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Home My WebLink AboutTimes Advocate, 1989-08-16, Page 13�. Sell It hi the classlfl eds Call 235-33, • 41:1 TRT USS"RD Exeter Rate! subject 235.1060. .19 Ghpese Wednesday, August 16, 1989 • Royals come close to taking title EXETER - The Exeter Royals had to win a lot of fans or at least gain their respect as perhaps the largest crowd to ever sec a fastball game witnessed the finals of the. eighth Annual Exeter Royals Fast - ball Tournament. Unfortunately for the home squad exhaustion took it's toll and. they came up short losing to the Strath- roy Lands Jets 2-1 in 13 innings. The action got underway Friday evening as Exeter routed Robert Bice Construction 9-2 behind the one -hit pitching of Greg Wise. St. Pauls knocked off Fullarton 3-0. Sheddcn edged Shakespeare 1-0 and the final contest of the night saw Pctrolia get by Oakville 1-0. Saturday's morning) Mark Daoust turned in an outstanding perfor- mance collecting three hits and pitching a 6-5 win over Steve Virag and the London Police. Stoney Point edged Bclmore 3-1. Strathroy 5, Hurdcrson 3, and London Arby's 2, Burlington Abrex 1 in eight in- nings. The dark clouds that gathered in the Saturday afternoon sky proved to be a bit ironic as St. Pauls scorcd two unearned runs to beat Exeter 3-2 in extra innings. Fullar- ton them eliminated Bice from fur- ther play by a score of 7-2, before the sky opened up. When the weather finally cleared up the tournament organizers were left with two lakes instead of soft- ball diamonds. However the team and a few volunteers worked dili- gently for hours until the diamonds were playable. • When play continued after ap- proximately four hours, Pctrolia came from behind to upsct Sheddcn while Shakespeare downed Oakville 4-2. Stratford played their second straight extra inning game but came up short losing to Stoney Point 1- 0. Meanwhile on the losers side of the bracket, the London Police beat Bclmore by a 5-0 count. In the final games of the second round, Strathroy kept rolling along led by former Memorial League All-Star Brian Anderson winning 3- 1 over London Arby's. Burlington Abrex meanwhile stayed alive as their big right handcr Mark Curtis two hit Henderson to win 2-0. Due to the long rain delay the new revamped schedule pitted Exet- er against Shakespeare and Fullar- ton against Shedden approximately 11:30 p.m. Saturday night. Derwyn Hodgins showed fans what near perfection in fastball looked like. Throwing only the sec- ond perfect game in tournament his- tory, Hodgins struck out 18 of the 21 batters he faccd and the Royals bats came to life collecting 10 hits - for six runs off espeare pitch- ing. At the me time, Shedden topped Ful on 8-6 in a game that ended aroun 2:15 a.m. Sunday morning. Starting one early Sunday morn- ing still had the tournament running about two hours late due to the pre- vious day's rain. The London Police had little diffi- culty sending London Arby's home with a 10-4 defeat. With only St. Pauls, Peutblia, Stoney Point and Strathroy left undefeated Petrolia got by SL Pauls 2-0 and a scrappy Stoney Point team put up a good fight, but finally bowed 2-1 to Strathroy. Exeter continued its long climb back through the loss bracket with Hodgins playing a "one man wreck- ing crew' tossing a one -hitter and driving in the winning run to top Shedden 2-1. Both Jim Avery of Stratford and Steve Virag of London held their opposition to three hits as London beat`Stratford. Hodgins started his second con- secutive game and Greg Wise mopped up as Exeter advanced to the money round by eliminating Stoney Point 3-1. Brian Noyes and Hodgins led the way at the plate each reaching base three time in four trips. Steve Virag proved why he is still considered one of the best pitchers in fastball holding St. Pauls to two hits and winning.1-0. _. That set the stage for a pitching confrontation between Derwyn H �d gins and Virag. Both pitchers Clad carried their teams this far but again Hodgins bat did as much damage as his fastball. Hodgins knocked in Pete Tuckey and Bob Cornish with a double on route to a 5-1 victory. Dan Heywood held the Police to one run over the last four innings for the save. The Royals had to then face Pe- trolia, who lost to Strathroy 3-0 in the next game. The fatigued Exeter squad were able to push a run across in the 10th inning on back-to-back singles by Noyes and Hodgins to top Pctrolia 2-1. By the time the final gamewas set, Exeter knew it had to do to win the tournament was beat Strathroy twice in the final. The problem was that the Royals' would start the championship series by playing their fifth consecutive game in the sweltering Sunday afternoon heat. Hodgins courageously started his fifth game of the day and seventh in two days. The Royals showed a lot of cou- rage and Hodgins' performance was unbelievable throwing 10 innings before he had to leave the game. Brian Anderson's bases -loaded Please turn to page 17 • Diving stab - Exeter Royals catchet Tom Tordoff makes a. diving ment for the first time ever this year ant lost in the semi-fina: stab of an attempted bunt during a prelirnir at)/ game of their tour- game to Strathroy, 2-1 in 14 innings. nament held on the weekend. The Royals clayed in their tourna- Grand Bend. Pee Wees CENTRALIA - The Grand Bend Pee Wee Boy's Softball squad took part in the Usborne League cham- pionship series in Centralia on the weekend, but lost two straight times in the double -knockout tour- nament. Grand Bend was defeated iiy Us - borne -7-6 and undefeated Crediton 16-9. Grand Bend had beaten Us - borne twice during the regular sea- son, by 13-1 and 18-7 thrashings, and Crediton hadn't lost a game un- til they were defeated by Exeter in the championship final. The outstanding player in the first game was Usbornc's pitcher Dennis Gower, who struck out 12 Grand Bend batters and faced only 27 in the game. Only Jake Morgan and Kyle Ver- muellen were able to make contact for Grand Bend, against Gower's impressive pitching. Both players laid down picture -perfect bunts that should have been scored singles if they hadn't been bobbled and a throwing error. As a result, Gower ewe, (Escort Carnival Funship "Holiday" Save $400-$700 p/couple when you book before Sept. 30. Sailing Jan. 27, 1990 - 7 days virtu- ally everything inciuced in one low iii ii,i,. ..sv• •••.•.• s y., v. va ••r au, come in. 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Crediton 16 - Grand Bend 7 Crediton, upset by Hibbert in their opening game of the Usborne Minor Baseball Association cham- pionship tournament met Grand Bcnd, who were upset by a deter- mined Usborne team. Jim Reuten, of Crediton, had an- other strong performance, chalking up 14 strikeouts, walking only four and scattering 10 hits to pick lode in tournament up the win. He supported his own cause with a .333 average at the plate and one rbi. Although the powerful Crediton team outhit the Benders 15 to 10, Grand Bend still managed to turn 10 hits into nine runs, but that Please turn to page 17 Ironwood Ladies A Flight B Flight C Flight August 10 53 golfers Sponsors: J.M.R. Electric Ltd. and Exeter Decor (Norma Hooper) lsi low gross Joan Heywood • 1st low net Betty Cairns' 2nd low gross Pat Fletcher low putts Helen Burton 1st low gross Minnie Burke 1st low nct Bernice Thompson 2nd low gross . 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