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Times-Advocate, 1980-09-10, Page 8yeti ELIMVILLE GIRLS WIN — Elimville won the "B" division championship of the recent Usborne Minor Baseball Association pee wee girls tournament. Back, left, Vicki Parsons, Kel- ly Johns, Carol Willis, Marlene Vermaeten, Darlene Sillery, Annette Vermaeten, Sheila Oke and Tammy Richardson. Front, Becky Seldon, Wendy Coward, Julie Wilkinson, Karen Hunter, Shelly Miller, Tracy Tryon and Kim Cooke. T-A photo At home, Sunday. 7 Centennials streak at six Exeter Centennials stretched an unbeaten string to six on Sunday by defeating Forest 2-1 on the latter's home soccer grounds. Alfons and Gerald Weersink were the Exeter scorers, with bbth goals being headed in. Forest's goal was scored by Kevin Final lawn bowling event The final Exeter lawn bowling tournament of the season was held Wednesday with bowlers from Goderich, Clinton, Seaforth, Lucknow, London, Sarnia, Forest, Michigan, Ingersoll and Woodstock. Top honours went to the Jack Dodds rink from London with Mel Brady, Seaforth, Wm. Furlong, Ingersoll, Bert Redman, Woodstock and Fred Red- man, Woodstock following in that order. A. Sandrin, Sarnia won the Consolation prize. The greens were in ex- cellent shape and a good day of bowling was enjoyed by all present. — NM EN Country Corners now has a complete line of: INIONDA, POWER PRODUCTS Dolmage on a centre Centennials to five wins and breakaway with five minutes a tie since losing their last remaining, game on July 20. Their The win brought the season record to date is eight wins and two ties against five losses, Currently, they are in third place in the nine- team Ausable league. Alfons Weersink, at centre-forward, scored the first of Sunday's goals at 25 minutes, when he headed the ball in to complete a relay from Joe Laurie and Dick Lord in front of the Forest net, In the second half, Gerald Weersink, at right midfield, also turned the ball in with a header on a corner-kick taken by Wayne Smith at 75 minutes. Forest, who pressed strongly during the final 20 minutes, finally worked a long goal-kick, into a two- man breakaway, with Kevin Dolmage finishing with a goal at the 85-minute mark. The Centennials have one game remaining in regular matches, prior to play-offs. closest to the pin was Bert Their next opponents are the Brown. He missed by 200 Taxandria Falcons, con- centimetres. tending third place, whom The Ironwood club men's the Centennials will meet at championship will be played Canner's field, Sunday, Sunday afternoon. September 14 at 2 p.m. INN NUN ON MN NO MN INN NM INN Van Gerwen shoots 34 Paul Van Gerwen fired a one under par 34 to win low gross honours in the "A" flight at Tuesday's regular men's night at the Ironwood golf club. Van Gerwen birdied the first hole and shot par golf the rest of the way for his fine 34. Low net honours went to Ian Smith. In "B" flight, Brad Murray's 39 was low gross and Dick Vandeworp was best in low net, John Morgan shot a 46 as the low gross in "C" flight with Brad Daters capturing the low net prize. Norm Whiting and Ted Van Roestel won gross and net honours, respectively in the "D" flight. Taking the prize for a shot a. - ON THE SPOT FINANCING AT WANK RATES Nit CARMEL PHONE 2374456 OPEN MON. - SAT. 10-10 SUN. NOON-6 ION ON MIR NM MI OM AUTOMOTIVE RADIATOR Oxvicetee REPAIRS & RE-CORES SMALL ENGINE t.) Sales & Service MILT ROBBINS r. & SON LTD. 0 263 MAIN ST. N., s`z* EXETER 235-2940 I • tesivE _Iti If You've Been Waiting For It , HERE IT IS! 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They short end of a 10-7 sore to won the first game Saturday McGregor Sunday night in 9-7 in McGregor, a corn- nuinity near Windsor.. The third and deciding game has been set for the Dashwood diamond at 2 p,m, GETTING GROUND RULES — Exeter juveniles coach Joe Fulop points out the ground rules prior to Sunday's OBA cham- pionship game against McGregor in Dashwood. At the extreme right are captain Brian Rader, manager Bruce Shaw and umpire John Flynn. The Exeter juveniles are all tied up in a best-of-three series in. their quest far an Ontario Baseball Association Sports Spotlight By ROSS HAUGH The added attraction at the September 14 baseball game at CNE Stadium between the Toronto Blue Jays and Baltimore Orioles will be some humour. Before