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Home My WebLink AboutTimes Advocate, 1994-7-6, Page 15SPORTLS ( Times -Advocate, July 6, 1994 Page 15 Junior baseball league may regroup next summer Strong midget league makes the future look promising Dwight Gingerlch of the Exeter Riverview Estates midgets comes into third base during the ninth inning of Thursday's game in Exeter. By Fred Groves T -A staff EXETER - A couple of years ago there were seven teams, now there are none. In last week's issue of the Titles - Advocate, it was reported that The Huron -Perth • Ladies Fastball Lcaguc is dying - there arc only four teams. Baseball's Western Junior Base- ball Lcaguc used to have seven teams but this year, the league docs not exist. However, according to Exeter Minor Baseball Association president Brad Grcgus who has served as the junior league's con- venor, junior baseball is not dcad. "It's not a downfall of interest, it's a cycle. There were a lot of.gradu- ating players," said Gregus to why thc communities of Exeter, Lucan, Goderich, Clinton, Dashwood, Salt - ford and St. •Marys don't have teams in the WJBL this summer. While Goderich and Clinton have combined to form a team, Exeter and Lucan ran into the long-time problem of not having anyone who could coach the team. "The interest is there with the players but 1 had no coaches," said Grcgus who has coached the jun- dors in the past. "I was goit jg to Eu- rope and I couldn't do it. The prob- Baseball roundup Credlton Mite Girls June 27 Hibbert 15 at Crediton Blue Jays 14 2 hits: Krista Hodge. Heidi Muller, Mar- garet Gucrts 1 hit: Erin Bowers, Stephanie Wein. Kris- tine Regier. Lindsay Barrett, Colleen Gla- vin, Danielle Pertschy Home runs: Andrea Glavin (2), Amber Lord Stars of the game: Kristen Steeper. Lord Exeter Girls Softball June 30 Exeter 10 vs. Grand Bend 11 Pitchers: Jessica Phillips. Meghan Pear- son Best play:- Excellent catch by Laura Cooper Best hitters: Phillips. Jenny Willis. Kris- ten Brooks. Meg Pearson, Michelle Willis Next game: July 5 at Lieury Exeter Peewee Boys June 27 Exeter 23 at Fullarton 6 • Pitcher: Cam Dougall Strikeouts: 10 Top hitters: Andrew Freiter (3 hits and a walk) Record; 5 wins, 2 losses, 1 tie Exeter Rookjq 'A' June 27 Exeter Scip's valu-''tart 7 at Clinton 4 Doubles: Korey VanAltena, Shawn Mur- ray. Tony Ens (2), Nick Chessell, Zak Ho- muth. Cam Murray Singles: Mike Nedza, Murray Youman, Tony Regier, Mitch Homuth Fly balls caught by: Dan Masse, Nathan Holmes Exeter Rookie `B' 11 July 4 Exeter 11 13 vs. Mitchell Blue Jays 8 Nicholas`Anstett: I home run, 1 double Kellan Hefley: I double Andrew Sedlak: 1 home run Miranda.Grenier: 1 triple Troy Javier: 2 doubles. I single David Giannandrea: 1 double lan Drummond: 1 triple Amanda Allen: 2 hits Eric Denomme: caught 3 fly balls Golf roundup Exeter Golf Club Bingo Bango Bongo Bingo Bango Bongo Bingo Bango Bongo Bingo Bango Bongo Ladies Club . June 28 Bingo-Bango-Bongo A Flight Helen Webber I 1 Marj Rowswell I 1 Bette Smith 8 B Flight Marg Prout 1 1 Ola Batten 9 Janet Moir 9 C Flight Fran Mickle 7 Cathy Bell 6CB Anne Dougan 6CB D Flight Donna Memcr 10 Ernie Robinson 8 Theresa McCann 8 (For more golf results from Exet- er; see page 16.) Low net Greg Sangster 2nd LG Craig Alexander 2nd LN Fred Wells C Flight Low gross Bob Jones Low net Dale Baker 2nd LG Harvey Adams 2nd LN Steve Brock D Flight Low gross Dave Keys Low net Iry Armstrong 2nd LG Gary Kohler -2nd LN Geo Godbolt Sponsor: Dave Moore Fuels Door prize winner: Mike Nice. Glen Silver Closest to pin: Ted Wedge Longest drive: Damn Smith Next week: Becker Farm