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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1976-01-29, Page 6LAURIE SKINNER of the Exeter Hawks turns aside a shot during a practice drill on Monday night. Manager Fred Mommersteeg feels that the Hawks are not receiving enough ice time to practice and sees this as one of the reasons for the Hawks long winless slump. The Hawks practiced Monday night and went out and snapped the slump by beating Mitchell 4.1 on Tuesday. photo by Youngs. Practices upset Mommersteeg Hawks snap slump in Mitchell Mohawks take two in SHHL hockey , George Tryon's hat trick on January 22 and one by Mike Cushman on January 28 led the Exeter Mohawks to two wins this past week in SHHL hockey action in Exeter. CCAT opened the scoring in the first game, at 4:28 when Peter Deunk popped one past Rob Grant. Exeter came back with a goal by John Varley to tie it up. Tryon's first goal of the game put Exeter out ahead for the first time in the game, before CCAT's Derick Martin and Jeff Graham made it 3-2 for CCAT. Exeter came on for four suc- cessive goals, two in the second and two in the third, to take a secure hold in the game, Tryon picked up two, and Allan Knight and Dennis Bierling added the winner and insurance markers, CCAT's Brad Spiers put one in at 19:29 to finish the scoring. The Mohawks played the whole game with a skeleton crew of only six players, including goalie Grant. The Mohawks never trailed in their 8-5 win over the Huron Park Plugs on Tuesday night, as Brad Daters sent them off with just over a minute to go in the period. Huron Park tied the score with less then a minute to play when J, Thomas scored, but Cushman's first goal of the game with nine seconds left put Exeter back out in front. Cushman scored again in the second before two Plug goals tied the game at three each, Rick Funston and Bill Hodge were the goals scorers. Three in a row, two by Murray Glanville and one by Cushman cemented the win for the Mohawks. Each team then picked up two goals, to round out the scoring. Thomas and Funston for the Plugs and Van Bergen and Daters for the Mohawks. The Plugs took 10 of the 19 minors called: HURON PARK ARENA . SCHEDULE OF EVENTS JANUARY 29th - FEBRUARY 4th. Thursday 4:30 - 6:00 p.m. 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. 8:00 - 11:00 p.m, Friday 6:00 - 7:00 p.m. 7:000 100 8:0:007.m. 80 . Saturday 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. Sunday 8:00 - 10:00 a.m, . 0:0021:20: . 11:0 :10:0003pp. mom.m . . . 4:30 - 6:00 p.m. 8:00 - 9:30 p.m. Monday 6:00 - 7:00 p.m. 7:00. 8:30 p.m. 8:30. 11:30 p.m. Tuesday 4:30 - 6:00 p.m. 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Wednesday2:00 - 3:30 p.m. 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. 8:00 - 11:30 p.m. Ice time is available for Hockey, Privaterental. Please call 2 bookings. C.C.A.T. Figure Skating C.C.A.T. Hockey H.P.M.H. Hockey Albi Broomball Public Skating (Adult) H.P.M.H. Hockey Private Rental H.P.M.H. Hockey Private Rental H.P.M.H. Hockey Public Skating Private Rental Private Rental H.P.M.H, Hockey C.C.A.T. 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We can repair it no matter how little (or how great) Is the damage. . 'K FOR A FRma. ESTIMATE ! Hunter-Duvar AND SON RANNOCH 2294945 -Issamaimimiffirligarar The Exeter Hawks finally snapped their long winless slump Tuesday night when they handed the Mitchell Hawks a 4-1 defeat, after dropping their two weekend contests to Seaforth and Tavistock. The Hawks were edged 4-3 Friday night by Seaforth after Seaforth exploded for a three goal second period with a strong power play. Seaforth's Rick McDonald scored the only goal of the opening frame, at 5:06 on a power play with Paul Brooks cooling his heels on a high sticking call, McDonald came back again in the second with an unassisted goal, again on a power play to put the Centennaires two up before Brooks put the Hawks onto the scoreboard when he converted a pass from Don McKellar. Don Nicholson added two more goals before the period ended, including the winner, which again came on a power play with Gerald Weido off. The Hawks came to life in the third frame, as Ken Pinder and Brian Taylor each counted one, but it was not enough as the Centennaires took the game. Manager Fred Mommersteeg was critical of the refereeing of Friday's game, particularly a call against Steve Jennison at the end of the game. Jennison was leaving the ice when he was pushed from behind by an opposing player. He turned to, fight and his assailant backed off', making it appear that Jen- nison was the aggressor. Jen- nison was slapped with a fighting major and a match penalty, none of which had any bearing on the game's result, but brings a pending suspension against Jennison who is a valuable part of the Hawks game, His opponent went uncharged. Mommersteeg said that he plans to take the issue to OHA officials. by Fred Youngs Like any young person growing up, I had my heroes. In my eyes these were great men and I admired them as much for their talent as their fame. I grew up in Hamilton. Hamilton is a city that is loved and hated. Those who don't live their lives in the city that steel built hate it. They hate the dirt, the smoke and the two tier system of life caused by the Niagara escarpment. Those that live there love it. I still do. One day Gordie Howe came to Hamilton, to a department store on a promotional gimmick. He was signing autographs, " What this department store did was to set Gordie up in the middle of their sporting