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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1962-03-08, Page 644XIMMOVIRMIROPV.;le COTTON'S COMMENTS •„,..„..., By BILL BATTM gdifor WOW ..eMtedialt=54111541,34Matiri=3).--, • . Page The limas-Advocate,.. March 8, 1907 Centralia ousted need one win. -Mitchell series ,tied. SOttforth Centralia .(Seaforth wins best-of-five .series) Series. "C" Clinton 7 —Mitchell. 1 Mitchell. 5—Clinton 2 WLFA Clinton Mitchell - - .1. • 3 3 9 6 6 9 tRest-of •five ...series tied .11-1) MIDGET • JUVENILE HOUSE LEAGUE This week's scores: Quebec Aces 3, 1.:"•W Beavers 2 Standings K-W Beavers Quebec Aces FUture games: Monday, March 12- 6 p.m.—Beavers vs, Aces PHA BIG EIGHT acrlp; f ,evt Inman-ildertoe s—rhilirtsbi.trg Luoan-liderion 8--Philipsburg, Lucan-liderton 9.-,-Vbilipsbarg 5 W T,` A Lucan-Tlderton . . 0 25 15 Philipsburg 0 3 35 25 (Lucian-lildetrton leads best-of- seven aeries 3-0,) Games this week: Friday', March 0 Lucan-TIdertOO at PhilipShurg Series eis" Seaforth 8—Centralia 4 Seaforth 9—Centralia 4 Seaforth 6—Centralia 4. W 10 A Garnes this Week: Wednesday, March 6 Mitchell at Clinton Friday, March 9 Clinton at Mitchell SHAMROCK JUNIOR Series 'Ai) fiensa.11-Zurich 12—Exeter 1 Hensall-Zurich 8—Exeter 3 Hensall-Zurich 5—Exeter 2 W L F Henson-Zurich ... 3 0 23 Exeter 0 3 6 (Hensall wins series 3-0) Series "B" Strathroy 8—Wa.tford 6 Strathroy 8—Watford 5 Strathroy 11—Watford 4 L Strathroy 3 0 27 Watford .................. 0 3 15 (Strathroy wins series 3-0) Playoff Dates (Best-of-five"; Mt..r- t s 1-censt,i1-7.t.1 ich Motioa,v, :.f.ts.r...t 12 H Stra oy -VV ,totte,to..ty, :tlaro„ 14 Stratnroy Hanall-Zurien Sunday, March 11 Mitchell at Clinton Hidden triple: Anderson Hockey ScOreboord alEttffinaritatiMittgatalanaliMiOalia A 15 27 A 23 in three straight, to shelve Chevs entry oust Hawks, tackle Rockets in final BANTAM HOUSE LEAGUE Final Standings W L T T' Wings 12 2 2 26 Phan toms 9 6 1 19 Hawks 5 11 0 10 Bornarcs 4 11 1. 9 Semi•Firtal Playoffs (Two games, total goals to count) Wednesday, March 1.1— "A" Series---Wings vs. Hawks "Ii" Series—Phantoms vs, 13omarcs PEE WEE HOUSE LEAGUE This week's scores: Leafs N, Bangers 1 Canadians 3, Hawks 2 Mohawks 4, Wint:s 2 Final Standings W 1. T Mohawk 12 3 :1 25 Leafs 11 3 2 24 Hawks 6 7 1 17 Wings 3 8 0 16 ea,nadlens 4 11 1. 9 Mangers 2 13 1 5 Playoffs (Two games, total goals to count) Saturday, March 10— * "A" Series-- 8 a.m.—Mohawks vs. Hawks "B" Series- 9 a.m.—M. Leafs vs. It, Wings "C" Series- 10 a.m.—Canadienri VM, nangera alattaaratiagalleftlealitatiagemialaaa,W a pair of quickies by Dez Kil- len and Al Simpson near the mid-way mark to take the only lead they held in the contest. At the 14:40 mark, playing manager B o b Beuttenmiller knotted the score at 2-2 on a play with Ra:, Scoins and Ray Crozier. Ray Scoins, who motored home from Brantford for the game, fired the first of his three-goal output for the night at the 2:43 mark of the middle frame to give Seaforth a lead they never relinquished, After Ray Anstett fieed an tmassisted marker at the 11:25 marki Scoins came back with his heal pair in less than a minute near the end of the period to give Seaforth their 6-2 margin, Dea Killen put on a valiant effort to pull Centralia back into the eenteat, firing Mark- ers at the 9:20 and 11:32 marks of the final period but that was as close as they ever came, Seaforth picked up nine of the 17 penalties with Crozier sitting out two Miners and a major, while George Kelly was assessed that e minors for the Centralia entry, period, coming too late to pOse any threat to Mitchell's tort - Third stringer Seaforth ousts CE, score three in row AGAIN THIS YEARI There used to be A time when the name South Huron east a spell ever .competing teams at the WQSSA basketball and volleyball tourna- ments, but this appears to have changed drastical- ly over the past years. Zn tact, it doesn't appear to matter how good. our school teams are, the competitors at WOSSA have come up with the idea that solve- thing will happen to them and they won't win, This was the case again this year and when tlwjunior girls basketball team travelled to L011- t1011 on $aturday and once again came home with the runner-up honors. Over the past six or seven years, this has been repeated at least once every year. The 1962 entry was one of Miss Seigner's better entries, but they just couldn't come up with the needed points in their close two- point loss to Merlin. The last quarter was undoubtedly one of the most hectic that we have witnessed for some time as the lead changed hands and