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Times-Advocate, 1983-08-10, Page 8Page 8 Times -Advocate, August 10, 1983 Sports Spotlight By Ross Haugh � Y Playoffs coming The Exeter Express in their first year of operation in the Great Lakes Senior Baseball League are gear- ing up for provincial playoffs. After a very respectable first year in which they finished in third place in their division, the Express should do well in the Ontario Baseball Association Senior D category. Senior teams eligible for D playoffs in addition to the Express are from Tillsonburg, Aylmer, Petrolia, Cour- tright, Beeton, Clarksburg, Bowmanville, Strathroy, Killaloe, Walkerton, Carleton Place and Newcastle. The elmination rounds will cut the number of teams down to six and they will compete in a Labour Day weekend tournament in Newcastle to decide a provin- cial winner. We wish the best of luck to general manager Geary Penhale and field boss Glenn Thurman as the Express head down the tracks for the Ontario championship. The Exeter Co -Op juniors are in a similar position as they prepare for Junior C competition on the province wide level. The local juniors under the direction of Joe Fulop, Bruce Shaw and Brad Gregus have been elevated to the C category and will face tough competi- tion from much large centres. • Teams other than Exeter in regional playoffs will be Orillia, Chatham, Kingsville, Wheatley, Leamington, Byron, Guelph, St. Thomas, Port Hope, Belleville, Markham, Brockville, Niagara Falls, Georgetown, Thorold, Pembroke, Renfrew, North Bay and Thunder Bay. After regional playoffs, the surviving six teams will get together on Labour Day weekend in Kingsville to select a provincial champion. Here again our best wishes to the juniors for a good playoff. They won the D championship a year ago and have been elevated to the C ranks because of their high standard of playing. A busy weekend The just concluded weekend was a very busy one for fastball and slo-pitch teams in the area. The, second annual Exeter Royals intermediate fastball 'tourney provided a lot of exciting action from 16 good teams and the two final games were exciting right down to the final out. Samsonite of Stratford came roaring back with a three run sixth inning tally to edge the Lucan Irish to win the A championship and Brodhagen got past Lieury to win the B championship. The Royals executive and players headed by Brian Hodgins and Sam Skinner put a lot of hard work into making the tournament a real success and providing exciting action free of charge to spectators. At Crediton it was slo-pitch as the highlight of a big weekend with a very large crowd on hand Sunday night to watch the two final championship games: The winners were the Shipka Rookies and the Crediton Marauders. The Rookies taking the A title looked like a version of the Dashwood Tigers baseball team of only a couple of years ago. Members of the Rookies who have a lot of baseball experience are Jim Guenther, John Hayter, Jim Dietrich, Joe Arnold, Rob Dickey and Bob Hoffman. Sixth inning rally does it e e utas ris to win 0a s tourney Samsonite win. error, Lloyd Mathers was The other two Lieury scores safe on a fielder's choice and came in the first inning as both scored as Glenn Thomp- Kim Pickering was safe on an son tripled. Summer play program A triple by a player who almost didn't make it to the plate gave Stratford Sam- sonite a 4-3 victory over the Lucan Irish and the A cham- pionship in the weekend in- termediate fastball tourna- ment sponsored by the Exeter Royals. Pitcher Bev Hunter tripled the tying wand winning runs home in the top of the sixth in- ning to give Samsonite the win. Hunter came into the game as a relief pitcher for starter Dan Ryder and Samsonite management had Ryder up as a pinch hitter which is allowed under the re-entry rule, but, changed their mind and let Hunter hit for himself. Samsonite reached the A finals by blanking Nairn and Lucknow by identical 1-0 scores and routing . London Berkshire 9-2 while the Lucan Irish downed Goderich Bed- ford 4-3, St. Marys Stonetown 2-0 and the Lucan Astros 4-1 to hit the finals. The Broadhagen Brewers won the B championship •vitlt a final 10-7 victory over Lieury after losing 8-0 to Parkway and beating Sylvan 8-5 and Goderich Kirkey's 8-3. Lieury lost their first game 6-0 to Walton and then bounc- ed back to beat French Cleaners 3-2 and Goderich Bedford 3-2. The Lucan