SEorts corner Barrie Day By RANDY MCDONALD Examiner Sports Editor Barrie Day at Blue Jays game Its possibility says Mike Nash manager of Group Sales for the new entry in the American Baseball League All that is needed to make Barrie the guest of honor at one of the Jays home games is to have someone some group or service club get in touch with Nash for block of 500 tickets and to arrange the necessary details Nash was in Barrie Monday and dropped into The Ex aminer for visit before heading north to Parry Sound and North Bay The way we figure it there must be close to that number heading to Torontos Exhibition Stadium anyway to watch in Jays game Nash has the responsibility of looking after groups wan ting to take in ball game in Toronto Anyone who has gone to game this season has heard the steady stream of The Toronto Blue Jays would like to welcome over the public address system Sometimes the list extends to the fifth or sixth inning if Nash figures that on the average between 25 to 30 groups attend home games of the Jays think were going to maintain it for the rest of the season Nash said Requests for block purchase of tickets have come from as far north as Kapuskasing as well as from the southern states of Kansas City Texas with great response from New York They range from busloads up into the thousands Its actually cheaper to buy the tickets by the block Nash outlined He said theres discount which comes with the purchase You also get personalized service not to mention recognition in brief ceremony right on the field before those thousands of cheering fans We alert the vendors when theres group attending game he said We let then know where theyre sitting Groups attending game are able to get their tickets in advance and miss the ever present lineup Blue Jays appear well on their way to setting record set by the Montreal Expos Were approaching it Nash noted At the rate were going now were going to pass it Expos who joined the National League in 1969 hold the firstseason attendance record for expansion teams with 1212608 Jays have exceeded the half million mark to date with 50 home dates remaining in their schedule Anyone interested in doing some leg work and finding out just what it takes to make Barrie the guest of honor at one of the Blue Jays home games can get some help by con tacting Toronto Blue Jays Group Sales Department Box 777 Adelaid St PO Toronto nt MSC 2K7 Telephone 416 5950066 STILL WITH BASEBALL The Barrie Red Sox have con firmed their intention to hold their annual invitational baseball tournament July to Red Sox players and executive members gathered at the home of assistant coach Ted Laycock this week to lay down the groundwork for the fifth annual tournament Sixteen teams are expected to be competing in the three day event which will be held on two ball parks in the city Red Sox are still waiting confirmation from number of clubs but expect such entries as the Leaside Maple Leafs Brampton Athletics Corunna Giants Leamington Juniors Windsor Chiefs Arva Athletics Petrolia Raiders as well as the possibility of one or two teams from the Sudbury area The tournament which serves as the only major fund raising event of the season for the red Sox offers $1100 in cash prizes Championship team receives $500 with the consolation champions picking up $250 The runnerup in the champion ship game is richer by $250 with the runnerup in the consola tion final taking home 3100 the cost of entering the tourna ment Red Sox have done away an admission charge this year 111 stead will be taking silver collection at the games Last washed out the scheduled compet ition secure enough support from the local businesses was the only thing which kept the club in business aft er last years rainout for the Mentally Retarded will be held June 17 to 19 at Ap pleby College Oakville Registration for the event begins Thursday June 16 Big day for lacrosse Saturday with novice tournament at Eastview Arena Zone two track Central Collegiate at Jays game years tournament was complete wipeout as rain The one task facing the players now is to get out and Theyre searching for ads for their program which really GLANCING ARLNIAn invitational special Olympics Ivy nips Orillia on Patton homer and field finals for elementary schools is on today at Barrie Boxing Club looking for members Boxing is alive and thriving at the Barrie YMYWCA Tom Bell 16 left warms up prior to short workout Tuesday at the with Ron MacPherson 16 holding the bag for him Three goals by Mike OToole powered Scarborough to hard fought 98 victory over Huntsville in an important peewee lacrosse game at the Eastview Arena Saturday