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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1981-09-10, Page 10Page 10 Times -Advocate. September 10.19e1 Guenther homers again Bruijns pitches well Sports Spotlight By ROSS HAUGH Great baseball The Dashwood Tigers were eliminated from the OBA Senior 'D' playoffs Sunday afternoon, but, they treated their faithful fans to an exciting four or more hours of diamond action. The brand of ball turned in by the Tigers and their opponents from Nanticoke was exceptional. The ef- torts of the two pitchers and good defensive plays by the infielders and outfielders would be hard to match In any level of baseball. - Dashwood lefthander John Bruijns and'Phil Nie, a right hander from Nanticoke pitched both games of the doubleheader. The Tigers took the first game.4-1 and Nanticoke came back to take the nightcap 2-0 on two runs in the top of the eighth inning. Bruijns gave up one run in the first inning of the first game and then blanked the opposition for the next 15 innings before tiring a bit in the second last inning of the second contest. For Phil Nie of Nanticoke, he appeared to get stronger as the two games went along. He gave up a home run to Jim Guenther in the Dashwood sixth of the first game and that was the last run he allowed. On the batting side of the ledger. Jim Guenther provided all of the Dashwood power. Guenther hit two home runs in Sunday's first game. This brought Guenther's home run total to six in the last four playoff games. That is a terrific output, but. not the most unbelieveable part of the big fellow's feat. All six of Guenther's jtome runs came as the leadoff batter in an inning. We could take a phrase from a television program and say. "That's in- credible." Batting in the fourth and cleanup spot in the lineup is supposed to be the right place for a power hitter and the opportunity to drive in a number of runs. We would guess that this is a record that will stand through baseball history anywhere in the world. Some big leaguers may hit six home runs without men on base. but, we would be almost positive that it won't happen again as the first batter in an inning six times in succession. Congratulations to the Dashwood Tiger brain trust of Glenn Thurman, Barry Baynham and Bob Hoffman and company for providing area fans with a good brand of baseball. See you next year. School a success One of the most successful seasons for the Huron Hockey School was completed Friday afternoon as 53 professional hockey players left for their respective training camps. The sure sign of success of the pro week at the Huron school is the continued return of a number of es- tablished National Hockey League stars. For Doug Risebrough, Mario Tremblay and Pierre Mondou of the Montreal Canadiens it was their third visit here and Al Secord of the Boston Bruins has been in before. We had the opportunity to drop out to the Stephen arena a couple of times to see the pros going through their rigid training program and one of three scrim- mage sessions. Also a visit to the popular corn roast at Harvey Smith's farm, near Crediton afforded a chance to talk to the visiting professional hockey players. Mario Tremblay said this year's school was very valuable to him. He said, 'Not only do we get help with our skating. hut. I learned a lot not only about my play- ing techniques but about myself.' Tremblay went on to say that Wayne Gretsky is the greatest player he has ever been up against. Asked about Gretzky's play behind the opposing nets. Tremblay said. 'You can't really do much. If you go after him behind the net he passes the puck to the un- covered man you left and if you leave him alone he comes out in front and scores.' Doug Riseborough. also of Montreal said he likes to come hack to the Huron school every couple of years for a review of the basic fundamentals of hockey. Rick Blight. the only Toronto Maple Leaf in camp said he will be back next year and bring along at least a couple more Toronto players. Blight said he was expecting to sign a contract with Toronto this week. He said Harold Ballard offered a second year contract through his agent if he scores 20 goals this season. Yearlings on display Sunday was Open House for a number of standardhred horse breeders throughout Western On- tario including Seelster Farms at Lucan and Cuddy Farms at Strathrov. We dropped into the Seelster farm operated by the Van Bussels for an hour or so and had a look at some of the 16 yearlings which they will be selling at the CHCS and Select Yearling Sales in Toronto within the next couple of weeks. They have four yearlings which are three-quarter brothers to Samuel Seelster. one of the best yearlings sold by Seelster Farms. Samuel Seelster. now a four year-old has winnings of $166.737 up to the time the sales catalogues were printed. Shown at the Cuddy Open House. was Count Pool. a yearling owned by Bob Pooley of Exeter. Count Pool by Tarport Count is a half brother to stakes winners Ideal Pleasure. Miss Good. S R Bill and Revelle Blaze Z.M.A.A. Annual Meeting and Hockey Registration .. .Thursday Sept. 17th :* il Zurich Arena 7 P.M. J Tigers ousted from OBA in exciting action The Dashwood Tigers were knocked out of Ontario Baseball Association senior playoffs Sunday afternoon, but. not before their fans were treated to two ex- cellent gams of baseball. After losing the first game of a best -of -three series in Nanticoke a week earlier, the Tigers won the first game of Sunday's doubleheader by a score of 4- 1 before losing the nightcap by a score of 2-0. Sunday's games were pitching battles from start to finish with Dashwood southpaw John Bruijns beating Phil Nie of Nan- ticoke in the opener. The same two hurlers started the second game with Nie going the distance and Bruijns pitching well un - Juveniles eliminated The Exeter juvelines were eliminated from On- tario Baseball Association playoffs as they dropped a doubleheader in Wheatley. The locals lost the first game of the best -of -three series by a score of 8-3 and were thumped 19-6 in the se- cond half of the twin bill and were sidelined. In each game, Wheatley jumped in front with