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Times-Advocate, 1981-07-08, Page 8a• Page 8 Times -Advocate, July 8, 1981 Sports Spotlight By ROSS HAUGH An enjoyable game Sunday's exhibition ladies fastball game between two Milverton teams provided an interesting two hours of entertainment for a good crowd which was in attendance The game was sponsored by the Exeter minor ball association and the organizers including Bill Rowe and Gary Birmingham are to be congratulated for putting on a good show. The game provided plenty of interest for local tans as two girls on each team are orovere originally from the area. Two members of recent Kirkton midget cham- pionship teams are solid performers of the Milverton Millwrights junior club. They are Patti Down and Sheila Penhale. Down pitched the entire nine innings for the Millwrights while Penhale turned in a good effort at third base. In the Suns lineup were' two- of their veteran players. Lynne Farquhar and Iris Marshall. Lynne who is the current recreation director for the township of Stephen was in centre field while Iris, a doctor in the Toronto area patrolled right field. .An interesting confrontation arose every time Marshall came to the plate. She is an aunt of pitcher Patti Down. Mr. and Mrs. Ross Marshall were in from Grand Bend to watch their daughter and granddaughter in action. The Canadian junior girls championships are being held in Milverton this year from August 4 to 9 and the Millwrights will be in action as the host team. The tournament is being sponsored by Softball Ontario. More good action We took in a portion of the annual Lucan Irish men's fastball tournament in Lucan Saturday and saw a lot of exciting action and a very good brand of ball. The Lucan Irish won the 'B' title by defeating Ex- eter Saveway 8-0 in the final while London Abouttown Cab took the 'A' championship with a close win over Baird Lumber of St. Marys. In a morning game, Brian Hodgins of Exeter Saveway pitched a no hit game to get his team into the final. The 'A' final produced an unusual double play. The first London batter in the sixth inning singled and set up a bunt situation. The St. Marys first and third basemen converged on the plate within about 10 feet anticipating, the bunt. The batter did lay down the bunt. It took one bounce to first baseman Doug Kennedy who fired to se- cond where the shortstop was covering and he im- mediately relayed to first base where the second sacker had hustled to and it was a double play. Most twin killings on bunts come on pop ups and this type of double play doesn't happen very often. Same old Argos We were in attendance at the opening game of the season of the Toronto Argonauts at CNE Stadium •Thursday night and it looks as if it could be another long term for the Double Blue. A lot of fans were grumbling on the way out. Comments such as 'Same old Argos,' 'Here we go again' and 'What else is new?', were quite common. One of our neighbours at the game who has been coming faithfully to see the argos for more than 20 years told us this would be his last year if the team didn't improve. Well. an overall look at the game would indicate the Argos have improved somewhat, but, then the op- position came from the Saskatchewan Roughriders who have had plenty of their own problems in recent years. We would hope that Toronto coach Willie Wood gives his backup quarterback Tom Rozantz more chances to play in future games. Rozantz carne in to replace starter Condredge Holoway late in the second quarter and he responded with three good completions, but, time ran out as he moved his team down to the Roughriders 20 yard line. That was the last we saw of the rookie signal caller. Saskatchewan's new coach Joe Feragalli gave his two quarterbacks .John Hufnagel and Joe Barnes equal time. Feragalli who spent a number of years as offen- sive co-ordinator in Winnipeg and Edmonton has had quite a job in picking out 35 players for his regular squad. He had 120 new players to take a look at. While the Argos only lost by one point 19-18 they were fortunate to he that close. In the first half they gave the opposition enough chances to chalk up at least 40 points, but, they al§oedrere hampered by giveaways. Remember the baseball song. 