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By Rick Campbel! Chronicle Sports Editor Cedarville Yellow Jackets didn‘t exactly run scared from their opposiâ€" tion in the sixth annual WLU Invitaâ€" tional Basketball Tournament last weekend. SportWaterloo In fact. the Ohioâ€"based college was the.talk of the fourâ€"team event as they easily outclassed both Univerâ€" sity of Ottawa Gee Gees and Waâ€" terloo Warriors to take the title. In opening game action Friday. Yellow Jackets, a relentless, always hustling crew blew away Ottawa 86â€" 60 and likely could have made that margin even greater had they wanted to. Meanwhile, in the other preliminâ€" ary matchâ€"up, Warriors and the host Golden Hawks hooked up in what proved to be the most competitive game of the tournament, won evenâ€" tually by Warriors 61â€"56 after a lengthy seeâ€"saw battle. Those verdicts thrust Warriors and Yellow Jackets into Saturday‘s final where the American school dominatâ€" ed the youthful UW unit to the tune of ‘"I thought whoever won Friday‘s game between UW and ourselves could play fairly well against them (Yellow Jackets)," said Hawk coach and tournament host Don Smith. ‘"‘But they just played awfully well, they wouldn‘t have been easy for anâ€" yone to beat playing like that." Smith, who admitted disappointâ€" ment at the size of the crowd for Saâ€" turday‘s games, was further disilluâ€" sioned by the play of his charges. With consistent play they could have overhauled Warriors Friday and Saâ€" Amerks teach local cagers lesson Cedarville, Ohio takes WLU Invitational GARY JEFFRIES turday dropped the consolation game 87â€"15 to Ottawa. *‘*We didn‘t have a good week of practice."" said the WLU coach. *‘*We‘ve had a hard time getting everyone out at the same time for various reasons. Then Dave Byck split his head open in practice Thursâ€" day and had to have plastic surgery, and now Leon Arendse has come down with pneumonia and respiraâ€" tory problems â€" he could be gone for about a month too. *‘We‘ll just try to come back after Christmas with everyone healthy ready for the season to start." In Saturday‘s final Eric Mount completed a fantastic weekend for the Yellow Jackets when he hit for 32 points, giving him 55 in the two games and the tourney MVP award. Phil Jarrett, a local Bluevale grad, had 22 for Waterioo. Hawks are on the road in Montreal this weekend, playing Concordia Friâ€" day and the winner of the Yorkâ€"Mcâ€" Gill game Saturday. In Friday‘s UWâ€"WLU contest, Warâ€" riors at one point in the first half held a 29â€"20 lead, which Hawks managed to whittle to 31â€"27 at intermission. For most of the second half the lead was oneâ€"point in either‘s favor, but a key rebound basket by Scott King with 30 seconds left gave Warâ€" riors a 59â€"56 lead. Hawks fouled Dave Burns on the ensuing play and he tossed in both free throws for the 61â€" 56 final verdict. Burns had 17 points for Waterloo while Bob Fitzgerald with 16 and Arense with 13 paced WLU. In the consolation final Fitzgerald had 24 points for WLU. _ ____ â€" By Rick Campbell Chronicle Sports Editor It is a reunion of sorts â€" and one of the nicest kinds. Wateriloo Tigers of the Interâ€"County Major Baseball League anâ€" nounced today the signing of Gary Jeffries as field manager for the 1981 season. -'Ac;a'a;fl')v for the goftâ€"spoken yet strongâ€"willed Toronto native, the appointment marks the return to the position he so successfully filled in 1978 when Tigers joined the Iâ€"C loop after a 21â€"year absenâ€" And both Jeffries and the new Tiger organization eagerly anâ€" ticipate his return with the hopes he can help rescue the Waterioo ship that sank to its modernâ€"day lowest depth last summer with an 11â€"19 lastâ€"place record. Jeffries, the coâ€"ordinator of Intraâ€"mural Athletics at Wilfrid Laurier University and assistant coach with Tuffy Knight‘s vaunted football Hawks, began his Interâ€"County baseball career in Guelph in 1963. He advanced up through the Detroit Tiger organization from 1967â€"69. then after incurring arm problems switched sports and gave pro football a shot with Hamilton Tiger Cats in the early 1970‘s before joining the staff at WLU. When the local Tigers reâ€"entered the Iâ€"C loop in 1978, Jeffries was taken aboard as field manager and despite a jammedâ€"pack late summer schedule. piloted the rookie club to an immensely respecâ€" table 18â€"18 record, which included seven wins in their last eight games. That season effort earned Jeffries recognition as secondâ€" WLU‘s Bob Fitzgerald (with batl) is denied the baseline by Waterioo Warrior Scort King anc teammates Dave Burns and Phil Jarrett during second half action Friday in the sixth annua WLU Invitational. Waterioo won this game 61â€"56 but lost to Cedarvilie, Ohieo Yellow Jacket: 93â€"69 in the final. _ Jeffries, with several contacts in American schoals close to the Canadian border, is already checking things out with the hopes of landing players for key positions. _ o > . team allâ€"star manager. Despite the desire of former Tiger owner Merie (Champ) Glassâ€" ford to lure Jeffries back in 1979, time constraints and personal reasons made it impossible for him to continue in the role. Those have since been resoived and as Jeffries‘ replacement Alf Payne and coach Leo DeRocher resigned following last season,.the comâ€" bination was timely for Jeffries‘ return. "I think the key to being competitive is to go with the good nuâ€" cleus of kids we have here, but we also are quite prepared to go out and get three Americans â€" that‘s something Waterloo has never done before. The key to your defense is up the middle and we‘ll likeâ€" ly be looking for pitchers, maybe a catcher and a shortstop. C _ In profiling the ideal team he‘d like to field, Jeffries claims one with a strong local flavor is essential, and that it must be aggresâ€" sive at all times. * â€" â€" â€"= ‘"We‘ve got to make things happen, it doesn‘t appear from what I‘ve seen that we‘ll be a real powerâ€"hitting club, so we‘ll have to be running all the time, advancing the runner, shaking the other team up. -r‘.'Aggresiveness doesn‘t always bring positive results. but I‘m a strong believer that if you are aggressive long enough, good things are bound to happen .‘ â€" He‘s not the only one who hopes so Chronicle Sports Line â€"__ 886â€"2830