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Times-Advocate, 1979-11-21, Page 18 (2)Pose 2A Times -Advocate, November 21, 1979 Sports Spotlight S,, "OSS HAUGH Good speakers We mentioned a few weeks ago. that the Exeter Lions club Sportsmen's dinner committee were busy lining up celebrities for their next event. Chairman George Godbolt called a few days ago to say at least three guests had been lined up. Coming in for the February 5 dinner as headline speaker will be former New York Yankee Bobby Richardson. He was the regular and star second baseman for the Yanks in the days of Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris. Yogi Berran and Casey Stengel. The second speaker will likely be just as popular and interesting He is former National hockey league referee Red Storey who was probably the most out- spoken and controversial official the league has ever had. We heard Storey as he appeared on Bill Brady's OpenLineradio show a few months ago and he appears to be a delightful entertainer. The master of ceremonies for the dinner will be former Denver Bronco footballer Craig Baynham, who is now a minister in London. The Lions while having top notch speakers for each of their six previous dinners also came up with excellent mastersof ceremonies that were able to keep things moving in addition to a little humour. Testing our memory. the first six masters of ceremonies were the late Tory Gregg. Bill Brady. Lee Paul, Bruce Murray. Tuffv Knight and Graham Leggatt. Each year we keep saying, "This year's dinner appears- to be bigger and better than ever". That slogan seems to apply again this year. In most instances the visiting sports celebrities have really enjoyed their two day stay in Western On- tario attending the London and Exeter dinners and assisting in the cause of crippled children. Apparently last year's speaker Bobby Bragan put in a good word for the hospitality he received to Bobby Richardson and urged him to make the trip. The Lions are to be congratulated on not only providing area sports fans with excellent entertain- ment. but. in their support of crippled children. We don't know the ?xact amount of monies turned over from the first five dinners. but, it must be well in ex- cess of $10.000. George Godbolt tells us the tickets will remain at $25 for adults and $15 for students. They are expected to be on sale in a couple of weeks and would make ex- cellent Christmas gifts for the sportsmen or sportswomen in your family. Blue Jays schedule The Toronto Blue Jays will be trying to extend their record in home openers to an unblemished 4-0 mark when they open their 1980 home season on Mon- day. April 14 in a 1:30 game against the Milwaukee Brewers. The Jays defeated Chicago. Detroit and in last year's rain shortened home opener. Kansas City for their previous three wins. For the third consecutive year Toronto will open and close the season on the road. They will begin their 4th year of play in the American league in the Kingdome on Wednesday. April 9 against the Seattle Mariners and wind up their campaign some 161 games later in Boston's Fen way Park co Sunday. October 5. As was the case last year. each Amercian league team will play a minimum 6 home and 6 away games against both Eastern and Western Division opposition. The remaining 6 games that make up the 162 game schedule will be divided up 3 at home and 3 on the road amongst the Blue Jays Eastern Division foes. This coming season the Blue Jays have drawn extra home games versus Cleveland. Baltimore and New York while they will play 7 away games in Boston, Milwaukee and Detroit. The Blue Jays will play a total of 81 games in 79 dates at Exhibition Stadium in 1980 before closing out the home season on Wednesday. October 1 at 7:30 against Detroit. Included in those 79 datesare32 single day games 45 single night games and 2 double- headers The first twin bill is a Sunday afternoon af- fair on May 4th. beginning at 1:30 while the second one is a twi-night doubleheader versus Chicago at 5:30 on Wednesday. June 18. The Blue Jays have a rather light home schedule in April. playing only 6 of their first 18 games within the confines of Exhibition Stadium. That fact plus the moving of the entire schedule back a week should provide Toronto fans with an excellent opportunity to enjoy the bulk of Blue Jays baseball when the warmer weather has arrived. Following the