The Huron Expositor, 1976-04-08, Page 9CENTENAIRES HONOUR THEIR BEST —s At a
hockey banquet Saturday night Seaforih's
Centenai.res were honoured. Jack P rice, of the Club's
executive presented trophies to, top, Don-Nicholson,
0 A the team's top scorer and below, Randy NiChOlson,
most valued player. (Staff Photo)
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THE HOQN EXPOSITOR APRIL 8 1076
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DUBLIN JUNIOR A CHAMPS — This Dublin team were the junior division A
champs at the Seaforth Knights of Columbus hockey tournament on the weekend.
Coaches are, rear, left, Tom Turner, Ron Murray and George Ducharme. Players
1.1 se, are, from second row, left, Gard Murray, Paul Reynen, Tom Turner, Mike Bruxer,
David Murray, Greg Ryan, Charles-Nyland and front, John Negas, Pat Cronin, Pat
Murray, John Rowland, Steve Stapleton, Mark 8tapleton, Greg Murray and Steve
Eckert. (Staff Photo)
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Seaforth Atoms captured the
V.O.A.A. Zone One Atom "A"
-ophy by defeating the Mitchell
storm in 2 games straight.
eaforth won the first in a
trilling battle going' into over-
me to win.
Tom Turner opened the scoring
it Seaforth and Kevin Culligan
:turned for Mitchell tying- the
:ore at 1-1. Mitchell went ahead
n a marker by Dale Fischer.,
With just a few minutes
Keen curlers never say die!
Nenty-two degrees outside and
number of Seaforth Club
embers are trying to squeeze in
one last Bonspiel. •
The Vanastra Curling Club held
their final bonspiel for the yea
last weekend. They called it th
"Spring Thaw Spiel" and it sure
was that: But, regardless of the'
weather, it was an excellent spiel.
Attending from the Seaforth
Club on the early draw were John
and Gwen Patterson with Bill and
Grace Campbell who took first
prize and also the trophy for top
score of the day. Taking third
prize were Glen and Lois Hayter
curling with Ellen Colson and Pat .
Semple.
Also curling in the early draw
were Doug and Peggy Rowcliffe,
fg;M:WeraMeOlMOMM,
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Tuesday
April 13
7- 8:30 pm
Lower Library
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Forms available at Schools
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4;4
Local
teams
win K of C
tourney
St. Columban won the junior
"B" trophy; Seaforth the "A",
Mount Carmel the senior "B"
and Dublin the senior .:A" at the
11th annual Knights of Columbus
Separate School Hockey Tour-
nament which began here Satur-
day, April 3 and ended Stinday,
April 4.
The Seniors' games com-
menced on Saturday mocking at
10 a.m. Following at the results:
10:00 a.m. - Dublin 7, Mt,
Carmel 1; 11:00 a.m. - Seaforth 5,
St. Columban 2; 12:30 p.m. - St,
Boniface (Zurich) 7, Dublin 1;
1:30 p.m. - Mt. Carmel 1, St.
Columban 4; 2:30 p.m. - Seaforth
4, St. Boniface 3.
In this series of playoffs,, St,
Columban won the "B" trophy'
4-1 over Mt. Carmel and Seaforth
won the "A" by defeating St,
Boniface 4-3.
The' Junior series comme&ecl
Sunday at 12 noon with the
following. results:
12:00 -noon - St. Boniface
(Zurich) 3, St. Columban. 3 (St.
Columban won by shots on goal);
1:oo pent. - Dublin 6, Mt. Carmel
4; 2:30 p,m. - Mt, Carniel 7, St.
Boniface '3; 3:30 p.m." Dublin 8,
St. Columban 4.
In this series of playoffs, Mt.
Carmel won the B" trophy 7-3
over Mt. Carmel and Dublin won
8.4 over St. Columban to win the
"A" trophy.
The trophy was presented by
Mrs. Joyce McClure to the
captain of the team Jini Camp-
bell, who with his team mates
.proudly displayed it to the fans.
This highlighted the end of 'a
glorious season for the Atoms
who played a total of 43 games
winning 35 of them and winning
three different trophies.
The Optimist Club are sponsor-
ing_ a. celebration for ese boys
and their parents on 6 to
honor them for their succes
Bydave Broome
"In the year of '39 assembled
the Volunteers
In the days when lands were few
Here the, ship sailed out into the
blue and sunny morn,
The s*eetest sight ever seen."
That above passage from a
song may be a bit too fanciful
describing the hard' realities of
the I.H.L. But it would come
closest to completely painting a
picture of the King's -Cinderella
rise to the Industrial Hockey
League , championship.
Dale Kennedy assembled his
volunteers last October during
the I.H.L. ,draft meeting and
succeeded in putting together a
tight-knit band of hard working
hockey lads.
The King's victories were few
during the regular season and the
club played second banana to the
likes of the Wings and Blues for
most of the schedule. The team
finished fourth in the six team
eireifit and dr/v;itie Wings as
first round opp s in the post
season cup play. That first 4-3 win
over the Red team was probably
their biggest Victory' of the
season. It gave them the =Ili,
dence they needed to keep on
going. They took that series in
three games and the following
triumpful march to the I.H.L.
royal crown could be termed very
anti-climatic.
For Support .
After knocking off the Wings,
they gained a lot of the fan
support and the rather .unknown
club became the sentimental
favorite. •
They were chosen as under-
dogs in all three of their series by
many and as the playoffs drew to
a close, it was evident that they
were anything but second dog.
Last Sunday night, the Kings'
ship sailed into port earryin'g a 6-3
overtime victory in her 'hold and a
claim to the playoff golden
crown.
