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Tho Acton Froo Press Wednesday July 2 sports and recreation One 11 a id 1 iflh tar Number shy 2 1980 c Graham MVP in fastball tourney Acton Firestone catcher misses the lu on a and I Landscaping runner coming home in action at the Back to Days fastball tourney lost the tourney title to and PI the MVP honors Photo by Vans Welding blow an 80 lead Ray Graham was voted most valuable player of the men teams in the Back to Acton fastball tournament Saturday and Sunday but his team the Acton Old timers of the Industrial Softball lion the championship game to C and P Landscaping from Milton Milton downed Acton In the final gome Monday night in Georgetown The two final games scheduled for Sunday were postponed because of rain In the girls division the Georgetown walked off with the girls championship after defeating 5 Acton reached the finals by dumping the Georgetown Merchants on the Georgetown Industrial Fastball league in the first game Saturday Jim James Don Archi bald Graham Terry scored the runs Vincc Thornton scored two runs Then the Oldtlmers met Hustlers Only two runs by Al Avery and Grant Usher were needed by Acton to win the game 20 The and Pirates of Milton meanwhile were whipping the Georgetown Merchants 17 The Merchants and the Hustlers battled to decide on a consolation champion with the Merchants winning The Oldtimera lost their first game of the tournament in what proved to be fore runner of the final game when Milton nipped them 3 The game itself meant little to the tournament standings since the other teams had been already eliminated Doug Pratt and scored Acton two runs In Monday final game Milton had built an eight run lead by tin fourth Inning The Oldtlmers came back in the fifth with their two runs James batted a single and reached home on an error by Dove of Milton Ray Greham followed with a triple and reached home when Paul fumbled the ball Terry Mosaics slugged a single In the sixth inning but was left on second base It was the last hit of the game for Acton Milton scored one more run In the sixth to win the game The Georgetown Royaleltes had to face twice to win the championship In the first game dumped them 1 Earlier Milton had disposed of Hills burg 1 Georgetown then blasted Milton then fell to setting up he final game Janis Gagne of was voted the most valuable girl player of the All those watching WKRP in Cincinnati and MASH reruns Monday night were mis sing the hit comedy show of the season It called Van Comedy Hour or How to Blow an lead In Short Easy Errors In any case Van of the Acton Men Industrial Softball league attempts at base- HaltonRural report Squirts up Acton Standard Products Ltd squirts are playing with a four win three loss record to date On Friday Omagh handed Standard one of their losses a defeat Alex scored two runs and batted two more singles in the game Frank slugged two singles scored a run and batted in two more runners Evan Hayter slugged one RBI and a single and Kevin Fabian hammered a single Mike Baker and Leatherlnnd baited In the other Acton runs with David picking up two walks scoring the fma run On Thursday Standard fell to and hammered singles Katsilieris scored the only Acton run on a steal at home Last Wednesday Standard edged Lowville belted a two- bagger two singles and two batters home In the victory Leatherland and Steve slugged two singles each Hayter batted in two runs Leatherland brought two more runners across the plate and Emanuell Kritico and Fabian gave Acton the other runs In an earlier match on June 13 Acton ball provided the evening and nobody loved it better or laughed har than nation Hills Electric who finally beat them 14 10 It looked like Vans who had won two games in a row last week had gotten drunk with victory They scored six runs in the top to standard dumped Lowville belted out two singles bringing one runner across the plate Mike Baker scored two RBI s and belted a triple while and Chris Colyn slugged singles Peewees lend players When the Acton Chicken and Pizza Spot travel all the way to Limehouse to baseball by gosh they re play So when Limehouse defaulted the Halton Run league game because of lack of players Acton peewees merely lent them wo of theirs and continued with an exhibition match which they won handily Craig was the big hitter going five for five with two blowers Norton also batted five for five with a homer Norton and Kevin shared job wlffing batters between them Lobsinger was no pushover at bat either with two hits for three Don Swinamer slugged three hits Grant Smith batted two David Ruse Jeff Koc pcla Scot Nowland Roberto Lulsctto and Rick Crlpps smacked other singles of the first alone while Electric went down with three straight strikeouts Dave was first man across the plate for Vans soon followed by Korl Killing beck Denis Kirton Gary Pickles Guy Payne and Steve Kruk Killing beck and Pickles scored in the sec to make it Electric meanwhile had only one hit by Steve Townsly He was left on first base at