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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1988-03-09, Page 12Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, March 9, 1988—Page 11 Lancers down Drayton, and ready for Ripley Lucknow Intermediates The Lucknow Lancers pulled up their socks last week after their initial loss in a playoff series wkth Drayton. The Lancers stormed back with confidence to win the next four games and take the series four games to one. The Lancers found their scoring punch in the second game as they managed to pop 14 goals in the Drayton net while their opposition countered with only 7. Art Clark, Steve MacPherson and Wayne Phillips led the scoring with two goals each while singles went to Paul Maclntyre, Scott Gibson, Dave Gibson, Grant Gilchrist, Don Elliott and Steve Simpson. The third game of the series, played in Lucknow, saw the Lancers fight back from a 3 - 1 deficit to post a 5 - 4 win over the visitors and take a 2 - 1 lead in the best -of - seven series. Wayne Phillips, Steve Simp- son, Pat Murray, Dave Gibson and Allan Eadie did the damage for the Lancers while Ray Guay played well between the posts to hold the opposition to four. This win sent the series back to Drayton for game four and at the end of regulation Bantams complete group series playoffs Lucknow Bantams Lucknow's Bantams completed their group playoff series last week with a strong 10 - 6 win over their Tiverton opponents. Gavin Hunter opened the scoring for Lucknow in the game as the tough defensman broke through the tight check- ing to find the mark. This goal opened the floodgates and Lucknow netted five more goals in the next five minutes. Come the second period, ,Tiverton wouldn't die and stormed back to net four goals in the opening three minutes to pull within one of Lucknow's six. In the third period, Lucknow's scrappy forward, Dale Priestap, fired up his team- mates and led them to victory by scoring three straight goals for the natural hat - trick. Mike Vandervelde assisted in setting up,all of Dale's goals. By the end of the contest, Priestap and Brad Murray had each counted for four goals. Gavin Hunter and Dennis Park each added singles in the win. In a home -and -home exhibition series with Wingham played last week, the Lucknow club came away with a split. decision. In the first game, the Lucknow offense had a tough time getting going as Wingham outshot their rivals three to one. Goalies Allen Kikkert and Paul Helm were peppered with over fifty shots in the game and, to their credit, allowed only eight. Scoring for Lucknow in the loss was Russel Sutton from. Donnie Gammie and Brad Murray. In the second game, Lucknow found Wingham's number and took home the vistory in a close contest. ' Lucknow took an early lead on a goal by Murray, assists to Gammie and Sutton, but Wingham stormed back to tie the game. This pattern. continued with Lucknow goals coming from Donnie Gammie.. with two, Rod Crich and Russel Sutton. Brad Murray had a great game picking up a point on each Lucknow goal. • Novices up two to none Lucknow Novice The Lucknow team entered into their playoff series with Ripley before the hometown fans earlier this month and, as of press time, now lead the series two game to none. In the first game, played in Lucknow, Ripley's Darren Bolton lit up the scoreboard first early in the opening period. Come the second, Lucknow rifled four consecutive markers past the Ripley net - minder before Ripley could add their se- cond on the night, Scoring for Lucknow was Jeff Porter from Stuart Rintoul; Michael Puddy with two from Ian Paolin and Trevor Moffat; and Brent Cameron also from Porter. Lucknow led 4 - 2 at the end of two. A face pace was kept up by both teams in the game that saw Lucknow add three more goals in the third to finish the game 7 - 2 in their favour. Lucknow goals in the third came from Glenn Ferguson, unassisted; Jeff Porter from Lee Drennan; Ferguson from Porter; and Jay Humphrey unassisted. Lucknow team of Curt Humphrey and Graeme Hunter played an excellent game in the nets to count a win in the first game of the series. Game two of the contest was played in Ripley last Saturday and Lucknow played very well despite having two key members away. Jeff Porter was holidaying in Florida and Michael Puddy was ill. Ed Courtney joined the team for this game and he had a great night scoring once and assisting on another. Ripley had many chances in the game but the duo of Humphrey and Hunter made the right moves to stop the rubber and brought home a well deserved shut -out. Lucknow goals came from Glenn Ferguson from Courtney; Courtney from Ferguson and Mark Kerr; and Ferguson for the third from Stuart Rintoul, Lucknow has had a strong series so far with Ripley and the action continued last night here in Lucknow. Watch for a full report on the series next week. time, the score was tied at four apiece. In the ensuing overtime play, the Lancers came out flying and tested the Drayton goaltender several times. before ' Steve Simpson's blast from the blueline eluded the net mihder to clinch the 5 - 4 victory. Paul Maclntyre, Grant Gilchrist, Larry MacPherson and Steve Simpson scored in regulation time to force the overtime. Ray Guay again had a super game in the net for the Lancers. Game five in the series was back in Drayton and with the hometown team down three games to one, the contest quickly turned into a grudge match, ,Pat Murray's shot gave the Lancers an early lead before Don Elliott netted what proved to be the game winner as Draytbn could manage only one marker against Guay. - Larry MacPherson added one in the se- cond and Art Clark another in the third to give the Lancers a 4 -1 win in the game and the series. The Lancers suffered one big loss during the winning series against Drayton as defenseman Don Elliott will be out for the remainder of the season due to injuries suffered in the final game. The Lancers now advance to meet Ripley tonight ( Wednesday) in Ripley. The next home action for the Lancers comes Sunday night with game time set at 7 p.m. It was a tie game following regulation time as Lucknow took on Brussels for the Con- solation trophy in the Tykes Hockey Tournament held over the weekend. A shoot-out was needed to decide the winner and when it was all'said and done, Brussels emerged as victors. Here, Mathew Shortreed is shown accepting the trophy on behalf of the Brussels team from Ron Alton, chairman of the annual tourney. (Marg Burkhart photo)