home opener the Blue Jays will play two 4 p.m. games with the Brewers before heading out on the mad. They will return on Monday. April 28th to begin a 3 game series with the Kansas City Royals. As has been the case in the past three years, all single day games with the exception of the two in April and the six during the C.N.E. will begin at 1:30 while all single night games will commence at 7:30. Toronto will be at home on 13 separate weekends during the season as well as two holidays. They will face the powerful Boston Red Sox on Victoria Day, Monday, May 19 in a 1:30 game and then take on the American League Champions. Baltimore Orioles in a Dominion Day 1:30 start on Tuesday, July 1. Season sales are once again expected to be high as fans will want to guarantee their seats for all of the big series. special promotions, customer entertain- ment or for employee incentives. Fans wishing further information regarding Blue Jays season tickets should contact the Blue Jays ticket office for details. Baseball's 1979 annual winter meetings will be held in Toronto during the week of December 1 at the Sheraton Centre. This marks only the 3rd time that the meetings have been held outside the United States with Montreal in 1936 and Mexico City in 1967 being the previous two foreign cities. Over 1,200 delegates are expected to attend this year's convention. TIGER TROPHIES — Trophies Doshwood Tigers baseball tea fielder Jim Dietrich, the most values Jim Guenther and playoff champ average was absent. m were at presented Saturday's ble,the Rob most Dickey. to annual home the top individuals on the 1979 banquet. From the left are best out - and the highest batting average Baynham with the best on -base T -A photo runs Barry VALUABLE TIGERS — At Saturday's annual banquet of the Doshwood Tiger baseball team a number of awards were presented. From the left ore best infielder Dave Parsons, best pitcher and rookie of the year John Bruijns and most versatile Perry Stover. T -A photo Hawks defeat Braves after a pair of losses The Exeter Hawks used the Tavistock Braves to halt a losing streak for the second time this season when they posted a 7-4 win at the rec centre, Sunday. A week earlier, the Hawks ended a six -game losing streak to post their initial win of the season with a 5-4 win over the Braves, and this week they put an end to a two -game losing streak with their win. On Wednesday. the southern division leading Belmont Bombers scored a 5-2 win over the Hawks and the Lucan Irish came to town on Friday and went home with a 7-3 win. Doug Fletcher paced the scoring attack in Sunday's win as he fired three suc- cessful shots behind Braves netminder Tom Nahrgang Tavistockltook,a 3-1 lead in the first five minutes of .he game. but the Hawks kept whittling away and took a 4-3 lead by the 12:27 mark and were never headed after that. Potting the single tallies were Dan Bell, Preston Dearing, Ken Varley and Dave Atthill. Bell and Dwight Consitt had three assists each for the Hawks, while helping out on one each were Larry Dawson, Kerry Bedard, Terry Caldwell, and Dearing. Steve Sararas recorded the win in the nets as he stopped 26 shots in a com- paratively clean contest that saw Tavistock pick up eight of the 14 minors called. The win tied the Hawks with Tavistock for the final play off spot Irish fight back The Hawks scored two short-handed goals in the final minute of the first period on Friday. but they couldn't hold on to that lead as the Lucan Irish battled back for a 7-3 win. With Kerry Bedard ser- ving an interference call. Dave Kinsman grabbed an errant pass to go in alone on netminder Murray Jamieson for the first Exeter goal and 16 seconds later, Terry Caldwell took a pass from Ken Varley to net the second Men's Curling Busche 7 - Raymond 6 McLean 11 - Prout 3 Davison 19 • C. Smith 1 Albertson 8 - Strang 5 Parsons 10 - Flank 3 Hodgert 8 - Ross 6 Learn 10 - Webber 5 Chapman 13 - P. Coates 2 Lamport 9 - McKnight 7 Beattie 6 - B. Coates 5 short-handed tally. Lucan evened the count in the first six minutes of the middle stanza, and after the Hawks scored a power play goal to take a 3-2 margin, the visitors came back with a pair in the middle frame for a lead they never relinquished. They added three more in the third to win going away. Paul Medd fired four tallies for the Irish, while the singles came from Jeff Hartman, Rick Freeman and Bob