1965 Select Boys Peewee (Don Colman’s Texaco ) Champs

(Courtesy of Ken McCarthy)

Etobicoke Peewee HL Champions

Back Row:  Paul Reid, Dave Ross, Bob Gard,

Steve McCarthy

Mid Row:   Jack Whittier (coach), Pete Durst,
Glenn Corkum,  Fred Merritt (manager)
Front Row:  Gary Leeder,   Mike Dvernchuk,   Bill Salmon,   unknown



1976 Boys Juvenile (Harper Diesel) Ontario Champs

ONTARIO Jr CHAMPS

News Articles by Paul Wilson

 

The team wins the championship with a (1-0) game

the winning run and only run came in the 14th inning.

 

 

News Articles courtesy of Paul Wilson

Final game was held on “A” diamond in front of a record crowd of about 500 people

 

 

 

 

 

1976 Boys Juvenile (Harper Diesel) Finalist

Ontario Jr. Softball Finals

News Article courtesy of Paul Wilson

 

The Game, which tied the best of three was played at Etobicoke Valley with record crowds. The next game is for the Championship of Ontario.

1976 Boys Juvenile (Harper Diesel)

Ontario Jr. Softball Finals

News Article courtesy of Paul Wilson

 

In a 3 game decision for the Ontario Championship, Grimsby would beat Alderwood 8-1in the opener due to illegal pitches. In game two pitcher Rod Favreau would make a comeback by sticking out nine players and obtaining a no-hitter game. Alderwood forced Grimsby to a third game with their 5-0 win.

 

1975 Boys Midget (Harper Diesel) City Champs

News Articles courtesy of Paul Wilson

Alderwood wins the Metro Toronto Softball Championship in final against North York Softball League rival Willowdale 12-1.

In a bid for the quarter finals in the Provincial title, Alderwood would lose to Willowdale 5-1.

In this article, Alderwood is rated as one of the top Midget teams in Ontario – If not the TOP team in the province.

 

 

1974 Boys Midget (Harper Diesel) Finalist

Metro Toronto Finalists

News Article courtesy of Paul Wilson

 

 

Toronto Island defaults their second game after being handed a 28-0 loss by the dominating Alderwood Harper Detroit Diesel under the leadership of Freddie Merritt.

1974 Boys Midget (Harper Diesel) Champs

Alderwood’s Midget Harper Detroit Diesel          1974 North York Midget Finalists

 

News Articles courtesy of Paul Wilson

 

The 1974 Harper team cleans up North York and takes on the best of three Playoffs series for representing Etobicoke in the Ontario Amateur Softball Championship (Provincials).

 

Scores are impressive with Harpers solid pitching and powerful bats. The victories over Don Mills team Don Victoria 17-3 & Avenue Rd 10-0 shows that. Richmond Hill win of 5-1, seem to more of a challenge. They beat Scarborough 10-3 to advance to the Metro Championship.

 

Alderwood’s Midget Harper Detroit Diesel          1974 Etobicoke Midget Champs

Alderwood wins the Etobicoke championship to advance to the Metro (city) Softball Championships. They will go up against Richmond Hill Bears, Owen Sound, Barrie, Toronto Island, Oshawa, and Scarborough.

They beat Eringate by one run. The 3-2 win came after a pitchers battle and a few errors on Eringate’s behalf.

Alderwood’s Midget Harper Diesel          1974 North York Midget League Champs

Alderwood trounces Scarborough 10-3 to advance to the Metro area finals.

 

 

 

1974 Midget Barrie Senior Fastball Tournament

Barrie Senior Fastball Tournament

 

In the opening game, Our Harper Detroit Diesel team shattered Huntsville 7-1

 Their next rival was a fellow team from the North York league, Willowdale Golden Bear, but they just scrapped by with a 1-0 victory to go to the finals

 For the championship they had to go up to the home team. They managed to beat Barrie 6-3 and also out hit them 7-2 for the bragging rights of being the 1974 champs.

 They received the Barrie Senior Fastball Trophy for their efforts

1974 Boys Midget (Harper Diesel)

In 1974 Alderwood joined the North York Softball League for the Midget team

The Midget Harper Diesel starts their season off with two shutouts.

Willowdale Ponderosa 5-0

North York Lions 19-0

News Articles courtesy of Paul Wilson

 

 

Alderwood’s Harper Diesel beats Amesbury of North York 9-0 in the Valley to challenge Willowdale’s Golden Bears for first place in the Midget Division of the North York League. Our boys are favoured to win the Championship with only four hits in their last five games. The final will be held at our own park…Guess who won!

