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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1973-03-08, Page 6HOCKEY PLAYOFF EXETER ARENA Sunday, March 1 1 2:00 p.m. First Game of Best-of-Seven Series MITCHELL or BELMONT vs EXETER HAWKS Admission for Playoffs Adults $1.25; Students $1.00; Children 50a i•••••....••00°I LEAGUE FINAL DNA Junin" 11111111#111h, „ „ 14Ili,qj IIIII 10..1 1 111 „41111111141141111 1111411 111 II I 10 1111 11(ilp 01111101 hit bill herza ca''cacrians Playoff Semi-Finals Tonight Zurich at Henson 8:30 p.m. Boise Cascede Are The Castadian Supporters Bothwell Barons VS Lucandlderton Jets Sun. Mar. 11 - 2:00 p.m. ILDERTON ARENA Rydall Brick and Tile and Lucan Produce are Jet Supporters 1st game of best-of-nine semi-final series OK USED CAR BUYS 1970 OLDS Delta Custom, 4-Door Hardtop, power equipped, tape player, vinyl roof. 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The Home of Guardian Maintenance P404) 0 Times-Advocate, March $, 1973 111111 /1111"1"1"linummillimoliknouintionillowillitilinimillutuolommounintinotontinim Mitchell or Belmont next Dispose of Clinton in seven games FOR ALL cOOD SPORTS By Ross. Haugh Hawks in final, start Sunday Three teams left Friday night in Clinton the Mustangs extended the series by coming through with a 6-4 vic- tory. While the Hawks opposition is Western grouping, The Hawks edged the Clinton Mustangs 3-2 to take the best-of- seven semi-final series four games to two with one game tied. The Exeter Hawks came through with a late third, period win Sunday afternoon to advance to the final round of the Ontario Hockey Association Junior "D" undecided at the moment the first game of the league finals will be played at the Exeter arena, Sunday afternoon at two o'clock. The other semi-final series between the Belmont Sunsets and the Mitchell Hawks went the full five games without declaring a winner, The two teams will meet at the Lucan arena, Friday night at 8,30 in a sudden-death contest to decide which club will advance to . the finals against the Hawks. John Mommersteeg assisted on the power play goal, One minute and 22 seconds later Captain Jim Guenther cut the Mustang lead to a single goal on an unassisted effort. Both teams scored once near the halfway point of the period. Brian Kennedy scored for Clinton but Perry Stover got it back for the Hawks with a shorthanded goal set up by Brian Bestard at 11:06. The Mustangs took a two goal lead into the third period as Mike Anstett scored at 14:38. Phil Petrie gave Clinton a commanding three goal lead at 6:12 of the final period. Brian Bestard completed the game scoring at the ten minute mark combining with Perry Stover. Clinton received eleven of the nineteen penalties called by referees Jim Byatt and Murray Butcher. Attention RESIDENTS OF HAY, STEPHEN and USBORNE TOWNSHIPS Anyone interested in raising pheasants from chicks or poults to adults for release in the fall among the townships, please con- tact your local township clerk or the Ministry of Natural Resources, Wingham, Ont. Phone 357-3131 At 16.58 of the third period, Ron Graham stole the puck in the Exeter defensive zone and was very quick to put the puck into the Hawks cage. When it looked as if overtime may again be necessary as it was in two earlier games in the series, Glover combined with John Mommersteeg and Gerald Weido to fire the puck into the Mustangs net and the series was over. Glover's third goal of the game came at 18.38, Referees Norm Bordage and Gerry Overholt meted out a total of 18 penalties, The Hawks were called on only seven occasions including 'a game misconduct to Harry Smits. Friday night in Clinton the Mustangs led throughout the game as they lit the red light on three occasions in the first period without a reply from the Hawks. Phil Petrie opened the scoring at 2:51 with his first of two goals. Gary Cummings and Peter Thayer tallied for Clinton late in the period. The Hawks came to life early in the second period and pulled to within one goal of Clinton scoring twice in less than two minutes, Gerald Weido put Exeter on the scoreboard at the 2:41 mark. This could be one of the most successful seasons the town of Exeter has experienced in minor hockey in many a year with no less than three clubs still in contention for provincial honours. The Exeter Hawks were able to get past a tough Clinton Mustang club to move into the final round in the OHA Junior "D" Western grouping and their opposition will probably be the Mitchell Hawks who currently