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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1980-09-24, Page 18SKIM CITATION. Front-wheel drive with room for five and an amazing load capacity. Citation has become the best selling new car Chevrolet • has ever introduced. CHEVY CHEVETTE Gives great value with all its standard equipment. Dress it up, and Chevette is one very special little car. CAPRICE CLASSIC Lean and luxurious, relevant to today in both features and cost. You could spend more. The question is, why? MALIBU. A family car that delivers solid Chevrolet value beautifully, rightup to the new formal sedan roofline. Some of the equipment illustrated is available at extra cost. '2A Tilmst.Addvocatit Soptarnioior 24, 1980 Season record is. 24-5 Sports Spotlight By ROSS HAUGH We were one of the more than 84,000 fans that made up the frenzied crowd at the Silverdotne in. Pon- tiac, Michigan. Sunday to watch the Detroit Lions in football action. This is the first time in many years that football fans in the Detroit area have had a chance to cheers for their favourites with any consistency. During the 1979 season, the Lions could only win two games. Sunday's victory was their third in as many starts this year and the first on their home field. The capacity of the Superdome for football is 80,- 638, We couldn't catch Sunday's exact attendance when it was announced because of the continual high noise rate from the crowd, but, it was 80,400 and change. Two members of the Lions are creating most of the excitement. They are 1978 Reismann winner Billy Sims from the University of Oklahoma and British Columbia native Eddie Murray, Sometimes one wonders about the occasional ap- parent lack of kicking in professional football, Murray is certainly putting the foot back in football. While he has helped the Lions immensely with his place kicking which, was perfect seven for seven before Sunday's game, it's his long booming kickoffs that have kept the opposition bottled up. Three of Murray's kickoffs Sunday afternoon were well into the end zone. Two were conceded in the end zone by the opposition backs for automatic touchbacks and the other bounced completely out of the end zone. * A fourth kick was so high it gave his team-mates plenty of time to get down to make the tackles. This type of kicking is a good start in eliminating long run- backs by opposing backs. The Lions have only suffered one long run back this year and that was in the second game of the season. Murray missed his first two field goal attempts Sunday and a few cries were heard from the boo-birds, but, his great kickoffs and two successful three pointers changed that atmosphere. Billy Sims failed by five yards to ring up his third straight 100 yard game which would have been an NFL record, but he showed a few bursts of his dazzling speed. Due to a hard tackle and the extreme heat he was used sparingly in the fourth quarter. • The biggest test of the new season will come next Sunday afternoon when the Lions take on Bud Grant's Minnesota Vikings. The Vikings were easy winners Sunday over the Chicago Bears. This game will go a long way in proving if the Lions have any potential for Super bowl possibility. Incidently, the 1982 Super Bowl game, will be played at the Silverdome in Pontiac on January 24 of that year. We hear occasional complaints in this area about operational deficits for the various recreation centres. These figures are pretty small peanuts when it comes to the amount of money needed to keep the Silverdome in Pontiac in operation. The city of Pontiac contributes about two and a half million dollars each year to the upkeep of the stadium. That's some $33 dollars for each man, woman and child making up the 80,000 population of Pontiac. Add to this another $800,000 from the State of Michigan. The sporting complex when it was built five years ago cost some 55 million dollars. Getting back to the exploits of Lion