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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1978-10-26, Page 8 (2)PRONTO VAUTO CENTRE • Page 8 Times -Advocate, October 26, 1978 Fifth time in a row Sports Spotlight Try again Now that the World Series is over and our predic- tion was reasonably correct we will get a brave streak and try looking in our crystal ball as far as football and hockey are concerned. • We suggested the Yankees would dispose of the Dodgers in seven games and that Graig Nettles, Willie Randolph and Goose Gossage would • be among the heroes for the Yankees. • Using a bit of leeway we would say our star choices were fairly close also. Granted, Randolph did - not play because of injuries but his replacement Brian Doyle was one of the main reasons the Yankees were able to repeat as World champions. Graig Nettles with his vacuum cleaner tactics at -third-base tends to make one forget Brooks Robinson at that position. • .. On the mound Goose Gossage mowed the Dodgers down with plenty of smoke and continued to be the ace of Bob Lemon's relief corps. - Enough said-for=the professional baseball -scene. Just a quick word on the local amateur scene. Belated congratulations to the Dashwood Tigers in winning the Huron -Perth intermediate baseball championship and the Lucan Irish for bringing home ,the Southwestern fastball title for the second straight year' The 'A'• and "B" championships of the, Exeter and district recreation softball league were won by ,the Crescent Rolland Mount Carmel, respectively, Fearles football forecast Despite the -unrelenting support for the Hamilton Tiger Cats and, Harold Ballard in particular from our associate Tom Creech we feel the men from the moun- tain Will finish last. Yes. that's right, they will be behind the Toronto Argonauts when the regular schedule is completed. Okay. let's take a real jab in the dark and call the Montreal Alouettes and Winnipeg Blue Bombers to meet in the Canadian football final for the trophy originally donated by Lord Earl Grey. Our blessing of the Montreal Alouettes could be a slightly sentimental. one because of the presence of Glen Weir,in the lineup. No. 64 has been an important cog in the Montreal defence for a long time and it 'would be nice to see him do another dominion-cham- -pionship club. Weir is the only sports personality who has attend- . ed all five Sportmen's dinners held in Exeter and Spon- sored by the Exeter Lions club. . Local Lions officials and members of the London Sportmen's' dinner committee are already hard at work in lining up sports celebrities fbr the 19'79 dinner here. Just like Yankees South Huron girls win H.P cross country title "Those girls are just -tike the New York Yankees. We thought we had them for sure this year and they still beat These words were mut- tered by an opposing coach at the recently completed •Huron -Perth cross Couhtry championships. The team. to which he was referring to was the South Huron District High School senior girls team who won another H -P championship, their fifth in a row. They have also won two WOSSA championships during the last four years, including - last year and they shall be attempting to defend this championship at Byron, October 27. The heart of the team has been the Van Esbroeck sisters, Lucy and Dorothy. Lucy has been an integral part of each of the five championship tea -ms. Now to the ice • In the National Hockey League it will take more • thaii an -earthquake and a miracle combined to stop the Montreal Canadiens from walking away with the Norris division title and the Stanley- Cup. but. some real battles could shape up in -the other three sections. In the Adams division. supporters of the Toronto Maple Leafs claim to have, plenty to cheer about this . year as Roger Neilson starts his second year behind the bench. We will go with Buffalo a squeaky first over Toronto with Boston and Minnesota finishing in that order. The Leafs have been getting great goal tending from Mike Palmateer of late and the addition of Dave Burrows and Dave Huchison adds plenty of muscle to their defensive corps. Burrows was injured over the weekend and his Absence of probably six weeks will hurt considerably. The Buffalo Sabres have added a couple of new bright prospects. The top hope there is Tony McKegney who was a consistent star last year with the Kingston Canadien juniors. The Sabres will need a repeat performance from goalie Don Edwards who last year won 38 games, more than any oth1er NHL netminder. The real battle appears to be shaping up in the Patrick division where three clubs have a good shot at. the title. At the moment the Atlanta Flames are undefeated through six games. The Flames made two important moves in acquiring new players,tThey are high scoring Jean Provost and defenceman Brad Marsh from the London Knights. Atlanta now has eight players on the roster who. scored 20 goals or more last year. In addition to Pronovost there are Bob McMillan. Tom Lysiak. Guy Chouinard. Eric Vail. Bill Clement. Willi Plett and Ken Houston Giving the Flames a real battle will be the New York Rangers. the Philadelphia Flyers and New York Islanders The New York islanders appear to be strong in all ways: on the ice and at the bank with sound