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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1987-02-25, Page 13Hawks win first playoff after finishing The Exeter Hawks jumped into a quick one -game lead in their northern division semi-final with Seaforth, Sun- day, posting a 5-1 triumph on the Centenaires' home ice. Second game in the best -of -seven was played last night (Tuesday) at the rec centre. Third game in the series will be in Hensel! on Saturday night at 8:30. That's a home game for the Hawks. Tuesday, the teams go back to Seaforth for the fourth game. The fifth game will be in Exeter the following Friday, if needed, with the sixth set for Seaforth on Sunday. Netminder Dave Rook was a key part of the initial playoff win as he kicked out 36 shots. He was finally beaten on a powerplay with less than four minutes left in the game to spoil his shutout bid. After a scoreless first period, the Hawks hit the sheet early in the se= cond when Dan Nairn finished off a three-way play with Scott Lovie find Steve Batten. A powerplay goal by Steve Gould near the midway mark of the middle frame turned out to be the winner with George Pratt and Jeff Dalrym- ple picking up the assists. The Hawks took control of the game in the final 30 seconds of the second when they scored two quick tallies. Lovie notched the first on a solo effort and then Nairn came back with his se- cond of the game in the final second of the period. Pratt -picked up the assist on that one: Gould added an insurance tnarker early in the third when he connected for his second powerplay tally of the afternoon, with Pratt again setting up tTThThe was again on the chippy side as the two squads have built up a bit of a feud over the past couple of weeks. No fisticuffs broke out, but the Centenaires sat out 19 minors and the Hawks were in the sin -bin for 18. Rook was at his best in the first period when he turned aside 16 shots as the defending OHA champions stormed to the attack. The Hawks finished the game with 44 shots on the Seaforth net. The Hawks gained a tie and a win as they finished regular *ason play with a home -and -home battle with the last place Clinton Mustangs. The Clinton crew ended any hope -Scores from minor hockey MVP IN TOURNEY - Darren Kints, Sean McCann and Paul Charrette present the most valuable player awards to Goderich's Brian Chambers and Scott Campbell of Strathroy in the weekend mid get tournament 'B' final. T -A photo Mohawks three up in playoffs The Exeter Mohawks are within one game of reaching the Ontario HockeyAssociption Senior 'B' Central Division finals. The Mohawks defeated the New Hamburg Towers 8-5 in New Ham- burg Friday night and prevailed by a, score of 5-3 at the South Huron Rec Centre Sunday night to take a three game to none lead. The fourth game of a best -of -seven semi-final series goes tonight,_ Wednesday in New Hamburg at 8:30. p.m. with a fifth game if necessa back in Exeter Sunday night, March 1 at 7:30 p.m. A pair of Royals meet in the other semi-final series. The Tavistock Royals eliminated the Harriston Blues in three straight games and the Hillsburg Royals ousted Elora by win- ning 6-5 in double overtime of the fifth and deciding game of their series. Mohawks captain Randy Kraut was a tower of strength Friday night as his club stopped the Towers by an 8-5 count. - The Mohawks jumped into a 4-1 first period lead and were able to hold • that margin throughout the -game.--- ry Norm_Campbellstarted thexE etec �- scoring at 6:09 of the initial period on passes from Al Gates and Seott Ec- cles and 43 seconds later Mike Clark HONOUR GUEST SKATERS — Exeter figure skating club president Mary Jane MacDougall presents gifts to guest speaker Cathy Wilson and Paul Armes after Sunday's club carnival. _- T=A photo , •• .0 lb ICE DETECTIVES — Wendi Sims is the coach and chief detective along with Jerri Lee Davis, Juanita Chappel, Anita Wein and Toni DeJong at Sunday's Exeter figure skating club carnival. T -A photo registered on a three-way passing combination with Pete Tuckey and Bryan Baker. In the last four mintues of the period, Tuckey scored on a power play with assists going to Baker and Barry Baynham and Gates fired a successful shot with assists credited to Campbell