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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1982-09-01, Page 8Page • Times -Advocate, September 1.1982 Sports Spotlight By Ross Haugh Congratulations It took 26 years to bring another Ontario Baseball championship to Exeter, but, it happened Sunday night in Kincardine. The Exeter juniors guided by Joe Fulop, Bruce Shaw and Brad Gregus won four straight games in Kin- cardine over the weekend to win the OBA Junior "D" title. The locals wrapped up the crown with an im- pressive 19-7 win over Woodslee in the final. Coach Joe Fulop got four straight great pitching performances from Jeff Fuller, Dave Shaw, Steve Pearce and Brian Horner to wrap it up. The weekend victory claimed an otherwise mediocre season although the club played in the tough Great Lakes league with teams from London, Byron, Thorndale and Clinton. Before the four championship wins, the locals had only won five previous games during the year. The last time an OBA trophy rested in Exeter was back in 1956 when the midgets won the provincial "C" championship. The team was coached by Alvin Willert, Jim Glover and Boom Gravett. Members of the team still residents of the area in- clude Jim Russell, Jim Hennessey, Allan Rundle, Cy Blommaert and Doug Sillery. An excellent show Although it is almost a year old we just recently started watching one of the best sports shows on television. We are talking about Bob McCown's Sportsline which hits the airwaves each weekday night at 11:30 p.m. On the Global television network. McCown, a 35 year-old former golf pro broke into radio in Sarnia about 10 years ago and has been climb- ing ever since. McCown supervises a very fast moving, exciting and rather informal report.of a wide variety of sports including up-to-date clips of games which were played that night or in some cases still underway. His own enthusiasm and off the cuff remarks keep the program highly interesting. He calls the show a combination super sportscast and magazine and that it is for sure. McCown says pictures are the most important part of television. He adds, "Too often in sports broadcasting there is too much sittin' and talkin' without anything going -on." Heading South Coaches in the Canadian Football League. must think winter is coming. They are apparently heading south before the usual birds. Ray Jauch of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Ed- monton Eskimos head coach Hugh Campbell have already announced their intentions of taking off for the new United States Football league. • The calibre of play in the CFL will likely suffer, not only because of excellent coaches leaving, but, a number of players are sure to follow. There could be some compensation in the establish- ment of the new US league in the fact more Canadian players could get a chance to show their talents in their own country. Maybe Hugh Campbell in Edmonton has seen the handwriting on the wall as his Eskimos are having their worst season in many a moon and it's not Warren Moon we are talking about. It has been a long time since the Eskimos have been in the basement of the CFL western division. On the other end of the scale are the Toronto Argonauts capulting along in first place in the east with a five point bulge over their nearest rivals, the Hamilton Tiger Cats. Talking about football a look at the latest statistics in the Canadian Football League reveals that most teams consider the foot in football as being very important. The five leaders in the CFL scoring parade are all kickers led by Edmonton's Dave Cutler with 91 points. So far this year only one convert has been missed in the CFL on attempts totalling more than 150. Juvenile tourney A few of the same boys who played on the "Exeter Co-op Junior D" championship team will be in action this weekend as the Exeter juveniles play in the O.B.A. Juvenile D championship tournament being hosted by the Exeter Minor Baseball Association this weekend. They start the tourney off, by meeting Clinton in Game one Friday night at 5:30 p.m. This is a "true double knockout tournament" whereby a team must lose two games to be eliminated. The local squad stands an excellent chance as Dave Shaw and Brian Horner will be making starts on the mound. Both posted complete game victories in the O.B.A. Junior D championship this past weekend combined with no. 3 starter Clendon 'Curve -ball- Coombes who plays for the local squad and hails from Seaforth. Should the local squad win, it would be the first time in O.B.A. history that a town won O.B.A. championships in Juvenile and Junior in the same year; Competing are teams from Beeton, Cobourg, Fen- wick,Wheatley, Clinton and Exeter. Games will be played all day Saturday and Sunday with the championship final going Monday at 11 a.m. Dashwood playoffs Over the weekend, the Dashwood tykes were defeated by Norfolk in tWo close games 11-8 and 10-8 in OBA finals. They will now continue in WOAA playoffs against Exeter. The Dashwood bantams are also in OBA play and will be in action this weekend possibly against Maple. • , ••.