HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1980-09-04, Page 8The Exeter juveniles are,
in the- Ontario Baseball
Association juvenile finals.
The locals reached the
provincial championship
round with two. straight
weekend victories in
Ahnonte. They Won the first
game in Almonte, a .com-
munity near Ottawa
Saturday afternoon by a
score of 8-4 and wound up the
best-of- three series. Sunday
aft ernoen*with a resounding
20-10 win.
In the 013A final, a best-of
three series, Exeter will
meet McGregor. The first
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Close race.
As the major league baseball season moves into
the final month of play it appears that only nine teams
have any hope of reaching the 1980 World Series,
For the other 17 teams it will be only a matter of
closing out the season. While they have no chance of
reaching the top in their division, most of the teams
could have a say in who does win.
The battle in the American league eastern division
continues with the Yankees holding a narrow one and a
half game edge over the Baltimore Orioles at the time
of writing Monday morning. The Orioles have one
game in hand and could cut the margin to a single
game.
The Toronto Blue Jays could have a big say in
which of these two clubs win the division pennant. In
their remaining 24 games, the Blue Jays meet the
Yankees and Orioles in 13 of those contests.
Next week, the largest crowds of the season should
be out at Exhibition Stadium in Toronto. The Yankees
will be in for games Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
nights with the Orioles following on four successive
days.
The following week the Blue Jays will be in
Baltimore and New York for three game series.
Before anyone says the Blue Jays have trouble
winning any games against the two contenders, take a
look at the results of Sunday's scores.
The Seattle Mariners who have won seven games
less than the Toronto club beat the Yankees in a 1-0
thriller. There is something about top notch competi-
tion and a pennant race to bring out the best in any ball
club.
The Yankee-Orioles battle will likely go down to •
the final day with the results being a toss-up. The
Yankees may have an edge in experienced ball players
when the chips are down, but, this could be compen-
sated for by Earl Weaver, the Orioles manager who is
one of the toughest and wiliest in the business.
If the Yankees do beat the Orioles in the run to the
wire they will know they have been in a real fight.
The western division of the American league has
the Kansas City Royals safely in front with a 20 game
lead and they should be well rested for the playoffs and
World Series, if they get that far.
Forgetting about the divisions, the Kansas City
team actually leads the Yankees by six games and
should be the first team in either league to break the
100 game win mark. They only need 15 in their last 31
games.
National league fans are in for some real treats in
the final month of play with three teams in contention
in each of the two divisions.
In the NL east only a half game separates the
Pittsburgh Pirates, Montreal Expos and Philadelphia
Phillies while in the west, Houston, Los Angeles and
Cincinnati are only three games apart.
The Expos should have a slight edge in scheduling
early this week as they meet the western cellar dwell-
ing San Diego Padres while the Pirates run against the
western leading Houston club.
During the past week it appears that neither
Pittsburgh or Montreal can gain any ground,because of
losing.
For what it's worth we will call the Yankees to win
the American league east and meet Kansas City in the
playoffs with the Expos and Dodgers clashing in the
senior circuit.
The choice of the Expos is a bit of a patriotic
gesture as we know both of the other teams will be
tough in the stretch with their depth in experience.
One thing the Montreal club has going for itself
this year is lots of speed on the bases and this can win a
lot of close ball games.
The addition of Ron LeFlore has helped to keep the
Expos in the running despite some lacklustre pitching
performances at times,
In OBA finals
The Exeter juveniles have reached the Ontario
Baseball Association championship finals as the result
of two victories in Almonte over the weekend.
The Exeter club guided by Bruce Shaw and Joe
Fulop will meet McGregor, a community near Wind-
sor for all the marbles,
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Sports
Spotlight
By ROSS HAUGH
Irish eliminate Saveway
in fastball semi-finals
WIN "C" FLIGHT — The winners in the "D" flight in Sundays junior-senior golf tournament
at Ironwood was won by Ken and Dave Hockey. Making the presentation at the left is
Wayne Pearce. At the right is Paul Van Gerwen who finished second with his father Harry.
