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_ i RNG on Y A A Lge " 0 Fs 2 0 5 3 i PON a \ + Hi, 6 AISI AD = 7, ~ -- ERS ga] on PLL Re Do FRA ARE Re, rod Bas ---- -- Tal ae alae = ~~ dr SEE BOFCEREL TEL NC A ae as TAG hr on 0 cB Yon Scadys 12-- PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday. June 11, 1980 Sports with Danny Millar Pg ne rt ote, FEAT > id 3 TEER Seagrave Park The Seagrave Community Park was officially opened on Saturday for another season of activities. The main event Saturday was an eight-team lob-ball tournament, and- Reg Abraham of Seagrave tossed out the ceremonial pitch. Looking on are Bert Hutcheon and Frank Branton of the Seagrave Park Committee, and Scugog Mayor Jerry Taylor, who had words of praise for the amount of work the citizens of Seagrave have put into their park. Ice Hawks drop from Junior C loop Beaverton Ice Hawks have dropped out of the Ontario Lakeshore Junior C Hockey League, leaving the loop with eight teams for the up- coming season. Beaverton, which had trouble drawing fans during its two year history, did not submit an entry for the 1980- 81 season at a league meet- ing held in Port Hope last week. However, the league learned that Little Britain Merchants will ice a team this year. The Merchants finished in last place with just five points this past season, and there had been some speculation around the league that the team would be dropping out. With the loop now down to eight teams, officials decid- ed at the meeting last week to go with a 30-game sche- dule this year, as opposed to 32 games played last year. Also, all eight teams will make the first round of, the play-offs and the elimination series will be a best four out of seven affair. The first place team will meet the eighth place squad, the second will play the seventh and so on. Last year, the bottom team in the regular stand- ings missed the first round of the play-offs, which were a best of five series. Team officials at the league meeting last week are now certain that four teams from northern areas - Lake- field, Bewdley, Bancroft and Haliburton - will not be included in the Junior C loop. These teams are currently D status and it was thought that the OHA would put them in the Junior C loop for the coming year, a move that would have been most unpopular with the current teams because of the travel distances and costs involved. Although the 1980-81 schedule will not be finalized until another league meeting in two weeks, Port Perry MoJacks will be seeking their regular Sunday night home games. The seasoner opener for the MoJacks could be Sunday, October 5. The MoJacks, meanwhile, are now looking for a new coach, following the decision earlier this spring by the team executive not to re-hire Doug Scott, who skippered the club for two years. MoJacks last year finished sixth with a 15-16 and tied one record, and then battled the Port Hope Panthers before losing out in the final game of the best-of-five opening play-off round. A committee of team executives has been appoin- ted to carry out the search for a new coach, and it is expected that an appoint- ment will be made before the end of the summer. Vd Oshawa too strong for Port Juveniles by Danny Millar Ontario Motor Sales touched starting pitcher Tim Thompson for nine runs over the last four innings as they handed Port Perry Mother's Pizza Juveniles an 11-3 loss. Thompson pitched well in the early going, allowing just two runs in the first five frames before he tired, surrendering four runs in the sixth. Three runs had scored by the time OMS pitcher Mike Moore drove in the last run of the game with a high chopper over Thompson's head that shortstop Dave Dickson couldn't handle. A couple of errors enabled OMS to get three more runs in the top of the eighth. The first two men who faced Thompson got into scoring position and one run scored when second baseman Mark Braun dropped a throw from catcher Mike Doupe trying to get JP Lordy at second. Nick Malinchock doubled past third baseman Dave Canning and Lordy scored when Canning's throw elud- ed Dickson. - Port Perry responded with a pair of runs in the home half of the eighth. Dickson . did the damage on the first one when he tripled home Greg Fedyk with a drive over leftfielder Lordy's head. Dickson touched home plate when Thompson blast- ed another triple to the left field fence. OMS concluded the scoring with two runs in the top of the ninth inning. Port's only other run came in during the bottom of the' second inning. Thompson got om base, stole second, went to third on a wild pitch, and scored on a Canning extra base hit. At that point. the match was tigd, OMS L. Wilson firesa 38 by Linda Parry The rainy weather on Tuesday last week did nothing to deter the ladies from Summerlea Golf Course. Lucy Wilson golfed the low. gross score of 38 for the week and Jean Skerratt captured low net with a 19. Josie Wilson and Nancy Andrews were able to shoot birdies on the 6th and 8th hole respec- tively. Another pot of gold was set up on the ninth hole this week and Helen Roter went home $5.00 richer. Next week a game of best- ball will be set up, where the ladies will be paired up according to high and low handicaps and they hit the best shot ball. It should be very interesting and lots of fun. having scored in the visitor's half of the first. OMS took the lead for good with a run in the top half of the third. Doug Seely got the run when he was driven in on ~ Tim Logamen's three bagger over Steve Redman's head in deep right field. Port Perry has played sporadically so far this season. Last week they looked unbeatable as they annihilated the RH Cabinet Juveniles. They played sharply during the first half of the OMS contest before the roof fell in. A key weakness of the team to this point has been some sloppy fielding and bad errors. The only outstanding infielder has been first base- man Bob Ireland. Thompson Newsy oa Horseshoe pits are a popular form of recreation these days, and the pits at the Seagrave Park got lots of use during the opening day activities on Saturday. Steve Trumball and Lisa Frain, visitors from Oak- wood line up a throw. also handles ground balls well for a pitcher, but Dick- son and Braun have been shaky at the keystone positions. Thompson, a righthander, has worked himself into the team's number one hurler. He has shown constant improvement since the beginning of the year but based on results of the OMS game, hasn't yet proven that he has the stamina to go nine full innings. A big part of this may be because he didn't throw at all last year so his arm may take longer to get into top form. Leon Slute and Ian Hartung are the other throwers but they haven't been impressive in the spot duty that they have received.