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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1976-02-26, Page 30, .... .... . ookat...S.ports Page 1 0 Times-Advocate, February 26, 1976 • IT WAS STANDING ROOM ONLY at t the sixth game of their playoff series. way as a Belmont opponent moves in. L game 6.2 and were eliminated. No Cinderella story he Zurich arena as the Exeter Hawks took on the Belmont Bombers in Paul Brooks, number five, is shown clearing the puck from harms ooking on is Larry Clark and goalie Randy Lovie. The Hawks lost the photo by B. DeVries Its all over for the Exeter Hawks. The Hawks, who had started to write a Cinderella story with two surprise wins against Belmont in their playoff series, lost the next four games in, a row and were dumped by first place finishers Belmont Tuesday night when they lost 6-2. Injuries again plagued the Hawks, and particularly the Mommersteeg brothers. Rick Mommersteeg received a shoulder separation in the weekend action and his brother Fred is in a cast the length of his leg due to a broken knee. Phil Knight also picked up a bruised bone. Manager Fred Mommersteeg was critical of the style of play by the Belmont team. He felt that their rough style was what was beating the Hawks, not their hockey ability The Belmont crew picked up 12 penalties in the first two periods of the February 18 game in Belmont but they also managed to score four goals in those two periods before the Hawks could get on the scoreboard. Paul Logan scored while the Hawks were two men short and Rick Landon added another with less then a minute to go in the first period when he banged one in at 19:09. Belmont added to their two goal lead in the second with goals going to Jeff Dale and Gary Armstrong. The Hawks finally got on the scoreboard when Noel Skinner converted a pass from Fred Mommersteeg at 14:19 of the third period. The power play effort came with Jeff Dale off for tripping. The Hawks narrowed the gap a little when Ken Pinder put in a pass from Skinner, again on a power play. Belmont added an empty-net goal by PaulBuchannan at 19:36. Belmont, true to form, took 17 minors in the game, compared to eight for the Hawks. The Bombers tied the series Saturday night in Belmont with a 5-4 victory that came down to the wire. Belmont continually took the lead, only to have the Hawks come back to tie it. Their final goal came at 16:37 of the third frame just 27 seconds after the Hawks had tied the game for the third time. Gary Armstrong opened the scoring with twin power play goals less then a minute apart in the first period. Ken Pinder was off for the first goal and Gerald Weido for the second. Pinder and Skinner combined to set up Fred Mommersteeg for the first Hawks goal at 14:05. Pinder came back at 18:55 with an unassisted effort to tie the game before the end of the first frame. With the second period just 35 seconds old Rick Landon scored HP dropped by Sarnia by MRS. CAROL GINGERICH Pee Wee The Northstars walked over Elaine's Coffee Shop from Exeter Saturday, as they opened their playoff round' with a convincing 10-1 win. After a scoreless first period, the Northstars connected for five goals in the second, going to Mike Rispin, Shane Peacock, Scott Smith, Greg Lawrence and David Lawrence. . Smith, with a pair, Peacock with a pair and Dan Legoff rounded out the scoring for the Northstars. Doug Robbins had the only reply for Elaine's. 16 minors and a game misconduct were called during the gathe, which opened the best two out of three series. Avco Exeter squeezed by the Huron Park Penguins in the other playoff action Saturday by a 4-3 score. Walter Van Esson opened the scoring with the only goal of the first period for Avco. T. Case tied it early in the second before Dan Beaver put Avco back out in front, T. Denny tied it for the Penguins before the end of the period. Jeff Rowe put Avco out ahead again early in the third and Steve MacDonald popped in the game winner at the 7:00 mark, Denny picked up the third Penguin goal and his second with 15 seconds left in the game, Bantam The Sarnia Reserve Bantams managed to hold onto their lead to beat Huron Park 6-4 after Huron Park had battled back from a 6-2 deficit. Tony Underhill from Mike Denny opened the scoring in the first period for Huron Park. Their lead was shortlived, however, as Sarnia came back with three goals in the period, two to Rick Caudel and a single to, Danny Cloutier. Dave Nahamabian and Cloutier made the score 5.1 before Paul Theander scored for Huron Park on an unassisted effort at 6:58 of