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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1983-07-13, Page 9Pfaff in top form Express hikes win streak to six The Exeter Express scored two victories in Great. Lakes Senior baseball action this week to extend their unbeaten streak to six games. Tuesday, the Express blanked the Exeter Co -Op juniors 4-0 and Sunday they squeezed past the strong Clin- ton Colts by a 5-4 count. The Express are back in ac- tion tonight, Wednesday at Exeter Community, Park when they meet Byron at 7:30 p.m. On the weekend they are off to Kincardine for a tournament. In Tuesday's win over the juniors, veteran Express hurler Jim Pfaff was in top form. He scattered four hits over the seven inning route and faced only 27 batters, just six over the minimum. The closest the juniors came to scoring was in the first inning when Jeff McKellar singled and got as far as third base. The other junior hits, were a double by Al Gaiser and singles from the bats of Jeff Fuller and Paul Gilmour. Jeff Fuller was on the mound for the juniors and also allowed only four hits. The Express hit the scoreboard in the second inn- ing when Kevin Hern singled, John Hayter was safe\on an error and both scored on Dan Heywood's sacrifice bunt and a groundout by Dave Bogart. Dave Hunt homered to open up the fourth inning for the Express and he was back in the sixth safe on an error and scored as the result of Kevin Hern's sacrifice and John Hayter's single. Right hander Ken Pinder and lefty Jim Guenther com- bined to get Sunday's pitching victory for the Express over Clinton. Pinder allowed four runs and six hits over the first six innings and went into the Royals beaten by single runs The Exeter Royals dropped two one run games this week in Southwestern Fastball League play. Tuesday they were edged by Lieury in 12 innings 6-5 and Thursday they dropped a 3-2 encounter with the Lucan Irish. The Royals record is now 10 wins and seven losses. They host Poplar Hill Thursday while this weekend they travel to Tara for a tournament. Lieury 6 Royals 5 Lieury scored a run in the bottom of the sixth and one in the twelvth to edge the Royals. 6-5. The Royals took the lead in the first inning as Barry Baynham walked and scored on Brian Hodgins sacrifice fly. Lieury tied the score in the bottom of the first as Glen Thompson tripled and scored on a sacrifice fly. Exeter added three runs in the second as Jeff Lindenfield singled, Barry Baynham reached on an error and Dan Parsons wins at Ironwood. Wayne Parsons recorded a 36 to take low gross honours in the A flight in Tuesday's regular men's night at the Ironwood golf club. Jack Chipchase won iow net at 32. In B flight Mark Cronyn's 40 won low gross and Dan Heywood captured low net with a 41. Dave Watson notched a 42 to win C flight low gross and Bill Gilfillan took low net at 32: In D flight Ron Heywood carded a 45 to take low gross and Gary Dolphin was low net at 28. Heywood walked and all scored on errors. Lieury narrowed thescore to 4-3 in the bottom of the se- cond as Gary MacMaster and Eric Bulgin scored. They tied it indhe third as Glen Thomp- son doubled and scored. Exeter went up 5-4 in the top of the sixth when Barry Baynham singled and scored on a ground ball. Lieury tied it in the sixth as Lloyd Mathers singled and scored on a single McMaster. Lieury picked up the winn- ing run in the twelfth as Rob Bender doubled and scored. Glen Thompson got the win for Lieury. He gave up ten hits while striking out ten bat- ters. Brian Hodgins started for the Royals and gave up six hits while striking out 11 bat- ters in seven innings. Dan Heywood took the loss allow- ing a run on three hits while striking out eight batters. , Irish :t Royals 2 Lucan Irish came to town Thursday and edged the Royals 3-2 to average an earlier 6-2 loss. Former Royals pitcher Doug Todd picked up the win against his former mater allowing seven hits while striking out five batters. Dan Heywood threw a strong game for the Royals allowing only three hits while striking out eight batters. The Royals went up 1-0 in the third as Jeff Lindenfield doubled and scored on Gary Skinners single. The Irish pushed across three runs in the top of the sixth to take a 3-1 lead. • In the bottom of the seventh the Royals pushed across a run as Phil Turner walked, Brian Hodgins singled and Mike Desjardine singled. The tying run was thrown out at home plate to end the game. 1 We'll Do the Job Right... Ready -Mix Concrete FREE ESTIMATES Residential, commerical and form founds ,ions, floors, slobs. sidewalks. driveways manure tanks etc form rentals. equipment rentals For guaranteed strength quality controlled and service call C.A. McDowell Redi-Mix Ltd. Centralia, Ontario Plant: Exeter, Hwy. 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Dave Parsons singled, Dave Hunt was safe on an error and Parsons crossed the plate on Jim Guenther's double. Doug Fairbairn's groun- dout scored Hunt and Guen- ther came home on a Glenn Thurman single. After Clinton went ahead 4-3 in the top of the sixth, the Express came right back to get the tying and eventual winning runs. Dan Heywood struck out, but, reached first as the catcher lost the ball. He stole second, went to third on a passed ball and scored on Jim Guenther's sacrifice -fly after Dave Hunt walked. Hunt moved to third on a couple of passed balls and home as Doug Fairbairn grounded to second. HP SWIM STAFF — The swimming pool at Huron Park is now open with four members on the staff. Back, left, Elise Vandeworp and Heather Hern. Front, Sandra McCurdy and supervisor Paul Robinson. T -A photo. Tykes score 9-7 victory over Clinton The Exeter