goods department . . in the middle of the expensive hockey gloves, shoulder pads and sweaters, and have him sign autographs from a podium. We lined up to get the autograph, Lined up for two, three, some for four hours to get someone to sign their name, Gordie has some nice colour pictures of himself in an all-star uniform poised with both hands holding the stick and looking very intently down that famous sharp point of a nose. You got up to where the great man sat and were hand- ed this glossy photo and gave it to him who had scored more points then anyone in NHL history. He took it, signed his name and gave it back. Not once did he say anything, not once did he look me in the eye. How could he? He was hero to thousands of other kids who wanted his name on their copy of that self-same picture. It was the first time I felt ripped off by the sports industry. I've felt the same sort of disappointment and dis- illusionment with sports many times since then but none has pulled harder at my heart than when Gordie Howe just signed the paper. Frank Mahovolich. I lived for the Big M, hung off every move, every word he said. When Tommy Ivan, then owner of the Black Hawks offered Punch Imlach one million for the Big M I thought it was funny. He was worth more than that. He was worth three times that. Libbys, a company noted for vegetables and such, once gave away a picture of Mahovolich with the purchase of two cans of their product. My mother bought two cans and brought home the picture after I had seen an ad in the paper and convinced her that I really did need that picture. It hung in my room for years. There was nothing special about it, merely Mahovolich skating out of a darkened arena and putting on the brakes with the ice and snow flying up from his feet, those fast feet, and his hands gripping the stick as if to say that he was ready for a slap-shot. Remember how he'd do that? Take a pass at center ice, fly down the left wing and just after he got inside the blue line let a shot go that would bulge the mesh out as far as it would go? He can't do it anymore. Mahovolich, like so many others has outplayed his time. Toronto sloughed him off when he went sour and Detroit did the same, sending him to Montreal. He's now with the Toros in the WHA, but Montreal didn't fight one helluva lot to keep him when he decided to jump.They won't take him back now. The trouble with these men is that they are not selling anything now, only their hockey souls. It is a game of attri- tion and when the body can't move as fast and when the ache in the knees and hands gets too much they quit. Unlike we mere mortals they have had fame. They have tasted glory and have fallen not in love with themselves but the soap box image of themselves. What it leaves us with are broken heroes, men who were once king of the mountain becoming the mountain when new kings take over. The drive is there but the body isn't. Sports is a young man's game. It needs fresh legs and arms and fresh lungs. It has room for the fallen and the falling, but only in the sense that they are wily and cagey. They have that little bit more puck sense or ball feel that permits them to play on. They can sometimes look good against the young lions. My fallen heroes go to the WHA. The WHA is a syphon league, a pot for those finished or those not good enough. I hate it, not because it is an alternative league but because it offers the opportunity for the old to continue. Sure Mahovolich and Howe look good in the WHA. It is a second rate league with second rate players. Some can only come so high and others, when they fall low enough, can join. Teams of money orphans and fame seekers all driving a once classical poetic sport over the end. One day Bobby Orr will play in the WHA. One day when his already shellshocked knees give out and he can't keep up and his days as puck god of the NHL ends and another one comes along. When it does a team owner, knowing of his value, since his name should not be spelt 0-r-r but G-o-l-d, will buy him up. He will look good but he will never be the same. Heroes are good promo men. The best that there is because who can resist the tug on the heart from the kid who wants the picture and how much is two cans of beans? Essentially, there is nothing wrong about lending the name to the product as the stars, the heroes are merely extending themselves in their chosen field . . selling themselves. Ad men love Bobby Orr. They love Phil Esposito. Orr with his classic purity, his superior ability is the promo man's dream. You can not deny Bobby Orr, he is the best at what he does, makes money at what he does, leads a good life and is an uprighteous generally marvellous person. You name the ethic and Orr fits it. But where will Orr be in ten years? How long will his knees last? Will he be dallying in the WHA or will he play it smart and get out before the sheen wears off and the eight year olds who line up for his autograph and buy beans for his picture suddenly realize that sports, with its rusted values has ripped them off too? Unfortunately Orr will be in the WHA, or some other aberation of a league. He and Esposito, and Dionne and Dryden and all those who can't make it anymore but are ad- dicted to the fame will all be there. Then they'll move on, the top ones in dollar value, to jobs in television giving their own views on the actions of the ones that are replacing them. Some will go quietly. Some will just retire with the honour of their years intact, Pete Mahovolich will do that and so will a few others