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Centre, trainer Jim Parsons, spare goalie Jack Rundle, Ron Broderick, Dennis Morrissey, Paul Young, assistant trainer Jim Rundle and coach Earl Wagner. Front, Craig Chapman, Rick McDonald, Tom Glavin, Mike Cushman and Gary Parsons. Missing is Bill Fairbairn. — T-A photo GO YAMAHA THIS SUMMER The New Yamaha 180 2 Cylinder With Self Starter Is Now On Display ALSO SEE THE YAMAHA 250 AND 100 JET New & Used Motorcycles Service & Repairs At LLOYD HEY GARAGE YOUR YAMAHA DEALER CREDITON ,,,,,,,, 11111„1111111111111111111,IIIn1111I1111111111111111111111111111101111 1 1111 11 111 11111111111110111111110111111111 Hawks end great season extend Hahns to final tilt Welcome TO ANOTHER GOLF SEASON burg, and it was actually the flip of the coin that beat us. I feel humble pride in being president of this organization." coached championship clubs in both baseball and hockey, but have never been stirred like I was by this team. The players gave it everything they had, some of the regulars lost as much as AU SABLE GOLF COURSE OPEN FOR PLAY SAT., APRIL 29 (weather permitting) Junior gals win trophy Ken Freebairn will be managing the club this year and will be conducting an active golf program for members. 5.37 Chuck Harmer made it 2-1. Parsons beat Forler with a high, hard slap shot to the top right corner of the net at 15.59 for his first of three goals of the night to temporarily tie the score again. Roger Kropf and Harmer each scored in the last four minutes of play to put the Hahns two up until Parsons again cut the mar- gin to a single goal with his sec- ond successful shot with only 19 seconds left in the initial period. Dennis Morrissey finished off — Please turn to page '7 MEMBERSHIP FEES Men 545.00, Ladies $25.00, Juniors $20.00 Husband and Wife $60.00, Family $80.00. 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The first goal was fired by Mike Cushman on a neat passing effort with line-mates Gary parsons and Craig C hap m an. Parsons made a good move on the left wing moving in quickly, faking his slap shot and then slid- ing a pass right in front of the net to Cushman who made no mistake by flipping a soft shot past Tim Forler in the New Ham- burg net. Paul Scherer got that goal back in less than a minute and at Terrific, fantastic, amazing! These are some of the adjectives used by officials and supporters of the Exeter junior Hawks in describing the season just con- eluded. The Hawks bowed to a strong New Hamburg Hahns club 9-6 in a seventh and deciding game that went right down to the wire in New Hamburg, Wednesday. The Hahns are meeting Aurora in the provincial finals and lost the first game of the series 3-2, Sunday. Bill Gilfillan, secretary of the Exeter minor hockey association and a solid supporter of the junior club said, "this was the most successful season financially that our minor hockey program has ever had. Excluding the Hawks, the rest of the program was self supporting. "As to the Hawks, their year was fantastic and the profits we gained from their operation will be helpful in developing young- sters for future junior clubs. The amazing fact is that we started out at the first of the year building for a "D" team and almost came up with a "C" winner." "This has to be one of the best years the arena has ever had", were the comments of arena manager Alvin Willert. More than 9,000 fans attended the playoff games of the Hawks at the Exeter arena. "I wish to pass on to the loyal fans the heartfelt thanks of the EMHA and the members of the Hawks for the wonderful support we received throughout the year", were the words of minor hockey president Derry Boyle. The veteran sports enthusiast went on "we have no regrets in losing to a good team. We had just as good a club as New Ham- Being able to come up with the big games when the chips are down is the sign of a good team in any sport and that is exactly what the Exeter junior girls did in the finals of the Lake Huron zone bowling championships in Wingham, Saturday, In the southern district roll-off in Exeter a week earlier, the locals earned the right to move on to Wingham with a total score of 2138. Saturday, against com- petitors from Gederich, Kincar- dine and Walkerton, the Exeter trundlers spilled the pins for a grand total of 2404, exactly 99 pins more than their closest op- position from Goderich. Launa Fuller, on the strength of scores of 207 and 219, was able to ring up a triple of 573, the highest of the day for the junior girls division. Following are the scores of the champions: Trudy Stagg, 158, 160, 190 — 508; Lynne Farquhar, 160, 144, 15'7 — 461; Brenda Brintnell, 120, 149, 158 — 427; Cathy Holtz mann, 148, 160, 12'7 —435; Launa Full- er, 147, 20'7, 219— 573, Total 2404. The curtain has been pulled down on one of the most successful hockey seasons ever enjoyed in the town of Exeter. The Exeter Hawks, a hustling bunch of junior hockey performers, treated the fans to an enjoyable winter of hockey, taking the New Hamburg Hahns to the seventh and deciding game of the OHA junior "C" semi finals. While the Hawks lost the final game in New Hamburg by a 9-6 count, the series was close from the opening whistle and it was possibly the flip of a coin