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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1987-03-25, Page 17• by Tavistock by Tavistock Mohawks title hopes dashed The 1986-87 season for the Exeter Mohawks ended abruptly this week as they suffered three straight defeats at the hands of the Tavistock Royals. After leading the OHA Central Senior 'B' league final three games to. one, the Mohawks came close to wrapping up the series on home ice, Wednesday. They went into a second overtime period before losing 4-3. Then it was off to Tavistock Satur- day night where the Royals prevail- ed 5-3. In the seventh and deciding game at the South Huron Rec Centre before the largest crowd of the season of 816 Sunday night, Tavistock won by an identical 5-3 score to advance to the OHA semi-finals. The Royals will be in Grand Valley Saturday night at 7:30 p.m. to meet the Harvesters in the first game of a best -of -seven series. The winner of this series meets the winner of the other semi-final series between Mooretown and Alvinston for the all -Ontario Senior 'B' champion- ship. At the moment Mooretown leads one game to none. Despite the Toss to Tavistock, the Mohawks enjoyed a very successful season and suffered only eight tosses.The important factor is that five of these defeats wereat the hands of the Royals. After the game coach Jack Chip - chase of the Mohawks said, "We had ROYALS GET TROPHY -- OHA Central Senior 'B' convener Bill Rowe presents the championship trophy to Tavistock Royals captain Paul Albrecht fallowing Sunday's win in Exeter. T -A photo a good season. You Can't take anything away from Tavistock. They have a good club and especially in the last three games were hungrier and played more aggressively than we did." Chipchase who announced early in the season that he Would not be back next year added, "They had the big boys who were able to bump and grind in the corners." About his retirement from coaching, Chipchase said "I have been back in Exeter for 11 years now and eight of those have been with the Mohawks. It's tiroe to get new blood with different faces and probably dif- ferent styles of play. Now I will enjoy being a spectator and my only on ice action will be with the Exeter Molting Hawks oldtimers." Manager Doc Campbell reiterated Chipchase's comments about the Tavistock team saying, "They were full credit for the wins and their strong play along the boards and in the corners paid off." Campbell indicating he would be back as manager for the 1987-88 add- ed, "We had a good year finishing on top in the regular schedule. I would like to thank our sponsors and our wonderful fans for their great sup- gor ."_F�wing Sunda–TS—seventh and deciding game, OHA league con- vener Bill Rowe presented the cham- pionship trophy to Tavistock captain Paul Albrecht. The Mohawks after losing Wednes- day's game in overtime protested a call at 11:48 of the second period when referee Lee Richards assessed a two minute penalty when a Tavistock player threw ,his stick. The protest which was rejected by OHA officials Friday night suggested a five minute penalty should have been called. The committee ruled the infraction did not warrant a distinct advantage. , Get early lead In the Wednesday game, the Mohawks took an early lead with two goals in the first 12 minutes of play. Rick Hart sent Al Gates in alone from about 20 feetout and he made no mistake in beating Jim Redfern in the Tavistock net at 7:12. Only four minutes later as the Mohawks put on pressure in the Royals end on a power play defenceman Doug Latta blasted in a shot from the right side with assists going to Rick Hart and Pete Tuckey. • The first 12 minutes of the middle period belonged to the Royals and on- ly great stops by Rick Pikul kept their goal output to two. At 4:07 Dave Frey stole the puck in the Exeter end and in quick fashion got the puck to Paul Kalbfleisch whh found Terry Zehr in the opeaJor first score of the game. At 11:13 Paul Kalbfleisch's long shot from the right blueline point_ foundthe Exeter net. The assist went to Steve Hohl and the score was even at 2-2. In the third period the Royals took quick advantage of a Mohawks penal- ty to Rick Hart and Neil Cameron registered on a backhand shot with. Brad Zehr assisting. The Mohawks missed two glorious scoring chances near the midway. point of the final stanza as Bill Glover rattled a shot off the goal post and Kris Bedard was robbed on a long dash. Referee Richards called two penalties to Tavistock at 13:40 and the Mohawks put on the pressure. They did score, but not until four seconds after the two players were back on the ice and just getting back into the play.Ron Elliott scored on passes from Doug Latta and Scott Eccles. Neither team had too many scoring opportunities in the first overtime period. The closest was a shot by Doug Latta off the outside of the post. Play was scrambly in the sudden - victory overtime period until Kevin Albrecht sent the Tavistock fans - home happy with a goal at 4:33. Get most shots. In Tavistock Saturday night, the Mohawks won the shots on goal statistic by 38 to 30 but lost on the scoreboard. Royals. goalie Jim Redfern made 15 saves in the second period. Tavistock took a 2-1 first period lead • • y'.