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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1977-11-10, Page 8Pa ge 8 • Ill t It took the South HuronDistrict School juniors football team a game and a half to do it but they reached the Huron-Perth Con- ference finals, Tuesday af- ternoon. The juniors bested the Goderich Vikings 23-16 in the semi-final after 30 minutes of overtime in Goderich, Tuesday. They qualified to meet Goderich by beating Norwell 27.1 on the local field, Thursday. The junior championship game will be played Saturday at 2 p.m. at the South Huron field with Listowel supplying the opposition for the locals. In an earlier season game South Huron edged Listowel 6-1. The South Huron seniors are also in the Huron-Perth final round but they didn't use the same heroics as their junior counterparts to qualify for the big game. The senior Panthers travel to Goderich Saturday to meet the Vikings for the I-I-P title. The seniors blanked Norwell 33-0 Thursday and scored a 25-12 win over Stratford Central, Tuesday to earn the right to the finals. Most exciting in many years Coach Doug Ellison described tits team's win Tuesday over Goderich as "the most exciting contest in 10 years." The Panthers blew what ap- peared to be a comfortable lead late in the fourth quarter and were forced to survive a critical situation at the end of the first overtime period, but, came on strong with a touchdown on the first play of the third extra period. The winning score for the Panthers came on the kickoff to start the third overtime period as Larry Dawson ran the ball back' 85 yards for a touchdown. Coach Ellison credited the success of the kick return to excellent blocking by Jim Romphf, Doug Raymond, Steve Cooper and Jeff Fuller. He added, "They set up a wedge down the left side instead of up the middle as they had done previously and made it look like a NFL play." The true meaning of football came to light on the last play of the first overtime period as the ball was kicked three times. With 13 seconds left the Panthers kicked the ball out of their own end zone, only to have Goderich kick it back trying to get a single point. Larry Dawson was alert and booted the ball back again and after it was bobbled by Goderich, Craig DeGraw recovered the ball to prevent a fourth kick on the same play. The Panthers built up a 16-2 lead to late in the fourth quarter on touchdowns by Rick Lin- denfield and Joe Becker and a field goal and single point from the toe of Doug Hoffman. Goderich counted with two touchdowns on a 60 yard pass and a run in the last 30 seconds as the result of a South Huron fumble, Coach Ellison said he takes the blame, "It 's my fault for calling a reverse with only a few seconds remaining." Cann scores twice Brad Cann scored two touch- downs to lead the senior Panthers to Tuesday's 25-12 win over Stratford Central. Cann closed out the first half with a touchdown and opened the second on the same note. Both came on one yard dives. Jeff O'Brien scored the other major in the first half on a run of three yards. The other points came on a field goal and two single points by Paul Brooks and two point conversion on a pass to Brian Mercer. In Thursday's senior victory over Norwell, the Panthers used a well spread scoring attack with at least six points in every quarter. The game was only a few minutes old when Brian Mercer swept around the end of the line for a touchdown, Paul Brooks was good with the convert at- tempt and later in the first period booted a 25 yard field goal, In the second quarter, Brad The Exeter Hawks went on a real shooting spree in two Ontario Hockey Association Junior "D" games this week but could come up with only one victory. Friday, the Hawks absorbed a 7-5 defeat in Thamesford but bounded back Tuesday night to handily defeat the Mitchell Hawks by a score of 6-1. In both games, the Hawks held a wide margin in shots on goal. Against Mitchell the locals held the upper hand in shooting by 50 to 24. The Hawks face a busy schedule this week. Last night, Wednesday, they travelled to Bothwell, they will be at the South Huron Rec Centre Friday night at 8.30 p.m. to meet the Tavistock Braves and Wed- nesday they go to Belmont. Good second period Four second period goals assured the Hawks of victory in Mitchell, Tuesday. The first period was even with each team scoring one goal. Ken Finder registered for Exeter on a three-way effort with Fred Mommersteeg and Dave Bogart and Mike Avery replied for Cann chalked up his first of two major scores with a dive in from the one yard line to give the Panthers a 16.0 lead at half-time, On the first play of the third quarter, Brad Cann raced 60 yards down the left side of the field and across the Norwell goal line. Paul Brooks was again good on the point after touchdown, In the fourth period, Jeff O'Brien returned an opposition punt 35 yards to register the final South Huron touchdown. The point after by Paul. Brooks was successful, The Panthers ground game was powerful with Brad Cann getting most of the action. He gained 180 yards on 26 carries. Jeff O'Brien was next with 62 yards in 10 tries at the line, The South Huron passing at- tack picked up only 42 yards. The Panthers racked up 16 first Mitchell on a power play. Ken Pinder was back at 7.17 of the second period to notch his second and what proved to be the winning goal on a solo dash, The third Exeter score came from the stick of Jamie Caldwell on a pass from captain Phil Knight and the fourth was chalked up by Jim Ferguson on a play started by Randy Fisher and -Jamie Caldwell. Fred Momersteeg scored the final goal of the middle frame at 18.22 with Ken Pinder and Dave Bogart assisting. The only goal of the third period came from the stick of Phil Knight at the 18 second mark. Forward Don McKellar took four of the nine penalties, all coming at 14.30 of the first period. He was assessed a roughing minor, a major for fighting, a game misconduct and an automatic minor which meant an early shower. Steve Beer was in goal for the Hawks and turned in a steady performance. The only goal he allowed came when his team was playing shorthanded. Four penalties in the last five downs while Norwell could move the yard sticks on only three occasions. Rick Skinner led the Panthers on defence with 14 key tackles. Paul Brooks was next with 12 and Hamather and