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TImos,Advacoto, August 15, 1984
Sports
Spotlight
By Ross Haugh
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When teaching youngsters the art of shooting and
kicking, demonstrations by the coach are very impor-
tant. It is only through observation and practice that
a young . player can master the skills of shooting.
Players must learn to become accurate with both feet,
and continual practice at designated targets is the best
way for a youngster to find a sense of accuracy.
When shooting the soccer ball accurately along the
ground, aplayershould usethe low-drivemethod of kick-
ing. Thr istep of the foot is used, while keeping the toe
pointing down and striking through the centre of the
ball.
The non -kicking foot is placed alongside the ball and
the body is bent forward slightly. On impact, the
shooting foot is carried through for added power.
When forwards take a shot at goal after receiving
a cross or pass through the air, they use the half -volley
method of kicking. The body is made to lean away from
the ball and the instep is again used with the toe poin-
ting down. The position of the head should remain still
and never raised up, while at the same time the player
must concentrate and look at his target - the goal!
The following exercise can involve all your players,
including the goalkeeper, and emphasizes both good
passing and accurate shooting. Divide your players in:
to two groups and send them to the centre line, while
your 'keeper takes up his position in goal. Line up your
groups, one by the side line and the other group facing
the goal.
The first player in "A" group makes a forward pass
towards the side line, while the first player in group "B"
runs to the ball and passes it back to the first player
from "A" group who has moved forward to fire a shot
for goal.
The two players thea return to the rear of their
respective groups, while the exercise continues with the
second players from each group performing. When
everyone has performed twice, the groups can change
around. Also the other side of the field can be used in
order to force the passers to make use of their alter-
nate foot.
Proud to be Canadian
Any Canadian whether they are a regular sports fan
Dr not and watching any of the Olympic telecasts over
the past two weeks should be proud to call Canada
home.
To say Canadian athletes did better than expected
at the 23rd Olympiad is an absolute understatement.
The 44 medals including 10 gold far surpass any mark
our representatives have ever made at a world
competition.
No one will ever determine how much effect the
boycott by some of the Communist Bloc countries had
on the medal winnings for Canadians, but, the way our
men and women performed we would have still put on
an excellent show.
Now that Canadians have set an excellent standard
at the world level how do we maintain or surpass what
has been accomplished at Los Angeles.
Two ways will probably be to employ more full time
coaches and use more federal monies to carry out more
intense training programs.
The just concluded Olympics appear to be the most
successful of any ever undertaken, not only in a com-
petitive manner, but, as far as dollars and cents are
concerned.
1 Estimates on the amount of profits made at Los
Angeles range from 15 to 50 million dollars. That's a far
cry from the big deficit incurred only eight years ago
in Montreal.
The amount of controversies encountered by of-
ficials was also very small when one considers the
number of athletes from some 140 countries.
The only controversies of any significance were the.
win and Toss by Shawn O'Sullivan in boxing and the
track incident involving Mary Decker and Zola Budd.
One's reaction to the final bout for O'Sullivan could
be swayed a bit depending on which network you were
listening to.
Doug Saunders of the CBC used some choice
language when Tait was declared the winner over
O'Sullivan. Meanwhile Howard Cosset was strong in his
conviction that O'Sullivan should not have been in the
final.
Regardless of the decision, the way O'Sullivan
handled himself in interviews following the fight was
the mark of a true champion in the everyday world.
Again congratulations to every one of the more than
400 Canadians in the Olympics. You are all champions
for efforts far above the normal call of duty.
A good tourney
Members of the Exeter Royals fastball team ex-
ecutive and coaching staff are to be congratulated in
operating an excellent tournament on the weekend.
. The calibre of play displayed by the 16 teams was
excellent and the Wingham BP's proved they were
"tourney tough" as they did almost the impossible by
winning four times Sunday. Their last two victories
came back-to-back against the favoured Verschoyles
club whish was undefeated until they met the ultimate
champions from Wigham in the last two games.
