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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1979-10-31, Page 20 (2)i Page 4A Times -Advocate, Octobtr 31, 1979 play in Goderich, Saturday Sports Spotlight By ROSS HAUGH Senior notes We found some interesting notes in the first statistic sheet of the year for the OHA Continental senior league received from official recorder Nick Martin of the London Free Press. While the Continental league is beginning its eighth year of operation there are only seven players who have been active participants every year since the beginning.. - • They are Barry Baynham. Steve Proctor and Jamie Robb of the Lucan-Ilderton Jets, Gord Becker and Chuck Niesen of the Durham Huskies, Gene McLaren of Woodstock and Brian Chinnick from the London Kings. Martin reports that 849 players took part in the first seven years of Continental league play and he has a full page on each of them in the league record book. Bill Abercrombie of Petrolia has scored 16 game winning goals and shares the record with former L -I Jet Jacques Cousineau. Another big dinner Dont look now but the annual Exeter Lions club Sportsmen's dinner is only three months away. Dinner chairman George Godbolt and his hard working committee are making great progress in lin- ing up top notch speakers for the dinner slated for the South Huron Rec Centre on February 5. 1980. We expect to make an announcement in the next couple of weeks as to who some of the celebrities will be. Tickets for the dinner -are expected to be on sale in time to be excellent Christmas gifts for the sports minded.members of your family. More ticket informa- tion can be obtained from any Lions member. Good entertainment If the results of the first few games are any indication. fans of the South Huron Intermediate hockey league ere in for an interesting and exciting season. All of the teams have bolstered their rosters from ,a year ago and the newest entry, the Exeter Mohawks appear to be able to hold their own. After losing their opener to the Hensall Sherwoods. the Mohawks came roaring back to beat the strong Zurich Buckeyes. Thursday. In their only other start. Zurich lost 7-6 to Hensall. • Oldtimers coming Two teams of old timers from the NationAl Hockey league will be visiting Western Ontario this weekend to show hockey fans a glimpse of the past. The NHL Oldtimers will be in Clinton Friday night at 8:30 p.m. at the Clinton arena to take on the Clinton Junior ••C • Oldtimers. Lacing up skates for the NHL club will be familiar faces from a decade or two such as Norm Ullman. Sid Smith and Andy Bathgate. In addition. Hockey Night in Canada commentator Brian McFarlane will be taking to the ice. Players of a more recent vintage in the lineup will be. Larry Carriere. ex of the Buffalo Sabres and Van- couver Canucks. Keith McCreary from the Atlanta Flames. former St. Louis Blues George Morrison and Mike. Pelyk from a variety of clubs including the Toronto Maple Leafs Tickets may be purchased in advance for $2 each at Jerry MacLean and Son Autbmative in Exeter. They will be available at the night of the game for $3. The Montreal Canadien Oldtimers are making their first-ever visit to Stratford on Saturday. November 3. Their opposition that night will be the Stratford Perths of the Continental senior hockey league. Game time is 8 p m The exhibition game is being sponsored by the Stratford Kinsmen Club. and the proceeds will go to community projects. The Oldtimers expected include Bobby Rous -eau, J.0 Tremblay. Phil Goyette. Dollard St. Laurent and' Claude Provost. Maurice "The Rocket.' Richard will also be on hand as referee. and one of the linesmen will be retired National Hockey League referee Red Storey During the intermissions there will be world class figure skating by l.orri and Sherri Baier. Mitchell and Lloyd Eisler. Seaforth. Ire sr'each and aye avai abre ficin any Stratford Kinsmen Club member, as well as at various Stratford and Perth County outlets. They may also be obtained by phoning 271-9237 Soccer season ends The Ausable senior soccer league season ended Sunday when the Exeter Centennials edged Lucan in the "B" final in a real exciting and close match. The two evenly matched teams were playing in the third and final game and were deadlocked at 1-1 after regulation time, r• ;.1:4-i'w•I0a''41thtit>t: firma " fiin"e pefiods ;ire-W.11.layed 'wtt tout=.