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First round to Mills in consolation race Hill Auto crew draws first blood H.J. Mills outlasted Lake Wilcox to win the first round of the Richmond Hill Men’s Fastball League Consolation series last week. Richmond Hill Auto Body drew first blood in the Richmond Hill Men's Fastball League by ousting Town Auto Body two games to one in their best-of- three series. The Lakers won the first game 6-3 aided by Rick Collins and legal pick-up Rob Forget. Gerry Caume and Bucky Buchanan starred in vain. Tom Dukelow bested Terry Legge on the mound. r V'il‘bfiwhvlixidto won the first game 74 but lost the next two 4-3 and 10-4 to bow from the 1977 playqff_s_cene. The victory for Hill Auto sent them into the Division One semi-finals against Joe’s Garage Juniors in a best- of-three series. 'MNgivtâ€"her team seemed to want the second game but Mill’s got stuck with it via a 9-8 score. Errors gave winning hurler Legge and Dave Bagley round-trippers. Paul Ortiz was the Lake‘s only bright spot. Bill Jackson saved the win for Legge and Jim Cooke took the loss. and Jim Cooke took the loss. Jackson, who hurled the win, got to third on a boot and Vince McLean tripled him home as Mill‘s claimed the series with a 4-1 win. Gary McIntaggart was knocked in by Rick Collins for the Lake‘s lone run. Legge relieved Jackson for Mills; The first game in the semi-final series in this set got under way as McKinlay Drywall dumped Ronald’s 7- 0. The only clear stars for McKinlay were Gord Summers with shutout pitching and Bob Carton with a pair of‘ hits. Drennan tossed for Ronald‘s. I think I’ll overwhelm you this week with a series of scintillating little snippets from the world__of. Simply because so many things are happening, crashing together these days it‘s hard to separate one sport from another. I’ll start off with an international sports item of great import. As of writing, Leon McQuay may be back with the Argos. This rouses all kinds of horrible images in my mind going back to that Grey Cup Game in 1971. That’s when McQuay dropped the football about five inches from a touchdown and a sure Grey Cup. It also marked the last time I’ve ever bet on anything. On that ocâ€" casion I had bet four cases of beer (I bet big) on the Argos. Of course, I lost the first three cases because Argos lost. I won the fourth one on a point-spread deal. Except I didn’t win it. The joker I bet with never came through with the case. There’s a moral in there somewhere if you grab it. That’s why the ari‘ival of McQuay, just the thought of it, ruins my day, nay, my yeah. On the local scene, it‘s going to be a grand finale to the Richmond Hill Minor Ball season next Saturday at Bradstock Parks. Tourney day It‘s “Tournament Day" with all the local ballplayers from Tyke on updoing their thing for the final time this season. There will be lots of ball, skill competitions, the whole bit. So get out there. parents, and grab some sun (if there is any) and cheer the youngsters on. Triple play Let‘s see now, that was quite an experience at the Mt. Albert fastball tournament on the weekend. For Mickey Hancock of the Richmond Hill Dynes Jeweller‘s fastball team that won it. It starts at 9 a.m. and runs to 5 Wednesday, September 14, 1977 By Dave Barbor Glen Philip Getting old Mixed bag The first game of the Richmond Hill Auto Body-Town Auto series went to the latter team with Steve Black, Scott Mabley and Steve Whitaker accounting for virtually all of Town‘s scoring. The other quarter final set finds Barrow’s Insurance and Jack Blyth Real Estate deadlocked at one game apiece. Barry Locke had a two-run homer for the losers while Ken Faulkner had two rbi‘s. Gary Oliver was the winning hurler. Val Steffan the loser. Dukelow took the loss for the Lake Teaml Mills now meet Jenkin's. Ronald‘s Federated despatched with York Regional Police for the season winning two straight. Mickey has been around the diamonds for a long time and, if I’m correct, had rarely if at all, ever hit into a double play. Too much speed. So what hafipehs'? Mickey hit into a triple play. His first ever. Which, I guess, is just l_ife?_ Ceritol Speaking of the Jewellers, I still can‘t get over young Paul Philip in a Dynes outfit. Paul played shortstop for the Jeweller’s last Thursday night against Oshawa Merchants and looked like a veteran out there. Lots of poise. I‘m told Paul debuted as batboy with the Jeweller’s back in 1963 at the age of four years. That’s when the great Ray Judd used to pitch here. That‘s enough to make some of us reach for the Geritol providing we can still reach. Now to hockey: The Provincial Junior A Rams came up with a 5â€"4 win over Wexford Sunday night at the local arena in a Chippy-type contest. Rams‘ coach Ken “Satch” Brookes tells me that he’s happy with his goaltending to date in the persons of returned Mitch Lovelock and newcomer from Orillia, Stu Parnham. Goaltending has always been the Rams strong point over the years first with Gary Carr and then Brian Stankiewicz. Also on hand for the game was hard-nosed Larry Kimble who has to be a plus point. Finally, veteran defenceman Billy Stephenson was playing up front and looked good and just might stay there this season. Pete wins And. lo and behold, Peter Artemchuk's Dynes Jeweller’s Junior B warriors opened their exhibition schedule at home on a win note Monday night â€" 4-3 over Etobicoke. Pete was “quite pleased" with the team’s showing in its first exhibition particularly yv_ith_t_he defence.