and Eccles. Defenceman Randy Kraut who has been on a torrid scoring pace in recent games notched his first of two in the second minute of the middle stanza on a pass from Scott Eccles ander`rate-- period aeperiod power play for the Mohawks resulted in a goal from the stick of Scott Eccles. Providing the necessary passes were Barry Baynham and Randy Kraut. In the final period, captain Kraul took command of the Exeter ship and completed his hat trick performance with two shots that eluded Rich Baechler in the New Hamburg goal: He scored at 6:53 on passes from Barry Baynham and Al Gates on a power play and at the 16 minute mark converted passes from Pete Tuckey and Bryan Baker. Second period is decisive Two unanswered goals in the se- cond period proved, to be the dif- ference as the Mohawks downed the Towers 5-3 to take a good grip on the series. Each team notched single scores in the first 20 minutes of play as Joe Scherer hit for the Towers at 51 seconds and four minutes later Norm Campbell replied for the Exeter club on passes from Scott Eccles and Al Gates. The make the difference scores in the middle period were fired by Scott Eccles and Pete Tuckey with assists going to Doug Latta, Campbell. Mike Clark and Randy Kraut. - -In the first -11 minutes of the dos- ing session, Mohawks scored twice to take a four goal margin on the scoreboard. On a power play at 5:19 Al Gates hit on passes from Ron Elliott and Scott Eccles and five minutes later with the Mohawks playing a man short John Remick registered on an unassisted effort. The Exeter Legion Auxiliary pee wees were in Mitchell on the weekend to participate in a 'C' tournament and came up with two excellent performances. Both games went into - overtime _ shootouts with the Exeter club defeating Mitchell in the first after playing to a 5-5 tie -and in the second they were beaten by Howick in another shootout. The two teams had played to a 3-3 draw. In regulation play against Mitchell, Steve DuBarry was tops for the locals with a two goal effort. Scoring in single fashion were David Schwindt, Jamie Cornish and Joel Campbell. Jason Heywood led the playmakers with two assists. Helping on one goal apiece were Cornish, DuBarry and Campbell. In the shootout Jason Heywood and Jamie Cornish scored for Exeter to get the victory. Goalie Shawn McFalis stopped six of seven Mitchell overtime shooters. Steve DuBarry again led the Exeter club with two successful shots in the eventual loss to Howick. One came on an unassisted effort and the other on passes from Jason Heywood and Jim Ahrens. Brett Lammie converted a .pass from Joel Campbell tecomplete the Exeter ging; The Exeter midgets dropped three straight games in OMHA round robin playoffs. - The losses were 6-4 to Ridgetown and 4-2 and 5-1 to Lambeth. Against Ridgetown, Jeff Hoffman led the Exeter scoring with a two goal effort. Scoring in single fashion were Steve Watson and Paul Mellecke. Jeff Kints led the playmakers with two assists while Steve Lingard, Dar- ryl McCann, Bryan Quinn and Bill Vandeworp each helped set up one goal. In the 4-2 loss to Lambeth Paul Mellecke and Sharon Moore shot the Exeter goals with Darryl McCann getting two assists and"Moore one. Jim Dickins scored an unassisted goal in the 5-1 defeat to Lambeth. The RSD Panthers were eliminated in local novice playoffs on the weekend in Parkhill. After defeating Watford 4-2 and Lucan 2-1, the Panthers dropped a 1-0 decision to the host Parkhill team. In the win over Watford, Kevin Ross, Luke Sims, Jeff Inch and cap- tain .Bryce Hann scored for Exeter with assists going to Lucas Forrest,, Jeff Inch, Geoff Hann, Luke Sims. Ryan Beckett and Kevin Ross. Geoff Mauer and Bryce Hann were the marksmen for the Panthers in the victory over the Lucan Oilers. The lone goal for Lucan came from the stick of Ryan Herbert on a pass from Scott Thompson. WIN FOR PETITES The Exeter Petite Ringette tete p't W'itf"—GMeii h in their' first playoff -game. Saturday. Exeter came out on top winning 5-4.. The goals for Exeter came in single fashion from Jill Sararas, Cara Gard- ner, Carrie Simpson,Cheyenne Westlake, and Lisa Forrest. Assisting on the scoring were Christie Bedard, Cara Gardner, Car- rie Simpson. Lisa Forrest and Katie Armstrong. Terri