the second. Caudel completed his hat trick early in the third and with a four goal margin, Sarnia appeared comfortable. Theander's second and a marker by Ralph Wells narrowed the gap for Huron Park, but they ran out of time and Sarnia took the first game in the best of five series which continues February 28. Ato m Trevor Gilchrist's third period goal from Mike Salvona was the only marker the Atoms could manage as they dropped their first playoff game against Dorchester 4-1 Sunday in Huron Park. Tim Harris with a hat trick and Gord Alblas ,with one accounted for Dorchester's scoring. Atom Houseleague The ,Leafs and the Bruins split their first two games in the best of three final for league honors by identical scores of 4-3. Shawn Wells opened the scoring for the Bruins in the first period but Bobby Rook tied it for the Leafs before the frame ended. Steve Morrissey put the Bruins one up again before Tony Jones from Trevor Gilchrist and Dave Smith tied it again. Rook again put the Leafs up but Gilchrist tied it all over again Back at square one it was up to Glen Lessard to set up Morrissey for his second goal of the game to clinch the win for the Leafs. Another see saw battle Monday saw the Leafs take the early lead on a goal by Morrissey. Tony Jones tied it up before Morrissey was again on the spot to put the Leafs one'up again. It was Jones again before the end of the period to tie the score again. Shawn Wells gave the Bruins the lead early in the third and Morrissey, with his third goal of the game, tied it one more time setting up Jones for his hat trick goal and the game winner, the first of his goals to put Belmont up again. The lead lasted until 11:25 when Weido came back to tie it again with an unassisted goal.Weido's goal came while both teams were short a player, Landon scored his second of the game at the 3:00 mark of the third to give the Bombers a 4-3 lead, At 16:10 John Van Gerwen tied the score again, from Pinder and Fred Mommersteeg. The tie lasted only 27 seconds when Landon popped in his third goal of the game, to give the Bombers their win. The Hawks took an early first period lead in the fifth game, but fell behind in the second to end up losing 7-3. They were outshot on the game 44 to 27, including a 20- 10 advantage to Belmont in the second, Barry Landon opened the scoring in the first period at 6:14. Brian Taylor came back to tie it when he finished a three way passing play from Gerald Weido and Matt Muller at 7:53. John Van Gerwen from Rick Grenier and Ken Pinder put the Hawks ahead for the first and only time in the game with a goal at the end of the period. Belmont took 20 shots on the Exeter net in the third period, and despite the goaltending of Laurie Skinner, who turned aside 17 in the onslaught, they took a 4-2 lead. Rick Landon, Paul Logan and Barry Landon with his second and the game winner, all tallied for the Bombers, Laurie Skinner held the Bombers off until the final three minutes of the period when they got all three goals, Paul Buchanan, Mike Lane and Darrell Simpson all added goals in the third frame, before Weido scored an unassisted effort at 18:35 of the third to round out the scoring for the Hawks. His goal, like the first two Exeter goals came on a power play. Belmont took a 3-0 lead in the first period of their sixth game, all the scoring they needed to eliminate the Hawks. Barry Landon and Mike Lane connected within two minutes of each other, with both 'goals coming on power plays. Don McKellar was off during Lan- don's effort and Mike Clark, one of the four Juvenile players brought up to complement the injury -riddledHawks, was off for Lane's. Paul Buchanan put in the third at the 18:00 mark of the period while Belmont was shorthanded. The Hawks got back in the game when they picked up the only two goals of the period early in the second. Paul Brooks connected on one from Paul Shapton, another Juvenile and Brian Taylor brought the Hawks within one of Belmont when he converted Rick Ingram's pass for the Hawks last goal of the season. The third period saw Belmont pick up another three goals, with Jeff Dale, Rick Landon and Marvin Simpson rounding out the scoring, Simpson's goal was again a power play marker with Don McKellar off for slashing. SAVE SAVE SAVE COMPANY CARS 1976 Toronado Brougham SAVE '1700 1976 Chevette Hatchback Coupe SPECIAL $3495 OK USED CARS 1975 BUICK CENTURY 2 door hardtop, power equipped, 16,000 Miles. 