Juvenile's in
The Dashwood Tigers
stranded 16 base runners in
Clinton, Tuesday, but that
didn't matter much as they
managed to score a whop-
ping 24 times to thump the
Clinton Colts 24-8 to win the
Huron-Perth championship.
The Tigers took the set
with a 2-1 margin and the
Colts were far from pleased.
The contest featured some
heated rhubarbs with the
umpires and the frustrated
losers let loose with some
verbal abuse on the champs.
Dashwood actually put the
game out of reach in the first
two frames when they scored
17 times, 10 of those coming
before Clinton had a chance
to bat in the bottom of the
initial inning.
Jim Guenther, called out
on an interference play on
the base paths, was the only
one of the Tigers who didn't
score, while Fred Robinson
and Rob Dickey crossed the
plate twice.
Dashwood added single
runs in the fifth and seventh,
two in the eighth and a trio in
the last trip to the plate.
Dan Heywood gave up
single tallies in five of the
nine frames and three in the
fifth in Clinton's only bid to
pull within striking distance.
He scattered 11 hits and
recorded four strikeouts.
Meanwhile, his mates
unleashed a 20-hit barrage
against the Colts pitching
staff.
Bob Hoffman paced the
attack with five singles in six
official trips to the plate.
Robinson, Dickey and
Heywood had three safeties
each, while Jim Dietrich
added a pair. Contributing
one hit each were Kevin
Regard, Jim Guenther,
First game set for Dashwoad Saturday at 2 p.m.
Saveway in the seventh 'fell
one run short of getting back
into contention.
Dave Watson started off
with a walk and Brian Taylor
followed with a long home
run. Dan Heywood singled
and scored as Brian Hodgins
cracked out a single.
Brian Lightfoot was the
winning pitcher for Lucan.
He got some relief help from
Ron Glenn,
Jamie Eveleigh was the
losing hurler for Saveway.
He pitched. a strong game
• allowing only three hits and
struck out six batters.
rovincial baseball finals
gaffe will be played gatur-
day afternoon at 2 p.m. in
Dashwood.
In Sunday's windup game
in Almonte, Exeter scored in
every inning but the first
when they went down in
order. They scored three
runs in each of six innings
producing a steady flow of
runs.
In the Exeter second, Dave
Shaw doubled, Brian Horner
was safe on an error and
KevinEasterbrook,slammed
a home run,
Back to back two baggers
by Kevin Hern and Dave
Shaw produced the three run
outburst in the third while
Joe Becker's home run sent
Doug Willard and Dave
Atthill home in the fourth.
A double by Dave Bogart
and Dave Atthill's single
were responsible for two.
runs i e fifth. Ia the sixth
single from the bats of Pave
Shaw, ..Steve Pearce, Brian
Rader and Fred Robinson
plated three more scores.
Atthill, Pearce and Hern
singled to score three more
in the seventh and Robinson,
Bogart and Becker scored
without the aid of a hit in the
eighth.
Dave Shaw was the
starting and winning pitcher
for Exeter, He went the first
six and two-thirds, innings
before being relieved by
Steve Pearce.
Hight hander Jeff Fuller
went the full nine inning
distance Saturday holding
the opposition to eight well
scattered hits while recor-
ding 11 strikeouts,
Fuller struck out the side
order in the third frame, He
allowed only one hit in the
first five innings. The four
Almonte runs came in the
last four innings. Exeter bit
the scorebeard in the second
inning when Steve, Pearce
and Jeff Fuller walked and •
Kevin, Ea.sterbrook and Doug. •
Willard singled.
The game winning rally of
six, runs came in the top of
the fourth inning, The five
hitS providing the scoring.
power came from the bats of
Steve Pearce, Kevin,
Easterbrook, Doug Willard,.
Dave Bogart and Kevin
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The first game of the best-of-three final will be
played Saturday afternoon at 2 p.m. in Dashwood.
While in most playoff series each team gets at
least one home game that's not how it worked out for
the Exeter-Almonte series.
