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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1973-03-01, Page 6The Exeter Legion bantams have advanced to the fourth round of play in the Ontario Minor Hockey Association Bantam "B" playdowns. Sunday, the local youngsters scored their sixth straight playoff victory as they downed Port Dover 4-1 to take the best-of three third round series in two straight games in the Lake Erie resort town. They started off on the right foot on home ice Wednesday night with a 6-2 win on the strength of three late third period goals. In earlier rounds, St. Marys and London South fell before the Exeter club. The next opposition will come from either New Hamburg or Beamsville Win in Third Third period goals from the sticks of Ken Pinder and Tom Hayter ensured the Exeter win in Port Dover Sunday afternoon. Jim Webb assisted on Finder's marker while Hayter was able to score on an unassisted effort. In the first period, Exeter moved ahead as Brian Clarke scored on a pass from Morley Obre and defenceman Phil Knight fired a successful shot on a solo dash. The only Port Dover goal was fired by Mike Saunders. Exetc-, carried on edge in ter' itorial play and were ahead on shots on goal by a count of 48-23. Richard Walmsley in the Port Dover nets again turned in an outstanding performance in holding the Exeter goal total to four. Late rally wins The score in Wednesday's 6-2 Exeter win was not indicative of Boy curlers win in H-P A rink from South Huron District high school has won the Huron-Perth Conference boys curling championship for the third time in four years. Skipped by Don Noakes, the South Huron rink won the right to compete in the WOSSA playoffs to be held at St. Thomas, March 9 and 10. Other members of the cham- pionship rink are Alan Hern, John Noakes and Donald Couper. The South Huron boys scored three straight wins to take the Huron-Perth title played in Teeswa ter. They defeated Stratford Northwestern 11-6, Central Huron of Clinton 11-7 and Stratford Central 10-9 to end up with the highest plus of the day. In the girls division, Seaforth took the championship. The South Huron girls won their final game 8-4 over Mitchell after losing to Seaforth and St. Marys by respective scores of 9.8 and 8-4. Sharpshooters increase margin The Sharpshooters have again opened up a five point lead at the top of the standings in the Exeter Legion mixed dart league with 74 points. The Canners are in second spot. For this week's regular play Friday night, the lady dart participants are asked to bring lunch. This week's scores were: Doublers 4 - Itchy Four 1 Dark Angels 4 - Quiet Ones 1 DP's 3 - Shiphunters 2 Canners 3 - Scotties 2 BJ's 3 - Winkers 2 Dart Sharks 3 - BA's 2 Swimmers 3 - Sharpshooters 2 Late Niters 3 - Featherflights 2 Friday's schedule is as follows: 8 p.m. DP's vs Sharpshooters BA's vs Featherflights Doubles vs Scotties Quiet Ones vs Swimmers 9.30 p.m. Dark Angels vs BJ's Winkers vs Shiphunters Canners vs Itchy Four Late Niters vs Dart Sharks Arrange dates for Shamrock Playoff arrangements for four Exeter minor hockey teams competing in the Shmrock league have been completed. The Exeter Broncos will be in a round robin series in novice 'A' competition with St. Marys and Belmont, The same three towns will be represented in bantam 'B' action. St, Thomas, Lambeth and Exeter will do battle for the pee wee 'A' championship while Exeter, Lambeth and Lucan meet in the midget 'B' category. 1,1 '1r 0,01114111:1;;Illh, h 111111 41111 11111 ""q „11111111114.' 'ff1)111- 11; 111110111111110 4", 1111111111 II hensal ca3cadians Tonight Shipka at Henson 8:30 p.m, Boise Cascade Are The Cescadian Supporters '"i:11111111Th the play as the outcome was in doubt until the final two minutes of the game. With only two minutes and five seconds remaining, Exeter held a slim 3-2 lead, At this point captain John Van Gerwen took over and scored three times to put the game on ice. Van Gerwen's first goal which proved to be the winner came on a hard shot after he took a pass from Steve Baynham. With the score 4-2, Ken Pinder of Exeter was sent off for tripping and Port Dover went to the attack with six forwards as they lifted their goalie. Doug Osgood with some fine forechecking in the Port Dover end of the rink came up with the puck and got it back to Van Gerwen who fired a high shot into the net from a very sharp angle. Only two seconds remained when Van Gerwen picked up a loose puck and waltzed in to score the final goal of the game and complete a hat trick per- formance. Mike Saunders, Port Dover's top scoring threat opened the game