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Home My WebLink AboutTimes-Advocate, 1988-09-21, Page 2Page 2A Times -Advocate. September 21, 1988 Sports Spotlight ON tl Watch for good season The re -structuring of the %Vestern Junior 1) hockey league, a move • that' will see•Exeter Hawk; and Lucan Irish facing off against each other ona regular basis, should pro\ ute Junior D fins with 'sorllc- thing to •cheer about. The rivalry between those two clubs has al- ways been a strong tine and I can see no reason w h) it wout(In't get stronger -- and more interesting. Admittedly, roles have been reversed somew hat -this-year:-With just ten players. returning from last season,. 1 ks aren't likely' to have the power that existed in their line-up last year. Exeter .will spend a season in the same rebuilding cycle that Lucan has'apparent- ly just emerged from. • •- But the early indication are that Hawks will have something to work with. "We've played two exhibition games anti v c lost 7-6 against Lucan and 1{-6.4g1just Lambeth, Hawks manager Al Quinn -told -.me, Mon- day. 'Lambeth has a really fast -skating team and we kept up. with them. It could hay.e_gone_citivef:w 1y." Ilawks will be drawing.cxtensively on the Exeter Minor Hockey system . There are also a -few promising prospects from St. Marys. Quinn noted that what they lacked in size, they made up for in spirit in games against Lucan and Lambeth, arguahlcy two ol.the- better teams in the league this year. . "They're nolgoing to be as big as last year, but there's some pret- ty tough kids out there for their sire," Quinn said of.thc new Hawks. Meanwhile, in Lucan - Just a few miles down Highway Four; Irish coach Dave Rcvington is whittling the Lucan Juniors into their final form. "We're getting pretty well down 16 a working team," Revington said Monday night. "I still have 30 people around." Revington wants to get down to 12. players. Ile .hopes• to be ante io draw On Lucan Midgets from tinge -to -tinge as well. "It's our cycle year to be up there, but we lost three players to the Junior B League," he noted: Winger ian Craig hhs been picked up by London Diamonds while Paul DePlanckc and Jamie Gricg went ul Strathroy .Blades, leaving a bit of a hole to fill in the Irish line-up. • Scott Dcnomy. will be hack to.lead the team and Rcvington is counting on Brad Muir's presence as well. Muir is currently trying out .for the Guelph University varsity team. . -"He played two thirds of the year and finished eighth in scoring as. a defencenlan," Rcvington said of Muir. "He's the kind of guy that should really do something for us!' . Both Rcvington and Quinn pointed 'Out that games between Exeter and Lucan should he good for the box office. "We're kx)king forward to.a good year and hopefully we'll get the support from.the fans," Quinn said of the Hawks. f gawks travel to Thcdford on Sunday. for a 3:30 -game. They will play Scalorth in Huron park on September 30 at -8:30 p.m. - irish will play Thamestord Wednesday night. Regular. season begins for both team October 7. in Exeter when - they open up against each other. Good season start NEW FACILITY --The Claybird Gun -Club opened their new shooting facility recently. The club received a Wintario grant of $3.070 wnich they matched'. to build thejnew shooting area complete with generator and target thrower, Taking aim .above are John Glazier, Doug Moore, Huss Beaver, Jody Mosu�_ rinjohn and Dwight.Monck. ks Moha w s k return LUCA\ - Senior B Mohawks took to -t-he ice for the first titnc this -season Thursday night when the Exeter club held the first phase of training_camp at -the Lucan Com- munity Centre. For new head coach Gird. Brooks; it was a chance 10 sec what he has to work with this sea- son. Overall, it was a typical. first practice: • "You really couldn't expect any snore :than you got from them to- night," Brooks said. "It'll _get tougher and they'll get better." The players that turned out spent the evening embroiled in scrimag- es. - "You get .more out of,scrimagcs .than you wotild out of end -t( -end rushes all nicht," Brooks noted. The new coach will be stressing conditioning as Mohawks head into their most promising season ever. "The big thing is,.you don't want '-guys..coming up with injuries that are going to keep. coming -up all season." , . : Brooks is making some effort to. _ beef. up Mohawks' rear -guard .in terms of size. Two potential de- fencenlen for this )tear's version_ of the team are Wayne Smith and Gra ham .Nicholson; Both players arc big and they have Allen -Cup -expo ricncc. "There are a lot -of good defcncc- men dere, hut these guys would really help out," Brooks said of the two prospects,- • ' After last year's :grueling stretch of I lardy Cup action