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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1987-03-11, Page 19Mohawks bounce back to tie Tavistock The Exeter Mohawks and Tavistock Royals are all tied up at a game apiece in the finals to decide the Ontario hockey AssociationSenior 'B' league championship. On home ice Sunday night the Mohawks, a bit sluggish after a long layoff lost 4-2 to Tavistock. In Tavistock Monday night'it was a dif- ferentstory as the Exeter club came up with a solid team effort and edged out a 2-1 victory. The third game of the best -of -seven series goes Friday night at the South Huron Rec Centre at 8:30 p.m. with the fourth contest Saturday in Tavistock. The fifth tilt goes in Exeter March 18 with a sixth if necessary in Tavistock March 21 and the seventh in Exeter March 22. The winner of the Exeter -Tavistock series goes on to play either Grand Valley or Markdale. Grand Valley currently leads two games to none. The other four teams still in title con- tention are Alvinston, Lambeth, Dresden and Mooretown. Late scorers All goals in Monday's game in Tavistock came in the third period of a very cleanly played game. Referee Doug Wilkinson only called seven minor penalities to each club. Scott Eccles joined the Mohawks in- jury list and was missing Monday with a bruised sternum, but is ex= petted to be back in action, Friday. After two scoreless periods of play, the Mohawks broke the scoring famine at 1:18 of the final frame as Norm Campbell converted a pass from Al Gates. Only: two minutes later a Meat three- way passing play put the Mohawks in front by two goals and proved to be the game winner. Pat Cyr hit the Tavistock net on passes from Al Gates and Ron Elliott. With less than eight minutes to go Dave Ebey beat Rick Pikul in the Ex- eter goal for the first and only time in the game with assists going to Kevin Albrecht and Mike Booth. • From here on the Royals put on the pressure trying to get the tying goal, but Pikul was equal to the situation with a number of key saves. Layoff hurts In Sunday's game the close of two weeks layoff the Mohawks enjoyed after eliminating New Hamburg was very apparent as Tavistock held a good .- margin of play_ and almost doubled the Exeter output of shots on goal. After two periods of play the Royals had outshot the Mohawks by 19 to nine and in the final frame it was nine to • six. Near the halfway mark of the first period, Tavistock broke out with two quick goals. Terry Zehr was the first to count on passes from Kevin Reiger GOAL MOUTH PILEUP — Kris Bedard of the Mohawks is on the ice during this pileup around the Tavistock net Sunday night. To the left are Pete Tuckey and Pat C r. T -A photo and Neil Cameron, at 9:39. Captain Paul Albrecht made the score 2-0 as he converted a pass from Jeff Kaufman Qnly a minute after Albrecht's marker. Late in the opening period, Dave Ebey completed a three-way passing combination with Kevin -Albrecht and Ross Yantzi as the two teams were playing tour aside. A.power play'situation at 13:57 of the second period produced the first Exeter goal of the night as Ron Elliott hit the Tavistock net on passes provid- ed by Norin Campbell and M Gates. The Mohawks gained a little momentum in the third period and cut the deficit to a single goal at 11:29 as a pair al defencemen teamed up. Randy Kraul registered on a pass from Barry Baynham. With about a minute to go. Exeter coach Jack Chipchase pulled goalie Rick Pikul in favour of a sixth at- tacker. but the move backfired as Steve Hohl bit the empty net with 20 seconds top). GENERALS WIN SHAMROCK TITLE - The Exeter Generals won the 'B' championship of the recent Shamrock midget playoff tournament. Back, left, coach Mike Stewart, Rob Taylor, Bryan Quinn, Richard Voogel, Bill Vondeworp. Jeff Kints, Darryl McCann, Jim Dickins, Tim Moore and manager Tom McCann: Front, Fred Greg Steve Lingard, Steve Watson, De fek Martin, Jeff Hoffman Shawn Moore. and Jeff Hannah. LA photo mes -Advocate Serving South Huron, North Middlesex & North Lambton Since 1873 TIED UP Hawks forward Steve Gould (7) and an unidentified player tied up a Brussels player in Sunday's action. Defenceman Jeff Pfaff is shown in the background. The Exeter pee wees scored a pair of impressive victories Saturday and qualified for the Shamrock league finals with St. Marys supplying the opposition.on March 22: The first game victory.by a score of 10-4 over Port Stanley was achiev- ed in great come -from -behind fashion. Trailing 4-1 early in the se- cond period the Exeter youngsters re - hounded with nine unanswered goals to clingh the victory. In the next con- test they defeated Dorchester 6-2. in the first game. Jason Heywood put the Exeter club in front on a pass from Jason Hern early in the first period.Then it was Port Stanley tak- ing over with four straight scores. Late in the second session. Brett Lammie, David Schwindt and Steve DuBarry scored for the locals to get back on even terms. Getting assists were