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' Ken Irvine, a southpaw with excellent control, did the 12 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, July 30, 1980 Sports with Danny Millar unusual when he walked Ron Civiero to give Toronto the win. Tom Lloyd walked in a touched home plate for the only run of the marathon. There were several defen- sive highlights for Port Perry. In the eighth, Robert Evans made a diving catch on a sinking line drive in centrefield, and later threw out Herbert as he was attempting to stretch a single into two bases. Herbert tried the same feat again and was once more dead on arrival at second base after a good throw by Ron Redman from left field. Second baseman Doug Scott turned over a crucial double play late in the game. First baseman Bill Owen was flawless in fielding almost 40 plays. But defensively, it looked like Ken Bryant was putting Bantams suffer loss to Claremont by Danny Millar Claremont mugged start- ing pitcher Mark Goreski for eight runs in the seventh inning to take a one-sided 14-4 win over Port Perry on Monday, July 21, at the Joe Fowler Memorial diamond. Port was in the game right up until the last inning. Going into the seventh they were trailing 6-4, after scoring twice in the bottom of the sixth. Then Goreski faultered and got wild. He hit two batters in the seventh, one of them, Mark Anderson, square on the helmet, leaving Claremont's shortstop dazed. Earlier, with the bases loaded on two previous walks, to Anderson and Mark Hendy, and a hit batsman, Goreski gave a free pass to Tim McEwan that handed Claremont a run. Shane Redshaw dropped a single into shallow center- field that fell in front of Stan Glass for two runs. A throwing error by shortstop Brian Stevenson allowed McEwan to score from third base. Four more runs came across the plate before Port ended the inning. Stevenson stroked a clean single into left field, with Bill Dowson on third base, that gave Port Perry its third run of the contest in the fifth. Anderson made a diving try at the ball but couldn't come up with it. John Vaz tucked a single down the left field line that brought in Ken Harman, who had walked. Vaz and Stevenson advanced on a wild pitch by Scott Harper and Goreski drew a free pass to load the bases. Steve Lee grounded out to end the threat. . When Lee retired at the (Turn to Page 16) / on a clinic on how to play shortstop. He handled more than ten chances and made them all look routine. Some weren't. Like the bouncer through the infield that third baseman Mark Lee couldn't get to but dived at. Bryant fielded the ball coming in, and jumped over Lee, throw- ing in the air to get the runner at first. Then in the 20th inning with a runner on second, Bryant fielded an easy grounder and faked the - throw to first. The runner jumped towards third and Bryant tagged him. Offensively, it was another story for Port. Herbert handcuffed them, giving up just six hits. Jay Williams had three of them. Williams nearly ended the game in the later stages with a long fly to right field but it turned out to be just a long, loud out. Port Perry took)only one game in the toyrnament, beating Goodwood 3-2 Satur- day. They came up flat against the RH Cabinet juveniles and lost 4-1 Friday night. Port played loose in the first inning as they gave up all the runs. Sarto Proven- zano ended up on second base on the second pitch of the game from Ken Irvine. bill St. John, the normally sure-handed centerfielder, booted the ball in front of him. The next batter hit a Texas league double that St. John would have caught had he not fallen. With two runners on scoring position, Rob Garrow ripped a triple to right center to score them both. Garrow scored when Bryant cut loose a wild throw trying to get an out at first. Darrell Jerome, the winning pitcher, drove in the last run on a sacrifice fly. After the first inning both pitchers found the groove and it was simply a matter of Port's inability to get to Jerome when he was cold early, like Cabinet did to Irve, that resulted in the loss. Scugog returns to form against Whitby by Barry Page The Port Perry Printers rebounded from a loss last week to a 5-1 victory over another Whitby soccer team. We still didn't play to our potential because of injuries, holidays, etc. Our play wasn't consistent in that we would play extremely well and then stand around and look at how wonderful we performed. We were short some of our regular players again and had to re-arrange our team in order