which saw Ex- eter advance to. the Eastern final, Mohawks found themselves .'hock - eyed -out". They ran out (-)f steam in their league semi-final and came Greater Grand Bend tourney GRAND BEND - A: team mads up of Gary Cowan, Dave Scatchcrd, \lark Coles and•Bi)I Kennedy cap- tured first prize at the Greater Grand Bend Golf Toumamcnt recently. Second place went to Al Gledhill, • Barry Rowell, Doug McCabe and South Huron places third EXETER - South Huron's field hockey team played in their first • tournament of the. season in Kitch- ener -Waterloo, placing third. The girls played a total -of four games on Saturday, beginning with n ea,‘ t -i) ictory-ovcrNorth`To- ronto Collegiate institute. Scoring for Sou'h Huron were Joellc tampon with two'goals and Tina Campbell with one. .Next, South Huron faced Grand River Collegiate Institute. the tour- nament champs for Iwo consecutive years. SIIDIiS played an equally strong game against the champs but came up one goal short in the . second half of the game. The learn. tied. their. next game against Kitchener -Waterloo Colle- giate Institute. _ Kim Crawford scored for South Huron but unfortunately. -Kitchener,. Waterloo scored their only goal within the.last five seconds of play. South Huron's- final opponent was a Strong Eastwood Collegiate team. After playing 30 minutes of regular play and 15 minutes of sud- den death overtime, the score still remained 0-0. To break the tic,. five penalty strokes wcrc taken by each team. Scoring fair South Hu- ron were Tina Campbell tuld.J(irn Crawford. .Nicole R'osic stopped all five tit Eastw(xx1's strokes giving her a to- tal (lf two shut -outs for .the tourna- ment. The shoot-out !final score 2- 1) or.South Huron, -placing -them - third in the tournament. Forrest freights Collegiate Insti- tute. won the tournament over Grand River Collegiate Institute • with a score of 1-0. The field hockey team placed fourth at OFS.AA last year and their goal this year is to better 'their record. Forrester leads with 13 :'ontinued from page 1 —TTttgc-Over' k4ok---thc._ovet-ti►„rkcd South Huron team and won 51)-20. Top Scorers were 1..turie Forrester with 13 point, and \1,,hellc ('errs with four. .- - • Because South Huron canis up short for both. games, they were scheduled to play themselves for the consolation semi-finals. instead they placed an exhibition game against 1Iie Woodstock Collegiate team. %% oodstock won the game 35-17. This brought South- Huron to the consolation Final against Kincar- dine. The girls performed well of- fensively and defensively. They bition games. - dominated the game winning ir41- The senior tears dominated their 2r7: .� _�.►i1141tn 1 Caine away with a 51-411 Laurie Forrester played an excel- lent game for South Huron, leading th e.uil with 16i points. ..he was followed by Sonya Shantz with eight p011115 and Heather R idcout with seven. The tournanient was won by Oak- ridge in an exciting match against Strathroy. It wash fight to the fin- ish but Strathroy carne -up three points short, with a final score of 45-42. ' South Huron's -junior and senior girls basketball teams travelled to Clinton last Thursday for two ex hi - win. 'Top scorers for the game wcrc Laurie Forrester with 13 points, Christine Rose with eight and Spring Cushman and \1ichelle Elli- son with S1,\. The junior girls played a tough• basketball game against an equally strong Clinton team. Although the girls came tip a few points short, their effort was excellent. The final Score was 25-22 !Or Clinton. Julia \lcrner played very well and was top scorer with 'nine poutt•., followed by Tracy Campbell and Sheryl Oke with four points each. FIRST FOOTBALL - While the Panthers battled the Laurier Rams long and hard Friday afternoon, even this spectacular breakaway for a touch down kepi the score locked in a tie. Juniors, seniors tie in exhibition EXETER - The junior and senior football teams of South Huron wel- comed Laurier Secondary School for two exhibition games Friday. ' The junior team played full -out with a final score of 6.6. South Huron's touchdown was scored by • John Dollen. The senior football -game also ended in a 6-6 tie with Jeff DenOt- ter running 60 yards to score the touchdown. . Head coach Ron Bogart, said the game featured some good plays r with hard hitting, hut both teams had trouble controlling their mouths as well as keeping the number of pen%ltics to a minimum. The next game for the Panthers is Thursday at Strafford Central. Jim Jenkins while- third prize was awarded to the team of Dave Holtz- man, Paul Van Gerw_ in, Don Cow- an -and Bob Fetcher. Pete Fulmer carne closest to the - pin while the longest drive was awarded to Richard Schilbc. 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