*1:;''-Z.AtfeYscorinki.ttd a hariniirtasistingof penalty shots by five players fromeachteamwas needed: In the penalty kick showdown Exeter won by a score of 5-4. Regardless of the outcome it's a difficult way to decide a, winner. fitter playing thrbtigh two hours of actual competition It seems a shame that there should be a loser. Congratulations to the Centennials and the Lucan club in providing such an excellent brand of soccer and also to the Grand Bend Colonials in winning the "A" championship a week earlier. The South Huron District High School senior football Panthers are in the Huron - Perth Conference cham- pionship final. 1 The Panthers edged (Stratford Central 1-0 in Exeter Thursday and qualified to meet, the un- beaten Goderich Vikings. The game goes Saturday in Gederich at 1:30 p.m. The South Huron juniors met Stratford Northwestern yesterday, Tuesday in the final game of the regular schedule. It was a battle for first place as both teams were undefeated. Regardless of yesterday's outcome the junior Panthers will be at home next Tuesday for the semi-final playoff game. The final is set for Saturday. November 10. In a regular game. Centennials win title Exeter Centennials became B -division cham- pions of Ausable district soccer in a five aside shoot- out following a closely contested match with Lucan at Huron Park, Sunday. The game was decided 1-0 on the penalty -kicks, after two 15 -minute halves of overtime failed to break a 1-1 draw in the regular 90 minutes of play time. Left winger Brad Clausius had given Exeter the lead at 70 minutes by turning in a corner -kick from right- winger Al Hern But Lucan replied at 85 minutes by almost repeating Exeter's goal. when Bob Andrews headed in a corner. Both clubs demonstrated excellent soccer throughout the two hours of playing time. It was a spectator's game. fast full of chances. The long contest was also one in which the outcome during game -time and overtime could easily have gone to either club. In the five -player shoot- out, all five alternating kicks for the Centennials went into the Lucan net from John Rasenberg, Mike Janyu, Martin DeBruyn, Al Beattie and Tony Markus. Lucan had one of their five shots stopped by Exeter keeper Paul VanEsbroeck. The outcome of the kicks thereby determined the title won by Exeter on a stipulated result of 1-0. The three -game series for the B -division championship had opened with a decisive 4- 0 Centennial win on October 14. Lucan took the second match 2-1 in overtime after a 1-1 draw on October 21. That game forced Sunday's final at Huron Park. Total goals scored in ac- tual game time during the series were: E keter 7. Lucan 4. CCAT loses Thursday the CCAT players just couldn't find the range with the Hensall Sherwoods being on the top end of a 6-1 score. Hensall scored the only goal of the first period when Steve Knight took a pass from Brian Campbell and put one by Dave Erskine. A goal by Rick Ingram early in the second gave Hensall a 2-0 lead as he took passes from Doug Smith and Bill Pear3on. A powerplay goal by Sherwood Hingle of the College midway through the period narrowed the Sher- --woods-- margftr-to- only . one._ goal. Dave McFadden picked op the assist. In the third period the roof fell in on CCAT with the Sherwoods scoring four unanswered goals. Picking up the Hensall markers were Brian Campbell, Jamie Caldwell, Murray Connelly, Jim Ferguson. Adding the assists were Fred Campbell with a pair and singles going' to Connelly, Greg C Ipbe11, ti~tlid'atiff ICdehlei . • Juniors in semi-finals, Tuesday South Huron seniors in H -P final Thursday, the junior Pan- thers defeated F.E. Madill of Wingham 36-16. Single point wins A 29 yard punt by Dave Atthill early in the fourth quarter went for single point giving the senior Panthers their 1-0 win over Stratford Central. The only scoring play of the game was set up by a 50 yard run by Rick Lin- denfield of the Panthers. Snowy and muddy field conditions restricted any concerted scoring threats. The South Huron kick from the Stratford 29 was the closest the locals could get to the opposition goal line while Stratford failed to ever get inside the Panthers 35 