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Les Douglas places
third in bowling
A mighty swing
Murray Pipe of the Brussels Tigers takes a good swing for one of his eight hits on the night.
The Brussels Tigers beat the Bulldogs 13-0 in the twilight game Sunday night.
Tigers trounce Bulldogs
to split doubleheader
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A mixed pairs bowling
tournament was held in Brussels
July 8 with the 10 greens full.
The weather was warmer than
need be but with an occasional
breeze and cloudy spell everyone
had a good afternoon. The ladies
of the Brussels Club provided a
cold meal between the second and
third games.
The winning skips are as follows:
First, John Kindersma, Stratford,
three wins 43 plus 5; second, Hap
Blyth Legion Branch 420 sent
two teams to Lucknow to compete
in the annual Legion Slowpitch
Tournament on Saturday.
The Blyth Legion "B" team
dropped their first game, then won
three straight to claim the "B" side.
The Blyth Legion "A" team won
their first two games before bowing
out to Clinton in the semi-final.
Clinton went on to win the "A"
side.
Blyth "B" dropped a 14-8
decision to Mitchell in their first
game, then beat Goderich 11-4.
They then trounced Ripley 19-0 to
By Bonnie Gropp
After a year off, Scott Pettigrew
has returned to settle some unfin-
ished business as coach of the
Western Junior C Brussels Bulls.
"I would still like to help the
team to a league championship. We
came close and I'd like to get past
that."He does not expect the goal to
be easy, however. "Hanover and
Wingham teams both look tough
this year", he says, adding that
most of the Wingham players from
last year are -eturning.
Mr. Pettigrew was head coach of
the Bulls during the 1991 and 1992
seasons. Both years they were put
out in the league finals by the
Hanover Barons. Mr. Pettigrew
took last year off to spend time
with family and "recharge his bat-
teries."
"I'm looking forward to getting
back into Junior C hockey. There is
a good nucleus of veterans return-
ing to the Bulls, many of whom I
coached in my previous two sea-
sons."
Hall, Lucknow, three wins 37;
third, Les Douglas, Brussels, three
wins 36; fourth, Len Patterson,
Mitchell, two wins 41; fifth Ed
Eckmier, Mitchell, two wins 38
plus one; sixth, Alan Speers, Elmi-
ra, two wins 37; seventh, Jim
Walsh, Blyth, two wins 36; eighth,
Sandy Pepper, Seaforth, two wins
36; ninth, Don Haines, Clinton, two
wins 35; 10th, Bill Nichols,
Stratford, two wins 29 and Conso-
lation, Jack Fisher, Lucknow.
set up a final game with Wingham.
It was a tough defensive game with
Wingham holding a two-run edge
going into the bottom of the last
inning.
Blyth used a pair of home-runs to
cap a come from behind victory.
Members of the winning team
were Deb McDougall, Mary Ross,
Murray Thompson, Herb Govier,
Brian Westburg, Derwin Carter,
Ken Stewart, John Stewart, Joe
Heffron, Allan Caldwell, Jeff
Nesbitt, Pat and Gord Jenkins and
Linda and Barney Stewart.
The Bulls executive had adver
tised for the position this past
month following the resignation of
Phil Westman as coach. Executive
President Joe Kerr said four poten-
tial candidates were interviewed for
the position. Mr. Pettigrew was
hired he said on the "basis of his
experience in Junior C hockey".
Training camp for the Bulls
begins Aug. 28 in Listowel. Many
of the invitations sent have been
returned and Mr. Kerr says the sea-
son is thus far "looking strong".
Though the team is not in as strong
a position fiscally as it has been in
past seasons Mr. Kerr is confident.
The executive will be approaching
the sponsors soon to "see what we
can do working with them. We
hope to have a two way relation-
ship," he says.
At least one other team in the
league is not as fortunate. With an
uncertain future facing them the
Goderich Sailors, with an accumu-
lated debt of $13,200 may not be
competing this year. As well, to
decrease travel the Grand Valley
Harvesters have made the decision
to join the South Central league
leaving just five teams in Western
action.
"We are really disappointed to
see these teams go. There has
always been good competition and
you need more teams to create
interest," says Mr. Kerr.
Mr. Pettigrew agrees. "We are
going to miss Grand Valley. Our
relationship with them has always
been very competitive. Also, we
have had good series with Goderich
over the years. I hope they (the
league) comes up with something
so there aren't just four or five
teams playing for the season. I
hope as well this is a temporary
thing for Goderich and someone
will step up and pull them out of
the fire," he said.
Sunday night the Brussels Tigers
split a doubleheader losing 8-5 to
the Francistown Flyers before
handing the Brussels Bulldogs a
13-0 mercy.
In game one Francistown quickly
opened a 5-0 lead, increased it to 8-
2, then held off a last inning Tiger
rally for a final 8-5 score.
Game two saw the Tigers open
quickly scoring four in the first,
three in the second, two in the third
and four more in the fifth for the
win.
Offensively for the night Murray
Pipe went eight for nine while
Doug Conley was five for five
including two home runs.
Defensively Brian TenPas made
four "Play of the Game" catches in
center field.
Mike Watson took the loss
against Francistown while Conley
pitched the win versus the
Bulldogs.
Former Tiger Dave Smith was
the losing Bulldog pitcher giving
up nine runs over three innings,
before giving way to Scott
Johnston.
The Tigers travelled to Seaforth
Monday night to meet Coops
Sports, and are in Brodhagen
Wednesday night to meet Walton
in a 7:30 start.
Sunday the Tigers are at home
for another doubleheader playing
the Bulldogs at 2:00 p.m., then
meeting Blyth Soundproof at 7:30.
Blyth Legion 'B'
slowpitch champs
Ex-coach returns to Bulls