'Take me out to the ball gaine- and b y me peanuts and crackerjack'. Well, it's geffing pretty expensive to enjoy peanuts at CNE Stadium. For one dollar we received a bag with`28 peanuts'in the shell. Canadian Sports Gallery A Canadian Sports Gallery has been added next to the Hockey Hall of Faroe at CNE Stadium and we had a quick look through while waiting for the gates to open Thursday night. Included in the displays are lawn bowls which are more than 150 years old, the uniform worn by Tony Golah of the Ottawa Roughriders in the 1930's, Torchy Peden's CCM bicycle used for racing in 1938 and a 1917 Remington Standard typewriter used by sportswriter )~Amer 'Fergy' Ferguson.. TRUST COMPANY GUARANTEED CERTIFICATES AVAILABLE Representing many trust com- panies, highest rates usually av:a liable. For more information contact John R. Consitt at 236-4381 or 236-4560 Brian Hodgins is most valuable player Zurich Dominions win in Clinton Over the past weekend the Dominion Tavern and D,J.'s of the Zurich Rec League competed in the 2nd annual Clinton Fastball Tourna- ment, with the Tavern boys for the second consecu'ive year bringing home the "A" trophy and $175 in prize money. Also for the second year in a row, Dominion pitcher. Brian Hodgins was named "most valuable" player in the tournament. In their first game, the Tavern triumphed by a score of 8-1 over Lobb's Casevs of Clinton. Leading the way for the winners was Richard Schilbe with a double and two singles, Kevin McKin- non with two singles, Wayne Meidinger and Brian Hodgins with one hit each and Jeff O'Brien with a tri- ple. Winning pitcher Brian Hodgins allowed three and recorded nine strikeouts. In their next game, the Dominion Tavern recorded a 13-2 victory over the _Les Pines club of Exeter. Randy McKinnon lead the onslaught with a home run, triple and a double, Mark Regier was next with two doubles and a triple, Jeff O'Brien followed with a single, double and triple, Wayne Meidinger had a home run and a double next came Ken Fenwick with a double and Garry Kiehler, Kevin McKinnon and Brian Hodgins with singles each. Brian Hodgins again was the winning hurler as he allowed two hits and had 10 strikeouts. The Tavern crew then received a bye 3 to the "A" final as a result of their run differential of 23 •runs for and only 3 against. The D.J.'s also of the Zurich League reached the "A" final as a result of an 8- 2 victory over Goderich Township, a 7-3 decision over the Hensall Legion and a 4-1 victory over the Travellers of Seaforth. In the decision over Seaforth, D.J. hurler Bill Hodgins had a perfect game for 61/3 innings but with the - aid of 2 hits the Travellers were able to score their Only two runs of the game in the bottom of the 7th. As a result of their victory f t H l f y ! •1,t sats , •LI;NIC/I �r X40%1 R 'ZURIC/y� i DOMINION TAVERN TEAM — Team members are: (back, from left) Steve Smith, Jeff O'Brien, Gary Koehler, Paul Morrison, Wayne Meidinger, Doug Eckle, Brian Hodgins; (front, from left) Randy McKinnon, Ken Fenwick, Kevin McKinnon the team captain, bat boy Jason Schilbe, Richard Schilbe, Norm Koehler and Pat Bedard. Missing was Jerry Rader. Cowgirls get even break The Crediton Cowgirls gained an even split in dis- trict ladies fastball play this week_ Thursday night on their home field they were defeated 14-11 by Lucan and Monday it was a 19=4 win over East Williams. In upcoming action, the Cowgirls will be at home tonight. Wednesday at 7 p.m. to Lieury and Monday night the will be in Huron Park to t ce on St. Peters. The Lucan victory Thurs- day night was clinched with a seventh inning home run by Heather Hodgson with Darlene Smith on the bases. The same two Lucanites singled to score their team's first three runs in the first inning. Crediton scored three times in the first inning with Merna Scott's triple being the big