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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1983-05-18, Page 10WRIS171:17—eHardware) 10 Timsts•Advocate, May 18, 1983 14 Sports Spotlight sy Ross Minh Local ball starts The two Exeter teams playing in the Great Lakes senior baseball league will see home action this week. The Exeter Co -Op juniors under the direction of Joe Fulop and Brad Gregus will ba at Exeter Community Park tomorrow night, Thursday to meet the Clinton Colts, The new Exeter senior team named the Express will pry off their season opener Sunday afternoon at 1:30 p.m. on their home field with London Servicemaster supplying the opposition. Both teams appear to have strong lineups and plenty of exciting action not only this week but throughout the entire summer season. The Express are being organized by general manager Geary Penhale and Glenn Thurman with senior baseball experience in Stratford and Dashwood will be the field boss. • The Jays are flying A few weeks ago we predicted the Toronto Blue Jays would be a contender in the American league eastern division and that's exactly what they have been doing. We know a couple of weeks does not a season make, but, the Jays have been playing not only a solid brand of ball, but, an exciting and speedy type of game. At thetime of writing Bobby Cox's club has a season record of 17 victories and only 13 defeats and is only one game out of first place behind the front running Baltimore Orioles. Starting with the Milwaukee series Monday of this week, the Jays are in for a tough schedule. They play 20 games in the next 21 days and against their own divi- sion teams including Milwaukee, Baltimore, Detroit and Boston. Eight of these games are against the Red Sox and five with the Tigers supplying the opposition. The Tigers are currently in last place tied with the Yankees, but, are showing some signs of bouncing back to their potential. The Blue Jays have been getting excellent pitching and are showing something they lacked in their first six years of play. That's the ability to bounce back with big rallies in the late innings and that has happened a cou- ple of times. Just ask the Cleveland Indians. Toronto pitcher Dave Stieb leads the league in strikeouts and could have seven victories by this time. The biggest and most pleasant surprise on the Toronto pitching staff is the performance of Luis Leal. The 23 year-old youngster pitched five no -hit innings against Cleveland, Saturday. The game was delayed for close to two hours after the fifth inning and Bobby Cox decid- ed to take Leal out after that much of a wait. The Jays withRoy Lee Jackson and Randy Moffitt on in relief held the Indians to only one hit and won the game 8-1. The base stealing and hit and running are two of the big reasons the Jays are scoring more runs. Friday in Cleveland one inning was tough for the Blue Jays. In a matter of minutes pitcher Mike Morgan was hit by a line drive and second baseman Damaso Gar- cia suffered a sprained ankle. Actually it was Bake McBride of Cleveland that caus- ed all the Jays grief. McBride's line drive hit Morgan and then he slid into Garcia trying to break up a dou- ble play. • It isn't just our imagination if we think the Jays are getting batting help from all parts of the lineup. They are the only team in the league that has had 11 different players come through with game winning hits and runs batted in. The closest are Baltimore, Milwaukee, Oakland and Cleveland with nine each. Regardless of the reason, the Blue Jays have been selected to participate in three NBC Game of the Week telecasts. It's either the network officials are impressed with the Blue Jays early play or it's the fact they are among the few teams still playing Saturday afternoon games. The changes include the game against the Orioles May 28 and against the California Angels June 18. Roth starting times have been switched from 1:30 p.m. to 1:20 p.m. to accommodate tha telecasts. Similarly the July 2 game against the Seattle Mariners will start a half hour later at 2 p.m. Juniors get victory The Exeter Co -Op junior baseball team opened the 198.3 season Thursday with a 3-0 exhibition win over the Strathroy seniors. Exeter coach Joe Fulop us- ed five pitchers and they held Strathroy to only one hit. Handling the hurling chores were Jeff Fuller, Steve Pearce, Mike Neil. Kevin Drager and Brian Ilorner. A single by Bedard scored the first Exeter run in the fourth inning and Dave Hayter's triple sent the final two runs across the plate in the seventh. The other Exeter hits came from the bats of Kevin Easterbrook, Bedard, Neil and Gilmour. The next action for Futon's juniors is tomorrow night Thursday with the Clinton i Colts in Exeter at 6:15 p.m. Following is the 1983 •hedule for the local juniors: May 19 - Clinton at Exeter 22 - Exeter at Walkerton 26 - Thorndale at Exeter 29 - Walkerton at Exeter June 2 - Exeter at Kincardine 5 - Strathroy at Exeter • 8 - Exeter at Servicemaster 9 - Express at Exeter 12- Kincardine at Exeter 14 - Exeter at Kincardine 15 - Exeter at Clinton 19 - Clinton at Exeter 21 - Exeter at Kincardine 23 - Arva at Exeter 26 - Clinton at Exeter 29 - Exeter at Arva 30 - Exeter at Express July 3 - Kincardine at Exeter 5 - Exeter at Express £dolor 49o1/ -oust elu6 'r weekday: Green Fees 18 holes '5.00 Sat., Sun & Holidays 9 holes 65.00 18 holes '7.00 On County Road 6 Phone mile east of Hwy 4 - 23311317 4 Roysi, win one of tkroo fastball starts Exeter Royals won only one game this last week in three starts in the Southwestern fastball league. Tuesday they travelled to Lieury to play West Corners and