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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1982-07-07, Page 8• I • Thnes-Advocate July 7 1982 Third in league standings Sports Spotlight By Ross Haugh' Another Exeter native was selected in the recent National Hockey league draft of junior hockey players. Chris McCauley who was spent the past three years with the London Knights was drafted as the llth choice by the Pittsburgh Penguins. McCauley was born in'Exeter and spent the first six years of his life here while his father Terry McCauley was resources manager of the Ausable Con- servation Authority. Chris was a defhceman for the first two years with the Knights and this past season he was moved to right wingandresponded with 48 goals and finished in eighth place in the overall scoring standings of the Ontario Hockey League. Since the draft he has been talking with Ken Schinkel of the Pittsburgh organization and is expected to attend their training camp in the fall. A year ago Chris attended the camp of the Quebec Nordiques and also tried out with the Canadian junior team which won a recent championship. Chris is not the only member of the McCauley fami- ly making a name for himself in hockey circles. Twin brother Mike was with the Thornhill junior B team this. past season and older brother Norm was with the Sud- bury Wolves a couple of years ago and is now a member of the Laurentian University team at Sudbury. Good luck, Chris as you try to make the Penguins this fall. Interest in the NHL in this area would certainly be revived if Dave Shaw made the Quebec Nordiques roster and Chris McCauley was a member of the Pitt- sburgh Penguins. Leafs on the air We quite frequently hear the complaint from hockey television watchers that they would like to see games other than those involving the Toronto Maple Leafs each Saturday night. That situation will get worse this year as all of the Leafs games both at home and away will be carried on CFPL radio 980 on your dial. Harold Ballard must be trying to regain some of the staunch Leaf fans that have deserted his team over the last couple of years. The team will certainly have to im- prove over recent years or we are afraid CFPL ratings will drop drastically. With all games being carried on. the Iocal station that means close to 220 hours will be taken up during the 1982-83 season by Leafs broadcast. Still on CFPL, the station will again carry all games of the Western Mustangs football team this fall. Memories come back Looking through an Intercounty senior baseball league record book brought in recently by Tom Creech quickly brings back a lot of memories. • The batting champs over the years since 1928 in- clude fellows like Oscar Judd, Frank Colman, Russ Evon, George Miskimmons, Billy Flick, and Chuck Males. Oscar Judd betterknown as Lefty was with Guelph when he won the 1933 batting title. Judd went on to a fine career as a pitcher with the Boston Red Sox. Russ Evon who was one of the premier softball pit- chers in Ontario for sometime won batting crowns in 1946 with a .383 average and in 1952 with a mark of .361. .George "Irish Miskimmons", a catcher with the Stratford Nationals was the top batter in 1947 when he hit .415. A member of the Stratford team at that time was Harold "Gib" Stade of Zurich. Going back a little farther we note the 1929 winner was Clare Hoffman who was also a native of Zurich. The only player to win the title with different teams was Chuck Males with London in 1938 and with Brant- ford three years later. The highest batting mark ever recorded in the In- tercounty was by Tom McKenzie of Kitchener in 1970 with a .446 mark. Frank Colman of London who was the top batter in 1936 is best known for his major league career with the New York Yankees and Pittsburgh Pirates. Chris Speier, now with the Montreal Expos was the Intercounty league all star shortshop in 1969 when he was with Stratford and the manager of the year in 1968 was Ray Yelle, formerly of Parkhill. A little closer to home, Hensall native Steve Kyle then with Stratford was the centre fielder on the second all star team in 1969. Following is a poem gleaned from the London Ma- jors program, It's called, "Just a Little Boy". Just a little boy He stands at the plate with heart pounding fast The bases are loaded; the die has been cast Mom and Dad cannot