HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1962-04-19, Page 7OUSTED —Although they lost only four games all season. the
Lucan-ildertori Combines dropped three of them to Port Dover as
ills Sailors won the 01 IA Intermediate —B" semi-final round 3-1 with
three straight wins, The Combines won 23 in a row before losing
their final game of the season and then ousted Philipsburg and Clinton
in. the league playoffs. Shown above are: back row, left to right,
Doug Go t uty, sub-goal: Doh Hord, trainer; Bev I:rhshott. Terry
ilodgins, Don. Urbsholt, Tom Collings, Walt Strothers, Ray Yelle. Carl
Leitch. and Harvey Langford., president. Front row. Steve Storey.
Harry Wraith, Don Fletcher, Keith Scarborough, Stu O'Neil. Ken Loft
and 'Max O'Neil, Alissing are Jack Park and Dusty Aldis,
—T-A photo
Win OHA series 3-1
Sailors oust LI puck squad,
record 111-3 drubbing in final
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T$,„)-0991 Exeter,
Exeter's Itchy el .'s: failed to
maintain the form that carried
them to. the. league chaMpiort-
ship in the Inter-town howling
group- as they Werc ousted by
Clinton in the "A
The loeals, who copped their •
third straight league honor last .;
week, (bopped three games in
the opener of the home-and-
horne• series in Hinton anti
then returnee, to cet drilhhed
in all fkc matches here, sat-
urday.
The Belly Si", let thr total
Pinfall by only 126 pins in
Clinton a , they sl it,4ed a reel
hip and luck battle. TM ,. won
gainer with three and 28 point
inargtns and dropped games by
1.0, 30 and 100 pins.
however. tiles; eouldn t match
'lie Clinton crew to Exeter as
the visitors started out with
•.urea of 1,226. 1.231 and 1.325.
They finished up with 1,193 and
a low 1;071. but the locals still
eonldn't talte a game from.
them.
Clinton wit lnow meet (lode-
. ch in the -A" finals,
Still represented
Exeter is ~till represented
in the "B" playoffs. a the
locals came bark, from a .6.4
deficit in Zurich to lake all
five panics on the local lanes
Saturday to enter the semi-Iri-
na Is.
The squad lost the total pin-
fall by a slim 5,281 to 5,195
margin in Zurich, while they
came back with a total of
5.826 in Exeter With Zurich •
managing; only 4.750.
The local team will now meet
Goderich in the "B" final.
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PLISte4 in play. ° ff
Exeter
The Lucan-Ilderton Combines
were ousted .from further ac-
tion, Monday, when they suf-
fered their worst defeat of the
season with an 11-3 trouncing
at the hands of the Port Dover
Sailors in Loran.
'Winners of 30 of their first
31 games, the Combines could-
-11A: match strides with the
liUsky Sailors in their final
three games, losing them all
to- give the Lake Erie squad
l,he OHA semi-final round 3-1.
Port Dover will now meet
Vxbridge for the intermediate
-"B" championship.
The powerful Sailors jumped
"thin a 5-1 lead in the first
period in the final match and
were never in trouble as they
romped to their win, although
they were out-played in the
final two periods,
' How ever, the Combines were
"fereed to gamble and the Sail-
ors appeared content to wait
'for the breaks to add to their
• margin. with Dennis Leeson
turning aside praetically every-
thing the .Big Eight champions
threw his way.
Big Walt Gardner paced the
one-sided attack with three
goals, proving why he is rated
one of the best players on the
squad. One of the fastest men
en the ice, the 190-pound wing-
er dented the twine in each
'period and was a constant The Port rhy.eat every t i me „. the
iee• ted their semi-final series with
Dover Sailors knot-
.poug :UV eday and George ,stire h am c hippe d i n with a the Lucan-ilderton. Combines,
pair and single markers came Wednesday. when they tied,
off the sticks a Doug Walton, won and clinched. the game on
the strength of three goals in Don Snow, jack Reeves and.
Hart. the last four minutes in Lucan, Inhn —Eleven of the 14 Sailors M tin g an 8'6 Win, Big Doug Loveday tied the
game at the 16:26 mark of the
Collings pots two final stanza. and then speedy
• Tom Collings .paced the lAt• Walt Gardiner fired the winner
can-Ilderton. squad on the score 45 seconds later and put the
;sheet with two goals, while clincher in. an open net with
'Don Fletcher notched the third. 15 seconds remaining.
;Stu O'Neil, Harry Wraith. Ray Each of the prolific scorers
*Yelle and Max O'Neil Picked picked up three markers in the
'up assists on the tallies, contest, while George Burcham
• It was a hard fought battle and Ernie Hollingsworth ac-
.all the way and the checking conned for the others.
-was herd, but only five. minor Torn Collings and Stu O'Neil
.Penalties Were handed out with paced the Combines' attack
:the Sailors drawing three. Ken with a pair each, while Ken.