Hodgins. Freeman and Keith liartwick picked up two assists each. Kerry Bedard scored Exeter's other goal on a play with Varley and Kinsman. Lucan picked up 10 of the 14 penalties called including a five minute fighting major, an automatic game and two minute penalty to John Jongeneel in the third period. Jamieson made 32 stops to record the win for the Irish, while Steve Wells stopped 29 of the shots fired in the direction of the Exeter net. Bombers win In the first meeting of the season between their arch rivals from Belmont, the Hawks scored a bit of a moral victory as they held the strong southern loop leaders to a 5-2 win. Belmont scored at the 3:39 mark of the first and never looked back in a penalty filled contest. Bryan Baker and Kerry Bedard notched the Exeter tallies with Ron Bilcke picking up the only assist. The Hawks had 19 penalties including fighting majors to Kerry Bedard and Bryan Baker and a 10 - minute misconduct to Dennis Preszcator. The Bombers served 14 penalties, in- cluding two fighting majors. Steve Sararas worked between the pipes for the Hawks and stopped 35 shots, while Dave Weaver handled 26 successfully at the other end of the rink. Only win in four starts Saints beat Marauders Two late third period goals allowed the Centralia College Saints to score a 6-4 win over the Centralia Marauders in South Huron league play Thursday. It was the only win in four starts this week for the College club. They will be back in action tomorrow night, Thursday at the Stephen arena at Huron Park with the Zurich Buckeyes supplying the opposition. In other games this week, the Saints lost 8-2 to Goderich, 10-7 to Zurich and 3-2 to the Thedford Browns. In Thursday's win over the Centralia Marauders, the Saints were able to over- come an early 3-0 deficit and gain victory in the third period. The game was less than five minutes old when Ron Funston scored for the Marauders on a pass from Pete Wuerth at 4.10. Only 32 seconds later, Matt Muller hit the mark on a play started by Randy Somer- ville. At 7.49 Matt Muller was back to notch his second goal with Randy Somerville again providing the assist. The first scoring burst for the Saints came at 15.18 of the opening period as Ed Michniewiez hit the mark on a three-way combination with Dave McFadden and Ken Vanos. The Saints dominated play in the second period with the only two goals. Ed Michniewicz scored both middle frame counters for the College. Assists were credited to Dave McFadden, Ken Vanos and Marty Becker. At 6.06 of the third period, Rick Vanos put the Saints in front on a three-way effort with Dave McFadden and Marty Becker. Three minutes later, the Marauders tied the score again at 4-4 when Randy Somerville hit the mark on a play originated by Matt Muller and Hugh Wilson. With less than three minutes left in the game, Ed Michniewicz went on another scoring spree. He scored the game winner on a pass from Ken Vanos and with two seconds left hit the empty Marauders net for his fifth goal of the night. Mike Sadler assisted. Burton rink wins first ladies spiel The first ladies two game club bonspiel was held on Wednesday at the curling rink. First prize went to Helen Burton and her rink with Sylvia Smith, Jeanette McBride and Pearl Burdon. Second prize winners were Audrey McDonald, Karen Shirray, Lauretta Seigner and Bea Richardson. High one game winner was Karen Davison : Marian Knowles, Sylvia Patton and Ruth Skinner. The next bonspiel will be held Wednesday, December 5. SNOW IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER SAVE BY BUYING EARLY Marauders captain Ron Funston was missing from the lineup. He suffered a broken ankle in an earlier game against Grand Bend and is expected to be sidelined until after Christmas. Lose early lead In the recent 10-7 loss to Zurich, the Saints jumped into an early 3-0 lead, but, could not hold on. Ed Michniewicz, Jim Coffey and Ken Vanos were the early Saints Marksmen. Before the initial period was over Wayne Clarke and Ron Rader had retaliated for the Buckeyes. Scoring came thick and fast in the second period. Ken Vanos and Ed Michniewicz hit for the College while Glen Nicholson, Ron Rader, Pat Bedard and John Graham replied for Zurich to give their club a 6-5 lead. In the final 20 minutes, Glen Zirk, Wayne Clarke, Ron Desjardine and Steve Bedour scored for Zurich. 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