Major League Baseball
Toronto Blue Jays 4 Tampa Bay Rays 2
Bo Bichette broke a 2-2 tie with a 6th-inning sacrifice fly
Bichette has 98 rbi on the season
Lourdes Gurriel Jr. hit his 21st homer in the victory
Alek Manoah went 6 innings striking out 7 as Toronto beat the Rays for the 3rd time in 5 outings this month
Manoah is 7 & 2 on the season
Jordan Romano picked up his 20th save for the Blue Jays who hold the 2nd American League Wild Card spot
Toronto is 1 & 1/2 back of Boston and a 1/2 game ahead of the Yankees
Both the Red Sox and Yankees also won last night.
Boston Red Sox 6 New York Mets 3
Xander Bogaerts hit a go-ahead, 2-run homer in the 5th inning
New York Yankees 7 Texas Rangers 1
Giancarlo Stanton & Aaron Judge homered for New York
Seattle Mariners 5 Oakland Athletics 2
Both the Mariners and Athletics are 3 games back of Toronto in the Wild Card chase
Detroit Tigers 5 Chicago White Sox 3
Cleveland Indians 4 Kansas City Royals 1
Houston Astros 10 Los Angeles Angels 5
Atlanta Braves 6 Arizona Diamondbacks 1
Washington Nationals 7 Miami Marlins 1
St.Louis Cardinals 2 Milwaukee Brewers 1
Pittsburgh Pirates 6 Cincinnati Reds 2
San Francisco Giants 6 San Diego Padres 5
Los Angeles Dodgers 5 Colorado Rockies 4 ( 10 innings )
Philadelphia Phillies 3 Baltimore Orioles 2 ( 10 innings )
Minnesota Twins 9 Chicago Cubs 5
Today
Toronto Blue Jays at Tampa Bay Rays
Julian Merryweather (0 & 1) vs. Luis Patiño (4 & 3)
3:10 pm
Pittsburgh Pirates at Cincinnati Reds 12:35 pm
Chicago White Sox at Detroit Tigers 1:10 pm
Kansas City Royals at Cleveland Indians 6:10 pm
Washington Nationals at Miami Marlins 6:40 pm
Texas Rangers at New York Yankees 7:05 pm
Baltimore Orioles at Philadelphia Phillies 7:05 pm
New York Mets at Boston Red Sox 7:10 pm
Minnesota Twins at Chicago Cubs 7:40 pm
St.Louis Cardinals at Milwaukee Brewers 7:40 pm
Los Angeles Dodgers at Colorado Rockies 8:40 pm
Houston Astros at Los Angeles Angels 9:38 pm
Atlanta Braves at Arizona Diamondbacks 9:40 pm
Seattle Mariners at Oakland Athletics 9:40 pm
San Francisco Giants at San Diego Padres 10:10 pm
Grey Bruce Ladies Fastball League Playoffs
at Allenford
7 pm Port Elgin Diamond Devils vs Meaford Leeky Canoe,
8:30 pm Bad News Bears vs Allenford Gators
The Desboro Royals & Tara Ladies have earned a first round bye.
Canadian Football League
Hamilton Tiger-Cats ( 3 & 3 ) at Ottawa RedBlacks ( 1 & 4 )
7:30 pm
ATP France
9:30 am am Brayden Schnur vs Lucas Pouille
noon Vasek Pospisil vs Andy Murray
Ontario Junior Match Play Championship
at Tangle Creek Golf & Country, Thornton
16 boys and 8 girls survived the opening day of play
The Girls Quarterfinals and Round 3 for the Boys will launch today’s matches
NHL Signing
The Minnesota Wild of the National Hockey League signed left winger Kirill Kaprizov to a 5-year, $45 million contract ending a stalemate between the team and the Calder Trophy winner 2 days before the beginning of training camp.
Kaprizov had 27 goals in 55 games last season.
The St. Louis Blues and restricted free agent forward Robert Thomas have agreed to a two-year, $5.6 million contract extension.
Thomas was selected 20th overall by the Blues in the 2017 NHL Draft and had 3 goals and 9 assists in 33 regular season games last year.
WOAA Awards
76th Annual WOAA General Meeting & Minor Hockey Annual Meeting were staged last night at the Wingham Legion.
The Mike Weichel Honour Award Winner is Rick Fisk from Minto.
The Gravett Family Bursary Award Winner is Tyler Murray from Lucknow.
And the David H. Jacobi President’s Award Winner is Rick Vivian from Mitchell.
