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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1979-08-30, Page 11Internationals win series In WOAA Bantam Playoffs played last week, Goderich defeated Seaforth two games to one to eliminate them from the first round. , In Tuesday's game, the Bluewater Internationals had to come from behind after Seaforth took a 4-2 lead, up to the seventh inning. Then Goderich went ahead with two in the seventh and three in the eighth. Mike Chisholm was Goderich's big batter for the night having four hits at five times at bat and scoring three of their runs. Two hits each went to Denis Kerr, Jeff Denomme, Scott MacDonald and Del Bedard and one hit each to Bill Hall and David Gallow,.• Scoring's the Inter- nationals' other Tour runs were Kerr, Hall, Gallow and MacDonald. Dennis Kerr went the distance on the mound having, seven strike -outs and giving up five walks. Friday night the Internationals travelled to Seaforth and fought a tough battle losing 12-11 in ten innings. It was a close match through the whole game with Seaforth having the edge after most innings. The Internationals tied it up 11-11 in the ninth. Mike Chisholm came through leading the Internationals again with four for five at bats and scoring three runs. Next big hitter was Kevin Adam§ with four and three apiece went to Denis Kerr and Gary Abbott. Two hits each went to David Gallow and Jeff Denomme; one each to Bill Hale, Scott MacDonald; and Del Bedard. Two runs each were scored by Abbott, MacDonald and Denomme and one each by Adams and Halle, Goderich left 11 run- ners on base. Denis Kerr pitched a very strong game striking out 13 batters and only giving up two walks. With the series tied 1-1, Seaforth returned to Goderich on Saturday and were blown out of the park by a score of 23-10. Goderich never looked, back after the first inning • when the score was 1-1. Their two big innings were in the third and the sixth when they scored 42 of their runs. Seaforth• had no pitching which gave the Internationals the advantage from the start. Leading the hitting was Chris Petrie with five and scoring four runs, followed by Kevin Adams with four hits. Denis Kerr had three hits and two SPORTS P GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, AUGUST30, 1979 -PAGE 11 each went to David Gallow, Bill Hall and Gary Abbott; one apiece to Mike Chisholm, Jeff Denomme and Dan Durst. The big scorers for the game with three apiece were Kerr, Gallow, Chisholm Hall and Abbott. Dan Durst scored twice and Adams and Denomme one each. Chris • Petrie went the distance . for the Inter- nationals pitching ,a strong game, striking out 10 batters and giving up five walks. The Blue -water Internationals will be continuing their playoffs this week. Error costs Electrics playoff - Graharn.Electrics-were one out away from a berth in Industrial league semi-finals last week but an error changed all that. The Electrics are now out of the playoffs after losing 6-4 to Gord's Sports in the third game of the teams' best of three series Monday night. The -Eleotrics drew first blood in the final game notching three runs in the second inning. Gob Hnatyk singled and used an error on Fraser Strong's hit to reach second. One out later Bill Wraith doubled to score two and then scored himself on Mark Ker- nighan's single. Gord's came to the plate in the top of the third and erased that lead to make it a new game. Lee Arbour singled and 's.cored from first on Jon" Ginn's double. Dave Scholl used an error to reach first and scored on a double by Dennis Williamson. The Electrics put men on in two of the final four innings but couldn't deliver the key hit to score any runners. Bruce Bowman led off the third with a double but was left stranded. Bowman singled in the fifth and reached third on George Klumper's double but both were left on base._.... Gord's meanwhile scored the winning run in the sixth and added an insurance marker int he Motocross hosted at Hully Gully Once again, Hully Gully will be hosting team motocross com- petition• for the third round of the Ontario Team Championship series. The races are scheduled for September 2, with heats beginning at 11:00 a.m. and finals starting at 3:00. Over 300 riders are expected to compete in School Boy, Junior,, Senior and Expert classes. In team stan- dings to date, Cambridge. is in the lead, with Sarnia, London, and Simcoe following close behind. final. inning. Warren Watt reached first on a fielder's choice using two errors to score. In the seventh Myles Murdoch drew a walk and scored on a triple by Dave Scholl In --the second game of the set the Electrics had Gord's on the ropes. but couldn't put them away. Up one run with two out in the final inning an error to pitcher George. Klumper allowed the winning run to score. Graham scored twice in the first inning and, like the third game of the series, left