counting in the first period, Doug Osgood tied the score when he was able to deflect a shot from John Van Gerwen from the left boards into the net, Howard Schenk gave Exeter a 2-1 lead as he took a pass from Jim Webb, worked his way in front of the Port Dover cage and fired a backhander home. Brian Horrell bagged the locals third goal as he converted passes from Ken Pinder and Jim Webb. Saunders narrowed the Exeter margin to 3-2 and the outcome was in doubt until Van Gerwen went on his scoring spree. Both goal tenders turned in excellent efforts. Richard Walmsley for Port Dover was outstanding throughout and Laurie Skinner his Exeter counterpart was equally im- pressive coming up with several good saves to keep the opposition from any further scoring. The game was more than an hour late in starting due to a severe snowstorm which kept the speed of the Port Dover bus to about 30 miles per hour. Rec playoffs start tonight For the second time in recent weeks a tie for second ,place_, exists in the Exeter and district: Rec hockey league. Thursday night Les Pines downed the Cougars '7-1 to pull even with Newby Tire at 16 points apiece. The senior Hawks edged Newby 5-4 to up their season point total to 21 good for first place. The Cougars trail in th.e basement. In order to determine playoff opponents, a goals scored method was used to decide second place. Newby Tire was placed in the runner-up spot and will meet the Cougars in the first round of playoffs tonight, Thursday at 9.30 p.m. The Hawks and Les Pines meet in the opening game at eight o'clock, The Les Pines win came on a solid team effort with seven players sharing in the scoring. Getting one goal each were Ron Moore, Scott Burton, Al Gillan Bill Farquhar, Lewis Mitchell, Ray Funk and George Bruneau. The lone Cougar tally came from the stick of Gaylan Josephson. Steve Murley scored three times to pace the Hawks scoring attack. Checking in with single The Exeter Legion Auxiliary pee wees remain in contention in the third round of Ontario Minor Hockey Association pee wee "B" playoffs thanks to a come-from- behind win Sunday afternoon. On home ice at the Exeter arena, the local pee wees scored two goals in the last six minutes of regulation time to force Delhi into overtime. They went on to score three times in the extra 10 minute period and posted a 6-3 victory. This squared the best-of-three series at a game apiece and forces a final contest to be played in Delhi Sunday afternoon at two oc'clock. The Delhi club won the first game on their home ice a week earlier by a score of 4-3, again in overtime. In earlier playoffs the Exeter club sidelined St. Marys and South London in the minimum of two games each, The first period Sunday was scoreless as play was mostly confined to the centre ice area, Neither team was able to muster much of an attack. In the second period, the only goal was produced by Norman Stefan of Delhi. Stefan who played all but about two minutes of the 70 minute contest scored at 6.07 of the middle frame on a dazzling effort. He picked up the puck in his own end and skated past all five Exeter defenders with blazing speed and scored as he cut back quickly in front of the net after going almost too far. The only time Stefan was able to get a rest was when he was penalized in the third period. Exeter scored quickly and his stay was cut short. flel was replaced with less than a minute to go when the Exeter lead was Exeter lead was upped to 5-3. In third period was only five minutes old when Dave Bogart put the clubs even on the scoreboard as found the range after taking a pass from Brad Taylor. Stefan was able to get loose again at 11.54 to put the puck into the Exeter net and only a minute and six seconds later, Brian Walters shot Delhi ahead 3-1, For most of the third period before Stefan and Walters hit the scoring column, the Exeter youngsters dominated the play but couldn't put the puck into the net. Being behind by two goals seemed to spur the locals on and they came back quickly to score twice to tie the score and force — Please turn to Page 7 Zadie4 Cal S, Mousseau 8 D. Shapton 4 M. Murley 8 S. MacDonald 7 N. Parsons 7 E. Busche G, Gregus 6 B. Dawson 3 D. Coates 9 D. Pfaff 3 D. Prout 8 D. Hackney 4 S. Tryon 8 A. Bray 7 W. Marshall 6 H. Mickle 3 J. Lovell 10 M. Strang 6 P. Simmons 9 A, Etherington 4 H. Burton 11 A. 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Licence DFV885 1968 CHEVROLET Biscayne 2-Door. Sedan, automatic, radio, low mileage. Licence DFW310 Many Other Models to Choose From Snell Bros. Limited Chevrolet — Oldsmobile PHONE 235-0660 EXETER, ONT, The Home of Guardian Maintenance OHA Sr. B. Hockey Don't Miss It Durham Huskies VS Lucan-Ilderton Jets Sun., March 4. 