Astros reached the A semi-final by defeating French Cleaners 5-1 and Walton 3-1. In the A final, Samsonite hit the scoreboard first on an opening inning home run by Glenn McCann. The Irish bounced back with two runs in their half of the second as Gerry Fink- beiner singled, Vic Capitan walked and both scored on singles by Paul Wraith and Cec Nickles. Kirk Eghoetz singled and scored for Samsonite in the top of the third before the Irish went ahead again on a single by Kevin Lightfoot and he scored on an error, a sacrifice and a wild pitch. That's the way the score stayed at 3-2 for the Irish un- til Hunter's triple in the top of the sixth. Jamie Eveleigh was the Irish hurler and hey allowed only five hits and recorded a single strikeout. In the A semi-final Doug Blue Platoon Fever A few weeks ago, Toronto Sun sports writer John Robertson decided to run a contest to get a new slogan for the Toronto Blue Jays and he Was astounded to receive more than 11,000 entries. The winning entry was announced Sunday and came as the Jays were in the midst of one of their worst slumps of the season. Jean Palfrey of Stouffville was the winner for suggesting Blue Platoon Fever. Her slogan will now be put on thousands of bumper stickers and on advertising for the Blue Jays. It's a very apropo definition of the Blue Jays to date as manager Bobby Cox has been using the platoon system to the highest degree for the entire season to date and has been having great success. The most excitement around the Jays in recent days has been the sea gull incident. The Jays will likely be subjected to much ridicule when they are in New York for the first three days this week. As far as we are concerned it is one of the most bird brain occurrences we have ever heard of. First of all it was an accident. Manager Billy Martin says it is the first time this year that Winfield has hit anything much less a cutoff man this year so far and the sea gull was at least 80 feet away. Anyone trying to hit a bird in flight at that distance would need great accuracy and a lot of luck. - The original story we heard on the radio out of Toron- to late Thursday night said the sea gull was an en- dangered species. That was later changed to a protected species. Anyone that lives close to Lake Huron and farmers especially when plowing on a windy day wouldn't mind having a few less of the gulls around. We were picnicking at Port Blake few weeks ago and when the sandwiches came out the gulls were out in great numbers looking for handouts. If a baseball player is to be charged for accidentally hitting a bird, there sure are a lot of Ontario residents in trouble. What about the great number of wild animals seen lying on the highways after being hit by vehicles. Going a little further we don't know of a motorist ever being charged for hitting a dog or cat while crossing a road. The most ridiculous action came when the gull was taken by ambulance from Toronto to the Ontario Veterinary College in Guelph for an autopsy. It was the lone passenger in the back of an econovan for the some .60 mile trip. 1 4 WIN ROYALS TOURNEY — Stratford Samsonite won the A championship of the weekend Exeter Royals fastball tournament. Above, Samsonite coach and captain Al McCann and Shawn Burns are congratulated by Brian Hodgins of the Royals. At the left is Mike Allegretti of Labatt's. T -A photo. Todd of the Irish held the Lucan Astros to one run and six hits while his mates got four runs and Birettas from the combined offerings of Jeff Shipley and Doug Latta. Sean Porter's single in the sixth inning sent Jeff Shipley home with the only Astros score. The Irish scored three runs in the first inning as Paul Wraith led off with a homer, Brian Noyes was safe on a fielder's choice and Doug Todd tripled and scored on Kevin Lightfoot's groundout. Kevin Windsor doubled in the seventh and came home on a single by Brad Taylor. In a quarter -final game, R. Davidson of the Astros held Walton to five hits in getting a 3-1 victory. Dean Densmore singled and scored the first Astros run in the first inning on a single by Scott McNair. In the sixth, Densmore blasted a one out home run and McNair was safe on an error and came home on Rick Freeman's triple. In the same round pitcher Jamie Eveleigh led the Irish to a 2-0 win over St. Marys Stonetown with a three hit shutout. In only the first inning did he face more than the minimum of three batters as J one runner