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FOR ALL GOOD SPORTS
Bi Ross Haugh
Good
ball news
do
The news appears to be good for a successful softball
and baseball season in the Exeter area this summer.
Last week we talked about the Exeter Expos entry in
the Huron -Perth intermediate baseball league and the
prospects of a men's rec league in town.
The Expos held their first workout Sunday and a good
number of candidates were on hand. Any other baseball
enthusiasts wishing to try out for the club this summer are
asked to contact Jim Pfaff or Terry Bourne as soon as
possible.
The situation at Dashwood also looks good where the
Tigers are set to go. Manager George Tiernan expects most
of last year's players back along with four or five over age
juveniles from Crediton.
Locally the men's rec softball league appears ready to
get off the ground. At a meeting Thursday two teams
registered and rec director Jim McKinlay is hopeful of
rounding up two more clubs to complete a four team group.
The two confirmed entries are from Custom Trailers
and residents of the Sherwood Crescent area. The latter
team will be known n as the Crescent Rolls. Any guesses as to
how they arrived at the name?
At the same time, the Exeter Greys are preparing for
the upcoming season in girls softball. The district league
for girls teams has been enlarged and two divisions formed.
Bill Brock who coached the Greys last year tells us a
total of 13 teams are ready to go. The Greys will be com-
peting against Hensall, Dublin, Staffa, Cromarty, Granton,
Usborne and Kirkton in the western section.
Playing in the eastern grouping will be Conroy, Fullarton,
Carlingford, Uniondale, Granton and Blanshard.
Bill Brock will be assisted in handling the Greys this
year by Charlie Tieman, Kurt Bowman and Marvin Bowers.
Brock will split his time between the girls softball team and
the new Exeter men's fastball team.
The local fastball team will be competing in the new
Southwestern Ontario Fastball Association.The new league
replaces the former McGillivray and North Middlesex
leagues.
A total of 14 teams are entered and Exeter will be
grouped with Lucan. Huron Park, Bryanston, Arva and
Ailsa Craig.
- The new Exeter fastball team will likely be known as
the Royals. The local club will swing into league action on
May 20 when they travel to Poplar Hill. The first home
game will be at Exeter Community Park on May 22 at 9
p.m. with the Lucan Irish supplying the opposition.
Brian Hodgins and Randy Decker are in charge of
organizing the new local fastballers.
Referee ratings
Ran across an interesting article in the latest issue of
Sporting News concerning refereeing in the National
hockey league.
The story was written by Gary Mueller of St. Louis and
concerns a rating of referees on all the home games this
past season of the St. Louis Blues.
The ratings were based on three primary factors. They
were consistency of calling penalties, control of the game
and apparent knowledge of the rule book. Minor con-
siderations included whether either coach made specific
reference to the officiating in his post game interview.
Interestingly nine of the 13 listed officials called more
penalties on the visiting teams than on the home club. The
referee who seemed most influenced by the home crowd
was Art Skov who called 58 percent of his penalties against
the visitors.
Ron Wicks on the other hand seemed to be oblivious of
the crowd as he whistled 63 percent of his calls on the home
St. Louis team.
It should be pointed out that while these ratings were
compiled by a reporter covering the St. Louis Blues games,
the number of penalties called against St. Louis was not a
criterion in the rating.
In fact, Bruce Hood who received the highest final
rating had the second highest ratio of penalties against St.
Louis. Hood called 57 percent of his penalties against St.
Louis and Andy Van Hellemond's penalty percentage
against St. Louis was 63.
During the durvey a rating of 50 was used to set the
standards which should be expected from NHL officials.
Bruce Hood as was previously mentioned led the 13 of-
ficials rated with 62. Dave Newell was next with 61, Lloyd
Gilmour was assessed at 59. John McCauley at 57 and
veteran referee Art Skov at 54.
Several NHL coaches have been very critical of the
referees in the early rounds of the playoffs. They included
Fred Shero, Billy Reay and Al Arbour.
Although he didn't out and make a direct quote about of-
ficials Frank Udvari an NHL supervisor of referees in-
dicated there were reasons for concern.