the supporters on each side took their turns standing up and giv- ing their teams a lusty cheer, The contest certainly set some sort of a record as far as we were concerned, as we can't recall seeing so many tears shed by so many people at one time, nor can we ever recall seeing such a mixup as far as the time-clocks were concerned. in the dying seconds the locals received a foul shot and the clock showed that there was still time for them to either sink the shot and try and get the ball from the Merlin guards, or else go for the rebound on the foul shot, However, the referees ruled that the game was over and so all the foul shot would have done was cut the lead to one one point. However, there was little chance of the foul shot going in anyway, because two of the South Huron forwards couldn't see the basket for tears streaming down their cheeks with the realization they had lost the game. After the shot, practically all the players broke into tears and they were joined by the ',ol.a.yerr, can the beTIP'31, eneerlaerlena and moat of, _be Spec:talon. We have witneaa.:eci tieVeral cruse games and perhaps have become a bit hardened in such cir- cumstances, but it certainly was a real heart- Lreaker and the girls could be excused for breaking down at the conclusion. They played hard and certainly gave their best and we hope all their school chums will be proud of them, because as a spectator we can attest to the fact they gave it everything they had and as can be expected in such a close game, one tiny break could have given them the championship. However, although we have been saying it for some time, we think this team will come back to bring a WOSSA championship to South Huron before they leave the local halls of learning, THEY PLAY BETTER TEAMS The results of the WOSSA tournament prove that the local school plays in one of the better high school basketball leagues in the Western Ontario group. While the local junior girls failed in their bid for top honors, Listowel senior girls and Strat- ford junior boys did bring WOSSA honors to the Perthex conference. Our senior girls finished second behind Listowel and lost their one game by only a few points, and we figure from what we saw, they would have done just as well as Listowel. We saw the northern team play their semi- final game and they won by close to 40 points over a squad from West Elgin. They played Harrow in the final game after Harrow had squeaked by a. Seaforth team who had been beaten by South Huron in an exhibition game in which Miss Seigner used her junior girls for half the contest. The Stratford junior boys had a bit harder time. in their semi-final match but we imagine they had things their own way in the final, as their semi-final rivals were much better than either of :the other two teams in the other round, While our juniors didn't fare too well against Stratford this year, the local squad is all first year men and should go all the way next year. An interesting fact is that Clinton made the trip to WOSSA representing the north Huron teams and our kids whipped them in an exhibition, We don't know what happened to the Perthex senior boys entry, but we feel that our Panthers might have won had they been entered. They missed the trip because they lost a couple of games when their star players were out with injuries, but they trounced Seaforth in an exhibi- tion match and the northern team did make the London venture. So, one can conclude that winning the Perthex championship is certainly the biggest step in winning a WOSSA flag, because this conference is certainly one of the strongest anywhere in the area, HOCKEY GRINDING TO A HALT While basketball came to halt this week as far as the local school is concerned, hockey is also drawing to a fast conclusion, The Exeter pee wees and junior Hawks were both eliminated this week, leaving only the bantams trying for WOAA honors, The sidelining of the Hawks came as a sud- den shock to most of the supporters, who felt they had a goOd chance at getting by the Hensall-'Zurich Combines, However, the northern crew did it in three straight and had good margins in all three games to prove they weret the better club in the playoffs. ut the local lads put up a good show before bowing out, And We know they join us it congratu. Biting their victors arid hope the Combines keep flirt n along. Tire surprising S e a toe t Towagra,, who finished in fa* spot in the 01-IA Big Eight top completed a major npeet, this week when they sored two more wins against the .004 place Centralia Caolden Hawke, eliminating the CE entry from Anther