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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1978-08-17, Page 12Pegs 12 Times-Advocate, August 17, 1978 Sports Spotlight By Ross Haugh A Jays are hot Don’t look now, but, the hottest team in major league baseball at the moment is the Toronto Blue Jays. At the time of writing the Jays have won six of their seven games. The only loss during the past week was one which could have gone either way. They lost 9-8 in extra in­ nings. The recent upsurge in fortunes of the Blue Jays has sent them ahead of their record of last year. The Blue Jays now have six more victories than they did at the same time a year ago. For next season, general manager Pete Bavasi should be talking to the American league schedule makers and ask for more games in Toronto against the Baltimore Orioles. The Blue Jays have won all six games at home this year against the Orioles one of which was by a score of 24-10 when Earl Weaver sent catchers and outfielders to the mound. We heard his explanation a few nights later as to why he strayed from using regular pitchers. He suggested Toronto fans did not really know the fine points of baseball. He said he tries at all times to send out the pitcher who he feels has the best chance of getting the opposition out and his regular hurlers were not getting the job done. Weaver has become less than popular with Toron­ to fans. Last year he pulled his team off the field and lost by forfeiture over a dispute with a tarpaulin in one of the bull pens at CNE Stadium. USBORNE GIRLS WIN — A team of young ladies representing Usborne won the girls division of a four team minor softball tournament played Saturday in Cromarty. In the back row (left-right) are coach Janet Hern, Julie Lamport, Vicki Pfaff, Tracy Airdale, Patty McNall, Lisa Rundle, Debbie Down, Nancy Jeffrey, Jane Jeffrey and coach Marion Lamport. In the front row are Susan Gregus, Dawn Burk, Charlene Verbeek, Joanne Miller, Christine Coates, Tracey Oke, Tracey Remkes and Kelly Hern. T-A photo Defeat junior club Area all stars win in London The Huron-Perth senior league all-stars scored an impressive victory by a score of 8-3 over the London and district junior all-stars. The game was played at Labatt Park in London Saturday night. The London stars scored the first run of the game in the first inning and that’s the way the score remained until the Huron-Perth club scored five times in the fifth frame. Bob Hoffman of the Dashwood Tigers started the rally with a walk. Dan Colquhoun of Clinton follow­ ed with a single and both moved up on a passed ball. Dashwood’s John Hayter was safe on an error to score Hoffman and Perry Stover singled to score two more. Following singles by Butch Fleet and Don McDonald of Clinton scored the fourth and fifth runs for the H-P club. Bantams in WOAA final Minor teams win in district loop play got his second goal of the night on a penalty-kick. This past Monday, Exeter mosquitoes tied Lucan 2-2, after being down 1-0 at the half. The Exeter goals were collected by Steve Gould and Andrew Winters. The squirts managed their 1-1 tie with their Lucan opponents seconds before the game ended when Brian Quinn completed a corner­ kick sequence that went from Dave Russell to Shawn Moore to Quinn for the goal. Lucan’s single came on a penalty-kick that scraped off Exeter keeper Scott Heywood’s fingers in the second half. Later, Exeter missed on a chance at equalizing, shortly before Quinn’s tying goal, when an awarded penalty-kick was drifted over the Lucan net. Exeter’s mosquito and squirt soccer teams had matching performances in games Monday night and the previous Tuesday. Both clubs tied Monday against Lucan clubs and won handily against teams from St. Marys, August 8. In the St. Marys games the mosquitoes won 3-1 on a first-half goal by Kim Parsons, and second-half scores from Rick Gilfillan and Andrew Winters. The same night, Exeter squirts worked to a 3-0 shut­ out for their keeper Scott Heywood against St. Marys. All Exeter goals came in the second half, with Tim Moore starting it unassisted at the 10-minute mark. Five minutes later, Brian Quinn scored off a relay from Jeff Prance and Dave Russell. Theii, at 18 minutes, Quinn LARRY SNIDER ¥ to fry for window (power or is silicone fhe window OPENING VERY SOON Hopefully MON. AUG. 21 or Sooner Interest in the two Canadian big league clubs con­ tinues at about the same pace. About a week ago, the Montreal Expos and the Blue Jays passed the one million mark in attendance on the same day. The Toronto attendance has been improving in re­ cent weeks and should increase further for two reasons. Fans like to see a winning team and the Jays have 12 home dates during the 100th anniversary of the Canadian National Exhibition. Blue Jay fans who pick up their tickets in advance for any of these nine games also get free admission to the CNE and to Ontario Place. That’s a real bargain. While an ardent Blue Jays supporter we would not recommend attending a game at the same time as the Exhibition air show is in progress. We witnessed or should say tried to witness a ball game while the air areobatics were also on. That was one situation where it would have been nice to have a television replay. Most of the action from the planes came behind the grandstand which meant one had to turn every time a roar came along and then missed the action on the field. It must also have been very distracting to the players to concentrate with all the sudden noise eminating from the skies. Texas, California, Minnesota and Cleveland will be the American league teams visiting the