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Times-Advocate, 1982-03-03, Page 8Times -Advocate, March 9, 1984 Huwksseason Sports Spotlight By Ross Haugh The 1982 season for the Exeter Minor Baseball Association as outlined at Tuesday's annual meeting by secretary Brad Gregus is a very ambitious one. For the first time in the history of minor baseball in Exeter, duties of supervising or operating a team will be divided amongst a manager, coach, assistant coach and captain with yet another person acting as secretary for all the teams, This season will see the return of senior baseball after a seven Year absence and the addition of a junior club for the first time. As well, an all star team will be added in the tyke categoryfor tournaments and playoffs, a team that will be selected from a four or six team houseleague to operate Saturday mornings throughtout the summer. Featured highlights of the season for each team will include hosting a tournament for each team, a league all star game and the possibility some of the teams will be selected to host that category's OBA championship tournament at the end of the summer, an alternative to the playoff format. Also planned are exhibition games, an Exeter - Dashwood oldtimers game and home run hitoff featur- ing old time sluggers Jim "Long Ball" Russell, Jim "'Vic" Guenther and Doc Miller. An umpires clinic is set for the South Huron; Rec Centre on May 1 when all successful participants will be able to receive both their WOAA and OBA card§ the same day. A coaches clinic is planned for May 4 and a players clinic May 15. Dennis Schooley and Bill McLaughlin of the Stratford Hiller will be.in charge of both clinics. The highlight of the season will be a Detroit Tigers tryout invitation clinic to be held at Exeter Communi- ty park on July 17. The southwestern Ontario area of Chatham to Georgian Bay and Sarnia to Kitchener will be scouted two weeks prior and players will be chosen to attend the one day camp at the new Exeter diamond. An all star team from that camp will be selected. at 5 p.m. of that afternoon to play an exhibition game against the London senior intercounty team at 6:45 p.m. The oldtimers game between Exeter and Dashwood team of the late 1960's and early '70's is set for July. In his brief to the recent meeting, Gregus conclud- ed, "The increase of baseball facilities and in par- ticular, the addition of a new fenced in park will without any doubt makefor greater enthusiasm for not only parents, coaches and players but also visiting teams. A Good Carnival The executive of the Exeter figure skating carnival including president MJ Chanyi and conveners Agnes Aunger and Barb McLelland are to be con- gratulated on an excellent carnival Saturday. To the best of our knowledge it was the 29th year that the skating club has staged a carnival and it con- tinues to improve each year. While on the topic of carnivals, the Zurich -Grand Bend figure skating club will be staging their annual event on Sunday, March 21 at the Zurich arena. The guest skater at Zurich will be Lynn Nightingale of the Minto skating club in Ottawa. Lynn has a long list of accomplishments including Canadian junior champ in 1972, first at Skate Canada and Prague Skate in 1973, senior Canadian 1974 and 1975,Canadian senior title in 1976. Gretzky Again It seems that the subject of Wayne Gretzky appears in this column each week. Here we go again. With 14 regular scheduled games still to go. Gretzky is breaking records every time out and his point total is sure to be higher than any of .his most rabid supporters could ever hope for. - Now with 18 points, the sensational No. 99 will cer- tainly hit the 200 mark and probably give the sponsors of a chocolate bar contest some problems. The makers of Mr. Big bars have a contest which has a card with each purchase and the number of points Gretzky will end up with. The problem is the organizers didn't expect he. would score so many points. We have seen cards with 162 and 148 points on them. The highest total on any card issued is apparently 221. If Gretzky averages three points per game over the last 14 games his grand total will be 223 and send the chocolate bar moguls to the aspirin bottle. Before anyone says three points per game in the closing stages may be difficult, let us quickly point out he has picked up 25 points in his last six outings. Correction A couple of weeks ago we said Bill Mickle's eight ender was the second