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The Wingham Advance Times, 1995-07-19, Page 6THE MOM ADIVAQj1CHIMES• Eight teams compete in volleyball tournament K and K defeated the Hammer Slammers two games to one to win the `AA' final of Wingham Co-ed volleyball tournament, sponsored by the Wingham Recreation De- partment, in conjunction with the Wingham merchants. After losing the first game 15-7, K�and K came back to win the next two 15-2 and 1-5-7. The Smirnoff's Slammers cap- tured the `A -B' final by downing the Spikers 10-15, 15-12, and 15- 11. $ The Smashers needed three games to defeat Too Sexy in the `B -A' final. After dropping the inst game, 14-16, the Smashers came back to win the next two, 15- 8 and 15-4. The 'BB' championship was the only final that required just two games. F.U.B.R. won the first game 16-14 and and then downed the Bumpers in the second game 15-2. in the tournament. total of eight teams competed Legion Squirts Victorious over Belgrave :L The gingham Legion Squirts travelled4 Belgrave last TuesdayP and came home with a 12-7'vieto ry. The Wingham squad got off to an eight -run lead after two innings and Weld on for ,their 10th win of the season. Pat Rozendal led the offence with a bases loaded triple in the first finning. Scoring runs for Wingham were Derek Marks, Gar- rett Skinn, Adam Ryan, and Chad Skinn 'with two each. Single runs were gadded by Zack O'Krafka, Barry. Skinn, James Needham, and Rozendal. O'Krafka picked up the win on the mond, giving up six hits and two walks and striking out eight in going the distance. Also playing for Wingham were Chris .Watts, Paul Cardiff, and Tim Barfoot. 4 Swin� ...Pawl Good of the Wingham Kings takes &swing at the ball during the men's open championship of the Belgrave Kinsmen slo-pitch tournament on the weekend. The Kings were defeated 12-9 by the Blyth ADS in the final contest. Axotal of eight teams competed in the men's open division. re Blyth ADS defeats Kins to win Belgrave tourn'ye • yth ADS now Kinsmen 5-4 to claim .the. 'A' side championship of the oldtim- ers division. , Randy's Team claimed the `B' sidetitle as they edged Teeswater 11-10 in the final. . Five teams competed in the vol- leyball tournament. Hang Time from Listowel took top honors in the round-robin tournament with second prize going to Brent Rob- inson's team. BELGRAVE - BI claimed the men's open champi- onship of the annual Belgrave Kinsfn'en 'open men's;*lo-pitch tournament held on tit,Vt%eekend. Eight teams competed in the three-day event. Eight teams also competed in the open women's tournament and another eight teams played in the oldtimers divi- sion. Blyth ADS defeated Wingham Kings 12-9 in the 'A' side champi- onship. Westfield Wolves defeated the Lanesville. Lords. 8�7 towin the 'B' side title. The Lucknow Misfits defeated the Wingham Wakkers 8-1 to win the 'A' side title of the women's open division. • The Classic outlasted Nile 18- 16 to win the `B' side crown. The 8th Liners edged the Luck- Bantams uck- an ams p.lay Blythtodraw The Belgrave Bantams travelled Burkholder, Lockridge,; and to Blyth last Tuesday and played Fear crossed the plate in the third the host team to a 12-12 draw. inning. Belgrave was unable to Adam Garniss scored the lone score in the fourth inning, but Belgrave run in the first inning. crossing the plate in the fifth in - Scoring for Belgrave in the sec- ning were Mike Barfoot, Fear, Ja- and inning were Rob Burkholder, mie McCallum, and Pfeiffer. Luke Lockridge, Ryan Fear, and Tom Pfeiffer. first four innings for Belgrave, with Garniss catching. McCallum hurled the final inning with Fear doing the catching. Blyth scored once in the first in- ning, added two in the second, in the third, in Jeremy Campbell pitched the andrthree more int hwo e fifth.the fourth, Perron selected in second round by Stanley Contmked fromt front page kid who had the potential Perrott has since proven. 