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Since 1873 Wednesday, February 15, 1989
Mohawks take first two playoff games
EXETER.- The ExeterMohawks
have taken a commanding two -
games -to -none lead in their best -of -
seven -.Central Senior B Hockey
League series; after winning Satur-
day night 10-2 at the South Huron
Rec Centre and 8-5 Sunday in Har-
riston. `
The Mohawks; who have • been
strugglingdefensively lately gave
up_ seven goals on the weekend' but
onlyone came at even strength.
One came while Harriston was
shorthanded and the rest were while.
Harriston was enjoying •a . man ad-
vantage.
Mohawk defenceman Barry. Bayn-
ham said the team is finally play-
ing hockey the way it is capable
of.
"We are playing steady .hockey
right now and we are playing better
defensively. We had a talk as a
team after the season was over
about what we had to do in the
playoffs and it has seemed to work
well so far," saidBaynham.
He said the team would_ like to
cut down on the penalties hut Said.
that would be hard to do because to
dowel! the Mohawks have to play
aggresivcly and when you play ag7.
gresive hockey you are bound to
take penalties.
Baynham said 'the Mohawks
, came out flying Saturday night and.
coasted from there.
The Mohawks had a 2-0 lead b--
fore thc game was two minutes
. old. •
-
Jeff McClenaghan opened the
scoring from Gord Brooks and Kris
Bedard just 27 seconds into- the
contest and less .than twominutes
later Dave ,-Randerson scored his
first of two from Quincy Wilker.
The Mohawks didn't score again
-for 10 minutes when Jeff Shipley
- popped in a goal- from McClena-
ghan and Joe Scherer. -
Harriston managed their first first
goal at 14'16 of the first by,Jeff.
Benderwhile shorthanded.
Exeter proceeded to scored the
next five goals and built a com-
manding 8-1. lead. Scoring were;
Wilker from Jeff Warren and Mark
Sochner, Randerson from Ted Kew -
ley and Paul Barton, Wilker from
Randerson and Soehner, Brooks
from Bedard and Bill Glover and
Wilker got his hat trick with an
unassisted goal..
Bender got ..his' second for. the
Blues, with just over five minutes
left to play, while on the power
PIaY•. .
Joe Scherer from Al Gates and
Ron Goodhand and Barton from
-Wilker and McClcnaghan rounded
out the Exeter scoring plays.
Mohawk goaltender Rick Pikul.
was not very busy but stopped 14
of the 16 shots sent hisway in the
contest. . -
EXETER 8 HARRISTON 5
Sunday afternoon's contest was a
penalty -filled affair. The Mohawks
Late goal lifts Wellesley past Hawks
EXETER - A goal by Chris Rad-
ley, of Wellesley, with 11:09 gone
in the third period, broke a 3-3 tic
and enabled the Applejacks to defeat
the Exeter Hawks 5-3 at the South"
Huron Rec Centre Sunday night.' -
Friday night. the Hawks rallied
from a 5-0 deficit to tie the Mitch-
ell Hawks 6-6 at the SHRC.
Wellesley got on the board first
Sunday night, at 6:56 of the first -
period, but Exeter got that back.
when Jean Paul Cousincau scored
his first of two, from Bryan Quinn
and Derck Shackleton at 15:55 of
the first period. -
The Applejacks took a 3-1 lead
on a pair of quick goals early in the
second but the Hawks answered
back when recently -acquired John
Bell scored from Jim Dickins ,at
• 6:28 of thc second and Cousincau
netted his sccond at 15:45 of the
second, from Doug Clark and
Shackleton to notch the game at 3-
3 heading into the final period.
Both teams had many good
chance to get the winner before
Radley finally did after taking an er-
rant Hawk clearing pass at the Exet-
er blucline and beat goalie Bill Pau-
li with a slapshot.
The Applejacks picked up an
empty net goal with 10 seconds left
after the.Hawks pulled Pauli in fa-
vor of an extra attacker to try and
get theequalizer. .
EXETER 6 MITCHELL 6
The hometown . Hawks . found
themselves behind 4-0 after the
opening period and 5-0 early in.thc
second before rallying for a pair of
goals later_ in the second. "
Joel. Campbell started the scoring.
for the locals with an unassisted tal-
ly at 2:58 of the second and Bell
got another back at 7:48 from Dan
Nairn.
