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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1971-04-22, Page 6Pogo 6 Timos-Advocato, April 22, 1971 11111111111111111111111NNINNINIONIMOMMI11111011111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111M111111111111111111111 FOR ALL GOOD SPORTS By Ross Haugh Use any adjective RELAXING ON THE TRIP — Most members of the Exeter Hawks whiled away some of the time on Saturday's bus trip to Haliburton by playing cards. John Gould and Bob Rowe are watching in the background as Brian Bestard, Fred Wells, Joe O'Rourke and Steve Murley study their hands. T-A photo Goo E IIlipit SAK You're never too old for the refreshment of milk! It's a taste-tempting, vita- min-rich summer cooler. Enjoy dairy-fresh milk de- livered to your door or at your favorite store. EXETER DAIRY PHONE 235.2144 FAN SUPPORT HELPED — The excellent support given the Hawks by local fans in Haliburton on the weekend helped the youngsters to turn in a top notch brand of hockey. Shown with a GO Hawks Go banner are Joe O'Rourke, Marg Murley and Val and Ann Gould. 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LIMITED Chevrolet — Oldsmobile PHONE 235-0660 EXETER The Home of Guardian Maintenance '1995 '1995 1195 1695 1395 1395 1095 Exeter Minor Bowling League Bowling Banquet Monday, April 26 6:30 p.m. at at Exeter Legion Hall All registered members welcome to attend Any mother wishing to help please be at the Legion at 6:00 p.m. ALL-ONTARIO JUNIOR D' FINAL Cheer The Hawks On To Victory...At The EXETER ARENA Note time 8:00 p.m. Sixth Game in Best-of-seven Series EXETER HAWKS vs HALIBURTON HUSKIES The Best Junior 'D' Teams In Ontario! Tremendous, terrific! They are only a couple of adjectives that could be used to describe the performances of the Exeter Hawks in their two week-end games in Haliburton, Especially after losing 74 to the Huskies Saturday night, the game Hawks battled back and clearly outhustled their Haliburton opposition Sunday afternoon to win 4-2. With far from having the healthiest hockey team in the world, the Hawks showed a tremendous spirit in defeating a hard hitting club. We were in the Haliburton press box when the tree stars were selected for each game and Sunday afternoon, it would have been easy to name at least a half dozen stars from the local roster. Right from goalie John Hayter out through the defensive corps to the speedy forwards, everybody gave his best and then a little bit more. What we said in last week's column — that it will take a top effort from every member of the club for a full three periods to win the Ontario championship — was revealed over the weekend. They played an excellent game Saturday night and were only one goal down with less than seven minutes to go in the third period. But Sunday's effort was more than one hundred per cent and everyone of the large crowd of local supporters was very proud of the boys. Some of the boys were far from being at full capacity as far as health is concerned, but despite `hurting', played their best game of the season against the best club they have faced in many a year. Accounts of the two games in Haliburton will be found elsewhere on these pages so here we will stick to reporting other items of interest. One of the reasons for the good showing of the Hawks over the week-end, after some local supporters had counted them out, was the terrific turnout of Exeter residents. In addition to the 24-man hockey contingent, about 60 fans were on hand for the Saturday night game with a few more in attendance Sunday afternoon. While not making the trip, a large number of Exeter and district businesses were making goodly financial contributions to enable the club to make the long trip by bus. Thanks to the canvassing abilities of Val Gould and Marg Murley, the merchants of town gave excellent support to the Hawks travel fund. Tickets are being sold until April 30 on a $100 cash prize with all proceeds -going to the same cause helping the Hawks to the OHA championship. While the Exeter fans were fewer in number than their Haliburton counterparts they more than made up for lack of quantity with an abundance of noise. Both cheering sections used the same 'Go, Go' slogans so it was difficult to distinguish between the two. We can't say enough for the accommodation at the Wig-a-mog Inn that was available to most visitors from Exeter. Hosts Joan and Art Ward did more than was necessary to make the Hawks and their supporters welcome. We are sure a lot of fans, including this reporter, gained a few pounds after partaking of the delicious food served up at the Wig-a-mog. We expect to travel with the Hawks again Friday when they return to Haliburton for the fifth contest. The sixth is set for the Exeter arena, Sunday. If any fans wish to make the Friday trip they can contact Alvin Willert. If the bus is filled Willert said he may be able to make connections with some people driving up in the afternoon. The team expects to leave at nine in the morning again by Charterways bus with driver Joe Vautour at the controls. In our opinion, travelling by bus contributed a lot to the morale of the club. All players were able to be together and talk about