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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1982-09-15, Page 19Godtnch...`' SIc3NAL E.flAR L=" -i EEC a 134 YEAR -37 ,tee,..•-.---, GODERICH, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1982 Gode SECOND SECTION rich Mosquito team wins Five area teams participate in soccer tournament here The Goderich Mosquito soccer team ended the season on a positive note by winning the championship of the Huron County Mosquito Tournament held i Goderich Saturday. Five area teams, including Goderich, Kincardine, Seaforth, Clinton and St. Columban participated in the one -day tournament at Agriculture Park. Goderich got off to ,a strong start in the tournament in their first game against a tough Kincardine teams After surren- dering the first goal of the game to Kin- cardine midway through the first half, the Goderich Mosquitos rebounded with three straight goals to win theiropening game of the tournament 3-1. In that game, Goderich was led by the strong offensive plays of Bill Trebish and Scott Garrow. Robbie Dempsey and Larry Leppington played a strong defensive game for Goderich against the dangerous Kincardine attack which threatened often in the game. Goderich goaltender John Tzioumis played a strong game in goal. The win boosted Goderich into a berth in -thein atitent-che uteri lif nrie a►+d " they didn't waste the opportunity soundly defeating St. Columban 64. • Greg DeWinter, Ken ,Webb, Johnny McNaughton and Chris White made some • fine plays in the game for Goderich. • Congratulations are extended ' to all Goderich team players and all who par- ticipated in the Huron County Mosquito Tournament. The soccer season • is slowly winding down and the tournament ended the season -for The mosquito stub. All Goderich_minor soccer players are reminded that the league's annual banquet will be held Sunday; October3. • " Scott Garrow leads the parade A member of the Goderich McGees Mosquito soccer team appears to be leading a parade of players as he moves the ball up field in a tournament game against Kincardine here Saturday. Goderich;defeated Kincardine and went on to win the. Huron County Mosquito Tournament championship with. a 6-0 victory over St. Columban in the Mtg.( photo by Dive:Sykes High school athlet Football teams will play exhibitio is scene begins n game;basketballhere BY TD The high school athletic scene begins the new season on two fronts this week. The junior and senior Vikings of GDCI prepare for the defence of their Huron- Perthchampionship with an exhibition ' football match -up with Sarnia St. Clair in Sarnia Friday at.1:30 p.m. Thegame will be the only pre -season action for the Vikings who swing into league play on Thursday, September23. , The Vikings are working daily in preparation for their first .game and both the senior and junior teams have a good mixture of returning veterans and able rookies. Ray Donnelly and Chris Connor coach the senior Vikings. Bill Garrow arid Bruce Baker are the ' junior Viking coaches. The other early -season treat for, fans of local high school sports is the GDCI annual senior girls' basketball tournament to be • played here Saturday. . John Geiger, the Vikings coach and tournament organizer, is justifiably proud of the tournament format. The two top senior girls' teams in the province last year, Sarnia St. Pats and Sault Ste. Marie are entered, along with Sarnia Northern, Parkhill, London Lucas, Stratford Central and Owen Sound West Hill. The Vikings face Sault St. Marie in the opening game at 9 a.m. Action continues through the day, with the consolation final at 6:30 pin. and the championship game at 8 p.m. Football practice is underway for both the junior and senior GDCI Viking football teams as they prepare for the defence of their Huron -Perth championships. They will play an exhibition game in Sarnia this Friday. (Photo by Joanne Buchanan) Bears boosted to one -game lead lead in best.f4ive series BY BRUCE BAKER The potent Bears' offence exploded for 15 runs in the sixth inning as they ripped Goderich Restaurant 19-4 in the opening game of the Goderich Men's Slopitch League championship series. The win Sunday boosted the Bears into a one -game lead in the best -of -five final series and the second game was scheduled for Tuesday evening at GDCI. • Goderich Restaurnat moved into a one - run