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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1989-03-15, Page 17North Middlesex & Lambton Since 1873 Wednesday, March 15, 1989 Second Section Hawks survive Tedford scare EXETER - The Exeter Hawks have advanced to the next round of the Western Junior D playoffs. But only after surviving a first-round scare from the Thedford Lumber- jacks. The Hawks had taken a three - games -to -one lead ih their best -of - seven North Division quarter -final series but the Lumberjacks won Friday and Saturday night to dead- lock the series coming into Sun- day's deciding game at the South Huron Rec Centre. The Hawks got the big game from• their key players when they needed it the most and won•the deciding game 9- 1. Hawk coach Jack Nairn said Todd Campbell's goaltending was the key to their win. "It's very hard for any team to win three games in a row in the playoffs which is what they (Thed- ford) were up against but we got good goaltending from Todd and played smart and won," said Nairn. During Saturday's game in Thed- ford Nairn replaced Campbell with Bill Pauli in the second period, which was an important factor be- cause Campbell was rested for Sun- day's game and responded well. Nairn said the fatigue factor could have been a problem, playing three games in three days, but it was the same for both tcams, and he said the Hawks were due for a good game. "We hadn't played very well late- ly and we needed to play well and we showed what we were made of. We could have given up after los- ing Saturday and didn't and that is a real credit to our players," said Naim. The Hawks got good production out of its top -scoring line' in Sun- day night's game, something it didn't get in the two previous weekend outings when they lost. The Hawks tallied twice in the first period and twice in the second period and were never headed as Thedford could only beat Campbell once, at 12:46 of the middle frame. Jean-Paul Cousineau led the way with a hat trick and two assists, while !inmate Derek Shackleton had two goals. Other Hawk goals were scored by Jim Lewis, Dan Naim, captain Mark Morrissey, and Steve Dubarry. Jim Dickins and David Dalrym- ple each contributed three assists, while single asgists went to Dubar- ry, John Bell, Lewis and Doug Clark. The Hawks outshot the Lumber- jacks 40-27 in the game. JHEDFORD 7 EXETER 3 In Saturday's game in Thedford, the Hawksstartedquickly, fell be- hind 4-1 at one point, cut the lead to 4-3 in the second period and sur- rendered two late second -period goals and eventually fell 7-3. Jim Lewis got the Hawks on the board quickly, at just 28 seconds of the first period, from Dickins and Morrissey, but found themselves behind 3-1 after one period of play. After falling behind 4-1 early in the second, Nairn replaced Camp- bell with Pauli who finished the game between the pipes. Shortly thereafter, Clark rifled a slap shot behind Mike Sanders in the Thedford net, from Jeff Ansems, Please turn to page 18 Irish take .care of Mitchell Hawks LUCAN - The Lucan Irish have 'advanced to the second round of the Western Junior D playoffs, but only after weathering a stiff fight from a tough Mitchell Hawks' team in a physical opening -round series that went six games before it was decid- ed The Irish entered the series having won 30 of 36 games during the reg- ular season but found their hands full with Mitchell. The teams split the first four games of the series, each team win- ning at home, before the Irish won the fifth game at home 11-3 last Wednesday night and 6-4 in Mitch- ell Friday night. Mitchell actually led 1 after one period in Wednesday's garhe before Lucan got their legs moving and skated circles around the Hawks in the second period to take a 7-2 lead after two periods of play. The Irish scored four more times in the final frame while the Hawks tallied once. Brad Muir and Colin Telford each netted hat tricks for the Irish, Paul Barnes picked up a pair and singles went to Dean Schram, Rick Weish- ar and Joe Febrey. Captain Scott Denomy led in the assist department with a trio, fol- lowed by Glen Marshall, Barnes, Mike Hirtzell, Schram and Dave Please turn to page 20 Holding sticks - Paul Barnes, of the Lucan Irish, right, and Brad Kraemer, of the Mitchell Hawks, hold each others sticks, during the fifth game of the their playoff series last Wednesday night at the Lucan Arena. The Irish grounded the Hawks 11-3 in this game and eventually won the series Fri- day night in Mitchell. Screen shot - Exeter Hawk Jim Lewis gets in front of Thedford Lumberjacks' goalie Mike Sanders to screen him of a shot during the fifth game of the Western Junior D playoff series Friday night at the Rec Centre. The Hawks finally' won the series Sunday night in seven games. Mohawks finally dump .Rocks ELORA - The Exeter Mohawks have finally gotten rid of those pe- sky Elora Rocks. The Mohawks jumped out to a three -games -to -none lead in their Central Senior B North Division semi-final playoff series only to have the Rocks win the next two but the Mohawks came through with good efforts in Elora Friday night and won the game 6-1 and the series in six games. The Rocks forced a sixth game in the series after winning game five 5-2 last Tuesday night at the South Huron Rec Centre. The difference in Friday night's game was the four goals that the Mohawks scored in the second peri- od while the Rocks were blanked. The performance of the Mohawks specialty teams also played a key role. They scored twice on the wer play and once while short • The Mohawks also got a good scoring balance getting goals from all three forward lines. The Mohawks scored first, at 12:12 of the opening period Friday night. Quincy Wilker netted a pow- er -play. goal from linemate Dave Randcrson, but the Rocks tallied later and the period ended in a 1-1 tie. In the second, Wilker returned the favor to Randcrson as Randerson scored on thc power play with un- der two minutes gone in the second period. That goal turned out to be the game winner. Al Gates made it 3-1 when he scored , from Ron Goodhand nearly nine minutes into the period Kris Bedard picked up the unas- sisted, shorthanded goal at 13:13 of thc second and John Kernick fol- lowed just 46 seconds later to make it 5-1 with help from Gord Brooks and that's the way it stayed until the third period. Brooks got the Mohawks only goal of thc final period, from Bill Glover mid -way in the last stanza. Randy Coverdale was the only Rock to beat Rick Pikul in the Ex- eter net Friday night. Last Tuesday's game was an evenly -played affair until Elora broke the game open with three sc,eond-period goals to one for thc Mohawks. Jeff McClenaghan scored the only Mohawks goal of thc second period, from Wilker and Paul Barton. Wilker connected for a power -play goal from Randerson and Barton at Please turn to page 1 }i Lawn Rolling (Exeter Only) CaII Casey's Lawn Care 235-1885 Whether You're Doing One Room or the VV'hbl We need room. Greatselection • Professional installation can be arranged r ;t ESt ,mates Bring your TOOlt measurements HITINO MILLER