someone suggests the play of the Jays this year has sometimes become funny, we would say the Toronto team has made a big improvement on their play of a year ago. Getting back to the September 14 game, Max Patkin the clown prince of baseball will bring his zany antics to Toronto. A former Class A pitcher in the Eastern league, Patkin has been entertaining baseball fans throughout North America for the past 34 years with his hilarious comic routine, Over the past few seasons, Patkin has appeared in front of more than two million people each season as he conducts his tour of one night stands throughout ball parks from the Class A to major league level. His talents have been highlighted on numerous television programs including the pre-game show prior to the fifth game of the 1975 World Series, More recently, he was on Mel Allen's "Baseball This Week" program a few weeks ago, This will be Patkin's first ever'appearance at CNE Stadium as local fans will finally have an opportunity to see this renowned entertainer. Dressed in oversize uniform, Patkin delivers his on-field antics from the coaching boxes where he provides the umpires and opposition teams with all they can handle, His appearance will enable fans to combine an afternoon of comedy with some great baseball as the pennant contending Baltimore Orioles pay their final visit of the season to Toronto. As of the time of writing, the Blue Jays are a full 12 games ahead of their performance of 1979 with 58 victories and 77 losses. They need only seven wins to assure themselves of less than 100 losses. Unless they fall completely on their faces, in the final 29 games, the Blue Jays, will enjoy their best season of their young four year career. Their best season to date was in 1978 when they won 59 games and they should beat that mark this year by a considerable number. On this year's performance it should appear the Toronto club needs about five additional top notch players and they could be a serious contender. They could use two more good starting pitchers to go with Dave Stieb, Jim Clancy and Luis Leal and another good reliever. Needed is another outfielder to team with Lloyd Moseby and Bob Bailor, a solid hitting first baseman to replace the aging and ailing John Mayberry and a first line catcher. In recent games, catcher Ernie Whitt has been im- proving, but, a steady hitting catcher is needed. Rookie Brian Milner is expected to be exactly what the Jays need behind the plate, but, not for a year of two. The most heard of complaint about the Blue Jays management is their apparent hesitance to get better players by trades or the free agency method. This is not as easy as it looks. Most experienced ball players have a say where they will be traded to and the same goes of course for a free agent. It's only common sense that a name player would not want to join a cellar dwelling team. The same situation existed in Montreal until a year or two ago when the Expos started to show some hope of being a contender. During the next two years we are sure the Blue Jays farm system will produce two or three of the six players needed and then a big name star or two should do the trick. Nearing title The Exeter juveniles are now within one game of winning the Ontario Baseball Association juvenile championship. After winning in McGregor Saturday afternoon by a score of 9-7, the locals were defeated 10-7 in Dashwood Sunday night. The third and deciding game of the best-of-three finals will beplayed Dashwood Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m. A goodly number of Exeter fans were on hand Sun- day night and another good crowd should be at the Dashwood park Sunday to hopefully see the cham- pionship won. Best luck in Sunday's bid for the provincial title to manager Bruce Shaw, coach Joe Fulop and the. Exeter juveniles. Hockey soon In talking to Exeter Hawks manager Fred Mommersteeg Sunday we learned the local junior "D" hockey club is organizing for another season. With only three players graduating from last year's club, Momtnersteeg said he expected the 1980- 81 club to be very competitive. The first practice for the Hawks has been set for Sunday, September 21 at the Stephen township arena at Huron Park from 12 noon to 2 p.m. The next workouts will be from 8 to 9 p.m. on September 2 and 27 and October 3 and 