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j the most valuable pitcher at the Tournament on the weekend the championship final where the club lost NEWMARKET Furniture and Ronalds Federated were an evenmatch ding into the championship game Sunday of the George HaskeU MenV League Tournament with one exception Ronalds had Ralph the iter on its side And it was Ralph who turned the tide and sparked Ronalds to a 31 victory over in he championship contest Burling Builders defeated to win the consolation crown The championship game promised to be a tight pitching duel between Deemacs Ron Lahey the tourneys top pit- cher and Tom the most valuable player of Aurora opened the scoring in the first inning when with two out Del Dixon singled advanced to second on ah error and scored when Frank Kernaghan dropped Bob pop fly With the score still after two innings of play Ronalds reached for its secret weapon Ralph the lobster the clubs mascot Seconds after Ralph was pulled from his bag Ker atoning for his earlier error slugged a home run 16 tie the score Three innings later Ronalds added two more runs on singles by Charlie Nelson and Bill and a double off the bat of Bob Hendricks Meanwhile was pitching flawlessly After Dixon scored in the first Drennan set down 17 straight Deemac bat ters He gave up seventhInning singles to Bourke and Rick but fanned John Morris and induced Joe Doll to ground out to end Ihe game It wasnt the first time that Ralph the lobster had hexed an opponent of Ronalds according to members of the winning team Its really freaky one player said Weve been in four tournaments with Ralph perched on the bench and weve been in the finals every time Ralph only attends tour naments The ball club doesnt take him to its Richmond Hill Town League games and the club is currently in ninth place in the standings Ronalds opened the tour- an win over Newmarket Merchants then King City and Queensville 21 to advance to the final hit a home run in each of the first two games for the winners Nelson Drennan Mike and Bob Hendricks hit roundtrippers against King City and Drehnan cracked a solo shot to give Ronalds the win over Queen Lahey doubled homered and tossed a threehitter to spark Deemac to a 51 win over K and Sports in its first game He pitched a nohitter as Deemac blanked Pfaff in the quarterfinals then hurled a threehitter to lead Deemac to a 31 victory over Video pitcher while Clarke took the loss After blanking Sneaky Petes Burling edged York Merchants to reach the consolation final Al Giles drilled four hits in the win over York DuWay lost its opener 31 to Winning pitcher Bob Lunney tossed a twohitter In the consolation final Mark Kraemer Larry Larry Blight the tournaments top batter slammed a second- inning home run to help Burling Builders to a 20 win over Paul Falbo scored the winners second run on two fifth- inning errors Winning pitcher Brian Clarke allowed only two hits a firstinning single by Pete Killoran and a seventhinning single by Dan Greenslade Burling lost its first game to Queensvilles runs all corning in the third inning were scored by John Dave Spencer and Ross Shropshire Dale Pcgg was the winning and Don had the Pfaff runs while Bob scored for DuWay then defeated K and and Per sechinl by the same score to advance to the con solation final In the win over scored two runs and Jay Stone tallied once Winning Colin Stewart tossed a five-hitter- Gary Cooper accounted for both runs with a first- inning homer Sixteen teams took part in the tournament Ronalds won 175 and Burling each won 100 and won 50 Hah of watches the ball after hitting a popup in Sundays championship game Luckily for Ronalds short stop Frank Kernaghan dropped the hall allowing Del Dixon to store with only run of the game NEWMARKET- Al pitched a twohitter and knocked in two runs with a double to lead Rig D Delicatessen to a 31 upset win over first place Motors in a George thai s Big D to upset win Mens Softball League game last week Don and Mark Kraemer connected for the only hits off who struck out four Ted drove in other Big run with a two bagger Pfaff Kraemer and Bob combined for strikeouts Bob Jackson drilled two hits to spark Persechini Fitness to a win over the Jim and John Harrison collected two safeties apiece in a losing cause Winning pitcher Rick fanned two while Tom and Harrison struck out five Terry Don Youngc and John cracked two hits apiece as Rivcrdrlve Park Angels downed Newmarket Merchants Bryce Bedore and Gary