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Home My WebLink AboutTimes Advocate, 1994-05-11, Page 16Page 14 Times -Advocate, May 11, 1994 SPDRTLS Minor soccer has Increase, distances change for softball Let the summer comer begin? Sliding safe into third base during last wee basebal game against visiting DeYoung. Tuesday night's pee - Mitchell was Mike By Fred Groves T -A star[ EXETER - Oh yes, finally after shovelling snow and cursing the weatherman, spring is here. The familiar sounds of 'four' on the golf courses, 'nice kick' on the soccer pitches, and 'you're safe', on the ball diamonds echo throughout the night air. Take a walk some night over to the South Huron Recreation Centre where on any given night as many as four ball games and up to three soccer games could he taking place. Golf, haseball, softball (fastbali), soccer and slo-pitch are in their first few weeks of competition. While hockey in Exeter and the im- mediate surrounding area seems to have a more serious nature to it, the summer sports are a little more low key. Not that they don't try to win, but all sports seem to have a more re- laxing air about them. The following is a brief look at what's happening around the dia- monds, pitches and golf courses. Softball has new rules: Al Harri- son, president of the Ontario Ama- teur Softball Association recently announced some new rules which involve pitching and the distance between the hases. To help put less strain on a pitch- er's arm, the OASA will now allow pitchers from the mite division and up, to put one foot on the ground and one on the mound. The distance between the hases and the distance from the pitcher's mound to home plate have been in- creased. Two feet was added 'to the pitching distance in mite, peewee and squirt divisions. In mite, the pitching distance was increased from 28 to 30 feet and in squirt from 33 to 35 and in peewee from 38 to 40. For mite, distance between hases stays the same at 45 feet, but in the A brief look .into local courses EXETER GOLF CLUB: 9 Holes Longest: #9, 490 yards. Shortest: #3, 146 yards. Touhgest: #2,4,5,6,7 all have water to cross. Improvements: new traps on #1,2,8; bigger trap on #3; new tees on #l, 1; 300 trees planted on course; chipping green near clubhouse; grass tees )n driving range. Leagues: Monday night mens', Thursday morning senior mens', Tuesday morning ladies', Wednesday night ladies. IRONWOOD GOLF COURSE: 18 holes Longest: #I7, 488 yards. Shortest: #I3, 188 yards. Toughest: #7, large pond to cross. Improvements: remodeled clubhouse, 30 new I 5 -foot high maple trees throughout the course, planting new grass on #11, #12, #13.; five new golf carts, ball washers on all tees, new cart paths on #1 and #13. Leagues: Monday night ladies', Tuesday night mens', Saturday afternoon senior mens'. BAYVIEW GOLF COURSE: 18 holes Longest: #17, 542 yards. Shortest: #2, 226 yards. Toughest: #10, tough par4. The Wrath of Grapes by Don Cherry THE SINGAPORE CANE Singapore, you gotta love `cm. At one time, it had one of the highest crime rates in the world, then they said "enough is enough!" Instead of being easy on punks, dope heads, rapists, murderers and child molesters they said "now it's our turn to take over", and boy, do the punks pay big time! Take for example the chap from kettering Ohio. He thought it was very funny to spray paint graffiti all over people's cars. A real joke eh? It backfired and now the joke is on him. Once caught, he gets sentenced to a fine of $2,000, and the best part of all, 6 strokes of the cane. I wonder if he's laughing now. A poll taken in his hometown in the States, to see if he should be given the cane was 80% in favour of his punishment. His hometown folks said "it looked good on him", with comments such as "If we had the cane here in American schools, I bet chil- dren would listen to the adults and have respect for them." Another stated "I say go for it!" One woman said "Cane every single one of them who doesn't have respect and I'll bet they'll learn real quick" UMBRO THE SOCCER COMPANY The Area's Larges : Best selection of Umbro shorts and T-shirts 