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28 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, September 11, 1990 The Port Perry Canadian Tire Bantam Fastball team advanced into the league finals without a loss in pre-championship play, and therefore had to be beaten twice to be eliminated. The Championship final games were held last Wednesday at Adams Park in Scarborough against the home town team, the Scarborough Reds. In the opening game, Chad Ven- ning pitched an 8 hitter with very little support from the rest of the team. As a.result, Port lost 11-0 in only five innings since the '"'mer- cy rule' applied. In the process, he struck out 4 and walked 3. Jasen Dawson broke Scar- borough's no-hitter in the 5th for the only hit of the game. Seems the week-long layoff and power skating the night before did not allow the players to be in the game. For those of us who were at the Ontario Finals in Mitchell last year, we thought, "Oh, no! Not again!" The second game was played after a 20 minute break and not even the dense fog rolling in could keep the Port Perry players out of THIS game. Jeff Card had an excellent outing, beating Scar- borough 4-0, allowing only 2 hits while striking out 7 and walking none. According to the catcher, Scott MacLennan, all of Jeff's pit- ches were really working well in this final game. It was a 0-0 ball game until the bottom of the 4th inning. Jason Cochrane started with a lead-off walk, and was advanced to third on a sacrifice bunt by Brad Moase and a ground-out to first by Gavin Cochrane. With two out, Scott MacLennon drove in what proved to be the winning run. In the 5th, Port put the icing on the cake by scoring 3 more runs, and they never looked back. Darrell Vander Ligt started the inning . with a double and was moved over to third when Todd Smart layed down a sacrifice bunt. Jason McBride drove in Darrell with an RBI single. Bases were loaded through a hit single by Jason Cochrane and a walk by Brad Moase, when Gavin Cochrane drove in 2 more runs with a single. The score was 4-0 after 5 innings, and the Port Perry coaching staff breathed a little easier. * Scarborough could not get anything going in the 6th or 7th in- nings, going down 1-2-3 as Port Perry's pitching and defensive play were unbeatable. Following this foggy double- header, Port Perry was the League Champion and received the Gold Medals as the York Durham Bantam Champions for 1990. The winning team was compos- ed of: Jeff Card, Gavin Cochrane, Jason Cochrane, Jasen Dawson, Grant Kay, Steve Laird, Jody Logan, Scott MacLennan, Jason McBride, Brad Moase, Ryan Picard, Todd Smart, Darrell Vander Ligt, Darrell Vander Slagt, and Chad Venning. The coaching staff: Ron Redman, Bob Vander Slagt, and Wayne " Venning. The final statistics for the year were: Games played...........cc.ccoeeneen 37 WINS ..eivniiireeeneerieniergeeeneneenes 23 THES ..ceevvneerrneneerrrrnerernnaaescnaanes 4 LOSSES ...ueuniruererracrnnrannencasennes 10 AVErage....cocoevivrrnneerennnnens 2676 Runs For.............. 6.2 per game Runs Against........ 3.3 per game We, as a team and coaching staff, wish to thank the following people for the tremendous sup- port we received throughout the season. Thanks to our sponsor, Canadian Tire, to our parents and fans. Country Siding are champs PeeWee, Bantam girls softhall final game Sunday, September 9th saw the final Port Perry Minor Softball Pee Wee/Bantam Girls Final Game played at the South Dia- mond in the afternoon. The two competitors were Country Siding from Greenbank and Standard Electric from Port Perry. Standard Electric started off strong with 5 runs in the first inn- ing to Country Siding's 1. There were many strong hits along with excellent fielding plays made by both sides. Game balls were presented to Laura Pheonix from Country Siding and Amy Plain from Stan- dard Electric as they were chosen Most Valuable Players of the Game. The final inning was entered with Standard Electric leading Country Siding by two runs - 14-12. Country Siding was still down 2 runs with 2 outs when Laura Pheonix stole home from 3rd base to bring them to within 1 run to tie the game. A key hit from Andrea Gibson saw her proceed to third with another key hit from Barbie Phayre. Karin Bacon was up to bat and drove in the tying run and the go ahead run to finish off the game between the two teams 15-14. A big thank you comes from the girls of the Pee Wee/Bantam Sec- tion to their coaches, parents and Scorekeepers who followed their teams each week and offered sup- port and encouragement. Also a big thank you to the Ex- ecutive of Port Perry Minor Soft- ball for all their work throughout the year in organizing softball for the boys and girls in the area. One last thank you to Gordie Ireland - the Pee Wee/Bantam umpire