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Ring-a-ding din g for Bell girls I thought I’d shake you out of your midweek lethargy by starting off this week’s effort with a revolting thought. Namely, the Richmond Hill Provincial Junior A hockey (yes, I said hockey) Rams opened their 1977-78 hockey camp Monday night at the local ice house; and the Oak Ridges Dynes Jeweller Junior B’s go next Monday. Oh there‘s nothing wrong with the Rams or Jewellers’. Both fine clubs. It‘s just that I‘m psychologically unprepared to let go of August and summer. I want it to stay with me forever. forever, forever. REALITY RAINED Reality prevailed so I chatted briefly with the Rams' new coach, Ken “Satch” Brookes. before he skated onto the Richmond Hill ice to take an initial look at some 60 to 70 young hopefuls. You guessed it. “It’s way too early to say it," said Brookes. “Come back in a week or two.“ So be it. Satch did say he‘s had one “blow” already in that promising defen- ceman Mike Gallaugher will be one of the absentees this year. He has just received a scholarship to Michigan Tech which is great for Mike. not so great for the Rams; Satch figures he will have the nucleus of a solid club with the return of last year‘s Billy Stephenson and, hopefully, Greg Hampton. Others include Danny Jones. veteran Larry Kimble, John Olds, Bill Coville, and Mike Walkeri STANKY GONE Missed will be “over-age“ veteran Jimmy Clement and goalie Brian Stankiewicz. “We‘ll have Mitch Lovelock “We'll have Mitch Lovelock back,“ said Brookes, “and he looks like he‘s ready to take over in goal. And there‘ll be other candidates.“ Right now, it‘s anyone‘s game. There have been a few league changes which could help the Rams as far as available talent is con- cerned. Maybe. Weston, Ajax and the Toronto Nats have folded their teepees this season with new entries entered from Guelph, and Hamiltor}. “This could make some players in the Metro area available for us,” said Brookes, “and we've had lots of inquiries.” A look of concentrated determination here as Richmond Hill Bell Canada Novice pitcher Karen Mclnnis blazes one into the plate against RETURNEES Farewell Summer You won't see this one But, really, too soon to tell. Tune in for later developments. It’s going to be a long winter. Just Mary notes here: YEA GIRLS Congratulations here to the Bell Canada Novice Girls who won themselves an Ontario title last Friday night by downing Mississauga two straight. The girls, it says here, lost only two games all season and both of them exhibitions. Still on minor softball: It‘s playoff time again and lots of goody things will be happening on the local front in the next few weekends. To wit: PLAYOFFS The playoff start Sept. 10 at both the Town Park and Crosby and these are the highlights of the entire season. It‘s where it all comes together. More on this as we go along. Then comes Tournament Day Sept. 17 with all the teams par- ticipating. This event gets under way at 9.am. and will run until 5 CORRECTION Finally. a slight correction just to end the column on an optimistic note. A lawn bowling item last week credited Frank Zazarra of the Rich- mond Hill Lawn Bowling Club with winning the Usher’s trophy in the Provincial Lawn Bowling Club. He did but not by himself. He was a member of a team that did it con- sisting of Gary Charity, Dawson Hare, Roy Stone. Now, we can sleep tonight. Really, finally: Winners of the skills’ competitions will receive their medallions the same day. It all takes place at Bradstock Park. Get ready: fred simpson AMEN Richmond Hill Dynes Jewellers will be competing in the annual Mount Albert fastball tournament Sept. 9. 10 and 11. That‘s all right. Except the program calls for a church service on the ball diamond Sunday morning. That’s all right. too. I guess Dynes‘ manager Russ “Casey” Cripps will be one of those in attendance. Of course, it won‘t be the first time that Casey has said a little prayer while standing behind third hase. Finally, hon August and have another. Mississauga last Friday night. She had quite a game. Karen struck out 15 batters as the Belles won Ontario title. Video Real Estate fashioned together two wins to go with a loss last week and moved into sole possession of first place in the Richmond Hill Men‘s Fastball League. They now lead Joe’s Garage Juniors by three points although the latter team has four games in hand. The juniors lost a 1-0 thriller to Richmond Hill Auto. Last Friday, Video won both ends of a doubleheader edging Town Auto Body 1-0. and trouncing Lake Wilcox 124. They took Town in the last inning, with no score, as Gord Woolnough scored following three consecutive errors and then stole home. Joe’s lose by squeaker Town had only eight players so Video loaned them Tom Hughes for the game. Dave Webster tossed the shutout, Gary Oliver took the loss. TWO HOMERS Against the Lake, Bob Ritchie and Steve Wood hit in-thepark homers; Ritchie, Don Campbell and Tom Hughes each tripled, driving in a total of four runs leading the way to the lop- sided win. For the Lake Rick Collins doubled in two runs, and scored him- self, to be tops for the losers. Dave Berseth tossed the win while Tom Dukelow, with relief from Collins, took