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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1989-06-28, Page 17Express win their pool in Walkerton tournament KINCARDINE - The Exeter Ex- press played in the annual Walker- ton tournament on the weekend and won'their side of the draw which was played in Kincardine, but be- cause of a delay in the games played in Walkerton, the Express will have to wait two weeks before playing the championship game against the winner Walkerton draw. The finals will be played July 9 and the Express will face either Lakeside, Ajax or Port Latnbton in the championship game. In the first game of the tourna- ment the Express failed to get clutch hitting and fell 1-0 to Or- angeville Acchione A's Friday night. In the second game Saturday morning, the Express bounced hack to defeat last year's provincial Sen- ior D semi-finalists Wheatley by a 6-3 count. In game three, they bounced the 1988 OBA "C" champs Wyoming This Space Available by a 6-1 score. They gained some revenge by beating Orangeville in their fourth game 8-2 and used the hidden ball trick to win their fifth game, 3-1 over Wheatley. In the fifth game Wheatley had the bases loaded with one out and Express third baseman Barry Bayn- ham took a throw to try .and tag the runner at third out. He then pretend- ed to throw the ball hack to the pitcher and when the Wheatley run- ner was wandering off third base, Baynham applied the tag to the em- barrassed runner. The strong pitching, and tough de- fence were the big stories for the Express in the tournament however. Exeter gave up only eight runs in the five games while every Exeter pitcher went the distance in their games, which saved the bull pcn. Orangeville 1 Exeter 0 In the opening game, Orangeville got the only run it would need in the first inning, when two A's players singled and the bases were loaded on a walk and the run scored on a sacrifice fly. . Starting Exeter pitcher Paul Els-, ton took the loss but scattered only five hits in the game but couldn't get any offensive support from his teammates. The Express could only manage three hits in the game. Orangeville pitcher Darren Meyer had a no hiuer going until the fifth inning when Pete Heeney and pave Parsons both singled but failed to get a runner past second base. Exeter final hit ' came off the bat of Dave Shaw in the sixth inning, when he also sin- gled. Exeter 6 Wheatley 3 In this game the Express fell be- hind 2-0 in the top of the third but rallied for three in their half of the inning and took the lead for good adding another run in the fourth in- ning and a pair of runs in the fifth. The Express used their hits wisely in this game as well. They scored three times in the third on just two hits. Walt Parkinson led off with a sin- gle, Baynham walked and Mike Neil followed with a rbi single scoring Parkinson and sending Baynham to third. Paul Qilmour followed with a walk to load the bases and Baynham scored when Darcy Martin was hit by a pitch. Neil crossed the plate when Greg Hern was later safe on an error. The run in the fourth came when Baynham walked and scored when Shaw followed with an rbi double. Their final two runs came in the fifth on a pair of singles, by Hern and Doug Fairburn and a pair of ground outs. Dave Parsons went the distance for the Express in this game and gave up five hits and struck out four. Exeter 6 Wyoming 1 Exeter got the bats started early in this contest, scoring three times in the first inning on four hits and never looked back, adding single tal- lies in the third, fifth and sixth in- nings. In the Exeter first, Heeney led off the game with a single, Baynham followed with a walk and Shaw sin- gled to score Heeney and Baynham moved to third. After Kevin Hern struck out, Kevin Drager followed with a single to score Baynham. Shaw moved to third on a will pitch and eventually scored on a sin- gle by Parkinson. The big hit for Exeter in the third was an rbi single by Greg Hern scoring Parsons after he walked, while Darcy Hayter picked up an rbi single in the fifth scoring Drager who had also walked. The express had a chance to blow the game wide open in the fifth, getting the base loaded ,with two out, but the rally was stopped when Baynham ground- ed out. Dave Shaw's lead-off homer in the sixth inning accot.n:ed for Exeter's final run of the game., Gilmour tossed a four hitter at Wyoming, striking out nine and al- lowed the one run, which came in the sixth and final inning. Exeter 8 Orangeville 2 Exeter had better luck against Or- angeville the second time around in the tournament. This time they scored twice in the first inning and never looked back, added a single run in the second, three in the fourth and two in the sixth. They made good use of their hits in this Please turn to page 20 North Middlesex & Larnbton. Since 1873 Wednesday, June 28 1989 MSTANDARD TRUST 3/4% Exeter Rates subject 235.1060 to change Second Section IMENA _St. Marys edge Lucan Juniors LUCAN - On Sunday the Lucan Junior baseball team was handed their. fourth loss of the season,by the St. Marys Saints, in a close 5-4 contest. The loss drop Lucan into third place behind league -leading Exeter and: second place St. Marys. Both teams scored a run in the first inning on one hit each and the game stayed that way until' the bot- tom of the third inning when Lucan took the lead for the