Plate on June 24 is warranted.
We were at the Woodbine track in Toronto on May
26 when Bobisque finished fourth in a race for three
year-olds foaled in Canada.
Despite the fourth place finish, Bobisque showed
plenty of courage. She led for a good part of the mile
and a sixteenth route, fell back to third, then spurted
back to be second, dropped to fourth, but, at the finish
line appeared to be coming on again.
Trainer Paul Sweet and jockey Gary Stahlbaum
continue to be optimistic about the three year-old. The
other owners are Eric Kints, Peter Oud and Bob
Hamather.
Just prior to the May 26 Woodbine race we
attempted to get a picture of Bobisque heading for the
track with Finkbeiner and Kints walking along side.
Able to get only one quick shot, we hollered at
Finkbeiner, “See you in the winner’s circle for a
better picture.” From behind us came a comment
from another fellow, “If you do you will have com
pany.” It came from the owner of another horse in the
same race. But, he wasn’t there either.
Ladies league
gets underway
For the second year in a
row the Bluewater Ladies’
slow-pitch league has swung
into operation with a total of
four teams taking part.
Participating teams are
Menesett Park from
Goderich, the Babes and the
Good-times from Bayfield
and the Stanley Stars.
According to league
spokesman Sharon Rau each
team will be playing twelve
games with the regular
season ending on August 17.
This year will see the
games played through the
week rather than on the
weekends.
The Stanley Stars play
their home games at Ecole
St. Marie.
Iredale contributed a double
and singles came from the
bats of Kim Heather, Sheila
Penhale, Sue Schaefer and
Kelly Kernick.
In Tillsonburg the Kirkton
girls lost 6-3 to North Ben
dale of Toronto, a team
which later lost the cham
pionship game to Kitchener.
Wins over Fergus 7-5 and
St. Marys 7-3 sent the
Kirkton club to the consola
tion final where they lost 10-
8 to Shakespeare.
Patti Down pitched 23
tournament innings and
struck out 21. Terri Brintnell
pitched two innings in relief.
Kelly Kernick led the
Kirkton batters with a .555
average closely followed by
Kim Heather .500, Lori
Iredale .462 and Sheila
Penhale .416.
The schedule for Kirkton
is as follows with all games
starting at 7 p.m. unless
otherwise noted.
Mosquitoes win
over St. Marys
Rick Gilfillan and Kenny
Boersma netted first-half
goals Monday to give the
mosquito division of the
Exeter Centennial Soccer
Club a 2-1 win over St.
Mary’s at Canner’s Field.
St. Marys single was
scored on a corner-kick in
the second half.
The same evening, the
Centennials squirts division
dropped a 2-1 match to St.
Marys.
JUNE
9 - Shakespeare at Kirkton
11 - Kirkton at Rostock 2
p.m.
13 - Dublin at Kirkton
19 - Kirkton at St. Marys
8:30p.m.
21 - Kirkton at Kinkora 9
p.m.
27 - Tavistock at Kirkton
30 - Kinkora at Kirkton
JULY
4 - Kirkton at Stratford
7 - Goderich at Kirkton
10 - Kirkton at St. Pauls
p.m.
11 - St. Marys'at Kirkton
18 - St. Pauis at Kirkton
19 - Kirkton at Dublin
21 - Kirkton at Goderich 8:30
p.m.
25 - Stratford at Kirkton
27 - Kirkton at Tavistock
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Quotes of the week
Billy Martin who has been fired as a baseball
manager by the Minnesota Twins, Detroit Tigers and
Texas Rangers when asked what he would do if
dropped by his present club, the New York Yankees
said, “My next step is commissioner.”
St. Louis baseball broadcaster Bob Starr recently
made his bid for the 1978 redundancy championship
said, “the Cardinals stole three bases successfully.”
Dodger manager Tom Lasorda said about Billy
Martin of the Yankees, “When he reaches for a bar
tab, his arm shrinks about six inches.”
Boston Bruins coach Don Cherry who has accused
NHL referees of many things including using hair
spray and posturing for television cameras, said,
“Somewhere in Canada there must be a bald, fat
referee capable of working the NHL. All we have is
pretty guys.”
Jack Vickers, owner of the NHL Colorado Rockies
on the team’s money losses and its future: “I’m an oil
man and I don’t drill dry holes twice.”
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New look
at gun club
The claybird gun club
facilities in Hay township
acquired a new look this
week with the addition of a
clubhouse.
Moved to the property was
the former Centralia village
public library building. It
gives the club space of 360
square feet. First use of the
clubhouse will be Monday
night when the club holds a
general meeting at 7 p.m.
Glenn Vickery with 20
successful shots edged Jody
Mosurinjohn by a single shot
to take skeet shooting
honours, Saturday.
Grant Hodgert was next in
line with a score of 14, Wayne
Riddell hit 13 and Bill
Weber’s score was nine.
Four competitors were
tied for first place with 22 in
the Wednesday trap shoot.
They were Jody Mosurin
john, Rick Schroeder, John
Noble and Wayne Riddell.
Bill Weber scored 20,
Kitchener Pavlick fired 18
and Fred Bridger hit 16
targets. The balance Of the
scores were Grant Hodgert
15, Jim Caughy 13 and
Heather Schroederio.
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MVP AWARD — At an appreciation night held by the Exeter
Legion in honour of the Legion bantams, Rick Lindenfield
received the Brooks family most valuable player award from
Mrs. Pat Brooks. T-A photo
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