Duckworth scored three goals for Goderich, with a single coming from Kristine Mclvor. The girls travel to Goderich Sunday for a 6:30 game. NOVICE PRECISION SKATERS WIN - The Exeter Entertainers novice precision skating team won silver medals in a recent competition in Mount Forest. Bock, left, Wendy Sims, Crissy O'Toole, Robin Poole, Jenny Wareham, Michelle Moore, Sue Anne Soldan, Shona Craig and coach Susan Roclowa. Front, Kristi Sargeant, Lisa Wareham, Brenyn Baynham, Melanie Phillips, Michelle McDonald, Shonyn Baynham and Barbara Tiernan. ° T -A photo The Exeter Bullets pee wees won the Lamton-Middlesex houseleague championship Tuesday as they played -0' a 3- r on. The win gave the Exeter club a total of 28 points over the season, two more than Ilderton who needed a win to force a playoff for the top spot. An unassisted goal from the stick of Ryan Lindenfield with less than two minutes remaining in the third period gave the Bullets the league title. Captain Mark Lynn scored one of the other goals on a solo dash and pro- vided the pass for the first score of the night for Lindenfield. Scoring for Ilderton were Mike Gionelli, Mike Robb and T. Wolsey. The Exeter . Waxers kept their championship hopes alive in the OMHA novice round robin playoffs Sunday as they played to a 1-1 tie with Byron. The Waxers will be at home at the South Huron Rec Centre Friday at 4:45 to meet St. Thomas. After that they have two games left with Petrolia and one each with Forest and St. Marys. The Byron club remains undefeated. in Sunday's tie with Byron Chris McDonald scored the only Exeter goal on an unassisted effort at 3:31 of the* third period and with only 42 seconds left in the game Byron notch- ed the equalizing score. T T T The Exeter Broncos scored an ex- hibition 6-4 victory over the Mitchell atom club in Hensall Sunday afternoon. Paul Charrette and ian Jean led the Broncos in a scoring way with two goals apiece. Scoring in single fashion were Ryan Stuart and Sean McCann. Jeff Lingard led in playmaking with a pair of assists while Ryan Stuart, Sean Mc't a'pn and Paul Charrette each helped , up one score. the Hawks had of finishing in first when they rallied for a 3-3 tie on their home ice on Wednesday. As it turned out, the tie was not too expensive for the Hawks as the Brussels Bulls whip- ped Seaforth on Friday night to take first place. Clinton scored twice in the final period while holding the Hawks off the sheet to post the stalemate. Sean Whiteford, Steve Gould and Jeff Dalrymple scored for the locals with Dale Timmermans assisting on a pair and single assists going to Jeff Reid and George Pratt. In Exeter, Friday, the Hawks. geared up for the playoffs with a 9-3 trouncing of the Mustangs, who show- ed up with only 12 skaters. second' The locfils opened up an 8-0 lead by the end of two and then relaxed in the third to allow the Mustangs to outscore them by a 3-1 margin. Steve Gould paced the attack with two goals and singles came off the sticks of George Pratt,Scott Louie, Jeff Dalrymple, Scott Bogart, Jim Lewis, Bill Fisher and Dave Casson. Pratt, Gould, Fisher and Dean Schram earned twoassistseach and helping out on one were Reid, Bogart, Timmermans, Nairn. Lewis and Ansems. Dave Rook recorded the win with an easy night. lie had only 24 shots to handle. with half those corning in the final stanza. . • !4*cnu ~w it atiL , F .. ori, (AP nsrJ s*AWt)'NA�uw Tutt( sr teiwbt TM( .11•,•15 WNW 115 ve,�iS MOAT ALT -11)R1. [APT JiUAN MUeo DAT( fib 20,0111 or°A2dc4j• O A A I7tAYA PALMILLA WM ~uAxt#1 3AU6H i)OM t► RA.ow' kw FISH s(0.:?f'^y,c_at TAtat SO'Pew,)S T i 45 MIMt1'ts wsext 1tO poUY is $OAT A[t.:► ‘111110% tAPT .1UM rt 40 _ DAIS ifs ,o, ill/ s+HOTof.. �.zef • LANDED THE BIG ONES Jack Fuller and Lorne Haugh of Exeter are shown with the striped marlin they caught on a recent holiday in Los Cabos, Mexico. mes - Sen in R S,,o h Hurn.,, ♦ur,h MiddW .. February 25, 1987 dvocate A wn,M limblon Sure 1573 PagelA Irish two games up in semi-final play The Lucan Irish have moved two games ahead of the Mount Brydges Bulldogs in the first round of playoffs in the OIIA Western Junior 'D' south division -in two very differently played games. In Lucan Saturday night. the Irish came from behind to win 5-4 in a