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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1970-04-16, Page 6LLICAN:ILVERTON JETS The Huron Park hockey club culminated a successful season Thursday night by winning the Exeter and district Rec hockey league championship. The Park club trounced Newby Tire 9-2 to take the best-of-three series two-games-to-one and win the league trophy. Larry Brintnell was the top scorer for Huron Park in the final game with a three goal performance. Close behind with two goals Softball Rules Clink Usborne Central School Thurs., Apr. 16 8 P.M. AU persons interested in coaching or umpiring in the Usborne Minor Softball leagues are urged to attend, WADE INSURANCE AGENCY D.T. 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EXETER GOLF COURSE 1 Mile South of Exeter and 1/2 Mile East Open This Weekend Weather Permitting rf of MEMBERSHIP FEES FOR THE 1970 SEASON Men . . . $40 Students ... $20 Ladies . $25 Juniors . $15 Family . $85 GREEN FEES Week Days $1.00 Weekends $1.50 PRO SHOP • All Lines of Golfing Equipment • Club Rentals SNACK BAR Phone 235-1517 OPEN THIS WEEKEND, (Weath6r Permitting) 1 AUSABLE GOLF COURSE Located 114 miles east of Intersection 4 and 83 highways and 'A mile south Page -6 Times-Advocate, April 164, 1470 FOR ALL poop SPORTS By Roes Haugh Heading east This year the hockey season both nationally and locally will stretch out longer than usual with the pros going well into the month of May. The National Hockey league playoffs will certainly go into the second week of May while the Ontario Hockey Association finals involving the Lucan-liderton Jets and Napanee Comets could go as late as April 29. In the opening games of the provincial final played at the Huron Park arena at Centralia over the weekend, each team won one game. The series now shifts back to Napanee with garnes slated for Saturday night and Sunday afternoon. In a toss of a coin Sunday afternoon, the Napanee club was victorious and the fifth game will also be played in the Eastern Ontario town, the following Friday, April 24. If a sixth game is necessary it will go at the Huron Park arena, Sunday afternoon, April 26 with the seventh and deciding contest slated for the Napanee arena on Tuesday or Wednesday of the following week, depending on the night the NHL clubs will be televised. We are expecting to make the trip with the Jets to Napanee Saturday morning. The Jets possess an excellent playoff record on the road and they will need to continue this if they wish to bring home the provincial championship. The Jets were forced to win two games on the road against the tough Durham Huskies in the group final and had to come back with three wins away from home to eliminate the Tillsonburg Apollos in the first round of provincial play. We were told by Bill Moore, the manager of the Napanee team during the past weekend that the Comet team had been reading of the Jets activities the last couple of weeks when it became probable the two clubs could meet in the Ontario final. Apparently Ken Christian, manager of the Napanee branch of the Bank of Montreal is a Times-Advocate subscriber and passed on some of his recent copies, Christian, was manager of the Hensall branch from 1957 to 1963. We also learned that the Napanee coach Walt Gerow played professional hockey with the London Mohawks of the Michigan-Ontario league in 1939 after trying out with the Detroit Red Wings. Getting home after Sunday's game we checked some of our old scrap books and found Gerow's name in the line-up along with some familiar names as Jary Taylor and Pickles MacNichol. Gerow's son Rick, is one of the stars of the Comet club and scored two goals in his team's 5-2 win over the Jets, Sunday, We still feel confident the Jets can bounce back from their second game loss and take the championship but it will take an all-out effort in every game from every player. The Jets had a two-week layoff after the Tillsonburg series and they seemed tired in Sunday's second game after putting on a good performance in Saturday's opener, that they won by a 9-2 score. The Napanee club finished a tough series with Elmvale Thursday night and then made the long trip to Centralia Saturday and couldn't be expected to play their best in the first game. They showed Sunday afternoon that with proper rest they will be in the thick of the battle for the championship and we wouldn't be surprised if the series goes the full seven games. Hockey School Again Boys of this area will be interested to learn that the Canadian hockey-sport training camp will be returning to Centralia Industrial Park again this year. The hockey school started last year by Paul Roach has a little different approach than most camps of this nature. The school endeavours to provide the stimulus for minor hockey registrants to combine an educational career with that of hockey. Each boy that registers will be entered in the minor hockey