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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1968-11-21, Page 9FOR AL,L GOOD :5PPIRTA. By .Ross ,Haugh S till on the limb Last week in this column we made our annual predictions. on the outcome of TPplg Sated* play in the 1968-69- season of the National Hockey league, but were only able to cover the eastern division with A rundown ..and reasons for our choices. The western division summarY. follows., Good Gosling Can you. imagine Glenn Hall and Jacques Plante. On the same hockey team? This is the situation the St. Louis Blues find themselves in this. year and one of the main reasons we picked them to finish first among the newly established Clubs. A few years .ago, the combination of Hall. and Plante would have assured almost any club of sweeping right through to the Stanley Cup championship in record time. Although Plante was in retirement for three years at 39 years of age he is considerably younger than Johnny Bower of the Leafs and only two years older than Hall, who turned in amazing performances in last year's final. The Blues also have .a solid defensive team headed by the rough and tough Plager brothers, Doug Harvey, Noel Picard, Jim ,Roberts, Al Arbour and Jean-Guy Talbot, Next to Bower, Harvey at 44 is the oldest player in the league, but still an excellent stick checker. The St, Louis scoring attack has certainly been helped with the acquisition of Al? McDonald and Camille 1-lenry in the off-season. McDonald and Henry, along with Gary Sabourin and Red Berenson are four of the top scorers in the western division at the moment. Rough Defence The Los Angeles Kings have two things going for them this year, a rough, tough defence and a young bunch of players. One of the toughest defenceman on Red Kelly's club is Larry Cahan, the only player on the club over 30 years of age. Six King performers are within a year or • two of 30, but the balance are 25 or under. Dave Amadio led the Kings in penalties last year with 101 minutes, only one minute more than the time served by team-mate Bill White. Their forward attack will be led by fellows like Bill Flett, Eddie Joyal, Lowell McDonald and Jim Peters. • A recent acquisition from the Boston Bruins, Skip Krake is proving quite valuable. Obtained primarily as a penalty killer, Krake picked up seven points in the first eight Los Angeles games. Nationals Will Help • helped by the appearance of some of last year's The Minnesota North Stars are bound to be Canadian National team in their line-up. At the moment only Danny O'Shea is seeing regular duty with the North Stars but the others in the system will probably be up later. O'Shea is certainly holding his own in the big • leagues, especially in the playmaking department. He picked up seven assists in the first 10 games. Barry MacKenzie, who was the hard rock of the Canadian team last year filled in capably for three games when Mike McMahon was injured a couple of weeks ago. Beefing up the defence for Wren Blair's team will • be fellows like Bob McCord, Wayne Hillman and Elmer Vasko in front of capable netminder Cesare Maniago.' Hopes Come True Before the season started, general manager Bud Poile and coach Keith Allen said they were grooming • their new line from the Quebec Aces for a top spot in the Philadelphia Flyer scoring attack. The new trio composed of Simon Nolet, Andre Lacroix and Guy Gendron are proving they belong in the big leagues as they compiled a total of 18 points in the first 10 games played by the Philadelphia club. Poile has a good goal tending combination in a couple of comparitively young men, Bernie Parent and Doug Favell. The team is reasonably strong in all departments with solid defence performances expected from Ed Van Impe and Joe Watson. Relying on Veterans Coach Red Sullivan at Pittsburgh seems to be relying pretty well on experienced performers for the nucleus of his club, mostly from his former club, the New York Rangers. A total of eight former New Yorkers are on the Pittsburgh roster. The best known of these are Andy • Bathgate, Lou Angotti, Earl Ingarfield and Val Fonteyne. At the moment Bathgate is working back into shape with Vancouver of the Western league. • The Penguins also picked up veterans Charlie Burns and Wally Boyer from Oakland in the off-season. In the Pittsburgh goal is the native of Walkerton, Les Binkley who has been turning in outstanding performances. The mainstays of the Pittsburgh defence are Leo Boivin, John Arbour, Noel Price and Bob Woytowich, The Penguins are giving their mascot, Pete the Penguin skating lessons but it is doubtful if he will be much help to the club in scoring goals. 