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Home My WebLink AboutTimes-Advocate, 1981-10-15, Page 10Page 10 Times -Advocate, October 15, 1981 ie.! Sports • Spotlight By Ross Haugh Exposed. That's what happened to us when the Montreal Ex- pos came roaring back to best the Phillies Sunday to win the divisional mini-series and qualify for the National League final against the Dodgers. We let what we thought was baseball knowledge win out over patriotism and national sentiments in picking Philadelphia over Montreal. It's great to see the Expos doing so well and we hope they continue their exciting play as they try for the world championship of baseball. They have a number of tough obstacles ahead of them. First of all come the Dodgers who appear to have a slight edge in the pitching department. The Dogers if need be will likely give two starting assignments to their ace Fernando Valenzuela while Steve Rodgers, the best thrower for the Expos will probably not pitch his first game until Friday. Desire, anger and a number of descriptive words could be used to say why certain teams have won crucial games in sporting events over the years. The Montreal Expos great showing against the Phillies has to be listed in the desire category as they strive to bring their city some long desired fame after 13 years of trying. For the New York Yankees who have been in the World Series many times it was anger that appeared to have turned them in the right direction after losing the first two games in Milwaukee. Yankee owner George Steinbrenner blasted his team and Rick Cerone and Reggie Jackson in par- ticular after Saturday's loss and what did these two do? They hit homers to put the Yanks in the AL final. Steinbrenner may need to use harsh words again before the Yankees are finished with the Oakland A's and their former manager Billy Martin. It will be a case of Billy -ball against the Yankee power. One staunch Expoi and Yankee fan in town could have some problems if his two favourites clash in the World Series. Good luck, Boom. West is best Go west young man, go west has been a popular saying for many years and that appears to be what has happened to most of the good football players in Canada or those heading north from the United States. With the Canadian Football League schedule heading down to the wire, the western teams are far ahead with victories and the number of points scored. In 54 games played, eastern teams have won 17 times while western clubs have scored victories in 42 of the 66 times they have taken to the gridiron. In the scoring department, the four eastern teams have racked up 1,062 points while allowing 1,547 points to the opposition while the western clubs have scored 1.887 points while giving up 1,399 points. One saving factor for the east in these statistics is that they have only four teams to five from the western part of our country. It's quite possible that the Montreal Alouettes could make the eastern playoffs with only four points to show for their season's work. The big game for the eastern division last playoff spot comes Saturday when the Alouettes travel to Toronto to take on the Argos who have only two points to show from 13 games. The Alouettes could clinch that final playoff spot by beating the Argos. If Toronto wins they would be tied with Montreal and we believe they would get third place as it would go to the team that has a better record against the team they are deadlocked with. Took a little time It took a couple of years, but the name of Wayne Gretzky is finally being noticed by three top United States national magazines with headquarters in New York. In the next few weeks. the popular number 99 of the Edmonton Oilers will be featured on the front cover of Inside Sports, Sports Illustrated and Life. The current issue of the Sporting News also has Gretzky on page one. It would appear that the United States is currently lacking in sports heroes and the public image of hockey will certainly get a big boost. In an attempt to get more scoring chances for Gretzky. the Edmonton Oilers have changed their system a little. Last year. opposing teams thought that you could stop Gretzky by stopping his wingers. but. in most cases that didn't happen either. They are truing different methods to get their scoring ace loose in front of the net. Minnesota North Star manager Lou Nanne probably has the best way to stop Gretzky. Nanne says the only way is to put the net back against the end hoards so Gretzky can't get behind it. Gretzky is off to a slow start in the first three games for the Oilers. hut. he will be heard from before long. At least three top rates NHL rookies are off and skating. Mark hunter from Oil Springs notched a cou- ple of points in one of the first games of the Montreal Canadiens. Dale Ilawerchuk. the overall number one pick in last June's NII1, draft scored two goals and notched the same number of assists as his Winnipeg Jets beat the New York Rangers 8-3 Friday night. The first high school player to go directly to the big time. Bobby Carpenter has two goals and an assist for the Washington Capitals. Don't look now, but. the Toronto Maple Leafs are off and flying high and are tied with the Minnesota North Stars for first place in the Norris division. The Leafs showing plenty of offensive power have scored 18 goals in their first three games. Half of that total came Saturday night as the Leafs edged the Black Hawks 9-8 in a shootout. It looks as if the Leafs will place well up in the standings if they can shore up the defences a little bit. Maybe. that should be a lot more. A dozen goals against in three games is too high to call for a good season record. Travel to Goderich today Senior Panthers stay undefeated in HP The South Huron senior football team had two wins last week to remain un- defeated at 3-0 in Huron - Perth league play. The Panthers bea t Stratford Cen- tral 24-7 at home Tuesday and Thursday at Stratford Northwestern. they downed the Huskies 28-1. Against Central, Rick Lindenfield got the Panthers on the board before the rain started. when he ran 47 yards in the first quarter for a touchdown. Seconds later quarterback' Bill Glover improvised on • t he conversion attempt when he scampered across for two points. Before the half was out. Greg Prout kicked two single points. one of which flew 48 yards with some help from the stiff breeze. "We gave them the touchdown. when we made a couple of mistakes on pass defence", coach