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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1969-10-02, Page 3Seaford' Golden Bears, un- for the score. beaten in two exhibition games, Both teams suffered a num- extended their winning streak to ber of injuries in the hard-fought three last week when they dump- battle. ed the South Huron Panthers of Exeter 16-6 at Huron Park in the opening game of the H-P senior football conferenpe. The Panthers went ahead 6-0 early in the game on a 49yard pass and run play. Ron Janke caught the pass from quarter- back Barry Baynham for the maj- or. Gary Bennett, halfback, suf- fered a broken finger on the ' first play of the game. He play- ed the whole game and Will appear against Listowel in a cast.. Murray Pepper, defensive tackle, had his ankle badly sprained late in the game and TEAM STANDINGS Not including Saturday's results) Bowl- mot. 24 Exeter 22 Goderich 20 Mike's Lanes 20 Centre Restaurant 15 Seaforth 14 St. Mary's 14 Mitchell 11 Valian ts 9 , Clinton 5 There was lots of action in Exeter Thursday when the Seaforth Golden Bears handed the Pan- thers a 16-6 setback. On this play the Panthers blOck the field goal attempt by Gary Bennett„ Seaforth kicker Gary Bennet Bill Price suffered a cut lip put the Golden Bears on the score- and twisted leg. board with a single in the first Other initiries to the Seaforth quarter. It marked the first time players were not serious and Seaforth had scored a point in the all the players will appear in first •half of a game this year. the line-up against Listowel. The Golden Bears closed the . Results of the Listowel-Sea- gap to 6-3 on a safety touch when forth game were not available their defense caught an Exeter ball at press time. carrier behind the goal line. Seaforth will host Stratford Si Bill Price put the local team Northwestern at the SDHS grid- ahead in the third quarter when he iron on Tuesday . Game time is 'UNBEATEN IN 'FOUR GAMES squad include (left top) Coach Ed. Pelss, Doug. Glanville, Paul Storey, Casey Jones, Tom Mur- Ken Chalmers, Neil Beuerman, Glen McLachlan, Asst. Coach; (front left) Gerry O'Reilly, Ken Kale, John Van Bakel, Chris, Steven, Darwin Dietz, Tom Ryan, Greg O'Reilly and Ken Janmaat, • (Staff Photo) touchdown of the game with 1;05 remainirwon the clock, Price picked off a Panther set-back. pass and ran it back 40 yards Shakespeare connected for two runs in the first sixth and eighth and one in each of the fourth, -seventh and ninth. Walton halted a , Shakespeare rally in the 6th when they turn- ed a bases-loaded ground ball into a double play and ended scored Seaforth's first touchdown 2 :45. on a .,70-run up the middle on a In other Huron-Perth action draw play, Bennett kicked the con-last week Goderich Vikings struck vert to make the score 10-6. for six touchdowns en route a Seafoeth made a nurnberlof key 39-0_ shut-out over St. Mary's 6 interceptions in the fourth quart- Redmen . The Clinton Redmen er to thwart the Panther attack, romped to a 27-0 shut-out over Bill Price put the game out Mitchell. Listowel squeezed of reach when he scored his second past Stratford Central 14-13 and the Wingham Mustangs handed Stratford Northwestern a 32-0 Walton Bantams Near WOAA Title s . Members of the SDHS Soccer ray, Danny Murray, Gary Eisler, Anderson, Brad Finlayson, Lorne The Walton Bantams displayed impressive form on Sunday when they walloped Shakespeare 33-9 to take a commanding three- games-to-none lead in the W. 0. A. A. Bantam home brew final series Walton won the first two The SDHS soccer team re- 'corded two shut-outs this week to run their unbeaten string to four games. Seaforth scored early in the first half at Listowel on Tues- day and hung on to shut-out the home team 1-0. Tom Ryan put Seaforth on the scoreboard at the five-min- ute mark. Last Thursday the junior soccer squad played host to St, Mary's and routed the visitors 5-0, Tom Ryan scored twice in the first half to give Seaforth a 2-0 lead at half time. He added a third marker in the dying seconds of the game. Larry Kale counted the other two goals in the second half, Tom Murray in the Seaforth goal has allowed only one goal in four games. The team blanked Clinton 7-0 in exhibition play and downed Northwestern 8-1 in their previous games. In the game against St. Mary's, the visitors were allowed only MO shot at the -Seaforth 004 matter, Seaforth wo4 Mat ,sale The team will play at hArne on Thursday afternoon against St:tat- ford Central. Game time is which indicates the powerful defense of