Two new W.O.A.A. Life Members were saluted; Dave Garinger Owen Sound & David K. Black formerly of Lucknow
W.O.A.A. LIFE MEMBERSHIPS
“Life Membership may be conferred upon an individual who has rendered a minimum of twenty years of faithful and contributory service to the Corporation of its predecessor; at least ten (10)of those years must be in a capacity as a Director a job appointed by the Directors.
Dave Garinger
WOAA Director- 1996 -20002
WOAA 2nd Vice President -2002- 2003
WOAA 1st Vice President – 2004 – 2021
WOAA President – 2006
OMHA Minor Hockey Chairman and OMHA R.D.
WOAA Capital Campaign Fundraising Committee Member -2002 – 2007
WOAA Minor Hockey Convenor – 1900 – 2001
WOAA Softball Convenor – 1997 – 2001
Wiarton Minor Hockey Contact – Late 1980’s
WOAA Umpire -1979 – 2000
WOAA Community Sports Builder -2017
Dave grown up in the Oil Springs area in southwestern Ontario. He re-located to the Grey-Bruce area, married Bev and for a number of years, they resided at Park Head where his young family of two sons grew up.
Dave was a teacher and taught many years at schools including Hepworth and Sauble; where he also coached many after school sports teams. He is the proud grandfather of two
Dave Black
o WOAA Director- 1998 -2004
o WOAA President – 2006 – 2010
o WOAA immediate Past President – 2010 – Present
o WOAA Capital Campaign Fundraising & Building Committee Member -2002 – 2008
o WOAA Senior Hockey Chairman – 2006 – 2008
o WOAA Women’s Hockey Chairman – 2010 -2012
o WOAA Referee Supervisor – 1993 -202I
o WOAA Referee Committee Chairman -2002-2004
o WOAA Referee-ln-Chief (Assigning OMHA Play-off Assignments) – 2000 – 2003
o On lce Game Official – Level 4 – 1974 – 2004
o Lucknow Minor Hockey Contact
Dave moved to St. Helens, ON in 1968 where he started playing Bantam Hockey and Bantam Softball.
Two area gentlemen, namely Grant Chisholm and Bill Hunter were Dave’s mentors while growing up playing sports. Dave is married to Joan and has two sons and two grandsons.
The O. M. “Mike” Weichel Trophy is an award presented annually by the W.O.A.A. Donated in 1953 by Mr. Mike Weichel of Elmira who was a well known sports enthusiast throughout the Western Ontario region. In presenting the trophy to the W.O.A.A., it was his desire to ensure that the people in this area be recognized and rewarded for their outstanding efforts in minor sports. He devoted endless hours to sports serving in many capacities, providing actual contributions and assistance.
Rick Fisk
The Fisk family in the Harriston and Minto area have long been known for their community involvement. K.R. as the local Vet and Mayor of Harriston, Terry as local Vet and Councillor in Minto, Norm as long-time municipal employee and Rick for his involvement with recreation and sport.
Rick has given the majority of his life to the betterment of Harriston and Minto Recreation. Starting with his coaching and being involved in Harriston minor sports, progressing onto minor sport executives including being a key player in negotiating the amalgamation of Palmerston/Harriston Minor hockey into Minto Minor
Hockey in the early 90’s.
Rick has not only been involved with sport but he has great success as well.
Harriston Minor Ball from Mite to Bantam as a coach with several of these being championship teams.
Coaching the Harriston Mercury’s becoming OASA Champions in 2000 and 2003 along with being coach of the OASA Masters Champions.
The Mercury’s also participated and met success in several ISC Tournaments with Rick as Coach, becoming Champions in 2003 and 2004.
He was also a Coach on the amalgamated Wellington Team which won the ISC title in 2010.
Through this same time Rick joined the Executive of the Minto 81’s [Palmerston/Mapleton) in 1999 becoming General Manager in 2006. A title which he still holds today.
Tyler Murray
Tyler Murray began playing minor hockey at 4 years of age with Lucknow Minor Hockey & play d 17 years with Lucknow Minor Hockey,
Tyler has been a committed and dedicated team member, and was the Assistant Captain of the Huron-Bruce Juvenile team this past season, which competed in the Juvenile International Silver Stick Tournament in Mooretown, Ontario.
Tyler has also volunteered for Lucknow / Huron-Bruce Minor Hockey, being a student on ice helper with younger age group teams
Tyler has also obtained his Development I National Coach Certification, and volunteered with the Peewee Development Team during the 2015-16 season.
