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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1978-08-24, Page 114 A • • .•-•••••‘.:ko • ."•-•-• • . . j GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, AUGUST 24,, 1978—PAGE II - • The,Sunset golf club hosted its annual men's invitational golf tournament with a 67. Smith eventually captured the Sunset crown after- winning a of his gatne. Tibbutt shota one -over -par -35 on -the first nine holes of play, not last Wednesday afternoon with over 160 entries. Overall Winner of the day playoff round on the second hole against Rick Fifield of St. Marys. Pictured quite good enough to catch the front runners. (Photo by Jim Hagarty) _ was Jim Smith of Mount Clements-, Miehigan who finished -the 18 -hole course above, Greg Tibbutt of Illinois makes his approach to the green near the end SPORTS PAGE Goderich athletes jjv Sportsfest 78 medals People from Goderich and area brought home medals from the third annual Sportsfest held in Port Elgin Aug. 11 - 13. The three-day amateur games, designed to promote participation, fun, and friendly com- petition, drew between 2,000 and 2,500 people from centres as far away as Toronto. The games were organized by the Lake Huron Zone Recreation Association, a group of recreation professionals from the counties of Grey, Bruce, Huron, Perth, and " North Wellington. They were staged in co-operation with the Ontario government's ministry of culture and recreation. Held in Kincardine last year, Sportsfest- saw 15 tournaments taking place at the same time in the following sports: ar- chery, soccer, women's softball, gymnastics, tennis, table tennis, euchre for seniors, shuffleboard for seniors, men's slo-pitch ball, karate, swimming, horseshoe pitching, marathon fun run, tee ball and girl's softball. John Lentz from Lucknow and Courtland Kerr from Goderich teamed up to win a silver medal in the senior men's doubles horseshoe competition. In karate;men's white to orange belt divIsion, Chris Graham from Goderich won the silver Goderich swimmers place well at Lake Huron Zone semi-final BY BARBARA CONLON TEAM REPORTER The Lake Huron Zone Recreation Association held its semi-final swim meet in Mount Forest and Exeter this past Satur- day. In Mount Forest, teams participated from communities in Tara, Southampton, Kincardine and Goderich. The Goderich Laketown Racers came out on top by a large margin with a total of 427 pts., followed by Kin- cardine with 307 pts. The meet showed the depth of the Laketown Racers squad. The Goderich team dominated all categories as all swimmers. turned in a strong performance. Individual standouts were: 8 and under boys; Tares Gracey, 1st in freestyle, backcrawl and over: Margaret Conlon, breaststroke. Girls 13 and breastrroke. 8 and under 1st in freestyle and 14: Judy Gallow , 2nd in girls: Susan COok, 2nd in butterfly. Evie Roberts, 'freestyle and 2nd in back breaststroke and but- 1st in .breaststroke and terfly, 5th in freestyle. backcrawl. 9 and 10 boys: Peter Additional standout Conlon, 1st in freestyle performances were breaststroke, and but- recorded by the following terfly. 9 and 10 girs: swimmers: Boys 8 and Joanne Campbell, 1st in under: Richard Robarts, breaststroke, 2nd in 2nd in butterflY, 3rd in freestyle and 5th in breaststroke and 4th in breaststroke. freestyle. Girls 8 and 11 and 12 boys: Andrew under: Cathy Sowerby, Telford, 2nd in freestyle 3rd in butterfly, 4th in backcrawl, 5th in but- freestyle. Petri Schultz, terfly. Girls 11 and 12: 3rd in breaststroke 4th in Katie Gracey, 1st in butterfly and 6th in freestyle, 2nd in hut- freestyle. 9 and 10. boys: terfly, 3rd in backcrawl. Kevin Telford, 2nd in Boys 13. and 14: Tim backcrawl and breast - Goddard 1st in butterfly stroke and 5th in and 2nd in freestyle. Girls freestyle, 11 and 12 boys: 13 and 14, : Barbara Grant Garrow, 3rd in Conlon 1st in 'Individual breaststroke, 4th in Medley and butterfly and freestyle. Girls 11 and 12: 5th in freestyle. Helen Conlon, 2nd in Boys 15 and over: backcrawl, 3rd in but - Ronan Conlon, 1st in terfly, 5th in freestyle. freestyle., 2nd in but- Terrilyn Fisher, 2nd in terfly. John Clements, 1st freestyle and 4th in in butterfly and . 