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Kevin Mitchell with a pair and John Queenan with the third replied for St. Marys. Bantam "A" The Exeter A's downed St. Marys three games in a row, but not before St, Marys attempts at intimidation seriously injured Dave Cann of the A's, Keith Haycock, who coach Ron Bogart described as a "big boy who was throwing his weight around" decked Cann with a cross-check at 4!52 of the third, The play started in the Exeter end with a face off which the A's — Please turn to Page 11 Steer This Way 'BY LARRY SNIDER Here's a safety check: set the parking brake, then put the oar in "drive" or first gear. If it moves easily, your parking brake needs repair. Heavy-duty shocks can stand more heat than regular units. In use, a normal spark plug's firing end will be grey or tan. When you consider the punish- ment your car's muffler takes, what with hot exhaust gases inside and splashes of cold water from wet roads (plus thrown gravel and pebbles), it's a wonder it lasts as long as it does. 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What gives him that seemingly super-human power to recall statistics and details that are somewhat obscure and unusually totally irrelevant? And why does every telecast need three or four of them, not including intermission hosts, to delineate the fine points of a game in an attempt to make it more understandable, but in the end usually confuse rather then clarify, One of the undeniable criteria for sports announcers is that they have an insatiable desire for trivia and be un- blindingly loyal to demi-truths. By demi-truths I mean the sort that will extol the vir- tues of a certain player on the basis of trivia without men- tioning the players performance that night. Darryl Sittler will certainly be a prime example of that soon. Sittler recently set the record for scoring the most points in a single NHL game. Despite the fact that he was playing against a goaltender who was being considered for a somewhat less lofty position in hockey than the Boston Bruins, Sittler did attain a feat that will take a long time to parallel and longer to break. 10 points are 10 points. However, it will be trivia and it will be used in his favor. A situation will arise, when Sittler will take one of those long lead passes that border on offside and skate in alone on a goaltender, and he will miss the net. He will miss the net by so much that the goaltender, could have been out picking up a pizza for the team during intermission and Sittler wouldn't have scored but that will be a moot point. Sittler could have missed several glorious opportunities by the same ridiculous margin, as he like all other human beings is having an off day. The play by play man will become ex- cited, and with manifestations of disappointed pain will describe Sittler's faux pas. Now all of Canada knows that Sittler blew it, blew it badly but the colour man will come in and try to save some face for Sittler. "Well, Darryl Sittler, what a season he's having. The best season he's had since joining the Leafs and of course there was that great game back in January against Boston when he scored 10 points to set the league record. The Leafs are expecting great things from the young captain in the future." Uh, one moment please. Isn't Darryl having a rather lacklustre game this evening? Shouldn't he be scoring on such glorious opportunities? Well, all of this could be true, and all of it is said in livingrooms but it is never said on the air. Despite all the terrible mistakes a player makes, it is rare to hear criticism from an announcer. What he says is true, but only partially so, omitting the other factors and creating a demi-truth. The other interesting facet of sports telecasts is the ins- tant replay syndrome where we are treated to the plays over and over. Instant replays are used in hockey, baseball and basketball but their prime .use is football with the in- tricate dancing of the 24 players .on the field. We get views from the end zone, the left sideline, the right sideline, isola- tion shots, shots from ground level, from' the top of the stands, in fact pretty well from everywhere but the inside of the quarterback's helmet to show us the gyrations his mouth goes through during a play. Instant replays are usually a valuable asset to un- derstanding the plays that are used in football. As armchair quarterbacks, we are without the knowledge of the professionals to know why the flanker on the right of the quarterback is so important to the working of a play. We also cannot see the integral faking and deception used by the players in their attempt to lure the opposition away from their point of