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a 3 % A 18- PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, July 30, 1996 Some divisions have already been clinched but the others will go down to the last game which will make for some interesting and entertaining games in the upcoming days. "Know the rules" question; In CMB what is 'constituted as a legal pitch? SQUIRTS Martyn's Flyers 21 Cummings Diggers 8 " The Flyers won their fourth game in a make up. In the field Craig Asselstine made an unassisted double play while Mark Vernest and Jeffrey Kraan did the same for Cummings. Cummings continued to take advantage from the mite call ups and got solid performances from Ashley Lucas and Donnie Ellis of Turner's and Gage Billings of the IGA Expos. BASEBALL (MCBA) Carpet Warehouse 1 Rogers Cable 5 In their first of two back to back home games the Pee Wee team increased their win streak to five in a row as a run surge in the fifth inning capped the victory. Defensively an all-round solid effort and the strong pitching of Steven and Timothy Jensen made the difference. At the plate Jason Michel had three hits with Crista Lane collecting some timely hits. Carpet Warehouse 10 Unique Awards 8 In an even played contest the locals edged the Bowmanville team for their sixth win in a row and the end to all regular season home games. Offensively the team was led by the two run RBI double by Steven Jensen while the fielders were led by the pick off by pitcher Matthew Welts to second and pick off throw by catcher Joey Lane * to third baseman Jason Michel. The team has one regular season game left which will be a tune up to the upcoming playoffs. SENIORS Don Frew & Son 21 Dr. Workman 2 The Aggies kept their hopes for the league title with a convincing win over the Hawkeyes. Five players for the Frew Crew went four for four: Amanda Drew, Elisha James, Matt Flynn, Darryl Keeler and Jamie Budge. Defensively the hurling trio of Andrew Marsh, Aaron Gimblett and Darryl Keeler held the opposition to two as the Hawkeyes seemed to take themselves out of the game with some sloppy and untimely base running" Good defer sive Cartwright ¥ Minor Ball *. plays were made at second by Brandi Brooks and Amanda Drew while Elisha James made a great line drive catch at first. The Hawkeyes were spearheaded by the fielding plays of Vivki Ellis at third base and the fine back catching of Troy Hazelden. At the plate Stephanie Sutcliffe and Corrina Bauer had two hits each to pace the hitting attack. T-BALL Snap on Tool Giants 21 H & M Wright Sox 9 An excellent eight put out inning by Corey Vanderwill which included a triple play led the Giants to their 10th win. The offense got another strong game from Thomas Prendergast, Jessie Nelson and Erik Draper all who hit round trippers and scored twice. Hitting a home run for the Sox was Tyler Gaylord with Aaron Wright chipping in with a double. In the field Charlyn Stinson played a strong game. Snap On Giants 23 Spring Grove 15 The Giants won their 10th in a row behind the grand slam home run hit by Dakota Newell. Also hitting a home run was Jessie Nelson while Amber Archibald and Meagan: Ferguson had two hits each as well as an RBI. Meagan Moore led Spring Grove with a three bagger while Laken Kearnan and Zach Grove went three for three at the plate. Spanky's Haulage 19H & M Wright Sox 16 A fine game saving catch by Chad Gerrits plus a home run by the feisty guy lifted Spanky's to their fourth win in a row as they gear up for the upcoming tournament. Melissa Hudson and Robert Gatchell hit doubles while Ryan Dillion made some fine defensive plays during his stint on the mound. Some great defensive plays by Rachel Beechey highlighted the play of the Sox as they battled Spanky's in a close three run game. Ashley Call and Scott Banks had big games each scoring three with Banks hitting a triple and Call getting three hits. Also with three hits were hel Beechey, Michael Shaw, Natasha Edgerton, Natalie Waters and Charlyn Stinson. Spring Grove 19H & Mt Sox 16 The Vaders had only the minimum number of players show up and still managed to beat the struggling Sox who lost their fourth game in a Willowtree loses close one Willowtree Farms met Port Hope in Under 11 rep soccer action July 23. With just minutes left in the game, Willowtree Farms was defeated by Port Hope 1-0 (fully insured) David Watts B.Sc.