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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1978-12-14, Page 8Tirrws-Advocate, December 14, 1978 Spotlight By Ross Haugh e points move Itchy Niters on top Wrestling, Friday The new gym at South Huron District High School will be a busy spot Friday afternoon and even­ ing as the ninth annual Red and Black wrestling tour­ nament will be held. Local school wrestling coach Doug Willson, the organizer of the popular event reports that 11 teams will be participating including the South Huron Panthers who have more than their share of tourna­ ment victories over the past eight years. Last year’s champions from Sarnia Northern will be back along with two other teams from the same ci­ ty. They are Sarnia St. Clair and Sarnia Central. The Kitchener-Waterloo area will be well represented by Waterloo Collegiate, Kitchener Collegiate and St. Jerome of Kitchener. Taking part from the Huron-Perth Conference will be South Huron, St. Marys and Stratford Central. Travelling the farthest will be Banting High School of Alliston and Valley Heights from Port Rowan. Preliminary events will get underway at 12 noon and the finals are scheduled to start at 6 p.m. Spec­ tators are more than welcome to drop in anytime dur­ ing the day to watch the exciting action. Thrown to the lions The Minnesota Vikings who still have a chance to make a playoff spot in the National football league playoffs were literally thrown to the Lions, Saturday afternoon. Former Canadian coach Bud Grant now at the helm of the Minnesota team saw his club chewed up by a Detroit Lions team that came ready to play. The Lions who have had much less than successful season to date humiliated the Vikings by score of 45-14. The win for the Lions could not have come at a a a better time. They were playing before their first sellout crowd of the season, more than 80,000 at the Silver Dome in Pontiac. It looks as if Detroit coach Monty Clark is moulding his young players into a strong outfit and in a year or two should help turn around the present situation of Detroit losers as far as professional sports are concerned. Young Lions quarterback Danielson’ was sen­ sational with five touchdown passes. His total yardage through the air was 352 yards. It was a complete reversal from a week previous when Danielson was sacked five times as the Lions lost. A real comeback A story in a recent issue of the Standardbred racing magazine lists Terry Herbert as the comeback harness horse of the year. To tie in the local interest, Terry Herbert is a five year-old son of Replica Herbert and is owned, trained and driven by Exeter native Jack Darling. Terry Herbert who did most of his 1978 racing at northern New York tracks recently won five con­ secutive races and seven out of 15 at Buffalo and Batavia. Swinging back to the Canadian side of the border, the Darling-owned pacer was a winner at Windsor Raceway Saturday night. He will be appearing in the feature race at Western Fair Raceway in London on Boxing Day afternoon. Terry Herbert was twice knocked ou^of racing ac­ tion. The first came with serious intestinal surgery and the second with a broken leg, His earnings to date in 1978 are about $17,000. He has a mark of one minute and 57 seconds set at Vernon Downs. pL.TR - J" | ONTARIO CHAMPS — The Kirkton midgets who won the Provincial Women's Softball Union "CC" championship this summer were honoured recently. Back, left, coaches Bob and Pat Down, Kim Heather, Jayne Dougall, Bonnie Westlake, Sheila Penhale, Vivian Doupe, Terri Brintnell and manager Bill Schaefer. Front, Kelly Kernick, Sue Schaefer, Julianne MacLean, Patti Down, Lori Iredale, Rosemary Miller and Pam Johnson. T-A photo Bantams stay hot with three wins, Waxers upset high flying Belmont The local bantam crew took to the ice lanes three times this week, posting vic­ tories in all encounters. They started the week off with a 5-3 win over Dorchester and then scored weekend wins of 5-3 and 6-5 against Belmont and London