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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1989-06-21, Page 16This Space Available _r Serving South Huron, Since 1873 Wednesday, June 21, 1989 tcherd tournament exceeds goal for new van GRAND BEND - Kitchener's Gary Cowan broke his own course record of 61 by one last Wednesday to help his team take first place in the Eighth Annual Scatchcrd Invi- tational Golf Tournament at Oak- wood Inn. in Grand Bend, leading .the field of 252. Cowan shot.a blistering 10-undcr par round and was helped to the win by his foursomc, Joe Cun- ningham, Herb Patterson, and Gary Handley, all of Toronto. The four combined for a total of 164 quota points in the tournament's scoring A good cause - Former NHL player Dennis Hull was guest speaker at the Eighth Annual Scatcherd Golf Tournament held at Oakwood !nn in Grand Bend last Wednesday. Here, Hull, left poses with Dave Scatcherd, in front of the new van the contributions from the tournament helped .purchase for the Scatcherd Children's Centre in London. Putting for show - Craig Simpson of the Edmonton Oilers was just one of the celebrity.golfers in the annual Dave Scatcherd In- vitational Golf Tournament at Oakwood Inn in Giand Bend last Wednesday. The charity event helped raise $25,000 towards the purchase of a new van for transporting kids to the Scatcherd Centre in London. Express win EXETER - The Exeter Express played three league games last week and won two of them. The Express blanked Seaforth f3- 0 and Lakeside 2-0 but came up short against Strathroy 4-3. They also played Walsingham in an ex- hibition game Sunday afternoon 'and lost 8-5. Against Lakeside, Exeter scored it's only two runs of the game in the fourth inning. Kevin Hem led off that inning with a single, was sacrificed to sec- ond by Rob Dickey, went to third on a passed ball and scored on a single by Walt Parkinson. Parkin- son later scored when Darcy Hayter was safe on an error. The Express had only five hits in the game, buLtwo Exeter pitchers scauered six Lakeside hits. Exeter 13 Seaforth 0 In this game the Express scored once in the first, twice in the sec- ond, three in the third and fourth and finally added four more in the si xth. Darcy Martin led the Express at- tack this game with four hits in four trips including a home run, double and pair of singles, and scored three runs. Dave Shaw had three singles in four trips and scored three runs, while• Kevin Drager had two hits in four trips, including a homer and scored a pair of runs. • Exeter pitchers Paul Gilmour and Paul Elston allowed only a pair of Seaforth singles. Wednesday in Strathroy, the home team scored twice in the bot- tom of the ninth to nip the Express 4-3. Strathroy had scored once in the first and once in the second before getting the pair to win in the ninth. Exeter answered with single runs in the fourth, fifth and sixth innings. Peter Heeney and Parkinson had rbi singles for Exeter in the game.. Doug Schade and Dave Parsons were the only Express players st'ith more than one hit, both had two singles. Dave Slow started the mound for the Express and was relieved by Schade in the fifth, Dave Atthill in the eighth and Kevin Drager in the ninth. The Express played against Sea - forth in Exeter Tuesday night and they will play in the Walkerton Tournament in Walkerton on the weekend. Next league action for the Express is Tuesday July 4 when Strathroy makes a return visit to Exeter at 6:30 p.m. - - - � z S • ; ' . ', ".<2 .,a .,>,: . �•�-"°�?�gz F'�..°, - "fit .Z-ra to �n.� +.a - .. - .^,4 A wall of Mosquitos - Mdrty DeBruyn of the Exeter Mosquito Soccer team takes a free penalty kick no t ro u b I.e as a wall of Mosquitos from the Grand Bend team tries to stop the kick when those teams met in Exeter last Wednesday. Exeter came away. with a 4-0 victory in the game. for C o -ops system. The winning team all re- ceived new sports jackets for their efforts. , Not far behind in a tic for second place with 156 points was the Lon- don foursome of George Stinson, Maurice Butchey, Walt Mciklejohn and Blair Turner. They were tied with another Lon- don foursome of Alex Jazcy, Peter Sherman, Ed Thonide and Kcn Waite. The big winner in the tourna- ment was the children of the Scatchcrd Centre in London. The charity event met its goal of rais- ing $25,000 to purchase another'` van for transporting the children to and from the centre: The tournament attracts golfers from all over and this year was no different. Golfers came from Min- nesota and Vancouver end Montreal