Ron Bogart said after the game. Stratford's first half touchdown came as the result of confusion over player assignments in the Panther defensivesecondary. Jeff Rowe, Greg Prout and Peter Truckey led the team in key tackles. Tuckey caught an errant Ramlber pass and ran 47 yards for a touchdown in the third quarter. Lindenfield added another major when he bulled his way over from six yards out. Wayne Smith converted both touchdowns as well as rushing for 104 years on 14 carries during the course of the game. "If we can amass ever 300 yards rushing, I'll take 145 yards in penalties," Bogart said. Over half the penalty yardage was for pass clip- ping and the Panthers gave Stratford three first downs on penalties. The Panthers attacked with vigour to score 27 points in the first half against Stratford Northwestern, Thursday and then ran out of gas in the se- cond half. • "I guess we figured we had the game won". Bogart said. In the first quarter, Rick Lindenfield steamrolled 63 yards on the wet field for a touchdown. Glover com- pleted a pass to Bruce Shaw for 21 years and a major score. Conversion attempts on both touchdowns were blocked. Pete Tuckey returned a punt 47 yards in the second quarter for a touchdown. After 'Lindentield had run the ball into good field posi- tion. Smith went over from three yards for South Huron's third unanswered major. Greg Prout kicked a safety with less than three minutes remaining in the quarter and Hully Gully season starts The snowmobile season starts this October 18 at Nul- ty Gully. Western Ontario Snow- mobile enthusiasts who can't wait for winter have an op- portunity to get invloved this weekend with the Yamaha Challenge Cup. The Yamaha Challange is a full day of snowmobile activity starting with a free pancake breakfast from 9:00-11:00. OSRF sanctioned drag races starting at 12 noon followed by a Watercross exhibition by the Pontiac water cross team. The classes include Stock, Super -Stock, and Modified. plus Powder Puff for the ladies, and a Junior class for the youngsters. There's fun and excite- ment for spectators and competitors alike, so bring out the whole family for a day of family fun. Stratford was forced to kick- off to the Panthers once again. Tuckey returned the kick 83 yards for a touchdown. Wayne Smith converted the major to make the score 27-9 at the half. "We played well defen- sively but offensively we died," coach Bogart said of the team's second half play. After ,some review in Wednesday night's practice the pass defence was much improved from Tuesday's game. The only second half scoring came when the team's traded single point kicks. The Panther's biggest test thus far and a probable preview of the Huron -Perth final comes today when South Huron travels to Goderich to play their arch rivals. the Vikings. PRESERVE Y0 USED CAR HAVE IT OIL UNDERCOATED Let our professionals do the for you. chev. olds. exeter 7,35-060 an'81 (Rabbit sedan orVW Pickup) IA SQUEEZE — Bill Simmons and Scott Turnbull (36) of South Huron put the squeeze on an unidentified Stratford Central player Tuesday in Huron -Perth senior league action. Photo by McClure Junior footballers get double wins By Matt McClure The South Huron junior football team upped their regular season record to 2-1 last week with wins over Wingham and Stratford Northwestern. At home. Tuesday, against F.E. Madill Mustangs. the Panthers rushed for 305 yards enroute to a 22-0 vic- tory. Dave Hayter led South Huron scorers. as he ran short yardage for touchdowns on two oc- casions and amassed 162 yards -on the ground. Greg Hern ran for the other touchdown and 81 yards in the first half. before leaving because of a sore back. Hernalsoconverted his touchdown successfully. Early in the first period, quarterback Larry Mathers kicked a one -point single to put South Huron on the scoreboard. Mathers also finished up the scoring for South Huron. when he com- pleted a pass to Dave Rook for a 2 point conversion of Hayter's third quarter ma- jor. According to coach Dave Cox. South Huron's passing game was much improved as Mathers completed four of seven times for 61 yards. Defensively, South Huron limited Wingham to 100 yards total offence to successfully keep them off the scoreboard. Steve Batten. Brent Dawson and Doug Cooper led the team in key tackles. The "Auto -Shop Special" helped the Panthers to a 26-0 victory over the Stratford Northwestern. Thursday. Wednesday's rain forced Cox to diagram the new passing play on the auto shop blackboard. The play work- ed with surprising success in Thursday's game. enabling South Huron to make several long gains. Dave Hayter had three touchdowns on runs of 17, 38 and 31 yards in the first half of the one-sided contest. In the third quarter. Hern ran over from three yards out for six points. Larry Mathers kicked a single point midway through the fourth quarter to complete the South Huron scoring. The Panther's pass defence came up big. rob- bing 4 interceptions against Northwestern. Kevin Epp Field hockey morale low By MATT McCLURE I'm having trouble keeping team enthusiasm up", field hockey coach, Jim Workman said last week at the team's practice on the rain -soaked pit The wet weather forced cancellation of South Huron's regular season tournament in Stratford. However, the team will see lots of action this week with a tournament in listowel and the Ontario Women's Field hockey Association High School Tournament this Saturday in Toronto against some of the province's finest. The cancelled tournament has been rescheduled for October 20 in Exeter. caught two opposition passes. while Steve Batten and Jeff Francis each caught one. The team faces tough op- position today when they travel to Goderich to play the Vikings. ANOTHER ONE — Senior Panthers running back Rick Lindenfield goes untouched as he races around the end•for a long touchdown run against Stratford, Thursday. The Panthers have now recorded three wins and will put that on the line against their arch -rivals from Goderich Thursday. Both teams are undefeated and ore expected to battle it out for the championship again this year. Photo by McClure THIS IS THE WAY — SHDHS Junior Panthers coach Dove Cox explains a play to hir chargers during half time in their game against Stratford last week. The juniors apparently understood as they rolled to -their second triumph of the week. Photo by McClurg-. Hockey Is Fast And Hard Hitting. 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