HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1979-01-04, Page 8PQ9e 8 Times-Advocate, January 4, 1979
I Sports
I Spotlight
1 By ROSS HAUGH
Dinner nears
It’s difficult to realize that the year 1979 has
already started and, yes, the sixth annual Exeter
Lions Club Sportsmen’s Dinner is only a little more
than five weeks away.
Dinner chairman Peter Raymond and his hard
working committee are coming close to a final list of
speakers and celebrities.
The dinner will be held Tuesday, February 6 at the
South Huron Rec Centre.
As usual the Lions have done an exceptionally fine
job in rounding up representatives from a wide varie
ty of sports.
The headline speaker will be Bobby Bragan from
the world of baseball. Bragan who is well known as a
National league catcher, manager and is now a good
will ambassador for the office of baseball’s com
missioner Bowie Kuhn.
The local Lions have always been successful in
coming up with great master of ceremonies for each
of their five dinners to date and this year is no excep
tion.
At the head table to co-ordinate the program and
introduce the visiting sports celebrities will be Tom
McKee of CBC sports fame.
Tom is well versed in all sports having a hand as a
colour commentator in CFL football, Toronto Blue
Jays, hockey, track and field, etc. You name it and
Tom has been there to tell us all about it.
One of the most popular men to attend the dinner
and probably the oldest will be Frank Selke Sr.
Selke who is well into his 80’s joined Conn Symthe
and the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1929 as general
manager after several successful years with the
Toronto Marlboro juniors.
After about six years with the Leafs Smythe and
Selke failed to agree on some matters and the latter
moved on to Montreal and had a lot to do with giving
the Canadiens the stature they have today.
Baseball will be well represented by Lou Whit
taker of the Detroit Tigers and Rick Bossetti from the
Toronto Blue Jays.
Whittaker was named rookie of the year in 1978 in
the American league and Bossetti proved last year
that he should turn into one of the best centre fielders
in baseball within a year or two.
Attempts are being made to get representation
from the Toronto Maple Leafs and Detroit Red Wings.
Hockey will be represented by Father Quinn of the
Flying Fathers hockey team.
Father Quinn, a graduate of St. Michael’s College
in Toronto is currently operating an alcohol and drug
rehabilitation centre in Detroit.
We caught a Bill Brady radio show a few months
ago when Father Quinn was a guest and only a few
minutes indicated he is a very humorous person.
The current world’s women’s trap shooting cham
pion Sue Nattrass of Calgary will be one of the
speakers along with Ken Furphy, manager of the
Detroit Express soccer club.
Tickets are now on sale for $25 from any member
of the Exeter Lions club. They are tax deductible and
all proceeds from the dinner go to assist crippled
children.
Get your tickets early and we’ll see you at the
South Huron Rec Centre on February 6.
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BANTAM STOPPED —- Exeter bantam Bill Glover scored Exeter's lone goal in the semi final of the New Hamburg tournament,
Saturday, but he was thwarted on this attempt by the Flamboro goalie who played a stellar role in his team's 5-1 win over the
locals. Staff photo
Tourney provides all excitement
for a Hollywood script writer
A Hollywood script writer
wduld have had trouble
duplicating the excitement
generated in the cham
pionship and consolation
in Forest,
Kincardine in
and were no
Atoms lose
in Forest
The Exeter atoms were
bombed 11-2 in their first
outing at the Silver Stick
tournament
Saturday.
They met
the opener
match for the northern team,
who took a 4-0 lead in the
first period.
Brett Batten and Paul
Mellecke scored for the
locals with the assists going
to Terry Zachar, Sean
Whiteford and
Heywood.
Scott
finals of the Exeter novice
tournament at the rec centre
last week.
Three of the five cham
pionship games ended up in
overtime, one was decided
with only 31 seconds left on
the clock and the other was
in doubt with less than two
minutes remaining.
The Exeter Waxers, as
reported last week, won the
first honor as they clipped
Lambeth 3-2 in the “B”
consolation. Exeter scored
with 31 seconds left in
regulation time.
Elmira and Walkerton
then squared off in the “A”
consolation with Elmira
posting a 3-2 victory at the
1:35 mark of overtime.
The biggest surprise came
in the “B” championship,
when Seaforth forced the
heavily favored Parkhill
crew into overtime. Parkhill
finally won 2-1 when John
Leyton pushed a loose puck
over the goal iine just as the
Seaforth netminder was
ready to smother it.
St. Marys and Hanover
Jets better,
but beaten
Bantams defeated
as odds-on favorites
Showing well
The Exeter Hawks did extremely well in the 1978
half of the season in the OHA Western Junior “D”
grouping despite a rash of injuries which sidelined
some key personnel.
According to the latest statistics as of December
26, the Hawks were in second place, one point behind
the league leading Mitchell Hawks. The difference
came with a Mitchell win over Exeter on Boxing Day.
Three members of the Hawks are among the top
10 scorers in the league. Jamie Caldwell of the
Hawks is in a second place tie with Tim Risdale of
Belmont with 35 points apiece.
