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Home My WebLink AboutTimes-Advocate, 1978-12-21, Page 8 (2)Page 24 Times -Advocate, December 21, 1978 Sports Spotlight Ross Haugh Cha rrce to c tee r For area hockey feria wishing to get some exercise especially in the vocal department after the big meals involved with Christmas could do worse than attend the •annual novice hockey tournament at. the South: Hiiron Rec Centre. • Th'e first of 20 games for the eight years of age and under youngsters will go Boxing Day, December 26 at 30 a m. with the ho§t team, the Exeter.- Waxers meeting.parkhill. The Waxers will be right back -at it two hours later taking on Lambeth. • The finals will be played- Wednesday, December '27 with the B. A and AA set for 5:30, 6:30 and 7:30 p.m...respectively. , • Competing in the • 'AA division are teams • from South London: Oakridge and Galt. A complete schedule for the •tournament appears elsewhere in this issue: • i<:e' Theis one group of young men from Ontario Who: will be concentrating more on hockey than eaj;iltg come Christmas Day. . - , -They are -members of the Ontario junior all-stars who will be participating in a .practice session at the Londen Gardens come. Mondaymorning. - • • They are'.oneoof.five. teamstaking part in the Labatt International:major all star tournament. The other chlbs" are from Quebec; Western Canada. the Canadian .Olyrnpie team and the Moscow •Dynamos:= .�. • Three of the 13 tourney games will be played at the London Garden. They are December 26 —.West • against Quebec: --December 30 — OHA vs Moscow. Dynamos and the championship gamem_ featuring the two top clubs on January 3.. All games in London will Start at 8 p:m: : • - tondon Knightsrepresentatives on_the OHA team •. are forwards Bill Carroll and Dean Hopkins. The OHA coach ,is Gary Green from the Peter- borough' Peres. The Christmas Day practice in London will be only the third fEkr the OHA team.: -They play their :first game the following nigh t,in Windsor against • the Olympic team. • The other games are divided between Ottawa, • Brantford. Kitchener and Niagara Falls. • A missing jello The -.Toronto Blue Jays should probably get in touch with Bill Cosby and his cohorts on the Jello ad for television..- • Tile Blue Jays recently acquirfd -a lemon Jello. Well. that's- pretty close. The Toronto club got a new pitcher by the name of Mark Lemongello but they have been unable. to get in touch with him. Lemongello was apparently less than enthusiastic about taking his pitching talents north of the border and has been unavailable when Blue Jays general -_ manager Pat Gliletrafftl--pifchingg coach BobMiller tried to get in touch with him. • We certainly hope,:Lemongello changes his mind - . and decides, to join the Blue Jays. presence presence may' make up a little for the loss of Victor Cruz. - The Blue Jays front office' has4had very, little success in convincing the Toronto press and fans that • they made a good wove in trading Cruz. ' - Cruz -appeared in closeto 30 -games during the flatter stages of the 1918 season as a relief pitcher and • compiled an earned run average of 1.72. • " .Management -has;been trying to alibi by saying • Cruz is three years older than. he. Was. supposed to be and not as good as his past seasonxecordshowed:. • Cruz appeared to be a hard -throwing youngster and "the only,efficirent .reliever, Roy -Hartsfield could call from the brill pen. • ▪ The trade which brought Lemongello to,Toronto :may help tie pitching staff but_ it did the opposite for the department behind the plate. Allan Ashby Was lost - in: the same deal, He' -was one of the- top defensive , catchers in the American -league and ne one took any liberties on the bases when Ashby was ready to cut them down trying to steal. Prediction deportment • For the benefit of any fans of the National football league we Will make our predictions for the Super • Bowl. so.• you can go and bet on the opposition. How about the Pittsburg Steelers and Los Angeles Rams g'!t<ing1or all the marbles in Miami oh Sunday, January 21. . • We Witt -call .the Wolverines of Michigan to finally. win a, Rose Bowl by beating Southern California by a • "score of 27-23 on New Year's Day. - - To all our readers we_would like - to - wish a very Blessed Christmas and a Happy. -and- Joyous • New Year. • • INTERMEDIATE. HOCKEY Grand Bend vs Hensall Thurs., Dec. 21st HENSALL - CtMMUNITY -_.CENTRE 8 p.m. O.H.A. Central Junior "C" Hockey KINCARDINE KINUCKS' vs CLINTON MUSTANGS Fri.,.Dec._22 1978 8,30 P.M, Play starts Tuesday morning Finals set for Wednesday Waxers win again, ready forbig tourney The ExeterWakers. preparing for the arfnual Christmas tournamena at the rec centre. ran their win streak to three in "a " tow .when they crushed Lambeth 6-2, Sunday. It was the most decisive win of the season for the local novice 'crew. who demonstrated a strong Tore - checking game to score four unassisted tallies: Jeff Dalrymple started the crew off-tvith two goals. in -the first period. when he knocked down passes and raced in all alone on- the Lambeth net. Steve .Lingard upped the lead to 3-0 when he took a' pass from Jon O'Connor and' neatly deked around two defehders and blasted a hard shot to the top corner. The teams traded two , goals each in the early minutes of the third period, with Rob Mcnnight out - skating a defender to go in alone andJon.O'Connor pick - ed up the other when his shot from beside the net deflected past the goalie. O'Connor scored his se- cond goal late in the game when he was,sent into the clear on a -pass from B.J. Batten. This year's novice tourna- ment in Exeter will feature a different format. although the excitement generated by the six, seven_ and eight- - year-olds is expected to be • as high as usual. Rather than a '4<nock-out type of schedule,"the teams in all three divisions wilt'be• playing for the four top spots that will put them into the championship or consolation finals. 