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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1981-09-16, Page 10Page 10 Times -Advocate, September 16, 1981 Wins summer league Sports Spotlight By ROSS HAUGH Shocked! That was the reaction of a lot of Canadian hockey fans following Sunday night's tumultuouswin by the Soviet Union over Team Canada in the Canada Cup '81 final. Sure it may come to a shock to some people, but, on second thought it isn't so surprising. Only four nights earlier the same two teams -tangled and the score was about the same, but for Team Canada in- stead of the Soviets. Both games turned into routs only in the third period. A lot of hockey games are decided by the way the puck bounces and on fortune or misfortune as the case may be. While pulling for a Canadian victory we had a fun- ny feeling all along that the Wednesday game may have lulled not only the Canadian team a bit, but cer- tainly the home team supporters. Regardless of anyone's patriotism, the Soviet were full value for the win and goalie Tretiak in par- ticular. The two big reasons for the Soviet win have to be the great goal tending of Tretiak and the accurate shooting of the forwards. They didn't waste very many shots and made what they had count. Getting back to Tretiak, we are not trying to take anything away from his performance but, he was lucky on a number of occasions and had friendly goal posts and cross bars. The old saying of a goalie being good and lucky should possibly be changed to you have to be lucky to be good. One of the sagest remarks coming from any of the Canadian players was uttered by Wayne Gretsky. The Edmonton Oiler ace who will admit to not having a good night in the final game said, 'The bad part is we have to wait at least three years to get revenge.' One thing that may have been forgotten is that all Canadian fans owe Team Canada players a great big vote of thanks. Their dedication to their country is amazing in an era when most professional athletes haveareputation to being greedy and thinking only of themselves. This was not the case for these 35 Canadians. They gave up at least five weeks of their summer holidays to do their best for their county and in return they will each receive about $2,000. Compared to their regular salaries most of Team Canada sacrificed a lot and we will still say they are the best team that has ever represented our coutnry in any competition. The problem is that other countries are getting better and for most of the Soviet team it is a year round occupation. For a lot of the Team Canada personnel it was more than five weeks of training. Many started their own exercise programs as soon as they were invited to try out. The 10 players or so that were eventually cut from the team stayed with the club most of the way and lent their moral support. Again thanks to Team Canada for providing an ex- citing brand of hockey. we hope they will be back to try and regain the Canada Cup in three years time. The squabble Sunday night over possession of the Canada Cup was short and probably not so sweet. The Soviets say they thought they were entitled to take it home with them, yet they tried to take it out of the Forum in an equipment bag. We heard an interesting comment from a fellow employee Monday morning that had the series been played in a foreign country and Canada had won, an attempt may have also been made to bring the silverware home. Actually, the trophy is pure nickel and not silver., The same thing apparently happened many years ago when a Canadian team from Penticton, British Columbia won a world championship in Europe and they brought the trophy home. The Montreal Forum wasn't the only place where the Red Army showed their power. Sunday. Exeter's Red Army also flexed their scoring muscles and walked off with the RSD Sports Den trophy as cham- Local Red army shows supremacy pions of the summer rec hockey league at Huron Park. The Red Army, held to one tie in an undefeated season, opened the weekend playoff tournament with a 12-2 win over the Flyers in Satur- day's action and then took the title with a convincing 9- 3 win over Crediton on Sun- day. Brian Mercer scored three times in the final to pace the attack, while Paul Pooley added a pair and singles came off the sticks of Perry Pooley, Perry Stover, Steve Batten and Jeff Lindenfield. Crediton got two goals from Jim Ferguson and a single from Dan Bell. Stover had three goals in the lopsided win over the Dangerous occupation If your occupation is listed as the coach or manager of a professional baseball or football team the contract should be covered by risk pay or some type of insurance because your job is shaky. So far this year five major league baseball managers have fallen by the wayside and two football coaches have been sacked and no one knows who else is on the list of firings. With the firings of coach Joe Scanella of the Mon- treal Alouettes and Willie Wood of the Toronto Argonauts so late in the season one wonders what the teamownersexpectto gain with such moves. There is no doubt that the Alouettes have the potential for a winning team, but, it's the players and not the coaches that have to turn things around. The same thing applies to the Montreal Expos on the firing of Dick Williams. We recently heard Russ Francis of a Montreal radio station affiliate of the CBC say that the Expos are confident they can come back to win regardless of who the manager is. While it didn't seem to be common knowledge Francis said the close Montreal media people knew that Williams had lost control of the players, especial- ly the younger ones. Ile mentioned several instances of Williams not talking to players except to blast them for a had play. If indeed the Expos turn things around and win the second half championship it will be done on skill on the field alone and not from the change in managers. This is .Jim Fanning's first try at actual on -field leadership. Don't he surprised to see Dick Williams with the New York Yankees next year. There were a few rumours that Williams was headed for New York before he was actually fired in Montreal and this may have also helped speed up his departure. In talking about the big leagues, the Detroit Tigers are flying high with a three game lead at the top of the American league east standings, but, don't get too ex- cited. they will face some pretty tough eastern division competition in the last few weeks starting this week with the Boston Red Sox. The Yankees and Brewers are tied for second place and could be ready to make a change. 