lead in, the first inning. and a two -mil homer by George Vanderburgh increased the Restaurant margin to 4-0. The Bears got back in the game in the middle innings on a towering homer by Brian Reeves anot the score remained 4-1 into the bottom of the fifth. • The Bears got two runs back in the fifth inning to pull ' within one run of the Restuarant team before blowing the game open with a 16 run outburst in the sixth inning. The Bears tagged three Restaurant pitchers in the inning- and then set down Goderich Restaurant without a run in the seventh. The Bears advanced to the final sweeping their best -of -three semi-final series with the Port Albert Bulldogs. The Bears took the opening game of the series 8-5 and. earned ,a berth in the final with a convincing 14-1 win in the second game. • It took the Restaurant team three games to dispose of the Cobras in the other semi- final series. Restaurant won the first game of the series 10-5 but the Cobras evened the score with a 4-3 come -from -behind in the seventh inning of the secondgame. To satisfy a ' special request by Pon Masse, the Dizzy Dean of slowpitch, Dick Men's fastball McLean, fanned on three pitches in that loss. He rebounded with a homer in the third deciding game of .that series and Al Smith chipped in with a key threerrun homer that sealed the 8-4 victory for the Restuarant team and a berth in the 'league. championship. It was Al's 24th homer of the season and could not have come at a better time. Normally, at this time of year, I make my controversial prediction. With an average age of 35 -and a home -to- first speed about the same, it might be surprising for Restaurant to be in the final. A few weeks ago they won an over 30 tournament in Winthrop and during league • and playoff matchups, have defeated the Bears twice after losing the first meetings between the teams. But look at the Bears. Man for man they are the beat team in the league with speed, youth, defence and a potent offence. Anything could happen in the rest• of the series and hopefully fans will be turn out to watch the verdict. As the season draws to a close, team reps are reminded to contact President Dave Cloet with nominations for next year's executive as well as most valuable player and most sportsmanlike player in the league. Criterion for selection can be found in the constitution. Ed Mannering promises that the October 16 dance will be a smash, so get your money in. Last, but not least, our congratulations go out to the Goderich Elevators for their • fine play and sportsmanship in their recent tournament victory. ean Doherty continues is pitching dominance Dean Doherty continued his pitching dominance last week, throwing a three -hit shut -out as Canada Company defeated Denomme's 4-0. He then came back to defeat them 7-1 on a six hitter as Canada CCgoj�nhpany took a 2-0 lead in their best- of-ffvb semi-final. Since July 25,. Doherty has a 9-0 record, 'giving up a paltry 11 runs in the process. In the series opener, Mike Frayne belted three hits while, Rob McDonald's two -run sixth inning triple broke open the game. Canada Company took .a 1-0 lead in the 'fourrth -when . 'rayne unloaded his -seventh homer of the year. They then got some breathing room in the sixth, scoring .three times., Glen Tigert doubled with. one out and moved to third on Frayne's infield • single.. They both scored. on McDonald's triple, who then scored on Mark Frayne's. single. John Verway threw five strong innings for Denoomme's. Canada Company made the most of their eight hits as they once again broke open a .-dose game with late 3e -rth MO -4. _4aKt Shewfelt led off the game with a double, stole third and scored on an error. Canada Company added one more in the second but Denomme's got one in the second when Wally Pierson tripled and scored on Jack MacKinnon's single. Canada Company got two in the sixth when Glen Tigert tripled and scored on Mike Frayne's blast off the right field fence. Frayne then scored on Rob McDonald'`s fly. They put the game away in " the seventh. Mike Donnelly .followed singes by. Shewfelt and Doherty with a triple. He then scored on Tigert's infield single. • Tigert and Shea/fell. led Canadet .Com- pany with two hits each wlle"l ersbit, MacKinnon and Jim Durst had two each for Denomme's. Paul Corrivealih held Canada Company to two through five innings butfell victim to