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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1974-01-03, Page 6LACING UP HELP -- Parents are a handy commodity when it comes to dressing novice hockey players. Above, Dale Blackburn helps Brent Atthill, Jonathan Melhuish and Steve Batten of the Exeter Waxers prepare for Wednesday's tournament game with Grand Bend which was won by the resort kids 2-1. T-A photo Forest are `B' champs West Hill wins novice title We Carry A Complete Line Of * Sporting Goods * Trophies * Jackets Get Our Price.Before You Buy Note: NEW STORE HOURS 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Mon. through Fri. 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Saturdays & , K SPORT CENTRE Trophies - Engraving Sporting Goods MAIN ST. 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''t . ........ .• • .-•-• ft:Ir.::: 1, MIXED CURLING WINNERS — The first draw of the Exeter mixed curling club was won by a rink skipped by Doug Parsons. In the above picture, men's club president Gord Strang presents the trophy to Doug Par- sons, Judy Prout, Gord Ross and Lois Learn, T-A photo \A/ nning formula Good forechecking, hard hitting and top notch goal ten- ding. Does this sound like a good formula for a successful hockey team? It,proved very successful for the London Knights Sun- day night as they downed the Wings of the Soviet 5-3 in an exhibition game at the London Gardens. The London team unable to pick up any reinforcements for the game proved they were capable of going alone and doing quite well. It was one of the best games we have had the privilege of watching in quite a long while. After giving up a quick goal to the Russians in the first minute of play, the London club settled down and bottled the visitors up with close checking before they could get started. When the Soviet club was able to get their passing patterns going they were very dangerous. On many oc- casions they appeared to over do the passing as they gave up good scoring chances with yet another relay. Body checking was prevalent throughout the game. One of the hard checks has put one of the Knights out of action for possibly a couple of months. Early in the second period, Wings defenceman Juir Tjurin caught Andy Spruce looking the wrong way as he ap- proached the Russian blue line. As a result the Knights cap- tain suffered a severe injury to his left knee. The Russian defencemen like to hit the opposition low with the hip and send them flying high into the air. Earlier London defenceman Roger Lemelin caught high flying Eveni Kkharzh with a bone shattering check. The program for the game showed nine of the same Russian players which appeared in the dramatic 1972 series against Team Canada. Actually only three saw regular action against the Knights. One of the Wings and a National player Valeri Kuz- min appeared in an Eddie Shack role a couple of times. While used very sparingly, Kuzmin took advantage of several breaks in the action to get out on the ice and show his skating abilities. If London goalie Bruce Aberhart continues the puck stopping prowess he used Sunday night against the Russians he should have no trouble making the pro ranks. Several netminders from recent London junior clubs are showing well in professional company. One of the most successful is Dan Bouchard of the Atlanta Flames. Bouchard who practically stood the Toronto Maple Leafs on their heads Saturday night in the televised game was in the news when he first came to London as he brought his family along in order to qualify for the OHA residence rule. A well handled event Congratulations should go to Ron Horn for the excellent job in handling the just concluded fourth annual novice hockey tournament. Horn puts a lot of time and effort in planning the two day event and in keeping it rolling in a very efficient manner. This .year's tot,irneY,,again provided an excellent brand of hoCkey. The'entiOrorn 'West Hill, a suburb of Toronto prov- ed oto be the bestatb;l'although Forest wasn't far behind. The two area clubs in the competition provided plenty of interest when they met in a "A" semi-final game. Grand Bend downed the Exeter Waxers 2-1 to reach the final round before bowing to the strong Forest team. Another tourney Eight teams from Huron and Bruce counties will be at the Exeter arena Sunday to compete in the annual Royal Canadian Legion Zone C-1 pee wee hockey tournament. The first game gets underway at 8.30 with Seaforth meeting Blyth. The Exeter Legion Auxiliary pee wees meet Kincardine in the fourth game of the day at twelve noon. The final game is slated to be played at four o'clock in the afternoon. The _other clubs competing are from Goderich, Lucknow, Wingham and Brussels. Howard Carroll of Goderich is the convener of the one day single knockout event. More to come This year's Minor Hockey Day in Exeter featuring teams from the local Association will take on a new