HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1978-04-13, Page 10Times-Advocate, April 13, 1978Page 10
Hawks tame Lions to even semi-final set
The Exeter Hawks evened
their OHA semi-final series
with a 4-2 win in St. George,
Tuesday, coming up with
their best game of the series
as they dominated play
throughout most of the tilt.
After losing the home
opener, the Hawks posted a
4-2 win on Friday and then
dropped a 7-5 verdict in St.
George on Sunday to send
them into Tuesday’s game
needing a win or facing the
prospect of being down by
two games.
With the win, the Hawks
and St. George now face a
best-of-three situation in
which the Hawks have the
home advantage, although
both teams have won on their
opponent’s ice.
Fifth game in the series
will be at the rec centre on
Friday and the teams go
back to St. George on Sunday
afternoon, if the seventh
game is needed, it will be in
Exeter on Tuesday night.
Although the score was
close in Tuesday’s game, the
Hawks carried a wide edge
in play and just missed the
corners on several of the
scoring opportunities they
had.
The Lions, who switched to
some rough-house tactics
on Sunday, attempted the
same style of aggressive
play and it actually led to
their downfall as the Hawks
scored two power play goals.
St. George served 14
penalties, compared to the
eight picked up by Exeter.
Matt Misner, who drew
four penalties, a misconduct
and an automatic two
minutes, was assessed a
match penalty at the end of
the game for being too
aggressive with the officials
and will be out of the lineup.
Coach John Philichuck,
who was also upset with the
officiating, had to be
restrained by other team
officials when he attempted
to get into the referee’s room
after the game.
The Hawks were without
the services of defenceman
Phil Knight for Tuesday’s
game, but the defensive
corps made up for his ab
sence with their best game of
the series. Randy Fisher and
Steve Jennison saw extra
duty and were both out
standing, giving Scott
McNair plenty of defensive
help, plus leading several
key rushes.
The Lions started out
quickly in Tuesday’s contest
and beat McNair at the 4:11
mark, but that was the only
time they were to lead the
game.
Exeter’s power play got
untracked in the opening
minute of the second stanza
when Fisher took a pass at
the point from Fred Mom-
mersteegand the rebound off
the shot was batted into the
cage by Ken Pinder.
Midway through
NOT MANY WHITES — Defenceman Jim FergusonNOT MANY WHITES — Defenceman Jim Ferguson was left alone to battle for this loose
puck in Friday night's game at the rec centre. Fortunately, he prevented the St. George player
from getting the disc in front to two team mates who were left ur^overed in scoring position.
John Livermore back again
period, the Pinder-
Mommersteeg -Va n G er w en
line came up with another
strong power play attempt
and the puck was given to
Steve Jennison at the point.
He fed the disc across to
Fisher and the latter blasted
a slap shot into the net for
Exeter’s first lead.
St. George came back to
even the count at 2-2 at the
14:38 mark, but Exeter
quickly got that one back
when Randy Parsons
finished off a play with Dave
Bogart and Fisher.
Matt Muller scored the
clincher after five minutes of
the third when his rebound
hit a St. George player and
trickled over the line.
From that point on, the
Hawks kept St. George at
bay, with McNair being
forced into only one or two
big saves. He made a
brilliant stick save near the
midway mark of the final
period to keep the Hawks
lead intact.
All three lines skated hard
throughout the tilt and their
determination paid off as
they kept the Lions off-
balance. St. George couldn’t
shake the forechecking in the
final period and it was
Exeter applying the scoring
pressure in the final
minutes.
Four teams in H-P
The Huron-Perth baseball
league will operate with only
four teams again this .year,
but fans will see several new
teams on area diamonds as
the league will be involved in
several inter-locking tilts
with other leagues.
At their meeting, Wed
nesday, the league also
returned last year’s slate of
officers, including secretaryrTHE
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Bob Hoffman, Dashwood,
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president is Percy Bedard of
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Teams entered this year
include Dashwood, Crediton,
Clinton and Thorndale.
