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County seorts Playoff spots to be settled By BILL CURRAN With the regular schedule nearing finish there is still keen battle for the six playoff places among the eight South Simcoe league baseball teams The defending champion rillia Majors Ivy Leafs and Alliston Canucks all have chance to finish on top with Bar ries improved Red Sox right on their heels ollingWood Cavemen Tottenham Bears and Newmarket are also very much in the fight for playoff spots The youthful Orillia Pontiac Juniors with many juvenile players in the lineup are the only team which can be counted out so ar Outfielder Tim Oliver and pitcheroutfielder Jerry Udell are the leading hitters of the Majors aceording to league averages Catcher Clyde Ilarris and infielder Barry Cockburn also are rated as dangerous clutch hitters for the rillia team which is seeking its 10th county championship in the past 14 years We are not taking anything for granted but well be in there trying our best answered Coach Gander Ross when asked how he assessed rillias chances of winning again In reply to the question of whether it Would be better for the league if the honors were passed around more the rillia coach commented That may be true but we are in baseball to win if we can That the only way to play limer who topped the league in averages recently is having his best season yet at the plate for the Majors Udell has been consistently good hitter for the rillia team as well as are pitcher llurler Peter Koehli also has been faring better at the plate as well as maintaining fine pitching record Last year the Majors beat out Crecmore Braves in the finals to take the title for the fourth year in row Earlier they defeated Ivy Leafs and Midland Indians in the playoffs while Crcernore was taking Col lingwood and Beet on It is different setup this time with rcemore and Recton both out of act ion and their former players wit other teams lvy Leafs are going strong Along with the Majors Ivy Leafs must be rated leading contender for honors again judging by the teams record So far George Ellis has had the Leafs playing headsup baseball most of the season and with Don McMaster back in top pit ching form to help out veteran Bob Donor southpaw Jerry Falls and other moundsrnen the Ivy team would appear to have an excellent chance They last won the league laurcls five years ago in 1972 Improvement of Brian Reid who has blossomed into one of the leagues top hitters in averages as well as fine infielder has been of material help to the Leafs Bob Doners Allist on anucks have been flashing cham pionship form at times Out fielder Barry Geer and infielder Richard Ken have beeen among the leagues top 10 hitters besides fielding well Larry Halbert is having his best season on the mound for the anucks lhc Barrie Red Sox have been playing better ball after shaky start and with the right breaks at opportune times could spring surprise Greg Campbell Bob Hepburn Bryan Neely and Bob Dewar are leading hitters Until he in jured his shoulder infielder Randy McDonald was the teams only home run slugger Glen Laycoek the leading moundsrnan has come up with some brilliant pitching el forts Collingwood Cavemen playing better The acquisition of Terry and Rick Gowan along with cat cher Barry Corby from last years Creemore team has enabled the Collingwood Cavemen to rise to the heights at times lirn Barretts team also must be considered very much in the playoff picture Leading batter for the aveman has been Paul arrut hers of Stayner Don West brooke Terry Gowan and Bill Phillips have been leading pitchers eterau shortstop Kerry Worrod has helped to keep lot tenham Bears in the playoff with his Consistent hitting as well as his usual fine fielding Ed Mason and Jim Robinson have come through with brilliant pitching chores at times for Ken lcoulloughs squad Although also in the second division Newmarket has had two leading sluggers in Dennis McDonald and John ud more wirilc Dan ooney is the ace pitcher of the club McDonald Won the leagues batting honors last year with 445 average while udmore was 10th with 351 Incidentally The Examiners Super Stars are ready we hope This is the team the super stars of super stars The Ex aminer has entered team in the celebrity Super Stars competition at Centennial Park Monday as part of the Kempenfest 77 celebrations The Examiner team of at left Jon Butler Randy McDonald Sheila McGovern Dorothy spo Bowland Elia Agostini and Len Sevick kneeling will be entering into series of friendly competition with teams from CRAYFM CKBB KVR The Banner and city coun cil These events include team dodgeball eggthrowing and catching tugofwar stein race wheelbarrow race and scheduled for tomorrow lont iacs in homegamc Alliston on lucstlay evening Annual Cookstown golf tourney Registrations of golfers wishing to part icipatc in the fourth annual ookstown tourney are being received at the Allandale golf Course on Big Bay Point road Three flights and guest flight are planned for men and Worrod ranked