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Times Advocate, 1989-04-05, Page 17Times -Advocate, April 5, 1989 Mohawks take league laurels CREEMORE - The Exeter Mo- hawks wrapped up their Central Ontario. Senior B Hockey League title in five games after literally surviving a fight against the Cree-1 more Chief . The MohWks then started their best -of -seven provincial finals against the Dresden LumberKings Sunday night in Dresden and came away 6-3 winners. The fifth game in the the best -of - seven league finals last Wednesday night at Creemore was a wild -and - wooly affair with just about every- thing thrown in. The Chiefs tried to intimidate the Mohawks right from the outset but referee Garry Kippfer laid down the law sending a message he wasn't going to put up with any dirty play. • With 4:45 left in the first period, Kippfer called Crcemore's John Matthews for a cross checking pen- alty. Coach John Lunn protested the call so he was given a.penalty. The enraged coach tried to go over the¶oards to get at Kippfer and had to be restrained by. some of his players but he wasn't finished yet. Kippfer promptly tossed Lunn out of the game and Lunn respond- ed by tossing all of the team's extra sticks onto the ice, grabbed the • benches and threw them onto the ice and also hurled all the water bottles and towels onto the ice. As a result the Mohawks had a two- man advantage for about seven minutes which they failed to capi- talize on. - With 3:14 left in the second peri- od, Mohawk goalie Rick Pikul was run heavily into the boards behind his net by Gerry Reinders. He was down for about seven minutes be- fore he moved at all. Several Mo- hawk players took exception to the move by . Reinders and a near bench -clearing brawl ensued be- cause Exeter did not have a back-up goalie for the game as Bill Dark did not make the trip. To help Pikul clear his head and restore order, Kippfer had both teams go to the dressing room and the 3:14 that was left in the second wal completed before the third peri- od. Several more fights occurred 41 the third. "It was pretty sad," said Mohawk coach Bob Rowe, commenting on the behavior of Lunn. "We kept our cool when we had to and played good disciplined hock- ey, which is more than I can say for them," Rowe said, He added he had never seen a display of such poor sportsmanship like that before. Mohawk defenseman Jeff McClenaghan echoed his coaches comments on Lunn's behavior and • said he knew the game was going to be a rough one going in. "These guys, (Creemore), get a - little goony at times and we expect that and its hard to play a team that has no coach. It . really showed "a lack of discipline on their part to go at our goalie the way they did, but when you play a team like that you have to keep your cool and just • pick your spots when you want to go alter them," said McClenaghan. Winning. the league does not make up for losing the Hardy Cup according to McClenaghan. "The Hardy Cup is entirely differ- ent. ifferent. In that you are fighting for a Canadian championship, while it's nice to win the league it is not quite the same," he said. Creemore advanced to the league finals by beating the Durham Hu- skies in seven games, the same Durham Huskies that defeated the Mohawks in the opening. round of the Hardy Cup. - When asked if he would have pre- ferred to play Durham over Cree- more in the league final to get c. some re5enge, McClenaghan re- sponded," I would have liked to play Durham because they stick to playing hockey and don't fight as much as Creemore. Creemore got off to a flying start last Wednesday night, when Scott Jackson went coast-to-coast and - scored an unassisted goal just 24 seconds into the game. But the Mohawks responded just 1:21 later to tie the game and scored three more time in the first and . took a 4-1 lead after one period and were never headed. Captain Mark Soehncr scored the first two goals for the Mohawks, one from Quincy Wilker and Ron Elliot and the other from Tim Adair and Barry Baynham. Dave Rander- son also scored from Adair and Elli- ot and Wilker scored Randerson and Barton in the first period. Please turn to page 21 • Irish oust LUCAN - The Lucan Irish have advanced to the Western Junior D North Division final against the Ta- vistock Braves after knocking off the Exeter Hawks 5-4 in double overtime in an exciting Seventh - and -deciding gam; of their division semi-finals. The Irish trailed 3-1 after four games of the series but came back to win last Monday night at the Lu - can Arena 6=3, won last Wednesday night at the South Huron Ree Cen- tre 8-6 and Friday night's dramatic victory to take the series. The Hawks were ...without coach Jack Nairn who had made a previ- ous ous commitment to go out of town that weekend and coaching duties were shared by Cam Stewardson and Dave Atthill. "We gave it everything we had," said Atthill. "We certainly have nothing to hang our heads about because we e weren't expected to go this far". Atthill said fatigue did not play a factor for the Hawks because he felt the- Irish should have been just as tired as Exeter. But it was the sec- ond -straight Seven=game,series for the Hawks, who were forced to go the distance in the opening round against the Thedford Lumberjacks before finally taking that series. The Irish beat the Mitchell Hawks in six -games. • . Also, the Hawks had three players dressed for the game, Doug Clarke, Joel Campbell and Dan Nairn, but all three saw very little if any .ice time in the game. They also went with only four defenceman, because of the injury to David Dalrymple, who didn't dress. Lucan coach Dave Revington. said his team showed a -lot of character coming back the way they did. "It -was a tough series for anybody to lose going as long as -it did, but it really showed