HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1996-11-27, Page 9$-THE HURON EXPOSITOR, Novombor 27, 1996
Sports
Hawks hot streak not stalled by Cents
Shawnc McCloud's goal
with 3:37 remaining iced a 3-
I win over the Centenaires at
the Seaforth arena Sunday
night, so the Mitchell Hawks
remain the hottest team in the
Morenz Division of the OHA
Junior Development 1.eague.
The Hawks missed the
playoffs last year and were
eliminated first round the
season before that, but they
appear to be back, having
earned points in all eight
games in the past month, 13
out of a possible 16, and are
now but one point back of the
Cents in the fourth and final
playoff position of the five -
team division and they have a
game in hand.
The North Middlesex Stars,
who Seaforth meets in
Parkhill in their next start
Saturday night, arc only three
points back of Mitchell, in
the basement.
Seaforth midgets
ready to defend
Silver Stick title
Seaforth begins defence of
last year's division champi-
onship at the Wingham
Regional Midget Silver Stick
tournament with a game
against Kincardine tomorrow
(Thursday) night at 6:15.
The regional midget tourna-
ment began Monday with 16
teams, split into two divi-
sions (called B-1 and B-2),
each in turn split into group-
ings of four.
The Seaforth midgets will
play a round-robin with
Kincardine, Mt. Forest and
Tavistock. The top two
squads then playoff ,with the
top two from the other sec-
tion of this B-1 division,
made up of Listowel,
Mitchell, Port Elgin and New
Hamburg. '
The winner advances to the
International championship
in Sarnia in January.
Zurich, Tceswater,
Mildmay, Shallow Lake,
Wingham; Howick, Luckngw
and Stephen Township play-
off in the B-2 division with
the winner advancing to
Forest in January. '
This is the 33rd consecutive
year a midget tournament has
been held in Wingham, and
the II th annual edition of the
regional Silver Stick there.
Seaforth's second game is
this Saturday at 9:30 against
Tavistock at Bclmore. The
Stars play their third game,
also at Belrhore, later that
afternoon against Mt. ,Forest,
at 4 p.m.
The top two in each section
of the division playoff at 7
p.m. in games at- both
Belmorc and Wingham.
The various finals arc
Sunday, the big one as far as
Seaforth is concerned at 2:30
p.m. at Wingham.
Spunk not
enough for
Socialites
• SOCIALITES 0
POLAR ICE 1
Socialites seemed to be
having a little problem scor-
ing goals. The team has Tots
of spunk but players seem to
get robbed by goal posts,
crossbars, legs, bodies etc.
Polar Ice welcomed Bc.tty
Glanville out to her first
game as plenty of chatter was
an ongoing thing. Their lone
goal was scored by Liz
Becker. assisted by Darlene
Copeland. Great game by
both teams.
WINTHROP 2
• PARR LINE 4
Winthrop keep going and
going and pop in two terrific
goals as they blow it by Parr
Line's goalies Norm and
Kuss "Goes". S coring
Winthrop's goals wcrc speed-
ster Janice Finlayson and
power -driver Jen Gallagher,
with a:ssigtancc from Lisa
Van Den Heuvcl, Christa
Lconhardt and Janette Masse.
Parr Linc barely kccos the
lead as hot -shot goals were
accumulated by Sharon
Whitfield, Cheryl Kruse,
Slim Kim Lee and Ficsty
Tanya Eckert. Lots of passes
from Cathy Innes, Norah
Eckert and Glenda Chaput.
Continued on next page.
The Centenaires also hosted
Lambeth's Lancers to a 5-3
loss Friday night, to earn a
weekend split. The third-
place local juniors aren't too
far out of second, on the
other hand, just three points,
still with a relatively healthy
10-7-1 record.
They also travel to Langton
for a second road game this
weekend, Sunday at 8 p.m.
Many regulars missed last
Sunday night's loss at home,
due to injury or illness, which
is becoming a problem.
Sniper Mark Van Dooren, for
instance, is now out indefi-
nitely because he is sick.
Mitchell took the lead with
six seconds left in thc second
period when Greg Houben
put a nice feed from Eric
Staffen behind Cents' goal -
tender Scott Wood.
But Jason Henderson got
that one back in the first
minute of the third. Staffen
scored what stood as the win-
ner with a little over eight
minutes left, before, McLeod
got the insurance goal.
The game got a tad slow
after that, with numerous lit-
tle_ skirmishes on the card, a
couple of them instigated by
Seaforth, as the ref saw it.
The Puritans were not
amused.
Mitchell outshot Seaforth
34-20. Troy Chessell got the
win in net for the Hawks. He
McLlwain injures knee
Veteran pro hockey player
Dave McLlwain of Seaforth
is out of thc Cleveland
Lumberjacks' lineup for
awhile after injuring the
medial collateral ligament of
his right kncc. It is not torn
though.
Dave picked up the injury
in an International Hockey
League game in the middle of
this month. The game before
he had a six -point night, scor-
ing a goal and five assists.
was also between the pipes
when the two teams tied 2-2
at Mitchell earlier in the
schedule.
CENTS 5 LANCERS 3
The short-staffed Cents
were even more so after
Shaun Anstett re-injured a
shoulder and left the game.
But Richard Hurley was a
ball of fire and picked up the
slack. The rough-and-tumble
rookie winger from Stratford,
who the Cents plucked from
that city's house league,
scored two times, had another
couple of breakaways and
just missed tapping home the
hat trick with a back -hand
that seemed destined.
Steve Mclnally, Jeremy
• McNichol and Jason Murray
also scored for the Cents,
who had a 5-1 lead early in
the third, but were out -shot
on the game 29-27.
Wood and Lyndon shared
Seaforth's goaltending duties.
It was a tame game. Each
team took three minors, a
fighting major and game mis-
conduct.
Webster's Ls going to make your Christmas
Shopping easy and cll.-fordable too...
25% Ott all children's snowsuits
257 off at1 ladies' dresses
Webster's Clothing & Footwear
Blyth (519) 523-9709
s families in need at Christmas
CALL �lv,
524-7356 OR 1-800-265-5198
by December 5 to register.
ca
sliver your
gh
, � PblISb1
sjgnaIStar
istributi0fl DjVjSI0fl!
Ifl
to
n hem
w
Ibtal Market Coverage"-
y000
Hornes!
or information on our
ces or Catalogue, Directory &
ial Deliveries of all kinds, call
0240
al.Star Distribution Division
...bringing the world
to your doorstep'
1