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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1982-08-05, Page 6Times -Advocate, August 5,1982 That time of year It's that time of year again when a number of ma- jor league baseball managers are not really looking for- ward to. Due to present day scheduling doubleheaders through the first half of the season are not very com- mon, but, the weatherman puts his foot in and usually has a big say about twin bills later in the season. This year is no exception as a number of games were called off early in the northern states and in Canada by snow and cold weather and now must be rescheduled. A good example is this week in Detroit when the Tigers will be playing host to the Toronto Blue Jays for six games in four days. That's because the first two Toronto visits to Tiger Stadium in mid-April were prac- tically frozen out. Doubleheaders certainly put the pinch on any pit- ching staff. The Tigers and Blue Jays will be playing two games tonight, Thursday and Sunday afternoon in addition to single contests Friday and Saturday. At one time away back in major league history it was not uncommon to play tripleheaders in one day. The last time that happened was on October 6, 1920 when the Pittsburgh Pirates and Cincinatti Reds met for three games on one day. The Reds won the first two games by scores of 13-4 and 7-3 while the Pirates took the third game by a score of 6-0. It was called after six innings because of darkness. Going back further in history, Manchester and Portland of the old New England league played six games in one day in 1899. Manchester needed six victories to gain a playoff spot. They won the first five, but, Lost their playoff hopes when Newport won a game and moved ahead. Sponsor weekend tourney centennials win B title in mnidaseason soccer tournament an excit;ng finish. Grand didn't a even $end scored the first goat but league four weeks into the though some key players it didp't take long for Jerry season due to the fact another were out with injury. Vandewalle to put a high shot team had dropped out. Three days later Exeter over the outstretched hands of They came to Exeter and Sa nia to play the Grand Bend goalie. outclassed the Exeter club The first halt ended with 3-0. The Ups and Downs both teams tied at one. The dominated the mid field and second half saw Grand Bend had control of most of the again take the lead, but with game. If it wasn't for the Latino players had attacked five minutes remaining strong play of fullbacks Joe Alfons Weersink shot the ball Laurie, Bill White, Pete past the Grand Bend goalie Czypyha and John Rosenberg where Paul Vandewalle was and goalie John Van all alone in front of an empty Esbroeck the score could • net to tie the score at two. With two minutes to play Exeter was awarded a penal- ty shot. It was a controversial call but the Grand Bend goalie was caught holding Shawn Rotteau who wastry- ing to get to a loose ball in front of the net. Paul Vandewalle took the shot and made no mistake. " It was fullback Bill White's last game. Bill will be resum- ing a new teaching position in Morrisburg just outside of Cornwall. The steady com- petitor will be greatly missed. Exeter still holds down first place with a record of 10 wins and two losses but travel to Sarnia next Sunday to play probably its most important game against the Ups and Downs. That might eventual- ly result in a first place finish for the winning team. Everyyear at the midpoint ost scheduled The reason for the have been worse.Exeter soccerh makeup was they joined the ply up topar of the eseason the t B n goca Ausable League has a tourna � s was to travelto r the Latinos. It was to no avail due to the fact the Latinos were suspended in the mean- time. A week previous some the referee and that's a No No in soccer. The next weekend saw Grand Bend come to Exeter. it was a ver : ood : ame with ment which runs for two con- secutive weekends. The first weekend play determines which team goes into the A roundand which teat - into the round. The senior Centennials 1 the first game 5-2 to Danta Italia from Sarnia but went on to win the B side by downing Lucan 3-0 and Wallaceburg in the final 2-0. The 5-2 toss to Danta Italia was probably Exeter's worst game to date. Everybody was playing at a sub par level. Ex- eter had allowed just over one goal per game previous to this. The following weekend was different with Paul Vandewalle scoring twice and John Muller once in the 3-0 victory over,Lucan. In the final which was played in pouring rain saw the game end up 0-0 after the end of regulation time. That meant that another mini