Chatham Youth Soccer champions crowned in Mini Finals
August 31st, 2010
Updated With Mini Consolation Games
Chatham Youth Soccer Association crowned 10 champions in its annual Mini Soccer Finals on Saturday.
Championship games were held in the youngest age divisions – boys and girls under-6 to under-10 – at the Mini Soccer Field complex on Grand Ave. W.
Chatham Diamonds minor baseball travel team roundup
August 31st, 2010
Minor Bantams pound Belle River in final OBA tune-up
The Chatham Minor Bantam Diamonds warmed up for this weekend’s OBA ‘A’ tournament with a 16-3 win over Belle River in a Sun Parlour league game on Monday at Fergie Jenkins Field at Rotary Park.
Tyler Udvari belted a two-run inside-the-park home run while Tom Harwood line a three-run double and also singled to lead Chatham’s 13-hit attack.
Vanderiviere strings together pair of hits at South Buxton
August 31st, 2010
Eric Vanderiviere flashes a huge smile as he accepts the Country 92.9 FM Guitar Trophy from morning co-host Cheryl Johnstone. (James MacDonald Apex One Photos; Click on photos for full views).
It was hard to tell what made Eric Vanderiviere happier – winning his fifth Windride Transportation Sport Stocks feature of the season or making an impressive debut in the Dover Sanitation UMP Late Models.
“It was exciting to do both, I had a blast in Brad’s car,” Vanderiviere said.
Vanderiviere hopes his strong fourth-place showing in Brad Authier’s backup car in the Late Model feature will land him another ride, perhaps in the season-ending Shootout on Sept. 25.
“We’ll see how he thinks I made out tonight,” said Vanderiviere.
Authier wasn’t able to see how Vanderiviere was doing himself – he was too busy winning the Late Model feature race for a fourth time in 2010.
Chatham Minor Baseball House League roundup
August 31st, 2010
Following are this week’s Chatham Minor Baseball Association house league results and game stars for the Mosquito and Bantam/Midget divisions. Results from the Peewee division were again not reported.
Brewers ousted by Orioles in Game 3 of Essex quarters
August 30th, 2010
The Maple City Brewers can concentrate on the Western Counties Senior Baseball League next week.
The Brewers were eliminated from the Essex County league playoffs when they dropped the third and deciding game of the quarterfinals to the Woodslee Orioles 6-1 on Monday.
‘Mad Catters’ net bronze medals in national beach volleyball
August 30th, 2010
National beach volleyball bronze medalists Maddy Hiltz, left, and Alyssa Chacon. (Click on photo for larger view)
Chatham’s Alyssa Chacon and Maddy Hiltz won bronze medals in the Volleyball Canada 2010 Beach National Championships in Toronto on the weekend.
The 14-year-olds brought home the bronze medal in the Under-14 Tier II level.
The duo, nicknamed the Mad Catters, qualified for the nationals in their first summer together as beach volleyball partners.
They finished fifth at the provincials to earn a berth in the beach nationals, along with 23 others teams in the Under-14 category. Eighteen of the 24 entries were from Ontario, along with two teams from Manitoba plus one from British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Alberta and Quebec.
Goldoni tops Kitamura in CTC Gold boys singles
August 30th, 2010
Alexander Goldoni defeated Harley Kitamura in straight sets, 6-3, 7-5 to win the Chatham Tennis Club’s Gold Division boys singles club championship on Sunday.
Smith’s 1-2 punch KOs Giants; Another Game 3 Monday
August 29th, 2010
Dave Smith hurled a complete-game three-hitter and helped his own cause with a two-run single to lead the Maple City Brewers to a 3-2 win over the Corunna Giants on Sunday at Fergie Jenkins Field at Rotary Park.
The win clinched the Western Counties Senior Baseball League best-of-three semifinal in three games and sends the Brewers to the finals, which will begin after the Labour Day weekend.