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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1978-01-05, Page 8PQ9e 9 Tifnes-Advocate, January 5, 1978 Jets reverse The Lucan-Ilderton Jets will be hoping an old weather adage applies to hockey as well. We know of several veteran weather observers who maintain weather conditions between Christmas and New Years dictate weather for the first six months of the new year. Applied to the jets, this would mean they will have a successful second half of the 1977-78 season, quite a change from their performance in the first half. Friday night the Jets scored only their third victory of the season but it was a big one in several ways. The Jets not'only defeated the Petrolia Squires 7-4, the first loss of the season for the league leaders, but did it in rather miraculous fashion. When the game was only 14 minutes old, Petrolia was in front 4-0 and appeared to be well on the way to their 22nd straight win. Coach Jack Chipchase and manager Don Urbshott must have used magic words to their charges after the first period. The Jets came out flying in the second period and scored three times in the first four minutes of the middle frame to even the score and they were on their way to the biggest upset of the year. Should be exciting The South Huron Rec Centre will be a busy spot this weekend as a hockey tournament featuring eight of the best junior “D” clubs in this part of the province will be held. Six clubs from the OHA western grouping will be in ac­ tion along with the Norwich Merchants and Cayuga Red Wings. The first of the four Saturday games will get underway at 12 noon with the Lucan Irish taking on the Mitchell Hawks. The second game at 2:30 p.m. pits the Tavistock Braves against the Cayuga Red Wings. At 5 p.m. the Norwich Merchants will be meeting the Seaforth Centennaires and at 7:30 p.m. it’s the Thamesford Trojans against the Exeter Hawks, defending provincial junior “D” champs. This is a single knockout tourney with the winners of Saturday’s four games participating in the semi-final round at 1 and 3:30 p.m. Sunday. The championship game for all the marbles will get un­ derway Sunday at 7:30 p.m. The winning club will get $500 with $150 going to the loser of the final game. Busy weekend In addition to the weekend tourney, most of the Junior “D” clubs will be meeting regular schedule obligations making for a busy couple of days. Friday night the local Hawks will be meeting Mount Brydges in a very important contest at the*South Huron Rec pentre. The Mount Brydges club has moved into a first place tie with Belmont in the other division with 25 points. They have lost only three times but jhave four draws. The Exeter tea,m leads group three with 37 points, eight more than the second place Lucan Irish. The Irish have played two fewer games than the Hawks. The same Irish will be extremely busy Saturday. They play in the tourney here at noon and then go to Mount Brydges for a night game at 8:30 p.m. More baseball fans Recent statistics show that attendance at major league baseball games in 1977 was up by more than seven million persons while National Hockey league crowds this year are about the same as last year. Through games of November 30, NHL teams drew 2,- 447,225 spectators. This was an increase of only 529 over the same period in 1976. The biggest drop is at St. Louis where the Blues’ crowds are down by 50,235. Next come the Chicago Black Hawks with an attendance decrease of 19,259. Making up for the NHL losses are larger crowds at Detroit and Washington. The rejuvenated Red Wings have drawn 23,537 more fans and the Capitols are up by more than 14,000. On the road, the Philadeplhia Flyers and Montreal Canadiens are the biggest drawing cards, the Flyers have lured the most fans away from home with an average of 14,- 906 while the Montreal figure is 14,547. Back to baseball, less than half of the seven million in­ crease came from the expansion teams in Toronto and Seat­ tle. The official Blue Jays attendance has been listed at 1,- 701,052. This is the fourth best in the American league. Only four teams failed to reach the one million mark. They were the Cleveland Indians, Atlanta Braves, San Francisco Giants and Oakland Athletics. Going over the two million attendance mark were the Cincinnati Reds. New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox and Los Angeles dodgers. CURtING CHAMPS — The junior girls curling team from South Huron District High School were the winners in the O Pee Chee curling bonspiel held at the Highland club in London during the holidays. Above, coach led Davies congratulates skip Laurel Hodgert, Lori Lynn Stewart, Carol Dougall and Jayne Dougall. T-A photo Hawks end '77 with victory, lose in first new