who faithfully came out to all our Port Perry games week after week - rain or shine - for a job well done. The Port Perry Canadian Tire Bantams defeated Scarborough over the weekend to capture the league gold medal and cap a successful fastball season. (see story for com- plete detalls) Members of the medal winning team are front row from left: Darrell Vander Slagt, Chad Venning, Brad Moase, Jason Cochrane, Gavin Cochrane, Steve Laird. In the back row from left: Scott MacLennan, Jody Logan, coach Bob Vander Slagt, Grant Kay, Jeff Card, Ryan Picard, coach Wayne Venning, Jasen Dawson, Todd Smart, Jason McBride, and coach Ron Redman. Not present when photo taken Darrell Vander Ligt. Oshawa down Gamblers to take 1-0 lead in league finals The Greenbank Gamblers went to Oshawa last Tuesday night for the first game of the Oshawa Ci- ty and District "A" Finals, and came home with a tight 1-0 loss to the Oshawa Merchants. ' This gives the Oshawa Club the lead in the best 3 out of 5 final series with the second game of the series going this Monday night in Greenbank. Madrk Goreski pitched a master- ful game on the Gambler mound and going into the bottom of the sixth inning he had allowed Oshawa only one hit. The problem was that the lone Oshawa hit was a towering home run off the elec- tronic scoreboard at Durham Fields that Gerry Delaney, the Oshawa shortstop had belted in the first inning. The first inning clout held up as Jim Chilvers held the Gamblers off the scoresheet and gave Oshawa the 1-0 victory. The Greenbank team gave the old '"'college try" as they had a baserunner in every inning, but the sixth and in the fifth inning they potentially had Oshawa on the ropes. Lawrie Williams led off the Greenbank fifth with a line drive single to left and with one out in the inning a miscue by the Oshawa shortstop put runners at first and second. Rod Real then beat out an infield hit to load the bases with still only one out. But Jim Chilvers bore down to strike out the dangerous Trevor Till and retire hard hitting. Don Beaton on a fielders choice to end the inning. Rod Real had two hits for Greenbank with singles going to Don Beaton, Brian Till and Lawrie Williams. This series should turn out to be a dandy final between these even- ly matched teams as both teams have excellent pitching staffs and good defense. However Oshawa have had the edge on the Gamblers this season with a number of one run decisions so Greenbank will have to dig a lit- tle deeper and turn the tables on the Merchants if they want to re- tain the City & District Champion- ship they captured in 1989. Still no word on the 0.A.S.A. Mens Triple "A" Finals which does very little to enhance the status of the governing body of Ontario fastball. Maybe next week?? : 10th anniversary of Mens hockey league Well folks it's that time of year again and this is the 10th anniver- sary of the Scugog Mens Hockey League. A warm welcome back to previous players and good luck to the new members. The first game of the year got under way with J&D Carpentry and Norton's Home Im- provements battling it out to a 2-2 tie. . Capitalizing for J&D was Ron Zaparaniuk from Rob Evans and Larry Courtice and Fred Moffatt from Rob Evans & Larry Courtice. ) Battling it out for Norton's were Dave Roth unassisted and Brian Norton from Doug Suppelsa and Clarence Stephenson. Game two opened up a tad more with Van & Truck World skating to an easy 8-2 victory over Sportsiand. Leading the way for V&T World were Glen McCoy 1 goal, 4 assists, Brian Samis 2 goals, 2 assists, Randy Prosser 2 goals, 1 assist, Dale Bronson 1 goal, 2 assists, Richie LeFort and Wayne Fox had 1 goal and 1 assist apiece. Counting for Sportsland were [xd Olsen from Brian Callery and Ron Hoogeboom from Keijo Kinnunen. The third game was a total white-wash as Crandell's swamped Compton Cable T.V. 14-3. Scorers for Crandell's were Ken Jeffrey 3 goals, 3 assists, Ray Zaparaniuk 1 goal, 5 assists, Rick Campbell 2 goals, 3 assists, Dan Horner 3 goals, 1 assist, Steve Groves 2 goals, 2 assists, Bob Beveridge 1 goal, 2 assists, Bob Lee 1 goal, 1 assist, Bob McEachern 1 goal, 1 assist, and Jim Beatty 1 assist. For Compton it was Todd Wilbur 1 goal, 1 assist, Larry Page 1 goal, 1 assist and Terry Rose 1 goal. Other assists went to "Doc" Thomson, Glen Hudson and Ron Compton. Game four saw the scoring gap close a little more in a contest bet- ween Fitzgerald's Weed Control and Anderson's that ended in a 5-3 victory for Fitzgerald's. Scoring for Fitzgerald's were Bill Bridge 2 goals, Carl Fit- zgerald 1 goal, 1 assist, Bart Wager and Al Bonner 1 goal each. Assists went to Gary Lance 2, Ken Smart 2, Wayne Norton and Dave Jackson with 1 apiece. Fighting back for Anderson's were Bill Van Camp with 2 goals and Carl Durward 1 goal, 1 assist. CO EEE