'The top two teams will play' for the championship, while the next two teams will compete in.th'e cohsola- tion round. The goal spread • will be used to determine any ties that may exist between teams with iden- tical points. The event gets underway -on Tuesday when the Exeter Waxers tackle Parkhill in�an 8:30 a.m. start. They're in the "B" division. along wfth Dorchester, Seafout*.and Lambeth. Exeter meets -Lambeth in their second game at 10:30. .The "A" division teams start their action at 1:30 when Strathroy battles. Walkerton. Thtp''other five teams entered in that diva-' HENSALL ARENA L_ .4 WAXERS READY — As .evidenced by -the -damp hair generated by a strenuous practice, the Exeter for their appearance in the annual novice, tournament to be held at the rec centre this Tuesday Qnd teams entergd and.3he locals kick the event off with -an 8:30 a.m. start against Parkhill on December back row, coaches Jim Boyd and Tom Dalrymple. Standing: Jon O Connor, Grpham Arthur, Rob, David ob- David Josephson, •Scott Boyd,. Doug Clark and Jeff Dalrymple. Kneeling: B.J. Batten, Larry Lewis, Moore, David Dalrymple: Robbie Mclefland. and Don Perry. Missing are Fred Gregus, Jarrett Kobe Waxers are working hard Wednesday. There are 15 26. Members of the teem, McKnight, Steve Lingard, Allan Blommaert, Shawn and Robbie McLean. Staff photo Tiremen, Trees win in Rec loop :Algoma Tireand the Trees ; Baynham, Murray Parsons , Trees against the Elites. 'were,winners in two of three and Bob Parsons. Jack .Chipchase and Dennis Exeter rec league hockey " Bill. Van Bergen and Rob Preszcator each added two games played: this week. _ Dickey each scored twice for scores' and Paul Sch- . The TreesedgedtheElites MacLean's. -while Rick wartzentruber fired one 8-5, while. Algoma ,Tire Parsons and Don Keeping . goat. trounced MacLean's 14 -Band notched one goal apiece. - Don Campbell and Al played to a 4-4 draw with Dave Smith with a -three Wilbee with two goats each LesPines. ' goal -effort was best for the were best far the Elites.. The In regularly scheduled • 'action tonight, Thursday, Pee. wee.s _lose: two._: _..__. __ ---Pines w-iil—meet= the Elites at 9 p.m. and Pfaff ' - The Exeter house -league Seaforth on an unassisted Of- . Electric- will do battle with pee- wees dropped two fort in the first period. the Trees at 9:30 p.m. Both decisions in exhibition play '' In Sunday's contest each contests are at • the South - this week. -- team scored one goal in the Huron Rec Centre. - ' The local `youngsters first period. Allan Pym was Dale Skinner fired four - - coached by.Bob Osgood Jr. 'the Exeter marksman while successful "shots -.to" lead the and sponsored by Victoria M. Moffatt replied far Algoma 'Tire scoring :in -theand Grey Trust lost. 3-1 in Huron Park: •win over MacLean's. 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Jim Guenther had a two goal performance and Ron Moore and Scott Burton scored single goals for Les Pines in the 4-4 draw with Algoma Tire. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 sion are liariover. Tillson- burg, Listowel, Elmirr and St. Marys. -, Wednesday's action gets underway al 12:30 when South London faces Oakridge in the first of a , round-robin "AA" series. Galt is the third team in that category. The championsh-ip and . consolation events -for the "A" and "B" divisions will also be held on Wednesday and the finaYante-beattires the top two 'AA". teams. The winher gets the cham- pionship and the loser will be declared .the consolation winner., Another feature of - this • year's tournament is a penalty shot 'contest after each game.. Five players from each team will be chosen to compete and the • results will be used to break ties if necessary. Coaches have beenasked to keep their super -stars on the bench for that event and g g g g g give some of the lesser this year's tournament lights a chance ,to get in on . which is- sponsored by the that thrillingaction. - . Exeter Minor Hockey Shirley Pratt is convening Association. • • EXETER NOVICE TOURNAMENT South Huron Rec Centre Game Game2 Gam+~3 Game 4 Game Game6 Game? Game8 Game 9 Game 10 Game 11 Game 12 Tuesday, December 26 • 8,410 - Exeter vs Parkhill 9:30 Dorchester vs Seaforth 10:30 Exeter vs Lambeth 11:30 Dorchester vs Parkhill • 12:30 Seaforth vs Lambeth 1:30 • 'Strathroy v's Walkerton 210 - Hanover vs Tillsonburg • 3:30 Listowel vs Elmira 4,:30 ° .Listowel St. Marys 5:30 Tillsonburg vs Strathroy 6:30, Hanover vsalmira 7:30 St. Marys vc ,istowel Wet<Inesday, December 27 Game 13 12:30 South Londhi vs Oakridge Game 14 - - 1:30 B C-onsolation tame 15 2:30 South London vs Galt- Game altGame 16 3:30 A consolation Game 17 410 • Galt vs Oakridge • Game 18 5:30 BChampionship • Game 19 6:34 A Championship • Game 20 7:30 AA Championship 7/—.. . u /*r 1 Located -o mid east of Exeter. Off Highway 8:f is e- ChM flc+osaoaaosCU= suaomCUP TZeaaa+aesp.Xssfa,cuooat' akers aro arxchin as>aes tmeacusexsrsamchro - Kawasaki AL' Not Times head KAWASAKI 440 INVADER look out! Here comes the world 24-hour endurance record breaker. Oil -injected, liquid -cooled engine. 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