big scoring splurges in the early innings and the Exeter club was never able to get back into contention. Jeff Fuller was the star- ting pitcher for Exeter in the first game. He ran into trou- ble early and was relieved by Brian Horner with two out in the first inning. The first Exeter run cross- ed the plate in the fourth in- ning. The only hit was a single by Dave Woodward. Kevin Easterbrook singl- ed. Peter Tuckey walked and both scored in the Exeter seventh frame to complete the Exeter scoring. The other Exeter hits were a second inning single by Jeff Fuller and ninth in- ning hits from the bats of Rich Fletcher and Bruce Shaw. In the second game, Wheatley jumped in Exeter starting pitcher Steve Pearce for three runs in the first inning and nine more in the second. Kevin Easter - brook came on in relief part way through the second in- ning Easterbrook gave up one more run in the third and then shut out the opposition for the next four frames. Jeff Rowe took over ont he mound in the eighth and finished up. A couple of walks and a double delivered by Greg Prout sent two Exeter runs across the plate in the third inning. In the Exeter third, Pete Tuckey walked and scored on Joe Becker's double. The fourth Exeter score came in the sixth as Doug Hoffman walked and came home on Pete Tuckey's single. In the eighth frame, Steve Pearce doubled. Pete Tuckey singled and both scored as Joe Becker drew a walk and Rich Fletcher singled. Cowgirls win first The Crediton Cowgirls defeated Lieury by a score of 15-I Monday night to take a one game lead in the dis- trict ladies fasthall league quarter -finals The second game will be played in Iacury at 9 p.m. tonight. Thursday. The next game for the ('owgirls will be Monday night in Crediton either the third game of the present series or the first of a semi-final set. The ('owgirls hit the scoreboard in the first inning when Barb Mitchell walked and scored as Sandy O'Neill was safe on an error. in the Crediton third in- ning five runs crossed the plate Providing the scoring power were a single by Carol Stuart. a double by Merna Scott and a triple from the bat cif Deb Lord In the fourth. a single by Michelle Vandcrgunst and doubles by Sandy O'Neill, Merna Scott andel Tammy Regier produced five ad- ditional runs The final four runs came home in the fifth on singles by Tammy Regier. Deb Lord Myrna Scott and Shelley Weber Mcrna Scott was the Crediton pitcher She allow- ed only one run and that was to .Joanne Pickering in the sixth inning The ('owgirls would like to thank Jean's Variety for the refreshments that were sent to there for Monday night's game it helped to clinch the win 1 t�tl the eighth when Nan- ticoke ,scored their only two runs and Perry Stover was brought on in relief. A pair of Nanticoke errors and the booming bat of Tiger first baseman J i m Guenther allowed the home team to win the first game by a score of 4-1. The only Nanticoke -run crossed the plate in the first inning when lead-off batter Jim Lamb was safe on an error. stole second and scored on a single by Dan Davidge. That was the only Nan- ticoke runner to get past se- cond base as John Bruijns allowed only three hits, all singles the rest of the way. The Tigers tied the score in the bottom of the fourth inning when Jim Guenther blasted a home run over the right -centre field fence as the lead-off batter. The Tiger fans had lots to cheer about as their favourites came to the plate in the fifth inning with the score tied. Pitcher John Bruijns leading off was safe on an error. Rob Dickey in attempting to sacrifice bunted right back to pitcher Phil Nie who tried for the force -out at se- cond but threw the ball to the centre field fence allow- ing Bruijns and Dickey to score. The fourth and final Dashwood run was produced in the bottom of the sixth on 1 Jim Guenther's second con- secutive. This time Guenther slammed the ball to almost dead centre field and over the fence. It was Guenther's sixth home run in four games and all six came as the lead-off batter in an inning. The only other Dashwood hit was a single by Bob Hoff- man following Guenther's second round tripper in the sixth, but. he failed to get beyond second base. Both pitchers exhibited ex- cellent control. Bruijns walked only one batter and r HOMERS TWICE — Jim Guenther hit two home runs as the Dashwood Tigers defeated Nanticoke 4-1 in Sunday's first game. They were ousted in the second game. T -A photo tE Nie gave up three free A similar situation existed passes. The Tigers sent only in ihe seventh as Jim 32 batters to the plate in the Dietrich singled to lead off, full nine inning game while was sacrificed to second by Nanticoke had only seven John Bruijns, but, was fore - more batters than the bar ed at third on the next play. minimum of 27. Bruijns was almost as The second game was effective as his Nanticoke equally as close and exciting counterpart holding the op - as the first with Bruijns and position to four well Nie again setting opposing scattered hits over the first batters down in order. seven innings. The Tigers could manage An error and three only two base hits. Doug straight hits produced Nan- '- Faribairn singled to open the ticoke's only two runs in the fifth. went -to second on Pete top of the eighth. Perry Wuerth's sacrifice, but, Stover came on to get the, that's as far as he went. final out. Rain cuts bowling The weatherman cut into the regular acitivities at the Exeter lawn bowling club this week and the only action took place Saturday night. In the sole jitney of the week Beth Batten and Charlie Hendy were tied for first place with identical aggregate scores of 27 to go with a pair of victories. Anna Ballantyne and Evelyn Scott were deadlock- ed for third place with two wins and agrregates of 26. Lillian Pym was next with 24 and Gertrude -Hamilton and Roy Blanchard were all even at 23 and Olive Harvey was next with 21 and Edna Caldwell followed with 17. 23 PITCHING CONGRATULATIONS — John Bruijns of the Dashwood Tigers is being con- gratulated by team-mates Rob Dickey and Jim Dietrich after Sunday's first game win over Nanticoke. . 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