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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1995-09-13, Page 6THE WHAM AQY4NCE TIMES SPORTS SHORTS Stinkers reach league final Belmore Stingers advanced to the Bluewater Fastball League championship finals, by getting past the Palmerston Midget Im- perials in three straight games. Chris Eadie was the winning hurler last Thursday as the Stingers downed the Imperials 9-2. Jeff Fischer smacked a home run as he collected a pair of hits. Brian Busby also contributed a. pair of hits for the Stingers. Kent Norman was tagged with the loss on the mound for Palmerston. The first game in the best three of five final series between the Stingers and Chepstow Aces was played Monday in ,Belmore. Games two and three will be played Thursday and Friday in Chepstow. Bulls down New llamburg in exhibition Brussels Bulls travelled to Waterloo on Saturday to tangle with the New Hamburg Spirit 83 in exhibition Junior 'C' hockey action at the Columbia Ice Field. The Bulls scored a 4-1 victo- ry. The teams were in a score- less draw after the first period, with the Bulls taking a 3-1 lead in the middle stanza, and added the lone goal of the final period. Fourteen -year-old Dan Wil- liams tallied the first `Brussels goal, with help from Josh Alex- ander. Tim Beyer netted the sec- ond Bulls marker with Alexan- der earning the assist. Beyer added his second of the game with help from Sheldon Mustard. Ryan Wright tallied the lone third period marker, with help from Beyer. Cory Schmidt and Jamie Tay- lor shared the goaltending chores for the Bulls. The Bulls face off against the Kincardine Bulldogs at the Sea - forth Arena on Sunday begin- ning at 1:30 p.m. Bantam girls eliminated The Wingham Bantam girls have 'been eliminated from fur- ther softball play. " The team lost 12-5 to Seaforth last week in Tri -County League play. On the mound for Wingham were Lindsay Baier and Melissa Riley. Clutmpkrns The Wingham Midget Girls --recently won the WOAA Major Midget Girls' title. Team members and coaches include: back, Doug Kemp, Carolyn Pike, Denise Kikkert, Tammy Love, Kelly Neil, Missy Bieman, Julie Kikkert, Miranda Bieman; front, Andrea McBride, Lisa Inwood, Janelle Cretier, Jenny Remington and Jenni Kerr. Absent from the photograph are Coach Nancy Bieman and players Sarah Doolittle, Dianne Ross, Lisa Alexander and Lara Fen- ton. Midget girls defeat Tavistock to win WOAA Major Midget title Wingham captured the WOAA Major Midget girls championship last Wednesday evening by defeat- ing Tavistock in three games. Missy Bieman clubbed a two - run home run in the fourth inning last week to give Wingham a 9-8 lead as they went on to win the game 16-8 and the series. Bieman was the winning hurler, allowing nine hits and one walk and struck out four in going the distance on the mound. Julie Kikkert had three hits, in- cluding a pair of home runs, in three at -bats. Bieman was 3 -for -4 at the plate and Denise Kikkert had two hits in four at -bats. The second game of the best three of five ,game series was played Labor Day • in Tavistock. Bieman clouted a three -run .home run in the sixth inning to power Wingham to a 8-4 decision. Julie Kikkert hit a three -run home run in the third inning. Bieman was 2 -for -3 at the plate 'and Julie Kikkert was 2 -for -4. Bieman went the distance on the mound, allowing six hits and four walksand struck out eight. The first game of the series was played Aug. 30, with Wingham scoring a 7-2 decision. Denise Kikkert was 1 -for -1 at the plate and Bieman had two hits in three at -bats. Bieman went the distance on thg mound, giving up three hits, four walks and struck out eight. Wingham needed five games to get past Mount Forest in the semi- final round, and swept Arthur in two straight games in the quarter- final round. Tri -County finalists...The Wingham Mite girls were Tri -County League finalists for 1995. Team members were (front) Julie Brown, Laura Ritchie, Ashley Ritchie, Amanda Brew- ster, and Danielle Good; (middle) Jaden Dixon, Mia Bieman," Crystal Bailey, Carly Quennell, Lau- ra Doherty, and Jenny Skinn; (back) coaches Bill Brown and Ted Brewster. Missing from photo are Brigit Davies, Sarah Montgomery, Sarah Clugston, Cindy Anger, and Rachel Burns. (Photo contributed) WEIINESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1895 Aces down Colts advance to mals Chepstow Aces scored two runs in the top of the ninth inning last Wednesday evening to score a 3-2 decision over the Wingham Colts. With the win, the Aces won their Bluewater Fastball League semi-final