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ai i anh Lh SEE idl te LE ELE a SAO LSE anit tf CA LL ian EE i EE GL iia abit pie ie BE SU 28 - PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, September 10, 1991 "Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice" Lose tough 2-1 decision HL v Foren The Country Siding team defeated Valu-mart in the final game to win the Pee Wee Ban- tam girls softball final. Pictured are the winning team members: Back Row (I-r) Linda Har- ris, coach, Suzl Gascoyne, Brandy Harris, Laura Phoenix, Christy McKay, Amanda Powell, Dayna Saarl, Heather Harris, Heather Tredway, Terry Brown, assistant coach. Front Row (I- r) Tara Brown, Jennifer Galberg, Barbie Phayre, Coral Sharkey, Lexie Jeffrey, Jennifer Hunter, Beckie Webster. Please see story for more details. Defeat Valu-mart 17-11 Country Siding team wins Pee Wee Bantam girls final Pee Wee Bantam girls soft- ball ended their season on Wednesday, Sept. 4 when Country Siding captured the championship game defeating Valumart with a score of 17-11. Kara Newell and Jen Bacon both shared the pitcher's mound for Valumart and each blasted out a homerun. Amy Sinclair played an "all round" good night of ball in her hitting and as back catcher. Catching a hard ball in cen- tre field was Kim Rollo and B.J. Wray worked hard trying to keep Country Siding from ad- vancing. Jen Morden played a strong, steady game and Robin Adderley provided the most ex- citement by coming home on a hard hit that was nabbed, then retracking to third to tag up and crossing the plate again in time to count the run. M.V.P. for Valumart was cho- sen by the Country Siding coach and assistant to be Allie Beare. Coach Dan Allen worked hard with the team and would like to acknowledge help from John Bacon, Randy Hath- away, Rick Beare and Randy Grant. Sharing the pitchers mound for Country Siding was Brandy Harris and Jen Hunter. Aman- da Powell provided the strong- est hits of the night for her team and Lexie Jeffrey played an all round good night of ball. Heather Harris knocked out a triple and Tara Brown con- nected a good hit counting a double. Becky Watson had a at night behind the plate olding onto that ball prevent- ing advancing on the bases. Jennifer Galberg was relief catcher and also did a super job. MVP. for Greenbank's FOUNTRY LINING Lyf Country Siding was Becky Wat- son, chosen by the coach and as- sistants of the Valumart team. Coach Linda Harris would like to thank Terry Brown for . his assistance, Mrs. Powell for scorekeeping and all parental support. Country Siding captured the Pee Wee Bantam girls soft- ball championship on September 4 by defeating Valumart. Pictured are the M.V.P.'s for the championship game, for Greenbank Country Siding Becky Watson, and for Valumart Allison Beare. See story for more details. Gamblers' season is winding down This week will see the cur- tain fall on a very memorable fastball season for the Green- bank Gamblers. Regardless of what happens this week the long 1991 season will finish at least by Sunday night. The Greenbank team must win this Monday night in Greenbank and then again in Greenbank on Wednesday night in order to contest the On- tario Mens Double "A" champi- onship on the weekend. The win or else situation came about when the Gamblers lost a tough 2-1 decision last Thursday evening in an eleven inning thriller at the Peterbo- rough Bowl. Greenbank's Wayne Wells opposed Peterborough I1.C.G.'s Brian Condon and when the dust had cleared the I.C.G. team had claimed a 2-1 victory. Wells pitched brilliantly for Greenbank and when John Tait homered in the fifth inning to give the Gamblers the lead it ooked as though Greenbank would hold on for a 1-0 victory. But in the Peterborough sixth inning the Gamblers usually reliable defense faltered and I.C.G. scored an unearned run to send the game into extra in- nings. The teams battled on even terms until the top of the elev- enth inning when Brian Till singled sharply up the middle and with two out, "old reliable", Don Beaton laced a line drive double off the right centre field fence. On an extremely close play at home plate, Brian Till was called out on the relay from the centrefielder to the short stop to the catcher to kill the Gambler rally. Then in the bottom of the eleventh inning, Peterborough scored a run without a base hit when an infield error put the lead off batter on base, a missed third strike pitch and a base on balls loaded the bases and a sacrifice fly to centre field plat- ed the winning run. Wells struck out 15 batters during the game and deserved a better fate as both Peterbo- rough runs were unearned and he allowed only four hits. On the other hand Brian Condon was also in fine form as he al- lowed the Gamblers only five hits and struck out 14 batsmen. Everything considered it was a very exciting game a great ame to win but a tough one to ose. So Monday night in Green- bank (and possibly Wednesday) will determine if the Gambler's season ends on Monday, Wednesday or on the weekend,. The Gamblers are planning on some sort of fundraising ac- tivity in the next few weeks to attempt to assist the team with the heavy costs of attending the Mens Canadian Champion- ships last week in Camrose, Al- berta. Midgets end season in second place The Midget season was capped by Scarborough win- ning the Brady Division gold in a thrilling play-off series. The host team, Port Perry, played well but ran out of gas in the semi-finals against Scarbo- rough. In game one, Port lost a tight game by a score of 6-5 to Stouff- ville. Richard Brough pitched seven strong innings, allowing only four earned runs while striking out four and walking two. Port was ahead going into the seventh by a score of 3-2, but a lead-off walk and a criti- cal error allowed runners on third and first with none out. This eventually led to a four run seventh inning. Port made a strong comeback in the bottom of the seventh by scoring two runs, but left the tie and go ahead run at first and third. With this defeat, they dropped to the losing side for an uphill battle into the champion- ship game. In game two, Port beat Oshawa 10-2 with Brough pick- ing up the win with the help of four innings of relief by Brett Puckrin. Port was leading this match 6-2 at the end of the first inning, and never looked back. Game three then saw Port play against Bramalea and win 6-2 on six innings of strong itching by Puckrin who al- owed only one earned run and two hits, yet struck out five and walked two. Port was ahead by 3-0 in the first and continued to play good defensive ball. This win allowed the home team to advance into the semi-final round. Game four put Port against a strong rival, the Scarborough Reds, who had just been defeat- ed by Stouffville 5-0. The game was tied at two going into the sixth, when Scarborough scored four runs in the bottom of the inning. The extra game Port had played, and the heat of the day began to show its ef- fects. The home team seemed to runout of gas just when Scarbo- rough had put on the pressure with the four run advantage late in the game. The match started and finished with two controversial calls at home plate, starting an interaction etween the fans and the um- pires which carried on into the final championship game. This win advanced Scarborough into the final against an unbeaten Stouffville team. If Scarbo- rough was to win the gold, they would have to win twice. That is just what they did in dramat- ic fashion. All the fans who stayed to see the final outcome saw some ex- cellent ball under a beautiful summer night by the lake. The first game was tied at 0 Turn to Page 29