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Whitby Free Press, 30 Aug 1995, p. 15

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Whllby Fmo Press, Wocfnosday, Augus»t,30>,, 1995,PaplS5 Bantams 4 I k championahipeaBa well as a bronze st tiie provincial qualifiera. Coach was Bon kWey and pitching coachi MIke Wello. Redmen ousted, Chifs capture league titie,, but l'ose at provincials" The. Whitby bantam.rep fastball t.am topped off an outatanding season by taking gold in the. league playoffa in Markham Aug. 19 to21. I their firat game against Scarborough, Whitby won 10-O with Heatiier Seamone getting the. shutout and five strikeouts. Whitby bast 7-3 to Oak Ridges in the second game. I a double-knockout format, Whitby had to win two more games on Saturday and three on Sunday, witi the. final two against OakRidges, to get the. gold medal. On* Saturday Wbitby beat Markiiam Mf 5-1 and Pickering 9-8 witii strong pitching from Jennifer Wodokand Seamone.- On Sunday, Whitby elimmnated Cobourg 6-3 witii seven sup.rb defensive plays by siiortstop Jilian Finley. -I the. gold medal game, Wbitby mercied Oak Ridges 11-1 in the. fiast game. After a 30-minute break, Whitby took the. field once again against Oak Ridges. Wbitby came on strong with seven i-uns in three inning. holding Oak Ridges Seoreus. But Oak Ridges got seven irune ini thiefoui-tii Stil tied aftei- seven innings, tii. teama went to extra inninga. After tii-.. hours of play and 1i nnng in the. blistering heat, Woodcock lit. a double to score Amanda Simoos to lie tii. game. Witii home game advantage, Holly Broome bit a single tiiat scored Woodcock to win tii. game and gold foi- Whitby. Woodcock iiad seven Singles, thre, doubles and a triple for 10 RBIS in tii.tournament. Finley iiad n. eSingles and three doubles; Mandy Marsiiall,, 10 singles and a double; Broome, eigiit singles. I Brampton Aug. 25 to 27 for tiie provincial playoffs, Wiiitby was def.ated 9-1 by Aurora in a two-gam. knockout format tournament. Whitby then defeated Ciiatiiam 6-4. Itii. next game, Whitby disqualifled Orbeans witli an 8-6 «in 109trke Ub- odok DAVE MILTON, chair of the Pickering nuclear station divsion of the Power Worker's Union, talks to parents in the minor hockey registration ineup recently at Iroquois Park. The union presented the Whitby Arena Fundraising Association (WAFA) wiith a cheque for $1 ,000 to he * ils drive for a new arena. M,,b ark Reooo. Whltby Free Pissa Brooklin Redmen succumbed to a powerful Six Nations team last week in the. Ontario. major box. lacrosse final series. Redmen were swept in four straight games, including a 23-6 rout last Friday night at froquois Park that completed the series and sent Six Nations Chiefs to the Mann Cup final against the' representat#v4/from the British Columbia sefiôr league.-, And the 1995 Chiefs are even stronger than tii. 1994 teama that won the Mann Cup titie. Redmen boasted a strong lineup this season -and the team's depth carried it to a come-from-behind triumph over Brampton in an' exciting semi-finai soies. But Redmen couldn't contain the. explosive scoring of Chiefs who boast most of the top scorers ini the> Sport. Last Friday, it was John Tavares, leading scorer ini both the Ontarioo bague and U.S. pro league last season and on. of the. top scorers this season, who, led the offence with four goals and~ four assista. Rod Tapp had tiiree. goals and four assista, Paul Gait three goals. Neil Doddridge,Jamie Batley and Mfiles General each had two goals, ,witii dinge goals by Troy Cordingley (abso four asistA), John Rosa, Travis Kilgour, Darris Ilgour, Duane Jacobs and Derek Graham. Mike Wye, called up from tiie Whitby Warriors junior A team, played goal for Redmen the fi-at eight minutes of tii. firet period before lie was replaced by Paddy OToole. Chiefs i-oUed up aW9-O lead ini the firat period. *Gary Gait and Peter Park eacli scored two goals while John Fusco and Jason Crosbie iiad on. each for Redmen. Tavares ii*d a goal and three assista in Chiefs' 11-3 win in tiie third. game last Wednesday. Troy Cordingley, league leading scorer (juat ahead of Tavares) during the. regular season, and Ricli Ilgour eacii had a goal and two assisrto, and Jacobs had two goals. Paul, Gait, Graham, Randy Mearna, Travis Ilgour, Batley. and General liad the otiier goals. Gary- Gait,, Park and Dave Marwick .acii had a, goal for Redmen.i' TTii~0 IIIIImv Mosquitoes led in final. TV ~ ~wn PhJ.AI.LJJ .PJDAAADi AGA lW . YAA .A(A8jA IA a hàqm nifAA hdp l 1 .A and two