Times Advocate, 1999-08-11, Page 22Wednesday, August 11, 1999
Sports
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Exeter Royals take fastball league `B' title
EXETER -- Oh, what could
have been.
That's what the Exeter Royals
fastball team must have thought
after a disappointing showing at
the Ontario Junior Fastball
League playoff tournament in
Maryhill on the weekend.
Despite what may have been
some of their worst efforts of
the season, the Royals ended up
the 'B' division champions.
Exeter lost their first two
games 4-0 to Aberfoyle and 2-1
to. Stratford. on Saturday to
demote them to the 'B' side.
_The Royals recovered on
Sunday, first with a come from
behind 10-9. victory over
Mitchell. Exeter scored two runs
in tile' bottom of the seventh for
the wt'.,
Jeff Jones was Exeter's lead-
ing batsman going five -for -five
at the plate, driving in six runs
and scoring three .times. Geoff
.haver singled, walked and
scored the winning. run. Scott
Horton Was on, base -four times
With two singles': and tWO walks.
The, Royals managed 13: hits
off two Mitchell pitchers and
overcame a _6-1 third Inning
doff*. '1,' . ' •
Scott .Leo itatdt�.pitched.
first ' three -.inn ate: 't i'or y 'the."
Royals,: giving six runs on six
hits . while Wkilkii4 two:and
striking out
flue
Steve Cook li
ed u 'the' win
relief as he allowed three
rUni'in: four innings on three
hits while .walking four and
strlking.oust°four.
•The.Hoyalb' continued their
sloppy fielding with four errors.
that ledtidhectly to five Mitchell
P.
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.oto
runs.
In the `B' final versus
Onandaga, Exeter spotted their
foes two runs in the top of the
first before scoring three runs in
the bottom of the inning and
exploding for nine runs in the
second on their way to a 13-2
win and the `B' title.
Cook was the winning pitcher
after three • innings of work. He
allowed two runs on one hit and
a walk while striking out five.
Leonhardt pitched two score-
less innings in the game which
was ended after five innings
with the mercy rule.
Jones continued his hot hitting
with a single, two walks, two
runs scored and two RBIs. Ryan
Sanders added two singles, Dan
Storey singled and hit a long
home run for two RBIs and
Mark Frayne contributed three
singles and scored two runs.
The Exeter Royals won .three
games recently to finish. their
Ontario Junior F astb all League
regular season with a .14.4 -
record. •
On July. 27 at home, the Royals
overcame an early 3-0 defidt to
edge the Mitchell Chiefs 8-7.
The Royals scored three runs in
the second inning . after 'ping
up ' three runs, in the first.
Sanders, Jones and Frayne
'game around to score for
Exeter.
After falling behind in the
third inning by two runs, Horton
and. Storey scored in the bottom
oftheinnlag_ to even the count.
After two scoreless innings,
Jones led off the 'sixth inning
with. a single and came. in to
scot on a Darren Knits double.
Kints then scored on a
Leonhardt single and Leonhardt
scored on an error for an 8-5
spread.
Mitchell made it close in the
seventh inning by scoring two
runs but came up short.
Leonhardt pitched the complete
game for the Royals, giving up
eight hits while striking out
seven and walking two.
On July 29 in Hensall, the
Royals defeated Mitchell 8-2.
Horton had a single and two
runs scored, Jon Carr added
two hits and scored twice as did
Jeremy Lambourne. Mauer led
the offence with two doubles
and three runs batted in.
Winning pitcher Cook tossed a
three -hitter while walking five
and striking out 10.
On Aug. 2 in Hensall, the
Royals cruised. to a 4-0 victory.
over Shakespeare. Cook pitched
a six hit shutout in Ills team's
last regular season game. Cook
walked three and .struck out a
season -high 14 'against a. team
that Lost only three regular sea-
son games top finish first over-
all.
verall. Two of Shakespeare's losses
came at the hands of the Royals.
Offensively, Kints reached •
'base four tides .agile walked
twice, was hit by a pitch and
singled in four at bats. ffe 'dim
scored a run,'
Catcher Gavin . Snell steed
twice and drove in • a run.
Leonhardt doubled lend. scored
`and Cbok drove In & run with a
sacrifice fly and also scored a
run.
The Royals will be, in.
Chepstow on. Aug 2142. for the
OASA Jor C champlOnship& •
lex to hold biggest drag race in
Continued from page 20
Ontario, is growing,"
Imbrogno said: •
He ' added niers. than
One -event a year May he
in. the cards for the
Motorplex..., .
"This Is a perfect exam-
ple of the kind' of ' rate
track the IHRA want," ' he.
said.
In a later interview with
the Times-Adacatb..
Imbrogno 1audee.:tbe•
effortsof.. the Motor lex:
owners. ani staff.
"These'gUys"have done:
a spectacular job," he
said. "It is a model race
track."
Motorplex track manag-
er Ron Biekx said the
1HRA had a number of
criteria it wanted the
Motorplex to, meet which
it did with pleasure to win
the event.
"We said, 'Show us a
hoop and we'll jump
through it," he said. "This
is huge for Canada. You'll
never see an NHRA event
up here."
Fuller said the last
national level drag racing
event held in Canada . was
the San -Air, Quebec,
National Hot Rod
Association (NHRA) race
in the '80s.
"Please mark down on
your calenders June 2-4
next year," Fuller said. "It
will be a fantastic event." .'
Tickets to the Canadian.
Nationals should be avail-
able in the new year.
A four-day ticket should
cost about $100. The.
event will • be televised on
ESPN.
Other IHRA national
events are held: at tracks
such at the Darlington
International' Dragway in
'Darlington, South
Carolina, the ham
Dragway' in ROckirigham;
North Carolina, the
Cordova Dragway Park in
Cordova, Illinois,- the New
York International
Raceway • Park in
Leicester, New York and
the Red River Raceway in
Shreveport, Louisiana.
Biekx said the track to
beat is the Norwalk
Raceway Park in
Norwalk, Ohio, consid-
ered by some to be the -
'Disneyland of drag rac-
ing'. Norwalk ,-aLso serves
as the IHRA's'-headquar-
ters.
Motorplex history
The Motorplex . evolved.
from the Grand Bend
Dragway which, operated_
from 1962-69 where it
held some big events
attracting such dragster
legends as Arnie `Farmer'
Beswick, 'Big Daddy' Don
Garlits, the `Michigan
Madman' E.J. Potter,
Shirley `Cha Cha'
Muldowney and Bill
Maverick `Golden'.
After being closed for 26
years, the facility
reopened under its pre -
Come down here!
sentowners in '95.
At 407: acres, the
Motorplex. is Canada's
largest dedicated drag
racing facility. .
The 'Motorplex has
increased bracket car
counts over 30 per cent in
.each of '97 and '98 and
spectator' growth has
increased 53 per cent in
'97 and 30 per cent in
'98.
The Motorplex was affil-
iated with the NHRA for
the first, two years after
re -opening but switched
to the IHRA for the '97
season since the
Motorplex owners and.
management felt they
would have a better
chance to secure a large
event with the IHRA.
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