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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1982-07-14, Page 104 TImes-Advocate, July 11,1982 Beat Kincardine twice • Sports Spotlight By Ross Haugh Vatek Only third winner Toronto Blue Jay pitcher Jim Clancy became only the third Toronto player in history to win the American League player of the week award for the week ending June 20. Previous Blue Jay winners were designated hitter Otto Velez for outstanding performances July 23-29, 1979 and pitcher Dave Stieb for great pitching April 21-28, 1980. Clancy who is 25 years of age and a native of Chicago pitched two excellent games during the week defeating California 2-0 on a five hitter on June 16 and followed that up with a 10 inning, three hit outing against Oakland only three days later. Clancy had no decision in that start which the Jays won 3-1, but fanned 10 and gave up one unearned run. Clancy's two good outings gave him a streak of on- ly one earned run in his last 28 innings and no earned runs in his last 24 innings. For his player of the week achievement Clancy will receive a watch from the Lafayette Watch Company. Runnerup for the week was Texas Ranger third baseman Buddy Bell. Blue Jays first baseman Willie Upshaw, who finish- ed in the runner-up position in May in the Labatt's Blue player of the month award, continued his slugging into June and captured the award for the third month of the 1982 season. Upshaw collected 79 points for a 19 -point margin over second baseman Damaso Garcia's 60 points. He will receive $250 for winning the award and• an addi- tional $250 will be given on his behalf to the charity of his choice. Garcia receives the runner-up's prize of $50. Upshaw batted .240 while playing in all of the Blue. Jays 26 games in June and was instrumental in a number of games with his slugging performances. He hit seven home runs and had 18 runs batted in and of his 23 hits, over one-half were for extra bases (two doubles, three triples and the seven homers). The extra - base hits gave him 52 total bases for the month for a . 542 slugging percenttage. His seven homers and 18 RBI are only two each short of the Blue Jays monthly record - nine homers by John Mayberry in September, 1980 and 20 RBI by Otto Velez in May, 1980. Upshaw was named the Labatt's Blue player -of -the - game on six occasions. His best streak was in the Blue Jays -Cleveland series early in the month when he won three player -of -the -game nominations. He hit safely in all four games of the series, batting .538 and collecting eight rbi on the strength of four home runs in the last three games of the series. He homered in each game of the doubleheader on June 6 and from the second game of the twinbill into the next game -on June 7, Upshaw connected for three home runs in three consecutive official at bats. He hit a two -run home run off Ed Glynn in the sixth inning and walked his next time in the eighth. The following day, June 7, he hit two home runs, both off John Denny in his first two at bats of the game - a solo shot in the first inning and two -run homer in the third inning, which turned out to be the game -winning hit and rbi. He was also named player -of -the -game on three other occasions including June 14 vs. Oakland for his two -run homer off Matt Keough in a 4-2 Toronto loss. He went 3 -for -4 on June 23 at Seattle with a home run off Floyd Bannister in the top of the ninth to tie the game at 2-2 and also on June 26 vs. Minnesota when he pro- duced a two -run triple in the eighth to tie the game at 3-3 in a 4-3 Toronto loss. Garcia batted .308 in 26 games with 36 hits including nine doubles (one short of the club record for a month), three home runs and eight rbi. His slugging average for June was .462 and he continues to rank among the AL leaders in batting average .314, second in hits 94 and fifth in stolen bases 17. Upshaw leads the club in home runs 10 and rbi 40 and ranks tied for fourth in the AL in triples with six. The voting for the award is conducted by the Toron- to Chapter of the Baseball Writers. Six members vote at each game, nominating a first and a second choice. A player can pick up a maximum of 12 points per game as two points are given for a first choice and one for a second selection. Following Upshaw and Garcia, right-hander Jim Clancy was third with 47 points. The margin increased as the next closest was centrefielder Lloyd Moseby at 27 points. Is it over? Two straight victories by the Detroit Tigers could herald the end of one of the worst losing streaks a Detroit Tigers baseball team has ever encountered. The Tigers beat Texas Saturday and Sunday nights after winning only four of about their last 21 starts and they find themselves in fifth place in the American league east only ahead of the New York Yankees and. the Toronto Blue Jays. The Detroitdilemmacameto its lowest point Thurs- day, Friday and Saturday when they lost three games in a row on a two run homer in the bottom of the ninth. It was getting to be a riot to listen to'George Kell and Al Kaline on the Tiger telecasts. Their comments were, "We are spreading joy wherever we go" and "we again snatched defeat from the jaws of victory." In Saturday night's second game after Detroit lost the opener on Lee Mazilli's two run homer in the ninth, Kell said, "If we are leading by a run going into the