Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), July 13, 1983, p. 11

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vouncs rammAcv itd Open Weoknlghts I Until PHONE the HERALD title bid ends with engine troubles Jon Cornwell season of disappointment continued Friday night at the Canadian Hair Mile Championships at Flam Downs in The Georgetown dirt track motorcycle racer blazed to victory in his heat In the Expert class but ended up a mere statistic In the final when his David- Steve Duff of the Jon Racing Group battles for position during a heat at the Canadian Half Mile Champ lont hips Friday night at Downs In Racing In the a seventh and a sixth In two Herald photo by I in mid limine Junior baseball action Hamilton clips Eagles Despite ploying some of their best baseball the Georgetown Junior B Eagles dropped four out in District Baseball act on this week Sunday night at he Fairgrounds the Eagles lost a pair of thrillers They went down In the opener and In the nightcap Thursday n In Mis the locals lost otter bowing out last Tuesday night in Hamilton Andrew went the full seven innings on the mound for Georgetown in the first half of Sunday a twin sinking out eight vhilc allowing eight hits He was the victim of shoddy defensive play though as Hamilton marked up four unearned complete Haul Black more singled and stole second to spark an explo sion scoring on a Gerry Milne single Second baseman Ralph Kelly singled and Larry followed with another safety driving home M Kevin Hughes then singled to deliver Kelly The second game wot an absolute thriller with Eagle Chris Car Clubbers rally top leaders Jerry delivered teammate Bob Forbes with a sacrifice fly In the bottom or the seventh Inning to lead Random Car Club over the league- leading SOB a In Hills Service Club Slo- action on Sunday Frank Anderson Murray Wild and Forbes all crossed the plate during the final Inning rally staged by Random at the Fairgrounds The key blow was a tworun double by Steve Burns In Other cctlon Ron Myers and Bill Lane connected for back to- back doubles as the New Club edged the Joycees 1412 With the Newfound landers trailing 12 Dan Havana ugh led off the final Inning with a walk Brendan McLean singled and Myers doubl ed home the tying run one out later Lane two- baser ended the match Card Lane and Ed Clz mar hit home runs as Choice Air scored 13 runs In the fourth and fifth inning to a 199 victory over Royal Pizza drove In what proved to be the winning run with a second Inning single as the Elks gored the Opt mists 103 The Kinsmen crushed the Lions behind the power hitting or Pete Ron Randy Schaefer Ryan Wilson Jerry raced home on a sixth inning double by Wayne Reid as Park Lin coin edged out Iho Fire fighters Local softhall girls play- in Hornby minor tourney Two Georgetown girls softball teams found the going tough at the second annual Hornby Minor Softball Tournament on Saturday The Georgetown a collection of all stars from the Kinsmen Girls Intermediate league managed to od vance to their divisional final with a 17- win over Acton They were clobbered in the by Milton The Georgetown ban tams also a collection of Kinsmen all stars dropp ed two decisions They went down 17 to Acton before losing to Kilbride 1S6 The peewce rls fell behind Acton after one inning but they closed the door that P tchcr Maureen record consecutive outs between the second and fifth Inn as Iho locals tacked on 13 unanswered Tolland pltther Tammy Green both swooped down on this ground ball during Saturday championship game at the Hornby tourney timechailngthebatl a they fell to 23 Herald photo Dana MacPherson prov the offensive spark with a threerun blast in the fifth In the final the George town crew were no match for the finely tuned Milton squad The locals scored their lone two runs in he fifth and no I inning when Cindy singled and MacPherson tripled She came home to score on a ground out The bants gat efforts from pitcher Lillian who wcnl six for six at the plate over wo games Andrea Ford wns perfect In five at bats Tar the locals McElroy shared the pitching duties with while the top defensive players for Georgetown were Chris Edwards and Julie Shcri Anderson also played well at second In all IS teams parti paled in three dlvlsl In the atom boys It was an ail Hornby final with the Blue While de to take top honors It was Hornby again In the bantam girls division as they downed Water down to win he championship All participating girls at the tourney received a cosmetic bag while all the boys got a Hornby pennant The winning teams corned trophy Some youngsters won pries In a lucky draw Including Blue Joy and Argo tickets music tapes and club bags son machinery broke Every lime I go to a not onol race In Canada my luck turns sour Cornwell said later At least I made enough money to get me