base runners stranded in four of the last six innings. In the first Strong reached first on an error, moved down when Hnatyk drew a walk and both scored on a double by Klumper. But tliat was all the team could manage. Two men were left stranded' in the second, one in the third, one in the fourth and two in the , sixth. In the meantime Gord's had closed the gap to one run. Dennis Williamson doubled to start the second and scored when Bob Riehl delivered a two out double. Down one run in the bottom of the seventh oyotes, Stothers lead. The Goderich Men's Slowpitch league moved into its semi-finals this week with the Signal Star Paper Leafs battline the Coyotes and Stothers taking on the Firemen. The four teams are locked in a best of five series to decide a berth in the league cham- pionships. Stothers and the Coyotes each took a one game lead in the semi- finals. Stothers dumped the 'Firemen 8-1 in their opener while the Coyotes edged the Paper Leafs 15- 14. The Stothers-Firemen series resumes Wed- nesday night while the Coyotes and Leafs play their _second game Thursday night. To get to the second round Stothers dumped the Goderich Oldtimers two straight in- a three game ser;es while the Leafs enjoyed similar success against .Ticker's' Brickers. The Coyotes used three games to knock off Meneset Park and the Firemen needed three . to get by the Tachers. Gord's send five men to the plate using two hits and a Graham error to score two. Bob Riehl came off the bench and singled to start the inning and Des Courtney moved him around with a single. Riehl scored on a sacrifice and Klumper's error allowed Courtney to score the winning run. Take a bow The Goderich B team and London Slavia met for London and District fourth division soccer action last Tennis championship s An exciting weekend of tennis was 'held at the Maitland Country Club. The men's and ladies' doubles championships and also the mixed doubles crown were at stake. On Saturday Pat Conlan. and Claudia Hill played strong tennis to defeat Bob Dick and Allison Hollingworth 6-2, 6-1 in the final to win the club championship.. Hill and Conlon defeated Paul Brown and Lucie Tur- cotte 6-2, 2-6, 6-2 in a close semi-final match. In the opening round Conlon and Hill defeated Jim Costello and 'Lori Hassall 6-3, 6-1. Costello and Hassall won the consolation' final with a two set win over Bill Shewfelt and ...Shelagh Sully. On Sunday Margaret Hill and Margaret Conlon, the defending champions. retained their ladies' doubles crown with a hotly contested win over the WOSSA champions Lucie Tur- cotte and Anne Marie Murphy. In the closest match of the day, Conlon and Hill won 7-6, 6-4 with all four ladies playing sparkling tennis. Conlon and Hill advanced to the final with wins over Claudia Hill and Barbara Conlon and Saturday evening. The Slavia team defeated the Goderich B's by a scone of 1-0. (photo by Dave Muffit) also a,victory over Tracy MacEwan, and Lori Hassall. Turcotte and Murphy defeated Shelagh Sully and Allison. Hollingworth to advance to the finals.. Barbara Conlon and Claudia Hill won the consolation final with wins over Natalie Sully .and Debbie Squires, and an 8-4 win with Shelagh Sully and Alison Hollingworth in the finals. - In exciting men's doubles action the Conlon brothers, Pat and Ronan won the Garb and Gear title. They defeated Bob Dick and Paul Brown in a fine match°6-3, 5-7, 6-2 in Legion Pee T4ees--dropopener 10-8 The Goderich Legion Pee Wees dropped the first game of their three game set with Clinton in the second round of WOAA playoffs. " In a game shortened due to darkness Goderich fell Iwo runs short losing 10-8. Clinton used the middle innings to push all eight of their ' runs by a lacklustre Goderich defense. Both the pit- ching and the defense lacked the sparkle it had when it carried Goderich past Dashwood in the first playoff round. In the second inning Clinton scored two runs while going hitless at the plate. George Coventry and Bobby Ladd each walked and both scored on throwing errors. • Goderich managed to get one of those back in the second. Paul Green slapped a two out single, stole two bases and scored on a wild pitch. Clinton hit through the order in the top of the third to move into an 8-1 lead after two and a -half innings. Bob Dupee walked moving around on Wayne Smith's single. Randy Marriage sin' -led, Dupee home but Goderich caught Dupee trying to score. David Wright doubled Marriage across and scored on single by Ladd. Darcy Cote was hit by a pitch, and Randy Keys slapped a two run double before Goderich got out of the inning. Goderich kept chipping away and in the bottom of the third pulled to within two of Clinton.. Richard Bedard walked to start the inning but was caught trying to steal. Daryl Madge walked and Robbie Gibbons moved. him around with a single. Randy Gaynor doubled two runs over and scored on a single by Matt