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Home My WebLink AboutTimes Advocate, 1991-08-14, Page 14Grand Bend Golden Agers host flrst ever regional seniors games GRAND BEND - The first ever Seniors Regional Games in Grand Bend will be held next Monday with the headquarters for the day at the Grand Bend Legion and sponsored by the Grand Bend Golden Agers. Ron Dann, president of the Golden Agers and chairperson for the regional games said the six -event day is aimed at filling the gap left by the Ontario Sen- iors Games, which is held only every other year. Dann said he is expecting 140 senior competitors to travel from Grey -Bruce, London, Kitchener, and from around the Huron Perth Middlesex tri -county to at- tend the event. Gold, silver and bronze plaques will be presented to the winners. "It will be a keepsake they can put up on the wall," said Dann. Monday's activities will begin at 9:30 a.m. with shuffleboard at the Legion, with euchre and darts to follow at 1 p.m. Lawn bowling begins in Exeter at 10 a.m. and golf will tee -off at 1 p.m. at the Bayview Golf Course, with five -pin bowling starting at the same time at the Lucan Lanes. A banquet at 6 p.m. will cap the day, at which the awards will be presented. Dann said the idea to hold a regional seniors games in the area arose out of the desire to hold a summer event in the years between the provincial seniors games. I think it should go very well," said Dann, who said that such regional events could be- come more common. "We're hoping it will go right across Ontario," said Dann. "We're the guinea pigs." Dann emphasized the competi- tive nature of the event, and in- sisted it was just another social event. "They've always said seniors are not interested in competing, they just want to go out and have fun. That's not true," said Dann. Spectators will be welcome at the event. "Its on a Monday, so hopeful- ly they will be able to find park- ing spaces," said Dann. Reflect heritage Town eager to recognize morelloca sports contributors EXETER = With the success of last week's ceremony to name Al- vin Willert Field still fresh in their memories, Exeter council were speculating that much more could be done to recognize contributors to the town's sporting programs. Deputy -reeve Lossy Fuller first brought up the subject at last Tues- rlay's council meeting and suggest- ed more events could be patterned after the Alvin Willert Field cere- mony. She also said a photograph and plaque could be put up at the arena proclaiming Exeter as the home of NHL defensematr -Dave Shaw. Fuller said more could be done to recognize the work of volunteers for the town's sporting organiza- tions. Mayor Bruce Shaw agreed "we should be doing more things like this." He said it was time to get rid of the old street names that don't mean anything, and to replace ther,i with those that reflect the town's heritage. Works superintendent Glenn Kells suggested one half of Mary Street should be renamed because the two sections do not line up on either side of Huron Street and it is already proving confusing to townspeople and visitors. Shaw agreed that a re -naming may be ap- propriate. Kells also said the Snider subdi- vision is being planned and names have not yet been chosen. Shaw said a list of potential street names already exists and could be consult- ed. "We've done a great job patting ourselves on the back for what we have done, but I think there is room for improvement," said Shaw. Fuller, suggesting that a plaque be put up at the arena on which to inscribe sports volunteers' names, proposed that five or 10 years ser- vice would be a requirement for in- clusion. "Right of the top of my head I can think of 500 or 600 people," said councillor Dave Urlin, saying those who met such requirements were common. Fuller disagreed, but Urlin asked how she would define volunteer, pointing out there are many more contributors to local teams than just coaches. "It would be interesting to get the names together to see what the list would look like," said Shaw. However, Shaw added that his son Dave was not particularly inter- ested in seeing his flame up in the arena. "Like his father he is very mod- est," said Shaw. "It still should be there," argued Fuller. "He doesn't want the attention," replied Shaw, but Fuller said the picture should go up, regardless. 4. ajg bats do the kit Royals win own tourney By Fred Groves EXETER - Crushing the ball. It's a term used when a ball player hits one out of the park. There's few teams around who know how to do it better than the Exeter Royals. Over the weekend they won their own tournament, the 10th Annual event, defeating the St. Marys Se- lects 4-3. The Royals went unde- feated and in the process hit a whopping seven home runs. It's the fust time the Royals have won the tournament, they were second in 1989. In the five games, Jeff Shipley led the hit parade with two while Steve Neil, Mike Neil, Brent Daw- son, Sandy Hyde and Graham Nes- bitt all hit homers. Hyde's was the only one inside the park, it came against London in the opener and he dove and got his hand underneath the catcher to touch the plate. "At the first of the year some of our big hitters weren't doing that. They've gotten a few at bats and they've got confidence," said Mike Neil. "It only took a couple of hits for them to start a roll going," he add- ed. In a recent South Perth league game against Milverton he had three homers in a row off of David Goetz, one of the best pitchers in the league. • Exeter's top five batters, were very powerful on the weekend with Kevin Lightfoot leading off fol- lowed by Shipley, Brian Noyes, Mike Neil and Steve Neil. "One or two guys picks up the rest of them and they follow the leader," said Neil. In the final game, the Royals took a 4-0 lead. In the first inning Noyes doubled with two out, Mike Neil got on base due to an error and back-to-back singles by Steve Neil and Graham Nesbitt made it 2-0. Exeter kept the offence alive with two more runs in the bottom of the third. Noyes walked and Jim Alli- son went in as a pinch runner. Mike Neil had a base hit and he and Alli- son came home when Nesbitt con- nected. "Hitting seems to be contggloos We've got six hitters that are hot and we're getting good pitching," said Exeter coach Fred Cook. Royals big righthander Derwyn Hodgins, who had 49 strikeouts in the tournament, struck out 14 in the final. He was named the top pitcher while St. Marys Paul Horenberg was the Most Valuable Player. Hodgins was the MVP in 1989. "I've never seen him throw bet- ter," said Cook of his ace. The Selects came back and made it 4-3. In the third inning they had the bases loaded but Hodgins man- agedtogetoutofit. St. Marys got a run in the fourth inning when Brian Parkinson hit a double and scored on an Exeter miscue. They added two more in the fifth on a double by Doug Levy, Jim Siddall was hit by a pitch and Steve Tomkins doubled. "I was somewhat concerned, we didn't want to play them a second time but I thought Derwyn could hold them off," said Cook. If Exeter would have lost they would have had to play the Selects again. Semi-finals: The double elimina- tion 16 -team tournament saw Exet- er edge the Selects 2-1 in the fust semi-final game. It was only the first defeat for St. Marys the other coming in the championship. Lightfoot made it 1-0 in the top of the first inning when he scored thanks to Shipley's base hit but St. Marys tied it up on a pair of Exeter errors. With one out in the fifth inning, Nesbitt blasted one of the longest home runs of the tournament. The ball climbed high into the air before clearing the fence by at least 20 feet. The other semi-final game put St. Marys against a very tough team from Merlin and it was the Bobbled ball - St. Marys' Doug Levy, left; couldn't hang on to the ball as Exeter Royals' Kevin Lightfoot Selects on top,1-3 1. made it $afely to third base during the the final game of the 10th Annual Exeter Royals' Fastbal► earns -_—Big o 0d- a°t` a ment. The Royals edged SL Marys 43. 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