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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1987-03-18, Page 13Mohawks within one The Exeter Mohawks carne up with two victories to move within one game of the Ontario Hockey Associa- tion Central Senior B' championships. After splitting the first two games of the best -of -seven series a week earlier, the Mohawks moved in front with a 2-1 win on home ice Fr;day over the Tavistock Royals and Satur- day won 3-1 in come -from -behind fashion. The fifth game goes tonight, Wednesday at the South Huron Rec Centre. Game time is 8:30 p.m. Sixth and seventh games if necessary will be in 'Tavistock Saturday and Ex- etc,r Sunday. The winner of this series will meet the Grand Valley Harvesters in the first round of OIIA playdowns. A con- tingent from Grand Valley was in Tavistock Saturday night doing some advance scouting. Rick Pikul...a Mohawk star The stars of the weekend for the Mohawks were goalie Rick Pikul and right winger Rick Hart. Pikul gave up only one goal in each game and was instrumental in keeping his club in contention. Hart was in on all five goals for the Exeter club. He scored three times and added two assists. Both teams now have back-up goaltenders from other clubs. Ray Brownlee from the Harriston Blues is subbing for Louie Arts of the Mohawks who is out for the season and Tom Boehler of New Hamburg is the backup for Tavistock since Larry McKay was injured in the second game of this series. Injuries continue to haunt the Mohawks. Along with Arts, Cam Doig is out for the year; Brian Mercer back Friday from a wrist injury, hurt a knee and missed Saturday's game and Scott Eccles is playing with a lot of pain. Defenceman Steve Nelson is expected to be out for another week. Ross Yantzi of Tavistock received a broken.nose and slight concussion in Friday's game. To add to the Mohawk problems Barry Baynham left Sunday for two weeks in Florida. Pat Cyr missed the last two games because of a skiing trip to Western Canada. He is ex- pected back this weekend. Won in last two minutes The outcome orSaturday's game in Tavistock was up for grabs until the late minutes of the third period. The Royals were first on the scoreboard. Defenceman Paul Kalbfleisch completed a three-way passing combination with Mike Booth and Dave Frey at 5:59 of the first period while John Jongeneel of the. Mohawks was off for slashing. With time running out in the first period, the Mohawks were able to square the score as captain Randy WAITING FOR PASS — Kris Bedard of the Exeter Mohawks is posi- tioned between Dean MacDonald and Jim Redfern waiting for o pass in Friday's game in Exeter. T -A photo Tweens ringette final goes to deciding tilt The final series to decide the cham- pionship of the Huron -Perth Ringette Association in the Tweens division is going right to the wire. At the South Huron Rec Centre Thursday night Seaforth scored four Eberle best in shuffleboard John Eberle recorded the high score of 488 in Tuesday's six game shuffleboard competition at the South Iluron Rec Centre. Next came Howard Johns 479 and Ross Richard- son and John Pepper ties at 442. Best for the ladies in six games were Olive Essery 463, Verda Lightfoot 447 and Beatrice Ballantyne 439. Top five game scores for the men were Meine Eizenga 452, Eldon Heywood 423 and Lloyd Lovell 411. John Pepper 382, Harold Rowe 295 and Phil Hern were the top male scorers m four games Wednesday and three game highs were Ross Richard- son 318, Meine Eizenga 275 and Bob Blair 252. For the ladies in four games the scores • were Olga _Davis_ 237, Pearl McKnight 223 and Olive Essery 221. Best in three games were Grace Far- quhar 279, Edna Caldwell 240 and Margaret McBride 212. Thursday's high scores were Lloyd Lovell 448, Phil Hern 398 and Harold Rowe 361. times in the last four minutes of play to pull out a 7-6 victory. The third game of the best -of -seven series will go Thursday, March 26 at 8 p.m. at the South Huron Rec Centre. In the first period of Thursday's game, Lisa Henderson fired two suc- cessful shots for Seaforth and Tracy Fortune added a single. For the Ex- eter Tweens Julia Webster counted on an unassisted effort and Julia Merner converted a pass from Bryden Gryseels.. The Exeter girls came on strong in the second and final session and scored three times in the first eight