scouting registry office and registered with the 73 colleges offering hockey scholarships in the United States. The program is designed to help boys improve their skills, fitness and personalities through physical activities. At the end of the camp, boys will be given written reports, grading strengths and weaknesses and providing drills to cure the week spots and add muscle to the strong ones. The educators, who are knowledgeable in hockey will adjust the program to the learning ability of the group generally and to the individual in particular. Every boy will, therefore, have an opportunity of developing his full potential at his own level. Scouting for Punch While talking about the upcoming hockey school at Huron Park, we would like to mention that the organizer Paul Roach dropped in to see us Tuesday afternoon. Paul has been busy the past six months scouting for Punch Imlach and the new National hockey league club at Buffalo. He has been covering the American College scene, a total of 43 hockey clubs. Roach feels that most of the new expansion players will come from the American college clubs and that pro* hockey will be leaning more and more to providing better education for their players. The calibre of players and coaches is certainly improving in college tanks. Rumors early this week have Ned Harkness, present coach of Cornell University moving up to take over the head coaching post with the Detroit Red Wings with Sid Able handling the general manager duties only, Roach told us that interest in the new Buffalo team is high with 5,500 season tickets already sold for next year with almost half of that amount coming from Canadian subscribers. Rules Clink At the Osborne Central School tonight, Thursday, a softball rules clinic will be held for persons connected with the Osborne township minor softball leagues. Anyone interested in coaching or umpiring in the girls and boys minor leagues this year are urged to attend. In this first session, persons having an ()ASA rule book of last year is asked to bring it along. Play in Napanee this weekend WIN SHAMROCK CHAMPIONSHIP — The Exeter novice hockey club went through the Shamrock schedule and playoffs undefeated and won the league championship Saturday by edging Lambeth 3-2. The championship club is shown above. Back, left, coach Bob Pooley, Perry Pooley, Norm McCauley, Brian Clarke, Steve Baynham, Brian Horrell, Randy Fisher, Paul Pooley and manager Ron Bogart. Front, trainer Mark Hearn, David Bogart, Michael Brintnell, Robbie Heard, Laurie Skinner and Brad Taylor. A COIN THAT FLIPPED THE WRONG WAY — Before Sunday's game of the OHA Intermediate "B" finals at the Huron Park arena, a coin was tossed to decide the venue of the fifth game of the series. Shown above in the centre making the flip is Hugh McLean, London of the OHA executive while managers Ian Dallas of the Lucan-Ilderton Jets and Jim Moore of the Napanee Comets look on. Napanee won the toss. T-A photo REC WINNERS FROM HURON PARK — The Huron Park hockey club last week won the Exeter and district Rec hockey league championship. The team is shown above. Back, left, Don Appleby, Bob Hunter, Al Fisher, Gerry Reihl and coach Bob Lammie. Centre, Frank Boyle, Larry Brintnell, Grant Turner, Chuck Andrews and Don Cooper. Front, Bob Pinter, Bob Naden, Gerry Cooper, Don Hart and Dave Bourdeau. T-A photo Another change in dart leaders For the first time in many weeks, the Hairpins have lost their lead atop the Exeter Legion mixed dart league. The Dart Sharks edged the Hairpins 3.2 in Friday's regular action to take over first place with a 93 point total, one more than the perennial leaders. The Dark Angels also moved into contention for first place with a five-point performance to up their season point total to 91, good for third place. Last week's scores were: B & J's 3 — Sharpshooters 2 Doublers 5 — Cleaners 0 Shiphunters 3 —B & W's 2 Turtles 3 — Canners 2 Itchy Four 4 — Nothings 1 Scotties 5 — Dutchies 0 Dart Sharks 3 — Hairpins 2 Dark Angels 5 — Featherflights STANDINGS Dart Sharks • ..... 93 Hairpins 02 Dark Angels 91 Sharpshooters , . ... „ 89 'turtles „ , 84 Doublers „ 76 Itchy Four .. ..., 68 13 8t , — „ „. 68 Cleaners 65 Canners * * 4 if 4.1kWYW FeaLnertligiltS w 64 .A. B & W's • y • .0.4111.100i0.41111 62 Shiphunters , — . 61 Dutchies .. . . . . -kw . 