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24 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, June 9, 1987 FA ape 24 25 - ~R = ~ Canoe the Nonquon t-shirts were hot items on Saturday. Pat Boyd and Al Bertrand had them in all sizes and they make nifty souven irs. = Gamblers hand first loss to Stouffville ace hurler Last Wednesday night the Green- bank Gamblers travelled to Stouff- ville and handed pitching ace Jim Chilvers his first loss of the season as they dropped Stouffville by a 3-1 score. Mark Goreski was outstanding on the Greenbank mound as he allow- ed only one hit in the game and struck out eleven Stouffville batters in the well earned win. With one out in the first inning John Foster singled up the middle, stole second base and scored on Trevor Till's line single to centre Trevor Till also stole second base and came around to score when the Stouffville shortstop dropped George Redshaws high pop-up to shallow left field. Stouffville bounced back in the bottom of the first inning when Bruce Beare drew a base on balls, was sacrificed to second and scored on Randy Grants line shot into cen- tre field, the only hit that Stouffville Dean Stone and Glen Page were the first to Whey competed in the boys 15- 17 class. "hit the finish line at the Port Perry waterfront. Greenbank Pee Wees lose © 5-0 to their arch- rivals On Wednesday June 3, the Green- bank Allstarrs travelled to Port Perry to play their arch-rivals, P P Mojacks. The game was played fairly well by both teams but it ended up with Port putting a win under their belt ~with a 5-0 win. Greenbank had only 1¢ which cost them the game. Even though Greenbank lost, they put forth a tremendous effort and can't wait until they can get back at Port Perry later on in the season! Following a loss Wednesday, Greenbank was looking for a win when they hosted East Gwillumbury on Friday, June 5 ad inning : The game pirned out to be an ex- citing one which had the crowd on edge y The ganve started with John En- nis on the mound, pitching his first game of the season. He did a super _job'keeping East Gwillumbury off the board with help from Green- © bank's tight defense. But in the top of the third John got in a jam because of a few errors in the field and had men on first and third. Coach Loughran then made the mo- tion for Brett Puckrin to come to the mound ' and John Ennis took a "hand" from the crowd and took se- . cond. The first batter for Puckrin CLASSIFIEDS EVERYBODY'S MARKETPLACE ALL PES - ALL MAKES --- STEREQS & HI-FlI's MODULAR 4 SERVICING PHILIPS THIS COUPON WORTH $5.00 OFF YOUR NEXT SERVICE CALL' 214BLOORST.E. | 723-5341 PARKSIDE 111:{Je ** FACTORY AUTHORIZED SERVICE CENTRE FOR PHILIPS RCA JENITH TOSHIBA TAC LLOYDS MICROWAVE OVEN SERVICE came up but was sent straight back . With one because of a strikeout. "out," Puekrin made another strikeout but the ball got past cat- cher Tim Timms on the third strike and the bases were now loaded. Puckrin then dug into the mound and came up with 2 strikeouts to preserve the 0-0 tie. It wasn't long though until the 5th inning when Puckrin gave up 2 runs making the score 2-0 in East Gwillumbury's favour. East Gwillumbury shut down the Greenbank squad for an inhing but Greenbank came back in the bottom of the sixth when Brett Puckrin received a walk and was hit. home by a line drive by Mark Shepherd. Mark was then driven home by John Chronis's 'sacrifice fly." which " made the score tied 2-2 and it stayed ~ that way for the conclusion of the game Greenbank was held in the game with their great defence throughout the"game. At one point, shortstop John Chronis ran all the way behind second base and caught a ball run- ning towards the outfield fence to keep East Gwillumbury: s lead to a mere 2 runs John Ennis did a great job on the mound ang we hope to see more of him. Greenbank put forth a great ef- fort and the team should be con- gratulated Well done guys" would manage off Mark Goreski during the contest. The Gamblers upped their lead to 3-1 when George Redshaw opened . the inning with a walk, moved to se- cond when the second baseman fail- ed to 'handle Rodd Reals hot grounder and scored when Brian Till singled cleanly into right field. . Then Mark Goreski took over and held Stouffville off the base paths for the rest of the game to preserve the 3-1 viciory. Trevor Till led Greenbank at the plate with a pair of hits with Neil Rodd, John Foster, George Red- shaw and Brian Till completing the Gambler offence. Hats off to