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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1977-02-24, Page 8After winning the regular schedule championship in the Ontario Hockey Association Junior "D" western division the night. Exeter Hawks suffered a setback At the Zurich arena Sunday in the first playoff game Sunday night the Hawks were defeated 4- SECOND DRAW WINNERS — A rink skipped by Bill Dougall won the second draw of Saturday's men's curling bonspiel sponsored by the Hensall Co-op and Cook's Division of Gerbro. From the left are Bill Dougall, Keith Strang, Jack.Switzer and Tony Conlin. T-A photo OMHA manager lauds local playoff arrangement Something rather unique in a hockey playoff series will be undertaken by two Exeter minor teams this weekend. Exeter's pee wee and bantam 2 teams will host their coun- terparts from Pelham in the first two games of best-of-five series. In addition to hosting the visitors on the ice, the local teams will billet the boys from the Niagara Falls area in their homes Saturday night between the two games. Ontario Minor Hockey Association secretary-manager Vern McCallum said from his Toronto office this week he was extremely pleased with the arrangements made between the two communities. While players are often billeted Second atom club advances in playoffs The Exeter, Atom 2 team ad- vanced to the one quarter-finals when they ousted Forest with back-to-back wins this weekend. Playing in Huron Park, Friday, the locals scored a 3.0 win and followed that up with a thrilling 2- 1 margin in Forest Saturday afternoon. They will now face Parkhill in a best-of-three affair slated to get underway at Huron Park this Friday at 7:00. The second game will be inParkhill,Saturday. The Exeter crew wasted little time in taking a lead in the opener against Forest as Brett Batten won a face-off and skated around two defenders to blink the red light after only 30 seconds of play. That goal turned out to be the winner. Near the end of the second, Exeter upped their lead to two when Steve Gould slid a pass in front of the Forest net. Both Dennis Pym and Trevor Johnston appeared to get their stick on the puck to slip it into the net and the goal was given to Johnston with Pym picking up an assist. With only 30 seconds gone in the final period, Exeteer scored an insurance marker when Brett Batten and Terry Zachar worked the puck into the Forest end and fed the puck to Steve Gouid who made no mistake. Jim Lewis had three or four tough shots to handle in recording his shutout. Back in Forest, the hosts jumped into an early lead in the first period and held the margin until the 26 second mark of the middle frame when Sean Whiteford took a pass froar Trevor Johnston to even., the count, The two teams played on even terms and the game appeared to be heading into overtime when Sean Whiteford picked up a puck along the boards and slid it to Bill Fisher in front of the Forest net. Fisher quickly whipped the puck into the corner for the winning tally. Jim Lewis was much busier in the Exeter nets in this contest and came up with several key saves, especially in the first period, as his mates had trouble adjusting to the sticky ice in the Forest arena. Members of the Exeter Atom 2 entry are: Jim Lewis, Allan Pym, Terry Zachar. Brett Batten, Rick Gilfillan, Steve Gould, Sean Whiteford, Trevor Johnston, Bill Fisher, Gary MacDonald, Jeff Taylor, Dennis Pym and Danny Morley. HIGH TRIPLE — The highest three game score recorded this year in the Exeter ladies bowling league was chalked up by Nancy Dowson recently, Above, she checks out her scores of 377, 296 and 228 for a grand total of 901. T-A photo Atoms out of OMHA, back to Shamrock The Exeter Atoms were pushed to the sidelines in OMHA zone play, Friday, when they dropped a 3.0 decision to St, Marys in the fourth game of their playoff set. The first three games of the series were all settled by a single goal margin. Playing at Huron Park, the visiting St. Marys crew came out flying and were full value for their margin as goaltender Rick Gilfillan came up with several key saves to keep the • Exeter crew in the battle until mid-way through the final frame. The teams battled through a scoreless first period and St. Marys scored their first goal at the 3:10 mark of the second and added another two minutes later to take command of the contest, Exeter kept battling but couldn't get back into the contest and the visitors scored an in- surance goal at the 6:45 mark of the final period to pull the game out of reach. The locals will now return to Shamrock league playoffs. Huron Park ousts Shedden pee wees The Huron Park pee wees blankel Shedden 3-0 Saturday to win the first round of Ontario Minor Hockey Association playoffs in two straight games, Terry Hodgins fired two suc- cessful shots to pace the Huron Park scoring attack with assists going to Bobby Rook and Steve O'Neil. The third goal was fired by Billy Moffatt on a three-way effort with Steve O'Neil and John Insley. 