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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1982-09-22, Page 10"All; 414411— ro 416,14 64 - Fall out of first place -t Irish take lead over Saveway in fastball somkflnals Lucan Irish have taken a two games to one lead in their Southwestern Fastball semi- final series with Exeter Saveway. After dropping a 5-4 deci- sion in game one the Irish rallied to take 5-0 and 6-3 wins in game 2 and 3. The fourth game was played last night, Tuesday in Exeter and if a fifth and deciding game is necessary it will be in Lucan Thursday at 8 p.m. Lucan Irish started out game oneas if they were go- ing to blowout the Saveway crew by scoring four runs in the first inning. With one out in the first, veteran pitcher Brian Hodgins came on and pitched the rest of the way giving up only two singles while striking out 12 Lucan batters to shut down their offense. Saveway started their com- eback in the top of the second as Dan Heywood singled, Brad Marsden doubled and Willie Lamb singled in two runs. They narrowed ' the score to 4-3 in the third inning as Gary Skinner tripled and scored on Paul McKnight's sacrifice fly. In the top of the sixth Paul McKnight and Brad Marsden singled, and with two out pit- cher Brian Hodgins singled in two runs to win his own game. Ron Glenn toiled for Lucan and took the loss allowing 12 hits while striking out none. Doug Todd started for Exeter before Brian. Hodgins took over in the first to pick up the PLENTY OF HOPEFULS — Exeter Hawks rookie coach Bob Rowe, right, has several holes to fill on this year's squad, but has no lack of players trying for those positions. Over 50 area pucksters have attended workouts to date and Rowe is now in the initial stages of cutting the squad down to size. Shown with him are Scott Pincombe, Paul Johnston, Pete Tuckey and Tony Jones. Johnston and Tuckey are among the handful of returnees. v IRONWOOD WINNERS — The final men's tourney of the season was held Sunday at the Ironwood course. Above Bob Drummond presents trophies to Dave Holtzmann, John Van Bakel, Al Taylor, Bob Swartman and Bob Jaye. Centennials ise two straight- games A 5-4 loss to Wallaceburg two weeks ago and a 4-2 loss to Nairn this past weekend dropped the Exeter Centen- nials out of first place for the fust time this season. The loss to Nairn was the last game of the regular season for the Centennials with their exact position in the standings unknown at this time. Exeter lead through the whole season but could never widen the gap over Sarnia. Dante Italia and Sarnia Bluewater. • Exeter finishes in the top half and a playoff for the A trophy will take place Sun- day, October 3 in Sarnia. The 5-4 loss to Wallaceburg was S heart breaker with the lead changing hands many times, Exeter scored first with Paul Vandewalle tally- ing. Wallaceburg. came back with two goals including a questionable penalty shot. Shawn Rotteau tied it up and Paul Vandewalle sent Exeter ahead. • WalIaceburg again scored twice to take the lead again. Paul Vandewalle with this third goal tied it up, but Wallaceburg scored last to win it. Sunday, Exeter played bad- ly against Nairn. Nairn took the lead with two quick goals. Paul Vandewalle was tripped up in the opposition's penalty area where he was awarded a penalty shot. He made no mistake in narrowing the gap to one goal. Paul again scored to tie the game at 2-2. but in the second half Exeter couldn't do anything as Nairn scored two more to finish it at 4-2 for Nairn. Exeter had its moments in the second half but couldn't capitalize.• In the mini tournament in- volving Lucan, Nairn, Cen- tralia College and Exeter, Ex- eter has a win over Nairn and a tie with Lucan out of two games played Ironwood club season concludes The men's club season at the Ironwood golf course came to a successful conclu- sion with a final tournament and a pork and corn barbecue Sunday afternoon. Dave Holtzmann fired a 79 COWBOYS WIN --- The "A" pitch championship was won Bill Van Bergen, Dennis Pfaff, Gerry Dewan, Steve Dinney championship of the Crediton and district men's slo by the Cowboys. Back, left, Rick Gayer, Matt Muller, Ken Govers, Dennis Preszcator and Eugene King. Front, , Randy Witherspoon, Larry Lichty and Josh Glavin. 1 TECHNICAL DATA How racing improves the breed Ever since the early days of In- dianapolis racing, when the rear view mirror replaced the riding • mechanic, motorsports have served as a "laboratory" for devel- oping technology applicable to road cars. Today, manufacturers routinely -apply lessons learned on the race track to make their production Cars more efficient, responsive and • safer. The Robert Bosch(VW Super Vee series constantly tests the du- rability engineered into the Sciroc- co motor by pushing it to 190 horsepower and 8500 rpm. The Rabbit/Bilstein Cup is a ver- itable proving ground for the performance of the VW Rabbit as well as for Bilstein shocks. In addi- tion, the tires used on the Rabbit/ Bilstein cars are specially -shaved Goodyear NCT radials which con- sistently survive a year's wear -and - tear in one 60 -mile race. ' In fact, so Impressive is the per- formance of these street tires -that A.J. Foyt accurately described them as "Better than the race tires we ran on 10 ars ago."