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"A Family Tradition for 130 Years" PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, June 18, 1996 - 21 ---- CRs Sr PORT PERRY STAR ORTS Junior Merchants come up with a big 1-0 victory This sports report for the Junior Merchants is spon- sored by Hub International, Millwork Home Centre, David's Hairstyling, and Williamsons GM. After losing the Oshawa Tournament to the Oshawa BB Juniors, the Port Junior Merchants returned on Monday night to play them in a league game. The out- come was never in doubt as the Merchants scored five runs in the first three innings and took control of the game with timely hitting, good defense, and strong pitching. The final score was a 5-1 victory for the Jun- 1or Merchants. Chad Venning was the winning pitcher - striking out three, walking two, allowing two hits and one earned run in the five innings he worked. Sheldon Hebert came in relief, striking out four, allowing two hits and no earned runs. The competition between these two teams building up to the Eliminations will be intense, and this win was sweet revenge for the loss the day before in the championship round of the Oshawa Tournament. The RBI contributors were Duane Empringham, Aaron Harrison, Jason McBride, Todd Smart and Darrell Vander Slagt. On Thursday night the tough Oshawa HEAT men's team visited Port Perry and this was one game that the Bricknell family had a hard time deciding who to cheer for. As a large group of fans can attest to, this game turned out to be a great pitching duel between Brad Bricknell for the HEAT and Sheldon Hebert for the Port Juniors. In the bottom of the seventh inning, the game was still scoreless, and with two our Todd Smart was able to reach first on a single, Brad Moase also reached base safely on a walk and due to a passed ball, runners were at first and third when Duane Empring- ham came to the plate to hit a timely RBI single and win this game 1-0 against one of the top men's teams in the league. Sheldon Hebert pitched a complete seven inning game, striking out 13, walking one, allowing two hits and no earned runs. This feat included striking out the last six batters in the game. Hitters for the week: Corey Bricknell - single; Jason Cochrane - walk; Duane Empringham - two singles, two RBI; Bob Ferguson - walk; Aaron Harrison - dou- ble, RBI; Jason McBride - walk; Brad Moase - three walks; Todd Smart - single, two doubles, RBI; Jason Underwood - walk, single; Darrell Vander Slagt - two singles, RBI. The Junior Merchant's record to date: Games played - 18, wins - 11, losses - seven, average .611 with an av- erage runs for 5.6 and runs against 3.0. Games this week: Monday, June 17 in Markham at 8:30 p.m., Tuesday, June 18 vs Greenbank Gamblers at the south diamond at 8:30 p.m. This weekend (June 22-23) the Junior Merchants will be participating in the St. Catharines Tournament. ALLOA of vn rT & KELLY LOWN/PORT PERRY STAR ALL DURHAM RECORD. Matt Menear, 9, a stu- dent at R. H. Cornish Public School set a new Dur- ham record at the recent Track and Field event. Matt ran the 1,500 metre race in a time of 5:24.8 to beat the previous record of 525.4, set in 1988 by a former Cornish runner Tommy Chambers. Squirts pick up first win There were a lot of hap- py faces down at the old ball park on Thursday, June 13 as the Port Perry Legion Squirt fastball club picked up their first win of the season against East team really put forth a team effort in this one and it paid off for them. The Legionnaires grabbed an early 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning and behind the Gwillimbury. This young strong pitching perfor- KELLY LOWN/PORT PERRY STAR RECORD BREAKING JUMP. Matthew Roth, of Prince Albert Public School, broke the Durham high jump record by six cm. when he jumped 1.26 metres at the DEAA track and field finals. mance of Shane Jeffery they shut down the East Gwillimbury offence for the first three innings. The Legionnaires