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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1971-03-11, Page 6o n t Imes-Advocate,. March 11, 1971. 111111111111111111188888aiatallaalliallaila11111111111101111810811111111881lialliallimaimaillial1811111111111111 A good day Saturday's Minor Hockey Day celebration at the Exeter arena was one of the most successful staged by the Exeter Minor Hockey Association. It may riot have been the best as far as finances are concerned but the player and parent participation was excellent. Due to the postponement of the original day about a month ago because of the storm, the schedule was completely revised, allowing more of the youngsters to participate. It certainly was a well organized and well-run 13 hours of hockey with almost all of the 225 Exeter and district boys registered with the EMHA taking part. The morning was devoted to house league play with novice and novice teams playing. The eleven o'clock slot was taken by the youngest members of the group showing off their wares to parents and friends. Some of these boys are only five and six years of age. We were pleased with the performances of the four teams from Huron Park who won three of their four games. While they were playing the Exeter No. 2 teams, the Huron Park boys showed plenty of hockey ability and augers well for their minor hockey program that gives boys not only from Huron Park, but from Centralia, Crediton and Mount Cannel a chance to play. Probably the most exciting game of the day was the OMHA novice playoff between Exeter and Petrolia. The Exeter boys scored twice in the third period to gain a 4-2 decision. The two teams were back at it in Petrolia, Sunday afternoon and in a real thriller Exeter won 1-0 to advance to the third round against either Stoneybrook or Byron. Three stars were selected in each of Saturday's games excluding the house league action. While in charge of the selections we would like to thank all the fellows that helped pick the stars in the various games throughout the day. Congratulations to the Exeter Minor Hockey Association executive and everyone that helped make Saturday a real successful day. This includes, the arena staff, rink rats, mothers that helped prepare lunches for the boys and many other volunteer helpers. Another top scorer A former Exeter minor hockey star is currently one of the top scorers in the British Columbia junior hockey league. As of February 8, Chris Riddell had collected a total of 70 points, good for fifth place in the BC league standing. While his father Lyle Riddell was stationed with the RCAF at Centralia and Clinton, Chris played squirt and pee wee hockey in Exeter. Five other players of the same pee wee team that won the WOAA championship in 1962-63 are now valuable members of this year's Exeter Hawk juniors. They are Ron Janke, Joe O'Rourke, Larry Haugh, Jim Guenther and Ron Lindenfield. The goalie on that team was Mike McLaughlin, the same fellow that is in the nets this year for Belmont and giving the Hawks plenty of trouble. A strong game During our frequent visits to the Exeter curling club we often hear comments on the strong points of various curlers. They are quite right when they use the term strong. The curling rocks weigh about 42 pounds each. In a three game bonspiel of eight ends, each curler tosses 48 rocks. This means each competitor handles slightly more than one ton of granite during each 'spiel. It happened Hockey experts have argued long and loud for many years over the topic of when a goal was last scored by a goal tender in professional hockey. According to a recent story in the Hockey News it had never happened until February 21 of this year. In a central league game in Kansas City, goalie Michael Plasse scored an unassisted goal by