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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1985-02-06, Page 181 Page 2A Times -Advocate, February 6, 1985 At home to Mitchell, Sunday Hawks win three straight, raise optimism for playoff hopes • • • While many fans had written off the Exeter Hawks based on their play over the past three weeks when they lost six straight, the club rebounded this week with a tie and then three straight victories to raise optimism they may yet be a force to be reckon- ed with when playoffs start later this month. Following their most impressive week of the season, the locals moved to within four points of the third place Lucan Irish and still have three games in hand. Three of the team's final five games are with the cellar dwelling Mitchell Hawks, a club the Hawks trounced 12-3 this week. The tie was against Lucan and the other two triumphs were over the loop leading Tavistock Braves in Tavistock and a .make-up game at home against Thedford. This week the Hawks travel to Mit- chell for a game on Friday and then on to Belmont, Saturday. Mitchell pays a return visit to the rec centre, Sunday, at 2:00 for the final league home game of the season for Exeter. The Hawks will be keeping a close eye ori the battle -for first place bet- ween Seaford] and Tavistock. The Braves currently lead by two pints and have four games in hand. Indications are that the locals would prefer to meet the Braves in the first playoff round. The Hawks started the week off with a 6-6 tie in Lucan, Wednesday, coming back from a two -goal deficit at the end of the first and out -scoring the Irish 3-2 in each of the second and third periods. The contest was evenly played throughout as both netminders made 37 saves. Bart Powell was strong in the second to keep his mates in the game, while Kevin Oke came up big in the third to preserve the tie for the Hawks. Brian Horner continued his hot streak as he recorded a hat ,trick. Singles came off the stick of Andy Lerikos, Mike Clark and Steve Gould. Scott Brintnell drew assists on three of the Exeter markers and Bill Glover had a pair. Helping out on one each were Steve Prout, Don Hamilton, Sean Whiteford and Jeff Pfaff. Scott Balazs and Steve Glenn scored twice for the Irish and Rob Hardy and Brent Bannerman added the singles. Bob Thirlwall assisted on three tallies, while Steve Keane add- • ed a pair and Glenn, Al Craig and Jesse Crawford recorded singles. The teams stuck to hockey in their final league meeting of the season as the Hawks sat out six minors and the Irish had only four. Exeter scored once on the powerplay and Lucan net- ted one while playing a man short. Both goalies drew one penalty. The Irish won the six -game series with four wins, a tie and one loss. Trounce namesakes The local Hawks showed no mercy when they hosted their namesakes from Mitchell, Friday, trouncing the northern division cellar dwellers by a 12-3 margin. They peppered a total of 77 shots at two Mitchell goalies in a game that saw three fights for six major penalties and another 18 minors. Exeter stormed to the attack and Steve Gould gave them a 1-0 lead after only 20 seconds and they con- tinued the onslought to take, a 6-1 margin by the end of the first period. Gould, Brian Horner, Jeff Pfaff and Scott Brintnell scored two goals each to pace the lopsided victory. Single markers were fired by Jeff Rowe, Ted HOME TEAM.WINS — The Lucan atoms won the 'D' championship in the annual tournament in Lucan on the weekend. Back, left, coaches Stan Hodgins and Bob Hardy. Centre, Jeff Disher, Greg Boshart, Robbie Paul, Doug Hotson, Peter Gibson, Danny Gibson, Derek Greenlee, Paul O'Shea, Gary Haskett arid Mike Munro. Front, Brod Coughlin, Mark Hickson, Chad Gwalchmai, Neil Froats, Marty Hodgins, Jeremy Jemec and Scott Smith. 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Next came Muriel Marshall 268, Leona Hern 245 and Phil Hern 230. A score of 325 allowed Marshall Dearing to win in Thursday's action. He was followed by Milfred Prouty 252, Harold Rowe 231 and Phil Hern 229. Hodgins, Dave Skea and Don Hamilton. Brintnell, Pfaff and Bill Glover drew three assists and picking up doubles were Scott Bogart and Hodgins. Contributing singles were Steve Batten, Prout, Gould and Horner. Jason VanHaarlem recorded 19 saves for the victory in a game in which both squads scored twice on powerplay opportunities. Prout, Rowe and Whiteford were the three locals ejected for the skir- mishes in the middle frame. Shade leaders In one of their best showings of the season, the Hawks continued their winning ways with a 6-5 triumph over the Tavistock Braves in the northern division leader's own rink, Saturday. The Hawks led 5-2 after two periods, backed by some solid net - minding by Peter Dearing, but wat- ched the Braves rebound to knot the count on two powerplays and an even strength goal in the first half of the final stanza. However, while playing a man short with less tha four minutes to go in the game, defenceman Ted Hodgins took a pass from Bill Glover and blasted a high drive from centre ice that found the top corner for the winner. Jeff Rowe had a pair to pace the Hawks with singles going to