time this almost impossible feat was accomplished at the Exeter curling club. That was correct, but, we were wrong about the skip. Harry Snell was on the rink, but, Clarence Down was the skip. The other record breaking memberswereDorothy Elder and Lillian Pym. Sorry Clarence. Comeback Try The comeback attempt by Mark "The Bird" Fydrich with the Boston Red Sox will be cheered by baseball fans throughout North America. Fydrich who was such a sensation with the Detroit Tigers before running into arm problems is being given another chance by his former manager Ralph Houk. The Bird will likely start the season with Paw- tucket a Boston form club, but, don't be surprised to see him back in the majors later this year. [BoostYOT�WOME It's Good For Yo.. Good For You 1 1 Sixth game last night Fans of the Exeter Hawks will have to find out the score of last night's game in Mitchell to know whether they'll have an opportunity to see the squad in action again this year. The locals were in a must win situation last night after falling behind 3-2 in their series with a loss on home ice, Sunday. If they won, they'll play the deciding game in Exeter on Friday. If they lost, they'll hang 'em up. Exeter marksmen have hit a real drought in the best -of - seven with their arch rivals. They have scored only 11 goals in the five games and only four in the last three contests. After splitting the first two games, Mitchell took a 2-1 series lead with a 2-1 victory in the second period of overtime last Tuesday. The Hawks rebounded to knot the count at two games each when they posted a 2-1 win at home, Thursday, but they put their backs to the wall with a 3-1 loss in the Sunday night affair. Mitchelltook advantage of defensive miscues to score in the first and last minute of the first period on Sunday to take a 2-0 lead and they upped it to 3-0 early in the second on another poor passing play in the Exeter zone that was intercepted and rifled into the cage behind Rich Fletcher. Exeter hit the scoreboard at the 12:30 mark of the third period when Kerry Bedard finished off a play with Doug Brooks and Bryan Baker, but it was too little and too late although they missed an excellent chance a couple of minutes later when Mitchell goalie Dave Fischer misplayed a shot off the boards and the puck came out in front of the empty cage but the Exeter player in the slot couldn't get his stick on the bouncing disc. Exeter's passing was well off the mark throughout the contest and Mitchell stayed on top of them to hold them to a meagre 20 shots on goal. The local Hawks had a two-man advantage at one point in the middle period and didn't even manage a shot on goal as Fischer was calledon to make only three saves in the second stanza. Ellis Willis thought he had a goal in the first period, but. the Mitchell goal judge didn't flash the light and the referee sided with him. The Hawks played without Preston Dearing and Peter Tuckey, the latter being absent due to illness, while Dearing is out for the season with a back injury. Mitchell took four of the seven minors called and none of the penalties figured in the scoring. Late effort does it In their 2-1 win in the fourth game of the series at home, Thursday, the Hawks scored with just over a minute remaining to pull it out. All-star defenceman Bill Glover took the puck in his own end and skated the length of the ice to out - muscle a couple I If defenders to get a pass back to the point where Larry Dawson's blast went into the open corner of the net. Exeter had taken a 1-0 lead with a power play goal by Doug Brooks in the first, while Mitchell knotted the count with the only goal of the middle frame. Dave Atthill assisted on the Exeter tally. Fischer recorded 26 saves for Mitchell, while Fletcher had 23. The locals took nine of the 17 penalties called. Lose in overtime The scoring famine for Exeter actually started in the third game when they mustered only one goal on 51 shots in a game that went into the second period of overtime before being decided by a goal from the stick of Mitchell's John Sykes. Netminder Dave Fischer thwarted Exeter's attempts throughout the game, especially in the middle period when they blasted 17 shots at him and failed to click on any of 'them. Rich Fletcher was equally sharp, stopping 41 shots. Exeter took a one -goal lead in the first when Dave Atthill finished off a play with Baker and Bedard and it appeared as. though they may make the one -goal