erratic defence. Hotel Bedford takes 2-0 lead over Lakeport Steel Hotel Bedford used; a potent hitting attack to take a 24 series lead over ' Lakeport Steel. In game one, Glen Falkiner helped an 11 -hit attack with three singles while Del Mitchelmore knocked in three runs as Bedford dumped Lakeport 7- 2. Bedford took a 2-0 lead in the first as Terry Austin doubled and scored on Bill.' Black's single. Black then scored on an error. They added three mote in the third as Bill Black reached base on an error and Falkiner, Mitchelmore and Garry Peters followed with a single. Lakeport got two back in the seventh to avoid the shut -out. Austin, Mitchelmore and Peters all had two hits for Bedford while loser Brian MacKenzie and Bruce Bowman had two each. 1 In game two Rob Plunkett threw a three - hitter but it took some late -inning hitting to . give Bedford a 6-2 win. Lakeport took a 2-0 • lead in the sixth scoring once on Ron Miller's home run and one in the fifth on. Frank Hagan's sacrifice fly. But Bedford tied it in the sixth as Bill Black and Garry Peters both hit home runs. They overcame a strong double play to bury Lakeport in the seventh. With Dave Macdonald on third with one out, Brian Sowerby -at- tempted a squeeze bunt. Macdonald was thrown out on a close play at the plate and moments later, Sowerby was gunned down at the second. It made little difference though as Garry Peters singled home Rob Plunkett and then scored on Jim Crawford's single. Following a walk to Bill Black, Glen Faikiner's single scored two runs. Peters and Macdonald had two hits • each for Bedford. Tony Bedard double eagles on Maitland's longest hole BY IRLA STEWART What's better than a hole -in -one? How about a hole in two on a 517 -yard fairway? On Men's Night Thursday, September 9, Tony Bedard's second shot landed in the hole on the eighth green. Playing in a foursome with Ed Brissette, Gord Harrison and Jeff Harrison, Tony had driven off the back tee with his drive landing just short of the bend in the river. His second shot, with a three -wood, cut over the river, bounced just in front of the green and disappeared from view. Atter searching for five minutes, he hit a provisional ball_ When Ed Brissette went to remove the flagstick, he said, "There's a.ball already inhere!." Tonycouldn't believe it—but there it was - his ball!! In his 34 years of golfing; Tony has had eight holes -in -one and a double eagle has the same effect! Congratulations, Tony. It has been another busy week at -the Maitland. On Labour Day Monday, Sep= tember 6, 28 men turned out to participate in a Texas Scramble. Corning in first, with a score of 64; was the team of Harold Brown, consisting of Gerald Morgan, Don dward and John Stringer. Close behind, in second place, with a score of 65, was the team of John Alexander, with Fred Looker, Ross Patterson and Roy Dunlop. Placing third, with a score of 66, was Cewan Egener's team, with Bill Lumby, Al Taylor, Ralph Neville and Bill Hughesa Steven Durst's team was next with a score of 67. Tying for fifth place, with a score of 70, were' the teams of Dave Coish and Bill Brown. Tuesday was sunny and fresh as 24 ladies participated in Ladies' Night. The winners were: first flight -low gross - Maxine Martin, low net -Gerry Mountford, low putts- Doris Paquette; second flight - low gross -Edna Looker, low net -Janet Gemmill, low putts -Sally MacEwan; third flight -low gross -Verne Frith, low net -Bud Elliott, low putts -Jean Hanly; and fourth -'flight-low gross -Lyn Edward, tow net -lila Stewart, low putts -Eileen Beauchemin. ChrisHoffineyer was closest to the pm on number one. Della Bedard's second shot was closest to the pin on number five. There .will be tywo,.more Ladies';;141ghfs this season, with the last gone falling on September 21, the Tuesday after Cham- pionship Day. On that date, the ladies will tee off from 4 to 4:30, and dinner will be served at 7. Men's Night was held on Thursday, September 9, a beautiful summery evening, with 25 players taking part. In first place was Tony Bedard with a gross of 32 including his double eagle on number eight. Paul Stahl was second and -Ed Brissette came in third. Other •winners were Jack Hinton. Bob McDougall, John Stringer, Jack Gould and Murray McGill.. - Closest to the pin on number five was Tony Bedard. On Sunday, September 12, 13 couples Turn to page 2A e. 4 A