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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1989-05-31, Page 17This Space Available TIM ruonn m�aaia:e� s ST TRUEST D 1 YEAR TERM Exeter Rates subject 235-1060 to change Junior Co-op's record still perfect with 13-3 win SEAFORTH - The Exeter Junior Co-ops improved their league record to 5-0 with a 13-3. win in Scaforth last Wednesday night. They dropped a 9-1 to Hanover in an exhibition game in Exeter Sunday afternoon, however. In Wednesday's game, Exeter picked up four tallies in the first in- ning, three more in the second, five in the fourth and one more in the fifth. Seaforth answered with one in the second and and two in the fourth, off three Exeter hurlers. In the first inning the Co-ops scored four times without the bene- fit of a hit, Dave Schwindt walked with one out, went to second when Jeff Butler was safe.on an error, and Schwindt scored when Marty Mem- er was safe on an error, with Butler going to third on the play. Butler later scored on a wild pitch. Merner then stole second and went to third on a wild pitch and scored when Scot Russell also reached on an error. Russell went to second on a ground out and scored when Ross Keller was safe on an error. In the Exeter second, Fred Gregus singled, stole second and third and scored, on a double by Schwindt. Butler then doubled to scorer Schwindt. Butler went to third on a wild pitch and scored whcn Russell doubled. Seaforth picked up an unearned run in their half of the second off a triple and a wild pitch. Exeter picked up five more runs in their half of the fpurth stanza, on just one hit but were helped out with two walks and two more Sea - forth errors. The big blow was a bases loaded single by Ross Keller, knocking in two runs. The Co-ops' final run came in the fifth inning and was scored by But- ler, who once again reached base safely courtesy of an error by a Sea - forth player, and was driven in by a single by Scot Russell. Marty Merner started on the mound for Exeter and went three in- nings, gave up only one hit, two runs, one earned, two walks and struck out five. Terry Genttner pitched the next two innings, sur- rendered one run on one hit, one walk and fanned five. 'Terry Cox pitched the final inning and didn't allow a hit or a run. Exeter washelped along by seven Seaforth errors and they helped themselves by stealing nine bases. Hanover 9 Exeter 1 Sunday in Exeter in exhibition ac- tion, the visitors scored one run in the first, once in the second, three in the third and four in the eighth, off four Exeter pitchers. The Co-ops picked up their only run of the game in the fifth inning. In that inning, Hanover's starting pitcher Dave Edwards actually struck out four Exeter batters, but Scot Russell reached base safely when he swung at a wild third strike and the catcher couldn't throw him out at first. He went to second when Jeff Keller walked and scored on a single by Todd Laporte. Keller was the only Exeter player with two hits, while Butler, Mern- er, Gregus, and Mark Russell hart one each. Laporte went the first five innings on the hill for Exeter and gave up the first five runs on five hits, walked four and struck out four. Merner pitched the next three in- nings of shutout ball, striking out four. Cox pitched the seventh and eighth innings, giving up four runs on six hits and one walk, while Scot Russell struck out every man he faced in the ninth inning. The Co-ops played in Clinton Tuesday night and will play host to_ Scaforth tonight, Wednesday, at 6:30 p.m. Sunday the Co-ops travel to St. Marys for a 1 p.m. game. The slide - A Seaforth player goes for broke while trying to beat The catch - Exeter Co -OP backcatcher Dave Schwindt gets a the throw to home plate. hand on the ball as everything comes together. Exeter 13 Seaforth 3 ab r h bi Gregus;cf 4 1 1 0 Schwindt, c 2 2 1 1 Arnold, c 1 0 0 0 Butler, ss 4 4 1 1 Memer, p 2 2 0 1 Cox, p 0 0 0 0 S. Russell, 3b 3 2 2 3 Laporte, If 4 1 0 1 R. Keller, 3 1 1 0 Hem, rf 1 . 0 0 0 O'Brien, 2b 4 0 1 1 Davidson, lb 3 0 0 0 M. Russell, lb 1 0 0 0 Totals 32 13 7 8 Exeter 430 510 -13 Seaforth 010 200 -3 ip h r er fhb,a Mcmer (W 1-0) 3 1 2 1 2 5 Genttner 2 1 1 1 1 5 Cox 1 0 0 0 0 1 Hanover S. Russell, 3b, J. Keller, 2b. Butler, ss, 3b Laporte, p Merner, p, ss Gregus, c, cf Genttner, cf, rf Arnold, rf Schwindt, If R. Keller, If Davidson, 1 b Cox, p M. Russell, rf Lewis, c Totals Hanover Exeter Laporte Memcr cox S. Russell 9 Exeter 1 ab r h bi 1, p 3 1 0 0 3 0 2 0 4 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 4 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 3 0. 