Equip- ment 31 50/50 draw: Ruth Mercer -Ross 40. Sponsor: Country Flowers and 33 Wuerths Shoes Men's Club June 28 A Flight First Wayne Parsons Second David Shaw Third Don Coughlin Fourth Don Heywood Fifth Dave Carver Sixth Steve Prout B Flight First, Gib Dow Jr. Second - Bill Darling Third Jim Duddy Fourth Jeff Looslcy Fifth Barry Baynham Sixth Peter Tuckey C Flight First Ron Bilcke Second Jeff Rowe Third Bill Gilfillan Fourth Mike Barclay Fifth Don Smith D Flight 35 First Andy DeBoer 36 Second Jack Kraft 37 Third Bob Coates 38 Fourth Ralph Astle 38 Ironwood award: Ralph Astle 46 33 47 34 49 35 59 42 Ironwood Ladies Club June 27 Texas Scramble results Team #1 Joan Heywood Team #2 Marj Green Team #3 Bonnie Ross TEain #4 Delores Schilhe Team #5 Marlene Parsons 35 38 40N39 38N39 40N39 42N41 42N40 40 43N42 45N43 44N43 44N43 46N43 45N44 46N44 46N45 45 48N45 48N45 50N47 51 N48 Closest to Pin: #I0 Ken Bergmann; #I3 Norm Whiting; #I5 Doug John-. son; #17 Ron Bilcke Skins: #12 Andy DeBoer; #16 Wayne Parsons; #17 Scott Pin- combe; #I8 Bob Thompson Senior Men July .2 First Wilmer Ferguson 44 Jim Steen 38 Hayden Gozzard 41 Bill Thompson 5_. 174 Second Ben Fisher 42 Mike Barclay 48 Lee Webber 44 Ken Hockey 42 183 Third Ray Webb 44 Bob Parsons 54 Jim Duddy 40 Tom Green 4¢ 184 Fourth Lloyd Cushman 45 Bud Preszcator 47 Andy DeBoer 52 Bill Sands 4$ 192 Closest to Pin: #4 Roy Hunter; #7 Ben Fisher Express regroup, win a pair of games MacDonald has four hits in 12-2 win against Byron EXETER - After suffering their biggest defeat of the season, a 13-0 blasting by Lakeside, the—Exeter Express regrouped to win back-to- back games. Wins over visiting London Exeter Express coach Doug Fairbairn, right; tried to get a Tittle clarification about a bunt during last Tuesday's night's Great Lakes Senior Baseball League win over visiting Lon- don. 4 4 Chiefs last Tuesday and Byron on Thursday saw the Express increase their Great Lakes Senior Baseball League record to 7-5. They took that into last night's game against visiting Thorndalc and head to the Lakeside tourna- ment in Londofi Friday night where thcy meet Courtrigltt at 6:30 p.m. Against the Chiefs, the xpress trailed 2-0 after just half winning but came back to make it 3-0 after two complete frames. In the Exctcr half of the second. Mike Agnew, Rick Boon and Dar- cy Martin all had hits. Later Boon would come up with a key hit in the fourth and Martin would connect in the sixth. Dave Atthil started on the mound and workcd a solid four and two- thirds innings before giving way to Marty Matter. The two combincd to strike out five, walk just one and ` give up eight hits and four runs. Two nights later in Byron, the Express exploded for five runs in the tliird and five in seventh to win easily 12-2. While the Express had nine hits, they took advantage of five Byron errors including throe in the third, Exeter centrefielder Don Mac- Donald had four hits in this game including a triple. Mark Glavin, who played junior ball a year ago had two hits with other hits off the hats of Fred Gregus, Ron Elliot and Martin. Tem at that category, it's a struggle to put coaches pn the field." "Goderich and Clinton amal- gamated, they told me that. They're playing in the Blucwater League." Baseball interest at the late teen- aged years is strong as proven by the many midget teams. Exeter Riv- erview Estates midgets won ten straight games before losing a pair last week and having their record dip to 10-2. Most of those playing in the mid- get league arc second -year players so they will be moving up into what Gregus hopes to create next summer, a juvenile -junior league. "I'm not panicking, next year that league will resurrect. It will be a combined juvenile -junior Ica e." Going strong: Gary H rtman who coaches the Exeter widgets with Bill Hodge have got that team rolling along with a 10-2 record. Hartman says most of his 16 players will graduate up to junior baseball next year. "About two-thirds will move up next year," said Hartman. Last week the midgets went to Listowel with just eight players due to other commitments. It's that age 16-18, when players have many other things to do including, work- ing at summer jobs. "The month of May (when they were all still in school) was tough to keep thcm all playing," said Hartman. One of the communities that had steam in the WJBL was Dashwood which put a midget -aged team into thc league. Those from Dashwood who have come to play in Exeter have been a big plus to the team. "We have pretty good depth. The six guys that carne from last year's Dashwood team have helped us," said Hartman. Thursday the Exeter midgets, do spite a late rally which included doubles by Chad Ratner and Dwight Gingcrich, lost 10-5 to Mitchell. Daryl Hartman worked three innings on the mound for Ex- eter, Jeff Glavin went three and Dwayne McNab came on to, finish up. "Thcy (Mitchell) just got some nice base hits. They stuck the bat out." Monday night the midgets trav- elled to Clinton and Thursday will try to get a little revenge when they host Mitchell. Stephen Mlnof'Nockey Is seeking a COACH fora MIDGET "E" CENTRE TEAM Cal! Dick Lord 2346396 PINTS tiNLIMITED- BEER & WINE %*Customer Brew on Premises g: 190 Thames Rd. E. (Hwy. 83) Exets Call 235-3787 for your appointment Open Mon. -Fri. Noon -9 p.m. • Sat. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. The Wrath of Grapes by Don Cherry THE MARK OF ZORRO Have you noticed how guys are crashing into the net and knock- ing down goalies? This never happened before the instigator rule be- cause if you hit the goalie, some big defenscman would straighten you out. Now if the defcnseman goes to help the goalie, he is thrown out of the game, so it's open season on the goalies. Great eh? Now, I know you remember when Wayne Gretzky was winning all those Stanley Cups and setting records. The word around the, league was that there was a rule not to hit The Great One. There was no rule, it was Dave Semenko who protected-Gretzky. Touch Gretzky and the word was you're dead meat. So with Pave riding shotgun, Gretzky had a credit card to roam and not worry about be- ing hit and he never got hurt. People who paid their money saw Gretzky at his best and everybody was happy. Probed used to pro- tect Stevie Yzerman. Now, have you noticed since the instigator rule camc in, all the stars arc hurt. Mario Lemeaux is out with a bad back, Patty LaFontaine with a broken jaw, Stevie "Wonder" Yzerman out for a year with knee injury, and Gretzky is injured all of the time.'There is nobody to protect them anymore and its open season on the superstars (the players who fans pay big money to see.) So let's see what the instigator rule has brought. It hasn't brought down the fighting, hut it has made goalies open season for the cheap shot artists. It has been the cause of our super stars being pounded and hurt, and it really has brought up the stick work. This rule was put in by thc governors (the own- ers) of the NHL and the nearest some of them have ever been to the ice... is in their drinks. Caught in a Hitting Slump? We're got the cure ALL Louisville SIUggeI"' TICS 25g° off "The most powerful bat In softball" 41j7 Sport /tea Inc 282 Main St. Exeter TeI./Fax 235-1314 • 1