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By Rost Haugh
! *•' Well done
While they did not bring home the big cham
pionship trophy this year the Exeter Hawks should be
congratulated on turning in an excellent effort.
Sincere thanks should go to every player on the
club, manager Fred Mommersteeg, coach Ron Bogart
and trainer Bob Drummond for their dedication to
providing excellent hockey entertainment every time
they stepped out onto the ice.
Winning two OHA championships in consecutive
years is an accomplishment very few teams can
manage. The Hawks came within two goals of taking
all the marbles again this year. A lucky bounce or two
and they could be sporting the grand championship
trophy instead of the silverware which goes to the
runnerup.
Congratulations again for providing local fans
with the tops in hockey.
Baseball starts
The baseball season locally gets underway this
weekend with Huron-Perth intermediate league action
sending the Dashwood Tigers and Crediton Mets
against each other on two occasions.
The two district rivals will meet in the season
opener in Crediton Friday night at 8 p.m. and then
meet again at the Dashwood park Sunday afternoon at
2 p.m.
The Huron-Perth is one of the oldest intermediate
baseball leagues in the province of Ontario and
probably boasts the most enthusiastic secretary of
any group in existence.
John Livermore of Clinton has handled the
secretarial duties for some 43 years and is still on the
go.
John retired as the cletk-treasurer of the town of
Clinton a few years ago but continues his favorite hob
by of keeping tabs on Huron-Perth baseball activities.
Bob Hoffman of Dashwood is the H-P president this
year.
The rivalry between the Dashwood and Crediton
clubs is expected to continue this year. Glenn Thur
man has taken over as the playing manager in
Dashwood and Jack Chipchase will be back as the
Crediton manager. He will be assisted by coach Frank
Boyle.
The lights at the Crediton park which were
originally constructed for softball use were extended
last summer and are now ideal for the larger baseball
playing surface.
We haven’t talked to either Thurman or Chipchase
in the last few days but would expect the starting
pitchers in Friday’s season lid lifter in Crediton will
be a couple of veteran hurlers.
Southpaw Jim Guenther will likely get the nod
from Thurman to start for the Tigers and the hard
throwing electrician Jim Pfaff should start for
Crediton.
Jim Guenther likes to bat as well as he cloes pitch
and he has a certain affinity for the Crediton park.
Last year he blasted a couple of home runs there. One
was a towering blast that apparently cleared the roof
of the Stephen township municipal office.
Good luck to both teams as they start another
season and we will attempt to give both clubs good
coverage throughout the 1978 campaign.
Another sport starts, too
The soccer season also starts locally this
weekend. The Exeter Centennials are again entered in
the Ausable district soccer loop and are looking
forward to a very successful season.
The Centennials started off on the right foot Sun
day with a 1-0 victory over the defending champions
from Naim.
This Sunday they will be at home to Taxandria.
The game will get underway at 2 p.m. at the Canners
field on Wellington street.
Right for once
Just in case our two readers failed to catch our
Kentucky Derby prediction last week we would like to
report that we were right on with the winner.
Our prediction was affirmed by the race. Yes, the
winner was Affirmed. A quick look in Mr. Webster’s
dictionary says affirm means a “declaration to be
true”. Well, Affirmed certainly made our declaration
on the Derby to be true.
Affirmed was ideally ridden by 18 year-old jockey
sensation Steve Cauthen.
Cauthen had been criticized for the use of the whip
in previous races and he did the same thing again
Saturday when Affirmed was heading down the
stretch to the wire. He has a simple explanation for
the whip method. He says the horse has a tendency to
slow down when in front and doesn’t appear to have
much competition. As Cauthen explained, “I use the
whip to get his mind back on the business at hand,
which is to stay ahead of all challengers.”
The next race for the same bunch of three year-old
thoroughbreds is the Preakness Stakes set for Pimlico
on Saturday, May 20.
The old adage is “stick with a winner”, but, we
may switch allegiance for the Preakness. We will take
another week before making our final prognostication.
Close seasons
If the current Stanley Cup semi-final series
between the Boston Bruins and Philadelphia Flyers
goes the seven game limit and the final set with the
Montreal Canadiens also goes to the maximum we
could be seeing Stanley Cup hockey until May 30 at
least.
That’s exactly two weeks before the Canadian
football league’s exhibition schedule starts.
