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THE OAKVILLE BEAVER JU LY 19, 1991 All hands on deck for m idget A's in key COBA win By TOM MICHIBATA OakviSe Beaver stall Senior A's score a Royal flush The Oakville A's bats were booming Tuesday in a 15-7 rout of the Sheridan R oyals in C en tral O n tario B aseball A ssociation senior play at Ninth Line Park. Ken Collett had five singles in six at-bats to improve his batting average to .5 3 4 (31-fo r-5 8 ) as the A's won their second straight game to improve to 610. Brennan Everts smacked a two-run hom er w hile Joe Lopes and Selw yn Everts added two hits each. W ayne P o rte rfie ld to s se d fiv e innings of six-hit ball, giving up four earned runs w hile fanning three and walking two. G reg Monk worked two innings, striking out two and walking one w hile allow ing ope hit. H elm ut Rautenberg gave up one run on one hit in o ne in n in g w h ile R oy S k in n er mopped up, giving up two runs on two hits. On Monday, Doug Anderson tossed a completff-game eight hitter in a 7-4 decision xSver St. Catharines Metros at Oakvilje Park. erson struck out six and walked £e. Two o f the M etros' runs were unearned. Mike Drysdale's three-run homer in the bottom of the eighth was the deci sive blow, snapping a 4 -4 tie. Selwyn Everts went 4-for-5 at the plate. M o n d ay 's a ffa ir was the second meeting between the teams in five days. L ast T h u rsd ay ev en in g in S t. Catharines, the A 's and M etros were tied 7-7 in a game called after nine full innings because o f curfew. The game will be played from the beginning as part of a doubleheader in St. Catharines (S e e ' A l l - s t a r P g . 2 9 ) Craig Fournier tossed five-and-two-third innings of four-hit, two-run ball. Third baseman Brian Taylor smacked a two-run homer to ignite a five-run third inning. Chuck Gamer made a brilliant game-saving stab of a line shot through the box during his two innings o f relief. First baseman J.P. Fozo made two nice digs of balls thrown in the dirt. Catcher Steve Wilson did a masterful job of calling the right game. The list goes on and on for the Oakville C.P. Hotels midget A's because just about everybody had a hand in Tuesday's 5-4 victory over the Streetsville Tigers in a vital Central Ontario Baseball Association match at Oakville Park. The game was called after seven-and-a-half innings because of curfew. A's5,T!gers4 With both teams vying for a `AAA' rating for the Ontaric/Baseball Association playdowns on Labor Day Weekend, the win should go a loijg way in convincing the evaluators that the A's should get the nod. The A's improved their league record to 13-3 while iKe Tigers dropped to 9-3-1. According to Oakville field boss Ron Fozo. the ratingsM ll done Monday. The communal effort has been what the club's snccess has been, predicated on the entire season. No one part is greater than the whole. "We play good, fundamental ball," Fozo saiir "We don't make mistakes. We have reasonable team speed so we put pressure On the other team. "We play for the team. We try to move runrfers over. No-one tries to be a hero." With the club gunning for its first-ever OBA rating ever, the one-for-all, all-forone credo has taken on even greater meaning, says the elder Fozo. "The guys wanted `AAA' from the jjXrt and they've fought and scratched all the way through game-in-and-game-out," he said. "The nucleus this team has been around since peewee and they've never been rated and they've never come close. "It's something they want and worked hard to do. I feel very good about the guys and what they've been able to accomplish." Fournier has been with the club for only a month since being called up from the midget `B's but the close-knittedness he's quickly become well-aware of. "I know a lot of the guys," said the 15-year-old southpaw who's now 3-1 with his newest employers. "They greeted me and made me feel comfortable." Gamer felt nervous during his relief stint because there was plenty riding on the game. He was the losing pitcher in the club's 2-0 loss to Streetsville in the previous (See ' G a m e r', Pg. 29) TITLE CHASE: Cristy Cragg of Oakville and Jodi Dobble of Oakville East, fore ground, pursue the ball during Halton Field Hockey Club Recreational League final last week. Oakville East won 2-0. (Photo by Barrie Erskine) Kolosky, Kress key victory Kelly Kolosky and Heather Kress scored as Oakville East defeated Oakville 2-0 to win the Halton Field Hockey Club Recreational League championship game last week at Glen Ashton Park. Burlington Tim Horton's received goals from Amanda Towns and Janis Moyangh in a 2-1 win over Burlington Halton Printing in the bronze-medal game. Samantha White scored for Halton Printing. carch and Destroy-- 45 Guys Outta Control. That's what was printed on the T-shirts the Oakville Longhorns were selling during their first