HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1995-01-25, Page 9THE HURON EXPOSITOR, January 4s, 1!U-11
Steve Geiger
First star in Junior 'D' all-
star hockey game.
Seaforth Cents'
player first star
in all-star game
A veteran forward of the Seaforth
Centenaires was the first star at
Saturday night's Ontario Hockey
Association Junior "D"evelopment
League All-Star Game at Lucan.
Steve Geiger, 17, of RR 1 Zurich
earned the honour for his two goal
and three assist performance,
although he insists he didn't
deserve credit for the second goal.
In any case he helped the Western
Division trounce the East 14-5.
Geiger, who has 40 points from
16 goals and 24 assists for the
Centenaires so far this season,
played on a line in Saturday's
showcase game with Seaforth
teammate Steve Mclnaily and
veteran Rob Boville of the Mitchell
Hawks. All three are centres so
took turns sharing the middle in
Saturday's game.
Mclnaily also had a good game,
finishing with a goal and three
assists. •
'Veterans Greg Deprest of the
Lucan Irish and Shayne Robinson
of the Exeter Hawks were second
and third stars, respectively. Both
are former 100 -point players in the
division.
Goalie Adam Agar, formerly of
the Seaforth minor system but now
playing with the Mitchell Hawks,
Filtered the game with the, West
enjoying a 9-2 cushion in the third
period and allowed three, goals.
Zimmer leaves
Centenaires
shortly after
returning to team
It was a case of "easy come, easy
go" for the Scaforth Ccntenaires
last week, who lost assistant coach
Bob Zimmer who returned to the
Midwestern Junior B Hockey
League as head coach of the
Listowel Cyclones.
He replaces Scott Long fired
earlier in the week.
Zimmer, from Stratford, returned
to the Cents as assistant to head
coach Maurice Guy in December
after a short and unsuccessful sunt
as coach and general manager of a
junior team in Great Falls,
Montana. He was head coach of the
Seaforth Juniors from 1990-92, and
has more than three decades
experience in the coaching game.
Last year he was head coach and
manager of, the Midwestern B
League's Elmira Sugar Kings.
"Zim was very up front about the
whole thing," says Seaforth
manager Gregor Campbell. "He
approached us a couple of week's
ago and said there was a possibility
of an opening in Listowel, and had
a closed door meeting with our
guys after last Sunday's game in
Lambeth."
"We were lucky to get him back
in the first place but will miss his
experience," the Seaforth manager
adds,"for my money he's the best
in the business with under-
achievers, but we couldn't come
close to matching the Listowel offer
and this is a great opportunity for
him."
Zimmer said the Listowel deal
was "long term" and it was a case
of taking it now or the offer maybe
not being around if he waited. He
has offered to continue to help out
with the Centenaires here when and
if he has the time.
Ouy, who got into the coaching
game as an assistant to Zimmer in
Seaforth in 1991-92 and took the
squad to the Division Final for the
first time in a decade last season
with a franchise record eight -
straight playoff wins, continues to
have the second best all-time record
as coach of the Centenaires' Only
co -coaches Bob Ward and Tom
Chcssell have accumulated more
wins, which they did between 1984-
86 while earning the team's only
Oniarlo Hockey Association
championship.
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• : t , •G PHOTO
ALL EYES ON THE PUCK - A player for the Red Division Exeter Atoms races for the puck while
Strathroy player and goalie eye the puck during Saturday's Optimist Atom Tournament. The Exeter team
lost 8-1 in the finals to a team from Strathroy.
OPTIMISTS PRESENT
ATOM HOCKEY AWARDS -
Jack Bedard, of the Seaforth
Optimists, presents Exeter
Atoms captain Daryl Weiss
with a plaque for his team,
which were -finalists on
Saturday at the Optimist Atom
tournament. The team lost to
Strathroy in the Red Division
final on Saturday. Seaforth
had defeated Waterloo on
shots after a 3-3 tie but lost to
Exeter 2-1 on Saturday.
Dublin -area native hot in St. Marys
Greg Van Bakel
SCUIRIEE
BY ANDY BADER
from Mitchell Advocate
The grit, determination and skill
of Mitchell Minor Hockey product
Greg Van Bakel has taken him to
St. Marys this hockey season, and
not surprisingly, he's flourished.
The 16 -year-old son of John and
Marg Van Bakel of RR 2 Dublin
has successfully made the leap
from bantam (with a little Junior
Development mixed in) to the
Midwestern Jr. 'B' Lincolns in St.
Marys.
Currently fourth in team scor-
ing, Van Bakel has seen plenty of
ice time with the second -place
Lincolns. What has made him suc-
cessful this campaign, according
to Lincolns' head coach Terry
Uniac, is his style of play, which
see Sports
Scoreboard,
page 15
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has rubbed off on his colleagues
and made him a noticeable entity
out on the ice.
That style of play is all too
familiar with minor hockey fans in
this town.
"He's just been a tremendous
player for us," Uniac said before
last Tuesday's key match -up with
St. Thomas. "He shows leadership
well beyond his years. He's played
tough for us and he's put points up
on the board. For a kid, he's got
the heart the size of a football.
He's a real great addition."
Uniac added that he's one of
those players which everybody
Tikes --coaches, teammates and
opponents.
"I wouldn't he surprised to see
Greg Van Bakel the captain of this
hockey club next year," he pre-
dicted, comparing the rookie
favorably with veteran Lincoln
and current captain Dan Wildfong.
Making the leap to Jr. 'B' was a
goal of Van Bakel's this year. And
he has noticed a difference in the
level of play.
"It's a lot faster and it forces
you to play a lot smarter style of
game," he said.
A centre in his minor hockey
days, Van Bakel has successful-
ly made the switch to right
wing.