game was played and this time centre forward Paul Vandewalle notched two goals in the first half to enable the team to take the B trophy. The two games were played in the same afternoon resulting in some tired legs .for the Centennial players. remain in third SarniaUnwere Saveway the AuhThe weekend after the tour - no walks. Doug Todd com- nament was the start of the pleted the game to get the second half of the season. Ex - win, allowing the final two eter was to play Danta Italia runs on three hits, all in the again but on home field in Ex - seventh, while striking out eter. The problem was that at five and walking one. Tonight, the Exeter crew host the second place Lucan Irish at 9 p.m. in a crucial game for both teams. This weekend, Saturday August 7, Exeter is hosting its first ever fastball tourna- ment. Action starts at 9 a: m. and the final game is schedul- ed for 7 p.m. $750 . in prize money is at stake. In the opening games at 9 a.m. the Lucan Irish meet Clinton and Goderich take on Mount Carmel. At 11 a.m. it's the Lucan astros against the Jit boys and Poplar Hill versus the Chiefs. We hope to see a good turn out as we're looking forward Bette Smith recorded the to continuing this tournament low gross score for the second next year. Admission for all consecutive week at the day is $2 so come on out and regular outing of the ladies see some local teams from club at the Exeter Golf and the rec league as well as sup- Country Club. port your Exeter Saveway Helen Burton recorded the team. best score on number one, The consolation final goes Dorothy Kipfer was best on at 5 p.m. with the champion- number six and Rita Scholl ship contest set for 7 p.m. to had the highest score on conclude the 10 game event. number four. CENTENNIALS WIN 'B' TOURNEY — The Exeter Centennials won the 'B' champion- ship of the annual mid-season Ausable soccer league tournament. Back, left, Joe Laurie, Jerry Vandewalle, co -captain John Muller, John Rosenberg, Shawn Rotteau, Dave Holmes and John Flanagan. Front, Greg Dougall, Alfons Weersink, co -captain Dick Lord, goalie Blair Burbidge, Bill White, Pete Czypyha, Paul Vandewalle. Miss- ing John Van Esbroeck, Robert Weersink and Gerald Weersink. Exeter Saveway continued eter got only seven hits with 'to hold onto third place in the Gary Skinner and Paul. Southwestern Fastball McKnight collecting two each, but four walks and three of those seven hits in the fifth inning led to five runs that proved to knock the wind out of the pesky Bryanston crew. Ilderton proved to be the toughest foe for the Exeter team in the past few games, as the visitors held the hard 'hitting Savewayers to only two runs over the first four innings. With the score tied 2-2 in the fifth, Doug Todd, Paul McKnight and Doug Pearson all singled to give Exeter a 4-2 lead. In the sixth, Jeff Linden - field homered to make it 5-2, but Ilderton stormed back in the seventh, with consecutive. hits by McRae, Medd and Gregory to score two runs but Gregory was caught stealing third to end the rally at 5-4 for Exeter. Brad Marsden started for Exeter, giving up two runs on four hits, two strike outs and Is the ball livelier A lot of dialogue is going on these days regarding the possibility of a livelier baseball now being used. Baseball officials and a number of experts say the ball has not changed much over the years and give a number of reasons for more home runs. We heard Ernie Harwell and Paul Carey discuss this. subject on a Tiger broadcast Sunday afternoon from Toronto while the umpires were waiting to start the game to allow the large crowd to get to their seats. Traffic congestion around CNE Stadium slowed the ar- rival of most of the 23,000 fans, the third largest crowd of the year in Toronto. Their explanation was that players nowadays are bigger and stronger and have better health habits, several parks are smaller and the ball travels better in humid weather. The record for giving up the most home runs in the National league is held by Philadelphia Phillies hurler Robin Roberts. He allowed 46 round trippers in 1956. The American league mark is held by Pedro Ramos with the Washington Senators when he allowed 43 home runs in 1957. Denny McLain of the Detroit Tigers came close to the record with 42 in 1966, two years before his record breaking season. This year Jack Morris of the Tigers has allowed 24 home runs. During the broadcast Harwell said a large number of Detroit fans were in Toronto over the weekend and were upset that their Tigers had lost two in a row to the Blue Jays, who they considered to be the worst team in baseball. Harwell said he was quick to assure them that