some character building on our part out there," said Revington. Revington said the turning point in Friday's game was when the Irish came back to make it 3-2 shortly af- ter the 1-lawks took a 3-1 lead in the second period, because Revington felt if the Hawks could have taken a 4-1 lead they might have been im- • possible to catch. He also felt hav- ing a longer bench than Exeter made- • big difference in the outcome of the series.' In the first 10 -minute overtime, both teams had several good chances to score "and both goalies, Exeter's Todd Campbell and Lucan's -Brad Judd came up very _big. Withless than five minutes to play in the first overtime, the puck came sliding out towards the faceoff circle to the left of Campbell, he gambled and came racing out of the net to clear it away before an on- coming Lucan player could get to it, missed the puck and it was taken by Lucan's Glen Marshall who had the wide-open net to score in. Surrounded- - Darryl Hughson, of the .Creemore Chiefs is surrounded bya number of Exeter Mo -die, they the Hawks didn't t liedownand came back just 23 seconds. hawks players during the fifth game of the league final in Creemore last Wednesday night. The Mo- later when defenceman Larry Lewis hawks won the game. 8-4 to take the_league title. Surrounding Hughson are, from left, John Kernick, buried a backhand shot past Judd to • Jeff McClenaghan. Ron Elliot and goaltender Rick Pikul. force the second extra session. Three minutes into the second overtime, Lucan's Rick Weishar had two or three `swipcs,at the puck in front of the net, Campbell had trou- ble corralling the puck and he fell back across the goal line, despite having the puck still in front of him. Some said. the puck never did cross the line but referee Rick Sin- gleton said it did and that was all that mattered. Barnes opened the scoring at 7:53 of the first, from Darren Neil and Dean Doerr. Three minutes . later, the Hawks got‘even when Derek Shackleton stole a puck at his blue- line, while shorthanded; skated in alone on Judd and scored. • The Hawks took a 2-1 lead at 14:37 of the first when Jim Dickins scored from Jean Paul Cousineau and Shackleton. . The Hawks took a 3-1 lead 13:34 of the second when Shackleton got his second from a slap shot from his blueline, after having just killed off a penalty. Bryan Quinn and Cousineau drew assists. But the Irish got that back just under,a minute later when Bill Pat- ten scored from Jeff Hirtzell and Marshall. - Barnes second goal at 8:34 of the third tied the game and forced over- time. Marshall's goal at 5:31 of the first overtime was assisted by Febrey and Dean Schram and gave the Irish a brief 4-3 lead but Larry Lewis' goal just 23 seconds later, from : Mark Morrissey and Steve Dubarry forced a second overtime. Welshes game winner at 3:09 of the second overtime was set up by Todd Hayter. The Irish outlasted the Hawks 8-. 6 at the South Huron Rec Centre last Wednesday night to force a sev- s .. enth-and-deciding game at the Lucan . Arena. The Hawks led 3-1 after one peri- od last Wednesday but fell pan in the second once again as the Irish tallied five times en route to their win. , Neil got the- Irish on the board .. first with his goal at 9:32 of the first, from Barnes and Marshall. The Hawks got on the board at • 13:04 when Shackleton got his first of two from Cousineau and his sec- ond came exactly three minutes lat- er, from Cousineatt;and- Dickins, to put the Hawks in the lead. The Hawks went up 3-1 before the -peri- od was over when .Dickins scored :from Shackleton andCpusineau. - But the Irish onslaught in the sec- ond period started just, 22 -seconds . into the period and continued until 17:45. • Barnes scored from Marshall and Neil, Jeff. Hirtzell scored from Bill Patten, Rick Weishar scored unas- - sisted, Jon Mc-Eachenn scored from Brad Muir and Doerr and Weishar scored another. unassisted. . Scoring for the hawks in flit third frame were; Cousincau froi,i Dan. Nairn and Shackleton, line wis from Anscms and N1orrissc' and. Jim Lewis from Duharry and Ansems. - . McEachern had a pair for the Irish in•the.third. period to complete hili hat trick, one. from Denomy and th4 other assist went to Barnes. - The Hawks outshot the Irish 40- 29 in the game but Lucan nctmind- er Brad Judd played very steady. The Irish will meet the Tavistock. Braves in the Division finals al- though no definite dates were ar- ranged- by press time, the best -of - seven series will likely start -Friday. night in Tav --.tack. l • tom.t -) iy *0800 Exeter Mohawks vs Dresden Lumberkings FAN BUS TO DRESDEN for Friday game Call Dave Dettmer 228-6870 or Gabby Mol 235-0743 Minor Hockey players get awards a Pee Wee A Sporstrnanship Mark Brintnell Tykes MVP Joshua DeBruyn Atom Crunchers Mn ;t Improved Jeff Mason Pee Wee A MVP Steve Farquhar Bantam Lincoln gawks MVP Mike Clay Bantam A Sportsmanship Fred Godbolt Bantam A MVP David Schwindt Bantam Lincoln Hawks Sportsmanship Mark Lynn Midget Bears Sportsmanship Jeff McCurdy Bantam Mustangs Most Improved Ben Kline Atom Crunchet's Sportsmanship Billy Kline Atom Crunchers MVP • Jeff Haan Novice Waxers MVP Jeff MacLean Bantam Mustangs MVP Brian Inch Sunday windup Novice Waxers Most Improved Joey Bierling Midget Bears MVP . Jamie Bedard , Tyk=s • Sporstmanship Robert DA/ries NOTE: Not all Minor Hockey Teams presented awards for performance during the year. Absent when photos were taken Bantam A; Mark Glavin, Most Improved Pee Wee A; Steve Cook, Sportsmanship Bantam Mustangs; Rob Haines, Riley, Most Improved Midget Bears. Pee Wee Bullets Most Improved • ' Jamie Dougal Novice Waxers Sportsmanship Luke Sims Pee Wee Bullets Sportsmanship Mark Foster Pee Wee Bullets MVP Scott Parsons were: Jamie Cornish, Most Improved Most Improved •Lincoln/Hawks and Ben •