4 We also have a great selection of World Cup merchandise 46113port kii Inc. , 282 Main St. Exeter Tel./Fax 235.13144; L 4 . ._ Improvements: new tees on #1, #9, #10; new sandtraps on #18; slightly redesigned #I so it is not as tough. Leagues: Thursday morning ladies', Monday senior mens', Tuesday mens'. OAKWOOD GOLF COURSE: 18 holes Longest: #14, 600 yards. Shortest: #9, 90 yards. Toughest: #2, (slanted green); #I4 (distance). Improvements: brick walks on tee at #9, #18; benches along walkways; matted tee off areas; ladies' tees on par five's; revamped driving range. Leagues: members mens' Wednesday morning, members ladies' Tuesday morning, open mens' golf day on Thursday after 3 p.m. This week's results Exeter Golf Club Senior Men May 5 First Ron Johnson Doug Marks John Walton Lee Webber Second Charles Brown Harry Dougall Doug Harrison Iry Armstrong 39 34 35 3Z 145 36 35 40 149 Wed. Night Ladles May 4 Longest drive: Ruth Miller Closest to Pin: Helen Wasnidge High Gross: Liz Horne Ironwood Tuesday Men's Club May 3 A Flight First Ken Bergmann Second Dave Boltzmann Gord Rook Fourth Don Heywood Fifth Scan VanDongen B Flight First Don Coughlin Second Larry Johns Third Ken Pinder Fourth Bill Gilfillan 45 C Flight First Al Mitchell 41 Second Tony Underhill 41 Third Red Dcgraw 44 Fourth Tim Oliver 44 Fifth Scott Pincombe 45 Sixth Joe Wilson 46 D Flight First Jeff Pfaff Second Lloyd Robison Third Jim Sweitzer Fourth Ed Beck Fifth Ron Lc es Ironwood award: Joe Wilson Closest to Pin: #1 Don Heywood #5 Bill Darling #3 Mark Vandcr- gunst #7 Rich Lather Skins: #4 Jason Heywood #1 Tony Undcrhj11 #5 Al Mitchell #8 Tim Oliver • 37 39 39 40 40 40 42 44 Senior Men May 7 First John Muir Hayden Gozzard Mike Barclay Gib Dow Second Bob Dotson Rob Coates Keith Lovell Jim Green 44 47 48 48 49 42 40 51 55 188 54 48 44 42 195 Third AI Preece 44 Wilmer Ferguson 46 Ken Hockey 51 Gord Steeles 55 196 Fourth Lloyd Cushman 53 Red DeGraw 50 Lee Webber 52 Wayne Pearce 45 200 Closest to Pin: #4 Bob Dobson #7 John Muir Low gross: Helen Burton High putts: Marg Upshall Low putts: Anne Armstrong Door prizes: Nell McCann, Ola Batten 50/50 draw: Joyce Bickel! Sponsor: Wednesday Night Ladies Tuesday Ladles May 3 A Flight Low gross H. Burton 53 Low net A. Armstrong 38 13 Flight Low gross G. Drummond 61 Low net J. Browning 42 C Flight Low gross E. Johnson 68 Low net E. Robinson 41 0 Flight Low gross P. Simmons 64 Low net A. Lorento 39CB squirt goes from 50 to 55 and in peewee from 55 to 60. "They've changed the pitching rule so many times, it's a little chaotic." said Doug Pearson of the Exeter Minor Softball Association. "Ours (association) is a low-level fun thing," he said of the competi- tion level. Pearson, who said there could be up to 130 youngsters playing soft - hall in Exeter added about the rule changes, "I see no reason for it. I haven't heard anything about it." Exeter Minor Baseball: Big change in baseball this year in that five -pitch and T -hall have been combined. What that means is that the younger aged players will have the Tee but for those who don't re- quire it, they will be pitched to. There are five of these teams, and they are in the tyke division. They will play amongst themselves usu- ally at the newly refurbished Pre- cious Blood Diamond. Saturday, May 14 is a big day as Exeter Minor Baseball Association will host its Opening Day and all 17 teams from tyke to midget are going to be playing a game. There will be a food booth, instructional clinics and displays. Exeter Minor Soccer: Talk about an increase, minor soccer president Bart DeVries says their registration is up by almost 50. "It's up, last year there was 260. We draw from Hensall, Huron Park, Centralia and Kirkton," said DeVries. There seems to be a big surge in girls soccer as there is an under -19 team, under -17, under -14 and un- der- I I which, this year, will all play in the West Middlesex League. "It's really tough now," said DeV- ries of having to find fields for all the teams to play on. "If we had more (players) we'd have to have more fields. 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