first time on a double by Chris Smith and on RBI single by Dan Jenson. .From then, St. Marys took the lead with one run in the sixth to tie the game., two runs in the eight and one in the ninth to take a 5-2 lead. Lucan got closer with a two -out rally on singles by Tyler Brown and Leigh Mathieson and a two -run sin- gle by Paul Smith. Lucan was lead by Dan Jenken who was three for three at the plate and Chris Smith who went two for three. They were lead defensively by Sandy Hyde's pitching allowing eight hits and four runs. Next game for Lucan is tonight (Wednesday) when they travel to play fourth -place Seaforth at 6:30 p.m. Sunday Seaforth will play in Lucan at 1:30 p.m. while Tuesday Lucan will play in Clinton at 6:30 p.m. and one week from tonight they will tangle with the first place Exeter Co-ops in Exeter, again at 6:30 p.m. •c, In a pile of dust - Dan Jenken, (8), of the Lucan Junior Baseball team, slides safely in a pile of dust after stealing second base as the second baseman from the St. Marys Junior team applies the late tag. Lucan played host to St. Marys Sunday afternoon in a battle for second place but lost the game 5-4. Lingard's Nautilus r1 f+ 4 114r . to NAL l IL_ t1:, ass j•�t► arouttr • 4;i is fastest local boat The stretch - Tyler Brown, first baseman for the Lucan Junior baseball team stretches to. get an errant throw out of the dirt as a runner from the St. Marys Saints team hustles to first base, while the um- pire gets a close look at the play. Those teams met in Lucan Suhday afternoon, with St. Marys tak- ing a 5-4 victory. Nautilus - Russ Lingard's boat, Nautilus, from the Grand Bend Yacht Club gets set to sail at the start of the Grand Bend 100 Yacht race Saturday morning on Lake Huron. Nautilus won the Oak- wood Trophy as the fastest Grand Bend boat to complete the race. Wind change helps to speed boats GRAND BEND - A change in wind direction helped boaters in the Grand Bend 100 yacht race com- plete the Lake Huron race much,. faster than expected Saturday. The boats went off in four differ- ent starts, 10 minutes apart, start- ing at 9:30 a.m., depending on the size and speed of the boat. Jubilee, from the Sarnia Yacht Club, was the first to cross the finish line and it did so in 14 hours, 15 minutes, 19 seconds. Officials of the race were antici- pating the boats to take between 25-30 hours to complete the race. Only a pair were forced to drop out. The race started in Grand Bend, from there the 38 boats that entered went north 13.9 nautical miles to Bayfield, then 36.4 nautical miles west across Lake Huron to Port Sanilac Michigan, then back cast across the lake 24 nautical miles to just north of Kettle Point and the 13 nautical miles northeast to Grand Bend. Jubilee took the Labatt Trophy as the first overall winner, while Nau- tilus, skipped by Russ Lingard, won the Oakwood Trophy as the first Grand Bend Yacht Club boat to cross the finish line. The overall Grand Bend winner was Event Hori- zon, skipper, by Peter Engler'. The boats that finished were put into seven different divisions. Can - du, was first in the Midget Offshore Racing Club -(MORA) A division, Maniac was second and Silverwind third and all are from thc Sarnia Yacht Club. Sarnia also claimed the first two spots in the (MORA) "B" division, with Canned Heat and Mr. Grccn Jeans, while Fear & Loathing from the Bayfield Yacht Club, was third. The Sarnia Yacht Club also claimed the top three spots in the (PFRA Division as well, being led by Jubilee, followed by Piroucue in second spot and Rolf Elias. Saralysia, from the Bart Shanty Sailing Club in Port Sanilac, was the first boat in the (PRFB) Divi- sion to cross the finish line, while Surprise and Air Supply from the Sarnia Club placed second and third respectively. �i I Rongotai 111, from the Sarnia Club, finished first overall in the (PRFC) class, Rowdy from Port huron was second and Second Wind from Bayfield place(' third in the di- vision. Firecracker, also from the Port Huron Yacht Club, was first overall in the (PRFD) class, while Grand Bend's Event Horizon was second and God's Gift from Port Sanilac was third. In the final category, the Cruising Division, Bayfield claimed the top three spots. First place went to Windswept, second was Rcmarc and in third place Cheers. The last boat to complete the trek was Bayficld's H. T. Express, an- other in the Cruising Class, and it cross thc finish line at 5:29.04 Sunday morning. Awards were presented to all the winners of the race Sunday morning at the Grand Bend Yacht Club club- house. Co-ops bounce Kincardine EXETER - The Exctcr Junior Co-ops played only once last week and beat Kincardine in an exhibi- tion game 7-5 Sunday night in Ex- eter. The Co-ops game against Sea - forth last Wednesday in Exeter was postponed due to rain and will be made up at a later date. Against Kincardine, Exeter led 2- 1 after the opening frame and in- creased it to 5-4 aftcr the third in- ning when each team scored three and finally took the lead for good, scoring twice in the bottom of the eighth after Kincardine drew even at 5-5 in the top of thc fifth. In the Exctcr first inning, lead-off batter Jeff Keller singled, stole sec- ond, went to third on a wild pitch. Please turn to page 18 a2` • �.�a ��•�.1�‘" C. '-- Call 1 ��~ry: , c.,,V' 2 35-1 678 Wit„" r • Digflan ,... 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