After Mitchell took a 6-2 with a
goal later in the second, the Hawks
comeback started at 1:14 of the •
third when Dickins scored from Jeff
Anscms and Larry Lewis. At 13:46.
Steve Dubarry scored from Larry
'Lewis and David Dalrymple, then at
16:12 Jim Lewis scored from Du
harry and Dalrymple and Cousineau
got the tying goal at 18:29, from
Mark Morrissey and Nairn, after go-
ing tothedressing room just min-
utes before to get a new stick The
last four Hawks goals came while
on the power play.
After Friday's game Hawk coach
Jack Naim said he was pleased with
the way his players never quit.
"We- played really- well in the
third period, but its too bad we had
to play so bad in the first or we
could have easily won the game,"
said Naim.
The Hawks completed their sea-
son -long domination over -Mitchell
with the tic. In six games, -Exeter
didn't lose to Mitchell all season
long, winning fou4 and tying a
pair.. }
Marty Merner; of Zurich, was
signed before Friday's game and he
was between the pipes against
Mitchell. This gives the -Hawks
three goaltenders for the playoffs.
Regular goalie Todd Campbell
missed both games,. serving a two -
game suspensionfor being third
man in a fight in. Tavistock, last
Saturday night.
The Hawks will close out their
regular season Friday night in Ta-
vistock against
a-vistock.against the Braves at 8:30.
Lewis; looking for manager to turn pro
By Wayne Proctor
EXETER - Docs anybody out
there want to be a millionaire?
Lennox. Lewis, the Olympic hea-
vyweight boxing gold medalist, is
looking for a manager so he can
turn pro and his manager will be
an instant millionaire. -
Lewis, 23, from Kitchener, was
on hand to speak at the 16th annu-
al Exeter Sportsman Dinner at the
Exeter Curling Club last Tuesday
night, along with fellow gold med-
alist Michelle Cameron and others
in the world of sports. •
Lewis was the only Canadian
male to win a gold medal for Cana-
da after Ben Johnson had his
Stripped after being caught using
steroids. -
Lcwis said - that incident
caused extremely hard times for the,
athletes in the Canadian village,
but he refused to let anything dis-
tract him from his ultimate goal of
gold.
"I realized I was there for a goal
and 1 am not going to let any out-
side interference bother me. I didn't
phone my mother, I didn't phone
anybody, because' I felt that would
. hinder me and I just wanted to stay
totally focussed and I did a lot of
concentrating," said the two-time
Olympian.
Lewis was born in London Eng-
land and came to Kitchener with
his mother when he was 12 years.
old. He said he learned how to
fight at that time because people
made fun of his cockney accent.
During the Olympics Lewis said
he wanted to win the gold for his
mother because of all the sacrifices
she made for him to become a bet-
ter boxer.
"I wanted to do something nice
for her in her lifetime and I knew
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were called for 21 minor penalties,
which Harriston took advantage of
to score four power -play goals, a
pair of game misconducts for fight-
ing, to Soehner and Dale Timmer-
mans, and a 10 minute misconduct
to Warren for abusive language to
an official.
The Mohawks trailed 3-2 after the
opening period, but came out flying
in the second to scored four times
and limited the Blues to just one
Second Section
against Harriston
and were not in trouble the rest of
the way.
Randerson led the way offensivilly
in the game with four goals. Barton
picked up one goal and two assists,
Joe Scherer got a goal and an assist,
Bill Glover and Ron Goodhand
picked up single goals. Ron Elliot
set up four goals, Wilker and Bayn-
ham each set up a pair and single
assists went to Warren,.Soehnerand
Bedard_
Bill Dark stopped 31 shots that
were sent his way by Harriston
shooters, while Steve Lantz stopped
21 Exetcr shots.
Game three of the series will be
played Friday night at the South
Huron Rec Centre at 8:30 and game
four- will go Sunday afternoon at 2
p.m: in Harriston. If game five is
needed, it will be played Tuesday
night, February, 22 at the SHRC at
8:30,
Belly flop - Kent Nornian, right, of the Harriston Blues, does a belly flop after being hit by Jeff Ship-
ley, of the Exeter Mohawks during their Central Senior B playoff game Saturday night at the South
Huron Rec Centre. The Mohawks took a 2-0 lead in the best -of -seven series by winning Saturday
night 10-2 and 8-5 in Harriston Sunday afternoon
Irish take 5-4
-LUCAN - The Lucan Irish com-
-
pleted their home regular -season
schedule with a 5-4 win over Abe
-Tavistock Braves last Wednesday.
night. . - .