(Agr.) Matt Menear, Shinn and Matthew Jones all had a great game on de- fense and offense posi- tions. Ryan Kelly did an excellent job filling in on TREE SERVICE Your satisfaction is our satisfaction Bus. (905) 852-5313 goal. A thank you goes out to Gord Smith, Keenan Gerr and Ryan O'Leary for fill- ing in for some of our team mates, who were on holi- days. Justin ° UXBRIDGE * Expert Tree Climbers * Professional Chainsaw Operators & TREE, SHRUB & HEDGE * Removals ~. * Pruning * Trimming Complete Clean-up! ~ STUMP REMOVAL "winners with four as scoring three Ypmning Lis some plays. Meagan N Brandon Pearson contrib three hits each. : Scott Banks" home run triple by Ashley Call t be the key hits for H & M as youngsters know how the 1962 i) like. Tyler gi had a ¢ and continues to vastly impro base running skills. The Sox welcomed back Kirsten Billings a mid season vacation. © 7 MITES * Turner's Giants 12 Port Perry IGA Expos The end result of this game was another o run victory for Turner's as they seem to have the Expos number to date so far. The game see- sawed back and forth and wasn't decided the final out of the bottom of the last inni IGA built an early 6-2 lead as T.J. triple was the key hit in a four run second. | Turner's bounced back in the third with th maximum six runs highlighted by bases loaded double by Ashley Lucas. Turner's rallied after two out in the fourth to score four more after an IGA throwing miscue kept the inning alive. IGA kept attacking as T.J. Parker hit a tw run home run to bring the Expos within a run However, pitcher Ashley Lucas took care of their things in the last inning holding IGA scoreless n and secured the Turner victory. ) Kristy Popowich and Donnie Ellis scored two runs'each for Turner's with Ellis also coll 4 two hits. Other hits came from the bats Natasha Foote, Greg Banks and a double by Brandon Hoskin. Defensively Natasha Foote made a fine catch while playing second base. | 1 T.J. Parker had his best game of the season slam ho collecting three extra base hits including a home to run as well as scoring twice. Hayley Campbell struck out seven in three innings on the mound Ci while Kory Bauer and Shawn McNamara each had three hits and scored three while Kristen Dejong and Brad Pigden scored other IGAruns. The game was not without contro: as the correct procedure of a legal pitch cropped up numerous times. See "Know the Rules" for the official CMB interpretation. Port Perry IGA 20 Blck Church Saints 8 IGA played their best defensive game of the season making fine fielding plays to hold the Saints to eight runs. At the plate every player scored at least once upping their record to seven and two. J 3 . Kory Bauer got things going with a bases loaded triple in the top of the first after two walks and a single. Meagan Hobbs had the key second inning hit as her single drove in Katie ners across the the seventh, rk! scored an unearned run make a come-back more challenging. Po: rally was started with Sports report for week ending July 29, 1996. This week's sports re- port for the Junior Mer- chants Fastball team is sponsored by Millwork Home Centre, David's long home run by Moase Hairstyling, Clearnet,and followed by Empringham Williamsons GM. who scored on a sacrifice After the Eliminations, it is always hard for the layers to be focussed on all but the individual team members seem to be coming around and get- ting ready for the OASA Junior tournament to be held'in Port Perry on Au- gust 10thand 11th. © This past week, the Jun- ern cousins, the Green- ior Merchants played the Markham Juniors on Tuesday and met a pitcher who has always been a problem, but who they've been able to beat in the lat- ter innings of the game. This turned out to be a pitching duel between Jeff Card and Cam Western of Markham, and the score was 0-0 until the sixth when the visiting team was able to bring two run- fly by Vander Slagt. How- ever, a win was not to be R and the home team lost a. tpn 2 game. Card g pitched seven innings, striking out 12, walking 1, allowing 5 hits and only 2 earned runs. 5 i On Thursday, the Juniors visited our north- bank Gamblers who have been having an excellent Pa year to date. Because of the awakened bats of the Junior Merchants and