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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1979-08-29, Page 20 (2)Pops 4A Times -Advocate, August 29, 1979 Sports Spotlight By ROSS HAUGH Stens lose The sun set early Sunday afternoon. To clarify this statement we should say the Suns set early. The Milverton Sunswere thwarted about 5:30 Sun- day afternoon in their attempt to win the Canadian senior ladies fast ball championship. This is the second year in succession that the Suns have finished second. They failed to come through despite the fact they were cheered on by about 7.000 hometown tans. The Milverton club deserves sincere con- gratulations for not only turning in a good performance but in hosting the tournament. • We caught four of the Friday games and found the brand of ball was excellent and exciting. One of our comments would be that we wouldn't play third base on any of the girls teams for any amount • of money. In baseball generally third base is known as the hot ' corner and this phrase really applies in the ladies game. In most situations the third baseman in expecting a bunt can almost feel the breath of the batter and takes - her life in her hands when the batter decides -to take a hard swing. To play at third one must have excellent . reflexes. Milverton coach George Wicks told us this tourna- ment was probably the best ever as far as competition was concerned. Said Wicks, "The brand of ball may not be that much improved in recent years but the gap between some of the teams is lessening. The eastern and northern teams are showing great improvement." •.The Northwest Territories team should be heard from in the next couple of years. While failing to win a game they showed good promise. Their average age is only 16 years. Lots of time to maturer - Another highlight of the tourney was the excellent umpiring. We understand the only argument of any. serious nature place Sunday on a close play al the plate when British Columbia scored their first run against • Milverton. It was one of those bang -bang plays. Umpires were in action from every province in- cluding the Yukon and Northwest Territories. A lot of Exeter and area fans were in attendance throughout the x:eek in Milverton to watch Lynne Farquhar and Iris Marshall in action with the Suns. Lynne was in right field for the Suns for the final games Sunday and Iris was the designated hitter in most of the games. Tigers on the move The Dashwood Tigers are off and running in the Ontario Baseball Association Senior "D" playoff series. The Tier wasted_ little time in disposing of Ken- dall in two straight games over the weekend. In Dashwood Saturday the Tigers scored 5-3 victory and Sunday they won 5-1 in the Oshawa area town. • In addition to a well rounded defensive,team, Tiger manager Joe Fulop has an eitcellent pitching staff. He has great selection of two left handers and three right handers. Southpaw Jim Guenther went the full nine inning distance Saturday to claim the victory. Big Jim was touched for 11 hits, but, he was tough in the clutch. He recorded six strikeouts, the three big ones coming in the top of the ninth when Kendall mounted its best rally. It's apparently essential that ball players have a good footing. Jim told us in the dugout during the game that he was wearing new spikes. That must have been the reason for his win. Sunday. the second left on the team John Bruiins held Kendall to a single run. The right handers on the Dashwood pitching staff are Perry Stover. Barry Baynham and Brian Rader. The second round for the Tigers should get un- derway this weekend with the opposition coming from Thorndale or Nanticoke. The other eight teams still in contention for the provincial title are Kincardine. Collingwood, Petrolia. Woods1 e,,Sudbury. Kapuskas- ing, Pembroke and Ottawa. If the Tigers event ''''4:� t- .. familiar face will likely invade the Dashwood diam olia4411tell et' for the Ottawa team is none'other than Randy -"Putts" Tieman. ' Randy iS currently the sports director of an Ottawa radio station. • Lots of corn We were privileged to have an invitation Thursday night to the annual corn roast at the farm of .Harvey Smith when the professionals attending the Huron Hockey School were in attendance. Smith,.who drives the hockey school bus during the • summer months throws this party each year and it is Very,. Si t " t Y .in tgRr. r - - - e w —• = �p --rife'' i{aii- c)t atltb to chat with were AI Seeord• of the Boston 'Bruins, Pat Ribble of the Black • Hawks and Harold Phillipoff from Atlanta. Secord said he expected little.change in the pastern. of play of the Bruins as Fred Creighton replaces the in- comparable Don Cherry as coach. When the players left the corn roast. Harvey Smith was heard to say, -Best of luck. fellows. Except when you play the Leafs." Registration time - Lewis Mitchell co -manager of the new Exeter; Mohawks of the South Huron intermediate hockey kague told us Monday that plans for the coming season are well underway. The team will be holding registration for prospec- tive players at the South Huron Rec Centre on Thurs- day, September 6 at 7:30 p.m. Mitchell who will be operating the club with the help of John Gillespie announced that Harold "Bud" Presicator will be the coach. At home to Kincardine, Sunday at 7:30 Tigers move to second round in OBA playoffs The Dashwood Tigers needed only the minimum of two games •-to dispose of Kendall in the first round of Ontario Baseball Association Senior "D" playoffs. On their home field Saturday. the Tigers scored a 5-3 victory over Kendall and Sunday they wrapped up the series with a 5-1 win in Kendall. In the second round the Tigers will -meet Kincardine. Due to the Kincardine Fall Fair this coming week end Kincardine will be forced to play home games elsewhere. The first game of the best - of -three series will be played Saturday afternoon at 2 p.m. in Listowel. The second game goes in Dashwood Sunday night at 7:30 p.m. with a deciding game. if necessary set for Labour Day, Monday. The site will depend on the toss of a coin.' Kincardine defeated _ Collingwood in their first round. In other series, Woodslee disposed of Petrolia and Nanticoke ousted Thorndale. Pembroke has defeated Ottawa and will now com- pete in a round-robin series with Sudbury and • r. It Alms TIGER HURLERS - - The Dashwood Tigers ousted Kendall in OBQ playoffs over the weekend with strong pitching performances Shown from the7left are Joon Bruijns. Jim Guenther and Perry Stover T -A photo Fletcher, Smith tops ih golf at Ironwood Bob Fletcher and Ian Smith scored 37's to lead the "A" flight golfers in Tuesday's regular men's league action at the Iron; wood golf course. Smith picked up four pars and two birdies while Fletcher recorded five -pars and a birdie on the way to their top scores. Low net winners were Wayne Pearce at 32 and Ken Bergman and Gerry Smith deadlocked at 33. In "B" flight, Mike Cronyn was the low gross scorer with a 40 and low net went to Fred Mommersteeg-with a 31.. Fred Wells and Jon Geiser shared low gross scores in "C"' flight with 46's while Tom Voerman and Allan Keys were best in low net with scores of 31 and 32 respectively. In "D" flight Chan Livingstone with a 46 recorded the lowest gross score and net honours went to Mark Tuckey with a 15. Ken Bergman won the prize for a shot closest to the pin from the fourth tee. He missed by four feet. Steve Pearce st:ot a 41 to lead the juvenile competitors and Wayne Parsons was close behind with a 42. . Match play started in - early June has progressed to the semi-finals. Remaining in contention are Bill Gilfillan. Paul Van Gerwen, Wayne Pearce and Rangy Evans. - Kapuskasing. In Baturdayt series opener, southpaw Jim Guenther despite giving up 11 hits was tough in the clutch. Guenther squelched.a last inning Kendall rally" by striking out the side around two runs. All three strikeouts in the ninth were called by umpire Mike Masse on sliders that caught a corner of the"plate. The Tigers scored tingle runs in the first and second innings, added two in the eighth and a final in the ninth. In the Dashwood first, Barry Baynham singled, stole second and scored on Jim Guenther's fielder's choice. Rob Dickey singled in the second and scored on a similar hit from the bat of Bob Hoffman. Jim Guenthers single sent Barry Baynham