the loss. A disputed call at home plate cost Joe’s Garage Juniors a possible tie in the eighth inning Sunday as they dropped a narrow 4-3 game to Owen Sound in OASA AA playoff action in Owen Sound. The loss tied the bestof-three series at one game apiece with Joe’s having won the opener last Friday night 4-2 in Richmond Hill. That “call” came in the eighth inning with Owen Sound leading 4-2 with Greg Walton leading off with a single. Paul Philip then tried to advance him with a bunt but was called out by the umpire because the ball hit his bat twice. The next play saw Walton going to second on a fielder’s choice and then romping home on pitcher Glen Moreland‘s double. Owen Sound shut the door on them after that. Joe‘s officials claimed the bat itself was in foul territory at the time and the ruling should have been a strike call and not an out. Video vaults into first Owen Sound had jumped into an early lead scoring a run in the third on a triple off pitcher Moreland and an error. Richmond Hill tied it in the top of “The bat was three feet inside the foul line and just laying there when the ball hit it the second time," claimed Joe‘s coach Bob Viverette. “It would have made the difference. By DAVE BARBOUR TOWN AUTO SLUMPS A battling band of Richmond Hill Bell Canada Novice Girls won the All Ontario Double A softball section championship last week. They did it pretty impressively. The locals downed Mississauga 9â€"3 in the opener right in Mississauga and then came back last Friday night to handily defeat them 7-1 at the Town Park. Dynes Win at Ex as Hancock homers PITCHING DID IT “Our pitching did it,” said an ob viously elated coach Pat O‘Sullivan. “It was our strong point all season and it‘s been the same in the playoffs." His big three chuckers comprise Cathy Chepelsky. Karen McInnis and Pam Maclnnis. The two heroines in the Mississauga triumph were Cathy Chepelsky and Karen McInnis. It was Cathy who struck out 12 bat- ters and allowed only two hits in the 9-3 game after taking over for a shaky Karen who was pulled in the first in- ning. KAREN BOUNCES BACK But Karen bounced back in sterling fashion in Friday night’s round-up as she went all the way giving up but three hits_yvhi1e striking out 15 battg‘s. ‘_ Offensively, “it was Pauline McLaughlin showing the way in the first game with a booming homerun, double and single in three times at the plate. - Right behind were Marie‘ McLean and Pam Mclnnis with three for four each. Veteran outfielder Mickey Hancock turned slugger Tuesday night of last week as the Richmond Hill Dynes Jewellers crushed Tri«fast 9-0 in the opening game of the CNE Bulova Watch fastball tournament. Hancock, more noted for his speed on the bases and line-drive hitting, laid into an enemy offering in the fourth inning and wheeled it over the left field barrier. It was his first homerun of the season. But it was strictly the icing-on-the- cake as the Jeweller’s provided some impromptu CNE fireworks as they assaulted two Tri-fast hurlers for 15 hits with the aforementioned Hancock contributing three of them. WEBSTER WINS It was really a waste of power as Dynes‘ Doug Webster had little trouble handling the Tri-fast bats allowing only three hits while walking none and Richmond Hill Auto Body vaulted past the slumping Town Auto Body club, into third place, as they dumped Jack Blyth Real Estate 6-1. They scored twice in the fourth as Gary Russell doubled. Val Steffan and Rob Forget each knocked in a pair of runs. Blyth’s lone run was scored by Glen Wright who was hit by a pitch and knocked home by Hugh Lenneville. Steffan hurled the win, Don Walker took the loss. BIG UPSET In the upset of the week RH. Auto blanked Joe’s Garage Jrs 1â€"0. Val Steffan singled, reached third and scored on winning pitcher Jim Clement’s sacrifice fly. Meanwhile, Joe’s hurler Glen Moreland tossed a one-hitter and his team mates threatened consistantly but couldn’t the fourth on triples by Moreland and Chris DeGeer. Joe's moved in front 24 in the fifth as Bruce Noble walked, stole second, and scored on Walton’s single. 7 VOwen Sound’s big inning came in the seventh as they put together four hits including a triple and homer for four big runs. score Barrow‘s Insurance enjoyed the best week with two wins; 6-2 over Video and 2-1 over RH. Auto. Joe‘s had opened the series on a promising note last Friday night at the Town Park behind the 17 strikeout pitching of Moreland. He allowed Owen Sound only seven hits. The Owen Sounders jumped into a 2-0 lead in the first inning on a double, single, and infield outs. Joe‘s got one of the runs back in the second as Chris DeGeer singled home Kevin Mathews who had reached base on a single. This set the scene for Richmond Hill’s abortive comeback effort in the eighth. Moreland was charged with the loss. The first game saw Barrow’s spotting Video two runs in the first two innings. Mike Thompson homered in the first and Clyde Dimmell scored on Gord Woolnough’s single in the second. Walton‘s timely single followed to score the goâ€"ahead run. The final run was knocked in by Philip on a fielder’s choice “ ’i‘he); efruck £0? a run in the fifth, four in the sixth, and the final one in the last inning. "NBili/y