Exeter made the trip to the Ottawa area for first
game Saturday and if Almonte had won the flip they
would have played the third game Sunday. If each
team had won one game then the second game would
have been played back .in Exeter.
Sound confusing? Sure looks like it.
But, Exeter manager Bruce Shaw won the flip by
telephone. Sure was an honest man at the other end.
After Exeter won the first game Saturday,
Almonte offered to pay expenses for the local team to
stay over for the second game or was it the third
game.
Nevertheless Exeter won Sunday's game doing
away for the need of a second game.
An omission
Our apologies to youthful photographer Dale
Hennessey in omitting his name as the photo credit on
a picture of the Exeter Wildcats girls ball team
appearing in last week's issue.
Vic Capitano and Bob
Smith scored in the first
inning of Thursday's contest
as the Irish moved in front 2-
0,
They went ahead 3-0 in the
fourth as Kevin Lightfoot
crossed the plate.
Saveway narrowed the
count to 2-1 in the fifth as
Dave Watson was hit by a
pitch and scored on Gary
Skinner's sacrifice fly.
Lucan moved ahead 5-1 in
the sixth inning as Kevin
Lightfoot and Gerry
Duskocy scored.
A three run rally by
The Lucan Irish defeated
Exeter Saveway in three
straight games to reach the
Southwestern Fastball
Association finals.
The Irish won by a score of
5-1 Tuesday night and
wrapped up the semi-final
series in the minimum
number of games Thursday
night with a close 5-4 victory,
The Lucan club will now
meet either Lieury or Sylvan
for the league championship.
In Tuesday's game, the
Irish scored four times in the
third inning and once in the
fourth to take a 5-0 lead on
the scoreboard.
The only Saveway run
came in the fifth as Willie
Lamb singled and came
around to score on a similar
hit from the bat of Gary
Skinner,
Ron Glenn was the winning
pitcher for Lucan. He gave
up only six hits while striking
out one Exeter batter.
Brian Hodgins took the
pitching loss for Saveway.
He was touched for eight hits
while getting six Lucan
batters on strikeouts.
Anderson
wins event
John Anderson was the big
winner at the recent annual
Kyle-Cooper memorial shoot
held at the Kippen gun club.
Anderson won the overall
trophy donated by Baker
Construction and the "A"
trophy donated by W.G.
Thompson along with $150 in
prize money contributed by
the Kippen gun club.
Kevin Lamport was next
winning the "A" runnerup
trophy from Hyde Brothers,
Jim Butcher was the winner
of the Kippen gun club "B"
trophy and Dan Crerar won
the "B" runnerup trophy
presented by Ontario Gun
Services.
At a regular shoot at the
Kippen club on August 26,
Kevin Lamport and John
Anderson shared top honours
with 24 hits apiece.
Deadlocked with scores of 23
each were Bert Mahaffey,
Glen Mogk, John Griedanus,
Roy Lamport, John Godbolt
and Terry Baker.
Checking in with 22 apiece
were Rick Schroeder, Bill
Stewart, Bryan Beer and
Dan Crerar while Mery
Batkin scored 21, Tim Mann
20, Gladys McGregor 19 and
Paul Giles, Linda Bell and
Jamie Caldwell 15.
In a round of doubles the
scores were Kevin Lamport
19, Glen Mogk 15, Roy
Lamport 13, Bryan Beer and
John Godbolt 12,
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The Tigers were given 15
free passes on walks and
another on a hit baseman.
In total, they had 64 plate
Batting
Fred Robinson .356
Jim Dietrich .344
Barry Baynham .321
Glen Thurman .320
Dan Heywood .299
Rob Dickey .289
Perry Stover .286
Kevin Bestard .279
Bob 'Hoffman .264
Kevin Hern .190
Jim Guenther .188
Doug Fairbairn .175
Pete Wuerth .133
Dave Scott .125
John Bruijns .114
Mike Desjardine .059
Five left
in rec loop
The Exeter and area
mens rec fastball league has
just about concluded its most
ambitious season with a total
of five teams still involved in
playoff action.