Toronto was far from being the worst team and they will have to be reckoned with in the next couple of years. In the last six weeks the Jays have matured a lot under the guidance of manager Bobby Cox and are not being treated lightly anymore by other clubs. Their 6-5 and 1-0 wins over the Tigers in extra innings and a Mon- day romp over the league leading Milwaukee Brewers is a good indication of their improvement. Right now Cox is getting excellent pitching from Dave Stieb, Jim Clancy, Louis Leal and Jim Gott. He will need some more help for those six weekend games in Detroit, but, Sparky Anderson is in an even poorer position as his bull pen has not been responsing in re- cent weeks while Loey McLughlin and Roy Lee Jackson have been coming through for Toronto. League action with three more wins. The Saveway crew bom- barded the Lieury seniors 20-3, walked over Bryanston 8-3 and squeaked by Ilderton 5-4 to raise their record to 17-7 with only six games remain- ing in league play. In Lieury, Exeter fell behind 3-2 after one inning, then came roaring back to score three in the third, two in the fourth, seven in the fifth and six more in the sixth to take home the 20-3 win. Dan Heywood and Doug Todd with four hits apiece and homers byPaulMcKnight and Garry MacMaster led the 20 hit attack. Lieury managed only seven hits, four of them in the first inning off Doug Todd who struck out seven and walked one. At home against Bryanston, Brian Hodgins allowed only four hits and struck out ten to lead Exeter to an 8-3 win. Ex - Aces are plentiful Holes -in -one at the Ironwood golf course are getting to be rather ordinary this summer. So far three aces have been scored from the short fourth tee. Regular Ironwood golfers Olga Chipchase and Lorne Kleinstiver and Ron Cossey of Tavistock play- ing in a tourney recorded their aces in a space of one week. Hockey school on The always popular Hockey School is again under- way at the Stephen township arena at Huron Park. In addition to a large number of young aspiring hockey players from around the world, professionals from NHL teams are taking advantage of the opportuni- ty to improve their skills during the summer. One of the founders of the Huron school, Bill Mohoney is in Kingston at Queen's University this week participating as a coach at the second annual Hockey Ontario Development Camp. The camp sponsored by the Bank of Nova Scotia in- volves 69 top amateur hockey players, 30 referees and 12 trainers from across Ontario. The other coaches in addition to Mahoney are Tom Watt of the Winnipeg Jets and a Junior "A" coach Don McKee former NHL referee Verne Buffey is in charge of the officials. Len Woolsey of Scotia Bank says, "We believe the leadership instruction we have been providing to young people through the Hockey Ontario program is impor- tant for the future of hockey in this country." STRONGEST LADY — Mona Ritchie won the ladies championship of Saturday's arm wrestling contest at Friedsburg Days in Dashwood. Above, she receives her prize from -sports chairman John Becker who resorted to a wheelchair after breaking a leg in a baseball game. Gunners unbeaten record continues Exeter Gunners soccer team retained their unbeaten record and their hold on first place with a 0-0 tie with se- cond place Arva, Thursday night. An extremely well played game was controlled by Gun- ner midfield players Stephen Cregan and Sisavay Sengkhounmany. The defense, when tested, was solid and well controlled by Danny Martens, Mark Glavin and Dwayne Fink- beiner. The first half goalie was Shawn Gillespie who did not have a save to make. The Gunners attack was well led by Fred Steciuk, who was held scoreless for the first time in four games, and supported by Sivochay Sengkhounmany, Shawn Webster, Brad Glavin, Paul Charrette and subs Jimmy Jarrett, Greg Cregan and Peter Gryseels. Although Arva had more play in the second half the Gunners had more chances with Sisavay shooting just over the bar and just past the post. Shawn Gillespie came out of the net to add speed to the attack and Jimmy Jarrett and Paul Charrette must have taken vitamins at half time as their tackling became ferocious at times. Replacement goalie Greg Cregan was up to anything Arva could throw at him in- cluding a breakaway with five minutes to go. JUNIOR ARM WRESTLING BEST -- Wayne Denomme and Lee O'Rourke were the winners in the junior divi- sion of Saturday's arm wrestling at Friedsburg Days in Dashwoodi. 2:00 p.m. Sunday afternoon, there was no Sarnia team. A league ruling states that a team has up to 15 minutes past game time to show up. 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