and Dave Parsons.across the plate in the seventh and a Bob Hoffmalt single scored Jim Dietrich in the eighth. The only other Tiger hit was a single by Perry Stover in the fifth. Ile was stranded at third. In Kendall Sunday. John Bruijns allowed only three hits and struck out 10 Ken- dall batters as the Tigers swept the series. The only Kendall run came in the seventh inning on a double ground -out and sacrifice fly. New skeet facility on Highway 83 The South tluron'Sports- mans Association is finally operating their skeet hangar on Highway 83 - two and a half miles west of Exeter. At their first shoot Saturday Bill McNutt broke 25 straight. Other scores Monkey golf for ladies More than 40 ladies par- ticipated in a Tuesday ladies monkey golf tournament at the Exeter golf and country club. Audrey McDonald and Norma Coleman were tied for the lowest score at 55 and Phyl Lawton needed the least number of putts 14. Norma Coleman won the longest drive prize, Dorothy Kipfer was closest to the hole and Beryl Elgie was named the most honest golfer. Hidden score prizes were won by Eileen Ronnie, Nancy Quinn. Helen Webber and Louise Giffin while Leona Littleton and Helen Webber were hidden hole winners. Door prizes went to Melva Ecker, Louise Giffin, Jo Vallis and Lois Learn. A. penny sale realized 516.25. The closing banquet for the year will be held Tuesday. September 18 at 6:30 p.m. GETTING GROUND RULES - - Umpires Mike Masse and Murray,Faiibert and Dashwood manager Joe Fulop and coach Glen Thurman watch as Kendall manager Bob Foster asks for clarification prior to Saturday's OBA game in Dashwood Luca n, Forest win in soccer Teams from. Exeter Centennials and Huron Park earned final game berths in Lucan's third annual six -a- side soccer -tournament Sunday. but were beaten out. Forest edged Exeter 5-4 in the A -division final and. Lucan beat Huron Park 8-0 in the B. Twelve -teams took part in the event. sponsored by the Lucan soccer club. The games began at 10 a.m.. and ended at 8 p.m. before a crowd treated to a fast but miniature version of jilt spof►C. - There wee a total of 16 games. one of the better of tttbm ' being .a - 9-4 ;twin by •Hureo.--Park-over-one of The Lucan sides. A game which took two five-minute over- time periods to resolve In • six -a -side, each game goes Foursome for ladies today Prizes in Wednesday's - 041.1�plf action at the ironwood course were won by Audrey Faribairn, Helen Burton and Marlene Par- sons. Today. Wednesday, a two ball ladies foursome will be held getting underway at 5 p.m. included will be rain or shine pot luck supper. All ladies are welcome. For further information call Helen Burton or Marlene Parsons. for with a goal counting as two points and a conceded corner as one: Another good showing during the day was made by a Lucan bantam team. A group of 15 -year-olds who first lost 13-0 to the Exeter A team. but then went down to a respectable 3-0 defeat at the hands of a Huron Park side. The two finals also featured excellent soccer, with Lucan and Forest deserving win`nerrs son, the. i SCOTT'S JtTh!R. !I$ SHOP 1 20 Sanders St. W. Exeter, Ont. 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It was donated by Ausable Taxidermy and may not be • won by any of the five owners, Bill McNutt, Doug Bender. Randy Stanlake, Bob Snell or Charles Browning. Bowlers enjoy weekly jitneys Mabel McKnight was the winner of Saturday's regular jitney at the Exeter lawn bowling club with two wins, an aggregate of 30 and a plus of eight. Close behind•in a second place tie with an aggregate of 25 were Beth Batten and Ruth Skinner. Next in line came Bill Lamport. Norma Chapman and Kay Snelgrove. • Saturday night's best was Lawrence Wein with an aggregate of 30 and a plus of eight and a narrow victory over sunnerup Tom Walker. Evelyn Scott was third with an aggregate of 29 and a plus of eight. four more than Margaret Wein. Completing the standings were Ross Richardson. Russ Snell, Lawrence Russell and Mildred Pearsall. The Tiger scoring started in the third as Glen Thurman singled and crossed the plate on another one -bagger by Dave Parsons. 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