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20 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, July 9, 1985 Sports Port Legion ousted in 2-1 extra inning pitchers duel Tough competition at Beach tournament The Port Perry Tennis Club's annual mixed doubles competi- tion was won by the team of Diane Burt and Jay Neill in a tough finale over Sophia Brendon and Ken Elliott. Diane and Jay were down 4-6 after the first match, but rallied to sweep two in a row by scores of 6-3 and 6-2. The event was held at the local courts on the July 1 weekend. The consolation round went to Judy and Joe Van der Wyst. Gamblers ready for Ont. Ontario Rural Softball Association Playdowns bein this week in Green bank Park when the Gamblers host the team from Ayrat7:30 pm on Saturday July 13th This is the first round of ORS A "A series action and the Gamblers travel back to Ayr for the second game of the best of three series on Sunday July 14th with game time 7:00 pm The town of Ayr 1s located south of Kit: chener, and has long been a hotbed for softball and hockey action AllO RS A games are a full mine innings and the O R S A does not use the designated hitter rule which means that the pit chers must bat for themselves However, the 'Re-entry rule' does apply as do all other C AS A regulations The Ontario Rural Softball Association has the motto: "Where Real Amateurs Play for the fun of it,"" and the Gamblers are looking forward to some keen competition In North Durham Fastball league action last week the Greenbank squad keep their undeféated record intact as they downed the Claremont Blues by a 12-2 score Ken Goreski and Russ Korbak teamed up to toss a two hitter at the Claremont squad with second baseman Greg Paradine getting both the Claremont hits Neil Rodd, Bran Til, Ray Meisner. John Foster and Rodd Real each had three hits for the Gamblers, with Trevor till getting a pair and Don Beaton and Dennis Romeril getting one apiece. In the 19 hit Greenbank attack were home runs by Dennis Romeril and Rodd Real On the weekend the team played in the three day tournament at Rich- mond Hill where they were sailing along in fine style until they hit one disastrous inning which dropped them out of the tournament. The Gamblers had won their division behind their excellent pitching staff of Ken Goreski, Russ Korbak and Roland Osske. (Russ Korbak had pitched two shutouts The Port Perry Legion Fastball Club travelled to Kew Beach in Toronto on the past weekend and came in 5th place, winn- ing two and losing two. The calibre of the tour- nament was quite high as Port faced two Senior 'B', one intermediate 'A' and one 'AA' team in the double-knockout tourney. On Saturday the Legion squad faced a powerful Scarborough Power Senior Team and came up on the short end of a 3-0 score. -Colin Wackett with a single was the only Port player to hit safely off pitcher Glen Latchford. Game two pitted Port Perry against Toronto's Int. 'A' Diamond Towing and the Port boys came away with a 7-4 victary. Winning pitcher was Lawrie Williams with relief help from all- purpose player Colin Wackett. The big hit in this game was a homerun by clean up hit- ter Dave Dickson. Coming back on Sun- day, the Br. 419r's took on the Int. 'AA' Hollinger team from Scarborough featuring the Crummy Brothers pitching tandem. Port took an early 1-0 lead in the 1st inning when lead off bat- ter Colin Wackett strok- ed a long homerun to left centre. Hollinger's came back in the 3rd with 2 runs to take a 2-1 lead in four consecutive singles against pitcher John An- nis. After this flurry by Hollingers, Annis settled down and retired the next 15 batters in a row. In Port's 5th inning, Rick and had struck out 15 batters in a Saturday night win over Newmarket). On Sunday the return of Trevor Till who had been playing with the Oshawa Juniors in the Ontario Junior Cham- pionships and centre fielder Dennis Romeril who had been absent due to work committments, made the picture look bright for the Gamblers to advance to the tourna- ment finals However, the first inn- ing proved to be their downfall as the usually reliable Greenbank defense faltered on the rain soaked infield and Richmond Hill scored 6 runs in the first inning The Gamblers fought back and at the end of Evans hit a mar. aoth 2 run shot to right field to put Port ahead 3-2 and Dave Dickson followed scoring the insurance run as Port Legion won the game 