Times Advocate, 1989-07-19, Page 18Page 18
Times -Advocate, July 19 1989
Sports Spotlight
by Wayne Proctor
Well there were a lot of wom out, aching, and sun tanned bodies at
the Times Advocate office Monday morning as I am sure there were
all over Exeter. We played, for the first time ever in a mixed slow -
.pitch tournament on the weekend.
My predecessor, Mark Bisset, had been trying for quite some time
to get people from this office out and do something, anything, to-
gether but never with much luck.
I also had been trying for quite a while to get a pickup game of
softball organized, or maybe even a challenge game against our sister
paper in St. Marys, the Journal Argus, which I am hoping will still
happen. But time went on and I kept trying and things kept coming
up that .would prevent us from all getting together to play.
1 think it is good seeing people you work with in a different light.
The only time I see most people from this -office is when they are
behind a computer or answering a telephone. That was until this
weekend.
My persistence finally paid off. I guess they all got tired of my
asking and pleading with them. We actually entered a team in the
Minor Hockey Slow -Pitch Tournament.
We were almost too late with our entry'. We had to get put on,a
waiting list and finally got the word we were playing when minor
hockey upped the number of entries from 16 to 20. "
No one expected much from our team and we didn't disappoint. But
that really didn't matter. Our main objective was to just go out there
and have fun.
Anyone who knows me well knows I am one of the fiercest com-
petitors there is. I mean I really hate to lose. But after organizing our
team all I wanted to do was to go out there and have fun.
Well we lost our first game Friday night to South Huron Hospital
by a 17-1 score. The only thing we had to cheer about that night was
Bob Jones' slide, or should I say flop, into third base after belting a
triple. He ended up scoring our lone run that game.
After the first loss we weren't discouraged however. We were full
of optimism about the day Saturday and the three games that were
ahead.
Our first game Saturday was against Ausable-Bayfield Conserva-
tion Authority and although we worked harder on our defence and
held our opponents to only eight rules unfortunately, we could only
manage one run. Now it was two down and two to go.
The third game was against Northlander Industries. Both teams
started out slow in this game. I started on the mound for the T -A 2
4's or should I say typos but had a little trouble getting the ball
across the plate and they scored two runs in the third inning. But we
weren't down. In fact we came back to have our best inning of the
tournament and scored four runs and actually took a 4-2 lead. But un-
fortunately there were still four more innings and they took advan-
tage and scored a 14-4 victory.
It seemed like every time we got up later in that game we kept hit-
ting it to Jim Lewis, no matter what position he was playing.
Oh well another defeat.
The only team that stood between us and a perfect 0-4 record was
the team from the Town of Exeter. I didn't think we stood ,. chance
in this game because our opponents had such experienced ball
players, like Lynne Farquhar, Donna Glanville, Dave Shaw and Dave
Atthill, while most of us were playing for the first time. But we bat-
tled hard and were down only 5-0 after five innings, but eventually
lost 10-1, after they scored five times in the sixth.
Alter covering these slow pitch tournaments for the paper for some
months I really didn't care who won or lost and I realized there was
too much emphasis placed on winning. Far too often teams are out
there to win at all costs, which really spoils it for the other teams
that are out there for fun.
Sure it would have been nice to go out there and win a game or
two, but we didn't and it really didn't matter because we had fun with
the people we work with and we donated $150, plus our beer fund, to
a good cause.
I just want to thank my team for letting me coach them. I had a
lot of fun but the position is open for next year if anybody wants it.
Just remember be positive because, we'll get'em next year.
Royals improve
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sition at 1:00 p.m. and Stratford
Lcyscrs at 3:00 p.m.
Royals have been advised by the
O.A.S.A. that their first round zone
playdown opposition will be the
Tavistock Merchants. No dates have
been set as yet in the best of three
series.
Exeter have announced that they
have signed Richard Schilbc of Zu-
rich for the O.A.S.A. action as a re-
placement for third baseman Rod
Johnson who elected to sign a Jun-
ior card thus making him ineligible
to sign an Intermediate card. John-
son played for London in the recent
Junior Elimination tournament in
Napanec.
Royals advise that considerable
interest has been shown in their
tournament with the majority of the
16 entrants already confirmed.
Lucan vs. Exeter - Lucan met Exeter in Exeter in Mosquito Minor Soccer League play in Exeter last
week, with Exeter coming out on top of the 5-1 (score. Here, a Lucan player is on the attack, but the
Exeter player is trying to keep up.
Exeter Squirts beat Coldstream
EXETER - In Squirt action this
week, Exeter one travelled to Cold-
stream and won 1-0.
A strong Coldstream defence kept
Exeter from scoring in the first
half. In the second half, Andy Freit-
er scored Exeter's winning goal.
The forward line consisting of
Craig Overholt, Chris Frayne and
Shane Czypyha played a strong
game but missed several opportuni-
ties to score.
