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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1983-09-07, Page 8Poge 8 Times -Advocate, September 7, 1983 Sports Spotlight By Ross Haugh y Good crop of yearlings We had an opportunity to drop intc Seelster Farms in Lucan Sunday afternoon for their annual Open House and showing of 31 yearling standardbred colts which will be sold in the next couple of weeks. As the brochure provided by the Van Bussel'in- dicates they feel they have the best yearling crop ever as well as being the best grown, athletic and well - pedigreed group of fillies and colts that Seelster Farms have ever had, it is also the largest crop ever. Many of the colts and fillies are by Armbro Surge, the son of Most Happy Fella. This is the first crop of world champion Armbro Splurge. These yearlings are out of mares sired by Bret Hanover, Adios Vic, Race Time, Overtrick and Bullet Hanover and out of two minute mares, two minute producing mares and sisters to two minute horses. Tarport Count has six yearlings in the Seelster con- signment. He has been very consistent with stake and two minute horses and has been a leader in practically every category of the Ontario Sire Stakes. Of the six, three colts are full brothers to two minute horses. The Van Busse] s also have several yearlings by the internationally known trotter Cold Comfort as well as other outstanding sires such as Jonquil Hanover, Senor Skipper, Dream Maker, Warm Breeze and Happy Motoring. The one yearling which caught our eye and of many of the much better informed racii:g people in attendance was Ian Seelster. Ian Seelster was foaled on March 21, 1982 and is by Cold Comfort and should turn out to be an excellent trot- ter. Cold Comfort had 31 lifetime wins and earnings of more than $931,000 and a personal best time of 1.57.2. His oldest foals are the 1983 yearlings. Sunday night, a Seelster protege, Flanary Seelster won his third straight win at Mohawk Raceway just over a minute and 58 seconds. Yearlings from the Seelster barns will be sold at the Canadian Standardbred Classic sales September 14 and 15 and the Select Yearling sales on September 25. Set series dates Although the major league baseball regular schedules will continue until early October, dates have been set for the American and National league playoffs and the World Series. The National League playoffs will start Tuesday, October 4 and continue the following day in the home park of the western city. After a day off for travelling the series resumes October 7 in the west and continues the following two days if necessary. In the American League there will be no time off for travelling. The series starts in the east with games October 5 and 6 then switching to the west for the final one, two or three contests. None of the interleague playoff games will be played at the same time to allow for television coverage of all activities. If an American League is played in the afternoon the National League contest goes at night and vice versa. The first two games of the World Series will be played in the American League city on October 11 and 12 with 8:30 and 8:20 p.m. starts, respectively. After a day off it's back to the National League park for October 14 at 8:20 p.m.; Saturday at 1 p.m. and Sun- day at 4:30 p.m. If six and seventh games are required they will be hack to the American League site on the following Tuesday and Wednesday. • The way three of the four pennant races are shap- ing up, a lot of travel and ticket arrangements for the two league playoffs could be hinging on the results of the final day of play on October 2. The closest battle appears to be in the National east where at the time of writing the Pittsburgh Pirates and Montreal Expos are literally tied for first and the Phillies and Cards are right behind. The Los Angeles Dodgers and Atlanta Braves are the only two teams in contention in the National western division while the Chicago White Sox are running away and hiding in the American west. The American east continues to be a dog fight although the Baltimore Orioles are out in front by four games. Of the five teams still in contention only the Toronto Blue Jays play eastern teams the rest of the way while the other four play each other. • In fact, the Orioles and Yankees play each other eight times in their last 27 starts. The Jays have only 22 games remaining in the regular schedule and will need close to a miracle to finish first. If Toronto won 18 of their remaining 22 contests and that's possibly being very optimistic, the Orioles would have to win only one half of their 28 games to finish in a tie with the Blue Jays. Stranger things have happened. One of the most positive facts of the Jays 1983 season in addition to their great record has been the at- tendance. Crowds at CNE Stadium are up by more than a half million from a year ago and the three weekend dates with the Detroit Tigers drew record throngs of more than 124,000. Area fans that saw some or all of the four Detroit - Toronto games say they were the most exciting and thrilling any baseball fan could hope to see regardless of which club one was cheering for. MATHERS MOTORS Chrysler - Plymouth • Dodge Dodge Trucks Bob Lamm ie Bus (519) 235-1525 Res (519) 229-6678 VA, 136 Main St N. Exeter, Ontario NOM ISO Express eliminated The Exeter Express were ' eliminated in two straight games in the Ontario Baseball Association Senior 'D' playoff tournament on the weekend in Eastern Ontario. The Exeter club dropped a 14-1 verdict to Walkerton in Kendall Saturday morning and later in the day was on In six team tourney in two straight games in OBA senior 'D' playoffs the short end of a 13-8 score to Clarksburg. This game was played in Bowmanville. In the opening lame, Walkerton jumped on Ex- press starting pitcher Jim Pfaff for nine runs in the bot- tom of the first inning. Dave Hunt came on is relief. The only Express run of the FUTURE NHL STARS -- More than 50 present and future National Hockey League players attended last week's training sessions of the Huron Hockey School at Huron Park. Chown above are Quebec Nordique prospects David Poudrier, Paul Gillis, Yves Heroux, Mike Hoguh and Exeter native Dave Shaw. T -A photo PROS IN AREA -- A number of current National Hockey league stars attended last week's session of the Huron hockey School. Above, instructor Mike Keenan chats with Basil McRae and Jim Korn of the Toronto Maple Leafs and Chicago Black Hawk Al Secord. T -A photo. Lose two straight Co•OD juniors sidelined in OBA ala The Exeter Co-op juniors dropped two straightgames and were eliminated Satur- day in the OntarioBaseball association Junior 'C' playoff tournament in Kingsville. In a Friday opener, the Ex- eter club lost 6-1 to the host Kingsville club and in the fifth game of the tourney were defeated 16-10 by Wheatley, the club which eventually won the championship. In other first round games. • Chatham edged St. Thomas 3-2 and Wheatley drubbed Oritlia 10-3. With three winners and three losers after the first round, one losing team was forced to play a winner and that's how Exeter was pitted against Wheatley. In the first game. Kingsville scored three runs in eachof the third and eighth innings while the only Exeter : un came in the top of the fourth. Kevin Drager started the Exeter fourth by drawing a Kase on balls. Ile moved to se- cond on Doug Hoff man's sacrifice and home on singles delivered by Dave I layter and Greg Prout. The only other Exeter hits were singles by Joe Becker Horse club visits clinic By Carolyn Pritchard The latest meeting of the Exeter I lorse and Rider Club was held at the Exeter Animal Clinic. The meeting began with Doctor W. G. Balsdon discussing different types of worms and flies in horses. Ile also talked about dif- ferent products to be used to remove worms and flies. Everyone brought a fecal sample from their horse. The business portion of the meeting was held at the home of Pauline DM/ rtes. First was the club's 4-11 Achievement Day, which will be held September 24 at 10 a m. Mr. Brand mentioned that he would like the members ((- help rhelp him set up. So the members will meel September 21 at 4:00 p.`m. at the fairgrounds in Exeter We discussed the idea that the Exeter horse and Rider Awards Night. would be separate from the 4-1I awards night. This night will be some time in October or November. The next meeting will be September 19 at 7:30. It will be held at Mr. Brand's and also be the final meeting. and Brian Horner. The Kingsville pitcher fac- ed only 16 batters in the last five innings. Jeff Fuller was on the mound for Exeter. Ile allow- . ed six runs and nine hits over the eight inning route. In the second round Toss to Wheatley, the local juniors scored four runs intheseventh to take a 10-9 lead only to have the opposition come back with a seven run rally in the top of the ninth. After falling behind 4-0. the Hully Gully races Monday, riders from -as far away as Sudbury turned out to race at }fully Gully near Varna. The weather was ex- cellent, and the track proved 10 be extremely fast. Some of Ontario's top motocross racers turned in extremely fast show, particularly in the three junior classes. Results are as follows: Mini -Go class - Gus Bakos, Waterdown;. Greg Happy, Ila1nilton and Chad Minnie. Blenheim. School Boy 80-A - Shane Nesbitt, Richmond }lilt: Cor- ey Stoll, Scarborough; Tim Rayner, Brantford. School Boy 80-8 - Jim Dickins, Hensel]; Pat Poulin. London and Paul Bingham. Sarnia. School Boy 100 - tan Mellors, Cambridge: Steve Robertson, Ajax and Steve Collins, Brownsville. Junior 125 - Darryl Simp- son, London: Tim Murdock. Georgetown and Rick Bolton. Palgrave. Junior 250 - Kevin Moore - Sudhury; Ron Tessier, Sud- bury and Brad Denning. Strathroy. - Junior Open - Ted MacKay, Woodstock; Greg Schneider, Cambridge and Mark Skorosz, Staples. Senior 125 - Scott Wilson, London: Toby Stoll, Scar- borough and Dan Thring, Kitchener. Senior 240 and over - Jim Kuches, Itrantk►rd; Brad King, Hamilton and Ted Van