Times Advocate, 1989-04-05, Page 19Sports Spotlight
by Wayne Proctor
You have probably all heard of Jimmy the Greek. Well the TA
has Proctor the Prognosticator. Following arc my fearless predic-
tions for major league baseball in 1989.
Lets start with the American League. East since that division is
probably ormost interest to people in this area and I will work from
the bottom up.
Last place - without a doubt will be the Baltimore Orioles. After a
dreadful 1988, the birds lost one of only two stars on the team, Ed-
die Murray went to the Dodgers and only Cal Ripken remains.
Ripken's talent is not enough to carry the lowly birds.
Sixth place - Cleveland Indians have been a perennial sixth place
club for the last few years and they haven't done a lot to change
things this year. Their biggest addition was getting Pete O'Brien
from Texas. Watch for, them to get off to another quick start and fade
back in August.
Fifth place - Milwaukee Brewers have got an aging club and they
don't realize it yet. Robin Yount and Paul, Molitor are still great hit-
ters but are getting up in age. If the Brewers get any kind of pitch-
ing they could move up as high as third but I don't think that will
happen.
Fourth place - As much as it pains me to say it I think the Detroit
Tigers will finish in fourth spot. They lost one of their leaders in
Darrell Evans when he went to Atlanta and unless Allan Trammell
has an MVP -type season season like a few years go and gets plenty.
of help from his teammates the Tigers are bound for fourth place.
Three trades last week should help their speed and pitching though.
Third place - The Toronto Blue Jays will never win the division
until they get rid of manager Jimy Williams and I have been saying.
that for -three years now. The Blue Jays arc loaded with talent but
Williams has proven he can't mesh them all together for •a winner.
Second place - Boston Red Sox have undergone quite a strain with
the Wade Boggs -Margo Adams scandal and last year's champions
have undergone so much inner strife that they won't repeat. They
also lost their ace lefty Bruce Hurst to San Diego, which will hurt.
First place - Another freshface leading the New York Yankees in
the name of Dallas Green should lead the Yankees to the title if their
pitching holds out. Green proved he can win with a mediocre team,
which is what he did in Philadelphia., Steve Sax should also help,
losing Guidry and Windfield for two months will also hurt. •
American League West
Seventh place - The Seattle Mariners have been in last place; or
close to it .every year in the league and have clone nothing to make
me change my mind about them this year.
Sixth place - The Chicago White Sox do not have a lot of proven
players and what they do have are getting too old, just ask 4.1 -year
old Carlton Fisk and they have virtually no starting pitching. -
Fifth place -For years the California Angels -were accused of hav-
ing a very, old ball club and now that most of those players arc gone
it should be a rebuilding year out on the coast. Most noticeable ac-
quisition was Lance Parrish, who came over from the Phillies.
Fourth place - The Kansas City Royals are loaded with good
young pitching but unfortunately the rest of their team, except for
BO Jackson, is getting old and fourth look like a sure bet.
Third place - All the ingredients are here tor another good season
-for the Minnesota Twins, but I think they will miss their big guy
Tom Brunansky. Not much of a bench but the most notable. acquisi-
tion on the Twins is Wally Backman, who was acquired from the
Mets.
Second place - Despite having an aging pitching staff, the Texas
Rangers were the'busiestteam in the off season, picking up guys
like Nolan Ryan, Rick Leach and Julio Franco and if they don't wilt
under the hot Texas sun in August, 'they could challenge for the
title.
First place - Never before in major-league history has the same
team had the Rookie of -the Year three -straight years until last year,
which is what Oakland has in Mark Magwire, Jose Canseco and
Walt Weiss, and they have a candidate to make it four straight in Fc-
lix Jose. Only real weak spot on the entire team is second base.
Just for the record this is how I think -the National League will
finish.
National League East
1. New York Mets ..
2. Pittsburgh Pirates
3. Montreal Expo
4. St. Louis Cardinals
5. Chicago Cubs
6. Philadelphia Phillies
National League West
1. Cincinnati Reds
2. Los Angeles Dodgers
3. San Diego Padres •
4. San Francisco Giants
5. Houston Astros
6. Atlanta Braves
• American League playoff winner
Oakland A's over New York Yankees in five games.
National League playoff winner
New York Mets over Cincinatti in seven games.
..•-----•. ) World Series winner
Oakland A's over New York Mots in six games.
Don't bet your house on it but remember you heard it here first
sports fans.
High School curlers - The Senior students at South Huron Dis-
trict High School held a bonspiel and the winners were; front row,
left to right, Marcie Ellison, Deanna Bileski. Back row, (14), Frank
Wulterkens, Larry Lewis.
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Panthers hold
Senior bonspiel
By Michelle Ellison
EXETER - Last Thursday, South
Huron District High School held
their annual Grade 12/13 Curling
Bonspiel at the Exeter Curling
Club.
Ten rinks formed of students from
grade twelve and grade thirteen
physical education classes at South
Huron.