blow. In the Crediton third Deb Lord tripled and scored on a single from the bat of Merna Scott. The same two Crediton girls were responsible for two runs in the fifth. This time Scott tripled and Lord singled. Three Crediton runs scored in the sixth on hits by Carol Stuart. Merna Scott and Deb Lord and the final run in the seventh was produced by Kate Steeper and Barb Mitchell. Darlene Smith was the winning pitcher for Lucan while Brenda Wilds and Deb Lord shared hurling duties for Crediton. Six runs in the second in- ning and seven more in the fourth sent the Cowgirls well on the wav to Monday's romp over East Williams. Wilma Lagerwerf led the Cowgirls at 'he plate with two home runs. a double and a single Sandy O'Neill was next with three singles and getting two hits apiece were Deb Lord. Merna Scott, Brenda Wilds Michelle Vandergunst. Tammy Regier and Kate Steeper. Newcomer Wendy Schwlndt in her first appearance at the plate in theefifth inning cracked a home run Morna Scott was the win- rri]inv pitcher for the 9C8wglrls ' Lillian Pym top bowler Lillian Pym was the winner of the regular Tuesday jitney at the Exeter lawn bowling club.Thursday and Saturday activities were postponed because of rainy weather. Mrs. Pym won two games and amassed an aggregate of 30 to take first prize. Mabel McKnight was second with a score of 29 to go along with two wins. 11111 Etherington placed third with 28 while Gertrude Hamilton and Percy Camp- bell were deadlocked at 25 each and Alma Langford scored 24. Next came Rose Blan- chard at 23 Isobel Rogerson 22, Edith Stallan and I.en McKnight 21, Sam Bowers 20 and Bill Lamport, Wilt Shapton and Ted Lamportl9 apiece. tourney over Seafort, this set the stage for an all -Zurich final between the. two arc -h -rivals. The final was the best played game of the Whole tournament, as the Domi- nion Tavern team 'winning pitcher and tournament' MVP Brain Hodgins held the D.J's to three hits while recording eight strikeouts. Losing hurler Cliff Gingerich allowed the tavern only six hits -whiles. striking our one. . Leading the way for the winners was Pat Bedard with a double and single. Richard Schilbe with a dou- ble; Wayne Meldinger with two singles and Randy McKinnon with a single. Ken Clarke was the big gun for the D.J.'s as he had two singles and scored their only run of the game, getting their other hit was pitcher Cliff Gingerich. - Dashwood ball Food, fun and fair balls will be the order of the day in Dashwood early Sunday evening. The CFPLoradio all stars will be in Dashwood to take on the United Plastic slo- pitch team in an exhibition game. The evening will get un- derway at 6 p.m. with lots of food on sale including the famous Dashwood sausage followed by diamond action at 7 p.m. All proceeds will go to the Dashwood Medical Centre building fund. LOCAL PITCHES — Patti Down of Exeter was on the mound for the Milfverton junior Millwrights os they dropped an ex- hibition game by a score of 6-3 to the Milverton Suns in Ex- eter, Sunday. Patti is shown on one of her deliveries to the plate. A; T -A photo THROWN OUT — Lynne Farquhar, centre fielder for the Milverton Suns is shown being thrown out at first base in Sun- day's exhibition game in Exeter against the Milverton junior Millwrights. The Suns won 6-3. T -A photo ---- 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 1 1 1 A KIRKTON SWINGER — Sheila Penhale, a graduate of the Kirkton midget girls team is shown swinging for the Milverton Millwrights during an exhibition fastball game against the Milverton Suns in Exeter, Sunday. T -A photo AUTOMOTIVE RADIATOR SMALL ENGINE `55 Sales & Service • MILT ROBBINS & SON LTD. 263 MAIN ST. N., EXETER 235-2940 HIRE A STUDENT' WEEK! L524-2744 Canada Employment Centre for Students Mr— ---- r Bolens Outdoor power equipment... takes the work out of yard a work BRAND NEW 1980 LT8E Bolens ''LAWN TRACTORS Count on us for expert service COME IN FOR A DEMONSTRATION AT MT. CARMEL PHONE 237-3456 LOPEN MON. - SAT. 10-10 SUN. 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