picked up a run in the third to make it a 3-0 game and when East Gwillimbury fi- nally got to Shane for a run in the fourth and one run in the fifth the Legion- naires rallied for five runs in the bottom of the fifth to make it an 8-2 score. Geoff Greiveson came on in re- lief to shut down East Gwillimbury for the re- mainder of the game. The big man at the plate for this game was Keith Forbes as he showed a good eye picking up three walks. Also doing good at the plate were: Bill Hazel- ton with two walks, Brent Wagg with a walk and a bunt single, Shannon Deering, Kyle Bannan and Jeremy Morrison each picked up a single, Luke Pilkey, Shane Jeffery, Josh Kendell and Mike Ly- cett had a walk each and Geoff Greiveson was hit by a pitch and smacked out a double. Shane Jeffery pitched five strong innings strik- ing out 10 East Gwillim- bury batters while Geoff Greiveson came on in re- lief to pitch one inning striking out two batters. The Legionnaires next see action this Thursday, June 20 in Port Perry as they play host to Oakridg- es with a 6:30 p.m. start time. Cornish runners fare well at Durham finals Durham Region is divided into eight areas for competition in track and field events to accomodate the thousands of children involved in each age category. On Monday, June 3, Cornish compet- ed in the area #1 meet at Civic Fields, Oshawa against its' counterparts in the northern part of the Durham Region. Our athletes achieved impressive re- sults capturing 37 first place finishes, 12 second place finishes and 12 third place finishes, counting the hurdles meet. We qualified for 51 places in the All-Durham final held on Wednesday, June 12 at Civic Fields. Our intermediate team performed very well in the final achieving excel- lent results in attaining one of the top six rankings in the Durham Region. The following intermediate results are the tops in Durham Region. Hurdles - Taryn Izatt Galloway - third place. 100 m - Stephanie Puckrin - fourth, Jodi May - second, Taryn Izatt Gallo- way - sixth. 200 m - Stephanie Puckrin - third. 400 m - Matt Smart - sixth. 800 m - Wolfgang Palleske - seventh Katie Ansell - third. David Justynski - third. 1500 m - Wolfgang Palleski - place. Katie Ansell - first place. In Field Events: High Jump - Ashlea Jones - fourth ; Russ Brown - second; David Justynski - third; Lorian Collins - first. Lorian Jumped a personal best of 1:40 to win. Triple Jump - Stephanie Puckrin - fifth place, Jodi May - third place. (4x 100 m) relay events 12 yr.-girlsteam - first in Durham Sarah Szolopiak, Stephanie Puckrin, Ashlea Jones, Jennifer Bruton, spare - Jennifer Connelly. third 13 yr. - girls teams - second and fourth in Durham Second place team - Lindsay Wilson, Sarah Smith, Taryn Izatt Galloway, Jodi May. Fourth Place Team - Emily Menear, Lo- rian Collins, Amy Chapman, Kerri Puckrin. The Junior Track and Field team from R. H. Cornish enjoyed a very suc- cessful day at the Durham Final Track and Field Meet on Wednesday, June 12. The highlight of the day was when Matt Menear set a new Durham record in the nine year old boys 1500 metre race. Matt's time of 5:24.8 bettered the previ- ous record of 5:25.4 set in 1988 by a for- mer Cornish runner, Tommy Cham- bers. Top individual performances includ- ed: shot put - Sarah Aldridge - fourth; running long jump - Pat Lewis - sec- ond; triple jump - Morgan Cooper - first. 100 m - Morgan Cooper - fourth; Nicole Ansell - sixth. 200 m - Justin Shinn - first; Justin Mof- fatt - second. 400 m - Erin Geary - first; Matt Menear - fourth; Clayton Gilmore - fourth. 800 m - Erin Geary - third. 1500 m - Matt Menear - first. Six junior relay teams advanced to the Durham Finals and all six finished in the top four. 10 year old girls - first 11 year old boys - second Nine year old boys - third 10 year old boys - fourth 11yearoldgirls - fourth 11 and under mixed - fourth. The winning 10 year old girls relay team: Erin Bird, Nicole Ansell, Brigette Palleske, Erin Geary, Marta Van Camp. a