0 0 33 1 6 1 113 000 000 010 000 -1 040 -9 ip h r 3 5 5 3 0 0 2 6 4 1 0 0 er bbso 3 4 4 0 0 4 4 1 0 0 0 3 He's safe - The ball gets knocked free of Schwindt's glove ana the umpire calls the runner safe. Never mind, Exeter won 13-3 Shaw says Russians should help NHL ST. JOSEPH - The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming! It was announced last week that the three Rus- sian hockey players, Viatcheslav Fetisov, Igor Laionov and Sergei Makarov have been given their discharge from the Soviet Red Army and are free Co negotiate contracts with their National Hockey League teams, which would likely usher in a new era of the game. As well, one Russian, Sergei Preakin, signed with the Stanley Cup champion Calgary Flames late last season and another defected to join the Buffalo Sabres during the Stanley Cup playoffs. Exeter's Dave Shaw, of the New York Rangers, said he thinks the addition of the Soviets should help the National Hockey League but is not sure if he likes it because some older players may lose their jobs to the younger Soviet players. "I think the Russians should help the game and put a few people in the stands but I am not sure if I am in favor of it. I guess it is all right if three come over but I wouldn't want to see the whole Red Army come over," said Shaw at his summer cottage in St, Joseph last week. .� Shaw said a' lot of players arc upset with Alan Eagleson, who is responsible for the Russians coming over because as president of the player's association he is supposed to be looking out for the player's best interests, what Shaw thinks is a conflict of interest. "I think a lot of older players could be worried about a younger Russian player coming over and taking their job, which is where the conflict of in- terest lies" said Shaw. -7-: ,Last seas prilie Rangers had one of their best ever over three-quarters of the season, leading the Patrick Division for most of the year, but fell apart and lost 17 of their last 21 games and fin- ished in third place. As a result of their poor show- ing general manager Phil Esposito fired coach Michel Bergeron with two games to go in the sea- son, and took over behind the bench himself in an effort to try and get the team back on a winning track. The Rangers lost their final two games of the season and bowed out four straight in the playoffs to the Pittsburgh Penguins. Shaw said the way the team was playing he kcw something was going to be done to shake up the team and Bergeron's firing did not take him by sur- prise. "We played really poor defensively over the last month of the season. Our defence was really our strong point over the first four months of the sea- son. Everybody just wanted to score goals and we ended up giving up too many," said Shaw. "Espo didn't want our season to be wasted so he felt he had to let Bergeron go. I thought it was a good move at the time, because he (Esposito) al- ready knew the system and was good at getting the players motivated, but things didn't really go well at all for him behind the bench. Shaw said he will be sorry to see Esposito go. "Espo tried really hard to get a winnerin New York and knows what the team really needed, and he always treated me well. I was really surprised when I heard he was fired be- cause he was heading up the draft which will take place in two weeks. I heard we will just take the best player available now," said Shaw. The Rangers will have the 20th pick overall in the first round of the NHL draft. Shaw also said the New York fans took their frus- trations out on Esposito in the last playoff game. "I think the fans may have been party responsible for Esposito being fired as well because they booed him really bad in the last two home games, which I thought was totally unfair," said Shaw. Shaw said he thought the Stanley Cup finals be- tween Calgray Flames and Montreal Canadians pro- vided great hockey for the fans because both teams were very defensive minded, and added he was very happy for Conn Smythe Trophy winner Al MdIness, who was Shaw's defensive partner for the Kitchener Rangers in Junior hockey. He added he didn't want to pass judgement on the' , 12 -game suspension on Philadelphia's Ron Hextall for attacking Montreal's Chris Chelios in the last game of the Wales Conference Finals. Shaw said he