The true double knockout system makes for an ex-
. cellent tournament. Well done again to Brian i iodgins,
Sam Skinner and Fred Cook and the rest of the Royals
in providing an excellent weekend fastball
entertainment.
Express in playoffs
The Exeter Express finished in first place in the
Great Lakes senior baseball league and are quickly in-
to OBA playdowns as they defeated the Clinton Colts
in a first playoff series. The second game was last night
Wednesday in Clinton with a third if necessary going
tonight, also in Clinton.
if the Express are successful in the first round they
will likely be sent against Strathroy in the second round
with weekend action assured.
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Edge Nairn in league play
Wingham wins Royals tourney in exciting comeback
Wingham BPs captured the
Exeter Royals' third annual
intermediate fastball tourna-
ment on the weekend.
After losing to Verschoyle
earlier in the day the BPs
came back to beat them twice
in the final. They won the first
game 4-2 as Don Edgar spun
a six -hitter and Dave Burns
came on in the final game
with a 4 -hitter as the BPs won
3-1.
The BPs received $800 and
Labatts awards for their win
while Verschoyle picked up
$450 for runnersup. Third
place went to St. Marys Baird
Lumber who came back on
the losers side winning five
games before Wingham
eliminated them.
Last year's champion Strat-
ford Samsonite finished
fourth. St. Marys pitcher
Mike Shackleton won one
mvp award as he pitched 31
innings including one 13 inn-
ing game against St.
Clements. Baird coach Doug
Haycoch won tourney sport-
smanlike individual. Don
Edgar of Wingham picked up
the other awards winning two
games for his team.
Saturday Mitchell pitcher
Paul McClure threw a no-
hitter against Lucan. Only
one home run cleared the new
fence on the main diamond as
Ed Daer from Wingham hit
one against Baird Lumber.
The Exeter Royals would
like to thank Ron Bogart and
Gerry MacLean for donating
the trophies, Doug Mann at
Golden Harvest Farm Seeds
for running our schedule, the
wives for doing the cooking,
Dave Atthill for doing the
diamonds first thing Saturday
and Sunday, the umpires who
did a good job, Labatts for
sponsoring us, and to anyone
who helped make the tourna-
ment a success.
Special. thanks to Theo's
Variety in Huron Park for
supplying pop juice and cups
and to Kongskildefor the use
of their trailer.
Tourney scores
Lucan 5 Stonetown 1
Samsonite 7 Sylvan 1
Wingham 2 Lieury 0
West Corners 4 Mitchell 3
Verschoyle 3 Enzo's Pizza 1
Tavistock 4 Nairn 0
Windsor 1 St. Clements 0
Dorchester 2 Baird Lumber 1
Samsonite 5 Lucan 0
Wingham 8 West Corners 0
Verschoyle 1 Tavistock 0
Windsor 2 Dorchester I
Sylvan 4 Stonetown 2
Mitchell 11 Lieury 5
Nairn 1 Enzon's Pizza 0
Baird Lumber 5 St. Clements 2
Wingham 4 Samsonite 1
Verschoyle 7 Windsor o
Sylvan 6 West Corners 0
Mitchell 4 Lucan 0
Dorchester 3 Nairn 2
Baird Luniber 13 Tavistock 6
Verschoyle 3 Wingham 2
Mitchell 7 Sylvan 2
Baird Lumber 6 Dorchester 3
Samsonite 4 Mitchell 2
Baird Lumber 7 Windsor 0
Baird Lumber 6 Samsonite 0
Wingham 3 Baird Lumber 2
Wingham 4 Verschoyle 2
Wingham 3 Verschoyle 1,
Royals 7 Nairn 6
Thursday in Southwestern
Fastball Association play, the
Exeter Royals travelled to
Nairn and edged them 7-6 in
nine innings.
The Royals scored once in
the first as Barry Baynham
singled and scored on a single
by Dan Heywood.