2:00 p.m. ILDERTON ARENA D.A. Inglis Contracting and B.H.B. Investments are Jet Supporters In order to win the league championship of the Ontario Hockey Association Senior "B" series, the Lucan-Ilderton Jets must win two of their next three starts. Currently the Jets are in second place with 49 points, one point back of the league 'leading Stratford PerthS. 'The Stratford club has only one 'game remaining on the schedule against the London Kings next Tuesday night while the Jets see action on three occasions. The Jets were in Bothwell last night Wednesday to meet the Barons, they travel to Durham Friday night to do battle with their long time rival Huskies and are back at the Ilderton arena Sunday afternoon at two o'clock to meet the Huskies again. In their only action this week, the Jets downed the London Kings by a score of 5-2 at the Ilderton arena, Friday night. Playing coach Jack Nairn and Bill Fairbarin each scored two goals to lead the Jets scoring attack, The L-I club took a 2-1 lead after the first period of play, upped the lead to 4-1 in the middle session and each team scored single goals in the last twenty minutes of play. Nairn opened the game scoring at 7.35 on a three-way passing effort with Barry Baynham and Bill Dunnell and Jerry Prosser tied the score for London five minutes later. Only seconds after the score was tied, the Jets jumped back in goals were Denton Gaiser and Ron Broderick. Taking care of the scoring for Newby Tire with single goals were Jim Jordan, Gary Parsons, Tom Watt and Dale Skinner. front. Dave Revington was on the firing end of a play started by Bill Dunnell and Jack Nairn. Bill Fairbairn took care of all of the scoring in the second period with two goals, both on power plays. The first came with only five seconds played in the period. Fairbairn took a pass from Robb' and sent a-40-foot shot along .the ice into the net. At the 10.21 mark and a London King again in the penalty box, Fairbairn tipped in a shot from the point from Jack Nairn, In the third session, Nairn finalized the game scoring for the Jets at 1.18. Assists went to Dave Revington and Bill Dunnell. Dave Gilday fired the final score for the Kings. The Jets led on shots on goal by a count of 38-19. Don Stewart was in goal for the Jets. (111AJuniorIT \,1\/M\ HOCKEY PLAYOFF CLINTON MUSTANGS VS EXETER HAWKS Seventh Game of Best-of-Seven Series, If Necessary Sunday March 4 2:00 p.m. Admission for Playoffs Adults $1.25; Studrits $1.00; Children 50c MIXED CURLING WINNERS - The second draw of the Exeter mixed curling club was won by Ross Hodgert's rink, ,h:-.:mps are shown above. Back, left, Ross Hodgert and Jim DeBlock. Front, Lillian Pym and Doris Hackney. T-A photo. Jets need two wins to win league crown LEAGUE SEMI-FINAL EXETER ARENA Bantams in fourth round Page 6 ThnowAdvecate, March 1, 1973 twitutionitoloonwlimmilliniilionnuonolomoilinollinwilumultoolinoollowt11101in110 FOR AR GOOD SPORTS By Ross Haugh Centennial is away Exeter's Centennial celebrations are off to a good start thanks to the executive and membership of the Exeter Figure Skating club. The club's annual carnival Saturday which was staged in afternoon and evening shows emphasized Centennial and the history of Exeter and the area. It has to be the best figure skating carnival ever presented locally. First of all, this year's membership of 175 is the largest in history and the executive along with pro Brad Loosley did an excellent job in putting the whole show together. Carnival chairman Karen Pfaff and her entire com- mittee of conveners are to be commended on a terrific show. The costumes were colorful and the show kept moving along at a good rate of speed. If the balance of Centennial celebrations planned for this year are as interesting and well organized we should be in for a successful recognition of Exeter's 100th birthday. Congratulations on producing a top notch show. Making good progress Two of Exeter's minor hockey teams are continuing with excellent performances in Ontario Minor Hockey Association playdowns. The Legion sponsored bantams advanced to the fourth round of provincial play Sunday as they disposed of Port Dover in the second game of a best-of-three series. The bantam club handled by Ray Brooks and Bob Osgood now take on either New Hamburg or Niagara-on- the-Lake. The 14 and under youngsters have now compiled six straight victories after losing the first game of the open- ing round to St. Marys. South London was the other club to fall by the wayside. After losing the