The win gives the first -place
Irish a 29-6 record with only a
Make-up . game .against the last -
place Seaforth .Centenaires- left: to
play, on Sunday, before the
playoffs start February 22.
Jamie Pearce opened the scoring
for the Irish at 11:04 of the first,
after being set up by Scott Demo-
ny and Joe Febrcy. .
. Shortly after the Braves got on
the board, Kevin Leitch put the.
home team back out in front with
a goal from Brian Schuyler and
Bill Patich.
Lucan went up 3.1 when Jeff
Hirtzell scored from Schuyler and
Darren Neil at 3:22 of the sccond
and upped it to 4-1 on Demony's
goal from Brad Muir four minutes
later. "
Tavistock got one back at the
eight -minute mark and made it a
.one -goal game with a goal with
six seconds left in the second peri-
od
Pearce got his second goal, while
on the power -play, at 5:32 of the
Panthers
volleyball team hosts
regular -season tournament
EXETER - Last Tuesday, South
Huron District High School's girls'
volleyball teams hosted a regular
season league tournament. Attend-
ing the tournament were: Listowel,
Clinton, Norwell and South Hu-
ron. The Senior Panthers came
away with four wins and two -loss-
es.
SH's first opponent was Listow-
a-loss in the first game,
t e Panthers came back to defeat
Listowel in the second game. After
a slow start in their next match,
the Panthers claimed two victories
over Clinton.
The girls final competitor was
Norwell. In the first game, SH had
some problems defensively and
were defeated by Norwell. The girls
did manage to take the second win
to make their final standings of the
day 4-2. -
On Friday, the Panthers travelled
to Clinton for another Huron -Penh
ent. The pirl,
ming home with four victories.
The Panthers met St. Michael of
Stratford and took both games. The
girls also defeated Mitchell two
games straight to end the day with
.a 4-0 record.
The team's record is now 10-6.
The second, third, fourth and fifth
positions in the Huron -Perth
league arc Very close. SH is look-
ing forward to some exciting
league play to end the season and
they hope to be one of the two
teams to advance to the. Western
Ontario tournament.
The final regular season H -P tour-
nament is Tuesday, February 21 at
Northwestern Secondary School.
Double -team effort - Lori Harbum, left and Heather Rideout, of the South Huron District High School
Senior Girls Volleyball team, combine for a block during a Huron -Perth regular -season toumament at
South Huron last Tuesday.
win over Tavistock
third, from Glen Marshall and Joe
Febrey and it proved to be needed _
as ,Seaforth came back to within
one goal at 5-4 when they scored
-with 18 seconds left to play, but it
proved to be too -little too late and
the Irish escaped with their 57th
and 58th points of.the season.
The Irish will try and make it an
even 60 on the season when they.
take on the . Centenaires on Sea -
forth Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m,
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Hockey PantPers fall
to Clinton Redmen
By Michelle Ellison
CLINTON - On Friday, the
South Huron District High School
Hockey Panthers travelled to Clin-
ton for a league game. The short-
handed Panthers put forth a good
effort but fell 2-0 to the Redmen.
It wasn't until the 9:26 mark of
the second period that Clinton hit
the net on a goal by Jeff Jewitt.
SH couldn't put one past the Red
men's goal tender and resorted to
pulling Doug KcIIs from between
the pipes. With only. 3.48 seconds
remaining • in the game, Clinton
scored an empty -ret goal to take.
the 2-0 victory. -
Coach Paul Cronin was pleased
withhis team's play while short
staffed. Heelt that "with a few
brcaks we could have won the
game". -
The Panthers meet thc Scaforthj
Golden- Bears on Friday at the
South Huron Recreation Centre.
SR. B. PLAYOFFS
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Exeter Mohawks vg
Harriston Blues
8:30 p.m. at the Rec (entre -----
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Tues. ;Feb. 21 at 8:30 p.m.
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