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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1969-12-23, Page 10OHA Intermediate 'B' HOCKEY HURON PARK Arena — Centralia See the Lucan-Ilderton Jets Friday, December 26 BOXING DAY AFTERNOON 2:00 P.M. Acton Tanners Tues., Dec. 30 8:30 P.M. Durham Huskies Nevin Motors and Young's Dry Goods are Jet Supporters WOAA INTERMEDIATE 'C' HOCKEY HURON PARK ARENA — CENTRALIA See 74 rfereo4t 7 7dede 4 qoste lasted CREDITON TIGERS Fri., Dreopef4 41W4)Port Elgin Sun., Dec. 28 — 8:30 —Seaforth Fri., Jan. 2 8:30 —Milverton Sun., Jan. 4 — 2:30 — Arthur Bushfield's General Store and Mark Whitney's Nachurs Service Are Tiger Supporters The Exeter Hawks have opened up a, seven-point first place lead over the rest of the pack in the district Ontario. Hockey Association Junior "P" grouping, In their latest action, the Hawks squeezed out a 8-6 win over the Belmont Sunsets at the local arena, Friday night, The Hawks now have a total of 23 points while the Zurich Dominions are in second spot with 16 points and the Lucan Irish and Belmont Sunsets follow in 4 third place tie, one point further back. The local boys now get a bit of a holiday and don't see action until Tuesday December 30 when they travel to Belmont and are back at the Exeter arena, on January 2 to take on the Lucan Irish. MURLEY BAGS WINNER Steve Murley fired in a fairly long shot from near the blue-line Two straight for Irish Six By CLARE STANLEY The Lucan Irish led by Captain Tom Hodgins have won their last two games. On Tuesday night Lucan played against Mitchell in Mitchell and skated to a five to three victory. Wednesday at Lucan the Irish won against Lambeth six to five. The winning goal came off the stick of Tom Hodgins at 17.01. of the third period. •The first period was scoreless until 18.03 when Ken Needham for Lucan found the mark. Irish penalties went to Dave Revington, Dennis Burt, Jeff Craig and Steve English. Lambeth penalties were handed out to Randy Elrich with two, Gary Evans, Rick Fyfe with one each. The second period saw the Lambeth club begin to move and they outscored Lucan four goals to two. Tom Hodgins and Mike Anderson were the Irish marksmen while Rick Fyfe, Bruce Carrothers, John Forsythe, and Hugh Mitchell scored for the Flyers. Penalties made the difference with Tom Anderson, Dennis Burt, Dennis Carty each getting one, and Jeff Craig being sent off twice. Randy Elrich and Gary Evans picked up the only two Lambeth minors. Lucan was reminded that you cannot score while shorthanded, and had to go to the dressing room trailing by a score of four to three. In the third period Lucan scored three goals and picked up only one penalty, while Lambeth managed to score only once, but made four trips to the sin-bin. Goals were scored for Lucan by Jim Hearn, Dave Revington and Tom Hodgins who got the tie-breaker with three minutes remaining in the game. Bruce Carrother scored for Lambeth. Dennis Carty picked up a five minute penalty for fighting, for the Irish, while Mitchell, Miller, Elrich and Forsythe were penalized for Lambeth. Lambeth outshot Lucan 44-42. First star Tom Hodgins, Lucan; Second Star, Bruce Carrother, Lambeth Third Star, Mike Anderson, Lucan. Next home game for Lucan is Tuesday December 30 when the opposition will be the Belmont Sunsets. Until then "Happy New Year". Another victory for novice team The Exeter novice hockey club continued its winning ways with a decisive 10-4 win over Lucan at the Exeter arena, Friday night preceding the junior game. Robert Heard and Brad Taylor each scored three goals to lead the Exeter scoring attack. Finishing off the winners goal total with single scores were Norm McCauley, Briah Horrell, Paul Pooley and Gary Saleski. at 19.26 of the third paiod to give the Hawks their 6-5 latest win over Belmont. The Hawks led throughout most of the game only to have the Belmont club come bouncing back with two quick third period goals to tie the score at 5-5. John Willsey opened the scoring for Belmont at 6.20 of the first but the Exeter boys bounced back with three quick goals before the first period ended. Rick Schell tied the score at 9.01 and then Joe O'Rourke and John Braid fired successful shots within a space of less than one minute. Each team scored twice in the second period to maintain the two goal Exeter margin. Mike Hoy and Ron Moore were the Exeter goal scorers while Gary Gavey and Gord Weaver replied for