action, The scrappy :worth. sax aet the ground- work for their up- set they whipped the Centralia squad in Exeter last week and came back with two straight wins on their home ice to wrap up their aeries, in high style, However, the Golden Hawks had three players on the limp from injuries and appeared to have lost their desire after their loss to Clinton in the RCAF Command playoffs when they blew a five-goal lead in the final period, In the other series between the homebrew clubs, the Mitch- ell Red Devils rebounded from a 7.1 loss on their own ice to pull off another upset with a The Combines unleashed their most potent attack in the third game of the series with Philipsburg, coming up with a decisive 9.5 win before 300 fans to take a 3-0 lead in the best-of-seven series, Playing in Lucan, Tuesday, the Combines completely dom- inated play in the contest and had a six-goal margin built up by the early minutes of the third period and coasted to their win. Walt Stothers, a recent ad- dition to the Combines, paced the attack as he beat Fred Currah on four occasions. Teaming up with Tom Collings and Dusty the line was a. tnreat every time they stepped on the ice. The other five Zucandriderton goals were split ottween Stu O'Nail, Max O'Neil, Harry Wraith, Ken Park and Torn Collings, Ron Futher, Arlie Shantz, Andy Sararas, Bert Christner and Jim Doering fired the Chevs' tallies. The Combnes jumped into a 4-0 lead in the first period, but by the mid-way mark of the middle session, the Chevs had pulled back to within two goals as the score read 5-3, However, the Big Eight champions came back with three tallies in less than four minutes in the end of the sec- ond session and added their quickie in the third to leave little doubt as to the outcome of the contest. The Combines also won the penalty parade, picking up six of the 11. penalties called in the tilt, L-I six win in overtime Dusty Aldis, scored a pair of quick tallies in the last two and a half minutes in over- time, Friday, to pace the Lu- can-liderton Combines to a hard-fought 8.7 win over the Philipsburt Chevs in New Ham- burg. The win gave the Big Eight loop winners a 2.0 lead in their best-of-seven series. It was a nip and tuck battle all the way with the lead chan- ging 'hands several times. The Chevs blew a one-goal margin on three different occasions, while the Combines watched a two-goal margin disappear in the final frame. Vern Heldman started the Chevs off on the right foot when he scored on a power play in the first period, but Don Fletcher pulled the Com- bines right back with a tally at the 4:45 mark. The Chevs jumped back into a one-goal lead a minute later on a tally by Ron Futher, but again the Combines tied the count with young Carl Leitch denting the twine less than a minute later. The Lucan-Ilderton six took a 3.2 lead on Steve Storey's goal at the 9:42 mark of the Mitchell six posts upset The Mitchell Red Devils pull- ed an upset win in Clinton, Monday, to even their hest-of- five series at 1-1 with a 5-2 win over the Clinton Thunder- bolts in fig Eight playoff ac, tion, It was a slow. moving tilt witnessed by less than 200 pet)• ple and the Clinton squad ap-peared to be tired following their weekend trip to St, Johns, Quebec, where they won the Eastern championship in the RCAF playoffs, The Red DeVila took fullad. vantage Of the situation and played a tenacious checking game to keep the Thunderbolts Off balanet throughout the tilt, Charlie Weatnian pared the attack with a Pair of tallies, while Roger Paull,, Jim East and Ernie Ahrens fired tingle4 tans, Milt Ilia& arid WaaT nread' net adeOunted for the. Ciintoo 2 Kn. in .Clinton, Ttleaday. This left their series tied at one game each in the fight to see who will - face .Seaforth the next round, coml>ifs; .r.11 The, league,leadiAg laticanaala derton, CoMbines need only one. more win in t.haja7. 'beat-Of-Seyee. series With Philipsburg in the plooffs between the two In- termediate "la" clubs, The Combines posted their second. win with a hard-fought 8-7 overtime margin in New tiatarbtrrg Friday and returned home to drub the .Chevs 9,4 Tuesday, The -fourth game of the series is slated for New Hamburg, Friday, The two victories brought the Combines' record to -26 wins in 27 starts this season, Both victories were sparked by their two new recruits, Dusty Aldis and Walt :Stothere. addia scored a pair irt.overtime Friday, while Stothers led the way with four in their home win. first frame and increased it to 4-2 on Fletcher's second goal of the night early in the mid- dle frame. George Poetker whittled the lead to