The defence led by Ryan Ralph,
Adam Wilts and John 'Big Bad"
Gregus kept Coldstream from scor-
ing.
Exeter two hosted the other Cold-
stream team and easily defeated
them 4-0. Leading the scoring was
Chad Monteith with three goals and
Seven Rasenburg playing his best
game yet scored once.
Goaltending duties were shared by
Gcrry Corbett and Jason Miles.
Exeter three travelled to Arva and
were defeated 4-0.
The game was kept close in the
first half by the strong play of
Casey O'Brien and Tim Maver.
Exeter four hosted Ilderton and
won 2-0. The first goal was scored
by Peter Fragiskatos with Jayden
Russell. scoring the second goal.
In - the first half Nicolas Bayley
and Daniel Kinsmen both played
outstanding offensively but were
unable to score.
Sharing in the shutout, were goal-
ies Patrick Foster and Caleb Johns.
In Atom play, Exeter two trav-
elled to Lucan adn came away with
a 3-0 win. Exeter goals were scored
by Mark Bell, Luke Sims and Bran-.
dan Kraftcheck. Ben Cottrell was
credited with the shut out.
The girls 10 -and -under team trav-
elled to Komoka for a game on Juo-
ly 10. Exctcr played a strong game
but could not capitalize on their
scoring chances.
A very strong game was played
by Kara Farwell at midfield and Co-
rie De Bont at defence.
The two goals were scored by Ju-
lie Darling from an excellent pass
from Brianne Czypyha. The second
goal was scored by Priscilla Lam-
bert on a good second effort in front
of Komoka's goal. The final score
Komoka 5 Exeter 2.
The Mosquito boy's team hosted
Lucan and easily won 5-1 on tzoals
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Exeter Pee Wees hosted Ilderton
and came away victorious.
The under 17 team hosted Grand
Bend and were defeated 3-1.
The under 17 boys played an exhi-
bition game against St. Columban
with nine regular players and two
under age players. Exeter kept the
game close in the first half with Ja-
.son and Shawn McFalls playing ex-
ceptionally well.
Goals were scored by Jason
McFalls and Marty DeBruyn. Final
score was St. Columban 5' - Exeter
2.
Exeter Ladies entertain
The ladies of the Exeter golf club played host to the ladies from Iron-
wood, Scaforth and Mitchell clubs Tuesday evening July 11.
Results
Ironwood Low Score Joan Heywood 45
Low Putts Louise Pincombe and
Ada Dinney tied 15
Seaforth - Low Score Rita Core 50
Low Putts Carolyn Gilfillan 15
Mitchell Low Score Helen Chessell 40
Low Putts Peg Walkom 14
Exeter Low Score Grace Drummond 49
Low -Putts Marg Lovell 16
Grace Drummond 12
Longest Drive on #9: Julianne Varley -
Closest to -the pin on #6: Helen Chessell
We wish to thank Gary Kline from Brights Wines for his donation
of wine coolers for prizes. Also to Labatts for the cooler bag and
golf towels they donated. A special thanks to Bob and Janet Mason,
owners of the golf course, for the sand wedge which they donated and
was won by Anita Cook. Also, thanks for the cold pop Bob put out
on the course for everyone to enjoy. The evening ended with cards
and apot luck,supper.
Co-ops win once
Continued from page 17
came when Terry Gettner doubled
to scored Scot Davidson and Ross
Keller, who had earlier singled.
Seaforth managed to score all
three of their runs in the third in-
ning off starting Exeter pitcher
Gregus. Grcgus struck out five and
didn't walk anybody and was re-
lieved by Davidson in the third in-
ning, who picked up the save.
The win improves Exeter record
to 13-4 good for a three -game lead
over second -place St. Marys in the
league standings.
Exctcr plays a home -and -home
series against Lucan starting to-
night, Wednesday, in Exeter at
6:30 p.m. with the second game
scheduled for Lucan Sunday after-
noon at 1:30 p.m.
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Squirts win
GRAND BEND - The Squirts
were the big winners from Grand
Bend in Lucan and District Minor
Soccer League play last week when
they recorded a 8-1 win over Naim 3
Thursday night in Grand Bend.
Sean Maguire led the way with a
hat trick, while Jeremy Arnold con-
nected for a pair of markers and sin-
gles went to Joshua DeBrum, Blake
Smith and Ryan Heywood.
This week Grand Bend plays in
Coldstream and is home to Cold-
stream, 2 in a game that had to be
re -scheduled from last week.
The Atoms missed a scheduled
league game because of a problem
getting the home field, while the
Grand Bend Mosquitos had a bye
last week and are home to tonight,
Wednesday.
The Grand Bend Under 17 team
beat Exeter by a 3-1 count in Exeter
Tuesday night.
Garry Brooks,, Steve Vandenberk
and Dave Maguire tallied for the
Grand Bend team.
Grand Bend played in Ilderton
Monday night.
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