shooting the puck the length of the ice into the unguarded Oklahoma City net with the goalie out for an extra attacker. The closest a goalie has come to scoring in modern NHL times was two years ago when Ed Giacomin of the Rangers hit the goal-post in a similar situation with the opposing net empty. We vaguely remember hearing a story of a goalie skating the length of the ice in a professional game in London back in the 1920's. As we remember the goalie's name was Herbie Stuart. If any of the old timers can recall this incident we would be glad to hear from them. Resort club captures WOAA pee wee title GRAND BEND'S HOCKEY CHAMPS — The Grand Bend pee wees in their first attempt won the Western Ontario Athletic Association pee wee championship and will be advancing in OMHA play. The new champions are, back, left, Torn Thomas, Toni Baird, Mike Jackson, Stephen Baird, Steve Hodgins and Mac Richardson. Middle row, assistant coach Griff Thomas, Charles Borland, Scott Flear, Kevin Daters, Robbie Teevins and assistant coach Bob Chapelaine. Front, Randy Lovie, Stephen Jennison, coach Bill Baird, Cameron Haist and Rick Martens. Hawks one up on Belmont, all wins by a single goal Bears, Park lead in Rec The Dashwood Bears and Huron Park Plugs are one game up in the first rounds of playoffs in the Exeter and district Rec hockey league. In Thursday's opening games, Dashwood edged the Bank Boys 3-2 while Huron Park dumped Newby Tire 7-1. Newby Tire finished in first place after completion of the regular schedule one point ahead of the Bears while Huron Park placed third and the Bank Boys finished fourth. To-night's second games in the best-of-five set will have Newby Tire and Huron Park meeting in the opener at eight o'clock with Dashwood and the Bank Boys tangling at 9.30. The Dashwood scoring in their win over the Bank Boys was taken care of by Gary Grant, Jim Morrissey and Bob Becker with one goal apiece. Paul and Pete Mason notched one goal each to account for the Bank Boys tallying. Bob Pinter's hat trick per- , formance led the Huron Park win over Newby Tire. Scoring the balance in single fashion were Bob Pinter, Larry Brintnell, Glenn Neal and B. Bodycott. Brintnell's goal came on a penalty shot in the first period. Mike Cushman was the only marksman for the Newby club. LARRY LAVE STEVE MURLEY ... score Winning goals BENEFIT HOCKEY GAME Zurich Arena Sunday, March 14 2 p.m. HENSALL-ZURICH CO-OPS (Junior "D") VS HENSALL-ZURICH COMBINES (Former Alt.-Ontario Champions) All Proceeds for Injured Players Adults 'with Child: $1. Students:50e Children 25e OHA INTERMEDIATE 'B' HOCKEY PLAY-OFFS FRIDAY, MAR. 12 8.30 p.m. HURON PARK Arena LUCAN-ILDERTON JETS Will Meet Either Elmira Polar Kings . In the Fifth Game of their semi-final or the Durham Huskies In the First Game of the Group final Langford Lumber and Scott's E levators Are Jet Supporters OHA JUNIOR ‘D' GROUP FINAL EXETER ARENA Friday, March 12 8:30 P.M. Belmont Sunsets VS Exeter Hawks * * * * Seventh game if necessary Tuesday, March 16 8:30 p.m. OK USED CAR SALE RECENT TRADE-INS ON 1971 CHEVROLETS & OLDSMOBILES 1969 CHEVELLE SPORT COUPE t1995 automatic, radio, rear defogger, license # K34696 1968 OLDSMOBILE 4-door sedan, power steering and brakes, radio, 2195 balance 50,000 mile 5-year warranty, 'V I icense K31069 1967 CHEVROLET IMPALA 4-door $ 1395 hardtop, power steering and brakes, vinyl roof, license K34754 1967 CHEVROLET uEL AIR SEDAN $1195 automatic, radio, license K34702 1967 CHEVROLET IMPALA 2-door 1495 hardtop, power steering and brakes; 'P radio, license K34704 1966 PLYMOUTH FURY III SPORT 95 COUPE buckets and console, power # steering, license K34705 1966 CHEVROLET IMPALA SPORT c10 95 , COUPE automatic, radio, license K34708 1964 CHEVROLET IMPALA SUPER SPORT buckets and console, power t 