slant. It will actually be Minor Hockey Days as six teams from Trenton, Michigan will be in Exeter to play against the local clubs on Saturday and Sunday, January 26 and 27. A couple of the local teams have enjoyed home and home games with the Michigan boys in the past but this is the first time a series of games has been tried. The fourth annual Exeter novice hockey tournament staged during the. Christmas holidays proved to be a great success with each of the 20 games providing exciting action for the spectators. West Hill, a club from the Toronto suburb of Scarborough won the "A" championship and downed the "B" winners from Forest '6-3 in the grand cham- pionship game. St. Marys won the "A" con- Tie for first • in dart loop A tie for first place in the Exeter Legion mixed dart league again exists. The Dark Angels and Canners each have 43 points to their credit good for a first place deadlock. The Dart Sharks follow in third place only one point further back. The latest weekly scores were as follows: Doublers 5 - BA's 0 Canners '4 - BJ's 1 Last Chance 4 - Shiphunters 1 Scotties 3 - Sharpshooters 2 Itchy Niters 3 - Winkers 2 Dart Sharks 3 - Swimmers 2 Dark Angels 3 - DR's 2 Friday's schedule is: 8 p.m. • BJ's vs Last Chance Sharpshooters vs Shiphunters Canners vs Swimmers 9:30 p.m. BA's vs DR's Winkers vs Dark Angels Scotties vs Itchy Niters Doublers vs Dart Sharks solation trophy and the "B" runner-up title was won by the Exeter Waxers. The Exeter club broke even in four games played during the two-day event. In addition to,, winning the consolation final by a ' 3-2 score over Dorchester, the Waxers defeated the same team by the same' score in an earlier contest. Exeter lost 3-0 to Forest in the first round and 'dropped a 2-1 decision to a hustling bunch of youngsters from Grand Bend. In their other games Grand Bend downed Belmont 3-2 and lost '3-0 to Dorchester and 13-0 to Forest to also end up with an even two-two record. John Kernick's second goal of the game at the 2.45 mark of sudden-death overtime gave Exeter their second round win Over Dorchester. 'He took a pass from Scott Newby to get the Tight competition in Ausable league Close competition featured Sunday's regular doubleheader of the Ausable Rec hockey league at the Exeter arena, • Brinsley edged Shipka 5-4 and Lieury and Parkhill battled to a 3- 3 tie. The Brinsley goal scoring was well spread with Pete Revington Jack Conlin, Bob Hodgins, Dave Conlin and Doug McAlpine getting one goal apiece. Scoring for Shipka were Wayne Desjardine, Scott Sweitzer, Julian Boogemans and Larry McCann. Jim Battram scored a pair of goals to lead the Parkhill scoring while Jim Scott added the third counter. Notching a goal each for Lieury were Paul Hodgins, Marty Steeper and Murray Dixon. victory. Kernick scored the game tying _goal with less than three minutes to go with the assist going to Brent Atthill. Jonathan Melhuithh was the Other Waxer marksman on a pass from Scott Newby. Dean Courtney was the scoring star for Grand Bend in the win over Exeter. He scored the first goal of the game on a penalty shot as he moved slowly in on goal and neatly pulled Waxer netminder Peter Dearing out of position and backhanded the puck into the net. In the second period, Courtney put the Bend team ahead 2-0 as he converted a pass from Terry Brown. The only Exeter goal of the game was an unassisted effort by Scott Newby in the early minutes of the third period. Newby scored two goals in the final win over Dorchester. His first score came on a solo effort and the second was the result of a pass from Steve Batten. The other Waxer marker was chalked up by Scott Brintnell with the assist going to John Kernick. Terry Brown scored the win- ning goal for Grand Bend in their 3-2 win over Belmont on a pass from Dean Courtney who scored two other goals, both on unassisted efforts. Allan Hill was the top scorer for Westhill with nine goals while Kelly Mills was close behind with eight scores. Brad Vance was the top Forest scorer with an even dozen goals and Stafford Lumley fired 11 successful shots, The scoring for St. Marys in the consolation 8-2 win over Goderich was well spread with eight dif- ferent players hitting the mark. Danny McNall was the top St. Marys scorer during the tour- nament. During the holiday season the Exeter Hawks saw action on three occasions in the Ontario Hockey Association, Junior "D" series. They dropped a close 5-4 decision to the league leading Belmont Sunsets, December 21 and were defeated 5-3 by the .Strathroy 'Falcons two .nights later. The Hawks regained their winning ways; Friday night at the friendly confines of the Exeter arena as they scored an im- pressive 9-4 victory over the 'Tavistock Braves, This week the Hawks get back to serious business with three regularly scheduled contests. To- night, Thursday they travel to Tavistock for a return engagement with the Braves and 'tomorrow night they