respectively. In the Dorchester game, the locals spotted the visitors a 3-1 lead in the first and then came back with four unanswered tallies for the win*. Mike Clark, Dave Shaw, Steve Prout, Scott Pin- combe and Jim Siddall fired the markers. Exeter built up a 5-1 lead in Belmont, Friday, then coasted to their victory. Singles were fired home by Bill Glover, Mike Murray, Mike Clark, Jim Siddall and Jamie Chaffe. In’Sunday’s game at the London Gardens, neither team’s defensive effort was up to par as the forwards were the recipients of several give-aways. Exeter led 4-1 early in the second, then when London closed to one goal, opened up a 6-3 lead before the home crew came back again with another pair to make the final outcome in doubt until the final whistle. Scoring for Exeter were Bill Glover with a pair and singles by Dave Underwood, Scott Batten. Mark Vandergunst and Scott Pin- combe. Pee wees skid The Exeter pee wees dropped all three of their Shamrock tilts this week, {SSQj fiS’<S<S'§'Ca?'CS!<4 (gift* being shut-out 4-0 by Dor­ chester, 11-0 by Strathroy and losing 5-2 to Belmont. In the Friday night game at Belmont, the home crew took a 3-0 lead in the first and came back with two late tallies in third after Exeter had narrowed the gap to a single goal. Scott Lovie scored Exeter’s first tally on a play with Steve Batten and Mike Tiedeman, while Jeff Pfaff picked up the other with the help of Ken Renning and John Wells. Close encounters The local midgets had two close battles this week, nipping Dorchester 2-1 on Wednesday and then battling Belmont to a 3-3 tie with a short-handed squad, Friday. Dave Jackson scored Exeter’s first goal against Dorchester on a play with Wayne Smith, and after the visitors knotted the count early in the third, Wayne Parsons notched the winner three minutes later on a play with Doug Brooks and Dave Bell. Friday night, the midgets had two bantams in the lineup to get to 11 skaters, and after spotting the home crew a 2-0 lead, battled back with three in a row. However, Belmont evened the count when they beat Steve Wells with 36 seconds left on the game clock. Jeff Fuller paced the at­ tack with a pair of tallies, while Doug Brooks potted the other. Picking up assists were Guy Dietz and Bill Renning. Waxers Pull Upset The Exeter Waxers won their second straight Shamrock tilt on Sunday when they upset the high­ flying Belmont crew on the latter’s ice by a 2-1 margin. The end-to-end rushes by both teams again had the fans on the edge of their seats. The Exeter crew skated onto the ice knowing they had to contain Belmont super-star Brent Bogart, and they did just that as they continually stopped him in his tracks, despite the fact he sat out only two shifts during the entire game. Belmont jumped into a 1-0 lead in the second period on a fluke goal that bounced off a helmet and then eluded Shawn Moore, who teamed up with Fred Gregus to give the locals some stellar net- minding. Jon O’Connor evened the count in the first minute of the third on a play with Jeff Dalrymple and Rob McKnight. O’Connor broke into the clear and with a se­ cond effort, batted his own rebound into the cage. Dalrymple again sent O’Connor away at the 2:51 mark with the winning tally. In the final half of the period, Gregus came up with saves on two breakaways to preserve the win for the Waxers. Atoms Lose Pair The local atoms dropped both their Shamrock con­ tests this week, ending up on the short end of a 4-1 count against Lucan at the rec A perfect five point per­ formance Friday night enabled the Itchy Niters to take over first place in the Exeter Legion mixed dart league. The Itchy Niters have a point total of 45, one more than the second place Winkers. The Doublers are third with 41 points, the Flying High have 39 points and the Sassenachs 36. Deadlocked at 34 points apiece are the DR’s Family Affair and Out of Space. The Sabres are next at 30 and the Outlaws and CB’ers each have 29 points. Completing the standings are the Scotties 28, Shiphunters 26, Nicky Tams 25, Canscotts 24, and Chances 22. This week’s scores were: Itchy Niters 5 - Out of Space 0, Flying High 4 - Doublers 1, Scotties 4 - Nicky Tams Winkers 3 Chance? Family Affair 3 - Canscotts 2, Sabres 3 - CB’ers 2, DR’s 3 - Shiphunters 2, Sassenachs 3 - Outlaws 2. Friday’s schedule is as follows: 8p.ft. Sassenachs vs Flying High, Outlaws vs Doublers DR’? v? Nicky Tam?,CB’er? v? Winkers. 