‘ “They are big this year, in the 6’, 190-pound range," said Pete. “That's what we missed last year." Sounds good. ‘ The Birds Incidentally. the Thornhill Thunderbirds will be the principal rival of the Jeweller’s again this season in the Mid-Ontario loop. Rumour had it the Thundef‘birds wanted to play in the Metro league â€" or else. It appears the Birds and the Jewellers have a good chance of being in the Metro loop â€" which makes sense â€" next year. fred simpson Finally, there’s a note on my desk asking for volunteers for the Canadian Ski Patrol System. That’s nice. How many days to Spring? resulted Hockey I from police errors. fell 74 in the second drix, Bill Robson and ere the heroes. Wes â€" BOUNCE BACK The Hillers bounced back with a 4-3 win with Locke and winning hurler Jim Clement each knocking in two runs. Whitaker and Black had a pair of hits each in a losing cause. Oliver took the loss. ‘ GRAND-SLAM The rubber match saw Hill Auto bombing the opposition with Glen Greenslade knocking in three runs on two homers with Steffan adding a grandslammer and Rob Forget another Triple play It was strictly a “local show” when the Richmond Hill Dynes Jewellers won the annual Mt. Albert fastball tour- nament on the weekend. 'Local as in Richmond Hill and Oak Ridges. The Jewellers compiled four wins in five tries to take the championship trophy but to do it they had to beat Oak Ridges‘ John Lenneville 20 in the final game Lenneville, toiling for the Toronto Beaches Harper-Diesel Juniors, tossed a six-hitter at the Jeweller’s and was also named the tournament’s best pitcher with a total of four wins. But Lenneville's Diesel mates couldn‘t cope with the air-tight hurling of Dynes‘ Bob Domik who blanked them over seven innings while walking none and striking out 12. Lennevillé had four walks and nine strikeouts. The Jeweller’s won their first three games by 50, 5-1, 6-0, over Beaches AC, Harper-Diesel, and Guelph Ingrams before losing 5-2 to the same Harper team to set up the grand finale. This final game saw Dynes open the scoring in the first inning as Derek Kinnersly walked, got to second on a passed ball, and scored on the first of two hits by Mickey Hancock. It was Kinnersly and Hancock combining for the second and final run in the fifth as the former singled and Hancock walked. Kinnersly went to second on an infield out and also scored on one. Harper’s forced the second game by downing the Jeweller’s 5-2 behind the Powell Plumbing’s Vincent Capotosto (with ball) runs out of legs here as he chases Bender Rugs' runner Walter Dynes take ball tourney John Lenneville Best chucker homer The Chapman brothers, Clay and Rod, each had a triple for an rbi. Clement tossed the win while Oliver took the loss. Jack Blyth claimed sixth place, of- ficially, as ace hurler Don Walker blanked Jenkin's Garden Supplies 2â€"0 with a no-hitter. Losing hurler Brian Madeley gave up only two hits as well, one to Fred Stang and another homer to Dave Stuart. These accounted for both runs. four-hit pitching of Rod Favreau. Losing pitcher was Doug Webster who surrendered six hits while walking none and striking out six. Webster was breezing along getting the first 11 batters when disaster struck in the fourth inning with tqu out. _ ‘ An error put a runner on first, stole second, and he scored on Darrell Kramp’s single. Kramp scored on Pitcher Lenneville’s single. Harper’s got another dne in the sixth on a single, sacrifice and single. ‘ Dyneséot its two runs in thé sixth on a dropped fly ball with tyo 91:1. Both Webster and Domik came within an eye-lash or, rather, one hit of coming through with no-hitters during the tournament. The opener game saw Webster’s one- hit effort with Beaches getting their one hit in the seventh inning to spoil everything Webster walked one and struck out Yet another phenomenon saw Dynes' Hancock hitting into a trip1e play. Kinnersly’s homerun belt in the seventh and final inning gave Domik and the Jeweller’s a 4-3 comefrom- behind win over the Merchants in the second game of a doubleheader at the Town Park. Richmond Hill Dynes Jeweller’s Bob Domik was very ungracious to the Oshawa Merchants last Thursday night although he needed some last-inning heroics by Derek Kinnersly to ac- complish it. the opener Domik’s ungraciousness followed a pregame