Times-Advocate, 1983-07-20, Page 12Page 12
Times -Advocate, July 20, 1983
Sports
Spotlight
By Ross Haugh
He who laughs last usually laughs the loudest and
longest and justice prevails are two sayings which come
to mind as the result of a couple of happenings in Kan-
sas City this week.
When the Toronto Blue Jays arrived in Kansas City
Monday for the first game of a three game series
against the Royals they were greeted by a headline in
one daily paper which said, "When will the Blue Jays
come down to earth?"
Added to this were comments from a number of
players and Hal McCrae and Willie Aitkens in par-
ticular who suggested the Blue Jays are a fourth or fifth
place club and wherever you belong that's eventually
where you will finish.
The Royals may -have been laughing when the Jays
arrived, but, their humour was surely different a cou-
ple of days later as Toronto took the first two games
of the set.
Getting back to Aitkens, after making those
statements in Monday's paper he promptly went out the
same night and made three errors and in five officials
trips to the plate went hitless, struck out three times
and left five possible runs stranded on the bases. That's
the justice we were referring to.
Aitkens did redeem himself considerably the next
night with a home run and a couple of other runs.
Toronto manager Bobby Cox's strategy of platooning
four or five players depending on the opposing pitcher
continues to pay dividends.
Tuesday night with lefty. Vida Blue pitching for the
Royals Cox put eight right handed batters in the lineup
and they came through with four home runs and six
runs.
Later in the game when the Royals switched to a right
handed pitcher, Cox sent three consecutive left hand-
ed pinch hitters to the plate and they responded with
three hits.
Apparently some baseball fans in the United States
are already thinking about the possibility of an all -
Canadian World Series.
Howie Holtzmann tells us he heard a radio announcer
from somewhere south of the border almost cringing
when thinking about games in Canada in October say-
ing "The umpires would have to wear ski masks."
We would hazard a guess that most days in the fall
are just as cold in Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland or New
York as they are in Toronto or Montreal.
Controversial Cleveland radio sports announcer Peter
Franklin had a different approach when the subject of
a possible Canadian World Series came up.
Franklin said he felt the players themselves don't
care where the series is played as long as they are part
of it and the press make a lot more noise than they
should.
It's not just a matter of going to Canada to play. Many
other Americans are happy to participate in tennis and
golf tournaments which offer high monetarial rewards.
Busy weekends
The next few weekends will be busy with a number
of gala and sporting events on tap in area communities.
Saturday of this week will feature a full sports pro-
gram as part of Exeter's second annual Heritage Days
celebration and the same day, Fun Days will be held
in Granton.
Exeter rec director Lynne Farquhar has lined up an
excellent variety of activities for boys and girls of the
community.
Sporting events begin at 9 a.m. Saturday with a swim
meet at the Exeter pool with the local swim team and
three others in competition.
The Rutabaga Olympics which proved very popular
last year are being repeated. They include bowling,
sack races, obstacle course, relays, sack races, bobb-
ing for rutabagas and a giant earthball for special
games.
Five ball games are on tap for the weekend. Friday
night the Exeter bantams will be seen in action and the
Exeter firemen take on the Shriners in a repeat of their
1982 grudge match.
Saturday afternoon, the Milverton Suns will be
meeting Agincourt in a ladies fastball doubleheader
with games at 2 and 4 p.m. and at the same time as the
final ladies twin bill contest, the Exeter pee wee boys
will also be in action.
Saturday's Fun Day in Granton sponsored by the
Granton and District Lions Will provide a large number
of sporting events and games for boys and girls of all
ages and members of the Granton volunteer fire depart-
ment will be involved in an exhibition ball game.
The following weekend, it's Friedsburg Days in
Dashwood again and sports' chairman John Becker has
lined up the usual diet of arm wrestling and tug-of-war
to go along with tricycle and frog races for the younger
fry.
Ball tourney coming close
The 18th annual Ontario senior men's fastball
elimination tournament to decide an Ontario champion
will be held this year in Stratford.
The double knockout tourney featuring 26 of the pro-
vince's top senior fastball teams will be held from July
29 through August 1 at the Kinsmen recreational park
in Stratford.
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Express winning streak in Great Lakes increases to seven
The Exeter Express in-
creased their Great Lake
senior baseball league winn-
ing streak to seven games this
week and then dropped two
games in a weekend tourna-
ment in Kincardine.
On their home field
Wednesday night, the Ex-
press scored an impressive
victory over Byron by a score
of 10-2 and on the weekend
lost 4-1 to Owen Sound and
10-4 to Campbellville.
The Express were at home
to Arva last night, Wednesday
and will be in Thorndale for
an 8:30 p.m. contest Thursday
night and in Wingham Sunday
afternoon at 1 p.m. to take on
Walkerton.
