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Times Advocate, 1999-09-08, Page 20THIS WEEK IN SPORTS Fury sting the London Hornets for first win in a month. Page 21 St. Joseph native cultivating his own field of dreams. Page 22 Page 20 'Ti l .s--ADv( )(:ATE Wednesday, September 8, 1999 SPoirrs TIPS? Contact Sports Editor Craig Bradford Tel: (5 19) 235-1336 ext. 113 Fax (519) 235-0766 E-mail: sports@SouthHuron.com Exeter Times -Advocate SPORTS DIVOTS Pinc�mbe aces 13th at Ironwood EXETER -- Exeter's Scott Pincombe has a new ace up his sleeve. Pincombe stroked a hole -in -one at Ironwood Golf Club's 108 -yard 13th hole with a 9 -iron. The feat was witnessed by Ron Chanyi, Don Heywood and Ron Bilcke. ICippen Gun Club i• rap Harold Smith Bill Stewart Tom Gard G� R _ George Hamm Steve Graham Ernie Marshall link Hot PaUJ Mellor Desk Boyd aylor Drank Za Bob Waloobn 25 25 24 24 24 24 24 23 23 23 23 22 22 20 19 • .ter'-•J.'ttf 3.!:{4�?� vr'y { r}ti_ ti .r :f �Jr •f yrr rrr ~ ... :S 4r. • MasaAugust 31 Dave Woodward Russell Ferguson Nagel McEwen Una Williams Doris Hamilton Pearl McKnight Tom Williams Shuffleboard Bill Coleman 503 Exeter 574 September 1 - 3 vrhns 557 Ray Warner, Marge McCurdy, 557 Gil Northey 554 September 2 - 3 wins 539 Eleanor Hendrick, Marge 516 McCurdy, Estelle Claimers, Gil 514 Northey 2 wits Bill Sullivan, Delmer Skinner, June Hodgson No shine • Sept 15,aad 23. Potluck: Sept.. 16 at noon. New season starts. New and previ- ous members welcome. Lucan-Ilderton hosts successful OBA peewee `E' tournament i BY Craig Bradford -ADVOCATE STAFF LUCAN -- Organizers of the the Ontario Baseball Association final tourna- ment in Lucan on the weekend showed their guests how it's done. The Lucan-Ilderton pee- wee hardball team hosted the all -Ontario champi- onship that was won by the Kendal Royals who beat Rockwood in the final. Lucan-Ilderton was ousted from the tourna- ment by the Dashwood Dawgs 20-12 in the quar- ter -final.. Lucan Ilderton lost their first game 6-5 to Rockwood and won their second game over Thamesville 17-7. Dashwood was rocked by Rockwood 17-8 in the semi-final. The Dawgs lost their first game 18-4 to Kendal. A special team skills competition was held Saturday as part of the opening ceremonies after the team introductions. Dashwood won the base Tua,ing event. Kent Nicholson, Justin Laporte and. Nick Ducharme rep - Top left photo: Lucan- llderton's Mike Jacques holds off a Rockwood pitcher's offering during the OBA peewee `E' tourna- ment in Lucan on the weekend:. Bottom left Lucan-Ilderton's Chris VanKasteren rounds second base during Saturday's skills , competition. Right photo: Vashwood's Ryan Masse lays down a bunt during the itkills competition. resented the Dawgs. Three players from each team made contact with a ball thrown to them by a pitching machine. Then they ran to first and sec- ond base. The combined times of each of the team reps were used to find the winner. Kendal won the bunting competition. Three play- ers from each team had three chances to make contact with the -ball and bunt it at different targets on the infield that carried point values. The three players points totals were tallied to find the winner. Lucan-Ilderton. won the throwing quickness and accuracy contest. Brad Funston, Mike Noyes and Mark Godwin. represented Lucan-Ilderton. Three players from each team were timed trying to hit a target at first base while picking up balls on the baseline between sec- ond and third and throw- ing them as fast as they could. The timing stopped when the player hit the target three times. The player times were added together to find the team winner. Rockwood won the hit- ting for distance contest. Three players from each team hit three balls off `== the pitching machine. The longest hit in fair territory counted for each player and their distances were tallied .to find the team winner. Kendal's Jay Hamilton was named the tourna- ment MVP for his 13 for 19 hitting and for pitching a total of eight innings. tiw„c..+o}wF.1.:F Il.•�..f : : : • • Y.r` ��J v ... • k:"..:•••••• ¢, ...,.„.,...r.}'v.•1{•iI;::.: •rJ!J:r�!: '..,...'•:•.; ;{•::. .:••{.}.•...:r.. Y•.;r: ..':.:v.r:''Yr.•{r. •::.•.: ?,ti..J�•h}'• •;v..:{.r•.nyr�i': •:.}• :.. . �:• r. ,•: •s;:: • • • • • . r`�.,,.}: ;rFw,•.*ran :-r�e*!c SST • }'S' �r ;'%Y ^G{ �{ s:b ♦ S!{ n4 ,4 YJ - }4 ti,i . y:Y:c"'P`5,:•.ti:, {titi ;t"wY'tii�'i