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# 1 ~~ 18 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Wed. August 8, 1984 Sports Final game by default as ACL pitching "dies" in 4th inning ~~ For the second straight year, Port Perry Legion won the annual Canadian Tire Mens Fastball Tour- nament held at the waterfront fields over the long weekend. The tournament, which was plagued by rain Monday afternoon came to a rather unusual conclusion late that evening when Oshawa"s ACL ran out of pitchers in the cham- pionship game and had to forfeit the match to Legion in the top of the fourth inning. John Logaman was on the mound for ACL when he developed serious arm trouble and simply was unable to continue throwing. The team had no other pit- chers on the bench and the game ended with Legion leading 3-0. The ACL manager explained later that Logaman has a deep bruise on the inside of his right forearm which began to act up. He had thrown several games for his team during the tournament. With the score tied 0-0 in the top of the 4th in- ning, Legion's Dave Dickson and Jay Williams were walked and the next batter Lawrie Williams lined a sharp hit to score Dickson and move Jay » 4 9 y JA Cs v Ei Lh Lr Te Williams to third. Doug Scott popped out and it became apparent that Logaman was run- ning into serious arm trouble. His next pitch to Mike Healey barely reached the strike zone, and the Legion catcher hammered it to the out- field for a double scoring both base run- ners. The game was called and Legion took the championship. Ace hurler John Annis was on the mound for Legion in the final, and while he gave up a hit in each of the first three innings, he didn't seem to be in any trouble. In fact, he looked to be picking up right where he left off in a tough semi-final against Auto Tow of Peterborough which Legion won 3-2. Annis threw a nifty one-hitter and fanned 13 Auto Tow batters. His cause was helped by Lawrie Williams who smashed a solo home run early in the game off hard-throwing Auto Tow pitcher Wayne Wells. Wells gave up seven hits and fanned nine Legion batters in a losing cause. Wells almost tied the game up for his team in the bottom of the 7th when he laced a long foul down the right field line. But two pitchers later, he hit into a ground ball and close play at first. With two down, Annis walked a better who stole second, but the -- gr a : : ' pos 5 2 F ih Foe ow VOGT Tg § Fails = . boll ~n hts 3 FO Seg J eg. - Legion hurler put the game on ice as Auto Tow's Ron Tanner was called out looking at a third strike. Legion reached the finals with a 7-0 win over Kenilworth with Lawrie Williams on the mound; an 110 win over Pickering behind the pitching of John Annis and a 3-0 victory over Carlo's with Williams getting the win. The only loss Legion suffered came at the hands of the Greenbank Gamblers, a 4-3 decision that put the" Gamblers on top of their division after three games. That game went into extra innings. For a time, it looked like Gamblers and Legion might hook up in the tournament final, but ACL tagged Gam- bler pitching in the semi-final to take a 5-1 win and knock Green- bank out of the tour- nament. As it was, Greenbank had wins over Carlo's, Pickering, Legion and Prince Albert before bowing out in the semi's. The host Canadian Tire Juniors from Port Perry got off to a rocky start in the division play with a 2-1 loss to Kenilworth and 4-1 loss to CN Tower of Toronto. The Juniors then defeated Prince Albert 20 in a game they needed to win by four runs to stay in conten- tion. The Prince Albert squad had losses of 5-2 --- L - -- £7 w Ast There was plenty of action at the Port Perry diamonds over the weekend in the annual Canadian Tire Fastball Tournament. In the top photo, Bob Ireland of the Port Juniors attempts to put tag on CN Tower base runner, while in bottom photo, Jeff Johnstone and CN catcher both ended up on the ground after Johnstone was tagged out on a play at the plate. The Juniors lost this game 4-1. Meanwhile, the Port Legion team repeated their tournament win of last year as they took a forfeit game from Oshawa ACL in the final. (See story for details) and 42 to Kenilworth and Greenbank, coupled with an 8-1 win over CN Tower. "\ An entry. from Blackstock won its division with three vic- tories over Cardinal, DCL and Udora, but lost a tough 2-1 decision to ACL in the knock-out round. Mark Goreski was hurling for Blackstock and he tossed a no-hitter in this tournament. The other no-hitter came from Auto Tow's Wayne Wells who just missed a perfect game. The popular tour- nament attracted a large number of spec- Legion repeat tournament winners tators who sat through sweltering heat on Satur- day and Sunday, but had to scatter for cover on more than one occasion Monday after- noon when the rains came. The heavy downpour delayed play by only about two hours and a lot of credit must go to the groundscrew who managed to get the field in playing condition af- 'ter the rains turned it in- to a sea of mud. For winning the tour- nament, the Legion squad picked up $550 in expense money and each player received a sport bag. Thoughts turn fo ASA series from the weekend victory in the Canadian Tire fastball tournament, Port Perry Legion will now be tur- ning their thoughts to up-coming OASA playoffs with Claremont. Game one of the best of three set will be played this Thursday night at 8:30 in Claremont with game two slated for Port Perry next Wednesday (Aug.15) under the lights at 8:30 P.M. If a third game is necessary, home field advantage will be decided by a flip of the coin just prior to game one, but the series must be wrapped up by August 18. The two teams have met just once this season, in a May tour- nament with Claremont taking a close decision from Legion. The winners of this series will meet the -winner of the Green- bank-Sutton series for the zone championship. Legion had a bye in the first round. Green- bank has already put out Zephyr while Sutton knocked down Alliston. Bantams go on to final by Lee Wilbur The Port Perry Lions Club Bantams won their OASA playoffs by beating a disabled Oak Ridges team by scores of 7-5 and 14-4. The first game Port had a lead of 7-1 until the fifth inning when the bats couldn't bring in any runners and Oak Ridges came back to make the score 7-5 but Port held them off to win the game. Dave Burnett went the distance collecting six strikeouts. The second game was a blowout and Lions romped to a 144. Jeff Cockerton pitched the distance and he collec- ted 8 strikeouts. This was literally a no con- test for the Lions. Hits in this series went to Craig Menzies, 3 singles, a double and a triple; Dave Culbert, 4 singles; Greg Warriner, a double and a single; Lee Wilbur 3 home runs with 6 RBI's; Dave Burnett 2 doubles and a single; Steve Durham 3 singles; Jeff Cockerton 4 singles; Chris Cook- man a single. This put the Bantams in the OASA tournament in Bracebridge for Ban- tam "C". The coaching staff has done an ex- cellent job and with their guidance and with strong pitching and hit- ting, strong defense, the Bantams could pull out as OASA Champions. Support Minor Ball.