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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1987-09-30, Page 54Ports SECTION GODER1CH SIGNAL -STAR, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1987—PAGE 7A Boys volleyball tournament .Thoguretkratb Bos volleyball tourna- a t:404 1't S at. .:f`�tl C 'list Tlingra* with both junior and senior teams com- lin the left. photo, senior player, Steve Gower saves a shot. Below Junior, Tony Falconer drives the ball past an Ex- eter defender and right Scott Baer follows through on a serve for the junior team. The seniors split their games 3-3 over three matches and the juniors open- ed With a slit with Exeter but dropped the next two thatches to Norwell and Mit- chell, (photos by Ted Spooner) Newton's Apple Ted Spooner GDCI hosts Huron -Perth boys volleyball tourney The GDCI senior boys volleyball team won three games and lost three at a tour- nament in Goderich Thursday. Experimenting with various defensive strategies, they defeated South Huron 15-8 then lost the next game 15-1.. " Against Norwell the team came together, winning 15-6 and 15-5, due to the good setting of Scott Baer and the spikes of y; IN 11e ti-. ry U.S. fans will learn I became so angry watching NBC's coverage of the Blue Jays against the Tigers era Saturday, it .was actually a relief to endure Fergie Olver's colour corn- mentary of the game for CTV. NBC's ace team of Vin Scully and Joe Garagiola made so many mistakes, I began to wonder if they knew what team the Tigers were playing, or in what city. First I learned that the Toronto designated hitter would be someone named Terry Leach. I thought: oh no, Rick has went off somewhere to duke it out with his wife again and left his brother, or another relative, to hit for him. Then to add insult to injury, the usually reliable, Scully said Exhibition Stadiurn was on the shores of beautiful Lake Huron. They have finally done it, after many years of fighting traffic in Toronto, the Jays have moved the stadium, lock, stock and barrel, to Kincardine. At this point I changed channels before Garagiola could marvel about the lack of snow or wonder if Canadians put wheels on their dog sleds when the weather became unusually warm. CANADDIAN S ARE TOLERANT Canadians are usually only amused at the U.S. ignorance of life in Canada. Everyone has seen a car with Alabama or Texas licence plates driving through Canada in July with skis on the roof and fur coats in the back window.. We smile when they ask us where the snow is and politely tell them good skiing is only a three week drive away, due north. We can even laugh at an old American joke about Canadians. "Canadians are either hookers or hockey players," says one American at a party. Another American stands up and says, "my wifeisfrom Canada:" -The first" man asks, "what teams does, she play for?" However, there is no reason two profes- sional baseball commentators should not be knowlegeable about the best team in the world. The Blue Jays are not from some backward dirty little city like Cleveland, .nor are they a no -talent outfit like — you guessed it — Cleveland. They are the pride and joy of one of the most beautiful cities in North America and they boast players such as George Bell, the league's MVP, Tony Fernandez, the best shortstop this side of Ozzie Smith, and the best relief pit- cher, Toth Henke. Toronto's dramatic, come -from -behind, ninth -inning win Saturday was, without a doubt, the most exciting game NBC show- ed all year. Sports Illustrated has,called Toronto the best organization in baseball. The Jays can bring future stars like Nelson Liriano, seemingly out cif nowhere. What other team could replace an alistar shortstop and not lose a step defensively? The Blue Jays do not have to beg anyone for recognition — they will earn it. Hordes of American newsmen will converge in Toronto for this year's World Series and their pictures and stories will show the U.S. once and for all we have the best baseball team on the planet and •our vehicles are not dog -powered. HIT OR MYTH I take pleasure in destroying myths and misconceptions and the following is a list of believe it or nots for my journalism col- leagues from the south. Toronto is on Lake Ontario. The new domed stadium being built in Toronto, is not a giant igloo and a rectrac- table roof does not mean we will simply remove and replace blocks' of ice. Turn to page 11 • Adam Moore and Leroy Doherty: Alex Hoernig closed down the centre with his ef- fective blocking. The Vikings lost 15-7 and 15-3 to a strong Mitchell team in their final match. The Junior Vikings, gained experience in the tournament. They split their games against Exeter and lost. their matches to Norwell and Mitchell. Denommes' takes first game of fastball finals Gary Muxlow pitched a supurb one - hitter to lead Denornmes' to a 4-0 win over Kirkey's in the first game of the Industrial Fastball finals Sunday. Both teams had scored many runs in the playoffs but. Sunday's contest was a pit- chers duel. Muxlow faced only two batters over the minimum and Kirkey's, Dean Finlay, allowed just four hits and two earn- ed runs.- . Finlay did not have the defence behind him as Denommes' scored two unearned runs early. Kirkey's threw the ball away on a sure third out, allowing the only run Denommes' would need to score. John Hoy, Brian Moody and Jim Bell scored the other Denomme runs. Denommes' advanced to the finals with a 3-1 win over Hayters, last Wednesday. They opened the scoring in the first inn- .