series, three games to one, and go against the Belmore Stingers in the best three of five fi- nal series. Catcher Doug Lang drove in the tying and winning run with a sin- gle in the top of the ninth. Two runners were on base at the time. With the Aces holding a 1-0 lead, Scott Neil tied the game at one with a run -scoring single in the bottom of the first. Right field- er Jason Daw drove in the go- ahead run in the bottom of the first inning to give the Colts a 2-1 lead. Pete Spitzig went the distance on the mound for the Aces, allow- ing nine hits and one walk and striking out 18. Neil started on the mound for the Colts and was relieved by Tom McDonald in the fourth inning. They gave up eight hits and six walks and combined for a dozen strike outs. Neil was 3 -for -4 at the plate for the Colts and Daw had two hits in four at -bats. Centre fielder Ryan Deyell had one hit in three plate appearances. Left fielder George Bester was 2 -for -4 at the plate for Chepstow with right fielder Derrick Detzler and centre fielder Darryl Wheeler each getting two hits in five at - bats. WOAA annual meeting set for September 25 The 51st annual general meet- ing for the Western Ontario Ath- letic Association (WOAA) will be held Monday, Sept. 25 at the Wingham Armouries. The meeting for receiving annu- al reports and the financial state- ment for the year ending July 31, 1995 will begin at 7:30 p.m. An election of directors will be held as well as the consideration of amendments, and other busi- ness that has been properly placed before the members. The meeting is open to repre- sentatives of all sports covered by the association, including all mi- nor hockey, local league hockey, senior hockey, women's hockey, and softball. Following ,the annual meeting, people in attendance will be asked to stay for the WOAA minor hockey annual meeting, or go to an adjacent meeting for the 1995 softball wrap-up meeting. • The annual minor hockey meet- ing will be held to discuss the up- coming 1995-96 season. Amend- ments from the Ontario Minor Hockey Assoication ,(OMHA) an- nual meeting will be reviewed. Rule changes will be reviewed. The proposed amendments and changes to the WOAA manual of operations for minor hockey, an- nouncing up -coming clinics and meetings, will be reviewed. The softball wrap-up meeting is being held to review the 1995 sea- son and also ask for input for 1996. The WOAA will also be pre- senting the O.M. (Mike) Weichel Honor Award. This award is pre- sented annually to someone for their outstanding efforts, with in- volvement in minor sports in their community. The deadline for nominations for this honor award is 5 p.m. to- morrow (Thursday, Sept. 14). Applications for the WOAA bursary assistance fund will be ac- cepted until Friday, Sept. 29. Belgrave Midgets win force deciding game Belgrave Midgets scored a 6-4 decision over Wroxeter on Sunday to even their WOAA Major Mid- get final series at two games apiece. The fifth and deciding game will be played Sunday in Wroxeter at 4 p.m. Belgrave scored four runs in the fourth inning on singles by Eric Andrew, , and Joel . Pegg, a double by Shawn Fair and a triple by Tedd Edgar. They added two more in the fifth,, Wroxeter hit the scoreboard, scoring one in the sixth and two more in the seventh. They left run- ners on second and third as the game ended. Brent Robinson went the dis- tance on the mound for Wroxeter, allowing six hits and one walk and struck out five. Shawn Daw started on the mound for Wroxeter and went five innings before being relieved by Trevor Seip. They gave up five hits and two walks and combined for four strike outs. Eric Andrew had two doubles in three at -bats for Belgrave. Seip had a double and two sin- gles in four at -bats for Wroxeter, and Daw was 2 -for -4 at the plate. Kennedy claims low gross honors at seniors golf Forty-one golfers competed in with a 77. Gavreluk took the low the 18 -hole seniors invitational tournament at the Wingham Golf and Curling Club last Wednesday. Tom Kennedy took the overall low gross honors with a 76. Bob Gavreluk won overall low net hon- ors with a 63. Will Barnes took low gross hon- ors in the 50-59 years division JCS' FAMILYFITNESS CENTRE net award. Kennedy won the low gross award in the 60-69 years division. Ben Parr took low net honors with a 65. Harold Keesaw took the low gross honors in the 70+years divi- sion with a round of 82. Ian Mitchell claimed low net honors with a 67. See next week's ad in the Adavnce-Times for details on our demonstrations and workshops...plus membership deals 4 SED?EMBER 13, 1995 9:00a.ffl1 to 9t