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Home My WebLink AboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1980-05-28, Page 11i GDCI team shines at Huron -Perth and WOSSA by TD The GDCI track and field team made a fine showing at the Huron Perth and WOSSA meets held inLondon over the last two weeks. • At the VVOSSA meet, eight local athletes It was a real race to the finish in the senior girls 100 metre hurdles at the Huron -Perth track and field championships held Thursday in London. Nipping the Goderich Viking's Jennifer More by only one tenth of a second was Helen Muller of Exeter South Huron. (Exeter Times Advocate photo) Steei.ers on winning track The Lakeport Steelers got on the winning trrack in Industrial League fastball action winning two games this week. Last,Sunday the Steelerbalsted the Hotel Bedford 12-1 and Monday they clipped. Gord Sports 6-5 with a run in' the bottom of the seventh. In their game against Bedford Sunday the Steelers made the out- come evident in the first inning scoring eight runs. They added three more in the fourth and a single in the sixth to complete the. tout.. .> .. _. Bruce Bowman led the Whit assault on two Bedford pitchers with three hits in four trips to the plate. He doubled in the first inning, to score a run, nailed ,a • two -run homer in the fourth and added a single in the fifth inning. Tim McLean added two hits including a homer in the eight run first innifi. Hotel Bedford put together three of their four hits in one inning to score their lone run in the fifth. Brian MacKenzie allowed just four hits in picking up the win. On Monday the Steelers got a two -out single from Frank Hagen in the bottom of the seventh to score MacKenzie with the running run in the 6-5 win over Gords Sports. Gords trailed ' 5-4 heading into the seventh but put together two singles with two out to score the tying run. MacKenzie responded in the Steeler half of the seventh—w-i'th a leadoff double. Gords pitcher Dave Scholl then ap- peared to have things in hand striking out Ron Miller and Carmen Fielder while MacKenzie watched from third base. Hagen then slapped a two -out single to produce the winning run. McLean led the Steelers withthree hits while MacKenzie added a single and double. Bob ' Riehl , had a fine performance in a losing cause nailing MacKenzie for four singles in four at bats. Dennis Williamson had two hits. MacKenzie and Wayne Draper combined for the win allowing five runs on 10 hits. Lakeport scored their six runs on eight 'lits. Fishers pick up wins Fisher Builders picked up two wins in Industrial League play this week_ shading Canada Com- pany 4-3. in extra inning and outlasting McGees 11-8 in a slugfest Monday. . Fishers took advantage of three Company errors and it was a. Company error in the ninth inning that led to the winning run. Gerry Durst singled to lead off the Fisher ninth, was sacrificed to second and `scored the winning run on an error. Canada Company held - a 3-0 lead after four and a half innings of play but Fishers rebounded with a. three-runrally of their own in the bottom .of the fifth to tie the game. Fishers managed only five hits in the game but they put three together in the fifth inning with two errors to,score three runs and tie the game. Dennis Lebrun had two of the hits with a run -scoring single in the fifth and a double in the seventh. Rob MacDonald had three hits for Canada Company and Tom O'Keefe chipped in with two. Doug Fisher pitched four and a half inning sfor Fisher before giving way to John Verway who picked up -the -win. Fishers were forced into extra innings again Monday but they came out on top of an 11-8 score in a 29 hit slugfest. Fishers forced the overtime scoring tv(To runs' in the top of the seventh to tie the game 8- 8 and Lebrun belted a JUNIOR GYMNASTICS A basic gymnastics course designed for children bet- ween the ages of 6 and 12 years. GBDOC.I , Tuesdays & Thursdays 7-9 P.M. 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Part of the "success of the GDCI team this year is due to the improved facilities available through the development of the track complex at the GDCI campus. The other feature in ac- counting for the success of the local athletes was the improved coaching program headed by Phys. Ed. instructor, Barb Ottewell. Other track and f'Cefiti coaches "intruded" John Smallwood, Peter Zankowski and Dick Madge. Finishing ___.... first _- in.. Huron -Perth competition for GDCI were Mike Evans with a winning performance in the midget boys 800 metre and 1500 metre events, Debbie Mitchelmore in the midget girls 460 and 800 metre events, Sue Muffitt in the midget girls discus, Dennis Aubin in the junior boys' high jump, Stewart Crew in the senior boys 110 metre hurdles and Sandra Rowe in . the senior girls' shot put. Second place ribbons at Huron -Perth went to Robin MacDonald In the midget girls' discus, Sue Muffitt in the Midget girls! . javelin, Rosie O'Keefe in the midget girls 100 metres, Mark "Rowe in the junior boys discus, Janice McClin- chey in the junior girls discus, Glen Osborn in the senior boys high jump, Judy Godfrey in,' the senior girls high' jump, Jenny More in the senior,, girls 100 metre hurdles, Steve. Arbour in the senior boy' -s javelin and the " midget boys 4 x 100 relay team consisting of Dave Brissette, Paul' Day, Mike Evans and John McGraw. . Third place finishes were recorded by Joe Melady in .the ` midget boys discus, Heather Minielly in the midget girls high jump, Rosie O'Keefe in the midget girls 100 metres, Sue Thompson in the midget girls 80 metre hurdles, Jim Costello in the Junior boys 110 metre hurdles and Sandra Rowe in the senior girls discus. Youngblut-Leggatt hot team D.R. BUNDY Steve Youngblut and his single -man crew, Al Leggatt are quickly becoming the team to beat in the spring series of Goderich Sailing Club Races. Steve skippered his Niagara 32 to a well- earned victory over a field of five other boats. He finished with a corrected time of'1 .25.24, ' Goderich followed by Ken Bauer at 1:30.48 and Ken Dawson at 1:32.29. Just out of third place by less than three minutes was Bob Allen, who has become a real contender in the past few weeks. The club is still open to new members. Our membership fees are low and you will enjoy the sailing companionship. Write to Box 202, YAMAHA CLEAR OUT SALE Of remaining '1979 bikes At the *O, SA meet the 22 athlete contingent was headed Jay' Debbie Mit- chelmore and Sue Muffitt who both racked up first place finishes in one event and finished fourth in second events. , Debbie was the winner in the 800 metre run with an excellent time of 2:24.7 and Sue won the discus with a throw of 27.51 metres. Mitchelmore was fourth in the 400 metres with a time of 64.3 seconds and Muffitt was fourth in the javelin with a throw of 29.03L[netres. Robin MacDonald had a second place finish in the Western Ontario meet with a throw of 26.60 metres in the dicsus and Toe Melady threw 40.0.8 metres to finish second in the midget boys discus. The brother and sister duo of Sandra and Mark Rowe recorded similar third place marks in the senior girls and junior boys shot put and discus respectively, with throws of 9.50 metres for Sandra, and 39.45 metres for Mark. Rosie O'Keefe had a GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, WEDNESDAY, MAY 28,1980 -,-PA i fI< time of 13.3 seconds in the midget girls 100 and Jenny More ran the senior girls 100 metres in 17.3 seconds to record fourth place .finishes in the WOSSA meet. 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