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Ci 2 -_a er A [x vi - PRLS RCN A TE 12-- PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, June 18, 1980 ports Senior team runs out of miracle finishes _ - : os ox. Janetville base runner slides saf LAS RI CRs AY i Ya ENR BAAN $4 NOSTRA a Si a) ARE Ne fires BUNRATTY with Danny Millar : ~~ PIP ely into third whiel Port Perry third baseman Ken Bryant looks back to the infield during action at the Pontypool Tournament Saturday afternoon. Port Perry came from behind to ni knocked out the next day. p Janetville 4-3 but were bY, - Team gives up four un-earned runs - foul. by Danny Millar Port Perry Canadian Tire mens team ran out of mirac- le finishes and were elimi- nated from the Pont 1 500 softball tournament with a 4-3 loss to New Royal Hotel of Lindsay. Earlier in the tourney Port had won near-spec- tacular comeback games over Janetville and Nestle- ton. They nearly. pulled-it off against Lindsay but a pair of questionable judgement calls from the home plate umpire didn't hurt. Lindsay went into the final inning, the seventh, leading Port Perry 2-0. Port com- bined some lucky hits with Lindsay's sloppy play and scored three runs, appearing to have pulled the game out of the fire. However, Lind- say came back with two runs in the bottom of the seventh to win. Larry Alldred led off the seventh for Lindsay with a 'base hit. Rick Daynard got one when second baseman Doug- Scott couldn't handle his grounder. The ball went into the outfield where centerfielder Jay Williams, who was replacing the limp- ing Ron Redman, threw high at the plate, allowing Daynard to go into second. Daynard came around to score on one of the most hotly disputed calls of the day. Mike Hadley rifled a shot down the first base line that was called fair. Port Perry argued that the ball had gone over the first base It was to no avail as Daynard touched hpme with the winning run. CLOSE AGAIN Just the half inning before Port Perry had lost another close call when Ken Irvine was called out at the plate with the bases loaded. The play occurred when Don Phinney hit a line drive to shallow centerfield that Daynard, who is an excellent defensive outfielder, dropped. Irvine thought he had caught the ball and stopped halfway between third and home and headed back to third. The runner then reversed directions and headed for the plate. Day- nard threw into the dirt but Alldred held onto it and touched the plate, at least according to the home plate ump. Redman drove in two runs on the next play when right- fielder Pat O'Reilly dropped a fly ball that was drifting towards the line. Craig Stamp got the first Lindsay run of the game when he pounded a shoulder high delivery from Irvine over the 240 feet sign in dead centre field. The other Lindsay tally came in the fourth when Donnie Timms singled and scored when Ian Page doub- led through the hole in right center. Lindsay got a bye after the game into the final. They lost there by a 3-1 count to the Oshawa Juniors. They lost that one in the top of the seventh inning on two crucial errors, one by Stamp at first base, and the other by Page at third. SECOND GAME In Port Perry's second game they nipped Nestleton 6-4 with four runs in the top of the seventh. Irvine led off the big inning with a line single to right and Ken Bryant the leadoff hitter, doubled him into scoring position past third baseman Randy Prosser. Irvine scored when Bill St. John grounded to then-shortstop Randy McLeod, who failed to tag Bryant. That left runners on the corners with none out. Mark Lee worked reliever Dick Campbell for a base on balls to load them up, for Robert Evans, one of the team's key hitters. Evans hit a two run ground rule double and then came in to score himself when Redman delivered a single up the middle. After the Redman safety McLeod came back in to pitch. Port jumped out in front with a single run in the second. Mike Healey opened with a base hit, was sacri- ficed to second, went to third on Phinney's infield out, and scored on Prosser's error on a Randy Crawford hit. Crawford stole second and was stranded there. Nestleton got that one back in the fourth. Bill Reader singled and then moved around on Phinney's error. "He was driven in by Pros- ser's infield retirement. Nestleton gained the lead with two runs in the fifth, and' a single in the sixth. FIRST