through the weekend Com well bagged In purse money or a pair of fourths In the 250 and classes Michigan rider Ted took top honors in the race while Chris Evans of St Catharines wos the winner and his pit crew attempted make last minute mechanical adjustments between the heals and fnols In the and compe titions but in cases we just made things allow ng Just six Hamilton hits over seven Innings The Birds entered the bottom of he seventh trailing 3 I but with two out for a double M Frisk then cracked an RBI but the rally there Thursday night the Eagles lost to a Missis team hey should beat To moke matters worse it was a former Eagle who drove the f nail n the coffin The Eagles entered the ffth trailing but promptly loaded he when Mark Usher and Mario sandwich ed walks around a Paul Guislinl ngic delivered as did Milne and the score was dead locked at Former Logic short stop Scott Bray walked to off the He then stole second and third and came in with the winning run on a single Usher who went eight and third innings took the loss on the mound The Eagles next home date is this Saturday when they host at the Fairgrounds Game time is Georgetown dirt track racer Jon leans Into a turn during a Canadian Hair Mile race Friday night it lamboro Downs In look two fourth at the national meet Herald photo by llarald Specters come close in league and tourney Twice it was a cose of closebut nocigar for the Glen Williams Specters this week Thursday night in Alma the Glen men suffered a 32 14 inning setback ruining a strikeout performance by Jeff Haines Not that the Specters t have opportunities to take the win Left fielder Andy led off the Inning with a home run finally smashing a scoreless battle open That was only the fourth Specter base hit until that point Alma second baseman Ear Rodgers reached on an error In he homo half of the inning however and raced home when next batter tripled Then In fatal 14th Tim Fields cracked a second Glen homer give the locals a tempo rary lead In the bottom of the Inning though returned Ihe favor for Alma His shot came with a man on base making the final 32 The Specters competed In an on the weekend advancing to the game before bow Ing to Pickering The locals dropped their opener to Caledon East 54 butthenwenton to win three straight to earn a spot in he tourney final Against Pickering the Specters went into the bottom of the seventh and final inning leading but the champs pushed across a pair or runs to win It Mike Reynolds doubled home and then scored on a Jeff Haines single as the Spctcrs took a lead against Pickering in their first at bat Glenn singled home Rob Wilkes who had doubled as he Specs scored again In the second they trailed Pickering two com The Specters tied It up in fourth when reached on an error and raced home on a Jeff Haines double Wilkes scored the fifth and Glen run on Inn ng later when he reached base on one error and came all the way around to score on another Terry Haines went the distance on the mound for the Specters scattering seven hits while striking out seven He was tagged for a tworun double and the loss in the home half of the seventh Inning In three tournament victories the Specters allowed Just a nglc run against over Innings They beat Hectors stopped Samuel Steel 10 and edged host Orange 1 In their three The Specters continue league play tonight in Alton after last nights match in the Glen against Cambridge Sunday league game against Hlllsburgh has been called off as the Specters ore headed for a tournament in Campbell ford Tyke baseball Lions roar in upset win The Georgetown tyke Lions upset leaguelead Clarkson In Halton County Baseball action Sunday at the Fair grounds Jason Moreys three- run homer led the Lions back from an early deficit while Jamie connected for a double and a pair of John Butler pitched well for four Innings the win and Adam collected the save Wednesday night In Strcetsvitte the Lions wasted twoRBI per forma nee from Brian when they fell 12 5 The previous weekend the Lions participated In a ment winning a pair of games before losing In the final In their first outing they upset the host club 1MB on the strength of four hit threeRHI per formance by Sean Gul Guislinl also scored four runs Adam Hagen knocked In a pair of runs while scoring three limes himself Jason Morey Jay and Peter Lee all had fine days at the plate for the locals In game two the Lions rode Bobby DeZceuws pitching arm to a 12 victory over pitched five innings giving up Just three hits and a pair or walks Adorn got the save Jamie belted a home run but It was to no avail as the Lions lost their final loumey outing to Niagara Falls Jason made a great catch In center field to highlight the game for the locals John Butler pitched for Georgetown Angels win Rohan Kumar a key double In the second inning sparked he league