6 Lots of Changes The roster of the Oakland Seals has undergone many changes since last spring with only about half the players back for another term, In the first move, Fred Glover was brought in from the Cleveland Barons to coach and trades were made with Detoit and Montreal. Goal is about the only position where no changes were Made. The small Charlie Hodge at 5-foot-six and the tall Gary Smith at 6-foot-four will give Glover's club adequate netininding. A most interesting addition is hard-working controversial Bryan Watson, fie s a versatile player who can knock heads together while playing either defence or forward, He is most famous as "The Shadow" who Made a career of Stitking to Chicago's Bobby Hull while playing for Detroit, Last year Watson came into his own and was named the Most valuable player in the Central pro league While playing with tionstan. • The WO AA schedule involving the Crediton club is as follows: November 24 - Shelburne at Crediton 29 - Crediton at Kincardine December 1 - Arthur at Crediton 6 - Wiarton at Crediton 8 - Crediton at Wiarton 13 - Crediton at Arthur 15 - Kincardine at Crediton 17 - Crediton at Elora 20 - Crediton at Shelburne 22 - Listowel at Crediton 27 - Milverton at Crediton January 3 - Wingham at Crediton 5 - Crediton at Milverton 12 - Clinton at Crediton 16 - Crediton at Clinton 18 - Crediton at Wingham 19 - Listowel at Crediton 24 - Crediton at Listowel 26 - Clinton at Crediton 28 - Crediton at Wingham 31 - Crediton at Milverton February 2 - Wingham at Crediton ' 6 - Crediton at Clinton 7 - Milverton at Crediton 11110111•11=11111111111111111•11•111M SHOT GUNS and RIFLES NEW and USED Trades Accepted Complete line of: AMMUNITION and LOADERS Open Evenings Triebner's Gun SHOP 235-1907 Exeter SEE OUR SELECTION OF OK USED CARS AND TRUCKS Get In On Our Lucky Draw FREE COUPONS WITH EVERY PURCHASE USED CARS 1967 CHEVROLET BISCAYNE SEDAN 8 cylinder engine, automatic, radio, whitewall tires. 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The team is shown above. Back, from left, Dennis Bierling, Kevin McKinnon, Larry Smith, David Frayne, Bill Bourne, Bob Carpenter, Jim Hackney, Dave Marshall, Gary Gingerich, Cam Tigers take decisive win in first WOAA "C" start The South 1-14rPri l'414.herS, successfully .defended their. Huron-Perth Conference .senior football championship. in Goderich,, Thursday by chalking up .a convincing 4..5: ruin ..over the.Codericii With plenty .0'0*P and a eheering section of more than 700 fellow students, the Panthers more than made amends for an earlier 30-3 exhibition loss to the same Goderich team,. The intense play of the panthers. proved .Coach Ron Bogart to ke an excellent prophet. Before the game, Bogart said .his club was ""up" for the game and it would be much different from the game a month earlier that 4idn't mean anything. -The entire club was fired up for the game. The blockers opened up. good holes in the Goderich defence and the backfielders were able to follow the blocking to .perfeetion, In. talking about his elub!s sensational win, Bogart. said, "This. was a more satisfying win than last year. We may have had a little less depth, but we. performed better on the whole than we did a year ago. Our team spirit was tops. Some of the boys were hurting, but they refused to come out of the game. We owe a lot to the student body for their great support in the final game." TAKE COMMAND EARLY The desire of the Panthers showed on the first sequence of plays in the game. After the first two plays from scrimmage failed to produce a first down, Scott Burton kicked to the Vikings but the Goderich defender fumbled when hit hard and an alert Barry Baynham recovered the ball for South Huron on the Goderich 38. Burton went to the air quickly. He hit Bill Bourne for nine yards and then found Kevin McKinnon in the clear with a sharp pass to put six points on the scoreboard for the Panthers. Bill Fairbairn booted the convert right through the middle. The Vikings came back to score a touchdown on the last play of the first quarter with Doug Keene carrying over from six yards out. The convert attempt failed. In the second quarter, Panther signal caller Scott Burton hit Barry Baynham with a perfect pass that covered 55 yards into the Goderich end In a pair of tripleheaders played in a space of two days last week, the Exeter minor hockey teams gained a slight edge over their counterparts from Lucan, taking eight of a possible 12 points. On Exeter ice Wednesday, the two pee wee clubs played to a 3-3 tie, the Exeter bantams romped to an easy 10.0 decision and the local midgets edged the Lucan Boys 6-5. Back at the Lucan arena, Friday, the Irish kids took a convincing 5-1 decision in the pee wee contest, the Exeter bantams won again this time 14-0 and the two midget clubs battled to a 4-4 draw. LOSE EARLY LEAD In the Wednesday pee wee contest, Brian Taylor scored the only first period goal to put the Exeter club in front and Rick Stagg found the range in the second to up the goal margin to two. The Lucan kids bounced back and had the score tied by the midway mark of the third period on goals by Randy English and J. Benn. Brian Penhale took a pass from captain John Gould at 11.32 of the closing session and scored what could have been the winning marker. With less than a minute to go, R. Kraul picked a corner of the net behind Eugene Glavin to give the Irish boys a tie. Wayne Regier was the only Exeter marksman in Friday's 5-1 Exeter loss in Lucan. BOURNE BAGS WINNER Right winger Larry Bourne Female curlers commence play The regular curling season at the Exeter club got underway last week with the ladies league divided into three divisions, similar to other years. Ellen Knight is the president for the current year with Marg Murley as vice-president. Pauline Simmons is in charge of the treasury and Helen Frayne handles the secretarial duties Last week's scores were as follows: D. Elder 8.