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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1993-09-01, Page 18Page 18 1 lines -Advocate, September 1,1993 Exeter Rookies Is host OBA tourney this weekend Baseba77 EXETER - Onceagain Exeter will be hosting a pro- vincial baseball championship tournament as Rookie ball comes to town on the Labour Day weekend. li is just the second year that Rookie ball has had an Ontario Baseball Association final as it is a new game which ingrowing in popularity. The rules of baseball.are followed and the only dif- ference in the game (which is for eight and nine year- olds) is that one of the coaches puts balls into a pitch- ing machine which ejects balls at the bauer. "The kids really love it, they get consistent pitches they can hit," said Exeter Becker Faun Equipment Off to Hanover coach Dan Meidinger. He is the organizer for the seven -team tournament which begins on Saturday at the South Huron Recrea- tion Centre and concludes the following day. With the pitching machine and more hitting, comes a lot more fielding which keeps everyone very busy. There arc 11 fielders including two 'pitchers' who stand beside the pitching machine. Tournament action begins on Saturday at 9 a.m. when Mitchell takes on Leamington. That's followed 'iby Pt. Colborne against Georgetown at 10 a.m. Opening ceremonies are scheduled for 10:45 a.m. =and will feature piper Ian McCrae, Mayor Bruce Shaw .. and Julie Godbolt who will sing O'Canada. Baseball action confines at 11:15 a.m. as hosting Ex- eter takes on Blenheim and the winner of that will face Georgina at 2 p.m. Strong qualifyingtournamen will help .Exeter bantams HANOVER - The Exeter River- view Estates Midgets are coming off a very successful qualifying tournament in which they won 4 - of -5 games. This weekend in Hanover, at the Ontario Baseball Association 'D' tournament, they will once again look to pitching as their strength. Beginning Saturday morning on the diamond in .nearby Walkerton, Exeter will havea lot of pitchers, including a pair of •lefthanders to get the job done. Lots of pitchers "Going into the OBA playoffs in Hanover on Labour Day, I like our chances," said Exeter coach Gary `�. ''HANG ON TO YdUR' 1ATS'' Yep, hang onto your hats folks because the signing of ALEXAN- DER DAIGLE is going to cause trouble for other General Manag- ers of drafts.... "Big Time!" In case you don't know the details listen to this. Alexander will re- ceive in base salary in his first year 1.225 million, next year. 1.425 million, 2.35 million, 2.6 million. and 2.65 million. But you ain't heard nothing yet because in each of his first four years there's a signing bonus of, first year - $75.000, second year - $250,000, then $500,000 for Ike next .two years. So now things are different, yeh really hang on because the next year he gets 1.975 million, then 1.675 million and in 1995-1996 2.85 million. It's getting better folks because in the next year 1996-97 it's 3.1 million. Now you must re- member this is for a guy who hasn't scored a goal or skated a shift in the big time. Sure you're gonna say what about ERIC LINDROS? Wait a minute, ERIC skated and played a regular shift in the Cana- da Cup and was in the top 3 forwards on the team. Not only that, he broke ULFIE SAMUELSON'S, shoulder so he's alright in my book. There's no comparison. One guy, ERIC is 6'6" 240 lbs., and the other guy weighs 170 lbs. Don't get me wrong, more power to the kid. If he can get it, great, but what happens now to HART- FORD WHALERS. What does their G.M. BRIAN BURKE say to CHRIS PRONGER (who actually was No. 1 in the central scout- ing). PRONGER'S agent will say "now wait a minute" if Central scouting picks us No. I and DAIGLE was picked No. 2 and he gets 12.5 million and your offering us this?" What can BURKE say? Same as PHIL ESPOSITO. What does he say to CHRIS GRATTON (a real beauty, tough, a hitter who can put the puck in) who was selected No. 3? I know for a fact that some G.M.'s are sick over the signing, but as I said, more power to the kid if he c an get and get it when he can. If I was GILLES LUPIEN (his agent), 1 would tell ALEXANDER to watch is mouth though. When you make a statement like "I'm glad I was No. 1 and whq remembers who was No. 2 or 3"? 1 don't thunk I would say that about number 2 or 3, especially when the number 2 pick is 6'6" and the number 3 pick, GRATTON is 6'3" 220 lbs. and KILLS in the corner. ANOTHER BAD DECISION IN OTTAWA One more comment 'on the Ottawa Senators. For the life of rite why would they let MIKE PELUSO go? Here's a guy who not only scored 15 goals (not bad for a team like Ottawa) but he had 318 min- utes in penalties including all the fighting and protecting -of- the smaller players. Doesn't It make sense that you keep a guy who can put the puck in and be an enforcer who could protect DAIGLE whose gonna need a lot of protecting? Doesn't make sense to me. Pre -season ;Hockey Ringette SALE Huge savings on equipment, sticks, skate and accessories "At • you're always on the •Ower Play!" RSD now offers overnight skate sharpening (sharpening done by John Campbell) RSD also offers a complete hockey repair service. 