Tykes I baseball team won their only scheduled game last week -with a 9-7 victory over Clinton. David Dalrymple drove in five runs with a pair of home runs as Exeter built up an 8-0 lead after three innings. Harlen Tinney pitched three innings of no hit ball, striking out nine to get the vic- tory. Mark Burton allowed six runs, struck out three :nd walked four in his two innings of work while Alan Blom- maert wrapped it up by strik- ing out six batters. Exeter journeyed. to Walkerton to participate in the Mid O'llagan tyke tourna- ment. Following a thrilling last out loss to Oakville the locals defeat/ Hanover• before. how' out to Cambridge. In the loss to Oakville Haden Tinney pitched five solid innings allowing four hits while walking three and striking out six in a 7-6 loss in which Exeter battled hack from a 4-0 deficit. Jim Ahrens allowed only two walks and three hits while striking out six as Exeter downed Hanover 4-2 in game two. In the final game loss to Cambridge 11-5, Alan Blom- maert gave up four unearned runs before giving way to Ilarlen Tinney in the second inning. Tinney gave up six walks while allowing six hits and striking out eight. Offensively Todd McCann led Exeter with four hits and three walks while David Dalrymple, David Schwind] and Jamie Bedard chipped in with three hits each and Scott. Bishop scored three runs. Ladies golf - at Exeter club Tuesday members of the Ladies of the Exeter golf and Country club had their usual game with hidden scores go- ing to Betty Smith, Betty Coates, Barb Harrison and Ilelen Wasnidge, Lowest putts were won by Wynn Galloway, and Dorothy Kipfer and the most honest golfer was Note Smith. HURON PARK PLAYGROUND LEADERS — A playground program is underway at J.A.D. McCurdy School at Huron Park each week day from Tuesday through Friday. The leaders are Tracey Rock, Patti Willis and Deb Piercey. T -A photo. Season win total 10 Junior club wins three The Exeter Co -Op juniors upped their season record to 10 victories and eight defeats in the Great Lakes senior baseball league with three wins in four starts this week. The only loss for the juniors came Tuesday night as they were blanked 4-0 by the Ex- eter Express. Thursday, Joe Fulop's juniors shutout Thorndale 5-0, Friday they bombed Walker- ton 13-3 and Sunday came up with a close 11-9 win over Byron. Two runs in the top of the seventh inningenabled the juniors to take Sunday's 11-9 victory in Byron. Holding a slim one run lead going into their final bat, Dave Shaw blasted a bases empty home run and Al Gaiser was safe on an error and came home on singles delivered by Jeff Fuller and Dave Woodward. The first two junior runs came in the second inning on a double by Dave Woodward and singles from the bats of Steve Pearce and Kevin Easterbrook. Five runs crossed the plate in the third on the streng+t. of a Paul Gil{noyr douole and singles by Jeft:uller, Brian Horner, Dave Shaw and Steve Neil. In the Exeter fourth; Kevin Easterbrook singled, went to third on a pair of wild pitches and home on Steve Neil's sacrifice fly. Steve Pearce was the star- ting pitcher for the juniors and he went until the sixth when he received some help from Dave Shaw, hut, came back in the ,bottom of the seventh to retire the final two batters. Nine runs in. a big seventh inning proved the difference as the juniors blasted Walker- ton 13-3. Six walks aided the seventh inning rally. Doug Hoffman and Jeff McKellar each scored two runs in the big in- ning. Hoffman had a single as did Paul Gilmour, Dave Hayter, Dave Shaw and Jeff Fuller. The first Exeter run came in the third as Jeff Fuller singled and scored on a similar hit by Doug Hoffman. Three runs were added in the fifth as Jeff McKellar, Paul Gilmour and Steve Neil delivered singles. Kevin Drager was the star- ting and winning pitcher allowing only four well scat- tered hits while fanning 10 148 Walkerton batters. Dave Shaw came in to pitch the final inning and retired the side in order. Brian Horner was the win- ning pitcher Thursday going the distance against Thorn - dale giving up a single run on six hits and picking up seven strikeouts along the way. Jeff McKellar singled and scored the first Exeter run in the first inning. He came across on Dave Hayter's single. In the Exeter third, McKellar tripled again leading off, scored on another Dave Hayter single. The lat- ter came home as Dwayne Laporte singled. Atoms lose The Exeter atoms dropped a 7-2 decision to Arva in area minor soccer play Monday night. Arva came on strong with five unanswered goals in the second half. to record the victory. John Paul Maurer and Shawn McFalls were the Ex- eter marksmen. Name Heritage poster best Grade eight students of Usborne Central School com- peted for prizes in the draw- ing of posters advertising the Heritage Days beef barbecue. First prize winners were Ed Coleman and Brad Borland. Gary Parsons -and Jeff Prance were second; follow- ed by Tom Oke, Barry Cunn- ington, Carol Willis, Carolyne Honnaard, Wendy Coward and Kim Cooke. The posters are now on view in the many store win- dows of town and area. JOIN THE CROWD BE A REGULAR BLOOD DONOR In the seventh Clendon Coombes was safe on an er- ror, Joe Becker singled and both scored on singles by Marty Bedard and Kevin Drager. Times -Advocate, July 13, 1983 Page 9 Dan Crerar best at two Kippen shoots Dan Crerar recorded 50 straight hits to lead 27 shooters in the regular June 28 competition at the Kippen gun club. Next with scores of 25 each were Roy Lamport, J. Smallman and Jamie Caldwell while Harrison Schoch, Terry Caldwell, Jack Mills, John Anderson, Jim Butcher, T. 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