Udvari commented, "Look at what expansion and the
other league did to, he quality of play in the NHL. It's bound
to have an effect on the officials, too. There are players in
the NHL today who wouldn't have had a chance in the good
old days."
Despite some of these reactions from coaches and fans
around the NHL regarding officiating, it didn't seem to
affect attendance.
Very close to 10 million fans turned out to watch the 720
NHL regular scheduled games for an average attendance of
13,848 or 87.6 percent of the listed capacities of the 18 NHL
rinks.
The Philadelphia Flyers played to the most fans 1,290,-
080. This was a home and away total. The Stanley Cup
champs has sellout crowds of 17,007 for all 40 home games
and averaged a league leading 15,245 spectators on the road.
For the fifth consecutive year, the St. Louis Blues led
the NHL in home attendance with an average crowd of 18,-
066. The Blues drew the season's largest crowd when 19,406
turned out for the final regular season game. But only 16,017
attended the only St. Louis home playoff game.
More to the golfing tale
A couple of weeks ago we told about the lady in Penn-
sylvania who took 166 shots to complete a 130 yard hold in
an invitational golf tournament.
The lady's first drive went into a river and the ball began
to float downstream. We said she chased the ball in a boat
and caught up to it more than a mile away.
What we failed to relate in the original story was that the
golfer's husband was at the oars providing the transporta-
tion for his ardent golfing wife.
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AWARD WINNING HAWKS - - At Friday's annual banquet of the Ex-
eter Hawks junior hockey club numerous trophies were awarded.
Above, manager Fred Mommersteeg chats with top point scorer Brian
Taylor, best defencemon Steve Jennison, most gentlemanly player Noel
Skinner, most valuable player Rick Ingram and coach Terry Bourne.
T -A photo
WINS THREE AWARDS — Randy Lovie was the big winner when it came to awards at Friday's annual
banquet of the Exeter junior Hawks hockey team. Randy was named the rookie of the year, the most im-
proved player and the most valuable in the playoffs. Above, helping Randy with his trophies are EMHA past
presidents Bev Skinner and Harvey Pfaff. T -A photo
Practices start tonight for
Exeter's newest ball team
The newest ball team in Exeter
will hold its first practice tonight,
Thursday at Exeter Community
park.
A fastball team which will
probably be known as the Royals
is entered in the Southwestern
Ontario Fastball Association and
will compete in a 32 game
schedule.
The Exeter club currently
under the guidance of Brian
Hodgins and Randy Decker will
be allowed to draw players from
the town of Exeter and within a
radius of five miles from the
Exeter post office.
Exeter will be competing in the
eastern division with teams from
Huron Park, Lucan, Bryanston.
Ailsa Craig and Poplar Hill.
The western section is com-
prised of clubs from Lieury,
Nairn. Beechwood. Sylvan,
Parkhill and West Corners.
The Exeter club will face
league action for the first time on
Tuesday, May 20 when they
travel to Poplar Hill. The first
home game will be at Exeter
Community Park, Thursday,
May 22 at 9 p.m. when the Lucan
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Anyone interested in trying out
for the Exeter team is asked to
attend tonight's practice or
following workouts on May 12 and
15 •or contact Randy Decker at
235-0686.
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Rec league
organized
As the result of a meeting
Thursday night, a men's rec
softball is expected to become a
reality in Exeter this Summer.
Rec director. Jim :1lcKinlav
reports two teams have definitely
entered and he is hopeful two
more clubs will come forward
before the registration deadline
of May 14.
Ready to take to the diamond
are teams from Custom 'Trailers
and a group of residents from the
Sherwood Crescent area in town.
The Custom' entry will likely go
by the name of the Northlanders
and the Sherwood group have
selected Crescent Rolls as their
identity.
McKinlay expects an entry
from the Exeter firemen and
hopes a fourth team can be put
together from individuals
wishing to participate.
At Thursday's meeting only
two persons expressed any in-
terest in slo-pitch hall. If enough
players are found for at least one
team they will play in the
Ushorne slo-pitch loop.
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