running back Billy Sims, he is without a nickname. The Detroit Free Press is sponsoring a contest to stick Sims with a suitable monicker, Suggestions for a nickname for Sims may be sent on a post card or in a letter to Nickname Contest, Free Press Sports Department, 321 West Lafayette, Detroit, Michigan, 48321. Entries are to be in by October 1 and the winner will receive four tickets to a Lions game and a chance to meet and talk with Sims. While at the Lions game Sunday we also saw three Exeter football fans. They were Bill Farquhar, Scott Burton and John Snell. Also there were 11 members of the Robinson fami- ly from Strathroy. Sign up for skating The Exeter figure skating club is reorganizing for another year and registration sessions are being held this week. The first registration will be held tonight, Wednes- day at the South Huron Rec Centre between the hours of 7 and 9 p.m, The three club professionals will be on hand and will be available for consultations and private lesson bookings with students and their parents. The pros are Marg Carey, Rick Pettit and Jeff Loosley. Anyone wishing further information on figure skating ac- tivities should call Marie Tiernan at 235-0436. The second day for registration will be Saturday from 10 a.m. to 12 noon, also at the Rec Centre. Peg Sellers will be in charge of a boutique during registration times giving youngsters a chance to buy or sell figure skates or outfits. She may be reached at 235-1617. The Crediton Cowgirls won the North-Middlesex South Buren ladies fastball championship Friday night with a 17.5 win over Parkhill, The Crediton ladies won the best-of-five series three games to one. The Cowgirls played ex- cellent ball both on the field and with their bats to take the championship. After Parkhill scored two runs in the first inning, Crediton bounced back with two runs in the top of the se- cond inning and three more scores in each of the third and fourth frames to take a commanding lead, Jean Gray singled, Beth Brass was safe on a fielder's choice and both scored on a single from the bat of Judy Schram in the opening inning for Parkhill. In the Crediton second, Wilma Lagerwerf and Barb Wein cracked out singles and came home to score on a double by Kate Steeper. Sherry Pfaff and Deb Lord also singled during the first Cowgirls rally, Shelley Weber walked, Wilma Lagerwerf was safe on an error, Sandy O'Neill singled and all scored in the Crediton third inning. In the fourth, Deb Lord led off with a single, moved up on Merna Scott's groundout, Fay Hayter singled, Shelley Weber reached first on an error and Wilma Lagerwerf's double cleared the bases and upped the in- ning run total to three. Four base hits and a cou- ple of Parkhill errors allow- ed four Crediton runs to cross the plate in the top of the sixth. The, hits were singles delivered by Fay Hayter, Wilma Lagerwerf, Sandy O'Neill and Kate Steeper. The final five Crediton runs came home in the seventh. Leading the last in- ning hits were Merna Scott and Fay Hayter with doubles and singles by Deb Lord, Shelley Weber and Sandy O'Neill. The third and fourth Parkhill runs were ac- counted for in the fifth in- ning when Yvonne Creces singled, Tish Murdock was safe on her third strike and Gun shoot at Kippen Jack Mills recorded a score of 25 to lead the 12 shooters at Tuesday's regular competition at the Kippen gun club. John Anderson was second with a score of 24 followed by Mery Batkin, Bob Caldwell and Bob Baker at 21, Gladys McGregor, Wayne McBride and Jamie Caldwell 19. Also shooting were Terry Mann and Den- nis McBride. Bowling Exeter Man's A C4 G Black 840 RO J Bell 721 SU G Webb 573 OB B Farquhar 817 CB C Toornstra 655 OE R Vanbarne 618 / 7 167 W Webster 692 7 7 5 5 2 2 5 5 5 5 5 5 CM J Dewan 716 2 2 IN R Hippern 630 2 2 OP J Gage 676 2 2 SP G Stire 625 0 0 HB G Mol 599 0 0 Tuesday Night Bawling BB B Sangster 820 7 9 WH M Skinner 601 0 8 BO P Crawford 574 2 5 PP C Moore 640 