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Gamblers in battle for first The Greenbank Gamblers took to the diamond on three occasions last week and when the dust had cleared they had picked up four of a possible six points to stay right in the thick of the battle for top spot. On Monday night the Richmond Hill Merchants were the visitors in Greenbank Park and behind the two hit pitching of Glen Moreland defeated the Green- bank team by a 6-2 score. Terry Till and Don Beaton were the only Gamblers to hit safely off the fireballing Moreland but he issued four walks and Greenbank managed to score a pair of runs. Ken Goreski was on the hill for Greenbank and allowed only eight hits to the Richmond Hill squad but the Gambler defense played their poorest game of the season and allowed Richmond Hill to have a big five run third inning. On August 4-5-6, the Gamblers will be in Burlington at the Senior "A" Championships where they will be seeing other pitchers of the calibre of Glen Moreland so they had better tune up their batting eyes in the next couple of weeks. On Tuesday night Greenbank travelled to Oghawa to meet the Oshawa Juniors and this time around the team had the bats working as they had ten hits Pee Wee HL On July 3, 1989, Kentucky Fried Chicken beat Standard Electric by the score of 12 to 5. For Kentucky Fried Chicken, Jeremy Norton Pitched four good innings while Billy Pargeter hit a home run and Mike Tripp had a good hit. Both boys batted in two runs each. Chris Jellicoe connected for three good hits for Standard Elec- tric while'Robbie Romano hit two doubles and Louis Whitfield a homerun. At the South Diamond on July 10, 1989, Standard Electric solid- ly beat Pineridge Sports by the score of 18 to 7. For Standard, Chris Jellicoe pitched a couple of good innings and hit a grand slam homerun. Lindsay Parry hit a homerun and Rob Romano had a good run with both boys earning two RBI's, while David Bengal made another enroute to a convincing 8-2 win. Ken Goreski went to the mound for his second straight start and the crafty southpaw shut out the Juniors until the fifth inning when Trevor Till came on to pitch inn- ings five and six and coach Steve Foster wrapped up the game by pitching the seventh. Don Beaton, Rodd Real, George Redshaw and John Foster each had a pair of hits for Greenbank with Terry Till and Trevor Till each hitting safely once. Trevor Till, Don Beaton and Rodd Real batted in two runs each in the contest. Paul Goreski, the Gambler cat- cher teamed up with Ken Goreski for the win, which gives Green- bank possibly the only father-son battery playing Senior ball in Ontario? On Thursday night the Gamblers visited Port Perry where they met the X L Eagles and as usual the game was ex- tremely close. Larry Pilkey led off the Port Perry first inning with a long tri- ple to left centrefield and scored on an infield play to give the Eagles a 1-0 lead. Ken Goreski had started his third game in four days and settl- ed down after Pilkeys triple to keep Port Perry off the base paths. great catch in right field. Lance Peters made a good catch in the outfield for Pineridge Sports while Chad Garvoch made a double play. At the Legion, Cowboy Bobs came from behind to edge Ken- tucky Fried Chicken by the score of 16 to 15. 2 For Cowboy Bobs, Mike Slug- gett made several good catches in centrefield while Troy Hope caught a line drive at second and Andrew Matheou made a good play at third base throwing out a runner at first base. Allen Bir- chall went three for four at the plate scoring five runs. Matthew Coyne connected for two good hits for Kentucky Fried Chicken while Mike Tripp had a grand slam homerun. In the field, Scott Heasman, Jason Reid and Jeremy Norton made some good catches and plays. Blanks Oshawa The Canadian Tire Bantam Fastball team had an excellent week of ball as they beat Oshawa by a score of 4-0 and Scarborough by 3-2. In the game against Oshawa, Richard Brough pitched his first game since coming back from an injury, and allowed omy 3 hits with no earned runs for the win. Brett Puckrin pitched 2 innings to pick up the save. Steve Laird had 2 singles plus 1 RBI and stole home for a run. Also stealing home from third for runs were Richard Brough and Darrell Vander Slagt. Other hit- ters for Port were John Ennis with a triple, Darrell Vander 'Slagt with 2 singles and a triple and singles by Brett Puckrin and James Gouldburn. The game against Scarborough was the toughest competition of the year, and the first left hand- ed pitcher the team had faced. The game turned out to be a real pitcher's duel, with Brett and the pitcher from Scarborough throw- ing 8 strike outs each. Scott MacLennan not only was involved in 9 put outs, but also threw out 2 runners to slow down the speedy Scarborough team. One throw was to Steve Laird at 3rd, and the other to Darrell Vander Slagt at 2nd. : John Ennis hit a triple and had 1 RBI, Brett Puckrin had 2 singles and 1 RBI, Scott MacLennan hit a single with 1 RBI, and Richard Brough hit a triple and two other long balls that were caught. The coming games are: July 18 - Scarborough vs Port Perry 8:30, July 22 - Cobourg Tournament. Russ Korbak relieved Ken in the third inning and pitched hitless ball the rest of the route. Greenbank tied the score in the fourth inning when Brian Till walked, stole second base and scored when Don Beaton swatted a single up the middle. Then in the sixth inning the Gamblers plated the winning run when John Jeffs singled, was sacrificed to second by Brian Till and scored when again Don Beaton ripped a single through the Port Perry infield. That completed the scoring and Greenbank held on for a tight 2-1 victory. John Jeffs and Don Beaton each had a pair of hits with Rodd Real and Terry Till rounding out the Greenbank attack. Larry Pilkey had the only safe hit for the Eagles as they failed to solve the Gambler pitching. Both teams played excellent defense in the error free game. The next 3 to 4 weeks is exteme- ly busy for the Gamblers with a flood of league games and tour- naments coming up. Also this is the last call for Gambler booster tickets. If you had intended to join the Booster Club (which includes free admis- sion to all games) but have not yet done so; contact any Gambler player or call manager Rodd Foster at 985-8298. Jay pitchers a hit with young fan TNT TN Waa [SLES Bo SO Sf Young Leo Taillon of Port Perry, who is just two years old, wasn't quite sure what to make of all the fuss, but with his Blue Jay cap and t-shirt, he lined up to shag an auto- graph from Blue Jay pitcher John Cerutti over the weekend. And a lot of other youngsters lined up for autographs as well. Cerutti and Duane Ward were sponsored at Festival Days for the autograph signing session by the Merchants on Water Street. TOE ja i yr - We Ms, ih i Pa a i Blue Jay pitcher Duane Ward with three young fans. Jeff Upton, Jeremy Barker and Geoff Upton who were visting Port Perry for the Festival Days weekend. Ward and fellow hurler John Ceruttl signed hundreds of autographs for Blue Jays fans of all ages.