- Another go. Another company that relys heavily upon racing to test compo- nents is the Robert Bosch Corp. "There is- no question that the Super Vee series has proven. itself an excellent testing grounds for products such as our breakerless distributor, injection pumps and spark plugs:'explains Bosch's field representative, Wolfgang Hustedt. "It's not only the specific prod- ucts that evolve from racing that - makes competition so•valuable;" adds two-time G T-3 Scirocco na- tional champion Tom Davey. \ "Equally important is the tact that racing forces engineers to work at the leading edge of technology and those developments filter down to the cars we drive on the. street. For example, up to 15, years ago aerodynamics weren't. really an important consideration in • passenger cars, but it was "slate - of -the -art" for race car design. To- day, the data bank of information developed by race designers is constantly being tapped by auto- motive engineers everywhere: " See BiIIy.Joe Rowcliffe • V . 1 . q r- ', .w .r .. 10 TIItit,s Advocate, September 22,1982 Sports Spotlight By Ross Haugh Every September when the major league baseball pennant races get exciting,_and very competitive at least one underdog comes along in the fashion of David in stewing Goliath. This time it's the lowly ChicagoCubs coming along to sink the Montreal Expos in their drive for the Na- tional League east championship with three straight wins right in Montreal on the weekend. The Expos would probably be a lot closer than their present six games out of first place if they had a better record at home. Montreal manager Jim Fanning went to hospital Friday with migraine headaches. Had he stayed around for the Saturday game against the Cubs, we're sure his head pains would have been much more severe. On their home field the Expos took an early 7-0 lead and were apparently heading for an easy win. Not so, the Cubs'came roaring back to win by a score of 10-7. Chances are now very high that Fanning will not be back at the helm of the Expos for next season. A number of players have shown severe criticism of Fan- ning's decisions and that should be the writing on the wall. As on most big league teams, most of the Expos players draw down larger salaries than the manager and their wishes are usually considered. In addition, Fanning in his first full year as.Mon- treal manager has not been able to put together any con- sistency in the win department after the club narrowly missed winning a year ago. This was to be the year of the Expos and it looks as if Fanning missed the only opportunity he will ever have to get into a World Series. With only 14 games remaining in the regular schedule the Expos in order to finish first would need to win 10 of their next 14 games and have the Cardslose 11 of their 13 contests. Stranger things have happened, but, don't count on it, especially. with the apparent low morale existing in Montreal. If morale is low in Expo territory what about the situation with the New York Yankees. Owner George Steinbrenner can be expected to blow his top after his team was blown out twice over the weekend by the pennant bound Milwaukee Brewers. In two games the Brewers scored a total of 28 runs to humiliate the pinstripers from Manhattan. It's not only high player salaries that is costing the Yanks a lot of money, but, at the moment they have five managers still on the payroll. In addition to present manager Clyde King, the Yanks continue to pay off cdntracts to Billy Martin, Bob Lemon, Gene Michael and Dick Houser. The other three pennant races are shaping up as real battles and will likely go down to the final days of the camftaign. The Milwaukee Brewers have the best record of any team in either league with 89 wins, but, only lead the fast closing Baltimore Orioles by two games in the American league east. These two clubs will likely carve out their own destiny as they play each other seven times. They con- clude the season with the final four games in Baltimore on October 1, 2 and 3 with a doubleheader on the Friday. In the American league west, a real struggle is go- ing on as the Kansas City Royals and California Angels are tied for first place and they play each other six times. The Los Angeles Dodgers with a current two and a half game bulge over the Atlanta Braves should be favourites to repeat in the National league west. The two contenders only meet each other twice in the re- maining schedule. Mohawks to practice The Exeter Mohawks of the South Huron in- termediate hockey league will be holding their first practice Saturday, September 25 at 11 a.m. at the Stephen township arena at Huron Park. Jack Chipchase who was named the league's coach of the year last year will be back and will welcome any newcomers wishing to try out for the club. South Huron league president John Snell reports he expects to complete negotiations this week with the North Oxford league for an interlocking schedule bet- ween the two loops. Home and home single games between the two leagues would be completed before Christmas to get away from the usual stormy weather in January. Practices continue. each Tuesday and Thursday nights for the Exeter junior Hawks. Co ch Bob Rowe has had a tremendous response for the first couple of workouts with more than 50 hopefuls in attendance. The Lean Irish, defending OHA Junior "D" champs are also back on ice and preparing for defence of their title. The first home game for the Hawks will be at the South Huron Rec Centre on Friday, October 15 with the Lucan Irish supplying the opposition. Loosley