They will play a double
home and home schedule,
expected to start in mid
May.
The four teams also
agreed to play a home and
home series with Tillsonburg
of the Southern Counties
league. These contests will
also count in the Huron Perth
standings.
Next week, league officials
will meet with represen
tatives from the London
District Junior League, also
with the hope of drawing up a
home and home series. It is
anticipated there could be
five junior teams, three from
London and one from
Strathroy and Thorndale.
Dashwood Tigers will also
be playing in the annual
tournament in Tillsonburg
this summer. They were
runners-up last year. This
event will be held on June 10
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senior tournaments in the-
province.
Fall behind early
In their first trip to the St.
George arena, Sunday, the
Hawks fell behind quickly on
their way to a 7-5 loss before
750 fans, about half of them
from Exeter.
The Lions took a 2-1 lead
in the series by virtue of the
win in a contest that saw
referee Frank Slota call a
total of 48 penalties, 26 to St.
George.
Both teams played a
sizeable portion of the se
cond period with only three
skaters on the ice.
The Hawks trailed 5-2 at
one point in the game, and
while they tied the fray at 5-
5 late in the second, goalie
Ken Kirby shut them out for
the balance of the contest as
his mates rapped in two on
Scott McNair.
Steve Beer started in the
nets for the Hawks, but was
relieved at the end of the
first after suffering some
shaky moments.
St. George took a quick
lead when Mat Misner blink
ed the light after 34 seconds
when his slap shot from just
over centre ice eluded Beer.
Randy Fisher got that one
back when he skated from
his own end and drilled a
hard shot from just outside
the blueline to beat Kirby.
The Exeter defence got
caught up shortly after and
St. George broke out with a
three-on-one to up their lead
to 2-1, but again the Hawks
tied the count when Phil
Knight rambled up the right
side on a delayed penalty
call and went right through
to blink the light.
St. George then rapped in
three more to take their 5-2
margin, the first coming on
a screened shot from the
point on a power play, the
second while the teams were
playing even and the third
tally when Misner broke in
alone on Beer when St.
George were playing a man
short.
Fred Mommersteeg got
one of those back before the
end of the first period on a
play with Ken Pinder and
Steve Jennison and the
Hawks evened the count late
in the second.
Brian Taylor scored the
fourth goal when he was left
along in front of the net on a
power play with Pinder and
Jennison, while John
VanGerwen knotted the
count on another power play
with Mommersteeg and
Pinder.
However, even before the
Exeter fans had regained
their seats after cheering
the come-back effort, the
Lions moved back into the
lead in the second with a tal
ly at the 16:35 mark after
McNair had made two point
blank saves.
The Lions scored the only
tally of the third, mid-way
through the stanza, to pull
the game out of reach of the
Hawks.
Overcome deficit
Due to last week’s cancell
ed game in St. George, the
Hawksfaced a “must” situa
tion when they skated onto
the ice for their second
home game on Friday. A
loss would have put their
backs to the wall early in the
the final session enroute io a
4-2 win.
St. George scored both
power
the first period, but by the
end of the second they had
the game knotted and they
scored the only two tallies of first period goals on
series.
They gave 991 fans a bit of
a fright as they dropped
behind by a 2-0 margin after
LOTS OF HELP — St. George netminder Ken Kirby had plenty of help in thwarting this scoring
attempt by Ken Pinder and John Van Gerwen. All five St. George players were back to help
out. T-A photo
Colonials defeated in five,
Parkhill take S.H. title
The Parkhill Merchants
took the South Huron Hockey
League title Sunday af
ternoon as they defeated the
Grand Bend Colonials 9-6 to
take the best of seven final
four games to one.
The game which saw 21
penalties called was a close
contest until Parkhill scored
five consecutive goals during
the middle portion of the
game.