minutes to go ahead 5-3. Giselle Charrette took a pass from Carrie Love to tie the score and in quick succession Becci Farquhar • completed a three-way passing com- bination with Becky Morgan and Julia Merner and on a similar play Giselle Charrette registered from Jayne Rowe and Bryden Gryseels. They were able to hold this lead un- til Seaforth got into high gear with less than four minutes to go They scored four times•in a spat.: of one minute and 18 seconds. Lisa Henderson notched two scores tip tier game total, tofour and Jill Wood and Tracy Fortune hit in single fashion. Julia Merner tallied the sixth Ex- eter goal on.a pass from Giselle Char- rette with only 21 seconds to go butit came a little late. Kraut registered on a slick passing play with Barry Baynham and Rick Hart. That's the way the score remained until less than two minutes were left in regulation time in the third period. Rick Pikul robbed Tavistock of what appeared to be a certain goal and his mates came right back to the other end just as referee Jon Fleming was calling a Tavistock penalty, Rick Hart banged a loose puck into the net. Bill Glover and Barry Baynham assisted at 18:35. Tavistock coach Don Burton pulled his goalie with less than a minute to gp. Rick Hart broke loose two -on -one and found Bill Glover all alone for the empty net insurance goal. Referee Fleming gave nine minor penalties to each team as the Mohawks outshot Tavistock 37 to 36. Less shots Friday Although both goalies played well in Friday's 2-1 victory for the Mohawks, they didn't face as many shots as the next night. The Exeter club outshot the opposition by 29 shots to 23. The game was only three minutes old when the Exeter defence duo of Barry Baynham and Randy Kraut moved the puck into the 'Tavistock net to set up Rick Hart for his first of two scores. game of league title The next scoring didn't come until five minutes of the third period when Neil Cameron stole the puck in the Exeter net and got away a successful shot while failing down. The winning score came at 13:07 of the final frame when Rick Ilart elud- ed the entire Tavistock team and found the net. Referee Ivan Bryce called 15 minor penalties on Tavistock and 14 to the Mohawks. The only major calls were to Jeff Kaufman of the Royals and Exeter's Barry Baynham for cross- checkin • WIDE OF THE NET — The puck misses the Tavistock net in Friday's Senior 'B' game in the picture are Bill Glover, Rick Hort and John Kernick. in Exeter. Mohawks T -A photo dvocate & North Lambton Since 1873 March 18, 1987 Serving South Huron, North Middlesex Page1A Hawks lose two tough overtime games, not many shoulders left- to putto wheel After suffering back-to-back heart- break overtime losses, the Exeter Hawks find themselves on the -brink of elimination in their northern divi- sion final against the Brussels Bulls. All the cliches covering do or die situations will apply when thelocals skate on to the ice tonight (Wcdnes-. day) in Brussels, trailing the series 3-1. Among the cliches applicable is the one calling on the team members to put their collective shoulders to the wheel. Therein may lie one of their greatest obstacles in that they have few good shoulders left. The Hawks lost leading scorer George Pratt with a shoulder separa- tion in game one and veteran Scott Bogart was also sidelined then when he aggravated a collarbone injury that had occurred earlier in the season. Sunday night, defensive stalwart Dale Timmermans went to the dress- ing room with what was feared a separated shoulder. He returned later, but saw only a couple of shifts in the third period and overtime. Jon O'Connor also skated off in the overtime favoring a shoulder that he had injured late in the season. The Hawks knotted the series at a game each with a 5-3 win at the rec centre on Wednesday, but then came the two overtime losses by identical 3-2 scores to put their backs to the wall. If they do manage a win in Brussels, tonight, sixth game in the series will be, at the rec centre on Friday. Win game two Two' goals within 47 seconds just after the midway mark of the third period carried the Hawks to their lone win in the series at thereccentre on Wednesday. They led 3-2 heading into the third 'atter coming from behind a 1-0 first period deficit, but the Bulls pulled even at the 6:25 mark of the final stan- za when