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20 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tues. August 13, 1985 ports Tie breaker to go In Freelton this Sunday at 6:00 PM Scugog had to settle for runner-up spot in the Atoms finals of the annual Mosquito-Atom house league tournament held in Port Perry. The local team lost a tough 3-0 match to Burlington Saints. At left is Scugog's Jeff Andrews and Burlington captain Mike Blaney. In the Mosquito division, Willowdale doubled Whitby 4-2 to win the trophy. That's Matthew Ferguson, captain of Willowdale on the left, with Whitby captain Cam Schilling. After the first two games of the O.R.S A. (Inter. **A") semi-final, the Greenbank Gamblers and Ward- sville are tied at one game apiece. On Friday night the Gamblers travelled to wardsville and behind the six hit pitching of Russ Korbak the Gamblers came home with a 4-2 win. Hugh Johnston led the Gambler attack with three hits against Ward- sville's Jamie Hind - Neil Rodd, Greg Rodd and John Foster each had a pair of hits with Don Phinney, Don Beaton, Brian Till and Russ Kor- bak hitting safely once. Don Beaton hit a two run homer in the first inning Port Legion grabs opening game 2-1 Port Perry Legion gained a 1-0 series lead in the O.A.S.A. zone final against Fraserville in Peterborough with a tense 2-1 squeaker at the East City Bowl. Port jumped to a quick 2-0 lead in the top of the 1st inning as lead off bat- ter Colin Wackett singl- ed, Rick Evans singled and 3rd batter Al Heint- zman was hit by the pitch Soccer action Port Atoms reach final Unfortunately, te assist the out of towr teams, both Port Perry teams played at the first kick-off time and your correspondent was unable to cover both the Mosquito and Atom games at the same time. However, the Mosquitc team played very well and made it through tc the semi-final where they were beaten by the very strong Willowdale team that went on to win in the final. Game 1 Port Perry 3. Uxbridge 2; Scorers for Port Perry were Jason McBride 1 and Jason Cochrane 2. Game 2 Port Perry 3. Bowmanville 2; Stuart Dyre 1, David Wierz brickz 1, Shawn Plain 1 Game 3 Port Perry 1. Whitby 6: Matthew Allardyce 1. Semi-Final Port Perry 0, Willowdale 6 Final Willowdale 4, Whitby 2 ATOM Port Perry vs. Whitby Port Perry went on the attack from the opening kick-off and ten minutes into the game Mike Tripp blasted the ball between the posts to give Port Perry the lead they would never relinquish. The play went from end to end and Whitby were kept off the scoreboard by the very strong play of the defence by David Pashley and at the end of the first half the score was still 1-0 for Port Perry. The second half started off with Port Perry pressing the at- tack and keeping the play in the Whitby half The Whitby defense hung strong and Port Perry only managed two shots on goal in the first ten minutes The constant pressure finally paid off at the fifteen minute mark when Jeff Andrews Turn to page 2 4) Selects on the move in series Colin Haines, coach of the Cummings Backhoe Cartwright Select team, reports that the team 1s now playing in the On- tario playdowns They first met Claremont in a best two out of three games. and defeated Claremont by scores of 18-0 and 6-0 On Wed Aug 14. they will meet Coboconk In the first of a best two out of three series On Thurs- day Aug 15, they play Coboconk at7 00 P M at their home diamond in Nestleton The team would appreciate fan support for this impor- tant game If Cummings defeats Coboconk. they will proceed to the all On- tano championships held at Charbot Lake on the LLabour Day weekend The team were finalists in the all Ontario s last year and with support from all of us on Thurs Aug 15, we hope to see them go all the way' to load the bases with none out. This set the stage for clean up batter Larry Pickey who hit a towering fly ball to sacrifice in Wackett and move Evans to third. Two batters later Evans scored on Fraserville's pitcher Sanderson on a wild pitch. In their half of the 1st inning, lead off batter Marvin Moore singled, was sacrificed to second and scored on to suc- cessive wild pitches by starter Lawrie Williams. The scoring stayed this way to the end of the seven inning game with relief pitcher Al Heint- zman coming on in the sixth inning to pitch ef- fectively getting the save. The Legion hitting was supplied by Colin Wackett and Rob Evans with 2 hits with single hits going to Rick Evans, Jack Bright and Dave Dickson. Game two in the best of three series goes Wednesday night in Port Perry at 8:30 p.m. if necessary, a third game will be played in Peter- borough on Sunday, August 18th at 3:30 p.m. In © gue play last week, Port Legion played a home and home series with Whitby losing in Oshawa 5-4 and winn- ing in Port Perry 4-2. Port Perry Legion has arranged to play the Cahfornia Cuties Softball five man team on Thurs- day might, August 22 at 8 00 pm This five man team last year won 120 games while losing only 16 times. The Cuties have been together since 1948 and this year's cast features Fifi the Flirt (Ron Rupp) on the mound: Wilma the Whip (Paul Graham) as cat- cher. Hefty Helen (Bruce Castleman) at 1st base and right field. Hedda Hooker (Rick Rupp) at short stop left and centre field and (Coaca/Manager Madam Hilda (Trino Palacios) Hopefully the fans will be entertained by their high level of softball skills and their zany antics on the field Gamblers locked in tough semi final series to get the Gamblers off on the right foot. First baseman Ken DeGraw homered for Wardsville. On Sunday night the two teams locked horns at Greenbank Park and this time the game went 13 innings before Ward- sville finally won it 1-0 on a home run by catcher Bob Fisher. The Gamblers had op- portunities to win the game but failed to capitalize on their chances. Their best op- portunity came in the bottom of the ninth inn- ing when lead off hitter Ne'l Rodd was on third base with nobody out but a weak grounder to short, a strikeout and finally Rodd was nipped at the plate when he tried to score on a passed ball. When the Gamblers missed this golden op- portunity to put the game away, the tide appeared to swing to Wardsville and Fisher's home run finally gave them the lead. However, it took an outstanding play by the Wardsville first baseman in the bottom of the 13th to finally lock up the win. Brian Till led off the Gambler 13th with a clean single to left field. Ray Meisner attempted to bunt him to second but the first baseman made a diving catch of Meisner"s bunt and doubled Till off first base. Pitcher Russ Korbak led the Greenbank hit- ters with a pair of safeties with single hits going to Neil Rodd, Den- nis Romeril, Don Beaton, Greg Rodd and Brian Till The third and deciding game will go this weekend in the Cam- bridge area (which is halfway between Green- bank and Wardsville) probably on Saturday night. So the 100 mile drive to Cambridge this weekend should provide fastball fans with some super entertainment, so plan to make the trip and sup- port the Gamblers in this do or die game The winner of this sud- den death game moves directly to the O R S A Inter "A" final The North Durham Fastball 'eague play downs will start next we~k as all postponed games that could affect the league standings will be played this week At the time of writing, the first round opponent for the Gamblers has not been decided but the series will definitely start next week i nl rl he ba oe ami