lift with 3711 the leagues records show Five players who were tied for homer honors last year with four each were lerry Gowan Dan Doyle Pat Oleary Barry ockburn and Barry Corby ollingwood avemen will play host to Newmarket in the only league contest scheduled for tonight rillia Majors will travel to Tot tenham to take on Ken Mc ulloughs peeky Bears in one of three league games Barrie Red Sox will be the opposition for Alliston Canucks at ItiVerdale park while Ivy Leafs will meet Orillia Junior The schedule was left open for Civic Holiday Monday but rillia Majors visit Barrie and Orillia Pontiacs play at Canucks defeat Red Sox ALLISTON Barrie Red Sox got minor slap on the knuckles Friday in the quest to catch thirdplace Alliston Canucks Canucks movedinto threepoint lead over fourthplace Bar rie with an 11 to win Alliston has three games remaining in their schedule while the Red Sox have pair of games left to play in the South Sim coe Baseball League The game was the fourth in as many nights for the Red Sox who have oneday layoff before entering the New Lowell Baseball Tournament Sunday Red Sox officially open the twoday event at 10 am against Shelbume Red Sox will be competing in the annual Petrolia Baseball Tournament next weekend Red Sox face the Corunna Juniors at 10 am Saturday Nothing settled The loss to the Canucks was the third of the week for Barrie Earl Elliott started on the mound for Barrie but the right hander lasted until the fourth when lefthander Mike Timmons was called in to try and extinguish an Alliston rally Red Sox watched the Canucks steam home five big runs in the fourth inning and it all started with two out Larry Halbert was the winning pitcher He went the full seven innings giving up six hits including tworun triple to Bob Dewar in the third inning Red Sox rallied for four runs in the inning Dewar appears well out of hitting slump which followed him early in the schedule Dewar Slammed pair of triples in games this week as well as towering 3run homer against the Orillia Majors Thursday Coach Duncan Campbell also saw duty against the Canucks and continued his hitting streak Canucks backed Halbert with 10 hits Both Barrie and Alliston see action on the last day of the regular schedule The Orillia Juniors are at Alliston Tuesday istant another flight for lady golfers in this major event set for Saturday August 20 First teeoff for men is scheduled for am and for women at 1130am Dennis Taylor will be glad to provide further details to all interested golfers At Shanty Bay preparations are currently receiving atten tion for the junior championship golf competition planned for Sunday August 11 The annual Shanty Bay ladies invitational tournament has been ananged for Thursday August 11 Pat Mossop is president and Sue Major games captain with Ivy McWatcrs Nearly 2000 tickets sold Sport Lottery in senior league The Barrie and District Senior Softball League has all the markings of fight to the wire before decision is reach ed on the final standings There are five clubs fighting for the four playoff positions with the Slessor and Periard In surance Club holding two point lead heading into the final week of the regular schedule All clubs have played 16 of there 20 games with the excep tion of Beatrice Foods which has one game in nand Beatrice to currently shares second more before the end of the schedule Beatrice is in Elmvale tonight to meet the Merchants in an pm game There are two key double headers planned for next week starting Wednesday at Queens Park with Elmvale meeting Church at pm and Bradford taking on Beatrice at 830pm Friday at Queens in pm clash is Church against Beatrice followed by the BradfordSlessor game at 830 pm with the Majors here in Barrie at the Fair Grounds BASEBALL Red Sox Alliston 11 pm Newmarket at Collingwood South Simcoe HARNESS RACING 745 pm Barrie Raceway STOCK AR RACING 8pm New Sunset Speedway Barrie Speedway SOFTBALL 8pm Elmvale Beatrice vs Merchants FOOTBALL pm ODCVI Sudbury vs Silver Bombers SUNDAY FASTBALL tion sports calendar 830 pm Midhurst Giffen vs Mr Transmission Exhibr picks winners fig Erlla Hartman of 16 Gram Dr rillia is the grand prize winner of the Huronia Sport Lottery an allexpense weekend package to the 77 Grey Cup Game There were five major prizes drawn Friday by the Greater Huronia Sports Council at the Simcoe County Administration Centre Midhurst Close to 2000 tickets were sold on the Sport Lottery which was held to raise money to help pay the debts of the 197677 Huronia Winter Games and Re cent Summer Games Gregg of RR Barrie won the Blue Jays weekend package which includes an allexpense paid weekend trip to home game of the American League club Don Scott of 44 College Cresc Barrie is the winner of the $75 sporting goods cer tificate coutest of PeterReine Sports Third major prize winner was Leo Beausoleil of Port McNicol who won sports tickets in cluding two passes to the Toronto Argonauts game four tickets to Blue Jays game and four passes to the Barrie Raceway Steven Howell of Shanty Bay won the $50 sporting goods cer tificte from Garners Sports Besides the five major prizes there were 15 other winners These include Electric putter won by Lindsay Salter Midhurst Adadas Shoes Rosemary oulson of Alexander Ave Barrie Tennis Racquet and Press Downie 268 Maple Drive RR Stroud Soccer Ball won by Larry Gregoire Penetang Puma Shoes won by Scott Leonard of Collingwood Twu Blue Mountain ski passes won by Gail Hamelin of Midland Three tickets to Horseshoe Valley Golf Club won by Bulloch of Penetang Track suit won by Merv Brockwell of Stayner Baseball and bat won by Wilson of 115 Clapperton St Barrie Adidas Bag won by Dennis Koomen of Stayner Skateboard goes to Louise Martin of Shanty Bay Adidas Bag won by Richard Ford of Stayner Baseball glove to Murray van Rassel of RR Minesing AMFM Radio to Feaver of 40 Rosylyn St Barrie Iym ic utter to Irene Styleso Haw estone place with Bradford Queens STANDINGS BASEBALLTournament Hotel 9t0 Pts 10 am at New Lowell twoday tournament Church Homes and Elmvale Slessor 10 20 MONDAY Merchants are tied for the Beatrice 18 BASEBALLTOURNAMENT fourth and final platfo berm BFaleId 18 At New Lowell pm consolation final pm champion An interesting note IS the fact Church 10 12 ship final that these two clubs meet twice Elmvale 10 12 Junior club members to hold races Monday George Bedard has played an instrumental role in getting the flatwater racing program of the Barrie Canoe Club off the ground Bedard verteran racer himself started the new program recently with good response The junior members of th Barrie Canoe Club will be holding series of races Mondayat Examiner Photo KINGSTON Ont CP Bad luck plagued defending champion Bill Shore of Newport RI in the fifth and sixth races of the world Albacore sailing championship Friday enabling Dr Roger Green of Hawkestone hit to take the overall lead Shore the most consistent sailor through the first four races overturned his boat with the finish line in sight in 1M days first race and was unable to right it He was sitting in second place at the time but had to watch from the icy waters as the remainder of the wheat fleet sailed past him Shore returned to Portsmouth Harbor between races to do the examiner Saturday July 30 1071 17 Hawkestone sailor leads world event some repair work on his boat and was five minutes late re turning to the starting line However he did manage to overtake few boats but his late start resulted in 34th place finish He started the day as the overall leader but the two dis astrous races knocked him out of the running in his bid for second championship in row The seventh and final race of the series was scheduled for this morning Green became the first sailor to win two races when he fin ished first in Fridays opening race He had fourthplace fin ish in the secon and leads the standings with 237 points Barry Poyntz of Toronto climbed to second place with strong performances Friday Poyntz with his brother Gary as crew had second and fir st to finish the day with 267 ints against in the Olympic owscoring system Art Ellis of Westport Conn is third with 290 points while third Canadian Richard Storer of Barrie is fourth with 327 points Ellis had second and fifth Friday while Storer who star ted the day in second place had fourth and sixth Poyntz Ellis and Storer all have chance of catching Green todays final race Final few games final for Intermediate clubs The final few games of the schedule will decide the out come of the Intermediate Divi sion of the Barrie City Fastball League Only the PetersReino Sports Hustlers are certain of any thing heading into the last games of the game schedule Huslters have solid hold on first place with 36 points on 17 wins one loss and two draws Hustlers have two games re rnaining in the 21game schedule After that its anybodys race Even Clarkson Hotel currently in last place with 413 record has an outside chance of finishing in the sixth and final playoff berth of the eightteam division Clarkson must win all four of their remaining games and hope that either Optimist Club or Convertible Pools tied with 14 points each lose their re maining games Only four points separates the second place Barrie CoOp club from the fifthplate tie bet Rec loop standings in doubt Statistics are hard to come by in the Recreation Division of the Barrie City Fastball League but unofficial standings compiled by the Examiner reveal Georgian Sports and Gil fen Farm Equipment in tussle for first place The final doubleheader of the Recreation Divisions regular schedule is set for Thursday at MacMorrison Park but there are however number of teams with games to makeup due to rainouts or cancella tions Both Georgian and Giffen have lost three games with Georgian boasting of three point lead heading into the final week Four points separates the next three teams Molsons is last with only one victory to its credit to date STANDINGS Pts Georgian 14 29 Giffen 12 26 Simcoe 11 22 Firefighters 10 20 Clifton ll 18 CFB Borden 10 15 Canplas 14 11 Molsons 14 Hillcrest is leader Standings in