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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1981-01-28, Page 10Page 10 Times -Advocate, January 28, 1981 Sports Spotlight By ROSS HAUGH The Sold Out sign is up for Tuesday's eighth annual Exeter Lions club Sportsmen's dinner. This is our last chance to talk about the dinner and we don't need to try and sell any tickets. That's great news to hear that all 515 tickets were sold more than 10 days in advance. Just goes to show that the reputation of the dinner is excellent. We have been at all seven previous dinners and can honestly say that each event has been bigger and better than the one before. This year's will definitely be bigger in numbers and the calibre of guests and speakers should fit into the same category. There are bound to be a lot of winners from the dinner. Crippled children in this area and throughout the province will benefit as all proceeds are channell- ed in that very needy direction. The program is bound to be top notch right from the beginning with master of ceremonies Jack Donohue, Canada's Olympic basketball coach. Donohue was here several years ago as a speaker and is more than competent. The headline speaker is Dick Vitale who has a vast background in high school college and professional basketball in Detroit and the state of Michigan. Vitale, most recently the coach of the Detroit Pistons has received special honours as Sportsman of the year in Detroit and Michigan. His reported speed of talking is somewhere in the vicinity of 100 miles an hour. Another voluble speaker is the controversial and exciting Don Cherry. The former Boston and Colorado hockey coach now a Hockey Night in Canada commen- tator is sure to keep the audience on the edge of their, seats. Professional baseball will be represented very well. Heading the diamond list is Canada's own Terry Puhl who gained prominence with the Houston Astros during the 1980 National league season. John Mayberry, the best slugger of the Toronto Blue Jays roster will be here along with Doug Melvin from the New York Yankees organization and possibly Mark "The Bird" Fidrych from the Detroit Tigers. In addition to Don Cherry, Jean Beliveau, a former star with the Montreal Canadiens will be talk- ing about the NHL. We heard Beliveau at a Centralia RCAF sports banquet a long time ago and he was in- teresting at that time. Beliveau retired on June 9, 1971 capping 18 glorious seasons with the Montreal Canadiens. He was an all-star and team captain 10 times. During his dis- tinguished career, Jean led the Canadiens to 10 league championships and 10 Stanley Cups. During his N.H.L. career Beliveau set numerous records: All-time club scoring leader, (507 goals and 712 assists for 1219 points); leading career play-off scorer with 79 goals and 97 assists for 176 points. He captured the Art Ross Trophy as leading scorer in 1956 and the Hart Trophy as most valuable player in 1956 and again in 1964. Jean was the first recipient of the Conn Smythe Award as outstanding performer in the 1965 Stanley Cup Play-offs. His appearance at the Sportsmen's dinner is being sponsored by the Bank of Nova Scotia. Still on the ice, Lori Baier and Lloyd Eisler will be here for the second time. These Western Ontario skaters recently won silver medals at the world's junior figure skating championships held at London. It was learned late last week that Clint Galbraith, the part-owner. trainer and driver of the great harness horse Niatross would not be able to attend. Now the good news. North America's leading harness driver in 1980 will be here in the person of John Campbell. A native of Ailsa Craig, Campbell has set records with the number of wins and in monies earned in one year. Of interest to veteran racing enthusiasts in the area is the fact that Dunc Campbell will be coming along to listen to his grandson John. Dunc is well known for his driving skills and breeding of the great Argyle line of racing horses. From the world of football will be Canada's top running back in college football Greg Marshall from the University of Western Ontario and Gerry Datilio from the Montreal Alouettes. At least one player from the Detroit Lions or Cleveland Browns is expected to be in attendance. Auto racing will be represented by John Scratch of Goderich. a past Canadian champion Ford Formula racer. Adding the right beat to the well balanced program will he the Ontario Provincial Police pipe band The area clergy will be represented by Father Joe Nelligan from Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church. Father Nelligan has a good background as