in Petrolia While getting a breath of fresh air during intermis- sion at the Roger Whittaker concert at Centennial Hall in London Saturday night we ran into Brad Loosley. Loosley who was the teaching professional at the Exeter figure -skating club for 10 years is now the recreation director in Petrolia. Hensall Men's Rreational Hockey League REGISTRATION NIGHT Wed. Sept. 29 7-9 p.m. Hensall Arena Lobby For Information Call Jim Ferguson 262-2729 or 262-3012 This Registration Night gives everyone an op- portunity at the limited remaining draft posi- tions. (First come - First served) • J PRACTISE on Saturday, Sept. 25 at 11 a.m. At the Huron Park Arena "Everyone Welcome" to win low gross honours in "A" flight while John Van Bakel was the low net best at 65. In "B" flight, Al Taylor's 91 was the low gross score and Bob Swartzman with a 71 was the low net winner: John Van Bakel was the low gross win- ner in "C" flight and Bob Laye at 66 was the low net best. Jim Russell had the longest drive and Bill Gilfillan was closest to the pin. Most of the 65 participants went home with a prize. Keith Ahrens recorded a score of 36 to win low gross honours in the 'A' flight at the regular Tuesday men's night at the Ironwood golf club. Jack Fuller with a 34 was the low net winner and Rick Banks with a 39 was best in low gross in flight "B" and the low net winner was Ken Bowen at 31. In "C" flight, Brian Brooks shot a 43 for low gross and Gary Dolphin's 31 took low net honours. The "D' flight winners were'Roy Hunter in low gross with a 46 and Jack Taylor in low net at 30. Jamie Gaul was closest to the pin. 416 BODY -WORK — Exeter Hawks coach Bob Rowe had the 50 -plus hopefuls out at last week's try -outs doing some checking drills. Here, returning defenceman Jamie Chaffe gives midget Steve Gould a welcome to Jnior hockey. win. Game two saw Lucan pit- cher Jamie Eveleigh at his blest as he limited Saveway to three singles. Doug Todd has two _\ singles, while Dan Heywood had the other. He struck out seven batters in picking up the win. Dan Heywood allowed only five hits, but, a couple pf fielding miscues caused some of the runs. He struck out five batters in a losing cause. Game three was in doubt until the bottom of the sixth when the Irish scored 3 runs to break a 3-3 tie and pick up the win. Saveway opened the scor- Smallman best Kippen shooter John Smallman was the winner of Tuesday's weekly shoot at the Kippen gun club with a score of 25. John Anderson, Jim Darl- ing, Jack Mills and Dan Crerar were next in line with scores of 24 each while Terry Caldwell, Lloyd Venner and Bert Mahaffey recorded scores of 23. The balance of the scores were Paul Richie, Al Kyle, Jack Bell and Jamie Caldwell 22, Mery Batkin 21, Harold Smith 20, Jack Aikenhead 19, Terry Rabbets 18, Gladys McGregor and Linda Crerar 17 and Richard Smith 16. Deadlock in dart league After the first two weeks of play in the Exeter mixed dart league, the Evil Eyes and Swat are tied for first placei with seven points apiece. Deadlocked for the next; spot are the Shiphunters, Scotties, Canscotts and 4 -W's , with six points each. This week's scores were:. Out of Space 4 Jaams 1; Swat 4 Wubbu 1; Shiphunters 3� Rowdy Ones 2; All in Fanu y 3 CB'ers 2; Winkers 3 4 -W's 2; Canscotts 3 Evil Eyes 2; It- chy Niters 3 Outlaws 2; Crusaders 3 Scotties 2. , Friday's schedule is as follows: 8 p.m. Winkers vs Outlaws; Wubbu vs 4 -W's; Scotties vs Out of Space; API in Family vs Crusaders. 9:30 p.m. Shiphunters vs Swat; Evil Eyes vsCB'ers; It- chy Niters vs Rowdy Ones and Jaams vs Canscotts. ing in the second inning as Paul McKnight walked and came in to score on Brad Marsden's single. The Irish went ahead 3-1 in the bottom of the second and Saveway came back with two in the fourth to tie the score as Dan Heywood walked, Jeff Lindenfield reached on an er- ror and both 6cored on Brad Marsden's double. The Irish scored three runs in the sixth on four hits to pick up the win. Jamie Eveleigh got the win for the Irish allow- ing four hits while striking out two batters. Doug Todd took the loss for Saveway allowing six hits while striking out one batter. Brian Hodgins finished up allowing two hits while get- ting one strikeout. Ironwood Cdf kth� LOCATED ONE MILE EAST OF EXETER OFF HIGHWAY e . l. Phone (519) 275.1521 The Ironwood Men's Club Would like to say a big 5hanh ou To the Exeter area business and businessmen for the prizes and services kindly donated to our championship tournament. Your efforts on our behalf are greatly appreciated. Ironwood Men's Club Executive Exeter Minor Hockey Registration Day Sat. September 25 4-6 year olds $40.00 7-19 - registration is $70.00 the same price as . last year This year as last year we have trial of- fers for anyone in their first year of organized hockey, irregardless of age. Registration from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Used hockey equipment sale .10 a.m. - 2 p.m. on September 18. Anyone wishing to sell or donate used hockey equipment please drop off equip- ment at South Huron Rec. Centre, Satur- day, September 18; 8 a.m. 11 a.m. South Huron Rec Centre For more information_ on trial offers Contact: Al Quinn 235-2902 John Pym 235-0627 Bob Osgood 235-2765 VOLKSWAGEN ir• Team Scirocco paces the races. The Super Vee event at Road America featured this' brand new Scirocco as the official safety car. For details, or call 235 1100 Toll Free 1-800 265-7034