Stouffville for the ex- cellent setting they have for stage- ing the game of fastball. Their team is holding down top spot in the Oshawa 'A' league, their park is in great shape, their floodlights are tops with a knowledgeable man on the P.A. system calling the play and a fine refreshment booth. Small wonder they had a good crowd on hand to watch this excellent fastball eritertainment. So Stouffville joins Port Perry and Greenbank at towns that attempt to promote fastball as the; supreme summer sports entertainment in Ontario. Hopefully other centers will follow suit and put fastball back on the sports entertainment map. On the weekend the Gamblers went to Mount Albert to defend their 1986 championship at the Mount Albert Sports Weekend. They got off on the right foot on Friday night as Ken Goreski shut out the Zephyr Royals by a 5-0 score. But on Satur- day the Gamblers were stoned by a strong Bradford team by a 12-1 score. Greenbank was never in this game as the Bradford Vargas scored early and every ball they hit found a safe place to drop. Without doubt the biggest pro- blem in fastball today is the enforce ment of the pitching rules. More and more fireballing pitchers are "violating the pitching rules and the umpires seem unable or reluctant to enforce the pitching rules as defin- edinthe CAS A andthe O ASA rule book. This situation is something that the fastball "brass" in Ontario rpust control quickly as more and more pitchers are inventing ways of com- ing off the pitching mound that ad- vantage the pitcher and disadvi an- tage the batter. Clinics for coaches and umpires should be started as soon as possi- ble to clarify what is a legal pitch and this knowledge must be univer- sally kndwn across the province by all softball people or the game could "turn into arguments and controver- sies whenever provincial teams' gather for tournaments. This situation should be con- sidered critical and the O. ASA. governors should take action now if this game of fastball is to retain its place at the front of the summer sports entertainment in the Pro- vince of Ontario. Name Stouffville Greenbank MCL Juniors ACL Port Perry' Claremont Juniors | OSHAWA CITY AND DISTRICT LEAGUE STANDINGS GP W L T Pts 7 5 2 0 10 5 4 1 0 8 = 5 3.2 0 6 6 3 3 0 6 6 1 5 0 2 3 0.3 0 0 XL Eagles get a win, at last! Port Perry XL Eagles, mired in an early season slump finally broke out with a 6-0 romp over the winless ° Claremont-Markham Jrs. in Clare- mont Wednesday night. Starting pit- cher Ken Irvine hurled a strong one- hitter while striking out nine batters. Hometown boy Larry Pilkey led the Eagle attack with a homerun and fwo singles in three times to the plate. Also, replying for Port were Ken Irvine, with two hits, Bill Owen with a triple (whew!) and singles by Rick Blohm and Ken Bryant. The following night Port Perry reverted to early season form: drop- ping a sloppily played game to the "Oshawa Juniors 8-3. The Eagles led 2-1 entering the fifth inning, giving up a deuce on two costly errors. In the sixth inning everything fell apart as Port again made two time- ly blunders mixed in with a couple of mental mistakes. When the dust settled, Oshawa had scored five times for the easy victory. Pitching for Port was Lawrie Williams, who allowed only five hits while striking out ten play ers in the seven inning contest. The Eagles managed six hits on Larry Pilkey's pair of doubles, Paul Graham's two singles, Dave Dickson's two-bagger and a Lawrie Williams single. of Future games have Port Perry in Stouffville Wednesday night and home to ACL on Thursday at 8:30 Golf clinic for kids Bill Huestis of Crestwood Golf Ciub will be running two golf schools early this summer for boys and girls ages 10 to 1§. The firs¥will be held June 29 and July 2-3, while the second one will run from July 6-9. Golfers will start each day of the school at 9:00 AM with a morning of instruction from Bill, his son Kevin and Dave Hales, followed by lunch and then a round in the afternoon The cost for the three day school tincluding lunch) is $25 per person The school is being sponsored by A and D Beef Jerky Sales from Lindsay. - Bill says that each- three-day school will be limited to about 16 young golfers and registrations are ing accepted now on a first come, first served basis. " To register or for more info on these golf schools; call Bill Huestis at Crestwood (705) 357-3474. The golf course is located four miles north of Seagrave on the Victoria County Road near Sonya 4 5 x LAR Gi be A Re we _