• • .•1-•. wo• •-• s Sweep tourney in undefeated fashion Co-Opjuniors capture aU-O The Exeter Co-op juniors won the Ontario Baseball Association Junior 'D. cham- pionship on the weekend as they took four straight victories. Six teams participated in the double knock -out tourna- ment held in Kincardine and the Exeter club was the only one to go undefeated. The OBA trophy is the first one to come to Exeter since an Exeter team won the pro- vincial midget championship in 1956. Two teams were quickly eliminated in opening tourna- ment games, Saturday. Nor- folk lost 14-4 to Woodslee and 3-2 to Kincardine while Strathroy were eliminated by Exeter 9-4 and 12-5 by Woodslee. In addition to the win over Strathroy, Exeter defeated Brian Mercer Steve Pearce Dave Bogart K: Easterbrook Kevin Hern Dave Robinson Joe Becker Jeff Fuller Doug Hoffman Dave Atthill Bruce Shaw Brian Horner Dave Shaw Brian Rader Al Gaiser• Clendon Coombes New Lowell 6-1 and edged Woodslee 5-4 to reach the finals. The Exeter club scored eight runs in the first two in- nings on the way to a 19-7 win over the same Woodslee club, Sunday evening. Earlier in the day, Sunday, Kincardine beat New Lowell 14-7 in a 14 inning thriller and then lost the semi-final 10-5 to Woodslee. The new champs toured the town on the Exeter fire truck shortly after arriving home at 11 p.m. Coach Joe Fulop received excellent pitching perfor- mances from his four starting pitchers, Jeff Fuller, Steve Pearce; Dave Shaw and Brian Horner and didn't need bull pen help in any of the four games. Jeff Fuller held Strathroy Batting AB 131 77 101 75 152 103 119 74 101 52 39 52 78 45 11 6 Hits 46 21 26 17 45 26 29 14 24 14 2 4 30 7 3 1 Ave. .351 .273 .257 .227 .341 .252 .244 .189 .238 .269 .067 .125 .385 .156 .273 .167 to six well scattered hits in the opening 9-4 win over Strathroy. He recorded five strikeouts and was tough in the clutch stranding eight runners on base. Dave Robinson scored the first Exeter run in the third inning as he was safe on an er- ror and crossed the plate on Dave Bogart's single. The Exeter club broke the game open with six runs in the fourth inning. , Dave Bogart banged out a triple in the big frame while KevinHern, Dave Shaw, Doug Hoffman, Joe Becker and Jeff Fuller delivered singles. Kevin Hern was safe on 'an error, Joe Becker singled and they scored on a single by Steve Pearce to account for the final two Exeter runs. In the second game win by a score of 6-1 over New Lowell, Exeter scored four times in their first time at bat. Three walks, a New Lowell error and a triple by Steve Jeff Fuller • Steve Pearce K. Easterbrook Brian Horner Brian Rader Dave Robinson Dave Atthill Dave Shaw Joe Becker Bruce Shaw Clendon Coombes Pearce produced the big rally. Bruce Shaw was safe on an error and scored the fifth Ex- eter run in the fourth as Kevin Hern doubled and hits by Kevin Hern and Dave Shaw sent Brian Mercer home in the sixth. Steve Pearce turned in a strong performance on the Exeter mound. He gave up eight well :nattered hits and ended potential New Lowell rallies with strikeouts in three innings. The toughest battle of the tourney came in the third game as Exeter made five early runs stand up for a 5-4 win over Woodslee. Each team scored two runs in the first inning. Brian Mercer and Dave Bogart of Exeter walked and scored without the help of any hits. Again in the fifth three Ex- eter runs crossed the plate on only one hit, a single from the bat of Kevin Hern. The other Exeter hit during Pitching IP Hits Walks SO ERA 100 113 48 87 2.15 51 61 27 19 2.26 45 65 15 24 3.96 36 33 26 27 1.75 15 ' 21, 12 6 7.05 1 2 9 0 36 1 2 0 0 15.63 24 20 16 21 2.19 1 4 2 1 27 5 5 6 3 12.6 5 5 2 3 3.86 WIN ALL -ONTARIO TITLE - The Exeter juniors won the Ontario Baseball -Junior "C" championship with four tournament victories over the weekend in Kincardine. Back, left, coach Joe Fulop, Doug Hoffman, Dave Shaw, Brian Rader, Kevin Hern, Bruce Shaw, Jeff Fuller, Steve Pearce and manager Bruce Shaw. Front, Clendon Coombes, Al Gaiser, Dove Bogart, Dave Robinson, Joe Becker, Brian Mercer and Brian Horner. Missing was general manager Brad Gregus. T -A photo Red Army returns to winning ways RSD : Red Army regained their winning ways in the Stephen Township summer hockey -league, Sunday, while Seaforth moved into a four- way tie for second place. After losing their first game of the past two seasons a week ago, the Red Army scored an 8-4 triumph over Hensel'. Pfaff Electric and the Flyers Willow Wiper cleans opposition The speed shown by Willow Wiper owned by Bob Hamather of Zurich, trained by Crediton's Jim Morrissey and driven by Ray McLean continues to improve. In the second leg of a $100,000 stakes race at Hollywood Park in California Saturday night, Willow Wiper paced to a personal best of L54.1. It was not only a record for the Zurich area horse but for the California track as well. Willow Wiper's previous fastest mile was at the Meadowlands in New Jersey in 154.3. He won the Canadian Pacing