Times-Advocate, 1978-10-26, Page 8Fifth time in a row Just like YankeesPage 8 Times-Advocate, October 26f 197?
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Now that the World Series is over and our predic
tion was reasonably correct we will get a brave streak
and try looking in our crystal ball as far as football
and hockey are concerned.
We suggested the Yankees would dispose of the
Dodgers in seven games and that Graig Nettles, Willie
Randolph and Goose Gossage would be among the
heroes for the Yankees.
Using a bit of leeway we would say our star
choices were fairly close also. Granted, Randolph did
not play because of injuries but his replacement Brian
Doyle was one of the main reasons the Yankees were
able to repeat as World champions.
Graig Nettles with his vacuum cleaner tactics at
third base tends to make one forget Brooks Robinson
at that position.
On the mound Goose Gossage mowed the Dodgers
down with plenty of smoke and continued to be the ace
of Bob Lemon’s relief corps.
Enough said for the professional baseball scene.
Just a quick word on the local amateur scene.
Belated congratulations to the Dashwood Tigers
in winning the Huron-Perth intermediate baseball
championship and the Lucan Irish for bringing home
the Southwestern fastball title for the Second straight
year.
The “A” and “B” championships of the Exeter
and district recreation softball league were won by
the Crescent Rolls and Mount Carmel, respectively.
Fearless football forecast
Despite the unrelenting support for the Hamilton
Tiger Cats and Harold Ballard in particular from our
associate Tom Creech we feel the men from the moun
tain will finish last.
Yes, that’s right, they will be behind the Toronto
Argonauts when the regular schedule is completed.
Okay, let’s take a real jab in the dark and call the
Montreal Alouettes and Winnipeg Blue Bombers to
meet in the Canadian football final for the trophy
originally donated by Lord Earl Grey.
Our blessing of the Montreal Alouettes could be a
slightly sentimental one because of the presence of
Glen Weir in the lineup. No. 64 has been an important
cog in the Montreal defence for a long time and it
would be nice to see him on another dominion cham
pionship club.
Weir is the only sports personality who has attend:-
ed all five Sportmen’s dinners held in Exeter and spon
sored by the Exeter Lions club.
Local Lions officials and members of the London
Sportmen’s dinner committee are already hard at
work in lining up sports celebrities for the 1979 dinner
here.
Now to the ice
In the National Hockey League it will take more
than an earthquake and a miracle combined to stop
the Montreal Canadiens from walking away with the
Norris division title and the Stanley Cup, but, some
real battles could shape up in the other three sections.
In the Adams division, supporters of the Toronto
Maple Leafs claim to have plenty to cheer about this
year as Roger Neilson starts his second year behind
the bench.
We will go with Buffalo a squeaky first over
Toronto with Boston and Minnesota finishing in that
order.
The Leafs have been getting great goal tending
from Mike Palmateer of late and the addition of Dave
Burrows and Dave Huchison adds plenty of muscle to
their defensive corps. Burrows was injured over the
weekend and his absence of probably six weeks will
hurt considerably.
The Buffalo Sabres have added a couple of new
bright prospects. The top hope there is Tony
McKegney who was a consistent star last year with
the Kingston Canadien juniors.
The Sabres will need a repeat performance from
goalie Don Edwards who last year won 38 games,
more than any other NHL netminder.
The real battle appears to be shaping up in the
Patrick division where three clubs have a good shot at
the title.
At the moment the Atlanta Flames are undefeated
through six games. The Flames made two important
moves in acquiring new players. They are high scoring
Jean Provost and defenceman Brad Marsh from the
London Knights.
Atlanta now has eight players on the roster who
scored 20 goals or more last year. In addition to
Pronovost there are Bob McMillan, Tom Lysiak, Guy
Chouinard, Eric Vail, Bill Clement, Willi Plett and
Ken Houston.
Giving the Flames a real battle will be the New
York Rangers, the Philadelphia Flyers and New York
Islanders.
The New York Islanders appear to be strong in all
ways, on the ice and at the bank with sound financing.
They will be led in scoring by Bryan Trottier, Clark
Gillies and Mike Bossy while defenceman Dennis Pot
vin and goalies Chico Resch and Billy Smith will help
hold off the opposition.
The Flyers have lost coach Fred Shero but picked
up chippy center Ken Linesman for $500,000 and
drafted defenceman Behn Wilson and winger Dan
Lucas.
The major additions to the Ranger roster are the
two Swedes Anders Hedberg and Ulf Nilsson and Fred
Shero behind the bench.
The Chicago Black Hawks off to a great start
should have little trouble in finishing ahead of
Minnesota, Colorado, St. Louis and Vancouver in the
Smythe division. Bobby Orr in any condition will help
the Hawks on the ice.
