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RITA RTT ARRON, PORT PERRY STAR Solid pitching leads to three straight wins PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, June 14 1988 -- 27 SPORTS 8 The Greenbank Gamblers claimed first place in the Oshawa City and District league "A" divi- sion last week by winning three consecutive games. On Monday night in Greenbank Park the Gamblers had to come from behind to edge Stouffville Betz Pools by a 4-3 score as the Greenbank team scored twice in the bottom of the sixth inning to erase a 3-2 Stouffville lead. Wayne Wells was on the mound for the Gamblers to oppose. John Annis and Jim Chilvers (who Little Britain had the bats working in fine order Sunday afternoon as they defeated Seagrave Systems by a handy margin to win the Conso- lation final at the Parks Board tournament In Seagrave. The Pirates earned $300 for their efforts. Sixteen teams entered this popular annual . tournament. Team still un-defeated in regular league play Gamblers perched on top of pack relieved Annis in the sixth inn- ing). Wells allowed six Stouffville hits and struck out seven to claim the victory. Stouffville had the lead twice during the game but Greenbank kept coming back to eventually emerge as the winner. Trevor Till led the Greenbank attack with a pair of hits with Rodd Real, Gary Baker and John Foster each hav- ing one hit. Steve Brooks had two hits for the Stouffville team. On Wednesday night the Gamblers travelled to Oshawa and behind the four hit pitching of Mark Goreski they shut down the Oshawa Ace team by a 3-1 score. Greenbank were never behind in this game as they scored a run in the second inning and two more in the third and that was all Goreski would need as he set down the Oshawa hitters in every inning except the fourth. In the fourth inning Dan Logeman hit a triple for Oshawa and eventually came around to score but that proved to be the only run that Oshawa could muster off Mark Goreski. Trevor Till and George Red- shaw each had to hits off Oshawa pitcher Steve Crummy while Terry Till and Gary Baker round- ed out the Greenbank hitting. Thursday night saw the Gamblers in Port Perry to play an earlier rained out game against the XL Eagles. In this game Wayne Wells and Lawrie Williams were the opposing pit- chers and the game headed into the seventh inning with the teams deadlocked at two runs each. But in the top of the seventh in- ning Greenbank catcher Dennis Ewart drew a base on balls and moved to third when the Eagle in- field misplayed Terry Tills T hekdp sien sacrifice and then scored the win- ning run on an infield out. Wayne Wells retired the Eagles in the bottom half of the inning and the Gamblers had their sixth successive win in Oshawa City and District league play. Terry Till had three Greenbank hits with Dennis Ewart con- tributing a pair of safeties. John Foster, Don Beaton and Greg Rodd also hit safety for the Gamblers. Picking up the base hits for Port Perry were Ken Bryant, Robert Evans, Lawrie Williams, Jay Williams and Dave Dickson. A mild controversy occurred in the sixth inning when a long drive into right field by Don Beaton that appeared to clear the fence was ruled a ground rule double by the umpire and the Gamblers were unable to advance Beaton past third base. The game was well played by both teams in spite of the cold, windy weather that prevailed during the game. Hopefully good fastball weather is just around the corner. Next week the Gamblers enter- tain the Oshawa M.C.L. Jrs. in Greenbank Park on Monday night and then make their first ap- pearance of the season in Stouff- ville on Wednesday night. The following Monday (June 20th) the Greenbank team travel to Toronto to play their first game against a Beaches league team when they meet the Toronto Am- bassadors as Lamoureux Park in Scarborough at 8:30 p.m. - This coming weekend the Gamblers are in Oshawa par- ticipating in the annual 'Geordie Easton' tournament with games on Saturday and Sunday. Port Pee Wees reach tournament finals Mother Jackson's Open Kit- chens, MoJack Pee Wee softball team were finalist in the annual Pee Wee softball tournament at Cobourg; this past week-end. Early 'Saturday morning the local team opened the tournament with an impressive 14-4 victory over Tammworth in a curfew shortened game. The MoJacks blew this game "open in the 2nd inning as they scored ten wins. Darrell Vanderslaught led the hit parade with three, as Jason Cochrane, Brad Moase, Gavin Cochrane, and Steven Laird each had a pair. Chad Venning was the winning pitcher as he allowed only one hit in three innings, with James Goldburn finishing up in on the mound and allowed four runs on four hits. In the second game of the day Chad Venning allowed one run on four hits over the first five innings as the MoJack players really had on their hitting shoes as they coasted to a 18-1 victory over Peterborough. James Goldburn again pitched the final inning and didn't allow a hit. Steven Laird and Gavin Cochrane lead the twenty hit attck with four hits a piece while Jason Cochrane, Darell Vanderslaught and Jason McBride had 3 hits. Brad Moase and Ryan Picard also had 2 hits. In the 3rd game of the round- robin play, Port Perry played the Norton wins 19-13 by Margaret Rowland The Norton Home Im- provements 9-10 Mites softball team earned their second win of the season last Monday. Ageinst a strong B & R Electric team, Norton Home Improvements emerged victorious with a 19-13 score. Both teams played well and special mention goes to Bob rown, Chris McGriskin, and Michelle Moynham of Norton Home Improvements. host team from Cobourg and defeated them by a score of 10-2. James Goldburn up from the Port Perry house-leage team, and who was filling in for player away on a school trip got the pitching start from coach Ron Redman and pitched a strong game; as he allowed only 2 runs on five hits and also hit a long triple to help his own team. Simfon Traynor, Jason Cochrane and Steven Laird each had 3 hits while Ryan Picard, Ken Jamieson and Grant Kay who had a home run each, and one hit. This win put Port Perry in the cham- pionship and the fourth game of a very long day. In the Championship game Port Perry met a strong club from Napanee, and any time you play Napanee on the softball diamond you know you are in for a tough game. - Napanee had to defeat Guelph, Bracebridge and Springbrook to get to the playoff game. Chad Venning made his 3rd start of the day on the mound for the MoJacks and pitched a strong game, allowing eight hits, while his opponent from Napanee, Bill Wagie also allowed eight hits, in a well played ball game. Two runs for Napanee in the bottom of the third inning, broke open a 1-1 game and put Napanee ahead to stay, and gave them a 4-1 victory over a disappointed Mo- Jack team. Coaches Ron Redman, Al Picard and Bob Vanderslaught were very proud of the team and the effort put forth during the four game tournament. In York-Durham league play the MoJacks stretched their undefeated string to four games, and are now 4-0 in the league, as JOHN COUGAR WRESTLING Book Now ... 571-1444 COLLEGE HILL TOURS they defeated Stouffville 11-3 on Wednesday night. Chad Venning was the winning pitcher as he allowed 3 runs on 4 hits and struck out four Stouffville batters. Swinging the big bat for the Mo- Jacks was Jason Cochrane as he had four hits including 2 homeruns while Brad Moase had a pair. Ryan Picard, Steven Laird, Daniel Vanderslaught, Grant Kay and Gavin Cochrane each had one hit. Next home game for the Mo- Jacks will be Wednesday, June 15th at 6:30 p.m. when Markham will be the opposition. ey. Y TROPHIES & 3 ENGRAVING Team Jackets & Uniforms Bicycle Repairs Silk Screening done on Premises SPORTS SHOP Queen Street - Port Perry PHONE 985-2839 DS