the Mosquito Divison of the Barrie Optimist Minor Soccer League Hillcrest Emies Crests 18 Oakley Park Unlimited Lumber 14 Maple Grove Toy Shop 10 Allandale RCAF Cundles Heights Fierenzie Rest St John Vianney Dalton rent acar St Monicas Printing Unlimited Codrington Ninos Pizzaria Centennial Park in connection with Kempenfest 77 beginning at pm Later that afternoon there will be draw for 8500 canoe Tickets for this canoe are available today and Sunday at McDonalds 115 well as at Canadian Tire todoy ween Convertible Pools and the Optimist Club hot or cold streak now by any club could shoot them into second place or drop them to the bottom of the league ladder Both ConVertible Pools and Mr Transmission were double losers in play this weekwhile PeterReine added two victories to its string doubleheader slated for Sunday at Queens had been cancelled STANDINGS TPts PeterReine 17 36 CoOp 19 Floor 16 Mr 16 Starr 15 ConvPls 10 14 Optimist 10 14 Clarkson 13 sports shorts Kites holds on with late surge PHILADELPHIA AP Tom Kite has theory about golf tournaments You cant win tournament in the first round or the second round or the third round he said All you can do on those days is try not to lose the golf tournament jockey for posrtron try to put yourself in position where you can win it on the last day And Kite defending the only title he has won has done just that He went two over par after seven holes of Fridays second round and was in danger of losing his spot among the leaders and his chance at eventual victory in the $200000 Philadelphia golf tournament But he rallied with birdies on five of six holes beginning on the ninth to salvage an erratic twounderpar 69 That gave him tie for the halfway lead with New Zealands John Lister at 135 seven under par on the tight 6687yard Whitemarsh Valley Country Club course It wasnt Kite said in understatement of his four bogey sixbirdie eightpar effort very classical round Doubleheader at Queens cancelled doubleheader of the Intermediate Division of the Barrie City Fastball League set fcr Sunday at Queens Park has been cancelled The Barrie City Fastball League enters its last week of the regular schedule with only the firstplace PeterReine Hustlers sure of anything Exhibition fastball game Sunday An exhibition game between Mr Transmission of the Bar rie City Fastball Leagues Intermediate Divison and Giffen Farm Equipment of the Recreation Division is planned for Sunday The two Minesing clubs will be playing in an 830 pm game at the new ball park in Midhurst Both are warming up to enter the Ontario Amateur Softball Association playoff trail Holiday halts minor lacrosse play There will be no minor lacrosse games Monday due to the Civic holiday Teams of the Barrie Minor Lacrosse Association are deep ly involved in the playoff scene Atom division soccer results Portage View defeated Hillcrest to in one of four atom division soccer games Thursday of the Barrie Optimist Minor Soccer Association In other play Maple Grove whipped Steele Street 17 to Johnson Street blanked St Johns to and St Monicas slipped by Allandale to lOthinning run is the difference By THE CANADIAN PRESS 10thinning run lifted the seventhplace Hamilton Cardi nals to 43 win over league leading KitchenerWaterloo Panthers in their InterCounty Major Baseball League game Friday London Majors blanked St Thomas Elgins 50 in the other game Play resumes tonight with Cambridge Terriers playing host to both Toronto Maple Leafs and Kitchener The Pan thers and Cambridge will play the final 22 innings of game suspended July 14 York wins first diving title By LARRY HARDING MONTREAL CP Teri York who recently completed an unsuccessful European tour won the first womens title at the 1977 Canadian summer national div ing championships at the Olympic Pool Friday night The victory for the Vancouver girl on the threemetre board was change from the tour Europe was really disaster for me she said wasnt ready for it so it wasnt good for me took lot of time off after the Olympics and wasnt in the best shape Cindy Shatto of Toronto was second in the threemetre event with Eniko Keifer of Montreal third Mr Jackets bows in opener ST CATHARINES Ont CP The first Ontario Fast ball League international tournament opened Friday with Williamsport Pa Eatons edging St Catharines Mr Jackets 54 in 10inning game In other games Oshawa Tonys defeated Burlington Roys 51 Newmarket Chubb blanked Kitchener Evergreens 10 and Brampton Globals beat NiagaraontheLake Selects Pat Stocks double brought home the winning run for Wil liamsport after Phil Heisner hit single Wilhamsport for ced extra imiings with Tracy Heisners home run in the bot tom of the seventh inning Dave Scott was the winning pitcher and Dennis Amell took the loss Home runs by Paul Gibbens Bob Smith and Bob Solomon led Oshawa to its win against Burlington Dave Wilson was the winning pitcher allowing four hits and Bill Drennan was the loser Lefthander Bill Lunney threw twohitter and struck out 15 batters for Newmarket Kitcheners Keith Wagler allowed three