Dave Hunt went the full
seven inning distance in the
win over Byron and allowed
only two runs and seven hits.
He came up with a strong pit-
ching performance in the fifth
inning by striking out the final
two batters with the bases
loaded.
The first two Express runs
crossed the plate in the open-
ing inning when Dave Atthill
and Dave Hunt singled and
came around to count on
similar hits by Doug Fair-
bairn and Scott Burton.
The Express blew the game
wide open with a six run out-
burst in the bottom of the se-
cond inning on seven base
hits. Randy Kraul, Dave Hunt
and Gary Hartman clubbed
doubles and Dave Atthill,
Dave Parsons and Doug Fair-
bairn contributed singles to
the cause.
The final two Exeter runs
were notched in the third
frame when Ken Pinder walk-
ed and Brian Mercer was safe
on an error and Dave Hunt
and Kevin Hern delivered
singles.
Other Express hits in non
productive innings were
singles by Doug Fairbairn,
Ken Pinder, Randy Kraul and
Gary Hartman.
The only Exeter run in Fri-
day's loss in the Kincardine
tournament to Owen Sound
was scored in the third inning
'vhe.i Dwayne Laporte singl-
ed, moved to second on Ran-
dy Kraul's sacrifice and home
on a double from the bat of
Doug Fairbairn.
Laporte also singled in the
second. but, was stranded.
Brian Mercer and Dave Par-
sons singled in the•third and
Mercer was back with a
similar hit in the fifth, but,
were unable to score.
Jim Pfaff was the Express
pitcher and allowed only one
run and three hits for the first
five innings. He gave up a
single run in the sixth and a
two run homer in the seventh.
Jeff Fuller was the starting
pitcher for the Express in
Saturday's loss to Camp-
bellville, getting relief help
from Ken Pinder in the
ninth.The Express scored
three times in the second in-
ning as Doug Fairbairn and
John Hayter singled, Dave
Bogart was safe on a fielder's
choice and all scored on
singles from the bats of Jeff
Fuller and Brian Mercer.
In the Express fourth,
Brian Mercer was safe on an
error and rode home on a two -
bagger from the bat of Dave
Parsons. '
Only two of the last 18 Ex-
press hitters were able to
reach base.
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READY TO RACE — Swimmers from St. Marys, Kirkton, Mitchell and Huron Park are ready to hit the pool
in a race during a meet at the Kirkton-Woodham pool Saturday morning. T -A photo.
RECORDING RESULTS — Taking care of the statistics during Saturday's swim meet at the Kirkton-Woodham
pool involving teams from St. Marys, Kirkton, Mitchell and Huron Park were Wanda Robinson, Beth Prout,
Gwen Coward and Gayle Hern. T -A photo.
grillers defeated in
Ausable loop
Exeter Drillers lost 4-2
against Taxandria Sunday in
Ausable league soccer action.
The Drillers opened the
score in the first 15 minutes of
play when Allain Gaiser pick-
ed up a pass from Sean
O'Rourke and scored. Taxan-
dria got two goals to finished
the first half 2-1.
Half way through the se-
cond half Dale Regier put a
pass across in front of the
Taxandria net and Allan
Gaiser just tapped it in to tie
the game.
The Drillers tried to move
ahead when Wayne Smith and
Dale Regier had the chance to
score but both shots hit the
crossbar.
Taxandria came back in
the last ten minutes with two
quick goals to take the game
4-2.
The Drillers made out bet -
Playground to resort
This is the third week of
playground at the South
Huron Rec Centre. The past
week was successful and end-
ed with a trip to Fanshawe
Pioneer Village. Upcoming
events include a pop bottle
drive this morning and
decorating a float for
Heritage Days.
Next week the Sports Pro-
gram will be going to Grand
Bend to build sand castles and
to golf. On Friday, July 29
there is a trip to the
Children's Museum and to an
Indian Museum.
The Bert and Ernie pro-
gram will be going to the
Children's Museum and Story
Book Gardens on Thursday,
July 28. They will be having a
treasure hunt and a baking
afternoon.
For Heritage Days we will
be having Rutabaga Olvm
Wec/iin1
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with the care and
concern for detail
that has built our
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soccer
ter last Wednesday night
when they played the Taxan-
dria Falcons to a 2-2 tie in an
exhibition game. The Falcons
play in the third division in
the London League.
The Drillers opened the
game with a quick goal by
Sean Rotteau on a pass from
Andrew Winters. Minutes
before the end of the first half
Sean Rotteau scored his se-
cond goal from a free kick
The Falcnnr came back
very strong in the second half
and the Exeter defence,
Blayne Epp, Gib Dow and
JoeMartens could not hold
them back for long and they
scored twice. Both teams put
the presure on but neither
team could score any more
goals. The Drillers next home
game will he July 24 against
Nairn.
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my honds go forward straight toward the
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