'When he came down the ice with the puck, he would go all the way to the net," recalls Parker. "The elite teams look for that drive to the net." Another attribute Perrott• had, says Parker, was his all-round ath- leticism. Besides hockey and la- crosse. Perrott played basketball, boxed and participated in track and field: • So, Nathan Perrott was passed over in the 1993 OHL draft. So, too, were hundreds of other kids whose names were also on the eli- gibility list. But why didn't Perrott go on to a five-year career in junior hock- ey's lower echelons? He very easi- ly could have. His big break came in St. Mar- ys, where he suited up fir the Western Junior 'B' loop's Lin- colns for the 1993-94 season. He admits he —barely made the team," and likely wouldn't have if not for an impressive showing with -the dukes, but he worked hard and eventually got his ice time, "As.the year went on, my skills just progressed that much more." Perrott didn't play much until after Christmas, but then every- thing fell into place. The Lincolns won the league h championship and finished third in the provincial Sutherland Cup tournament. Besides his physical presence, Perrott also turned some heads with his skills -oriented pro- duction, averaging more than a point per game in the playoffs. His coach in St. Marys was vet- eran OHL scout Terry Uniac, who Perrott has a lot to thank for. "I -ie had a lot of scouts come in to see guys play, because there were five guys who were of age to le drafted," recalls Perrott. Perrott, himself, would join the draft list as a rare junior -aged ad- dition. Each year, a handful of names of players one or two years passed their O1 -IL draft years are added to the list, upon request of a team. While there has been some not- able names selected this way, for- mer Owen Sound Plater standout Scott Walker for one, they usually go in the mid to later rounds, if at all. Perrott was told to expect any- where between the fourth and sixth rounds. He was totally caught off guard when the Oshawa Generals announced his name in the second round — one year after he'd sat all day in London. �o caught off -guard was he that upon hearing his named called, he went on jotting down a previous pick's name before it actually reg- stered that he was about to take is next step up the hockey ladder. To say Nathan Perrott has jus finished a dream season is no ex- aggeration. In his rookie OHL campaign, he scored 18 goals, assisted on 28 others for 46 points and took on the league's heavyweights while compiling 233 penalty minutes. "The first few games, I was, playing on the fourth line and wasn't getting that much ice time, but i worked really hard and I played really aggressive," Perrott recalls. "Then, in around • the fourth game, the coach put me on the power play — to stand in front of the net — and I scored a goal against Scott Roche of the North Bay Centennials." Perrott instantly found a job on the power play and, within a couple of weeks, had moved up to the Second line. He would stay on the top two lines for the duration of the season. A young team, the Generals sur- prised many observers with a sec- ond -place finish. First-year coach Stan Butler, says Perrott, deserves a lot of credit for the mileage the Generals covered. "When you get to that level the OHL — everyone's pretty much got a lot of skill. It's just who has the drive to use it," he re- lates. "There's guys who have all the potential in the world, but nev- er go anywhere...but he really gets his guys to play for him." Two guys who sure played for Butler — and alongside Perrott — were top sniper Marc Savard and pro -style winger Larry Courville. "A lot of my points were be- cause of them, because they're such good players," says Perrott, "but I Tike to think I created the. space for them to give them more room to do what they want." Brad Brown, Eric Ryland, Sean ' Brown and Fredrik Oduya - re- spected tough guys" all of them. Nathan Perrott tangled with each a few times over the course of the OHL season. Perrott is honest. Politically - correct or not, fighting comes pret- 0 ty natural for him. , He holds up his hands. Despite the fact the season ended ,two o months earlier, and much to early G for Perrott, the swelling on one is still noticeable pe It can be a tough life being a le tough guy in the OHL. Loved by D your teammates and by the fans in on your rink, you're the brunt of peo-. do ple's ire on the road. Target may Ju be too tame a word sometimes. "I don't mind it. It's all part of Dr the game," says Perrott. ran Does he hear it? "Sometimes. Usually, I can block it out pretty good," he says. 