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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1995-05-31, Page 17Page 16 Times -Advocate, May 31,1995 Up, up and over Jared Bourne goes up and over the bar at the high jump event during Exeter Public School's track and field day on Friday. Exeter pigeon wins race EXETER - It must have been a case of the Dutch praying the Irish prayer "May the wind be always at your hack." On the Saturday when the Lucan Homing Pigeon Club held races from Cobourg, a distance of 277 ki- lometers as the pigeon flies, and Belleville, 343 kilometres, the wind was south-east. This tail wind seemed to favour the pigeons head- ed for the Exeter area. A pigeon owned and flown by Al de Haan won the race by flying the distance from Cobourg to Exeter in three hours and 20 minutes. One of Harry Winters' pigeons took four minutes longer to come home, and as a result took second place. Pi- geons from the de Haan lofts also captured positions three and four. Lucan flyers Clarence and Norm Hardy placed fifth and eighth; Mitch Szczech took positions sev- en, 17 and 18. Jim Southern from Kerwood came in ninth, twelfth and fourteenth, while Jim Whit - worth's pigeons, who have to tly the extra distance to Forest, placed tenth, fifteenth and sixteenth. Jack Pierson found himself in an unfa- miliar spot: I I, 13 and 20. Tom Hardy and Mark Ansems from' Parkhill brought up the rear. The Belleville race was also Flown in record time. Mitch "tough to beat" Szczech claimed first posi- tion with a pigeon that tlew the 343 kilometers in four hours and 18 minutes; he also took positions three and 12. Jim Whitworth had a good pigeon that took second place; in addition he took positions six and seven. The Exeter flyers were not entire- ly shut out of this race. Al de Haan-- came aancarie in fourth, and Harry Winters was right behind in fifth place. The Royal Lofts from Lucan captured positions eight, 10 and 22, and Jim Southern sneaked in to take the ninth spot. The also-rans won't be • , mentioned again. The club members are now busy training and setting up the birds for the 400 and 500 mile races (640 and 800 kilometers) which will be flown soon. Senior girls soccer team ends successful year EXETER - The South Huron District High School Senior girls soccer team lost both their games in W.O.S.S.A. playoff action put- ting an end to a successful season. The team played well in the first game against West Elgin on Thurs- day but failed to score on from sev- eral good chances and fell 3-0. In Sports- Lite the second game on Friday the Pan- thers were defeated by a stronger and more skillful Lambton Central team. Despite the two defeats at W.O.S.S.A the Panthers are cele- brating a very successful season as they are the first SHDHS senior girls soccer team to win a Huron ti- tle when they defeated F.E. Madill 2-0 earlier this month. Coaches Rob Peat and Jim Work- man are were happy with the Pan- ther's outstanding performance and look forward to an even more suc- cessful field hockey season this fall. • ill Thieek in Sports... mate to i_ ment family style - page 17 • Women Soccer lose to Petrolia - page 18 • Lucan to host hit/run/throw program LUCAN - The Lucan baseball as- sociation will be hosting a Hit/Run/ Throw program Sunday, Junc 11 at the Lucan Ball Diamond. Boys and girls age 13 and under will he competing in three funda- mental baseball skills in the Cana- dian -wide baseball competition which is designed to increase na- tional exposure and participation levels in the sport, as well as raise money for amateur baseball in Can- ada. The top local performers of the event qualify for a regional final with the possibility of moving on to provincial championships and the national finals at Toronto's Sky - Dome. The trip to the SkyDome will include the top provincial per- former in each category, plus a par- ent or guardian. The program, a project of Base- ball Canada, governing body for amateur baseball, is sponsored by Honda Canada with the Toronto Blue Jays Baseball -Club. Members of the Blue Jays will be on hand to meet the young finalists. The $6.00 cost to enter the com- petition includes a hotdog with a drink and souvenir packages. Reg- istration forms are available at Lu - can Home Hardware or Bumstead Fuels in Grand Bend on Highway 4. For more information contact Jim Galbraith 227-1725. SHDHS track and .field teem at O.F.S.A.A. EXETER - The SHDHS track and field team competed at the O.F.S.A.A. meet on Friday with ex- cellent results. Josh Watson who set a record in the wheelchair event last week at W.O.S.S.A., trimmed 12 seconds off his 8 minute and 53 second per- sonal best as he powered his wheel- chair through the 1,500 metre event. Danielle Miners who shattered the Huron Perth Javelin record in Goderich earlier this month came in 6th place after throwing her jave- lin 33 metres. The SHDHS track and field team have enjoyed a successful year and with some of the athletes returning to compete next year coach Jeffrey Orman is expecting a promising season. Chris Kennedy giakes a catch behind the plate during an Exeter Imperials fast -ball game. Imperials defeat Atwood 4-2 Exeter Imperials record first win of season with 4-2 victory over Atwood EXETER - Scan McCann singled twice and scored a run last Wednesday night as the Exctcr Chrysler Imperials Junior Fasthall team defeated Atwood 4-2 for their first regular season win. Steve Farquhar led the team on offense with a long home run. Chris McDonald, Greg Dalrymple