that decided the issue, The Hahns were fortunate in having home ice for the seventh contest in a series where neither team was able to gain a win away from home. To point up the closeness of the series, Exeter won on home ice by three goals in the sixth game last Tues- day and were edged by the same margin of goals in the final, We would like to send our personal congratu- lations to manager Lloyd Cushman, coach Earl Wag- ner, all of the players and the sponsoring body, the Exeter Minor Hockey Association. Every member of the Hawks showed they had the desire necessary all year, especially in coming up with the must wins against Point Edward and Dresden. We feel the turning point in a successful sea- son came on the night of March 9 in Point Edward. On that night, the Hawks went into the border town trailing the Redmen two games to one in a best-of- five series and needing a victory to stay in the run- ning. They came up with their best game of the season at that time and pulled out a 7-5 win in the third period to tie the series. The rest is history as they knocked the Point Edward team off by a con- vincing 10-4 count in Exeter the next night. More than 400 Exeter fans accompanied the team to Point Edward for that all-important contest and were mainly responsible for inspiring the Hawks to victory, Bouquets should also be handed out to the many loyal fans who followed the Hawks throughout the playoffs, regardless of the destination. Some of the local supporters didn't miss a single game at Point Edward, Dresden, Leamington and New Ham- burg. Doing some quick ciphering, we find this would amount to a total of about 1,800 miles travelled. According to statistics received from arena manager Alvin Willert, a total of 9,273 fans attended the 10 playoff games at the Exeter arena. This is a terrific record when one looks back and remembers at least two of the games were played on nights when the weather was terrible and visibility was almost nil. Getting back to activities on the ice, the Hawks and the officials should be proud of their 1966-67 achievements and with a little more luck with the flip of a coin, or the bounce of a puck or two, could be in the Ontario final. \Vhile losing to New Hamburg in seven games, the locals were the first team in the playoffs that didn't lie down and die for the Hahns after the first game. In similar seven game sets against Preston, Elmira and Woodstock, the Hahns had dropped the first game and then came on to sweep the next four. A remark from a New Hamburg fan as he left the arena after the final game pretty well summed up the thoughts of most supporters of both teams. "After a series like this, it's a shame both teams couldn't be winners. RARIN' TO GO The crack of the bat will soon be heard throughout the area as plans are being formulated to ,organize several baseball and softball leagues. Bob Sadler of Staffa, president of the Huron- Perth intermediate baseball loop sends along word that at least five teams have signified their inten- tions of participating in the popular "hardball" league, affiliated with -the Ontario Baseball Associa- tion. Last year, Dashwood, Zurich, Mitchell, Walker- ton and Chesley were represented. At present a Chesley entry is quite doubtful, while the other four are fairly sure starters. An old standby in the league back in the 1950's, St. Marys, is reportedly ready to go with an intermediate entry, Walkerton won the H-P title in 1966 and went on to take the Ontario intermediate "C" champion- ship. Zurich Lumber Kings took the league "D" crown and were eliminated in the provincial play- offs. Sadler reports that an organizational meeting will be held within the next two weeks and if any other teams within the area are looking for competi- tion they will be made welcome. CLOSE BATTLE Ten or twelve ball games don't make a sea- son, but if the first two weeks of play in the Ameri- can league is any indication of what is to happen, the fans in the ten cities will be in for a banner year. The race in the junior circuit is so tight that the front running California Angels are only two games up on the last place Cleveland Indians. Every one of the teams participating in the American loop has lost from four to six games, which in turn keeps the standings really close. In the National league quite a different situa- tion exists where already five full games separate the first place St. Louis Cardinals from the basement dwelling Houston Astros. In direct contrast to the other league, the Cards have only lost two while the Astros have been on the losing end of the score on no less than eight occasions. A very unusual play marked Friday night's game in Detroit between the Tigers and the Minne- sota Twins. With one out in the fourth inning and centre fielder Tovar on first base, Tony Oliva, one of the top hitters for Minnesota, slugged the ball over the left field fence for an apparent home run. For sorne unknown reason, the base runner Tovar stop- ped between first and second and was passed by Oliva. Oliva was called out and credited with a sin- gle—as he only reached first safely—and with a run- batted-in as Tovar scored. If this would have hap- pened with two out Oliva would have also been rob- bed of his RBI.