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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1989-01-04, Page 10tv Page 10 Times -Advocate. January 4, 1989 Large crowds at Rec Centre help to make game against Sweden a success despite losing 1 EXETER - The Exctcr Legion. Bantams date with Akcrsbcrga Sweden Thursday night at the South Huron Rcc Centre didn't turn out quite the way that most people had hoped. The Swedes - won the hockey game rather easi- l 2-3. " fter the game a disappointed Exeter coach John Schwindt said his squad didn't stick to the game plan. "We told our guys we had to be aggressive and play the man be- cause they (Sweden) are a very Opening face off- --Legion Bantam captain Jeremy Mason, left, and Team Sweden .captain Hedlund, take part in the ceremonial -faceoff, dropped. by Glenn Robinson; Treasurer of the Legion, who sponsored Team Sweden's trip to Exeter and Exeter Mayor Bruce -Shaw: - Danial Exeter Taken down - Ryan Lindenfield, of. -the Exeter Bantams, takes down Magnus Johansson, of Teaft Sweden. but Johansson, still managed to get his stick on the puck while. playing on his knees. Team Sweden won the game 12-3. - Battle for control - Exeter Bantam captai- control of the puck during the second n,• day night. Team Sweden won the cont( 2 - quick club and they pass extreme- ly well' and we thought the only way we had a chance of winninr; was to slow them down," said Schwind[. Schwindt admitted some of his players we probably nervous be- -cause of the large crowd that was on hand to watch the international hockey match. "Some of the guys wcrc' a little bit tight because of the crowd but I think the biggest problem was that most of our guys were awed by the whole thing," said Sthwindi- The nervousness of the local players was evident from the opening face off when the Swedes . took the. play to Exeter and didn't, let up for two periods. The Swedes had a 31-6 shots -on -goal, advantage over two periods and led on the scoreboard 9-0 heading into, the third. Thc two Exctcr goalies, Richards Phillips and Darren Mason, couldn't be faulted on most of the Swedish goals. Many were scored; off breakaways from skating pas% the Exctcr defencemen and shots tipped in from in front of the net. Schwindt was very impressed with the way the Swedes played and said they have one big advan- tage over the local players. "They play as a unit all the way up from the time they start play- ing hockeyso they all have known cach other for a long - time," said Schwindt. Ryan Lindenfield, who scored, two goals for Exctcr, -admitted he was uptight at the start of the game. "I was pretty nervous when we started because we had neve, • played in front of a big crowd like that before. We arc dejecicd about losing but we wcrc glad that we. carne back in the third.period the way we did," said Lindcnficld. Several other players admitted they wcrc nervous as well. Lindcnf_icld said he kncw Swe- den was a fast -skating team be- cause his team had gone to St. Marys to watch them play last Tuesday night but admitted the quick start by Sweden took thc lo; cals off their game plan. Number #6 Rickard Nillson led Sweden with four goals, Par Tenggrcn had a pair and 1Mattias Skoglund,Danial Hedlund, Fredric Andersson, Manias. Malmstrtim, Markus Poisson and #24 Rickard Nilsson had single goals. Believe it or not, Sweden has two players named Rickard Nillson. Three of Sweden's goals came while shorthanded and two wcrc while on the power play. Lindcnficld scorcd a pair for Ex- eter and David Schwindt netted the other goal. Jon Ellcrington picked up an assist on Schwindt's short- handed tally and Fred Godbolt and Jason Heywood assisted on both of Lindenficld's goals. Thc hockey game was only part of -their day. The teams spent the entire day together, starting with swimming at Oakwood inn in Grand Bend and then headed for dinncr at the Exeter Legion, spon- sor of Sweden's trip to Exctcr: From there it was on to the hock- ey game. v... Kjell-Erik Hencryd, manager of the Swedish team, said he was happywith the way things turned out for his team. • "We played better tonight than we did in St. Marys whcn we lost 14-4. We came over from Sweden on Monday and still had jet lag. I think the Exctcr boys wcrc very nervous out there and it showed. They changed their playing style in the third period and scorcd some goals on us, which was good for their fans," said Hencryd. He said it was an eight hour flight from Stockholm to Helsin- ki to Toronto on Monday. Hencryd said the Exctcr boys were very polite to his players and his team , had a very nice time swimming and having dinner _,. The Swcdish tcam was billeted in St. Marys and came over early in the day. Swcdcn played in Alymcr on Saturday and