and Mike Hefron also added hits. Starting pitcher Steve Cook went the distance on the mound for the victory. Cookallowed only one hit while striking out 10 hatters and walking 5. Thursday night at the Rec Centre, the Imperials gave up 6 runs in the 4th and 5th innings as they dropped a 9-7 decision to the team from Drumbo. Consecutive singles in the bottom of the 7th inning by McDonald, McCann, Dalrymple and Darryl Ford produced three runs in an unsuccessful comeback attempt. Ben Armstrong and Ken Hines singled earlier in the game to com- plete the Imperial's offence. "If we would have gone to nine innings we would have won it," said head coach Fred Cook. "We were starting to hit the hall but we were too far behind," Cook said about the spontaneous burst of of- fense from his team late in the game against Drumbo. According to Cook the team is improving and for now he's just go- ing to work on the basics. "Were going to play good fundamental hall and execute the bunts," said Cook who feels his team is capable of playing 500 ball. If Cook can keep his star pitchers off of the injury list, he says the Imperials will be heavy playoff contenders in Aurtist. Despite their 1-4 win/loss record, Cook said it's too early in the year to worry about the playoffs. "A lot of these guys have never played together before the start of the season. It takes time for a good hall club to come together," he said. The Imperials are in action twice this week with road games in Wellesley and Woodstock on Thursday. Their next home game is a week from Thursday. "The big one" that didn't get away Chris Skalkos T -A star It's common knowledge that some fishermen exaggerate when telling you about the one that got away, while other fishermen just down right fabricate a fictitious tale. But for two local anglers, their big fish stories are not only val- idated, their also documented. Scott French, and Brad Baker from Exeter landed the third and fourth largest fish in this year's Grand Bend Salmon and Trout Fishing Derby. French's third place salmon tipped the scales at 19.536 lbs and Baker's fourth place salmon weighed in at 19.525 lbs. The Grand Bend Derby is an annual event that draws veteran anglers from all over the province hopin* to catch "the big one," along with the big prize that comes with it. The difference in weight between the two fishermen's prize catch is roughly about the weight of a beer bottle cap and they both caught their fish on the opening day of the derby. "I'm kind of glad it's over," said Baker. "Between work and fishing there's no time to sleep." The first question that these two fisher- men most likely encounter is what lure did "the big one" go for. Baker has no problem still has it among his collection of favourite lures. French, on the other hand, wasn't so lucky. After hooking his third place win with his Bomber lure, another bigger fish ran off with it later on in the derby. "It's in a fish's mouth somewhere in Lake Hu- ron," said French. "I've Lost more tackle this year than in the last ten years." Even though the two men don't know each other they have a lot in common. Both men have been fishing most of their lives. Both participate in the Sarnia derby as well as the Grand Bend derby. Both could watch the tips of their fishing poles for six hours straight without getting a bite and still claim to have a good time. Both men have understanding wives that are not into fishing but don't mind their husbands disappearing for flit weekends in a row chasing fish instead of them. And both men fish with a buddy who has a boat so they don't have to sac- rifice their driveways. Either man will not spare any costs when it largest comes to buying tackle and other hardware that comes with the territory. "1 told my wife 1 was going out to buy some Scott FI*sch - 3rd salmon In the derby. "I have a tackle box that's about the size.of a small car," added French. Brad Baker - mon In the de revealing that it was a Pro king Black and Cracked Ice lure that ham -cranks and I came back with two electronic downriggers at worked or him. "It's been our hottest hire," tie said. In fact, he $250 each," said Baker. 1 4th largest sal- rby. But each one has their own tale to tell about their prize fish. Baker said his fish nearly ran his line out and they had to circle the boat around him to keep it on, fighting it for about 20 minutes. "By the time I got it in I was ready for a nap.' said Baker. Things didn't go so smoothly for French. He claims that he and his friends have been fishing for a long time and when they get a fi..h on they each do their own part to help reel it in. But according to French, "it didn't work out that way." French said when he got his fish on it didn't run away with the lure, "he charged the boat of course," and got the line tangled in the motor. French and his buddies wer tripping over each other trying to to tum the engine motor off before the line snapped and when they went to scoop it up the net got caught in the propeller blades. "If somebody was off shore watching us it would have been quite a show," said French describing a scene reminiscent of an old episode of the three stooges. "It was more good luck than good management." The second most common question these two fishermen hear is "what did you do with your fish?" "I traded it in for crab legs," said Baker. "I love fish but I'm not a big Salmon eater." French on the other hand is. "I'm going to smoke him," said French. "I think it's actually too big to anything else with it." 1