a high school and college football and track coach. Adding the touch of what the dinner is really all about will he Christine Easterbrook of RR 1. Hensall. Christine will he the Exeter and district Tammy for the second year representing crippled children. Hensall's minor hockey day Minor hockey day will be observed in Hensall this Saturday by that village's minor hockey group. Six games are on the agenda featuring five minor hockey teams The final game of the day slated to get underway at 8 30 p.m. will have the Zurich and Hensall Oldtimers taking to the ice. The first game starts at 1:30 p.m. with the Hensall bantams taking on the Exeter "B" club. At 3 p.m. a pee wee game will get underway. The Hensall op- ponents have not yet been decided. At 4 30 p.m. the Hensall atoms take on Seaforth, at 6 p.m. its the Exeter and Hensall tykes and the Zurich novice team will he in at 7:30 p.m. to take on their Hensall counterparts. Hensall Motors are donating pucks for each of the players taking part and Hensall Co -Op are providing awards for the most valuable players in each game. Exeter recognition of minor hockey is expected to take place sometime in March. Eight teams compete Seaforth, Pfaff's win rec hockey tourney championships The Seaforth all stars championship and Pfaff Electric of Exeter took the "B" title in the annual Ex- eter rec hockey tournament played on the weekend. Seaforth blanked Fat Albert's of take the top award Electric downed 2 to take the pionship. Murray Henderson two goals and London 6-0 to and Pfaff Goderich 13' 4- cham- scored singles were added by Kevin Bennett, Ettes Delvechio, Gary Fin- nigan and Dave Broome in the final Seaforth win. Third third period goals allowed Pfaff Electric to score a 4-2 victory over Goderich to win the 'B' trophy. The,only first period goal was fired by Grant Shelton of Goderich. Pfaff's evened the score in the middle frame as Scott PFAFF ELECTRIC WINS — Pfaff Electric won the "B" championship of the weekend Exeter Rec hockey tournament. Bock, left, Bill Pincombe, Don Heywood, Doug Johnston and Brion Taylor. Third row, Jim Rowe, Jeff Pfaff, Scott Burton, Brian Hodgins, Jim Pfaff, Doug Todd, Jim Rolph and Lloyd Mothers. Second row, Randy Lovie, Dennis Bierling, Donnie McKellar and Fred Campbell. In front are youngsters Andy Mothers, Mork Burton, Jason Heywood and Jeff Burton. T -A photo Trounced by Tavistock Hawks destined for fourth place The Exeter Hawks took one of their most severe drubbings of the season, Friday, when they were dumped 11-4 by the Tavistock Braves on the latter's ice. The loss virtually eliminated the Hawks from moving any farther up in the league standings as they now hold fourth place and trail Lucan Irish by seven points. The Irish made the biggest jump of the week as they took a pair of games from Mitchell Hawks and moved to within one point of second. Mitchell holds second with 38 points, two less than the Doublers tied for dart lead The Doublers scored four points Friday night to move into a first place tie with the Evil Eyes in the Exeter Legion mixed dart league. Each team has 60 points. The Winkers are in third spot with 57 points and the Last Chance follows in fourth place with 56 points. Eric Heywood leads the men with 23 games won while Barb Hearn is best for the ladies with 20 games to her credit. In the high score depart- ment, Marg Wragg is in front in the ladies division with a 168 and Ray Snell's 140 score is best for the male darters. For the spare competitors, Wayne Parkinson and Jean Simpson have the high scores of 140 and 113, respectively. This week's scores were: Itchy Niters 5 Rowdy Ones 0 Doublers 4 Canscotts 1 CB'ers 4 Evil Eyes 1 Family Affair 4 DR's 1 Shiphunters 4 Winkers 1 Sassenachs 3 Jaams 2 Scotties 3 Outlaws 2 Last Chance 3 Out of Space 2 Friday's schedule is as follows: 8 p.m. DR's vs CB'ers Rowdy Ones vs Outlaws Winkers vs Scotties Shiphunters vs Out of Space 9:30 p.m. Itchy Niters vs Last Chance Chance Canscotts vs Jaaros Doublers vs Evil Eyes Sassenachs vs Family Affair Mousseau wins Ladies curling The first ladies two game curling bonspiel was held at the Exeter club January 14. Shirley Mousseau with her team of Julie Rattray, Liz Bell and Helen Brown were high winners. Second prize winners were Karen Davidson, Kay Elder, Betty McGhee and Louise Giffin and Helen Burton, Fran Mickle, Jean Mills and Blanche Stewart were high one game winner. northern division leading Tavistock Braves. The two teams met last night in Mitchell for a crucial contest that could help decide first place. With only four games remaining, the Exeter Hawks appear