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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1984-07-11, Page 8Times -Advocate. July 11, 1984 Sports Spotlight By Ron Haugh Canada Cup set Theschedule has been released for the 1984.Ca>rlada Cup hockey tournament and all but six of the 19 games will be played in Western Canada. The tourney will take up the first 18 days of September. Three games will be playedat the Forum in Montreal with single contests set for The Gardens in London, Halifax and Buffalo. The gar in London will go on Tuesday, September 4 with West Germany meeting Czechoslovakia. The Buf- falo tilt has the same Czechs taking on the U.S. team on September 6. The Canadian club plays the Czechs in Calgary on September 8 and the Soviet Union in Edmonton, September 8. Six games will be played in Calgary, five in Edmonton and on in Vancouver. Voice of Nabs retires Danny Galivan who has been the voice of the Mon- treal Canadiens on radio and television for more than 30 years has decided to retire. Galivan carne from Sydney, Nova Scotia to take over the spot behind the play-by-play microphone at the Forum in 1952 and soon became famous for his use of fancy words. Now 67 years of age, Galivan met recently with Canadian Sports Network officials and decided_to call it quits. "To say Danny will be missed is an understate- ment," said CSN president Ted Hough. Fans like winners The usual theory that sports fans in almost any area will support a winning club is certainly being borne out this season by the Detroit Tigers and Toronto Blue Jays. In Toronto the Jays on 47 home dates have drawn a total of $1,248,000 spectators. That's an increase of more than 200,000 from last year and 650,000 more than they drew to Exhibition Stadium in 1982. Although the Jays are seven games back of the high flying Tigers in the American League eastern division, their statistics are very impressive. The Toronto club leads in team batting at .280 while Detroit and Boston are tied for second at .277. In the pit- ching department, the Tiger hurlers Lead in ERA figures at 3.42 while the Milwaukee Brewers have 3.50 and the Blue Jays 3.53. The Jays have eight hitters in the top 60 in batting averages in the entire American League while the Tigers have five. The Jays lead the league in triples with a total of 45. Lloyd Moseby and Dave Collins each have 11. In the hit department in the AL, Blue Jay second socker Damaso Garcia leads with 109, five more than Allan Trammel of the Tigers. ' What the'Blue Jays need to really become a for- midable contender is a starting left handed pitcher. It's interesting to note that a southpaw hasn't started and won a game since October 1, 1980. That's 570 games without a lefty doing the trick. The last one to do so was Paul Mirabella, who is now with the Seattle Mariners. All star data While the results of the 1984 all star game will be known by the time this issue is published, we will call the American League to win. Our prediction is based completely on statistics of the 27 players on the Americans and 28 on the Nationals. All of the four areas we checked gave the nod to the AL. In the pitching department, the AL pitchers have a record this year of 68 wins and 25 losses while the NL hurlers have won 52 and dropped 31. Similiarly in earn- ed run averages the American league pitchers are : t 2.39 while the Nationals are at 2.56. On the offensive side, the 19 American league hat- ters have 200 home runs and 820 runs hatted in while 20 from the National Teague have recorded 172 round trippers and 829 RBi's. Some injustices The present format of making the selections for the annual all star game has been getting some criticism. in a couple of instances this year, it has been a popularity poll rather than the fans picking the players who have turned in the best performances. Reggie Jackson received the most voles as a right fielder, yet, has made only a very few appearances at that position. Ile has been the Angels designated hitter most of the time. Rod Carew was picked