Preston Dearing holds down fifth place with 33
points and Ken Pinder is next with 32 points.
Paul Medd of the Lucan Irish is in fourth spot with
34 points. The league leader is Cam Doig of Seaforth
with a whipping 56 points to his credit.
The Exeter bantams were
slight favorites when they
skated onto the ice Saturday
morning for the semi-final
round in the New Hamburg
tournament.
However, Flamboro
jumped on the locals for a
couple of early goals and
went on to post a 5-1 victory.
Bill Glover scored
Exeter’s lone goal late in the
third period.
Exeter scored a hard-
fought 4-3 win over Acton in
the tournament opener and
then disposed of Ilderton by
a 9-0 count to gain the semi
final round.
Mark Clark scored twice in
the win over Acton with
singles going to Tom Coates
and Dave Shaw. Dave
Underwood picked up a pair
of assists to lead in that
department, while helping
out on one goal each were
John Kernick, Shaw and
Mike Murray.
i Dave Underwood paced | the onslought against
I Ilderton with a three-goal
performance. Dave Shaw
added a pair and singles
were recorded by Mark
Vandergunst, Mike Clark,
Scott Pincombe and Jim
Siddall. Bill Glover led in the
assist department with four,
while Clark had a pair.
In an exhibition contest at
the rec centre, Friday, the
locals skated to an easy 6-1
win over London, after
spotting the losers an early
lead.
Dave Underwood scored a
pair of tallies, while singles
were picked up by Tom
Coates, Mike Clark, Scott
Brintnell and Jim Siddall.
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Be Port of the Action
And Excitement At
EXETER MINOR
HOCKEY'S
First junior club to reunite
The first junior hockey club ever organized in
Exeter is getting together for a reunion and an exhibi
tion game on January 20.
Members of the first team of 1960-61 will take to
the ice at South Huron Rec Centre against the Zurich
Oldtimers. Game time is set for 8 p.m.
Most members of the club have indicated they will
be back for the exhibition game.
The goal tender was Jerry Cooper and the
defencemen were Gerald McBride, Lester Heywood,
Jack Chipchase and Murray Bell.
Forwards include Jim Russell, Cy Blommaert,
Lloyd Moore , Frank Boyle, Jack Stephan, Bob Jones,
Rick Boyle, Jim McDonald, Dale Turvey, Mike
Cushman and Fred Wells.
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The manager of the team was Derry Boyle and
coaching duties were handled by Boom Gravett.
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Midgets settle
for two draws
Exeter’s midget “B”
squad picked up two ties in
their five contests at the
annual Strathroy Olympics
tournament.
Their final tie came
Thursday when they battled
to a 2-2 draw with Glencoe.
Bruce Shaw and Kevin
Parsons picked up the
Exeter tallies with the
assists going to Bill Renning
and Greg Prout.
On Wednesday, the locals
dropped a 5-0 verdict to
Forestand they were clipped
6-1 by St. Marys on Saturday. .
Exeter’s lone goal in that
contest was an unassisted
effort by Al Gaiser.
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Despite being on the short
end of a 5-3 score Friday
night in OHA Senior Con
tinental league play, the
Lucan-Ilderton Jets turned
in one of their better per
formances of the year.
The Jets with only 10
skaters stayed on even terms
with the Preston Jesters
until the latter part of the
third period before falling
behind.
This week the Jets will see
action on three occasions.
They were in Chatham last
night, Wednesday; Friday .
night they play host to the
London Kings at the Ilderton
arena at 8.15 p.m. and
Sunday night they travel to
Woodstock to meet the
Royals. Game time is 7 p.m.
Friday’s game was only 21
seconds old when the Jets hit
the scoreboard as Jamie
Robb converted a pass from
Greg Roberts.
Later in the first period,
Walt Parkinson completed a
three-way passing play with
Ed Robb and goalie Lome
Daer to put the L-I club
ahead 2-1. Jim Reid counted
for Preston.
The only goal of the middle
frame came at 13.41 from the
stick of Ed Robb with assists
going to Walt Parkinson and
Brian Murphy.
Mike Yosurak scored for
Preston at 1.01 of the third
session and then Gerry
Harrigan took over to send
the Jets down to defeat.
Harrigan scored three
straight goals to give his
Preston club the victory.
Lome Daer was in goal for
the Jets and he faced 46 shots
while his mates fired 34 shots
at Ed Harrigan in the
Preston nets.
hooked up in the “
championship and played
through three periods of
hockey and neither team
giving up a goal.
However, after only 30
seconds of overtime, Scott
Speer picked up a puck in
side the blueline, skated
around one defender and
then neatly deked the goalie ,
to give Hanover a 1-0
triumph.
In the “A” division, South
London and Oakridge hooked
up in the final, with South
London winning 2-0. They
held a slim one-goal lead
after the first period and the
game was in doubt until they
registered their second tally
late in the final stanza.
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