year start The Exeter Hawks ended the year 1977 very successfully but their first start in the new year was less encouraging. Friday night, the Hawks doubled the score 8-4 over the Seaforth Centenniares. Tuesday night, the situation was reversed with Seaforth winning 6-3. Both games were played in Seaforth. The next start in the Ontario Hockey Association Junior ‘D’ grouping for the Hawks will be Friday night at the South Huron High scoring for Hawks The Exeter Hawks hold down first place in the Ontario Hockey Association Junior “D” grouping, and their prolific scoring is one of the main reasons. According to statistics released, by coach Ron B.ogart, the club has scored 149 goals in 22 games for an average of 6.77 goals per game. The Hawks have also been strong in a defensive way giving up a total of 74 goals for an average of 3.36 goals each game. Brian Taylor is the Hawks leading scorer with 28 goals and 18 assists for a total of 46 points. Ken Pinder is second with 21 goals and 23 assists good for 44 points. Taylor leads in goals with 28 while Pinder is tops in assists with 23. The forward line of Ken Pinder, Fred Mommersteeg and Matt Muller leads in total points with 124. Pinder and Mommersteeg lead in power play goals with five each. Jamie Caldwell has four. The complete scoring statistics up to and including Friday’s game are as follows: Rec Centre when they play host to the Mount Brydges. Good second period Four unanswered goals in the second period allowed the Hawks to score Friday’s 8-4 win over Seaforth. The Hawks held a good edge in territorial play as they outshot the Centennaires 42 to 29. Steve Wells, a first year member of the Exeter midgets was in goal for the Hawks in the absence of regulars Steve Beer and Randy Lovie. After giving up three goals in the first period Wells flanked Seaforth on nine shots in the mid­ dle frame and stopped five of six shots in the final 20 minutes of play. The Hawks were first on the scoreboard at 7:20 of the first period as Jamie Caldwell con­ verted a pass from Brian Taylor. Seaforth rebounded quickly with goals from the sticks of Bruce .Blake, Bill O’Shea and Kevin Bennett. With less than two minutes'* left, the Hawks cut their deficit to a single goal. Brian Taylor fired the successful shot with the assist going to Don McKellar* The score was squared at 1:13 of the second period as defenceman Phil Knight scored on an unassisted effort. Exactly three minutes later Matt Muller was the Exeter marksman again on a solo dash to put his club ahead 4-3, At 7:39, Brian Taylor notched his second goal of the night on a pass from Phil Knight and seven minutes later Matt Muller took a pass from Fred Mommersteeg to score and put the Hawks ahead 6- 3. Before the second period came to a close. Fred Mommersteeg registered the seventh Exeter marker. Providing the assist was Jim Ferguson. In the third period each team scored one goal. Paul McClure scored for Seaforth and Matt Muller hit for the Hawks on a three-way combination with Ken Pinder and Fred .Mommersteeg. Referees Ray Ricnards and Bill Walsh of Stratford handed oyt 29 penalties, all minors. Seaforth took 16. Lose in third Four goals by Seaforth in the third period caused the downfall of the Hawks, Tuesday night. The Hawks took a 2-1 lead after the first period of play on goals by Ken Pinder and Dave Kinsman. Matt Muller and Fred Mom­ mersteeg drew assists on Pin­ der’s score and Pinder helped on Kinsman’s successful shot. The third and final Exeter score came in the third stanza from the stick of Randy Parsons on a three-way combination with Brion Penhale and Brad Taylor. G A P Brian Taylor 28 18 46 Ken Pinder 21 23 44 Fred Mommersteeg 19 22 41 Matt Muller 17 22 39 Jamie Caldwell 18 19 37 Jim Ferguson 6 16 22 Brion Penhale 6 13 19 Phil Knight 3 15 18 Steve Jennison 5 12 17 Randy Fisher 2 14 16 Don McKellar 2 14 16 Randy Parsons 5 9 14 Brad Taylor 7 4 11 Dave Bogart 0 5 5 Dave Kinsman 1 3 4 Brian Mercer 4 0 4 Ron Bilcke 0 2 2 A SNOW SWINGER — The extreme cold temperatures of Tuesday morning failed to deter students at Exeter Public School from using summer playground equipment. Above, Michelle Aunger enjoys a swing. T-A photo Midgets lose to Goderich The Exeter midgets dropped an 8-6 verdict to Goderich in an exhibition contest played in the county town Saturday afternoon. One of the markers scored by the Goderich crew was a penalty shot called after the referee ruled that goalie Steve Wells had thrown his stick at a loose puck. Brian Mercer paced the Exeter offensive attack with two goals and one assist. The other tallies canqe off the sticks of Preston Dearing, Dave Cann, Jeff Fuller and Doug Brooks1. Brooks, Dearing and Dave Bogart also picked up assists in the contest. Atoms get three out of