4-2. On what was to be the Legion squad's last game of the day, Port was defeated 2-1 in extra innings by a strong senior 'B' team AV Systems the Beach League. A great pitching duel between Port's Lawrie Williams and AV"s Manganaro went down to the wire in regulation time with Lawrie throwing a nifty 1 hitter and Manganaro allowing 2 hits. In the ex- tra inning a runner was placed at second base to start the inning, whereby AV Systems out-scored the Legion team 2-1. ° In Tournament play the Port Legion boys are quickly rounding into form as all of the players are getting out to the games and are playing against top calibre teams. This will help down the road come play-off time some time In August. In League play, which is another story all together, Port has struggled of late as last week's game of show Port losing to Oshawa "urlys 9-5 before bounc- ing back to beat Brooklin 5-1. Future games have the locals in Oshawa Tues- day night at 8:30 p.m. to face the Senior 'A' Oshawa Blues in a league tilt. The next night in Port they host league rivals Oshawa Copperfields led by their famous senior calibre pitching ace Randy Underwood in what will be a high spirited contest to say the least. Next weekend the Legion team travels to Ottawa to participate in a local tournament in Russel, Ontario. Hopeful- ly Port can make amends for last month's trip to the same area when they won one and lost one, going home earlier than expected. Port Perry is pleased to announce that they have signed Sutton's ace hurler Al Heintzman to an O.AS. A. certificate and he will compete for Port in the All-Ontario playdowns. This is a ma- jor addition to the team, as anybody that followed the Port team in last year's play-offs knows, as Port edged Sutton 2 games to 1 in last year's zone finals. His pitching arm and strong bat will no doubt help Port in their O.A.S.A. champion- ship pursuit. LEAGUE STANDINGS -- JULY 7th Cold Springs Port Perry Whitby Oshawa Juniors 'B' Division Oshawa Blues Copperfields NSU EN W.L. T. PTS. 9 2 3 21 8 6 0 16 6 6 2 14 5 5 3 13 6 11 0 12 1 2 0 8 410 0 8 Triathalon will be held Aug. 18 On Sunday, August 18, 1985 the Oshawa Com- munity Services Depart- ment - Recreation Divi- sion will be hosting a Triathlon at Lakeview Park: All competitors will swim a 1km course in Lake Ontario, cycle 25km and run 8km. The race begins at 8:30 a.m. and all three segments of the race will begin and finish at the Lakeview Park beach. Registrations and an $8.00 registration fee will be accepted at the Recreation Division, 141 Thornton Road South un- til Monday, August 12, 1985 at 6:00 p.m. Awards will be presented to the top male and female in each of the following categories as listed below: 16 - 19 years 20 to 29 years 30 to 39 years 40 years and over. For more information, please telephone the Recreation Division at 725-1111. Rural playdowns five innings had tied the score at 6-6 and again in the 6th inning they were tied up at 7-7. In the seventh inning Rich- mond Hill scored the winning run on a wild pitch and this time the Greenbank team could not come up with the ty- INg or winning runs. The Gamblers out-hit the Richmond Hill squad by 15 to 8 but they left too many runners stranded on the bases Ray Meisner and Don Beaton led the attack with 3 hits each in the final game with Neil Rodd. Steve Foster, Hugh Johnston and Den- nis Romeril each having a pair Greg Rodd blasted an "out of the park' home run in the second inning The hottest Gambler bat in the tournament however, belonged to Hugh Johnson who bat- ted 539 for the four games and many of his outs were long fly balls that were pulled down by opposing fielders. Why not drop in at Greenbank Park this Saturday night at 7:30 to see the Gamblers vs. Ayr in O.R.S.A. action and every Monday night is still Gambler Fastball Night in Greenbank Park DACO wins a pair The Dennis Anderson Chev Olds Ladies Lob Ball team kept their win- ning trek alive by defeating Saintfield 15-5 last Thursday evening. ove Johnson ht a home run for DACO and Val Hunter did the same for Saintfield Pat Connors, playing her first season with DACO. was a definite asset to the team with good hitting and fine work at the catchers position. DACO defeated the Blues team the previous Wednesday evening with help from Melody Moase of DACO who got her se- cond home run of the season DACO plays the Gems next Wednesday evening at 8:30 pm in Port Perry