GAME Port edged league rival Janetville 4-3 in its first game of the meet. As usual, they fell behind after allow- ing three runs in the first two innings but came back with a run in each of the fifth and sixth frames to win it. Two Port runners came home in the first segment. Bryant doubled to center- field, a hit that bounced off Dave McComb's glove, went to third on a St. John bunt and scored when catcher George Gaudett rifled a throw into centerfield, trying to gun down Evans, who had (Turn to page 15) Errors still plague Midgets in 6-2 loss by Danny Millar If the Port Perry Malmont Farms Midgets learn to cut down on errors they are going to be competitive with a lot of teams in the Brady Division of the Oshawa City and District Softball League. If they don't, then there will be a lot of games like the one they lost 6-2 to Albuk last Tuesday night at Port Perry. Four of the runs scored against them were un- earned. They lost another game on Wednesday, June 11 on a key error by outfielder Kevin Long. Long miscalculated the arrival of a fly ball that allowed a couple of runs. Port was declared the loser when the game was shorten- ed by curfew. Hurricanes lose 7-0 by Cathy Collins The Homestead Furniture Hurricanes lost to Pickering Township Sasway Chicken 7 goals to nill. We started-out with only ten players but they played a terrific game, but luck was not with them for no matter what they did they could not get that ball in the net. It was just one of those games. Then, to top things off, we had two girls get hurt. Jill Parry and Sandra Liston had to drop out with minor injuries. So it was pretty rough with no reserves to fall back on" Next game at home in the Port Perry Soccer fields on Thursday, June 12 at 6:30 p.m. and we play to Pickering Pacers. The Albuk game was rather uneventful. There were no big rallies from either side. All of the runs were scored one at a time. Port Perry fell behind quickly because Albuk open- ed the scoring jn the visitor's half of the first. Back to back to back dgubles-by the first two men in the batting order produced the run. Jin Snetzinger got the first two bagger and came around score on the second. A first inning oddity, possibly the only unusual occurance of the contest, was that second baseman Todd Wilbur retired all three of the Albuk outs. Paul Van Camp got a gift run back for Port in the third. His run tied the game for the first and only time during the nihe inning stretch. Van Camp got on when third sacker Chan Knudson dropped his liner for an error. He stole second and then came in to score when catcher Mark McConty threw the ball into center- field. Albuk, who registered a 5-2 win over the Port juveniles two weeks ago, controlled the match through the middle innings. They scored a run in every frame from the fourth to the seventh. They got the final tally of the game in the ninth. ~ Two of those runs were as a result of errors by Port fielders. The sixth inning run crossed the plate when Todd Wilbur misplayed a rundown and in the seventh Knudson made it to third when leftfielder Kevin Long dropped his fly ball hit. INTERFERENCE g Albuk switched batteries in the seventh, with Dale Nicholl replacing Doug Spencer on the mound. Nicholl was touched for a run in the eighth. Sean Fewer reached first on a rarely called catcher's interference play, rambled into second on Brian Dickson's sacrifice bunt, and scored on an over- throw. Pitcher Phil Robinson, who came in an inning earlier, gave up his only run in the top of the ninth. It was unearned because shortstop Dickson made an error. Port Perry midgets are at home again this Thursday, June 19. Game time is 8:30 p.m. Ladies golfresults by Linda Parry The cold rainy weather from last week dampened the ladies' spirits at Sum- merlea Golf Course, but certainly did not harm their swinging abilities. Josie Wilson was display- ing her fine form when she birdied the 18th hole and also captured the $8.50 pot of gold at the same time. Noreen Leahy shot a winning low gross score of 38 as well as low net 0£19. Three ladies had chip-ins this week - 10th, Mabel and Mary Tremblay the 14th. _A number of the members have \signed up for golf lessons to be given by Bill Wallace, thé course pro, so watch for the improved scores. This week the ladies are shooting for bestball prizes and the results will be shown next week. mn < ® <s b=