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Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 6 Mar 1991, p. 33

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. Explorer burger Pater Finn, their top gun on the mound, will be trying out for the Pan-Am national fastball team. If he cracks the line up, Yantzi will get the starting nod, if not, then Yantli will be the back-up pitcher. One way or another, Yantzi will be going to the World Championships. Even though the Waterloo Twins won't be competing in this year's IFC (International Fast. ball congress) qualifying round in Amprior or the IFC World championships in Sioux City, Iowa, that hasn't stopped veteran Waterloo pitcher Dan Yantzi from going. Yantzi, a hard-throwing right-handed hurler from St. Agatha, who's bat is as effective " his pitching, . permission from the Waterloo club to be either" Number One or Number Two pitcher for this" and (Mich,) Explorers for American Softball agrees tournaments this Chronic» Staff Mann, a former senior A player and coach with the Allah Cup champion Brantford Clamatos, believes the big diiterenee between junior B hockey and senior A is the temperment of the players. He admits that with the Winter Hawks he has to stay on top of them all the time, where as with senior hockey, the players were consistent game in, ga9e .out., _ A _ __ - __ "If the kids take a penalty out of hard work, I don't mind, but if they take a rttal'uttory penalty. then I mind; - - In the third game of the Guelph/ Cambridge sen-Res. rights broke out be. fore the gameeven started. Mann felt that Guelph iptigated the free for all and his plume didn't back down. Guelph won the game and got back into the series. Mann, coach of the second-place Hawks which struggled in eliminating the pesky Guelph Platere four games to two in one of four Midwestern Junior B quarterfinals, remembers the days when the Winter Hawks were just happy to make the playoffs. Today the Winter Hawks are serious contenders for the league ftnalis, that is if they get past the Siskins, 4-1 series winners over the Kitchener Dutchmen. "if both teams play up to their poten- tial, you’re going to see a long series," Mann said. However, the coach added that if his team is intimidated by the hardchecking style of the Siskins, then his club could be in trouble. However is Mann can keep his kids out of the box, get a stro performance from goaltender Todd Regions and hold Siskin defenceman Mark Taylor off the scoreboard. then they have a good cha_nce ity defeapipg the Sislrins; "i've always felt that Taylor has been the key to the Siskins. He has a great shot that can really hurt your" said the Cambridge coach. A key player to the Winter Hawks, Todd Harvey, has had a much troubled final two months of hockey suffering shoulder injuries followed by a hip pointer injury, but Mann feels the 17. yearold scoring sensation is back to his old self, which could spell trouble for the Siskins. Pots Cudhu Chronicle Staff Ken Mann believes hockey fans are going to get their money's worth in the upcoming Cambridge Winter Hawk/Wa. terloo Siskin 'Styne/hockey series. Biiseipline's the key for Winter Hawks Hurler Ban Yantm Waterloo Siekln David Schiii goaltender vents his frustrations MR; checking Kitchener Dutchman Scott Barker. " actions like this that has coach Gerry Harrigan concerned " his club heads into the semifinals against the Cambridge Winter Hawks. m. Cudhoe pom $iskinlWintet Hawk Semifinals Game One (tantrum, Match T, 1:30 p.m. Game Two Waterloo, March 0, 7:30 we. Game Three ammo. March 10, 2:30 p.m. Game Four View”, March It, 1:30 pm. Lat season Yantzi faced mostly weaker interme- diate teams, not getting the work he had been used to. This year in the Richmond Hill League, Ynntzi will be facing all senior teams and the work he'll be getting in tournament play with the Explorers should hone his skills on the mound. "Dan feels that they (Explorersivwill be within the top six at the Worlds." "We aren't going to the IFC qualifier this year because we can’t atford to go to the Worid'sr," Twin's coach Larry Lynch said, 'hut that ghouldn't stop Dan if he has the chance to go", “This will be a great opportunity for Dan as well as for us. He'll be facing a lot of tough batters down there which should sharpen up his pitching skills." Lynch has given Yantzi the green light to pitch with Midland any weekend the Twins aren't playing. Yantzi will also be accompanying Midland to a tournament in Sault Lake City, Utah in July 20-21, just two weeks prior to the Ontario elimina. tion tournament in Ettetloo on_Aug. 2-345. (If Neceessiry) Game Five Cambridge, March 15, 7:30 Inn. Game Slx 1nterttttt, March 17, 7:30 p.m. Game Seven Candace. March 19, 7:30 p.m. WATERLm CHRONICLE. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 6. 1901 . PAGE A21 Dan Vanni "You have to discipline yourself It can't come from someone else It has to come from within," Harrigan smd nfh1s tearns' behaviour. The veteran coach felt that the club 1: better disciplined than they were a month ago, but they're not where he would like them to be. If they come up against a moredisciplined club, such as the Stratford Culllwns m the league As a coach he's coricerned but what's more upsetting )5 that he feels some of hisjOysTs aren't concerned Harrigan was quoted saying “In the next series, if we take dumb penalties like we did, It'll be over m four games straight." He admitted that In hss mne years of coaching, it's the first time he's complained about a team wnh no thscp line, V Instead of closmg the door firl '.m Dutchmen m then 7.4 Hunda) nah: Victory. they took stupid penalties mm In the game, allowing the Dutchmrn to get right back mm the game Mass. they got away With this brand of hocko agamst the Dutchmen. but they wmI get away with " agamst the Wmtur Hawks in the league's sernfmal herlt+ which begins tomorrow mght 1n Cam bridge, It's no secret that Siskin coach Gerry Harrigan has talked himself blue 1n the face while addressmg the penalty Mlua non to his players, but to no avall What infuriates Harrigan are the stupld and lazy penalties, You know the ones - hooking, tripping and those all too ofUn retaliatory penalties The Waterloo Siskms managed to eliminate the Kitchener Dutchmen four games to one in the Midwestern Junior B Winds. but if they continue to take stupid penalties, the upcoming "rnifinal aeriea against the Cambridge Winter Hawks could he a much, much longer contest. Penalties are Waterloo’s worst enemies 1;? 'h" E): “3,; I I Waterloo senior men’s fastball is planning a cele- bration. Former players and ex. ecutive of Bridge Sports and Waterloo CHYM'rs are being sought for the 25-year reunion of senior fuen’s fastball 111 Water. 00. 886-1118 The reumon will be held May 3 at the St, Agatha Cgmmunity Centre. Reunion information can be gained by calling Larry Lynch at 74141417 or Barry Musselman at 25th reunion (Conlmued on page A241 o) INSIDE SPORTS

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