last in- ning, we will shut the cameras and microphones off and let you know what happened by telephone sometime." Local tykes lose The Clinton tykes broke open a close game with 10 runs in the fourth inning and went on to hand the Exeter tykes their third loss in five league games 27-5. Scot Russell held Clinton to a 2-2 tie after three innings before being relieved by Harlen Tinney with one out in the fourth. Brent McDonald finished the game on the' mound. Offensively McDonald had three hits for the losers with Tinney and Jamie Bedard ad- ding two each. At home to Clinton, Thursday Junlors gain two vict�rlos in Great Lakes baseball The Exeter juniors scored two victories this week in the Great Lakes senior baseball league. Coached by Joe Fulop, the local juniors scored a decisive 11-5 win over the Kincardine Royals in Kincar.dine Wednesday night and came right back with a 7-5 win over the same team in Exeter Fri- day. All games start at 6:30 day night. p.m. The juniors are back in ac- In Wednesday's win in Kin - tion three times this week and cardine, the Exeter club all games are at home at Ex- decided the outcome quite eter Community Park. Clin- early with four runs in each of ton will be in tomorrow night, the first and third innings Thursday, Walkerton supplies the opposition Monday and while Jeff Fuller kept the op- Thorndale will be in Wednes- posing bats fairly quiet. Fuller spread eight hits over the full nine inning con- test and was tough with men on base, leaving nine Kincar- dine runners stranded. In the second and eighth in- nings he struck out the final batter and each time two men were on the bases. His strikeouttotal was six. PLAYGROUND STAFFS -L Summer playground programs are now underway in Exeter and Huron Park. Back, left, Exeter playground staff are Jenn Rose, Susan Birmingham, Dave Creery, Diane Warwick, Cheryl Stewart and Brenda Pincombe. Front, Huron Park staff Rosemary Gielen, Caroline Degraw, Marg Pavkeje and Barb Rader. Second summer season Red army off to good start The second season for the Stephen Township summer hockey league opened on Sun- day and Exeter's RSD Red Army started right where they left off last season. The defending champions, who completed last year's season without a loss, humbl- ed Pfaff Electric 8-2 in the opener. The games continue through to mid-September and start at 9:00 a.m. on Sun- day and run through to 3:00. Some of the area's best hockey players can be seen in actionand severalJunior"A" and "B" players were on the ice for the openers. Perry Pooley of *the Ohio State Buckeyes paced the Red Army with three goals. Dave Bogart and Steve Batten add- ed a pair and Paul Pooley had the single. Rick Martin, formerly of the London Knights, had a single for Pfaff. Hensall dumped Team Canabis 14-3 in another en- counter. Dave Kinsman scored four times and Ken Varley had a hat trick for the winners. Popping a pair each wereTerryCaldwell and Rob Pryde. The singles were.fired by Dave Atthill, Greg Camp- bell and Blrent �ltthill. Seaforth, a team made mostly of Junior "D" players from Seaforth, Zurich and Exeter won their tilt with a 7-1 win over J.M.R. Steve Grainger hada pair and singles were fired in by Mark Mcllwain, Bob Mom- mersteeg, Paul Johnston and Kevin Denomme. Dan Bell had the lone reply. The Flyers outlasted Parkhill 9-7 in another free - scoring tilt. Randy McClinchy and Jeff Hartman paced the Close competition in lawn bowling Competition was keen at the Exeter lawn bowling club this week as two of the three jitneys ended in ties. Thursday night, Sam Bower and Olive Hicks amassed identical scores of two victories, an aggregate of 29 and plus of one to share first place. Len McKnight and Wilfrid Shapton were deadlocked for second spot with aggregates of 29. Lorna Spencer was third at 28 and Stan Roth, Ted Lamport and Walter Spencer were all even at 27 for another draw. Clarence Down com- pleted the prize list. Saturday night it was Sam Bower, with this time Ted Lamport in a dead heat for first place with two wins, an aggregate of 26 and plus of one. All even in second place with aggregates of 25 were Dean Frayne and Mable McKnight. Wilfrid Shapton was fourth and Gordon Hog- garth fifth. Tuesday night Clarence Down was a winner all by himself with an aggregate of 26, but, Sam Bower was right behind in second spot with a score of 24. Lawrence Russell was third at 23 and Remus Marsman arid T.illian Pym were tied at 21 and Lorna Spencet• and Er- nie Ross were all even at 19 for the last prize spot. win with three goals each and picking up singles were Geoff Edwards, God Moon and Ken McDonald. Bill Knapp had three for the losers and Paul Taylor a pair. Singles came off the sticks of Rick Taylor and Rick Creces. Local pee wees bomb Dashwood >_�Y... Exeter pee wees bombed Rooth had 'a home run and Dashwood 87-7 aDash t wood two singles. Gregus had three Tuesday night. singles. Jeff Dalrymple and Dave Russell led the attack. Dalrymple hit two singles and two doubles with five rbi's and Russell completed the circuit with a single, double, triple and home run to drive in six runs. Steve Anderson, Dan Rooth and Fred Gregus each had three hits. Anderson hit for a triple and two singles while Darryl McCann added two singles. Scott Heywood, had a long triple while Rob McKnight and Sean Moore collected a single each. Dave Russell was the