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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1987-01-21, Page 17JUNIOR SKATERS WIN — The Exeter Entertainers won the gold medal in Saturday's Competition '87 precision skating in Woodstock. Back, left, coach Susan Rodawa, Shannon Boyd, Shona Craig, Catherine Davison, Jacqui Elder, Michelle Flood and Shelly Gillan. Centre, Kelly Hern, Ann Hodgins, Shelly Johnston, Kim Lingard, Kel- ly Livingstone, Terri Maurer and manager Janice Brock. Front, Car- rie Parsons, Sue Anne Soldan, Julia Tiernan, Barbara Tiernan, Kelly Van Kerkoerle, Jenny Wareham, Lorelei Wilhelm and Beth Williams, Missing were Dawn McAdams and Suzanne Wareham. This team along with the novice Entertainers and other area skaters will be performing at the Exeter Precision Skating Club ice show at the South Huron Rec Centre on Sunday, January 25. T -A photo. Hawks get lots of goals, but give up more The Exeter Hawks scored 16 goals in a pair of weekend games but still managed only a split as they allowed the opposition 19 tallies. Friday night, the Hawks travelled to play their namesakes in Mitchell and were bombed 12-8, but they regrouped to eke out a come -from - behind 8-7 win rUrp,- the rlinton Mustangs on the latter's ice, Sunday. That victory moved the Locals back into third place in the northern stan- dings, one point ahead of the Seaforth Centenaires, and one point behind the second -place Mitchell crew. It also moved the Hawks 12 points ahead of the last place Mustangs and gives them a comfortable margin in the race for a playoff position. The Hawks have only nine games left on the schedule, including last night's return match in Mitchell. They'll be at home to the Centenaires on Friday and travel to Clinton again on Sunday for a re -match against the Mustangs. Three- of the other games are against the first place Brussels Bulls and they have two February meetings with the Centenaires and another with the Mustangs. Six of the nine games will be on the road as the Hawks hat- tle for the second position with Mit- chell and Seaforth. Come from behind Trailing 5-3 after two periods in Clinton, Sunday, the Hawks battled back with five goals in the final period to post their 8-7 triumph. They had the game knotted at 5-5 before five minutes had been played in the final stanza, but then fell behind 7-6 before the midway mark and had to rally again to stop the stubborn hosts. Jeff Ansems scored on a powerplay marker at the 12:57 mark to pull the teams even and Steve Gould fired the winner with just under two minutes to go on a play with George Pratt. It was Gould's third marker of the contest. Jeff Pfaff contributed a pair of tallies and singles in addition to Ansem's came from the sticks of Pratt and'Jlim Lewis. Pratt finished the game with three assists, while Pfaff, Jeff Dalrymple • and Gould 'had a pair each. Con- tributing single assists were Ansems, Dave Cassone, Sean Whiteford and Scott Lovie. Brad Bender played the first period between the pipes and gave up three goals on eight shots. Derek Switzer finished the game and allowed four goals on 20 shots. Marty Merner, the former Hawk, was the busiest man of the ice as he kicked out 52 of the 60 shots the Hawks peppered at him in the game they dominated. Hawks prolific The Mitchell Hawks padded their scoring statistics.on Friday as they put 12 pucks behind the Exeter net - minding duo of Fred Gregus and Derek Switzer. The hosts took a 5-3 lead in the first and were never headed. They scored three times on the powerplay, while Exeter had four with a man advantage. George Pratt fired two successful shots for Exeter with singles record- ed by Jon O'Connor, Steve Gould, Scott Lovie, Sean Whiteford,Steve Batten and Jim Lewis. Gould helped out on three markers to lead in that department,- while Whiteford, Pratt and Lovie had two each. Contributing single assists were Jeff Dalrymple and Dave Cassone. Gregus gave up six goals on the 16 shots he faced before being replaced by Switzer early in the second. The latter also gave six goals on 21 shots. Steve Stapleton kicked out 39 shots forthe.winners. Irish back in first place chase The Lucan Irish are right back in the race for first place in the OHA Western Junior 'D' south grouping. On home ice Wednesday night the Irish got past the Thamesford Trojans by a score of 6-4 and Saturday in Bel- mont edged the league leading Bombers 5-4. Ch i pchases best in shuffleboard The Chipchase family dominated the prize winners in the three•days of shuffleboard this week at the South Huron Rec Centre. Ernie Chipchase was the men's winner on Tuesday and Wednesday and his wife Olga was best for the ladies, also on Wednesday. Tuesday's winning score for Chip - chase was 339. Next