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22- PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, August 11, 1998 "Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice" Sr ORTS ON THE MOVE: Thousands of spectators flocked to Mosport Speedway last weekend as the local track hosted its first annual Mosport Festival Days. While many fans watched in awe as various cars whipped around the road course at high CHRIS HALL / PORT PERRY STAR speeds, others spent their time walking through pits, getting an up-close look at the cars and their drivers. More more photographs on the festival, check out our coverage in this Friday's Weekend Star. Large... Port Perry's Todd Healey takes a look at today's world of sports 7 CMB season comes to a close The 1998 Cartwright Minor Ball season has come to the end of the road with only tournaments scheduled for the next few weeks The Cartwright Minor Ball season has come to an end and this will be the final season report. The tournament report for all divisions will be sent in next week so please make sure all your reports are in. T-Ball Division Amy Gibson, Andrew Bullock led with the bats while teammates Logan Defoe and D.J. Grove led the defense to help Cummings Backhoe defeat Don Frew & Sons 21 to 16. Frew's strength was supplied by Dana McGeogan and Kaitlyn Foster on the bats while teammate Andrew Down was the defensive leader. In a hard fought game going right down to the wire in the third inning Analda Garden Centre just slipped by Blackstock Lion Cubs 20 to 19. Cummings was led by Tyler Matthew (triple and 2 RBI's), Brooke Durward (2 RBI's and great defense) and Curtis Gibbons (2HR's and 3 RBI's). The Lion's players of the game were Sarah Ashmore (HR and 2 RBI's), David VanCamp (3 HR's and 4 RBI's) and Colter Czyruk (HR and 3 RBI's). Tyke Division The Tyke division games were all complete and they have started into the tournament schedule. Mite Division In the last game of the season the Blackstock United Church Saints defeated the Overridge Flames 18 to 13. The Saints were led by Michael Hazeldon stealing 2 key bases, Josh Novak hitting a HR and bringing in 3 RBI's and Stephen Larmer hitting out 2 doubles to bring in 2 RBI's. The Flames were led by Adam Cail hitting a triple and bringing in 2 RBI's, Craig Smith hitting in 2 RBI's and Logan Malcom hitting a HR and catching 5 pop flies. Shaw Industrial defeated Spanky's Haulage 29 to 7. Shaw was led by Sara Asselstine crossing the plate 4 times, Taryn Wagar crossing the plate twice and hitting in a RBI and Nathan Alpe hitting a HR and bringing in 2 RBI's. Spanky's players of the game were Brent Paradis who caught a hot line drive, Darcee Grove hitting a HR and Erin Lang playing a strong back Turn to Page 23 Merchants fail to advance to nationals after dropping two in Cobourg tourney On the weekend of August 1, the Merchants competed in the Ontario Intermediate Elimination Tournament in Cobourg. The top two teams of this event would repre- sent Ontario in the Canadian Championship held in Nova Scotia. Port Perry's first game was against the St. Marys Hawks. This game turned into a rubber match. There was no score in the game until the top of the seventh inning. St. Marys led off the inning with a bloop single just behind first base. The runner was then moved over to sec- ond by an infield hit and eventually scored on a short single to the out- field. Unfortunately Port was unable to move any runners across the plate in the bottom half of the seventh. The final score was St. Marys 1 - Port Perry - 0. Mark Goreski pitched another gem but fell victim to a lack of run support. The Port batters put the ball in play but were unable to find any holes between the St. Marys fielders. The Merchants then faced Wellesley. There was no scoring until the fifth inning. Duane Empringham led off the inning with a double. A sacrifice bunt up the middle by John Stratford moved Emphringham to third. Todd Smart then hit a long sacrifice fly to put the Merchants on the board. The next batter, Damion McColloch then knocked a ball out of the yard to give Port at 2-0 lead. In the next inning, the pitcher Mark Goreski had a lead off walk. Steve Connors doubled home Goreski but was caught off the bag on second. Darryl Vanderslagt singled and eventually Turn to Page 23 If | was king for a day... k, here's the deal. I'm king for the day and being the great and wise king that Iam, I have eradicated most of the world's ills [except for that pesky ozone layer] and I now turn my attention to lesser matters, addressing a burr that has been under my kingly saddle all day. This then is an open letter to athletes across the globe and listen well my loyal sporting subjects, for my gravy train, like yours, will turn into a pumpkin at mid- night. To the Ben Johnsons and Dennis Mitchells of the world, hey when you get caught using perfor- mance-enhancing drugs, don't spew persecution or racism or any other excuse from your steroid- addled heads. Shift the blame instead to the real culprits - your trainer and your chemist, for if they had done their homework, you'd be endorsing footwear products instead of UI checks. And you, Michelle Smith. How dare you feign shock and indignation at being suspended for sub- mitting a tampered urine sample containing a lethal alcohol level. C'mon, do you think the IOC 'roid police are fools? After all, it's not every day an average swimmer like you shows up at the Olympics, smashes world records and wins three gold medals for an Irish swim team that previously had a better chance at winning gold in leprechaun punting. As king, be thankful that I don't send you to the eternal salt mines or the Blue Jay's bullpen. : As for the cyclists of the world, you turned your marquee event, the Tour de France junket, into the junkie tour this summer. The manager for one of your teams gets caught at the border with enough drugs in his car to kill Keith Richards and you blockheads stage a cute little hand-holding protest claiming "unjustified persecution" I understand though because two years ago, a standard urine sample from one of your riders showed he was two month's pregnant, proving even village idiots can compete with the right drugs in their systems. So, as king, I'm about to solve this whole steroid mess once and for all with a simple, effective plan. I hereby remove all bans on all drugs for all sports. That's right, you heard me. On your marks, get set, remove your IV's, go! If you need to get stoned so you can ride a snowboard at 60 klicks an hour, go for it. You want to inject enough steroids to grow four extra breasts enabling you to throw a discus two feet further? Fine by me. Listen, we've been trying to stop you from cheating for years and we give up, no more charades. Half the people trying to stop you can't because your chemists are better than ours, developing new doping cocktails before we've discovered the old ones, and the other half never wanted to catch you in the first place. So you will. But you also lose because now instead of suspecting that you're doping, we'll know you are. And hey, it's human nature to cheat and now you've cheated yourselves because we're back to square one, a level playing field. Now as the hour grows late and my kingly reign is about to cease, I have one more royal law to enact and 1t 1s this: Society as a whole, shall reserve the right to freely study all athlete's metabolisms in hopes of gaining valuable insight into battling cancer and other debilitating diseases for which steroids were initially meant.