help him; he stands all alone. A hit at this moment would send the team home. The ball meets the plate; he swings and he misses. There's a groan from the crowd; with some boos and hisses. A thoughtless voice cries, "Strike out the bum." Tears fill his eyes; the game's no longer fun. So open your heart and give him a break. For it's moments like this, a man you can make. Keep this in mind when you hear someone forget. He's just a little boy and not a man yet. Kirkton girls win The Kirkton girls midget fastball team won two games this week defeating Belmont 6-2 and Woodstock by a score of 10.4. In the win over Woodstock, Barb Skinner gave up only one hit while striking out an even dozen opposing batters. The 10 Kirkton runs came in two innings. Patti Willis led the hitting attack with a triple and si . Getting one hit apii were Barb Skinner, Bren a Bell and Leslie Hunter-Duvar. Thursday night at Belmont,. Patti Willis was the winning pitcher for Kirkton giving up a total of four hits. Val Stephens was the top batter with a pair of hits. Get- ting one hit each were Patti Willis, Barb Skinner, Leslie Hunter-Duvar, Debbie Lind- say and Cindy Down, The Kit;kton club now has a season record of six wins, two losses and one tie. • Saveway wins two games, Exeter Saveway won two Exeter scored seven times on behind losing pitcher Furt- games this week to raise their just three hits. nay Other Exeter hitters A weekend ago, the were Paul McKnight, John Gillespie and Malcolm McAlpine. Exeter will be home again this Thursday with a long- awaited return match with the Lucan Irish. The Saveway crew are trying to avenge an earlier loss to the Irish as well as stay ahead of them in the standings. TheIrish have lost five games while Exeter has lost four. This encounter should be a much closer contest than those of the past couple of weeks, so come on out and cheer the boys on, they could use it. The Savewayers are also putting on a tournament August 7 starting at 9 a.m. Southwestern fastball league. record to 13 wins and four losses to remain in third place. At last report Nairn was in first place with just two losses while Poplar Hill was second with three defeats. The Savewayclub blanked Wast Corners 10-0 and down- ed Sylvan by a 10-4 score. Against West Corners, Brad Marsden allowed just three hits, walked two and struck out three in gaining his third win of the season over West Corners. Exeter blasted two pitchers for 13 hits, led by Rob Snell and Paul McKnight with three each. The game was up for grabs until the sixth when Saveway crew travelled to the annual Irish tournament in Lucan only to come home early, losing their opening game 5-2 to Knights of Colum- bus of London. They gained some league revenge in the second round in beating Nairn 4-0, but couldn't manage an offence against St. Marys, losing 4-0. Thursday, Sylvan was in town and the locals turned them back with a 10-4 en- counter with Brad Marsden gaining the win. He allowed five hits, struck out three and walked none. Dan Heywood collected three of the six Exeter hits as Sylvan committed six errors HURON PARK SWIM STAFF — Swimming sessions are now underwGy at the Huron Park swimming pool. The staff shown above includes Suzanne .Mothers, Lisa Hamather, Elise Vandeworp and Catherine Patterson. T -A photo Local pee wees lose to Clinton Exeter Legion pee wees dropped a close 13-12 decision to Clinton in Clinton Saturday night. Exeter brought five runs across the plate in the first when Anderson walked and Rooth got on base on an error. Dave Russell's triple scored both `runs, then Heywood walked and two runs scored when Jeff Dalrymple singled. Jeff Dalrymple stole second and Russell singled and Steve Anderson doubled. Both runs crossed the plate on a single by Dave Russell. Clinton came up big in the third when six runs crossed the plate and Dave Russell was hit for 'a grand slam home run. Exeter again retaliated with four runs in the, fifth on a double from Tim Moore's bat, a single by Anderson and a home run from Dan Rooth. Clinton picked up five more runs in the sixth as Fred Gregus gave up two hits and walked two and one man got on on an error. Exeter could only pull one man across in the seventh to come up on the short end of the 13-12 game. Anderson and Dave .Russell each had another single to make it a McClure at western meet