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Ea PHY { enub ,¢5RaH £ Sh . | Rls YHHIY THO 32 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, June 13, 1989 See . = SOND wo en PPO EC REST Four straight victories give MoJacks the gold medals at tournament in Cobourg Mother Jackson's Open Kit- chen's Pee Wee "MoJacks" Soft- ball team travelled to Cobourg on Saturday and captured the annual Legion Pee Wee Tournament. Coming off three straight York- Durham League victories, the MoJacks opened the Tournament with a 3-1 win over Scarborough, the tournaments strongest entry. Chad Venning pitched the win and had 9 strike-outs, while allowing 6 hits. Cory Bricknell had two hits and drove in the first of two runs that the local team scored in the fourth inning, Greg Rankin also doubled in the same inning to drive in the second run. Simon Traynor singl- ed in the fifth inning and scored on a throwing error by the Scar- borough catcher, other hits for ah The Cross Canada Wheelchair Challenge passed through Port Perry last week. You Port Perry were by Gavin Cochrane with a double, and a single with Todd Smart, Grant Kay and Jeff Card all having singles. In game number two Port Perry played a tough team from Belleville and after building up a 6-0 lead held on for a 7-6 victory. Jeff Card turned in a determined pitching effort to pick-up the vic- #, may have seen this handicapped member of the Japanese delegation travelling down Highway 12 heading for Whitby and then onto Scarborough. These Japanese disabled persons are making the trek west across Canada in order to increase awareness of the needs of the physically challenged in Japan, In the spirit of Terry Fox and Rick Hanson. Bradford deals Gamblers 1-0 defeat in home park Last Monday night in Green- bank park two teams who had won Provincial Championships in 1988 met head on in an interlock- ing league game. he 1988 Intermediate Open Champion, Greenbank Gamblers hosted the 1988 Intermediate *'B"' Champs from Bradford and in a tight pitchers duel the Bradford "Century 21" team edged the Gamblers by a 1-0 score. Mark Goreski on the rubber for Greenbagk, scattered six hits.to the Bradford team but a single, sacrifice and single in the second inning produced the only run of the game. Bob Sweep allowed the Gamblers five hits but Greenbank could not push the run across the plate that would have sent the game into extra innings. Rodd Real and Mark Goreski, both hit triples but both died on third base as the Gambler bats could not produce the hit to tie the game, Terry Till, Trevor Till, and Don Beaton had the other Green- bank hits. Hugh Alcorn singled home Brian Gionette with the Bradford run, while pitcher Bob Zweep claimed 10 Gamblers via the strikeout route. Mark Goreski allowed six hits (all singles) and struck out six Bradford batters. This week marks the beginning of a heavy schedule of games for the Gamblers as they play Rich- mond Hill in Greenbank on Mon- day night, journey to Oshawa to play the Merchants on Thursday; then the Geordie Easton Tourna- ment in Oshawa on the weekend, Port Perry in Greenbank on Mon- day (June 19), go to Bradford on the Tuesday and to Stouffville on the Wednesday. A heavy workload for the team but lots of work could be just what the team needs to break out of the mini bat- ting slump. On Sunday June 25th the Gamblers host Stouffville at the park at 2:00 p.m. and on Monday Richmond Hill V.I.O. are the visitors for the Gamblers with game time at 8:30 p.m.. The fastball season in in full swing! Get to the park and give the Gamblers you support. tory and also helped his own cause by having a single and a triple and two RBI's. Simon Traynor had three hits including a long homerun in the fith inning to hold on to the win. Gavin Cochrane, Todd Smart and Steven Parrish all had singles with Cory Bricknell continuing his strong play by having a triple and a double and 2 runs batted in. Gavin Cochrane was a surprise starter on the mound for the Mo- Jack's in game three as the Port Perry team, played it's third game in the round-robin play. Gavin held the Markham Pee Wee's to 4 hits and had 10 strike- outs but still needed some 'clutch' hits in the bottom of the seven inning to pull out a 3-2 victory. The MoJack's trailed 2-1, as Kent Jamieson dropped a beautiful