margin stand up as they held Mitchell off the sheet until the 16:52 mark of the final period when Ferguson finally got one past Fletcher to send the contest into overtime. There was no scoring in the first overtime session as Exeter out -shot Mitchell by an 11-8 margin and they were ahead on shots by a 4-2 count in the second overtime before Sykes connected for the winner. Exeter took six of the 10 minors called in the contest. n jeopardy, Irish on even terms WIN KONGSKILDE CURLING — A rink skipped by John Gillespie won Satur- day's mixed curling bonspiel sponsored by Kongskitde of Exeter. Above, Kongskilde official Gerry Smith presents the trophy to John and Jcine Gillespie and Heather and Robb English. Staff photo Hensall leads .Exeter The Hensall Sherwoods have won the first three games of their best -of -seven South Huron hockey semi-final with the Exeter Mohawks, but, they only lead two games to none. An Exeter protest on the opening game, Thursday won 8-5 by Hensall has been upheld by the league ex- ecutive. With 12 minutes and 52 seconds left in the third period, Allan Taylor of Hen- sall was tagged with a 10 minute misconduct for dis- puting the fifth Exeter goal. The referees failed to assess an additional two minute penalty which the rule calls for. Hensall went on to score three tirnes to win the game. League president John Snell said Tuesday morning that if the protested game has any bearing on the out- come of the series it will be resumed at the time the inci- dent occurred. Snell said the two teams had until game time of last night's fourth game. or is it the third, to decide if they would play the game over in it's entirety or just from the time of the protest. The Sherwoods went on to win the second game in Ex- eter Friday night 10-2 and took the third contest in Hensall Sunday by a score of 7-2. Four unanswered goals in the first period allowed the Sherwoods to carry on to a 10-2 decision in the second game in Exeter Friday night. The gameo!was seven minutes old when the Sher- . woods first goal was fired by Dwight Consitt on a three- way effort with captain Ken Varley,and Brian Maher. In quick succession, Lloyd Allan scored on an unassisted effort, Dave Kinsman con- verted a pass from Rick In- gram and Ingram registered on passes from Dwight Con- sitt and Gary Kyle. The Hensall club continued their scoring prowess with three goals in the middle ses- sion while the Mohawks hit the scoreboard for the first time. Dwight Consitt, Lloyd Allan and Dave Kinsman fired the Hensall goals with Brian Maher and Rick Ingram pick- ing up two assists each and Consitt and Al Taylor helping on one goal apiece. The first Exeter marker calve from the stick of Mike Clark with passes provided by Jeff Fuller and Tom Ryan. At 1.39 of the final session, Dave Underwood chalked up the second score for the Mohawks as he converted a pass from Luc Gagnon. Brian Maher, Terry Caldwell and Dwight Consitt completed the Hensall scor- ing in the third period. Dave Kinsman assisted on two goals and Lloyd Allan, Dwight Consitt and Brian Maher gained one assist each. The Mohawks took 15 of the 20 penalties handed out by referees George Tryon and Tom Hodgins. Three goals win Thursday's opening contest was all tied up at 5-5 until the misconduct penalty was call- ed on Taylor with 12 minutes and 52 seconds left in the game. Only 31 seconds after the in- cient, Brian Maher scored what proved to be the wining goal for the Sherwoods on passes from Dwight Consitt and Ken Varley. In the next two minutes, Hensall broke the game open on goals by Rick Ingram on an unassisted effort and Dave Kinsman on a three-way ef- Buckeyestwo games up in bid to retain South Huron title The defending champion Zurich Buckeyes have taken a two game lead in their best of seven South Huron hockey league playoffs over the Centralia Marauders. The Buckeyes won by a 3-2 score at the Stephen town- ship arena Friday night and squeezed out a 5-4 win on their home ice Sunday af- ternoon with a goal in the last 18 seconds of play. The third game goes at the Stephen township arena Fri- day night and the fourth con- test is back in Zurich Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m. Marvin Merner completed a three-way passing , com- bination with Scott Consitt and Kris Bedard at 19:42 to give the Zurich club the Sunday victory. The Marauders jumped in front with the only goal of the first period as Cec Nickles hit the Zurich net