four points The Exeter atoms scored a win and a tie in a pair of exhibition contests this week as they prepared for their weekend trip to Exeter, New Hampshire. The locals posted a 2-0 win over Mitchell on Friday and then came back with a 3-3 tie with Goderich on Tuesday. Exeter dominated play as they hosted Mitchell, but Jeff Lockhart played an outstanding game in the nets for the visitors to keep the score close. Steve Gould fired both suc­ cessful shots for Exeter. Scott Bogart drew assists on both goals and Jeff Pfaff helped on one. In Tuesday’s game, Goderich battled back on three occasions to knot the count, their final tally coming with 1:10 left in the game when it appeared the Exeter crew had the game won. In an earlier game, Goderich scored in the final seconds to post a 2-1 win. Brett Batten paced the Exeter attack with a goal in each of the first two periods. Sean Whiteford and Jeff Pfaff helped on the first tally, while the second one came on a nifty three-way passing play involving George Pratt and Whiteford. Scott Lovie gave Exeter a 3-2 margin with just under two minutes to go when he was sent into the clear on a pass from John Wells. Forty seconds later, Grant Garrow broke loose from his own end to give Goderich the tie. Important day for houseleague All players involved in the Exeter minor hockey houseleague are advised that a change will be made in this week’s schedule. Only one game will be played due to the fact the Junior “D” hockey tournament gets un­ derway at noon on Saturday. All houseleague players should be on the ice at 9:00 a.m. They ‘will have an instruction period and then a game. It is important that all boys attend so the coaches can see them in action as the league will be split into four new teams for the following week. At that time, the atom players will be split into two teams, while the pee wee and bantam players will be split into another two teams. ■ r !) Be Part of the Action And Excitement At EXETER MINOR HOCKEY'S JUNIOR HOCKEY TOURNAMENT ' That which is called firmness in a king is called obstinacy in a donkey. -Lord Erskine HURON INDUSTRIAL PARK ARENA Due to schedule changes at the arena, ice is now available for rental at certain times on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. For information regarding ice rental, call the arena 228-6540, ad­ ministration office 228-6657 or 228-6306 Arrangements can be made for leagues or teams for hockey or broom­ ball and skating parties may also be arranged. Public skating hours - 6:00 - 8:00 P.M. — Monday & Wednesday 2:00 * 4:00 P.M. Sunday Ontario MINISTRY of INDUSTRY-and TOURISM IMPORTANT NOTICE New stove agency in Kirkton featuring among others the VERMONT DOWNDRAFTER Woodburning Stove Capable of heating a whole house through its water coil and manifold heat systems. For information & literature contact: ©Ip (ttdllectarz’ ANTIQUES AN’ THINGS By chance or appointment GEORGE & HAROLD BURGIN Buying & Selling KIRKTON 229-8965 Fifth Annual Exeter Lions Sportsmen's Dinner Tuesday, February 7 at the SOUTH HURON REC CENTRE Master of Ceremonies - Bill Brady Main Speaker - Normie Kwong Others in’ attendance will be Diane Jones Konikowski,, Glenn Weir, Bill Symons, Jill Ross, Larry Jeffrey, Brian McFarlane, Sherri Biaer, John Konikowski, Red Kelly and Bob Bailor and Dave Lemanczyk of the Toronto Blue Jays. Admission: Adults $25., Public and High School Students $15. Do you know anyone here in Ontario who-through selflessness, humanity and kindnqss without expecting anything in return-has made this a better province in which to live? < < ,5 That's the kind of person for whom the Ontario Medal for Good Citizenship was established. Recipients are selected by an independent Advi­ sory Council of Ontario citizens whose honorary chairman is the Lieutenant-Governor of the* Province. Anyone may nominate a person for the Ontario Medal, and nomination forms are available by writing: Executive Secretary Advisory Council Ontario Medal for Good Citizenship Queen's Park 'Ioronto. Ontario M7A 1A1 Making a nomination is itself an act of appreciation for good citizenship. All nominations should be received f by April 15. 1978. Ontario Medal for Good Citizenship 0 SAT. & SUN. - JAN. 7 & 8 SOUTH HURON REC CENTRE See The Area s Top Junior'D' Teams Battle For The First Prize of $500 SAT., JAN. 7 12:00 -I-ucan Irish vs Mitchell Hawks 2:30 - Tavistock Braves vs CayUga Red Wings 5:00 - Norwich Merchants .vs Seaforth Centennaires 7:30 - Thamesford Trojans vs Exeter Hawks Adults $2*00 Children 50$ SUN., JAN. 8 1:00 - Winners of Games One and Two 3:30 - Winners of Games Three and Four Adults $1.50 Children 50 4 FINAL 7:30 • Winners of Semi-Finals Adults $1.50 Children 50$ FRI., JAN. 6-----Mt. Brydges vs Exeter Hawks - 8:30 p.m.