never saw the play so it would not be fair for him to comment on it. Shaw was suspended for 10 games in November for slashing Pittsburgh's Mario Lemeiux Ncxt week, Shaw will be off to West Palm Beach Florida to attend the annual National Hockey League Summer meetings. Shaw will be there as the Rang- er's player representative, but he doesn't expect much to happen at the meeting. "It is just a meeting about the goings on in the league. Our contract is not up for another two years yet and we'll likely start working on that and they usually talk about trades and that's about it," said Shaw. There has becn talk about expansion in the Nation- al Hockey League in the near future, which may also come up at the meetings. Shaw said he is in favor of expansion in the league and thinks Milwaukee has the best chance of getting a new team. ather Time has finally caught up with a. pair of R• nger veterans. Shaw said Guy LaFleur will likely be back for one more season while he thinks Marcel Dionne will not be back, despite having one more year on his contract. Shaw will continue to play for the Exeter Express in the off season but admitted is anxious to get start- ed with t eXI Risen. He is not sure who he would like to see behind the Ranger's bench but doesn't think Dionne will be a candidate for coach because he doesn't think: hewiU get the player's respect. Panthers at By Michelle Ellison KITCHENER - Last Thursdhy and Friday, four athletes from South Huron District High School's Track and Field team at- tended the Western Regional meet in Kitchener. Chris Chapman brought home 4 end Regional track meet the best placing, a fifth -place finish in Senior Boys' high jump. Chap- man completed a jump of 1.9 me- tres to break his own school record he had set a week earlier in the WOSSA meet in London. Rob Wonnacott also participated in Senior Boys' high jump, finish- ing seventh with a jump of 1.85 metres. Scott Wellington returned home with a 12th place finish for the Panthers with a time of 9:37 in the Senior Boys 3,000 metre race. Laurie Forrester also attended the meet finishing 11th in Senior Girls' high jump as well as 12th in Sen- ior Girls' shotput. Six of nine soccer teams victorious EXETER - This week, nine of the Exeter Minor Soccer teams saw action on the playing field, with six teams taking wins. In the squirt division, Exeter 4 narrowly beat Exeter 1-0 on a goal by Peter Fragiscatos. The Exeter four defence was lcd by Nicolas Bayley and kept the strong forward line of Nic Regier, Shane Czypha, Michelle Genttner, Kegvin Thompson and Matthew Triebner, of Exeter one scoreless. Exeter 3 Lucan 0 Exeter three tra Tiled to Lucan and defeated them 3-0. Goals were scored by Ryan Beattie, Casey O'Brien and Tim Maver. Gjoa Carr and Aran Beattie played a strong game as well. Exctcr four hosted Arva and lost 4-0. Both Atom teams were winners by identical scores of 7-0. Exeter two beat Coldstream with Luke Sims scoring three times and sin- gles were supplied by Trevor Boer- sma, Eric Groot, Jamie VanEs- broeck and Ben Cottrel. Exeter Onetravelled to Llderton and won by a score of 7-0. David Farquhar picked up three of the goals, including one on a penal- ty shot, and Geoffrey Maver also re- corded a hat trick. The single goal went to Jacob Bruxer. Scott Gilfillan and Jonathan Tri- ebner picked up assists for the win- Plc.ase turn to page 18 Moore bombs Exeter 1 EXETER - In Exeter Minor Baseball Pec Wee Girls Division, Dave Moore Fuels powered past Exeter 1 by a 30-17 score in a game played last Tuesday, May 23, in the first game of the season for both teams. Jeri -Lee Davis belted two home runs, for Dave Moore Fuels, while Jodi Hamilton hit a triple and Christine Morgan also homered for Dave Moore. For Exeter 1, Dana Rcgicr hit a triple scoring a pair of runners. Christie McInnes was the start- ing pitcher for Dave Moore Fuels, while Hamilton came on in relief. Michelle Parkinson started on the hill for Exeter 1, while Jillion Gre- giore pitched in relief. Chrissy Parkcr also played a good game for Dave Moore Fuels and Brcnyn Baynham played well for Exeter 1. - `T �r ``. ... "VIZ Goal -mouth scramble - Ray Lewis, centre, battles the Wallaceburg netminder, left, and a Wallace - burg defender during a goal -mouth scramble when those teams met in Exeter Sunday aftemoon. The Centennials lost their third game in a row to the visitors by a,4-0 score. Next game for the Cen- tennials is Sunday at 5 p.m. in Chatham. 116