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1 Page 11 The Expositor Friday July 17-1987 if Senior hockey folds 5 However the Ontario Hockey Association was unable to find other centres willing to enter the senior division Dundas Real McCoys said they would favor dropping into a senior league where it would be less expensive to compete for players old league was too OHA president Brent Ladds said today in making the announcement in Cambridge we must try to restructure the league recruit new entries ami drastically cut The OHA may organize a new league or place the teams in other leagues It also plans to ask the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association how an Ontario-based team can now become eligible to play in the Allan Cup tournament Ontario has been represented in the Allan Cup playoffs since 1907 The Ontario Senior Hockey League announced today that it has ceased operations Only three teams including the Brantford' Clamatos remained in the league after Dundas Real McCoys dropped out Cambridge Hornets and Thunder Bay Twins were the other remaining clubs The Clamatos won the league championship last season and then went on to defeat St (Nfld) Caps in the eastern Canada final and Nelson (BC) Maple Leafs in the national final for the Allan Cup Flamborough-area businessmen who operated the Clamatos in the civic centre for the last two years recently tried to sell the franchise but found no takers They said that if the league had been able to find new entries they would have considered operating the team for another season new manager breaks in with a win Jays have number MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Third baseman Gary Gaetti of the Minnesota Twins seemed shocked to learn that the head-to-head competition with the Toronto Blue Jays was so one-sided just have to come back and try it again Gaetti said Thursday after Toronto's 5-2 American League baseball victory over the Twins Winning pitcher Jimmy Key 1(H5 downplayed it too not a (knirdie Key said "There's a lot of big games to come for both teams got a good ball club If they get good pitching as strong as anyone in their Still Thursday afternoon victory was the Blue Jays' 10th straight over Minnesota including five in 1987 by a combined score of 41-8 is always a team that seems to have another Toronto centre fielder Lloyd Moseby said City seems to have The Twins needed three to tie and loaded the bases in the ninth when Urn Laudner walked with two out after Kent Hrbek and Tom Brunansky singled to lead off the inning Laudner who has 12 homers out id 27 hits in 149 at-bats took a couple of big swings before walking Hun Toronto brought on relief ace Tom Henke for his 18th save Henke struck out the only man he faced Randy Bush the fourth straight pinch hitter Minnesota starter Bert Blyle- Angels 4 and Baltimore Orioles 5 Kansas City Royals 4 Yankees 12 Rangers 3 Don Mattingly hit two homers and drove in a career-high seven runs He tied an AL record by homering in his sixth consecutive game and equalled a New York Yankee record with his fourth grand-slam of the season The first baseman is the seventh AL player to hit home runs in six consecutive games The four grand slams tied the club record set by Lou Gehrig in 1934 and equalled by Tommy Hen-rich in 1948 The homers were Mattingly's eighth in the last six games two shy of the record for 10 games set by Frank Howard AP Photo Tony Fernandez grimaces in pain after fouling a ball off his leg during Thursday's 5-2 Blue Jay win over Minnesota Doc Edwards Replaces Pat Corrales gave the Jays a 2-1 lead in the fourth Toronto scored twice in the fifth after Tony Fernandez and Moseby walked Barfield drove Fernandez home with a broken-bat single After Bell grounded into a double play that advanced Moseby to third Ernie Whitt lined an RBI single off the glove of Gaetti at third base to give the Blue Jays a 4-1 lead ven 8-7 allowed five runs and 10 hits in 7 2-3 innings Toronto took a 1-0 lead in the first when Moseby walked stole second and scored when Twins centre fielder Mark Davidson misjudged George ground-rule double The Twins tied the score in the third when Steve Lombardozzi tripled home Dan Gladden who had reached on a choice Fred McGriffs ninth homer Canadian Press New Cleveland manager Doc Edwards believes that before the Indians can start playing well they have to feel good about themselves And slugger Cory Snyder showed how to do that Thursday night sixth homer in eight games and 20th of the season a three-run shot in the first inning helped the Indians make Edwards' I managerial debut a success with a 4-3 American League baseball victory Thursday over the Chicago White Sox Edwards who took over when Pat Corrales was fired earlier in the day said the Indians are not as bad as their record the worst in the AL and second-worst in the majors indicates never had any doubt that Snyder and the other players were good hitters and while I know we can hit I've got to get the players to respect themselves again" Edwards said got to get our pride-back to last year's Snyder extended his hitting streak to eight games during which he hit 425 with 16 RBIs His homer in the first and a solcT shot by Mel Hall