was thrown out at the plate and another erased on a double play. Brian Noyes singled and scored on Doug Todd's triple in the first and Kevin Lightfoot singled and came home in the sixth on similar hits from the bats of Jamie Eveleigh and Kevin Windsor. In the B final, Brodhagen scored four runs in the top of the seventh inning to beat Lieury 10-7. Lieury scored two runs in the third on consecutive singles by Les Drury, Lloyd Mathers, Stan Lovie and Glenn Thompson. In the Lieury fourth, Steve Reid was safe on an error and came home on designated hit- ter Jim Thompson's single and in the fifth three runs scored as Thompson and Kim Pickering delivered singles. The final Lieury run cross- ed the plate in the sixth as Stan Lovie was safe on an er- ror and came home as Gary McMaster singled. In the B semi-final pitcher Glenn Thompson's sacrifice fly sent Stan Lovie home afte. a triple to give Lieury a 3-2 Bombers lose two The Exeter . Bombers first and only goal on a penal - squirts soccer team met ty kick. The final. score was Lucan again but this time Lucan 3, Exeter 1. were unable to win. . Exeter Bombers played II- Lucan dominated the first derton with a good first half half of the game with good all by both teams. Earlier on round team play. The bright Steven Farquhar scored the spot for Exeter was a good first goal on a penalty kick. save by Simon Dinney on a, Good intercepting by Jason penalty kick by Lucan. Wein held play in the Ilderton There was even play by end while the Exeter defence both teams in the second half. was kept strong by Mark Steven Farquhar got Exeter's Brintnell. A rush and scramble left V kOYALS SPONSOR TOURNAMENT — The Exeter Royals second annual intermediate fastball tournament pro- ved successful on the weekend. Shown checking over a Sunday morning scoresheet are Gory Skinner, Sam Skinner, Dou• Pearson and Rob Snell of the Ro als. ROOKIES WIN — The Shipka Rookies won the A championship of the weekend slo-pitch tournament in Crediton. Back, left, Jim Sweitzer, Mike Brannon, Joe Arnold, Daryl Hodgins, John Hayter, Rob Dickey, Scott Sweitzer, Bruce Dietrich and Paul Brannon. Front, Jim Guenther, Bob Hoffman, Jim Dietrich, Paul Hodgins, Mike Picker- ing and John Dietrich. In the extreme front are mascots Ben Guenther and Jimmy Dietrich. T -A photo. Melanie Philips of Exeter and Melanie Parkinson of Il- derton in centre field with an injury to the Ilderton player. The second half saw Ilder- ton come ahead to score two goals. The first was a good kick through the Bombers players while the clinching goal was on a penalty kick. The Bombers perked up in the last eight minutes but were unable to tie the game, which left a score of Ilderton 2, Exeter 1. After the game the players were all invited to Mark Brintnell's for a swim and eats. These last three weeks of the Bert and Ernie Club and the Summer Sports Program are packed with fun things for • the children. Today the Bert and Ernie Club will visit the Grand Bend zoo. They are swimming at the pool on Thursday. Everyone is welcomed to the Penny Carnival, Friday after- noon. It will feature a dunking machine, fortune teller and other activities. The sports program is run- ning the penny carnival as well. This week they are play- ing racquetball and bowling in Hensall and Huron Park, respectively. Monday, August 16, all children are invited to the movie "Buck Rogers". It will begin at 1:30 p.m. Admission is 25 cents for registered children and 50 cents for all others. Next Tuesday both pro- grams will see a film on the Montreal Olympics, have hot dogs then participate in a mini -Olympics. A theatre performance and workshop "Harry the Dirty Dog" is open to all children for 50 cents on the afternoon of Thursday, August 18. NOTICE mac eans and IDerokrfog «%-fie/r,,-ees Aar GI TAPE TOYS SM1ll APRIANCES PAINT IUIIMPf. will close Saturday at 1:30 p.m. IN UM IIII Ell 11.1 MI MI 1 1 1 TIPS V` 110 1 byGIB DOW r1_-,ili _ l\`s `WEIGHT DISTRUBUTION FOR CHIPSILE, N ,. N.` SHOTS `,_�_ �i I see many weekend golfers set to hit a chip ( shot from just off the green and they hove "about 90% of their weight on their right ' toot with their body leaning away from the target. Actually they are set up exactly op- Iposite from the way they should be. Set 'yourself up with 90% of your weight on 'your left foot and lean slightly toward the Ladies golf rim -get. 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