Running for the London - Western Track and Field Club at the Canadian Junior Cham- pionships Saturday and Sun- day in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Matt McClure was 12th in the men's 400 metre hurdles and earned a gold medal in the 4x400 metre relay. In his hurdles heat, McClure was fourth in a disappointing time of 57.46 se- conds, more than a full se- cond below his personal best at the OFSAA championships. However, the showing was still good enough for twelfth place among a field nearly thirty of the nation's top junior hurdlers. A London -Western junior team record 3:19.31 seconds was set by McClure, Jeff Rib- bings, Jeff Moores and Ber- nard Whyte as they edged teams from British Columbia and Ottawa in the 1600 metre relay final. McClure's third leg of 51.4 seconds came bet- ween respective clockings of 47.8 and 48.6 clockings for Moores and Whyte. Of the 20 member London - Western contingent an alltime high of five qualified for the Junior Pan-American Games July 30 -August 1 in Caracas, Venezuela by placing in the top two in their individual events. Included in this number are Medway high school sprint hurdler Janice Heard, London javelin thrower Martha Hart and distance runner Jill Purola- of Woodstock. three for four night at the plate. The Pee Wees lost 9-5 to Seaforth Tuesday night in Seaforth. The usually hard hitting club could only muster six hits in the game. Dave Russell had two doubles, Jeff Dalrymple came up with a double and a single and Fred Gregus and Dan Rooth each had a single.. Steve Anderson was on the Exeter mound for five innings recording five strikeouts and allowing seven hits. Fred Gregus finished the con- testing giving up three hits. The combined effort of D. Akey and D. Murray fanned eleven Exeter batters to post the win. Results from Hully Gull y A record breaking 80 competitors competed in the Hully Gully House League Motocross Thursday evening. Riders from across Ontario, and from such places as Windsor, Hamilton, and Sudbury were on hand competing for ribbons and points for the Mid -Season Championships this Saturday July 10. They were also practicing for the 1982 Canadian Junior and School Boy National Championships which will be held at Hully Gully July 31 and August 1. Thursday's results are as follows: Pee Wee A - Tim Rayner, Brantford; Joel Hetherington, London; Bruce Skereptak, Sarnia.. Pee Wee B - Chris Lem - mon, Hamilton; Jim Dickins, Hensall; Sandy Peev, Sarnia. Pee Wee C - Rob Bulyovsky, Simcoe; Dean Poechman, Walkerton. Novice A - Mark McCarthy, Shelburne; Greg Parsons, Exeter; John Barnett, Shelburne. Novice B - Brian Black- burn, Exeter; Brian Giles, Shelburne; Norm Williams, Watford. Novice C - Kelly Peev, Sarnia; Darryl Farrish, London; Mark Watt, London. Junior A - Miles Hayes, Kitchener; Winston Byblow, Windsor; John Maaskant, Clinton. Junior 11 - Scott Hepburn, St. Thomas; Kevin Moore, Sudbury; Wade Litt, London. Junior C - Tom Steblaj, Mississauga ; Mike Powell, Chatham; Jay Van- Tuyckom, St. Thomas. Enduro A - Rob Hewitt, Woodstock; Brian Giles, Watford. Enduro 13 - Gary Lovie, Exeter; Steve Ferguson, Exeter. Old Timers - Gordon Whitely, Atwood; Gary Lovie, Exeter; Peter Schell, London. 1/..`'41'41 PF itisFlinivip.Del gas enat" 2• al?silting Host Irish Thursday YOUR HOME Boost TOWN plan fournamont with two spots still open. Any interested teams are asked to contact Doug Todd at 228664 or 2284468. Entry fee is 8100 with first prize of 8400. Hopefully some local teams will show some interest as no "A" calibre teams will be allowed into the tournament. So far Poplar Hill, Lucan Astros, Lucan Irish and a Goderch are in with the Chiefs, West Clinton showing interest. Chipchase winner at Ironwood men's Jack Chipchase fired a 38 to take low gross honours in A flight at Tuesday's regular men's night at the Ironwood golf course with 68 par- ticipants. Dave Holtzman won the low net prize with a 33 while Larry Wein's 39 captured low gross in B flight and Jamie Gaul took low net at 41. In C flight Ken Varley recorded the low gross of 43 followed by Jim Campbell at 45. Best net scores were Brian McLelland at 32 and Luc Gagnon with a. 34. Lee Webber shot a 49 as the low gross in D flight and Don Keeping's score of 32 was the low net. Don Jolly was closest to the pin. 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