2nd in. butterfly. Boys,13 freestyle. Girls 15 and Mike Worsell 3rd in crawl.Trish Roberts, lst in breaststroke and 3rd in Individual Medley. Girls 15 and over: Claudette Richard, 1st in breast- stroke arid 3rd in Individual Medley. Again the results reflected the expertise of the Goderich swim team. Coach Sam James said the Goderich Laketown Racers hope to do as well in the finals on the 26th of August. Since only the first six qualifiers from Mount Forest and' Exeter can compete, competition will be very keen. Spectators will be welcomed at the final meet Which will com- mence at 1 p.m., Plan to attend this fine swim meet; it is not the Commonwealth ga m es but it will be the best competitive swimming that will be seen this year in Goderich. medal and Paul Pringle, also" orGoderich brought home the bronze. Ron Tyndall of Goderich won the silver medal in the green to brown belt men's karate match. In women's karate, Kata match, Goderich's Jane Netzke took first place and was awarded a gold medal. Miss Netzke also took the silver medal in the women's sparring match. match, In men's sparring, white to yellow belt, Chris Graham won the bronze medal. Ron Tyndall won the gold in men's sparring from blue to brown belt. • The Goderich Elevators of the Huron Central Ladies Softball League carie in fourth out of 16 teams if the Women's softball com- petition. Goderich tennis players gave Goderich its best showing in the meet, placing as follows: Jim Costello, gold, .men's singles; Tom Fincher, silver, boy's singles; Margaret Conlon, gold, girl's singles; Margaret Conlon and Bob Dick, gold, mixed doubles; Lucy Turcotte and Anne Marie Murphy, bronze, ladies' doubles; Bob Dick and Pat Conlon, bronze, men's doubles. Besides the medals presented to winners in the three-day event, participation crests were given to everyone who took part. Recreation board employee Jane Netzke said on Tuesday that Goderich is planning on making an application to host the Sportsfest games in 1979. Michigan golfer wins Sunset men's tourney BY VALERIE JOHNSTON Despite the wind and ever present threat of rain, the Men's Invitation on August 16 was quite a success. With over 160 men participating in this year's tournament, the overall winner for the day was Jim Smith of Mount Clements, Michigan. Smith eventually won the tournament after a sudden death playoff round against Rick Fifield of St. Marys. Both men turned in scores of 67 after 18 holes of golf. Smith went on to win the tournament in the playoff round on the second hole. Other winners for the day included: Harold Keane of Kincardine who was low net winner; first flight, low gross was Rick Fifield of St. Marys; low net was Leroy Bedour of the Sunset; second flight, low gross was Bill Skelding; and low net was Don Arscoth of Kincardine; third flight, low gross was Don Fuller of the Sunset and low net was Walter Sheardown also of the Sunset; and fourth flight, low gross was Mark Lassaline and low net was Pat Healy. Prize winners who are Sunset members in- cluded: Dave Bedour; Bob Greer; Stan Con- nelly; Brian Reeve; Tim O'Brien; Larry Daer; Steve Doak; Rob Mac Npnald; Randy Miller; Brian Stewart; Randy Hugill; Stan Telford; Ed Harrison; Cliff Kennedy; Harold MacPherson; Jim Mero; Ron Bushell and Greg Beacom. The Sunset would like to thank all of our sponsors and members who,, helped to make this event so successful.. Special thanks goes out to Leroy and his staff for having the course in such fine shape. Low gross winner. for Men's Night on August 15 was Dave Graf and low - net was Bob Boak. First flight winners were Brian Stewart, Stan Telford, Brian Reeve and Randy Miller. Second flight winners included Greg Beacom, Ray Cook, Vic Powell,' Marty Buchanan, Art Mountford, Mike Russelo, Kerry Willows and -Karl Sartori. Third flight winners were Mel Bogie, Jim Hayter, George Williains and Harry Williams. August 17 was Ladies' Night this past week. In first flight, low gross was Gerry Mountford and low net winners were Verna Kane and Adele Drennan. Second flight, low gross was Joyce Bolton and low net was Connie Falkiner. Low gross in the third flight was Anne Miller' and low net was.Mariette Chisholm. No card winner for the evening was Joy Hicks. A food night has been planned for Ladies' Night instead of next Thursday night. Following golf, beef on a bun and salads will be served. A two ball was held this past Sunday August 20. First place winners were Paul Baechler and Gerry Mountford.