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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1995-08-30, Page 9THE HURON aXPO$ITOR. August 30, 109$--S Local bantam girls win Ontario championship BY GREGOR CAMPBELL Expositor Staff The Seaforth bantam girls fastball team earned a spin around town on the fire truck Sunday night, after sweeping all five games and winning the provincial charnpionship in Brampton on the weekend. "Our goal was to simply qualify for the championships at the start of the season because our team is so young," says coach Kathy O'Reilly. "I guess the kids had higher ex- pectations." It is a "character" squad, she adds. "They are not 'showy' They run on the field, execute, then run off. Other teams never know what 10 make of them, although they prefer not to play against them." The new provincial champs are an elite area tcarn, and the only bantam team with an all - female coaching staff of the 48 teams in the province. A dozen finalists from four regions in Ontario were at the weekend tournament Seaforth beat London Oak- ridge 6-1 in the final Sunday afternoon. The game was closer than that though, says the Seaforth coach. Because Lon- don was "gutsy". They lost their first game in the tour- nament so had the worse draw Local junior hockey team holds training camp The junior hockey season started for the Seaforth Cen- tenaires with three practices last week. The turnout was less than in recent seasons but the quality of prospects was higher. The local juniors have another couple of practices this week before meeting the Brus- sels Bulls Friday night at the Seaforth and District Com- munity Centres in the annual rookie game at 8 p.m. The following Friday the Cents play their first road exhibition at Thamesford against • the Trojans, defending champions of the Ontario Hockey As- sociation's Junior "D"evelopment League. The pre -season exhibition between the Stratford Cullitons and Centenaires scheduled for Monday, Sept. 11 at the Seaforth and District Com- munity Centres has been can- celled. The defending OHA junior 13 Cullitons withdrew from the arrangement. As a result, the local ringette association has shuffled its schedule for its September school at the arena, allowing the Centenaires to move their exhibition game with the Hanover Barons from Goderich to the Seaforth and District Community Centres that Friday night, Sept. 15. on the final day. Oakridge had already played three games on Sunday before the champion- ship. The score was only 1-0 for Seaforth in the fifth inning. Winning pitcher Kristen McFarlane, 15 of Palmerston, only gave up one earned run in her four starts in the tour- nament, and was named its Most Valuable Pitcher, as she was also honoured last year after she pitched the only per- fect game in the Provincial Women's Softball Association last year in the first game of the novice tournament. Her earned run average at this weekend's bantam champion- ship was .333. Seaforth opened with a 4-1 win against Chatham Friday night. They beat Aurora 9-0, Port Dover 7-4, then bronze - medal winning Palmerston 4-2 Saturday to advance to Sunday afternoon's championship. Coach O'Reilly also noted Seaforth's fortunes in the this weekend seemed to turn on a big defensive play by first baseman Brennan Crawford of Clinton in the game against Chatham. She turned what looked like a sure hit into a double play. Erica Burns of Clinton hit a home run for Seaforth in the Palmerston game. Kara Pepper hurled the Seaforth win in the Port Dover game. Last year as novices Seaforth tangled with Aurora t� take the provincial championship, but the Aurora team's pitcher was injured for this Saturday mor- ning's expected rematch. Crawford and Melissa Wright, also of Clinton, were the only newcomers on the Seaforth team from last season's novice champs. The Seaforth bantams finished first with a 16-2 record against players much older in a Goderich women's league this season. Ironically, the only losses came against Goderich Suncoast and their ace chucker Heidi Elliott, who is one of the coaches for the Seaforth squad. As of Monday night, Seaforth's overall record was 30-7 this season. Bantams are 15 to 16 years - old. The Seaforth team had three 14 -year-olds this year. Only Crawford will be "overage" for next year's squad. The Seaforth bantam girls also led the best -of -three Goderich women's league final one game to nothing going into last night's second game of that seri**. Members of the champion- ship team are: Mellissa Robertson, Denise