Scarboroughs win earns them the right r0 represent Onlt tario in the 1978 Empire Games in Edmonton Barrie was picked as the sight for the suddendeath game because it is neutral area which is about the same distance away from each of the competing cities The game was close throughout with neither team taking more than one goal lead until the late stages of the third period Gus Liadus gave Huntsville shortlived 10 lead early in the first period when he broke around the Scarborough defence and went in alone on goaltender Steve Johnson Brett Davis tied the score just minute later from right in front of the net Sparky Janke for Hunstville and Davis with his second goal of the night traded markers midway through the The club meets each Wednesday evening at the at pm and is open to anyone wishing to get involved in the sport Coach is Norm Bell of Barrie former top amateur boxer Examiner Photo Scarborough represents Ontario at Empire Games in Edmonton period before Mike Graham scored beautiful goal on setup from Brook Hipgrove and Liadus to put Iluntsville ahead at the end of the first period OToole found the range in the Second period as he found hole in the Huntsville defence and utilized it to score three goals in the same manner All three times he started in his own end and went through the entire team to score Glen Sunnohara scored the otherScarborough goal in the second period Hipgrove Liadus and Lance Webb scored goals in the second period for Huntsville to lit the game at Hi heading into the final period Huntsville came out flat in the third period and only Jeff Coleman their goaltender kept them in the game His saves seemed to give them lift as Liadus scored his third goal of the game and Mike Graham scored his second to give Huntsville twogoal spread for the first time in the game Rob Sattish came back to score for Scarbmough with 347 seconds remaining in the game but it appeared to be case of two little too late until Geof Wilkins went to work and scored two goals within seconds to give them the victory The Ministry of Culture and Recreation will help Scar borough finance their trip to Edmonton but most of the money will come out of the parents pockets The ntario Minor Lacrosse Association picked Scarv borough and Huntsville to play the game for the right to go to the Games because of the records of the two teams dur ing last season and presentation the teams put forth to the City loses chance for Ontario final WATERFORD Peter Reino Hustlers ladies softball team won one and lost two games at warmup tourna ment for the all0ntario cham pionships over the weekend Waterford beat the Hustlers 103 in the first game of the tournament but the game was Lacrosse tourney The Barrie Minor Lacrosse Association is hosting novice tournament at the Eastview Arena June 18 Eight teams will take part in the one day tournament and the games will start at 8am The BMLA is also holding an auction sale June 25 at the Eastview Arena starting at 11 am much closer than the score in dicates We were right with them un til the fifth inning then they decided to put on their hitting shoes Ed Dupuis coach of the team said Hustlers found the winning touch in the second game as they hung on to beat Port Col burn 54 in nine innings Burlington came back in the third game to blast the Hustlers 144 Barrie was to be the site for the 1977 Ladies allOntario Championships but according to Dupuis the tournament has been taken away from the city got notiCe in the mail the other day and they are taking it away from us he said There is bylaw in the city that prohibits chargin admis sion at Queens Park and they would need the money to help pay for the umpires Ivy Leafs moved three points rillia up on the Barrie Red Sox Tueslt Ivy day with +0 win over the Barrie Orillia Juniors Iollingwood The win was lvys fourth of Newmarket the season and left them only rillia Jr one point behind the front Tottenham running Alliston Canucks and Orillia Majors TOP 10 batters CNJUUIWD Bill Patton was the story of MacDonald 636 the game for Ivy He pitched Cudmore 556 five innings of twohit baseball Glass 500 and helped his own cause by Rogers 444 hitting home run in the third Gauley 400 inning Morrison 400 Ton Arnold went two for four Harris 400 with one runbattedin Cockburn 400 STANDINGS Nilsen 385 Pts Edgar 375 Alliston 11 sports calendar BASEBALL Ivy 10rilliaJrst pm Barrie at Tottenham pm Collingwood at Newmarket FASTBALL Optimist 7Starr Electric Mr Transmission Barrie Cop Molsons Georgian Sports Firefighters Clifton Hotel pm 77 MacMorrison Park Georgian Sports vs Simcoe Hotel recreation Division 830 pm MacMorrison Park Barrie