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Page 6 Times-Advocate, March 16, 1967 Hawks take one game lead
in junior 'C' group final play
How important is fan support to a hockey
team? This is a question that is asked quite often
and is sometimes hard to answer.
In the case of the just concluded Shamrock
junior series between the Exeter Hawks and the
Point Edward Redmen, terrific support by the local
fans stirred up the Hawks who were on the brink
of elimination.
The Hawks travelled to the border town
Thursday, down one game in the series and needing
a win to stay in contention. They rallied in the third
period to post a 7-5 win behind the cheering of close
to 300 Exeter fans.
With an edge in the series and home ice sup-
posedly in their favour, the Point Edward club were
confident of winding up the five-game set Thursday.
They failed to realize how much vocal support would
affect the Hawks and spur them on.
In complete contrast to the third game of the
series the local juniors played a different brand of
hockey when they gained a two-goal lead late in the
third period. Instead of just trying to get rid of
the puck in their own end, they were making their
passes deliberate and slowing down the trend of the
game.
Back on home ice Friday, the Hawks took
control of the game late in the first period and went
on to take a decisive 10-4 victory and gain a berth
in the league "C" final.
A successful penalty shot effort by Dennis
Morrissey with less than two minutes left in the
opening twenty minutes of play put the Hawks in
front 2-1. Morrissey made no mistake on his way to
the net as he skated very slowly and drew the goalie
completely out of position before flipping the puck
home. This seemed to take the steam out of the visi-
tors and they could not get close again.
The largest crowd of the season, 1,039, was
on hand at the local arena for the deciding game.
The Hawks are meeting the Dresden Kings,
first place finishers in the regular schedule in a
best-of-seven series for the league title. The first
game went in Dresden Tuesday and the clubs return
to the Exeter arena for the second contest Friday
at 8:30.
The Exeter club held an edge over Dresden
in season play, winning three out of four games
played. When it comes to playoff time previous re-
sults can be thrown out the window and anything
can happen. It should be a wide open, fast skating
series as the Dresden boys do very little body check-
ing.
would be called if anything else
was thrown settled down the 1,039
exuberant fans, the largest crowd
of the season.
For a few moments after the
warnings, play seemed to slow
down and then the scoring broke
loose again, three goals coming
in a span of less than two minutes,
Burton was again in on a $uc
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valuable member of the visiting
club was hit squarely in the eye
with an egg and was taken to South
Huron Hospital to have some shell
removed. A fan was also removed
from the arena by members of the
local police force.
Previous to this occurrence,
Several bombs and other objects
were thrown on the ice. Repeated
announcements that the game
Three goals in the last ten
Minutes of play gave the Exeter
Hawks a 4.3 win over Dresden
Kings in the Kent County town
Tuesday to take a one game lead
In the Shamrock Junior "C"
final.
The second game is scheduled
for the Exeter arena Friday at
6:30 and the teams return to
Dresden for the third game Sun-
day. The fourth contest of a
best-four-of-seven series will
be played at the local ice house,
Tuesday, March 21.
Othergames if necessary will
be in Dresden March 24, Exeter
March 25 and Dresden March 28.
The Hawks made the group
final by downing Point Edward
Redmen on two consecutive
nights, 7-5 in Point Edward
Thursday and 10-4 on home ice
Friday, to win the beet-of-five
series, three games to two.
Captains meet after game
A friendly handshake after a hard fought hockey series is a good sign
of sportsmanship. In the above picture, captains Craig Chapman of
the Exeter Hawks and Keith McLean of Point Edward exchange
greetings after the final contest. Chapman also scored the winning
goal in the Hawks. win over Dresden in the first game of the league
final. — T-A photo
MEMO
TO THE
WOMEN
of EXETER
AND DISTRICT
Bantams in final
of Shamrock minor
Usually the man of the house shops for
building and remodelling materials. But
every once in a while, an extra special
value comes along that is of extreme in-
terest to women. This is one of those
times:
Exeter's four minor hockey
clubs are in various positions in
Shamrock minor playoffs.
One club, the bantams, have
advanced to the league final,
while the other three clubs are
competing in semi-final play.