O'Reilly, Erica Burns, Brennan Craw- ford, Kara Pepper, Lisa Reynolds, Lisa Roosenboom, Tory Westbrook, Amber Rut - tan, Jamie Rayburn, Melissa Wright, Kristen McFarlane. The coaches are Janet Buchanan, Sandra Burns, Geor- gina Reynolds, Heidi Elliot, Kathy O'Reilly. DYNAMIC DUO - Seaforth's Dave McLlwain and father Jack played on a dangerous forward line along with Greg Murray, from the Dublin area, at the annual Summer Showcase exhibition game at the local arena last week._ Paid atten- dance was about 450 fans. Profits will be shared by the Seaforth minor and junior hockey organizations. Fans enjoy show of hockey talent An almost packed house took in the first hockey game of the season at the Seaforth and District Community Centres Wednesday night. The exhibition was a goal - tenders' worst nightmare for both teams, but fans saw goals galore in an entertaining contest that came down to the equivalent of an unconverted touchdown, as a pick-up team of area talent nudged the staff of the Dave McLlwain Hockey School 14-13. Estimated paid attendance at this second -annual Summer Showcase Hockey Game was 450, with proceeds donated to the Seaforth minor and junior hockey organizations. The official scorer and goal judges were busy keeping pace as Stratford's Andrew Taylor of the Detroit junior Red Wings lit the lamp four times for the winners. Wildfong scoring champ in roller hockey League Danny Wildfong of Clinton won the scoring championship this inaugural season of the Seaforth Men's Roller Hockey League. He finished thc sum- mer with 25 goals and 39 assists for 64 points, 10 better than Egmondvillc's Steve Pap - plc. Maurice Guy of Stratford, the former coach of the Seaforth Centenaires, was the roller hockey league's top sniper with 31 goals. He finished tied for third in the scoring race with Seaforth's Paul McElwain. Both had 53 points. Jason Smith of Seaforth was fifth with 47 points. After finishing thc regular season in last place in the four - team league, Young Blood won the championship three weeks ago by beating I.ightning 1110 4 in thc final. They upset the league -leading Rockets 4-3 in the semi-finals the night before. Lightning needed an overtime shootout to do away with the Hurricanes 7- 6 in the other semi-final. 4 Not to be outdone, the Columbus Chill's Greg Murray, of the Dublin area, showed he's still got the touch by likewise scoring four times for the losers. - He played on an awesome line with Dave and his father, Jack McLlwain. All three arc better-known products of the Seaforth minor and junior systems. Jack was a star with the Stratford juniors, then known as the junior 13 Baldwins, more than four decades ago. Dave, a National Hockey League veteran approaching the 100 career -goal plateau and now with the Ottawa Senators, scored twice in last week's exhibition. Dan Wildfong, a former Seaforth and St. Marys junior now at Colgate University, Mike Martin of thc Windsor Spitfires and Wes Mason of Sarnia's junior A team also all chipped in a pair of goals for the winners. Jason Yorke of the NHL's Anaheim Mighty Ducks, Jason Heywood of the University of Western Ontario Mustangs, and Steve DuBarry of Colgate rounded out the scoring for the victors. Mike Watt of Egmondville and Boyd Devereaux of Seaforth both notched a pair of goals for the McLlwain Stars. Watt plays for the Michigan State University Spartans and the 17 -year-old Devereaux is starting his rookie season with the junior A Kitchener Rangers. Boyd's brother Mike, Greg Van Baker of the Dublin -area, who played with the St. Marys Lincolns last season, and Scott Muscutt of the University of New Brunswick all added singletons for the losers. Keith McClure, who now lives in Vancouver but was the "Main Man" in net for the Seaforth Centenaires in their only championship season a decade ago, was one of the busy goaltcnticrs in thc game. ire was home in McKillop geuing set for his wedding Saturday. NHL referee Don Van Mas- senhoven of Strathroy of- ficiated the game, assisted by Ontario Hockey Association officials Paul Petrie and Steve Gould. Other prominent pucksters who took part in the exhibition included: Scott Driscoll, NHL linesman; Brad Jansen, CCM pro rep; Jeff MacLean, Strath- roy Rockets; Duane Harmer, Detroit junior Wings; Jason Beuttenmiller, Centenaires and Petrolia Jets; Jason Papple, A REPEAT PERFORMANCE DEMOLITION DERBY Friday, September 29, 1995 7:00 p.m. at the Grandstand beside the Clinton Anna Drivers Needed! 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