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Spotlight
IBy Ross Haugh
Jays name coach
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Third game here Friday Controversial win over Mitchell
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Hawks win first game in quarter final
Jim Ridley who is well known for his
compKshments in the Senior Intercounty baseball
league in recent years has joined the Toronto Blue
Jays organization.
Ridley who was one of the league’s leading hitters
and also was manager of the Stratford Hillers for a
year or two is assuming the post as a coach with the
Medicine Hat, Alberta Bluejays.
The Medicine Hat team will be participating in
the expanded eight team Pioneer league for rookies.
Play begins in late June.
Ridley has been a Blue Jays scout for Central On
tario and has also assisted in clinics and tryout camps.
Interesting reading
One of the latest sports books on the market
should provide a lot of interesting reading not only for
baseball fans
stories.
The book
riches story
LeFlore.
Detroit sportswriter Joe Falls who also con
tributes to the Sporting News calls it a “gutters to
glory” story. Falls says, “It’s not your usual sports
story but one that is so shocking you may have to read
it twice as I did to assimilate it all. ”
LeFlore the speedy, hard hitting Tiger outfielder
tells the story of his life, his 38 months in prison and
his sudden arrival as a star in simple uncomplicated
prose as written by Jim Hawkins of the Detroit Free
Press.
’ - LeFlore grew up in the slums of Detroit where
crime was a way of life and he was in the middle of it.
At the age of 19 he was sent to prison for armed
robbery and was a rebellious prisoner until he dis
covered there were rewards to be gained by par
ticipating in sports.
After showing his apparent baseball skills in
prison and through a combination of circumstances
LeFlore got a chance for a Tiger tryout.
He left prison in July of 1973 and became an ins
tant hit with his base stealing abilities. By the middle
of the next season he was a regular with the Tigers.
He turned in his best performance with Detroit in
1977 but that didn’t stop LeFlore from wanting to im
prove. He spent the winter playing ball in Puerto Rico
and accumulated a .392 batting average.
LeFlore is one of the reasons Tiger fans are get
ting a little more excited this spring than they have in
any year since the World Series triumph of 1968.
The spring training performances of Mark “The
Bird” Fidrych is also bringing smiles to the Tiger
brass. Fidrych has already turned in three excellent
efforts and seems to be completely recovered from
last year’s injuries.
Getting early start
Plans are being made early for the soccer season
in Grand Bend and area.
The Grand Bend soccer club has announced plans
to operate teams at all levels this summer from minor
squirt to senior.
The first registration will be held this Saturday
morning at the Grand Bend Legion hall from 10 a.m.
to 1 p.m. Another sign-up chance will come the follow
ing Saturday at the Alhambra hall in Bosanquet
township during the same hours.
Further information can be obtained by contac
ting Ed Mommersteeg in Grand Bend, Joe Kaak in
Parkhill or Dave Silcock in Exeter.
but for anyone interested in success
is called Breakout and is the rags to
of Detroit Tiger centre fielder Ron
Lists hockey schools
The March 10 edition of the Hockey News lists a
complete directory of the hockey schools which are
available to youngsters in the United States and
Canada.
A total of 37 schools and camps are included
listing their directors, number of years in operation,
hours of ice time per day, dates and rates, ratio of in
structors, proximity of arena and off ice activities.
Included is the Huron Hockey School which has
been operated at the Huron Park arena for the past
eight years by Brian Gilmour, Bill Mahoney and Ron
Mason.
The Huron School ratio is eight students to each
instructor and this compares more than favourably
with many others who range from 10 to 15.
The longest operating school is the International
Hockey Clinic at Nelson, British Columbia. The direc
tor is former NHL’er Metro Prystai and the school has
been in business for 28 years.
Former Toronto Maple Leaf Gus Bodnar is in
charge of a summer school at St. Andrews, New
Brunswick. It has been in operation for 16 years.
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7 p.m.
Promoted by The Scarlet Dragon Society Academy
of Marsholl Arts, Kitchener in support of Easter
Seals funds for Kitchener-Waterloo Region Crippled
Children.
BACK A FIGHTER
The Exeter Hawks easily
disposed of Belmont by a 6-1
margin in their OHA quarter
final opener at the rec
centre, Sunday. The locals
gained the berth following a
controversial 3-2 win in
Mitchell on Friday to dispose
of those Hawks in six games.