1 WIN TROPHY —. Exeter's Red Army, duplicating the feat of their Soviet namesakes, turned on the scoring power this weekend to win the playoff in the Huron Park summer rec hockey league. The team ended up in first during the regular play as they were tied only once in an undefeated season. Back row, from the left: John Kernick, Bill Glover, Steve Batten, Perry Stover, Jeff Lindenfield and Perry Pooley. Front: Tom Coates, Rich Fletcher, Dave Bogart and Brian Mercer. Team members missing from the photo were Dave Shaw, Paul Pooley and Dan Brintnell. Staff photo Coach thinks good chance for H -P The runners who turned out at crosscountry team practice last week at South Huron have coach Joe Fulop convinced that his team can capture two Huron -Perth pennants. "We have two guaranteed winners junior girls and senior boys", Fulop said. This years junior girls team is the same one that won Huron -Perth and WOSSA two years ago as midgets and Fulop feels they could equal that effort this year if they work hard enough. The senior boys were also Huron -Perth champions in 1979 and except for the graduation of Murray Wareing, they will have the same squad returning. The midget boy's team is the biggest questionmark in Fulop's mind. There are 10 midgets trying out but their ability won't be known until after the team's first meet September 23. at Stratford Northwestern. Fulop is disappointed by the fact that at present, insufficient numbers of midget girls, senior girls and junior boys have turned out to field a team. "We only have three teams right now, but we will likely move up enough girls to make a senior team", said Fulop. Individually, Karla Solomon and Susan Bir- mingham will likely lead the juniors. Judi Van Oss, out last year due to a knee in - TALK WITH COACH — South Huron District High School junior girls basketball coach Pat Rowe chats with Brenda Bell during a recent practice. Staff We're Reducing Inventory With Our ANNUAL ON NURSERY STOCK 2 O %O OFF ALL SNRUiS AND TREES SHOP IN OUR GARDEN STORE FOR GARDENING SUPPLIES GREEN HOUSES FOR A FRESH NEW HOUSE PLANT '1/,,...,.. /j.//,•. •I .., • •Ir llf Ann IAM,I• RR770(0, O SAS•7177 I tOµV rs, CIOVd Sundays (.11Llfid 4 jury, should also be strong. Among the boys, Fulop expects strong performances from junior John Van Esbroeck and senior Matt McClure. Dan Morley is the most promising midget. South Huron will be host to two races this year. The South Huron Invitational will be held October 15 and the Huron-Plerth championships are scheduled for October 22 in Exeter. Coach optimistic despite few players By MATT McCLURE In recent years, junior basketball coach, Pat Rowe has been able to choose her team from 50 hopefuls. This year, however, when only 15 girls showed up for practice this choice was severely limited. The loss of four starters will leave the team lacking in experience. "It will be tougher than last year. We've lost quite a bit but we should still be in the playoffs," Rowe said. With nine returnees from last year's WOSSA semi- finalist team, Rowe has again decided to emphasize aggressiveness. "Other than Charlene Verbeek, we haven't got a lot of height, but we are quicker than other years," Rowe said. Four team members at- tending basketball camp during the summer, Brenda Bell, Jackie Cottrell, Janet Pfaff and Verbeek have shown marked improvement in their shooting and defensive movement ac- cording to Rowe. The team's first regular season test is October 23 in St. Marys. short-handed Flyers, while adding a pair each were John Kernick, Paul Pooley and Perry Pooley. Notching singles were Mercer, Batten, Bill Glover and Lindenfield. Crediton made It to the final with a thrilling win in the second period of over- time in their Saturday hookup with Pfaff Electric. Dan Bell fired the winner after Crediton scored twice in the final period to send the Area lady wins at fair A member of the Exeter Saddle Club turned in ex- cellent performances at the weekend horse show held at Western Fair in London. Barb Parsons was the winner of the senior ladles pleasure class riding Grand Sedan owned by Bob Miller, RR 4, Aylmer. In other competitions the local rider was second In the ladies barrel race and the rescue race and fourth in the open class of the barrel race. Another Exeter club member Steve Preszcator was fourth in the men's reigning division. Other area winners were Brian Ropp, Ailsa Craig In the senior rescue race with Hi Time Bars; Kay's Champ owned by Tom and Ed Baker, Ilderton in senior reining and Larry Forrest, Ilderton in the exhibitors jackpot combination game stake. game into the extra sessions. Dave Atthill and Todd Heywood scored two each for Crediton while Brian Taylor and Mere Taylor duplicated the effort for Pfaff. In Sunday's consolation final, Pfaff battled their way through three scoreless overtime periods and then scored two of three "shoot- out" goals to finally emerge winners over the Flyers who could manage only one successful shot in their three against Peter Dearing. Brian Hodgins had three goals in the regulation 4-4 tie for the electricians and Preston Dearing fired the single. Ron Rader had two for the Flyers and singles were recorded by Dave Schuyler and Wes Lockhart. Dearing and Joe O'Rourke scored the Pfaff goals in the shoot-out. In the preliminary rounds, Pfaff battered Cannabus 10-3 and Crediton dumped the Islanders 11-2. Brad Taylor scored four for the Pfaff crew in their win. Matt Muller, Jim Ferguson and Dan Bell had two each for Crediton in their triumph. In the battle of the losers, Cannabus nipped the Islanders 10-7. 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