financing. They will be led in scoring by Bryan Trottier, Clark (Wiles and Mike Bossy while defenceman Dennis Pot - vin and goalies Chico Resch and Billy Smith- will help hold off the opposition. The Flyers have lost coach Fred Shero but picked up chippy center Ken Linesman for $500.000 and drafted defenceman Behn Wilson and winger Dan Lucas. The major additions to the Ranger roster are the two Swedes Anders Hedberg and Ulf Nilsson and Fred Shero behind the bench. The Chicago Black Hawks off to a great start should have little trouble in Finishing ahead of. Minnesote..Colorado. St. Louis and 'Vancouver in the Smythe division. Bobby Orr in any condition will help the Hawks on the ice. Back to the Norris section, the Montreal Canadiens just concluded a two game losing streak and that is probably the'longest one coach Scotty Bow- man will be forced to endure this year. in summing up. the four division winders should be Montreal. Buffalo. Chicago and in a real guess the Atlanta Flames. Dorothy has been on the last four winners. - This year they finished in a dead heat for first place in the H -P meet leading their nearest opponents by 200 yards over a 4,000 meter courses �ue,y- --also won races this year at Stratford Central. Parkhill and at South Huron. By finishing in the top 11 at the race ,at York University and` at the University of Western+ Ontario, she has shown that she is among the top 20 runners in her age group in the province. Dorothy has done almost as well finishing In the top 13 at York and Western. She also would rank in the top 20. in Ontario in her age group. In virtually every race -no more than 10 y rds will -•..separate the two-afthe finish line. . Diana \ erlinde was fifth in this years 11-P race. She has- been the third best runner on the team for each of the last three years and is a vital cog in determining if the team can defend the WOSSA championship. Janet Bilcke was the faurthrunner at H -P running a' very gritty race to finish eighth (top four count)! She leads a contingent of girls who have travelled diligently even though they win few personal awards In this group are. Patti Down, Jayne Dougall, Sharon Rundle and Deb Webster. Patti, who was tenth at H -P won her first ever race with a shattering victory over a strong field at Dorchester. Jayne, who was 12th in H-Pwas just defeated in a race at Dorchester. Sharon, the -youngest member of this group, has turned in good efforts at Dorchester and South Huron. Deb who joined the team this year, has been improving steadily with almost every race. Other girls who have run on the team this season are Donna Miller, Susan Fleming, Marlene Winters, Lisa Hamather, Nancy Cooper, Joan Cooper, Helen Dougall and Donna Voer- man. Each girl has worked hard to improve her personal achievements during he season. Susan and Heen helped the team to victory at Dorchester. Donna Miller ran a good race at the South Huron 'invitational while Lisa placed well in the tough York race. ' The boys team, who had been senior boys champions in the H -P the last two years didn't fare quite as well this season. The star of the team has been and is Paul Wareing. He is recognized as one of the top 10-15 runners in his.age WIN HURON -PERTH — The South Hurop District High School senior girls cross country team recently won the Huron -Perth championship. Leading the boys team were Paul and Murroy Wareing. Bock, left. coach Car4 Unich, Murroy Wareing, Diana Verlinde, Dorothy Van Esbroeck, conch Joe Fulop, Lucy Van Esb. oeck and Paul Wareing. Front, Jayne Dougall, Sharon Rundle, Deb Webster, Janet Bilcke and Patti Down.T-A photo Three minor teams get off to flying start in season openers The 1978-79 season for the Exeter Minor Hockey Association opened this week, with winning starts for three of the five local teams. The pee wees. bantams and midgets travelled to Ilderton for a Monday night triple -header. with the pee wees dropping the opener by a 4-1 margin and the other two squads winning. Ilderton jumped into a• quick one -goal lead in the first and added two more in the second period of the pee wee game 'before George Pratt rifled a long shot into the home team's cage. Steve Batten picked up the assist on the play. Exeter threatened to whittle the lead in the third as they came on strong after a slow start, hut Ilderton pulled the game out of reach with a late tally. The bantam encounter was another %close struggle. Exeter finally winning by a 2-1 margin. Dave Shawblasted a point shot between the net - minder's feet for the first tally after taking passes from Bill Glover and John Kernick and Shaw came back in the second on a solo effort to gik•e the locals a 2-0 lead. Ilderton spoiled Peter Dearing's shutout attempt in the third period when Scott Balazs burst through the defence for a clear shot. in the final 'game, the Exeter midgets broke a 1-1 tie in the second period and went on to bounce their hosts by a 6-1 margin. Dave Bell paced the attack with a hat trick per- tormance, while Robert Willert contributed -a' pair. The single tally came off the stick of Jim Willert. Picking up assists on the plays were Guy Dietz. Larry Dawson, Ed Willis, Wayne Parsons, Steve Pearce and Dave Jackson. The play became rough midway through the contest, with