Squaring off for the B
championship will be the
Carpetbaggers and
Mc Knights while Hensall
and the winner of tonight's
game between the Hawks
and Crescent Rolls will be
vying for the A crown.
McKnights found them-
selves in the B final for the
second consecutive year as a
result of a two game sweep
of their series against the
Les Pines.
On Monday the black-
shirted squad defeated the
hotellers 10-3 while on
Wednesday McKnights were
on the top end of a 15-8 score.
The Carpetbaggers and
McKnights begin their series
tonight at 9 in Exeter while
the Hawks and Crescent
Rolls do battle two hours
earlier.
appearances over the nine-
inning route.
The Tiger record for the
entire season was 20 vic-
tories and 18 defeats.
Pitching
ERA
John Bruijns 5 1.75
Jim Guenther 5 2.31
Dan Heywood 5 3.25
Perry Stover 4 3.65
Barry Baynham 1 4.50
Kirkton girls
are winners
The Kirkton midget girls
have eliminated Oakridge
two games to one and won
their first game in a fastball
round robin series.
The Kirkton gals won 15-3
and 14-1 over Oakridge after
losing the second game by a
score of 6-5.
In the three game series
against Oakridge, Joan
Cooper led Kirkton at the
plate with six base hits.
Close behind with four hits
apiece were Marg Miller and
Brenda Iredale.
Brenda Iredale struck out
nine batters in the first four
innings in Tuesday's 20-7
victory over Byron.
She ran into some trouble
in the fifth when Byron
scored five times. Patti
Willis came on in relief and
pitched the final two innings
allowing only two runs.
Heading the Kirkton
batting attack with a triple
and single each were Jane
Simpson and Patti Willis.
Juniors best
their partners
Sunday's annual junior-
senior golf tournament at the
Ironwood course was very
successful with 18 pairs
participating.
Don Cowan and Wayne
Parsons combined with a
score of 81 to win in "A"
flight. Lorne Kleinstiver and
Randy Evans were second
with 84 followed by Wayne
Pearce and John Osgood and
Ivor Small and Bob
Drummond.
In "B" flight, Lloyd and
Mike Cushman teamed up
for a 92 to take top honours.
Bill and Al McLean were
second, also with 92.
Completing the prize list in
"B" flight were Frank and
John Giffin, Gerry and Kevin
Parsons, Bob and Jim
Fletcher, Gerry and Stephen
Merner and Ralph and Jeff
Wareham.
Topping the "C" flight
competitors were Ken and
Dave Hockey at 100. Next at
102 were Harry and Paul Van
Gerwen and Tom Voerman
and Dick Baker.
Other "D" winners were
Jim and Scott Russell, Roy
and Michael Hunter, Gabby
and John Mol, Bob and
Randy Preszcator and Tony
and Henry Vandersteen.
Of the 18 pairs par-
ticipating, the juniors
recorded the lowest scores in
10.
Bergman wins
at Ironwood
Ken Bergmann fired a
round of 37 to win Tuesday's
regular men's night com-
petition at the Ironwood golf
course. Gabby Mol was the
low net winner with a 31.
In "B" flight Lorne
Kleinstiver won low gross
honours with a 42 and Brad
Murray was best in low net
with a 32.
Clarence Ferguson was
best in low gross in the "C"
flight with a 41 followed by
Bob Forrest with a 46. The
low net winners were Fred
Mommersteeg and Wally
Bur ton,
In "D" flight the low gross
and net winners, respec-
tively were Bert Brown arid
Norm Whiting.
Winning the prize for a
drive closest to the pin from
the fourth tee was Jon
Geiser.
WIN BANTAM "A" TITLE — Hibbert won the 'A" championship of the weekend bantam
girls fastball tournament held in Kirkton, Back, eft, coach Valerie Wallace, Shirley Miller,
Kim Finlayson, Katie Kerslake, Geraldine Meikle and coach Jean Dow. Front, Lisa Hornet,
Kathy McKellar, Joanne Wallace, Darlene Millar and Jean Johns. T-A photo
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