795 steering and brakes,Ninyl roof, license °F K34756 SNELL BROS. LIMITED Chevrolet -- Oldsmobile PHONE 235.0660 EXETER The Home of Guardian Maintenange Reach third provincial round Novice advance in OMHA game late in the third period gave the Sunsets their Sunday 4-3 win. The same scoring pattern was in effect, on Tuesday, only in reverse. The Hawks took an early lead with Belmont coming back to tie things up and then score the winner. Brian Bestard shot the Hawks into an early lead on a play started by Pete Kleinstiver. Before the period was over, Brian Abbey and Doug Stormes had Laye nets winner It was Larry Laye's goal with only 36 seconds left in the first overtime period that gave the Hawks their opening 4-3 win on a three-way effort with Bob Rowe and Randy Preszcator. The teams were even-stephen through regulation time with two goals each in the second period and a single counter apiece in the third frame. Laye scored both Hawk goals in the second period as he started on the way to his hat trick. Ron Janke and Bob Rowe assisted on the first score with Mike Hoy and Pete Glover helping on the second. Brian Abbey scored both Belmont goals in the second period. A pair of No. 9's handled the scoring in the third period, Randy Preszcator for the Hawks and Ed Landon for Belmont. even terms by scoring twice with Belmont only replying once. Pete Glover scored on an unassisted effort and Randy Preszcator registered from Mike Hoy and Brian Bestard. Landon was the Belmont marksman in the second and he came back to score the winner in the third. The Grand Bend pee wees won the Western Ontario Athletic Association pee wee "D" championship in Belgrave, Friday night with an exciting 7-6 win over the Belgrave pee wees. The Grand Bend club now moves on into Ontario Minor Hockey Association playdowns. Their next opponent was not known at press time. Cameron Haist's second goal of the night with a minute and a half to go in overtime gave the victory to Grand Bend. The score was tied 4-4 after regulation time. Early in the extra session Steve Jennison scored two quick goals to give himself a hat trick but Belgrave fought back to tie the score again and set the stage for the winner. With time running out, Steve Jennison hit Cameron Haist with a perfect pass at the blue line and the youngster made no mistake as he fired a sharp shot into the right hand corner of the Belgrave net. Jennison led the Grand Bend scorers with his three goal performance while Haist and remaining in the game and the Exeter win was managed Tuesday night on a shot by Steve Murley, also in the last half of the final period. The fourth game was played last night, Wednesday in Belmont with the fifth slated for the Exeter arena, Friday night at 8:30. If a sixth contest is necessary it will go back in Belmont, Sunday afternoon and if a seventh and final game is needed, it's back to the Exeter arena, Tuesday night with the usual 8:30 starting time. Steve Murley's goal at 10:40 of the third period and solid Exeter defensive play to the finish sent the crowd of 537 fans home from the arena, Tuesday night in a happy frame of mind. The game was close all the way with never more than one goal separating the two clubs at anytime. Belmont opened the scoring in the first period with a goal from the stick, of Ed Landon. The Hawks came back with two unanswered goals in the middle session. Ron Janke tied the game at 1.48 of the second on three-way effort with Mike Hoy and Bob Rowe. Larry Laye put the Hawks ahead for the first time with less than five minutes to go in the period when he converted passes from Bob Rowe and Jim Guen- ther. Shortly after the halfway mark of the closing frame, Doug Hepburn tied the count at 2-2, but the deadlock didn't last very long as Steve Murley blasted the winner