David Schwind:. Fred Godbolt, andJason Heywood. The David Schwindt goal came while his mates were playing shorthanded. What proved to be the winning goal at 15 seconds of the third period was shot by Jason Heywood on a three- way passing combination with Steve DuBarry and Jamie ('ornish on a power play. David Schwind! and Steve DuBarry each fired two successful shots in the balance of the third period and Brett Lammie hit for the single. Jim Ahrens picked up two assists and Joel Campbell helpedset up one score. • . in the win over Dosehester, the Ex- eter scoring attack was led by Steve DuBarry-with two goals.Scoring in single fashion were Brett Lammie, David Schwindi,Fred Godbolt-and Jason Heywood. The goals by LaM- mie and Godbolt came on a power play attempts and one of DuBarry's was registered with Exeter playing shorthanded. Jim Ahrens and David Schwindt were the top playtnakers with two assists apiece. Getting single assists were Jason Heywood, Jamie Cornish and Jgel Campbell. The Exeter Waxers scored an 8-0 win over Forest to up their OMHA round robin playoff series record to four wins, two losses and a pair of ties. The Waxers were -eliminated from Shamrock playoff action as they lost 3-1 to Port Stanley. The next OMHAactionfor the Wax- ers will be March 17 when St. Thomas travels to Exeter for a 7 p.m. contest and Petrolia will be here the next night at the same time. in the shutout win over Forest Jason Lindenfield was in goal for the Waxers blocking all opposing shots while Brent' Urlin and Marty DeBruyn were firing a pair of suc- cessful shots each. Scoring in single fashion were Chris McDonald, cap- tain Jeff Sararas, Ben Guenther and Chris Lerikos. Leading the Exeter playmakers with two assists each were Marty Delruyn,Ryan Soldan, Chris Lerikos and Adam Jean. Helping set up one goal each were Jeff McLean, Chris' McDonald and Jeff Sararas. The only goal for'the Waxers in the loss•tocPort Stanley came from the sticit of Chris Lerikos on an unassisted effort. The Exeter Hawks were literally and figuratively "collared" by the Brussels Bulls in the opening game of their best -of -seven northern division final on Sunday. Jeff McGavin hung a shut -out col- lar on the locals as he backstopped the loop winners to a 3-0 victory. The loss.was extremely.costty<.fotir the Hawks as two stalwarts will be in special collars and probably watching from the sidelines for the balance of the series. George Pratt, who was one of the team's top scorers in the past few weeks, went out of the game early in the first period with a.separated shoulder. Midway through the second. Scott Bogart followed him to the dressing room with a badly bruised collarbone. Bogart was just rounding into shape after suffering a similar injury before Christmas. He would get batck in the series if it goes_ long enough. The Hawks also lost Scott Lovie when he picked up a match penalty with only five seconds left in the game when he was fingered for spitting by referee Gary Gravett. He'll probably miss the next three games. Second game in the series will be played in Exeter tonight (Wednes- day) with the third back in Brussels on Friday and the fourth at the local rec centre on Sunday night. Albert Hummel with a score of 516 led the men in Tdesday's shuffleboard competition at the South Huron /tee Centre. Next were Ray Cottle 464 and Ross Richardson 399. The high scores for the ladies were Verda Lightfoot 481. Belva Rowe 438 and Mabel McKnight 342. in Wednesday's action high six game scores were Wilma Davis 593, and Verda Lightfoot 372 for the ladies and Lloyd Lovell 515 and Roy Hunter 315 for the men. Five game best were John Pepper 439, Harold Davis 384. Tom Yellow 373, Beatrice Ballantyne 376, Mabel McKnight 326 and Pearl McKnight 325. Recording the highest scores in Thursday's play were Meine Eizenga 535, Walter Davis 458 and Ross Richardson 436. REGISTER FOR USBORNE BALL - Registration for the Usborne Minor Baseball Association was held recently. Above, Jeff Kerslake and Ben Oke sign in with officials Sharon Passmlore and Darlene Passmore. In the opener, McGavin collared the Hawks for the second time this season as he was unbeatable in the nets for the Bulls, although he was also aided by some poor shooting on the part of the Hawks. The teams came out hitting in the first period and both had nine men seneto the penalty box. but neither could connect on powerplay opportunities. The Bulls finally beat Derek Switzer at the 9:45 mark of the initial stanza with Kevin McArter being the triggerman. , Soft, wet ice plagued the Hawks in the opening minute of the second period. After they ran into trouble with the puck suddenly stopping on the ice, Gravett called a brief delay in the action to allow the playing sur- face to dry off. However, on the first play after the faceoff, defenceman Steve Batten had the puck stick on the ice just outside his blueline and McArter jumped on it to go in alone on Switzer. The lat- ter made the initial save, but