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Home My WebLink AboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1977-08-04, Page 9se ra on. s elr lu is tell' nd ` e. fi re de. tp me •e ;les, PP co n on ;ivi udy aster LD ime ch is ly IM 3.9 ales ;3 3. rid er le ;pe )4 Liv (TNA pM I 1 k". 'District '4 of thle'Provincial Lawn Bowling Association of Ontario, which lnciudes. the Goderich, Seaforth -'and St. Marys Clubs, was successful at winning two cham- pionships and one runner-up out of the seven' events at the cLellan (left) and Doug Fenn of St. Marys won the men's pairs championship at vinclal Lawn Bowling Play-offs recently held in Hamilton:iThey„w41l now advance anadlan Championship Play-offs to be held in Edmonton on August 21 to'24. The h team of "Fours" comprised of Mel McFarlane, Fred Richardson, Len Boreham ped by Lee Ryan were runners-up at the provincial play-offs. (staff photo) • , urst, Hoy lea sher charge urst went three for the plate, scored d drove in two runs Hoy homered and three to lead Fisher builders to 'a 7-3 win cGee Pontiacs in 1 softball action. The s the Builders in the irst behind Maitland leaders Ziebart fers. cored the first run of e in the top of the hen he waited out a alk and came in on urst's triple. Gerry the next play when Jack MacKinnon hit a shot that short stop Doug Spitzig made an error on. Spitzig was charged with an error on John Hoy's hit but both men were left stranded when Larry Donnelly struck out. Durst drove in the third run Of the game in the top of the third when he doubled Doug Fisher across after Fisher caught a lead off single. The shot gave the Builders their two run edge back after Spitzig grabbed a run for the Pontiacs on two consecutive errors by third baseman Donnelly: The Pontiacs eaners .white sh Truckers.. ut two French hit safely against Transport and the drubbed the 11-0 in Industrial ction Monday night. hinney got the win p one hit in five in - Bill Gallow pitched two innings giving up ch one. MacDonald, who th Don McWhinney hit safely in the ored the winning run st. MacDonald drew tole second, went to a pass ball and n Gallow's single. 'd also walked in the scored when a wild a pass ball left him hen Gallow tripled. eaners moved three runs across in the second to ice the game early. Tim McLean singled to start the burst and went ,to second when Jim McWhinney drew a walk. Ron Klages sent McLean in with a single and put McWhinney on third. Klages stole second and went to- third on an error to pitcher John Vervay that scored McWhinney. MacDonald hit a shot down the line that first baseman Louis Yundt mishandled allowing Klages to score. Klages, Gallow, George Sutton, McLean, Jim McWhinney and Rae Mathers each tallied for the Cleaners in' the win. John Verway took the loss, the 15th of the year for the Truckers. wnship wins week in baseball oderich Township's girls won against with a score of 30-7, junior girls lost to r. The junior boy's A ams challenged each h the A tearncoming nior boys A team rna 6-4 while the team was defeated filler with 'a final 6-g. The rescheduled ayed against Lon - Y the sr. A team was wbn by Holmesville 34-26. On Friday July 29, the Goderich township slowpitch team /defeated H-omesstead Park 20-12. Upcoming games to be played at Holmeville are: The sr. girls playing Ben - miller on August 9; jr. boys 'A' team playing Varna on August I1 ; the senior boys 'A' team plays Auburn in Auburn on August 11; Mile the '$', team meets Londesboro in Londesboro also on August 11. closed the gap to one run in the bottom of the fifth when Harry Kerr grabbed a single, went to third on a single by Ron Sowerby and scored on an error to Jack MacKinnon on Paul Kelly's hit. John Hoy got the run back in the sixth when he ham- mered a shot out of the park for what proved to be the winner. He drove in three insurance runs in the seventh with a double after Jim Bell beat out an error; Jim Durst singled and MacKinnon drew a walk to load the bases for Hoy's shot. Kerr scored the final Pontiac run in the bottom of the seventh when he singled, moved down on a sacrifice and scored from second on Rick ' Sowerby's ... .......... single. Fred Pellow gave up four hits and fanned four for the win while Rick Sowerby was touched eight times and fanned three in the losing effort :— Provincial Play-offs recently, held in Hamilton. Brenda Finlayson of the Seaforth Club won the Singles Championship for the ladies' division. The St. Marys team : of Doug Fenn with Larry McLellan won the ' men's pairs championship. They will represent Ontario in the Canadian_ Championship Play-Offs^-which -will be held' 'this year _in_ Edmonton, August2l to24. The Goderich team bf "Four`s" comprised of Mel McFarlane, 'Fred Richard- son, Len Boreham and skipped by Lee Ryan were runners-up by defeating the Toronto Leaside District 10, Cobourg Distric 14 teams but 3 � r OODER CH StG A A. losing to the District 7 team from Waterloo. The Provincial Lawn Bowling Association of Ontario is made up of ten districts with an average of ten clubs to each district and a total ladies' and men's membership of ap- proximately 12,000 members. - Aight provinces..out_oLthe,tpp CNevr" `q°°$r.unswick - and Newfoundland have not yet joined) will send their respective champions to the' Canadian Championship Finals to be held in Edmonton this year. ' The city of Edmonton has recently constructed a beautiful new lawn bowling facility of 20 regulation rinks with plenty of