69 Scotties *a oVew "wee... 56 N othings ..... , — 11 if 'if. • 87 Huron Park wins title ww.ii• 64 to his credit was Bob Pinter while single goals were fired by Frank Boyle, Chuck Andrews, Don Hart and Hub Hunter. Both Newby scores were notched by Jack Glover with Bob MacDonald assisting Lose flip for fifth game The Lucan-Ilderton Jets have a tough row to hoe in the next couple of weeks if they hope to win the Ontario Hockey Association Intermediate "B" championship. After splitting the opening two games of the provincial final with the Napanee Comets at the Huron Park arena at Centralia over the weekend, the Jets must win at least two games in Napanee to bring home the coveted crown. The Jets have a good playoff record on the road, They won two games against the tough Durham Huskies in Durham and were victorious three times in Tillsonburg in disposing of the Apollos. In the opening game at Huron Park, Saturday night, the Jets showed the two-week layoff didn't do them much harm as they skated to a decisive 9-2 win over the Comets who had just completed a long 285-mile bus trip from Napanee. Sunday afternoon, it was a different story with the Comets being the club that was ready to soar and the Jets were grounded after a futile attempt in the first period to get airborne. The Comets from Napanee were full value for their 5.2 win Sunday afternoon to deadlock the best-of-seven series at a game apiece. The third game is being played at the Napanee arena Saturday night at eight o'clock with the fourth contest slated for the same spot Sunday afternoon at two o'clock. Due to a successful flip of a coin Napanee will be host for the fifth game on Friday, April 24 at nine o'clock with a sixth game if necessary back at Huron Park, Sunday afternoon, April 26. In Sunday's game won by Napanee by a 5.2 count, the Jets swarmed to the attack and controlled play for most of the first period but were unable to put the puck past Dave Gavel in the visitors net. The first Napanee shot of the game at Wayne Parkinson in the Lucan-Ilderton net didn't come until the seven minute mark of the first period. Early in the opening period, Jet playing coach Jack Nairn hit the goal post on two occasions. The first goal of the game was accomplished by a lot of fore checking and hard work by the Napanee forwards. Near the 13-minute mark, Brian Stinson stole the puck behind the Jet net and sent a perfect pass out front to Rick Gerow who was left open about ten feet in front. Gerow made no mistake with a quick shot that found the Jet goal successfully. The teams each scored once in the second period to give the Comets a 2-1 game edge after forty minutes of play. In the first two periods the Jets outshot the visitors 32-14. Near the nine minute mark of the third period Rick Gerow scored what proved to be the winning goal for Napanee on a long hard shot from outside the L-I blueline. Early in the second, Earl Smith picked up a loose puck near centre ice and had a clear path to the L-I goal and was able to beat Parkinson cleanly. Near the end of the period, Jamie Robb gave the Jet supporters their first opportunity to really cheer when he whacked in a rebound on a play started by Jack Nairn and Steve Storey on a power play. Gerow fired his long shot that proved to be the difference in the game at 8.35 of the final period. Bob Dickson scored the fourth Napanee goal near the 12-minute mark before the Jets scored their final marker. Jamie Robb completed another three-way passing play, this time with Larry Hossack and Jacques Cousineau. Only twenty seconds after ,Robb's second score of the game, Dickson was back on the score sheet again for the Comets finding the net on a sharp-angle shot. A total of 27 penalties were called by referee Bruce McFadden of London with 18 of them going to Napanee, including a ten minute misconduct to Jim Stinson in the second period. The linesmen were Gerard Overholt and Don Clarke. Dave Gavel in the Napanee goal turned in an exceptional performance especially in the first two periods. The Jets wasted little time in showing the small crowd of about 500 Saturday night that they were going to take the first game of the series. Coach Jack Nairn took a pass from Steve Storey on the iirst play of the game and waltzed in to beat Dave Gavel in the Napanee nets. By the eleven minute mark, the Jets had upped their game scoring total to four without a reply from the visitors. Jamie Robb scored the second and third goals with line-mates Jacques Cousineau and Jim Bender assisting each time, Nairn was back with his second score at 11.25 to put him on even terms with Robb Storey and Larry FIossack assisted on the pray. Robb scored his third goal of the game early in the second with Jim Bender providing the passing help before Napanee hit the scoreboard for the first time. Rpn Vanalstine was the Comet goal getter with Jack Smith and Dale Huyck getting assists. Before the period came to a dose, Jack Nairn completed his third scoring effort on a play started by Hossack and Storey. The third period saw the Jets score three times with the visiting Comets only able to come up with one successful scoring effort. Nairn scored the first Jet goal of the third period to up his 1,1 game total to four. Defenceman Ron Cauduro and forward Doug Galloway gained assists, Dusty Aldis scored from Dave Webster at 14.43 and less than a minute later Steve Storey scored from Nairn to wind up the night's scoring. Cruji fired the final Napanee goal on a play started by Gerry Conway. OA 4.) Jets get even split in OHA finals