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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1975-12-11, Page 12TROPHY WINNER — John Van Gerwen receives' the William Ellerington Memorial Trophy from coach Ron Bogart at the annual banquet held Monday night. John, who quarterbacked the team, won the trophy as most valuable player. T-A photo SAVE 5% REBATE NOW 14 UNITS TO CHOOSE FROM including 1 — Chevrolet Impala Sedan 1 — Chevelle Malibu Classic 1 --- Oldsmobile Toronado See Our Selection Today OK USED CARS 1974 CHEVROLET BEL. Alit Sedan, 16000 miles. tic. DFZ805 1974 DODGE MONACO 2-door hardtop, 16000 miles. Lic. HNK538 1974 MALIBU 2-door hardtop, 30000 miles. Lic. HNK689 1973 CHEVROLET BEL AIR 2-door hardtop. tic. DFU009 1973 OLDS DELTA ROYALLE 4-door hard- top. Lic. DFU913. 1972 OLDS DELTA 4-door hardtop. Lic. DA1.980 1972 CHEVROLET BISCAYNE Sedan, 20000 miles. tic. FEZ784 1971 CHEVELLE 2-door hardtop. Lic, DFW475 1970 PONTIAC LAURENTIAN Sedan. 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Tuesday night the Lucan Midgets travelled to play Dor- chester, The Lucan Midgets had a rough time playing both the Dorchester team and the referees. The Lucan boys,spent 60 minutes in the penalty box in their 8-4 loss to Dorchester. The goal sparkers for Lucan were Rick Freeman with a pair and singles by Kevin Gilmour and Martin Clarke, The Lucan Midgets were in fine Byrons beat Athletics If the Bantam Athletics could have replayed the first five minutes of their second game in the Ilderton Lion's Hockey Tournament over, they probably would have done it completely different. The A's came out lethargically and allowed the flying Byron team to score three goals, which was all they needed to beat Exeter 3-2 on Sunday in Ilderton, Within thirty-five seconds the Byron A's were on the board taking a 1-0 lead. Fourteen seconds later it was 2-0 and within another three minutes the Byron team had finished off its scoring. Byron came out hitting and checking, holding the flat A's to only five shots in the entire period. They forced the play throughout the first, scoring their third goal while they played short handed. Byron outshot the A's 12-5 on the period. Had it not been for Doug Hoffman in the A's net, the score could have been much higher in favor of Byron. "Finally we realized we were in a hockey game" said coach Ron Bogart about his team's improved performance in we second period. Dave Atthill put Exeter on the scoreboard at 3:40 of the period when he took a pass from Dan Bell and beat the Byron goaltender on a close shot. Preston Dearing got the second Exeter goal when he poked the puck in during a scramble in front of the Byron net. The third period was all Exeter but they couldn't seem to put it past the Byron goaltender who made sensational saves on all the scoring opportunities that Exeter had. 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Wadsworth and Randy Warner completed the scoring for Mount Brydges. Exeter took 16 of the 31 penalties called, All were minor penalties. Barry Landon needed only 12 seconds to beat goaltender Randy Lovie and send Belmont on their way to a 6-2 victory over the Hawks on December 7. Belmont picked up two more goals in the first period, by Paul Buehannan and Jeff Dale. The Hawks didn't get on the board until halfway through, the second period when Taylor scored from Fred Mommersteeg and Jennison. Previous to that Belmont had added two more to their total with Terry Budder and Mike Lane scoring. Taylor's goal came while Belmont's Mary Simpson was off for a high sticking infraction. Landon finished off the scoring for Belmont at 7:10 of the third period, just before Pinder got the second goal for the game for the Hawks, again on a power play. The split leaves the Hawks in fifth place, a point behind Tavistock. They have a 6 and 4 record, with two games in hand on Tavistock, a .5A A tt Atom house league action form Friday night when they played an exhibition game with Parkhill, The Lucan boys defeated their opposition 4-2. The Lucan team was represented by Don McFalls, Albert Thompson, Bob Toonders and Rick Freeman. The Lucan Juveniles played a home game Sunday night against Dorchester, The Juveniles played a rough tough game trying to defeat the Dorchester team. The final score was 3-2 for Dor- chester. The lucky shots for Lucan were fired by Murray Connolly and Pat Holland. Many fans gathered at the Arena Sunday to see the game between the Lucan Irish and the Mitchell team. At the end of the first period the Lucan Irish were ahead 3-1, After the second the Lucan team were still ahead by a nose, In the final period the Mitchell team popped in 5 fast ones with Lucan only adding 2. The final score was 7-5 for Mitchell. In the Intermediate C division the Lucan Cyclones hosted the Watford team Tuesday night. The Lucan boys had a hard time staying out of the penalty