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Times-Advocate, 1978-07-06, Page 10 (2)Page 10 Timgs-Advocate,. July 6. 1978 Sports Spotlight By Ross Hautth 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 "vas 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. s Among the . brothers were John Zisk. James Wilfong. Jeff Stottlemyre. Chris Bando. Tom Morris t and"lfbe Pocoroba - f Only Canada Day activity The only action we"could-find_ in Exeter with -any. a •relation to Canada Davin addition to the busy traffic S on Highway 4 was the annual Centennial minor so 0 4ourney 1 LOCAL ATOMS ARE RUNNERSUP The Exeter Atom team dropped a Saturday s Centennial Cup soccer tournament: Bock, left, coaches George row, Steve Gould, Jason Van Haarlem, Derek Misner, .Drew Hasselback, O'Rourke and Dennis Eisenschink. Front, Eddie Coleman, David 8eerling, Athanasakos. Missing was Keven Varley. 3-0 decision to Sarnia in the championship final of Eisenschink, Gary lovie and Soren Petersen. Second Marc Wintees, Terri Campbell. Jennifer Rose, Sean Brian Topp, Scott Lovie, Chris Bierling and George T -A photo Sarnia wins title - Great soccer laCentennialp vat Cup Area soccer fans shared in competition Moreover, they Martin. with singles comm the excit: M as Sarnia had to press for it with five •from Paul Barnes. Richard which for the past g July 1 tf ve years took th • , en al Cup. and unanswered goals after the Engal and Cameron Mac- has been organized • and :Nairn-' the t. ..lation interval. when Goderich had donald as their club surged hosted by the Exeter Cen- trgphy• in an atom..1 - o hem down 4-o on two first- back brilliantly against tennail soccer club. tournament in -Exeter half scores by David Jewell. Goderich in the second half. Saturday. ' and one each from Scott - There were four games of Sarnia earned the winner's (:arrow and Todd Wilson. 20 -minute halves played in prize 3-0 over Exeter. and Two of Nairn's winning the morning round. • and six Nairn the alternate 5-4 over goals were scored by Brent Goderich. The cup play concluded '10 ' games of surprisingly fine T;� � � • occer by youngsters aged win twice, eight to 10 before en- husiastic spectators at two s South Huron High School up season record !r- ields. Exeter worked to the final • �: with wins of 3-2 over Clutton The Dashwood Tigers nd 1-0 over London City._ increased their season arnia got there on wihs of 4- record in the Huron -Perth against Grand Bend, and 2- intermediate baseball against London-uakridge. league to 11 victories agai in the afternoon during the Honour Tom Yearley Exeter night at Clinton Towns in.' Hu will be honored at the Clin ton Kinsmen Racewaythi summer. in a move by the race track to renes friendships with the towns. and thank the thousands of local horsemen and fans that support the harness racing oval. -The towns wilt be honored at the "B" track's special twilight race meet. the -only twilight meet in Ontario. during three Thursdays in July. ron County s The testimonial nights will start off Thursday July • 13. when the citizens of the • Exeter area will be honored during the ten -race. fully parirnutuel licensed race card. Exeter horseman. Tom' 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. As . well as the 10 -race twilight cards. which start at 5:15 p.m.. the Clinton Raceway also has racing every Sunday- utttit-October 1. with post time at 1 30 p.m. During their particular First tra 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 night. residents from each town will be eligible for half. price admissim. Huron's dher town. t4 ingham: -wit-b--ho tsnored on Internatiolal Plowing Match Day -Sunday.. September 24 H.P de in releases from. thtir old clubs and signed certitcates with their new teams. Huron -Perth president Bob Hoffman of )ashwood announced this werk that an e all-star game will played Saturday+: August 1!. Thegame betweecthe best from the Huron-Pe•th and the London • and district junior all stars at Labatt park in London. Gaup time is 8 p.m. ANNOUNCEMENT of C.E. BROWNING - ELECTRIC Inc. (Formerly of G.L. Sfaght's) Specializing in Commercial, industrial, Rural and Residential.. Building a New Home? • • We ore offering a wiring contract for August -1, 1978. Fcr-Free Estimates free smoke detector with every a new home being built until Call Crediton 234-631 7 Join the crowd that's escaping crowds This event whigh was conceived for our countr Centennial celetions in 1967 is sponsored each v by the Exeter Centennial soccer club. The soccer tourney continues to draw,a full dr of top notch atom soccer teams. This year was no ception. The semi-final game between Sarnia and team from London was excitingfrom start to finish. Two overtime periods failed to break up a game and the referee ordered penalty kicks to deci the issue. Sarnia -emerged the,winners by a 5-4 ext kick count and went on to defeat Exeter 3-0 to win t - grand championship and