4 and October 5 from 12 noon to 2 p.m. The first workout at the South Huron Rec Centre will be Tuesday, October 7. lions Are Roaring We know that one game a season does not make, but supporters of the Detroit Lions in the NFL appear to have finally found something to cheer about. It was not only the fine play of rookie running back Billy Sims, but, the entire team was needed to mould Sunday's upset win over the Rams. The Lions now have a one-two punch in the backfield in Sims and Dexter Bussey. The latter who will certainly complement the play of Sims with fine blocking in addition to his running gained more than 100 yards in Sunday's game. Sims and I3ussey with their good performances Sunday provided the first two 100 yard runners for the Lions in one game since 1934. We will be at Silverdome in Pontiac on. Sunday, September 21 to see the Lions meet the St. Louis Car- dinals and certainly hope they play back to Sunday's efforts. club was led to victory by their pitcher catcher .combination. Although he was in trouble a number' of times, pitcher Fuzzy Girard was able to survive using a 'good fast ball to- record a total of 16 strikeouts, His battery mate Al Pries slammed two home runs *over the Dashwood left field fence in to the adjoining corn field. He homered with two on in the fifth to put his team in front 6-1 and hit a 'solo shot leading off in the ninth. The Exeter club opened the scoring in the first inning as Dave Bogart was safe on an error and came around to score on consecutive walks to Joe Becker, Kevin Hern and Dave Shaw. In the Exeter fifth, Joe Becker drew a walk, stole second and was sent home on a single from the bat of Dave Shaw. After McGregor took a 9-2 lead in the top of the seventh, the locals bounced back with three runs to get a little closer, The big blow was Dave Shaw's trip, to right field with Dave Bogart, Joe Becker and Kevin Hern aboard. Bogart was on with a well placed bunt, Becker walked and Hern cracked out a sharp single. In the Exeter eighth, Kevin Easterbrook led off with a double, Dave Woodward drew a walk and both were able to score on singles delivered by Dave Bogart. and Dave Shaw. Dave Shaw was the starting pitcher for Exeter. He was touched for seven runs and six hits in six in- nings. Steve Pearce came on to toss the final three frames. ,He gave up three runs and the same number of hits. Dave Bogart and Dave Shaw with hits in their last three trips to the' plate led the Exeter batting attack. In Saturday's win, the Exeter team was never behind as they scored three runs in each of the first two innings. Exeter blow in a two run rally in the eighth. Jeff Fuller went the full nine inning distance on the Exeter mound. His biggest Hem crossed the plate as the trouble tame in the first result of a wild pitch. inning when his mates Singles by Greg Prout, Joe committed four errors and Becker and Kevin Kern McGregor scored two 'runs. produced the three Exeter In the ninth, McGregor scores in the second inning, mounted a bit of a rally with Kevin Easterbrook singled two runs but, Fuller rose.to and counted the seventh the occasion by. striking out Exeter run. Kevin Kern's , the last two batters. His single, his \fourth hit of the game strikeout total was afternoon was the only safe eight. SAFE AT SECOND — In iheir game against McGregor Sunday Dave Bogart of the Exeter Juveniles successfully stole second base as the throw from the catcher glanced off the second baseman into centre field. T-A photo Lucan and Exeter win in soccer Lucan-Two became A- division titleists, and Exeter Blizzard the B in squirt- division• soccer cham- pionships in Nairn, Satur- day. Lucan - Two beat Lucan- One 2-1 in their final, while Exeter Blizzard downed Nairn-One 3-0. Six teams, two from Nairn, two from Lucan and two from Exeter, took part in the nine-ga'me tournament. Exeter's second entry, Exeter Strikers, won their first game 2-0 against Nairn- Two to advance to the A- division final. In the final, however, they lost to Lucan- Two 4-1, and to Lucan-One, 3- 1. On their way to the B- division title, Exeter Bliz- zard lost 2-0 to Lucan-One in their first game, but in the finals they beat Nairn-Two 2- 0 and Nairn -One 3-0. In the opening stanza, Dave Bogart singled and stole second, Joe Becker walked and both scored on Kevin. Herres long triple.