Blue Jays during the Exhibition which ends on Labour Day. Lots of CNE sports A note to Bill Regier and his Mt. Carmel tug-of- war team that this event is on the sports agenda at the CNE for the first time. It will be held Saturday, August 26. Get your entry in, Bill. After winning at Friedsburg Days the CNE should be no problem. The CNE continues to offer a complete variety of sports during the 20 days of activities. The two events with the most prize monies offered are the Pepsi challenge swim and the International snooker tournament. The Pepsi swim with $50,000 in prize money was held yesterday, Wednesday. It involved a 32 mile swim across Lake Ontario from Niagara-on-the-Lake to the CNE waterfront. The 15 hours and 18 minutes record of Cindy Nicholas was at stake. The CNE snooker tournament will bring defending champion Alex Higgins back from Northern Ireland. Canadians Cliff Thorburn of Toronto and Bill Werbeniuk of Winnipeg will be trying to become the tourney’s first native winner. Prize monev is $15,000. One of the top fastball tournaments of the year in the area goes this Saturday in Zurich. It’s sponsored by the Zurich Buckeyes. The Buckeyes will be trying to win their own championship. They warmed up last weekend by tak­ ing the “B” title in a similar tourney at Elmira. Eight teams will be in contention for the Zurich championship. Play will begin at 8 p.m. with the final championship contest going at 9 p.m. Muller nets three as Centennials tie With the last of his three goals going in the 85-minute mark, Exeter Centennials’ Matt Muller pulled his club into a 3-3 tie with Forest Sunday. The teams were playing an Ausable district soccer match in Forest. Muller’s first goal came off a pass from Ron Funston at 25 minutes for the only score in the first half. His second went in at 70 minutes into the game from a tap at a loose ball. Muller’s second goal also evened the game at 2-2, after Forest had opened the last half with Mark Overholt collecting two goals off penalty-kicks against Exeter for hand-balls in the 18-yard area. The first penalty awarded was at 10 minutes into the half, the second at 20. Then, at 80 minutes of the game, Forest striker Bill Bentley pushed his club ahead 3-2. Five minutes later, Muller drew it 3-3. Both clubs played ex­ tremely well for the tie in a day of searing heat. Each club also had several missed chances at enlarging the score in an evenly matched game. Exeter’s next game is at home. This Sunday the Centennials play Lucan at Canner’s Field at 2 p.m. "■ • J? . *■ I : be *: r The Exeter bantams have qualified for the final round in the Western Ontario Athletic Association “B” division. After losing the first game to Goderich 19-10 the Exeter youngsters rebounded to win by scores of 19-10, 27-12 and 23-11. The locals are waiting for the winner of similar semi­ final series between Listowel and Kincardine. The Exeter club is coached by Bruce Shaw and Bob Clark. Members of the team are Dave “Dinger” Bell, Mike Clark, Paul Cooper, Rob DeKoker, Dean Duhamel, Rich Fletcher, Bill Glover, John Osgood, Kevin Par­ sons, Pete Parsons, Steve Prout, Bruce Shaw, Dave 1 Shaw, Rob Smith, Pete Tuckey, Dave Underwood and Mark Vandergunst. * -fee*,.. GIVE RETARDED SWIMMING LESSONS — Instructors at the Exeter swimming pool are teaching clients at ARC industries swimming skills every Tuesday evening. Above they do war­ mup exercises to familiarize them with the water before going ahead with lessons. T-A photo Dashwood pee wees win The Dashwood pee wees downed Crediton 13-3 Tuesday night to win the Western Ontario Athletic Association “D” cham­ pionship and will now ad­ vance to OBA playoffs. Tuesday’s Dashwood win came in the fifth and deciding game after Crediton came roaring back to tie the series at two games apiece. Crediton evened the series Thursday night with a 14-12 win and forced the deciding contest. In Tuesday’s final game Four Centennials make all star team Four Exeter Centennials have been nominated as “all stars” within the Ausable district soccer association. The players are Dick Lord, a centre-midfielder; right­ winger Al Hern; goalkeeper Paul Van Esbroeck; and Alfons Weersink, who plays for his club as either a for­ ward or midfielder. Four players have also been named from the other clubs in the seven-t^eam league. Those available for the occasion were to play an exhibition game at Grand Bend against Goderich United, Wednesday night, August 16. A selected number of the players will then be picked to meet Windsor Croatia, in Windsor, Wednesday evening, 23 August. 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In Thursday’s game, the Crediton victory was sealed by a seven run outburst in the third inning. Randy Ford led the Crediton team at the plate with two singles and two doubles in four appearances at the plate. Robert Mitchell was right alongside with a double and three singles to his credit. Gary Smith led the Dash­ wood attack at the place with a pair of home runs. Hitting round trippers in single fashion were Trevor Johnston and Dave Hayter. In the Huron-Perth seventh, Cal Fremlin of Clinton and Crediton’s Pete Wuerth were safe on errors and Dan Heywood, also of Crediton followed with a single to produce another run. » Barry Baynham of Dashwood doubled to open the eighth, Bob Cadick of Thorndale singled and both scored on single from the bat of Cal Fremlin of Clin­ ton. Members of the Dashwood Tigers pitching staff tossed the first six innings, Jim Guenther went the first three frames allowing the first run while striking out three. 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