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Times-Advocate, 1978-07-06, Page 10Page 10 Times-Advocate, July 6. 1978 Sports Spotlight By Ross Haugh • jJ New Jays The Toronto Blue Jays were one of the most ac­ tive major league baseball teams in the recent annual free agent draft of United States amateur ballplayers from high schools and colleges. Two of the selections by the Blue Jays have ex­ cellent credentials if names are any indication. Their sixth round choice was Miguel Cuellar, a right handed pitcher from Houston, Texas. He is the son of former major leaguer Mike Cuellar. The senior Cuellar was a standout for many years with the good Baltimore Oriole pitching staffs of the 1960’s. The young Cuellar pitched a no-hitter the night before he was drafted. His high school earned run average for this year was 0.55. In the same draft, the Toronto club chose a player from another prominent baseball clan. He is Bill La- joie Jr., son of Detroit Tigers director of player procurement and a relative of the great Nap Lajoie who was a Hall of Fame infielder with the Philadelphia Athletics and Cleveland Indians in the early part of the century. Lajoie is a third baseman. The performance of another one of the Blue Jays draft picks shows these youngsters are not far from major league standards. Catcher Brian Milner who was signed by the Blue Jays right out of high school played two games for the Toronto team and picked up four hits in two games. He was sent out to Medicine Hat, Alberta for some more experience. He hit a triple Saturday to give his new western club a victory. There were some other “relatively” interesting aspects to the free agent draft this year. In addition to Miguel Cuellar there were seven other sons of former big leaguers drafted and six brothers were selected. Picked in the draft were the sons of Harmon Killebrew, Eddie Robinson, Lu Clinton, Vernon Law, Larry Doby, Calvin McLish and Cal Ripkin. Among the brothers were John Zisk, James Wilfong, Jeff Stottlemyre, Chris Bando, Tom Morris and Joe Pocoroba. .. .. ................“*■***<■ " “““““VW W LOCAL ATOMS ARE RUNNERSUP — The Exeter Atom team dropped a 3-0 decision to Sarnia in the championship final of Saturday's Centennial Cup soccer tournament. Back, left, coaches George Eisenschink, Gary Lovie and Soren Petersen. Second row, Steve Gould, Jason Van Haarlem, Derek Misner, Drew Hasselback, Marc Winters, Tim Campbell, Jennifer Rose, Sean O'Rourke and Dennis Eisenschink. Front, Eddie Coleman, David Bierling, Brian Topp, Scott Lovie, Chris Bierling and George Athanasakos. Missing was Keven Varley. T-A photo - 1 XX7 Sarnia wins title Great soccerplayat Centennial Cup Honour Tom Yearley fully race Tom night at Clinton As well as the 10-race twilight cards, which start at 5:15 p.m.. the Clinton Raceway also has racing every Sunday until October 1, with post time at 1:30 p.m. During their particular night, resideits from each town will be digible for half price admission. Huron’s ether town. Wingham. wil be honored on International Plowing Match Day Sunday. September 24. Only Canada Day activity The only action we could find in Exeter with any relation to Canada Day in addition to the busy traffic on Highway 4 was the annual Centennial minor soccer tourney. This event which was conceived for our country’s Centennial celebrations in 1967 is sponsored each year by the Exeter Centennial soccer club. The soccer tourney continues to draw a full draw of top notch atom soccer teams. This year was no ex­ ception. The semi-final game between Sarnia and a team from London was exciting from start to finish. Two overtime periods failed to break up a tie game and the referee ordered penalty kicks to decide the issue. Sarnia emerged the winners by a 5-4 extra kick count and went on to defeat Exeter 3-0 to win the grand championship and the Centennial Cup for the se­ cond straight time. The consolation championship went to Nairn by virtue of a 5-4 win over Goderich. If there was a draft selection system in minor soccer, we are sure Exeter Centennial senior coach Jack Wilson would be first in line for some of the stars of Saturday’s atom tournament. Wilson who has his team in first place in the Ausable league was back and forth along the sidelines keeping a close watch on a couple of players who caught his eye with their soccer abilities. AIB in action Would you believe that Harold Ballard is cutting the prices of some of the seats for Toronto Maple Leaf games this coming winter? It’s the truth, but. not because Ballard suddenly became charitable. The move was ordered by the Anti-Inflation Board which ruled the increases put into effect for the 1977-78 season were excessive and uncalled for. As part of the AIB order, the gold tickets for box and rail seats will be cut from $13.50 to $12.00 and red seats return to $10.00 after being $11.00 last year. The other seats were not increased last year so re­ main at $8.00 blues, $6.00 greens and $4.00 greys. Exeter night at Clinton The first Thursday night of racing this year at the Clinton Raceway will be known as Exeter night. It will be held next Thursday, July 13 and a special preferred pace with a purse of $1,000 will be known as the Tom Yearley Pace. Yearley who has been associated with harness racing for more than 50 years will be a special guest. A coupon appearing in a Clinton Raceway ad in this issue will allow T-A subscribers admission to the track for half price. The first race goes at 5:15 p.m. This Sunday afternoon, the Clinton track features three divisions of the Ontario Sirestakes for three year-old pacing fillies. The total purse monies will be in excess of $16,000. Area soccer fans shared in the excitement as Sarnia took the Centennial Cup, and Nairn the trophy, in an tournament Saturday. Sarnia earned the winner’s prize 3-0 over Exeter, and Nairn the alternate 5-4 over