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== AE rie LNG, Par He rs = CE CNL La Ser Soh ANN See AN § fs 18 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, May 28, 1975 shins ER Lumber, sponsor of the Lumbermen does the honours and throws the ceremonial first pitch at the home opener for the Lumbermen in the Osh- awa and District Softball League, Thursday even- ing. The Whitby Firemen spoiled the home opener when they scored three runs in the eighth inning to give the local club its first loss of the season. The Ballard Lumber Inter- mediate Softball Club are currently in second place in the Oshawa City and District Softball League after one week of play. The Lumbermen made an impressive start to the '75 season on Wednesday night in Oshawa when they pound- edout an 18-4 win over P & R Truck Rentals of Oshawa, but on Thursday night, the local club dropped a tough 5-3 decision to the Whitby Tire- men. : Lumbermen 18 - P & R Rentals 4 Ken Goreski made his first start of the season on the mound for Port Perry and limited the Oshawa team to Weighs only 12 Ibs.® Cuts an 8" log in 6-seconds A Rugged 3.3 cu. in. engine o 16" har and chain * Proven dependability! Over ¥; million Mac 10 series saws built and sold! e Rugged enough for all day work on farm ranch or home. © All position choke-type. All weather ignition insures fast start, John Ballard of Ballard carburetor cuts at any angle. 169" just 4 hits and had'6 strike- outs. The only trouble. Ken had in the game was in the fourth inning when P-& R- scored all of their runs. The Lumbermen's infield played a little *'loose'" with the ball and committed 3 errors. The *"Lumbermen" col- lected 12 hits in this game off two Oshawa pitchers with Clare Campbell the starting pitcher suffering the' loss. Ken Davidson, as he did so often last season with the Junior Club, led the hitting with a line-drive home run and a single, Brian Smith had 2 singles as did Gene Hurst, Brent Heard had a double and single, Ken Goreski a long 'home-run, Bob Smith a triple, and Hugh Johnson and Tom Lawrence a single, each. The league this year is using the Designated Hitting rule for league play only and Doug Christie made good use of this to hit a long home run in the seventh inning. Whitby Tiremen 5 Lumbermen 3 The Whitby Tiremen spoil- ed the home opener for the "Lumbermen' on Thursday evening, when they scored three runs in the eighth inning to hand the local club it's first loss of the young season. Laurie Williams pitched well for the Lumbermen until the eighth inning when he tired and allowed a couple of walks and his teammates committed two costly errors behind him. Ken Goreski finished up in relief for Port Perry. Dave Cranston was the winning pitcher for Whitby as he. took over for "Lefty" Randy Mulroy who started the game. The Tiremen had only four hits in this game with Jim Spiers and Ken Stratton col- lecting a double each. . Brian Smith had two of the Lumermen's six hits with M McCULLOCH CHAIN SAWS A&A Small Engines Hwy. 12 North of Greenbank Phone 985-3963 & 985-2905 For best results always use McCulloch powsr-matched chains, bars and sprockets, bermen drop home opener Doug Christie , Rick Beare, Bill Wannamaker and Brent Heard collecting the others. "~The next home game for ~ the local club will be Thurs., May 29, when Foley Plum- bing are in town for an 8 P.M. game. SPORT SHORTS Hugh Johnstone, catcher with the "Lumbermen' will bé missing from the line-up for 3 to 4 weeks with a broken hand suffered in Wednes- day's game in Oshawa. Brian Smith is off to a great start this season with two hits in each of the teams first two games. Doug Christie, who is still having trouble throwing the ball because of surgery to his shoulder during the winter, is making things happen with his bat, collecting a homerun and a line single, in three trips to the place as a ""desig- nated hitter". Last Weeks Scores: Oshawa Juniors 4 - Foley Plumbing 0; Whitby 9- Charl- ton Trans. 3; Charlton Trans. 7 - Oshawa Juniors 6; Port Perrry 18 - P & R Rentals 4; Whitby 5 - Port Perry 3. \ A REE LAR LE EPR EFIREACNS TEAL FSS TH A Feed @ ie 4 i 4 i i | ® Award trophies at annual banquet Port Perry Broomball League held their annual banquet and dance last Saturday night at the Utica Hall. About 120 players, wives and girlfriends were in attendance. After the banquet trophies were awarded to the following players, from left, Rod Redman, top league scorer; Doug Scott, most valuable player; " Robert Evans, rookie award; Don Card, most gentlemanly player; Mike Vanderby, best goalie. Missing from photo, Aldon Smith, who was the winner of the trophy for Top Scorer in the playoffs. WHITBY LUMBERMEN OSHAWA JUNIORS FOLEY PLUMBING P & R TRUCK RENTAL - STAN FURNITURE OSHAWA CITY & DISTRICT LEAGUE STANDINGS (as of May 25) PLAYED Won Lost Pts CHARLTON TRANSPORT TE SS FOR ATROUBLE-| | FREE CRUISING | . |. OUTBOARD, | LOOK FOR THIS 2 0 2 Fd [= I CN CR XC) OOO [=a Coo NNN O.C.B.L. are shaping up At the time of this writing most of the problems that the Ontario County Bush League had run into have been taken care of. The Raglan Recre- ation team has found suffic- ient players and will be able to participate this year although others are still encouraged to try out for the team. The Bell Telephone Employee's team has found the necessary organization and will be participating also. Because of previous commitments by the players of this team, the League has decided to change the Tues- day games to Mondays at the same time. The only real problem that remains is the Air Conditioners $ Priced from . . .. Consumer Division RUDDY ELECTRIC LTD. 725-3539 - Oshawa SIGN. : | teams organization of the Green- bank Gamblers. There has been no official report from anyone in the Greenbank area thatis trying to organize the team, however, the un- official word is that there will be a team entered in the 0.C.B.L. this year. The other Iwo teams, Nestleton Rohrer- Dorrell bus Lines and Port Perry Stone Real Estate, are | ready to go. Assuming that there will b a Greenbank team this yea the future games will be as follows: May 29- Greenbank at Port Perry; Bell at Nestleton. June2- Bell at Greenbank; Nestleton at Raglan. 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