Following the first
Parkhill score of the
evening, the Colonials came
back with goals by Tom
Anderson and Brad Datars.
Assisting on the scores were
Pete Gill, Larry Laye and
John Becker.
The Merchants regained
their one goal lead with two
more goals but a Grand Bend
score byAnderson knotted the
game at three goals apiece.
Gill assisted on the goal.
The Merchants then
scored five consecutive
goals to put the game out of
reach for the Colonials.
The resort squad staged
somewhat of a comeback in
the third with goals by Tom
Richardson, Laye and Steve
Kadlecik but it proved to be
too little, too late. Dan
Stanlake and Anderson
assisted.
In Friday’s game played in
Zurich, and won by Parkhill
6-2. Grand Bend was never in
the game as the Merchants
scored the first six goals of
the game. i
The first Colonial goal
came midway through the
second period as Becker
scored with some help from
Stanlake and Kadlecik.
With but 24 seconds left in
the game Paul McGuire
scored an unassisted goal for
the Colonials.
Wednesday’s game was a
much closer affair with
Grand Bend holding a 3-1
lead until early in the third
period.
Starting the Colonials off
on the right track was Ed
Grenier with a goal midway
through the second period.
Datars and Bob Lovie
assisted.
After a Parkhill score,
Grand Bend scored two goals
to regain their two goal lead.
Anderson and Grenier with
his second goal of game
scored with help from Steve
Schroeder, Layeand Datars.
After two Parkhill goals in
the third period, the game
went into overtime with
Schlegel scoring the win
ding goal for Parkhill at the
9:06 mark.
In the Colonials only win of
the series, Laye scored four
goals to lead the team to a 6-3
victory over the Merchants,
Tuesday in Zurich. The other
Grand Bend goals were
scored by Jim Guenther and
Grenier.
The first game of the
series saw the Colonials
loose 4-2. Desjardine and
Datars had the Grand Bend
goals.
plays and both came on
rebounds after initial stops
by goalie Scott McNair.
The Hawks hit the scoring
column at the 1:46 mark of
the second when Brian
Taylor was perfectly
positioned at the side of the
net to deflect a point shot by
Randy Fisher into the cage.
Dave Bogart also drew an
assist. Exeter had a two-
man advantage on the play
as two penalized St. George
players couldn’t get back
into the play to stop the
drive although their time
had elapsed.
The tying goal came near
the end of the period, when
Fisher blocked a shot, fed a
pass to Taylor who pulled
the defence to one side and
fed Matt Muller a perfect
pass as he cruised in front of
the net. The Hawks were
playing short-handed on that
tally.
The winner came after
only 32 seconds into the third
period when Taylor fed Phil
Knight a pass at the point,
and the lanky defender came
up with another of his
patented rushes as he deked
two defenders and blasted
home a shot from about 20
feet out.
Ken Pinder scored the
clincher mid-way through
the period on a power play
effort with linemates Fred
Mommersteeg and John
VanGerwen. The Hawks
picked up 11 of the 20
penalties called.
STANLEY TWP.
SOFTBALL
REGISTRATION
Name
□Girl OBoy
Birthdate-----------
Day
Present Age____
Address z
Telephone_____
Persons wishing to participate in the 1978
Stanley Twp. softball program may register
at the Township Hall, Varna, on Saturday,
April 22nd or Saturday, April 29th from 9
a.m. to 12 noon. Registrations may also be
given to your nearest Recreation Board
member prior to April 29th
★Anyone interested in coaching or assisting
please contact Ross Whittaker, Varna. Your
help will be appreciated.
Mo.Yr.
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STARTS RALLY — Brian Taylor (10) deflects a shot into the net to start the Exeter Hawks on
their way to Friday's 4-2 win at the rec centre. The point shot was made by Randy Fisher.
Other Hawks shown are Jamie Caldwell and Dave Bogart, at the right. T-A photo
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