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Times Advocate, 1989-07-19, Page 17Sell it in the classifieds can 2354331 • I Exeter 235-1060 TR�� ARD /4% Rates subject to change North Middlesex & Lambton Since 1873 Wiednesday. July 19 1989 Second Section Swim team starts season at Stratford meet STRATFORD :The Exeter Bara- cudas Swim team had their first meet of the season Saturday in Stratford. Some swimmers did well individually but the team ,placed fifth in the five -team field. In defence of the Exeter team, the locals had the smallest team in the meet. Goderich was first overall with 479 point but had 40 swim- mers take part. Seaforth and Vanas- tra combined for one team with 25 members and placed second with 198 points. Stratford with 19 swimmers was third with 160 points. Clinton with 17 swimmers was fourth with 141 points and Ex- eter, with 15 swimmers, was fifth with 103.5 points. Lisa Forrest did the best of any local swimmers claiming three first place ribbons and a second place. Forrest took first in the Girls 13 and 14, 100 metre individual med- lay with a time of 48.66 seconds. She also took first in the girls but- terfly in a time of 44.1 seconds, first in her division . in the 100m breast stroke in a time of 39.14 sec- onds, and was runner up in the 100m freestyle in a time of 32.94 seconds. Sandra Vanderlaan also did very well in her first meet of the season. Vanderlaan placed second in the girls' 11 and 12 freestyle in a time of 35.2 seconds. She tied for fourth in her division in the 50 m back- stroke in a time of 47.33 seconds, had another fourth place finish in the 50m breast stroke in a time of 52.4 seconds and a third-place rib- bon in the 25m butterfly in a time of 24.5 seconds. Maggie . Steciuk placed third in the girls eight -and -under 25m free- style in a time of 29.63 seconds, fourth place in the 25m breast stroke in a time of 41.41 seconds and a second in the 25m butterfly, flying in a time of 45.21 seconds. Sandra Steele competed in the same division and placed fourth in the freestyle in 31.2 seconds, sec- ond in the breast stroke in a time of 38.82 seconds and first in the but- terfly in a tinning time of 43.25 seconds. In the boys' 11 and 12 division, Gavin Poole placed fourth in the 50m freestyle in a time of 43.9 sec- onds, second in the 50 breast, stroke, in 35.7 seconds, and second in the 25m butterfly in a time of 29 seconds. In the boys eight -and -under divi- sion, Chris Finch placed fourth in the 25m backstroke in 53 seconds, and sixth in the 25m breast stroke in a 51.9 seconds. In the boys 13 and 14 division, Derek VanDyken placed third in the 50m free style in 34 seconds, while Ryan Stuart was fourth in a time of 35.3 seconds. VanDyken was third in the 50m backstroke in 47.2 sec- onds, third also in the 50m breast stroke in 50.17 seconds and Stuart finished third in the 50m butterfly in a time of 50.5 seconds. Senior swimmers The Senior Exeter Swim team had their meet of the season Saturday in Stratford and placed very overall. Front row, (left to right), Derek Van Dyken, Jon Moore, first well' Ga- vin Poole, Ryan Stuart. Back row, (1-r), Karisa Willis, Tania DeJong, Anita Wein, Sandra Vanderlaan, Tracy Urlin, Cara Taylor, Jennifer Weigand. Missing, Lisa Forrest, Kristy Ahrens. Express sweep doubleheader from Walkerton WALKERTON - Exeter's Dave Shaw pitched a complete -game two - hitter in the first game and the Ex- press pounded out eigbt hits in the - night cap as the locals took both ends of a doubleheader in Walkerton Sunday afternoon by 4-2 and 11-1 scores. The Express played last Tuesday in Seaforth and bombed' the home team by a 24-5 score. In the first game of the twin bill Sunday, Walkerton took a1-0 lead in the first without the benefit of a hit. The first batter reached on an error and moved around by a another Exeter error and fielder's choice play focally scored on a sacrifice fly. The lead was short-lived however because, the Express took the lead. 1 for good with a pair of runs in the top of the second. Peter Heeney led off with a walk, George McEwan singled, :.ad finally