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One pitch ends Hoosier hopes of making tournament finals THE HERALD Wednesday July IfM Page 1 The Firestone Halton Hills Hoosiers came within one pitch of sweeping their division and ad vancmg to the championship round of the Niagara Falls Teddy Bear Tournament on the weekend The Hoosiers won two games but lost to the hosts when the Niagara hitter singled with two outs and a two strike count against her in the bottom of the seventh The visitors had been leading but the next Niagara batter tying the score The Falls won the game when a pickoff throw hit their player in the back and bounced away allow the runner to score Firestones first game was Fri day evening against the host squad After leaving two on in each of the first two innings Hoosiers broke on top in the top of the third Lisa Harlow singled and took se cond on an error Andrea Leeking advanced her to third with a bunt single Shannon Morris followed with another single cashing the runner and sending Leeking to third A sacrifice fly by Kelly Am brose completed the scoring Firestone led The kept Niagara Falls at bay until the bottom of the fifth when the combination of a single and double narrowed the gap to 21 That was still the score as the torn of the seventh opened Firestone quickly retired the first two batters on second baseman Dentse Hannah to Sherie Peacock groundouts However with a twostrike count against the next Falls batter grounded a single up the middle She was followed by a wrong field fly down the line that went for a tnple and tied the score The Falls won the game when a pickoff throw hit the baserunner in the back and caromed away allowing the runner to score Final score Niagara Falls Firestone Morns tossed the complete game allowing two earned runs on seven hits and two walks while sinking out four Firestone had seven hits and stranded eight run ners on base The loss meant Halton Hills needed help from the other pool teams in order to ad to the playoff round Saturday morning Hoosiers took on London Nelson Park Behind the Kinsmen Girls Softball Delrex smokes Standard ByDEEDEEHAYNES Special to The Herald JUNIORS Standard Products unsuccessful attempted to continue their undefeated streak to eight games July 12 when Delrex Smoke Shop up and defeated them 2725 Home run hitters were Andrea Mandy Donna Becky and Angela of and Jackie Grant of Standard Both teams were named game stars Youngs I D A Pharmacv over powered and doubled the Kinettes Hutzal 2 Kati Moore Brianne Beaumont and Jessica Beague slammed in homers for Youngs Once again both teams were named game stars INTERMEDIATE Kentners Dairy Bar slipped past Dairy Queen on Smashing in bag trippers were Shen Buker and Jennifer Arm strong of Kentners and Teresa of Dairy Queen All three homerun hitters were named game stars Elks Lodge came out on top of the Optimists by a single run on ly 12 Kelly Campbell from Elks and Lindsay Holmes from Op timists knocked in the game s home runs Game stars were Holmes of Optimists and Nicole Brookes of Elks SENIORS Pictures and Presents to victory over ReMax on Ju At the mound for was Heather Susan and Valerie Lane Game stars were Natalie Goldson of P and and Paula La of who belted in the game s solo home run July 17 fortunately saw a rained out game The Kinsmen Girls Softball League would like to congratulated Hardball Expos win 97 The Standard Products Expos had to play good hard ball to beat the Toronto Dominion Banks A s 7 in Georgetowns Bantam House League in last Mondays game It was a super game for Expos player Mike Lumbers that night with an excellent steal home as well as a great bunt and a run in the inning Jason Duke a super inning for the As with up and 3 down The Expos didnt fair so well the following Friday when they played Curwoods Royals who put forth a terrific team effort to beat the Ex Expos Brad Hutzal made an ex throw home from the out field for one of the outs in the first inning n coaches Barbara Lovegrove and Scott Martin on their wedding which took place Saturday July May best wishes be with Mr and Mrs Martin strikeout pitching performance of Ambrose Firestone cruised to a lwin In the first Harlow reached base on an error and eventually scored on a Morns single In the second Amy Cooper singled and one out later was driven home by an Amy Korzack single Korzack proceed ed to steal second and third and scored on a Ken Vandevalk groun dout In the third Harlow again reach ed base on an error and again Morris cashed her in In the fourth Cooper scored dnven by Jen Clark an underage sub brought up to help the team In the fifth Morris closed out the Firestone scoring with an park The afternoon game was a mat chup against London had already lost 20 to the Falls which cinched a playoff spot for the Niagara team Firestone broke on top in the bot tom of the second Cooper walked and eventually scored on a throw ing error Next Inning each team scored a run For the Hoosiers it was textbook softbal as Harlow walked was sacrificed to second by Leeking and scored on a Morns single Firestone put up a pair of surance runs in the top of the last inning With two out Morris singl ed Ambrose tripled to drive her home and Peacock singled drive home the last run Final score Hit and run play The Oakville runner takes off for second base while Georgetown Tyke player Wesley Blight makes his pilch during Fridays game Georgetown led the visitors for most of the game but lost the contest when Oakville tripled with the bases loaded in the seventh inn ing Herald Photo Charity football event The Georgetown Ladles Flag Football Chanty event on July was a success raising for the Shnners Hospital for Cnppled Children Sandra Cousens president of the league said the money be given to the hospital in memory of Bob Copland and thanked the sors who helped make the day a success She also thanked members of Global TV and the Halton Regional Police who participated in the games Global won their game against Burns Transport while the police beat the mens 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