Bellamy each had two hits in a losing cause Ed Phil pott was the winning pitcher while the loss was charged to Alike Lunney belts a base hit to drive in a run in the first Inning of Newmarket game with Brampton Clonals Thursday Newmarket won to sweep their best of three Ontario Fastball League quarter final series in two straight games Newmarket will meet either St Catharines or Burlington In the semifinals That series will start tomorrow at pm at the Fairgrounds over NEWMARKET Garry Weston was only a 110 hitter during the regular season But try telling Brampton that Weston slammed three hits including a home run and Rich bolted a thirdinning tworun homer as Newmarket defeated Brampton 75 Thursday to win their Ontario Fastball League quarterfinal series in two straight Weston slugged a homer in the second inning hit a single in the fourth when scored their winning run and added another single in the eighth Newmarket opened the scoring with a run in the first inning when Lee Gould walked stole second rind scored on Mike Lunacys base hit Brampton tied it in the top of the second on Jim homer but Westons solo shot in bottom of the inning put Newmarket ahead again Gould singled to start a threerun rally in the fourth inning After Mike forced Gould at second Rich Lunney clouted a tworun homer Ray followed with a single stole came home on Wally Coopers double The Globals narrowed Newmarkets lead to in the fourth scoring twice on two singles a double and winning pitcher Bill Lunneys throwing error The Chubbs scored the winning run in the bottom of the fourth Weston led off with a fc single and was forced at second by Ally OQuinn then stole second raced to third on a i groundnut and came home when Brampton shortstop Bill ciu booted Mike grounder Brampton scored once in the seventh on a walk and a double and once in the eighth on Bob Richardsons homer Don Crowley scored an insurance run for Newmarket in the bottom of the seventh He entered the game as a pinch- runner for Frank and scored on a wild pitch won twothirds of the triple crown according to statistics released last week Ho finished first in balling with a 365 average and in homo runs with 12 He was third in runsbattedin with 23 Rich Lunney won the RBI title with 25 and finished second in the home run race with Mike was third in the in homers with nine and Ray was fourth with six The Chubbs had the top RBImen in the league Ray was second behind Rich Lunney with 24 had 23 Cooper had and Mike had 21 Pitcher Bill Lunney who finished with a wonlost record led with seven shutouts He had a earned run average The Chubbs will return to action at at the Fairgrounds when they host the winner of the St Catharines- Burlington series in the first game of the semifinals win NEWMARKET The Sneaky Midgets won Ihe Baseball League championship last week then waltzed past Georgetown in the Delicatessen dumped opening round of the allOntario itm Cliff Giles receives congratulations and Rig Delicatessens hurled a twohitler and belted a tworun double to lead his club to a win over Motors in a League game last week The loss was only the second of the season for Ihe firstplace earn r I i the as Ken Strong out dueled Tom Odom Hugh Benson had two hits for the winners while and Ventura had two hits apiece for the One of Venturas hits was a home run A Lee edged Queensville in the other contest last week The winning was Roger Fountain Paul Pegg took the loss Don Massengcr led the A Lee attack with three hits and Steve connected for two Larry slammed three hits in a losing cause playoffs Newmarket won the league title by downing Wednesday to win the final in two straight games The Midgets- won the opener Newmarket opened up a commanding lead after innings but Stayner scored two runs in each of the last two in nings to make it close Newmarkets starting pitcher Brendan McLean was relieved in the sixth inning by Bill They combined to toss a fourhitter j Newmarket attack with two doubles and Jamie collected two singles apiece while Legge Brent and Dale each had one Legge knocked in two runs with his hit Newmarket had an easy time with the Georgetown The Sneaky Pete Midgets too the opener Saturday the won by default Sunday when Georgetown was unable to field a team Newmarket Georgetown pitcher fanned seven Leeper belted four hits and drove in three runs also knocked in three on a double a two singles connect for three hits and two a Jamie Macoun contributed a I Ian paced the single and a double