game, back on June 2nd at Burlington's Nelson Stadium. Appropriate, it turns ouL The Longhorns certainly were Outta Control this past Saturday at Bronte Athletic Field while losing 34-20 to the Sudbury Spartans. It started early and got progessively worse as the night wore on. The Spartans were already up 7-0 when, barely 10 minutes into the contest, Longhorn safety Selwyn Daniel was left in man coverage on Sudbury' s Mike Stinson. The result? Predictable, judging by the play's result and subsequent reviews. Daniel was undressed and Stinson had a 58-yard gain. A play later the Spartans were in the end zone again and it was 14-zip. "Selwyn can't cover anyone one-on-one! " yelled someone from the bench. The Longhorn bench. Well, at least everyone knows where everybody stands. Daniel can't play pass defence, apparently. `They're always yelling at each other, pointing fingers, saying things like `you blew that assignment' and so on," coach Pete Wason after the game. Nobody on this team pulls any punches. Sometimes, they come dose to throwing punches. As did Daniel and placekicker Mike Jackson later on, just after Jackson missed a convert that would have brought the `Horns to within 28-21 midway through the third quarter. "You've got one blankety-blank job!" Jackson muttered as he paced the sideline, admonishing himself. Over came Daniel to offer some words of consolation. Or. given the Longhorns, perhaps criticism. Whatever, next thing you knew Jackson was telling Daniel to get out of his face. Nobody on the bench took any action, though. They're used to these The Oakville Longhorns: Mob rule S Karlo Berkovich flare-ups. More likely though, it was because by this time, everybody was too busy cussing out the officials for alleged crimes. There were some missed calls, sure, but the fact is none played a part in putting what looked like a totally unprepared Longhorn team down 21-0. Of course, it's always easier to get in a few effing this's and effing that's than buckle down and play ball. Which was about the extent of reserve linebacker Mark Anderson's contribution to the proceedings almost from the opening whistle. Eff this, eff that. Anderson was a bro ken record all night. Great advertisement for Longhorn football. Anderson didn't play much on the field, but did manage to get in a few games of helmet toss against the wall of the clubhouse. Anderson was finally tossed himself late in the game for his puerile profanity, though this came only after Wason admitted to the officials that "I had tried everything" to silence a player who saw action in one series all nighL Cop-ouL Wason played linebacker in this league. He's a fairly big guy. He, or somebody, should have slammed Anderson up against the helmet-toss wall and said enough. Then again, maybe that wouldn't have helped anyway, since veteran centre Rick Milne tried to reason with Anderson later on to no effect. The Longhorns are a talented team, and will be more so should Warren Salmon, who has missed the last two games due to recejvw'Wam return as expected for Sunday's rematch in work commitments, commin Sudbury. But they are completely undisciplined, though the outlaw in all of us does find them strangely appealing. Wason concedes that the guy who should be doling out the discipline -- Pete Wason-- may not be able to do so. "I played with these guys," he said. "Maybe they don't have the respect for me for guiding them (as a coach) that they had for me out there. The respect they have for me is as a player." The `Horns are, in essence, coached by the players. Have been ever since Bruce Gilroy was forced to resign after the 1988 season due to work commitments. Wason himself had to quit for the same reasoas in the pre-season this year and was only lured back under the condition he would only coach games and one practice a week. Such are the trials and tribulations of a working-man's league, though that doesn't excuse last Saturday's sorry show. "Our team has been ruled by democracy and anarchy ever since Bnice Gilroy left," said veteran linebacker Ken Arp, one of four playercoaches. "It's been running itself and it's difficult to maintain control of the team. A lot of guys feel they have all the solutions. "But then again, if you look at our team, we're older than most in the league and that's why guys stay on -- we have more fun. With all due respect to Sid (Sudbury coach Forster), who does a lot to keep the league going, if he was coaching here not a lot of these guys would be playing because they wouldn't put up with his discipline. We're an undisciplined group." Never to the degree exhibited Saturday nighL though. Might the sec ond of two straight losses have had something to do with it? "We're not sore losers," said Wason, sounding like a hockey coach trying to explain a bench-clearing brawl. "V *fcjust get frustrated. " Oh.