came Steve Hrapchak 314 and Charles Hendy 306. Best for the ladies were Mildred Thomson 314, Helen Wasnidge 259 and Marjorie Hodgert 258. Wednesday's high score for the men for five games was Ernie Chip - chase at 465 followed by John Pepper 342 and Delmar Skinner 335. A 358 by Olga Chipchase was tops for the ladies. Others were Edna Caldwell 288 and Leona Hern 281. Top four game scores Wednesday were Phil Hern 319, Meine Eizenga 312, Walter Davis 226, Iva Blair 294, Olive Essery 254 and Mildred Thom- son 252. In Thursday's competition for the men the best sixgame scores were Phil Vern 633, Meine Eizenga 623 and Walter Johns 464 while five game scores were Howard Johns 538, John Eberle 528 and Ross Richardson 476. For the ladies Marjorie Richardson recorded a six game score of 564 and tops for four games was Olive Essery at 396. The two recent wins give the Irish a season total of 44 points, only one back of the Belmont Bombers. With only 10 games remaining in the schedule tonight, Wednesday's game in Lucan between the two top contenders looms as a battle for the league championship. Game time is 8:15 p.m. Win in Last Minutes A goal by Paul Barnes on passes from Brad Hodgins and Paul Deplan- cke with less than two minutes to go in the third period to give the Irish Saturday's narrow win over Belmont. The first period was all even with Ron Goodhand converting a pass from Jesse Crawford for Lucan with Brad Beattie replying for the Bombers. In the middle frame the Irish mov- ed ahead on successful shots by Grana, Larsen, Brad Hodgins and Jesse Crawford. Joe Febrey assisted on two goals while Brad Muir, Todd Hayter and Paul Barnes each helped set up PANTHERS WIN The Exeter RSD Panthers gained three points in.. two Lambton- Middlesex novice house league hockey games this week. The Panthers played to a 2-2 tie with Ilderton and scored a 4-1 victory over the Exeter III club. In the tie with Ilderton Geoff Vann scored on an .unassisted effort and Bryce Hann converted a pass from Geoff Maver. Ryan Beckett paced the Panthers . scoring attack against the other Ex- eter club with a two goal perfor- mance. Getting assists were Scott Rasenberg and Rob Turner. 'The other successful shooters were Andrew Hern and Geoff Hann with assists going to Geoff Maver and Rob Turner. BUNCH OF OLD HAWKS - The 1976 Exeter junior Hawks defeated the Molting Hawks 8.3 in an exhibi- tion game, Saturday. Above, Jock Chipchase, Keith Ahrens and Pete McFaIIs of the Molting Hawks talk to Ken Pinder, Steve Jennison and Brian Taylor of the junior Hawks. T -A photo. ROYAL'S® NEW YEAR CELEBRATION E ROYALZONE®OzoNE MACHINE WITH THE PURCHASE OF A ROYAL' WHIRLPPOOL SPA*. A $1.000.00 VALUE ABSOLUTELY FREE. • The Royalrone' Ozone Machos, gives you Ow peace of mind to loam the pure elegance and cetebrabon of owrwn9 a pew Revel' Whw,pool Spa Lel your Royal' Moet heNd Delon. 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This Saturday the Exeter Petites host the Iluron Park Petites in Ilen sall at 3:15 p.m. one score. Bill Horlick tallied for Belmont in the middle session and Paul Gilks and Mark Rinker hit in the third period to tie the score and set the stage for the winner by Barnes. Power Plays Help Four of the Irish goals in Wednes- day's win over Thamesford came while enjoying power play advantages. Jesse Crawford counted the first ex- tra man score in the first period on passes from Joe Febrey and Ron Goodhand. Also hitting the opposing net in the first 20 minutes of play was Brad Muir with a pair of successful shots. Wayne Urbshott helped set up both and Brant Larsen and Crawford drew single assists. The next two power play scores oc- curred in the second period from the sticks of Urbshott and Larsen. Credited with assists were Scot Denomy, Bob Thirlwall and Brad Muir. In the final session again with a man advantage Grant Larsen notch- ed his second of the night on passes provided by Urbshott and Thirlwall. Broncos get impressive win The Exeter Broncos opened the On- tario Minor Hockey Association atom CC round robin playoffs in impressive style with a Sunday 8-2 victory over Forest. The Broncos are involved in the round robin playoffs with Lambeth, Forest and Ridgetown. The locals will be in Lambeth tonight, Wednesday. The first period was all even as Joel Campbell registered for the Broncos on an unassisted effort and Scott McEwen replied for Forest. Three straight second period goals pretty well clinched the victory for the Broncos. Campbell scored his se- cond without help, Steve Farquhar registered on passes from Gavin Snell and Jeff Lingard and Lingardhit the Forest net with assists going to Far- quhar and Campbell on a power play attempt. In the third period Joel Campbell competed his hat trick for the