- 13. Bell 5 M. Ecker H. Mickie 6 T. Payne 9 E. Knight 7 A. McDonald 10 - E. Boyle 4 A Bray 10 D. Marks 7 H. Webber 11 S. Mousseati 4 M, Murley 13 - P. Sir/Anions 4 B. Elliott 0 B. Busolie 5 J. McDowell 11 H. Burton 8 D, Etherington 6 - W, Marshall 5 zone, Fairbairn again ticked the extra points, and 'the: Panthers were. in .front The Panthers put the, foot WO Into, the game in the .final ..quarter,to ensure the ,victory, ,On the first series of plays in the period, Bill Fairbairn. kicked a 27 yard field goal from directly In front of the goal post from 27 yards out,. The Vikings conceded another point a few minutes. later when Burton's punt went into the end zorie 0.4 the second series of plays, Palrbairn connected on. his second field goal try of tbo day, thiS time from 21 yards .out,- but from a. .difficult angle, For the Panthers, Thursday's final was their best passing and kicking game of the season. Burton hit on nine of 19 pass attempts for a total .of 209 yards. In the place kicking. department, Fairbairn was letter perfect, connecting on two field goal attempts and kicking both extra poir4S, The Panthers piled up 18 first downs, compared to 14 for the. Vikings. The Goderich club was held to just three first downs in the last .half of play. The Crediton Tigers started off the 1968-69 regular hockey season in the Western Ontario Athletic Association, the same way they finished last spring. The Tigers, defending WOAA grand champions scored a decisive 9.2 win over the Elora Rocks on Exeter ice, Sunday night in their first start in "C" company. The Crediton club will now be idle until Sunday night when they host the Shelburne Hawks in an 8:30 contest at the Huron Park arena, Centralia. In their last exhibition test, the Tigers played a 2-2 tie with the Blyth Rockets in Blyth, Friday. MORRISSEY SCORES MOST Dennis Morrissey, Crediton's top scorer during their move to the WOAA title last year was back in a high scoring mood, Sunday. scored at 13.35 of the third period to give the Exeter midgets a 6-5 win over Lucan on Exeter ice, Wednesday. Steve Murley and Peter Mason scored for Exeter in the first period and Greg Revington and Fred Elder added second period scores before Lucan hit the scoreboard for the first time. Jim Hearn notched the first Lucan counter and Mason came right back for Exeter with his second successful shot of the night. In the third period, Lucan broke out quickly and goals from the sticks of Steve English, Larry McCann, Allan Kraul and Hearn put the clubs on even terms and set the stage for Bourne's winning shot. Larry Haugh with two goals to his credit led the Exeter scoring attack in the 4-4 tie in Lucan Friday while Fred Elder and Larry Bourne added singles. EVEN SCORING The Exeter midgets spread their scoring throughout three periods as they won 10-0, Wednesday. Perry Stover, Randy Preszcator, Peter Kleinstiver and Randy Gilfillan fired the Exeter goals in the first period. Preszcator and Peter Glover each scored twice in the second period while Scott Litt and Morrissey popped the puck behind the Elora goalie before a minute had elapsed in the opening period and the Tigers were away. Bill Hoffman and Paul Cronyn drew assists on the first scoring play. Less than a minute later, Bill Chipchase upped the Crediton scoring total to two on an unassisted effort. Before the first period was concluded Bill Gammie scored twice for the only two Elora goals of the night and Ken Fraser and Morrissey replied with single scores to put Crediton out in front 4.2. The Tigers' second period tallying started at 7,41 with Craig Chapman blinking the red light. Glenn Overholt found the range near the halfway mark and Morrissey was back with a two goal scoring outburst in a space of less than a minute near the conclusion of the middle session. The only scoring play of the final twenty minutes of play came when Bob Pinter finished off a three-why passing effort With Chapman and Fraser. Bob Callingham turned in steady performance in the Crediton nets, holding the visitors off the score sheet for the last 25 minutes of the game. Ken Fraser and Cam Chapman were the Crediton goal getters in the 2-2 draw in Blyth, Friday. All Sunday home games of the Crediton team will be played at Huron Park, Centralia while four. Friday dates will be filled at the Exeter arena. 4111.111111111i DENNIS MORRISSEY Robbie Lindenfield completed the Exeter scoring in the third frame. McCarthur and Al Lavier. Second row, Rick Iltherington, Ron Grasdahl, Torn Front, Ron Durand, Dennis Passmore, Jesse Vincent, coach Ron Bogart, Lawrence Brown, Peter Cook, Chuck Snider, Barry Baynham, Murray Hodge, Richard Laughton and Steve Murley, Front, manager Dan Wilson, Bill Fairbairn, John Godbolt, Uilke Nagel, Scott Burton, Jim Hayter, Dan Shoebottom, Ross Huff, Leo Desjardine and Ron Janke. Absent, Bill Taylor, T-A photo, Score decisive 21,6 win. TIMPOVOYOCatef .199Verninr 21,190a Page .9 ant Locals get three wins against Lucan clubs