box which resulted in a score of 8-2 for Watcord. The marksmen for the Cyclones were Ron Lindenfield and Brian Haskett. On Saturday evening the Lucan Cyclones hosted the Dresden team on their home ice. The Lucan boys again had a problem killing penalties and took a 7-3 shaking. The goal getters for Lucan were Bob McDonald, Jim Hearn and Brian Haskett. by Fred Youngs I guess I should make a few things clear before we get into the real topic of this week's column. In the first place, I don't think a lot of sports and the systems that they operate under. It repels me to think that there are about four thousand men on this continent who can make a better living than you or I and most everyone else that you or I know simply by hitting a "small piece of galvanized rubber with a pine stick, throwing an inflated bladder covered in cowhide or hitting a horsehide covered sphere about a grassy park. They also fight and brawl amongst themselves and carry on in a way that most would consider immature were it not condoned in the playbooks of the coaches and fostered by the owners. It irks me when there can be gaudy, insensitive displays of unappetizing commercialism belittling the "stars" who crawl through ridiculous circumstances in pursuit of even more almighty dollars, Billy Jean King vs. Bobby Riggs, showmanship. Jimmy Connors, Joe Nemeth in pantyhose, Henri Richard telling about his hot carburetor and how he cures it with an additive of dubious merits but stunning sales figures. All crass, uninhibited showmanship and money making opportunities. My favorite example is Peel Henderson, who after scoring his famous goal said it was a victory for the Western system over Communism. About a week later on Hockey Night in Cannada, they had a film clip of the reaction of some of the Winnipeg Jets to the goal. One unidentified member of the team summed it up sufficiently when he said "That'll add $50,000 to his salary next year." No victory here for truth, justice and the Western way, merely another ace in the hole for Henderson when he sat down for a face off with Harold Ballard come contract time, The professionals of our time now know that if they have a name they have a marketable commodity that will let them run rampant over the airwaves and print media of this country. It is no longer enough to be a great player, a la Rocket Richard or Y. A. Tittle or Billy Casper. No face, no personality and you just aren't gonna make it kid. What I'm trying to get at is the fact that sports is no longer what it was. It is now, and will forever be, a big business, The only place that it isn't, and hopefully never will be, is on the minor levels in communities and areas like this one. I doubt that there will ever be a case like Mark Napier that occured last year when the Toros wanted to sign him while he was still underage. Just doesn't happen that often and so there is little reason to expect it here. What we will have then, is a situation with the minor hockey players here going as far as they can before the great scout in the sky decides that they just aren't good enough to make it anymore. Two weeks ago, I made a plea that people should get out to see the minor hockey that goes on in this area. The stan- dard, "there is a lot of hard work that goes on around here and it is not being appreciated" ploy that is so overworked it is not dying a slow death, but is decayed and should have been buried long ago. (Journalistic people like myself always refer to this ploy when there is little else to expound upon.) Anyway, it got me thinking and it brought a whole new 'realm of things into a perspective that I had never con- sidered before. Hockey, and for that matter, all sports, are games of a certain elite. It is an undisputable fact that not everyone who picks up a stick is going to make it to the NHL or WHA. Few make it beyond the juvenile class. Kids who are out there playing now are taking their one shot at glory in the sports arena. One, single, solitary stab at the romantic trappings that go with winning. The only time they will ever know what happens when the team drops the championship. They are grasping the only possibility of the elation of scoring, of getting it in, even if it bounced in off of their leg. This is it, the essence and the penultimate moment for them when they play. Most will tire of the game in a few years, It will remain a fixation point for them for a while and then fade out of the picture as they develop new priorities. Not new interests, but the realization that they can never make the pros and the inflated salaries and egos that are incumbent with the arrival therein. Poof, at four- 'teen there is no more glory. Lost to the years before. I know, I used to play hockey, after all, I am a Canadian male and there are few that didn't. My father knows too. He was there for every game, in the cold, watching his