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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1978-07-06, Page 8IJ po•SGE6.--GODERI.C1-1SIONAL-STAR, THURSDAY,. JULY 6, l97 • ick, Conlon-wn cha.nipionshiP Bob Dick defeated Paul Bill Prest outlasted Dr. the findi with an b-4 0yaN,420.., AtFmght;JK,A9,410,341Wry,_ over Shellagfr -- games, 6-1, r2, to Win 1,lie-* iiren 's co_p s o 1 it to n -S,111Y—in- the, seini-final; men's singles " cham- clfampionifiTp. Bath_ -4efeated• Chris • • • - ^ • - Wildgeri 3-0 in•the Opening P P " After - an opening round Country Club Dominion loss to ostelloPrest set and then disposed of C, Day Tennis Classic at the defeated Griff Murphy 3-2 Lucy Turcotte 8-2 in the. Maitland courts,, semi-final. and Glen Tigert 8 -6 -before Saturday. • ': his championship match. Chris Wildgen captured i Dick played only thr..:e Dr. Conlon dropped an the women's consolation matches in winning the opening round match to championship with a 6-3, championship after Tom Fincher, 3-2 but 6-0.win over Shelley Hill. receiving an opening rebounded for a 3-1 After her opening round round bye. He defeatedrvictory over Neil Sager in loss to Conlon, Wildgen Chuck Jewell 3-0 i the quarter final and an 8- defeated Claudia Hill 8-6 quarter -final play and 3 win over Gary qaxidson while Shelley Hill took earned a berth in the final in the semi-final. Marg Kovacs 8-2 in the with an 8 -4 -victory over semi-fi.nal. Pat Conlon. Paul. Brown also received a bye in the opening round and then disposed of Tom Fincher 3-1 in the quarter final and entered the final with an 8-3 victory over brother John in the semi- final. Marg Conlon won the family battle-, on the ladies' side as she defeated sister B-arb, 6-0 and 6-3 to win the women's singles championship. Marg defeated Shelley Hill 3-0 in her opening round match andt entered - -4, • The club •is going to make the Dominion Day classic an annual event among members and this year .18 men and eight woten cempeted for the singles titles. Trophies for the event were donated by Garb and Gear. 4 ' A Bill Shewfelt and Claudia Hill are both poised as they returnshots in play at the Mattlan.d.. Tennis- Club Dominion Day Classic held Saturday. Bob Dick won the men's singles title while Marg Conlon took top honours in the ladies' division. (Phbto by Dave Sykes) • , • • )fltiacs IS e to pitcher Ken Daer for three runs in their half of the first inning on four hits. Brian Bowman did the dainagrWith a three -run homer that scorechteam- Mates Tom' O'Brien and Glen Tigert. The Pontiacs chipped away at the Company lead scoring a single run in the second inning and another in the fifth to tie the game. Canada Company produced the winning run in the fifth inning as Dave McKen,zie reached base on a fielder's choice and scored on a Pontiac error. Glen Tigert picked up the victory for Canada Company stopping the Pontiacs on eight hits and striking off Seven bat- ters. The Company scored four runs off Daer on seven hits while five went down swinging. Seven players shared in the Com,pany seven hits, four of which in the three -run first liming. • The McGee Pontiacs aren't all that fond' of losing. The Pontiacs dropped a 4-3 decision to Canada •• Company Thursday and vented their frustrations on Little Bowl, Monday exploding for nine runs on. 10 hits including four home runs in a 10-4 victory. •* • 1Che splitleaveS McGee civitkeight wins and three losses and 16 points on the- season. They maintain a two-point lead over Fisher in the Maitland Division. Canada Company scored a run on an error in the bottom of the fifth inning to break a 3-3 tie as they won their eighth game of the season. The team_ _trails __French by two points in the Dunlop Division but has a game in hand. McGees took a one -run lead. in the top of the first inning as Rick Sowerby •scored on a single by Doug Spitzig but Canada Company jumped on • -to e i1 The • Pontiacs rebounded from the loss with