oOp vs Ionverti ble Pools Intermediate Division SOFTBALL Hustlers 18 Barrie Glass and Mirror West Bend 39 IORAH Slessor Bradford pm Innisfil Park Lazy vs Wall Real Estate Ilolly vs Alcona Flyers Innisfil Mens League 7pm Queens Park Bradford vs hurch 830 pm Beatrice vs Elmvale Senior Softball league pm Shear Park Queens Hotel vs Ivy 830 vAand Ni vs Innisfil Ladies League HARNESS RACING 745 pmBarrie Raceway TRACK at Barri Central zone two track and field finals LACROSSE Yanch Heating Hamilton Real Estate OMLA two weeks ago at meeting in Toronto Barrie Tennis Club wins league encounter Barrie Tennis Club emerged as the winners in matches after Tuesdays round of the York Simcoe Tennis League at Queens Park with Newmarket Helping the cause was the victories posted in the Ladies Doubles competition Gloria Ellefson and Ingrid Andrews teamed to win their event to Sandi Mitchell and Sue Mc Goey came up winners in their matches to In the Mixed Doubles com petition Gloria Ellefson and Phil Fowler teamed for an to win while Andrews and Tracy Laplante were defeated to Mitchell and Jim McCann came up winners it to Triumphant end to long season Eastview Secondary School track and field team competed at the Ontario federation of Schools Athletic Associations OFSAA meet at Sudbuiy on the weekend The senior girls team won top honors at the meet The Eastview team to the OFSAA finals consisted of back left Mr Ross coach Jim llodglns coach Glenn Docherty Kiiii lloldeii Tracy Twit chell Paul Franssen and Bob warner coach Front row at left Wendy Proulx Lyn Slessor Debbie Chappel Debbie Emms and Patti Jackmaii Examiner Photo Intermediate division uns hard to get in fastball play Two close games were featured tuesday at Queens Park in Intermediate Division play of the Barrie City Fastball League Mr Transmission snapped winless streak with 21 win over Barrie CosOp in the night cap to follow 22 tie between Barrie Optimist and Starr Elec tric One game is scheduled for tonight in the Intermediate Division and thats at 830 pm at MacMorrison Park with Bar rie CoOp meeting Convertible Pools Mr Transmission opend the season back on May 24 with an impressive 71 win over Starr Electric Between last nights win the new entry in the league has sandwiched loss tie and one rained out game Ron Giffen and Ken Payne turned the game into pitching duel with Giffen coming out on top when Jerry Maw slammed runscoring single in the sixth which wa to stand as the winn ing edge in the nineinning game Giffen allowed only two hits by CoOp while fanning eight and walking one Giffen got helping hand from his team mates as six innings witnessed Cop hitters going out in order Mr hitters reached Payne for six hits but made the most of their swings Maw was responsible for driving in the first run of the game when he knocked home Graham Giffen in the first inning Payne pitched scoreless ball until the sixth when James McNabb singled to lead off the inning bringing up first baseman Maw who collected his second RBI of the game Payne struck out nine batters in the game but it wasnt until the eighth inning the CoO scored Nick Owen singl moved to second on wild pitch to third on an error then reached home on sacrifice fly by Ron Hoggarth Mr oOp 100 0012 000000 0101 Starr Optimist tie 22 in pitching duel Tight games just seem to follow both Starr Electric and Barrie ptimist Club The Optimist have 122 record following Tuesdays all draw with Starr in the opener of twinbill at Queens Park Starr Electric dropped its opening two games of the In termediate Division but came back with victory and now tie Starr Electric has been beaten by one run and emerged with tworun edge over Con vertible Pools in its first victory of the schedule last week Again pitching proved to be the big factor in Tuesdays clash Jim McDonald went the full seven innings for the Optimist Club giving up three hits while Sid Dickinson checked Optimist hitters with onehitter The scoring was spread over the game with Starr taking 10 lead in the first Optimist coming back to tie it in the third then taking onerun lead in the fourth Bob Deline tied the game with runscoring single in the fifth Glen Hickling reached Mc Donald for hit in the first in ning and later scored on two wild pitches Alex McKendry drew base when hit by pitch in the third The ptimists fir st baseman advanced on Mike Recreation division Georgian Sports unbeaten after downing Molsons 6l Georgian Sports kept its perfect record intact with 61 win ove Molsons and Fire fighters beat Clifton Hotel 52 Wednesday in the Recreation Division of the Barrie City Fastball League at MacMor rison Park Georgian Sports