9:30 p.m. Family Affair vs Itchy Niters, Out of Space vs Canscotts, Chances vs Sabres, Shiphunters vs Scotties. 1, 2, ■ SERVICE! ■EXPERTS'I Bin ■ w i l g we nave me irameu . ® people plus an excellent J I I I I I | Get your Yamaha snow | mobile serviced here. We have the trained I stock of parts. I — —. UNTRY l-iURNER STORES I I ■ MT. CARMEL I 237-3456 ft Mon. - Sat. 10 - 10, Noon - 6 Sunday M Mi ■■ Ml M centre on Wednesday and then dropping a close 3-2 game in Belmont, Sunday. Steve Neil scored twice to ' pace the Lucan win, with the singles coming from Mike Arts and Jamie Bond. Brett Batten scored Ex­ eter’s lone tally when he took a pass from Terry Zachar to dent the twine in the final minutes of the con­ test. Belmont scored in the first minute of Sunday’s game and were never head­ ed. They upped the lead to two goals before Brett Batten raced in to whittle the margin on an unassisted effort in the third. Belmont came right back to move ahead by two again and in the final minute Ex­ eter scored when Paul Mellecke finished off a play with linemates Danny McLean and Brett Batten. Pfaff dub wins in Rec In Exeter and district rec hockey league games played this week, Algoma Tire and the Trees battled to a 4-4 tie and Pfaff Electric edged the Elites 3-1. Bob Jones fires two successful shots to lead the scoring parade for Algoma Tire. Scoring in single fashion were Bob McDonald and Paul Kerslake. Gary Sararas with a two goal effort was best for the Trees. Notching one goal apiece were Brion Penhale and Henry Martens. . Jim Rolph took care of all of the Pfaff Electric scoring with a hat trick perfor­ mance. The lone Elites goal came from the stick of Scott Litt. The league schedule con­ tinues tonight, Thursday at, the South Huron Rec Centre. The Trees and Elites meet at 9 p.m. with Algoma Tire and Les Pines doing battle at 10:30 p.m. ELECTRIC START With the purchase of our heavy-duty snow blower Save time, effort, and money this winter with a new heavy-duty John Deere Snow Blower. Drop into our place and take a good look at the John Deere 8 H.P. that cuts a 26" path. This 2 stage design blower is efficient. The John Deere 826 Snow Blower has features that come as standard equipment which are not even available on other makes. Priced at only $899.00. HURON EXETER 519-235-1115 R BLYTH 519-523-4244 JUST ARRIVED AT MATHERS MOTORS Plgmouiri Llrtlijf T’uth<, YOUR HOME TOWN Daily 9-6 Fri. 9-9 It’s Good For You Another good pacer Another locally owned horse has been going well and is in a good spot to win the Valedictorian Pacing Series at Greenwood track in Toronto on December 20. Armbro Tawny, a three year-old gelding was claimed on October 20 for $18,000 by Dave Morrissey and Peter Oud and won one of the third leg races Saturday in Toronto. The Valedictorian will feature the nine pacers with the highest earnings in the three legs which were completed over the weekend. Both Armbro Tawny and Hornby Thorpe the other leg winner won Saturday in times of 2.06 over a very slow track. A costly business One of baseball’s greatest players and probably one of the most humble said recently he is afraid the cost of free agents may be more than baseball can. bear. These remarks were made by former Detroit Tiger star Al Kaline shortly after Pete Rose switched to the Philadelphia Phillies for a huge contract. Kaline commented further, “There’s a lot of things in life other than money. I’m sure Cincinatti offered Pete a very good salary. What’s he going to do with all the money he is going to make. Taxes are go­ ing to take most of it anyhow. 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