losses at tii. Ontario bantam basebail elimination tournament i-ecently. I tii. double-knockout tournament, Whitby opened with a win over igii Park as a balk by tii. H-igh park pitcher allowed Milce Feret to corne home with tii. winning i-un in the. eigiith inmng. Scott Thompson had thi-.. bits, Feret two bits and Sean Ti-emaine knocked in two i-uns. Ghis James iield Hligh Park scorelens for five innings before beingi-elieved in the sixth by Ryan Vopni wiio got the victory. Whitby then feUl 6-1 to Brampton Braves, the. Ontario a complets game for Whitby while Josii Huetiier bit a home i-un for Wbitby's only score. Whitby tien won 12-1 as Tiompson threw a four-bitter wbile Tremaine and Siane Beetiarn eaci had two bits. Wiitby. was then eliminated from the tournament with an 8-7 lon to Erin Mlles. Wbitby trailed 84 going into the, last ixning but a comeback effort just came up short. Matt Smith drove, in two r-uns in the final ining. .Otiier team members ai-e Greg Zedic, John Partlow and Steve MacIsaac. Ulndern9s win again Tiie Wbitby under-nine girls' select soccer team won their third successive tournament of the year in the second annual Unionville- Milliken select tournament Aug. 26-27. Tii. final saw Whitby win a thriller, 4-3, over Scarborough United. I early play, Whitby found tiiemeelves in the unusual position of being tIre. goals down against a strong Scarborougi team. I the second half; Wbitby sti-uck aftei- 10 minutes on a powerful free kIck from Danielle Dimtses. Furtiier goals fi-om Nicole Pottinger and Sylvia Forbes (two) in the dying minutas of the game gave Whitby a comeback victory. I earlier round-robin' play, Wbitby ovenpowei-ed Waterloo 7-0, Umionville B 4-0 and Unionville A 2M. Forbes iiad six goals, Chantel Smith four, one eacii by Ciantel Tacchino, Raclisel Speane and Dimtses. Ini the semi-final, Whitby cruised te a comfoitable 6-1 wiu against Tiioinhill as- Forbes scored four goals, Smith two. As in previous teurnaments, Whitby got sterlihg defensive efforts from Sian Canavan, Stacy Sciiope, Klrsten Walker, Kristen Cavanagh sud Joanna Dickenson. Tii. team is coaclied by Pete and Andrew Sk.lton. I.... Tii. Whitby major. mosquito séect basebail teamlias taken a 1- O lead in the best-of-thre, ciiampionsbip series with a dramatic, extra inning 4-3 win over Pickering. Pickeringjumped out to, an early 1-0 lead in the. first. Whitby erased tliat lead in the bottom of the. fourti when dean-up bitter Ciiad Seymourls double drove Ryan Sisson and Spencer Miller home. Pickering came back in the fiftii to take a 3-2 lead. I the bottom of the seventii, Adami Gunn and David Munns started the comeback witii back te back singles. Sisson then bit a double te rigiit, driving Munne home witii the. tying i-un. Gunn, though, was tlirown out at the. plate. I the four extra inninga, defence was the key for botii team. L.ft fielder Brandon Glovei-' running catch in seventii closed out the inning. Third baseman J.J. Tracey tiirew out a couple runners in the eighti, and nintii.- Second baseman Geoif Welli? diving catch in shallow rigiitfield snuffed out a tlireatening Picke iigrally ixthe luth. hIthe bottom of the ilth, Simson bit bis second double of the game to lead off tiie inning. Seymour once agaix delivered a key hit, driving the bail te the gap in left, ailowing Simon te score. Simson, Munne, Jeif Han and Jason Connor ailowed only mine hits and thre. walks over il uinnng aL tiking out 13. Hasm was outstanding in his tIre. nina with six oftiie 13 strikeouts. Whitby quabified for tii. ciiampionabip series thi. day before witii a one-game, audden- death 3-2 victozy over Ajax. Sinon, Munna and Han with the save hebd Ajax te six bits. Seymour drove ini two r-uns. Sisson knocked in a i-un and scored twice, ixdluding the winner. Nicholas . Bubela and Jordan Howard.both clipped in key base bits and played sound defence. take over top sp ot ln Central Soccer League action Aug. 23 at Jack Wilson Park, the. unde-li1 Whulby Wolves, defeated a atrong Northi Scarborough Bulle toam 2-1 to take sole poasession'of first place inithe. Premier League. Firat and second haîf goals by Erie Shah were enougii to give Whitby the. victory and keep up their puali for the. league and cup double with only one league game left and a place in the. cup semi- finals already s.cured.. The. Wolves are isponsored by Halenda Meats, Neilson Cadbury, Golden Griddbe and Hard-Co Construction.-' 'Power' donation e 'n fin al

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