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6 - Orono Weekly Times 61937 - 2012 · Celebrating 75 Years Wednesday, May 23, 2012 Tale of two games By: Chris Stark Sunday was a beautiful day for baseball in Kendal and the Eagle's faithful were treated to a `doozy' of a game. Mark Foster took the ball for the Eagles in his first start of the season. Foster threw four and two third innings allowing only 4 hits. However, he did walk five and hit four batsmen. He was relieved by Bryan Landry after hitting two batters in a row. Landry then promptly drilled the next two batters setting an Eagles record for consecutive bean balls! Fortunately the Birds offense was in full stride on this day and at the end of five they were still up by a score of 5-3. In the sixth inning Eagle's rookie, Justin Wannamaker took the ball and got two quick outs. Then he ran into some control issues and the defense totally imploded, three walks and three errors later the Birds were down 9-5. The offense didn't give up though and continued to pound out hits, fourteen on the day. With two out the Eagles were able to tie the game, on a strikeout of all things, as the third strike was in the dirt and then the throw from the catcher hit the runner on his way to first base. Then, 'Number Nine' Johnny Line delivered a base knock to centerfield to win possibly the ugliest game in Eagles history. Cory Fenton had a great game behind the plate and chipped in at bat with a 2-3 performance, scoring two runs and picking up two RBI. After allowing nineteen base runners in the first game, only six of which came via a hit, the birds looked to right their proverbial ship. They sent deceptive right-hander, Russ `Snuffy' Hunt to the hill. Hunt was nothing short of brilliant over six strong innings giving up only one hit and a single walk. The Eagles offense stayed hot, banging out eight hits and building up a six run lead. The defence also held fast, committing no errors. It was a Jekyll and Hyde type doubleheader as the Birds had control of this game from start to finish. However, Hunt looked to tire late in the game as he gave up four hits and three runs in the seventh, but held on for his first victory of the season. The offense was led by Mark Foster, going 3-2, with a run scored and two RBI. The Eagles next game will be on Wednesday May 30, 2012 in Kendal against the Port Hope River Rats, game time 7:30. Then back at the `Harv' on Sunday June 03, 2012 for a doubleheader against the Pickering Pirates, a noon start. The Birds will complete aseven game home stand on Wednesday June 06, 12 against the Port Hope River Rats, a 7:30 start. OPINION Continued from pg 5 groundwater contamination, no radioactive waste. In contrast, the Ontario electric grid is a story of epic scale. It was built around a small number of massive thousand-plus megawatt generators -- hydroelectric, coal and nuclear -connected to a network of province spanning high voltage transmission lines. The infrastructure needed to maintain this grid requires capital investments in the billions of dollars, far beyond the reach of any one community or municipality. We are so conditioned to accept this as the only way to build an electric system that we can't see the alternative. With renewables, it's possible to have human scale generation close to where the energy is consumed, interconnected by a smart grid that lets locally financed individual and community owned microgenerators share the wires. Power is generated locally, profits are kept in the community and the benefits provide immediate compensation for the inevitable change to the landscape. Unfortunately, when Ontario considered renewables, the same old thinking was applied and we got Big Wind and Big Solar. Current projects require investments in the hundreds of millions of dollars and are undertaken mostly by large energy sector (read fossil fuel) corporations. You may recognize their names from tar sands development: Suncor, Enbridge, Transalta, among others. The Ontario Green Energy Act has created an approvals and incentive system so biased that if it were a playground teeter-totter it would leave small entrepreneurs up in the air while corporate 800pound gorillas sit on the other end. Recent government tinkering with the feed-in tariff program has further wreaked havoc on solar and wind business plans by creating uncertainty about future contracts. Wind is not the problem here, nor is solar. These free and clean energy sources are essential to transition Ontario to a low carbon economy. This is the economy of the 21st century, by which Ontario can again the lead in manufacturing while also working to avoid the worst effects of global warming. But opening up large swaths of rural land to the same corporations that are digging up tar and coal can hardly be called promoting green energy. Advertise in the ORONO WEEKLY TIMES 905-983-5301 oronotimes@rogers.com If you want to drink, that's your business. If you want to stop... that's ours. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS Call 905-728-1020 2012 Pontypool Men's Sunday Lob Ball League Results for: May 27, 2012 BLAZERS over PITA PIT 7:0 RENEGADES over BLACKJACKS 16:13 ROKA GENERALS over K.C. RAMS 12:11 SLIME over OUTLAWS 26:2 League Standings as of: May 28 2012 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. TEAM BLAZERS SLIME PITA PIT RENEGADES R. GENERALS K.C. RAMS BLACKJACKS OUTLAWS GP 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 W 3 2 2 2 2 1 0 0 L 0 1 1 1 1 2 3 3 T 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 RF 41 58 52 52 35 43 29 8 RA 28 30 34 33 34 36 57 66 +/- PTS 13 6 28 4 18 4 19 4 1 4 7 2 -28 0 -58 0 Lakeshore District Next Weeks Time 1:00 2:30 4:00 5:30 7:00 Scedule - Date: Monday June 3rd, 2012 Visitors Home 2ND DRAFT ALL FEES PAID RENEGADES VS PITA PIT OUTLAWS VS BLAZERS BLACKJACKS VS K.C RAMS SLIME VS R. GENERALS