Nairn came back to score
two runs in the first and two
in the second to go up 4-1.
The Royals made it 4-2 in
the third as Doug Pearson
singled and scored on
Baynhams grounder. They
tied the score in the fourth as
Paul McKnight and Mike
Desjardine singled and came
in to score.
They went up 5-4 in the fifth
as Jim Allison singled and
scored on Dan Heywood's
grounder. Nairn tied it in the
bottonm of the seventh to force
extra innings.
The Royals scored two runs
in the ninth as Paul McKnight
singled, Rob Snell doubled
and Will Lamb and Brian
Hodgins both singled.
Nairn pulled to within one
as Brian Ropp homered in the
bottom of the ninth.
Brian Hodgins picked up
the win in relief of Dan
Heywood to run his record to
7-2. They combined to give up
eight hits while striking out
WINGHAM BP's WiN — Exeter Royals Sam Skinner, left, and Brian Hodgins at the right congratulate Box Fox -
ton, Jim Tiffin and Grant Coultes of the Wingham BP's on winnning the weekend fastball tournament.
TOURNEY RUNNERSUP — Exeter Royals officials Sam Skinner, left and Fred Cook
at the right congratulate Wayne House and Kevin Paton of the Verschoyle Gun-
ners, runnersup to the championship at the weekend fastball tournament.T-A photo
Horse club planning
more .summer activities
A meeting of the Exeter 4-11
horse and pony club was held
at the Pine Dale Hotel, July
30.
The ride-a-thon money
which was to be given to Cam
Darling by July 31 was
discussed.
The next upcoming event
was then taken up. It is to be
a "rodeo" or fun day which
parents will compete in. 11
will commence at 10 a.m. on
Monday August 6 at the farm
of September MacAlpine,
which is found right beside
the Iluron Country Playhouse
at Grand Bend.
Classes to be held are
Showmanship at !falter,
Equitation - Walk/Trot,
Leadline, Pleasure -
Walk/Trot, Obtacle Course,
Mount -up Cloverleaf, Keyhole
- Dismount and turn horse in
key, Turtle Race, Musical
Chairs, Steady Hand -
"Toothpick in mouth -
balance lifesaver on end" and
Chocolate Pudding Eating
Contest - Parent blindfolded -
feed their child 4-11 member.
The next issue discussed
was the club's trip to
Canada's Wonderland. Kelly
Ryan had done some research
into the matter of prices.
Figures given were $15.95,
without bus or food, but Kel-
ly could easily gain access to
a discount of $4.00. Price with
bus was $27.95. it also includ-
ed a chitken dinner with all
the pop you could drink at the
meal.
By a democratic vote of the
majority it was decided that
members would go by private
car to Canada's Wonderland
August 14.
Departure time will be ap-
proximately 7 a.m. AIi
members were contacted and
are supposed to have all
money in for the trip by next
meeting.
The next compulsory 4-11
event is the show at Dungan-
non on August 22 at 10 a.m.
Entry sheets must be in by
August 15.
in the latter part of the
meeting the contents and date
of the exam were discussed.
Contents are: Practical Horse
Psychology, Functional
Anatomy and Action, Breeds
of Light Horses and Gaits of
the l lorse.
The exam is to be written at
the seventh meeting of the
club year.
Gymnastics
tops today
Today in the sixth week of
the sports program, there will
be a morning filled with gym-
nastics. In the afternoon, we'll
be bowling in Huron Park.
Thursday there will he a
trip to London to see the
Memorial Girls and Boys
Club, a tour of McDonald's,
and the L.H.C. Museum.
Friday we will be visiting
the farm of Don Dearing and
having a hayride. There will
be a fun -filled afternoon with
water games. •
Next Tuesday, August 21.
the last week of the program,
the kids that' will be going
camping are going to have a
carwash to help pay for some
of the cost. In the afternoon
both the sports and Bert 'n
Ernie Clubs will be going to
the Playhouse to see the pro-
duction "But I'm Just a Kid."