leading man Fuel Angels to a 2921 decision over the Royal Canadian Legion Reds in Georgetown Minor Baseball Assocla lion action last week Krista Robertson Mike Burns and Jason were the key players for the high flying Angels Sean Parker was the leading Red with double and two singles Robert Weston was out standing as catcher and hit safely In all three Innings Continued on page Basically It was a gear problem Corn well said I gelt ng he horsepower I was earlier In the season and we to make things work the best we could The Georgetown racer is somewhat hampered In the pit by the that he own the bikes he rides in the 250 and competitions he is limited in the mechanical adjustments he can make Senior der Mike Dou- cette had little more success then Cornwell grabbing a third overall in the class and a fourth in the Dave another of the Cornwell Racing Group riders managed a fifth in the senior class He was runn ing a strong third but a tactical driving error sent him skidding high on the track and he needed a strong finish for his fifth Steve Duff took seventh in the Expert and sixth in the It was good racing that for sure commented It was well organized and a lot of fast people came up from the States for the money An enthusiastic crowd of packed Into the Downs to watch the races Harnois in Games Kim Harnois of Georgetown will be competing at the Ontario Games for the Physically Disabled In ramp ten on the weekend 17 of Park Avenue will compete In four events as a member or Ihe Halton team She will compete or honors In the meter and meter freestyle swimming events the meter backstroke and the For this will be her seventh appearance at the games Three years ago she captured a pair of goals In the pool competes in the A 1 classification for double above- Ihekneo amputees With a good performance could for the national games held in Sudbury in August A member the Blue Fin swimming club hopes to eventually qualify in the aquatic events for tie world finals held In Sweden in October Queens unbeaten gave Dairy Queen their toughest game to date Sandy scored first on a setup by Jenny Melville Mississauga tied It up In a goal mouth scramble then went ahead from a corner kick Dairy Queen got their act together in the second hair with two goals by Tara Burroughs and one by assLsts going to Gallagher and Alison Irvine scored near the end after Julie Taylor got badly hurt The final score Dairy Queen Mississauga Georgetown had an easier game against Erin Milts on Friday chalking up 3 goals in the first half to Er Mills lucky single Although Dairy Queen dominated second half there was no more scoring on this small congested Erin Mills field Fine performances were given by Tammy Wood- sir a Vckl Lavallee Alison Irvine and Kerry McCashcw This weekend Dairy Queen will represent Georgetown at the Kalhy tournament in against some or the province best teams Good luck girls win or lose you II represent Georgetown well Shutout win The Georgetown Select atom girls soccer team played away against a very balanced and skillful Erin Mills All Star team last week winning by a twogoal shutout The first goal by Kim came from a scramble around Iho opponent net and the second goal from a superb effort on Cree part Initiated by a pass from Melanie Booth Dlardichuk a newcomer to the team made a good showing on defence The victory was due in part to good goal lending by C and also to Ihe effort of the Georgetown team giving that little bit extra In determination and courage The earn extends good wishes to Jody InlheirmovetoSan Jose California USA Clinics set Local minor hockey coaches can now register for two Summer Technical Hockey Coaching Courses being offered through the Parks and Recreation Department The Level One course set for August IS includes movies discussion and an hour of instruction Thefe IslH but local coaches can apply for per cent back through a special department reimbursement program a 16hour clinic will be days later Two hours of on ice Instruction at Gordon Alcolt Arena are Included In this course The classroom portion of the course will be held at Georgetown District High School featuring instructors from the Ontario Minor Hockey Association The cost of the second course Is and again local coaches can apply for per cent reimbursement new and experienced coaches can pick up tips on organizing practices teaching basic skills protective equipment how to handle emergency situations and the role of the coach A manual and a crest are awarded to each participant of the course upon completion Applicants to the Level Two clinic have successfully completed Level One Both clinics require skates a stick gloves a helmet and a clipboard Interested coaches can pre- register at the Department at James St Call 10 for more Informal Ion

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