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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1983-08-03, Page 8Page 8 Times -Advocate, August 3, 1983 Sports Spotlight By Ross Haugh Top notch tournament The upcoming Exeter Royals intermediate fastball tournai fent on the weekend of August 5, 6 and 7 pro- mises to provide lot of exciting and top notch brand of fastball action. Last year's champs, the Lucan Irish will be back in an attempt to defend their title along with the Lucan Astros, the Royals and teams from Goderich, St. Marys, Lieury, Walton and London. The tournament opens on the Friday night and ends with the two championship games set for late Sunday afternoon. In Friday's openers the Lucan Irish take on Goderich Bedford Hotel and Goderich Signal Star meet the St. Marys Stonetown Flyers at 7:30 p.m. At 9 p.m. it will be Lieury taking on Walton and French Cleaners going against the Lucan Astros. Big say in McGillivray Colin Brewer dropped into the office this week to tell us about a big baseball day planned for McGillivray township on Sunday, August 7. All of the 17- McGillivray teams of all categories play- ing out of the Lieury ball park will be seen in action in 11 games. The busy day starts at 10 a.m. with the Lieury ban- tams in action on one diamond and the t -ball youngsters playing on number two diamond. At 11:30 a.m. it's the Lieury and Corbett juvenile girls meeting and the Lieury and Brinsley squirts doing bat- tle at ;,he same time. The second doubleheader of the day goes at 1 p.m. with the Lieury bantam girls taking on the Lieury Old Gals and in pee wee play it will be Lieury against Brinsley. The next two games on the schedule will be of the slo- pitch variety. The McGillivray men take on the Lieury oldtimers at 2:30 p.m. and the Brinsley and McGillivray ladies will tangle at 4 p.m. At 5:30 p.m. the Brinsley and Corbett juveniles will do battle and at 7 p.m. it's Lieury against the Lieury Red Sox in juvenile boys competition. The big day winds up at 9 p.m. with the Strathroy Jets of the Memorial fastball league meeting an all star team made up of players from Lieury, the Lieury Jets and West Corners of the Southwestern Fastball League. Tops in hockey The August issue of Hockey News on area newstands has an interesting feature listing the 10 best in the Na- tional Hockey League in a wide variety of categories. To no one's surprise the 150 people taking part in the survey picked Wayne Gretsky as the best player now, but, only fourth in the list of best players ever. Gretzky was placed behind Gordie Howe, Bobby Orr and Jean Belliveau. Next to Gretzky to finish off the top 10 of all time were Bobby Hully, Maurice Richard, Doug Harvey, Phil Esposito, Stan Mikita and Guy Lafleur. Surprisingly most of the selectors seemed to. have very short memories and didn't go back to the early days of hockey for fellows like Howie Morenz, Newsy Lalonde, Cyclone Taylor, Johnny Gagnon, Charlie and Lionel Conacher, the Kraut line, George Hainsworth, Black Jack Stewart, Arel Joliat, Frank Boucher, to name only a few. Back in 1950 Howie Morenz was named the greatest hockey player of the first half of this century, yet his heroics were not recognized in this poll. The only player from the good old days to make the survey was Eddie Shore as the fourth best defenceman ever behind Bobby Orr, Doug Harvey and Tim Horton. Next came Dennis Potvin, Larry Robinson, Pierre Pilotte, Harry Howell and sBrad Park. In the best goalies ever department, the selections were Terry. Sawchuk, Glen Hall, Bernie Parent, Ken Dryden, Jacques Plante, Johnny Bower, Tony Esposito, Gerry Cheevers, Bill Durnan and Turk Broda. • Gordie Bowe also led in another section that of best forward every and was fourth in ranking as the best fighter ever. In the best player now category, Gretzky is followed by Mike Bossy, Denis Savard, Peter Stastny, Bryan Trottier, Raymond Burque, Marcel Dionne, Rod Langway, Rick Middleton, Bobby Clarke, Denis Potvin and Lanny McDonald. Following Gordie Howe as the best forwards ever were Jean Beliveau, Wayne Gretzky, Bobby llully, Maruice Richard, Phil Esposito, Stan Mikita. Guy Lafleur, Marcel Dionne and Mike Bossy. The best fighters were listed as John Ferguson, Orland Kurtenbach, Gordie Howe, Clarke, Gillies, Ted Lindsay, Bob Kelly, Al Secord, Reggie Fleming, Bryan Watson and Terry O'Reilly. Glenn Anderson was chosen as the fastest player. Next Came Mark Mesiser, Mark Howe, Michel Goulet, Bob Bourne, Ken Linseman, Denis Savard, Mike Gart- ner, Paul Coffey, Peter Marsh and Paul Woods while the slowest were Brad Marsh, Brad Park, Paul Higgins, Jim Benning, Frank Bathe, Bill Hap, Paul Gardner, Charlie Simmer. Nick Fotiu, Tiger Williams and Glen Cochrane. The best faceoff men now were Bobby Clarke, Bryan Trottier, Doug Jarvis, Tom Lysiak, Barry Pederson, Darryl Sittler, Marcel Dionne, Ronnie Francis, Gil Per- reault and Brent Peterson. Reed Larsen was listed as having the hardest shot followed by Doug Wilson, Denis Potvin. Rick Valve, Lanny McDonald, Barry Beck, Paul Coffey, Guy Lafleur, Al Secord, Brad Maxwell and Brad Palmer. Mowing your lawn is a lot cheaper than joining a health club. 71 paana apron Beat juniors 9-4 Express win two Great Lakes games The Exeter Express could only win two of four Great Lakes senior baseball league games this week and their charge for the second and