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Acton Free Press (Acton, ON), July 16, 1980, B3

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The Acton Free Press Wednesday July 16 1980 B3 Glen Sabres winners at fundraising ball tourney Garnet Case of limehouse gels ready to unleash his pitch during the Glen Williams Oldtlmers walked away as champions of the annual Acton Sabres fastball tournament Saturday but the big winner was the junior B hockey club The tournament is a fund raising event held each year hosted by the Acton Oldtlmers Acton Oidtimers of Acton Mens Industrial Softball Association dropped Limehouse Oilers In the first game of the tournament at Prospect Park Saturday Runs were scored by Terry Masai Vlnce Thornton Don Archibald Jim James Earl Burt Ray Graham Doug Pratt Fred Archibald Ed Wood and Frank Daley Firestone scored nine runs in the fourth inning alone Two more Acton teams the Industrial League Allstars and Fobert Real Estate from Condominium league squared off in game four with the All stars coming out on top of a score The scored five runs in the third inning with Dan Allen Larry King Chris Glen and Ken touching home Foster Scores Lloyd Foster crossed the plate in the third for Foberls to make it Centrcfielder Ray Willloms and George scored in the fourth putting Fobcrts within two but runs by King and Allen in the fifth made it Allen and King touched iior Sabres home in the sixth for the final three The Oldtlmers faced the eventual champions in the sixth game of the tournament They had no better luck than runners up da ports Glen beat Acton Junior Tibbitts Ron Ritchie Merv Malish Jim Franks Tony Tom James and Jim scored for Glen ran into a 74 loss against Oldsporb in game seven Bra ma lea had jumped into a lead until scored two runs In the fifth Glen Creighton and crossed the plate threatens scored two more runs In the sixth and although threaten ed with tworun rally late in the game held on to win Acton Allstars were edged by 1 in the eighth game of the tournament The scored their lone run In the seventh when Gary Masters was driven in by That tied the game oneapiece but Guclph went ahead in the op of the eighth with their second run to take the game The Acton Oidtimers blasted Scar rough in the ninth game Acton runs were scored by Jules Russian and James In the first Stan Clark In the second Masai Graham Thornton Avery and Clark the fourth Tennant crossed the plate far Acton a lone run Acton Nicked The same Bramaleo team nicked the Acton Oldtlmers in the final playoff game jumped Into a lead in the bottom of the second and held on to It until the top of the sixth That when the Oldtlmers let loose with seven runs to take the lead Fred Archibald had already crossed the plate in the third and again in the sixth along with Thornton Mosaics Burt James Don Archibald and Graham Don Snow crossed the ploto in the bottom of the sixth to put within one then went ahead in the seven with the winning runs Fred Archibald and Pratt batted singles in the seventh but were left on board at the end of the inning The game ended setting up the plonshlp match In that game Glen Oidtimers who had Just gotten together before the tournament for the charitable cause edged Emllc Relic of BramalLa was voted most valuable player of the tournament In other tournament games Glen disposed of Scarborough before falling to the Guelph 21 Oidtimers doubled Bramalea Oldsports and Scarborough snuffed Officials from the Acton Sabres said thanks should go to everyone who competed In the tournament especially to the Acton Oidtimers Sidelines by Mike Morris The Junior boys Inter county team split two matches Saturday to finish the season in second place in their league Ron Robertson took the only set for Acton dropping seven sets to one White Oaks Robertson played In the singles But the team came back later in the day to trounce York Weston six sets to two Winning sets for Acton were Paul Nolan and Scott in the singles with Robertson and Ken Kavanagh teaming up in the doubles Pierre and Brian Bollert rounded off the big victory In the other doubles The team heads into the play Our mixed team dropped a decision to Thursday evening with Marcia Gregg and Chris teen Slecn picking up the only match for Acton The Junior Round Robin will begin tomorrow Thursday at I pm Balls will be provided No stopping Roadrunners in tourney The Acton of the Georgetown Industrial Fastball League are hard to get rid of It took five games before Formosa barely squeezed past them 3 In the Hanover tournament on the weekend Up to that point the had been tearing up the diamonds first nipping last years champions Port Elgin 4 then holding St Jacobs to a score blasting Walton Mountain not the Summer games More than young athletes will be competing for provincial titles in different sports during the Ontario Summer Games being by Peterborough August 25 The Summer Games Is a sport event with athletes selected on the basis of the performance in regional trials held throughout Iho province The Games are essentially developmental that they help provincial athletes attain a level of excel that may lead to national and international competition The list of sports partu Games includes Baseball Basketball Canoeing Cricket Cycling Field Hockey Golf Lacrosse Lawn Bowling Orienteering Rowing ipatinginthe Summer Rugby Sailing Shooting Soccer Softball Tennis Track and Field Volleyball Watcrsknng Wrestling Hollywood version before falling to For There was one black cloud In the day when the lost to Durham In the third match 30 In the championship game the two teams were tied at the end of the first inning J Legate hammered a single and crossed the plate for the Roadrunners Then Acton took he lead at the top of the fourth with Legate again batting a double and crossing the plate on a single by Dick Spear But Formosa came back in the fifth They only had two hits on the inning but scored on one of them scored off a double before the Joe Deforest could strike out the last batter league play the ham Peel Police in Thursday home game at Prospect Earlier they Clark Norval They are going into tonight a game a match In Georgetown holding first place in the Tomorrow Thursday IMPERIAL OPTICAL Special Presentation RACEWAYI HARNESS RACING Post Time Tuesday Evening ADMISSION CHARGE 800pm Thursday Sunday Evening Aft moon 2 Air ChibHouia Juki Canadas East Coast Petroleum Prospects Send for your booklet We believe the east coast of Canada is the number one offshore oil and gas exploration play in the world With continued unrest in the Middle East the tance of Canada s east coast reserves should bring Increased Investor recognition To find out more about this important investment oppor just fill in the coupon and mail today Merrill Lynch Royal Securities Limited Regionals in Rockwood ball Association Is holding the PWSA Juvenile regional tournament next weekend Eleven team Bulldogs The Bulldogs tugof war team took second spot in the Highland Games day alter losing to the eventual champions The Ontario Heavyweights The Bulldogs did Get Norton bangs grand slam Heath Norton grand slam helped Acton Chicken and Pizza Spot boys win a slugmit with Monday at Prospect Park Craig Bottomley Bruce Raines and Scott were among those who batted singles In the game Last Wednesday the Chicken and Pizza Spot travelled to Glen Williams and dropped a decision Norton scored the two runs for Acton one on an error The second run was knocked in by a Raines hit During the gome Acton player Ted Morlssette was spiked and taken to hospital for On Monday July 7 Cory sponsor of the Chicken and Pizza the team for dinner Norton and Nowlan captains of the presented him with a card signed by all the players from Bramp ton Riverside in Windsor Chingacousy

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