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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1989-07-25, Page 18• • r ••5 .14 4MA ./-•"/ Good turnout for tourney despite high temperatures Single -round games of 30 points each were played in the heat last Saturday at the Wingham Sports- men's Club horseshoe tournament. Jack Arnold of Mildmay and Lorne Hamilton, Wingham, were „first at seven wins and a plus of 16. Syd Lawson of Goderich and Bob Donaldson of London were second at six wins and a plus of 32. Harold Carter of Goderich and Lorne Elliott, Staffa, were third at five wins and a plus of 73. Grant Wall of Cobourg and Jack Britnall, Staffa, were fourth, at five wins and a plus of 71. Joe Smith, Monkton and Eugene 1,-]•""•• 4.• • •4 • t/.:•••,•••.//,,,,, , 0.. . ,./ ,• • ••' ••• '••• Kuntz of Walkerton were fifth at four wins and a plus of 57. Jack Ward of Monkton and Leon Rus- sell, Wingham, were sixth, three wins and a plus 0( 79, while Harold Pridham of Staffa and Ivan Rivett of Goderich, were seventh, three wins and a plus of 64. Fred Wickens of Kitchener and Frank -Elliott, Staffa, were eighth at two wins and a plus of 117. Alex Boa of Goderich and George Tervit; Wingham, rounded out the scoring in ninth place, one wirl a plus of 147. The next horseshoe tournament at the club will be held Aug. 11. Maitland athletes bring home total of four medals Three Wingham Maitland Athlet- icS throwers brought home four medals from the Provincial OTFA Bantam, Midget and Junior cham- pionships held in Hamilton July 22 and 23. It was not an easy feat to win in a field eight -to -10 competitors deep, repiesenting the best in the prov- ince. Lynda,Harlcness, 14, won a hotly - contested provincial title in the dis- cus throw for Midget girls (16 and under). A toss of 33.78 metres PERRY'S PUMPKIN PATCH Farm Fresh Produce RR 1, Wroxeter Pickling Cucumbers Pick your own or ready picked Cabbage & Broccoli available Call 335-3259 1 1/2 miles north of Wroxeter on Co. Rd. 12 or 3 miles south of Belmore • 4.41. 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His last effort of 33.67 m (1.62-kiloeram discus) moved him from fifth to third place in the competition. He placed fourth in the javelin throw (800 -gram implement) with A dis- tance of 38 m and fifth in the shot put, 12.91 m. Anna Sakasov, 18, competing as a first-year Junior, easily won the gold medal in the discus throw. Her toss of 39 m was four metres ahead of the second -place finisher. Anna also has qualified to com- e at the National Senior Cham- nships in Ottawa next month, a wek before departing for Saska- toon to compete in the Canada Summer Games. Bares split two games The Shoppers' Drug Mart -spon- sored Bluevale Bares lost a very try- ing game 5-4 last Tuesday to the Listowel Swiss Misses. Last Wednesday night in Brus- sels, the Bares were back to hitting once again, defeating the Brussels team 11-5 and adding a couple of runs every inning. Judy Lappage had a triple and Cheryl Nicholson and Laura Halla- han both added doubles. Everyone else had good bats and got on base. ,,'",,,•••":;1":".' • , • • THE BLUE JAYS are this year's Wingham T -ball champions and were presented with the Zehrs Trophy by Harvey Heinmiller, Wingham Zehrs manager, last week. Team members and coaches include: back, Mary Chippa,- Mr. Heinmiller, Joanne McPherson, Shari Mundell; centre, Kevin Waechter, Adam McQuiggan, Angela Chippa, P444y Bailey, Cnndice McGee; frontplaark, Chippa, Glen Blackwell, Kent McPherson and Tyson Glazier. Absent from the photograph is Tammi Kerr. Riverview Drive -In team captures tourney consolation The Wingham Riverview Drive - In Squirts won the consolation tro- phy at the Goderich tournament last week and Joel Pegg was named most -valuable pitcher of the tour- ney. After losing their first game 14-9 to Goderich, the Wingham team defeated Hullett and Port Franks to win the consolation trophy. In the match against Goderich, •the lead-off batter for that team cranked a home run and then they added three more runs in the sec- ond inning -on• three hits and/two errors to take an early lead. Wingham picked up a run in its half of the first inning and then went through the batting order in the third, collecting seven runs as Craig Baynton, Jeremy Creeden and Trevor Machan banged out singles to. complement walks to Josh John- ston, Shawn Fain -Neil Mowbray and Patrick Magee. The seesaw game continued as Goderich came' back with three runs in the third to close the gap to 8-7. Wingham got another run in the fourth on Johnston's single, fol- lowed by a Travis Baier triple. However, everything fell apart in the bottom of the fourth as Goderich went through its order with Bill Chousley capping the rally with a grand slam, his second of the game to push Goderich ahead 13-9. Coderich added another solo home run in the fifth and then the game was called in the sixth because of the time limit. Mark Gibson pitched for Wing - ham, striking out four, walking five while allowing 13 hits. Jeff Volland hurled for Coderich, scattering six hits, walking five and striking out fout Wingham 14, Hullett 0 Wingham struck early for four runs in the first as Machan dou- bled, Pegg and Creeden reached via errors and Johnston ripped a home run. In the second, Machan singled, stole second and third and then scored on'Pegg's ground -out. Shawn Martin stroked -a single to start the fourth and -scored follow- - ing.tonsecutive singles by Machan and Pegg. Machan later scored on a wild pitch. Wingham sent 12 batters to the plate in the fifth inning and tallied seven,runs to end.the game under ( themeity tule, Baynton and John- ston each rapped a double while Mowbray, Pair, Machan and Pegg each registered singles. Magee, Martin and Baler also capitalized on Hullett errors to reach base. Pegg tossed a one -hitter and struck out six while walking one to pick up the win. Wingham 8, Port Franks 1 In the consolation final, Port Franks hit the scoreboard first in the second inning with a solo home run. Wingham came right back in its half of the inning to rack up three runs on the strength of singles by 13aier, Mowbray and Fair and a couple of stolen bases. Wingham caulked up two more runs in the third with a walk to Pegg and a round tripper by Cree- den. They followed with two more in the fourth on a single by Gibson and a line -drive home run down the third -base line by Fair. Wingham rounded out the scor- ing in the sixth when Pegg singled, moved to second on a ground -out by Creeden and scored on John- ston's single. Pegg earned the win, ailoWing four hits while walking two and striking out 12. All the boys played well defensively in the final two games lending good support to Pegg. Earlier in the summer, the boys were finalists in tournaments at Guelph and New Hamburg, as well as 13' division finalists at a tourna- ment in Stratford. Wingham has just completed its regular Tri -County schedule, end- ing up in second place behind ,codetich, iithich has defeated Wingham twice. The local lads now await playoffs to . in Tri -County, the WOAA and • ASA. They will be playing Meaford in OASA and hope to end up in New Hamburg on Labor Day weekend for the provincial Champi- onships.