have an- othcr game with St. Marys tom- morow night. Hencryd said he hopes to do better than they did :atimc against their hosts. The Swedish players have had • • :.b14, battles with Martin Arvidsson for such a good time in St. Marys nt the South Huron Rec Centre Thurs- that they have invited St. Marys to come to Swcdcn next year. 4 Broncos end 1988 with tournament win EXETER - The Exeter Broncos ended 1988 by winning the Exeter Atom Tournament on Friday. The Broncos started things off by blasting Huron Park 12-2. Exeter scored four goals in the first, two in the second and five in the third period. Chris McDonald and Marty Debruyn led the way with onegoal, three assists and two goals, two assists respective- ly. Ben Guenther scored three -goals, Brent Urlin and Adam Jean _scored twice and singles were scored by Rob Lynn and Andrew Hern.. Assists were recorded by Chad Gilfillan with two, and singles to EricClay, Keyin Ross, Adam Hern, Jeff Sararas, Andrew Hern and Brent Urlin. The second game, the. Broncos played the most exciting game of thc tournament as the game ended i0 a 1-1 draw with Port Stanley. Jason Lindcnficld saved the game with a spectacular save with just. 39 seconds left. - The Broncos then won the shoot- out three goals to two. , Port Stanley scorcd the first goal of the game but Adam Jean tied the score on a rebound from Eric Clay's shot. Debruyn, McDonald and Andrew. Hern scored. Exeter goals in the shootout: This was the best game the Broncos playal so far this year. In the final game, the Broncos played another grtat game and de- feated a very strong New Hamburg tea 5-2. , The Broncos scored the only goal of the first period as'B'rent Urlin Connected from Clad Gilfillan. In the second period, Exeter con- tinued the fast pace and scored the only goal, again an unassisted goal by Debruyn. New Hamburg scored early in the third period , but Debruyn scored less then a minute later to restore the lead. New Hamburg scored once more with less than fisc minutes left, but Exeter struck-quckly on a goal- by Hern. McDonald drew the lone assist. With eight seconds left, Chris McDonald scorcd a shorthanded goal into an open net. Jason Lindcnficld playcdsuper- bly in net and all the other players played extremely hard all day. Lucan proves too much for young Hawks. LUCAN - The Exeter Hawks and Lucan Irish met for the fifth time this season, Friday night at the Lu - can Arena, and the league -leading Irish had no problem with their younger foes, winning 10-3. 8 was the only game last week for both teams, although the Havks were scheduled to play in Scaiorth, against the Centcnaires yesterday, Tuesday, night. The Hawks hung tough for a pe- riod and a half, trailing only 5-3 at . nine -minute mark ofthe second pe- riod;•bil. the Irish scored five unan- swcrcc goals after that to win the • game. - - Brad Mui•r's four -goal perfor- mance vas tops for the Irish, Scott Denom) and Dave Murray netted two goals each, while Paul Mand- ers, and Dean Doerr scorcd the sin- gle goals. Glen Marshall had three assists, Muir had a Or and Murray, Joe Febrcy, Darrel Neil, Mike Hirt- zell,Denomy Ind Jamie Pearce each had one. • Scoring for theHawks were; t a- vid.Dalrymple unassisted, Jeff An- sems, from Larry Lewis, while on a power -play and Steve Dubarry from Jim Lewis. Next game for the Irish is to- night, Wednesday, when they play host to the Wellesley Apple Jacks . at the Lucan Arena at 8:15. Lucanand Exeter will meet again Friday night at the South Huron Rcc Centre, in the opening game of the annual Hawks Junior D Tournament. It features three other teams from the North Division of the Western Junior D Hockey • League, Mitchell Hawks, Scaforth Centenaires and Wclleslcy Apple Jacks. The Port Elgin Bears, Grand Valley Harvesters •and Caledon Fly- ers of the Junior C ranks will also take part. After getting underway with Ex- ctcr and Lucan Friday night, the tournament will resume Saturday morning at 9 a.m. and 'with -the 13 championship set for 4:30 p.m. Sunday. The A championship will go at 7 p.m. Sunday Depleted lineup contributes to Mohawks second loss • DURHAM - Suspensions, warm- er weather and the hdiday season took its toll on the ;xeter Mo- hawks Friday night as hey lost 8-2 to the Durham Huskie5.and in the process snapped their unbeaten streak at 13 games. They had not lost since November 5, vhen they wcrc beaten 7-6 in Harrison by the Blues. The Mohawks bounced back Monday night to dump the Royals in Tavistock, by a 6-4 coup. The Mohawks played Friday's game with only 12 skacrs includ- ing coach Gord Brooks who laced tip the skates for the thiel time this season'. Three players, Jeff McClen- aghan, Ron Elliot and Chve Rander- son, were serving stspensions, Dave Warren and