attack, be it defensive or offensive. But the use of the instant replay in hockey and baseball is ac- tually a luxury. The puck may move fast, but not fast enough that the human eye cannot comprehend the play itself. Baseball is an even more extreme case. It is nice to see the play one more time, but three or four is extraneous and when the third replay begins to infringe on the live action, it is a downright nuisance. The most grotesque use of videotaping and the replay of them is the use of it to show an injury over and over again. The centerfielder fades back, and back and back, he leaps for ball with a tremendous second effort and nabs it as he crashes to the ground in a heap from the impact with which his body was thrown against the wall. The play is saved, but the unfortunate fielder has a rather badly broken arm, Immediately the technical minions that populate the televi- sion networks swing into action. The videotape is rewound as the announcers give a play by play of the fielder's removal from the field and then they flash the signal up- stairs and all is ready. Eyes scan the monitors in the broad- cast booth as we watch as the man fades back again, this time in slow motion and leaps into the air. We see his arm snap back, and in glorious slow motion the impact and the break, Then it is stopped and we can see it all, thanks to the modern revolution of videotape. With a macabre sense of humour, he crumples to the ground again and the tape machine is snapped into reverse and we see him uncrumple and break the arm again and crumple and uncrumple and go back up and then break his arm again and then down for one last time. If a cat has nine lives, athletics have four different sets of limbs to be damaged again and again at the whim of replays. It is a puzzling paradox, how the men who provide the telecasts with pandering compliments for unworthy players can work hand in hand with others who insist on metering out filmed doses of live pain. We speak of violence in sports, of players being barbarians, yet we are treated to filmed replays of violence and rarely question it. The value of announcers and replays and highlight critics is minimal to the actual game. It is another way of maintaining interest in sports that are dying off because of their resistance to change and innovation. Announcers and the technical announcers, former players who tell us what we would see even though the cameras don't pick it up, and replays are neat packaging tricks to revive waning enthusiasm. There are one on one competitions termed showdowns that, ideally, will incite interest. There are glossy features probing only skin deep aspects of sport. Peatures that are played again and again over and over. We have seen so much on the Russian system of hockey that it could well be Canadians know more about it than Russians do. It is all intended to do one thing. In a continent that has four major sports: football, hockey, basketball and baseball and three others bubbling under, tennis, soccer and professional skiing, and then a host of others under that, to maintain the interest in sports on a television it needs new ideas, new gimmicks. Rest assured that next season there will be a new one. I know they're trying to think it up now, because triviamasters won't carry the show anymore. Pee Wee "B" Both teams won a game and one was tied in the Pee Wee "B" playdowns between St. Marys andt . Exeter, St, s took the first game 3- 1 February 17, with a two goal third period, After a scoreless opener, Scott Bodenheirn opened the scoring at 51 seconds of the second. Dave Bell tied the score when he converted passes from Kevin Pa third rsotts period, and' l'om Coates early in the Jeff Fulcher tank Exeter with a goal at 8:58 and John Queenan added the insurance with less than two minutes to play. Exeter took the second game when they picked up three goals in the final frame, after falling behind 3-1 in the second period. St. Marys opened the scoring when Jeff Fulcher popped one in with just over a minute gone. Mike Clark, set up Dave Bell to tie the score in the second but Exeter fell behind again when Fulcher added his second and third goals of the game before the end of the period. The third period, however, was all Exeter. Dave Shaw closed the gap to one goal when he was setup by Rick Lindqnfield. Lindenfield was there to tie the score at 6:12 on a pass from Bill Glover and Bell capped the ex- plosion when he converted Mike Taylor's pass at 10:20' to give Exeter the win. 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