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Ne aN TE at Ti 20 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, July 21, 1987 It's Gamblers versus Rocktons At a meeting held at the Queen Elizabeth Building at the C.N.E. last Tuesday night the final draw was made for the Bulova Watch Tournament, And the Greenbank Gamblers drew the Waterford Rocktons as their first round opponent. This team will be remembered as the team that defeated the Gamblers in the Intermediate ""A" finals in the _ 1985 O.R.S.A. playdowns. The C.N.E. Bulova Watch Tourna- ment is an invitational tourney and is divided into two divisions of six teams each. The Gamblers are in the Ontario Division and their first game will be on Sunday August 23 at 5:00 p.m. on the C.N.E. diamond just inside the Dufferin St. Gate. Coach Steve Foster then drew a bye for Greenbank in the second round and their next game will be on Saturday, August 29. Any defeat after the second game is automatic elimination and the eventual winner of the Ontario Divi- sion will play the. winner of the Toronto Division for the Bulova Watch Trophy. In league action last week the Greenbank team stayed hot on the heels of Stouffville for top spot in the Oshawa A" Division as they pick- ed up a pair of victories. In Greenbank Park on Monday night they scored an 11-3 win over an understaffed Oshawa A.C.L. team, Ken Goreski on the Greenbank mound scattered ten Oshawa hits over the seven innings and was in trouble only once during the game when Oshawa scored their three runs in the fifth inning. For the rest of the game Ken Goreski kept the bases clear of A.C.L. baserunners, "with his wide variety of pitches. Brian Till, Hugh Johnston, Don Phinney and Terry Till led the Greenbank attack with two hits each with the big blow of the game coming on Don Beatons grand slam home run in the third inning. On Thursday night the Gamblers went into Port Perry and came home with a solid 6-0 win over the Port Perry XL Eagles. Greenbank jumped on Port Perry starter Ken Irvine early and scored five runs in the second inning and again the key blow was Don Beato three run homer. B Mark Goreski held the Port Perry team to three hits during the contest and had ten strike outs. Lawrie Williams pitched five in- nings of effective relief for Port Perry and struck out six Gambler batters. Don Beaton and George Redshaw had two hits each for Greenbank with Neil Rodd, Hugh Johnston, Trevor Till, Don Phinney and Terry Till each contributing a hit to the Gambler offense. Dave Dickson, Jay Williams and Lawrie Williams had thé base hits for Port Perry. This week the Oshawa M.C.L. Juniors come to Greenbank and the Gamblers go to Claremont- Markham Juniors on Wednesday' night. - Golf tournament for accident victim The Lindsay Ambulance Associa- tion, which includes Port Perry will be hosting a golf tournament August 7 with all proceeds going to help a man who was left crippled after a diving accident several years ago. The tournament will be held at the Lindsay Golf and Country Club with fees of $120 per foursome, or $30 for an individual. This includes supper after the golf.- Tee off times on August 7 will be between 8:30 and 9:30 a.m. There will be lots of prizes in- cluding a C.P. vacation for a hole in one, and a ten speed bicycle for closest to the hole. Several well known sports figures have agreed to attend this event, in- cluding Brad Sinith and Tom Fergus of the Toronto Maple Leafs, and Jeff Beukeboom of the cham- pion Edmonton Oilers. All net proceeds from this tourna- ment will go to help purchase a special wheel chair for Dale Teatro who was left a quadraplegic after breaking his neck diving into Lake Scugog in 1981. Anyone wishing more info on this golf tournament can contact Ross Taylor at Port Perry Ambulance 985-7051. Port Perry Star Sports Squirts take three and win Gravenhurst meet Port Perry Branch 419 Legion Squirt Softball Team travelled to Gravenhurst on Saturday and by virtue of three straight victories won the Gravenhurst Invitational Squirt Softball Tournament. Early Saturday morning the Port Perry boys played the host team from Gravenhurst and in a "mercy" shortened game the Legion Squirts defeated the opposition by a score of 23-0. Chad Venning pitched the victory and did not allow a hit and only allowed four baserunners on walks. Grant Kay and Chad Garvock led the way with the bat with four hits a piece while Adam Johnston and: Kent Jamieson had 3 hits each. Duane Empringham and Gavin Cochrane added 2 homeruns each. Game two of the tournament pro- ved to be the most