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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1972-03-23, Page 67‘444 you The Huron Park Figure Skating Club would like to thank all those who helped to make the 1971-72 Season a success, Special thanks goes to those mothers who were able to come out and tie skates and monitor on the ice, and also to Stephen Twp. & O.D.C. Mr. Tom Somerville, Mrs. Sharon De Malo and Mr. John Link and his staff whose helped when needed, was greatly appreciated, We hope that, with the support of ce it Community and with the knowledge gained through this year, we tan improve our Club in the years to come. OHA INTERMEDIATE 'B' PLAYOFFS Sunday, March 26 Game time 2:00 p.m. STEVE PROCTOR HURON PARK Arena Ingersoll Marlands vs. Lucan-Ilderton Jets Langford Lumber and Scott's Elevator are Jet Supporters SPRING SPECIALS 24- 1972 Models to Choose From Chevrolets-Oldsmobiles We Require Trade-ins Now Get our price before you buy OK USED CARS 1970 FORD GALAXIE 500 STATIONWAGON power equipped, Lic. 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At 11,21 of the second session, the Hawks three goal margin was restored with Ron Lindenfield • finishing off a three-way passing play with line-mates Steve Murley and Larry Haugh. Time was running out in the WHICH IS WHICH? - The Exeter Legion Auxiliary pee wees competing in the Young Canada tournament Tuesday at Goderich had two sets of twins in the lineup. Above, tourney secretary Clark Chisholm and referee-in-chief Stan Stokes talk to Darryl and Dennis Preszcator and Perry and Paul Pooley, T-A photo period, only three seconds left to be exact when Jeff O'Donnell found the range for Simcoe. Don Kendrick registered for the IGA's at 1.53 of the final front peri by only odandtho„, e Hawks were in Fast second period scores In the opening game on Exeter ice, Friday night, the Hawks broke the game wide open with five goals in the second period, Four of the goals came within the first four minutes of play. The first period score was even at 1 - 1 although the Simcoe club missed a lot of good scoring opportunities, mostly because of the excellent work of John Hayter in the Exeter nets. Hayter stopped three clean-cut breakaways in the first period, Jeff O'Donnell was the Simcoe — Please turn to Page 7 Broncos lose first in finals, out of Brampton tourney The Exeter Broncos failed to get past the first round in the annual novice hockey tour- nament in Brampton Sunday. The Broncos, after defeating Acton 4 - 1 in the first game of a total goals series were defeated 5 -1 and lost the round by a score of 6 - 5. In Ontario Minor Hockey Association Novice "B" final round play, the novice club didn't See It TODAY. The All New AUSTIN MARINA Compare it with any of the foreign or domestic compacts PRICED 11 2395 South End Service EXETER 235-2322 Open Evenings By Appointment fare much better. The first game of the best-of-five series in Petrolia Saturday was won by the home team by a score of 6 - 1. The second game in the series is slated for the Exeter arena Sunday afternoon at 4.30 with the third in Petrolia Saturday, April 1. The Broncos will be meeting Lambeth in a best-of-five series for the Shamrock league In last week's column we said the upcoming week would be a very busy one and mentioned some of the events that were on tap. It indeed was and still is. Minor hockey teams are travelling to all parts of the province to compete in the some 22 tournaments being played during the spring break. As far as the Goderich Young Canada event is concerned most area teams have already been eliminated. The only club still in the running is from Hensall and they see action Friday morning at 10:30, When listing the Exeter teams last week we missed the mites. The Exeter mites will be in Listowel Friday at 11:30 to meet Delhi and the following Friday, March 31 they travel to Dorchester to play against London East Optimists in a twelve noon contest. While in Goderich for a short time Tuesday morning watching the Exeter pee wees in action we ran into an old friend Stan Stokes of London. Stan, connected with the Ontario Minor Hockey Association for many years is completing his sixteenth year as referee-in-chief at the Goderich tournament. As a rule, referees don't get too much praise for their work. The more than 60 men in the striped shirts that handle the Young Canada event every year deserve a lot of credit. They come from all parts of Ontario in addition to Montreal and Winnipeg. The referees come to Goderich at their own expense and offer their services free of charge. The next time you feel like booing a referee remember he isn't a bad fellow after all. Officials of hockey are continually trying to improve the rules but they