McArter picked up his own rebound and found the range before the Hawks could get back to cover up. The Bulls scored their final marker near the midway mark of the third when the Hawks were pressing on a powerplay. Rob Cardiff picked up the disc and scored on the short-handed effort to pull the game out of reach. The Hawks ended up with 18 penalties, one more than the Bulls. The total included fighting majors and -game -misconduct% to S n Whiteford and the Bulls Bill Haines fit the third. Switzer, who was only over- shadowed slightly by McGavin, kick- ed out 33 shots for the Itawks and kept them in the game in the first period when he faced 17 and allowed only one to get past him. McGavin ended up with 27 saves in his shut -out performance. Oust ('entenniares The Hawks completed their sweep over the defending OHA chiimpion Centennaires on the latter's ice, Tues- day, when they scored five times in the final period to post a 7-5 triumph. Three of those goals came in the last minute and 13 seconds when it ap- peared that the Seaforth crew would extend the series. After jumping into a quick lead in the first minute of. the game, the Hawks trailed by a 2-1 margin at the end of one, and were still behind by one at the end of two as the teams-. traded single tallies in the middle frame. George Pratt scored for the locals in the first and Steve Gould dented the twine in the second on a play with Pratt. Gould notched his second of the game to pull the teams even at 3-3 at the 2:50 mark of the third period with Pratt and Sean Whiteford picking up the assists. - • Seaforth then took another one -goal margin only to have Pratt even things up at the 7:58 mark when he finished off a play with Whiteford and Dale Timmermans. The home team then added their fourth straight powerplay goal at the 11:50 mark and held that 5-4 advan-. tage until there was only 73 seconds left when Scott Bogart found the range with Dean Schram and Pratt picking up the assists. The Hawks went right back ontdthe attack and 23 seconds later Whiteford scored the winner on a play with Gould and Pratt. An Exeter penalty with 30 seconds remaining gave Seaforth two extra attackers as they pulled their goalie to get the equalizer, but Gould hit the open net with four seconds left to get the clincher and advance the Hawks. Schram and Pratt assisted on the play. The Hawks sat out 15 of the 26 minors called and gave up four powerplay markers. Derek Switzer. who is unbeaten in his last 10 games between the pipes for the locals, recorded 45 saves to play an instrumental part in the win. He was particularly effective in the first when Seaforth fired 22 shots at him and again in the third when they had 18. • Derek Cooper had•38 saves for the Centennaires in their final game of the season. BIG STOP - Derek Switzer was a.busy man as the Exeter Hawks lost their northern division playoff opener to Brussels on Sunday. Here he kicks out a shot from Mike Chapman while referee Gary Gravett watches the action. tourney goes in Parkhill For the third time since 1979. North Middlesex District High School in Parkhill is playing host to the Oi'SSA 'A' baSkethall championships March 11-13. With representatives from all parts of the province attending. there will he Tots of action beginning Wednesday afternoon and running through Friday evening. The Marauders of Parkhill. with home court advantage, should be very competetive in this tournament. In six exhibitjongames against 'AAA' and 'AA'schools, the wine and white lost only once. dropping an 86-69 deci- sion to. London Beal Raiders. the number five ranked 'AAA' team in the province. Several other teams bring equally impressive records to OFSSA, a fact which should result in some particularly close games in the early rounds. When asked why Parkhill is play- ing host a third time in so few years, xxx tournament director Jim Allen noted that. white North Middlesex is a small school. 400 students. it has a very large proportion of energetic and dedicated people who enjoy a challenge of this nature. Nearly seven months in planning. most of the work has been done by students under the guidance of teachers. Al the heart of this plann- ing are Allen's two co-ed physical education classes which have taken on the work as part- of a unit on leader- ship and administration. Allen feels that these students have learned more from planning this tournament than a year of classroom work could teach them. - So it's basketball levet at Parkhill as the last minute details are finaliz- . ed for the three-day event. The tour- nament winds up Friday evening with the consolation game at 4 p.m. and the championship final at 6 p.m Effective March 12, 13. 14 A while supplies last X Delicious pkg of 6 Raspberry Tarts $ 1.79 X Solt Deluxe v Dinner Rolls do:. 99C J� Deluxe, pkg. 6 y Hot Cross Buns $ 1.79 A X Try our cherry rolls, tea bisciuts and ice • box cookies. isstyNu X Battery (#Cheese House X "Traditional quality" since 1929 V Exeter 235.0332 A x><xx><)›.. /