to fill all positions. Mike Connolly played in goal (with an injury) and did an admirable job. Our defence played very listless until one of our starters arrived ldte because he had to finish the day's haying. Once put into his defensive position he out-hustled most players on the field. Tony Kersten isn't the most skilful player but he comes to play and he gives 100 per cent. The Whitby Pee Wee team scored first and it was sev- eral minutes until the Devils tied the score. By half time we had scored again to make it2-1. At the end of the game the five goal scorers were Paul Bateman, 1; Gord Brown, 3; and Rob Page, 1. If we had scored on half of our good chances we would have been in the double figures. YA RAYA ray It was very satisfying as a coach to see the playmaking during the second half when our Devils were gaining confidence. You could see the results from practice sessions and the week at the soccer school all falling into place. Mark Butters should be mentioned for his head-up playmaking and back-check- ing. He played a strong game in his left half position 'and had a number of good opportunities on goal. Congratulations again for this week's victory. The next practice will be Tuesday, July 29 with an away game at the Garden Street Field in Whitby on Thursday, July 31. IRS % ® Sp innings Ye 9 + PY ams Li Port Perry baserunner is called out at second base during a 23 inning game against Centennial Park of Toronto. The game was played during the Goodwood Men's softball tournament, Sunday, July 27. Port Perry Packers take tournament by Danny Millar The Port Perry Packers scored two empty net goals in the last minute of play to wrap up a 6-2 win over Courtice in the final game of the Port Perry Ball hockey tournament on Saturday July 26. Mike Mitchell got the first empty net goal with 58 seconds left as he was stand- ing in front on the net. Goalie Clay Lovering had been removed 13 seconds earlier. Kevin Martens got the last marker when he slapped the ball into the twine with 10 seconds remaining. The teams scored 40 seconds apart in the first period. Courtice drew first blood at 6:12 but Bruce Woodrow got it back for the Pack. Gerard Morrison got both Courtice markers in the game. The Packers went ahead with 4:06 remaining in the opening session when Aldon Smith banged in a rebound from Donovan Smith. Morri- son evened the final up for the second time when he put in a shot from the side of the net on a tight angle, after taking a pass from Charlie Prinsett. Mitchell put the Packers in front to stay with his tally at 10:30 of the middle period. He tucked the ball inside the post near Lovering. Dono- van Smith added an insur- ance marker 35 seconds after the opening third period face-off with a shot from the left wing that de- flected in under Lovering's pad. Simons Racers nipped Uxbridge 3-2 in the consola- tion final earlier in the day. It was a penalty filled contest with three players getting game misconducts. The Racers jumped out in front 2-0 in the first period. Right winger Ken Pierson got the second goal with 46 seconds to go until the end of the opening stanza on a slap shot from just inside the center red line. The only action in the 'middle period was the eject- ion of Pierson after he hit a Racers player from behind. An Uxbridge player was thrown out for an obvious foul early in the third period. The game ended with a flourish as Uxbridge scored with 3:29 left on a power play slap shot from the blue line off the stick of Russ Greg. They struck again with the man advantage with 1:02 left to tie it. John Milne missed the net on the first try but Pete Nagy slipped in the rebound. Body checking to become penalty The OMHA will be assess- ing a two minute minor penalty against anyone who uses his body to check another player. . A major penalty (five minutes) will be charged if the player who hit is injured on the play. The Ontario Minor Hockey Association has given its interpretation on the C.A.H.A.'s recent ruling that bans the body check from the PeeWee and younger age groups. i The OMHA also stated that skating a player off along the boards is legal as long as there is no deliberate at- tempt to slam him into the boards. They define a body check as "the action of' deliberately using force when making body contact with the hips, shoulders or arms while attempting to play the puck or check an opponent who has the puck. The rule changes come into effect for the upcomipg hockey season. ( ) Let's run around together. © AN » a n