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Battle of Angels It was the "battle of Angels" Sunday night in Port Perry as the Scugog Angels took on their namesakes from Cobourg in an exciting game in the Durham Ladies Fastball League This was one of the closest games the Scugog Angels have been in all season and when things were all over they had prevailed over Cobourg by a 7-6 margin It wasn't easy as Cobourg took a 6-4 lead into the 7th inning. But Jane Thornton got Scugog going as she led off the inning with a single, followed by a single from Tracy Smith and a walk to Lisa Best That set the table for the big come-back as Gena Spence rapped out a double that drove home two and tied the game at six each The winning run came off the bat of Joyce Parkinson who sin- gled w drive home Spence. Jane Thornton shut down the Cobourg crew unul the top of the 6th when they scored five runs off singles and back to back triples Angels did their sconng in the third ining with four runs for an carly 4-0 lead In the hit parade for the Angels (the Scugog variety) Michelle Reader had three with two RBIs, Gena Spence drove in three RBIs and Jane Thornton also had a good game with two hits, and the important one that started the come-back in the bottom of the Tih. The team was in Burlington for a tournament over the weekend After dodging the heavy rain drops on Saturday afternoon, the team finally got a game in and went down to defeat at the hands of Toronto Vaughan by an 11-0 count. Next opponent was Woodstock and things didn't get much better as they defeated Angels 135-5 Oh, well it was one of those weekends. But the team cenainly will get a big ft with the thnHing" victory over Cobourg. On Monday, the Angels were in Oshawa for a ult against the Mavencks and will meet Oshawa Machine this Thursday evening at Durham Fields. The Angels are swarting to gear up for the Ontario Open Sénior Elimination tournament to be held in Port Perry the weekend of August 1. The best fastball teams in the province will be here for this one as the winner will represent Ontano at the Nationals Angels first game in this wur- nament will be Friday evening, July 31 at 7:00 PM with Oakville the opposition. The tournament will conunue August 1-3. Should be come outstanding fastball acuon at the lakefront diamonds in Port Perry First rainout of the year This week's report on the Port Perry Midget Merchants is brought w you courtesy of B and R Electric and Kentucky Fried Chicken Due to the rain last week, the Midgets suffered their first rain out of the season, although the team has played. through the rain on many occasions so far He was one of 23 players try- ing to crack a spot in the Ontario line-up for the Canada Games next August in Kamloops, BC Steve got to know a few of the Charges players he has faced this season and in past seasons for such places at St. Catherines, Scarborough, Stratford, Napanee and Cobourg As well as the usual try-out camp drills to test skill levels the players were involved in two inter-squad games on Sunday A scheduled double-header against the Oshawa Bb Juniors Pride and joy Murray Coppins of Coppins Corners with his 1952 Chev Sedan. The car Is completely original, has automatic transmission, and Murray has owned his pride and joy for the last three years. He was at the Classic and Antique Auto Show at the Fairgrounds Saturday afternoon until rain put an end to the car show and laid Regional Police have But in some ways, the rain outs gave the team a mice "mid season break" before the schedule gets busy again leading up Jo the had 10 be cancelled due to weath er, and Steve had been looking forward to meeung John Ennis, Kevin Gibson and Tim Timms, all all-Ontario games to be held August 29-30 in New Hamburg And speaking of the the all Ontanos, there 15 some good news and bad news for parents of the players. The bad news 1s that the popular Chinese Restaurant in Kitchener (a favounte with many) burned down. But Lulu's has re opened. And Roger Moase will be pleased to know that the Charcoal Steakhouse is still in business serving those pickled herring Now, on to other more impor- ant items. Midgets third sacker Steve Laird attended the OASA Team Ontario try-out camp last weekend in Oshawa. FROM PAGE 15 four in the top of the seventh, helped by a two run homer by S. Jerriott. That gave the visitors a 10-9 lead, but the Eagles were able to push Todd Wilbur across the plate in their last at bats to tie the game at 10-10 before Juniors added one more in the 9th inning to salt away the victory. Eagles big inning was the third when they really had things going their way with seven runs, off just four hits. That gave them what should have been a cosy 9-0 lead at the time. In all, Eagles had eight hits in this one, while the Juniors touched XL pitchers Lawrie Williams and Tim Thompson for cight as well. Earlier in the week, Eagles took on Oshawa and came home with an 8-3 victory Larry Pilkey had three hits (homer, tnple and single) in this one and Doug Case also belted a homer in the seventh inning to help the cause John Annis was on the mound for the victory, fanning six along the way. charged two men following a fight in Port Perry's Palmer Park carly Sunday morning Police said the fight 100k place about 1:30 AM Sunday between a man allegedly armed with a knife and the other armed with a board Police said 20-year old Rand Steven Moore of Port Perry was slashed with a knife seven umes. The injunes are not considered life threaten- ing, said a Police spokesman Charged with assault with a weapon, assault causing bodily harm and possession of a dangerous weapon 1s Robin Rivet, 27 of Oshawa Police have also charged Moore with the same offens- es from Scugog who wear the BB Jumor umforms this year Steve will be back 10 the sec ond camp next May when the final selections will be made Fifteen players will be selected 0 compete for their province in BC Talk about a once-in-a-lifetime experience for those lucky 15 guys and the team wishes Steve all the best of luck Officials with Team Ontario are sull looking for players and will be scouting the league finals and the all-Ontanio games over the next eight weeks or so. Merchants have a busy sched- ule coming up this week. July 21, Pont vs Aurora; July 23, Stroud vs Port; July 29, Port vs Oshawa; July 30 Aurora vs Port. 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