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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1988-12-14, Page 17Mohawks nip Blues 7-6 EXETER - it was a case of dojo vu.for the Exeter Mohawks Sunday • night at the South T iuron Rec -Cen- tre. Only this time it •worked- in their favor. -On Saturday,' November 5, •the Harriston Blues beat the Mohawks 7-6 in Harriston, with Tim Fritz getting die winning goal with. five • seconds left. On Sunday, Quincy Wilkerscored • for the Ivtohawks•with five seconds left to beat the Blues 7-6. The Mohawks have not lost since then,.. -upping their winning streak to nine games with the victory on rets the winner - Exeter Mohawk forward Quincy Wilker scored the winning goal. Sunday night with five seconds left as the Mohawks edged the Harriston Blues 7-6 at the SI1RC. Sunday. "A few more games like that and my beard will start to turn grey," said Mohawk coach Gord Brooks. , "We just stood around 'and watched them come to us after we had built a Icad, hoping Billy (Dark) would make the save. We played the body really well in the first period and stopped for the last two but unfortunately it took a -ty- ing goal by them for,_us to work hard again and get the winner." The Mohawks had not played since December 4 when they beat the Elora Rocks 6-2 and Brooks felt the week .off didn't help his team much. "Having a week off. really hurt us. We had to kill so many penalties and guys were getting cold and maybe some legs got stiff out there. • But we should have .more than one game each week, " said Brooks. • ' As Brooks said, the. Mohawk~ dominated the play in the first peri- od, corning out with a 4-2 lead at the first intermission: But the Blues came on and trailed 5-4 atter the. second. . After the Mohawks took a 6-4 lead on John Kernick's goal mid way through the' final period, the -Blues'fought back and • eventually tied the game with less than -six minutes. to play. Each team had soine good chances to gct_lhc -go- ahead gtatl tint Wilker banged in his Sp orts- own rebound with five seconds left . to send .the home -town fans away happy. The Mohawks out shot the Blues 32-24 over sixty minutes. Dave Randerson scorch the first . two goal's for Exeter in the first pe- riod, one from Wilker and Tim Adair and the second from Paul Bar- ton and Mark Sochncr, • - Later in the first, Bill Glover scored from Ron Elliot and Jeff M1cClenaghan and Wilker connected from Joc Scherer and Al Cates: . Elliot scored the only goal of the second' for the Mohawks, at 34 owls. from Randerson and Barton. In the third, the Mohawks•went up 6-4 on John Kcrnick's power- play- tally, from .Gates and McClen- aghan at.10:47, and Wilker's hero- ics came with • five seconds 'left, front Randerson and Barton. The Mohawks have a home -and - home -series with the Elora Rocks this weekend. Friday night the .Mo-. hawks travel to Elora and .Sunday night at 7:30, the Rocks roll into the SHRC•. • • - - The Mohawks will be sponsoring •a fan bus for their January 7 game in Credsiiorc. The $40 cost will pay for round trip -bus -to Barrie, game tickets in Creemore and the hotel .room for Saturday night. The fans will leave the SIIRC at 11 a.m. on January_7,,arrive at.the Continental Inn in Barrie, which has an indoor swirnming•pool, by 2 p.m., Leave • for the game in Creemore at 7 p.m. return after the game and checkout at noon on Sunday. . !Only the. first 40 people to pay - will- be on the bus. For tickets see Dave Detwiler, Lori Westlake •or Anne Marie Maloney. Pacers tied for first HURON PARK The Huron Park Pacers remain tied for first place with -the London Devilettes in Western Ontario Women's -Hockey. League play. The Pacers 'played to a 2-2 tie with the London Royals and then - :ouldn't break a 3-3 deadlock with Port Stanley on home ice last .Sat- lyday. Notching the three goals for thc Pacers against Port Stanley were: Linda Mahood, Yvonne Wells and Theresa McGee. The .two .ties. leave- the Pacers with a 3-1-2 record heading into their. final weekend before Christ- mas break. The Pacers