Today, in the Berl 'n Ernie
Club, they will be going to the
Children's Museum and
Storybook Gardens. Thurs-
day morning they will be
testing their artistic abilities
by finger and foot painting. in
the afternoon there will be
bowling in Huron Park.
Friday morning will be fill-
ed with games and crafts and
they will cool off with a swim
in the wading pool in the
afternoon. Next Tuesday,
August 21. the Bert 'n Ernie's
will have a Sports Day in
the morning and in the after-
noon will be going with the
Sports Club to the Playhouse
to see "But I'm Just a Kid."
A reminder that the last
week ( August 21-24 i is an ir-
regular week for the Sports
Club. Instead of the weekly
BALL HOCKEY CHAMPS The Toilet Bowlers are this year's winners of the South Huron ball hockey cham-
pionship. Back, left, Brad Coates, Rick Gilfillan, Steve Wells, Allan Knight, Greg Sangster and Rob Baker. Front,
Terry Zachar, Dave Delbridge, John Kernick. Terry Baker, Ron Ferguson, Kevin Oke, Jeff Rowe, Peter Dearing
and Jeff Musser. The trophy was presented by Robert Rivers of Cantol Specialty Chemicals. Missing were Tom
Coates, Dove Bell, Brian Horner and Scott Pincombe. T -A photo
Juniors to
start OBA
play Saturday
The Exeter ('o -Op juniors
will be in action Saturday
afternoon at 3:30 p.m. at Ex-
eter community park in the
first Ontario Baseball
Association ,Junior D playoffs.
Wheatley will supply the op-
position with the second game
in Wheatley, Sunday
afternoon
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MOST VALUABLE — Scott Bogart presents the RSD
trophy to Mike Shackleton of St. Marys as the most
valuable player in the weekend Royals fastball tourney.
Men's double
in lawn bowling
Wednesday, August 8 the
Exeter lawn bowling club
held their annual men's dou-
ble draw tournament spon-
sored by the Bankers and
Businessmen.
The following businesses
helped in providing prizes for
the tournament: Bank' of
Montreal, Bank of Nova
Scotia, Royal Bank, Darlings
I.G.A., A & H Superior store,
Veal's Meat Market and
Canadian Canners.
Bowlers came from
Elmira, Woodstock, Inger-
soll, Forest. Stratford,
Lucknow, Clinton, Seaforth,
Mitchell, St. Marys,
Wingham and in London
Elmwood. Fairmont and
Thistle Clubs)
Taking top place were the
Ralph Pfromner rink from
London Thistle club, Doug
Ross, Ingersoll, Don Sibley.
Woodstock, Harold Rushton,
London Fairmont and Bob
Jones, London Fairmont.
In regular jitney action this
week, the ladies were top win-
ners in Tuesday and Thurs-
day competitions.
Lorna Spencer with two vic-
torie, and aggregate of 33 and
plus of three was Tuesday's
winner. Next came Rose
Blanchard with 28 and Stella
Taylor with a score of 24.
Stella Taylor's aggregate
score of 21 with a pair of wins
won the top prize, Saturday
night. Percy Campbell and
Muriel Waugh were deadlock-
ed for second with scores of
18.
fee, each day will be priced
separately. Check with the
Rec Centre if there are any
questions
fashion
seven batters.
Randy Malcolm went the
distance for Nairn allowing 11
hits while striking o""t four
batters.
The Royals record is now 18
wins and six losses. They
have three games left. Their
next game is Thursday at
home against Poplar Hill.
Jame time is 9 p.m.
SOUTH HURON
HOCKEY LEAGUE
Organizational
Meeting
to be hell at
Huron Park
on
Wed., August 15, 1984
(It
7:30 p.m.
For more details on
this non -body contact
hockey league contact
Frank Funston (228-6425)
or Ron Rader (235-0660).
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