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The Times Advocate, 2007-07-04, Page 20THIS WEEK IN SPORTS Riding champion Page 21 Lawn bowling Page 21 20 TIMES -ADVOCATE Sports SPORTS TIPS? Contact Times Advocate Tel: Pat Bolen (519) 235-1336 x113 Fax: (519) 235-0766 E-mail: sports@southhuron.com Wednesday, July 4, 2007 Sliding in — Crediton Minor Ball held a baseball clinic Saturday, where children aged eight to 14 learned various baseball skills, such as hitting, fielding, pitching, base running and stealing.Above centre, Alanna Gilmour of Lucan learns how to slide with the help of Jackie Clarke, left, and Ange Gould.This is the second year of the clinic. (photos/Scott Nixon) ...w. lir l' idir-,•'-. Got it — Shannon Ryan gets in some fielding prac- tice. Batting practice — Marianne Scott, right, lobs in a pitch to Shawn Ryan. Lawn bowling champions — From left, lead Carol Carter of Seaforth, second Gloria McFalls, vice Maureen Thompson of Seaforth and skip JoAnne Bugler took the silver medal of the Ladies Fours lawn bowling in Burlington June 16-17. Sixteen districts met in Burlington trying to become the Ontario champions and win the right to repre- sent Ontario at the Canadian championship in Montreal Aug.19-25.The format of the tournament is a double knock- out with teams playing 16 end games and two trial ends before each match with games lasting between two and a half to three hours. Exeter (district 4) played six games on their way to the silver medal, defeating Kitchener 25-5 and los- ing 17-12 to Burlington before defeatingAgincourt 19-7.On Sunday Exeter defeated London 19-13, Belleville 22-9 and Dresden 17-13. (photo/submitted) Pinder wins Star title TORONTO — Twenty one year old Exeter golfer Karly Pinder claimed the Toronto Star Women s Amateur cham- pionship on Saturday at Meadowbrook Golf and Country Club after a semifinal finish last year. Karly Pi nder Pinder won the Ruth Atkinson Hindmarsh tro- phy by beating Judy Dotten in the final after defeating Mary Ann Lapointe in the semifinal. Pinder has one year left in her business marketing program at Iowa State University. Pairs lawn bowling LUCKNOW — District 4 held their pairs playoffs in Lucknow recently. It was a two day double knock -out for- mat with five teams entered including two from St. Marys, two from Exeter and one from Lucknow. Three teams were put out on Saturday with their second loss, leaving Larry and Jamie McLellan of St. Marys with four wins and one loss, to play Peter McFalls and Jurgen Fessler of the Exeter club who were undefeated through the competition on Saturday. Sunday saw St. Marys take the first game 16-10 and forc- ing a deciding match for the championship. Exeter rebounded and were focused in the final contest win- ning it by a score of 16-7. The winners now go to the provincial championships in Woodstock this week- end. Express crush Forest EXETER — Exeter Express manager Doug Fairbairn said it has never happened before as the Express scored 10 runs in the first inning June 29 before recording an out and then coasted to a 15-5 win over Forest The rally was stoked by two 7 hits from Aaron Patterson plus one each from Bobbie Grant, Nick Regier, Lonnie Hawke, Jeremy Jeffrey, Tim Eifert and Nate Burns. In the mix were walks to Burns, Adam Leppington and Darwin Barker. Forest closed the gap until another rally of five runs sealed the game in the 6th inning. Hawke and Eifert led the way with three hits while Grant and Patterson had two each. Jason Cox picked up the win allowing no runs over four innings while striking out five. Paul Elston hurled for two innings and gave up three runs on five hits. Terry Hogg pitched one inning allowing two runs on two hits. The team will have a tough weekend ahead as they face Lakeside in London on Friday and play a double header against Tillsonburg in Exeter on Saturday at 1 p.m. The Exeter Mohawks Senior 'A' Club is looking for COACHES • TRAINING STAFF and VOLUNTEERS Please contact Todd McCann 519-646-1214 or Jason Geoffrey 519-235-2397