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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1979-06-21, Page 10• PAGE 10—GQDERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1979 Kincardine -Maurer wins Goderich Slowpitch tourney BY DAVE SYKES Kincardine Maurer Construction defeated Goderich Menesetpark 8-- 5 Sunday to hecDme the first champions of the Goderich Slowpitch Tournament. Maurer capped the three-day tournament with their fifth straight victory to top 22 entries in the tournament and claim the Labatt's championship trophy as A division champs. The three-day double knockout competition attracted 22 teams from the Goderich and Kin- cardine area. The final game was Maurer's toughest test of the tournament and Meneset loaded the bases in the final inning with two out but a potential rally was thwarted with a routine fly to right field. Kincardine led the game 4-0 through the first four innings of play but Meneset got right back in the game with a three -run rally in the top of the fifth to trail by a single run. Maurer added a single run in their half of the fifth tot maintain a two - run bulge and then ignited for a three -run ratty ifl the seventh to hold an 8-3 lead going into the bottom of the seventh inning. Goderich wasn't about to let Kincardine nail down the win easily and scored two quick runs in their final at bat to pull within three of Maurer. With two out, Goderich Meneset loaded the bases but the potential tying run at the plate flied out to right field. The win was the fifth of the tournament for Maurer. They drilled the The win was the fifth of Goderich Oldtimers 34-2 the season for Fisher in their first game Friday against four losses and and despite a shaky start boosts them into a tie Saturday, edged Win- with Gords and McGees. throp 11-7. Graham Electric is one They continued their point back of the leaders win streak Saturday with nine points. evening with an 11-5 Fishers capitalized on victory over league three Lakeport errors in rivals, Kincardine New the sixth to break a 2-2 tie Seasons to move into the and score the winning semi-final. run. Kingsbridge provided Doug Fisher led off the tough opposition in the inning with a single, seni-final but fell victim advanced to third on to Maurer by a score off 10-3 and the Signal -Star second base was selected 12-5. The win moved Paper Legis, 12-5. as the tournament's most valuable player. Maurer into the final. The win was worth $200 Meneset won "three to the winning team and games to reach the Ron McKee of Maurer, tournament final who turned in a fine defeating Goderich R and performance at the plate D 15-3, Goderich Stothers, and played stingily at Ed Mannering of Meneset, who also played a fine tournament, was sele.cted as the roost sportsmanlike player. Fishers edge Lakeport 3-2 Fishers moved into a three-way tie for first place in the Dunlop Division with a 3-2 win over Lakeport, Monday. errors and scored as John Hoy reached base on an error. Fisher led 1-0 after the first inning on a run by Dennis LeBrun. LeBrun singjed, went to second on a wild pitch and scored on Barry Bloch's single. Lakeport scored two runs in their half of the second inning on a double by Tim McLean and a single by Ron Miller. Both runners scored. Fisher tied the game in their half of the second with Doug Fisher leading off with a triple and scoring on Hoy's double. The 2-2 stood until Fisher scored the win- ning run in the sixth in- ning. Fisher led his team offensively hitting a triple and single in three trips to the plate and scoring two runs. Miller had two hits for Lakeport, scored one run and drove in another. Fisher picked up the win allowing two runs on four hits. Fisher returns to action Sunday with a 5.30 p.m. contest against Graham Electric. Lakeport will play Green and Parent at 7 p.m. Sunday. SPORTS PAGE A member of the Kincardine Maurer Construction team beat the high throw to the plate in action in the final game against Meneset Park of Goderich at the Goderich Slowpitch Tournament, Sunday. Maurer won all five games in winning the first tournament championship and collected the Labatt's trophy . (photo by Dave Muffitt) Soccer tourney here,July 1 On Saturday the Goderich United under -19 team played host to the St. Thomas Kickers. The St. Thomas team had problems fielding a full team, and decidedto go all out with the seven players on hand. Mark Webb opened the georin't well into the first half. H[o*ever, St. Thomas