Richardson and Dave Venturi each contributed a double while Dale Crouter was their best over-all big The score remained that way until the seventh inning when a walk. to DeGeer, a single by Ben Bourget, and an error loaded the bases. Doug Lewis then walked to force in the tying run. It was Kathy Chepelsky's turn in the second game along with McLaughlin and Marie McLean as each went threeL for-three. GOOD FEELING “We got as far as the semi-final last year,“ said O‘Sullivan. “and it was a good feeling to win this one and get the trophy." The previous series saw the Belles walloping Stratford 16-6 and 10-9 to advance to the finals. This series saw Cathy Ceballo walloping a grandslam homer. u “It Eall éetshack to our pitching,“ said O‘Sullivan. “We had the best pitching anywhere. And we got the hitting, too." striking out nine in his six inning stint The Eontest. slated for seven innings, was called after the sixth due to the bulge in runs. Bearing the Dynes onslaught were pitchers Reg Smith and Frank Mar- shall, an ex-Jeweller in 1974. Smith lasted one a third innings allowing five runs off eight hits before giving way to Marshall. ‘ Derek Kinnersly started it all with a leadoff single in the first inning with Hancock following suit. Stu Aiken's sacrifice fly brought Kinnersly in from third. Then it was singles by Mike Crouse and Marty Tweyman and a double by Art Fowler accounting for the other two runs. stick Kinnersly and Hancock teamed up again in the second inning with back-to- .back singles followed by Aiken’s double scoring the former. Hancock scored on Hamilton threw the win, Dave Berseth took the loss for Video. Bill Fox tossed the first inning for Enclose‘rs. an inf i'eld out vvvuvu ..._ ___ V , In the other game, Richardson reached base on an error and winning hurler Al Underhill scored him on a sacrifice fly in the second to erase a one-run Hiller lead. CLEMENT LOSES ONE-BITTER Barrow’s won the game in the last inning as Venture got a life on an error and eventually scored on another boot. Jim Clement, who tossed a one-hitter. took the loss. V-l'f‘rtigwggércored in the first as Kenny Roberts doubled and Rob Forget hit him home. V 7 .lenkin’s Garden Supplies upset Town Auto Body 5â€"3 and were later blanked by Mclfiinlgy Drywall 13â€"0. -- uv-nz-.__.. Steve Whitaker homered for Town to bring in Steve Black and Gary Oliver who had walked. The first inning saw Ray McWilliams banging in a pair of runs and Phil Bellavance knocking in Bob Ellement who tripled. This was the bulk of Jenkin's runs. Brian Madeley was the winning pitcher, Terry Haviiand the loser with Oliver finishing the game. McKinlay jumped on Jenkin’s pit- ching in the first frame piling up six Sports film mineral Wednesday, August 24, 1977 Kevin Mathews of Joe's Garage takes a good cut here in game last week with Owen Sound in OASA Junior softball playdowns. Richmond Hill won the first game 4-2 but ended up on the losing end of a 4-3vscore in the second one. V, 47,914; M r M; a, Classified Comprising the team are Patty O‘Sullivan. Pam Maclnnis. Heather Moore, Cathy Chepelsky. Janey Stephenson, Debbie Ceballo, Marie McLean. Karen Mclnnis, Pauleen McLaughlin, Janet Geritse, Kelly Nelson. Kathy Trumble, Colleen Stenson, Barbara Smith, Terry Ozak. Coach is O‘Sullivan; manager, Mary Louise Davies; assistant coach, Cathy Boagey. The Belles attached a footnote to their big win as they bombed Uxbridge 21-7 in a regular league game which saw Janey Stephenson hitting three homers. The fourth inning saw Hancock’s four-bagger followed by Crouse’s triple and singles by Bob Baird and 'I‘weyman and an error added another two runs. Pitcher Webster singled in the final run. It was his second hit of the game. The Jeweller’s were slated t6 play John Oliver last night (Tuesday) at the CNE. Both the Jeweller’s and John Oliver are scheduled to play at Rich- mond Hill in a regular Beach game tomorrow nigh} (Thursday) at the town park. ' Note: An ex-member of the Jeweller’s, Donnie Lee, was in the line- up for Tri-fast who plays out of the Dieppe Park League. Lee was a member of the 1972 World‘s champion Dynes team that travelled to the Philippines. I It probably won’t take place due to both teams being involved in the Bulova tournament. runs. They were led offensively by winning pitcher Gord Summers who had a perfect night at bat. He gave up only three hits and had 14 strikeouts. Madeley took the loss. TWO-HITTER WALKER Jack Blyth blanked McKinlay Drywall 3â€"0 on the strength of a two- hitter hurled by Don Walker. Offen- sively it was Dave Stuart and Dale Roffey homering. Their other run was walked in. Wilf Diceman took the loss. Footnote to history, that is The only other game saw Mike Daggett leading the way for Ronald's Federated with a homer and two singles to account for three of their runs in a 5-0 win over York police. NO-HITTER Tommy Drennan tossed a noâ€"hitter in this one for the winners. Wes Berseth had two hits. Bruce Stevens threw for police Vrdeo Real Estate Joe's Garage Juniors Richmond Hill Auto Body Town Auto Body Jenkin's Garden Supplies Jack Blyth Real Estate Barrow's |nsurance McKInlay Drywall Ronald's Federated H.J. Mulls Lake Wilcox York RegronaI PoIice Section B