The bantams lost to Stoney-
brook 3-2 on Exeter ice Wednes-
day in the first of a two-games-
total-goals series and rallied in
the return game in London Sat-
urday to gain a 3-2 win to tie the
count and force an extra game.
On Strathroy ice Sunday, the
youngsters played one of their
better games of the year to win
4-1 and qualify to meet Lambeth
in the loop final.
The local midgets battled to a
1-1 draw with Stoneybrook in a
London contest and played the
second game here last night,
Wednesday.
In the only pee wee semi-final
played to date, the Exeter boys
were on the short end of a 4-2
and Bill Hourne had a couple of
good shots at the net from close
in before Young found the range,
Two of Point Edward's top
forwards, Bill Chivers and Len
Fontaine, combined at 13:07 to
tie the score, with the former
netting the rubber while a team-
mate was cooling out in the pen-
alty box.
The Hawks again came close
several times in the next five
minutes of action before Mor-
rissey made his jaunt toward
the goal with all players but
goalie Geary on the sidelines
looking on, to send the Exeter
club to the first rest with a
2-1 edge.
In the early minutes of the
second frame play moved quickly
back and forth with both goalies
coming up with key stops. Tom
Glavin in the Exeter nets made
a quick glove stop on a low hard
drive by Chivers near the seven
minute mark for one of his best
saves of the night.
As often happens when a net-
minder comes up with a brilliant
stop, his mates moved right down
to the other end of the rink and
scored to up the Hawk lead to
3-1.
Scott Burton, playing a stand-
out game on the local defence,
moved the puck into the Point
Edward end and set a perfect
pass on Gary parsons stick and
the hard shooting left winger
blasted a drive that Geary got a
piece of but couldn't hold and the
puck rolled in for goal number
three for Exeter.
With a two goal lead, the Hawks
really caught fire and scored
twice in the next two minutes.
Hard working Bill Chipchase
completed a nice play originated
by Burton to net the first of the
quick counters. Gary Parsons got
the other on a blistering slap
shot that just grazed the post
on the short side.
score to Huron Heights.
In novice action, the situation
could become a little confusing.
The locals are meeting Lucan
in separate OMHA and Shamrock
series at the same time.
Preceding the Hawks game
Friday, the Exeter novice club
was edged 2-1 by Lucan in On-
tario minor play and Saturday
afternoon suffered a 3-1 loss to
the same team in Shamrock ac-
tion.
HIT BY EGG
Parsons goal came only 18
seconds after an egg throwing
incident that marred the contest
and held up proceedings for more
than 10 minutes. Mike Bolton, a
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BANTAMS BOUNCE BACK
Steve Murley proved to be the
spark plug that kept the Exeter
bantams in the thick of the fight
for the Shamrock crown. He scor-
ed three goals in the last five
minutes of play to give his club
a 3-2 win in London Saturday, to
tie the goals to count series at
5-5 and force an extra game in
Strathroy.
In the final contest Murley
shared scoring honors with John
"Skinny" Guenther, each netting
two goals to take home a 4-1
win.
Both Exeter goals in the open-
ing game of the series that went
to Stoneybrook 3-2 were fired
by Peter Glover.
PEE WEES BEHIND
The local pee wees face a two
goal deficit as they meet Huron
Heights in the second contest of
a total goals series later this
week. Peter Kleinstiver and
Perry Stover were the Exeter
goal getters in the 4-2 loss on
home ice, Wednesday.
Competing in the Stoneybrook
ACA tournament at London Sun-
day, Bill Gilfillan's pee wees held
Mountsfield to a 2-2 tie. Scott
Litt and Butch Johnston trigger-
ed the Exeter counters.
The 12 and under boys see more
action Saturday as they take part
in Lucan's annual Shamrock pee
wee tourney, seeing their first
action at 1:30.
FIRST AND LAST
In picking up the go-ahead win
on Dresden ice Tuesday, the
Hawks scored the first goal of
the game and then after the
home club had scored three
times, came back with the last
three of the game to salt away
the victory.
