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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. HOT WATER­ CLEANING POWER ... The Karcher Power Washer makes its own hot water for just pennies, and cleans 100% faster. Cold and Hot Water Models to Choose from FREE DEMONSTRATION Pick out one of your toughest cleaning problems and we will come out and give you a FREE cleaning demonstration YES ... We Do Lease Don’t buy unless you give a Karcher a try! I LI I HURONIZZInucMR BLYTH, ONTARIO 523-4244 For a free demonstration contact: Kevin Buchanan 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. The Wingham sales Arena “EVERYTHING UNDER ONE ROOF’ |NEW & USED GUNS]OPEN MON.-SAT. 9-6Ur FRI. NITES TIL 9 357-1730 NEW & USED Furniture Antiques Carpet & Giftware_____ BUlT Baking Goods Spices, Bulk Candy, Food & Grocery Items