a single goal at the 12:20 mark, but the Com- bines quickly took another two- goal lead when Tom Collings triggered a tally exactly 10 seconds later. With only 34 seconds played in the final period, Andy Sara- ras cut the score to 5-4 but Max O'Neil upped it once again with a tally at the 3:26 mark and it appeared to be enough for the Combines as they held the CitZtVS at bay. However, .Toe Grygaski got hoc and varnmee the lead to 6.5 et the 13:45 mark and knotted the count oa his sec- ond goal '2.8 seconds later to send the game into the extra session, The Chevs came roaring out to take a lead in the overtime when Andy Sararas scored his second of the night at the 1:12 mark, but Aldis tied it up at the 7:45 mark and gave the Combines their margin of vic- tory 40 seconds later. Clinton six win Eastern honors The Clinton Thunderbolts moved into the Canadian final for the RCAF Training. Com- mand hockey championship when they scored a hard-fought 7-4 win over St. Johns, Quebec, in Quebec, Saturday afternoon. The winners moved into a 3.1 lead in the first period, but held only a 5-4 lead as they took to the ice in the final stanza, However, they came up with a pair of goals while Den- nis Amacher kept the French- men off the scoresheet. Bud Kelly and Andy Chiasson paced the attack with a pair of tallies each, while single markers came off the sticks of Mel Parsons, Wray Breadner and Bob Brown. Clinton will now tackle either Winnipeg or Saskatoon in the final on March 17, which should give the green-shirted Thunder- bolts a decided advanta ge. As yet it is not known w hether the game will be played in the West or at ,Clinton. The Hensall Zurich Combines and. Strathroy junior Rockets hook up in a Shamrock commeeping in Lionel!, Fri- day, following the two teams' wins in the semi-final round, The league winning Com- bines posted three straight wins over the Exeter Hawks to sideline the locals, while Strath- toy gave Watford much the same treatment, although they did play four games. Steve Kyle and Brian Bon- thron, The smooth -Playing centre came back to push the Com- bines into a two-goal lead at the 18;20 mark of the period on a solo effort with the teams playing with five men, The Hawks finally hit the score sheet at the 2:40 mark of the middle frame when hard-working Bob Jones broke through the Combines' defense to heat Mock. :However, just three minutes later Shaddick came back with his third straight goal of the contest and Steve Kyle upped the count to 4-1 with a tally at the 34:16 mark to give the homesters a commanding lead, The Hawks caught fire in the dying minutes and Dale Turvey finished off a play with Gerald McBride and Bob Armstrong to whittle the lead to two goals at the 14:20 mark and Bill Heywood made a solo dash in the last minute to pull the Hawks to within a single goal. However, the Combines wrap- ped up the contest and the series shortly before the mid- way mark of the final when Earl "Cuss" Wagner scored a pair of goals in less than a minute to give the Combines their 6-3 margin. Top local crowd sees exciting tilt Playing before a crowd of 350 in the Exeter arena, Fri- day, the Hensall-Zurich Com- bines skated to a 5-2 win over the junior )(Wks. to cop the second tilt in their anainroce: playoff. It ViltiS the largest crowd of the season to witness a hoc- key game in Exeter, and they were treated to a fast excit- ing match between the two hustling young clubs., Bill Shaddick started things off for the Combines at the 2:10 mark of the first period when his short shot eluded Ted San- ders.. The teams batted on even terms until tact in the period when Craig Chapman gave the visitors a 2-0 lead when he grabbed his own re- bound and spun around and hack-handed a shot into the corner. Just two minutes later, Earl Wagner fed a pass back to Murray Bell at the point and the defenseman's blazing shot found an open corner to give Hensall • Zurich a three - goal In argin. However, just 28 seconds be- fore the end of the period, Bob Jones whittled the lead to 3.1 when he shoved the puck un- der Dennis Mock in a goal- mouth scramble. The teams played scoreless hockey in the middle frame, despite the fact they picked up nine penalties between them. The Hawks finally did take advantage of the extra man in the third stanza when Bob Armstrong picked up the open- ing faceoff and skated to just inside the blueline to lift a shot that Mock failed to catch, pulling the locals to within one goal of the winners. However, Gel.ard. Overholt and Steve Kyle picked up a tal- ly each less than a minute apart before the mid-way mark to