in the sixth gave the Indians their first win in four decisions against Richard Dotson 7-6 In other games it was Toronto Blue Jays 5 Minnesota Twins 2 New York Yankees 12 Texas Rangers 3 Detroit Tigers 3 Seattle Mariners 2 Oakland Athletics 4 Boston Red Sox 3 Milwaukee Brewers 6 California Youmans wins 6th straight Rossini wins Cup match 3-1 partures from the fireballing style he displayed in his first frill season last year when he fanned 202 Doyle Alexander 4-6 gave up five hits in seven innings to take the loss for the Braves Hubie Brooks provided the offence for the Expos driving in both runs with a homer and a sacrifice fly- in other NL games it was New York Mets 9 Cincinnati Reds 0 Houston Astros 2 Philadelphia Phillies 1 Chicago Cubs 4 San Francisco Giants 1 San Diego Padres 9 St Louis Cardinals 8 in 10 innings and Los Angeles Dodgers 7 Pittsburgh Pirates 0 Canadian Press Suddenly Floyd Youmans is enjoying himself again Youmans had been in the club's doghouse over a weight problem that put him on the disabled list twice this season But he pitched strongly for the third straight time since returning to action as the Montreal Expos blanked the Atlanta Braves 2-0 in National League base- ball play Thursday night That was his second straight shutout and his sixth successive victory In his last outing Youmans 7-3 fired a one-hitter to beat the Houston Astros 1-0 Both games were de his chest and in one motion swept it into the left comer of the net Spadafora Alec Varga Reale Angelo DiFelice Franco DeDominicis and Dave DeDominicis controlled the midfield for the Lions Forwards Gary Lallo Dino Fior-illo Neumann and DiNino kept constant pressure on the Serbians' Rossini Lions defeated Hamilton Serbians 3-1 in a Spectator Cup soc-: cer game at the Wayne Gretzky Sports Centre on Thursday night Pietro Alessandro Marco DiNino scored two goals and Franco DiDo- minds got the other one for the Lions Rossini plays in the Hamilton and District Soccer League's first division while the Serbians play in the premier division The Lions took the lead after 15 minutes when Amerigo Spadafora beat two defenders and passed the ball to DiNino who scored with a 1 low hard drive into the comer of the net After Hamilton tied the game DiNino regained the lead for Rossini when he converted a pass from Martin Neumann Len Magyar Rob Santilli Bruno Bove Gino DiFelice and Mario DiFelice played well on defence to help protect the lead and goalie Alfredo Casati made several good saves The Lions got their final goal late in the second half Remo Reale sent a ball to DiNino who relayed it to DeDominicis i DeDominicis played the ball off Stampeders find new way to lose pennant march stalled Stampeders quarterback Rick Johnson the all-star pivot last year was horrible in just over a quarter of action Johnson completed a angle pass in 11 attempts for four yards with two throws intercepted Worman completed 22 of 49 for 338 yards He was intercepted three times and sacked five times J'T Hay converted touchdown and added two field goals and a single for Calgary Trevor Kennerd kicked two field goals and two converts for Winnipeg while punter Bob Cameron added a single Thursday's game drew just 20553 spectators lowering Calgary's average attendance after three home dates to 21106 The team needs to match last year's average of 27000 to break even record atop the East Division Calgary 1-4 is in third place in the West Winnipeg linebacker Tyrone Jones scored his first touchdown in five seasons when he took a one-yard pass from quarterback Tom Clements Fullback Pat Cantner scored other touchdown on a seven-yard toss from Clements Both TDs came just seconds after the Bombers broke through to block kicks by Calgary punter Glenn Harper The Stampeders defence played well limiting Winnipeg to 279 net yards Bombers tailback Willard Reaves rushed for 128 yards on 19 carries Calgary rolled up 358 yards most of it late in the game CALGARY (CP) The Calgary Stampeders are finding new ways to lose every week 1 First they gave up two punt-return touchdowns in a 54-16 CFL loss to the Edmonton Eskmos Then they had six turnovers including two fumbles returned for TDs in a 40-15 loss to the British Columbia Lions Last week Calgary suffered nine quarterback sacks and took several costly penalties in a 38-22 loss to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers The errors continued Thursday as Calgary had two punts blocked by Winnipeg who converted both into touchdowns then held on for a 21-14 win in a blunder-filled game neither team seemed to want The Blue Bombers rolled up a quick 21-0 lead- then sat back and almost blew it Despite the early hole they dug for themselves with the blocked punts the Stampeders were within six yards of the game-tying touchdown when time expired was too close for comfort at the said defensive halfback James Jefferson who made eight tackles and intercepted a pass for Winnipeg Calgary coach Bob Vespaziani who appeared ready to explode during the game calmed down and chose to look on the bright side afterward just ran out of he said we would have beaten Calgary scored its only touchdown with 1:43 left on a seven-yard pass from Rick Worman to Larry Willis The win left