exciting game of the season as Port Perry defeated Pickering 2-1 in this semi-final game. This game was a real pitchers match as Jeff Card for Port Perry allowed only four hits while Bob Lee of Pickering allowed five hits. Jeff Card after allowing a first in- ning triple and a run to Pickering, did not allow another Pickering baserunner till the seventh inning when he loaded the bases and final- ly struck out Wade Fung to end the rally. Port Perry tied the game 1-1 in the bottom of the fifth inning when Grant Kay who was running for Jeff Card who was on by way of an er- ror scored on a pass ball from third base, after Duane Empringham had a single to move him to third base. Jeff Card made no mistake in the bottom of the seventh inning as he hit a long homerun for the 2-1 vic- tory that put the team in the cham- pionship game. In the championship game against Markham the two teams battled a 1-1 score until the third in- Greenbank Pee Wees On Friday, July 17, the Greenbank All Stars hosted Newmarket for a well fought game. Greenbank pro- ved to be the better of the two and showed the large crowd with a 9-2 win. oo The scoring started in the top of the second when Newmarket scored 2 runs to take an early lead. Greenbank however, grabbed the bats and started to bang away when four walks were given to Tim Timms, Dan Sluggett, David Don- neral and Peter Loughran. The walks gave the All Stars one run to get back in the game. It was awhile before any runs were scored and Greenbank thought it was time to do some damage when Tim Timms blasted a triple over the right fielders head ending up in the playground. Dan Sluggett then got on base with a passed-ball on a strikeout and Timms came home to score. Dan Sluggett was ad- vanced to third when Peter Loughran layed down a beautiful bunt. John E home with a double to make the score 3-2 in favour of Greenbank. Greenbank played tight ball and never looked back when they took the lead 3-2. Tim Timms, Brett Puckrin, John Chronis and Ken Winslow all had key hits to a 9-2 vic- tory over Newmarket. Greenbank's defence played tremendously well with John Chronis doing his usual spectacular moves on shortstop. Ken Winslow played extremely well on third, grabbing everything that came to him. David Donneral, Peter Loughran is then drove Dan -- battle with Newmarket and Mark Shepherd did their job well out in the field to keep Newmarket off the board. Brett Puckrin chalked up 9 strikeouts on the mound and kept the score down with help from the team behind him. John Ennis did ex- 'tremely well pitching the last inning allowing no hits and 1 strikeout. On Sunday, July 19, the Green- bank All Stars travelled to Aurora to do battle with a very good team coming out with a 7-7 tie. The scoring started "right off the bat' when John Ennis and John Chronis hit singles and were driven home by key hits from Chris Donnel- ly and Tim Timms to make. the score 2-0 for Greenbank. Aurora came back with one of their own but Greenbank came back (Turn to page 21) ning when Jeff Card again hit a homerun with 2 runners on base as Port Perry blasted the opposition 16-1 to win the championship. Duane Empringham had 3 hits for the winners, while Simon Traynor, Gavin Cochrane, & Cory Bricknell had two each, Kent Jamieson, Scott Wylie and Grant Kay had a hit a piece. The infield of Chad Venning, Todd Smart, Duane Empringham, Cory Bricknell, Gavin Cochrane and Chad Garvock played a strong tour- nament defensively as they commit- - ted only three errors in three games and made many fine plays. The catchers, Jeremy Norton and Greg Rankin played three excellent games in the hot humid weather. While the pitching staff of Jeff Card and Chad Venning allowed on- ly 2 runs scored in 3 games. After playing so well in three other tour- '-naments, this was a well deserved - victory. This past week in league play, the team improved their record to 10-1 as they defeated East Gwillimbury 9-1 and blasted Stouffville 22-6. The Legion Squirts travel to Oshawa on Wednesday night for an exhibition game with the Shamrocks, and play Markham at home on Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at the Lakefront Park. Marion Hopkins of Port Perry has been an avid golfer for just the past four years and last month, the dream of every golfer came true as she recorded a hole in one. Marion was playing in the Sum- merlea Ladies League at Summerlea when she hit a five iron on the 125 yard 17th hole. Last year, Marion's husband William also had a hole in one, and now they have a friendly competition to see who gets the next ace.