won't be able to make officiating much better until they put the referees in the crowd. That seems to be the best place to call a game. Off to a flying start The Exeter Hawks are off to a flying start in the Ontario Hockey Association Junior "D" playdowns and should go well the rest of the way, although the competition is bound to get tougher. While the Simcoe series is far from over, the Hawks enjoy a two game lead as this is being written early in the week. At the moment five other teams are still in the running for provincial honors. Southampton, a team from the Western Ontario Athletic Association is a direct entry to the OHA and is expected to meet the winner of the Exeter-Simcoe series. Other sets going on involve Fergus and Alliston and Lakefield and Bancroft. Good week for local minor teams Three of Exeter's minor hockey teams competing in Shamrock playoffs enjoyed a good week. The pee wees, thanks to a five goal splurge in the last period downed Lambeth 6 - 5, the ban- tams trounced Dorchester by a 9 2 count while the midgets scored a double victory over Huron Park by scores of 4 - 2 and 9 - 0. In the pee wee contest. Brian Clarke completed a three-way passing play with Brad Taylor and Perry Pooley to score the winning goal with less than a minute to go in the game. Clarke had scored the tying goal only a minute earlier. Paul Pooley also scored two goals in the third period to help the Exeter cause. The other two goals for the winners were chalked up by Eugene Clarke and Bill Deters. Captain Brian Taylor and Brad Roelofson each fired two goals to lead the Exeter bantam win. Chipping in with one goal each were Paul Brooks, Ken Pinder, Tom Hayter, Larry Clarke and Marty Martens. Brian Taylor and Wayne Regier each scored two goals to take care of all of the Exeter midget scoring in the 4 - 2 win over Huron Park. Scoring for Huron Park was taken care of by Brian Price and Matt Muller. Lieury reaches finals with overtime victory It took two overtime periods' but Lieury managed to edge Ailsa Craig 6 - 5 Sunday night to move into the finals of the Ausable Valley Rec hockey league. Bob Robinson's goal at 11,53 of the second overtime period allowed Lieury to win the deciding game of the best-of-five series and move against Brinsley for the league championship. Lieury kept their playoff hopes alive with a 5 - 2 win Wednesday night. Brinsley third place finishers in the league standings defeated the defending champion Shipka Bulldogs in three straight games. Lieury placed last in the four team league. The first game of the best-of- five finals will be played at the championship. The first game goes at the Exeter arena, Tuesday, March 28 at 7 p.m. In Brampton Sunday, the Exeter club scored three goals in the third period to post their opening series 4 - 1 win over Acton, The Acton team was replacing Meaford which dropped out of the tournament. Brian Mercer was the big gun for the Broncos coming up with a three goal performance. Mercer scored unassisted goals in the first and third period and also counfed on a three-way passing play with Dan Bell and Larry Dawson. The other Exeter goal was fired by 13ell with Mercer and Steve Skinner assisting. The only Exeter goal in the 5 -1 loss to Acton came from the stick of Dave Bogart on a pass from Larry Dawson late in the third period, Miss many chances The first championship game against Petrolia saw the Exeter youngsters miss a lot of good scoring opportunities, especially in the early minutes of the game. Dave Bogart was the only Exeter marksman with a suc- cessful shot in the last minute of play in the game, Big moves in dart loop A couple of teams in the Exeter Legion mixed dart league have made big moves up in the stan- ding in the last couple of weeks. The BJ's who moved into first place a week ago have not ex- tended their first place lead to four points with a season total of 86. The Dark Angels with a big four point night have moved into the runner-up spot with 82 points, one more than the Sharpshooters, league leaders for most of the season. The Doublers follow in fourth place with 80 points to their credit. In the most games won department, Duff Rothbaeur continues to lead the male dar- ters with 41. wins while Barb Hearn and Anna Romaniuk are deadlocked for the ladies lead with 22 victories apiece. This week's scores were; Dart Sharks 5 — Winkers 0 BJ's 4 — BA's 1 Dark Angels 4 — Scotties 1 D & S's 4 — Featherflights 1 Swimmers 3 — Itchy Four 2 Doublers 3 — Sharpshooters 2 Late Niters 3 — Shiphunters 2 Canners 3 — Noisy Ones 2 Friday's Schedule a p.m. Sharpshooters vs BA's Shiphunters vs Doublers Itchy Pour vs Dart Sharks Scotties vs Featherflights 9:30 p.m, D & S's vs Dark Angels Winkers vs Swimmers Late Niters vs Noisy