__ ........, Brian CRnwfalf singled •wnen Brian Shewfelt singled and scored on an error. Hayters evened the count when Mike Donnelly singled in Bill Peters in°the fifth. Denommes' came right back. Gary Muxlow and John Hoy singled, and after Hayters ,changed pitchers and got two outs, Dave McDonald came on as a pitch - hitter and he cashed them both in with a single. Muxlow relieved John Vernay, who had allowed just one run on three hits, .with the bases loaded in the sixth with one out. Muxlow fanned the next two batters and had a three -up -three -down seventh to preserve the win. Game two in the final series was played Monday and game three will be Friday. If necessary, games four and five will be played Sunday and Wednesday. nn�. Wallbangers score four as bowling action begins The start of a new bowling season and the ladies rolled three games for points as 'well as establishing a new starting average. The Wallbangers started the season by taking four points from the Marionettes. Good games from Trish Deighton 189, Diane Scott 195, Helen Lewis 202. The Marionettes took three points, led by Marilyn Bannister 192, Marion Beacom 198, Betty Fisher 209. , The Oldtimers took five points from the Blazers with great games from Joan Burleigh 198, Kris Miller 204, 206, Nancy White 241, 622 triple. The Blazers fought back to take two points, led by Earleen Spain 181, Joyce Hamilton 198. Barb's Bunnies had a good night taking five points from the No Names. Good games from Barb Almasi 203, Shirley Ken- nedy 260, 665 triple. The No Names took two points led by Donna Duncan 178, .Jean Mundle 194. The New Gals were bowling against 95% of their average and took all seven points. Good game from Mavis Fisher, 171. ett BOrWLING Ladies Afternoon Bowling opened on Sept. 23 with 12 teams formed. Scores for first week of Bowling: Sunsets 0 - went down to Goderich Harbor - 7; Lighthouse Keepers - 4 over the Goderich Shakers - 3, Pat Burroughs took 5 from Marie Park team - 2; Beacons 0 - faded out to Beach Bums - 7; The Hurons 7 - conquered The Squares - 0; West Wind 5 - Blew out the Bluewater Belles - 2. Sepres over 200 Marian Miller - 200, Barb Pigg - 236. Elsa Fichert - 202, Daisy Scott - 202. Donna Crawford - 205, Shirley Kennedy - 239, Il- ene Sillib - 211, Marg Miller - 201, .Joanne Ducharme - 209, Yvonne Dougherty - 216, Sharon Sanders - 215, Sr. i?�otballtearn wins over Northwestern By T.D. The GDCI senior Vikings defeated the Strathroy Saints 20-13 in exhibition football played last Wednesday - in Strathroy. The game was the first for this years Vikings. They begin Huron -Perth Conference play here Thursday against their arch - rivals the Exeter South Huron Panthers, as part of a junior -senior double header. 'The junior game begins at 1:30 pm with the senior game following at approximately 3:15. The Vikings enjoyed good success with their ground game against Strathroy, with all their scoring coming on running plays. Sean Wilson scored two touchdowns on short yardage dive plays and Wayne Nivins ran six yards off -tackle for the other Goderich touchdown. Greg Alcock kicked one convert. Nivins, Wilson and Jeff MacDonald pro- vided the punch in the Vikings' running at- tack. The passing game was ineffective because the Vikings could not give their quarterback enough time to throw the ball. Defensively, the Vikings played well. Both Strathroy touchdowns came on breakdowns by first year senior players. With twelve 16 year-olds in his lineup, coach Ray Donnelly expects things like that to happen for a while. Juniors lose 22-18 BY T.D. The GDCI Junior Viking suffered a 22-18 set back in the first game of their Huron - Perth Conference football schedule Thursday in Stratford at the hands of the Nor- thwestern Huskies. The Huskies were full -value for their win, and, if anything, the close score flattered the Vikings. The Huskies won the game along the line, both offensive and defensive with bigger, stronger personnel. Stratford scored a touchdown on the first drive of the game and a two-point conver- sion put them on top 8-0. The Vikes got a touchdown in the second quarter on an eight - yard pass from Brian Lane to Brian Corriveau to close the gap, but the Huskies scored again in the third quarter on a 12 yard sweep. The Vikings got two touchdowns in the fourth quarter to Stratford's one, but another two-point conversion by the Huskies helped give them their four -point margin of victory. Brian Lane scored for Goderich on a one yard quarterback keeper and Brian Cor- riveau got the other Viking TD on a 12 yard pass from Lane. , The Vikings managed 105 yards on 28 carries and a surprising 120 yards on six pass completions. The first down total told the tale as The Vikings had only seven compared to the Huskies' 16. iefensively. the Vikings had trouble containing the inside running of Stratford big backs. Braden Dent was a bright light in the Viking defence with a fumble recovery and an interception. T Club plays Mitchell game Eleanor Erskine directed an eight -table Mitchell game in President's Cup competi- tion at Goderich Duplicate Bridge Club, Sept. 22, at the Canadian Legion Hall. In the North-South portion of the game John Donatis and Cathy McDonald took first with 87 points, followed by Archie Hamilton and Al Beecroft with 76 and Louise Hetherington and her partner Eleanor Erskine with 75 points. Marg Hall and Aelian Weerasooriya finished first with 95 in East-West competi- tion. Betty and Ray Fisher took second with 75.5 points and Ralph Kingswell and Bill Duncan teamed to take third with 75 points. Mary Donnelly, Eleanor Erskine, P.K. Venkiteswaran and Aelian Weerasooriya played in the North American Open Pairs Championship, unit 166 finals, at the Lon- don Bridge Club last weekend. The Canadian National Team (Swiss) competition will be played at the club level on Oct. 13 and 20. The Annual Goderich Charity Swiss Tournament will be held at the Legion Hall on Sat., Oct. 17. Play begins at noon. Linklater named MVP Steven Liitklater was named the Atom's Most Valuable Player at the recent soccer awards banquet. J.C. Kirk was named best offensive player, Terry Pardys best defensive player, Randy Martin most improved and Brian l,ivesey was named the most sport- smanlike player.