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PAGE 22, WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1988 Whitby juniors edge Oshawa for 11th win of season Whitby's junior baseball team, rebounding from a troubled 1987 season, won its 11th game of the 1988 season against only one loss with a 2-1 win over Oshawa last week. Manager Sam Dempster says his squâd is a good blend of rookies and veterans, and relies on strength up the middle. The team includes some of ·the league's top hitters and pitchers. Scott Burnett, who missed the first six games of the season due to suspension, started for Whitby against Oshawa, the top team in the Leaside junior league in Toronto. Oshawa plays a limited schedule in the Eastern Ontario Baseball Association league which has teams from as far east as Kingston and Belleville west to Newmarket. Whitby, despite occasional player shortages and involvement in two incidents, had a good season in 1987 as one of the best teams in the league. The Whitby season ended with a 2-1 playoff game loss to Orillia, a game that concluded with a brawl - one of the two incidents. Burnett and Rob LytIe of Whitby were handed six-game suspensions after giving their version of the incident. Orillia coaches never attended league meetings to give their version, according to Rod Fillier of Ajax, EOBA league commissioner and presi dent. However, Orillia's coach was suspended. Whitby is the only team in the 12-team EOBA, apart from the Oshawa junior team which plays occasionally, which has opted to be designated with an "A" ranking. That means Whitby will have no local league playoff games when they begin in August, as Oshawa will be in Metro playoffs. Whitby will later play in the next round 6f playoffs. All other teams in the EOBA are of B and C or juvenile classification. Oshawa, Kingston and Markham have juvenile teams, all having little success but, as Fillier points out, laying the groundwork for future junior team s. Junior is age 17 to 21 while juvenile is 17 and 18. Whitby will be taking part, as an A team, in the Ontario Baseball Association elimination tournament to begin this Friday, July 1 in St. Catharines. Twenty -five teams from around Ontario will take part, with the winner advancing to national finals. Rookie honor for Nieuwendyk Joe Nieuwendyk was recently named National Hockey League rookie of the year by readers of The Hockey News. The Hockey News said the Whitby native was a "shoo-in" for the GTC Transcontinental Group Ltd. award as top rookie after scoring 51 goals and adding 41 assists last season. Nieuwendyk led aIl NHL players with 31 power play goals. In fan balloting, Nieuwendyk finished ahead of Chicago goalie Darren Pang for the rookie award. Mario Lemi eux wvas named Hiram Walker Special Old NHL player of the year. A total of 12 awards were presented by The Hockey News. Nieuwendyk and other recipients were presented with a photo-engraved plaque and $500 for dr nation to the charity of each 1- ayer's choice. SCOTT BURNETT, who pitched Whitby to a 2-1 win over Oshawa last week, is also one of the best hitters on the junior baseball team. Burnett and Rob Lytle are back af- ter serving six-game suspensions for a brawl in a playoff ga me against Orillia last season. Free Press photo ROB LYTLE, one of the Whitby junior baseball team's top pitchers and hitters, is back in action after serving a six- game suspension handed out after a brawl in the team's final playoff game last season against Orillia. Free Press photo Redmen roll past Sarnia to remain undefeated Brooklin Redmen continued their tune-up for what will likely be another Mann Cup appear- ance with two decisive victories over the past week. Wayne Colley and the Redmen squad achieved a rarity of sorts, a lacrosse shutout, with a 9-0 win over Fergus last week. Then on Sunday, Redmen rolled to a 22-7 win over Sarnia. "That was excellent to get a shutout," said Derek Keenan, one of the Redmen's leading scorers and one of the top box lacrosse players in Canada, about the win DALE KERNOHAN of the Brooklin Red- men moves in alone on Sarnia goalie Bryon Leneve during second period action in Sunday afternoon's game in Broòklin. over Fergus Tuesday, June 21. Colley, regarded by Keenan as the top goalie in the Canada, was sensational against the Thistles. And Keenan says the Redmen "really concentrated on defence" for this particular contest. Gil Nieuwendyk, another Kernohan didn't score on this opportunity but had three goals for the game, his last goal on an end-to-end dash while the Red- men were shorthanded. Free Press photo Redmen, and Canadian, star, scored four goals against Fergus. Doug Deschner, Adam Kluwak, Keith Begley, Blaine Harrison and Keenan had the other goals, with Keenan and Deschner each adding two assists. Scott McMichael had three assists. Colley gave way - to Ted Sawicki, a former Victoria, B.C. player, in the nets for Brooklin in the contest against Sarnia or Sunday afternoon before abou 100 spectators at Luther Vipond Memorial Arena. B rooklin held a 12-4 lead until the latter stages of the second period when Sarnia scored on two power play advantages after SEE PAGE 25 10 straight for Redmen DEREK KEENAN,shown stepping around a Sarnia furward. -- Free Press photo