with 49 seconds left on passes from Mark Cronyn and Rich Lather. Scoring came thick and fast during the second period as the Buckeyes scored four times and the Marauders replied with three scores to tie the score at 4-4. The Buckeyes knotted the score at 6:32 of the second period on a successful shot by Steve Bedour with Kris Bedard and Pat Bedard getting assists. The Marauders came to life and scored three times in less than four minutes. Cec Nickles notched the first of the quick scores as he converted a pass from Mark Cronyn at 9:44. Less than two minutes later Doug Todd registered on a three-way combination with Blair Hearn and Rick Funston and Randy Somerville completed the rapid scoring at 13:23 on a play originated by Matt Muller and captain Hugh Wilson. The Buckeyes responded to this deficit and scored three goals of their own just as quickly in three minutes and 10 seconds. Glen Zirk was the. first marksman with assists going to Tom Hayter and Paul Haggitt, Jeff O'Brien converted a pass from Kris Bedard who also provided the pass for the tying goal shot by Scott Consitt. In the first game of the series, all of the scoring wa.s confined to the second half of the game. The Marauders moved in front at 11:54 of the second period on a three-way effort with Bill Hodge and Rich Lather. Kris Bedard tied the score for the Buckeyes at 17:29 and 25 seconds later Jeff O'Brien put his team ahead to stay on an unassisted dash. In the final 20 minutes of play, each team scored one goal. Kris Bedard was the Zurich marksman on an unassisted effort and Jim Hayter replied for the Marauders on a pass from Mark Cronyn. Only six penalties, five to Zurich were called by referees Iry Ford and Brian Campbell. The first goals for each team came on power play attempts. fort with Ingram and Lloyd Allan. The Sherwoods moved ahead at the 38 second mark of the first period as Jamie Caldwell hit on a solo dash They went on to lead 4-2 at the end of the first frame. Five goals came in the last two and a half minutes of the first. Tom Ryan tied the score for the Mohawks at that point on a pass from Dave Underwood. Hensel' broke in front with two goals in 29 seconds. The first was fired by Brian Maher on a power play with Varley and Dave Kinsman and Varley got the second all by himself. Mike Clark registered for Exeter at 18.24 on a pass from Doug Fletcher and 15 seconds later Lloyd Allan hit for Hen- sall on passes provided by Greg Campbell and Terry Caldwell. Hensall went ahead in the second minute of the third stanza as Ken Varley scored his second goal on a` power play with Dwight Consitt assisting. In the last half of the second period, the Mohawks cut the Hensall lead to a single goal on shots by Dan Bell and Dan Stanlake. Luc Gagnon drew a - pair of assists and Mike Anstett and Brad Daters each helped on one score. Daters was back to score the tying goal at 5-5 at 7.08 on an unassisted effort and that's when the protest began. In Sunday's third game won 7-2 by Hensall, three goals were scored in each period. The Sherwoods scored two goals in the first 20 minutes of play on shots by Brian Maher on a pass from Ken Varley and Dwight Consitt from Terry " Bedard and Maher. The lone Exeter goal came with 36 seconds left in the period on a successful shot by Dave Underwood on passes from Rick Moody and Mike Clark. Hensall scored two power Host Tavistock tonight Scoring lots of goals is the aim of most hockey teams and that's exactly what the Lucan Irish and the Tavistock Braves are doing in their OHA Junior 'D western group semi-final playoffs. After the first four games, each team has two victories and 30 goals to their credit. After dropping the first game in Tavistock 6-5 a week ago, the Irish bounced back with a pair of wins on home ice. The Irish won 8.7 Tuesday night in the second period overtime and Thursday they squeezed out a 10-9 decision, again in sudden death over- time after the first session of extra play failed to produce a winner. Saturday, back in Tavistock the Braves won 8-7 with four goals in the third period. The fifth game of the best - of -seven series was played last night, Tuesday in Tavistock and the sixth goes in Lucan tonight, Wednesday. If a seventh and deciding game is needed it is set for Saturday night in Tavistock. Steve Glenn was the hero for the Lucanites in the two overtime victories on home ice over Tavistock. In Tuesday night's 8-7 win Glenn scored the winning goal at 6.51 