took 10 lead over Molsons in the bot tom of the first inning on base hits by Tim Clark and Don Par tridge Molsons had chance to tie it up in the bottom of the inning when Larry Hook hit triple to lead it off That was as far as he got as Jerry Borho Brian Shcneider and Kevin Gillies failed to deliver the timely hit Georgian Sports made it 20 in the top of the third inning but Molsons came back to score an out and scored on an out by Ken Hauck Georgian Sports put the game Lesages single and scored on Tim Claydens ground out An error the only one of the game for Starr allowed Bob Toffan to reach first The Op timist runner moved around the bases on wild pitch and passed ball then raced home on sacrifice fly by Barry Brett Mike Clark reached first in the fifth and scored on Delines single to tie the game for Starr Starr threatened in the sixth when with one out McDonald walked Ray Jeffery who moved to second on sacrifice but was left stranded when McDonald fanned the next batter PTIM ST 001 100 STARR 100 010 out of reach with three runs in the fifth and one in the sixth in ning They got their three runs in the fifth on three basehits and sacrifice by winning pitcher Bill Edgerton Edgerton went the distance for the winners giving up only two hits Kevin Gillies took the loss for Molsons He gave up 10 hits Firstinning runs help Firefighters to 52 win Firefighters jumped on Clif ton llotcl errors to take 30 firstinning lead in the other Recreatin League game Tues day at MacMorrison Park Final score Firefighters lifton Hotel They scored three unearned runs in thefirst inning on no hits and two Clifton Hotel errors Clifton Hotel came back with two runs in the fourth inning to tie the game Paul Hayer reached first on an error and scored on double by Rod Morrison City soccer club battles for draw Barrie soccer teams lost one game and tied another in games this weekend in the Newmarket and District Soccer League Barrie City club and the Bayview lhistles fought to 11 tie in Newmarket and the Rich mond Rovers overpowered the Barrie Blues 20 in Barrie Turkey shoot is on Sunday The Bari 1e and District Hunters and Anglers Conserva tion Club is holding turkey shoot Sunday from 10 am to pm To get to the shoot take Hwy 400 extension north to county road 11 and turn left at the first cross road turn right and go li miles to the club house Anyone is welcome to attend and only 12 gauge shotguns will be used NOW $1096 value jet insures mixing accuracy 31 Dunlop St Barrie took the lead in their game against Bayview on goal by Brian Dawson 20 minutes into the firsthalf Dawson beat two defenders to the ball after Steve Knight had taken hard shot that the goaltender could not handle and left open for Dawsons shot to the corner Bayview tied the score 15 minutes later on play that ap peared to be offside as Mike Veale scored the disputed goal The Barrie Blues had trouble getting organized throughout their game with Richmond Hill and it cost them as they lost 21 Richmond Hill took the lead at the 20 minute mark of the first half and scored the in surance goal shortly after the start of the second half Blues showed little poise and consistency in the game and if they are to make headway this year they have to return to consistent brand of soccer CONTROL CATERPILLERS Save Some Money SAVE 5319 when you buy both s777 ORTHO SOTOX Insect Spray multipurpose garden insecticide that kills insects fast systemic absorption throuin foliage and roots RTHO SPRAYETTE last anti easy to use works with your garden hose Internal metering Robinson Hardware Morrison scored the second run on the second error of the inning by Firefighters Firefighters came back with two runs in the sixth inning and one in the seventh to take con trol of the game Firefighters scored their five runs on five hits and three Clif ton Hotcl errors Clifton Hotel scored two runs on three hits and two Firefighter errors Mike Haley was the winning pitcher for Firefighters Jack Fahey took the loss Georgian Sports play Simcoe Hotel in the only game schedul ed tonight at MacMorrison Park starting at pm Key throw saves game PAINSWICK Golf Haven defeated Alcona Flyers 54 in one of two games of the Innisfil Mens Fastball League at Painswick Park Tuesday In the other game Lazy edged PeterReino Sports 53 Kevin Dorion saved the game for Gold Haven in the first game with throw deep from centrefield to catcher Kevin Pauley to cut down the tying run with two out and the bases loaded Doug Squibb was the winning pitcher with Bob Ayherst tagg ed with the loss Lazy came back to take the game for PeterReino in the night cap after trailing late in the game 728243