Ones BJ's vs Canners The Exeter Hawks with their tenth consecutive win in playoffs at the Exeter arena Tuesday night have taken a big three games to nothing lead over the Simcoe IGA's in the first Ontario Hockey Association Junior "I)" playoff round. The Hawks edged the IQA'S 3 -2 Tuesday night on Ron Lin- denfield's goal at 5.54 of overtime to give the local club a stranglehold on the series. Exeter took the first game on home ice Friday night by a 9 - 3 count and won 8 - 4 back in Simcoe Sunday night, The fourth game was played in Simcoe last night, Wednesday. If a fifth is necessary it will be played back in Exeter Friday night at 8.30. Come to life late After a slow start Tuesday night, the Hawks came to life in the third period and completely dominated play in the overtime session. The Simcoe club only managed three shots on the Exeter net in the extra period and all came in the latter stages with the Hawks playing a man short. The winning goal came directly from a face-off in the Simcoe zone. Centre Larry Haugh got the puck after a scramble on the draw and slid it to Lindenfield waiting in front of the net com- pletely uncovered and the big right winger took plenty of time and flipped the puck into the net to send most of the crowd of 949 into a roar. The first period was scoreless as both teams had trouble getting a sustained attack going and when they did both goalies were on their toes to keep their nets clean, The second session was only 16 seconds old when Pete Klein- stiver scored from almost behind the net, He flipped the puck out in front and it hit Simcoe defen- ceman Don Dobie and bounced into the net. It took Simcoe only about a minute to tie the score as Barry Laplante broke loose at the blueline and moved in alone to score a neat goal. A good passing play provided the second Exeter goal of the game at 6.46 of the third period with Larry Haugh mo, ing in front of the net to convert a long pass from the right side from Ron Lindenfield. The tying goal for Simcoe to send the game into overtime also came on a good passing com- bination. Don Kendrick was on the firing end of the tying shot. Goalie Gary Robinson of Simcoe turned in an excellent performance in goid particularly in the overtime period as the HawksTA,s swarmed all over the G At the other c nd of the rink, John Hayter of the Hawks, although not called on to make as many stops as his Simcoe counterpart did make the big stops when necessary. Referee Don Clarke of London called 17 penalties with the Hawks drawing down nine. One Big Period In the first two games of the Simcoe series, the Hawks used one big period to gain enough victory. sryto pick up the margin of Sunday night in Simcoe with a capacity crowd of over 1,400 fans looking on, the Hawks took an early lead, faltered a bit and came on with three quick goals in the last five minutes of play to gain the 8 - 4 decision. The only two goals of the first period were notched by the Hawks. Bob Rowe fired the first on a pass from Pete Glover with the game little more than a minute old. With three minutes remaining Steve Murley scored with Larry Haugh assisting and the Hawks were out in front 2 - 0. leerly in the second period, Rob Lindenfield scored on an unassisted effort and the Exeter Area pee wees drop out early The five district hockey teams that saw early action in the an- nual Young Canada pee wee tournament at Goderich failed to get past their first day at the lakeport town. The first team to see action, Huron Park was blanked 7 - 0 by Seaforth. The next club, Grand Bend fared a little better. The Bend club downed Brussels 6 - 1 in the first game but were edged 7 - 4 by Tiverton in their second start. The Wingham pee wees scored a 5 - 1 win over Lucan and the Exeter Legion Auxilary pee wees were blanked 6 - 0 Tuesday morning by the defending champs from Hespeler. The only other club from the area in the running is from Hensall and they will see action Friday morning at 10.30 when they meet Six Nations, In the first Grand Bend contest, Jim Venner scored three times to lead the win, Chipping in with single goals were Cameron Haist, Ted Stanlake and Tom Thomas, Cameron Heist with a hat trick was best for Grand Bend in the loss to Tiverton. Ted Stanlake registered the fourth counter. Gary Love was the line goal getter for Zurich in the 2 - 1 loss to Tiverton. Exeter arena, Sunday night at eight o'clock, Sunday's deciding Lieury - Ailsa Craig game was close from the opening whistle with never more than one goal separating the two clubs. The score was tied 2 - 2 after the first period with Jim Shipway and Joe Regier counting for Ailsa Craig and Murray Dixon and Paul Glavin replying for Lieury. Shipway was back with the only goal of the second period