It didn't take the local juniors
long to get rolling as Mike Cush-
man opened the scoring at 1:58
of the first frame on a play
started by captain Craig Chap-
man.
The Kings, league leaders
throughout the season, tied it up
in little more than a minute of
further action on a successful
solo dash by defencernan Don
Glassford.
With time running out in the
first twenty minutes of play,
Fred Martin directed a shot past
Exeter goalie Tom Glavin to give
his Dresden mates a 2-1 lead.
The entire second frame was
scoreless, but the Hawks carried
a big part of the play and out-
shot Dresden 18-7.
At 4:12 of the third, Clark
Woolman fired home the Kings'
third marker and the Exeter club
seemed to be in trouble.
It took them more than half
the period to get rolling, but when
they did the red light behind Dave
Card in the Dresden nets blinked
three times in less than three
minutes.
Cushman picked up his second
score of the game on a pass from
Paul Young at 10:36 to cut the
deficit to one and Dennis Mor-
rissey was able to tie the score
on a solo dash at 12:01.
A three way passing effort was
successful at 13:20 to give the
Hawks their fourth goal, that
proved to be the winner. Craig
Chapman finished off the play
started by Mike Cushman and Ron
Broderick.
Larry Willert, who suffered an
injured eye as the result of a
high stick in the final game with
Point Edward Friday, did not
see action in Dresden, but could
be ready for the second game of
the series.
ALL OUT
A solid team effort with every
member of the club out and skat-
ing all night long, enabled the
Hawks to turn in a convincing
10-4 win over Point Edward to
take the series three games to
two on home ice, Friday.
The teams were evenly match-
ed for most of the first period
and the tide seemed to turn when
Dennis Morrissey turned a pen-
alty shot try into a goal at 18:13
to put his club in front 2-1.
Morrissey made no mistakes
on his way to the net as he
skated and stick handled very
slowly and made the goalie make
the first move and calmly flipped
home the rubber,
In getting the penalty shot,
Morrissey was dumped from be-
hind while on a clean cut break-
away.
The Hawks opened the scoring
at 10:08 of the opening period as
Paul Young was able to left a
backhander from close in over
Point Edward goalie KellyGe.ary,
Team-mates Dennis Morrissey
DENNIS MORRISSEY
...scores on penalty shot
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Two of the three top rinks in
the Exeter men's curling club
third draw of the season were
able to retain their first place
leads in their respective divis-
ions.
King McDonald's f ou r so m e
came up with a high point per-
formance in last week's action
to stay well in front of the rest
of Tuesday's competitors with a
point total of 4'7.
A rink headed by Ross Hodgert
has edged ahead in Monday action
with a total of 43 points, one more
than the leaders of a week ago,
skipped by Jim Hewitt.
Jack Urquhart and his mates
have accumulated 38 points to
lead the Thursday curlers, des-
pite losing in their last outing.
The Passmore brothers, Lorne
and Almore are deadlocked in
second spot with equal point rec-
ords of 36,
After numerous delays, play-
offs in the second draw have
been completed and a rink skip-
ped by Bert Borland was suc-
cessful in capturing the trophy.
Other members of the winning
group are Bob Dinney, Woodrow
Davidson and Hugh Patterson.
Last week's scores were:
J. Hewitt '7 - L, Webber 2
L. Learn 8 - B. Alexander 8
D. Jermyn 10 - G. McCarter 2
D. Roelofson 8 - P. Hern 5
B. Morgan 11 - Reg Hodgert 9
Ross Hodgert 10 - A. pym 4
R. Murley 12 - H. Dougall 4
A. Clarke 9 - A. Westcott 4
K. McDonald 13 - P. Raymond 3
B. Borland 7 - M. Geiser 4
B. McLean 9 - B. Middleton 3
E. Powe 9 - A. Cann 6
C. Down 10 - W. Seldon 1
R. Marshall 8 - H, Snell 4
D. Weber 6 - L. Passmore 4
M. Hodgert 10 - J. Urquhart 5
A. Passmore 10 - R. Snell 2
n etner ss
GUN SHOP
One ladies rink
still unbeaten
Only one rink remains unde-
feated after four weeks of action
in the third draw of the Exeter
ladies' curling club. Dor othy
Marks and her mates have a clean
slate and hold down top spot in
Wednesday action.
