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Juniors W fold in iiiiliiii'i5) . straight my? Lanes rode a grand slam homer by Mickey Bailey in the first game last Wednes- day in St. Clements to knock off Juniors 9-4 and clinched the best-of-tttree series at home Friday with a " vic- Waterloo peewee Op. timist Alf-stars became 0n- tario Baseball million B Mien: after winning the anal six-team Labor Day weekend tournament held this year in Belleville. Team Sport Juniors, tout¢ ed the possible sleeping giants of the Inter-City Fastball League playoffs, went out with barely a whimper last week dropping two straight games to Wa- terdown Lanes. Losing pitcher Don Steb- bings gave up the crucial grand slam to Bailey and Vern Agnew also socked a two-run shot in the first in- ning to provide much of the offensive power in game one. Bill Hanes provided the only highlight for Juniors as he pitched four and two/thirds innings relief giving up but four hits while striking out 12. They gained access to the tourney by virtue oMlIeir se- cond-pla'ce standing in the InterAhtttrtty All-Star Lea- gue (as of July 27) and by defeating [Mon Oakridge in a best-of-three mini- series during the last halt of August. Friday Lanes got solo shots from Bruce Everest in the third and Bailey in the eighth en route to their series clincher. Brent Snyder and Scott McKelvie had a pair of safe- ties for Team Sports. Dana Saunders was top hitter for Juniors with an rbi-triple arid double while McKelvie contributed an rib-single in the third. The weekend games were highlighted by strong pitch- ing performances from all four Waterloo hurlers, lan Buglass, Bill Kuchma. Brad Stephen and Sean Madorin, . Hanés was the loser going the distance and giving up nine hits. games (ti) l SUPERIOR (, MEMORIALS Peewee Optimists OBA B champs MKtUutYoUPUgtau" YMMV WWW”? mmmmmu EMILE,“ (“New”) ”Dublin“ WWW allot wtttsenpitehedermtttte- "PM; .- .' . In the first - pitched by Bugle“. “Merton ttandi- ly defeated Sault Ste. Marie 15:1. The second game, a much closer emanate:- with Madorin on the mound. ended with Waterloo edging Uahtingtmt 4-2. . T " In the. third game of the day. pitcher Bill Kuchma handcuffed the normally hard-hitting batters to coast to a 12-2 victory. This un- defeated record put Wa- terloo into the finals against the survivor of the Barrie - St. Catharines semi-final. The following Sunday morning. St. Catharines doubled Barrie 6-3 behind Marvellous effort in weekend toume y the straw hitting and pitch- ing at Lance Bell. _ In the Ctttatcriayett at ' pm. St. Catharina jumped on Waterloo pitcher Brad Stephen and a shaky Wa- terloo ittfieid to take a 3-0 lead after two innings. The remainder of the game, played in a steady drizzle saw no more scoring as both Stephen and St, Catharines pitchers controlled opposing batters. The ,championship game of the double knockout tour- ney was played underthe lights between the same two teams to determine the DEA champion. In the first inning St. Kitts took a 1-0 lead on a home run by Lance Bell but Waterloo tied it it the se- cond on a single by Mike Rune who scored on “will! pitch. - Itrthe bottom of the se- cond St. Kitts again took the lead bt on a walk and sub- sequent wild pitch by Ma- dorid. In the fourth Madorin got revenge by reaching se- cond on an outfield error. stole third and scored on a deep sacrifice fly by catcher Kevin McGraw. The final scoring of the seven-inning game took place in the fifth when with two out Waterloo outf)elder Scott Clugston singled and reached second on an overthrow. Waterloo second baseman '_ mum,wm,mmno-Pguv Chris Read then pinched; Bell pitch over the first ba- seman head into right field and Clugston charged home from second giving Wa- terloo a " lead and even- tually. the championship. Sean, Madorin pitched a superb game, striking out it St. Catharines batters while walking only two and allow- ing only two hits. He cer- tainly deserved the game ball as well as the plaudits of the home plate umpire who claimed never to have seen a better pitching per- formance in peewee ball. Waterloo team players are Ian Buglass. Scott Clue- ston. Brad Clugston, Allan Folliott. David Godwin, All players and their parents would like, to'thank manager Cord Murray. coaches Dave McGraw and Dan Ruppe and scorekeeper Terry Clugston who would like a new lawnchair for next season. ma. Sean Madorin. Kevin MoGraw. Chris Read. Mike Buppe. Steve Seibert. David Slater. Brad Stephen and John Wm. Also team Congratulations. Waterloo peewees - OBA B cham- pions! Minami Ganaha, Bill Koch- members but absent from the weekend are Julian Brandon, Matt Gagnop. Dean Schopf and Jerry La- monte. .