"I'm used to it now, and I kind
of like it," he noted. "I like to
work in the corners."
With 13 goals and 18 assists on
the season, he has seen plenty of
ice time all year --regular shifts as
well as powerplay and penalty
killing duties.
see Van Baked, page 15
Paul McLlwain MVP
Seaforth hockey veteran Paul
McLlwain was• selected as the most
valuable player at the Western
Ontario Athletic Association's
Senior All Star Game earlier this
month at Drayton.
Paul McLlwain,"22, scored a goal
and two assists in a losing cause for
the South Division at Drayton Jan.
7. The North won the game 6-4.
McLlwain played graduated from
the Scaforth minor system then
played for Seaforth's junior
Centenaires for five seasons before
becoming ineligible because he was
overage after last season.
He now plays for the Clinton
Radars.
Those Radars are having their
problems. They remain pointless at
the bottom of the standings after the
WOAA took away the few points
they had earned last week for using
ineligible players. Paul's cousin
Kevin McLlwain of Egmondville
and Scott Jervis of Harpurhey, also
play for the Clinton seniors.
Cents steal victory with quick goals
The Seaforth Centenaires started
slow but saved the hest for last on
the weekend.
They tallied three times in the last
1:46 of the game at the Seaforth
and District Community Centres
Sunday night to steal a 7-5 win
from the visiting Exeter Hawks.
Friday night, also on home ice, the
Cents were back on their heels
early so spotted the division -leading
Pon Stanley Lakers a 4-0 lead
before storming back to tie it, but
eventually dropping a 6-4 decision.
The weekend split leaves the
Cents a solid fourth in the nine -
team division of the Ontario
Hockey Association's Junior
"D"evelopment League with a 17-
15-3 record, still one point back of
third-place Exeter, but who have
three games remaining with the
Lakers.
Seaforth has next weekend off
and doesn't play again until next
Wednesday, Feb. 1, when they
travel to Lucan to take on the red
hot Irish Six.
Sunday night's stunning
comeback allowed Seaforth to take
the regular season's series from
Exeter for the first time since 1985-
86. They finished with two wins,
two ties and a loss against the
always tough Hawks.
Jason Henderson's empty net goal
with four seconds on the clock iced
the win, giving him a hat trick for
the evening. The Ccntenaires twice
trailed by two goals, 3-1 and 4-2,
but Greg Matthison's second goal
of the game with 1:46 remaining
tied it. Thirty five seconds later
Steve McInally's marker gave the
Cents the lead for the first time in
the game, and for good.
Jason Cook, returning to
Seaforth's lineup for the first time
.since the start of December, also
scored.
Stunning comeback for
Seaforth
There were only two minor
penalties called the enure game by
referee Jeff Smith, both to Seaforth.
Friday night the Cents tried to
beat the Lakers at their own game
early, but soon found they couldn't
outskate or out -finesse the talented
pace setters, falling behind 4-0 by
the 6:51 point of the second period.
Goals by Chad Papple, Jason.
Hayter, Steve Geiger and Jason
GREAT HOCKEY ACTION
The Clinton Radars (Senior "A")
VS.
Palmerston
Friday, January 27'h/95
8:30 p.m.
at the Clinton Arena
'Cokh the simulcast horse
races from Woodbine & The Meadowlands.
Dunseith tied it for Seaforth oy
early in the third, but the Lakers
got the winner on a powerplay at
8:33, then an empty net goal in the
final minute.
I,AKERS 6 at CENTS 4
First period
1. P.S., Falulkner (Steele, Rush) 2;51 pp
2. P.S., Vandepeer, 6:32 sh
Penalties • Lauwaert, C4th (high
stick) 2:03; Rush, P.S. (trip) 5:22
Second period
3. P.S., Jalbert (Willsie, Goodhue) 4:00
4. P.S., Camp (Jalben, Wilkie) 6:51
5. C4th, 1laytcr (Carroll, Ti Banco) 8:28
6. C4th, C. Papple (Geiger, Ramer)
16:16
Penalties - NONE
Third period
7. C4th, Geiger (Flanagan, C. Papple)
1:51
8. C4th, Dunseith, 6:20 pp
9. P.S., Camp (Bedford) 8:33 pp
10. P.S., Steele (Goodhue) 19:49 en
Penalties • Steele, P.S., McInally,
C4th (slash) 3:02; Hicks, P.S., (rough,
cross check) 3;15; Carroll, C4th (hold)
6:46; Dietrick, P.S., Mcinally, C4th
(rough) 17:06.
Shots on goal: NA
Goal: Port Stanley (Joworski); Seaforth
(Swan)
Referee: Raymond McManus
Attendance: 180
HAWKS 5 at CENTS 7
First period
1. Ex, Farquhar (Glavin, Dalrymple)
7:17 $
2. C4th, Henderson, 15:14
Penalties -
Second period
3. Ex, Cousineau (Robinson, McBride)
2:06 pp
4. Ex, Robinson (Livermore, Burns)
9:03
5. C4th, Henderson ()eternally,
Nahrgang) 10:47
6. C4th, Cook (Geiger) 10:58
7. .Ex, Cousineau (Farquhar, [lodge)
18:55
Penalties • Little, C4th (elh) 1:07;
Carroll (rough) 6:57
Third period
8. Ex, Gilfillan (Cousineau) 10:21
9. C4th, Matthison (Ramer, Geiger)
10:29
10. C4th, Matthison (McInally, Ti
Barton) 18:14
11. C4th, McInally (Carroll) 18:49
12. C4th, Henderson (McInally) 19:56
en
Penalties -
Shots on goal: NA
Goal: Exeter (Kints), Seaforth
(Nahrgang)
Referee: Jeff Smith
Attendance: 75 est
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