to put Ailsa Craig in front 3 - 2. The procedure was reversed in the third session with Dave Collins scoring for Craig and Sonny Slater and Stan Harwood counting for Lieury. In the first overtime period, Lewis Slater fired what appeared for a long time to be the winning goal in the early minutes but Wayne Griffith scored for Ailsa Craig with only four seconds remaining to even the score at 5 - 5 and set the stage for Robinson's sudden-death overtime counter. Good third period Three unanswered goals in the third period allowed Lieury to post Wednesday's 5 - 2 win over Ailsa Craig to square the series at two games apiece. Stan Harwood, Murray Dixon and Wayne Ropp were the Lieury marksmen in the third period. Scoring earlier were Sonny Slater and Paul Hodgins. Both Ailsa Craig goals were picked up by Charlie Eedy. Ladies to take over Two of Lucan's minor hockey clubs will see action in what should turn out to be an interesting exhibition doubleheader at the Lucan arena next Monday night, March 27.. While the two teams will actually be participating in a pair of games with their fathers, the mothers will be in the limelight. Mothers will be undertaking the duties of handling all the coaching and in charge of refereeing. In the pee wee contest, Donna Freeman who should have gained some coaching knowledge from her husband Jim will be in the boys players box shouting directions. On the other side of the ice surface, Lois Stanley vti'." nave a much tougher chore in trying to organize the lather*: a winning combination. How about that, Clare' i he pee wee game which will get underway at seven o'clock will be refereed by Marion l3enn and Helen Lewis, For the bantam game, scheduled an hour later, referees are still needed and volunteers will be more than welcome. All you need to qualify is be a mother of one of the Lucan bantams and have reasonable eyesight. Here's a chance for some of the ladies to get even with either their sons or husbands. Incidentally, get even in a legal way. The bantams will be coached by Marie Nickles with help from Jack Tutty who will not be in action on the ice because of a shoulder injury. You guessed it. Coaching for the fathers will be Jean Tutty. Here is a good opportunity for Lucan and area residents to have an enjoyable couple of hours and help a good cause, All proceeds go to Bunny Bundle. Plenty of skill Two events we attended in Exeter Saturday certainly attracted plenty of talented sportsmen, We're referring to the Exeter Legion dart tournament and the open men's cash bonspiel at the Exeter curling club. Congratulations go to Paul Coates and his local rink in winning the bonspiel against top notch competition. The calibre of curling was high throughout the day. The winner of the second draw, but With a lower point total than the Coates rink was Doug Grant of London. Grant showed his skill on the final shot with a perfect double take-out. At the Exeter Legion, the dart throwing was also of excellent calibre and a team from London won the championship for the third straight time. Another tourney When talking earlier of hockey tournaments we forgot about the seventh annual Knights of Columbus event slated for the Seaforth arena, Saturday and Sunday of this week, With junior and senior divisions, the tournament is open to all separate schools within the Father Stephen Eckert Council district. Teams from Mount Cannel coached by Bill Regier will be competing in the junior and senior classes, Rec finals Be Sure to ,attend HENSALL MINOR HOCKEY DAY Sat., March 25 10:00 - 11:00 — Boston vs Montreal 11:00 - 12 noon — New York vs Toronto 1:30 - 2:30 — Bantams vs Lucan Bantams 2:30 , 3:80 — Midgets vs Grand Bend Midgets 3:30 4:30 -- Pee Wee vs Huron Park Pee Wee 6:30 • 7:30 Novice vs S. H, Girls Team 7:30 - 8:00 — Mites vs Tykes 8;00 - Juveniles vs Coaches & Managers start tonight The Juveniles came up with their highest scoring total of the year Thursday night as they trounced Newby Tire 11 -5 to win the best-of-three Exeter and district Rec hockey semi-final series two games to one. The Juveniles will meet the Bank Boys Thursday night at nine o'clock at the Exeter arena in the first game of the league finals. The Bank Boys had earlier disposed of the Vikings in another semi-firial playoff round. Gary Parsons and Rick McDonald each counted four times to pace the Juveniles scoring attack. Terry Janke was next in line with a two goal effort while Jim McDonald added a single. Scoring in single fashion for Newby Tire were Larry Bourne, Doug McBride, Joe Windsor, Ed Kerslakt and Mike Cushman. 7th Annual Knights of Columbus Hockey Tournament Seaforth Arena Sat., March 25 y Sun., March 26 Games Commence 10 arn,eath day Adults aee;Childreti free — Everyone WelcoMe