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Merchants meet the challenge of a new season TERRY HAINES TIM LARRY SCOTT MIKE REYNOLDS GRAHAM DEARSLEY JEFF HAINES Inside Holton track B3 Bowling awards B4 the HERALD HARVEYS TIRE CENTRE Moots 8775110 SECTION HERALD Wednesday Miv IB 182 Reynolds hot for Merchants Glen men oust Hillsburgh with 31 in home opener Reynolds going 3 for which consists or Andy Jack Berg man Dean Hancock and The Glen Merchant In tcrcounty team opened their season with two wins last week capp ing their first win with a victory over Hilb- Against Hillsburg last Tuesday Terry Haines pitched nine Innings of superb ball giving up two hits in the first inning and allowing only one more hit in eight innings Terry had four strike outs The Glen infield and outfield played good de fensive ball throughout the day The locals Hillsburg with good performances by Mike Reynolds who went 3 for at bat In the second Inning Mike Reynolds lined out a double Terry Haines singles to score the Glen first run The game was 1 until the eighth Inning when Tim Fields had an Infield hit Andy was next at bat and he hit a long high home run over centre field fence to wrap up the game GLEN The Glen were also active Sunday night against Bel wood as hey downed their opposition after Innings Using all 17 ballplayers coaches Cliff Norton and Bud Haines saw their team lead dwindle to a tie as scored both their runs In tht ninth inning the Glen For the winning score Haines led off with a hit Coach Bud Haines called for a hit and run by Larry Scott and he came through with a hit Jack Bergman then scored the two runs The coaches were pleased with the play of the squad especially the outfield Acton Redmen down Rebel rugby team in clash By BRANSCH Herald Correspondent The- boys rugby team displayed vast improvements last week when they won their first game of the season against Central Peel then stayed busy with a Joss to Acton on Monday and a tournament on day The game against Acton which the Rebels lost 144 represents the first time In the season that the Rebels team had a successful try andscor four points Honors for the first points go to Kevin Gillespie Continuing the scoring trend the Rebels held Central Peel scoreless and took the win 140 The scoring was composed of tries worth four points each by Jon Ellis Sean Sloven Itlck and a convert by Kevin Gillespie Coach Bingham said the team showed terrific Improvements in the play of the game and were passing extremely will If the game had not been called ten minutes early due to an Injury Georgetown may have had another opportunity to score In the aside toum a men which Is composed of smaller seven man teams and slightly differ regulations the Georgetown team managed to win one of their two games The smaller teams produces a game that Involves most ly running andhttlepass After losing to host team Humbcrvlew the team used four tries to blank Chingua 120 Scoring for the Rebels were Ian Mclver Paul Wilson and Bob Bingham The A team hod the misfortune of losing Central Peel and remaining wlnless losing to Caw thro Park Coach Bingham commented that the team tends to have slow first halves but In nearly every second half they have cither tied or to the other teams By Improving the first half a winning trend could be established possibly Tor next season Tuesday the Rebels ployed their last game of the season against Ching ua Dave Grimih left and above both competed well at the Hilton trick field championship placing first In their res pective events Griffith woo the too metre steeplechase while Brant captured first la the high jump ALOFT Eagles cure some jitters Junior team wins opener against 75 tops in Industrial ball Varian tops the standings of Georgetown s Industrial fastball league as of last week tally Varian and the Georgetown Merchants have both played four games won three and lost one but Varian has the belter overall record Hollywood Tavern have a record w M and M Pro Sports have started off their season with a 1 1 total After two games Peel Steel emerged vie tori both times and S Plumbing have a standing while Armstrong Collision are Starting slowly also arc Steel Buildings and AkcrsClark with identical 303 records The Georgetown Base ball Association Eagles earned their wings In competition over tho weekend when they won their first game of the season In a come- from behind j victory The local junior hard ball learn defeated Miss largely because of the defensive skills and pitching strength coach Kevin Burke said after Left fielder Paul caught the eye of the coach with his fielding and hitting abilities in the gome Paul scored two runs and was 1 far 2 inhlts one walk Gerry Milne and Mike also early in the schedule that their hitting and fielding will be an asset to the The boys were vry nervous but they re go ing to get better coach Burke said Its going to lake four or five games to get Into the atmosphere of things They re still on a stage acting he said HISTORIC Emotions ran high after the first historic win for the newly formed junior ball team but the next day Sunday the Eagles travelled to Niagara Falls Ontario where they were blanked 120 by their opponents The Niagara Falls team placed second In the Ontario junior last year said manager Finn With two games under the belt the Eagles now await their season home opener at Georgetown Fairgrounds this Sunday at 3 The local juniors will play Niagara Falls USA a team that cd sixth last year In the hardball league Mike of Bramp ton pitched for the Eagles Saturday while Chris Fabbrl took the loss Sun day Homebrew ace Andrew Broun is expect to start the Sunday game In Georgetown against Niagara Falls CHANGES The coach says he make a few lineup chang far Sunday gam notably switching Gerry Milne and Mario Galvao Milne will now go to short slop while Galvao minds third base Coach Burke also wants to work on his pitcher catching combination for the next game From a defensive standpoint Mike made a few key plays such as throwing out a runner at home plate from his position But the coach wants to correct some hitting pro blems especially when a Georgetown batter has a 3 and count he said Protecting the plate Is one area he will work with the boys on Bunting Is good but the players have to get on base first he said Against Mississauga a new Junior team that played juvenile ball last year Gerry Milne was 2 for 4 at bat with two RBIs Mike went for 4 at bat including one walk and one RBI Chris was 1 Tor with a tworun home run Mike Cottrill hit for Includ ing one stolen base and As pitcher Cottrill had strikeouts one walk and allowed hits Playing in Niagara Falls Ontario Paul Gut a tin was the only Eagle to hit when ho connected for a single They also walk twice Niagara Falls got six runs in the first Inning then collected two more in the second and fourth innings before ending the contest with four runs in the sixth inning Mixed tennis team win Gordon Alcott Tennis club Mixed night team in the League played York last week and emerged victorious in a clean sweep of matches Jim Taylor and John Allison teamed up for Georgetown to register gamesof Sid Harris and Jim Taggart also won against their opponents in scores of and and Bill Kent swept past York with two games Marilyn Serjeantson and Tony Hull won their match while Lois and Keith King took their opponents to defeat in scores of and Linda Rice and Ista Allison were decisive winners In their and games Gordon won all of their six matches JAC WILSON ROB ANDY BROADBENT DEAN HANCOCK Intercounty champions set to defend their fastball title Continued on