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The George Clark-managed Leasing team breezed to five straight victories in the annual tournament on the weekend clinching the championship Sunday with a_ 34) triumph over Richmond Hill Auto. The youthful Richmond Hill Dynes Jeweller Juniors are currently making a strong run for the final playoff spot in the Beaches Major Fastball League. And they‘i‘e doing it on’the strong arms of pitchers Blair McBratney and Glenn Moreland. Last Thursday night it was McBratney‘s turn to come up with a dazzling performance and he did it in more ways than one. He pitched a four-hitter against Bradford Queen‘s Hotel as the Jeweller's won 2-1 and he also accounted for the lone run in dramatic fashion. The Jeweller's were trailing 1-0 going into the ninth inning thanks to a seventh-inning homerun by Bradford‘s Danny Boyne. That's when McBratney stepped to the plate and slammed a homerun to win his own game. They went home clutching $300 in first prize money and the Carling O‘Keefe» trophy“ He was just as effective 6n the mound as he struck out 15 batters The six-team Richmond Hill Sloâ€"Pitch League will hold a mid- season softball tournament next Sunday with the majority of the games at the Town Park. Kinnear Leasing may be fighting for a playoff spot in the Richmond Hill Men‘s fastball league but they're in a league by themselves when it comes to tournaments. Take the annual league tour- nament for a classic example. By PAT KELLY lt may have been a bit cool for cottaging and camping last Saturday but it was glorious weather for soccer and hundreds of Richmond Hill spectators enjoyed the Soccer~a-thon at Bayview Secondary School and the mammoth rummage sale on behalf of soccer at the old firehall on Wright Street. Festivities for the double- elimination tournament (each team will play at least two’ games) will commence at 9 a.m. l Up for grabs will be the Royal Bank of Richmond Hill trophy. McBratney stars as Dynes win 1-0 By PAT KELLY There's a rather sad tale to be told in connection with that mammoth garage sale held Saturday at the, old firehall in Richmond Hill to raise money for the A. Beattie Minor Atoms‘ team to send it to a tournament in Florida. Yippee! “They were getting the bounces and we weren‘t. That was the difference. Maybe we‘ll get them next year." That was the philosphical approach applied by a disap pointed Richmond Hill Garry Owen Girls‘ soccer coach Paul Giles in the wake of last Sunday's 4-3 second-overtime loss to London. It was a big loss. '- The result cost the Richmond Hill team the Ontario Cup championship and a shot in the Canadian finals. “It had to be a big letdown for the girls.“ said Giles. “They came up with a great team effort and, with a little luck, could have won it all." TOP PLAYER Leading the Richmond Hill charge offensively was Karen Banks who scored two of the Kinnear unbeatable in tourney Right garage, wrong sleigh SIC-pitch tourney! It wEs their third, tournament »%“‘.Efé'£"7'l'59 41%, >3 OINDOOR SHOWROOM A Qv" OOPEN7DAYS "I; ~ OINDOORSHOWROOM '96 OOFF HWY. 7 BETWEEN YONGE 8893161 WWI;- Nice try girls... They ’moved'station be This game seems in doubt (at press time) since Fred‘s Sports is slated to playa tournament game in Toronto. Game time has been set back to 9 pm. with the following teams op- posing one another: Old Jays v the. Ball Machine, 9 a.m.. Town Park; Red Eyes v the Sudsers. 9 a.m., Crosby Park: The Misfits vs The Bombers. 10:30 a.m., Morgan Boyle Park. and walked only three The win left Dynes two points behind Fred‘s Sports which currently holds down the final playoff spot with six games to go including one with Fred‘s tomorrow night at the Town Park. Dynes Manager Jimmy Cairns is happy with the way his team has progressed noting that “we've cut down our errors by 90 per cent and that's why we‘re winning games. Errors were costing us a lot of games." He added that “we have some tough games left with top clubs but this club, when it plays up to its capabilities. can beat any club in thé Beaches.‘ win in four tries this season. They got to the finals in the fourth one. GREAT PITCHING In winning the lt‘rteam tour- nament. Leasing came up with a sure-fire pitching combination of Dave Berseth and Dave Webster. Between them they pitched three shutouts and allowed only three runs in the five games, all unearned. A standout at third base was Gordie Woolnough who came up with a combination of fine defensive and offensive play. The grand championship game will be held at 7:30 p.m. at the Town Park or, if necessary. at 9 p.m. at the same place. It was good enough to win him the Most Vaulable Player award of the tournament. That final game against Rich- Promptly at nine in the mor- ning, hordes of Squirts and Mini- Squirts