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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1983-06-22, Page 17The %IWO Recreation Depaitmett is ore again, , oeganizing a swim team. POWSOW age children who are he *Mted in elsonfetinn against teams from towns in Huron and Perth counties should register at the Goderich Ile:creation office, 166 MaelOoloaldSt. Registration coste. $10 and should be completed by Friday, July 8. More information is available at the Rec office or phone 524-2125. GODERICH, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, JUNE22, 1983 have a fel to chose from this weekend. Equestria•a eathusiaga may wish tenOte the London Dressage Show will be taking place in Lambeth on Sunday. From Saturday, June 25 until Sunday, July 3 the Lions International Invitational ,Field Hockey Tournament (men and women) will be going on at Lamport Stadium, Toronto. Finany, the London Annual Junior Open Tennis' Touniament will be hosted by the London An -Canadian Club. More in- formation is available by phoning 1-455- 10. Stratford Coca Cola team captain Rick Holmes (left) and Rink Rats captain Steve McLean display the trophies their teams won during the ball hockey tournament which took place in Goderich this past weekend. Coca Cola took the "A" division title after defeating Port Elgin, 6-3 while the Rink Rats downed Mooretown State Electric, 114. (photo by T. Marr) AVSses Ron Sowerby (left) of the Goderich Rh* Rats and Quincy Wilkin of Stratford Coca Cola were named MVPs of the ban hockey tournament which took place this weekend in Goderich. Sowerby was awarded the title after scoring four goals duringthe "B" thud while Wilkin was named MVP of the "A" division after scoring the most goals for his team.( photo by T.Marr) BY T.Marr This weekend during the 1st annual Goderich Ball Hockey Tournament, the Goderich .Rink Rats proved that losing does not always mean defeat. The local team proved the point after being beaten by Stratford Coca Cola, 7-1 in their first game. The Rink Rats then moved into the "B" division and proceeded to down Stratford Local 1325, 5-3; the Ripley Thunderbolts, 5-1'; and Mooretown State Electric, 11-1. The win over Mooretown resulted in the Rats being awarded the "B" division trophy. • In the final game against State Electric, • the Rats blew away their opposition, scoring all 11 goals consecutively. • Ron • Sowerby, who was named "B" division MVP, scored four of the goals and got two assists. The other goals were scored by Paul Kelly, who got one goal and two assists, Brian Merian and Rob Standen, who both scored twice, Rick Stahl and Bruce Sheardown. The lone State Electric goal was scored by Paul Holmes. • The Rats also had no problem disposing of Ripley ,during the, "B" semi-finals. Sowerby scored once and Jeff Sargent scored twice to give their team a 3-0 lead at the end of the first period. During the second period, John Lehay and Kevin Meriam each scored to increase the Rats' lead to five. However, Rob Regier of Ripley, managed to kill the Rats' shutout when he scored with four minutes left in the game. In their game against Stratford Local 1325, the Rats didn't get gong until the second period. During the first period Dan Malliet opened the scoring for the Rats but four minutes later Local 1325 tied the score. By the end of the period the Rats went ahead 2-1 on a power -play goal by Sowerby. With a man in the penalty box at the start of the second period the Rats were forced into a defensive game. Local 1325 put on the pressure but the combination of the Rats' defense and superb goaltending proved too strong as they were unable to score.- -However, four minutes after the penalty had expired Stratford scored to tie the game once more. The goal seemed to spark the Rats and the team proceeded to score three goals within two minutes to make the score,5-2. Stratford got the final point of the game on a power -play goal. In their opening game, the Rats were taken by surprise when Stratford Coca Cola scored six times during the first period. Rick Stahl got the only goal for the Rats, which he scored on a power -play. Although the local team had three power -play opportunities during the second period they failed to capitalise on them. But Coca Cola managed to use one of their power -play situations when they scored the final goal of the game. Besides defeating the