lead the Belmont Sunsets. Sunday's win over Clinton was an exciting contest and came with the largest crowd of the season in attendance, 1,- 016 to be exact. Coach Bob White has again moulded a good club together in an attempt to bring home two straight On- tario championships. Just as exciting a brand of hockey is being dished up by the local bantams and pee wees, The two clubs have now reached the fourth round in Provincial play and see action again this week-end. Just as exciting a brand of hockey is being dished up by the local bantams and pee wees. The two clubs have now reached the fourth round in provincial play and see action again this week-end. The pee wee club sponsored by the Exeter Legion Aux- iliary will be at Home at the Exeter arena, Saturday after- noon at 4.30 to meet Niagara-on-the-Lake in the first game of the best of-three series. The boys aged 12 years and under, handled by Bev Skinner and Lloyd Moore disposed of Delhi in two straight games after losing the series opener in overtime. In bantam ranks, the Exeter Legion club heads to Beamsville Sunday afternoon for a six o'clock game. The se- cond contest in the series will be back in Exeter the follow- ing Sunday at the same time. The bantams took Port Dover in two straight games to reach the fourth round after disposing of St. Marys and South London in earlier play. In this column we would like to pass along a little of the by-play which has happened since we posed a question sub- mitted by Murray Des Jardins of Grand Bend in our sports quiz recently. Des Jardins asked us the name of a colored hockey player in the NHL in a letter to this office. In the next week's answer we stated the player in ques- tion was Willie O'Ree and he played professionally with the Boston Bruins after being a member of the Kitchener- Waterloo Canucks of the Junior OHA. Shortly after this Des Jardins informed us we were only part right. He suggested O'Ree played his junior hockey in Halifax and was a native of Nova Scotia. An article in the February 23 issue of Hockey News gives us a pretty good resume of O'Ree's recent perfor- mances and also says he is from Frederiction, New Brunswick. For Mr. Des Jardins' benefit we will pass on the inf or- mation contained in the Hockey News story and we quote. "Willie O'Ree has come a long way from his early days with. Kitchener-Waterloo Junior Canucks to his present, employ With New Haven of the AHL, and now at the age of 37, a lot of people figure the old man should be thinking about retirement. Fortunately for the Nighthawks Willie isn't one of them. "This is my first full season in the AHL," explained Willie, who was approaching his 20th goal despite joining the club some 12 games into the season, "and I think I've proved I still have a lot of hockey left in me." Willie has done that and more. Beginning with his se- cond game as a Nighthawk when he shocked Virginia with a brilliant short-handed goal to give New Haven its first home win of the season, the crafty right winger has provided a z..uund example for the less experienced Nighthawk sharpshooters. "When we secured Willie on loan from San Diego, we were counting on him to work with some of the kids and help to bring them along more rapidly," related Parker MacDonald, "but we never anticipated the kind of produc- tion he's given us. "I know a lot of people scoffed when we arranged for Willie to come here, but I think he's made believers of everyone by now." The detractors had at least partial justification to sup- port their cynicism. After all, hadn't Willie, a legend in the Western League over the past 11 seasons, slumped to 18 and 16 goal productions in the last two years following 38 and 24- goal showings in the two previous campaigns? And didn't in- juries and time appear to have caught up with Willie last season, restricing the Fredericton, N.B. veteran to 48 games. Willie refused to be discouraged, however, and his per- formance over the past four months has vindicated that determination, and New Haven's faith in him. To our Grand Bend friend, "you were in the right end of Canada when you said O'Ree came from Nova Scotia. Close counts only in horseshoes." Visitors in town This weekend the Exeter arena will be the scene of the second half of an International hockey exchange as two Michigan hockey teams are in town. The Trenton, Michigan mite and novice hockey clubs will be meeting the Exeter Waxers and Broncos in a two-game series. The games will take place Saturday from two to four o'clock