to take part this year. The special guests this year in- cluded former I\TI U_er Dennis Ilan, who according to club pro did a great job as guest speaker, Craig Simpson of the Edmonton Oilers; his brother Dave a former London Knight, and Toronto Bluc Jays mascot B:J: Birdie. The plans for the ninth annual Scatchard tournament are already underway. Exeter day. with Tigers LONDON - Steve Howe, di- rector of public relations for the London Tigers, has announced they have set a date for special Exeter Day at Labatt Park. Exeter Day will be Sunday, August 20 when the London Ti- gers take on the Reading Phil - lies, a Philadelphia Phillies farm team. Game time will be 1:30 'p.m. That day will also be Fan Appreciation Day at the park . The Tigers have set aside 500 tickets for the game that night. The festivities will include; a ceremonial first pitch by Exeter mayor Bruce Shaw or another municipal official, scoreboard recognition and the Jug Band has been asked to perform the na-, tional anthem. Mayor Shaw has said he will be glad to attend the game on behalf of the town. The Tigers, a Class AA affili- ate for the Detroit Tigers, has set aside special days for other, towns in the area as well, like, Seaforth, Wallaceburg and St. Thomas, while some others are currently being planned. No special group bus packages are planned but tickets are avail- ble from the London Tiger's ticket office at Labatt Park in London or call 645-2255. Clinton Canoe race successfully run GRAND BEND - The 16th annu- al Grand Bend Canoe race, spon- sored by the.Ausable Bayfield Con- servation Authority and the Grand Bend Chamber of Commerce was held under sunny skies Sunday. The races started at the mouth of the Ausable River in Grand Bend Grand Bend canoe race - The annual Grand Bend Canoe race was held in the Ausable River Sunday morning and attracted ca- noeists from all over the area. Shown here competing in. the Ban - 4 tam junior Doubles race is, bottom to top, Neil Dockstader and Trevor MacAuley, Mike Holmes and Jeff Sawdon, and Jarrod Boily and Pat Smith. and races went various lengths de- pending upon the classification of canoe or kayak. The winners of the Junior Meri's two-man canoe race were; Mike Holmes and Jeff Sawdon, also of Brucefield. The winners of the Bantam Men's two-man canoe race were;' Jarrod Boily and Patrick Smith, both of Brucefield. Don Wills, of Caledonia, was the winner of the C-1 Solo canoe race. Don Stoneman of Winchester was second, Dick Kloss of Brucefield was third, Joe Farewell of Guelph was fourth and Phil Neil of Bruce - field placed fifth. Ron Faik and Al Nichol, both of Michigan, were the winners of the two -men Amateur Canoe race, fol- lowed by Paul Dockstader of Gode- rich and Urb Buwalda of Denfield in second, Mark and Chris Vanderfloeg of Denfield finished third, Stan and John Anusiewicz from Bright's Grote was fourth and Kevin Nor- wood and Mark Masur of Toronto Was in fifth spot. Wendy Buwalda of Denfield was the first -place finisher in the Ladies Kayak Division. In the Men's "Kayak race, first place went to Maks Zupan of Port Elgin, followed by Terry Chappell of Bramalea and Larry Fleet of Lon- don. EXETER - The Exeter Junior Co- ops baseball team had no trouble beating Clinton 9-3 in Exeter Wed- nesday night, but found St. Marys a little more difficult Sunday. The locals gave up an unearned run in the top of the seventh to lose 8-7 in the completion of an earlier suspended game and the regularly scheduled game ended in a 6-6.tie and that game will have to be com- pleted at a later date. Against Clinton, the locals scored once in each of• the first•three in- nings and added three in the'fourth- and sixth innings en rout to their win. Todd Laporte had three hits in four at bats,. including two singles and a double, and scored three times, Fred Gregus went two for fotir and scored one run and knocked in one with a double, while single hits went to Brent O'Brien, Jason Keller, Scot Russell, Marty Mern- er, Jim Lewis, Ross Keller; and Da- vid Schwindt. Russell's hit' was a two -run homer. Jason Keller started on the hill for the winners, followed by Scot Dav- idson and Russell. In the game against St. Marys that was completed Sunday, the leadoff batter singled, went to sec- ond on a wild pitch, went to third on an error by losing pitcher Rus- sell and scored the unearned win- ning run on a sacrifice fly. Exeter had earlier picked up four runs in the second, two in the fourth and one in the sixth, before the suspension of play in St. Marys Please turn to page 18