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Appearing in most rinks throughout Canada was a poster with a picture of a young player looking up at the coach and saying, "Thanks Coach." The poster very effec- tively conveys the theme of thanking the volunteers in hockey and is a well-aimed message. But, the message from Ron Smith who is Hockey Technical Director for Ontario and chairman of the coaching and certification committee of the Ontario Hockey Council is more specific. He says, "Let's not thank coaches who don't try to im- prove their technical knowledge, teaching skills and coaching philosophies, who yell at their players, who yell at referees, play their stars all the time and believe that win- ning comes before everything else," and suggests ways of helping these kinds of coaches. The OHA release concludes, "The coach is the most im- portant influence on a hockey player and we owe it to the kids to see that he floes a good job. The game is for the kids and we must do everything to help them enjoy the game." Compensated for sore arms • A recent issue of the Sporting News tells of the Detroit Tigers having to compensate two former pitchers for allegedly ruining their pitching arms. In the first situation, Denny McLain has been awarded $31,500 in a settlement of a claim that the Tigers and four other teams ruined his once invincible right arm. Under the terms of the out-of-court settlement the Tigers' insurance company paid $17,000 and the balance came from the Washington Senators, the Braves, The Athletics and Birmingham. McLain who presently works for an advertising firm in Memphis, Tennessee selling radio and television time filed his claim with the Michigan Workmen's Compensation Board. "I didn't realize the damage I was doing to my arm in 1967 through 1969 when I was pitching a lot of times with only two days rest. I first hurt my arm in 1965 and it just kept getting worse," McLain commented. The Tigers were earlier ordered to pay former pitcher Les Cain $111 per week for the rest of his life as a result of arm injuries he suffered while pitching for Detroit. Another case against the Tigers involving pitcher Phil Meeler is presently before the Workmen's Compensation Bureau. Tiger general manager Jim Campbell is concerned that such suits could become contagious. He explained, "The reason most pitchers leave the game is because they hurt their arms and can't throw anymore. If they could still pitch they would never quit. There's no status of limitations in cases like this. It could open up a whole can of worms, not only for us but every team in baseball," We hope this type of claim does not spread to other sports. Just imagine what would happen if Bobby Orr retires because of his present knee problem and asks com- pensation for the rest of his possible playing career. It could make McLain's claim look like a pittance. It's a king Members of the Art Hodgins family at Clandeboye will be able to remember quite easily the date of a birth of a colt on their farm early in 1977. The colt was born January 20, the same day that Jimmy Carter was inaugurated as president of the United States. Because the colt was born on Carter's inaugural and the father is Merrywood Xing, Hodgins will be submitting Peanut Xing as the name of the dolt. 2 by Mt. Brydges in the first game of a best-of-seven series. The second game is slated for Mt. Brydges Saturday night at 8:30 p.m. with the third contest back in Zurich Sunday night. Game time is 8 p.m. Hawks manager Fred Mom- mersteeg is confident his club can come back against Mt. Brydges and qualify for the division final against the Mitchell Hawks or Lucan Irish. Mommersteeg commented Monday, "It was just a matter of being too over-confident Sunday night. If we can't eliminate Mt. Brydges we don't belong in the The Exeter Kinsmen Midgets took a strangle-hold on their playoff series with New Ham- burg when they scored a con- vincing 9-2 win in New Hamburg, Sunday, The locals now lead the best-of- five set by a 2-0 margin and the third game is slated for Huron Park this Friday night at 8:00 p.m. If a fourth game is necessary, it will be back in Huron Park at 7:00 p.m. Satur- day. New Hamburg, who lost the first game by a 6-0 margin, stayed with the Exeter crew through the first period when the teams left the ice with a 2-2 tie. However, Exeter scored five unanswered goals in the middle frame and added two more in the third to win handily. The hosts opened the scoring in the game but held the lead for only a minute when Brad Taylor scored on a play with Preston Dearing and Perry Pooley, New Hamburg took a 2-1 margin near the end of the stanza, but again Exeter came right back to even things up with a goal from the stick of David Cann. The assist went to Brian Mercer. Paul Pooley started the second periodonslaught and his goal was followed by tallies off the sticks of Randy Parsons, Brian Mercer, Paul Pooley and Randy Fisher. Three of those tallies were unassisted, while Perry Pooley and Dave Atthill picked up one assist in the five-goal spree. Paul Pooley added his second Taylor wins Hawks title Brian Taylor Ken Pinder Rick Ingram Gerald Weido Fred Mommersteeg John Van Gerwen Matt Muller Phil Knight Paul Pooley Kim McKinnon Steve Jennison Paul Brooks Perry Pooley Noel Skinner Tom Hayter Don McKellar Dave Kinsman Ron Bilcke Jim Ferguson Randy Fisher playoffs." He continued, "After scoring at least eight goals in each game against Mt. Brydges this year we just took them too lightly," All but one of the six goals in Sunday's contest came in the first period. Mt, Brydges jumped into a 2-0 lead before the Hawks were able to hit the scoreboard. Scoring for the visitors were Gary Toth and Brad Glover. Fred Mommersteeg Jr. fired both goals for the Hawks and they came in a space of 18 seconds late in the opening