That contest was the most
evenly played of the six
games, but was marred by
two serious arguments
surrounding rotten netting in
one of the goals.
Both teams contended they
scored goals, although
neither was allowed. Mit
chell’s was the more con
troversial, coming with only
13 seconds left, as it would
have sent the game into
overtime with the home
squad showing more “legs”
than the defending OHA
continue to seek the identity periodically, often on a trail
of a Sasquatch, whose taken by trainer Bob
footprints appear on the ice Drummond.
Brian Taylor. His snot irom
a sharp angle bounced off
netminder Bob Ward into the
net.
Then at the 10:19 mark,
Phil Knight, named this
week as the league’s top
defenceman for the second
year in a row, took the puck
in his own end and skated the
length of the ice past three
defenders on the right side to
score the winner.
Mitchell dominated play in
the final half of the period in
their attempt to get the
equalizer. They hit two goal
posts, fanned on one clear
shot and were beaten by
Steve Beer on a couple of
other good attempts as they
out-shot Exeter by a 10-4
margin.
Over 1,050 fans were on
hand to watch Exeter wrap
up the series in the sixth
game, a situation they had
accomplished last year as
well.
Defuse bombers
The Hawks were still
flying high when they took to
the ice Sunday against
Belmont and easily handled
the Bombers by a 6-1
margin.
They peppered 14 shots at
Wayne Boughner in the first
period, with the league’s top
goalie stopping all but one,
that being a shot by Randy
Parsons on a play with Matt
Muller and Dave Bogart.
In the middle frame,
Exeter hammered home
another three tallies in a
space of four and a half
minutes to take command of
the contest. Don McKellar,
Muller and Ken Pinder were
the triggermen.
They upped the lead to 5-0
mid-way through the third on
Muller’s second tally of the
night and Pinder scored his
second late in the game after
Jeff Thomas had spoiled
Scott McNair’s shutout bid at
the 14:02 mark.
McNair who played for the
Lucan Irish, was making his
first start for the Hawks. He
was given permission to play
by the OHA as a replacement
for injured goalie Randy
Lovie. He kicked out 22
shots, while Boughner
handled 35 successfully.
Second game in the series
was played last night in
Belmont and the third will be
in Exeter on Friday at 8:00.
The fourth and fifth games
are scheduled for Belmont
on Saturday and Monday and
the sixth in Exeter next
Wednesday.
Game notes—- a crowd of
850 watched Sunday night’s
action, a larger number than
had been ex -
pected. . . .Belmont coach
Brian Abbey, whose antics
resulted in a verbal
hand-sign battle with
Brydges fans, was
tremely quiet in his
playoff appearance
Exeter, although his large
black Stetson drew catcalls
every time he appeared on
the ice. . . .He’s been
nicknamed Wyatt Erp by
fans across the league in
view of his black suit and
matching headgear. . . .the
winner of the series will play
the winner of the Stayner--St.
George series in the OHA
semi-final. . . .the Hawks
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When the referee called a
faceoff outside the Exeter
blueline, Zimmer was on top
of the railing in front of his
box shouting his displeasure.
It was a scene duplicated
earlier in the game when a
point shot by Randy Fisher
was ruled to have gone
through a hole in the side of
the net. In that instance, it
was Exeter coach Ron
Bogart standing on the top
champs.
“It’s a hell of a way to lose
a series,” lamented Mitchell
coach Bob Zimmer as he
stood outside his dressing
room door after the contest.
He said there was no doubt
in his mind that the shot
0 went through the back of the
net, an opinion shared by
several Exeter supporters
who were standing behind
the cage.
The blistering slap shot rail to argue his point tha*t
came from about 20 feet' —J
directly in front of Exeter
goalie Steve Beer. Play
stopped temporarily as the
players on both sides ap
peared to believe a goal had
been scored, but suddenly
the puck was knocked off the
back of the net by an Exeter
defender and the argument
started.
the goal should be allowed.
Fisher’s shot ended up in
the net and most fans were of
the opinion the referee
couldn’t have determined
the course of the shot as he
was on the other side of the
play.
After the game, Zimmer
was sharply critical of the
Mitchell arena management
over the condition on the
nets.
In the Friday night tilt,
Mitchell took a 2-0 lead in the
first period, scoring at the
4:48 mark and again on a
power play at the 11:46 mark
despite the fact Exeter had a
wide edge in play, out
shooting their hosts by an 11-
6 margin.