play host to the Lon- don Royals this Saturday at 8:30 p.m. at the 'Stephen .Township are- na and then fact the London Devil - cues at Argyle arena on Sunday. Panthers beat Seaforth By Michelle Ellison. EXETER - South Huron District High School was the host of three. exhibition boys basketball games last Tuesday. The Panthers wel- comed Seaforth to their home court where the Panthers claimed three victories. The Midget- boys thumped Sea - forth to continue a very successful scasott so far. The Panthers rt!t- played their opponents to Win. 74- 44. Leading .the Panthers to victiory was Jason Heywood and Randy Johnson with, 16 points a piece. Matt Licrman also added 10. . South Huron's Junior, boys also had little difficulty against Seaforth. Ian Verbcek and Jason Clarke had an excellent rebounding game and Verbeck was top scorer with 19 points. Clarke and Jeremy Hmdka followed with eight points each. . The Senior Panthers played very well against Seaforth managing a 56-43 victory. Rob Pearen played an outstanding game, scoring 24 . points. Scott "Hein and Tim McAllister followed with 10 and .12 points respectively. All • three teams met Stratford Central on Tuesday and will host league games on T•hiursday against Listowel Hockey Panthers beat By Michelle Ellison EXETER - South Huron High School's hockey Panthers' met the Seaforth Golden Bears at home on Friday for a league game. After a slow start, the Panthers took over to win 7-1. Superb goaltending by Scaforth's up on Seaforth Jason Patterson helped give thc Bears a 1-0 Icad over the Panthers After two periods of play. The third period brought seven goals for South Huron. Mark Bur- ton managed to get two behind Pat- terson and Henri DeBruyn also put two more in thc net for thc Pan- thers. Rob McKnight and Tcrry Hoffman had singles in the game and Shawn Moore hit thc net on a break away. The team is now two for two this season and hopefully will continue to be competitive in Huron -Perth play. t) lts -a goal! Exeter Mohawk goalie Bill Dark tries to come up. with the glove save but. can't as the Harriston Blues score a second-period,goal, when those teams met in a Senior B hockey game Sunday night at the Rec Centre. Looking on is Tim Adair. Although the Blues scoted here, the Mohawks scored with five seconds to play to win the game 7.6. Times Advocate, December 14, 1988 Page 1A Hawks victorious over -Wellesley EXETER - The Exeter Hawks for the Centcnaires. learned that shots on goal do not al- . The Hawks hit for a pair. of pow - ways indicate how close a hockey cr-play tallies on seven-opportuni- game really is. tics. Friday night at the South Huron . Dan Nairn led the Hawks hitting Rec Centre they outshot the Welles- fora hat trick. Brent Nairn and Jim ley Apple Jacks 32-15 after two per- Dickins hit for the single goals. iods, but Icft that period tied 1-1. Brent Nairn; Jean Paul .Cousi- They eventually scored five goals in ncau, Doug Clark, Dickins and Jim the final period on eight shots and Duplantis each picked up one as - won 6-2. sisi. • Last Tuesday, also at the SHRC, * EXETER 6 WELLESLEY 2 they outshot the .Seaforth Conte- Exeter dominated play throughout naires 31-15 over two periods and this contest, despite having several headed to the final period behind 4- players out of- the lineup. Derek 3. They outshot the visitors 12-3 in Shackleton was out with .strained the final frame but had 10 scute for knee ligaments, suffered in a contest a 5-5 draw. � December -4 in Seaforth. Shackleton Saturday night, the Hawks and will likely miss a couple more Applejacks played to a 2-2 tie in games. Also missing were, Cousi- Wellesley. • . ncau, Brent Nairri, Mark Morrissey, . The Hawks took too many penal- and backup goalie Bill Pauli. Fill tics gainst thc_Centcnaires, as Sea- ing in as backup to Todd Campbell forth conrieel d rierciurpower i aq =* s tent' J�FaoIDctnald;°�rallc�d::uft goals in the contest. Seaforth goalie from the Kinsmen General Midgets. Bill Trecmer kept his team in the The first period was scoreless and game, coming up big