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Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 29 Aug 1984, p. 28

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Richard O ‘Brien Cnromcle Stat‘ Poor ‘D‘ spells doom for Ghosts Waterioo Ghosts. spooked . b1 poor defensive piar. were elrmin ared from the Midwestern Oniamo Ladies Softball League tourna ment with a 6â€"1 loss to Norwach The loss was their second game of the tournament and it folliowed a 20 win over Sarmia We played perhaps our wors! rgame of the year.. said Ghosts fhield manager Pete Mcliwraith ‘"Our defence just fel} apart Norwich heid a 50 lead after two innings. Ghosts lope run came when Shellie Snyder singled to score Kim Lesie. who had aiso in the opener with Sarnia. both (Ghosts runs came in the sixth inning. Jane Bel} tripied to score Patti Jo Mcintosh, then scored herself on Naney Lanteigne‘s sinâ€" Ghosts played without Trish McCarthy, Oiga Vujovic. Janet Lanteigne and Sue Riedeiger. But the absence of thuse players gave them the opportunity to iry out camp Sunday afternoon at Hillsde Park. Richard O Brien ghoto header with piayers from Ontarico jumior women‘s tryout Trish McCarthy of the Waterioo Ghosts heips Sandy Jordan of Grimeby in warmup exercises at provincial junior women‘s softball camp heild at Hilledie Park over the weekâ€" Jennifer Britney. a player Mcliwraith is eager to have back DeXxt season McCarthy a third baseman, missed the tournament to attend the Ontaric jumior women‘s soft ball tryout camp over the weekend at Waterioo‘s Hiliside Park The camp was hbeid to form a weam â€" to send io the Canada Summer Games next summer in St. John. N.B. in past years. Ontarmo had sent a club team. McCarthy. a coâ€"op student at University of Wateriov who comes from Oakville. was among 35 players in atiendance. A iota}) of 20, including three alternates. will be selected. "Jennifer just did a super job at shortstop.‘ said Mcliwraith ‘‘She showed a lot of potential * All players, will be informed of the selection by mail in about two weeks and McCarthy is now back in Oakville waiting for a letter \+"~I feel I‘ve done pretty well," she said of ber chances. "There are a lot of giris who were goud . so time will tell." Watrerloo Tigers‘ series with Toronto Maple Leats was evâ€" erything their previous series with London Majors was not It was a very high scoring series and, from ‘Tigers® point of Tigers hit string of ‘bat luck‘ vs. Leafs Tigers were eliminâ€" ated four games to one in the bestâ€"ofâ€"seven Interâ€"County Major Basebal) League series as they lost 96 Sunday afternoon in Toronto Tigers had lost 10â€"4 in the fourth game Saturâ€" day night at Bechie! Park Last Wednesday, view , it went the wrong way runs in the five games Tigers couldn‘t have bhad a better start in Sunday‘s game as Brad Schnurr hbomered off Toronto starter Frank Jagoda‘s first pitch of the game They continued to score in the tup of the first They jumped into a 44 lead with heip from Mike Yosurack‘s twoâ€"run double However. {for the fourth consecutive game after Tigers upened the semes with a 21â€"5 win. Leafs could pot be stopped ‘‘They (Leafs) bhave a realiy good hitting ball club and their bats were realiy booming." Tigers presigen!t and geperal manager Paul Puncher said of the *"We scored enough runs to win games but we couldn‘t boid them down. They have good hitters in their lineup. one through nine ‘ Tigers led Sunday‘s contest until Leafs scored three runs in the seventh to go abead 6â€"5. rm’mmmwmudmwuwmsmnaymu Toronto‘s Larry Downes approaches. Arbic was charged with ANn @FTOF. Aichers O‘Brien shoto 10#3 in a tota) of 91 also helped by an error. passed ball and wild pitch Nick Noonan, who pitched for Waterioo Tigers Saturday night, was named team MVP at the team‘s awards dinner on Friday. leafs had two hits in Saturday. Noonan was the jlosing pitcher, allowing 12 hits. Winâ€" ping pitcher Jeff Shaver gave up six Tigers managed 13 hits off Jagoda and reliever Bob Gravec Keith Pennoelis reâ€" placed Oravec to face the last batter Nick Noonan had three hits for Tigers. _ Yosurack also had a Ousted in five were R uns came in bunches in Saturday‘s game. Leafs scored five in the third and added four in the sixth. Tigers scored all four of their runs in the bottiom of the sixth in the sixth Jim Tayâ€" jlor hit a runâ€"scoring single and Yosurack cracked a twoâ€"run douâ€" came when Dunc Mac Donald ran home on a ground ball from Kevin Schourr . Notes: The Waterioo tion held its awards and shortstopâ€"pitcher NKoonan was named most valuable player. Terry Boege! was picked as the most imâ€" proved local player and Brad Schnurr was top rookie. Dasch touk the batting award cheon was rookie of the Pitcher Jamie Young was named MVP for Expos and also took the trophy for best earned ruo average. Jody as most improved player and leading bitâ€" ter and Terry McCutâ€"

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