Winnipeg with a 4-0 single Clark drove in three runs in the seventh inning with a bases-loaded single Kevin Hinton who started on the mound for the Bulldogs was the winning pitcher He also hit a three-run homer in the seventh inning Gary Lauretti who pitched the first seven innings for the Braves' was the loser Chris Murray pitched the eighth inning The Braves will play in Kitchener on Sunday The won-lost records: Brantford 15-3 Kitchener 14-8 Stratford 10-7 Cambridge 12-9 Guelph 9-8 Waterloo 3-12 St Thomas 2-15 CAMBRIDGE Brantford CKPC march to the Intercounty Junior Baseball League pennant was stalled here Thursday 'night when Cambridge Bulldogs upset the defending champions 8-7 It was only the third loss of the season for the Braves who have 15 games and are almost assured of finishing on top Second-place Kitchener Dodgers are three games behind with a 14-8 won-lost record Brantford has six games remaining and Kitchener only two Mike Polgar led the 1 eight-hit attack with a triple and a DH hopes to get a few hits for Sox too Marty McSorley has no illusions about leading the Intercounty Major Baseball League in hitting stolen bases or sensational catches As a baseball player in fact the 24-year-old from Cayuga is a raw rookie going to do what I can and hope I can help the team in some way" McSorley said as he contemplated his first game as an outfielder with the Brantford Red Sox speed of the ball affect me too much ing game of the final series against Philadelphia Flyers firing two goals in a 4-2 victory All told the man who was known more for his muscles than his finesse who had only two goals and three assists in 40 regular-season games scored four goals and three assists in the playoffs had a lot of Am in the he says was a little more physical and I had a chance to go out and bump and grind to work hard in the corners and in front of the net and doing a job Sliding bum Does his boss Oilers general manager-coach Glen Sather knows he's playing baseball? I was out in Edmonton the other day he noticed this little burn on my McSorley recalls I told him I got it sliding into third base (in a softball game) he just chuckled Glen's very competitive I think he'd rather see my playing baseball than doing a lot of things It's very healthy for the was an 18-year-old playing (junior B) for Hamilton Kilty B's when he invited me to camp He was behind me all the way he helped me a lot He was the force the individual' I needed at that After two tempestuous seasons with Belleville where he earned a reputation as a hard-hitting winger who loved to drop his gloves and fight McSorley was signed as a free agent by Pittsburgh Penguins He played one frill season and part of another with the Penguins before they traded him along with Tim Hrynewich to the Oilers for Gilles Meloche in September 1985 It seemed obvious at the time that the Oilers wanted McSorley for his muscle to let the other teams know that if they tried to mess with Wayne Gretzky Jari Kurd and other Edmonton stars have to deal with him first However he wasn't exactly a' smash hit in his first season with the National Hockey League champions He missed half the 80-game regular schedule due to an injury and a suspension And even when he got into the lineup it was hard to get ioe time on a team with so many stars didn't have that great a he says recalling that the Oilers struggled in the early weeks when you're looking to get it going you look to the guys who have always been there to Wayne and to Messier players like that And when you're playing behind Kurri Anderson and Napier (the Oilers' right wingers) those are three pretty good hockey Never known as a scorer even in junior hockey McSorky managed only two goals and three assists But then came the Stanley Cup playoffs and a tough semi-final with Detroit Red Wings in which the Wings won the opening game right in Edmonton i The Oilers tied the series on home ice before going to Detroit for Game 3 And then with the score tied at one apiece and only 36 seconds remaining in regulation time McSorley scored to wjn the game 2-1 But the best was yet to come McSorley wound up as the scaring hep in the open Softball star Up to now all his experience on a diamond has been in softball He helped Caledonia win three Ontario junior softball championships and is playing a couple of times a week now with Caledonia in the Tri-County Softball League McSorley is better known of course as a rough-and-tumble right winger with the Edmonton Oilers The Red Sox signed him last week before he went out to Edmonton to play in Wayne Gretzky's charity golf tournament going into it with an open he said looking forward to the opportunity to play baseball I like to play The are a lot of guys who can throw underhand 90 miles an hour It's just that I'll be looking at the ball from a different angle And of course the field is a lot bigger I think I'll be stealing too many McSorley doesn't feel like a stranger in the Red Sox camp An old friend John Mowat is ra the executive and the team is owned by Wayne father Walter It was through Mowat who's the chief scout for Belleville Bulls major junior hockey team that McSorley got his first big break on ice think a ton of Johnny he says 'I i.