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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1980-05-28, Page 8HIGHWAY 21 '/z mi. SOUTH OF ST. JOSEPH;ONTARIO ° 00 Daily Green Fee's- $5.00 Mon.-Fri. $6.00 Weekends O Twilight Green Fee's Daily5 4.00 at .4:00 p.m. Q Golf Carts $10.00-18 Holes $6.00-9 Holes O After 2:00 p.m. Daily Cart Rental—$8.00 O Well Stocked Pro Shop O ' Open 7:00 a.m. Daily For Good Food "Fun Is-The Thine' master charge At WSW Beautiful Bayview Present this ad for 50% off green fee's Good until June 15, 1980 -r- It was billed as the Exeter Hawks banquet and awards night, but members of that team had to take back seat to the Ontario champion midget team when it came to collecting the spoils at the annual event at the rec centre, Friday. The midgets received plaques and a history of Exeter from the town, with Mayor Derry Boyle and Councillor bossy Fuller making the presentation, Mrs. Fuller's husband, Jack, coached the cham- pionship team. Huron-Middlesex MPP Jack Riddell was also on hand 'to present each member of the team with a handsome scroll from the province. "It's a tough league to be in and it takes a lot of know- how, muscle and coaching to get where you did,"Riddell said of the midget team. Hawks coach Ron Bogart also presented the midgets with medallions as a memento of their season. Noting the number of injuries with which they had started the season, coach Jack Fuller said he didn't think there was any way they could win a championship, but he commended the players for their efforts, "It's been a very satisfying year for me," he said, while thanking the players, their parents and the Exeter Minor Hockey ,Association executive for their support. Manager Keith Coates also spoke briefly, calling the midgets the "the finest group of young people" with which he ever had anything to do. "They're a super bunch of guys." Assistant coach Jack Underwood was in. England on a trip, but sent a cable congratulating the boys. Zurich puckster Kerry Bedard ended up as the top award winner when the presentation got underway for the Junior "D" Hawks. He was selected as the most valuable .player of the year and then added the Campbell Jeweller award and the scoring cham- pionship trophy to his total. Captain Dave Kinsman was named best defenceinan. and also won the award for team leadership, while Preston Dearing was selected as the most gen- tlemanly player and winner of the Hawk award. goaltender Steve Wells was selected most valuable during the playoffs, Dwight Consitt took the rookie of the year award, and Cam. Raist was judged most improvecl. Wells was also the belated recipient of the February Hawk-of-the-month award from McKnight's Men's Wear, Commenting on the past season when the Hawks placed third and bowed out in the first round of playoffs to. Mitchell, coach Ron Bogart said at times it was very frustrating and ether times very satisfying. "It was always .a challenge and we did the best we could," he told the audience. It, was termed a learning experience and, he said that hopefully some of the team members grew up a little during the course of the season. The coach said he was particularly pleased with the way the team played against the top teams from Mitchell and Belmont;, calling the playoff against Mitchell one of the highlights as the locals stuck right with the powerful crew, "They never gave up and we can stand up and pet ourselves on the back," he concluded, Gerry Parsons was master of ceremonies add paid tribute to the ElVIRA. executive, coaches and Managers for the fine showing of the past year, "These are 'the people who make hockey happen in Exeter," he said, adding that it requires a great deal of dedicated work. The EMI-IA annual was announced for Thursday, June 12' at 7:30 p.m, Concluding the lengthy list of award winners were the Hawk awards for the various minor teams, Players are selected by their coaches and managers for displaying sportsmenship, dependa- bility, dedication and per- severance over the season. The Bogart family provide the awards. Selected were: Larry Lewis, novice; Danny McLean, atom 1; Jeff Playfoot, atom II; John Wells, pee, wee I, ; Marty Francis, pee wee II; Ted Oke, Bantam 1; Dennis Pym, bantam 11; Janiie Chaffe and Ed Willis, midget;, Preston Dearing, Hawks. Provincial„ town awards Hawks banquet honors midgets X 1 4 ,e'09. Ram 90 GOLF CARTS Play Day - Manual - $57 50 145° Auto - 3 84" 238-8069 Some el the encils Oakwood I n n kolhe's Cycle GOLFERS - YOU CAN SAVE!! GOLFERS - YOf,. CAN SAVE!! TO DAYS ONLY GOLF SALES BLITZ SAVE FROM TODAY TO SAT. JUNE 7TH Gved'oscr BALLS GOLF CLUBS SPALDNG EXECUTIVE Topflite Topflite XL 11 Pc. 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With coach Ron Bogart are Kerry Bedard, winner of the scoring championship, season MVP award and the Campbell Jeweller award; Preston Dearing, most 'gentlemanly player and Hawk award; captain Dave Kinsman, best defenceman and winner of the team leadership trophy. Staff photo Saveway gets win Exeter Saveway scored a close 3-1 victory over Lieury in Southwestern Fastball Association play, Tuesday night. The Saveway club was in Lucan last night, Tuesday and will be at home at Exeter Community Park tomorrow night, Thursday at 9 p.m. In Tuesday's victory Saveway opened the scoring in the second inning as Dennis Bierling walked and Dave Watson slammed a long home run to provide a 2- 0 lead. The score increased to 3-0 in the third frame as Dan Heywood cracked a single and scored on an error. The only Lieury score of the game came in the fifth inning when a triple by Lloyd Mathers chased Bob Cornish across the plate. Dan Heywood and Brian Hodgins led