Belmont. Larry Haugh picked up three assists during the game to up his season point total to 28, tops for the Hawks. HAWKS SCORING STATISTICS G A Pts Larry Haugh 14 14 28 Randy Parsons 6 14 20 Larry Laye 10 9 19 John Braid 9 '7 16 Ron Lindenfield 3 13 16 Barry Baynham 9 6 15 Steve Murley 6 6 12 Joe O'Rourke 5 6 11 Ron Moore 5 5 10 Brian Campbell 4 3 7 Rick Schell 1 6 7 Mike Hoy 1 4 5 Bob Rowe 2 1 3 Ron Janke 1 2 3 Pete Glover 0 3 3 Hal Flaro 1 0 1 Randy Preszcator 0 1 1 Fred Elder 0 1 1 JUNIOR STANDINGS W L T Pts Exeter 11 2 1 23 Zurich 7 4 2 16 Belmont 7 6 1 15 Lucan 7 6 1 15 Mitchell 4 10 0 8 Lambeth 3 11 1 7 Park continues to top Rec loop Huron Park continued their perch on top of the Exeter and district Rec hockey league by edging Snell's Shell by a score of 11-8 in the wind-up of Thursday's weekly doubleheader. The Huron Parkers now have a season total of nine points while Newby Tire who trounced the Bank Boys in the other half of the twin bill 11-3 follow in second spot with seven points to their credit. Snell's and Bank Boys continue to share the cellar position with four points apiece. George Saleski and Bill Thomas each scored three goals to lead the Huron Park scoring. Don Cooper was close behind with a two goal effort while Al Fisher, Don Appleby and Frank Boyle each scored in single fashion. Vic Fulcher, Fred Wells and Pete Lawson each found the scoring range .on two occasions for Snell's with Paul Mason and Larry Willert triggering single scores. Bob McDonald was in high scoring gear for Newby Tire as he fired four successful shots into the Bank Boys cage. Doug McBride was next in line with a three goal effort while Jack Glover notched a pair and Tom Watt and Jim McDonald each scored once. The Bank , Boys' goals were fired in single style by Dick Coulter, Dale Skinner and Ron Durand. Roll up your sleeve to save a life... BE A BLOOD DONOR OHA MNIOR HOCKEY Friday, Jan. 2 8:30 P.M. EXETER ARENA. Lucan Irish vs Exeter Hawks uktviatt.vgia•laizskovi.w;kopkowkg4,205ie,4riitt 54w. NO NO Vi,n •Our greetings ring out to all our cus- tomers. May your hopes all come true. Look Your Best For The Holiday Season MODERN HAIR STYLES g OPEN WED., DEC. 24 and WED., DEC. 31s, et CI GERRY GERRY is SMITH Barbers RADER w.:,;::,e0A,;:x:$)i=;5-.:,ph ..i:Ivii::t*::,Aiat..144:5•;all Children's cheery voices raised in Christmas song express the good will we feel for all our friends. Thanks and Merry Christmas! Snell Bros. Limited & Staff CHEVROLET — OLDSMOBILE IstAttlAt4IN tgi6•4Ai tvesi faM Si atNi « U aVo 41,?.4f t:Vsi 4Y4 Hawks open lead, get holiday layoff "The Way You Like It" • a • a 4 • a 4 • • o. g • g • Quite frequently people are heard to remark that time really flies, Well, we're not quite sure if that is a true statement or not. In this last column for the year 1969 and the 60's we are attempting to do a review of the sporting highlights for the last decade, Time might really fly, but it took us and our son a lot of time to page through most of the more than 500 issues of the T-A printed since January 1 of 1960. Despite a lot of research, we probably missed some important events and will apologize in advance for some items that we may have missed. A few of the big changes in district sports in the last ten years were the construction of many new facilities. Since 1960 began, a new arena was built at Huron Park and curling rinks sprung up at Huron Park and Exeter and artificial ice was added to the Zurich arena. Swimming pools were added at Exeter and Lucan and ball lights installed in Exeter, Lucan, Crediton and Dashwood. Rodeo and saddle club facilities were added to Exeter Community Park and two golf courses were constructed in the immediate vicinity of Exeter. Following is a rundown of the highlights of each of the,last ten years: 1960 The Exeter Itchy Six won all available awards in the district men's Intertown bowling league and set a team record score of 1786. Members of that team were Jim Fairbairn, Aub Farquhar, Lorne Haugh, Don Gravett, Cap Foster, Bob Nicol, Bob Osgood and Jim Crocker. Perthex high school basketball championships were won by the South Huron junior girls and boys teams, coached by Lauretta Seigner and Glenn Mickle, respectively. The Zurich Lions coached by Don O'Brien won the OMHA Juvenile "D" championship. Lucan Leprechauns won their second straight "D" championship at the annual Easter week pee wee tournament in Goderich. Aub and Grace Farquhar took