but most will hold on as long as the string is there. I wonder if it is not so much their fault but the fault of our culture which elevates the game to near epic propor- tions. Each game deciding the fate of ours and their lives. A soap opera in 76 installments with 18 cast members. The powerful, greedy Canadians, the rough tough Flyers who made good, the poor, underprivileged Scouts and Capitals and the great middle class of Penguins, Leafs and Black Hawks. Maybe our aging heroes are being sent to graves of mediocrity as much by our demands as by the league and Systems. My father once said he wanted to age gracefully. He has. My old heroes haven't, first goal of the game, The Braves opened up for three goals in the second period, by Dan Yantzi, McKay with his first and Steinman. Steinman's goal came while the Hawks were playing two men p short, as Gerald Weido and Phil Knight were off. Don McKellar had the only second period reply for the Hawks. Jets slammed 5-1 by Huskies After whomping the Durham Huskies 9-2 the week before, the Lucan-Ilderton Jets were on the other end of the stick as the Huskies outplayed them and beat them 5-1 in Ilderton on Sunday in Continental Senior A hockey. The Huskies, who beat the.Jets everywhere on the 'scoreboard including penalties, skated to the win on the basis of three first period goals. Dean Neuman, Dean Symmons and Gerry Herman each con- nected in the opening frame to give the Huskies all the scoring that they needed to win. Both Symmons and Neuman scored again in the second period to add to the total. Bill Fairbairn sandwiched the The Canadian Figure Skating • only Jet goal in between the two markers at 16:25 of the second. Association held tests in Huron The Jets were slapped with 18 Park on January 20. The results minors over the game and one of the tests are: major, while the Huskies took 21 Stroking - Karen Mehagan, minors, a major and a miscon-Bonnie Kooy, Chantelle Kellar, duct to Brad Deline. Shelly Thomes, Kim Hammen, Rick Fifield became the sixth Vickie Reynolds, Debbie player in league history to reach Hodgsons. the 200 point plateau last week as Elementary - Vickie Reynolds, he went over the top with 201 Pauline Jackson, Karen points.' He is currently the sixth Mehagan, Kim Hammel], highest scorer in the league Rosemary Morisey, Wendy history and with three more Bierling, Laurie Shoebottom, points will move into the fifth. Basic - Debbie Nelles , The Jets have four scorers in Novice 1 - Lisa Legoff, Cindy the top 20 this year, with player- Mineault, coach Steve DeGurse leading the team with 11 goals and 26 assists for eighth spot. He is followed by Randy Roth, with 32 points and Fifield with 31 in eleventh and twelfth and Rick Martin in twentieth with 28 points. The Jets currently have 810 minutes in penalties, just 59 minutes short of the record presently held by the Durham Huskies. The game against the Wood- stock Royals in Woodstock on Friday night was cancelled. It has yet to be' rescheduled. Power skating at Huron Park Several members of the Boys Power Skating group in Huron Park earned badges this past week. Following are the results, Badges were earned by: (Number 1 badge) - Jeff Sutherland, Andrew Nicol, Paul Gingerich, Steven Watson, Badges Number 1 and Number 2 were earned by Brian Sutherland, David Medd, Jamie Duncan, Doug Medd, Scott Merrylees and Steven McIntyre. Pinder picked up his second of the,night, just 15 seconds into the final frame to tie the score at 4-4. Tavistock leaped into the lead again on a goal by Steve Yantzi before Brian Taylor tied it up at 14:36 with an unassisted effort. The game remained tied until McKay popped in his second goal, the winner with just 1;03 left to play in the game, to sink the Hawks. The Hawks took 13 minors compared to the Braves nine. The slump, which started December 22 and ran through nine games with the, Hawks picking up only two ties ended Tuesday night in Mitchell as the Hawks won 4-1 led by Brian Taylor with two goals. Ken Pinder and John Van Gerwen connected for first period markers to give the Hawks all the scoring they needed to win. Greg Rolph had the only reply for Mitchell near the end of the period. Taylor scored once in the second to add the insurance and then again in the third. The Hawks took eight minors to Mitchell's six, along with the Hawks' Don McKellar who went on a penalty binge at 9:57 of the second period when he left the game with a holding minor, fighting major, game misconduct and the automatic minor that goes With misconducts. His two minors and major were served .by Tom Richardson. Jennison, suspended after the Seaforth game, has yet to reappear. The Hawks remain in sixth place, comfortably ahead of Port Stanley and three points behind Mitchell, with 22 points. They are one win away from a 50 percent record; with 10 wins, 11 losses and two ties. If your car is hard starting, try pumping the gas pedal halfway about two or three times before you turn the key. 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Pairs of goals by Dwight Steinman and Keith McKay led the Tavistock Braves to their slim 6-5 win over the Hawks Sunday night in Tavistock. Ken Pinder opened the scoring for Exeter after 25 seconds had elapsed when he converted a three way passing play by John Van Gerwen and Phil Knight. Two minutes later Rick Ingram made it 2-0 for the Hawks. The Braves got on the scoreboard at the end of the period when Steinman scored his Figure skating tests held Steer This Way BY LARRY SNIDER • RWICI innEILMENA:rE UOcicEsi •