in the afternoon and Sunday from twelve noon until two in the afternoon. The two Exeter teams were in Trenton over the past weekend and came up with three wins in four games in addi- tion to being treated to excellent hospitality by their American hosts. Glover Leads Pete Glover who led the Hawks in the regular season with more than 40 goals took care of the Mustangs singlehandedly as he scored all three goals for the Exeter club. The Mustangs scored the only goal of the first period on a shot by Wayne MacDougall which eluded John Hayter in the Exeter nets, In a space of only 11 seconds early in the second period Glover fired two successful shots and the Hawks were in front to the delight of the majority of the 1,016 fans in attendance, His first goal came as he converted a pass from Brian Campbell and the second at 5.01 was set up by Perry Stover. On this goal Glover let a tremendous slap shot go from near the Clinton blue-line and it was in the net before Clinton goalie Gary Yeoman could blink an eye. The third period provided plenty of exciting action as first one team and then the other put on the pressure and only ex- ceptional goal tending by Hayter and Yeoman kept the score down. WIN LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP — The Exeter Hawks had little trouble in winning the OHA Junior "D" Western grouping league championship again this year. Above, Gord Kirk presents his trophy to captains Brian Campbell, Jim Guenther and Pete Glover, T-A photo Youngsters are successful on hockey trip to Michigan The Exeter mites and novice clubs scored three wins in four tries in a weekend exhibition series with their counterparts in Trenton, Michigan. Ron Horn's Waxers came through with 3-1 and 3-2 victories in the Michigan "Ice Box" while the novice crew rebounded from a 2-1 loss in the opener to score a close 3-2 margin in the weekend finale. Some 43 adults made the trip with the local pucksters and were guests of the Michigan parents at a Saturday evening party. Prior to that, the entire Exeter con- tingent attended a game between the Trenton mites and the Women's Auxiliary. The Exeter boys were billeted with Trenton youngsters for Saturday night. This weekend, the Exeter teams will repay the kindnesses as they host the same two Trenton teams and their parents. The Waxers will square off Saturday at 2:00 p.m., followed by the Broncos one hour later. The Sunday doubleheader gets underway at 12:00 noon. The Michigan parents will be staying in Grand Bend Saturday evening, while the youngsters will be bunking in with local team players. A skating party and other activities for the adults will be staged at the arena Saturday night. Playoffs in Shamrock M, Murley 12 - D. Shapton 2 E. Busche 111/2 - S. Mousseau 21/2 D. Coates 10 - G. Gregus 4 D. Prout 13 - S. Tryon 1 A. Bray 11 - B. Dawson 3 D. Pfaff 11 - D. Hackney 3 P. Simmons 11 - J. Lovell 3 H. Burton 11 - W. Marshall 3 A. McDonald 10 - M. Strang 4 Top notch curling set for Saturday Local curling fans will have an opportunity Saturday to take in exciting action at the Exeter curling club. Entries in the Dashwood Industries Limited cash bonspiel include top notch rinks from many parts of Western Ontario. In contention for the $500 prizes will be last year's winning rink skipped by Doug Grant of Lon- don. The six top teams from the Exeter curling club challenge league will also be in action. In a Shamrock minor league playoff games Wednesday the Exeter and St. Marys bantams played to a 1-1 draw while Lucan downed Exeter 6-2 in a midget contest. Steve Baynham's unassisted goal midway through the second period assured the 1-1 bantam tie with St. Marys. Scoring for St. Marys was Paul Marcaccio. The only Exeter goals in the midget loss to Lucan were fired by Noel Skinner on a pass from Brian Taylor and Steve Schroeder on a three-way effort with Terry MacDonald and John' Vriese. Jeff Culbert, Dave Smith and Jack Holland each scored a pair of goals to take care of the Lucan goal total. Bigger lead in dart loop Rec hockey in playoffs First round in Ausable Playoffs in the Exeter and district Rec hockey league got underway Thursday night with the senior Hawks and Newby Tire coming away with victories. The Hawks downed Les Pines 9-5 while Newby Tire scored a 7-3 decision over the Cougars in the first games of best-of-three sets, The second games are slated for tonight, Thursday with the Cougars and Newby Tire meeting at eight o'clock and the Hawks and Les Pines doing battle at 9.30. Ron Lindenfield