Ilderton picking up 11 penalties and Exeter being assessed 10. The pee wees, bantams and midgets played a triple - bill with Lambeth at the rec centre last night and will tackle Strathroy's three teams next Wednesday. The Exeter Waxers open- ed their Shamrock novice schedule in Lucary Saturday afternoon with a hard-fought 2-0 win over.their hpsts. but came hbtne on Sunday to be blanked 3-0 by St Marys. Robbie McLean took care of the .Exeter scoring against Lucan. with two se- cond period tallies. The first came with the help of Doug Clark. while Jon :Connor picked up the assist on the second tally. Fred Gregus played a standout' game' in the nets for the Waxers. turning aside several dangerous oring shots by the Lucan s ad • At home. Sunday. the Waxers ran into a one-man show in the person of Owen Lessard. who scored all three goals in the St Marys win The lanky captain worked his w•ay in for four breakaways and scored on three of those attempts This Sunday. the novice squad will host Mt Brydges at 4 00 at the rec centre. following a Saturday game in Dorchester Atoms drop pair. The Exeter atoms took to the ice lanes in two Shamrock encounters this Kippen shoot continues The regular trap shoot was held at the Kippen Gun Club Sunday with Bert Mahaffy. Staffa and Dan Crerar. Hensall the top shooters of the day with perfect scores of 25 each Following closely were Jamie Caldwell. Kippen 24: Dave Carter. Clinton: Al Kyle. Brucefield with 23. Next with 19 targets were Brian Beer. Hensall. Gary Koehler. Hensall: and Bill Stewart. Goderich. Pete Black. Clinton had 18 targets and Mike Carter. Clinton had 16 hits. Shooting will continue next Sunday. October 29 • KAWASAKI 440 INVADER Built Tough Built Smart Hottest 440 on sr -ow So • set rhe No, cr 24-hour pn durance• •ecoid 1 qu d cc_ enq.ne Olt iniection for gos-and-go convene^re Racing style O .'e•stoge ex- haust system You II app•eciate the oowe• and stomma for climbing and /tot out running CrOVNTRY RNER STORES MT. CARMEL 237-3456 Open io 10, Mon. Sat. Noon -6 Sunday week. losing both by scores of 2-1 to Lucan and St. Marys. .1 Playing in Lucan. Satur- day. the locals jumped into a 1-0 lead on a goal by Paul Mellecke with Jim Ansley assisting. but Lucan knotted the count 16 seconds later when Mike Arts beat Steve Pym with Chris Hughes assisting Near the end of the first stanza. Jeff Gwalchmai scored what proved to be the winner 'on a play with Gwalchmai and Arts. At home. Sunday. the locals saw St. Marys score a first period goal.' hut they came back to even the count in the third before the visitors got the winner with less than two minutes remaining in the contest Bryan Qtiinn scored Ex- eter's lone tally on a play with linemates Brett Batten and Danny McLean. The atoms will follow the novice games in Dorchester and at home on Sunday. with their opposition in the latter being provided by Oakridge. group in Ontario, due to his accomplishments over ,the past three years. During this span he has won two H -P and one WOSSA title. This year he has won races at South Huron, the .University-- oL Western Ontario and finished a strong third in a' field of 300 runners at York. Due fp a virus he wasn't able to run up to his standards at the H -P and finished second in the 7.200 meter event. Steve Leeming from Stratford Central, won the race. These two rank as favourites to win at WOSSA, Friday in Byron. An exchange student from Japan, Kataro Wotande showed good form finishing fifteenth in the same race. He has. been" a welcome addition to the team. Murray Wareing finished a commendable fourth in the 5,000 meter junior boys race leading the team to a fourth place finish. Murray, who was second at South Huron, should become one of the better runners in the area in years to come. Kevin Easterbrook was fourteenth at the H.P. He has shown a terrific amount of improvement since the start of the season. His best race was a ninth place finish at South Huron. Matt McClure; who has excellent potential, ran 20th and Doug Medd the youngest member of the team ,was 37th. Brian Steep Randy Cronkite and John Mellecke completed the roster for the junior boys team. Each has' improved a great deal since the start of the senior in September. Manager Vince Winters and Barb Wein. have taken very good care of the run- ners as well as carrying clothes, food,etc.to the pro- per locations. • Carey Uni h, the assistant coach has (9rked hard to provide inspiration• for the team 'to do well.. Her aid is LONDON YM• -YWCA SOUTH HURdN RECREATION BOARD How is your fitness?? Find out with a fitness test Nov. 13TH and 14TH SOUTH HURON . RECREATION CENTRE (Exeter) Between 2 p.m. and 9 p.m. The test is subsidized by the Ministry of Culture and Recreation and in- cludes: - Cardiovascular Fitness - Lung Function - Body Weight (ideal) - Strength and Endurance -- Flexibility Followed by your own personal exercise prescription • done by professional fitness evaluators. To Register Call 235-2833 (or of SHRC 9-5 • weekdays) - The test takes 60 minutes and is for everyone over 18 years of age Costs: $15.00 very much appreciated. done and like the Yankees Congratulations to all we expect to do it again next team members on a job well year. 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