Shirley Davidson's foursome is
best to date in Tuesday competi-
tion and Marg Murley has her rink
in front in Thursday play.
Last week's scores were:
H. Frayne 8 — E. Knight 2
T. Payne 8 — M. Ecker
S. Davidson 10 — H. Webber 7
D. Elder 10 J. McDowell 3
B. Clarke 8—J. Weber 6
P. Simmons 13 M. Murley 7
A. Bray 11 E. Boyle 5
D. Pfaff 9 — E. Busche 3
D. Marks 9 — Mo Marshall 5
H. Frayne 8 L. Dobbs 5
M. Geiser 9 —11, Mickle 5
B. Bell 7 — H, Burton 5
M. Murley 6 A. McDonald 5
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FANS COULD SPOIL IT
While we feel the terrific backing of the fans,
especially in Point Edward, was partly responsible
for putting the Hawks in the final, a small minority
of the fans were doing their best to have the locals
come out on the short end of the score here Friday.
Throwing objects on the ice during a game
usually only results in a delay of the game while
the ice is cleared, but the latest incident was of a
far more serious nature. Some one threw an egg
right after Exeter's fourth goal of the game in the
second period and caught Mike Bolton of the visi-
tors squarely in the eye.
Bolton was taken to South Huron Hospital
where pieces of egg shell were removed from his
eye. At this point a fan was ejected from the arena
and the crowd warned that any further throwing of
objects onto the ice would cause the game to be
called.
We know that the Point Edward coach was
pretty close to pulling his team off the ice at the
time and although this would seem to be a rather
unsportsmanlike move he would be protecting the
safety of his team.
Beside the safety factor, the egg throwing
affair could have been costly to the Hawks. At the
time they really had begun to fly and scored two
quick goals to go ahead 4-1. Getting the fans
straightened out and cleaning the ice took at least
ten minutes. Fortunately the locals were able to
carry right on with their torrid pace and scored
again within 18 seconds of resumption of play.
While on the subject of fan behaviour, the
habit of fans booing when the opposing players skate
out on the ice for the start of a period has always
puzzled us. Certainly a fan is expected to give most
of his vocal support to his favorites, but some ap-
plause for the opposition certainly couldn't do any
harm. In fact, an act of this nature could help to
produce a better brand of hockey if both teams
knew their efforts were being appreciated.
FEW PENALTY SHOTS
The penalty shot called at the arena during
the fifth game of the Shamrock junior final caused
us to wonder how many have been called this year.
According to Gary Middleton, local junior statisti-
cian, this was only the second one of the year. The
other also involved the Hawks in a game earlier in
the year in Dresden when Gary Parsons taking the
try was unsuccessful.
In the National hockey league to date this sea-
son, six penalty shots have been called and four
goals were scored. On three of the occasions the
Toronto Maple Leafs were involved,
On November 5 at Maple Leaf Gardens, Bob
Nevin of the Rangers scored against Terry Sawchuck
of the Leafs. Three weeks later, also on Toronto ice,
the outcome was different with Frank Mahovlich
beating Glenn Hall of the Chicago Black Hawks.
Hall was again the victim the night of Jan-
uary 5 as he failed to stop a try by Detroit's Norm
Ullman in a Detroit Olympia contest. Early in Feb-
ruary, Johnny Bucyk of the Bruins bested Ed Giaco-
min of the Rangers in a Madison Square Garden
game.
The unsuccessful attempts were tried by
Dallas Smith of Boston against Giacomin on Decem-
ber 21 and Toronto's Pete Stemkowski failing to slip
the rubber past Roger Crozier of the Red Wings in
Toronto February 8.
Incidentally, Norm 1.111man's goal on a penalty
shot was a very important one in the career of the
Detroit veteran, it was his third score of the night
giving him his 10th hat trick in the NHL and made
him a 20-goal man also for the 10th consecutive
season. The three goal scoring effort was accom-
plished in a span of three minutes and 19 seconds.
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