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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1989-08-09, Page 17• ell It the classlfleds call 235-1331 g 1 1 •. TDARD RUST Exeter Rates subject 235004 . to chan3e North Middlesex & Lambton Since 1873 1 Wednesty, August 9, 1989 Second Section Freeman recognized with OHA gold stick LUCAN - In recognition of his 40 years in hockey, Lucan's Jim Freeman recently received the pre- stigious gold stick award, the high- est award given by the Ontario Hockey Association. Every year the O.H.A. bestows one or two gold sticks awards to people across the province they•feel have contributed to hockey over a , number of years. Freeman is only the second person in this area to ever receive such an honor. The other was Don Urbshott, of Ilder- ton, who was honored for his hard work with hockey 10 years ago. Urbshott's son Wayne is a member of the Ex "ger Mohawks. Freeman was nominated for the Honored - Lucan's Jim Freeman was recently honored with a Gold Stick Award from the Ontario Hockey Association in recognition of his 40 years of hockey service in the Lucan area. Freeman is only the second person from this area to win the O.H.A. most distin- guished award: award by Don Yeck, a convener in Belmont, and learned he won the award at a recent O.H.A. conven- tion in Toronto. The award came as quite a shock. "I was really surprised when I found out. When they were talking about who had won it they said he started coaching minor hockey in Burgessville, which is where I am from and then I looked around the room and didn't see anybody else from there and knew they were talk- ing about me," said Freeman. Freeman started coaching in Lu - can in 1949. He launched the first bantam hockey club ever in the vil- lage. After moving to the Western Ontario Athletic Association the next yeas , he coached the Bantam and Pee 'Wee hockey clubs as well as player iin the Intermediate team. Back to the base - Exeter Pee Wee third baseman Kevin Ross gets ready go take a throw from his Aftcr c aching for several seasons catcher, who is trying to catch a runner from Grand Bend too far off 'third Mase, when those teams he also h.came the chairman of the met in Usborne Softball League play in Grand Bend last Monday. Exeter took a 12-8 win in the Lucan Minor Hockey Association game. for several seasons, something he said he ieally enjoyed. Freeman is also one of the found- ers of the present Lucan Irish Junior D hockcy club. He said the motiva- tion in starting a Junior team in Lucan was so that the local kids could have a place to play Junior close by because they were losing too many, who were heading north to play in Exeter. Shortly after getting the Irish off the ground, Freeman stepped down from minor hockey to devote more time to the Junior club. In past years he has served as, president, coach, mwiager and even bus driver. Freeman is currently on the execu- tive of th.3 club. In all ft's years coaching, Free -1 man has 'Peen a part of two provin- cial championship teams, the 1953- 54 Intermediates and the 1958-59 Midget. Freeman, who is retired from On- tario Hydro, spends most of his summer months working on his several gardens near his home in Lucan, and his winters in the hock- ey rink. Freeman also got his wife in- volved in hockey working for the Irish executive and he wouldn't have it any other way; "It gives me something to do in the winter. I love hockey and I will probably be associated with it until they don't want me anymore or un- til the day I die". Swim team at Goderich meet GODERICH - The Exeter Baracu- das Swim Club took part in their third meet of the season last Satur- day, July 29 and placed fourth in the five -team field. The host team from Goderich placed first because they have many more swimmers than anyone else, and racked up a a total of 564 points, Clinton was second with 255, followed by Seaforth with 207, Exeter with 120 and Stratford with 107. Exeter finished in third spot in the Girls' 11 and 12 year-old medley, re- lay. The team of Anita Wein, San- dra Vanderlaan Carissa Willis and Kristy Ahrens swam in a time of 1:55.6 Derek VanDyken finished third in the Boys13 and 14, 100m individual Medley, in a time of 2:19 and Lisa Forest was disqualified in the Girls, 13 and 14 individual medley. In Freestyle swimming, Chris Finch placed sixth in the Boys eight -and -under 25m, in a time of 40.45 seconds, Sandra Steele placed third in the girls 25m, in 35.80, Jon Moore placed sixth in the Boys nine -and -10 year old 50m freestyle, Sandra Vanderlaan was third in the Girls 11 -and -12, 50m race, Van Dyken was fifth place in his divi- sion in the 50m race, and Lisa For- est placed third in the girls 13 and 14, 50m freestyle in a time of 47.26 seconds. In back stroke races, Finch fin- isho i second in the 25m backstroke race in his division, in a time of 46.75 seconds, followed by team- mate Mark Knip in sixth spot in the same race. Lucas Forrest was fifth Boys nine -and -10, 25m race, Eileen Knip was sixth in the Girls' nine and 10 25m race, Wein finished a strong second in the girls 11 -and -12 race in just over one minute, Van Dyken was third in the division and Tracy Urlin was sixth in the Girls 13 -and - 14 year-old race, in a time of 1:28.27. Finch placed sixth in the Boys' eight -and -under Yin breast stroke, Melanie Knip:,. d Sandra Steele fin- ished second and fourth respectively Please turn to page 20' Express whallop Seaforth 24-7 EXETER - In their final home game of the regular season, the Ex- eter Express Senior D baseball team trounced Seaforth 24-7 last Tuesday night. The Express, who have a big lead in the Western Ontario Senior D Baseball League, fell behind 2-0 af- ter a half