play host to the Clint on Mustangs. Sunday it's off to Belmont and a meeting with the Sunsets. Taylor Leads The Hawks win over Tavistock was ensured by a six goal rally in the second period while the Braves could only score twice after the teams traded single •goals in, the first period. Brian Taylor led the Hawks marksmen with' a hat trick performance with two of his successful shots coming in the middle frame. In the first period, Harry Smits scored for Exeter while Steve Yantzi replied for the visitors. The Hawks wasted little time in jumping well ahead in the early minutes of the second session. Kevin Bestard finished off a three-way- passing combination with Brian Taylor and Murray Parsons at 3.48. Only 12. seconds later Brian Taylor started his scoring spree as he took a pass from Noel Skinner. Before the period ended Matt Muller, Harry Smits, Rick Ingram and Taylor scored one goal apiece to put the Hawks in front 7-3. Glenn Gill and Werner Gortner scored middle period goals for the Braves. In the final period, Rick Ingram and Brian Taylor were the marksmen for the Hawks and Dave Jutzi shot the final Tavistock goal, While losing on the scoreboard, the Tavistock club had little trouble in picking up the most penalties. Referees Pat O'Brien and Bruce Collins caught the Braves for 20 infractions while the Hawks took only half aspany: penalties. In the loss to Strathroy, the Hawks goals came from the sticks of Brian Taylor, Randy Tiernan and Harry Smits. Two Strathroy goals late in the third period allowed the 5-3 victory over the Hawks. Pee wees here Sunday Eight pee wee hockey teams will be competing at the Exeter arena Sunday in the annual Royal Canadian Legion Zone C-1 tournament. Teams to see action will be from Seaforth, Blyth, Goderich, Lucknow, Wingham , Brussels and Kincardine in addition to the Exeter Legion Auxiliary pee wees. Howard Carroll of Goderich is convener of the tournament. The first game gets underway at 8.30 a.m. with Seaforth meeting Blyth, At 9.40 it's Goderich against Lucknow, Wingham goes against Brussels at 10.50 and Kincardine and Exeter meet at 12 noon. The two semi-final games will be played in the early afternoon with the championship game slated for 4 p.m. Meals for all players and coaches will be provided at the Exeter Legion Hall. The outcome of the Hawks- Belmont game was in doubt right to the final whistle with neither club able to take much of a lead. Kevin Bestard opened the scoring for the Hawks at 5.53 of the first period and Mike Lane tied the score for Lambeth only minutes later. Again in the second period, the Hawks moved in front this time on a goal from Murray Parsons. Less than two minutes later Lorne Dale tied the score again. Before the second frame was over Gerald Weido tallied for the Hawks but three Sunsets scored and the league leaders took a 5-3 lead. Broncs reach semi-final round The Exeter Broncos moved to the semi-final round in the Silver Stick atom hockey tournament in Forest during the holidays before being eliminated. The Broncos won the first game 4-1 over Walkerton and advanced to the ,next round by edging Petrolia 4-3. Monday Essex scored a goal in the last minute of play to.down the Exeter boys3-2. In the "B" division final Kincardine downed Essex 3-2 to win the championship and the right to advance in "AA" play. David Bell and Rick Lin- denfield scored for the Broncos in the third period against Essex, In the win over Petrolia, David Bell scored the tying and winning goals. The other successful shooters were Bill Glover and Mike Taylor. Scoring for Exeter in single fashion in the win over Walkerton were Scott Pincombe Mike Taylor, Rick Lindenfield ,and David Bell. A good passing effort at 7.45 of the third period produced the final Exeter score as Pete Kleinstiver counted on papses from Gerald Weido and Harry Smits. GET CONSOLATION AWARD — The "B" consolation award in the Exeter novice hockey tournament was won by the Exeter Waxers, Above, captain Scott Newby is shown with tourney organizer Ron Horn, T-A photo Close scores in Rec hockey In Thursday's regular play in the Exeter and district Rec hockey league both halves of the doubleheader provided close exciting action. Les Pines came on strong with three third period goals to edge the senior Hawks 5-4 while Newby Tire and Usborne township played to a 4-4 draw. Fred Wells notched his second goal of the night with only 55 seconds remaining to gain the win for Les Pines. Other goals for the winners came in single fashion from Tim Stover, Scott Burton and Ron Moore. John Musser scored twice to lead the Hawks scoring. Adding single goals were Ron Lin- denfield and Brian Bestard. Bill Van Bergen counted late in the gate to give Usborne a draw with Newby Tire. Other marksmen for Usborne were Ron Duvall, Dennis Passmore and Morley Obre, The Newby tallies were counted in single style by Bob Jones Dale Skinnner, Mark 4 Hearn and fild Kerslake. k