at first base mostly on his past performances ahead of fellows like Kent Ilrbek and Willie Upshaw. While the present system has some loopholes, let's leave it to the fans to continue making the choices. After fall they are the ones responsible for making Abner Doubleday's invention so popular. Spahr, Sain and rain Some of our more mature readers will remember when the motto of the old Boston Braves was Spahn and Sain and a day of rain. All the Braves needed was a day off to go along with the great pitching of Warren Spahn and Johnnie Sain. These two pitchers were hack in action Saturday in an oldtimers game in Buffalo. This time they didn't fare so well. Former Cleveland Indian Larry Doby sock- ed home runs of Spahn and Sain to lead the American leaguers to a 6-1 win over the National loop oldtimers. 1983 rnoTrgs,-.,L1, xrNnrn MATHERS MOTORS 136 MAIN STREET EXETER, ONTARIO NOM 1 SO C.F. (Cal) Wein BUS. PHONE 235.1525 RES. Phone 235-2635 CHRYSLER PLYMOUTH DODOS DODOS TRUCKS 1 Two squirt stdms:'victorious, outplayed Bryai tab . and Exeter 1. 4xeter 1 increased (4) and Eric Remkes. nament to be played at the showed an excellent team elf its lead to 44f1 before Exeter 2 Next week will see a full high school July 21. Twelve fort with 3 players taking etre got some reward for their ef- slate of games being played teams • have so far been of the scoring. After a slow forts and scored a goal. Final again. The Exeter atom entered In this tournament. start, Exeter 3 is showing a lot score: 4-1 for Exeter 1. Scor- teams are gearing up for the Some from as far away as of improvement. Final score: ing for Exeter 1 - Jamie Exeter Centennial Cup tour- Kincardine. 3-0. Scoring fot Exeter were Wulterkens, Steve DuBarry, Dennis Hodgins, -Gavin Snell, Kevin Fick, and Sisavay and Brent Gibson. Sengkhounmany. Scoring for In mosquito action, Exeter Exeter 2 - Shawn McFalls. 1 and Exeter 2 faced each In pee wee action, Exeter 2 other at the high ,lichen, faced Nairn at the Canners Wednesday night. 'Exeter 1 field. Exeter took the play to quickly took the lead of the Nairn for most of the game, game, a close game. Exeter 'building up a 5-0 lead. In a 1 however remained therbet-. final effort, Nairn came back ter team displaying an ex- but it was a little too late. cellent passing game. Final score - 5-2. Scoring for Halftime score was 3-0 for Exeter 2 were - Chris Haugh In sglllrt soccer action this excellent peformances by week, Exeter 1 travelled to Doug Wilson, Marty Grand Bend for A game. Ex- DeBruyn, and , Chris Mac, Donald, Grand Bend took over in the second half and scored 3 unanswerable goals. Final score: 5-1. Exeter 2 played at home against Lucan 1 and totally dominated the game, not eter 1 had to 'play two meq short all game because not enough players showed up. Exeter took the lead on a goal by Marty DeBriiyn but Grand Bend came back and led 2-1 at half time. Despite allowing tucpq any scoring chances.end *vitalizing on only two of tltelr own fly chances. Final score: 2-0 for Exeter 2. Goal acoyeer4 for Ex- eter were Shawn McCann attd Jamie Van Dam. Exeter 3 played at home, against Bryanston. A very ag- gressive Exeter team BOSS HOGG PERFORMS --- A nine ton four wheel truck performed at Hully Gully recently driving over six burning cars. Above, driver R.J. Errington chats with Hully Gully owner Randy Collins. T -A photo Lots of excitement in motocross summer series An exciting first round of Hully Gully's Summer Series of Motocross was held on the Holiday Monday. Over 200 riders competed for points toward two Series Champion- ships which will be on July 29 when the fifth and final round will take place at Bully Gul- ly. Over $3,000 is up for grabs along with the regular awards. Other race dates in- cluded in this Series are on July 14, 15, 28, and 29. As an added feature Hully Gully brought in "Boss Hogg" from Springfield, Mass. Boss Hogg is a custom built 4 wheel drive truck that weighs over 18,000 lbs. stands 15 feet is close to 29 feet long and has 48 forward gears. - This truck can go almost