over ownership of the Exeter Bowling Lanes from Red Scott and Bob Pooley. John Anderson of Hensall won the Victoria Day shoot at Kippen for the third consecutive time and became permanent holder of the Venner trophy. Russ Snell of Dashwood playing the second hole at the Oakwood Inn golf course at Grand Bend missed a hole-in-one by three-quarters of an inch. The Hensall Oddfellow midgets won the OBA "D" championship. Lorne Kleinstiver of Dashwood shot a hole-in-one on the thirteenth at Grand Bend. The South Huron District High School junior and senior girls volleyball teams won Perthex championships. Construction of the Exeter curling rink was completed in October. Hank Green caught six pike, one weighing seven pounds in one afternoon of fishing in the Ausable in Hay Township. Construction of the Centralia curling rink was started. 1961 Construction of the Exeter golf course was completed on the farm of Allan Westcott. Hensq11 juveniles won the Ontario Baseball Association "D" title. Jack Chipchase of Hensall signed with the Toronto Marlboros of the OHA Junior "A" series. Don Wright tossed a 400-game at the Exeter bowling lanes at the age of 14. Senior girls basketball team at South Huron won H-P crown. Exeter squirts win Brampton "D" championship. Perthex senior girls volleyball title to SHDHS. 1962 The Lucan-Ilderton Combines won the Big Eight intermediate hockey championship with a record of 23 wins and only a single loss. Steve Storey and Max O'Neil each scored 75 points during the regular season. Don O'Brien guided the Zurich bantams to the WOAA "D" title for his six straight yearly triumph with a Zurich minor team. The Exeter pee wees won the Leamington invitational tourney and the squirts recorded a similar tournament win at Brampton. Don Gravett of town scored a hole-in-one on a Chatham golf course. Lloyd Greenacre set records at the new Exeter golf course by carding a 33 and 34 during the summer. Gordon Rutz of Shipka bagged five deer with six shots during a hunting trip near Johnston Harbour. 1963 After fourteen years of trying, the Exeter pee wees won the "C" championship at the annual Young Canada tournament in Goderich. They also went on to capture similar championships at Watford and Lucan, The Exeter Kin midgets reached the OMHA finals, bowing to Huntsville. FOR ALL poop SPORTS By Ross. Haugh The Staffa Merchants won the OBA Intermediate "C" championship. The Exeter squirts repeated in taking the novice hockey championship at Brampton and won a five day tournament at Mount Forest. The junior and senior boys basketball teams at South Huron captured the Huron-Perth Conference championships. Both wins were achieved in terrific come-from-behind performances. Jim Mason shot a 30 at the Exeter golf course, Exeter Greys won the WOAA girls softball championships. Bill Wright rolled a 440 game at the Exeter bowling lanes. 1964 The Exeter squirts, pee wees, bantams and midgets captured Western Ontario Athletic Association championships. The Hensall-Zurich Combines won the OHA Junior "D" championship with a record of 26 wins in 30 starts and downed Gravenhurst and Stouffville in the last rounds. South Huron won the Huron-Perth junior boys basketball championship. The Lucan-Ilderton Combines came close to the OHA "B" championship dropping the deciding final game to Picton by two goals. Drag racing made its first appearance in the area with the opening of the Grand Bend Dragway. The Exeter swimming pool was first open to the public on August 30. In five-pin bowling Bob Nicol rolled a five game total of 1546. Mr. Hockey in Lucan, Harvey Langford was honored for his contribution to hockey over the past 40 years. The Centralia RCAF volleyball team won the all-Canadian Air Force championship under the direction of captain George Kelly. 1965 The Exeter bantams went all the way to the Ontario finals, losing to Huntsville in an exciting series. Exeter junior Hawks posted a 24-4 season record and were defeated in the OHA semi-finals by the Clinton Colts who went on to win the title. The Ausable golf course was being readied for play. Exeter pee wee and bantam hockey clubs repeated as WOAA champs. 