session. Ken Pinder provided the assist won of the night in the third period on another unassisted effort, while Randy Fisher finished off the scoring with his second tally in the final minute. Dave Atthill drew an assist on that one. In Shamrock play this week, the Exeter Midgets scored a 4-2 win over Ilderton on Wednesday. Ilderton opened the scoring and then Paul Pooley recorded a hat trick to give the locals a 3-1 margin. Ilderton scored late in the third, but Dave Bogart got that one back with -the assists going to Paul Pooley and Randy Parsons. Picking up assists on Pooley's three goals were Darrell Preszcator, Randy Parsons and two for Dave Bogart. There was the cross-eyed dis- cus thrower who never set any records but he sure kept the crowd on its toes. thefirst Mommersteeg marker and John Van Gerwen picked up an assist on the second. Joe Welch hit for Mt. Brydges with 40 seconds left in the first period and Bob Davenport closed out the game scoring late in the third period. The Hawks took 10 of the 19 minor penalties called by referees Pat O'Brien and George Sweeney, The two Exeter stars receiving the McKnight's Men's Wear awards were Fred Mommersteeg and Phil Knight. SAVE During our biggest sale ever, See next week's Times-Advocate. HOPPER-HOCKEY FURNITURE LTD. Junior 'D' Playoffs Sun., Feb. 27 8:00 p.m. ZURICH ARENA Third game of league semi-final Mt. Brydges VS Exeter Hawks for tournament events, itseldom happens in playoff series as some coaches and managers would frown on the fraternization. That opinion was not shared by Mr. McCallum or the teams in- volved. The OMHA official said it would be a real treat for the boys to enjoy the competition on the ice while at the same time meeting new friends through the association off the ice. "That's what this great game of hockey is supposed to be all about," he told EMHA sescretary Bill Batten this week. The following weekend, the two Exeter teams will return to Pelham and they in turn will be hosted by in the players' homes between the games to be played at the Fonthill arena. In charge of arrangements for the Pelham visit this weekend are Bob Fletcher, Brian Hodgins and Elmer Taylor for the bantam 2 squad and Bill Brock and John McNeilly for the pee wee crew. The pee wee 2 series opens this Saturday afternoon at 4:00 p.m. in the Huron Park arena and the bantam game will follow at 5:30, The same two starting times will be used for the Sunday af- ternoon contests, The winners of the series ad- vance to the OMHA semi-finals. This is the first time the OMHA have had provincial playoffs for second teams. Exeter's atom 2 squad have also reached the zone quarter-finals and will be hosting Parkhill at the Huron Park arena on Friday at 7:00. Second game will be in Parkhill on Saturday afternoon. In another minor playoff series, Exeter Kinsmen midgets will play New Hamburg at Huron Park on Friday. Game time is 8:00 p.m. The locals lead the series 2-0 and if the fourth game is needed it will be back in Huron Park at 7:30 on Saturday evening. Congratulations are in order for the Mousseau's, Beer's and all connected with the Pineridge Chalet and the snow- mobile club in the operation of the past weekend's enter- tainment in aid of crippled children. While we haven't as yet learned the amount of money realized for the London Crippled Children's Treatment Cen- tre from the three-day activities, the event was a huge success. The number of visitors throughout the weekend sur- passed any of the previous seven years and the activities and entertainment continue to increase in popularity, The appearance of Bill Brady and Big Al helped to draw a lot of visitors. Brady, the amiable host of CFPL radio's talk show was in the kitchen for the sixth consecutive year heading an all-star cast of cooks. Both men gave a lot of publicity the last couple of weeks on their respective shows and a lot of youngsters turned up to see the host of the Kitchener talent show and cartoons. Bill Brady always has the key spot in the kitchen near the entrance way and keeps the visitors entertained with his good natured quips. When talking about kitchen staff we can't forget the Butcher Boy Russ Tieman, Bob Baker, Lloyd Mousseau and Sandy Munn along with a number of ladies who are always on hand to keep the men on the right track. This year the Pineridge weekend was only one of three area events chanelling all monies to help with the crippled children cause. The others were the recent Exeter Lions Sportsmen's Dinner and this coming Sunday's Whipper Watson's Snowarama. The Snowarama which will begin and finish at Hully Gully is expected to attract a large number of snow- mobilers not only from this immediate area but from throughout Western Ontario. To show the interest of snowmobilers in rallies like this more than 160 machines took part in the poker rally at the Pineridge Chalet, Saturday. The Exeter, Lucan, Grand Bend and Ailsa Craig Lions clubs will be assisting in Sunday's rally by providing per- sonnel at various checkpoints throughout the 50 mile course. Further information on the Snowarama can be obtained by contacting Randy Collins at Hully Gully. The phone number is 262-5809. Minor hockey week anytime This year particularly in this area due to the closing of several arenas the annual recognition of Minor Hockey Week has been either passed by or recognized in a rather ,haphazard way. Midgets take lead in OMHA playoff round