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PAGE 14, WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1979, WHITBY FREE PRESS Midget baseball tournament is set for this weekend in Whitby and Oshawa Baseball officiais in Whit- by and Oshawa are keeping an anxious weather eye this week hoping that sunny skies will prevail on Satuiday and Sunday when the Whitby Minor Baseball Association and the Oshawa Legion Baseball Association join forces to present the eighth annual Whitby-Oshawa Mid- get Tourqament. Plagued often by bad wea- ther in its short history the THINK YOU NEED A NEW CARPET? Steam clean it with a NAUTAVAC and make it look like new. CALL FOR A > naut1uvuc STEAM CLEANER FROM: GENF2 SUPERCLEANALSO CUSTOM CLEANING SERVICE A VAILABLEAT LOW RATES CALL 668-2846 OR 668-1235 SUMMER BLUES? NOTHING TO DO? Why not spend the day ut JUBILEE GOSPEL RANGI AUDLEY RD. PICKERING *Western Riding * Swimming * Fun * Sports * Fellowship i, gO fo r $ 6 p r d y 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Bring a lunch or visit the Trading Post! WHAT A WAY TO SPEND A DAYI Phone 686-2491 Rev. Choies W. Brown local groups have overcome the problems of inclement conditions to build a reputa- tion of hosting one of the most successful baseball events held in the province and each year. Tournament officials are besieged with requests from clubs wanting a berth in the 16 team affair which will take place with games at Kinsmen Stadium in Oshawa and at Iroquois Park Peel Park and Fairman Field in Whitby. The first of the 23 games necessary to declare a champion .get underway in all four parks at 9:30 a.m. Saturday. Games will follow in all parks at 12:15 p.m., 3 p.m. and 5:45 p.m. with the first day's action reducing the field to eight clubs. On Sunday, action will resume at 9:30 a.m. with games at Kinsmen and Iro- quois Parks and a~game at 11:45 a.m. in both parks, to set the stage for the semi- final round which will see the final four clubs battle for a berth in the championship game. Semi-final games are scheduled for 2:30 p.m. at Kinsmenand Iroquois Parks. The Championship final alternates between Oshawa and Whitby, and this year Iroquois Park will be the scene for the climax of the tourney with a 7 p.m. start. So far, this has not been a Th e Brooklin Redmen lacrosse club missed an opportunity to move past the Peterborough Red Oaks into second place July 3 at Peter- borough as the gaine ended PONIES ON PARADE Halfinger Ponies from Alvin Laramie's Holson Creek Farm of Harrow, Ontario. This farm first imported 2 Halfinger ponies from Temple Farm in the US in Sept. '73 and has been growing ever since. Horses are golden Austrian team ponies. The wagon they pull is "The long Green Line' and was opèrated by John Deere of Grimsby, Ontario. vintage year weather-wise for Ontario tournaments, the Ontario Junior elimination event held in Thorold two weeks-ago ran into disas- trous rainstorms which played havoc with the sche- duling, while the Midget elimination being held at the same time in Hamilton was wiped out altogether. Local officials are hoping that this will be the year for the sun to shine on their affair. The '78 Championship game played atKinsmenSta- dium and-saw Brantford pit- ted against Niagara Falls N.Y. and observers rank the thrilling finish to the tourney as one of the most exciting baseball games ever played in the area. In the top of the ninth Brantford tied the game 3-e and in the bottom of the ninth the New York club won the game 4-3 to take the tourna- ment crown. Winners in previous years have been Scarboro Village. Hamilton Mahoney Bears. Scarboro Birchmount, South Windsor, Belleville and East York. The only upset thus far in this year's planning has been the suspension of the Scar- boro Birchmount club from any O.B.A. tournament play for the remainder of the season for their failure to appear at a recent tourney in Waterloo. The Scarboro club has to be replaced but the new club has not been announced. in an 18-18 overtime tie. Brooklin remained in third place as a result, one point behind Peterborough. Brampton is in first place. The game was tied - 4-4 after the first period, but Brooklin moved ahead 10-8 in the second Larry Ferguson of Peterborough tied the score at 17-17 with six se- conds left in the game to force the overtime. Stan Cockerton scored for goals in the game, Rob Gemmell and Bill Down had three each, Larry Graham, Neil Atkinson and Steve Wild had two each, and Gary Nicholson and Les Reed added singles for the Red- men. The Brooklin Redmen defeated the Oshweken War- riors 9-3 in the second period Thursday to go on to a 26-14 win in Ontario Lacrosse Ma- jor Series action. The win kept Brooklin within a point of second- place Peterborough Red Oaks, and was not consi- dered unusual as Oshweken has won only one league in the first period by scoring four unanswered goals in the last five minutes. Stan Cockerton scored twice and had 10 assists and Rob Gemmell had six goals. and two assists. Jim Branton and Les Reed had two goals each, and Russ Arbuckle, Ron McCoy, Steve Wilde, had two each, and Wayne McGuigan, Gary Nicholson, Tony Gray and Larry Graham added singles. Redmen tie Peterborough in overtime rrk.