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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1988-08-17, Page 1010A —=THE HURON EXPOSITOR, AUGUST 17, 1 988 THIS WEEK IN RUSHING THE GOALIE - Players from St. Columban's Under 17 soccer team took on Exeter Sunday in St. Columban. Here they are seen emerging on the Exeter goal, in a play that resulted in a St. Columban goal. Mcllwraith photo. BIG STRIDES - The St. Columban Under 17 soccer team took on Exeter in St. Colum - ban Sunday afternoon. Although the results of the game were not made known to the press, St. Columban was winning the game at half time. Mcllwraith photo. Merchants ousted from OBA playdowns after two games The Seaforth Merchants Senior Mens hardball team was unable to continue its winning streak into the OBA playdowns. The Merchants lost a two -out -of -three series against Walkerton on Saturday, and the chance to advance to the provincial tourna- ment. Earlier in the week the Merchants beat Exeter 13-11 in regular season action. "The way we played in Exeter last Tues- day night, it looked as though nothing would stop us going into OBA playoff action against Walkerton," said Coach Marc Robinet. "But the tables turned upside down in a hurry." Coach Robinet noted Saturday's losses came as a shock. The team had just won six of its last seven games, and appeared to have everything - good pitching, good defense, and good hitting (the team was scoring eight to 10 runs a game)- going for it. "What happened? Well, the runs didn't get scored, our defense wasn't there, we made two or three costly errors in each game and our pitching wasn't as sharp as it has been. Result? Walkerton wins the two out of three series and moves on in its quest for the All Ontario title," he said. WALKERTON 21-SEAFORTH 6 Game one was scoreless through the first two innings, but that tie was broken in the third when Walkerton scored twice to take the lead. Walkerton added a further run in the fourth and two in the fifth to give themselves a 5-0 lead. Seaforth railed in the bottom of the fifth and scored four times to narrow the gap to 5-4, but Walkerton broke the game wide open in the sixth and scored 10 runs to take a 15-4 lead from which Seaforth never recovered. Walkerton added six more runs in the seventh, while Seaforth countered with two in their half of the inning, to make the final score 21-6. Seaforth scored its six runs on 10 hits. Players walked twice, ,struck out eight times and made three errors. Eight men were left on base. Walkerton scored its 21 runs on 20 hits. Players walked four times, struck out three times and made one error. Eight men were left on base. WALKERTON 7-SEAFORTH 6 Game two was a better one as far as Seaforth was concerned - but not good enough. A last inning rally failed to give the Merchants the runs they needed to force this series into a third game. The game started on a positive note with Seaforth taking a 1-0 lead in the third inning. Walkerton countered with a rim in the fourth, but fell behind again when Seaforth scored another run in the bottom of the inning. Walkerton scored three more runs in the fifth to take a 42 lead, then added three more in the sixth to make the score 7-2. At their last at bats, Seaforth scored four times, but finished the game one run short of a tie. In total Seaforth scored its six runs on seven hits. Players walked four times, struck out five times, made five errors and left 11 men on base. Walkerton scored its seven runs on eight hits, walked three times, struck out five times and made five errors. Eight men were left on base. SEAFORTH 13 -EXETER 11 Earlier in the week, during regular season play, the Merchants downed Exeter 13-11. Robinet started on the mound for the Mer- chants, and went three innings. He allowed eight runs on nine hits, walked one batter and struck out another. Scott Driscoll pitched three strong innings of relief and allowed three unearned runs on four hits. He walked two batters and struck out four. After the first inning of play Exeter had a 3-1 lead, but it was the last time they had the lead. Seaforth scored six times in the second in- ning, while Exeter scored three times, to take the score to 7-6 in the Merchants' favor. Three more runs in the third inning, while Seaforth lawnbowlers successful Exeter got only two, and two more in the fourth and fifth innings, made the score 13-8. Exeter scored three times in the final inn- ing to make the final score 13-11. Seaforth scored its 13 runs on 14 hits. Players struck out six times, walked four times, made our errors and left six men on base. Exeter scored 11 runs on 13 hits, and struck out five times, walked three times and made two errors. Eight men were left on base. Hitters in the game for Seaforth included Don Williamson, Gerry Feeney and Joe Aubin, each with three, Clendon Coombs Turn to page 12A Seaforth bowlers have been active in out of town tournaments this past week. In ladies trebles at Mitchell the rink of Carol Carter, Thelma Coombs and Edna Bell placed first while Jean Lunn, Eileen Adamson and Olive Papple were fourth. Two ladies teams competed in Wingham last Wednesday 'but were unsuccessful although they reported a good day. Several men's pdirs teams were in Exeter on Wednesday and Fred They and Nell Bell won a prize. A men's trebles competed in Brampton in a Zone legion torunament and they placed second in Ontario. The rink consisted of John Patterson, Nell Bell and Tom Phillips. Congratulations boys. Our big tournament is getting closer and all committees are busy getting everything in order for it. We trust the weathet� man