HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1988-03-09, Page 15THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1988. PAGE 15.
When push came to shove Brussels Bulls had what It took to hand
Wellesley Applejacks their second defeat in the playoff series Sunday
in Brussels. After an opening game that went into two overtime
periods before Brussels won, the Bulls had an easier time scoring a 4-2
win in a bruising contest.
Bulls take 2-0 playoff series lead
BY LOIS Me ARTER
If the first game of the Junior D
playoffs between Brussels Bulls
and Wellesley is any indication of
the brand of hockey fans are going
to see, the heart-stopping over
time action is going to leave
everyone nervous wrecks.
There was good end-to-end
action by both teams and both
goalies played well. It took exactly
10 minutes of play before Welle
sley beat goalie McClement to take
a 1-0 lead, and then just 2:25 later
added a power play goal. They held
that 2-0 lead at the end of the first
period.
The second period belonged to
the Bulls as they came back to life.
After just 4:07 of the period had
been played, Greg Crummer scor
ed, assisted by Mike Vincent and
Brian Campbell. One minute and
50 seconds later Kevin McArter
scored on a power play effort from
team mates Tim Fritz and Bill
Haines to tie the score.
Tim Fritz came through with the
second power play goal of the
period at the 10:08 mark from Ron
Strome and Mike Chapman to put
the Bulls in the lead. The Apple
jacks came back just 29 seconds
later to tie the score again.
The remainder of the period was
scoreless leaving the teams at a 3-3
tie after 40 minutes of play.
Wellesley came out strong early
in the third period scoring two
quick goals just 17 seconds apart
after three minutes of play. The
Bulls battled away until the 14:12
Veitch team wins
The Brussels Curling Club held a
Men’s Bonspiel on Feb. 29,
sponsored by Huron Feeding
Systems. There was one draw
competing.
Joe Seili presented the trophies
and prizes to the winning teams. In
first place with 51.5 points was the
team of Ross Veitch, Mike Petta-
piece, Brian Warwick and Keith
Williamson. Second place with
42.75 points went to Ern Lewing-
ton, Niel Mitchell, Bob Alexander
mark of the period and Ron Strome
capitalized on a power play attack
to score from Tim Fritz and Mike
Chapman to close the gap by one.
It looked like a first game loss
when with just four seconds left on
the clock Greg Crummer blasted a
shot past the home-town goalie
assisted by Strome and Campbell
tosalvagea5-5 tie, thus forcing
overtime.
A 10-minute overtime period
was set with Wellesley scoring the
first goal after 2:20 of play, but the
Bulls not to be out-done came back
and scored later when Tim Fritz
combined with Bill Haines and Ron
Strome to beat the goalie.
Wellesley came back to score
once more at the 7:55 mark but the
Bulls retaliated just 50 seconds
later when Mike Chapman scored
from Kevin McArter and Bill
Haines. The remaining minute and
10 seconds were scoreless thus
forcing a 20 minute sudden-death
overtime period.
The Bulls were lucky enough to
get that first goal after just 2:19 had
been played by the teams. The
Bulls had made a play on the net
with the goalie making the initial
stop and Tim Fritz dropped the
puck back to defenceman Bill
Haines who blasted the puck past
the goalie for the Bulls 8-7 victory.
Goalie Greg McClement played a
sound game handling 40 shots on
net while the Wellesley goalie had
33 to handle.
The stage was set for game two
in Brussels on Sunday afternoon.
The Bulls came up with an early
bonspiei
and Fred Uhler. In third place with
31.75 points was the team of Orval
Bauer, Tom Warwick, Bill Edgar
and Jeff Oppenhauser. Consola-
tionwent to the team of Mervyn
Bauer, Ken McDonald, Fred Smith
and Ralph Watson.
A fruit basket donated by EMA
grocery store was won by Fred
Uhler. The Curlinc Club will be
holding the Mixed Open Bonspiel
on Saturday, March 26 at the
Wingham Curling Club.
goal when Mike Vincent scored
just 20 seconds into the game from
linemates Brian Campbell and
Greg Crummer to get the action
started.
A very fast pace of hockey
followed with end-to-end rushes by
both teams. It was 11 minutes later
when the Bulls added their second
goal as Bill Kerr scored his first
goal of the game from Bill Haines to
give the team a 2-0 lead.
The Applejacks capitalized on a
power play attack to score with just
18 seconds remaining in the
period.
The second period proved to be
more of the same speedy end-to-
end play and it took a little more
than 12 minutes of the period
before defenceman Kevin Lee
scored on a power play effort,
assisted by Greg Crummer and Bill
Haines to give Brussels a 3-1 lead.
Bill Kerr scored unassisted a
minute and 22 seconds later to
make it 4-1, for the Bulls, with the
remainder of the period scoreless
as goalie Jeff McGavin kept the
visitors off the scoreboard during
that 20 minutes.
The third period had both
goalies making good saves but the
visitors were out-shooting the
home team and finally beat Jeff at
the 12:29 mark. He held them off
for the remainder of the period with
Brussels claiming the 4-2 victory
and taking a 2-0 lead in the best of
seven series.
It is to be hoped for the safety of
the players that the poor calibre of
officiating on Sunday is not to be
repeated in the rest of the series.
An official who chooses to ignore
excessive stick work and boarding
should understand why the abu
sive language ensues which he
calls. If he had all the black and
blue marks on his body maybe he
would see the game differently.
Our players are to be commended
for letting cooler heads prevail as
they took more than their share of
abuse.
The third game of the series is to
be played in Wellesley on Friday
night at 8:30 p.m. with game four
back in Brussels on Sunday
afternoon at 4:30 p.m. after the
completion ofthe Atom Tourna
ment games.
The Bulls executive made two
$50 weekly lottery draws on
Sunday with the winners being
James Cherey of Walton and David
Nickel of Listowel. The $100 draw
for the month of February was also
made with the winner being Jerry
Dillow of Stratford. The 50-50 draw
for the sum of $64 was won by Greg
Campbell of Listowel.
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Blyth Atom
B beats
Goderich
After a week-long layoff the
Blyth Atom B team faced off with
the Goderich Orange team. Earlier
in the season the teams split a
series with Blyth winning in
Goderich 6-4 and Goderich beating
Blyth by a 3-2 score in their second
game.
Goderich opened the scoring
early in the first period with Blyth
goalie Josh Yanchus being beat on
a breakaway. Two minutes later
Blyth answered with a goal of their
own. Benjie Hakkers set Tim Lyons
in the open and Tim wasted no time
in tying the game at one all.
At 4:28 Scott Arthur put Blyth
ahead for the first time assisted by
Shawn Hakkers and Tim Lyons.
This goal proved to be the winner
as Josh Yanchus played solidly
between the posts to shut the
Goderich team out for the rest of
the game.
At 1:08 of the first period Tim
Lyons put Blyth ahead by two goals
as he tipped a long shot by Brad
Walsh past the Goderich goal
tender. Early in the second period
Wilfred Datema put a perfect pass
by Tim Lyons past the Goderich
goal tender to put the Blyth boys
ahead by three goals. Tim Lyons
then scored on a pass by Scott
Arthur to complete his hat-trick.
Scott Arthur then scored assisted
by Wilfred to close the scoring for
the second period.
Shawn Hakkers went to work in
the third period as he put two in the
Goderich net. The first was
assisted by Benjie and Tim Cowan.
A determined effort helped the
Blyth boys win this match with
Goderich. It is good to see the boys
work together and pull ahead of
this fine team. The final score was
Blyth 8 - Goderich 1.
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