ceremony which saw the Merchants present him with the game ball that he had tossed a no-hitter with in the Canadian Fastball championship at Hull on Labor Day. Domik. who was picked up by Oshawa, also received the jersey he wore for the tournament. But it wasn‘t easy. Oshawa proceeded to go out and attempt to undo the friendly gesture by getting to Domik for runs in the first and second inning plus three hits to take an early 24) lead. Tie, win Domik was less than razor-sharp in the early goings. He struck out the first batter in the initial inning and then walked Jody Williams who stole second base . Dave Stewart walked and he and Williams then pulled off a double steal. George Redshaw also walked to load; the bases. Brian Myers then topped one in front of the plate and Domik tossed to eat- cher George Diekey fog: _t_he force-outz Dickey {hen fired wildly to second with Stewart scoring on the play. Neil Foster en ew u ' ' Jeweller’s managed a 3-3 tie in Kinners/y does it Hard 0n the elbows Palisca scuttles back to base during Rich- mond Hill minor house league softball playoffs last Saturday. It was a great day Blyth, in a dramatic bottom of the seventh inning rally, squared the series. CRUSH BLYTH In their opening quarter final series, Barrow’s crushed Blyth 10â€"1 as Roger Ball contributed a double, triple and a two-run homer. Paul Hunter drove in three runs with a double and a homer. Dale Roffey homered in a losing cause. Billy Hamilton threw the win, Don Walker took the loss. Barrow‘s entered the final one-run SiX The first victory against Harper Diesel saw Domik rising to the occasion with a six-hitter while walking two and striking out nine. DomTk helped his own cause with a two-run homer in the first inning. The 64) win against Guelph was another Domik effort and he also came up with a one-hitter \yvhile striking out seven and walking one. It ‘also featuréd another twoâ€"run homer by Domik in the first inning_with one on; The spectacular play of the game as well as the tournament was the triple play on Dynes’ Hancock. There were runners on second and third when Hancock whistled a liner to shortstop. A resultant throw to third nipped the runner there with the runner from second also getting nailed as he was off at the crack of the bat. Triple play. , The Jeweller’s are in Oshawa tomorrow night (Thursday) with playoffs starting next week. Domik was in difficulty again in the second when Bob Edmunds looped a double into right centre-field. Domik got the next batter out but Foster then gingled to right to bring in the second Meanwhile, the Jeweller's kept pecking away with a run in the fourth and another one in the fifth. _ His only other major difficulty came in the fifth inning with the score 2-1 when Stewart reached first on an error, got to second on a passed ball, and scored on Foster’s double. Domik shut the door after that striking out the side in the seventh inning. Came the last inning with the Dynesmen rising to the occasion as Kinnersley slashed a homer over the right field fence with a runner on. The fourth saw Mickey Hancock beating out a bunt with a run eventually scoring on Tweyman’s single to centre. In the fifth it was Dickey leading off with ‘ a single, being sacrificed to second. and then riding home on Art Fowler‘s single to left. The first game saw Oshawa jumping on starter Fowler for two runs in the third inning on two hits and a hit pit- cher. Jody Williams’ two-run double was the decisive factor. Domik surrendered five hits while walking four and striking out 13. Losing pitcher was Ken Goreski who was tagged for eight hits, walked one and struck out three. Dynes’ got those back in the same inning on catcher Brad Gaul’s key single with two men out and two men in scoring position. Doug Webster replaced Fowler in the fnurtthdJunmnmfiâ€"nal for all. Bender squeaked out an 8-7 victory. This coming Saturday it’ll be “Tournament Day” at Bradstock Park. See Sports B-2. up. The first man was out as fielder Grant Rose robbed Strang of a certain base hit. Then it was Dale Roffey going out as he tried to stretch a double into a triple. But it was brother Wayne who settled for a double and then came a homer by Brian Jones and it was game over. Wayne Roffey homered earlier. Ball and losing hurler Al Underhill were tops offensively for Barrows. This series Winner will take on Video Real Estate. Oshawa run in the sixth as Stewart doubled, went to third on an error, and scored on Redshaw's sacrifice fly. Dynes tied the game in the bottom of the same inning as Brian Campbell’s triple brought in a Gaul who had reached first by being hit with a pitch. Fowler went three and a third innings giving up two runs and three hits; Webster gave up one un-earned run and three hits. "incidentally, Dynes clinched first place in the Beaches Fastball League with the first game tie. Bob Domik Gets Thank you Derek Kinner§ly Last inning hero