the end of the Inning But then Van secret weapon In the form of Kirton left He had a game lo play for Ed In Out midgets In tricounty ball Things went downhill from there Electric scored four runs In the fourth Sleeves Dan Allen Bob and Gary Masters touched home Jarrett and crossed home plate again In the fifth to make it Now Van was making short trips up to bat They even manage a hit in the fourth and fifth innings Electric exploded In the sixth with seven runs aided by a mass of errors on Vans part Ken Hurren hit a double Allen was sent walking then hammered them home after Killing beck fumbled the ball Towns ley hit onebagger Canary walked and Masters hit a single Frank and Hagan scored the other Electric runs That made it 138 Van scored two more runs in the seventh with Pickles and Inscoc touching home but Piper and were left on base scored the final run for Electric in the bottom of the seventh In the other Industrial match Monday scored eight runs In the bottom of the fourth to lead them to a 13 victory over Station Station touched home first In the opening frame Bob crossed the plate for the run Bob Little was batted in on a twobagger by Lloyd Smallwood for in the second and Sid Burns scored In the third for Station while Allan Hall touthed home for giving the Hotel a lead Then Freedom exploded with their eight runs Mike McGregor Allan Hall Ruddy Doug ford George Little Smallwood and Allan Campbell with a homer no less scored the runs Dave Allen touched home in the fifth for Station McGregor Holmes and replied for Station scored two more runs in the to make it close with Barnes and Jamie Morris reaching home safely In the Wednesday night game avenged their loss over Firestone dumping them 7 Last Sunday Firestone whipped 12 1 Ella Ciglen Terry runs In the first inning for Ciglen and Bruce Cunningham crossed the plate in the second and Cun scored again in the fourth giving a lead Don Archibald Ray Graham and Jim James scored for the Vince Thornton Archibald and Graham scored the other Firestone runs jumped on pitcher Grant Usher In the sixth inning with five big runs Ella Ciglen O Brien Charlie Harrison Al field scored for Tonight Station has a chance to redeem themselves when they and have a rematch Game time is a 30 Sunday the schedule returns to normal w I- re adorn and Halton Hills Electric up to bat at faces Station at and Van square off against Firestone at a 15 All games arc played urder the lights at Prospect Park Van Welding lost the game after blowing Rams rally stopped short by former pro goaltender A late game rally by the Acton Rams was stopped short by a hot Mlssissauga goalie In Thursdays 12 defeat in lacrosse It only the second time the Rams lost but they went down fighting The Rams were behind 2 at one point scoring the nine goals late in the match Rams might have won it too if Craig had connected on any of five breakaways in the dying minutes of the match He hit the crossbar the ceiling the post and the goalie on each attempt Mlssissauga goalie Karl Cribbs a former professional player returned to the net giving Mlssissauga more clout mentor Howard Dwyer said both teams played well despite the intense heat It must have been degrees in the arena Scoring for the Rams were Paul Wilson Hen nic Van Oort Brian Harry and Doug Taylor with singles Taylor normally a played out of the nets for the game be cause the Rams were Steve Wilson George and Ron Turkosz each netted a pair of markers to round out Rams scoring With Taylor scoring the only two Rams who haven t gotten a marker are goalie John DcCourcy and who missed on the break Rams coach and ways Home celebrate Home Hardware Swartz scored runs for celebrated their first Home victory of the season with Todd Demonc smacked a win over Indus In the only hit for Indusmin Tuesday Home Hardware next Tammy Ryan match is tomorrow David Thursday 1 against J and Sports f David Estrin Environmental Energy Law The Rams arc now tied in their series with winning two games apiece with returning to the Com munity Centre Monday Brooklyn the third entry and newcomer to the league found a pushover though downing them in their match The Rams trounced Brooklyn in the only game the two played this season and Brooklyn have four games scheduled leav ing the Hams with a gap in theirs After visits here Monday said he hoped to get a few Junior teams pencilled In for exhibition matches Thursday match was not televised and the previous telecast of victory over Mississauga a few weeks ago also won be shown on Halton Cable It seems they erased tape The next televised game won t bo for a few weeks when the Rams returned to Mississauga Game time for day match is p CANADIAN ODEON THEATRES A GEORGETOWN 3 STARTING FRIDAY raj SYR TERM Annul Interest ARABIANS Toronto Monday Tuosday I son appearand of Cass Ola Black Stall on Horn award w nn no Count Norjaloo dona tod by Arab ana bo nod on July Don a tmndaomo The Canadian Naltonal Royal Arabian Championships June 30 July 5 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