Buchanan. Jim Keller. singled Buchanan over and scored himself on Clinton errors. Clinton scored what stood as the winning run exciting one semi-final. Jim Costello and John Brown advanced to the finals. with a 6-0, 6-3 win over Torn Fincher and Neil Sager. In a hard-hitting final the _ Conlons defeated Costello and Brown 6-3, 4 6, 6-2. Bob Dick and Paul Brown won the con- solation final with a 6-0, 6- 3 win over Fincher and Sager. In the B flight 'Dave Willis and Willie Denomme won in ex- citing round robin play, defeating teams of Bugler and Warilow, Durines and Davidson, Conlon :and Shewfett, Fritzley and Murphy and Fitzjames and Smith. Play continues on Labour Day weekend with singles action taking place. Hockey registration around on a sacrifice by David Wright. Coventry singled to score the inner and added an insurance run on Goderich errors. Down four Goderich staged a late comeback but fell short of the mark. Robin' Moore singled to start things and scored on a triple by Dave Almasi. Mike. McCallum fanned but RiC'hard Bedard singled to score Almasi. Daryl Madge singled but Bedard was caught trying to move to third on the hit and Gibbons in,the fourth. Marriage grounded out to end the singled and moved game. Hopefu members of this year's GD I football teams began workot$ts at the school Monday night and r coach Ray Donnelly (far 1'eft).,Here, he is putting the boys through blocking drills. (photo by Joan*e Buchannan ) BY DON LARDER Ball season is rapidly drawing to an end and with it comes the beginning of hockey. Hopefully ,the ice will be in and ready for use around the first week in October. Registration will be held on Saturday, Sep- tember 8 and again on September 15, both days from 9:00 a.m. to 12 noon. Forms will be handed out the first week of school. This year, for your child's protection, we are asking that you note on your registration form any health problems your child may have. This will assist the coaches in their job and hopefully avoid anada Company ammers Steelers 13-2 any serious problems. ' Last year we had 220 boys registered and this year we are expecting as. many if not more. If you can help with coaching, assisting or with the organization in general, please let us know. There will be executive members at the arena both registration days. We are in need of volunteers and the more that are willing to help, the less time is invdlved for any one person. They are your boys on the ice. Don't send him to the arena, bring him and get involved. The next executive meeting will ,be Wed- nesday, September 12. Canada Company hammered Lakeport Steeler pitching Sunday night dumping the Steelers 13-2 to win their best of three playoff series in Industrial league action. Canada Company used an unearned run to edge the Steelers 2-1 in the series opener. The win moves the Company into the semi-finals against French Dry Cleaners. Dave McKenzie started the game for the Steelers facing the first four batters. McKenzie gave up three hits and four runs before he was pulled in favor of Wayne Draper. Rob McDonald used an error to reach first base and scored when Glen Tigert ripped a double. Bryan Bowman singled to score Tigert and Tom O'Keefe- slammed a two run homer before the' 'Steelers made the pit-, ching change. Draper came in to face Stan Doherty and Doherty doubled. Draper went right to work getting Bill Durstand Mike Donnelly to ground out and fanning Terry Austin. The Steelers came right hack with two in the bottom of the first to cut the lead in half. Wayne Draper used an error with two out to reach first. He moved around on McKenzie's single and Carmen Fielder tripled to score both. But that was all -the Steelers were to get off Stan Doherty. The veteran hurler gave up just one hit in the final four innings holding the Steelers off the hoard while his club grabbed seven more runs. An error to the lead off man in the second allowed a runner to reach -first but Doherty got the next three batters to ,end the inning. He faced only 10 batters in the final three allowing a single to Frank Hagan. The Company bats were anything but silent. Combining 10 hits with seven Steeler errors the Company pushed nine runs over for the win. , In the second Draper issued a walk to McDonald and Tigert doubled him across. In' the fourth the Company unloaded. Tigert and Bowman hit back to back singles and an error in right field allowed the runners to score and left O'Keefe standing at second. Doherty singled and moved to secondon an error scoring on Durst's single. Mike Donnelly Wok advantage of another error to reach first scoring on a single by O'Keefe. The Company added their final two runs in the fifth when Bowman singled and O'Keefe and Donnelly doubled, Brian McKenzie was the loser giving up three hits, Draper, in relief, gave up 10 hits and got to strikeouts. Stan Doherty fired a three hitter striking out one for the Win.