the soccer team. - MAY LOSE FIRST Gig The soccer squad received some sad news last week when they found that one player, Gerry Staples, was not eligible to play. The age limit for junior soccer is under 16 by the beginning of September. Staples was sixteen in June and overage. He played in the season opener against Northwestern and the rule book states that if a team uses a player that is overage, they forgeit the game. However, no decision has been made as yet by the committee in • charge of junior soccer And the game may stand as a Seaforth vic- tory. The committee has the right , to reverse any prior dedision and they are final authority on the Curlers Set Plans For 196.940 Season by Don A-Mlles and managed-15y- Humphries, Sreplien_Sholdire, Our lawn bowling season . - Bill Humphries, both of Walton. Murray Houstdn, Ross Mitchell will soon be over but so far the The Walton boys struck early and David Watson. weather has been good. ;Last in the game and built up a com- manding lead. They counted 6 runs in the first and 8 in the second and never looked back, They scored at least one run in every inning throughout the 8 • times they were at bat. games 14-1 and 16-1 and should the inning. be able to wrap up the champion. Members of the. Walton team ship when they travel to Shakes- are Bill Shortreed, Rick Mac= peare Thursday for the, fourth Donald, Murray McColl, Rick game of the best-of-seven series. Sholdice, Phil Blake , Ronny The John Leeming, Roger The Walton team is Coached Now that the bowling season has been underway for a couple of weeks and most bowlers have had a chance to get the arm • back into shape, some good , scores are be inning to come. , First on the black board this season was, Eric Matzold who rolled a 354 single and 838 triple. High scores recorded this week at the lanes were John Coleman with a 318 single and 768 triple on Monday night, Ann Ndbel, 255 and 634 and Hazel McGon- igle, 674 triple also on Monday night. Congratulations go out to Martha Van Geffen for being the first woman this year with a- 300 game. She had a 326 single anti 711 triple on Tuesday in the Country Club league. , The Legion league and the Men's Commercial league are the only groups yet to start bowl- ing. The Legion begins Friday night and the Men's• league will begin in mid-October, MEN'S INTERTOWN Seaforth hosted toa-placed Bowl:mor of Stratford on Satur- day and came out on top of a 7- 4 split. • Seaforth won the opening game with a total of 1853. Bowl- mor squeezed past the„/O,Cals the second, winning by. 12 pins. Seaforth won the third 1329-1219 and dibp'ped the-fourth 1258-1199. In the deciding game Seaforth edged the visitors by 18 pins ,for 7 points. Individual scores were as follows: Art Finlay son 278, 235, 275, 230, 196 = 1214; Jim Scott 254,210, 260, 230, 281 = 1235; Roger Ben- newies 315, 210, 184, 196, 193= 1098; .Goad Noble 242, 227,270, 316, 192 = 1247; Jack Thomp- son 239, 190, 25 3, 223, 243 1148; Eric Matzold 264, 241, 271, 200, 241 =1217. Seaforth had a total for the day of 6157 compared-with BoWl- mor's 5930. Dublin Loses To Brodhagen Last week the Dublin Boys• Bas'eball team, coached' by Joe., Cronin"; played against the well exileii-enced boys from Brodhagen on Friday evening. The team is coached by Mr. and Mrs. Mervin Dietz. The Brodhagen boys play- ed skilfully defeating the newly formed Dublin team 34 to 4. Kinkora played host to a • team selected from the three teams in Dublin :Sunday after- noon.... Ed.' Rowland coached the team and the Dublin boys defeat- ed the Kinkora boys 13 to 12. The Brodhagen boys will play against the Dublin boys in Brod- hagen Community Park on Fri- day at 7:30 under the lights. The Dublin team' have Undergone a period of re-organization and are planning to give Brodhagen a run for their money according to officials. ,• As the mercury drops and the' cooler fall weather sets in, Sum- mer sports activities enter their final days for 'another year. While golf will still continue, to attract many area residents, the season is nearly over. The match play tourney which has been on throughout the summer draws to a close with only four contestants left in contention. _ Bill McLaughlin and Colin- Stevens will meet in one semi- final and Pat Flannery and Al Nicholson will meet in the other, The baseball season for Sea- forth residents ended several weeks ago when the town's two Optimist sponsored. teams were knocked out of contention. However, a couple of area teams are still very much alive in final play-offs for champion- ships. The