inning of play but bounced back to score eight times in the first inning, five times in the second, three in the third and eight more times in the fourth. Seaforth managed to score once more in the second, three times in the fourth and once in the fifth. Exeter scored eight times on six hits in the opening inning. Picking up hits in that inning were, Rob Dickey, Kevin Drager with doubles and singles to Dave Parsons, Walt Parkinson, Dave Hayter and Dave Shaw, with a two -run single. Shaw belted a two -run homer in the second inning, knocking in Parsons who had doubled before Shaw. Shaw and Hayter each belted home runs in the fourth inning for the Express, who scored eight times in that inning on another six hits. Doug Schade, Steve Meurer, Pete l leency, Drager, Hayter, and Shaw Please turn to page 18 Royals taking part in own tournament for first time EXETER - Fastball takes centre stage in Exeter this weekend as the eighth annual Exeter Royals Fast - ball Tournament gets underway Fri- day evening. Royals' coach Fred Cook claims that the event has put Exeter on the map as far as mens' fast -Hitch soft- ball gocs. "Outside of a true Senior A tournament, we put on one of the best - if not the best Intermediate fastball tournament in Ontario. We get inquiries and receive applica- tions from all over Ontario and even parts of Michigan," said Cook. Competitively speaking, the 1989 lurnc boasts arguably the tough- _filarrEnlrelitigriftrersvowir faced with a difficult job in simply mr3cit gY,iO4ournanient v4,41eQ141- cd to enter this years tournament in es With the exceptions of Pete Tuck- and Stoney Point face each other on ey and Brent Dawson, the Royals' diamond #2 Saturday at 9:00 a.m. bats have been quiet for most of the Another game at 10:30 a.m. Sat - season. Hodgins should be a big asset this weekend as he is considered one of the top pitchers in Ontario. Hodgins glen thre'.' c •3'-t' Szwiina Magic Re- ality of the Inter -City League and competed in the Ontario Senio. A tournament this past weekend in Burlington. At 9:30, Friday, Shakespeare Colts tangle with the Shedden Pests of the St. Thomas and District Fast - ball League. Shedden, made up pri- marily of players from last year's tourm en 76e!O--haV/, the favourites again this year. 128c..ec1 by pitrhrr Ritrh, AjNtymor ^nes Si. Thomas inter -City league _ Players Wade Walker and Mark Hie- p1eh, Shedden will test Shakespeare and their top pitcher Fred Follings. Rounding out Friday's action will -be-a contest hetween_Oakvi,l_l ar+4 - 1988 tournament finalists, Petrolia Mainstreet Squires. Oakville, a young club that relies on speed, should prove tough competition for a solid Petrolia squad anchored by Jim McNalley and last years tourna- ment top pitcher, Jim Park. Saturday morning at 9:00 a.m., the South Perth League's Stratford Leysers take on the London Police from London's P.U.C. civic league. This game may prove to be a pitch- ers duel. Pitchers Mark Daoust and Jim Avery are standouts for Strat- ford while the Police bring former Memorial League pitching stars Steve Virag and Metro Sseryk to Exeter for the weekend. Police coach Cliff Laye, originally from McGillivray township, has Just a blurr • Derwyn Hodgins' right arm was just a blurr to most df the his team solidly contending for .the.. „taa� _ Wodiiesday when the Royals picked up a hard-fought 1-0, 10 -inning civic league title this season. sail to start the first round of the'piay ffs. Ho dgins didn't allow a run in Two new participants, Belmore • serest. - asap _: rt day at 8:00 p.m. with South Perth League rivals Fullarton A's facing tltc S1-1+i1s.Genereides the. fact that both teams are currently competing for playoff positions in the West Division of their league, this matchup offers an interesting twist as Fullarton won the 1986 tournament while St. Pauls claimed the same honours the following year. Fullarton brings its usual strong line up bolstered by OASA signet pitcher, John Sykes to battle the al- ways -tough St. Pauls squad led by hard -throwing John VanNess. On diamond 2 at 8:00 p.m. Exeter faces the only participant from Lon- don's metro P.U.C. league, Robert Bice Construction. To have any chance of winning their own tourna- ment, the Royals look to rely on their stingey defence and right- handed pitching trio of Derwyn Hod yla, .,,Ihr,,1,t'19:1 :gel Greg Wise. urday, also sees two new entries in Henderson and Strathroy. Hender- son, playing out of the Woodstock Fastball League have four players with batting averages over .300 in Kirk Douglas, Jim Fitzmorris, _ •- 1111., gut 41O. akr - 'M r Stratford Leyser's batters win over Stratford in Hen- the.game. Dave Felder, and Rodger Anstee. Strathroy Langs Jets should be considered another top contender for the '89 tournament title as their line-up remains virtually unchanged freta -las: ear'-'mernoriat league team. This season they are neck - and -neck with Shedden for top spot in the St. Thomas and District League. Solid pitchers John Ferguson and Fastball legend "Smokin" Joe Ad- ams lead the Jets and their bats are no less potent with Brian Andersen, Kevin Gilmour and Tom Woodi- wiss providing the bulk of Strath- roy's offence. The final game of the initial round f- a London -lington Abrcx of the Burlington Fastball League. Arbys have several Please turn to page 18 Tournament Schedule Fri. Aug. 11 8:00 p.m. Fullarton vs St. Pauls 8:00 p.m. Exeter vs Robert Bice Const 9:30 p.m. Shakespeare vs Shedden 9:30 p.m. Oakville vs Petrolia Bat. Aug. 12 9.00 a.m. London Police vs Leyser 9:00 a.m. Stoney Point vs Belmore 10:30 a.m. Henderson vs Strathroy 10:30 a.m. Burlington Abrex vs Lon- don Arby's Games continue Set. to 9:00 p.m. Sunday Aug. 13 9:00 - 3:00 (Championship)