home only 19 seconds later with Pete Glover getting an assist. Late in third Ed Landon's second goal of the tallied for Belmont. In the second period, the Hawks got back on In slightly more than 24 hours the Exeter novice club moved another step along the Ontario. Minor Hockey Association playoff trail. On home ice Saturday af- ternoon as part of Exeter's minor hockey week observance, the local novice club downed Petrolia 4-2 in the first game of a best-of- three second round playdowns series. Back in Petrolia, Sunday af- ternoon, the Exeter youngsters posted a close 1-0 decision to LADIES'"A" LEAGUE MM (L. Pincombe 673) 7 107 OB (G. Webster 634) 0 97 DO (M. Lovie 604) 7 64 HS (R. Lessard 551) 0 64 BeB (M• Holtzmann 745) 5 BB (J. Campbell 745) 2 LE (N. Dowson 743) 5 CH (C. Moore 595) 2 HG (B. Sangster 667) 5 HD (R. Durand 692) 2 AB (P. Holmes 645) 4 PP (A. Fairbairn 672) 3 LADIES'"B" LEAGUE SP (R. Weber 573) 7 TT (M. Wells 569) 0 WB (L. Grasdahl 504) 7 IB (B. Campbell 529) 0 BL (A. Ford 573) 7 AC (B. Luxton 530) 0 HA (F. Ritchie 544) 5 MM (D. Wein 600) 2 GY (R. Negrijn 521) 5 DI (M. Hyde 525) 2 HO (B. McDonald 798) 7 JS (M. McKnight 511) 0 MIXED LEAGUE VA (P. McFalls 699) 5 114 RA (G. Eisenschink 575) 2 74 TLG (D. Goldsmith 546) 5 46 TM (H. Chappel 591) 2 71 CH (V. Smith 658) 4 106 PP (L. Bell 786) 3 72 BB (W. Glanville 634) 5 95 IR (D. Farris 639) 2 46 FA (B. Jones 588) 7 62 HE (G. Sereda 464) 0 45 HS (M. Bell 737) 5 102 AO (D. Hockey 617) 2 101 HH (B. Farquhar 686) 7 100 O&E (B. Crawford 599) 0 77 YS (B. Hodge 742) 7 86 CF (G. Pratt 627) 0 56 WI (D. McKnight 668) 7 101 M&P (M. Kadey 555) 0 115 PEE WEES & BANTAM GIRLS BE (J. Newby 267) 5 37 EL (B. MacDonald 179) 0 31 GI (J. Webb 258) 3 44 LI (C. Triebner 252) 2 26 CR (C. Harvey 219) 3 33 ZE (H. Eisenschink) 2 9 BANTAM BOYS WC (R. Carnie 264) 5 31 TI (R. Belling 245) 0 46 SD (B. Shaw 266) 3 40 RO (B. Mercer 277) 2 38 NH (D. Bell 284) 5 52 BJ (S. Wells 180) 0 33 JR. GIRLS & BOYS BO (V. Flynn 412) 5 37 JE (H. Brand 280) 0 19 KP (D. Holtzmann 325) 3 20 DO (K. Wurm 272) 2 15 Runaway for Dark Angels With the regular schedule of the Exeter Legion mixed dart league nearing completion, the Dark Angels have taken a commanding lead at the top of the standings. The Dark Angels are out in front with a total of 84 points.The Sharpshooters are second with 71, the Late Niters are right behind with 70 points and the B & J's are fourth with 69 points. Bill Smith continues to lead the most games won division for men with 39 while Barb Hearn's 27 is tops for the ladies. Last week's scores were: Dark Angels 4 - Sharpshooters 1 Late Niters 3 - Dart Sharks 2 B & J's 3 - D & S's 2 BA's 3 - Featherflights 2 Canners 3 - Itchy Four 2 Winkers 3 - Shiphunters 2 Noisy Ones 3 - Swimmers 2 eliminate Petrolia and advance to the next round. While definite word has not been received from OMHA of- ficials it is expected the next round opposition will come from either Stoneybrook or Byron. Late goal A, blazing slap shot from the blue line by Randy Fisher with only a minute to play in Petrolia Sunday afternoon gave the Exeter novice boys the narrow SR. GIRLS & BOYS CO (K. Campbell 424) 5 36 AT (R. Schroeder 327) 0 16 ST (J. Brintnell 455) 3 30 DY (S. Pfaff 449) 2 32 KED (D. Mohr 406) 3 41 CC (B. Wilson 410) 2 40 LUCAN MEN'S LEAGUE RE (G. Nurse 684) 3 37 SC (R. Acres557) 2 29 LH (W. Smith 660) 2 27 CS (K. Simpson 664) 1 27 FE (B. Gwalchmai 578) 1 27 BO (D. Morgan 648) 0 15 COLLEENS CO (M. Sockett 666) 7 93 RC (M. Dykeman 539) 2 71 TP (G. Zinn 573) 7 69 HH (L. Hayter 560) 0 66 SM (L. Harrison 664) 5 62 BS (M. Rydall 526) 0 59 margin of victory. On ' a face-off in the Petrolia end, Paul Pooley gained the draw and flipped the puck behind the net where Dave Bogart tipped the puck back to the point to Fisher and the game was