will be favourable and not quite so hot. Good bowling to all. WHEN THE DUST FINALLY CLEARED this Walton Squirt ball player was called out at the plate. Despite the call on this play, Walton won this game against Clinton, and went on to take the B championship of an eight -team tournament in Walton over the weekend. Mcllwraith photo. Atom soccer team back on winning track SQUIRTS The St. Columban Squirts have yet to be beaten in Lucan and District Soccer League action. They were undefeated last year and won the league championship, and have a record of 11 wins, 0 losses this year following a 2-0 shut -out against Lucan I Thursday in Dublin. Scott Van Dooren and Larry Kelly scored for St. Columban as the entire squirt team continues to play well. ATOMS The St. Columban Atoms got back on the winning track when they hosted Arva and won 9-1 on Monday, August 8. Shaun Anstett registered a hat trick while Jered Munroe, Mark Van Dooren, Greg MIGHTY SWING - Greg Riley took a mighty big swing at the air Saturday during a mushball tournament held in Winthrop. Greg's team, the Deadringers lost this outing to Mix'n'Match, but went on to win the consolation final. Mcllwraith photo. Visser, ureg Van Bakel, Adam Nolan and Chris Marion all scored singles. Assists went to Mark Van Dooren, Shaun Anstett, Greg Visser, Chris Marion and Bruce Grif- fin. This game was a total team effort as all players played well. MOSQUITO 1 On Wednesday, August 10, the St. Colum - ban Mosq I Team travelled to Coldstream and won, trouncing the home team 4-0. Mike Watt scored two goals while Mike Weber and Lawrence Flanagan each scored once. Lawrence Flanagan and Darryl Cronin shared the shutout. The Mosq I's season record is 7 wins, 1 loss and 1 tie. MOSQUITO II The St. Columban Mosq II team lost its first game of the season 2-1 to Exeter in St. Columban Wednesday, August 10. It was an exciting game that could have gone either way as both teams played high calibre soccer. Pat Cook scored the lone St. Columban goal. Just a reminder that the St. Columban Third Annual Mosquito Soccer Tournament is scheduled for this weekend in St. Colum - ban. There will be one game played in both the St. Columban field and the Dublin field, Friday, August 19. At 7:00 in St. Columban It will be the St. Columban Mesq II team facing St. Paula, while in Dublin the St. Columban Mosq I team will play Goderich. The tournament starts again Saturday morning at 9:00 and runs all day at the St. Columban field. Winthrop tournament good to the last plop The second annual Winthrop Co-ed Slowpitch Tournament started out with a "plop" and ended up with a "plop" during the continued heat wave of '88. The first "plop" was the coin being flipped to start the first game of this prestigious tournament. All 16 teams, a class unto themselves, were hungry to claim the gorgeous 'silver and ball trophy' held over the year by the G.M.s - "A" champs of 1987. As in all baseball tournaments there were many mentionable and unmentionable plays - rumors of alleged trips at first base, body -checking! on base lines and as usual the highly over -paid umpires had to take the usual flak over poor calls. (Actually, the umpires, who donated their time, did an ex- cellent job). The cruncher of games came Sunday afternoon when only four teams were left to battle the "A" and "B" championship out. The "B" championship was played first with "The Deadringers" battling it out with "The Honeycomb Kids". A tough first cou- ple of innings, complete with errors all ball players have nightmares about, put the "Honeycomb Kids" deep in the hole. The "Deadringers" capitalized and held on to take the "B" championship with a 14-1 score. The "A" championship turned out to be an exact duplicate of the 1987 final. Again it was the "D.A.M.s" led by Don McClure, facing the defending champs "G.M.s" coached by Glen McClure with a non- chalance that Billy Martin would envy. The turf was hard, the wind strong, the pitching excellent and when the list ball was pitched the "G.M.s" again claimed the "A" trophy with a slim 1-0 win. Congratula- tions to all teams for a fun -filled, sun -filled weekend of mush -ball. And so, it came to the final plop deposited by Annie -the -cow to declare the final win- ners in the Messy Bingo contest. The lucky people who were dumped on were Al Rose(winning $250), Lyn Godkin ($150), Jason and Stephanie MacDonald ($100) and Brett Finlayson won the special draw for a paint and wallpaper certificate. All money from the tournament goes to Winthrop Minor Ball. A great community effort for the kids! SELECT FINANCIAL SERVICES BEST RATE GIC 10 518 % Annuarl SENIORS' LEAGUE : Mon. 9:00 am 2nd 8. 4th Frida ofp COUPLES NIGHT : the month at 6: o m LADIES' NIGHT : Mon. after 4:00 MEN'S NIGHT : Tues. after 4:00 JR. MORNING : Tues. 9:00 am GIC'S, RSP'S, RRIF'S, Savings Plan, Annuities, Insurance For more Information Call: MIKE THOMAS 5271539 15 Adam St. Seaforth WINTHROP RECREATION COMMITTEE would like to thank Umpires, Ground Crews, Bartenders; Score Keepers, Booth Help, Announcers, all teams who participated, Warriors for P.A. Systems, and especially OV Brewery for the ',A" and "B" prizes; McGavin Farm Equipment for the "A" trophy; Percy & Mavis Dalton for the "B" trophy; Cunningham Paints & Wallpaper of Stratford for the 896®. gift certificate; Neil Damage for the loan of Annie and to Topnotch Feeds, Hoegy's Farm Supply Ltd, K.M. & M. Drainage, Winthrop Con- struction and Winthrop Maple Syrup for donating prizes. Thank you for making the Second Annual Winthrop Co-ed Slowpitch Tournament a great success. Hope to see you next year. 1 0