'i laugh at it, because I think it's funny. Sometimes they come out with some pretty funny stuff." Back in January, just before a few tion WEDNESDAY. JULY 19,1995 Midgets down M Joel Pegg allowed just four hits last Monday evening as the Bel - grave Midgets downed Mildmay 8-2 in WOAA Midget League play in Mildmay. ' The Midgets held 3-2 lead into the sixth inning when they plated four more runs on walks to Dan Gusso and Eric Andrew, Pegg tripled,' Chris Stewart singled, and Todd Edgar ripped a double. Shawn Fair and Arley Pautler each hit a sacrifice fly. -Gusso, Brent Robinson, and Fair also had a single to round out Belgrave's nine -hit attack. Pegg walked four and fanned eight in posting the win on the mound. He helped his own cause at the plate as he had three hits — two triples and a double — in three at - bats,' had three RBIs and also scored twice. Athletes earn medals Five area athletes who qualified for the provincial Legion track and field championships competed in the meet held July 7-8 in Tim- mins. Despite some extremely cold, wet we.ather which hampered per- formances on the first day of com- petition, the athletes did very well. In order to qualify for the Onta- rio team at the Canadian Legion championships to be held in Win- nipeg, Aug. 11-13, an athlete had to obtain a gold medal and one other medal. Mary Lisle was able to qualify by winning the shot put in the girls 17 and under division, and earning a second place finish in the discus. Following the Winnipeg meet, Lisle will also take part in a Le- gion -sponsored five-day track and field training camp, also held in the Manitoba capital. In the girls 15 and under divi- sion, Andrea Hitler was sixth in the shot put with a toss of 8.20 metres, and eighth in the discus with a throw of 23.79 metres. Janet Lisle was fifth in the shot put with a throw of 8.30 metres, sixth in the long jump with a leap of 4.59 metres, and seventh in the discus with a throw of 24.07 me- tres. Adam Schiestel recorded a pair of fourth place finishes in the boys •15 and under division. He had a jump of 12 metres even in the triple jump and cleared the bar at 1.65 metres in the high jump. Mary Lisle was first in the girls 17 and under shot put with a toss of 11.59 metres, second in the dis- cus with+a throw of 36.78 metres, and fourth in the long jump with a leap of 5.10 metres. In the boys 17 and under com- petition, Jason McDonald was sixth in the pole vault at 3.30 me- tres, and 1lth in the discus with a throw of 32.56 metres. President's 'Cupe (left) and M Lisle won the President's Cup at a track and field meet he dary in Kitchener on July 2. The President's Cup is for open team com- petition for clubs with Tess than 18 members competing in the event. Mary was third in the shot put and discus and seventh in the long jump. Julie was second in the shot put and discus, third in the pole vault, seventh in the hurdles and eighth i,1 the long jump. three -game hiatus for a mi knee surgery, Perrott made homecoming to Owen Soun Lumley Bayshore Commun Centre. "It was fun. A lot of pe cheered for me, which made feel good." He even felt better when he up the winning goal in overtim just after missing a chance to sco himself. The experience of playing on the road in your hometown was a bit "weird" in one respect. "Playing all my minor hockey n that arena, it seemed so big," he recalls, " and then going to all the HL barns, it seems so small. nor draft, one in particularly' which his seemed very keen. d's And they've probably been im- ity pressed. A former Honor Roll student ople who once considered pursuing a me U.S. college scholarship, Perrott is a true gentleman off the ice. Po - set lite, insightfuland thoughtful are e, as pertinent when describing hitn re as are strong, determined and tough. But, two years ago in London isn't that far off. Perrott, who turns 19 in December, is keeping every- . thing about the draft in perspec- tive. "What they say and what they do are two different things," he says. "But at the same time, he's ea- ger to pass another hurdle. in the OHL playoffs, Perrott re- ceived a 10 -game suspension for returning to the ice after being re- moved. He has five games remain- ing for the start of next season. "Hopefully," he says with a twinkle in his eyes, "I'll be at a pro camp then." For a guy who just two years ago was wondering if there is life after Junior `C' hockey, hope mean's the world of opportunity. Editor's note: Mike Anderson is editor of The Hanover Post. "We are proud to select, with ur second pick, from the Oshawa enerals... NathanPerrott. And that's exactly what hap- ned. The newly crowned Stan - y Cup champions, New Jersey evils, selected Perrott in the sec - d round, 44th overall, at the Na - nal Hockey League draft held ly 8 in Edmonton. The Hockey News, in the 1995 aft Preview, prior to the draft, ked Perrott 33rd" The NHL's Central Scouting Bureau, in its mid-season ranking, had the six-foot 215 -pound right winger listed 50th among North American skaters. He talked to representatives of a different teams, prior to the RECYCLE THIS PAPER