Rink Rats, Coca Cola also shut -out the Goderich Rebels, 5- 0. The Stratford team then scraped by Goderich United, 5-4 in the semi-finals. In the first period, Dennis Dohaniuk opened the scoring for United and the team held on to their lead until they were assessed a penalty at the 12:31 mark. Coca Cola tied the score on the power -play and then scored twice more. Utilizing a two- man advantage United came back and scored on a goal by Terry Shoemaker and then another goal by Paul Helesic. Going into the second period with the score tied 3-3, both teams played their hardest, however, Coca Cola got the next goal. Undaunted, United kept pushing and as a result scored once more to tie the game. With only seconds left on the dock and an overtime period drawing close; Coca Cola put the game away when they scoredagain. In the "A" final, Coca Cola capitalized on Port Elgin Rod Avis Jewellers' penalties and defeated the team, 6-3. Going into the second period the game was tied -at 2-2, but then Port Elgin was assessed* penalty, whichEruvedcostly as StratfodrManaged tei Stare later the team scored another goal Before the end of the second period Port Elgin scored to come within one goal of Strat- ford. During the third period Coca Cola scored twice, one of which was a power -play goal, to win the game. In other games played during the tournament United defeated Sherwood Express, 1-0; Ripley downed Listowel, 5-0; Port Elgin beat Stratford Scholar's Choice, 7-2; and Mooretown State Electric defeated Goderich Knights, 3-1. In first round action Sherwood Express beat Ripley, 3-2; United shut -out Listowel, 3-0; Goderich Rebels defeated Stratford Local 1325, 3-2; Port Elgin destroyed Goderich Knights, 11-1; and Scholar's Choice shut -out Mooretown, 2-0. By Bruce Baker The Friday night game of the week featured Goderich Auto Sales at home against Meneset. The visiting Meneset team jumped out in front with solid hits from John Marshall, Jim Hebei and John Orr. With two runners still on base, Bill Rahbek belted a three run homer over the left field fence. flits by Rob Jerry and Don Hullah rounded out the five run inning for Meneset. As the Meneset bats died, the Auto Sales began to hum. Dale Baechler, Rick Sower - by, John Ginn, Scott MacCauley, and Mark Lassaline each had three hits for Auto Sales. Chipping in with two apiece were Mike O'Brien, Bill Fritzley, Glen Mac- Cuspey, Jim Fairish, Jack Kellough and Jack Meriam. John Hodges and Bert MacAdam each contributed one bit, to this come from behind 14-8 Auto Sales victory. r Congratulations to both dubs for an en- joyable Friday night game (too bad the old Texas Leaguer was unable to attend this • fine showing of his ball club!) Goderich Elevators had a fine week as they swept a double header en Wednesday night moving into "A" Division contention. Although I hesitate to use the word "upset" I cannot think of a better word to . describe their 7-6 decision over Goderich Chrysler. They carried their hot bats into the second game which they won 15-5 over Renegades. Although there are still a few, roisnaat- ches in the GMSL, the league as a whole tends to be tightening up. A lot of dubs have tightened up defensively and the out- come of most games lately seems to de- pend on the consistency of the ,bats. As we approach the end of our regular schedule (July 17) I can only see the races for the 3 divisions becoming very close. When the double round robin post season play begins on July 19, we will see 102 pines of fierce competition -- recreational ball in-mis' matches. • .. • In other action around the league, Auto Sales downed Carlow, 8-3, Canadian Tire dropped a 9-5 decision to Little Bowl but bounced back to crush Garb and Gear 16-4 and Tickers 21-3. Sifto Salt swept a double header downing Meneset,, 10-7 and Garb and Gear 11-10. Harbour Park Raiders edged Little Bowl, 4-3 but later were found at the wrong end of a 24-4 score against the Renegades. Little Bowl dumped Local 1863, 21-8 while the Bulldogs edged Coyotes, 5-2. Cedar Lodge doubled 1863, 14-7 and Gas Rite outscored Tickers, 16-12. Carlow forfeited a game to the Bears due to insufficient numbers and Bluewater chalked up their first victory of the year with a dose 12-11 decision over Garb and Gear. The score of the Ticker-Bluewater game is unknown. Congratulations are extended to the Auto Sales team for submitting a sum- mary of their Friday night action. No fines were assessed this week. Keep up the great work guys! GMSLStandings To June 17 GPWTLPTS 12 12 0 0 24 12 10 0 2 20 11 9 0 2 18 12 9 0 3 18 11 8 1 2 17 10 6 2 2 14 12 7 0 5 14 11 6 1 4 13 12 6 1 5 13 11 6 0 5 12 10 5 0 5 10 11 4 1 6 9 11 3 2 6 8 11.4, 0 7 8 11 4 0 7 8 11 2 0 9 4 10 1 0 9 2 . 