5 19 BU J Rau 476 5 7 RO C Cronyn 541 2 11 JS M'Bridges 550 0 7 MM L Pincombe 821 7 21 11D B Hearn 752 7 14 LB L Farqhhar 697 0 9 PK C Redegeld 585 2 4 SP I Browning 541 5 12 Friday Mixed League TE R Lawrance 558 7 11 CH W Webster 666 3 10 SC K Faber 579 5 8 WW J Dix 632 4 6 OC D Steele 601 0 5 FT G Snell 528 2 2 Sunday Mixed League GT )3 Hogg 617 RC J Rolph 650 SN L Webber 535 MP J Parker 587 BL G Wilson 678 TA J McNair 739 7 12 3 10 0 7 7 7 4 6 0 0 Men Wed. YW A Cleave 714 7 PE B Sanders 629 TIMID Heywood 705 5 BS B Hogarth 684 2 8th B Jones 746 5 TR D Murry 614 2 Thursday Ladies TB J Mantey 560 ST P Seller 810 7 10 2 6 5 7 HH p Scott 687 5 15 CE S Wurm 615 7 21 GF J El liott 685 2- 9 DS N Trott 544 7 14 LO B Obre 564 11 9 AC V 13akelaar 527 0 3 WR L Ambrose 551 0 0 WW B MOW* 637 Plenty of Runners During the past couple of weeks the heroic efforts of Terry Fox have generated a lot of interest. The local interest has included runs and walks by persons of a wide age range and brought forth good amounts for the Canadian Cancer Society. Students of Exeter Public School are in the midst of running over a prescribed route to raise money for cancer. During the,past'week,RickGilfiilafl& MartyTaylor ran Hensall and back and Stephanie Jones and Bonnie Kooy completed a Huron Park to Exeter return trip. Proving that marathons are not only for youngsters, two ladies Bonnie Luther and Donna Regier walked from the intersection of Highways 4 and 22 at the northerly edge of London to Exeter. They left London at 6 A.M. Monday and We caught them for a picture near St. Peter's Church south of Centralia at about 2:30 pan. The ladies expected their pledges to reach $500. Cowgirls win area ladies fastboll .crown both were able to cone Mena Scott won the around, to score. pitching. distance for Judy Schram was safe On ,Crediton herding, th e an error in the Parkhill sixth. Parkhill girls to five hits. frame and was sent around She retired the Parkhill to the plate on consecutive batters on three straight singles by Joyce Steeper and. strikeouts in the final inning. Yvonne Creces. Fay Hayter was behind the RACE WINNERS AT HULLY GULLY — Winners in the various race divisions in the Hilly Gully house league received their trophies recently. Above, house league race official Iry Ford is shown with Mike Maaskant, Enduro B; Randy Ford, Pee Wee A; Kevin Talbot, Pee Wee B; Steve Prentice, Enduro C and Jimmy Dickins, Pee Wee C, T-A photo plate for Crediton replacing regular catcher Carol Stuart who was injured in the previous game in Parkhill. Theresa McGee was the. starting and losing pitcher for Parkhill. The Cowgirls record for the entire season including playoffs was 24 victories and five losses. The Cowgirls consist of pitchers and first base Mer- na. Scott and Deb Lord, catcher Carol Stuart, catcher and fielder Fay Hayter, second base Sandy O'Neill, short stop Wilma Lagerwerf, third base Sherry Pfaff, fielder and third base Barb Wein. left fielder Michelle Vandergunst, centre field Shelley Weber, right field Kate Steeper and Liz Pertschy and fielders Jeannette DeVries and Cecile Massehelein. Coaches were Bruce Smith, Robert Pertsc'hy and Darrel Special - Lee coloured Jeans =- Scott's Leather Tack Shop 120 Sanders W, Exeter, Ont. 235-0694, Boulet Western Boots Stetson Hats Lee Boot Cut Jeans & Jackets Western Shirts & Belts ' Riding Equipment Horse Health Centre $12. pair. Finkbeiner, Manager was Scott 'Fveland, statistician, Marg Pertschy and mascot Chriasy Lagerwerf. The Cowgirls would like to say thankyou to everyone that supported. them this. year with their cheering and their help, Special thanks. tO Mr. and Mrs. joeLCarter who. came to every game, Norm Bveland for his advertising and Bog for his house. See you next year. MONTE CARLO. Unmistakably new aerodynamic styling. Low, lean, crisp. Engineered to exist in a world of hard facts. POWER PROTECTION PLUS. 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