son do something that he couldn't do as well as other boys, but when I scored, and that was a rare occasion, his pride in that one moment equaled that of Mr. Hull, or Mr. Richard or Mr. Howe when their sons repeated the same act. It was a rare occurrence for those years when I didn't have the helping hand of my mother to aid me in adjusting the various padding that I wore because I thought all hockey players had to wear it and I was not about to be upstaged in any way that could at all be helped. So it comes down now, that I am not playing hockey for a living, and my days of glory in the vast arena of sports are over. I never made the high school teams and would be con- sidered a dwarf beside the monoliths who played in the un- iversity attended, What I am driving at is this, Last week I went out to our local arena. A nice place as far as arenas go, and took some pictures of the novice league kids out batting a puck around. About sixty of them I would think, with three or four coaches intermittently sprinkled along the ice. There was another photographer with me, and then there were about ten parents. Now, if we take these approximated figures and divide them we come up with six kids per parent, assuming that each parent that was there was from a different family. Six kids per family all in the same age bracket is a physical impossibility, and unless there is a super high adoption rate in the area, I figure that there were a lot of parents who have farmed their offspring out to coaches, who are, in effect, surrogate baby sitters for an hour or so each week. That in itself is wrong, but what is really unfortunate is the loss of such precious moments for both parents and players. Not one of those few goals that I came up with would count for much if my father had not seen them. There is little thrill in repeating the circumstances when you know that it just doesn't sound the same as it looked. There is a lot being missed and a lot more going to be missed as long as parents continue to miss the games and practices, It is my contention that the real sports that are being played, in that now defunct spirit of pride and fun, ate on the minor level. The Shamrock League, Junior "D", Con- tinental Senior "A" South Huron, RAP Hockey, the minors. I'll never see one of these players in a pantyhose commer- cial, and somehow that makes me respect them a lot more than it will ever make me repect the pros, who prostitute themselves and their professft in the search for the pot at the end of the arena. It was fifty-fifty for the Hawks in Junior D action this past week as they dropped a game to Belmont after routing a hapless crew from Mount Brydges 15-$ two days. before. Nearly everybody got on the score sheet in the Mount Brydges game, particularly Gerald Wiedo, who had a goals and 6 assists and Brian Taylor who had 5 goals and three assists. The Hawks held Mount Brydges scoreless until the third period when they let up and allowed the five goals against them. All three of Wiedo's goals came in the first period, along with markers from Ken Pinder, Taylor and Matt Muller with the first of his two and the eventual game winner. Exeter added four more to their total in the second when Taylor got numbers two, three In the first Atom House League game the Wildcats defeated the Jets 2-1. The Wildcat goalgetters were Dennis McDonald and Joe McIlhargey, The lane marksman for the Jets was Todd Froats. The second Atom League game was between the Bears and the Cougars. The Bears defeated the Cougars 3-2. The Bear goal markers were Joey Haygarth with a pair and with one marker for Roy Scott. The lone sharp shooter for the Cougars was Sean Rooney with a pair. In the first Bantam House League game the Aces and the Hawks tied 3-3. The sharp shooters for the Hawks were Bob Ross, Paul Gilmour and Matt Toonders each with singles. The goal getters for the Aces were Brent Stainton with a pair and a one notcher for Dan Thompson. In the second Bantam House League game the Sabres bombed the Eagles 5-3. The goal markers for the Sabres were Colin Wildfong with a pair and John Toonders and Mary Van Praet and Dale Cook all with singles. The first Pee Wee game was between the Raiders and the Barons. The Barons goal tender Robert Brintnell received a shut out in the 1-0 score over the Raiders. The lone sharp shooter for the Barons was Robbie Black. In the second Pee Wee House League game was between the Bombers and the Thunderbirds! The Bombers defeated their opposition 24. The marksmen for the Bombers were Brian Curral and Joe Van Coxmeer, The lone goal getter for the Thunderbirds was G. Hominsky. The Lions and the Blazers performed in the final Pee Wee House League game. The Lions defeated the Blazers 3-1. The goal scorers for the Lions were Frank Saanurs, Dan Lilez and Mike Neil all with singles. 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