yard line. Despite poor footing, Panther backs did gain a total of 181 yards. Rick Lindenfield gained 90 yards on 12 carries and Rob Pryde picked up 58 yards on 14 tries. On defensive side, John Byrne led the Panthers with eight key tackles while Doug Hoffman and Ed Hunter- Duvar made six key stops each and four big hits were made by Mike Burke and Doug Raymond. Coach Ron Bogart said he is optimistic about his team's chances in Satur- day's final in Goderich. Bogart added, "If we play well, I think we have a good chance. They beat us 13-11 in our only other clash, but, they sure didn't run over us. CENTENNIALS WIN — The Exeter Centennial Soccer team were awarded the B division trophy Sunday by first defecting Huron Park and then defeating Lucan in a best out of three series. The team is shown here, back left: Mott Muller, Murray Stewart, Mike Jonyu, Martin DeBruyn, John Rosenberg, Rene Kirmse, captain Dick Lord, Al Hern and coach Jack Wilson. Front left, Gerald Weersink, Joe Laurie, Brad Clausius, Paul Van Esbroeck, Al Beattie, Tony Markus and Lorne Rideout. Miss- ing were Wes Abbott and Hank Verbeek. T -A photo Marauders get flying start with three South Huron The Centralia Marauders scored three victories this week in SouthHuron in- termediate hockey league action. Wednesday. the Marauders trounced the Centralia College Saints 10-1, Thursday they edged the Parkhill Merchants 8-7 on a goal with only 24 seconds remaining and Sunday night they defeated Kettle Point 6- 1. Tomorrow night, Thur- sday, the Kettle Point club will be at the Huron Park arena to take on the Marauders. The Centralia club travels to Parkhill Sunday night to take on the North Middlesex Merchants. In Sunday's win over Kettle Point, the Marauders started slowly. They were held to a 1-1 tie after thefirst period of play, but, broke the game wide open with three second period scores and two more goals in the closing period. Dennis Carty scored his first of two goals in the first period on passes from Rob Funston and Perry Knee while Trevor Cloud replied for Kettle Point. With only two minutes gone in the second period, Carty put his club ahead 2-1 on a play started by Rob Funston and Cec Nickles. Before the period ended, Ron Funston scored on an unassisted effort and Cec Nickles hit on a pass from Mark Cronyn. In the third period, Rob Funston registered with assists going to Perry Knee and Dennis Carty and Ron Funston scored with passing help coming from Matt Muller and Rob Funston. Captain Ron Funston scored his fourth goal of the night at 19.36 of the third Mperiod to allow the ar hJders•- to.. beat_the Parkhill club 8-7, Thursday. Most of the scoring took place in the first 20 minutes of.play with the Marauders taking a 5-4 lead. Ron Funston counted the first and fifth markers in the first period. Matt Muller picked up assists on both Funston scores and Ian Fowles added one assist. Dennis. Certy. cored .the stcofd'Cefitialia goal on a drive like a litedepends on it. I� dOeS) SCOTT'S LEATHER & TACK SHOP 120 Sanders St. W. Exeter, Ont. Phone 735-0694 Complete Line of Western Saddlery, Bridles, Halters, Bits, Pods, Girths. HORSE HEALTH CENTRE. Fly Wipe, Shompob, Absorbine, Etc: Lee Jeantb Jtk' eTs Western Boots, Hats, Belts R. Shirts Hand Crafted leather Goods three-way effort with Blair Hearn and Cecil `fickle and Alan Laurin made the score 3-0 with help from Randy Somerville and Ian Fowles. Parkhill bounced back with goals from the sticks of Eric Bolgin and Gary McLeod. Cec Nickle came back quickly.to score for the Marauders on a pass from Dennis Carty. Bruce Furnt- ney and Rob Thoman counted for Parkhill and Ron Funston added his second for the Marauders. Each team scored two goals in the middle stanza. Ron Funnton scored for the Marauders on passes from Rob Funston and Bill Hodge and Rob Funston hit on a play with Ron Funston and Matt Muller. Eric Bolgin scored for Parkhill at 10.45 of the third period to tie the score for Parkhill and set the stage for Ron Funston's game winning goal with time running out. Referees Don Appleby and Iry Ford handed out 31 penalties. Parkhill took' 16. In Wednesday's win over the CCAT club. the Marauders took a 2-0 lead at the end of the first period and upped the margin to 5-0 before the College boys scored their