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Whltby Fmip.Vee isa n"risfy. June 7, 1995, Page 21 Mitchell blast helps peewees win tournamdnt The. Whitby Chiefs major peewoe rep basebail teain, sponsored by Legion Brancii 112, won a tournanient in Streetaville over the June 3-4 weekend. Boset witii injuries ta koy players Judd Stevenson and Mark Cipparone, Chiefs played It was a busy week for the. Whitby major mosquita, baséball team, beginning witii a taurnament ini Streetsvillo, followod by five regular season g9anes. lhey played eight gaines i all and suffered only on. bas, ithe. taurnament opener. The bas was ta, a stroghiùtting Newmarket team b~y a score of '7-4. They managod ta bunch four of their nine bits inta the second inning ta prodluce four rnse. Chefs picked away at an early 6-1 lead with four lit but feU short ta the. eventual division winn.rs Other gaines saw Whitbypik u wins against Strootsviil.c 9-3u and Birchniount 13-5. Chiefs travelled ta Coborg Monday night ta, resuni. regular season play and picked up an 11-4 deciaïon witii a sevon-hit with only 10 playors. This did not doter tiie aggressive Whitby teain, however, as tiiey blasted Scarborougii-Birchmount 26-O in the opening gaine. Kovin Connelly, Ryan Mitchell, Chris Lazary and John Barr combined for a two-iitter. Every attack, whilo allowing only three. Justin Hawe and Adam Sylvestre bad two bits each in support of Michael Wynistarf; Tyler McLellan and Brett Backman who allowed onfly three bits. Whitby followed up tiie next night with an exciting 3-O win over Plckering. mhis on. was scoreless until the. bottoin half of the. sixth wiien Chiefs produced the. only runs cf tii. gaine. Toson nailed down tii. shutaut victary allowing just two bits and no wa]ks wiiile striking out two over the final three innings. Whitby picked it up again on Friday night as tiiey hammerod Port Hope 11-0. Chiofs hosted Belleville on Saturday. Whitby scored'a club record 35 runs including 16 in tiie third inning. Whitby ran their regular season record ta 7-O witii a 7-5 win over host ANax on Sunday. Bantams in f inal Pain was the only obstacle ta WhýitbyÎ Optixists quest for the Oakville miijor bantain AMA basebail tournament champ- ianship. Displaying improved form over beason.opening tournamont, whitby edbacked teains from Hamilton, Queensway and Oakville before def.ating at yeai,'s Ontario 'finaliet, Waterloo, 8-6 in the. semi-finals. Tihe openng gamne was a thriller sas Sco Thompson mowed down Hamilton batters with great control and an overpowering fat- ball. Scott rocorded il strikeouts while walking none. John Partlow led off the. gaine with a triple and ucored on Ryan Vopni's infleld grounder. TMm Hamilton pitcher thon kept the. Witby bats in check until the. bottom of the sixtii whon Josh Huether and Sean Tremaine led off with back to back singles. Mike Ferot cashod the tie-breaking run with a sacrifice fly. Peter Triantaflou duplicated that feat mrmediately after witiia deep fly ta centre, scoing anotiier run. Aloo collocting uïts for Whit.by were ThomponForet and Steve -Maclsaa. Whitlby rogîustered six stolon bases in the. gaine. Gain. two was an easy affir as the bats came olive ta, support e, eýMj tiie shutaut pitcbing of Paul Grahamn. When tiie smoke settled, Whitby had pounded out il bits on their way ta a 10-O shellackIng cf Queensway. wr 1t Smit, êhrisJames, and Foret witii two eacii. Vopni, Tiiompson, Tremaine, Triantafibcu and Grog Zodic added singles. Grahamn struck out six and wa]ked none. Whitby added another 10 bits versus Oakviile in their final round-robin gaine. Shane Beethaansd MacIsaac bothiiad two bits including a double. Huetiier also pounded ont a double. In the. semi-final playod in constant rainfail, Optimists broke quickly froi tii. gate, building an 8-0 lead entering the final «nnng Waterloo, the. 1994 Ontaio AAA finalisa, would not give up. Whitbypiîtcbing had a great deal cf troubl throwing strikes as the balse were wet and difflcult ta hold. Tii. score cbosed ta 8-6 befor. Maclsaac inducod a Waterloo player ta fly ouit ta second. Huetiier and Zedic led tiie offence witii on. triple eas'i. The.tSaurninnt champioshdip gaine was washed out as tho rain continued ta fal mak4ng conditions unplayable. The fina will b. r.schedubed in about two weeks. l~~VIoqute uribetrr ~E4. offpg7Z~ 46 Baldwin Street, (Hwy. 12) Brooklun, OntMarlo 65& 7827 a 65.5aSTAR lnground Pools, Acid Washing & Painting Major Repairs SOpenings & Closings No Subcontracting FREE ESTIMATES "Quialiiy & Service First" CO* STEEL 4>*LASCO mombor of tii. tearn scored at least once as Whitby poundod out 16 hits, including a three-run homer by Steve Misevski, who wont four for four and was named nlayer of tiie game. The second gamo against Agincourt was a nail-bitor. Whitby trailod 7-4 in tiie final inning, and dosperately neoding a win ta advance, Chiofs dug in, sending nine mon to tiie plate. Miko Dunford led off witii a walk and on. out later, Luke Hardon narrowed tiie gap ta 7-6 with a long homo-run ovor the rigiit fiold- fonce. Adamn BaIan thon followed witii a double, but Barr struck out. Misovski thon roaciied on an orror putting runners on tho corners. That set the. stage for a dramatic finish as Whitby coach Walt Lazary re-entorod Ryan Mitchell as a pinch bitter. Mitchell didn't lot th teain down as ho blaated the firat pitcii deep over the. left field fonce for a tiiree-run home run and a 9-7 victory. Player of the game was Hardon Who went tbreo for four including three RBIe. Dunford itchod the. final four innins for te victory. In the. final jame of the round-robin, Wlutby dofeated Brampton 12-4. In the. semi-final Whitby facod East York and their fireball pitcher Garron Smith. Chiefs wero flot intimidatod, however, as they scorod five turnes in the. firat inning, bighlighted by a two-run single by Steve Misevskri and a two-run double by Lazary and went on ta win 10-5. Whitby thon faced Agincourt in the. final and everyono anticipated a taugh, exciting gne. It was anytiiing but, "iwvr as the. Chiefs pounded thoir oppoents 18-5. Whitby collected 22 bits' with H.ardon gtting three doubles and a single, Misevaki threo singles, Lazary a', single and a double, Connell a sige and double, Dunfort wo iges and a double, Wil Bright a double and Carren Walker t*o doubles and a single. Rlayer of the. gaine was pitéher Dunford. oie familyl 'AILABLE of Whitby 9 Road. m, cail 655-3091 *REPAIRS Installations while-u-wait. Wire hook-up & brake controls. 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