411aVS97crg &ieg( 282 Main St. Exeter 2355-1314 Hartman. On the mound, he'll have Darren Kints, Dwayne McNab, and ban- tam -aged Jeff Glavin as righthand- ed hurlers along with lefties Darryl Hartman and Glen Spicher. Fxeter Rrapview'i' fatates Midgets: Trevor Taylor - 2b/catcher Chris Glavin - 2b/catcher < tAar on Bayer ;patcber : ill=+Iodge ecni i~Ee1d 'Marren Kints -:p/ss ,4P� "Darryl Hartman - p/l b"' Joe Maskell rightfield Dwayne McNab - p/ss Glen Spicher - p/3b Trevor Gregorio - c/lb Andrew Hern lb •• ?,;( 4%• Jason Maskell - leftfreld js Jeff Glavin - p/if (bantam) Gavin Poole —outfield (bantam) Adam Dousky - c/2b (bantam) "Our pitching, under pitching coach Scot Russell, with three.riigh- k thanders and two lefties are ready. All are capable of pitching full games." Trevor Taylor and Kints from the 1992 OASA bantam softball cham- pions provide good leadership and eight of this year's team members were on the Exeter bantam team which played in the provincial fi- nals a year ago. The 1993 Exeter Rookies are (from front left) Matthew Dietrich, Cody Oakes, Tim Meidinger, Tim Snell, Amanda Wuerth, and Jamie Johns. In the middle row, from left, are Liam Chisholm, Daryl Boume, Kevin Overholt, Cam Murray, and Kevin Dickins. Behind are coaches Dan Over- holt (left), Wayne Dickins, John Wuerth, and Dan Meidinger. Seniors Express miss by one run TILLSONBURG - The Exeter Express missed going to this year's Ontario Baseball Association Sen- ior 'D' championship tournament by a single run. Sunday afternoon in Tillsonburg, the host Red Sox squeaked out a slim 4-3 win to send them to the tournament which this year, is be- ing held in Kendal. Tillsonburg one the opening game of the bast -of -three playoff series, a convincing 10-6 victory but Saturday saw Exeter pitcher Scot Russell toss a four -hitter in an 8-0 shutout win at the Alvin Wil - len -Field in Exeter. That forced Sunday's game. which saw the visiting Express hold a slim 3-2 lead until the sev- enth when the Red Sox tied it up before winning it in the bottom of the ninth. Exeter jumped into a 2-0 lead in the top of the third frame when . catcher Bill Glover reached base on ,;an error, moved on a Fred Gregus ase hit and then back-to-back sin- gles by Rob Dickey and Rick Boon put the visitors ahead. But in the bottom of the third Zurich Lumber Queens Mystery of uniform is solved by former player ZURICH - It didn't take long to solve a mystery. In last week's issue of the Times - Advocate, Exeter Mike Soldan toad found a women's ball uniform which he believed to be from the 1950's. After printing Soldan's phone number in the paper, Zurich's Joan McKinnon of Zurich was quick to give him a call and tell Soldan that she was a member of the Zurich Lumber Queen's from 1950 to 1952. According to McKinnon it was a ,women's softball team which played against such teams as Hen - ;d llderion, She still has a few ASO .lion Abe team which, al- • • • • • • • • • • • though they had fun, didn't win too many games. "I don't think it (Lumber Queens) lasted .too long because we didn't win too many games," said McKin- non. Coached by Clare Bedard and then Herb Turkheim, McKinnon easily remembers other team mem- bers: Barb Gascho, Gladys Bedard, Betty O'Brien, Marlene Wagner, Joyce Witmer, Shirley Fairbairn, Betty Parke, Marie Willard, Carol Thiel, Joan McKinley, Marg Schilbc, Marg Hess, Dolly Hilde- brand and Ruthanne Soldan. The last name on that list is a rel- ative of Hike's and no doubt that's who the woolen uniform belonged to. Found in a trunk on Mike Sol- dan's farm, the uniform the Lumber Queens wore was grey with red trim and the socks were similar to heavy hockey socks. "I don't remember it being that terrible," said McKinnon of the uniform. Many of the ladies still live around Zurich and no doubt they have many fond memories of their days on the ball diamond. • • • • a • IMIIIIIWO4100111141111 BALL Would like to thank all the Dashwood and area businesses for their support in sponsoring uniforms for our teams this year. Without your financial assistance we would not have been able to reach our goal. Thank You. Dashwood Minor Athletic Association , • • R h • a • t 6 • i F • • • • • • • f • • it,* 0 4 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Tillsonburg tied it up before Exet- er's Dickey and Boon combined again in the fifth to bring Glover home. Dave Atthill started on the mound for the Express but gave way to Boon in the third who went the rest of the way. The two com- bined to allow trine hits including six doubles. Express 8. Red Sox 0 In perhaps their best game of the season, Exeter held a 1-0 lead until the sixth inning when they scored six big runs to put the game out of reach. On the mound, Russell did not al- low a hit until the fourth inning and on the day, went nine full innings, allowing four hits and six walks. Exeter juggled their lineup some- what as they put Kevin Hem at third base and moved Dickey to left field. Gregus who made a great defen- sive play to double off a runner in the eighth inning had a double and a single while Scot Russell had a pair of base hits. The team would like to thank coaches Walt Parkinson and Doug Fairbairn for their efforts over the season. Scot Russell, centre; is teammates on Saturday against visiting Tillsonburg. congratulated by after pitching a Exeter Express tour -hitter HOLIDAY ADVERTIING DEADLINE or next week's twowspaper Because of the holiday Monday, all advertising must be in our office by Friday afternoon in ordor for us to maintain our publishing schedule.