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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1987-02-04, Page 37THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1987. PAGE 37 Crusaders regain first place BY LOIS Me ARTER The Crusaders travelled to Arthur on Friday night. Paul Johnston assisted by Kevin Deit- ner scored four minutes into the gametogetthe l-01ead. Arthur came back at the mid-way point to tie the score. With seven minutes remaining Dave Montgomery scored from Pete Bennett and Gerry Wheeler to go ahead on the scoreboard. Kevin Deitner, Ken Cousins and Dave Stepehnson then combined to put Brussels up by two at the end of the period. Arthur scored just four minutes into the period but Brussels came back in 48 seconds with a goal by Dave Montgomery and Kevin Deitner. Arthur scored two power play goals before the period ended to tie the score at four each. Arthur scored two goals in the third with Dave Montgomery and Ken Cousins getting the only Brussels goal and losing 6 - 5 to the home team. ST. CLEMENTS WINS5 - 3 The Crusaders were at home for a re-scheduled game on Saturday and were defeated by St. Clements by a5- 3 score. These two losses let the team slip from first place to second place in the standings. Sunday night had the Crusaders at home to the first place Wellesley team. Brussels squad re-grouped and came up with a 5 - 2 victory for their efforts putting them back in a first place tie. Theteamwillbeathomefora Tuesday night game against Monkton and will be in Drayton on Sunday afternoon tocompletetheir regular season schedule before playoffs start. The Brussels Bulls were at home Sunday to the Mitchell Hawks, with Jeff McGavin in the net. Mitchell scored three goals in the third period to win the game 5 ■ 2 to continue the Bulls’ losing streak. Brussels Bulls on a slide BY LOIS McARTER The Junior team travelled to Lucan on Wednesday night for a mid-week game. Lucan claimed the first period of play scoring the unanswered goals. All three goals were scored from direct shots at the face-offs. Lucan scored their fourth goal a minute into the second period of play. It was mid-way through the period before Brussels finally got on the scoreboard when Mike Chapman scored from Kevin Rut­ tan and Kevin Lee. Todd Hutton scored from Tim Fritz with three minutes remaining to end the second period at 4 - 2 for the home team. The teams had played two minutes of the third period when Kevin Ruttan scored on a pass from Rob Cardiff and Mike Chapman to bring the Bulls within one. The team let up once more and gavethehometeamachanceto score four more discouraging goals. The Bulls came through with thcirfourthgoalat 15:41 when Paul Edwards scored from Mike Chap­ man and Kevin Ruttan. Kevin Lee scored from Tim Fritz and Blake Flettonapower play effort at 18:17 but the team couldn’t rally to score any more losing 8 - 5 to the Lucan squad. LOSE TO EXETER They travelled back to Exeter in some rather adverse weather on Friday night to play the Hawks. Dave Harding scored unassisted five minutes into the game to give Brussels the lead. Play continued until the 3:43 mark when Exeter scored the tying goal. Brussels came back to take the lead at 2:23 when Kevin McArter scored from Marty Rut­ ledge and Blake Flett. Twenty seconds into the second period Marty Rutledge scored from Kevin Lee and Tim Fritz to add to their lead. That lasted until 7:57 when Exeter scored and then repeated the play at 5:25 to end the second period in a 3 - 3 tie. The Bulls, usually a strong third period team, just didn’t have the legs in this game and allowed Exeter to score two goals early in the period. Kevin Ruttan scored from Kevin Lee at 6:19 to complete the Bull’s scoring for the night and gave Exeter the opportunity to score one more goal to get their 6 - 4 victory and their first win of the season against Brussels. The Bulls were at home to the Mitchell Hawks on Sunday after­ noon. Mitchell scored the only goal of the period taking a 1-0 lead after having out-shot the Bulls 16-13. The second period had Kevin McArter scoring at 14:21 on a pass from Dave Harding and Todd Hutton. Tim Fritz scored minutes later from Paul Edwards and Kevin McArter to put Brussels in the lead. Mitchell came back at 6:38 to tie thescore. Brusselsout-shot the visitors 18-6 in the period but just couldn’t beat the hot glove of the Mitchell goalie. Mitchell came out on top of the score getting three unanswered goals in the third period to win the game 5 - 2. The Bulls will be back in Mitchell on Tuesday night to play hockey. They will be at home to Exeter on Friday night at 9 p.m. and to Mitchell on Saturday night at 7 p.m. for a cancelled game from two weeks ago. They will be in Seaforth on Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m. for a hectic week of hockey. There has been much controver­ sy lately about cleaning up hockey in the junior ranks. Well after having accompanied a local hoc­ key player to University Hospital in London on Wednesday night in severe pain, I heartily agree. I then witnessed two more Brussels players leaving Sunday afternoon’s game because of two more shoulder injuries after hav­ ing been taken heavily into the boards. Yes, 1 agree it has to be cleaned up but let’s start with the officiating. If the games were all called equally by the officials, the majority oftheseinjurieswould not happen. A good clean body check on the ice very seldom hurts anyone, but this stuff against the boards has to stop. The Bulls weekly lottery draw of $50 was won by Pat Melady of Seaforth. The regular 50-50 draw was shared by Jack Fischer of Mitchell and Dave Hastings, Brus­ sels. Games this week Tues., 6:30 p.m. - Elma-Logan Peewees at Brussels; Tues., 8:30 p.m. - Monkton Inter, at Brussels. Wed., 7 p.m. - Elma-Logan Bantams at Brussels; Wed., 8:30 p.m. - Midget Practice at Brussels. Fri., 6 p.m. - Novice; Fri., 7:15 p.m. - Wallace Atoms at Brussels; Fri., 9 p.m. - Exeter Juniors at Brussels. Sat., 10 a.m.-Teeswater Ringette at Brussels. Brussels Bulls “Player of the Month” TIM FRITZ CENTRE The Captain and on-ice lead­ er of the Juniors, Tim’s 100 point pace has kept the Bulls in contention for first place throughout the month of January. A complete line of Cooper Hockey Equipment Available at: B. Oldfield Radio ' Pro Hardware /haek SAVE 37 % orders received before February 25, 1987 Feldmann WINDOWS a DOORS Pee Wees start playoffs The peewee team played their first game in the first round of playoffs in Listowel on Saturday afternoon against Elma-Logan. Elma-Logan scored the first goal at the 14:00 minute mark of the period. Play continued until there was 2:23 remaining in the period and Shawn Jacklin scored unassis­ ted to tie the score. In the second period Jason Koetsier scored unassisted at ll:08togiveBrusselsthe lead. Then with just one second remain­ ing Brad Taylor scored from Koetsier to add to the lead. Elma-Logan came out strong in the third scoring at 13:53 to come within one goal. J ason Koetsier got his second goal from Dan Beuer- mann with 3:55 remaining in the period. Goalie Todd Rice managed to keep Elma-Logan off the scoreboard for the rest of the game. DELIVERY 527-0910 393-5101 it UTI "Lit • SEAFORTH SEBRINGVILLE TERMS 10% Deposit, balance due May 1,1987 OPEN 8-12,1-5:30 Mon.-Fri. 8-12:30 Sat. QUALITY LUMBER AND SERVICE SINCE 1906