game and Mark Brintnell was successful. Both were on unassisted dashes. To complete the Broncos marksman Ian Jean converted a pass from Joel Campbell and ,Derek Beckett tallied with passing help from Farquhar and Campbell. Times -Advocate, January 21, 1987 Page 3A Good week for SH basketball The three boys basketball teams at South Huron District high school were very successful in six Huron -Perth Conference games this week. Against St. Marys, the South Huron seniors scored an easy 85-59 victory, the juniors won by a score of 55-41 and the midgets were on top of a 66-32 count. In a tripleheader against Central Huron of Clinton, the senior Panthers won 79-65, the midgets reigned 45-32 and the only loss was in the junior contest by a score of 42-32. Scott Miller led the seniors in the scoring department with 30 points against St. Marys and 38 points in the Clinton contest. In each game Chris Pearen was the runnerup with 26 and 31 points respectively. Rob Pearen's 18 points were high for the locals in the loss to Clinton and in the win over St. Marys led with 22 points while Jim Dickins checked in with 12 points. Doug Clarke and Dave O'Connor each netted 16 points in the midgets win over St. Marys and the best against Clinton were Jason Clarke with'a dozen points and Dave O'Con- nor with eight to his credit. In a two game set with Regina Mun- Pee wees w i n first playoff The Exeter pee wees started this year's Ontario Minor Hockey Association round robin playoffs Wednesday by playing a 4-4 tie with Ridgetown. The locals -are involved in a round robin series with Ridgetown, Lambeth and Forest. Lambeth will be in Exeter tonight. Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. and the two clubs return to Lambeth for an 8 pin. contest on January 28. A home and home series with Forest goes in Exeter January 31 and in Forest on February 5. The return game in Ridgetown is set for February 6. • It took two goals in the. last 28 seconds of play to get Wednesday's draw with Ridgetown. With the visitors ahead 4-2 going into the last minute of play, David Schwindt cut the Exeter deficit by completing a three-way passing combination with Steve Dubarry and Brett Lammie. With the clock running down to three seconds, Jason Bern squared the score on passes from Schwindt and Dubarry. Steve Dubarry notched the first two Exeter goals with assists going to Joel Campbell. Jason Heywood and Jim Ahrens. teams di College of London the South Huron seniors won by a 67-46 score and the juniors were on the short end of a 46-34 count. Scott Miller with a 30 point total was high with Chris Pearen getting 22 points. Rob Pearen's 22 point output was best for the juniors. In a College Avenue tournament in Woodstock, the South Huron juniors defeated Parkhill 52-27 and lost 52-23 to College Avenue and 59-44 to Strat- ford Central. Juniors of '76 back in action The Exeter Molting Hawks were able to keep up to the 1976 champion- ship version of the Exeter junior Hawks for the first period in Satur- day's exhibition game and then the younger legs prevailed. The Molting Hawks, an oldtimers team composed of players more than 35 years of age won a game in London earlier in the day. The only goal of the first period was fired by Matt Muller of the juniors on a pass from Kim McKinnon. Most of the junior championship team of 10 years ago were back for Saturday's encounter under the direc- tion of coach Ron Bogart. Bob Drum- mond was also back looking after the training need of the players. In the middle period, John Van Gerwen, Fred Mommersteeg and Brian Taylor were successful for the juniors. Assisting were Phil Knight, Ken Pinder, Jim Ferguson, Gerald Weido and Rick Ingram. Bill Chipchase counted the first score for the oldtimers. Gerald Weido counted two goals in the final 15 minutes of play for the - junior club with Brian Taylor, Tom Hayter and John Van Gerwen adding single markers. Third period assists for the juniors were picked up by Rick Ingram, Gerald Weido, Steve Jennison and Ken Pinder. To complete the oldtimers scoring Bill Chipchase converted a pass from brother Jack and Bob McDonald was successful on an unassisted effort. The three stars as chosen by cur- rent junior Hawks manager Dan Brintnell were Glenn Stire who stop- ped a barrage of shots in the Molting Hawks net and Gerald Weido and John Van Gerwen of the juniors. The older generation thought nothing of getting up at 5 a.m. The younger generation doesn't think much of it. either. 4.);01.,:r .- 13ll.lfi� G�. H.%1ti',is �- THREE STARS — The three stars in Saturday's exhibition game were Glenn Stire of the Molting Hawks and Gerald Weido and John Van Gerwen of the 1976 junjor Hawks. T -A photo. 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