June 13 the Montreal Alouettes are in British
Columbia and Edmonton is at Calgary in pre-season
play.
The regular schedule starts July 11 in Ottawa and
British Columbia while the next night July 12 an im-
portant game will be played in CNE Stadium in Toron
to when Harold Ballard’s Hamilton Tiger Cats will
supply the opposition for the Toronto Argonauts.
Port Elgin bid rejected
Chatham joins Continental senior hockey league
The Ontario Hockey consist of eight teams when by the current seven clubs is
Association Continental the 1978-79 season rolls accepted by the OHA.
Senior hockey league will around if a recommendation At a meeting in Ilderton Royals to obtain a Con-
Monday night, an ;
plication by the Chatham
INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONS — At the Exeter Mixed League bowling banquet held Saturday,
several individuals were honoured for outstanding performances over the year. From left to
right are Jim Smith, Esther Hillman, high triple; Mike Morneau, high single; Linda Webber, Jim
Gagerhigh average. Missing is Joyce Masnica, high single. T-A photo
WINS $500 — Keith Coates, centre, was both a donor and a winner at the Exeter Miqpr
Hockey dance, Saturday. He provided the half of beef for the pay-as-you-pull draw and then
took home the $500 first prize in the “300 Club" draw. Brian Taylor, veteran member of the
Hawks, made the draw, while on the right is draw chairman Arn Laithwaite passing over the
cheque. Staff photo
“A” GROUP CHAMPIONS — The “A" group champions and grand champions of the Exeter Mixed Bowling League were the
Combines. Members of the team are (left-right) Norma Cockwill, Gloria McFalls, Brian Sanders, Ray Cockwill, Lynda Sanders,
Cathy Cockwill, Bill Mercer, Glen Cockwill and Ruth Mercer. Absent was Peter McFalls. T-A photo
Draws end
hockey year
Final draws in two raffles
sponsored by the Exeter
Minor Hockey’ Association
were held at the Hawks
dance at the rec centre,
Saturday.
Keith Coates won the $500
final prize in the “300 Club”
draw.
Previous winners of $100
each in that draw were
Howard Holtzmann, Bob
Coates, Dennis Hockey,
Harold Holtzmann, Harvey
Pfaff and Bob Whiteford.
In the pay-as-you-pull
draw, winner of the half beef
provided by Keith Coates
was W. L. Campbell, Oak
ville. Seller of the winning
ticket was Dean Murray.
The beef will be processed at
no charge by the VanSteeg
Brothers at Lobo.
The whole pig, provided by
Bill Pincombe, was won by
Jim Guenther,
processed by
Seller of that
Dave Bell.
The lamb donated by
Gerald Dearing was won by
Gord Bierling. He purchased
his' ticket from Brian Black
burn.
A 16-pound turkey donated
by Harry Hayter was won by
Bob Forrest. The ticket
seller was Steve Skinner.
Mike Clarke was the ticket
seller and the winner for the
bushel of apples donated by
Arn Laithwaite.
The member of the EMHA
selling the most tickets was
Jim Lewis, while Sean
Whiteford placed second.
ap- tinental league franchise
was approved by a majority
of the other teams. Preston
was the only team not
represented Monday night.
A similar request from the
Port Elgin Sunocos was
refused.
While results of the vote
were not revealed, OHA
third vice-president Jim
King of Guelph said, “voting
was close on both ap
plications.”
Lucan-Ilderton Jets
manager Don Urbshott told
the T-A Tuesday morning,
“We voted for both Chatham
and Port Elgin, but, the
inclusion of Port Elgin would
certainly create travelling
problems for some of the
teams.”
Urbshott continued, “All
teams in the south have had
trouble in the past to get
players to make the long trip
to Durham. We don’t pay our
players, so, it’s a long way to
drive to just play hockey for
fun.”
With the acceptance of
Chatham, the league now
has eight teams and this also
contributed to the rejection
of the Port Elgin bid as nine
teams would make for
scheduling problems,
> Both Chatham and
Elgin enjoyed very
cessful seasons in
Intermediate “C” ranks this
past winter. Chatham
defeated Port Elgin four
games to three to win the
OHA championship. Neither
team has suffered defeat
until they met in the final
round.
On the subject of ex
pansion Urbshott concluded,
“We have a good league and
everybody wants to join us.”
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