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Sports
Spotlight
By Ross Haugh
Jays are hot.
D.on't look now. but. the hottest team in major
'league baseball at the moment is the Toronto Blue
-• -Jays. At the lime 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 wayThey lost 9-8 in ultra 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
2440 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.
Interest in the two Canadian big league clubs con-
tinues at about.the same pace. Allout a week ago. the.
Montreal Expos -and the Blue Jays passed° the one
million mark in attendance on the same day.
The Tor nto 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•... -
Whire an ardent Blue Jays supporter we would not .
recommend attending a game at the same thi a as the
Eichibition 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 Ivould. 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/he s its 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. .
e CNE continues to offer a complete variety of
s 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 $50.00Q in prize money was•
held yesterday. Wednesday It involved a 32 mile
• swim across -Lake Ontalrio•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 N-orthern Ireland.
Canadians Cliff Thorburn of T Tonto- and Bill
Werbeniuk of Winnipeg will be trying to become the
tourney's first native winner. Prize money 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 Bucke'ves..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.
EighLteams_ wil.l-_be- in contention-for--the-Zurich
championship. Play will begin at 8 p.m. with the final
championship contest going at 9 p m.
Four Centennials
make all star team
Four Exeter Centennials
have been nominated as "alt
stars'; within the Ausable
district soccer association
The players are Dick Lord.
a centre -midfielder: right-
winger Al Hern, goalkeeper
Paul Van Eshroeck: and
Alfons Weersink. who plays
` for his club as eith6r a for-
ward or midfielder •
• ,Your players -have also
been named from the other
USBORNE GIRLS WIN A team of young ladies reoresent,ng Usborne won the girls division of a four team minor softball
tournament played Saturday in Cromarty Irl the bock row .left -right) ore coach Janet Hern, Julie Lamport, Vicki -Pfaff,. Tracy
Airdale, Potty McNoll, Lisc. Rundle, Debbie Down Nancy Jeffrey. Jane Jeffrey and coach Marion Lamport. In the front row
are Susan Gregus. Dawn Burk. Charlene Verbeek Joarne• Miller Christine Coates, Tracey Oke, Tracey Remkes and Kelly
Hern•T-A photo
Defeat junior: club
rea 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 1)an
Colquhoun of Clinton fotlnw-
ed with a single and lotto
moved upon a passed ball
Dashwood's John Hayte:-
was safe on an error to score
Hoffman and Perry ,Stover
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 distrit soccer
match in F'ores Muller's
first goal came ass
from Ron Funston at 25
• minutes -tor the -only score in
the. first half. His second
went in at 79 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
coflecting two goals off
cl.ubs in the seven-Lteam
league.
Those available for the
oC&iStdn 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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YOUR HOME TOWN
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penally -kicks again'' (-te•r•
for handballs in the :. yard
areae The first pe:tatty
awarded was at 10 nur:ut(es
into the halt. the set•ond at
>11
Then. at 8o minutes of !ti.,
game. Forest striker 13ti1
. Bentley pushed his chill -
ahead :1-2. Five minutes
- later.' Muller drew it 3-:z
_Both clubs pka ed c'.-
tremely well for the tie 01 a
clay- of .seartug. brat- Each-
-club also had se\ ural :Hissed
chances •,at enlarging the
score in an. evenly snatched
game. •
Exeter's next game js at
Mime. This Sunday the
Centennials play Lucan at
Canner's Field at 2 p.m .
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
'ihe Exeter 1'artams have
qualified for• the final- round
;n the 'Wes; ern Ontario
..\!. Wetly A>.ue'llttion "B"
dR serol
:1lter losing the first game
to Gnderich 19:19 the Exeter ,
nungstcrs re bounded to win
.1' scores of MEM. 27-12 and'
!. 11.
The locals are waiting for
the wiJ,;tl nr iiniiar_semi-
I:Ia1 series hrtwten Listowel
andKinc•ardtne
fhc Exeter t.14,41) is coached*
ht "Bruce Shaw and f3pb
t'l,lrk - _ -
Mcntbers for rht• team are
Dave "1)inger - Bell, Mike
t'lark. • Paul, Cooper-. Rob
1k•Koke • n Duhamel.
Iftet 'etcher. Bill (:lover.
Jol i t)sgooxi. Kevin Par -
!:ons. Pete Parsons, Steve
Proui:: Bruce Shaw, Dave
Shaw. Ito' Smith. Pete
- Tuckey 1)aye Underwood
and Mark Vandergunsl.
b.
1.
•
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 w,oter before going ahe.pd w,th.tessons. T -A photo
Dashwood pee wees win
The Dashwood pee- wees .
downed - Credi ton '13-3
Tuesday night to win the.
Western Ontario Athletlic
Association "D" cham-
pionship and will How ad-
vance to OBA'playoffs.
• Tuesday's Dashwood Win
came in the fifth and
.deciding game atte•i
Crediton came roaring; bac k
tone the series at two Raines
apiece
, ('redrton evened the. sent•.
'Thursday night' w th a 14 12
win and forced the deciding
contest .
in Tuesday final game
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1 ta.h•.enrwi ,lumped in front
toll try l•• runs in 'the first
if: nirl t! :Ind were never
hi -pled The Dashwood hits
sc4•t•4'.irtgles from the bats of
((rot. 1tar-i .'l'ony Smith and
'1 re‘ or Johnson. a donhfe by
Dan Donner and Dave
i las ter . long home run.
ti'ri•drtro;i', only runts came
ni The• third on a couple of
.s,Ilks.- a single by Randy
l ,,rd and a home run from
tit iev..1 4-1 Hagler singled, and
r torr•41 the sixth Dashwood
ionin the .econd and Trevor
.luhustnn". home run sent
'i'nm smith home ahead,'pf
hint in the third
I"hr heal runs for the
r. r, came in the bottom
• n on hits by Doug
.o)tiartf• ravis Davis and
Tori'. timith1
Tony " Smith was the
mit ng pitcher for Dash-
orod et bile Robert Mitchell
.1a. on the mound for
1 rerhlon
In Thursday's game. the
rl•rtrfnn victory was sealed
o �e•ri run outburst in
he• Thud inning -
itan(i} Ford led the
Crediton team at the plate
lith t,en singles and two
doubles in four appearances.
at tory plate Robert 111itcITell
->L:is_rii>_�lnngsftteitb_a�
double and three singles to
ht t•redit.
oar) smith led the Dash•
w 4)1)41 a t tic• k a t t he pla(•e wi th
:e pair ret horpe runs flitting
round Trippers- in single
• 1:ishion were Trevor
• ,Inhn,,rorl and Dave Hayter
in the Huron -Perth_
seventh. Cal Fremlin of
('linton 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.
Perry Stover followed
with an excellent. perfor-
mance. He gave up only one
h'1't and recorded five
strikeouts.
Clinton's McDonald pitch-
ed the seventh inning. He
held the opposition
scoreless. Dan_ Heywood .of
the Crediton Mets finished
up in the eighth and ninth.
He gaye-up.two runs and
four hits while fanning three
London batters.
Minor teams win in
district loop play
Exeter's mosquito and
squirt soccer teams had
snatching 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 sante 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
in -minute mark' Five
minutes later, Brian Quinn
scored off a relay from Jeff
Prance and Dave Russell.
Then. at t8 minutes, Quinn
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 theii• 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 penally -kick was
drifted over the Lucan net.
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