Ba Baynham wcrc celebrating New 's in New York, Paul Barton s in New Hampshire for the h 'days, Bill Glover was in warm►r weather down south and goalid Bill Dark was in Toronto. "We lost that game ,cfore we walked into the building►ccause of the number of skaters wehad," said general manager Bob Rtwe, who handled the behind -the -berth duties, with Brooks on the ice. "They like to bang us putty hard in their building but they ddn't sec our real hockey club tha nicht .,.. bolt it what • to expect when we meet tor the Hardy Cup," said Rowe. Rowe said the biggest blem the Mohawks had was wit their lack of defencemen. Just the were dressed for the game, but on Tim Adair finished the contest. ark Sochncr was thrown out for ht- ing and Dale Timmermans le the game ill. The Huskies had 18 shots on Rick Pikul, twice as many as\he Mohawks had on Durham gdlic Petite Rigette win gold _medal. in Stratfurd tournament �TFORD - The Exctcr Pc- 'ctte . team travelled to where •they picked up a !Al in Stratlord A.N.A.F.- ember 27 and 28. • . • 'Fhc tournament was set in a - round-robin format with four teams in cach of the Novice, Petite and Twcen Divisions. Exeter Petites met a team from St. Marys and two from Stratford. In the first fame, Exctcr had no problem with the Si. Marys Jets ' winding 7-0. Play for the majority of the game was in the St. Marys enol, leaving I:owes goalie, Amy Edwards, very lonely. Sonya Lawrence scorcd three for w•i)!,irtdi Wilson connect- ing on two and Jana Webster and Cara Gardner each alined a single: Teresa. Stirc was the. only player credited with an assist. Exeter's next opponent was Stratford Magalloy an the locals . won 8- I. The garnc started with a quick goal from Exeter's Gardner help carne from Danielle Miners and Lawrence. Stratford's Tanya Tessmcr re- spondcd on 10 seconds later to tic the score. Lawrence wasted no ting before she and Leeann Foster combined to put Exeter back on top. There, Ex- ctcr would stay thanks to outstand- ing goaltending from Webster. Exctcr managed six more goals in thc garnc: Gardner had two, Judie Wilson had two; Miners had onc; Lawrcncc had onc. Assists were earned by Foster, Miners, Gardner, Wilson, Teresa Stirc, Jo -Dec Rowe, Cheryl Wein, and Edwards. Last Wednesday the -second day of the tournament, Exctcr played the Stratford. Sinclair and won 10-5. Exctcr scorcd five unanswered goals • in the first half. Miners, Wein, roster, }Witter Davies and Gardner each got onc past the Stratford goa- lie. Lawrence and Miners wcrc each Credited with two assists, while Gardner, Wilson, Rowe and Foster each helped with onc. In the second half, all the goals for Exctcr wcrc scorcd in single fashion by Foster, Wilson, Miners, Davies, and Edwards. Stratford's goals came from Sarah Knight with two, Emily Harman, Lisa Fischcr, Heather Johnson a‘ had onc. Exeter's Edwards, Minces, Stir and Wilson were credited with sec ond-period assists. �t After the three round-robin games; Exctcr advanced to the champion- ship game, the Magalloy's gave Ex- eter a great game. Exeter started the scoring with 12"26 on the crock. Gardner got the goal, with Miners and Wilson assisting. Stratford's Susan Dunn got her team into the game at 8:55. Exeter pulled back into the lead at Please turn to page 12 Rob Nixon, but only managed a 1- .0 lead after one period. But Durham Struck for six goals on 10 shots in the second period and thc game was out of reach from there. - Thc Mohawks scorers wcrc; Jcff Shipley, from Quincy Wilkcr at 12:31 of the second and Ron Good - hand from Joe Scherer and Wilkcr at 8:45 of the third. EXETER 6 TAVISTOCK 4 Warren, Baynham and McClena- ghan were all back in the lineup for Monday night's game: The Mo- hawks also signed a new player, Ted Kcwlcy, for that game. The Mohawks played extremely well Monday night despite still missing some key players. They left the first period tied 1-1 but could have put the game out of- rcach if it wcrc not for three hit goal posts. ' McClenaghan and Shipley both played outstanding games, picking up two goals and one assists and one goal and three assists respec- tively, and Bill Dark, who was also Please turn to page 13 I Thank l�,..,.r ou J Exeter Minor Hockey thanks everyone for their support for the recent • game with the Exeter Bantams. Special thanks to our sponsors and the follow- ing for their assistance: Exeter Legion R.E. Pooley Branch 1.67 ▪ Exeter Legion Ladies AlDdliiry Pr Stephens Printing Gerrards - ▪ Mutual Group sir Exeter Optimist Hensall Motors sr Cancer. Society AIS Communications +• PBC Dominion Securities, G. Bean •• Mayor Bruce Shaw and the Town of Exeter +-Alva Heywood of the . Legion Ladles • You assisted us In showing our Swedish visitors Exeter's spirit and sportsmanship.