bunt to open the seventh inning and then stole second base, to put the tieing run in scoring position; Todd Smart then drop- ped a double in front of the left fielder scoring the tieing run. Duane Empringham then capped off a strong game by hitting a single to score the winning run; as Todd scampered home from third base. Steven Parrish, Jeff Card and Greg Rankin all had basehits in this game. By virtue of their three straight victories the Port Perry team ad- vanced to the Championship game against Malvern, a team from Scarborough. Malvern jumped into an early [ 5-2 lead after three innings, od the MoJacks got the big bats go- ing in the bottom of the fourth in- ning, and scored five runs to take ' a7-5 lead. Malvern scored onerun in the top of the sixth inning to close the lead to one run. i The MoJacks showed just how powerful they are, by coming back to score 2 insurance runs to; take the win 9-6. Chad Venning, : had problems early in the game but settled down to finish off the : game with a strong effort to gain the pitching win. a Grant Kay had a 'real blast" for a long home run and had three runs batted in, to get the local team started on their come-back. Gavin Cochrane, Cory |, Bricknell, and Duane Empr- ingham all-had singles while : Simon Traynor and Greg Rankin each had two hits, including 2 im- portant run batted in by Greg. : Todd Smart contributed two walks and scored 2 runs. Chad Kearns showed the toughness, and determination of this team to win the championship, as he took = a hard throw off the knee, while 'pinch-running in the last inning, but stayed in the game and scored the extra run needed for the: victory. : Coaches Jim Rankin and Wayne Venning and Manager Jean Rankin were very proud of * the team as they show good pit- ching, very strong defence, and the boys all brought their big bats with them to win the tournament, but most of all; the whole team | showed good sportsmanship. Tennis Racket Congratulations are extended to a junior member of the Port Perry Tennis Club, namely Adam Johnston. Adam played in an 0.T.A. Tournament at the Dunes Tennis Club in Waterloo two weeks ago. He was defeated on Friday night 6-2, 6-3 by a junior from London and again in a game of Doubles Saturday afternoon. The importance is not whether you win or lose but how you play the game. The Club is proud of Adam and his accomplishments in this sport of a lifetime! Court Three has been patched, but water on this court can cause peeling of the surface. If you're at the courts and see water on this court please use the squeegee hanging up on the fence. Getting rid of the water will give this court a longer lifetime. Thanks goes to Bob McCrae, Jay Neill, John Scott and especially to Joe Vanderwyst for all the efforts and work done on Courts Three. Joe nearly camped at the courts for two weeks getting this court into shape, now that's what we call dedication. The Mixed Doubles tournament is fast approaching, July 1st to be exact with the finals being played on the Sunday. See details posted on the bulletin board at the courts, We're into the Fourth week of Monday Night League. Each match is 50 minutes long to ac-, commodate all the members who, have signed up. This league has become increasingly popular every year and it's so good to see so many new faces. The Kawartha Tennis League has resumed again. In this league there are five teams, namely; Peterborough Nautilus Club, Peterborough Quaker Club, Fenelon Falls, Lindsay and Port Perry Tennis Clubs. Each year a different club forms the executive to make up the schedules for play and this year Jay Neill and John Scott of the Port Perry Club have formed the nucleus of the ex: ecutive. In the first week of the league running, Port had a bye! Last week Port Perry won over the Peterborough Nautilus Club, 5-1. Tonight the Port team travels to Fenelon Falls for some com: petetive tennis. | Another popular event ap proaching is the Junior Tenni¢ Program beginning Monday, J ly 10'th, running for three week to July 28'th. this program is fo young people, ages 8-16 years an runs from 9 a.m. to 12 noon. An a} will be printed in future issues s watch the paper for details. Thi program, spearheaded by member, Diane Burt, offers f games and instructional tennis { the sport that lasts a lifetime.