Brian Horner, Scott Brintnell and Glover in addition to Hodgins. George Pratt earned assists on three goals to lead in that depart- ment, with Glover picking up a pair. Singles were recorded by Skea, Brint- nell, Bogart, Horner and Batten. Dearing finished the game with 35 saves for his best showing in the past three weeks. Sixteen of those came in the middle frame. The Hawks took 10 of the 18 minors called in the contest. Bounce Browns Playing their fourth game in five nights and their third in a row, the Hawks appeared to be runningout-of steam when they tackled the Thed- ford Browns in a make-up game at the rec centre, Sunday. The locals jumped into a 2-0 lead in the first five minutes, but then wilted and watched the visitors rebound to take a 3-2 lead near the end of the mid- Houseleague bantams gain pair of victories The Exeter bantam house league team won two games on the weekend, beating St. Marys 5-2 in exhibition play on Saturday, and winning 10-0 Sunday in a league game against Mitchell. St. Marys jumped to an early 2-0 lead on goals by Scott Bolton and Jason Pellizzari, with Dale Levy get- ting the only assist. Exeter then came back in the se- cond and third periods to score five unanswered goals, two by Henri DeBruyn, with singletons going to Tom Ralph, Jeff Rowe and Rob McKnight. Assists went to Jeff Rowe, Tom Ralph, Jason McFalls, David Josepheson, Laurie Chalmers and Henri DeBruyn. Exeter completely dominated the game against Mitchell, with goalies Kevin Wallace and Brent MacDonald having to make only a few saves in recording the shutout. Henri DeBruyn, with assists from David Josepheson and Peter Lerikes, scored at the 31 second mark, and the local tream never looked back. Rob McKnight, David Josepheson and Henri DeBruyn scored two goals each, with singletons going to Peter Lerikos, Frank Woodward, Tom Ralph and Jeff Rowe. Henri DeBru son athree assists each, with Peter Lerikos, Jeff Rowe and Laurie Chalmers each getting two. Rob McKnight, Frank Mattucci, Mike Coulan, Graham Arthur and Frank Woodward chipped in with one assist each. marksmen with Ted Hoffman, Rob Wagner, Trevor Taylor and Chris McDonald assisting. John Vermullen took care of the Parkhill scoring with three successful, shots. Midgets edge Lucan The Exeter midgets scored a 6-2 victory over Lucan in Shamrock hockey league action in Exeter, Sunday. The home team jumped into a 2-0 first period lead on goals from the sticks of Steve Pym and Tim Moore. Jim Lewis assisted on both and Chris Tiedeman helped on one score. The only goal of the middle frame was fired by Mark Morrissey of Ex- eter on a pass from Chris Tiedeman. In the third period, Bill Lessard converted a pass from Bryan Quinn to give Exeter a 4-0 lead before Ian Craig and John Miller counted for Lucan on passes from Donnie Hugill and Jim McLellan. Late in the game, Steve Pym and Chris Tiedeman completed the Ex- eter scoring. The only assist went to Darryl McCann. Bantams win Waxers tie The Exeter Waxers and Parkhill played to a 3-3 tie in Shamrock novice division hockey Sunday at the South Huron Rec Centre. Sean McCann, Steve Stire and Mar- ty DeBruyn were the Exeter It rfiI ATOMS AWARDS — Don Hugill presents most valuable player awards to Marty Hodgins of Lucan and Jim Hamilton of Bothwell following the Lucan atom tourney 'D' final won by Luton. MOST VALUABLE ATOMS — Following Sunday's Lucan atom tour- nament consolation final.. Shirley Fronts presents most valuable player awards to Ilderton captain Brendon Bradley and Mark Keller of Zurich. • aryl In a Shamrock hockey league ban- tam game this week, Exeter edged St. Marys by a score of 3-2. After St. Marys captain Joe Weston opened the scoring in the second minute of the first period, the Exeter bantams struck for two quick goals and a lead which they never relinquished. Shawn Moore tied the score on an unassisted effort and captain Jon O'Connor fired a successful shot on a three-way combination with Scott Bell and Larry Lewis. O'Connor's second goal of the game at 2:44 of the second period proved to be the winner. Jeff Hannah provided the assist. The final St. Marys score was shot by Scott Richardson dle frame. Exeter evened the count in the last minute of the second and then found their second wind in the third as they took control of the game and scored five unanswered tallies in the first 11 minutes. Steve Batten, who hadn't scored since the first game of the season, doubled his season output with two goals, a feat duplicated by Bill Glover. Scoring singles in the contest were Steve Gould, George Pratt, Scott Brintnell and Jeff Rowe. Brintnell was the top playmaker with three assists and those helping out on one each were Glover, Jeff Pfaff, Brian Horner, Batten, Dave Skea, Gould, Sean Whiteford Scott Bogart and Mike Clark. Several of the Exeter goals came on nifty passing plays in -the third after the squad looked rather disorganized in the late stages of the first and throughout the second. Peter Dearing kicked out 26 shots in the game in which Exeter took 15 of the 27 penalties, including a fighting major to Steve Prout and Brad Cloud of the Browns early in the first. 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