final playoff spot in the nor- thern division was slowed. The Express were bombed 19-6 by Kincardine Wednes- day night, Thursday they downed the Exeter Co-op juniors 9-4, Sunday they edg- ed Kincardine 3-2 and Mon- day dropped a 10-6 decision to London Servicemaster. The regular schedule ended last night, Wednesday when the Express travelled to Byron. In Kincardine Wednesday they scored all six runs in the top of the seventh inning after the home team had moved in front 19-0 in the first six innings. Dave Hunt homered and Dave Bogart doubled for the Express in their big rally in the seventh to go with singles from the bats of Dave Par- sons, Gary Hartman and Randy Kraul. Other Express hits earlier in the game were a pair of singles by Dave Bogart and similar hits from Dave At- thill, Kevin Hern, Dave Hunt and Jim Pfaff. Jim Pfaff was the starting pitcher for Exeter. He was relieved by Dave Parsons in the fifth innning. A six run outburst in the fourth inning powered the Ex- press to Thursday's 9-4. win over the local juniors. The first run for the Ex- press came in the opening in- ning when Dave Parsons walked, stole second and rac- ed home . on Dave Hunt's double. The score rose to 3-0 in the second frame as Doug Fair- bairn, Randy Kraul and Dave Parsons singled. The juniors hit the scoreboard for the first time in the third inning when Dave Hayter was safe on an error. Hayter moved•to third as Joe Becker was safe on another miscue and scored on Jeff McKellar's sacrifice fly to left field. Five base hits and a pair of walks allowed the Express to score six times in the fourth. Veteran Scott Burton was the key to the game winning rally with two singles in the same inning. Also con- tributing hits were Dave At- thill with a double and singles from Dave Parsons and Ran- dy Kraul. The final three rubs for the juniors came in the fifth as Dwayne Laporte, Paul Gilmour, Steve Neil and Dave Prout. The only other junior hit off southpaw Jim Guenther was a first inning single by Dave Shaw. Guenther retired the side in order in four of the seven innings. Brian Horner and Dave Shaw shared pitching duties for the juniors. In Sunday's 3-2 win over Kincardine, the Express hero was coachJackChipchase who was pressed into active ser- vice. Chipchase singled and scored the winning run in the bottom of the sixth inning and was instrumental in starting a double play which killed a promising Kincardine rally in the first half of the same inning. The first Express run came in the first inning as leadoff batter Dave Parsons singled, moved to second on a sacrifice by Brian Mercer and home as Kevin Hern was safe on an error. Run number two for the Ex- press came in the third as Dave Hunt was safe on an er- ror and completed the bases on a double by Doug Fairbairn and single by Dave Atthill. Dave Hunt was the starting and winning pitcher for the Express. He allowed two runs on only five hits over the seven inning route and retired the opposition in order in the seventh to get the win. Seven runs in the ninth inn- ing allowed London Ser- vicemaster to roar back and win Monday's game by a score of 10-6. Dave Hunt and Brian Mercer scored the first two Express markers in the fourth inning. Three more local runs crossed the plate in the eighth as Randy Kraut and Dave Hunt doubled and Brian Mercer and Dave Bogart contributed singles. In the Exeter ninth Glenn Thurman walked, moved to second on a Dave Hunt single and home on similar hurler. He was relieved by Jim Guen- ther in the sixth. SODBUSTERS REPEAT — The Concession 14 of Hay township Sodbusters won the Dashwood Friedsburg Days tug-of-war contest Saturday for the second straight year. From the left are Glenn Restemayer, Pdul Greb, Allen Hendrick, Harold Hendrick, coach Don Weigand, Lorne Miller, Brad Willert, Willis Wolper, Doug Weigand and,Erich Freiter. Missing were Delmar Miller and honorary coach Erich Freiter Sr. T -A photo. Plan four day hunt Both the Bert and Ernie Club and the sports program havemany exciting events planned forthis week and the next. Today the Bert and Ernie children will be participating in a Hay ride to Brand's farm, leaving Victoria Park at approximately 1:30. Tomorrow the children will be going to Port Blake to build Sandcastles. Next week Tues- day afternoon both clubs will participate in the program -Once Upon a Time". This consists of artists coming to our town and performing six different folk tales. For playground children (here will be a cost of 2511 and all other children mavcome for a small fee of 50c. Also Friday August 12 we will he holding a Penny•Car- nival. featuring a dunking machine. Everyone is welcome so bri7 g your pennies. Other events for the sport program includes going to IiensaII to play racquetball and going In Huron Park to hoax i. Anderson best Kippen shooter. Bruce Anderson recorded a score of 25 to lead the 16 shooters in Tuesday's regular competition at the Kippen gun club John Anderson. Al Kyle, Bob Baker and Harrison Shoch hit 24 targets apiece followed by Paul Ritchie, Wayne McBride and Grant McGregor 23, Bob Caldwell, Gladys McGregor and Bob Stire '22. Bill Smith and Lloyd Venner 21. Dan Crerar 20, Harold Smith 19 and Jack Aikt nheati 17 Best Interest 12% Guaranteed Investment Certificates ' SublOr t to change Gaiser•Kneale Insurance (11•4111 Brokers Inc. 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