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' Page " . Waterloo Chronich. “My. 6-mtter 12,1919 Wigg _ By Rick Campbell Chronicle Sports Editor Waterloo Optimists iirarety may have won the Ontario Baseball Association B di- vision championship last Sunday at Bechtel Park. No one will know Until 8 p.m. tonight. Because no one will know until then whether Sault Ste. Marie, Waterloo's op- position in the final, will be coming to Wa- terloo this weekend to contest it. -sat, which has already received two byes in the nine-team elimination, is balk- "ii'iaGurinaking the trip to Waterloo be- cause they only have 10 players and cannot use any of theirrbaltam players, who will “I talked to (OBA midget convertor) Gerry MacLean last night and he indicated that Sault is dragging their feet on this thing," said Optimist manager Paul Puncher Tuesday. "They want to come wButif Sault doesn't Show. Waterloo, which beat Kingston all-stars in two straight games last Sunday, will win OBA by defanit. _ A . iar CEQpEting eisewhere%%uthern On- tario this weekend. - _ next weekend so they can use their ban- tams, but MacLean said no, that they had plenty of warning that it would be this wee- kend, So the Sault people asked him to give them the names oi. our IWaterloo'st con- tact people. to see if we'd go up there. but he said he wouldn't allow it, that they knew the rules and would be expected to live up to them .. _ So as the Situation stands. Sault has been gwen until 8 p m tonight to declare their Intentions If they decide to come. the first game of lhe best-of-three series IS tenta- tively set for 2 p m Saturday With the re- maining ttmes of games to be announced at that time By Rick Campbell Chronicle Sports Editor When Waterloo Expos scare but one run In two games, you know they are m trouble Miraculously that one digit proved to be enough to win their Inter4"ounty Jun. Ior Baseball League semi- final Friday against CarTr bridge Junior Terriers as Rick Williams fashioned a sterling Mutter to pace his mates to a In wtrt In the fifth and deciding [lamp of the svrms 7 Should Sault refuse to show up. they would lose the championship by default and probably would}? hard by OBA "Right now I have no choice but to as- “We sume they are coming," sand Puncher that “We‘re practising three times this week. on tl Just like Last week, to prepare ourselves for M the final Wed much rather play this thing rung But Tuesday mam at Bechtel Park Expns hats wow oncc again as silent M the crowd In the Montreal forum whcn the melting 103m worm Thcy managed only SIX hits off Guelph Jumor Oak pitcher Tony Campagnolo as Oaks Jumped mm a l-O lead In the final genes With a 3-0 win m game one Game two goes m Guelph tomorrow night at 7 30 With the third game In the best, of-fave scheduled for Rech- Speaking of zeroes iirtyrty hour istonigm tel Saturday at 2 p m Should Waterloo midgets be playing host to Sault Ste Mane at that time the Expo game would likely be moved back to 7 30 p m Saturday Expos anemic offense Tuesday wasted a steady pitching effort by Scott Han. nah who,scattered eight Guelph huts and also had a shutout gonng until the se- venth when he gave up three hits and a walk Oaks scored twice to that Inning and once more In the eighth when shortstop Ray Pope, Still of midget age stroked a tnple to deep right-centre held and scored on Paul Officer a whale Four (1mm during the game Expos left two men stranded Including the hon om of the ninth Williams was the only Expo to solve Campagnolo with regu- Iarlly. smashing a double and two Singles to account for half his club 9 hn total Larry Crooke Brian Sch nurr and Dunr MacDonald had Waterloo's other hits. out than win by dejaults” The reason for Puncher's optimism lies with the performance of his club through- out OBA. They received yet another stal- wart effort. from pitcher Dave Drago in Kingston Saturday to win with 6-3 and then got a tidy combined chore from Eric Mae. Naughton and Jeff Schaefer Sunday to oust Kingston in a Close (95 game. Saturday Waterloo jumped into a 6-1 sixth-inning lead, but Drago was forced to strand numerous runners to get out of jams as he scattered 12 hits in his route-going ef- fort. Andy Boegel had a triple and two sin- gles to lead the 12-hit Optimist attack, and combined with Paul Oberholzer to drive in four of the six runs. Ed Fowler tripled and singled/Brian Miller doubled and singled, Jeff Potwarka had twosingles and Drago surprisingly chipped in with a double. Sin- gle hits went to Oberholzer and Todd Sheri- dan Sunday MacNaughton went a gritty six innings before tiring as he threw 118 pitches. Schaefer came on at the top of the seventh and didn't allow a hit but had to leave the game in the top of the ninth when Dan Beabien's line shot caroomed off his hand, Todd Smith came-on to get Paul Huntley for the final out. Boegel, performing tremendously in the clean-up spot. supplied the game-winning hit in the fifth when he singled to score Po twarka and Oberholzer, Fowler tripled, Dean Geisel doubled and Potwarka and Miller had two singles. Reserves from the Waterloo bantam club played a big part In the weekend wins, Sheridan performed steadily at first base, Smith put out the fire after allowing a hit In the ninth Sunday. and John Bell displayed a strong accurate arm at catcher when slot- ted there Sunday to prevent the opposition from ptealmg bases at Will "US-Ink Kingston was our best test so far. I ndon and Thorold were on a par. but Kingston had the big bats." sand Puncher “We learned a lesson today (sundayl and that was not to let up when we have a team on the ropes .. ':iii,Urrtiiey could Just get Sault Into the Tom Campagnttlo had a double and single for Oaks wtule other luls went to Rob Damalh. Paul Officer. Pat Morris. Bruce Churchman and Tony Campagnolo . Fraday Expos themselves had only four hits as Wtl- hams and Reid Sutherland of Camhruige engaged In a brilliant pitching duel In freezing rnld lomperalures Expos dud not help their cause by committing four errors, one of which led tn Guelph's second run all singles as Campagnolo struck out 12 batters and al- lowed only four other balls to be hit to the outfield The lone run of the game was scored by Crooke who singled and scored without another hit being made He went to second on a passed ball. io third on a force play and scored when Micky Cor llson flied out to centre held Three of the four Expos huts went to .hm Taylor In the hrtskly-pace contest Ed Fowler scores the opening run for Waterloo Optimists Sunday against Kingston when the throw to catcher Paul Huntley on John Ben's fielder's choice was high. Later in the game Optimist first baseman Todd Sheridan (below) makes an unassisted putout against Dave Price as second baseman Brian Miller backs up the play. 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