Marty Rutledge scored his second marker of the game. Jeff Reid scored the eventual win- ner at the 11:12 mark on a play with Jim Lewis and Jon O'Connor and then Sean Whiteford came right back with the insurance marker with Steve Gould and Steve McIntyre picking up the assists. O'Connor paced the scoring parade with two markers, one on a powerplay, and Jeff Dalrymple not- ched the other. Reid and Lewis had two assists each and singles were recorded by Jim Dickens, Whiteford, O'Connor, Gould and McIntyre. • ' CELEBRATION• Exeter -Hawks Steve Gould (7) celebrates .hisse- cond goal of the game on Sunday that sent the contest into two periods of overtime. Moving in to congratulate him are defencemen Steve Batten and Dean Schram. Dave Rook won the netminding hat- tle was he kicked out 27 shots and Pat Chambers had 28 saves for the Bulls. The Hawks had 10 of the 17 penalties called. Top effort unrewarded The Hawks played one of their best games in Brussels on Friday, but couldn't find the range on several good scoring plays as they eventual- ly went down to defeat in the first overtime session. The locals were particularly domi- nant in the second period when most of the play was in the Brussels zone, but poor shooting and some solid net - minding by Jeff McGavin kept them at bay. Exeter took a 1-0 lead early in the second when Steve Batten found the range on a powerplay with Steve Gould and Dean Schram drawing the assists. Brussels then came back with two markers in the third but the Hawks knotted the count with just under a minute and a half left in the stanza when .teff Reid beat McGavin on a play with Gould. The overtime session was only 23 seconds underway when captain Tim Fritz scored his second of the game to settle the issue as the Bulls controll- ed the play from the opening faceoff and scooted around the defence to beat Dave Rook. The Hawks hit two goal posts in the extra session, but that was as close as they could come. McGavin ended up with 43 saves, while Rook had 36. The Bulls sat out 13 of the 25 penalties called. The list included fighting majors and game miscon- ducts to Jeff Dalrymple and Marty Rutle e late in the first period. Lose "must" game Coat ' Dave Bogart fingered Sun- day's home game as a "must win" situation for the Hawks and they had their chance in a game that could • have gone either way. The locals came out flat in the first period and fell behind 2-0. Steve Gould got one of those back on an unassisted effort at the 1:48 mark of the middle frame and he then • teamed up with Dean Schram and Steve McIntyre to get the equalizer WIN KARATE AWARDS Two members of the Exeter karate club won trophies in a recent Ontario open competition in Hamilton. From the left are Khampagne Chansamone who was second in fighting and Dar. Bell with a third place finish in kata. T -A photo THAT DOES IT — Brussels Bulls sharpshooter Kevin McArter raises his stick in jubilation after scoring the winner in the sudden death overtime against the Exeter Hawks, Sunday. Not sharing his en- thusiasm are Bryan Quinn, Dave Rook, Jeff Reid and Jeff Pfaff. Hawks, Irish rewarded Members of the Exeter Hawks and Lucan Irish won their share of awards at Saturday's annual banquet of the Western Junior 'D' hockey league. Goal tenders were conspicuous by their presence. Puck stoppers from both area teams were honoured. 1n the northern group, the Exeter Ilawks combination of Derek Switzer, Brad Bender and Dave Rook won trophies and in the south division Paul Woolford and Doug Haskell of the Lucan Irish were similarily honoured. On the offensive side of the ledger, Wayne tlrbsholt of the Lucan club won the scoring championship. llrh- shott, one of the veteran Irish per- formers fired 55 successful shots and added 47 assists for an overall point festal of 102. Tasty Nu Bread • Always fresh. A \ ! -4000 finest quality Xn Fresh Baked Country Buns doz. 99C A Delicious Chocolate Chip y Cookies doz. $1.29 A Nutritious b's X Bran Muffins • '1.49 XTry our Health cooki's. Danish n pastry and Apple fritters! with just under four minutes left in regulation time. Play was even through the scoreless 10 -minute overtime session but the Bulls dominated the sudden - death period and were finally reward- ed at the 6:14 mark when Kevin McArter rammed home the winner. 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