Back to the Norris section, the Montreal
Canadiens just concluded a two game losing streak
and that is probably the longest one coach Scotty Bow
man will be forced to endure this year.
In summing up. the four division winners should
be Montreal, Buffalo, Chicago and in a real guess the
Atlanta Flames.
South Huron girls win H-P cross country title
“Those girls are just like
the New York Yankees. We
thought we had them for sure
this year and they still beat
us.”
These words were mut
tered by an opposing coach
at the recently completed
Huron-Perth cross country
championships.
The team to which he was
referring to was the South
Huron District High School
senior girls team who won
another H-P championship,
their fifth in a row. They
have also won two WOSSA
championships during the
last four years, including
last year and they shall be
attempting to defend this
championship at Byron,
October 27.
The heart of the team has
been the Van Esbroeck
sisters, Lucy and Dorothy.
Lucy has been an integral
part of each of
championship
the five
teams.
Dorothy has been on the last
four winners.
This year they finished in a
dead heat for first place in
the H-P meet leading their
nearest opponents by 200
yards over a 4,000 meter
course. Lucy has also won
races this year at Stratford
Central, Parkhill and at
South Huron.
By finishing in the top 11 at
the race at York University
and at the University of
Western Ontario she has
shown that she is among the
top 20 runners in her age
group in the province.
Dorothy has done almost
as well finishing in the top 13
at York and Western. She
also would rank in the top 20
in Ontario in her age group.
In virtually every race no
more than 10 yards will
separate the two at the finish
line.
Diana Verlinde was fifth in
this years H-P race. She has
been the third best runner on
the team for each of the last
three years and is a vital cog
in determining if the team
can defend the WOSSA
championship.
Janet Bjlcke was the
fourth runner at H-P running
a very gritty race to finish
eighth (top four count), She
leads a contingent of girls
who have travelled diligently
even though they win few
personal awards,
In this group
Down, Jayne
Sharon Rundle
Webster. Patti,
tenth at H-P won her first
ever race with a shattering
victory over a strong field at
Dorchester. Jayne, who was
12th in H-Pwas just defeated
in a race at Dorchester.
Sharon, the youngest
member of this group, has
turned in good efforts at
Dorchester and South Huron.
Deb who joined the team this
are Patti
Dougall,
and Deb
who was
year, has been improving
steadily with almost every
race.
Other girls who have run
on the team this season are
Donna Miller, Susan
Fleming, Marlene Winters,
Lisa Hamather, Nancy
Cooper, Joan Cooper, Helen
Dougall and Donna Voer-
man. Each girl has worked
hard to improve her pergonal
achievements during Che
season. Susan and Helen
helped the team to victory at
Dorchester. Donna Miller
ran a good race at the South7
Huron Invitational while
Lisa placed well in the tough
York race.
The boys team, who had
been senior boys champions
in the H-P the last two years
didn’t fare quite as well this
season.
The star of the team has
been and is Paul Wareing.
He is recognized as one of the
top 10-15 runners in his age
WIN HURON-PERTH — The South Huron District High School senior girls cross country team recently won the Huron-Perth
championship. Leading the boys team were Paul and Murray Wareing. Back, left, coach Carey Unich, Murray Wareing, Diana
Verlinde, Dorothy Van Esbroeck, coach Joe Fulop, Lucy Van Esbroeck and Paul Wareing. Front, Jayne Dougall, Sharon Rundle,
Deb Webster, Janet Bi (eke and Patti Down.T-A photo
Three minor teams get off to
flying start in season openers
The 1978-79 season for the
Exeter Minor Hockey
Association opened this
week, with winning starts for
three of the five local teams.
The pee wees, bantams
and midgets travelled to
Ilderton for a Monday night
tripie-header, with the pee
wees dropping the opener by
a 4-1 margin and the other
two squads winning.
Ilderton jumped into a
quick one-goal lead in the
first and added two more in
the second period of the pee
wee game before George
Pratt rifled a long shot into
the home team’s cage. Steve
Batten picked up the assist
on the play.
Exeter threatened to
whittle the lead in the third
as they came on strong after
a slow start, but Ilderton
pulled the game out of reach
with a late tally.
The bantam encounter was
another close struggle,
Exeter finally winning by a
2-1 margin.
Dave Shaw blasted a point
shot between the net-
minder’s feet for the first
tally after taking passes
from Bill Glover and John
Kernick and Shaw came
back in the second on a solo
effort to give the locals a 2-0
lead.
Ilderton spoiled Peter
Dearing’s shutout attempt in
the third period when Scott
Balazs burst through the
defence for a clear shot.
In the final game, the
Exeter midgets broke a 1-1
tie in the second period and
went on to bounce their hosts
by a 6-1 margin.
