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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1991-08-28, Page 16Page 16 Times -Advocate, August 28, 1991 PORTR Dietrich on national championship team EXETER - It's been a successful summer for Leanne Dietrich as the South Huron District High School graduate was a member of the Ontario under - 21 team which won the Canadian field hockey cham- pionship. Dietrich, captain of the 1990 South Huron Panthers provincial high school champions, played left wing different from her right wing position which she is accustomed to. "It was a switch, I started to like it but I hated it at first," said Dietrich. Monday morning she brought her skills to the field in which she spent as a high school star, helping coach Jim Workman get the Panthers' ready for the upcoming season. "They look pretty good, they know each other," said Dietrich. Last year the Panthers won the Huron -Perth title but weren't as lucky at OFSAA as they were a year ago. Dietrich is entering her second year of psychology studies at the University of Waterloo where last year, was a member of the field hockey team. It's question- able how that team looks for the fall. "I don't know. We had a pretty good season, fourth in our league. We haven't been together that much." Being selected to the Ontario under -21 team was a long process as she went to a tryout camp in Novem- ber and after a long winter the team began workouts again in April. "We played in the Montreal Cup on July 6-7 and the week after that we were selected. I did okay at the Montreal Cup so I figured I had a good chance." She made the team of 15 in which nearly 40 were trying for a spot on and added more honors to her list as a successful field hockey player. Sports shorts New golf league forming EXETER - Informality and fun are the two key ingredients behind the newly -formed senior mens golf group which is scheduled to play every Saturday at Irownwood. Bob Fletcher told the T -A all men 50 -and -over are encouraged to participate. "All competitions are team events with the total team score counting," said Fletcher. New teams will be drawn each week. Group organizers are Bud Preszcator, Ron Westman, Gib Dow and Fletcher. Local owner shares win ORANGEVILLE - Wilcos Jock- ey, was victorious in one of seven divisions of the Ontario Sires Stakes held at Orangeville Race- way on Sunday. The two-year-old pacing colt came from fourth at the half mile marker and worked his way to the top where he held on to win by a head. The horse is co -owned, trained and driven by Jack Wray of Lon- don. Hensall's John Taylor and Wayne Munroe also have shares in the fine youngster. - Beat London EXETER - The Exeter Kicks soc- cer team won an exhibition game against London recently by a 2-1 count. Greg Geoffrey and David Farqu- har scored for the locals who led 2- 0 at the half. Knight wins 14th annual shoot KIPPEN - The difference was just a matter of inches. Sunday afternoon, Dresden's Tom Knight hit a perfect 25 -of -25 16 -yard targets to beat Jamie Cald- well of the hosting Kippen Gun Club, winning the 'A' division of the 14th Annual Kyle Cooper shoot. The 52 shooters at this years event each had 100 shots at the four -inch round clay disc. Knight and Caldwell hit all 100 and went into a shootoff where Caldwell missed just once. "There were two one hundreds," said Caldwell. "Myself and Knight, I've done it four times this year." Caldwell won the Kippen Gun Club's high average this year with a 98.4 while Dan Crerar was close behind at 96.2. "It's just you and the target, it's not like it's cards," said Caldwell of his skill. On Sunday, the three divisions saw Bill Wylie hit 96 to win the 'B' title while Bill Henderson was the runnerup with 94 and hit 24 in the shootoff. In the 'C' group, Glen Curts was the champ with 87 and Al Kyle de- feated Bob Dodge in the shootoff as the ninnerup. The Kippen Gun Club dates back to the 1930's but had a very low participation for many years until it was resurrected in 1977. "It was roaring in the 1930's. We started it back up for nostalgia," said Caldwell. August 20 30 Shooters Glen Mogk Bob McPherson John Glazier Jody Mosurinjohn Murray Christie Glen Greb Frank Flynn Paul Hoff Brad Mann Ed Miller Ed Steegstra Pat Glazier Dennis Steep Dennis Boyd Lloyd Vennor Roy Lamport Bob Caldwell Russ Beaver Larry McNeil Mark Tuckey Fred Brall Kevin Clark Bill Munroe Brent Lovkje Elliot German Chris Hoggarth Scott Rowe Pete Caslick 50 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 24 24 24 24 24 24 24 23 23 23 23 23 22 22 21 21 20 19 18 17 Firing Iles - Bob Dodge, right; takes careful aim before firing in the 'C' division shootoff. 'A' champ - Tom Knight, right; of Dresden was the winner In the 'A' division at the 14th Annual Kyle Cooper shoot In Kippen on Sun- day. Jamie Caldwell, left, of the hosting club, was the runnenip. 