give the visitor's all the cushion they needed. The Hawks contested one play in the game when a shot appeared to go through a hole in the Hensall-Zurich net. The shot came from the side and the mesh moved as the puck went by, but the referees ruled it no goal, although there was a hole where the puck could have gone through, Pair score four In lopsided win The Combines had an easy time in the first game of the series in Hensall, Wednesday, as they drubbed the Hawks 12.1, scoring seven times in the final period. The winners led by only 2-1 at the end of the first and opened their lead to 5-1 at the end of the second, but com- pletely dominated play in the final 20 minutes, taking ad- vantage of some poor defen- sive and net play by the Hawks to record their one- sided victory. Lanky Steve Kyle and line- mate Bill Shaddick, who was presented wiiti the Shamrock scoring honors at the game, paced the attack for the Com- oines with four goals each. Harold Jaques popped in a par and singles came off the sticks of Larry Bedard and John Vickery. Exeter's lone t a 11 y was scored by Bob Jones, on a three-way passing play with linemates Frank Boyle and Jack Stephan. It was the only shot to elude Dennis Mock, who saw little action in the Ilensall-Zurich nets. Arena Schedule FRIDAY, MARCH 9 7:30—WALKERTON vs. EXETER LEGION BANTAMS (WOAA finals) SATURDAY, MARCH 10 1130.3:30—Figure Skating (There will be no public skating Saturday afternoon.) 8:00.10:00—Public Skating SUNDAY, MARCH 11 2:00.4:00—Public Skating Ll drub Chevs 9-5 to post third straight The surprsing Seaforth Town- ers eliminated the Centralia Golden Hawks from Big Eight playoff action as they skated to a close 6-4 win on their home ice Tuesday to take their series 3-0. The injury-riddled Centralia squad couldn't stop the scrappy Seaforth six who opened up a 6-2 lead by the end of the middle stanza and then coasted home with their win. Centralia were missing three regulars from their lineup and Jim Sullivan, who broke his arm two weeks ago, took the cast off to play and had to put it back on after the con- test, Doug Rowcliffe shot the Towners into a 1-0 lead at the 4:55 mark of the first stanza but Centralia came back with m erten. The Mitchell six moved into a three-goal lead in the first period, firing their goals in just over four minutes. Cain., ton managed to whittle the lead to 3.1 with a lone tally in the middle frame, but the win. nets notched a pair near the mid way mark of the final to cop thair margin, Clinton fired their final tally at the 18:36 mark of the final minding lead. The avianers picked tip five of the eight minor penalties in the game, but Clinton failed to take Advantage 'Of the extra man, While Mitchell did pot one goal with Clinton's lob Brown sit- ting out is Penalty in the final period, The Combines ataried the ae- ries off with a convincing 32-1. drubbing and came hack with three-goal margins in the neat two games as the Hawks had difficulty scoring, despite the fact they carried their share of the play in the two tilts, The Rockets started off with a 12-2 drublahrg over the Atoms but the game was tossed out due to the fact Strathroy was using an ineligible player, Actually the player was ruled eligible by the OHA but Wat- ford protested and the OHA temporarily reversed their de- cision and threw the game out. The player in question was Dick Belinki who played most of the season with the St, Thomas junior "B" club but he was released and the OHA said he was eligible for Strath- roy because of a "misunder- standing" in signing. However, all four of Shamrock clubs protested sthideell°nelisA . set Belinki on However, Strathroy c a m e back to post scores of 8-6, 8.5 and 11-4 to oust the Atoms. In the second game they led 4-0 at the and of • the first, only to have Watford score sit tinaniweed tqli-s in tn,e mid- ole frame and then the Rock-ets came back with four in ine final. In the third tilt, Tuesday, they opened up a 7-0 lead in the first period to coast to their win. "Vt, L T P The two finalists are very ). t 2 3 evenly matched and fans ex- 1 2 3 pest the series to go the five- game limit, the and the Shaddick stars in third contest The Combines wrapped up their best-of-five series, Satur- day, tripping the Hawks 6.3 in the Hensall arena in the third game, despite the fact the Exeter six carried more than half the play. However, Dennis Mock came up with another good game in the nets for the Combines and the Hawks were out-lucked on several occasions when they appeared to be heading for goals. 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