Goderich. The cup play concluded 10 games of surprisingly fine soccer by youngsters aged eight to 10 before en­ thusiastic spectators at two South Huron High School fields. Exeter worked to the final with wins of 3-2 over Clinton and 1-0 over London City. Sarnia got there on wins of 4- 0 against Grand Bend, and 2- 1 against London-Oakridge. The cup match stayed consistently even for the Sarnia and Exeter clubs until Sarnia’s Roy Eddleton scored at 15 minutes of the first half. Two minutes later, Eddleton’s team-mate Mark Reddon raised the lead to 2-0 with the tip-in of a lobbed ball at the centre of the Exeter net. The locals rallied strongly in the second half however, but couldn’t finish off on some probing plays into Sarnia territory. Then, at 18 minutes of the second, right­ winger Richard Apter collected Sarnia’s third and final goal by drifting a crossed ball into the Exeter net. For Apter, the goal was wages for a remarkable day’s work put in by the tiny 10-year-old player from Sarnia. On the Exeter side, Apter’s performance was matched equally by an outstanding contribution from seven­ year-old Chris Bierling. Young Bierling, small and stocky, and normally a squirt-division player, handled the left fullback position in each of Exeter’s games with the smoothness of a veteran. In the consolation final, Nairn’s 5-4 win over Goderich was sweetened by it also being their first ap­ pearance in Centennial Cup consolation atom division in Exeter competition. Moreover, they had to press for it with five unanswered goals after the interval, when Goderich had them down 4-0 on two first- half scores by David Jewell, and one each from Scott Garrow and Todd Wilson, Two of Nairn’s winning goals were scored by Brent Martin, with singles coming from Paul Barnes, Richard Engal and Cameron Mac­ donald as their club surged back brilliantly against Goderich in the second half. There were four games of 20-minute halves played in the morning round, and six in the afternoon during the July 1 tournament. An event which for the past five years has been organized and hosted by the Exeter Cen- tennail soccer club. Towns in Huron County will be honored at the Clin­ ton Kinsmen Raceway this summer, in a move by the race track to renew friendships with the towns, and thank the thousands of local horsemen and fans that support the harness racing oval. The towns will be honored at the “B” track’s special twilight race meet, the only twilight meet in Ontario, during three Thursdays in July. The testimonial nights will start off Thursday, July 13, when the citizens'of the Exeter area will be honored during the ten-race, parimutuel licensed card. Exeter horseman, Yearley, 82, one of the pioneers in harness racing in southwestern Ontario, will be honored at a special trackside ceremony, and the feature race of the night is the Tom Yearley pace. Mr. Yearley, even though he is now retired from ac­ tive participation in the sport, still takes a great in­ terest in standardbred rac­ ing after a career that has spanned six decades. Seaforth, another hotbed of harness racing, will be honored Thursday, July 20. and Goderich, the Lake Huron town that until last year had its own race meet, will be honored on the last of the twilight meets Thurs­ day. July 27. The Huron-Perth in­ termediate baseball league is an amateur organization but two of the teams used professional methods this week. For the first time in the leagues’ history two teams have traded players. The Dashwood Tigers have sent Paul Brooks to the Crediton Mets in return for Jim Pfaff. Both are right handed pitchers. Both players have received releases from th«r old clubs and signed certifcates with their new teams. Huron-Perth president Bob Hoffman of Dashwood announced this wetk that an all star game will >e played Saturday, August 1>. The game between the best from the Huron-Perth and the London and district junior all stars at Labatt park in London. Game time is 8 p.m. ANNOUNCEMENT of C.E. BROWNING ELECTRIC Inc. (Formerly of G.L. Slaght's) Specializing in Commercial, Industrial, Rural and Residential. Building a New Home? We are offering a free stroke detector with every wiring contract for a new home being built until August 1, 1978. For Free Estimates Call Crediton 234-631 7 Join the crowd that's escaping crowds I Tigers win twice, up season The Dashwood Tigers increased their season record in the Huron-Perth intermediate baseball league to 11 victories against only three defeats this week. The Tigers downed Thorndale 8-3 Thursday night and scored a Friday 12- 5 victory over the Clinton Colts. The Dashwood club was in Clinton last night, Wed­ nesday for a return match with the Colts. Friday night’s game with Byron has been postponed. They will be in London Saturday to meet the Rae J Juniors and Sunday they will be at home to the Clinton Colts. Game time is 2 p.m. Jim Pfaff newly acquired in a trade with the Crediton Mets was on the Dashwood mound against Thorndale and held the opposition to five well scattered hits. The only runs off Pfaff came in Trap shoot ends in tie Larry Mason and Jody Mosurinjohn with 22 suc­ cessful shots each led the claybird gun club com­ petitors in Wednesday’s trap shoot. Next in line with 16 hits each were Dale Dinney and Neil Romphf. Jim Caughy scored 15, Danny Galloway 14 and Mike Brannon 10. record the final inning on only one hit. The Tigers opened the scoring with two runs in the first inning and were never headed. Barry Baynham walked and Rob Dickey singled and both came around to score. In Dashwood second Bob Hoffman walked and scored on a single from the bat of Jim Dietrich.^'’ With one out in the Dash­ wood fifth Glen Thurman doubled anddesignated hitter Jim Guenther followed with a long home run. The final three Tiger tallies crossed the plate in the sixth. 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