4 They're off - Leanne Dietrich, left; sends two South Huron field hockey players scrambling for the ball during workouts Monday morning. Royals win playoff opener -- By Fred Groves EXETER - It was certainly clas- sic fastball Thursday night here as the Exeter Royals edged Milverton Magnums 1-0. The Royals who finished with an 18-8 seasonal record, won the playoff opener and headed into last night's second game of the best -of - three quarter -finals of the South Perth Men's Fastball League on a high note. It was a pitchers battle as Exet- er's Derwyn Hodgins allowed just one hit while his counterpart, Dar- win Erb gave up two. The only run of the game came in the bottom of the first inning when Royals' first baseman Kevin Lightfoot walked and after moving to second on a perfect bunt by Dar- ren Neil, scored on Mike Neil's hard hit single up the middle. Mike Neil had the only other Ex- eter hit of the game, a one out sin- gle in the fourth. Hodgins has been on top of his game since he beat St.Marys Se- lects twice in the Exeter tourna- ment. "I thought we'd score more runs," said Hodgins who struck out 22 of the 28 batters he faced. "The ball's been moving pretty good lately," he said modestly. Hodgins set the side down in or- der in the third, seventh, eighth and ninth innings. Behind him, the Royals didn't have much to do defensively but when called upon came up with the big plays. Second baseman Mike Desjar- dine backhanded a hard hit ball by Jamie Scott, turned and fired to first base in the fourth. In the next inning, third baseman Steve Neil made a good play when a ball took a bad hop but he han- dled it. Erb meanwhile struck out 10 and - allowed one walk. "It's the best I've seen him pitch this year," said Hodgins of Erb. Exeter coach Fred Cook would have liked to see a few more hits but thought both Erb and Hodgins were outstanding. "It was a classic game of fast - ball," said Cook who said there would be more hits in game two. - "The way Derby (Hodgins) is throwing right now I can't see them getting much off of him." Although the Royals did win, Cook did hint however his offence might be depending on Hodgins a Little too much. "I expected to get more hits. They came ready to play but once the game started and they saw how Derby was throwing, everyone re- laxed," said Cook. He recalled that two years ago in a playoff series against Milverton, the Royals depended too much on their pitching and lost the series. "Everyone let down tonight as soon as we got the run in the first inning because they knew we were going to win." If Milverton was to tie the series up last night, game three will be played Thursday in Exeter. During the regular season the two teams split their two games but Ex- eter won 7-0 during their tourna- ment.. Milverton finished third overall in the 19 team league with a 19-7 record, just four points behind the St. Marys Selects. Greys advance to Huron -Perth finals EXETER - After. defeating Crediton 8-4 in the third game of a best -of - three semi-final last Tuesday, the Exeter Greys have advanced to the Hu- ron -Perth Women's Fastball League finals. The Greys have since moved on to face St. Paul's in the best -of -five final, and the first game was played last night in Exeter, with results unavailable at press time, , - , Prior to Tuesday's game, Grey's coach Ron Westinan said ate, was un- impressed with his team's hitting during their Game Two performance in Crediton, which saw them shut out 3-0. "We gave up some runs and then just couldn't get them back," said Westman. "Crediton played really well defensively, and we hit too many fly balls." Westman set about to correct that aspect of the game, by bringing in a t - ball stand for warm-up, prior to Tuesday evenings finale. The move ap- parently paid off. Crediton played tough, retiring the side in order in three separate in- nings, but offensively stranded eight runners over the course of the game. "Exeter has a strong aggressive team. When we play them, it always seems that whoever makes the fust error and gives the opponent the edge comes up with the win. We didn't have any problem hitting Exeter's Patti Down, it was just trying to come up with some key hits at the appropriate time" says Crediton's Deb Lord. 'Mental errors have really plagued us this year. Next year we hopeto have some of our regulars back which will certainly help us on and off he field". Exeter profited from a four -run inning in their half of the sixth, to blow the game open. Exeter took a 2-0 lead in the second when a triple by Carla Wolfcamp _drove in Georgina Reynelds and Diane Willis who had both singled. Defense then took over as neither team could muster more than one hit over the next two innings. In the fifth, the Grey's scored two more as Patti Down and Cheri Carter singled and doubled respectively, and then came home on a single from Lisa Henderson. Exeter added some insurance in the sixth, scoring four more times. Crediton managed to get the bats going in their half of the seventh, as four runs crossed the plate. 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