dropped a 9-4 decision. They opened the scoring as . Dan Heywood tripled and scored as Mike Desjardine singled. West Co► vers tied it in their half. The Royals added two more runs in the second as Jeff Lindenfield and Bili Thomas singled and came around to score. West Corners evened it at 3-3 in the second. The Royals went up 4-3 in the sixth as Dan He) wood reached on an error and came around to score. West Cotters scored six runs in their half of the sixth to take the win. Brad Marsden took the loss for the Royals allowing six hits while striking out four batters. Rob Thoman picked up the win in relief of Jack Berg. Thursday the Royals edged the Lieury Jets 7-6, scoring three runs in the bottom of the seventh inning. The Royals opened the scoring as Gary Skinner blasted a home run in the first inning. They went up 3-0 in the se- cond as Bill Thomas walked, Doug Pearson doubled, Brian Hodgins reached on a fielder's choice, Brad Marsden sacrificed and John Gillespie singled. Lieury scored one in the fourth and the Royals match- ed that in the fifth as John Gillespie walked and came around to score. Lieury exploded for five runs in the sixth to set the stage for the final rally. Gary Skinner reached on an error, Phil Turner walked, Bill Thomas walked and Doug Pearson hit a sacrifice fly: Centennials win The Exeter Centennial senior soccer team is off to a good start with four victories to date, two in exhibition play and two in league play. The Centennials played their first exhibition game against a new young entry from Exeter, the Exeter Drillers composing mainly of players from high school. The young team shows a lot of pro- mise but the more experienc- ed senior team came out on top. The Centennials also played a . team from St. Marys in which they had no problem in winning. The first league game' for the Centennials was against the Drillers in which they won 4-0. The game was mainly . controlled by the Centennials but the Drillers had some close chances. John Flanagan opened the scoring with a low hard shot to the short side to put the Centennials 1-0 at half time. Against a strong hard wind in the second half, the Centen- nials had to go.to a more ball control game. When the Centennials play ball control with short passes and some good give and goes they usually do well. This case was no different as Shawn Rotteau added two goals and Terry Vandewalle added a single. Sunday was a pure team ef- fort even though it didn't look like it by the score sheet as Pall Vandewalle led Exeter with a five goal performance to beat the .Taxandria team from Arkona 7-2. Exeter controlled the ma- jority of the game with ex- cellent set-ups by all the other players on the Exeter squad. Single goals were added Dick Lord and newcomer Francis Hartman. The Exeter Drillers, show- ing promise for a first year team came very close but lost 4-2 to Lucar. Both Exeter teams are idle for the coming long weekend but resume play May 29. Its a double header in Exeter with the Centennials playing host to Lucan at 2 p.m. and the Drillers playing host to Grand Bend at 4 p.m. The two Exeter teams plus minor soccer are sponsoring a dance to raise money on May 28. The Rudy Davis Band will entertain you with 50's and 60's. Tickets are available from any of the players or at the door the day of the dance. Ladies golf The opening of the Iron- wood ladies golf club at- tracted 30 participants for a .game of golf and a pot luck supper. Scoring prizes were won by Janet Buchanan, Helen Bur- ton, Janet Wedlake, Ann Lorento and Mary Jane Taylor. A door prize donated by Barn Dow was won by Doris Hackney. New members are always welcome. Club official Helen Burton says, "Come out and enjoy the fun Wednesday evenings around 5 p.m." Brad Marsden then hit a hard single scoring the tying and grounder which went for a winning rum. Express at home for Sunday start Senior baseball returns to Exeter Sunday afternoon as the Exeter Express make their first start in the Great Lakes Senior Baseball League. The Express with general manager Geary Penhale and field . manager Glenn Thur- man in charge will be taking on last year's champions, London Servicemaster. Manager Penhale says he expects John Gibbons, -a righthander from London will get Sunday's starting pitching assignment. Others ready to come on in relief will be veteran Dashwood Tiger Jim Guenther, Paul Gaiser, Brian Rader and Dan Heywood.. Vying for the catching spot will be Kevin Hern and Ran- dy Kraal With Doug Fairbairn at first, Dave Parsons and John Hayter handling the double play combination and Dan Heywood likely at third. Dave Atthill, Brian Mercer, Dave Bogart and Kevin Gilmour are some of the out- field candidates with manager Thurman available for emergency duty. Sunday's opening game gets underway at 1:30 p.m. at Exeter Communit Park. Dan Heywood came on as retie! of Bill Thomas to pick up the win. They combined to strike out 10 batters while allowing five hits. Jim Dixon took the loss for Lieury allow- ing six hits. Sunday night the Royals travelled to Nairn and lost a pitchers duel 2-0 to Nairn. Ernie Schlegal and Randy Malcolm combined to allow only two hits .while striking out six Royal batters. Dan Heywood threw a strong game for the Royals allowing only four hits while striking out seven Nairn batters. Phil Turner and Gary Skin- ner were the only batters to have a hit for the Royals. Thursday the Royals face Ilderton at hgtne at 9 o'clock while - next Tuesday they travel to Lucan to play the Irish. The Royals record is now two wins and two losses. EAacLea ns TREASURE CHE$T'. 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