Nest, Mississauga. Expert 123 - Rob Hodgson, Cambridge: Ken Bland, Stroud and Jeff Devereux. Sarnia Expert 240 and over - Pal Bastedo. Hamilton: Mike Burr. Caledonia and Glen Nicholson. Mississauga. • Next races are Ocoher 2 with the Holly Gully Grand Finale. Exeter club bounced back with six runs in the bottom of the fifth. Kevin Easterbrook started the Exeter rally with a single and scored on Steve Pearce's triple. Doug. Hoffman was . safe on an error, Steve Neil and Brian -Horner doubled and Greg Prout singled to ac- count for six runs. In the Exeter seventh. walks to Kevin Drager and Jeff McKellar, singles by Al Gaiser, Joe Becker and Dave ilayterand a double from the hat of Doug !toff/Tian sent the final four Exeter runs across • the plate. Steve Pearce, Dwayne Laporte and Kevin Drager shared pitching duties for Exeter. Exeter ladies club golfs The ladies club of the Ex- eter golf and country club had their usual game Tuesday. Helen Wasnidge closest to flag on number three and Hazel Beaver had thelongest drive on nine. Lowest putts went to Betty Smith, Grace Drummond and Eileen Rennie while hidden holes were won by Barb I lar- rison, Edna Busche and Marg Lovell. aIIIIII1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111IIII111111111111111111Ilimiilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltll1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111m i E NOW OPEN = ..... ...7....... . :___1 r=7_ SE Dashwood Auto sales E. Have your car professionally oiled and undercoated only $30 _... P. 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The Express came a little closer with a four run rally in the eighth frame. • In the Exeter opening inn- ing, Glenn Thurman doubled and scored as Dave Parsons singled and also crossed the plate on a number of errors. Gary Hartman was hit by a Royals lead in playoffs Thursday, the Exeter Royals took a one game lead in their best of five playoff series with West Corners. Tuesday, they travel to West Corners for game two and tonight (Thursday ) they also play in West Corners. Game four if necessary could possibly go in Exeter Sunday night. West Corners opened up a 1 run lead in the third inning as Jack Berg walked and scored on Rob Thoman's single. The Royals came back with three runs in the bottom of the third as Jeff Lindenfield ana Mike Desjardine walked, Paul McKnight singled, Gary Skinner walked and Brian Hodgins singles in two runs. They added one more run in the fourth as Rob Snell singl- ed and Dan Heywood singled him in. West Corners narrowed the count to 4-3 in the sixth- as Dave Walker walked, Bill Hodgins doubled and" Jack Berg singled. The Royals finished the scoring with three runs in the sixth as Jeff Lindenfield doubled, Dan Heywood singl- ed, Barry Baynham reached on a fielder's choice, Mike Desjardine walked, Paul McKnight singled and Gary Skinner and Al Lovell walked. Ron Thoman took the loss for West Corners giving up seven hits while striking out four batters. Bill Hodgins finished up giving up a hit with one strikeout. Brian Hodgins picked up the win for the Royals going six innings and giving up six hits while striking out eight batters. Brad Marsden finish- ed up giving up a hit while striking out two batters to pick up the save. pitch and scored the third Ex- press run in 'he fifth inning as Glenn Thurman was safe on an error and Dave Parsons singled. Jim Guenther stroked a home run to lead off the Ex- eter sixth inning. Dave Atthill followed with a double, but, failed to score. Four hits and a pair of walks produced the final four Exeter runs in the top of the eighth. Dave Atthill started things off with a walk, moved up on a Brian Mercer single and home on a similar hit by Gary Hartman'. Glenn Thurman's one base blow drove Mercer home and Randy Kraul and Kevin Hern chipped in with singles and each received credit for a run batted in Hern and Atthill singled in the Exeter fourth without scoring. Dave Parsons led the Ex- press with four singles in five trips to the plate. DARTS START The ever popular Exeter Legion mixed dart league swings back into action this Friday night with 16 teams in action. The schedule is as follows: 8 p.m. Trailers vs Rowdy Ones Smurfs vs Crusaders Shiphunters vs Snyde & Clyde Makeups vs Outlaws 9:30 p.m. Swat vs All in the Family Scotties vs Turtles Canscotts vs Odd Ones • Merri Wraggs vs Itchy Niters Hensall Men's Roc Hockey League Enlarging league - Draft system Registration Sat., Sept. 10, 1983 10 - 1 p.m. Hensall Arena Lobby Or call Mark Consitt - 262-3141 Greg Campbell 262-2826 John Rowcliffe 262-2191 Registration Party Hensail Arena - conference room Sept. 30, 1983 Exeter Minor Hockey r Registration '' 83.84 Season SHRC 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Saturdays, Sept. 10th & 17th Tykes 6 and Under $45.00 lst year players $45.00 trial offer All other age groups $75.00 Equipment Sale Attention Bowlers Exeter Curling Club We invite you to try the game of curling! 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