first game of a best-of-three series to Delhi, the Legion Auxiliary pee wees bounced back Sunday with two goals in the last six minutes of regulation time to force the Delhi club into overtime. They came up with three unanswered overtime scores to force a third and deciding game slated for the Delhi arena this coming Sunday after- noon. In contrast to the bantams playoff pattern, the pee wees won four straight games in polishing off St. Marys and South London before running into Delhi. A continuation of wrestling Thanks to the efforts of Doug Ellison, the excellent wrestling coach at South Huron District High School, youngsters in this area will have the opportunity to continue with the grappling sport after they finish school. Ellison is the driving force behind organization of a South Huron wrestling club. He says once the club gets roll- ing he will drop out and let others carry on. Arnold Westelaken, a top wrestler with South Huron last year when they won the WOSSA championship will be the coach of the new club. He is presently working in London. The club will give young men who have graduated from school a chance to continue their wrestling careers in addi- tion to those still carrying on their education in various stages. A meeting for all those interested in joining the wrestl- ing club will be held at South Huron District High. School Tuesday night, March 6 at 7,30 p.m. Anyone who can't make the meeting and wishes to join may leave a message at the school at 235-0880 or at Doug Ellison's residence at 235-1772. The only requirements necessary is that the members be at least 16 years of age. The club will be affiliated with the Ontario Amateur Wrestling Federation. The purpose of the club in addition to providing extra wrestling instruction will be to allow those who wish to qualify as wrestling referees. Ellison emphasizes that while the club will be called South Huron, it actually has no boundaries and he will welcome members from North Huron as well as Middlesex or any other areas interested. Coaching clinics The Ontario Hockey Association is now planning 1973-74 coaching development programs under the direction of Ron Smith, their technical director. One day OHA clinics will be held in September and Oc- tober in Toronto, North Bay, Peterboro, Kitchener, Chatham and St. Catharines. Very specific, wide ranging topics will be presented by top hockey men including Roger Neilsen of Peterboro, Tom Watt of the University of Toronto, Bill Mahoney of McMaster, Don Hayes of Windsor and Ron Watson of Western. The fee is eight dollars and includes a 135 page manual, two coaching booklets, lunch, eight hours of lectures, demonstrations, ice participation, films, equipment display and discussion. Of more interest locally would be a three hour basic clinic designed for coaches wishing or needing to gain more information on the basic skills, on organizing practices, equipment, teaching methods and general philosophy. Included will be lectures, films and a one hour ice demonstration. Clinics may be held in any area with a fee of $25 per group or $1 per man, whichever is greater. The OHA leaflet we received advises any group wishing to stage a clinic to reply before March 31 with four alternate dates, two before Christmas and two after on which a clinic could be held. Since 60 associations had clinics in 1972-73, an early rep- ly is requested to ensure receiving preference in scheduling a clinic. Also available is membership in an Ontario Hockey Coaches Association. This is open to any coach in the province for a fee of two dollars per year. For the fee each member coach would receive an iden- tification card, a monthly newsletter, instructional materials, access to resource materials and other benefits. High up in scoring According to the latest OHA Senior "B" statistics released by statistician Nick Martin of Woodstock, four members of the Lucan-Ilderton Jets are among the top 15 sharpshooters in the league. After leading for some time, playing coach Jack Nairn of the Jets has dropped back to second place with 83 points, Bob Jeffrey of Stratford leads with 88 points. Jamie Robb is in fourth spot with 66 points while Jacques Cousineau has ac- cumulated 45 points and Bill Fairbairn, an exeter native has 42 points. Larne Daer of the Jets leads the league's goal tenders 'with an average of 3.67 goals allowed per game, Bill Bourne is second in penalties with 111 minutes and Barry Baynham is third with 88 minutes in the sin bin. Jamie Robb has fired six game winning goals and also scored 10 power play goals. dl Minors continue winning Pee wees come from behind h. a