went on a scoring rampage with four successful shots to pace the Hawks to their opening game win, Ron Broderick was next in line with two goals while Allan Knight, Steve Murley and Denton Gaiser notched one goal apiece. Ron Moore with a two goal effort was best for the Les Pines club while Paul Mason, Al Rimmer and Tim Ewert added singles. Two goal performances by Jim Jordan and Mike Cushman led the Newby Tire scoring attack, Single goals were notched by Dale Skinner, Jim Dingwell and Toby Brintnell, The Cougar scoring was taken care of in single fashion by Howard Churchill, Gary Balsdon and Dennis Passmore. While the Sharpshooters continue to hold a commanding lead at the top of the standings in the Exeter Legion mixed dart league, the Dart Sharks have slipped into second place. The Sharpshooters head the league with 79 points, the Dart Sharks are second with 73 points and the Canners are third, one point further back and the Doublers are fourth with 61 points. This week's scores were: Sharpshooters 5 - DP's 0 Dart Sharks 5 - Late Niters 0 BA's 3 - Featherflights 2 Swimmers 3 - Quiet Ones 2 BJ's 3 - Dark Angels 2 Winkers 3 - Shiphunters 2 Canners 3 - Itchy Four 2 Scotties 3 - Doublers 2 Friday's schedule is as follows: 8 p.m. Sharpshooters vs Shiphunters BJ's vs Quiet Ones Itchy Four vs Featherflights Scotties vs Swimmers 9.30p.m. Doublers vs Late Niters DP's vs Winkers Dart Sharks vs Dark Angels Canners vs BA's In Saturday's opening contest in Trenton, the mites scored twice in the first period and added another in the third to captuere their first win. Captain Bill Glover started the team on their winning way with an unassisted tally, while Scott Pincombe followed that with the help of Mark Vandergunst and Dave Shaw blasted one in from the blueline after taking a pass from Pincombe to round out the scoring. The Michigan boys appeared to be heading for a victory on Sunday as they jumped into a 2-0 lead. However, within 17 seconds early in the third period, Scott Pincombe and Dave Underwood notched the equalizers while they were playing short-handed. Dave Underwood, Bill Glover and Dave Shaw picked up assists ,,en the scoring plays. With less than three minutes remaining, Dave Shaw drilled one of his patented blazers from the point to notch the winner. The Exeter lads out-played their hosts in both tilts, but Rick Mattucci still had to come up with some big saves to keep his team in the running. He stopped three breakaways in Sunday's tilt, Trenton's novice squad scored a goal in each of the first two periods and then battled hard to keep Exeter from knotting the count in Saturday's opener. David L. Bell was the lone marksman for Exeter, with an assist going to Rick Lindenfield, The local Broncos dominated play Sunday, as they out-shot Trenton 30-10, but they were still hard-pressed to register the 3-2 win. After spotting Trenton an early goal, Exeter rebounded with John Stephens blinking the light on a passing play with Jeff Fuller and then Dave L. Bell picked up the other with help from Pete Tuckey. Trenton knotted the count at two each late in the second period and it stayed that way until Doug Brooks fired the winner at 7:37 of the finl stanza. Steve Horn picked up the assist on tha,t one after they and their linemates put on a tenacious checking display. Lieury and Ailsa Craig took one game leads in the first round of playoffs played in the Ausable Valley Rec hockey league Sunday night at the Exeter arena. In the first game of the doubleheader Lieury downed the Shipka Bulldogs by a score of 7-2 while Ailsa Craig triumphed over Brinsley by an 8-1 count. Second games in the best-of- three series will be played this Sunday night. Ernie Schlegel and Paul Glavin each scored two goals to pace the Lieury scoring attack, Adding single scores were Lewis Slater, Gerald Nordemann and Sonny Sla ter. The Shipka goals came from the sticks of Brian Hodgins and Reid Burley. The Ailsa Craig scoring power was well spread around with only Don McAlpine able to fire two goals. Checking in with single goals were Tom Dobbinson, Charlie Eedy, Gwen Griffith, Dave Collins, Larry Dobbinson and Bob Donaldson. The lone Brinsley successful shot came from Bob McIntosh. Questions — In what cities and in which year were the first artificial ice rinks in Canada installed. When was Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto officially opened and who scored the first Toronto goal in the new building. SMILE! *eue otaf 44. atetele arc 404atfrut unto Saud qawa