shook the last drops of dew from the grass in friendly games which were played at times with all the ferocity and enthusiasm 01‘ Cup finals. They were followed by Atoms. Mosquitoes, Peewees, Bantams and Juniors playing their hour- long games to raise funds to It has to do with a kindly but misguided father, who shall remain nameless. who donated a sleigh to the cause only to learn from his indignant wife andor six-yearâ€"old son that the sleigh was definitely not surplus material. The Hill team was unable to hold London and within a space of five minutes the home team came back to tie the game and then go ahead 2-1. The first half ended that way. three goals and was also selected as the Player-ofâ€"theâ€"game among both squads. Mary Dell‘Aquila got the other Richmond Hill goal. “We got off to a shaky start," said Giles. “despite the fact we scored the first goal. The girls were slightly oversawed by the big crowd at Labatt Stadium. But they settled down as the game went on." LED 1â€"0 It was Dell‘Aquila getting the first goal 15 minutes into the game against Organic Health of London. Richnwnd Hill kept plug'girig away in the second half and it produced the tying goal at the 20- No problem, thought the father Lib’éral Berseth was the untouchable hurler in this game limiting the Hill Auto team to three hits while striking out eight and walking none. Jim Clement took the loss allowing five of the seven hits. The second run came in the fifth inning and Woolnough started it off again as he was safe Kinnear got the winning run in the first inning as Woolnough singled, was sacrificed to second and scored on Mike Thompson's single. mond Hill Auto saw Leasing too fresh for the somewhat weary Autoâ€"boys who were playing their fourth game on Sunday com- pared with Kinnear's two. move the old CNR station to a new location at the site of the proposed new Richmond Green park. BURP Some 40 teams competed in this soccer marathon. Precise statistics on the number of players present are not available but 35 dozen donuts and 20 cases of Coca Cola were handed out “I'll just get over to the sale early in the morning and buy back the sleigh.“ minute mark courtesy of Banks He did. He bought it at the bargain price of $1.50 and took it home in triumph to his indignant wife and-or six-yearâ€"old. London came right back to score the goâ€"ahead goal but there was no denying Miss Banks as she took a long lob up the centre of the field, rounded the defen- ders, and lashed a corner shot past the goaltender with just 15 minutes remaining. It was then he- learned his wife had originally purchased the That set the scefie for overtime and it wasn't until the second one that the home team got the big one‘ “It was kind of a fluke" said Giles. “A shot bounced off one of our defenders right to ‘an op- ponent and it was in the net before anyone could move." Up to that fatal blow play had ranged from end to end with the Hill team having several chances to score; < All was not lost. The team came home with a silver medal and a plaque. Crystal ball? Wednesday, August 15, 1979 521:?ng This soccer ball appears to have hypnotic powers as Toron- tario Electrical player Bradley Farrar tries to read his future in it at Saturday’s Richmond Hill “Soccer-a-thon” to raise money for new headquarters. (Liberal photo by Bruce Hogg). on an error and came in on Bob Viverette's double. Their final run resulted from a walk to Steve Wood in the sixth and he came home on Berseth‘s double. EMPTY BENCHES Kinnear opened the tour- nament with a 5â€"1 win over Hector‘s Originals in a somewhat abrasive contest which saw the benches clear on both teams on three occasions. Northing serious resulted. Berseth won this one striking out 10 and walking two. Customers poured in all day, alerted, all over town. by a sound truck to the fact they could help send a team of minor atoms to Florida this Christmas. Richmond Hill got three runs in the fifth on a triple by Woolnough and singles by Bob Smith, Thompson and Wood. gratis during the 'course of thé day. The sale began practically before Scotty MacDonald and his crew of helpers had time to shake the sleep out of their eyes. And it was also quite definitely the only case in which a customer at this sale got less than he bargained for. There were bargains galore and crowds of people. some just out for a good deal, others real soccer well- wishers, to grab them up. Allowing for the scallawags who turned up twice for donuts and Coke. it can be estimated that more than 400 youngsters turned out. sleigh at a rummage sale three years ago for the magnificent sum of 25 cents. Definitely a case of an inflated dollar and a deflated father. If Mr. MacDonald‘s A. Beattie Minor Atoms perform in Florida with as much imagination and drive as