Loft served both for the Conn- Loft and Dusty Aldis picked up
shines. but he took a Sailor to singletons.
.the sin bin with him on both The teams started their high
.occasions, scoring exhibition right off the
Present awards opening whistle and had a 1,1
At a centre ice ceremony tie before two minutes had
:heitveen the second and third been played,. Loft Opened the
with only one second left on the game four minutes later
the clock „ .Steve Storey was with Burcham being the marks-
the best player on the ice for man. Both Walt Mummery and.
the Combines despite the fact Loveday had shots blocked by
he did double shift in the see- the Lucan-llclerton. goalie, but
and and third periods when their winger finally banged the
,lack Parks retired early due disc into the cage • on a
to ill effects from a bad cold. scramble,
Storey failed to score, missing The Combines evened the
on several attempts that he count at 2.2 at the 11:39 mark
just failed to get breaks on on a neat play 'between Cot-
, the, turning point in the hogs and Aldis. Collings car-
game came in the first period tied the puck from his own end
when Max O'Neil drove in to an d a fte r s plitti ng th e Sailors'
bang a puck off the post after defense, put a pass on Aldis)
heating Leeson and the Sail- stick and the speedy St, Marys
ors picked up the rebound to star a low drive into
go back and beat Scarborough- the bottom corner.
clad O'Neil's connected it would The final goal of the period
have made the score 3-2 rather gave the homesters a 3.2 lead
than the 4.1 margin, for the and came on a power play
Sailors . . , the official pro- with Hollingsworth sitting out
gram of the Port Dover six a double minor, Tom Collings
lists their average weight at grabbed the faceoff in the
177 pounds, with six of then Sailors' end and alter Strothers
going over the 190 mark. Ron and Don Urbshott failed in
their attempts from the blue-
line, Collings took a pass from
the side of the net and deftly
deposited the disc behind Lee-
son.
Split in second
Collings came hack with hit
second In the middle period to
give the homesters a two-goal
spread al the 6:46 mark when
Aldis poke-checked the puck
away from a defenseman, took
a shot: that was blocked, but
Collings wa.s on the right spot
to tip the rebound into the
mesh,
However, a defensive lapse
enabled the Sailors to whittle
the lead to 4-3 when Loveday,
picked up a loose puck in the
Combines' end and skated from
behind the net and poked the
disc into a corner.
in the opening minutes of the
third period, Loveday came
back to even the count on a
play with. Burcham.
Stu O'Neil put the Combines
one up at the 3:14 mark when
he took a pass from Loft after
brother Max had dug the puck
out of the corner. but the
Sailors rallied right hack in a
little over a minute to even
things again with Hollin.gs•
worth being the marksman.
Scarborough went down on his
knees to block the shot, but
the puck glanced off his stick
and trickled in under ,his legs,
The scoring remained fast FLORIST and furious in the first half of
the period and Stu O'Neil gave
the Combines a 6.5 lead at the 235-2603
7:02 mark when Max won the
faceoff and passed back to
Loft, who in turn flipped the
puck to Stu. who picked the
Lop corner,
'The Combines appeared to
have the Sailors in check as
they protected their lead but
Loveday and Burcham came
sailing in and the blond winger
fired a backhander into the
net to even the count and Gar-
diner notched the winner when
he picked up a poor clearing.
pass to walk in all alone on
Scarborough.
Game Comments—The Com-
bines were the better team
when they forechecked but late
in the game they appeared to
lose their drive and the Sailors
took advantage of it to win the
game . . Although Loveday
has been the leading scorer for
the Sailors this season, he is
strictly an offensive player and
rarely_ comes hack into his
own end, contenting himself to
wail at the ; blueline for a
break,
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periods, officials of the Big
Eight loop presented. trophies
to the champion Combines and
also the individual awards,
Harvey Langford, president
of the club, and manager
Ilarry Wraith accepted the sil-
verware on behalf of the club
from. league secretary Bill Bat-
ten. Keith Scarborough re-
ceived the trophy for the best
goalie and Don "Boom" Gra-
vett of the Exeter Mohawks
was presented with. the most
valuable player award by vice-
president. Don Urbshott. Gra-
vett, who was the league statis-
tician, presented the scoring
trophies to Max O'Neil and
Steve Storey of the Combines,
who tied for the honors with
75 points each
figured in the scoring.
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GAME COMMENTS — Al-
though it was evident that the
Combines could never catch the
Port Dover crew, they never Firmi and. Jack Reeves top the
once gave up in the contest list at 210, while their leading
which is indicated by the fact scorer Doug Loveday weighs in
Collings scored his last goal at 200.
Tie, win, clinch tilt
in final four minutes
scoring for the homesters when
he deflected Stu O'Neil's shot
into an open corner at the 1:06
mark and Gardiner came right
back 30 seconds later to even
things up on a similar play
when he was left alone to the
left of Scarborough and hang-
ed a pass into the short side,
The Port Dover six came
back to take their first lead in
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