Exeter finally got on the
scoreboard in the final two
minutes of the middle frame
when Don McKellar finished
off a power play with Steve
Jennison and Phil Knight. He
was standing on the corner of
the crease to deflect Jen-
nison’s point shot,
At the 1:53 mark of the
third, McKellar again
connected on another power
play when he was sent into
the clear on the left wing by
0
V-Tw in, shaft drive
and liquid cooling
to go
ON ITS WAY — This shot by Ken Pinder from in front of the net was his first of two on Sunday as the Hawks beat Belmont 6-1
in their quarter-final opener. The pass on the play came from Steve Jennison at the right, while Fred Mommersteeg moves in
from the other wing. Staff photo
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Pee wees eliminated
in Goderich tourney
The Exeter pee wees were
eliminated from the annual
Young Canada Week tour
nament in Goderich this
weekend.
With first string netminder
Peter Dearing home ill, and
two of their top defencemen
missing, the locals were no
match for Listowel as they
dropped a 9-0 decision in
their first appearance,
Friday.
In their first game in the
consolation side of the event,
Saturday they were quickly
eliminated by a 7-3 loss to
Mary Gravett’s Hanover
squad.
Backup netminder Doug
Cooper and atom goalie
Rick Gilfillan kept the locals
in that contest until the final
few minutes'. Trailing 4-2
coach Lloyd Moore pulled his
netminder in favor 'of an
extra attacker with just
under four minutes
remaining, but Hanover
finally dented the twine to
pull the game out of reach.
Exeter scored again in the
final, before Hanover salted
the game away with two
more goals, one of those into
another empty net.
Darren Vandergunst,
Steve Laithwaite and John
Kernick scored Exeter’s
goals.
OLLIE
SPORTS & CYCLE
GRAND BEND
and
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first
in
Atoms
of five game series
The last of Exeter’s minor
hockey teams was shunted to
the sidelines in OMHA play
this week as the local atoms
dropped a 2-1 decision to
Lambeth, Wednesday.
It was the sixth game in
what started out as a best-of-
five affair. The extra game
was needed after the teams
played to an overtime tie in
the fifth contest.
As expected, the final
game was as hotly contested
as the other tilts in the series
between the evenly matched
squads.
Playing on their home ice,
Lambeth took advantage of
an Exeter penalty in the
opening minutes of the first
period to take a 1-0 lead. The
goal was partially screened
Winkers
lead darts
The Winkers hold a one
point lead
Sassenachs in the Exeter
Legion mixed dart league
with 90 points to their credit.
The Doublers are third
with 86 points and the Nicky
Tams are next with 76 points.
Next come the Outlaws with
74, Itchy Niters 70, Out of
Space 65, Flying Highs 63,
DR’s 62, Sabres 59, First
Chance 59, Family Affair 55,
The ? 55, Scotties 53,
Shiphunters 51 and McPfaffs
35.
Wayne Parsons has won 35
games to lead the men and
Barb Hearn’s 33 victories is
best for the ladies.
In the high score depart
ment Keith Brittain tops all
male darters with a 180.
Deadlocked for the ladies
lead with 140 each are Jean
Estey, Rose Brittain, Doris
Dobson and Eileen Spurn.
over the
as it dribbled past a couple of
Exeter players who just
failed to control it.
Exeter evened the count
mid-way through the middle
frame when Steve Gould was
left alone in front of the net
and made no mistake as he
took a pass from Scott Lovie
from behind the cage. Scott
Bogart also picked up an
assist.
Lambeth scored the
eventual winner early in the
third.
Exeter had a couple of
good chances to even the
count later in the period, but
just couldn’t find the mark.
Members of the local team
are: Jim Lewis, Rick
Gilfillan, George Pratt, Sean
Whiteford, Brett Batten,
John Wells, Bill Fisher, Scott
Bogart, Steve Gould, Scott
Lovie, Allan Pym, Jeff Pfaff,
Trevor Johnston and Tim
Easterbrook.—
Kirkton Woodham
Men's Slowpitch
Organization
Meeting
Wed
Mar. 29
8:30 p.m.
Kirkton Woodham
Community Centre
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UP HIS SLEEVE — The puck is shown rolling up onto the
shoulder of Belmont netminder Wayne Boughner as he
thwarts Ken Pinder on this play in Sunday's action. The puck
dropped down onto the side of the net. Staff photo
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