In the consolation final, the rink
of skiiL,Michelle Caers, Michelle
Ellison, Mandi Fields and Christine
Rose met the team of skip, Chris
Haugh, Harien Tinney, Jeff Den Ot-
ter and Laurie Chalmers. •
Haugh's rink became the consola-
tion champions with little difficul-
ty, winning 9-3. -
In the final round of the bonspiel,
the team consisting of skip, Deanna
Bileski, Larry Lewis, Marcie Elli-
son and Frank Wulterkens met the
rink of skip, Dwayne Costain, Tom
Rolph, Jason Moore and Terry Mel -
lin. Following six ends of some
competitive curling, Bileski's rink
took the win 5-3.
Overall, it was a successful day
for Exeter's new curlers.
Times -Advocate, April 5, 1989
Page 19
Panther curlers - The South Huron District High School held a special bonspiel for senior student
last week at the Exeter Curling Club. Releasing a rock here is Sonya Shantz, a grade 13 phys. ed.
student.
Badminton club active
By Michelle Ellison
EXETER - Last Thursday, the
South Huron Badminton Club end-
ed their season with their annual
Club Tournament held at .South
Huron District High School. In the
under 16 category, Carrie Oke was
the girls' singles winner with the
runnerup being Lisa Forrest. Oke
.and Andrea Francis took the Girls'
Doubles Championship over For-
rest and Lynn Workman.
The Boys' Singles' champion was'
Chris Gardner while the runnerup
was Mark ll'Anna and the consola-
tion winner was Jim Ahrens.
Gardner and Ian Verbeek became
this years Boys' Doubles Champi-
ons. D'Anna and Shawn Willert
were the runners up and Pete McAl-
lister and Brett Rideout were the
consolation winners.
Workman and Gardner claimed the
Mixed Doubles Champions, while
Forrest and Rideout were runners
up.
In the under 19 category, Chris
Campbell was the Boys' Singles
Champion over Ron Mosurinjohn.
Racing season ends_
KIRKTON - With spring already
here, Team Circus is winding down
their short but successful season on
the winning side.
Just like the old days of oval rac-
ing Brian Eickmeier and Rob Baxter
travelled alone to Sudbury to race in
the Valley Cup at Estaire, just
south of Sudbury. -
Racing was cancelled on Saturday
due to bad ground drifting and freez-
ing rain. Sunday was sunny and
just below the freezing mark, mak-
ing for excellent racing and watch-
ing by the numerous fans.
Eickmeier had his improved phaz-
er honed to a fine edge and im-
pressed the crowd with its speed in
this new class of racing. . Wins
were in B and C improved stock,
second in improved.
Trevor Edwards lent his Yamaha
-XLV to Brian who won 13 stock and
second in C stock. Fans were in
#we of this family type of ma-
chine's speed. Eickmeier ended up
second in points overall for the Val-
ley Cup and vows to return the be-
ginning of December for the first
winter race of the 89=90 season.
March 11 brought the Team to
Victoria Harbour for the last sched-
uled race in southern Ontario. Race
results were excellent from old and
really new team racers.
Edwards won B and C stock both
days on the Yamaha XLV. Sheri
and Kclli Regier of Kirkton made
their debut at racing, ages of these -
two arc 14 and 10 respectively.
Sheri was junior champion on
the XLV and Kelli tied the Kitty
Cat race for first place. Eickmeier
aced all three classes ran on Satur-
day first A,B,C, improved stock.
On Sunday in improved stock,
Eickmeier got a second in A im-
proved and clobbered a pylon in B
improved. Edwards upheld the C
improved stock.
Team Circus is waiting on an al-
leged race in Duparquet Quebec,
where the main street is flooded by.
hydrants and racing then cu'ls"
loose.
Look for some new equipment
and racing from the notorious Team
Circus for the next season. All of
this could not be possible without
the following sponsors: Royal
City Cycle -Guelph, Aarcon Equip-
ment Kirkton, B & K Tire and Bat-
tery Brodhagen, Reynolds Fabricat-
ing, Van Moorsel Insulation
Mitchell, Roetin Runners of Bur-
ford, Signs and Shirts Hensall,
Veals Meats and MacLeans from
Exeter. A much appreciated thanks
from Team Circus members and
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Exeter Mixed
Shuffleboard- Scores----z--,---t,
Wednesday, March 29
3 games
•- Ernie Ross 243
Tom Yellow 214
4 games
Beatrice Richardson 392
Joe Gosar 366
Chas. Heady 357
Delmer Skinner 355
5 games
Wm. Baechler 608
Walter Davis 475.
Phil Hern 409
John Pepper 355
6 games
011ie Essery 518
Thursday, March 30
4 games
Pearl McKnight 439
John Pepper 397
Marjory Hodgcrt 346
A. Hummel 261
5 games
Helen McKay 509
Mabel McKnight 457
Delmer Skinner 454
Wilma Davis 451
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