first goal with 39 seconds remaining in the second period. Cec Nickles was the top scorer for the Marauders victories with a four goal effort. He scored two in the first two periods. The first came on a pass from Hugh Wilson and the second was set up by Pete Wuerth. Matt Muller counted on an unassisted . effort, Perry Knee scored on passed from Cec Nickles and Dennis Carty and Carty scored on a lone effort to complete the Marauder scoring for the first two periods. The lone Centralia College goal was chalked up by defenceman Marty Becker ,at 19.21 of the second period on a pass from Rick Vanos. Blair Hearn and Cec Nickles dominated the scoring in the final 20 minutes. Hearn scored three times with assists going to Dennis Carty, Nickles and Pete Wuerth. Dennis Carty grabbed assists on both third period scores by Cec Nickles and Blair Hearn gained one assist. Each team was- assessed 10 minor penalties by referees Carl Nickles and Ron Shirran. Winkers lead cut The first place lead of the Winkers in the Exeter Legion mixed dart league has been cut to a single point. They remain in first place with a total of 28 points, but the Outlaws are right behind in second spot with 27 points. The Sassenachs are third with 24 points and the Evil Eyes are 'f ih with 24 points. Next come the Family Affair at 23 points, Doublers 20, Scotties 21, Out of Space 20 and the Chances and Rowdy Ones are tied with 19 points apiece. Completing the standings are the Itchy Niters and DR's at 18, Nicky Tams 17, Shiphunters 15, CB'ers 13 and Canscotts 11. This week's scores were: Sassenachs 4 - Nicky Tams 1 Outlaws 4 - Shiphunters 1 Rowdy Ones 4 - Canscotts 1 'Scotties 3 - Chances 2 Doublers 3 - Itchy Niters 2 Out of Space 3 -, Dr's 2 Family Affair 3 - Winkers 2 Evil Eyes 3 - CB'ers 2 Friday's schedule is as follows: 8 p.m. CB'ers vs Family Affair Shiphunters vs Scotties Doublers vs Rowdy Ones Evil Eyes vs The Chances 9:30 p.m. Dr's vs Nicky Tams Outlaws vs Winkers Sassenachs vsOut of Space. Itchy Niters vs Canscotts Is yours: 0 I'll give you $500.00* OVER current Blue Book** suggested value when you trade in your old: .•Arctic,Ca .•K,awasaki •Polaris •Yamaha, , •John Deere on the purchase of ANY 1980 Futura Moto -Ski snowmobile by Bombardier. HOW CAN I DO THIS? COME SEE ME NOW! REMKESE .n'ro.NTE-Mahn. Nli RPRISES 3.mi. S of Exeter on Hwy 4 RR#1 Centralia Phone 228-6281 r•• v 1 SOMIAROIE One big play of 65 yards gave Goderich the win." Juniors start early The junior Panthers scored 20 points before Wingham started and held a commanding 20-6 lead at half-time. Mike Clark sacked a Wingham punter to set up the first South Huron score. Gary Spurn went in from four yards out and Doug Fischer converted. On the following kickoff, Dave Underwood covered a Wingham fumble and Doug Fischer went in from eight yards and booted the con- vert. Bend loses to Goderich The Goderich Merchants scored a 4-1 win over the Grand Bend Mariners in South Huron intermediate hockey league play Friday night at the Stephen town- ship arena. The only Grand Bend scoring came at 5:08 of the first period when Mike Desjardine hit the Goderich net on a pass from Rick Moody. Bill Wedlock tied the score for Goderich some six minutes later and the first period score was even. Goals by Paul Corriveau, Bill Wedlock and Cam McDonald in the second period for Goderich com- pleted the game scoring. Jones Kaciulus scored the first Wingham touchdown on a 60 yard sweep. On the third quarter kickoff, Gary Spurn returned the ball to his own 40 yard line. Six plays later Doug Fischer caught a pass from Dave Shaw and scored. Shaw hit Gary Spurn for a two point convert. Late in the period, John • Kernick scored a major on a nine yard reverse and Jim Siddall caught a Dave Shaw pass for two more points. There was no scoring in the fourth quarter as a snowstorm prevailed. Jamie Chaffe was named the top defensive Panther and led in key tackles with Dale Kerslake. Offensive honours went to Doug Fischer. Hockey At Its Best SOUTH HURON REC CENTRE "SUN., NOV. 4 4:00 - Lambeth vs. Exeter Novice 5:15 - Lucan vs. Exeter Midget II AUTOMOTIVE RADIATOR 5 vICf % ERNE—lN Cic`c]i ai REPAIRS & RE -CORES SMALL ENGINE Sales & Service MILT ROBBINS & SON LTD. 263 MAIN ST. 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