to have little chance of moving out of the fourth and final playoff position. They host Mitchell Friday night and then travel to Lucan on Wednesday to battle the Irish. Their other games are at home with Thamesford and Mt. Brydges , the latter being a postponed game that ma: not be made up unless it is critical to the standings. It may take the final games before the Hawks know which of the other three they'll meet in the first playoff round as the battle continues for the top three spots. Braves romp The Tavistock Braves had little trouble disposing of the Hawks, Friday, as they scored four powerplay goals and one short handed as they skated to their lopsided 11-4 margin. Six of the goals came in the final period when the Hawks picked up 11 penalties and the Braves peppered 27 shots at netminder Rich Fletcher for a game total' of 64. Ed Willis and Preston Dearing scored a pair for the losers with Brad Taylor picking up a pair of assists and singles being recorded by Dan Bell and Larry Dawson. The Hawks finished the game with 17 penalties, including two fighting majors to Jim Lovie, one to Bryan Baker and a five- minute cross-checking penalty by Ron Bilcke. The FINAL WEEK For Our SUPER -7" SALE of Cross Country and Downhill SKI WEAR 25% t=50% Off 4 4 EXTRA SPECIALS... Junior Downhill SKI SUITS 7O r).,� Reg. 544.99 19.95 SI(I JACKETS Sizes 8, 10, 12 Only 14.88 eg. 534.95 JERRY MacLEAN & SO AUTO & SPORTS Ltd. OUR STORE IS RIG ENOUGH !r, STp,p „, ,R NEEOS BUT SMAII ENOUGH ip RT co n,gy 'O @ Exeter 235-0800 i latter also picked up a game misconduct in the third period on the same play, as well as an automatic two - minutes and two more minors for roughing and slashing. Burton converted a pass from Doug' Todd. With only 21 secondsone in the third period Fred Campbell shot Pfaff's ahead on a three-way effort with Jim Rolph and Dennis Bierl- ing. What proved to be the win - nig foal came from the stick of Jim Rolph on a pass from Fred Campbell at 5:35. Before the period ended, Paul Feagan scored for Goderich and Fred Campbell replied for Pfaff Electric on passes from Doug Todd and Brian Hodgins. In the opening game, the Dashwood Tigers downed Goderich 6-2. John Becker led the Dashwood scoring attack with a two goal effort. Scor- ing in single fashion were Bill Hoffman, Don Thornton, Paul Maguire and Rick Morrissey. The Goderich goal getters were Mark Kernohan and Grant Shelton. Seaforth had little trouble in disposing of Algoma Tire of Exeter by a score of 14-1. The only Algoma goal was fired by Dale Skinner on a three-way combination with Gord Beutenmiller and Bob McDonald. Cam Doig was tops for Seaforth with a three goal effort. Next with two goals apiece were Bill O'Shea, Kevin Bennett and 'Ron Quip. Scoring single goals were Doug Fry, George Reeves. Terry Craig, Ettes Delvecchio and Murray Henderson. In game three Don's Food Market ofZurich beat the Exeter Stars 5-2. Ron Desjardine and Rick Schilbe scored two for Zurich. The odd goal was counted by Ron Oesch. Derrick Vandergunst and Bev Kinsman were the Ex- eter marksmen. Fat Alberts of London downed Pfaff Electric of Ex- eter 3-1 in the fourth game of the tournament. Scott Burton notched the only Exeter goal on a pass from Jim Pfaff. Don Marshall, Kevin Reichstein and Bob Cornish scored for London. In the second round of 'B play Goderich defeated Algoma Tire 5-2. Doug Marshall had a hat trick for Goderich and single goals were shot by Paul Feagan and Jim Ginn. Bob McDonald scored the first Algoma goal on passes from Dale Skinner and Craig Webber and Dave Sommers registered from Paul Kerslake and Bob Parsons. Seaforth defeated Dashwood 6-2 in second round 'A' action. Murray Henderson scored twice for the winners and single markers were added by Kevin Bennett, Cam Doig and Ettes Delvecchio. For Dashwood, Jim Oesch scored on an unassisted ef- fort and Bill Hoffman con- verted passes from Bob Lovie and Mike Desjardine. Pfaff Electric handily defeated the Exeter Stars 7-3 to reach the 'B' final. Jim Rolph and Fred Campbell each scored three goals to lead the Pfaff scor- ing. The seventh goal was notched by Lloyd Taylor. Scoring one goal each for the Stars were Don Sararas, Dick Vandergunst and Al Laurin. Fat Alberts of London reached the 'A' cham- pionship final by defeating Zurich 10-6. Kevin Reichstein was the top scorer for the winners with three goal's adding, two each were Mike Jackson and Randy McIntyre while Glenn Brunskill, Stan McNiff and Don Marshall added singles. Ken Clarke and Rick Schilbe each fired two successful shots for Zurich. 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