win- ning pitcher recording eight strikeouts and walking two. He gave up eight hits. Steve Anderson gets the save as he fanned five and gave up two hits in relief. In the Exeter first, Brian a stolen base and two wild Mercer singled, Dave Atthill pitches. walked, Doug Hoffman singl- In the Exeter third Brian ed and Kevin Hern cleared Mercer singled, Dave Shaw the bases with a home run. reached first on an error and Singles by Dave Atthill, Joe both scored on Kevin Hern's Becker and pitcher Jeff double. Fuller produced Exeter's four Trailing 5-3 going into the runs in the third frame. bottom of the seventh the Doug Hoffman singled in locals responded with a five the fifth, stole second as Joe hit attack producing four runs Becker was safe on anterror. and enough for the margin of Becker crossed the pe on a single from the bat of Fuller. T Dave Robinson singled and scored the final Exeter run in the top of the ninth.O id A four run outburst in the bottom of the seventh' allow- ed the Exeter club to win i - victory. Four of the hits came after two were out. Dave Bogart, Dave Atthill, Kevin Hern and Jeff Fuller singled and Joe Becker delivered a double along with a Kincardine error to send the final four runs scampering home. Dave Shaw and Kevin Hern singled in the Exeter fifth, but, were left stranded. urkey ready for -timers game day's contest by a score of 7-5. An old timers baseball Steve Pearce was the star- game will be one of the ting pitcher for Exeter. He closing activities of the gave up three runs in the first weekend Heritage Day six innings and ran into trou celebrations. ble in the seventh allowing The ball game pitting old two more scores before Brian timers from Exeter and Horner came in to relieve and Dashwood will be played at put the fire out. the new Exeter diamond at. Horner recorded two 6:15 p.m., Sunday. strikeouts in the eighth and Several attractions will be final inning to get the win. The first Exeter run in the Gunners are opening inning came without the aid of a hit as Brian still unbeaten Mercer was safe on an error and came around to score on • The Exeter Gunners ex- tended their unbeaten soccer Local athlete second in Hamburg run Mary Lou Rundle, Exeter area runner and grade 12 stu- dent at South Huron was se- cond in the under 19 female class at the recent "Egg Thousand 8 kilometre road race" in New Hamburg. She had a clocking of 37 minutes 42 seconds in the Stanley Tools sponsored event. Albert Van Dyhen and Terry O'Rourke were 20th and 69th in the same race, which was plagued by cool temperatures and pouring a rain. Rundle was the first woman across the finish line in a 6.6 s kilometre Canada Day race in s Forest. Her time of 30:15 in- g dicates that she has been b training. Rundle plans to run y several more road races this t summer in preparation for the fall crosscountry season. VanDyken finished in 23:03 P and also in fourth place in the B same race. O'Rourke was 12th in 25:20. Jackie Cottrell, a standout P in the recent high school track fi season, clocked two personal H D bests in the 100 metre and 200 metre events at the South - Western Ontario Legion J Championships, Saturday in B • streak to four games at th expense of Exeter Bombers In a well played, hard fough game the Gunners fell behin 1-0 when ex -Gunner Jason Heywood broke free and evaded two tackles before putting the ball in the corner of the Gunners net. Gunner captain Sisavay Sengkhounmany tied the score 10 minutes later on a solo run down the right wing and popped in a goal from four yards out. He then pu the Gunners ahead with another run down the centre of the field. The second half saw the Gunners put on the pressure nd a free kick taken by isavay was converted by Fred. Steciuk to make the core 3-1. Sisavay ended the coring with five minutes to o when he picked up a loose all in a scramble on the 18 and line and fired a shot in - o the Bombers net. The Gunners got good sup- port from Shawn Gillespie, aul Charrette, Dwayne inkbeiner, Danny Martens, rad Glavin and Marl lavin. Bombers outstanding layers were Ryan Linden- eld, Ryan Stuart, Jason eywood and Sharon eBruyn. The Gunners next game is my 15 at Nairn while the ombers are at home to adding to the game itself. A second cousin of the San Diego chicken will be in attendance. That's the Dash- wood turkey. After the third inning a home run hit off will be held between Jim Guenther of the former Dashwood Tigers and Doc Miller of Clinton. Jim "Long -ball" Russell of Exeter was to be included in the slugfest, but, he will be in Toronto getting batting tips from the Blue Jays. The Dashwood lineup for Sunday's game will include Jim Guenther, Kevin Hern, e Bob Hoffman, Rob Dickey, Joe Arnold, Glen Thurman, t John Hayter, Perry Stover, d Dave Parsons and Gary Hartman. Exeter manager Jim Pfaff said Tuesday morning he was still trying to lineup enough players to field a team. In addition to Pfaff, those expected to be in action are Scott Burton, Bill Farquhar, Bill Bourne and Doc Camp - t bell. St. Thomas. Lucan. In the 100, Cottrell was third in 12:95 seconds while in the 200 her time of 26:79 seconds was good enough for sixth place. _/hank Many thanks to our customers who have been so patient during Doug's recovery. Doug Parker's Barber Shop el Owners Make the sunine last all year. 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