scored on a sin- gle by D; ie Parsons. The locals added another run in the fifth inning. Kevin Hern walked went to second on a ground out and scored on a two -base error off the bat of Heeney. They picked up another insurance run in the seventh inning. Shaw led off with a walk, went to second on a fly out to right field and scored on a single by Dave Atthill. Walkerton -got their final run in their half of the seventh, when the leadoff hitter tripled and scored on a ground out to second base. Shaw pitched the entire game and allowed just the two hits in picking up his second win of the season, striking out 10 and walked only one. The Express finally got their bats going in the second game. They scored thice times in the first in- ning on pst one hit, once in the second wi.hout the benefit of a hit, five times in the third on four hits and twice in the fourth on three hits. Every Exeter starter scored at least one run, while every player reached safely at least once in the game. The game was called after five innings of play. Steve Merner had a walk and a singled and scored once, Rob Dick- ey had a pair of walks and scored once, Shaw reached safely on an er- ror and scored once, Walt Parkin- son had three singles and scored once, Barry Baynham walked and singled and scored once, while his replacement George McEwan was safe on a fielder's choice and scored, catcher Darcy Martin was safe on a fielder's choice. and an error and scored once, Kevin Hern singled and scored, as did Parsons, Doug Schade walked and scored, Heeney singled but did not score and Atthill singled and scored. Starting pitcher Paul Elston held Walkerton to just three hits in pick- ing up the win. Elston struck out six in just five innings of work and didn't walk anybody. Last Tuesday, the Express had thing; going their way against Sea - forth. They scored a season -high 24 runs in just five innings on 23 hits. Schade was the offensive leader in the game. He belted a second inning lead-off homer, hit two singles, walked and scored a run. Designated hitter Doug Fairburn walked twice and singled and scored three times. Darcy Hayter scored four times on two walks and two singles, while Dickey scored three times on a homer, single and was hit by a pitch. Exeter pitcher Dave Atthill gave up five runs on nine hits,•struck out two and walked only one. The Express played in Exeter against Lakeside yesterday, Tuesday, and travel to Strathroy for a 6:30 p.m. game tonight, before coming home Sunday afternoon to play a doubleheader against Seaforth. Game time Sunday is 12:30 p.m. II711O ve Two hitter - Dave Shaw of the Express is shown here delivering a 't Rounding third - Dave Shaw of the Exeter Express rounds third pitch in the first game of the doubleheader in Walkerton Sunday and heads for home in the seventh inning of the first game of the afternoon. Shaw threw a two -hitter in the game as Exeter won the Express' doubleheader in Walkerton Sunday afternoon. Shaw contest 4-2. The Express also came on to win the night Gap sat.he NicAz5.4-7- She y;441-- the fir!' c s?arr>,e- e 2 t s,situt_R pc- while 's 11 1 • MITCHELL - The Exeter Royals ran their 1989 South Perth Fastball League record to 8-5 last week as they split a pair of games. Last Wednesday night they visit- ed Mitchell for their second meet - of the year with the defending Dave Schwa t uii wiui a.ti+pr 0, ttrti iitst g:a►�.,, �,ii.�.tyt v i,+ and scored when Jeff Keller sin- gled. The two runs in the fifth inning Please tum to page 18 he Ex ress also won the ni ht ca t p g p - ihiior C� -ops win only Ieague 1 PJL .The first plarc Exeter wirt in relief " - • gee, went to second -' ~im lotto -ops played twice last week, once in league play and once in stn exhibition .cont r-but.won.. both times. They played an exhibition game against Strathroy last Tuesday, winning 5-4 and returned to league play Wednesday night and beat Sea - forth 10-3. Last Tuesday's game was a pitch- er's duel for five innings until the GRAND BEND - The Grand Bend sixth when Exeter scored three pec 3Alea-afts_s .fila piaydd tintcs. 