�•1ZN March 25, 198 on goals by Jim Wilhelm and Steve Lange while Ron Elliott replied for the Mohawks on passes from Brian Mercer and Kris Bedard. In the second minute of the middle stanza, the Mohawks evened the score on a successful shot by Al Gates on passes from Rick Hart and Ron Elliott on a power play. In the next three minutes Randy Kraul put the Mohawks ahead on passes from Gates and Scott Eccles. The lead didn't last very long as Kevin Reiger hit for Tavistock while his mates were playing a man short. Late in the second period, Reiger scored his second of the night and he notched the only goal of the third period with less than two minutes re- maining to clinch the victory. Early scoring All of the scoring in Sunday's final game came in the first two periods of play. The Royals -got -away quickly- with Paul Kalbfleisch counting on a pass from Jim Wilhelm at 1:56 with their team one man short and two Mohawks in the penalty box. It took the Mohawks only a minute and 13 seconds to get the equalizer as Ames Serving South Huron, North Middlesex Kris Bedard hit.on passes from Ron Elliott and Scott Eccles. With the Mohawks on a power play at 7:08 three Royals broke out and Dave Frey was the marksman with Terry and Brad Zehr assisting. At 9:49 with the teams playing five aside Paul Kalhfleisch let a long shot go from the blueline and Keven Albrecht pounced on the long rebound to score. The eventual winning goal came at 4:08 of the second period when Neil Caineron scored with two Mohawks in the penalty box. Four minutes later. the Mohawks notched their second goal of the night as John Kernick tallied on passes from Kris Bedard and Ron Elliott. With eight seconds left in a penalty to Doug Latta, Neil Cameron scored for Tavistock on passes from Brad Zehr and Neil MacDonald at 13 minutes. Ron Elliott completed the Exeter scoring at 18:15 of the middle frame - on passes from John Kernick and Kris Bedard. The third period was scoreless as Jim Redfern was unbeatable in the Tavistock. goal. & North Lambton Since 1873 PagelA CONGRATULATEWINNERS NNERS --- Exeter Mohawks manager Doc Camp- bell congratulates Tavistock Royals officials Steve Yantzi and Clare Brenner following Sunday's 5-4 win over the local team., Aweekend Bar�lof Flavour. X1799 SATURDAY — SUNDAY MARCH 28th and 29th • ti SiltZ% I%ntucky}iedChicken 20 piece barrel of delicious Kentucky Fried Chicken TWINS 227 Main St. N. Exeter 31 Ontario St. N. Grand Bend It'sWsourtastethatmakesusfamous. • .i BRONCOS WIN IN PORT STANLEY — The Exeter Broncos won the 'A' championship of a holiday week atom tournament in Port Stanley. From the left are Derek Beckett, trainer Jeff Lomond, Mark Brintnell, Joel Campbell, Paul Charrette Jr., Steve Farquhar, Sean McCann, Scott Parsons, Ryan Stuart, Jeff Lingard, Darren Kints, statistician Dennis Kints, Gavin Snell, Trevor Taylor and coach Paul Charrette. Broncos win championship in Port Stanley tournament On the strength of four straight vic- tories the Exeter Broncos won the 'A' championship of the recent atom hockey tournament in Port Stanley. The Broncos defeated Parkhill 5-1, West Lorne 6-0, Aylmer 14-1 and Delhi 6-3 in the championship contest. - In the tourney winninggame, the entire team played excellent hockey with goalie Darren Kints making several key saves especially in the third period. Waxers get two playoff victories The Exeter Waxers won two of three OMHA round robin playoff games this week to run their record to six wins, three losses and a pair of ties. The Waxers edged St. Thomas 4-2 and split with Petrolia-winning 5-0 and losing by a 5-3 count. One game remains on the playoff schedule with the Waxers travelling to St. Marys Wednesday night. The winner of this game will be playoff runnerup. Byron won the round robin series and has already advanced to the next round Of OMHA play. Captain Marty DeBruyn with three goals, two of which were of the unassisted variety led the Exeter scoring attack in the win over St. Thomas. Goalie Jason Lindenfield gained an assist on one of the DeBruyn scores. The other marker for the Waxers was registered by Chris McDonald on a three-way passing combination with Chad Gilfillan and Ben Guenther. Brent Urlin and DeBruyn shared scoring honours in the 5-0 romp over ' Petrolia with two successful shots each. The other score came from the stick of Ben Guenther. Chris Lerikos was tops in the playmaking departmant with three assists. Helping set up one goal each were Chris McDonald, Eric Clay and Jeff Sararas. In the loss to Petrolia, Marty - Dellruyn was again the scoring leader with two Markers. Scoring in singlefaahion was Adam.ilern. Chris McDonald contributed a pair of assists and single scoring helpings were added by Jeff McLean, Brian Richardson, Ryan Soldan and .teff Sararas. If your spirits are low, do something: if you have been doing something, do something different. Joel Campbell led the scoring at- tack with three goals and one assist. Scoring in single fashion were Derek Beckett, Paul Charrette and Sean McCann. In the assist department Gavin Snell and Jeff Lingard were best with two apiece. . Getting single assists were Sean McCann and Derek , Beckett. Joel Campbell went on a five goal scoring outburst in the romp over Aylmer Derek Beckettt fired four sucessful shots, Sean McCann notch- ed two goals and scoring in single fashion were Steve Farquhar, Jeff Lingard, Scott Parsons and Trevor Taylor. Heading the assist depart- ment with three each were Beckett. Campbell, McCann, Snell and Taylor. Campbell turned in a hat trick per- formance against West Lorne. The other Exeter goals were registered by Paul Charrette, Sean McCann and Jeff Lingard. Derek Beckett picked up two assists while Paul Charrette, Sean McCann and Gavin Snell each helped up one score. In the opening win over Parkhill, Joel Campbell scored twice while Jeff Lingard, Ryan Stuart and Sean McCann added singles. The lone Parkhill goal was notch- ed by Steven Bax on a pass from Kevin Leyten. 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