wasn't long and on a breakaway by Ron Bobier scoredthe tying goal. By - half tithe it looked as if the visitors might squeeze out a tie. In the second half Goderich gained the upper hand over a tireing St. Thomas squad. Goals by Randy Little, Mike Reynolds and Dwi yne Ross taw the final snore 4-1 for Goderich. Billy Moore the -St. Thomas goalkeeper played a fantastic game and saved many attempt by the home team. The Senior teams play out of town this coming 'weekend. +? A tournament on July 1 starts at 10:00 and one of the visiting teams is from Bay City. Plumbers split league games The Goderich Hoff- meyer Little Plumbers earned a split in two Mid Western Ontario Fastball League games.this week. Last Thursday the Little Plumbers scored five • runs in the tenth inning to defeat Dublin 14-10 and Monday they lost a 4-2 decision to the Kitchener -Waterloo Civitans. The game against Dublin was a free -scoring \affair with lead changing hands several times. With the game tied 6-6 after seven innings goderieh scored three times in the eighth inning to take a 9-6 lead. Goderich held that lead going into the botto-m of the ninth inning but 'Dublin struck for three runs in their final at bat to force extra innings. Goderich didn't fool around in the tenth inning and scored five runs and held Dublin to a single run in their half of the inning to claim the 14-10 win. Mary Kolkman led the Little Plumbers of- fensively collecting four hits in seven at bats. She belted three singles and a triple and scored two runs. Karen Pond chipped in with three hits and Sue Kolkman, Bev .Wright, Sandy Rowe and Diane Melick added. two hits apiece. Both of Wright's hits were triples. Wright went the distance on the mound for Goderich and allowed 10 runs on 12 hits. Goderich scored 14 runs on 17 hits. The K -W Civitans defeated Goderich for the second time this season scoring two runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to break a 2-2 tie and wi'n 4-2, Monday in Kitchener. The game was a one - run affair throughout until Kitchener scored twice in the bottom of the' seventh. Kitchener scored a single run in the first inning but Goderich tied the game in the fourth inning on a run by Diane Melick., Kitchener again took the lead with a run in the sixth inning but Goderich got that one back in the top of the seventh when Jenny More singled and scored on an error. Kitchener wrapped the win with two runs in their half of the seventh. Goderich was held to four hits in the game with More, Melick, Sue Kolk- man and Carol Cruickshank each getting a single. Kitchener scored four runs on eight hits off Heidi Elliott. The Little Plumbers will play their next game in Goderich Friday at 8.30 p.m: against.• Moorefield at Agriculture Park. On Wednesday June 27 they will play in Waterford. Mike Adili of Kincardine Maurer Construction accepts the Goderich Slowpitch Championship trophy from Labatt's representative, Preston Shade. Maurer won five straight games to win the A Division title in the first tournament sponsored by the Goderich league. Twenty-two area teams participated in the double knockout competition at Agriculture Park. (photo by Dave Muffitt) French ties for first place. BY DAVE SYKES French Dry Cleaners moved into a tie for the Maitland Division lead with two wins in Industrial League play 'last week. On Wednesday French doubled Little Bowl 14-7 and Sunday they edged Ziebart 7-6 after trailing 6-0. The two wins coupled with two losses by Canada Company moved French into a tie with Company for the division lead. Both teams have won six games and lost three. French piled tip a. big lead against Little Bowl scoring nine runs in the second inning and three in• the third to hold a 12-0 lead after three innings. They scored their final two runs in the fifth in- ning. Little Bowl made the game respectable scoring a single run in the fourth and seventh innings and ignited for five runs in the fifth inning. Wayne Kennedy led the French 13 -hit attack with three hits in four trips to the plate. He doubled in two runs in the second and produced run -scoring singles in the third and fifth innings. He also scored three runs. George Sutton and Garth Dickert added two hits apiece. David Patterson was the top Little Bowl batter with three ;hits, all doubles, in four at bats. He scored three runs and drove in two. Bill Chjsholam and Terry Powell had two hits each. Don McWhinney gave up 10 hits in the win and struck out seven