'l itcy adtiui two tmtOretri the fifth, while Strathroy managed three runs in the eighth and one more in the ninth. Fred Gregus hpd a pair of hits for Exeter. Scot Russell had two walks and scored twice, while Ross Keller had a walk and single and scored once. Scott Miller made his pitching debut in this game after a two-year absence from the team. He pitched six innings, giving up only two hits in the exhibition game. How- ever, Scot Russell picked up the Exeter had better luck against Seaforth Wednesday night. They scored once iii -the first, once in the third, four in the fourth, two in the fifth and two in the seventh. game of week -Tyle big blow~iTrtbts—iv-- on -a gt V, t? "a... N�}.dFs - -..-- �� . „and as 5-n out, stole third and scored on a sin- gle. by Gregns In the third, Brent O'Brien sin- gled with one out, stole second, and scored on a single by Butler. Grand Bend beats Fullarton twice Fullarton twice last week and won both times. • They played July 4 in Fullarton with Grand Bend coming out on top of a 11-10 score and the scene shift- ed to Grand Bend last Monday night with the locals winning another close contest 16-15. Fullarton' s Steve Flynn's single in the last half of the last inning, combined with head -up base run- ning, moved himself to third and Steve C..nlop singled to score Flynn to -nake it an 11-10 game. But that threat was snuffed out gal= Gi tatafitf'Se id'ilason Woodley tagged Dunlop in an attempted steal of home that would have tied the game, instead it ended the game. Andrew Sharen had three walks for Grand Bend. With his alert base running he managed to tie the game in the second -last inning. Woodley waited out a basc on balls in Grand Bend's last inning and Mark Boucher's single scored Woodley for the game -winning run. Woodley was also the winning pitcher in the game. Last Monday night, Chris Stan - lake blasted a three -run homer in the second inning and Grand Bend held on for the 16-15 win. Stanlaka went two -for -two on the night, while Jeremy Wilde backed up his strong pitching performance with two doubles and two rbi's in three trips to the. plate. Wilde ,closed the game strong pitchhig to only 10 batters in the fifth, sixth and seventh innings, in pickingup the win. He allowed only fve hits in the game, while walking only one and struck out five. Stanlake, Sharen and Trent Stel- struck out"`ft ; „K:�f` .4.4i— hit one batter. On Thursday, a tired Royals' squad, who were playing their sev- enth game in six days, dropped a 5- 2 decision to North Division Mill- bank :despite a standout performance ,...1.11014 veteran pitcher Dan Heywood. 47— -"PrOweripaikte-,24.40ad into tot y, w. .�...-.... ; A five run uprising in the seventh inning, keyed by two bases -loaded walks and a two RBI single by Jim Allison, erased 13 - 1 Mitchell lead and led the way to a 6-3 victory. As he has so often this year, lead- off hititr Pete Tuckey led the way offensively as he reached base five times on an error, two walks and two singles. Tuckey's season bat- ting average is close to .500 and he has reached basc at a better than .600 clip. Al Pym contributed two singles and scored a run. Tom Tordoff dou- bled and scored while third baseman Rod Johnson singled, scored a run and had two RBI's. Gres Wise pitched for the Royals and picked up the couple to game victory. He allowed nine hits, :lite t5-„„# .it;�..s► v; '� .a` ..:�.;. bank score lou? times on thrcc base hits, two errors and a fielder's choice. Heywood allowed 10 hits over the nine innings, struck out 14 and walked two. He struck out the side n :jos t«:o aud-:ia and- retired nine hitters in a roW before the ninth inning uprising. Offensively, Heywood singled, tripled and drove• in a run. Pete Tuckey added two singles in four trips as did Greg Wise. Brent Daw- son tripled and scored a run.. This week, Royals visited Fullar- ton A's Monday night and met St. Marys Selects Tuesday night in Kirkton. They play host to Mitch- ell Gladiators on Thursday at 9:00 p.m. Sunday afternoon_ a double header is being arranged in Exeter with St. Pauls providing the oppo Please turn to page 18