Saveway at the plate with two hits apiece while Dave Watson and John Gillespie added on hit each. Lloyd Mathers collected all three Lieury hits off the offerings of Saveway hurler Brian Hodgins who struck out 10 batters in picking up the win. Winers of the draw for a pig at Exeter Saddle Club, Huron Park, May 24 1ST SIDE OF PORK Phil Kelly 2010 Dundas St., London 2ND HIND QUARTER Allan Card Box 842 Granton 3RD FRONT QUARTER Bill Pierson 114 Brittainia Ave. London .Page Time440vocute, May '28, 1980 Sports Spotlight fr, By ROSS HAUGH Nous sommes Here we are back again after a very interesting and busy four day trip to Quebec City and Montreal, Anyone wishing to keep on the go and see the historic sights of our great country should go with a' group of grade eight students, Their stamina is tremendous. We were able to keep up throughout the jaunt even up and clown the many hills in Quebec City. Actually, our job was to trail on behind and see that everyone was in the party. We had plenty of practice in counting to 31. Seriously the Usborne Central students were a great bunch to be with and they were certainly a credit to their school and community, When we left our tourist home in Quebec City, the landlady said that was the best and quietest group she had encountered. She didn't know how much talking, prodding and endurance was necessary td achieve that behaviour. Anyone that has never visited Quebec City should do so. It's a quaint and historic city and "that's where Canada really began,' Before anyone gets the idea that it was just.a great big holiday with meals in exquisite French restaurants, let's set that straight. The, trip was paid for by the participants themselves, Some of the costs were lessened by several fund raising projects by the students. The students took notes throughout the trip and each evening were required to complete a diary of the day's activities and these were marked by the teachers before retiring. Two of the meals during the trip were at. MacDonald's another three at cafeterias in Laval and Montreal universities, a roadside lunch, a rural French plain eating place and a bus stop cafeteria. We will eventually get around to some of the spor- ting aspects of the trip, but, the Citadel and Jacques Cartier's boat replica are worth mentioning. On the first morning in Quebec City while out look- ing for a newspaper about 7:15 we ran into a group of students from Aurora. After finding their origin out we were asked by a teacher, "Where are you from?" Our reply was, "north of London, actually Exeter." She returned with, "Heavens, I went to South Huron District High School for five years." It was Judy Wales. formerly Judy Ross. Her father was Squadron leader Joe Ross who was stationed at RCAF Centralia for a number of years. Jpdy now teaches French in grades four to eight in Aurora and was on a similar school trip to Quebec. In- cidentally there were to the best of our knowledge 23 school trips in the Quebec capital at the same time. Judy Ross mentioned living with Glenn and Mary Fisher for sometime and mentioned fellow students as Marilyn Marshall, Marion Lamport, Bob Fletcher and Bill Batten. She also asked about former rec director Doug Smith who now holds a similar position in Ridgetown. Aside from the historic points of interest the highlight for this writer was the visit to Olympic Park in Montreal. Certainly the most eye catching structure in the entire complex is the Olympic Stadium which covers a total surface area of 725,000 square feet. The rising tiers of seats on seven levels can handle crowds of up to 80,000 depending on the activity going on. The entire stadium playing surface is covered with artificial Astro turf which can be removed from the Tartan Olympic track in hours. The pitcher's mound is also portable and can be moved in and out. During the winter, a giant skating rink is main- tained on the stadium playing surface, Open to the public from December until mid-March, the rink is enjoyed each winter by more than 1,000 skaters. It may be interesting to note that it took 525,000 cubic yards of concrete to build Olympic Park along with 40,000 metric tons of steel and 139.8 miles of steel cable. The most daring of the facility is the Velodrome shich in addition to cycling is used for countless ac- tivities. Without a cyclist in action, it's almost im- -possible to imagine how a bicycle can make the high curves at the ends of the velodrome. Thursday afternoon, the velodrome was being used for an international flower show with exhibits from 22 countries. We were able to view the show for only a few minutes from high in the velodrome, but, it was a beautiful sight. So were the prices of admission to the flower show. A mere $15. Quarter horse show Thea3th annual Mid-Western Quarter Horse Show will again by sponsored by the Exeter Saddle Club and held at its new Huron Park facility on Saturday, June7. Over the years the quarter horse show has proven to be the largest annual breed show in Western On- tario. It has consistently received a Class A rating from the American Quarter Horse Association. Last year's show attracted a total of 381 entries - 242 adult and 139 youth from all over Ontario as well as Michigan. Ohio and New York. We will have more to say about the upcoming show in this space next week. Mitchell honoured Despite a very disastrous season a member of the Lucan-Ilderton Jets was named rookie of the year in the Continental Senior 'A' hockey league. Hugh Mitchell, a resident of Exeter received the Dick Tourangeau Memorial Trophy as the best first year performer. Mitchell, known as the Purina Flash scored 20 goals and added 19 assists for the baSement dwelling