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Home My WebLink AboutTimes-Advocate, 1982-05-26, Page 10Page 10 Times -Advocate, May 26, 1982 a ,cam Sports Spotlight By Ross Haugh Have you heard the roar of a tiger lately? The roars of the jungle animal out of Tiger Stadium in Detroit are being heard in recent weeks are the louStest we have heard since 1968. • As this is being written Sparky Anderson's Tigers are on an eight game winning streak and a virtual tie with the Boston Red Sox for the lead in the American league eastern division. Leading the Detroit roaring are a couple of the newest members of the team Larry Herndon and Mike. Ivie. Herndon hit three consecutive home runs Tuesday night. He went hitless Wednesday, but, more than redeemed himself Thursday night with a five for five performance. Herndon, has been named player of the week in the American League. . Mike Ivie is the one that is surprising the most peo- ple and especially the Detroit media. We heard WJR. sports director Frank Beckman on his Sports Wrap show a few days after Ivie was signed as a free agent say mostly negative things about the new player. It's all over Three cheers and a couple of hi -hurrahs. The 1981-82 hockey season is over and done with for another year. Well, not quite a year. In fact fall train- ing will begin in less than four months time. Earlier yet, in the latter weeks of August to be more exact, close to 100 National Hockey League players and prospects will be in action at the Huron Hockey School at Huron Park. To say the New York Islanders have become a dynasty is maybe a 'little too optimistic, but, all must agree the Islanders are a strong club and should stay that way for quite'a few years. Except for Mike Bossy who is the best scorer in the NHL next to Wayne Gretzky, the Islanders don't have many other standouts, but, every member of Al Ar- bour's club can do the job he is assigned and do it well. The biggest factor.in the Islanders'success is their ability to take advantage of penalties and not always those taken by the other team. The Islanders have the best playoff record not on- ly in taking advantage of power play situation, but, also scoring when they themselves are playing shorthanded. Congratulations; ratulations; Dave _ • Congratulations to local youngster Dave Shaw for his contributions and they were many and very valuable in helping the Kitchener Rangers win the Memorial Cup. Two weeks from tomorrow, June 9 will be an im- portant day for Dave and a couple other of his Kitchener team-mates. That's the day, NHL general managers get together at the Montreal Forum to participate in the annual NHL entry draft. The NHL central scouting bureau recently completed a 12 round list showing how the some 800 amateur prospects are rated. Dave Shaw was listed as number 16 and if the teams go according to the report in theirselections he would go to the Buffalo Sabres, the 16th team to get a shot at the selections. Buffalo general manager Scott Bowman has shown some interest in Shaw. Without any inside knowledge we would guess that Dave goes a lot higher than 16. With scoring records ris- ing in theNHLit'sabout time teams put more emphasis on stopping the other clubs from scoring so much. Our uneducated guess would have Shaw chosen as number 10, 11 or 12. That would mean his NHL career would start with Pittsburgh, Vancouver or Winnipeg. Former Toronto Maple Leaf coach Joe Crozier, now holding down a similar post with the Kitchener team has said he would be absolutely amazed if Shaw is not selected in the first round by any of the 12 major league teams. Congratulations again Dave on a great season and the best of luck in the June 9 draft and on the way to successful NHL career. On the subject of Memorial Cup champs we must mention that Dave Shaw is the second area -player to gain the distinction of being a member of Canada's best junior hockey team. We go back 18 years ago when Jack Chipchase was a very valuable member of the Toronto Marlboros who won the Memorial Cup with four straight wins over a team from Saskatchewan. While Chipchase played most of his minor hockey in Hensall he played at least one year of junior with the Exeter Hawks before moving on to the Marlboros. Heading for final Willow Wiper, the fine four year-old pacer owned by Bob Hamather of Zurich will be in action Monday night at Brandywine in his last start before the big final of the Graduate series set for The Meadowlands, June 5. In talking to trainer Jim Morrissey over the weekend he tells us that only five pacers are expected to heed the call to the post for the $125,000 final at the Meadowlands and Willow Wiper has beaten all of them along the way. According to Jim, "We have a good shot at winn- ing the big purse." Morrissey also indicated the "ier series is be- ing set up for later this summe:.,....e Meadowlands and Willow Wiper will likely participate. About a month ago, Willow Wiper Won a leg of the Graduate series in a very fast time of just over one minute and 55 seconds. Y DAAS HOME TOWN I. .. a , , , , , . , , • I 4. Lose in tournament Saveway win two fastball league games Good pitching and steady defence was not the key to last Tuesday's 9-7 victory for Exeter Saveway over Sylvan. Three home runs, a triple, two doubles and 11 singles, combined with seven errors brought relief pitching from both teams. Brian Hodgins, in relief of Brad Marsden, took the win for Exeter while Furtney was the loser with Whitlaw in relief. Sylvan had built up a 7-3 lead by the fifth on home runs by Scott, Furtney and Ed- wards, a triple to Whitlaw and singles to Maedel, Furtney, McCharles, and