In addition to coaching, Tyler has been an OMHA certified Referee for 6 years,
Tyler Murray is an active volunteer within our community, helping with many other events and service groups in town.
He was also the recipient of the Lucknow Juvenile Silver Stick Scholarship.
Rick Vivian
– Late 1970’s – 2000 – Mitchell Minor Hockey contact centre
– Late 1970’s – Present – WOAA Minor Hockey Convenor and committee Member
At the same time, Rick also served on the WOAA softball committee as a
Convenor and WOAA Umpire-ln- Chief
Late 1970’s – 1992 – Rick was also the WOAA Softball Contact Centre for Mitchell
– Rick was a carded umpire and the WOAA umpire-ln-chief from 1973 – 2002,
– ln his younger days, Rick refereed in his local communities
– Rick served as the chairman of the WOAA Referee committee – 2000 – 2002
Rick never refuses when called upon the help out our organization, has done hundreds of trophy presentations on behalf of the WOAA and assists with the updating of the WOAA By-Laws and Sports Manuals of Operations.
Upon his recent retirement as Mitchell Arena Manager; he is now looking after our WOAA website.
Events
Today is McHappy Day at your local McDonald’s Restaurant.
Buy Any of Your McDonald’s Favourites to Support Sick Children and Their Families at Ronald McDonald House
You Can Also Donate Directly to RMHC to Helps Sick Children Stay Close to their families
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Crimestoppers of Grey Bruce is conducting an online auction this year
To participate go to www.metclafeauction.com, click on ” Online Auctions Upcoming Sales ” and then click on ” Crime Stoppers of Grey Bruce Fundraising Auction ”
Proceeds from the auction will go directly to Crime Stoppers of Grey-Bruce, to support its efforts in making the communities in the two counties safer.
Payment can be made by auto deposit etransfer or cheque.
Items that can be mailed will be.
items that need to be picked up can be done so by contacting Drew Kalte at crimestopgb@bmts.com or by phone at 519-371-6078.
Etransfer can be sent to crimestopgb@bmts.com. Please memo the transaction with name & item purchased.
Cheques can be accepted when picking up items, or if preferred can be mailed
For more information, contact Drew Kalte at 519-371-6078 during business hours
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The Walk for Food in support of OSHARE is set for Friday at 3:30 pm behind Owen Sound City Hall
Pick up your pledge sheet at Mane Street or OSHARE and join them for this 5K walk.
Proceeds provide meals for those in our community in need.
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The Crescent Athletic Club Golf Tournament is Saturday at Legacy Ridge Golf Club
The event is SOLD OUT
Tee times start at 10:30 am
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The Families for Autism 3rd annual Autism Awareness Golf Tournament Saturday at Sauble Golf & Country is SOLD OUT.
Registration is at 10:30 am with a tee off at 12 noon.
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The Georgian Bay Coyotes annual cross-country race at Meaford is being organized for Saturday.
The event is open to children from Grades 1-8
Registration will be online via www.georgianbaycoyotes.com
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The annual Cobble Beach ProAm is scheduled for Monday.
Meanwhile, Cobble Beach will also be the host site for the Mike Doyle TPT event on October 5th and 6th.
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Owen Sound Minor Soccer will be holding it’s Annual General Meeting on Thursday, September 30th
The meeting will be conducted at 5:30 pm at the Kiwanis Soccer Complex.
Please attend if you are interested in learning more about the organization or improving soccer in Owen Sound.
There are currently vacancies on the board, so please attend if you would be interested in filling those vacancies.
Please RSVP by Thursday September 23. office@owensoundminorsoccer.ca
Bring a lawn chair.
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Owen Sound Minor Hockey is now accepting registrations for the 2021-22 season.
Early bird pricing runs until Sept. 30th.
For more information on the registration and programs available, visit owensoundminorhockey.com
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The Owen Sound Aquatic Club will be staging an inter team meet on Saturday October 9th.
The OSAC also plans to stage their annual McDonald’s Swim Meet with regional teams competing on the weekend of November 19th.
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The Wiarton Rotary Club Shore to Shore Road Race will be staged on Monday October 11th.
The event which attracts runners and walkers to travel from Oliphant to Wiarton has been staged since 1953.
The cost to enter is $ 50 with proceeds assisting a variety of Rotary projects in South Bruce Peninsula
To register and for complete race details visit wiartonrotary.org/shore-to-shore-road-race.
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