of sudden -death overtime after a 10 minute period failed to provide a winner. Thursday night it was the same story" with Glenn put- ting the puck into the• Tavistock net just past the seven minute mark again in the second period of overtime. Tuesday, the Irish led 5-3 after two periods of play, but, were unable to hold the Lead for the next 20 minutes of play. In the first period Dave Egan, Keith Hartwick and Geoff Edwards scored for the Irish while goalie Ed Dobinson kept Tavistock off the scoreboard. In the second period, Keith Hartwick picked up his se- cond goal on a three-way ef- fort with captain Paul Wraith and Jamie Shipley and Art Gregory hit the mark on passes from Kevin lartwick and Dave Egan. Jeff Kaufman scored twice for the Braves and Ted Gladding added a single score as Lucan lead was cut to 5-3. The only Lucan goal in the third period came from the stick of Geoff Edwards on a power play with Steve Glenn and Jeff Shipley assisting. Ken Wettlaufer, Terry Ross and Kevin Rieger were the Tavistock third period marksmen. In the first overtime period, Keith Hartwick forc- ed sudden -death play with a goal at 9.26 after Ken Wet- thaufer had counted for the Braves. Goals were a dime a dozen in Thursday's game with Steve Glenn getting the 19th goal of the game past the seventh minute of sudden - death overtime to put the Irish in front in the series two games to one. Four goals in the third period gave the Braves enough power to pull out Saturday's victory by a score of 8-7. The Irish were leading 5-4 after two periods of play. The only two Lucan goals of the first period came in a space of a minute and five seconds near the midway mark. Geoff Edwards finish- ed off a three-way effort with Dave Egan and Jeff Shipley and Paul Wraith converted a pass from Jamie Shipley. Larry Albrecht, Tony Reis and Ken Wettlaufer scored for Tavistock. In the middle frame the Irish came up with 'three goals to only one for the op- position. Jeff Shipley hit on passes from Jamie Shipley and Doug Latta, Paul Wraith scored from Jamie Shipley and Doug Latta, Paul Wraith scored, from Jamie Shipley and Latta and Steve Glenn scored on a powerplay with passing help from Latta. The only second period goal for the Braves came from the stick of Terry Ross. Keith Hartwick notched the final two Lucan goals in the third period with Doug Lat- ta getting two assists and Steve Glenn and Jamie Shipley each helping on one goal. • Ken Wettlaufer scored ' twice for the Braves while Terry Quehl scored the tying goal and Paul Albrecht fired what . proved to be the winner. During the series Luean goal tending chores have . been shared by Ed Dobinson and Brian Milner who was obtained from the Thedford Browns to replace the in- jured Dan Sceli. play goals in the first seven minutes of the second period. Greg Campbell hit from Gary Kyle and Gary Koehler and. Terry Caldwell con- verted a pass from Ron Bilcke. The lone Mohawk goal of the middle frame and their fin, of the game was not- ched by Mike A)istett on a pass provided by Tom Ryan. The Sherwoods capped the win with three unanswered third period markers. Dave Kinsman, Jamie Caldwell and Allan Taylor scored and assists were picked up by Greg Campbell, Dwight Consitt, Rick Ingram, Terry Caldwell and Brian Maher. Snow . clearing is less taxing on the heart if the snow is pushed aside rather than lifted and tossed. While actively working, don't smoke! 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The Stephen bantams tied Zurich 1-1 in the second of three playdff games. The Stephen goat was scored by Bill Lessard assisted by Paul Johnson. Stephen peewees were on the losipg end of a playoff game against Elma-Logan by a score of 6-5, . Jerry Lamport was the star scorer with four goals and an assist. Mike Conlin added the last goal. Also assisting were Lee Watt and Mike McCallum. A victory for Stephen houseleague against Exeter began Saturdays hockey. The final score was 4-0 for Stephen. Brett Lammie topped ,the scoring with 3 goals. Peter Gibson scored the last goal and also added an assist as did Steve Glavin. The Stephen girls kingette team advances forward in playoff action as they defeated Seaforth 8-1. The top point getters were Brenda Wilson with 2 goals and 3 assists, Stefanie Jones 2 goals and one assist, Chris Smith 2 goals and Corina Price 2 assists. Stephen Bantams defeated Zurich in playoff action 3-2. 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