the upcoming games. They are also able to get up and stretch in the aisles whenever they feel like it and the addition of a few staunch fans certainly didn't do any harm. The enthusiasm shown by the players and the fans as they left the bus prior to Sunday afternoon's game was terrific with many calls of "let's get them". Talk to pro During Sunday's game at Haliburton we had an interesting chat with Ron Stackhouse who took a regular turn on the California Seals defence this past season. Stackhouse, a resident of Haliburton played junior with the Huskies for two years before moving up to the Peterborough Petes for 1967-68 and 1968-69 season. The following year he was with the Providence Reds and then moved up to the NHL for his rookie year. When asked about the calibre of hockey in this year's junior "D" final, Stackhouse replied, "It must be better than when I played, we never made the provincial finals." While talking to the young pro, the subject of the Boston Bruins came up and he said he was very surprised that the Canadiens were eliminating the Boston club. While playing junior in Peterborough, Stackhouse along with his coach Roger Nielsen was responsible for a change in the OHA rule book. Whenever a penalty shot was called against his Peterborough club, Nielsen would send Stackhouse out to replace the goalie and as soon as the forward would cross the blue line, the big defenceman would start moving out and in most cases would be able to make a poke check on the incoming forward. Under the new rules, a goalie cannot be changed for a penalty shot try. Pastor at mike The announcer handling the public address system at Saturday night's game was Rev, John Smith, a Baptist church minister ' Rev. Smith who has a three-point charge had a service at West Guilford Sunday afternoon and his place at the mike was taken by Huskie rrNnager Scott Larue who is a very versatile fellow. Larue, who owns the club along with his father also drives the bus for most of the club travelling, Four games have been played in the Ontario Hockey Association Junior "D" finals ,and the Exeter Hawks and Haliburton. Huskies are all even. After splitting the first two games of the best-of-seven series in Exeter a week earlier, the two teams met in Haliburton over the, past weekend and each was able to come up with a victory. Saturday night the Huskies from Haliburton scored a 7-4 win in an exciting well played con- test. Sunday afternoon it was a different story as the Hawks determined to show their good following of fans they were still in the running came through with a decisive 4-2 victory. The Hawks travel back to Haliburton Friday night for an 8.30 contest and the two clubs will be back at the Exeter arena Sunday night at eight o'clock for the sixth contest. If a seventh game is necessary, it will be played back in Haliburton, Saturday May 1 at eight o'clock, The starting time of the sixth game in Exeter was set back to eight at night in order to have a better sheet of ice if the weather continues to stay warm. Team effort Sunday's win for the Hawks by a 4-2 score was accomplished on a full 1.00 percent effort by every member of the team. The hard working Exeter youngsters proved that their pattern of the regular schedule of coming from behind in numerous games was no fluke. Goalie John Hayter and cap- tain Larry Laye were chosen as two of the three stars in the game but at least a half dozen other Hawks were in contention with their outstanding play. Defenceman Joe O'Rourke led the Exeter blueline brigade with an outstanding performance. Late in the game when the Huskies were applying pressure 0' Rourke was sliding all over the place blocking shots. Hayter's play in goal was nothing less than sensational as he kicked out pucks from all angles and Laye led the scoring attack with a two goal effort. The game started out a bit slower than Saturday night's pace but it didn't take long to quicken. Bob Woodcock of the Huskies opened the scoring at 10.50 of the first period on a play started by Cam Botting. Exactly six minutes later the score was all tied up with Pete Glover whistling in one of his hard slap shots from the left point. Assists on the scoring play coming in succession. To add to the pressure, the Hawks played the last six minutes of the game with at least one man in the penalty box, The Saturday night crowd was 1433 with 808 attendance Sunday afternoon. Exciting start Saturday's game started out at a terrific pace with first one team and then the other having golden scoring opportunities and that's the way it continued for the full 60 minutes. Goalies John Hayter of the Hawks and Huskies' Lewis Dummitt were kept busy as both clubs persisted with back - and forth action but both youngsters were able to keep their opposition off the score sheet for the first period. The Huskies drew five penalties in the first period and the Hawks were assessed three but no goals were produced, In the second session it was a different story with Haliburton scoring two of their three goals when the Hawks were short handed with their only penalties of the period. Defenceman Joe O'Rourke was off on both oc- casions. Similarily, the only Exeter goal of the middle