a home run spree agait Little Bowl, Mend y as they dumped the Bowlers 9-4. McGee nailed two Little Bowl pitchers for 1.0 hits including four home ,runs, two by Doug Spitzig and singles by Ron Sowerby and pitcher Ken Deer.' Spitzig hammered a three -run shot off John Crawford •in the first inning and added to Crawford's woes with a two -run homer in the third inning. Daer hit a solo homer in the second inning and Ron Sowerby led off the sixth inning with a homer off Bill Black. The homers accounted for seven of the McGee's nine runs in the game. , Daer' limited Little Bowl to one hit over the first three innings before the Bowlers struck for two runs in • both the fourth and fifth innings. Glen Falkiner and Dave Patterson scored runs with a double scoring Mike Wildgen and Rob Snell. Spitzig was the games top batter with two homers and a double in four trips to the plate. Team-mate Ron Sowerby added.....a •homer and a double. • • Falkiner had three of ' the Little Bowl, five hits as he nailed Daer for a single and two doubles,in three trips to the plate. Little Bowl rete action Monday in a 7 il.m. contest against Canada Company and.McGee-wiil play Fisher in ,the 8:30 game. • Skydiving at Bend A new skydiving centre has.been'formed at the Grand Bend Airport under the name of the Grand Bend Sport -Parachuting Centre. The centre will offer all levels of instruction in parachuting, from beginner through ad- vanced freefall for anyone interested -in the sport. The parachuting -centre will offer in- • troductory courses to beginners consisting of approximately six hours of basic training before the first jump as well as parachute packing, steering and, other advanced,' skydiving techniques such as freefall turns, --baek---loops, group relative work, canopy relative work with the goal that the student would qualify for internationally recognized licences and ratings.' • Brian Smith is owner and operator of the centre and Bob Wright is the chief instructor, - • They can be reached at the Grand Bend airport' • on weekends. -S" „Al • *"" 4 " o•y;•••7•7',4,-• Ziebart brought French Dr Y Cleaners , winning,. Streak to .-an end Tlitir.:` sday as they hammered Don McWhinney' for 10 runs on 12 hits in' a 10-3 victory, • Both teams had ek.- tended"...winning' streaks going into the confeSt. but Ziebart bats gunned the French defense for 12 hits including two home runs as they won their sixth game of the season. • The, loss was only the third of, the , season for French and they won their ninth game . of the season Monday with an 8- 2 victory over Graham Electric. They remain in top spot in the Dunlop Division with la points, two/ahead of Canada Company. French held a 2-1 lead over Ziebart after two innings of play but Ziebart struck for two runs in the third, two in the sixth and capped the win with a five -run rally in the seventh inning. Rick Duckworth and Cam McDonald led the Ziebart offence with two - tun homers. Duckworth ripped a McWhinney pitch in the third inning,. with ,Ron Whetstone aboard and McDonald ended * the • five -run seventh inning rally with a drive that scored Simon Langlois. French scored two runs in the first inning on a two -run homer by. George ' Sutton that scored Ron Klages, They added their final run in the sixth inning as Klages, scored his second -run of the ball game. Wayne Doaic, Duck- worth, Ray Volland and McDonald led the Ziebart attack with two . hits apiece: Klages and Jim McWhinney had two -hits apiece for French. Langlois allowed six hits in the victory and struck out seven batters. French managed to put together their ninth victory of the season in a game against Graham, Electric Monday as they broke open a 3-2 game with a five run -rally in the seventh inning. They won the game 8-2. French built up a two - run lead in the ball gape, as Ron Klages h it 'f•'' leadoff homer in the first jnning_ and. Brian McLean scored in the third inning. •ittson,ormaw.onn,-., . • • It's