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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1989-03-22, Page 17North Middlesex & Middlesex Lambton Since 1873 Wednesday, March 22, 1989 Second Section Mohawks draw even with Creemore EXETER - The•Exeter Mohawks rebounded from a 10-4 pounding by . the Creemore Chiefs Saturday night to win 8-4 Sunday .night. dt the South Huron Rec Centre and even their Senior B best -of -seven semi -.final playoff series at one game each. "We just weren't ready to play Saturday night," said Mohawk coach and general manager Bob Rowe. "We can't go up there with half a team ready to play, we have to have all 20 guys going if we want t� win," he said. Rowe also said the Mohawks didn't execute. very well Saturday - night but turned 'things around Sunday. - "We just did all the wrong things Saturday night in front of. Bill, -. •(Mohawk goalie Bill Dark), but just didn't give him much support and tried to correct it in. our rink Sunday night and it worked much better. I thought we really skated with them Sunday night. . ':Creemore has a lot of guys that can put the puck --in the net so we haveto make the best of our op- portunities when we get them and play good defensive hockey in order to win," said Rowe. The Mohawks broke open a 2=1 game Sunday night with five sec -- end -period goals and cruised from there. • Quincy Wilker got the Mohawks off on the right foot when he • scored from'linemates Paul Barton and Dave Randerson at 9:03 of the :first. - The Chiefs answered just over two minutes later when John Mat- thews deflected a shot between Mo- hawk goalie Rick Pikul's legs.. The Mohawks took the lead for good at 17:19 of the first when . Barton connected for a power -play marker from Ron Elliot and Ran- dcrson. • - In -the second period, the Mo- hawks got goals from five different players which helped them to their victory: Scoring in the second for the Mohawks were; Bill Glover from Barry -Baynham and Gord Brooks at 3:32, John Kernick from Joe Scherer at 4:24, Brooks from Kris Bedard and Glover at 6:04, Wicker from Barton at 10:35 and Bedard unassisted, on a solo rush from centre ice a 19:15. • Gord Dovey and Greg Caruthers replied for Creemore in the second period, to make it a 7-3 contest heading into the final period. In the third, Scott Jackson cut the lead-fo 7-4 when he slipped one be- hind Pikul at 6:01, while on the power play, but Barton completed the scoring -with his sccond of the game from Randerson, 19'seconds Possible Tiger pitcher LAKELAND - Lucan's Mike Lumley, will probably be pitch- ing for the new London Tigers in 1989. . Lumley, who went to the De- troit Tigers spring training camp in Lakeland Florida on the Lake- land Tigers Class "A" roster, will be moved up to "AA" ball in London sooner than he and others expected. He has survived the first two cuts and will have to keep playing well if he hopes to stay with London. London Tigers' General Manag- er Bob Gilson said recently he ex- pected Lumley to be in a Lake-. land Tigers' uniform until June and if he was having a good sea- son he would be moved up at that time. "We are really excited about having Mike on the team. It will be great having a local boy on the team. We have met his parents and grandparents and they they all seem like really nice people," said Gilson. He added that Lumley is the only local prospect with Lon- don and the only Canadian player in the Tiger system right now. Lumley, who moved to Lucan with his family in 1986, will be pitching professionally in the same park he pitched at while growing up, Labatt Park in Lon- don. Lumley was, born in Lon- don. Lumley had pitched- there with Eager- Beavers,- London Juniors, London Royals and then the Ma- jors. "The chance to pitch in Labatt Park is all the incentive I need," Lumley told aLondon Free Press reporter. "I've pitched there all my life." Lumley, a 6'1" :right-handed pitcher, played for Eastern Michi- gan University in Ypsilanti and was the Tigers' fifth pick in the June 1988 draft. He spent the most of last sum- mer pitching Class "A" ball. in Fayetteville, North Carolina in the South Atlantic League. Lum ley pitched in 58 innings, struck - out 56 and posted a 3-3 record and an impressive 2.91 earned -run av- erage. Lumley also pitched 50 innings in the Instructional League in Lakeland in September and Octo- ber and only gave up one earned run. "They put me there because I pitched well enough in Fayette- ville and the Instructional League to play "AA" this year. Now its up to me to prove in the next two weeks (here) I can do it," said Lumley. - The London Tigers break camp April 4 and then head north for their home opener at Labatt Park April 7 against Albany Yankees. later. Pikul stopped 24 of 28 shots while the Mohawks fired 39 at a pair of Chief netminders. CREEMORE 10 EXETER 4 Saturday night, the Mohawks couldn't stop Central Senior Blead- inc scorer Bob Parker and 'inmate Gillies Ouellette, who each had a hat tricks in the game. Creemore led 4-3 after 20 minutes of play and upped it to 6-3 after the Ridden out - Tim. Adair, of the ExeterlMohawks, takes Bob Parker, of the Creemore Chiefs out of the play, during the second game of the OHA Senior B semi-finals at the South Huron Rec Centre. The Chiefs won the first game of the series 10-4 Saturday in Creemore and the Mohawks bounced back to win Sunday night 8-4. Hawks, LUCAN - St. Patrick's Day proved to be a good omen for the Lucan Irish as they beat the Exeter Hawks 7-6 at the South Huron Rec Centre to even their best -of -seven division semi=final series at one. game each. The Hawks -outscored the Irish 8- 3 last Wednesday night at the Lu - can Arena in the opening game of the series. Friday night, The Irish spotted the Hawks•a 4-0 lead at one point in the second period before the roof fell in on Exeter. The Irish scored four times in just over seven min- utes and the game was deadlocked at 4-4 heading into the final period. "It was a tough one to loose," said Hawk coach Jack Nairn. "We fell asleep for five minutes and it really cost us tonight. Otherwise I thought we played well and got some good goaltending but we gave Todd (Hawk goalie Todd Campbell) no support out there. And we have to cut down on our stupid penalties also," said Nairn. Irish coach Dave Revington said his team got off to a very bad start Frida r night but really turned things around in the sccond half of the contest. "We played very bad the first half Irish deadlocked 1 of the game finally got' things go- ing in the sccond period. We can't afford to give up 14 goals in two playoff games and expect to win," said Revington, At the end of the first period Fri- day night, rather than send his team to the dressing room, Revington kept his team at the bench and had a talk with them there. . "1 just wanted to impress upon them that we couldn't afford to lose another game to these guys which would have meant that we needed to win the last four of five games which would have been really diffi- cult. We really hadn't been playing• well up to that point in the series," said Revington. Jean Paul Cousineau put Exeter on the board Friday night, at :47 of the first after being set up by Jim Dickins and Frank Wulterkens and before the period was over Derek Shackleton scored twice, both were from Cousincau and Larry Lewis, 1:05 apart. Shackleton got his natural hat trick when he scored a power -play goal from Lewis acid Cousineau again to put the Hawks up by four goals, four minutes into the sec- ond. Lucan's comeback started at 11:26 of the second when Jon McEachran scored his first of three on the night from. Jamie Pearce and Brad Muir, while just under a minute later Paul Barnes scored a power -play goal from Dean Schram and Scott Deno my to cut the lead in half. Tim Hayter made it a one -goal game at 15:18 with his marker from Todd .Hayter and Darren Neil and the Irish drew even when Joe' Fcbrey scored at 18:32 from Muir and Schram. The Irish took a 5-4 lead when Pearce scored from Barnes at 6:16 of the third, and McEachran got his second at 6:52 from Barnes and Todd Hayter, but the Hawks man- aged to get one back at 7:27 whcn Steve Dubarry scored from David Dalrymple. McEachran completed his hat trick at 12:08 after he was set up by Muir and Pearce, which made it 7.5 Irish. • The Hawks drew to within one when Cousincau scored a power- play goal from Dalrymple and Dan Nairn•but couldn't get any closer. The Hawks outshot the Irish 32- 29 over 60 minutes. Please turn to page 20 . second and added four more goals in the final period. In addition to the hat tricks, Todd Jackosn had a pair for Creemore and singles went to Tim Glencross and Steve Scott. Scoring for the Mohawks were; Barton from Randerson, Scherer from Glover and Bedard, Barton from Wilker and. Kernicick. from Baynham while shorthanded in the third period. The remainder of the series will be• played as follows: game three Saturday night in Creemore at 8 p.m., game four Sunday night at 7:30 at SHRC, game five Wednes- day, March 29, at 8:30 p.m. in Creemore, game six, if neccessary, Friday, March 31; at 8:30 at the SHRC, game seven, if neccessary, Sunday, April 2 in Creemore at 3:30 p.m. There will be a fan bus going to game three Saturday night in CI -cc - more. Cost for the bus will depend upon how many fill the. bus. If any- one is interested call Dave Dettmer at 228-6870 during the week. • Petites open final series with win GODERICH - The Exeter Petite Ringette team started -their playoff - finals in Godcrich Sunday and won 5-2. Exeter's Cara Gardner started the scoring at 13:34 on a passing play from Danielle Miners and Judi Wil- son. Gardner struck again, one minute later, on an unassisted ef- fort. Wilson capitalized on a pass from Teresa Stire at 4:11 to end the first half three goals ahead of Goderich. Jana Webster kicked out 10 hard shots in the first for Exeter. Karen Harrison started the second half scoring for Godcrich at 10:39. The two tcams•played tight end- • ti -end action until,4:52 whcn Gard- ner popped another in with Stire as- sisting. Gardner took advantage of a free pass and flip Exctcr's final goal in at 2:36. Godcrich managed to get one from Heather Mas;c to end the game 5-2. ' ' Again Webster played strong, kicking out 11 shots in the second to help lead her team to victory and get one game up in the best -of -three playoff series. The next game will be in Hensall Thursday at 8:15 and the third, if necessary, Saturday at 4:30 p.m. in Hensall. Come and help cheer the girls to victory. Whether You're Doing One Room or the Whole House We Can Save You Mone We need room Great selection Professional installation can be arranged - Free Estimates Bring your room measurements HITINQ MILLER CARPET& DRAP 63 MAIN ST., EXETER (519) 235-1964