comfortable seating arrangements en- compassing the 20 rinks. Each'year a different city is chosen fort the•- Canadian Fi als. In 1976 the city was Ottawa, in 1975 it was Van- couver and in 1974 it was Winnipeg. Halifax may be the host for 1978. All contestants receive an alb: <eXpenst. -paid Canadian ' Finals and each Provincial Association takes care of travel expenses for their respective finalists. The Ontario Association was the first province to encourage young new bowlers, aimed at the age group 18 years and under, or over 18 but less than 5 years lawn bowling experience. Itis hoped that the other iebart stays Ziebart Rustproofers collected 13 hits and scored eight runs to grab Gord's Sports 8-3 in Industrial Sof- tball action. Simon Langlois gave up half a dozen hits but struck out seven for the win keeping Ziebart on top in the Maitland Division. The Rustproofers used the top three innings to build up a three run lead before the Sports got on the board. Tom Love scored in the first inning when he singled. stole second. went to third on an error and scored on a sacrifice fly by 'Ron Whetstone. "Al Sygrove made it 2-0 in the second when he caught a one out single and scored on a double by Dan Duncan. Whetstone scored in the third when he signaled, stole second and scored on a single by Langlois. Gord's got back in the game in the bottom of the third when they scored twice to come within one of Ziebart. Bob Riehl singled and Des Birds edge Ziebart A clutch single by Len Kolkman in the bottom of the seventh broke up a two run tie betwee"n the Green and Parent Thunderbirds and Ziebart Rustproofers boosting the Birds to a3-2 win in.z.1ndustriaLL.,eagne _action: Kolkman tapped the single with two out in the bottom of the inning to drive in Dick Schoemaker ' after Schoemaker had doubled. The Birds took a one run lead in the bottom of the second when Jim ' Martin singled, moved to second on a pass ball went in ' on Walter Bell's hit and scored en another pass ball. Bell was left standing at second as Simon Langlois gunned Terry Worsell, Pete Frayne and Ron Hodge down at the plate to get out of the inning. Rick Duckworth tied the Wiz provinces will eventua1l ► provide a similar, category andthenth'` . e,uniors will also be playing for the Canadian Championships along with the seniors. On Monday,_ August 1 the Fred Richardson lawn bowling tournament was held at the Goderich lawn bowling club. „.wits ,oa r&:11w,,.boyle from District.4 participating. There were bowlers' from Clinton, Exeter, Lucknow, Mitchell, St. Mary s, Seaforth, Stratford and Wingham. The tournament was named in honor of Fred Richardson of the Goderich lawn bowling club. He was the driving force behind the improvement of club 144c' Tacit'tor acted as'a c t fltert'and" 1 qC� eC e atr f � �� p as the c house exten lion, new lights„ a flag holder, boards around the outside of the green, the -flower pots and boxes for the bowls, Tournament winners were. first, Mr. and Mrs. Al Murray 'of ,Stratford w.¢ . W 9tw-k . , ..., i second, Lee Ryan and; Mrs. George Allison of Goderich, third, , Mr. and Mrs;' Buck, fourth, Mr. and Mrs. Art Finlayson of Seaforth,-fifth, Mr. and Mrs. Harry.Williams of Goderich, sixth, 'Mr. and Mrs. Mel Brady of Seaforth, seventh, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Richardson of Goderich and • eighth Nichol Brown and Bea Aberhart of Goderich. on top with wi Courtney got to first when Ziebart chose to check the runner of Courtney's hit. Langlois got Phil Pitrie and Jon Ginn to ground out but Dave McKenzie came through with two RBIs on a single before Dennis Williamson fanned to end the inning. Love scored the winner in the fifth catching a lead off single, stealing second, going to third on a wild pitch and game ip the fourth when her smacked a lead off homer. Dave McTvor added another run in the fifth to give the Rustproofers. a 2-1 lead that - was shortlived. McIver singled, moved to second on =Ron_.::_Whetstone.'s.. - s°acrifice.-. bunt and scored on a single by Duckworth. Walter.Bell tied the game in the bottom of the sixth when he doubled Phil Turner in after Turner had singled. The Rustproofers got out of the inning when centre fielder Al Sygrove threw a frozen rope tb' the plate on Jim Harrison's single and caught Bell trying to score from second. Simon Langlois was the losing pitcher giving up nine hits and striking out 10 bat- ters. Jim Martin got the win giving up seven hits and fanning three. GODERICH INDUSTRIAL SOFTBALL League Standings MAITLAND DIVISION GP W L 18 13 5 18 11 7 18 10 8 18 7 11 18 2 16 DUNLOP DIVISION 18 13 5 18 12 6 18 9 9 18 7 11 18 - 6 12 GAMES TONIGHT Canada Company vs. Brindley French vs. Fisher GAMES SUNDAY Brindley vs. French Lakeport vs. Green and Parent Ziebart vs. Canada Company McGee vs. Little Bowl GAMES MONDAY Gord's vs. McGee Little Bowl vs. Lakeport Ziebart Rustproofers Fisher Builders French Cleaners Canada Company Brindley Transport .McGee Pontiacs 'Lit°tle Bowl Lakeport Steelers, Green and Parent Gord's"Sports T Pts. 0 26 0 22 0 20 0 14 0 4 0 26. 0 24 0 18 0 14 0 12. OVERSTOCKED TIRE SALE THERE'S NO ROOM TO MOVE - THEY MUST GOII A ALL IN STOCK 110116145 : NO , BB�Btass• Here's a partial listing of our Tire selection! •i-. MICHELIN RADIALS 205.14'XWW 215-14 XWW 205-15 XWW 215.13, XWW 215.15 XWW 230-15 XWW .mow 20 OTHER RADIALS HR 78-15 W/W HR 78-14 W/W HR 70.15 W/W ALL AT 20% SAVINGS O A •r h OFF SUGG. 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