They overcame The Blues as the
one final hurdle with a three goal
explosion in the first overtime
period. -
The Blues charged to the attack
early in the contest in an effort to
go ahead first in the game. Jerry'
Cooper halted all serious
attempts at scoring though. Mur-
ray Connelly's goal allowed .the
Royal team to escape with a 1-0
lead despite ' being badly
outhustled.
• Greg Rau fooled "Coop" 'on a
long drive froinothe point and the,
Blue troops had soddenly stepped
into a tie contest early in the
second stanza. Bill Price then
connected on a spectacular solo
dash to give his side a 2-1 lead.
The period ended that way with
the Blues again, dominating.
Between the Blues
The' two teams. entered the
third period on a cautious footing
and for the first few minutes both
clubs played the game between
the blue lines. s
Grant Little lofted an airborne
lame duck drive that surprised
Ross Gorier and again the two
sides were deadlocked.
Bill Price had just returned
from a sunny southern vacation
and da'zzled the crowd with his
second goal of the,evening. Price
Bowling
Scores
PLAYOFFS—MARCH'l 7
ea idings:
TEam #5, 2830; , Team. #6,
2771; Team #2, 2719; Team #1.,
2711;TEam, #4, 2696; ,Tearn #3.
2630. •
Ladies' high single Theresa
.Maloney, 253, high triple, Shirley
VosPer, 567. Men's high single.
Mervin Dietz, 280; high triple,
Floyd Wassman, 663,
PLAYOFFS — MARCH 24
Team standings:
Team #5, 5710: Tam #6, 5707:
Te'arn #2 ; 5468; TEam #1, 5402,
Team #4; 5293; Team #3, 5195.
Ladies' high single and triple.
Joan Stapleton, 237,601. Men's
High single and triptt, Doug
Vock. 335, 743.
nabbed an errant King pass
center ice and skated the
distance to beat Cooper and give
the Blues a big 3-2 lead.
With just under five minutes
left, Brian Dale tied the match for
the Yellow army to send the
contest into overtime.
Pulled Trigger
The crowd had barely returned
to their seats . when Jerry.
"Shotgun" Feeney pulled the
trigg9r for the Kings. With time
runni'hg out on the Blues, a
defepsive miscue allowed Murray
Connelly to score and give the
Kings a commanding 5-3 bulge.
The Blues had to press to the
attack and the resulting openings
they left were quickly filled by the
speedy Kings.
King captain Ken Doig closed
the doors on the contest with a
pretty breakaway goal with just
seconds remaining.
So the Kings went to the ball a
pauper and returned a princess.
They walked away, with a 6.3
victory and 'the most ,successful
comeback of any, one team in
I.H.L. history.
Both clubs provided an exciting
final topped only by the legendary
Vanastra game a few years,
earlier. v,
The Blues -fought hard and
earned themselves a reprieve last
Friday night with a big 5-4 victory
over the Kings. The win gave the
Blues a second life and forced a
third and deciding game.
Brian Dale gave the Royal lads
a 1-0 lead after a closely played
first Period. Both teams were
content in "feeling" each other
out and were unwilling to take
any risky chances. All serious
attempts at scoring were stopped
by goalies. Cooper and Govier.
The play opened up a little in
the second and the Blues drew
even when Ben Akker connected
at 6:36. High-flying. Jerry Feeney
gave the Kings a 2-1 lead just
moments later, Randy Wood and
Feeney again traded scores and
the second• stanza ended 3-2 in
For the Blues, it ended a long
season. They sat through a
3-week layoff and suffered the
absence of Bill Price for the first
two contests of the short series.
They were t pediaPA, not quite as
sharp as during the regular
season.
For. Kennedy, Doig and corn=
patty, it proved that their team
name was well earned. ,
I.H.L. Notes
In past seasons, it was cus-
tomary to award a trophy for the
most valuable playoff performer.
I don't know about this season
though.
Even if not awarded, a number
of individuals could be
considered. Bill Salisbury, Bill
Teal and Randy Wood could all be
considered as choices of the Blue
team.
Jerry Feeney, Dale Kennedy
and Ken Doig Jr. would be the
Kings' nominations along with
goalie Jerry Cooper. The logical
choice would be Cooper who
played his best hockey ever and
probably contributed the largest
part to the Kings' successful
march to the championship. •
During the past seven seasons,
only two clubs have won the
I.H.L, championship. The Stars
the Kings' favour.
The third frame opened with a
bang in the form of Ron Dalton's
goal at 2:08 of the period.
Dale Kennedy broke the tie just
less than two minutes later, The
kings seemed content in sitting
back after that and the result was
a Randy, Wood goal to again
deadlock the game.
Both clubs seemed headed for
,overtime until Greg Rau
unleashed a shorthanded blast
past Cooper with 3:21 left on 'the
clock. The big break here was that
the Blues were still shorthanded
and could ice the puck 'without a
whistle - and that is just what they
did to run out the clock.
The chippy garners had a total of
85 penalty minutes - most Of those
;coming in the third period.
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remaining in the third period,
Jerry Wright scored for Seaforth
tying it 2-2, sending the game
into overtime. David Murray
scored his 50th goal of the season
and John Czerwinski added
another to give Seaforth a 4-2'
victory.'
The second game in Mitchell
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aforth were David Murray 2,,
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Atoms win zone trophy
'Curlers try bonspiel at 72°
curling with Art and Marilyn Hoy. and Vice-President is Glen.,
In the late draw, Seaforth was Stewart. The rest of the executive
represented by Don and Wendy remains the same as this past
emeer curling with Bill and season. A dance was held follow-
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bes. mind the big Centennial Dance on
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