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.16 â€"THECOLBORNE CHRONICLEâ€" Thursday, November 21, 2002 i B0 l e U sR L c C MALLAL / 2l NeeA ol is tccctecsme â€"_â€"_______'___u_‘________,'_r__â€"â€"-â€"â€"â€"_â€"-â€" FEATURE j i R e 0 e M GCrafton player inducted into Hall of Fame se * team also won the overall title. His batting average that year _ . e By Bos OWEN was .386. In 85 games he hit 26 home runs and collected 87 RBI‘s. & / Srare Whriter ‘In 1987 he was recruited to play for Penn Corp of Sioux City, | < ,’v & ~~ Canada has an infielder in the International Softball â€" Iowa. That group of athletes was ISC champion in 1988, 89, 91 \ Congress Hall of Fame. f 1A and 92. § ; 1 f > \ At an induction ceremony in Kitchener on August 11 former His career batting average was well over 300, including games 7 Grafton resident Marty Kernaghan became the first Canadian against the best fastball pitchers in the world. _ hok infielder ever to be honoured by the Congress in this way. Local ball fans will remember his homecoming visit to ;he Born in 1958 in Cobourg, Marty began his ball career at age annual Grafton Ball Tournament. Marty and his ISC champion: ‘ five in Grafton. By the time he was 11 he was playing for chamâ€" Sioux City team were shocked 5â€"4 by an all star squad before pionship teams. Under coach George Totten, he pitched for the 2000 spectators. f f d OASA Squirt champions. He added two more provincial champiâ€" In 1992 the Canadian team won the world championship in Wi. onships. One of those came in 1977 with the Grafton Juniors Manilla, The Phillipines, beating New Zealand in the final. [ under the coaching hand of his brother Sandy. In his final year in 1995, Marty earned All World First Team tc In 1978 Marty moved on to the Oshawa Tonys. A year later he recognition for the eighth time, for his play at third base with ( is moved west to become a powerâ€"hitting infielder for the Western _ the Gateway 2000 Soos. His batting average that season was a | "*, ¢ Major Fastball League champions in Camrose, Alberta. stunning .409. h F30 lss . The eighties was a decade of prominence. __ The next year he was inducted into Softball Canada‘s Hall of l O eliie n Es d‘ in 1983 Marty was a member of the Canadian team that took . Fame along with his 1983 team mates. gold at the Pan Am Games in Caracas, Venezuela. Marty is the youngest son of Jack and the late Pat Kernaghan. §} h ‘_ During that period he played four seasons in Calgary. He now resides in Sioux City with his wife Bev and children In 1985, playing shortstop, hg was named {VIVI? alt) thle I%E’er- Jerll\]nie, 18 anddAfbby, 11. Com o â€" national Softball Congress (ISC) tournament in Kimberly, Wisâ€" ow retired from competitive ball, he is the viceâ€"president 5 CANfiPslAt:acr:Agapr:gga uMnficr)tr}r’anirrn: ?:;r: consin. In the same year he was the M.VP. at the Canadian . and director of hockey operations for the Sioux City Musketeers ‘f’:;aciif)n : Puoto coumeuree _ Senior Men‘s Championship in Waterloo. His Calgaryâ€"based _ and a corporate jet pilot. l@ | ‘ \|