- In second place there was a tie between Stan Telford and Eleanor Parent and Brian Reeve and Marg Smith. Third place winners were Andy Smith and Chris Madill and Stan Connelly and Harold MacPherson. The next two ball -will be Sep- tember 3 at 4 p.m. There will, be a barbecue following golf. Members are asked to bring their own meat. Potatoes and salads will be provided. The Ladies' Invitation Tournament is the next big event on the agenda at the Sunset. Ladies are asked to please book their tee off times by calling the Clubhouse. This event is open to all clubs and everyone is welcome. The date of the tour- nament is August 30, which is this coming Wednesday. Promoter has high hope for ringette in Goderich Ringette, the game for girls that resembles hockey, is catching on all over Canada. With any luck, Goderich may have a full- ' fledged ringette league this winter, according to John Nichols, representative for the Ontario Ringette Association for player development. Mr. Nichols, of Stratford, has a team of players that he takes to games all across Canada in an effort to promote the game.- The girls recently , played exhibition games in Montreal. Last weekend a special two-day camp for ringette player development was held at the Dufferin Arena in Stratford. Eighteen girls One of the difficulties from Ayr, Guelph, St. Nichols encounters in his Clements and Michigan job of promoting ringette took part in the camp. is the lack of enthusiasm Special guest at the on the part of many girls' Stratford camp was mothers. Boys'play Boston Bruins star Gary' minor hockey a'nCl are Doak, a resident of supported because their Goderich. At the camp's fathers once played conclusion, Doak hockey themselves, he presented each of the said,4but ringette is a new girls with the certificates sport and most girls' they :had earned for . mothers have never having taken in the played the game. training. But Nichols is hopeful Last winter, Nichols" that when mothers see team of girls travelled to the game being played, Goderich fOr two they will become mare exhibition games, and that was enough to spark the interest in many of the girls from town. Nichols was disappointed that no Goderich girls took part in the Stratford camp last weekend, but explained that a registration hasn't yet been held for the fall interested. So far, two hours have been booked at the Goderich arena for ringette this fall. Nichols said that he's hoping for at least three teams, or 45 girls this winter, and said that an ideal houseleague would have two divisions of three teams each. program. Mike Dymond, Del The Sport is most Mitchelmore and Ken popular with girls bet- Boyce are looking after ween the ages of eight Goderich's entry into the and twelve years, but sport this year, said Nichols says that older Nichols, and would be the teenage girls play as people to contact for well. information. Nichols said he's A 'typical ringette certain ringette will take game, played on stan- off in Goderich if there dard hockey rink ice are enough girls willing surface, lasts for two 20 to put the time 'and effort minute periods with a into seeing it through its five minute rest in bet - infancy. ween. The girls wear boys' tubular skates and battle over a hollow rubber ring instead' of a hard hockey puck. Standard hockey sticks are used, but the blades are removed. Nichols feels one ad- vantage to the game is its cost, and estimates total outlay including registration to be about $50 per girl. Equipment needed includes a helmet with a face mask, some kind of 'gloves, elbow pads, shin .pads or knee pads, and the skates.