the Centennial Cup for the s cond straight time. The consolation championship went to Nairn b virtue of a 5-4 win over Godericfl. If there was a draft selection system in mino soccer. we are sure Exeter Centennial senior coat Jack Wilson would be first in line for some of the star of Saturday's atom tournament.' Wilson who has his team in first place in th Ausabte league -was back and forth along the sideline --keeping a close watch on a couple of" players wh caught his eye with their soccer abilities. • - AlB in action onthree defeats..this week. Y's consThe cup match stayed only istently even for the The Tigers downed ear Sarnia . and -Exeter • clubs Thorndale 8-3 .Thursday until Sarnia's Roy Eddleton night and scored a Friday 12- aw scored at 15 minutes of the 5 victory over the Clinton ex -first half. Two minutes later. ('alts. Eddleton's team-mate Mark The Dashwood club was in a Reddon raised the lead to 2-o ('Tinton .last night, Wed - with the tip -in of a lobbed nesday for a return match tie • ball at the centre of the with the Colts. Friday night's game with Byron has been postponed. They wild be in London Saturday to meet the Rae J Juniors and Sunday .they will be, at home to the Clintons 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 de • Exeter net. ra The locals rallied strongly - in the second half however. he but couldn't finish off on e- some probing plays into Sarnia territory Then• at- 18 y minutes of the second, right- winger Richard Apter collected Sarnia's third and r final goal by drifting a h crossed ball into the Exeter s net. For Apter. the goal was e wages • for a remarkable • day's work put in by the tins- s IO -year-old player from 0 Sarnia. On the Exeter side. Apter's performance was matched equally by an outstanding g contribution from seven - f year-old Chris Bierling. Young Bierling, small and stocky. and normally a .-squirt-division placer. handled the left fullback position in each of Exeter's games with the smoothness of a veteran in the consolation final. Cairn's 5-4 win over Goderich was sweetened by ` it also being their first ap- pearance in Centennial Cup • Would you believe that Harold Ballard is cuttin the prices of some of the seats for Toronto Maple Lea 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 MB order. the gold tickets for box and ratil seats will be cut from $13.50 to $12.00 and red ,seatsTeturn to SIO 00 after being $11.00 last year The other seats -were not increased last year so re- main at S8 00 blues. $6.00 greens and $4.00 greys. - Exeter night of Clinton - The first Thursday night.of`racing this year at the Clinton Raceway will be known as Exeter night. It will be heft} next Thursday. July 13 and a -special preferred pace With a purse of $t.000 will be knbwn as• the Tom Yearley Pace Yearley ., ho has been associated with harness - racing•for more than 50 years will be a special guest. A -coupon appearing in a Clinton Raceway ad int' 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 afterft000, 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. Tennis well underway Exeter tennis club president - Damien Solomon reports that activities at the local tennis courts are in full swing. t..", •- • Club instructor Terry Stacey will be at the courts 'each Monday through Thursday evenings. Extra classes will be arfanged by Stacey if enough interest is shown. All you need to do rs drop up to the . courts any evening.pnd talk to Terry. - A meeJ.ing of the tennis club execlttive and any other interested persons will be held tonight, Thurs- o daytit the Exeter Public School library at 7:30 p.m. Boost YOUR 'HOME TOWN It's -Good For You Watson best - lawn bowler Wes Watson proved "to be the best lawn bowler in Tuesday 's • regular jitney with a -plus of 30 to go with a pair of victories. • Olive Hicks was in the runnerup spot with -e plus of 28 in addition 'to two wins and Olive Harvey and Lawrence Wein. -were next with scores of 2-7 and 26. respectively. Next • in line deadlocked with 24 each were Edith Love and Biil Rogerson. Tom Walker and lien McKnight were all even at 23 and Clarence Down wound up the prize wingers with a 21 WATCH FOR SUMMERFEST '78 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 the final inning on only one 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 hat of Jim Dietrich.,' With one out in the Dash- wood fifth Glen Thurman doubled anddesignated hitter Jrrn Guenther followed with a long home run. The final three Tiger tallies crossed the plate jn the sixth. The only hit was a single from the .bat of John Hayter. Baynham leads Barry Baynham with three Jilts led the Tigers hit attack in F'riday's. romp over Clinton. Jim ,Dietrich was next in line with a pair of singles Collecting one hit each were Rob Dickey. Bob Hoffman. Glen Thurman, John Hayter. Kevin Bestard. Doug Fairbairn and Jim Guen- ther. 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