"A Family Tradition for 130 Years" Seg _ Best start in history Gamblers up record t 13 straight league wins After dropping their league opener way back on May 13 to the Richmond Hill ball club the Green- bank Gamblers have put together a 13 game win- ning streak in Oshawa City & District League Ac- tion. The 13 wins in a row represents the best start to a season in Gambler history and it has been ac- complished during an in- Jury plagued season to date, as Gambler injuries have been strong steady so far in the season. Mark Goreski, Jim Chilvers and Rich Burkholder are cur- rently on the D.L. and' Greg Newell had to leave =3 "kg EE last Thursday's game with a groin pull. The latest Greenbank victory came at the ex- pense of the Oshawa Heat last Thursday in Green- bank as Byron Baranieski out dueled Oshawa's Pete Landers in a 3-1 Gambler win. Greenbank opened the scoring in /the bottom of the first 'winning when Steve Durham doubled and scored on Brian Till's solid Single. The Gamblers scored again in the fourth when Don Beaton plated Greg Newell who had opened the inning with a base hit. Oshawa narrowed the KELLY LOWN/PORT PERRY STAR Paul Christie, president of Port Perry Ringette Association, presented plaques from the Ontario Ringette Association to Deanna Lovering, top, for player recognition and Ken and Carol Irvine, bot- tom photo, of XL Gas Bar for Corporate Sponsor of the Year for Central Region. score to 2-1 in the sixth when Gary Aldred con- nected for a home run, one of only three hits given up by Baranieski, but in the bottom of the sixth i inning the Till brothers got the run back as Trevor Till drove in brother Brian for a3-1lead. In the seventh Baranie- ski had a pair of strikeouts and with a runner on base pinch hitter Hubie Basilio fouled out to Gambler catcher Paul Goreski, and Greenbank had run their record to 13 and 1 on the yearin league play. There will be no game in Tanson Park this week as the Gamblers journey to Scarborough on Thursday night to meet the Scarbo- rough Royals at Thomp- son Park. Saturday and Sunday the Greenbank squad will be in Niagara Falls to com- pete in the Greater Niaga- ra District Tournament at Ker Park. Note: The Gamblers scheduled game for last Tuesday night in Oshawa against the Oshawa Jrs. was postponed to a later date to give the Oshawa club a breather from their heavy game load last weekend at the All- Ontario Junior Elimina- tion Tournament. The Oshawa club played many games to fi- nally win one of the two Ontario berths in _ this years Canadian Junior Fi- nal in Newfoundland. The other Ontario Junior team going is the Napanee Ex- press. Congratulations to both teams. to Consistency pei off we diols, with Henry Van De Laar of St. Catharines and his part- ner Pat O'Conner of Ridge. ville at the GM/Mariner Pro Bass Scugog Open this weekend. : After an opening g-day weight of 17.90 pounds on ba the 5 De ms A team brought in another good weight of 15.40 pounds to: help a win Lg tourna- ot Their final two-day weight of 33.30 as was over four pounds bet- ter than the second place team 6f Richard Campbe of Courtice and Robert Hill of Newcastle who weighed in 29.05 pounds. J gson Greentree a Glen -| Roy of Oshawa were third ra 28.40 pounds, Rick Briggs of righton and Mark Duerr of West Allis were fourth with 28.35 pounds, and Wes Laverg: ne of Peterborough Don Jones of a ptville were fifth with F28.25 pounds. Lavergne 'and Jones had led the tourna- ment after Day 1 with 20.30 pounds. Bob Izumi of Real Fish- ing Show, who won the GM/Mariner Pro Bass Ca- nadian Open finished 39th with di partner Wayne Izumi. Residents of Port Perry enjoyed the weigh-in shows at Palmer Poe Ac- "cording to Pro Bass offi- This Bantam Mer- chants update is brought to you courtesy of the fol-" lowing sponsors: Lafarge: Inc., Scugog Island Mari- na, Cedar Valley Stables, Greenbank Lions Club, Kirby Steel and Engineer- ing, Steve a Con= This sports report for the Junior Merchants Fastball team is sponsored by Taylor Fuels, Mike Tobin Photog- raphy, Port Perry IGA, i: Hub International. After the Eliminations, this past week was anti- climatic, but the Port Junior Merchants still managed a splitin regular league play. On Tuesday evening, the experienced Scarborough Royals mens team visited Port Perry and proceeded to defeat the local team 10-3. Jeff Card a and Chad Venning pitched a combined seven innings, striking out six, walking three and allowing nine hits and seven earned runs. The only highlight of the game was a towering home run by Sheldon Hebert in the sixth to drive in three runs. On Thursday, the Juniors visited Durham Fields to play the a 4d Juveniles. Due to work schedules, in- Juries, sickness and whatever, the roster was depleted and coaches Ron Redman and Craig Venning had to be put into action. The team thanks Todd Smart who rushed straight from work and arrived at the last sec- onds before the game would have been defaulted. in the di week p _then poet 'economy was: of tens of tourist dollars. The GM/Mariner Pro Joss held over the weekend in Port P teams competing. Pictured have finished back in the pack ir other anglers had good luck Pontiac Buick Sperisorey past weekend. - ohms Elec- tricand JBK Industries. The Port Perry Bantam Merchants began their OASA Zone Ca id b on Wednesday, July 10 against a Campbellford squad. The i started out wii as they led innin, John Ennis combined for the win, walking four, allowing three hits and o "Hitters for the week: Ron Red Re RBI; Card - walk; Cochrane - 'pringham - - two singles, RBL. Enna." walk; Hebert - walk, single, home McBride - walk; Moase - single; Underwood - single; Vander Sla gles, two RBI; Chad Venning - si Over the next three weeks, the ing for a tournament in Meaford OASA Junior B Tournament to be on Aug. 9 - 11. Scheduled league have the Oshawa Juniors vi: boii 1 be for an 8:30 p.m. start on Tuesda: day, July it the Juniors Fields for an 8:30 p.m. start with the 0