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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1978-08-03, Page 8PAQE 8-43ODERICH SIGNAL-STAVTHURSDAY, AUGUST i, 1978 Ryan. wins WOBA tourney Last week, a 25 -year- old Goderich man bowled the best 22 games of his life and walked away from the five-day Western Ontario Bowling Association (WOBA) tournament with the top honours. Lee Ryan, 128 Britannia Road West, won the Jack West Memorial Trophy after losing only one game in the lawn bowling tour- nament held at the Fairmont Lawn Bowling Club in London. The trophy, given in honour of the top bowler of the tournament, was presented to Mr. Ryan following his 16 - 14 in over Dave Burrows 'of Philadelphia in the first SP event singles com- petition. Mr. Ryan also com- bined with Dave Colclough to win the first event doubles, and with Mr. Colclough and Tom Phillips to take the trebles competition. Mr. Ryan recorded top points in a singles event which included 96 bowlers. In the trebles competition, over 250 bowlers were entered. This is Lee Ryan's lith year of lawn bowling and he admits he's always been fairly good at it. In recent years, he's placed well in the provintial championships, this year coming in second in those competitions, held a week ago in Stratford. Mr. Ryan is hp'peful that continued good play on his part could even- tually earn hfin a spot on a Canadian, national team, which 'competes in internation 1 events such as the upcoming Com- monwealth Games in. Edmonton. A /member of the Goderich Lawn.B owling Club, ,Mr. Ryan is em- ployed as an accountant ,at the municipal offices in Goderich. He has already paid his entrance fee for next year's WOBA cham- pionships, as they have become so poptilar in the past few years that those who don't register early don't make it into the tournament. '9. LeeRyan took top honours last week in a five-day lawn bowling tournament in London, losing onl one of the 22 games heplayed. (Photo by Ji Hagarty) TS PAGE -44 McKenzie tosses no-hitter Lakeport Steelers pitcher Brian MacKenzie tossed a no-hitter Sunday to lead Lakeport to a 3-0 win over Graham Electric in Industrial League action. MacKenzie was in- volved in a tight pitching duel with Electric's John Verway that produced 51/2 innings of scoreless ball before MacKenzie's team-mates rallied for three runs in the' bottom of the sixth. MacKenzie faced 24 batters in the game, walked two and struck out five in recording the no-hitter. Two men also reached base on errors. The walks and errors all came in the first three innings and he retired Graham Electric 'in order over the final four in- nings. The only -threat in the game cattle when Bruce Bowman of Graham reached third base on an error in the third inning,' with two out but as left stranded as Mark Ker- nighan grounded out. Lakeport did little offensively until their three -run outburst in the sixth inning. Verway limited the Steelers to a first inning single over 4. • the first five innings. But Lakeport added three hits to an error in the sixth as they produced three runs. Ron Miller reached base on an error to lead ofr the In- ning and Lloyd Tigert and Wayne Draper followed with singles to score Miller. • MacKenzie then delivered the key run scoring blow, belting a triple that scored the final two runs. The win •w..a.s the seventh of the season for Lakeport in 18 games while the loss was the '4') 14th of the season for Graham Electric against_ four wins. et girls advance SA.playoff The Goderich Midget Girls Softball team . grabbed a one -game lead over Woodstock in the second round of Provincial Womens Softball Association playoffs with a 12 - -3 victory in Goderich, Tuesday. The win gives the Goderich midgets a one - game lead in the best -of - three series with the second game to be played in Woodstock. Goderich entered the PWSA playoffs and were placed in the C Division although several teams from their WOAA league were placed in the B Division. The Midgets played Kirkton in the first round and won the series with a victory in the third and final game. Kirkton took the lead in the series with a convincing 10 - 4 win in the first game in Kirkton but Goderich rebounded with two straight "Vic- tories, 11 - 9 and 13 - 7, to win the series. Goderich faced elimination in the seoond game and trailed Kirkton 8 - 4 after 41/2 innings of play. But Goderich responded to the challenge scoring three runs in their half of the fifth on triples by Jenny More and Sandra Rowe and singles by Denise Mitchelmore and Jackie Meriarn. They then added four runs in the sixth on the strength of a two -run , homer by More to win the' game. Goderich immediately took control of /the deciding game of/ the series scoring 11 p`uns in the first inning euroute to a 13 - 7 win. Th ' midgets combined sev hits with five errors to core the 11 runs. Goderich held Kirk,,t n off the scoresheet antil the fifth inning when/they rallied for seven tins on / three hits, five w lks and two errors. Bu Goderich settled down nd retired Kirkton over/the final two innings, ,/ Sandra,owe and Heidi Elliott I 'd the Goderich offence with three hits apiec . Elliott hit two sing3s and a triple while Royie added a single, triple and a solo home run in the third inning. Mitchelmore, Meriam and Karen Melady added two hits apiece. Goderich easily won the first game of the best - of -three series with Woodstock Tuesday building up a 12 - 1 lead after five innings play and going on to win the game 12 - 3. Goderich scored single runs in the first and second innings •and then took a convincing lead with four runs in both t1e third and fourth ippi s. They scored their final two runs in the fourth inning. Heidi Elliott was the top Goderich batter along with Jackie Meriam. Both had three hits. Jenny More added two hits and Robin MacDonald chipped in with a three -run homer in the third inning. Elliott went the distance on the mound for Goderich and limited Woodstock to three runs on eight hits. She ran into difficulty in the fourth inning loading the bases • with none out but got out of the jam with only one -run against her. The second game of the series will be played in Woodstock'. McGees challenge lead The McGee Pontiacs moved to within a game of Fisher in the Maitland Division pennant race as they split two league games last week while Fisher dropped a 4-3 decision to French. McGees. thumped Green and Parent 11-2 behind a 13 -hit attack Thursday but dropped their second game 4-3 to Graham Electric, • Monday. The split leaves the Pontiacs with a 10-7 win,lost record on the season two points behind • Fisher with a game in hand. The Pontiacs put the bats to good use against Green and Parent with a 13 -hit exhibition against two Thunderbird •pit- chers, including three home runs. Rick Sowerby was the top McGee batter with three hits in five trips to the plate. He also scored two runs. Ken Vanderburgh, Deb Shewfelt and Ken Daer had two hits- apiece for McGees. Daer, Russ Prude.r and Ron Sowerby all hit solo home runs for the Pontiacs. Daer also went the distance on the mound for the Pontiacs and had his shutout bid spoiled in the seventh inning as the Thunderbirds put two runs on the board on two hits and an error. - Jim Martin and Walter Bell hit back to back singles for Green and Parent and scored on an error. Martin and Glen • Ferguson combined for fourof the Birds six hits as each player knocked a double and single in three at bat. Graham Electric pitcher John Verway stymied Pontiac bats in the second game limiting cGees to three runs on six hits as 'the .Electrics won their fourth game of the season 4-3. An eighth inning double by Mark Frayne, his second of the game, scored Steve Haggitt with the winning run in the game. McGee led a one -run lead in the game until the fourth inning when Frayne tied the game,. scoring on errors. The game remained tied at one until the seventh inning when Graham Electric struck for two runs on four hits to carry a 3-1 lead into the final half of the seventh. That lead quickly vanished as Ken Daer. and Doug Sptizig reached base on errors and scored on Vanderburgh's single to tie the game and force extra innings. Frayne then doubled Haggitt in for the winning run in the top of th eighth as the Pontis went down in order inlhAt bottom of the inning. Frayne was th, of- fensive leader for Graham with two, ,publes in four trips to he plate. He scored two runs and knocked in t e winner. Team-mate len Linner . chipped in with two hits. Vanderb rgh and Ron Sowerby were the top Pontiac/hitters with two hits apif4ce. Joh Verway picked up the • in tossing a six - hitt: over eight innings. Ke Daer took the loss. cGees • next" start is ainst Little Bowl, onday_at 8 :30-pril. 4. Mb' Derek Devok of Bayfield fashioned athree-under par 65 to win the Junior invitational tournament held at Sunset Golf Course Wednesday. Here Deyok slams in a par putt on the 18th green. The day, wasn't quite so prosperous for others though and a disgruntled junior tosses his putter after missing a putt on the 15th green. ( photos by Dave Sykes ) hkW Robin MacDonald of the Goderich Midget girls softball team slides safely into home after she belted a three -run homer in the third inning of a playoff game against Woodstock, Tuesday. Goderich won the game 12-3 to take a one -game lead in the best -of -three PWSA series. The second •,.game of the series will be played in Woodstock. (photo by Dave Sykes) Thunderbirds win on homer Walter Bell smacked a two -run homer in the bottom of the seventh inning to lift Green and