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"A Family Tradition for 125 Years" PORT PERRY STAR - Wednesday, August 7, 1991 - 25 PORT PERRY STAR SPORTS Thirty-one teams entered Gamblers come up big at Sr. Elimination tournament § The Greenbank Gamblers came within one bad inning of pulling off a stunning upset on the weekend in the Ontario Senior Elimination Tournament at Waterloo. The Gamblers had gone undefeated through Friday, Saturday and Sunday until they were finally stopped by the Cana- dian Champion Owen Sound Tiremen by a score of 3-1. This sent them into a sudden death game with Toronto York Sundarice on Monday with the witinér' going 'to the Canadian Championships in Camrose, Albérta the last week in August. Owen 'Soutid are the defending Cdnadian Senior Fastball Cham: pions and automatically are going to Alberta to defend their cham- pionship, so the game between the Gamblers and York Sundance was to' determine' who ' would represent Oitario at the Canadian plajtiowhs™ il il [ESSE EERE AN} | Thére were 31 teams entered in this year's Senior Elimination Tournament from Thunder Bay to Windsor and after four days of fastball action the field was nar- rowed down to Owen Sound, York Sundance and the Greenbank Gamblers. The. Gamblers had played superbly during the tournament behind. the pitching of Wayne Wells and Mark Goreski with great fielding and timely hitting and they certainly looked capable of giving the powerful Toronto team a tough battle. But one "snake-bit" inning sent the Gambler ship to the bottom as in the top of the inning with Greenbank runners on second and third and only one out, the York centre fielder ran down a scream- ing line drive from John Logeman and doubled up a Gambler runner at second base to end what look- ed to be a sure run producing in- ning for Greenbank. This disappointing turn of events seemed to unsettle the Gambler defense and a combina- tion of walks, hits and fielding lapses added up to a six run inn- ing for the Sundance squad. This was the only inning that Toronto scored in during the game but the damage was gone and York pit- cher Blair 'McBratney held Greenbank at bay to preserve the 6-0 victory and sent Sundance to Alberta as the Ontario represen- tatives at The Canadian Championships. On their way to this deciding game the Greenbank squad had defeated Camlachie by a 1-0 score in extra innings, turned back Nor- wich by a 2-1 count, bested the Richmond Hill Merchants (and Chris Wilson) by a 1-0 score and dumped Napanee Express to the tune of 5-1. The win over Richmond Hill was especially satisfying as the Gamblers had a 1-0 1éad in the | LAR -- - / game on Saturday night after four innings, when the rains came and washed out the game which had to be replayed on Sunday morn- ing but the Greenbank squad duplicated their Saturday perfor- mance and won again by a 1-0 score. Sunday night saw the Gamblers battle Owen Sound (with Mike Crawford) right to the wire before losing a 3-1 decision that set up the Gambler-York Sundance encounter. Wayne Wells and Mark Goreski gave Greenbank solid pitching during the tournament, while Greg Warriner and John Logeman anchored the Gambler defense. Ferry Till had an outstanding tournament with the bat as he belted out nine hits while brother Brian Till was close behind with seven. Rod Real and John Tait had four hits apiece while Paul Goresky and Don Beaton chipped in with three each. In fact all the Gamblers hit the ball well during the weekend. Dave Bacon was spiked over the right ear on a steal of second base on Saturday, but after some stiches as the Waterloo Hospital he returned to play the rest of the tournament. Back on the home front the Greenbank squad got off to a bad start in the Peterborough City league play-offs as they dropped the opening game of their best four of seven semi-final series to Winslow-Gerolamy Motors by a 5-1 score.' This series goes again this Tuesday-Thursday and Sunday nights in Peterborough and the Gamblers have to carry their in- tensity from Waterloo to Peter- borough or it will be a short season; however a team with enough talent to finish in third place at The Ontario Senior Elimination should be capable of extendipg:the semi-final series in-- Peterborough. Time will tell. League tourney August 16-18 Bantams claim two lop-sided victories Port Perry Canadian Tire Ban- tams fastball team continued to win in the York-Durham league, with two lopsided wins last week. The Tiremen hosted Scar- borough Red last Tuesday and pounded out fourteen hits on their way to a 10-0 victory. Denis Smith had thirteen strike outs over the first five innings, and allowed only two base hits for the win. Chad Venning pitched the final two frames and added another four strike outs while allowing two hits in relief. Jeff Card had a big night at the plate as he had two long home runs over the right field fence, while Duane Empringham added an inside the park home run. Corey Bricknell, Cochrane, Denis Smith and Steven Stiles each had a pair of safeties, while single hits went to Venning, Grant, Kay and Todd Smart. On Thursday evening, the local team travelled to Thornhill, and aided by an eight run second inn- ing, blasted their hosts 10-3. Jeff Card after a "shaky" start on the mound, when he gave up two runs, settled down to pitch ef- fectively the first six innings. Chad Venning, needing some work, pitched the seventh inning and set the side down in order. Card also helped his own cause with his fifth home run of the year and also added a triple. Kent Jamieson also added a home run in the big second inning. Duane Empringham alsohad a Gavin' good night at the plate with three hits, while Grant Kay had two. Venning, Smart, Parish, and Kearns all had one hit. Port Perry has three regular scheduled games remaining and two rain out games. The league tournament is "slated" for the week-end of August 16-17-18 at Scarborough. . Team manager Wayne Venning has also been notified of the 0.A.S. Bantam B Provincial Championships slated for August 24-25 in Napanee when they will play on Saturday morning at 9 a.m. against a strong team from Stittsville. JE a 4 A Some of the areas best young tennis player co mpeted in the Mini Junior Singles Tournament held at the local tennis courts last week. The tournament is open to players under 12 years of age, and is run in conjunction with the summer tennis league. Kent Johnston (right), seen here with finalist Rob Murphy, emerged victorious in the championship finals winning 6-3, 6-2. T : 2 ii TH Matt Brown (left) won the consolation final of the Mini Junior Singles Tennis Tournament 10-2 over his opponent Cate Lewis. Merchant Midgets are one game away from All Ontario This week's report is sponsored by Kentucky Fried Chicken and B & R Electric. This past week saw the Midget Merchants play winning ball, both in league play and in the "All On- tario" eliminations. On Tuesday, Port met Stouff- ville, a team which has given them trouble this year. The Mer- chants won the match on a com- bined pitching effort from Richard Brough and Brett Puckrin. Brough picked up the win, allowing six hits and four earned runs. Jason McBride hit a lead-off double in the first inning. John Ennis reached first on a walk, but was left stranded when McBride was thrown out at third by the cat- cher on a close play. In the se- cond, Tim Timms got on with a walk, and was able to score on a RBI single by Jason Cochrane, who then moved to third and crossed the plate on a passed ball by the Stouffville catcher. The score was 3-2 for the visitors. In the third, McBride reached first again with a lead-off single and was scored by a Brad Moase RBI base hit. Timms then drove in Moase and Ennis on a two RBI single. Port now led 5-4. In the fifth, Ennis and Brough were on base with singles, and Ennis scored on another Moase RBI base hit. Unfortunately, Brough was thrown out by a good fielding play. With Darrell Vander Slagt on by a fielder's choice, Scott Turn to Page 30 CLL DB BT ABAD BED AAPA ARE WP AAO SEALANT AR IU AD AT AAT ADEA WA