anywhere it wants and it pro-: ved it going around the motocross track during inter- mission. But the main event proved to he when after the Motocross races R.J. Err- ington the driver of "Boss" drove over six burning cars. The calibre of racing was excellent due mainly to the surprise appearance of Canada's no. 1 plateholder Ross "Rollerbal1" Pederson. Pederson from Medicine Hal, Alberta won five of his six motos. Results of the day were: Junior 125A David Marcella Jr. Kitchener; .Junior 12513 Glen Emery, London; Junior 250 Paul Mullen, Uxbridge Scores from ladies slo-pitch Sundowners 9, ,lack's Plumb- ing and Heating 1, Huron Park Devils 9, Albatross Angels 8, Downtown Dollies 21, Canadian Tire 3, Good Times 8, South Huron Hospital 1. This week's schedule Downtown Dollies vs Huron Park Devils 7 p.m. Huron Park. South Huron Hospital vs Sundowners 7 p.m. Exeter No. 2. Jack's Plumbing and !leafing vs Good Times 8 p.m. Exeter No. 2, Albatross Angels vs Canadian Tire 10 p.m Exeter No. 2. Schoolboy 80A Richard Tripodi, Markham; Schoolboy 80B Shawn Birt, Trenton; Schoolboy 100 Eric Klement, Rochester, Michigan. Old , Timers Hugo Maaskant, Clinton; Junior Open Mark Renaud, Mount Albert. Senior 125 Kevin Moore, Sudbury; Senior 250 Randy Abele, Delhi; Senior -Open Rick Bolton, Dundas. Expert 125 Ross Pederson, Medicine Hat, Alberta; Ex- pert 250 Ross Pederson; Ex- pert Open Ross Pederson. The next round of the July Summer Series will be on Ju- ly 14 and 15 as riders will com- pete dor points towards the overall purse that will be awarded on July 29. Cowgirls edge Parkhill on loping end to Lucan The Crediton Cowgirls ladies fastball team ended the week by splitting their two games in lluron-Middlesex play. The ladies do not play again until Monday night when they host Strathroy in Crediton at 9:00. In their first game. the House league at Hully Gully House League Motocross racing action continued June :30 at Hully Gully as the House League members prepare for the upcoming July Summer Series. The series began on Mon- day, July 2, and all riders will be eligible for house league points as well as points for the ('MA sanctioned race events. The results are as follows: Junior B: Glen Emery, London; Kevin Lupton, Wat- ford and Pat Poulin, London. .Junior A: Brian Blackburn, Exeter; Ilugo Maaskant, Clinton and Chuck Webster, London. Pee Wee C: Sean Thomas, London; Pee Wee 13: Scott Cowan, Orangeville; John Hepburn, St. Marys and David An- drews, Clinton. Pee Wee A: 'Kevin Reeve, London; Jim Dickins, Mensal' .and Scott Lindsay, St. Marys. Novice A: Chris Lee, Walton; Brian Feris. Watford and John Maaskant. Clinton. Novice 13: Jim Hendrickx. Watford; Glen Muhlethaler, Cowgirls defeated Parkhill by a score of 5-4 in ?rte inning overtime. They played an ex- cellent game of ball and were able to play so well with superb pitching by Kelly Ileywood. Leading the Cowgirls at the plate was Marilyn Smithers with a triple and a double. Teresa VanRaay added a tri - file and a s tpgle while Brenda Curry addedtwo hits. Helping the cause with singles was Deb Lord and Tammy Regier. Kelly Ileywood was the winning pitcher with four strikeouts. On Monday night the Cowgirls hosted Lucan and were defeated by a score of 12-8. They came up very flat in the first four innings, fought hack to tie the game in the fifth but were not able to hold Lucan who moved ahead four more runs in the last two innings. Leading the plate was Deb- bie Lord with three hits. Marilyn Smithers pounded out a home run and added a single. Fay Schenk and Wen - di Schwindt added two hits while Brenda Curry and Kate Steeper added one hit apiece. Brenda Wilds went the distance for Crediton. Woodstock and Gord Whitely, Atwood. Enduro C: Spencer Clark, Sarnia. Enduro B: Brian Tetreaull, Sarnia. Enduro A: Andrew Meining, London. yf•�� • • NEW SPORT STARTS Underwater hockey was unveiled at the Exeter swimming pool, Tuesdoy night. Some of the participants ore shown up for some relaxation. Express come back to post 8-7 victory The Exeter Express over- came