Scott. Exeter's three runs came in the form of singles by Heywood, Todd, Marsden and a double by Snell. Exeter finally got to Furt- ney in the fifth as they plated six runs on only four hits. Rob Snell walked, Paul McKnight reacbed on an error, then Todd singled to score Snell. EXETER JUNIORS WIN — Exeter won the bantam team championship of a. recent round robin tournament with Lucan and Zurich. Back, left, Brent MacDonald, Shelly . Skinner and Patti Bierling. Front, Ginnie Cable, Michael Kingma and Danny Rohde. rz • , ts JUNIOR FARMERS WIN — The Lucan Junior Farmers won the championship of a recent ball hockey tournament held in Lucan. Back, left, Keith Hartwick, 4oug Lat- ta, Brent Froats, Ray McRoberts and Kevin Hartwick. Front, Dave Egan, Ed Dobin- son, Barry Hodgins, Eric Drost and Tim Ryan. Missing were Brian Froats, Paul Hodgins and Jeff Lilley. T -A photo Hensall Mt. Carmel win three After two weeks of play in the Exeter and district men's recreation fastball leauge, Gord's. Variety, the Derby Dip Shakers and the Chiefs are tied for first place in the Exeter division. In the district division, Hen- sall and the surprising Mount Carmel Bullets remain deadlocked on top with three victories each. In Monday action, Mount Carmel trounced MacLean's 6-1, the Derby Dip Shakers blasted Usborne 22-3, the Chiefs edged Pfaff's 5-2, Ex- eter Ford doubled the score 14-7 over Chiselhurst, Hensall nipped Winchelsea 4-3 and Dave Watson's grand slam homer paced Gord's to an 11-10 win over the Dashwood Hotel Dave Prout turned in another fine pitching perfor- mance Wednesday as Mount Carmel shaded Winchelsea 76, Gord's downed Usborne, 17-4, Exeter Ford laced MacLean's 19-6 and the Chiefs won 11-4 over the Jet boys. 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Doug Todd supplied much of the defence as he allowed just two hits, a second inning run -scoring double to Siddel and a third inning bunt single to Gregory, while striking out 13 and walking none. Only four runners over the limit reached base as two made it to first on fielding errors. Offensively, Dan Heywood had a triple and a single, while lone singles went to John Gillespie, Brian Hodgins, Malcolm McAlpine, Gary Skinner and Kevin Doupe.,,Jeff Lindenfield col- lected a double in reaching base in each of three times at the plate along with a walk and an error on his sacrifice bunt. Holtzmann shoots a 40 Dave Holtzmann fired a 40 to lead the "A" flight golfers in the low gross score depart- ment in Tuesday's regular men's night play at the Iron- wood course. A total of 61 golfers competed. Don Cowan won low net with a 35. In "B" flight, Mike Cushman's 41 took low gross honours while Bill Kime's 36 was the low net score. Bob Forrest and Jon Gaiser prevailed with the best low gross scores in "C" flight with 47 each. Tied for low net with 36 apiece were Chris Relouw and Stan Frayne. A 51 gave Rob Daniel the "D" flight low gross win and Jim Rowe was the best in net at 32. Don Cowan won, the prize for being the closest to the pin. The win raised Exeter's record to 4-2 with action this week in Lucan on Tuesday against the Irish, home to West Corners Thursday, then in Bryanston Monday and Poplar Hill, Tuesday of next week. The local crew,were not so lucky in weekend play in the Sylvan tournament, as they lost in second round action to Zurich 5-0 after downing Stratford 6-4 in the opener. Against Stratford, first inn- ing singles by McKnight and Todd and a home run by Pearson gave Exeter an ear- ly. 3-0 lead. In the third, McKnight reached on an er- ror, Todd doubled, followed by singles by Pearson and Gillespie made it 6-0. Brian Hodgins had little trouble with Stratford in giv- ing up only three well scat- tered singles, and one run through the first five innings. In the sixth, opening singles by Vropp and Robinson, brought Doug Todd from the outfield, to relief duty. Ground outs to the next two batters closed the game to 6-3. In the seventh, an error, two singles and a fielder's choice led to another. Strat- ford run. With runners on first and third, Hopt drove the ball up the middle only to strike Todd with what could have been the tying hit. McKnight picked up the loose ball and got the runner at first to end the game. In second round play, Ex- eter met up with a tough • Zurich team and lost 5-0 in a rain soaked contest that saw each team manage only three hits, but Zurich runners took advantage of six Exeter errors. . Doug Todd took the loss as he walked none and struck out nine. Glen Overholt was the winner. He struck out three ' and walked one as his defence committed five errors. Exeter hits were by Heywood, McKnight and Todd, while Glen Overholt, Wayne Meager and Cliff Gingerich doing the Zurich hitting. Zurich, with the win, mov- ed on to third round play against Poplar Hill. Exeter will see future tournament play in late June, in Lucan, and a possible tourney of their own in mid August if enough local interest can be shown. Book your pool or spa Now C wish your own 'Swimming Pool' Orders mem being tali for Pool whin, repairs oil renovations. 404 Erie St. Stratford, Phone 273-0976 Introducing our newest Service for Motorists • EVENING OIL CHANGES Mondays- Fridays 7 - 9 CaII for an appointment and discover how convenient it is to have your oil changed when you want to. Our service is friendly and our prices are competitive. TOWN LINE COLLISION & Repair Centre For Complete Service Phone 228-6700 • Mechanical • Painting • Welding • Body • Frame • Glass installation • Tire changes and repairs • etc. Located 3 miles west of # 4 Hwy on Mount Carmel Rd. 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