all a Mattof style. vecyone had hii-rii;r1 style in competing hi the second annual Goderich ltorseshoa-tottrnainent sfionsored by the Legion Branch 199, Saturday. Courtland Kerr of Godetich showed:good form in raising his right leg dining delhefy, the competitot the middle watches intently4with the help of his tongue and Hardid Kidd, right, helps,to ate'er a shoe in with body Englisk:Close to 50 entries participated in•twoiciasses in the men's and worgilies division. (Photosby Dave Sykes) n 103 win Gallow then increased the French- cushion to "three runs as he triPled in the top of the fourth in- ning and scored on Clare Harmon's single. Graharri-* Electric got back into the game in their half of the• fourth scoring two runs on singles hY"SteVe Haggift, John Verway and Paul Hey. French put the game out of reach in the last inning as Walks to Klages and JiMcWI-iinney were followed -by -doubles by Ray Klages and Harmon and a single by Gallow. Gallow and Harmon led the Erencla---.-se. ven-hit attack with two hits ap4ece-•Gall•ow- scored two runs. Klages chipped in with a home run and also scored two runs. Township teams active in softball 1- • The weather co- operated very nicely this week, as all garnes Were plaiied. The other townships weren'/ quite so co-operative though. Monday night the Pee Wee "A" boys defeated Londesboro, but Varna solidly defeated the "B" team. Benmiller "A" beat the Midget "A" boys while the Mid$et "B" sat this week our--" Tuesday night the PeeWee Girls lost a close game to Stanley "A", while- the -Midget -girls - easily walked away from Stanley in'a high scoring game. Our Tykes also sat this week out, resting up for next week. Hugh Lobb • is busy every Wednesday night with quite a handful of 8 and under ••,children. About 25 show up every week • and enjoy__ every minute of it. Remember slow pitch every Friday night at 7:30. There is a better • turn always room for more. -C eine- otrt d- -e n -j -ay -.- you Ts el v e s .4 'Legion hasts tournament Participants from all over Ontario attended the monster horseshoe tournament sponsored by ,Legion Branch 109 on Saturday. - The: tour- nament, which has become an annual event, lasted all day. It was held in Jim Hayters parking lot under the auspices of the Ontario Hbrseshoe Pitching Association -First- winner- i n - the A doubles were Roy Bean of Listowel and Harold Pridham Of R. R. 2 Staffa; seCond -place winners were-J:"Dooley and Stan Dearn; third place winners were Jerry Roeder and Roy Hari; fourth place winners were Lloyd Venner and Keith Lovell; fifth place winners • were, Roger Christie and John ',Dooley; sixth place winners were B. Van- 'seyenth place winners were • Harold Kidd and • Harold Cartier; eighth place winners were 'C. •Summdrfield 1 and J. Wakinson:.„: nd ninth place winner were Gil Fitzsimmons phd" Llbyd Nebb. First place' winners in the B doubles were Marty Ballantyne of 'Stratford. and Brian Sanders of Exeter: second place • -- winners were Doug McQueen and D. Har- burn; third place winners were Bill Davis and G. Ellison; fourth place winners were H. Fisher and D. Kylie: fifth place winners were Sonny Moore and D. Mason; sixth place winners were K. Knott and E. Ander- son; seventh lace winners were R. Harris _E place winners/ were James Sapsworth and B. Hitchcock; ninth place • winners were Tim Hit- chcock and E. Kipfer-,- and tenth place winners were Courtland Kerr and R. Anderson. Women Were allowed to compete in the horseshoe - tournament this year for. the first time. First plaCe - winners were Gloria Vanderburg of. Scar- borough and Lori -Gpss -of Cambridge secatd,:place awiniletale"ntress: . Mb117 n'd-Dthird place winners were E. Hillthat and Anne Sap- sworth and fourth place winners were J. House and R. Goss. Door priz were 'wan by John ohnston of payfield Road in Gbderich, H. Allin of Nelson Street in Goderitit • Ba and f Lesiel d .Hinton of R. R. 1 a — • 7Proovrovirslormoterer •m•••••,A,