over, The Exeter win was gained on a total team effort. Jim Veri in the Exeter nets turned in an out- standing performance as did Timmy Gilmore at the other end for petrolia. Veri's best stop came in the second period when a Petrolia • player was left loose . n a rebound and the local youngster stuck his arm up to block the shot. On two occasions Petrolia had a man advantage and the Exeter penalty killers of Paul and Perry Pooley, Randy Fisher and David Bogart did a good job of holding the fort. Quick start In the first game in Exeter Saturday afternoon, the locals were quick to reach the scoreboard with Perry Pooley taking the opening face-off pass from brother Paul and to fire the puck into the Petrolia net at the 12 second mark. Less than six minutes later Petrolia was back on even terms with Darren Syer scoring. In the second period each team again scored once. Syer was again the Petrolia marksman. Randy Fisher replied for Exeter with a high, hard slap shot from the left point with only 30 seconds remaining. At the 10 minute mark of the third period, Paul Pooley fired what proved to be the winning goal on a pass from Derek Regier. Only 50 seconds later, Randy Fisher added the in- surance with an identical drive from the same spot as his first successful shot. The final series for the championship of the western grouping of the Ontario Hockey Association Junior "D" series will be close right to the wire if the first three games are any indication of what is to come. While the Exeter Hawks lead the best-of-seven final against Belmont two games to one, each victory has been by a single goal. Home ice seems to be the difference to date. The Hawks opened the series with a 4-3 win on home ice, Friday night. Belmont came back to win by an identical score Sunday afternoon and the Exeter club moved ahead with a 3-2 win at the Exeter arena, Tuesday night. Decisions in each game have come late in each of the three games. In the first game, Exeter captain Larry Laye scored the fourth and winning goal with less than a minute to go in overtime. The Belmont win Sunday af- ternoon came on a goal by Ed Landon with less than 10 minutes captain Kevin Datars each scored twice. Datars received the WOAA trophy .from convenor Bert Clifford following the game. The Grand Bend club handled by coach Bill Baird and his assistants Bob Chapdelaine and Griff Thomas went through the regular season undefeated in their first year in regular com- petition, In playoff action they suffered their only defeat, a 1-0 loss to Zurich before winning the next two games. LADIES' CURLING P. Simmons 5 H. Mickle 3 E, Pinder 6 - S. MacDonald 4 D. Shapton 8 - D. Hackney 3 S. Mousseau 10 - N. Parsons 8 J. Hem 7 - S. Tryon 6 K. Simpson 7 - G. Gregus 2 L. Mickle 7 - D. hackney 3 L. Siegner 8 - P. Ballantyne 4 J. Borland 8 - J. Grant 4 D. Hackney 10 - N. Parsons 5 J. Grant 10 - L, Amos 9 Hodgert 7 - J. Taylor 6 S. Raymond 8 - J. Miller 6 79 51 93 80 125 66 92 99 87 68 58 61 =_ - IIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMMIMMIIIIMMIUMMOMMIMIIIIMIIIIIMMIIIIIIII MEN'S "Au LEAGUE TB (C. Miners 334) 3 48 IGA (A. Neal 789) 7 84 PB (M. Dougherty 314) 2 27 DH (J. Vader 682) 0 52 SP (B. Lavery 718) 5 85 UN (C. Cronkite 687) 2 96 FA (L. Little 812) 7 114 167 (C. McDonald 611) 0 67 CA (J. Bell 733) 5 130 RO (J. Fuller 852) 2 85 C4th (E. Matzold 876) 7 95 RB (J. Jones 702) 0 85 L&M (B. Farquhar 808) 7 91 SU (B. Cronkite 693) 0 66 79 LUCAN LADIES' LEAGUE 8 7. CC (J. Sleeper 594) 5 110 49 SP (H. Lewis 636) 7 107 87 DA (K. Haskett 642) 7 105 117 FS (J. McComb 594) 2 73 61 RA (A. Lewis 553) 2 72 51 HH (M. Elson 557) 0 71 102 SH (A. Scott 694 S. Bradley 614) 5 62 PI (M. McCarthy 601) 5 57 HO (M. Hardy 505) 2 56 CO (C. Diemert 566) 2 36 HB (M. McColl 507) 2 34 RO (L. Lightfoot 623) 0 18