batters. French recorded their second win of the week fighting back from a 6-0 deficit after three inning to defeat Ziebart 7-6. Ziebart took the lead with three runs in the bottom of the second inning on an error, walk and two singles. They increased that lead to six runs in the third inning on Rick Duckworth's three-• run homer that scored Al Sygrove and Don Parker. French went to work and scored two runs in the fourth, four in the fifth and a single in the sixth to claim the win. Bill Gallow capped the four -run rally in the fifth with a run -scoring triple. Ron Klages scored the winning run in the fifth as he tripled with two out and scored on Kennedy's double. Gallow was the game's top batter with three hits, two singles and a triple. Kennedy and Sutton each belted out a single .and a double. Duckworth sparked Ziebart's offence with two. hits, a homer and double. He scored two runs and drove in three. French plays Gords tonight (Wednesday) at 7.15 and Ziebart will play Canada Company, Sunday at 4 p.m., ungannon wins B title Dungannon whipped the Goderich Firemen 17- 6 at Agriculture Park Sunday to win the B Division championship of the Goderich Slowpitch Tournament. With the victory .Dungannon claimed the Signal -Star trophy and a cheque for $150. The Firemen received $75 for reaching the cham- pionship final. After losing their opening round game to Stothers, Dungannon recorded four straight wins for the title. Dungannon was just a few runs away from entering the A division of the double knockout tournament losing their .first game 5-3 to Stothers. Stothers scored four runs in the first inning and added a single in the third to complete their scoring. The M.J. Smith squad got three runs hack in their half of the/third to pull within two' runs of Stothers but were held scoreless over the final four innings. Dungannon had an easier time reaching the final disposing of Goderich R and D 14-0 in the second round and rallied for an 23-13 win Last inning rally lifts Lakeport past Graham Lakeport Steel scowl three runs in the seventh inning to carry them past Graham Electric 8-6 in Industrial League action, Sunday. The win improved Lakeport's record to five wins against four losses good for 10 points and second place in the Maitland Division. The loss was the fourth of the season for Graham but they have nine points on four wins and a tie and are in second place in the Dunlop 1,7ivision. Graham led 6-5 heading into the final inning but two errors and a two -out single by Brian MacKenzie produced three Lakeport runs and the win. Lakeport scored two runs in the first inning, three in the fifth and three in the seventh. Graham scored one run in the second inning, three in the fourth and two in the fifth. Carmen Fielder, Wayne Draper and Tim McLean had two hits apiece for Lakeport. Fielder doubled in -the first inning to score two runs and singled in the third. Draper doubled in a run in the fifth inning and singled in the three -run seventh inning. He scored two runs. McLean added a run -producing single in the first inning and a run - scoring double in' the fifth. Losing pitcher George Klumper had two hits for Graham. He tripled in the second inning and scored' and singled in the fourth to score a run. Brian MacKenzie gave up six runs on seven hits and struck out seven batters in recording the win. over Goderich 1863 to move into the semi-final round. They met league rivals, Port Albert in the semi- final Sunday morning and won handily 20-10 to enter the final in the afternoon. Dungannon scored early on the Firemen in the final game and coasted to a 17-6 victory to win the B cham- pionship. • The Firemen lost their first round match against Kinloss Saturday but stayed alive in the division with an af- ternoon win over Tickers. The Firemen played their semi-final . match Saturday night, their third game" of the day, and dumped the W and D Coyotes 27-16 to earn a berth in the B final, Sunday. Twenty-two teams participated in the three- day double knockout tournament, the first hosted by the Goderich •Slowpitch League. Dungannon M.J. Smith captain,Bob McWhinney proudly displays the Signal -Star Trophy his team won as B Division champs in the Goderich Slowpitch Tourhatnnent held at Agriculture Park on the weekend. After losing their'openidg round glare, Dungannon wtm four straight games to clinch the B championship. Tht:y defeated the Goderich Firemen in the 17-8 in the final game. (Photo by Da$'e Muffitt) �:y