11 0 0 11 11 0 0 11 0 Team Bears Auto Sales Coyotes Elevators Bulldogs Chrysler Little Bowl Cedar Lodge Renegades Canadian Tire Gas Rite Tickers Sifto Carlow Harbour Park Meneset Bluewater Local 1863 Garb &Gear • . ver .fta.tun "rikr itAt The Goderich Power Squadron held its annual Sall Past on Sunday, June 19. Approximately 25 boats, most of which were colorfully decorated with flags, sailed past the squadron's commodore and as a result the sailing season was officially opened. ( photo by T.Marr) Hotel Bedford won two more games this past week defeating Canada COmpany on consecutive nights, 3-1 and 11-0 in a five- . inning game. In the first game, Bedford got two hits from Jim Crawford, Glen Falkiner and Brian Sowerby and a strong four -hitter from pitcher Rob Plunkett to win 3-1. Plunkett also struck out 11 batters. The two teams played again the next night with Bedford mercying Canada Com- pany 11-0 in five innings. Pitcher John Crawford pitched a four -hitter while Jim Crawford, Glen Falkiner and Dana Doher- ty helped him offensively with two hits each. Mark Frayne had two hits for the Canada Company who are now winless in their last five games. French Cleaners lost their two games • this week by close scores of 4-2 to Lakeport Advertising and 3-2 to Orioles, their first win of the season. • Jun Fritzley; Al Sygrove and John Fekete had two hits apiece and Simon Langlois belted a home run to lead Lakeport to the 4-2 win after French had • taken a 2-0 lead in the first inning on Bob Johnston's two run single. Langlois also pitched well giving up just five hits in im- proving Lakeport's record to five wins and one loss. On the second game, Don Bogie pitched a three -hitter for French, but errors prov- ed costly as the Orioles won their first game of the year. George Sutton Ied an hit- ters with two hits while Leroy Meriam was the hero for Orioles driving in the winning run with a single. Winning pitcher Daryl - Beattie also pitched strongly giving up five hits and striking out seven. Hayter's bats have been hot lately as they scored 11 runs for the second straight time in defeating Denomme's, 11-2. Dave Scholl and Dave McDonald led the attack with three hits each while Jim Ghui, War- ren Watt and Myles Murdock followed with two hits each. Dave Schell also pitched a four -hitter in Hayter's fourth win of the season. John Hoy led Denomme's with two hits.. Kirkey's scored three runsn the bottom of the seventh to erase a 3-1 Lakeport Steel lead and win 4-3. Paul Kelly and Ron Klages who drove in the winning run, led Kirkey's with two hits while Brian MacKenzie and Bruce Bowman had two hits apiece for Lakeport Steel. Pitcher Terry Johnston gave up five hits in registering the win. G.I.F.L. Standings (As of June 151 GP W L T oP 10 8 2 0 16 6 5 1 0 10 7 4 2 1 9 8 4 3 1 9 9 4 5 0 8 9 3 5 1 4 7 9 3 5 1 7 7 1 5 1 3 7 1 5 1 3 Hotel Bedford Lakeport Ad. Denomme's Hayter's Kirkey's French Cleaners Canada Co. Lakeport Steel Orioles Bean bags were in thefosentthatplay dayheidat Robertson MensorkdSchool last Friday. Here, Jeff Chan (left) and Jason McHardie are necknanineek-hrtheheanbaghaltuicbg game. (photo by DarrelliEleete) Dave McDonald, Hayters George Sutton, French Glen Falldner, Bedford Carman Fielder', Lakeport Del Itlitchehnore, Bedford Mark Frayne, C.C. Ron Sowerby, Kirkey's Glen Tigert, CC. Warren Watt, Hayter's John Lehay, Kirkey's 11 AB AVG. 13 24 .542 13 29 ,448 15 34 .441 6 14 .429 14 33 .424 13 31 .419 10 24 .417 9 22 .409 8 20 .400 9 23 .391 On Base Leaders (As of June 15) OB AB AVG. Dave McDonald, Hayter's -17 26 .654 Dave Scholl, Hayter's 13 24 .542 Bob Johnston, French 15 28 .536 Mark Frayne, C.C. 17 32 .531 Carman Fielder, Lakeport 9 17 .529 Glen Tigert, C.C. 13 25 .520 George Sutton, French 17 33 .515 Jack MacKinnon, Denomme's 14 28 .500 Gary Peters, Bedford 14 28 .500 Doug,Smith, Denomme's 7 14 .500 Robertson Memoritil School held a play day far the lower grades an Friday June 17. Raring to throw bean bags hdo the hoops are Joss Ferguson nod Jon Cook. (photo by Darrell Kloese)