1974 Alderwood All-Stars Boys Midget Tournament

In 1974 Alderwood Softball Assoc. hosted a Midget Tournament. Our Midget Harper Diesel team under Freddie Merritt would go on to be the overall champs.

News Article courtesy of  Paul Wilson

 

They beat Oshawa 7-0 in the opener, next Galt 9-0, Eringate 6-0 in their third game and took Seven Oak 14-0 in the final game.

The three winning pitchers were Rod Favreau, Jackie Phillips, and Dave Jackson who only allowed two hits in four games.

Alderwood was awarded the Bernie Fabric Memorial Trophy awarded by former Etobicoke mayor Bruce Sinclair

This team joined the North York Softball League as a member and became a team to be taken lightly.

 

 

 

1974 All-Star Boy's (Harper Detroit Diesel)

Harper Detroit Diesel has been a 70’s sponsor in Alderwood and the teams under the coach Freddie Merritt would go on to win several tournaments. Harper Diesel moved into Alderwood in 1946 and started sponsoring about 1970.

1974 Alderwood teams would play other teams in Etobicoke for an Etobicoke Softball Trophy. If they won they could go on to be able to compete in the City or Metro Toronto Fastball Championships. It seems that they could win a city championship but still had to qualify for the Provincial Trophy. Fred Merritt would become one of the most decorated with several championships over the years of his coaching.

1973 All-Star Boy's Bantam ( Harper Detroit Diesel ) Champs

(Courtesy of Paul Wilson)

 

BACK ROW: Fred Larouche, Peter Bury, Dave Hynek, Steve Shaw, Randy House, Rod Favreau, Steve Repic

CENTER ROW: Fred Merritt, Ralf Grant, Reg Roscalf, Sweeny Kurtbright, Hank C, Paul Wilson, Coach Jim Grant


FRONT ROW: Jackie Philips, Pete Martyinuk,  Batboy unknown17, Dave Heath, Norm Hrapchuk

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1972 All-Star Boy's Bantam ( Don Colman’s Texaco) K of C Champs

News Article courtesy of Paul Wilson

In August the team entered the K of C first Bantam Fastball Tournament and won. They beat Kitchener, Scarborough, and Willowdale 10-2 in the semi-final.  In the final at Exhibition Park they beat Guelph, 7-1 in the eight team tournament.

1972 All-Star Boy's Bantam ( Don Colman’s Texaco} Champs

Photo by Paul Wilson

 

BACK ROW:  (Coach) Freddie Merritt, Brian Nichol, Sweeny Kurtbright, Kevin Midzain, Steve Shaw, Don MacCarone, Dave Jackson, Rod Favreau, Martin Thornell, (Coach) Brian Zimmer, (Coach) Jack Whittier

FRONT ROW: Rob Ferkul, Paul Wilson, Pete Martyinuk, Steve Repic, Murray Manson, Freddie Parente, Domenic Macarone

1972-1976

 This Team was started in 1972 and went on to win several tournaments in

Alderwood, Etobicoke, City of Toronto, Ontario Provincials.

They also won other tournaments through out the province.

The team would build itself to known as the best in the province

under the coaching of Freddie Merritt.

1972 All-Star Boy's Bantam ( Don Colman’s Texaco) Champs

(Courtesy of Yvonne Russell)

Boys Bantam All-Stars Etobicoke Champions

BACK ROW (Coach) Bryan Zimmer, Steve Repic, Steve Shaw, Dave Jackson, Kevin Midzain, Rod Favreau

CENTER  ROW Rod Rodrigas, Don MacCarone, Sweeney Kurkbright, Paul Wilson, Martin Thornell, (Coach) Jack Whittier

FRONT ROW Freddie Parente, Pete Martyinuk, Jackie Philips, Rod Teurkal, (Head Coach) Freddie Merrit

In 1972 the Alderwood Bantam Boys Select team won the Etobicoke Championship and went on to compete in the all Ontario championships in Scarborough. Note the picture above of the team and the team’s dugout witch seems to be lacking any protective cages.


In 1973 the Junior Boys rep team (17 yr old) would be the first and only Alderwood boys team to win the All Etobicoke Championship and go on to win the Ontario Amateur Softball Assoc Championship.