on several oc- despite being badly outshot, Welles casions and earning the single point • Icy hit the scoreboard first, at 7:32 of the second. • Jim Duplantis got that back for the Hawks almost five minutes lat- er, after being set up by Jeff An- sems. It stayed 1-1 until Dan Nairn broke the tic at 5:15 of the third, from Duplantis, and the Hawks nev- er looked back. At 7:23, Ansems scored from Joel Campbell. Dickins scored from Dan Nairn just 14 seconds later. Anscms made it 5-4 at 11:34, from Duplan• - tis and Dickins rounded out .the scoring for the Hawks, from An- sems and Duplantis at 15:41. Wellesley picked up their final goal at 11:14 of the third. Each team was assessed -2(I min- utes in penalties. EXETER ER 2 WELLESLEY 2 11 was Todd Campbell's .turn to shine Saturday night as he stopped __ 3'1--6V3-9`We44-6sl0y'kl}ttt isrct ax him. The Hawks were outshot 39- 28 Saturday, but. thanks to Camp- . Please turn to page 2A Irish increase first -place lead LUCAN - In their only Western Junior D Hockcy League game last week, the Lucan Irish increased the first -place -lead to five points by doubling thc count on the Welles- Icy Apple Jacks 6-3 at the Lucan Arena The Irish sit in first place in the North Division standings, five points up on the Mitchell Hawks and 10 points in front of the Exeter Hawks, Tavistock Braves and Brus- sels Bulls, who are all tied for -third spot. The Irish were down 1-0 after the first period against Wellesley but came to life in the second scoring Mixed Shuffleboard EXETE1 -.On Wednesday,DDc- cembcr 7 thc 4 game winners were: D. Skinner 469 Lorne, Marshall 416 Wilma Davis 352 Bclva Rowe*347 game winners: . R. Long 242 • Edna Caldwell 192 Thursday, December 8, 5 gain,' winners: Wilma Davis 372 Pearl McKnight 348 Harold Davis 341 4 game winners: • • Ray Cottle 271 Lloyd Lovell 257 Norm. Stanlakc 218 ty� 1' Results needed early. for next; week's pape . EXETER -. Next week the Times Advocate will be going -to press three hours earlier because of the Christmas break. So this is a note for anyone sending a game sheets or sports reports to thc sports department. To ensure that it gets in the December 21 paper, please submit it to the TA office at 424 Main St. in Exeter on Sunday through the mail slot,•if possible, to secure it getting in the paper and no game sheets will he accepted after•4 p.m. on Mon- day for that week's paper. Thank you for your co- operation. e 3andwlcheo- Steve Lingard, of the South Duron District High School Panthers hockey team, gets sandwiched by a couple of players from Seaforth, when those teams played at the South Huron Rec Centre Friday afternoon. The locals came out 7-1 winners in the contest. The photo at top shows Andrew Thompson, of the Panthers, right, Watching the action after getting hit by a Seaforth player. ,. four times to once for the visitors. Brian Shuyler and Colin Telford led the Irish in scoring with two goals each, while Paul Barnes and captain' Scott Denomy chipped in one goal each. in addition to their goals Barnes and Denomy each had one assist, Joe Febrey led the way with four, Mike Hirtzell had a pair and David 'Hinge contributed one. Irish coach Dave Revington said For' The • Festive Season this will he an important week for his team because they play Mitchell twice, starting •tonight at 8:15 at the Lucan Arena, because he will have five players.out of the lineup. Four.pltycrs arc writing university exams one player will he serving a suspension. The Irish travel to Mitchell for a Friday night contest and Sunday they play the C'enlcnaires in Sea - forth at 2 p.in Specials In effect Thurt., Fri., Sat. while supplies last jog Fresh Crusty Rolls ci Peanut Butter ✓ Cookies S. 450 gr. loaf Cheese • Bread loaf $1.49 • Deluxe Chocolate, pkg. of 6 Brownles • . $1.69 $1.19 doz. doz. $1.49 jai imp a=delorv akt /0011,4 10'1 eplii Cheese Processed Cheese Slices Mild o piced Gouda Dill Havarti 145 $3.19 4. lb. $4.49 Ib. $4.49 vgi Serve fresh baked dinner rolls. Tasty Nu bread. 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