Derby at Greenwood in Toronto a couple of weeks ago in 1.55.1. He will be in action Satur- day night of this week in California in the third leg of the series with the final set for the following Saturday night. Chipchase wins at Ironwood club Jack Chipchase fired a 39 to win low gross honours in "A" flight at Tuesday's regular men's night at the Ironwood golf course. Larry Wein's 31 was the low net score while Brad Murray was the low gross competitor in "B" flight with a 42 and Fred Wells was best net at 32. In "C" flight, Ron Heywood's• 44 was the low gross scot and Lee Webber won low net at 32 while Norm Whiting's 50 was the lowest "D" flight low gross score and Don Jolly was low net at 36. Jolly also won the prize for being the closest to the pin. . • . r • . Ir also lost t� remain knotted with Hensall and Seaforth for second place, four points behind the leaders. Seaforth stopped Canabis 9-4, while JMR stung the Flyers 7-2 and Pfaff lost on a default to Parkhill, giving the latter their first win of the season. Paul Pooley notched three for the 'Army, while Perry Pooley and Tom Coates had a pair and Bill Glover tallied one. Terry Caldwell, Dave Kinsman, Ken Varley and Dave Atthill had singles for the losers. Bob Mommersteeg fired Exeter 'ladies Doris hackney, Jeanette Lippert and Helen Burton were hidden score winners in this week's regular competi- tion of the Ironwood ladies golf club and the door prize was won by Olga Chipchase. three for Seaforth in their win, while Jeff Rowe and Paul Johnston had two each. Picking up singles were Dave Erb and Mark McIlwain: Dave Smith triggered two for Canabis. Dave Cornell had' a hat trick to help JMR to their fust win of the season, and Mike Baretta had two. 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He gave up nine hits, scored on a double by Dave but, was tough with men on Shaw In the fourth and Dave base and left 11 opposing run- Robinson and Brian Mercer ners on. singled for another score in Bats break loose the fifth. After being held to two hits One base blows by Brian Saturday night, the Exeter Horner, Kevin Hern and Dave bats came alive Sunday and Shaw sent three Exeter runs bashed out 22 hits in the championship 19-7 victory over Woodslee. They started with three runs in the first inning and came right back with five more in the second. Steve Pearce's triple powered the first inning ral- ly and a 350 line drive shot over the fence by Dave Shaw was a key hit in the big Exeter second. Also getting hits in the se - Centennials score 15 The last two weekends saw the local Exeter senior Centennials score 15 goals, beating West Williams in West Williams 5-0 ,and then beating Lucan, Sunday in Ex- eter 1041. The game in West Williams saw Exeter dominate from the opening whistle. Half Dick Lord scored the first goal with Shawn Rotteau and Paul Vandewalle following with two each. If it weren't for the West Williams defense the score could have been worse. Last Sunday in Exeter, cen- tre forward Paul Vandewalle lead the attack with no less than seven goals. Everyone on the team managed to get an assist to at least one of Paul's goals. Winger Shawn Rotteau added two more with Robert Weersink scoring in single fshion. The last two weekends of the regular schedule will be tough games with Exeter travelling to Wallaceburg September 12 and Nairn com- ing to Exeter September 19. Exeter will have to adjust to the tougher opposition esPecially coming off with two easy victories. Exeter still maintains first place with twelve wins and three losses, but have to win the last two• games to stay there due to the fact that two Sarnia teams are only a few points behind. Over the month of September Exeter is involved in a mini -tournament with teams from Lucan, Nairn and Centralia College. All games are played during the week and start at 6:30. First game for Exeter is in Nairn this Thursday. . home in the seventh and six big runs scored in the ninth on hits by Brian Mercer, Glen- don Coomber, Kevin Hern and Brian Horner. Brian Horner completed the perfect Exeter pitching record in the final game by going the distance. After giv- ing up four runs in the second inning he got stronger and allowed - only six more hits over the next seven Innings. Stephen Township Arena Power Skating and Conditioning Program 15 years old and up 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. Sept. 6 to Sept. 12, 1982 11 to 14 years old 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. Sept. 6 to Sept. 12, 1982 7 to 10 years old 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Sept. 6 to Sept. 12, 1982 For more information call 228-6425 Ice time available Watch Exciting Baseball This Weekend as Exeter Minor Baseball Association plays host to Ontario Baseball Association Juvenile D Championships Including teams from: • Beeton • Cobourg • Fenwick • Wheatley • Clinton • Exeter First game Friday night 5:30 Exeter vs. ,Clinton Championship game Monday 11 a.m. Games all day Sat. & Sun. 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