Parent to a 6-4 win over Little Bowl in Industrial League action, Sunday. • With the game tied at 9- 4 in the bottom of the seventh inning. Thun- derbird catcher Dennis Miskie reached base on an error and Bell -put an -end to the game with his two -run shot. The win was .only the fifth of the season for the Thunderbirds against 12 losses. Little Bowl built up a,4- 0 lead in the game after 2)/2 innings of play before the Thunderbirds mounted their comeback. - They scored a single run in the third on a double by Dennis Miskie and they closed the gap in the fifth as Miskie tripled to score John Warr. Trailing 4-2 the Thunderbirds scored the Devok wins tournament with three -under par 65 tying Fun in the sixth inning as Ron Hpdge tripled in Hugh Hanly and then scored on Warr's single. Little Bowl was retired in order in the top of the seventh and Bell prevented the game from going into eXtra innings with his homer in the bottom half of the seventh. Miskie and Warr led the Thunderbirds with two hits apiece. Miskie knocked in two runs with a double and triple and scored • another. Warr doubled and scored and knodked in a run in the sixth with single to tie the game. - Dave Patterson topped Little Bowl with two hits including a two -run homer in the third inning. Jim Martin went the distance in the win giving up four runs on five hits. Terry Powell gave up eight hits in the loss. BY VALERIE JOHNSTON Our second big tour- nament of the season was played on July 26. With over a hundred entries in our Junior Invitation, Derek Devok from Bayfield was the top low gross winner. Devok shot an admirable 65. In the Junior division, first low gross was Rob Sandall from Fanshawe who shot 69 and low net was Larry Daer, a Sunset member. Kirk Ross from Sarnia was first low gross in the Juvenile division and first' low net was Kevin Reiger from Seaforth. Bantam low. gross was Fred Bice from Mitchell and low net was Tom Smith from the Sunset. Other Sunset winners included Andy Speers, Rob McDonald, Graham Suchard, Mike Odbert and Andrew Telford. The Sunset would like to extend its congratulations to all of the winners in the Junior Tournament. As usual, fine play and good tsportsmanship were 'evident in all the par- ticipants. In order to make a tournament successful, any golf course must rely on th'e good will of local businessmen who provide donations for the prize table. The Sunset would like. to thank all of the sponsors who make our tournaments that 'much more worthwhile. Low gross for Men's Night on July 25 was Harvey Munro and low net . was Manfred Popernitsch. First flight winner S were Brian Reeve, Jim Haggarty, Marcel Richard and Doug Hesk. Second flight winners included Mike Russelo, Art Mountford, John Brownridge and Ward Hodgins. Third flight winners were Jim Hayter, 'Jim Mero, Don Fuller, Cliff Kennedy and George Williams. Althought the weather was cold and windy for Ladies' Night, there was an unusually large tur- nout. First flight low gross was Evelyn Evers and low net was Adele Drennan. Second flight low gross was Joyce Bolton and low net was Ellen Connelly. Ann Miller was third flight low gross and Ann Mcisaac was low net. No card winner ' was Joy Hicks. A two ball has been scheduled for August 7. •FollOwing nine holes of golf, there will be a pot luck supper. . Once agaln we would like to remind our members and other golfers wishing to enter the Men's Invitation that the maximum. number of entries is 160 and we are quickly reaching that number. Please call the Sunset to reserve a tee off time so you will not be disappointed. Are you fit? Is it becoming increasingly difficult to find your waistline? Would you like to have dimples only,when you smile? If you were able4o answer yes to at least one of th'e questions then the Fitness Van of the Ministry of Culture and Recreation, which will be in, Goderich, August 17," has something to offer. The fitness van is a joint project between the London YMCA and the Ministry that is travelling to communities in Southwestern Ontario assessing and assisting in the fitness of anyone interested. The testing van offers two services to each community visited. Interested individuals will be educated on the importance of physical– fitness and total health and the programs aim is to motivate people to become more aware of their physical capabilities. Interested individuals will be gisien a one hour fitness test for a fee of $12 and following the test will be given a fitness or exercise program suited to their needs. Anyone, interested in the fitness test may register at the Recreation Office on Waterloo Street. Since the testing takes one hour only 15 _people can be accommodated on Aug. 17 but if more than 15 register for the test the van will return to Goderich at a later date. PS