they have been putting into raising funds for the trip they should win another American trophy to Richmond Hill. , It was evident that the players had made a fine effort to get sponsors. More than 100 of them got pledges for $30. another 40 for As of deadline for this report. Scotty had not quite finished counting his profits but felt that something more than half -the cost of the trip has been raised. His players will not be resting on their laurels. They already have plans to raise the other half. These plans are their secret right now. They eked out a 1-0 victory over $60. while 12 had pledges of $100 Pop Shoppe behind the three-hit pitching of Webster who struck out 12 and walked only one. 7 Two youngsfiersZ‘MilEe Kenny of Dynes Jewellers and Roland Heider, had pledges of more than $200. The crest shows a railway engine with soccer ball wheels and bears the legend- “1 Moved the Station.“ You will be seeing a lot of this crest during the next several months. Mr. Woolnough was the key man again in the sixth as he doubled and scored on a single by Thompson. Getting sponsors and playing the hours was just the beginning. If the players can now busy themselves collecting the pledges they will have. almost entirely by their own efforts, raised the money it will cost to actually move the station and they will definitely have earned the crests they received at the end of their games. Then it was a 24) verdict against Barrow‘s with Berseth in the spotlight this time coming up with a four-hitter and walking one. A] Underhill took the loss giving up six hits. Moving the station is only the first step. Once it arrives at Rich- mond Green it will have to be set up and refurbished. Leasing got the winning run in the third inning as Jim Anderson singled and went to second as Woolnough walked. He then scored on Smith's sacrifice fly. The final run came in the fourth inning as Webster homered. All this will cost money even though there have been several generous offers already from firms and individuals who are willing to donate time and material at lowest possible costs. The Move-the-Station Com- mittee will be busy for some time to come raising money to ensure that once the station finds its new home it will not only provide a comfortable headquarters for the Richmond Hill Minor Soccer Club. but it will also look like the station it once was. station it once was. Ideas from railway buffs as to how and where other railway artifacts might be obtained are welcomed SUCCESS The Soccer-a-thon was an enormous success. It lasted until about six in the evening when a tired team of girls trouped home satisfied (or not) with the 2â€"2 tie they had achieved against a boys' team that had used every desperate trick in the book to prevent their winning. They even went so far as to convincing the girls” own fathers to play against them. Is there nothing sacred ieft in sport? Section B By DAVE BARBOUR Town Auto Body, 3 team in desolation when spring training opened, is currently sharing first place in the Richmond Hill Men‘s Fastball League late in the season. The undoubted key in the reincarnation of the “wrecking crew“ was the acquisition of hurler Wilf Diceman from relative obscurity. Last year he was number three behind Tom Drennan and Craig Shuttleworth with Ronald's Printing. Diceman broke into the league two years ago with the now also defunct McKinlay Drywall club. To date this season Diceman has been responsible for 13 of Town’s 15 victories including four shutouts. He has lost only one game. Bernie Thompson led of f _with a triple and was tossed out at home with a fielder's choice by Kathy Motley. Motley advanced on an error on a hit by batter Darlene Nelson. Both runners scored on Rosie Bungaro's double. It was Ottawa's first loss of the tournament and it forced the Hill to meet the same team right after in a sudden~death finale. Richmond Hill opened with a 6- 2 win over Georgetown with pitcher Darlene Nelson helping her own cause with a three-run homer. SQUEAKER Then came a 2-1 squeaker over R and R Catering with Webster doing his thing this time allowing only three hits, striking out nine and walking one. Richmond Hill opened the scoring in the second inning as Bob Howard singled, stole second and scored on an error. R and R tied the game in the third on a single and an error. Theil defeated Ottawa 3-2 in the first game forcing a final contest which‘ exhausted. they lost 7-2. That win saw no score until the fifth inning when Ottawa scored twice only to have Richmond Hill come back with two of its own in the bottom half of the same in~ ning. The game went to nine innings when Thompson led off with a single and scored on Kathy Motley‘s triple. Due to the league‘s tournament and the Civi holiday only. three game into thev‘books last week.’ Towu Auto Body doubled Pizza Press 4â€"2 with Doug Carter socking a three-run double. The bases were loaded via walks to Rob Hartnett, Scott Mabley and Barry Hartnett. Jim Henderson then singled in Carter. Al McKenzie homered for Pizza and Vince McLean singled in Jim anson. The Richmond Hill Inter- mediate softball ladies, fresh from a Silver Medal, will be going for broke next Saturday and Sunday when they set their sights on the provincial championships at Port Colbourne. Rob Clephan was. the winnin pitcher, with Terry Legge taking the loss. Barrow‘s Insurance and Kinnear Leasing wrestled to a 2-2 draw with Barrow’s pitcher Luke HOâ€"HUM Then it was, ho hum, Woolnough starting things off in the third inning with a double. He then proceeded to steal third and then. oh hum. stole home with the winning run. The Hill team qualified for the tournament by finishing second behind Ottawa in the qualifying rounds and picking up a silver medal. It was a gruelling round of games for the Hill girls who were forced to play eight tilts, the final two, with Ottawa to get to the championships. They then lost 92 to the troublesome Ottawa team but bounced back to edge North Bay 5-4 with Gizelle Marchand the winning pitcher. Marchand also helped her own cause with a threerun triple and then scored herself on an error. Sunday saw the Hill team forced to win its next two games to qualify for the finals. Men's Fastball Hil/ gals reach finals Town Auto crew rises from ashes the league‘s annual MEETING ROOMS FOR COMPANIES PARKWAY HOTEL HWYJELESUEST He was also a standout defensively in this game coming up with two key defensive plays to prevent R and R runners from scoring. The first was an at- tempted squeeze play with Woolnough tagging the runner going into the plate. The second saw him taking a throw to fist and then tagging a surprised runner who had stepped off third base. NOTES Notes: Richmond Hill Auto Body's rookie hurler Gary Wilkinson was named the tour- nament's top pitcher. Teammate 'Rob Forget was the top hitter. Auto Body picked up $150 for its second place finish with $75 going to third place R & R Catering. Lefevre yielding a run on a balk. Steve Whitaker brought in Roger Brain for Barrow‘s while John Rumble homered. Steve Woods socked an awesome homer. Dave Berseth came home from third base on a balk. Dave Webster threw for Kinnear. They proceeded to down Belleville 4-1 with Kelly Maclnnis pitching a strong game with Katie McNamara doubling in two runs. Sue O‘Connell also drove in a run with a single. Laurie Lansing scored in the third inning as Marchand singled. Marchand then scored on Sue Taylor's single. North Bendale went ahead 3-2 in the fifth inning only to have Richmond Hill score three times in its half of the fifth. Katie McNamara singled in Marchand and Janet Buxton. Katie scored herself on overthrows. Glen Greenslade led the way with a double and three rbi‘s. Ken Faulkner and Gary Wilkinson each drove in a pair of runs. Finally, Richmond Hill Auto Body won a 9-0 turkey shoot over Jack Blyth Real Estate. Wilkinsonuwith a twmhitter. recorded VLhe shutout. Lenny Hughes, with effective relief from Bruce Stevens, took the loss. Game five saw; them edging Crown Life 2-1 behind the pit- ching of Darlene Nelson with Richmond Hill’s runs coming in the fifth inning as Sue O’Connell got to first, went to third on Bonnie Bryan’s single, and scored on Bernie Thompson's sacrifice bunt. Kelly Maclnnis picked up the win for the Hill club. Thursday night saw Richmond Hill downing Pickering 4-2. Stevens is the only active member of the league today who was with the league as a player in its initial year over 20 years ago. The league developed from a church league at least 22 years back. They then downed Belleville 5-3 deSpite allowing three runs in the first inning. They tied the game in the fifth inning when Kathy Motley walked and scored on Bonnie Bryan's single. Bungaro then singled and Marchand walked. Rosie came home on McNamara's hit and Gizelle scored on Sue O'Connell‘s double. Would you believe that Town Auto Body was initially Our Lady Queen of the World church ball club? They were. L214 â€" ATTACH T0 MEN‘S FASTBALL Standings: The game went into extra in- nings with The Hill winning it as Sue Taylor took three bases on an error and then scored on Janet Buxton‘s squeeze bunt. She then scored on Motley’s triple. Richmond Hill plays Newmarket tonight (Wednesday) at 8:30 pm at the Town Park. Barrow's Insurance 14 Town Auto Body 15 . Richmond Hill Auto Body That sent the Vlocalsiinto their matches with Ottawa. League action last Week saw Richmond Hill move into sole possession of first place beating North Bendale 53. Linear Sound 8. Video Kinnear Leasing Jack Blyth Real Estate Pizza Press 881-2121