1966 The South Huron senior girls won the Huron Perth basketball championship. A Centralia based rink skipped by Pres Lavier won the all-Canadian RCAF curling championship. Undefeated and unscored upon up to the final game the South Huron junior Panthers lost the Huron-Perth Conference football title to Listowel. Floodlights were installed at Exeter Community Park. 1967 The South Huron senior Panthers went undefeated to win the Huron-Perth football championship. The Babe Siebert Memorial arena, at Zurich was renovated and artificial ice was installed. Floodlights at Crediton Community Park were completed as a Centennial project. The Mid-Western Rodeo came to town with the added facilities at Exeter Community Park. An old-fashioned ice carnival was held as a Centennial project as well as a very successful July 1 celebration. The Exeter midgets won the London Centennial "A" hockey tournament downing teams from Hamilton, Woodstock and Oakridge Acres. The Exeter Hawks bowed to the New Hamburg Hahns in the OHA Junior "C" semi-finals. 1968 The South Huron senior Panthers repeated as Huron-Perth Conference football champs. The Dashwood Tigers won the OBA Intermediate "D" baseball title. The Crediton Tigers swept all honors to take the WOAA grand hockey championship. Clarence Down and his mixed curling rink composed of Dorothy Elder, Harry Snell and Lillian Pym recorded a perfect eight-ender. An Exeter Legion curling rink won the Legion Zone "C" title. Members of the rink were Pres Lavier, Gord McTavish, King McDonald and Jake Marks. Grand Bend pee wees won the Lambton-Middlesex hockey championship. John Anderson of Hensall captured the "B" championship of the North American Trap Shooting Association in Vandaliah, Ohio. The South Huron Pony Trotting Association was formed and racing meets were started at Exeter Community Park on a specially constructed quarter-mile track. Kirkton veterinarian Bill Schaefer shot the first hole-in-one at the Ausable golf sourse and Gary Evans pulled a similar trick at the Exeter course. Snowmobiling became a more popular sport, STEVE MURLEY • fires winner Male curlers finish draw Regular play in the first draw of the Exeter men's curling club was completed last week but playoff arrangements have not been completed as yet. In Monday play, Jim Hewitt and his rink edged Gord McCarter's foursome by a single point 73-72. King McDonald's group headed the Tuesday curlers with 66 points while Gerry Prout and his aggregation was close behind with 65 points. Thursday's first place finishing rink skipped by Dick Roelofson finished well out in front with a total of 69 points. In second spot, ten points back came rinks headed by Ross Marshall and Lorne Passmore. Last week's scores were: D. Parsons 8 — M. Gaiser 3 W. Kraft 9 — E. Fink 5 G. Finnen 10 — E. Powe 3 R. Murley 12 — B. Alexander 3 J. Hewitt 7 — L. Learn 6 Ross Hodgert 11 — P. Raymond 6 G. McCarter 9 — G. Busche 6 B. Morgan 10 — M. Moore 2 W. Seldon 6 — H. Snell 5 C. Down 9 Jim Finnen 3 B. Cann 7 — N. Walper 6 G. Prout 6 — K. McDonald 5 J. Pinder 13 — S. Simmons 2 H. Sherwood 10 — L. Passmore 4 L. Webber 6 — B. McLean 4 R. Marshall 9 — D. Roelofson 4 M. Hodgert 10 — H. Strang 5 D. Jermyn 7 — E. Rowe 7 No change for darters The two top clubs in the Exeter Legion mixed dart league each came up with four points in Friday's weekly action to keep the standings the same. The Hairpins are in top spot with 47 points while the Sharpshooters are only one point back. Last week's scores were: Turtles 5 — Canners 0 Sharpshooters 4 — B & J's 1 Itchy Four 4 — Nothings 1 Hairpins 4 — Dart Sharks 1 Dark Angels 4 — Featherflights 1 Cleaners 3 — Doublers 2 Dutchies 3 — Scotties 2 Exeter minors win tripleheader The weekly triple header at -the Exeter arena involving the three Exeter minor hockey clubs participating in the Shamrock produced an oddity. All three games ended with a score of 3-1. The visiting bantam clubs were victorious in the pee wee and bantam games while the locals captured the midget contest. Steve Schroeder scored the only Exeter goal in the pee wee tilt while Dave Flaherty counted twice and Paul Flaherty notched a single for the visitors from Lambeth. John Dorscht notched two scores and Bob Marr added as singleton to produce the bantam win for Lambeth while Perry Stover was the lone marksmen for Exeter. In the midget contest, in which the Exeter boys kept their season winning streak intact, Peter Kleinstiver, Randy Tiernan and Brian Bestard shared the scoring while Ed Psitters counted the only marker for the visitors. Junior Hockey Tues., Dec. 30 8:30 p.m. Lucan Arena Belmont Vs. Lucan Irish and Wed., Jan. 7 Mitchell vs. Lucan Irish Page 18 Times-Advocate, December 23, 1969 Gems of the 60's