very cleanly played game with only eight minor penalties called by referee Steve Baker. In Mount Brydges Sunday night it was a different story as the Irish jumped into an early 4-0 lead and were forced to hold back a strong at- tempt by the Bulldogs late in the third period. The game was penalty filled and the only two Mount Brydges scores came with the Irish playing a man short. The third game of the best -of -seven series will be played tonight. Wednes- day at 8:15 p.rn. at the Lucan Com- munity Centre and the fourth 'tilt is back in Mount Brydges Saturday night. If a fifth game is necessary it goes Monday, March 2 in Lucan. -' Lucan Saturday each notched single goals in the first period. Car- son Howlett registered for Mount Brydges and Brad Hodgins replied for the Irish on a three-way passing com- bination with Wayne Urbshott and Joe Febrey with four seconds to go on a power play. In the first half of the middle frame it was Steve Wright putting the Bulldogs ahead and Scott Denomy again knotting the score for Lucan on a pass from Grant Larsen. 'Ibsen -Tire -twee-sueeesstu shots for Mount Brydges by the 14 minute mark of the second stanza and with less than two minutes to go cap- tain Bob Thirlwall cut the Lucan deficit to a single goal as he hit on passes from Mark Bannen and Brad Hodgins. . The third. period was only 36 seconds old when Brad Hodgins not- ched his second score of the night. SHUFFLEBOARD A Valentine's pairs competition featured Tuesday's regular shuf- fleboard play Howard Johns and Iva Blair team- ed up to win with a score of 313. Next - came Charles Tindall and Verda Lightfoot 296. Joe Gosar and Olive Essery 262 and Albert Hummel and Olga Davis 255. In Thursday's play. Meine Eizenga was best for the men at 433 followed by Albert Hummel 419 and Howard Johns 394. Best for -the ladies was Jean Hern with a 411 score. Olive Essery scored 370 and Verda Lightfoot :149. This time Mark Bannen and Bob • Thirlwall assisted. 'The clock had moved' past the 12 minute mark when Brad Muir con- verted a pass from Paul Barnes to give the Irish the margin of victory: In the first period Sunday in Mount • Brydges, Bob Thirlwall put -the Irish quickly on top with a goal just past the three minute mark with Rob Hardy and Scott Denomy assisting and at the halfway mark and a Lucan power play in full swing Mark Bannen registered on a pass from Brad Muir. At less than five minutes of the final frame, Wayne Urbshott fired what proved to be the winning goal on a pass from Scott Denomy. With less than nine minutes to go Bob Thirlwall put his team up by four on a three-way combination with Jesse Crawford and Grant Larsen. Penalties cut into the Lucan lead in the last few minutes of the game as Chris Berthelot and Scott Lucio hit for the home team on power plays to make the score.much closer, butt hat was as close as they could come. Tweens win The Exeter ringette Tweens won two games this week in the first round of playoffs downing I luron Park 6-1 at Huron Park Friday and 9-2 in Hensall. Saturday. in the first contest. Bryden Gryseels and Carrie Lovie each _-..- s -fired twottoals Ln Ind the F:Yt ter al - - ___-- tack. Scoring in single style were Jayne Rowe and Julie Merner. Rowe was tops in assists with two and Gryseels, Lovie, Merner, Giselle ('harrette. Julie Webster and Barbie Ntortley each helped set up one goal. The lone marker for Iluron Park was' fired by Shauna Becker on an unassisted -effort. Becci Farquhar with a hat trick ef- fort was the best goal producer in the second Exeter victory. Giselle Char- rette was next in line with two suc- cessful shots and single scores were notched' by Janel Papple, Bryden Gryseels, Julia Merner and Jayne Rowe. Jayne Rowe . picked up three assists:Carrie Lovie. Becci Farquhar and Giselle Charrette assisted on two goals apiece and single assists went to Liz Coates. Julia Webster and Julia Merner For Huron Park. Shauna Hecker converted:( pass from Kathy Wilson and Christina Glanville Completed a three-way passing combination with Kerri-Lynn Rutten and Mary Lynn Dietrich. >GXXXXXXX>C)>Ct> Specials in effect Feb. 26.27,28 (While supplies lost) V A \v/ Tasty Nu Bread Always fresh. finest qualify r<.. 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