Dave Bell paced the attack
with a hat trick per
formance, while Robert
Willert contributed a pair.
The single tally came off the
stick of Jim Willert,
Picking up assists on the
plays were Guy Dietz, Larry
Dawson, Ed Willis, Wayne
Parsons, Steve Pearce and
Dave Jackson.
The play became rough
midway through the contest,
with Ilderton picking up 11
penalties and Exeter being
assessed 10.
The pee wees, bantams
and midgets played a triple
bill with Lambeth at the red
centre last night and will
tackle Strathroy’s three
teams next Wednesday.
The Exeter Waxers open
ed their Shamrock novice
schedule in Lucan Saturday
afternoon with a hard-fought
2-0 win over their hosts, but
came home on Sunday to be
blanked 3-0 by St. Marys.
Robbie McLean took care
of the Exeter scoring
against Lucan with two se
cond period tallies. The first
came with the help of Doug
Clark, while Jon O’Connor
picked up the assist on the
second tally.
Fred Gregus played a
standout game in the nets
for the Waxers, turning
aside several dangerous
scoring shots by the Lucan
squad.
At home, Sunday, the
Waxers ran into a one-man
show in the person of Owen
Lessard, who scored all
three goals in the St. Marys
win.
The lanky captain worked
his way in for four
breakaways and scored on
three of those attempts.
This Sunday, the novice
squad will host Mt. Brydges
at 4:00 at the rec centre,
following a Saturday game
in Dorchester.
Atoms drop pair
The Exeter atoms took to
the ice lanes in two
Shamrock encounters
Kippen shoot
continues
this
The regular trap shoot
was held at the Kippen Gun
Club Sunday with Bert
Mahaffy, Staffs and Dan
Crerar. Hensail the top
shooters of the day with
perfect scores of 25 each.
Following closely were
Jamie Caldwell, Kippen 24;
Dave Carter. Clinton; Al
Kyle, Brucefield with 23.
Next with 19 targets were
Brian Beer, Hensail; Gary
Koehler, Hensall; and Bill
Stewart, Goderich. Pete
Black, Clinton had 18 targets
and Mike Carter, Clinton
had 16 hits.
Shooting will continue
next Sunday, October 29.
week, losing both by scores
of 2-1 to Lucan and St,
• Marys.
Playing in Lucan, Satur
day, the locals jumped into a
1-0 lead on a goal by Paul
Mellecke with Jim Ansley
assisting, but Lucan knotted
the count 16 seconds later
when Mike Arts beat Steve
Pym with Chris Hughes
assisting.
Near the end of the first
stanza, Jeff Gwalchmai
scored what proved to be the
winner on a play with
Gwalchmai and Arts.
At home', Sunday, the
locals saw St. Marys score a
first period goal, but they
came back to even the count
in the third before the
visitors got the winner with
less than two minutes
remaining in the contest.
Bryan Quinn scored Ex
eter’s lone tally on a play
with linemates Brett Batten
and Danny McLean.
The atoms will follow the
novice games in Dorchester
and at home on Sunday, with
their opposition in the latter
being provided by Oakridge.
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group in Ontario, due to his very much appreciated,
accomplishments over the
past three years. During this
span he has won two H-P and
one WOSSA title. This year
he has won races at South
Huron, the University of
Western Ontario and
finished a strong third in a
field of 300 runners at York.
Due to a virus he wasn’t able
to run up to his standards at
the H-P and finished second
in the 7,200 meter event.
Steve teeming from
Stratford Central, won the
race. These two rank as
favourites to win at WOSSA,
Friday in Byron.,
An exchange student from
Japan, Kataro Wotande
showed good form finishing
fifteenth in the same race.
He has been a welcome
addition to the team.
Murray Wareing finished a
commendable fourth in the
5,000 meter junior boys race
leading the team to a fourth
place finish. Murray, who
was second at South Huron,
should become one of the
better runners in the area in
years to come.
Kevin Easterbrook was
fourteenth at the H-P. He has
shown a terrific amount of
improvement since the start
of the season. His best race
was a ninth place finish at
South Huron. Matt McClure,
who has excellent potential,
ran 20th and Doug Medd the
youngest member of the
team was 37th.
Brian Steel, Randy
Cronkite and John Mellecke
completed the roster for the
junior boys team. Each has
improved a great deal since
the start of the senior in
September.
Manager Vince Winters
and Barb Wein have taken
very good care of the run
ners as well as carrying
clothes, food,etcato the pro
per locations.
Carey Unich, the assistant
coach has worked hard to
provide inspiration for the
team to do well. Her aid is
„„„_*. done and like the Yankees
Congratulations to all we expect to do it again next
team members on a job well year.
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