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The Citizen, 2003-08-13, Page 8PAGE 8. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 2003. Sports Swing batter, batter Joe Murray, a player for Lucknow, takes a swing at this ball and misses at the Blyth Lions Club slo-pitch tournament held from Aug. 7-10. (Sarah Mann photo) St, Paul’s nips Midget Girls U-6 Ils, Ills beat parents It was an exciting night and a great finish to the season when the Brussels U-6 II squad took on the U- 6 III team. Brussels Ill’s Wyatt Machan started off the game with a netter to be followed up by Lexi Smith scoring back-to-back goals. Daniel Lichty put one in early in the second half with Smith ending the game with a hattrick in the 5-1 win. Mathew Terpstra made some great saves in net, holding Brussels II off the board in the second half. The Brussels II runners, Owen Hamilton, Dalen Martin, Jenna Thompson, and Conner Bridge chased the ball and made good attempts at keeping the ball in the Brussels III end. Shaelynn Cloakey and Johanna Blake did super jobs in nei and Alexandra Martin and Rachel Hastings worked hard to get the ball. Dalton Hamilton, Laura Souch, Eric Van Nes and Kai Heimstra challenged their Midgets trounce Minto The North Perth Midgets took Minto by storm last Monday night scoring 23 times to their single marker. Scoring for the Outlaws were Jason Hamilton, four, Adam MacDonald, three, Cory Chapman, three, Matt Tell, three. Drew Campbell, two, Justin Erb, two, Brad DeBlock, two, Tony DeBlock, Xavier O’Krafka, Jordan Doig and Brandy McKee. Assisting the goals were Mitch Fleet, three, O’Krafka, three, Ashton Nichol, two, Doig, two. Hamilton, two, MacDonald, two, DeBlock, B. DeBlock. Erb, Justin Smith and goalie Liam Madge. Ted Forbes scored Minto’s lone goal halfway through the third period. Elora came to Listowel to play the Outlaws on Thursday night with a .educed squad. Elora allowed the opponents. The two teams ended their season with a fun match against their parents. Though the parents showed great enthusiasm, Brussels II coach Tammy Hamilton said nothing could match the excitement of the children. Scoring for the children in the 4-1 win were Heimstra (two), Machan and Curtis Terpstra when he got the ball past his father, Chuck, in net. Bruce Johnston scored the lone goal for the parents. The evening finished with cool treats for the soccer players and thanks to Hamilton and Brussels III coach Brent Kipfer for their patience and hard work. Other Brussels III players included Jacob and Riley Holthuysen, Joel and Micha Kipfer, Jamie Perrault, Delayna Smith, Jasmine Vaderi, Mitchell and Gregory Ward, Daniel Fritz and Tyler Vandermier. North Perth Midgets to score 16 goals. Goalie Madge only fished the ball out of the back of the net four times. Scoring five times for the Outlaws was MacDonald. B. DeBlock got a hattrick. Tell scored twice and those with single markers included Erb, Tyler DeVos, David Fitzgerald, Doig, Smith and Hamilton. Goals were assisted by Tell, O’Krafka, DeVos, Smith, T. DeBlock, B. DeBlock, Nichol and Chapman. The final game of the season was played in Kurtzville on Aug. 12 at 9. The team will travel to Guelph for Provincials on Aug. 15. The first game will be against Gloucester II at 3 p.m. The Brussels Midgets were on the road playing St. Paul’s on July 28 and Holmesville on July 30. Lisa Black started on the mound for Brussels with three strikeouts and allowed nine runs and nine hits and three errors. Lesley Pepper came in to relieve and finished the game with 10 strikeouts. She allowed no runs to cross the plate. Brussels scored one run in the second on a long fly by Black who advanced to score on hits by Kathrine Cameron and Heather Little. Brussels would add another two runs in the fourth on hits by Lacey McCall, Catrina Josling and Black. Brussels rallied again in the fifth to score another three runs. Candice Usborne ousts PeeWees Having finished the regular season in third place in a division of nine teams the Londesborough PeeWee boys began the playoffs Aug. 4 against Usborne. After holding the visitors off the board in the first, Londesborough tacked up two. However, Usborne was not to be held scoreless, plating one in the second and two in the third before Londesborough had a great bottom of the inning with five runs. The home team could not hold their 7-3 lead, giving up three runs in the fourth, six in the fifth and two in the sixth while unable to answer in their own at-bats. Usborne took the contest with a 14-7 win. Lee Watkins pitched the first to third innings then returned for the fifth and sixth, striking out 11. Anthony Wilts took to the mound in the fourth, earning two strike-outs. The teams met for a rematch Aug. 6 with Londesborough travelling to Wheeler sponsors bowling tourney Long-time member of the Brussels Lawn Bowling Club, Mabel Wheeler, sponsored a Ladies’ Lav/n Bowling tournament at the greens, Thursday, July 31 with 10 teams in competition. Mrs. Wheeler and Jim Coultes Continued on page 9 Ross waited out the walk, Little went to first after being hit by a pitch and the bases loaded on a hit by Ashley Keffer. The bases were cleared on hits by Sara McDonald and McCall. Cyndi Stevenson in the sixth led off with a single to right followed by hits by Black, Katie Aitcheson and Cameron. Brussels entered the seventh down by one run. Keffer led off with a single advancing to second on another single by Chelsea McLellan. St. Paul’s would leave two runners in scoring position to finish the game. Final score St. Paul’s, nine, Brussels eight. The Midgets then travelled to Holmesville. Pepper was on the mound with 17 strikeouts. Pepper the Usborne diamond for a much closer contest. Londesborough got on the board first, tallying two in the second, but then watched as Usborne pushed four across the plate in the third and two in the second. Londesborough’s three in the top of the fifth put them to within one run, but Usborne busted the game open with seven runs in the bottom Brussels U-6 Is top Ils It was another great game for the U-6 Is as they played against the U- 6 Ils last week. Matt and Ali Swart, Kailey Wheeler, Logan Kellington; Nic Zwep, Derrick Waechter, Carlie Ducharme and Dylan McNeil all worked together to help win the Reminder Remember to bring in a photo of your team to The Citizen offices in Brussels or Blyth to be included in our commemorative summer sports issue. held the Holmesville offensive to no score until the fifth. Brussels jumped on the bats in the first with a double by McDonald and scored on a single by McCall. Brussels added two more runs in the fourth with singles by Jenna Fischer, McDonald and a ground rule double by McCall. Holmesville down by two would rally for four runs in the last inning on two hits and three walks. The final score was Holmesville, five, Brussels, three. The final home game for Brussels was Aug. 11 at 9 p.m. against Hibbert. The Midgets will play their first game of the year-end tournament on Friday, Aug. 15 at 9 p.m. of the inning for a 13-5 lead. Londesborough made a valiant attempt to get back in the game, scoring six in the top of the sixth, but they fell short. Londesborough is now out of the playoffs. Coach Doug Dolmage congratulated the team for a great season filled with excellent work and a lot of fun. game. Goals were scored by Mitch Kellington with four, Tim Waechter with two, Wyatt Ducharme and Kristen Pipe. Awesome goaltending was accomplished by Waechter and Pipe. The final score was 8-1.