frame was fired on a power play with Cam Botting of the Huskies resting in the sin bin. The scoring opened at 2.03 with Craig Stamp finding the mark on a pass from Bob Woodcock to put the Huskies out in front. The Hawks tying goal organized the play by carrying the puck near the blue line to Larry Haugh who stick handled in close and slid a pass to left winger Steve Murley who was able to flip the puck into the net from a sharp angle. At 17.05 the Huskie lead was regained as Bob Woodcock scored on a rebound of a shot by. Cam Botting. With less than a minute to go, Haliburton went in front 3-1 when the Exeter defence failed to get the puck out of their own end and Botting scored on a combination with Gerry McElwain and Craig Stamp. The first nine minutes of the final period was scoreless and then things happened in a hurry with five goals coming in a space of two minutes and thirty seconds. Rick Wood started the hurried scoring with a Haliburton goal at 9.25. Fifteen seconds later it was Steve Murley whistling in his second successful shot from the left side. Persistent forechecking paid off for Craig Stamp as he stole the puck behind the Exeter net and moved it around the side and into the corner of the net before John Hayter could get set at 10.50. This time it took the Hawks only five seconds to come back with Bob Rowe getting the draw at centre, flipping the puck over to the left wing to Larry Laye and the Hawks captain sent one of his quick wrist shots into the net from near the blueline. Exactly one minute later it was another quick drive from Laye that beat Lewis Dummitt in the Huskies cage to cut the Haliburton lead to 5-4. Assists went to Mike Hoy and Joe O'Rourke. With, the Hawks continuing to press, the Huskies were able to breakaway for two more scores in the last six minutes to ensure their victory, Jim Cowan notched the first with help coming from Gerry McElwain .and Dan Carpentier.. The final score was Craig Stamp's third of the night. Assists went. to McElwain and Rotting. The three stars of the game were Craig Stamp and - Bob Woodcock of Haliburton and Randy Preszcator of the Hawks. A total of 19 penalties, 11 to the Huskies were handed out by referees Gerry Blodgett and Jim Orr of Peterborough, The Hawks outshot the Huskies 35-26. GREAT GOALING — One of the main reasons for the fine showing of the Exeter Hawks in Haliburton over the weekend was the excellent play by goalie John Hayter. The young netminder is shown here making one of many stops during the two games in the north. T-A photo B ack in Exeter Sunday night Hawks rally to tie final went to Mike Hoy and Randy Preszcator. While only one goal was scored in the second period, each team had good scoring chances. The best Haliburton chance that failed to materialize came near the midway mark when Gerry McElwain stole the puck from Ron Janke near centre ice, but the big defenceman with a tremendous effort was able to get back and force McElwain to the side and John Hayter came up with a good sliding stop. Later in the period in quick order it was Mike Hoy, Larry Laye, Ron Lindenfield, Steve Murley and Larry Haugh missing good chances, Hoy shot the puck over the top of the net after being set up by Randy Preszcator. Laye fanned on a shot in close. Lindenfield missed the net on Murley's rebound and Haugh bounced one off the post. The only score of the second period was on a good three-way combination for the Huskies. Dan Carpenter was the marksman with help coming from Derrell Stamp and Jim Cowan. If the pace was considered fast in the second period it was super fast in the third as the Hawks battled to get back in contention. Close to the six minute mark, Larry Laye missed a good chance on a pass from Bob Rowe but perseverance paid off as the same pair were responsible for the tying goal only seconds later. Rowe dug the puck out of the corner and Laye made no mistake with one of his patented quick wrist shots. Only seconds later, the Hawks kid line swooped in on goal as Peter Kleinstiver took a pass from Randy Preszcator right in front of the net only to_have Bob Woodcock make a diving block. On the next play it was back to the other end with John Hayter coming through with a beautiful skate stop on a two-man Haliburton break: The winning and insurance goals for the Hawks came in quick succession. Laye fired the winner and his second of the afternoon on a quick back hander showing his versatility on all kinds of shots. Rowe again set up the score. With the cheers of the close to 100 Exeter fans still ringing, Mike Hoy broke down the right wing and picked the top far corner of the net with a hard shot as Dummitt came well out of the net and appeared to have the angle cut down pretty well. Defenceman Joe O'Rourke and Ron Janke combined with passes to set Hoy into the clear. With a two goal lead the Hawks forwards checked like demons, the defence forced the opposition to the corners, blocked shots and Hayter continued his hot hand in goal to keep the Huskies from any further scoring. This time, the Hawks drew 17 of the 32 penalties called by the same referees as Saturday night's contest. Ron Janke had the dubious honour of being called for seven infractions, six