Brad Taylor made eight and seven big stops, respectively. Coach Ron Bogart had only one criticism of his team, He said, '4 We took far too many penalties". The Panthers were called for 17 infractions setting them back 150 yards which was a big portion of the total Norwell offence of 192 yards. Individual awards for the game went to Brad Cann on offence and Randy Fisher as the top defen- der. Coach Bogart commented, "The whole offensive and defensive teams were stars." The junior Panthers took a minutes of play in the third period cost the Hawks any chances they had of winning in Thamesford Friday night. The Hawks held a wide edge in territorial play and shots on goal but were unable to put the puck into the net when it counted, They outshot Thamesford 58 to 44. The locals Were only behind by one goal and appeared to ' be coming on for a big rally when the rash of penalties hit at the 15:35 mark of the final session. Pete Fulmer of Thamesford scored what proved to be the insurance goal at 16:15 with the Exeter club playing two men short. Penalties played a big part in the outcome of the game as all four Exeter goals came on power plays and three scores by Thamestord were registered with little time in getting their scoring machine into action Thursday against Norwell as they didn't hit the scoreboard until the second period was well underway. Quarterback Doug Brooks dove over from the one yard line for the first touchdown and Doug Hoffman's convert boot was good. Scoring came thick and fast in the third' period. Larry Dawson hit paydirt off tackle from 10 yards; Rick Lindenfield scored a major from the two yard line and Joe Becker nabbed a pass from Steve Pearce for a 64 yard touch- down. Doug Hoffman kicked one extra point and Joe Becker caught a pass for a two point convert. The South Huron ground attack rolled up a total of 347 yards. Larry Dawson was the top gainer members of the Hawks cooling their heels in the penalty box. The first period was even as far as scoring was concerned with each team being successful on one shot. Captain John Baker started the scoring for Thamesford at 2:16 and Ken Pinder squared the score for the Hawks with only one second remaining on a three way combination with Brion Penhale and Fred Mommersteeg. Thamesford held a 3-2 margin after 40 minutes of play as Doug Thornton and Rick McKellar hit the mark. The only Exeter goal came at the 24 second mark with the same trio responsible as Pinder scored and Mommersteeg and Penhale drew assists. Thamesford was able to in- crease the lead to 4-2 at 50 Please turn to rage a with 125 yards in 20 carries. Rick Lindenfield was next with a yards in 14 attempts. Doug Hoffman led the Panthers defence with nine key tackles, Allan Gaiser was next with eight and Pat Cyr contributed six key s tops. Game awards were numerous, Thursday. 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"All too often intensive rivalries take over and schools emphasize sports in which a few play and many watch. Community programs outside schools compete in at- tracting children into overlapping programs. The payoff is often too much participation by the athletically talented and not much at all for ordinary youngsters. The problem is aggravated when a winning season becomes an obsession. That is not to say that winning doesn't count. Adolescents like to win. They prefer programs that offer recognition for achievement. But when they do lose the set- back is easily forgotten, unless adults insist on placing blame and destroying the fun that kids have simply playing together." There are many reasons why some parents put pressure on their children to win in sports, One involves the psychology of transferred ambitions. That is seeing your son or daughter becoming a winner while you were not in your youth, Actually, there is no way to be sure of future perfor- mances of even a super athletically inclined child. As we know, many youngsters burn themselves out at an early age or lose their intense desire from too much par- ticipation or rebel against pushing from their parents. A study at Medford, Ore., showed that an elementary school standout had only a 50-50 chance of being a superior performer in high school. And the chances of athletic success diminish as time goes by. In his book, "Winning Is Everything and Other American Myths," Dr. Thomas Tutko reported that of the millions of boys who play Little League baseball, about 400,- 000 will play high school baseball, about 25,000 will advance to college ball and only about 100 will make it to the major leagues. Of 200,000 high school seniors and 5,700 college seniors playing basketball in 1974, only 211 were drafted by professional teams and just 55 actually signed contracts. The odds on breaking into pro football were said to be "dismal" and the chances of winning a college scholarship were not much better. What it boils down is that parents should consider children's sports first as fun and secondly as a way to learn that exercise is important to good health. Only after this should they consider what to do if a boy or girl shows special talents. If this happens, there are plen- ty of sports camps and clinics to provide special instruc- tion. Difficulties for some Many times one hears the expression, "we have good news and bad news." That's exactly how many of the staunch supporters of the two football teams at South Huron High School felt late Tuesday afternoon. The good news is both clubs qualified for the Huron- Perth championships but the bad news is the senior cham- pionship will be played in Goderich and the junior final in , Exeter and both games start at the same time of 2 p.m. Due to this scheduling the local fan support will certain- ly be split up Saturday, but, we know each club will be back- ed solidly as they attempt to bring two titles back to the local high school. Best of luck to coaches Ron Bogart and Doug Ellison and their charges as they head into Saturday's windup con- tests. Famous sayings Occasionally we run across interesting statements made by sporting participants or celebrities and we would like to pass a few of these along to our readers. John Ralston explaining his removal as coach of the Denver Broncos said, "I left because of illness and fatigue. The fans were sick and tired of me." 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