an early deficit to record an 8-7 victory over Walkerton in Great Lakes • senior baseball action at Ex- eter Community Park Sunday afternoon. Walkerton, scored . four times in the first inning and single runs in the second and third frames to take a com- ' manding 6-2 margin on the scoreboard. The Express hit the run col- umn in the second inning as Steve Pearce and Doug Fair- bairn walked and scored on walks to Dave Atthill and Gary Hartlnan and a fielder's choice by Brian Mercer. Mercer singled to start the Exeter fifth and came around to score on a Dave Bogart groundout, Walt Parkinson's walk and a sacrifice fly from the bat of Paul Gilmour. The big Express rally which proved enough to get the victory came in the bot- tom of the sixth. The first five batters for the Express were able to get on base and com- plete their cycle to score. Brian Horner was safe on an error, Dave Atthill and Bob McDonald singled; Jeff Fuller reached first on a fielder's choice and Dave Bogart cracked a single. Singles by Horner and At- thill and a walk to Fuller load- ed the bases in the bottom of the seventh, but, they were left stranded. STEPHEN SWIM STAFF - The Stephen township swim- ming pool -is now open and the staff is shown here. Back, left, Sandra McCurdy and Elise Vandeworp. Front, Catherine Patterson and Heather Hern. T -A photo Lawn bowlers host mixed treble tourney Sunday the Exeter lawn bowling club along with Ellison Travel hosted a mix- ed trebles bowling tourna- ment with bowlers coming from London, St. Marys, Forest, Seaforth, Mitchell, Clinton and Exeter. Taking to honours was the Tom Bowness rink from Lon- don with a score of three wins and 46. Other winners were Sandy Pepper, Seaforth, Reg Robinson, Mitchell, Art Finlayson. Seaforth, and Fred Tilley, Seaforth. Consolation honoirs went to Lou Cundari, St. Marys. Good weather and fast greens made a good afternoon of bowling. Ernie Chipchase, Lila Smith, Clarence Down 'and John Eberly were winners in the three regular jitneys held this week at the Exeter lawn bowling club. Visitors at Ironwood Members of the ladies club at the ironwood golf club entertained visitors from Seaforth and the Exeter Golf and Country Club to a round of golf and a potluck dinner, Wednesday. Hazel Beaver of ironwood and Carol Ann Doig from Seaforth recorded low scores of 44. Beryl Elgie of Exeter required the least number of putts with Doris Hackney of ironwood in se- cond spot. Barb Watt, Seaforth was closest to the pin on the fourth hole, Gail Skinner of iron- wood had the longest drive and Brenda Geiser from the same club was judged the most honest golfer. Chipchase compiled two victories and an aggregate of 27 to top all Tuesday com- petitors. Ross Richardson was second with a score of 26 and Clarence Down was next at 24. A pair of victories and an aggregate of 24 allowed Lila Smith to take top honours Thursday night. Isabel Rogerson was the runnerup with a score of 22 and Garnet Hicks and Anna Ballantyne were deadlocked at 21. in Saturday's action. Clarence Down and .John Eberly were tied for top honours with identical ag- gregate scores of 19. Greys win B title in Seaforth tourney The Exeter Greys' ladies fastball team captured the "B" championship at Seaforth tournament on the weekend. After a terrible loss to Seaforth on Friday night, the girls regrouped and played excellent fastball for the re- mainder df the tourney. In their second game they defeated the Clinton Sluggers by a commanding score of 14-0. Lining pitcher was Lia Snell with relief from Sheila Penhale. The win took the girls into the final of the eight team tournament against the Crediton Cowgirls. The final game was ex- citing fastball with both teams playing well. The Greys led from the start and despite a late inning surge by the Cowgirls, the Greys came ahead by a 6-5 score. The win- ning pitcher was Lia Snell with relief by Sandra Burns. Members of the Greys are Darlene McBride, Lois McCallum, Joyce Morgan, Brenda Jarrett, Joshie. 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