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Port Perry Star, 12 Sep 1979, p. 24

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3a 5 BARE A NANT SLRS IEA 2b WEI SUI » SOATA RVI ORC Ads 24 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Wed., September 12, 1979 Diane Burt and Jay Neill singles Neill"s game plan was to Foster in three sets. All ¥ ' by Danny Millar rarely faltered the rest of the Jay Neill won his sixth way. : straight Men's Singles Bob Allin won over Ralph championship of the Port Ballard in the consolation Perry Tennis Club with 6-4, final. 6-3 victory over Gord Hintze Diane Burt used a strong ! in the final on Sunday, Sept- forehand volley and a base- 7.) ember 9. line attack to take Winnie i Neill won three matches to Tobin 6-0, 6-3 in straight sets % 3. gain entry into the final, and to win the women's title. 131 in the process did not loose a Burt, who uses an unique Xe set. Infact, he dropped only underhand serve, dispatched i five games prior to meeting Tobin in about an hour. EPR, Hintze. Diane's daughter Ginny fo) The tone of the match was had a much tougher go as Fish set on the first serve as she dropped the Women's « 3 Hintze rushed to the net. consolation final to Lorrie control the game with an three sets were decided by , "ayer i : : cd 3 assortment of volleys and 6-4 margins with Foster 6 Y CO 7 EN a , a lobs designed to keep his foe taking the first and last ones. % i 3 i 73 a. ¥ at bay. For the first few The first set of the match ; PE games Hintze was in control, was a tooth and nail scrap : \ £E i av but mid-way through the until the seventh game when Th . . ri , 3 ' : ; ; e Port Perry Tennis Club held singles cham- over Gord Hintze. In the ladies section, last year's < first set Neill took command. ~~ Burt double faulted to give pionships over the weekend with Jay Neil [left] champion Diane Birt [second from right] repeated The first set ter- Foster a 4-3 lead. The next 3 > " : My . iron ly or game went to deuce before Winning the men's honours for the sixth straight year this year with a win over Winnie Tobin. often ended in unforced Foster prevailed. Burt won errors. the ninth game but Foster Tw me mes ene cs Juveniles eliminated from play-offs similar reactions to their Throughout the match » own bad play. Neill, when he Burt tried to come to the net. by Danny Millar run it down from center an error. A bad throw by In the fifth they put two missed a shot, would shake She was often thwarted in : : : field. By the time the ball catcher Gary Beckstead en- runners in scoring position his head and grimace. Hintze these attempts by some well ai 2 Serionyines had reached the infield three abled him to get to third base with one out but neither Curt countered by droppihg his placed lobs deep in the back er's Pizza adel iio 31 on runners had crossed the where he scored on Beck- Pinkowski or Redman could GO in oe g final set went to 44 Shu day, Sestemper oo Jn Bt a Sort Res go ample scoring au ng tossed his racket over the before Foster used two con- : nag nog Migs and advanced to third on a opportunity to tie the score round when Healey got on fence bordering the court secutive shots to take the Mike Moran base hit. Lev- but they could not bring a via fielder's choice and Kane and the ball diamond. lead. The first was an mr: ier's heroics came with men runner home. They loaded followed with a base on balls. Hintze was constantly put excellent cross-court volley f Williamsb ts On the corners. the bases in the second sess- Jeffrey hit intoa double play behind the eight ball in the and the second was a deep ng ah): us urg Jes Port got a run back in the ion as Mike Healey walked to kill the rally. second set when he faulted lob. } Williasburg won the best seventh that started when and Mark Jeffrey and Tim The Port Perry final on his powerful first serve. After taking advantage, of tree Series 21. Pert Frannsen reached base on Kane bunted safely. (Turn to page 25) Rather than risk losing a Foster won the final game of point with another bad serv- the match without much ice, he would loft the ball in trouble. Perry's lone win came in their home game Saturday, September 1. easily and allow his opponent It was no surprise that op to do anything he wished Diane Burt and Jay Neill _ Williamsburg got all three with it. were seeded first in the uns ona sixth inning inside Hintze's best shot, an over- meet. As returning champ- (Ne park home run by Wade handsmash, began to miss in ions they probably had that vier Levier rifled a Kevin- the second set and he lost right. The surprising thing is Na = delivery down the several points with it. This that Gord Hintze went left field line that eluded allowed Neill toresume dom- unranked. Steve Redman. Redman ination of the match. Neill dove for the ball and missed, causing Dennis Franssen to presents 'World of Hockey' featuring: CCM - COOPER BAUER - JOFA KOHO - TITAN VICTORIAVILLE x NORTHLAND & CANADIEN Equipment & Skates ¥ (Next J28-9455 Sales) --_ Gord Hintze reaches for back-hand during mens single finals Sunday afternoon. Hintze lost out to perennial champion Jay Neil.

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