Walton Bantams ,under coach Don Achilles, are current- ly leading Shakespeare three games to none in the final series 'fee the W. O. A A. homebrew bantam championship. Walton won the title last year and it looks like they may repeat that perforihance. The other local team is the. Clinton Colts. They are tied at one game apiece with Corunna for the Ontario Baseball Assoc- iation Intermediate B Champion- ship. Clinton won the topening game '7-6 and Coruna won the second 512 in the best-of-three aeries, Final game is in Clinton an Sunday at 2:30. dined the position last Thurs- day, saying there was too'much time involved in the 40-game schedule including practices and traA/elling time. Mr.' Weber was given. until Thursday to make the decision. Club officials say they are looking at other possibilities in this area, The Strathroy Rockets, last year's champions in the Central Junior '13' league have launched complaints over the lack of players and have threatened to pull out of the league. Jim Strachan,. coach, cited London and other larger centres as taking all the good prospects and not sending any back in return. St. Mary's Lincolni, on the other hand, have invited 24 out. of-town prospects to their train- ing camp which opens on Sat- urday in St. Marys. Note: Any information regard- ing area sports activities should be addressed to'the Sports Editor c/o The Huron Expositor, Sea- forth. Saturday night eight were down bow mI' g women rain stopped the second game. However, they enjoyed hamburgers and corn in ,,, the.club house after. Tuesday evening there were twelve out and three came over-from Clin- ton. Winners were for the ladies; 1st. Katie Phillips 2W + 8; 2nd. Marguerite Walden 1W + 9. For the men, 1st. Art Finlayson 2W+ 12; end Bert Garrett, Clinton 2W + 4.. Weather permitting Thursday night will be Mixed jitney again. Last Sunday after-' noon two rinks from Seaforth took part in mixed doubles at aWingham for the Hannah Trophy. The executive of the Sea- forth Curling Club under presid- ent Harry . Williams of Clinton met last Thursday to advance plans for the coming season. The ice at the club should he•_ready_for. (-lir g.. a:round. the first of November. Manufacturing of the ice will begin later this month in an effort to have the ice ready earlier this season. Last year, due to mechanical problems with the ice.rnaking the a te curling season did not get underway till mid- December. '• As well as outlining plans'' for the coming season, the ex- •eetniive'advanced plans for the- pot-luck -supper and dance- whith marks the opening of the season. Although no definite date was agreed on, it is expected to take place early in November. Reports were given by most ' of the executive committees. The go-ahead was approved for the manufacture of a motor- ized ice scraper, which club officials said, should provide for a better ice surface this year. Approval was 'given for re- pairs to the curling club,' which are to be completed before the season opens. The repairs call for some block work at the rear of,the building and insulating the pipes. • `The membership committee . of the club will be •active during the next couple of months solicit ing -new members throughout the district. Pre:ient membership is approximately 140. The next meeting Of the ex- ecutive is scheduled for October 16 at the curling club, Down At The Lanes By Lee Hee News of the Seaforth Lawn:autkli t, 'Foul Ball' was the call on this one, but look at that determined swing. The batter is a mem- ber of the Shakespeare Bantams who Lost 3.3-9 to Walton Sunday. Turning to hockey, the Goderfeh Siftos of the 01-1A Central Junior 'B' League will open training camp on Saturday, Workouts will begin at 9 a. 171. at the Goderich Memorial Arena and hockey players of junior age eligibility from the area are invited to attend the try-outs. The Siftos have yet to name a coach for their club, but manager Jim Wilkinson said an announcementls expected in the next few days: Club officials have , been looking in the Seaforth area for a coach and one resident was offered the Job,. "" Players from both teams converge on the St. Mary's net as Seaforth presses an attack which resulted in' their first goal of a 5-0 victory over St. Mary's, Thursday at SDHS. Bill Weber , Goderich Street, a teacher at Central Huron Sec- ondary School, Clinton, ,and a . former player with the Seaforth Beavers and Clinton Colts de- It looks like a good pitch, and it was. Walton batter, Phil Blake, connected with this one at the Walton ball park on Sunday.