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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1989-04-26, Page 17Serving South Huron, North Middlesex & Lambton11111 Since 1872 Wednesday, April 26, 1989 Second Section Irish eliminate Braves, advance to finals LUCAN - What a difference a week can make. Just eight days ago the Lucan. Irish found themselves on the brink of elimination. After beating the Tavistock Braves 4-3 Monday, they are now in the All -Ontario Junior D finals against the Lambeth Lanc- ers. The locals fought back from a three -games -to -one deficit for the second -straight time to take the Northern Division title and a berth in the provincial finals. Tavistock led the series 3-1 on April 17, but Lucan came back to take game five last Tuesday night 6-2, game six Friday night 4-3 in Tavistock and the clincher in Lucan Monday night, another 4-3 contest. Irish coach Dave Kevington said in a long series, the difference is his long bench. "If we have to go seven games I can play everybody and throw six defenccmen out there and not every coach can and I think made the dif- ference in this series again," said Revington. He continued although the series went seven games, the better team eventually won. " "When I picked this team in Sep- tember I picked it thinking it would take us to the All -Ontario finals and it took a lot longer to get there than I thought but we finally made it," said Revington. Revington admitted he doesn't know much about the Lambeth Lancers, his opponent in the pro- vincials finals, but knows it will take good defence to beat them. Lambeth has swept all of their ser- ies so far in the playoffs to get as far as they have. "I know we can score when we want to but I want us to keep our goals against down because they (Lambeth) have an explosive of- fence. I am not worried about what we get, I am worried about what we give up," he said, adding that he could survive one more seven -game series if he had to. Despite. outplaying Tavistock in the first period Monday night, the Irish could only take a 2-0 lead to the dressing room at the first inter- mission. Joe Febrey opened the scoring with a short-handed goal from Rick Weishar and Jamie Pearce at 4:04 of the first, and Tim Hayter made it 2- o with nine minutes left in the first when he -scored from Wcishar and Dean Schram. Each team scored once in the sec- ond, Scott Denomy for Lucan from Darren Neil and Dave Campbell for the Barnes. The lead was cut to 3-2 when Brian Eaton scored from Paul Lang- ford at 2:03 of the third. The Irish failed to take advantage of a golden opportunity to blow the game wide open when Nick Banbu- ry, of Tavistock, was assessed a five-minute major penalty for slash- ing Lucan's Jeff Hirtzell, with 8:06 gone in the third. Lucan had a few good scoring chances during their power -play but couldn't get one past Derrick Camp- bell in the Braves' net. Just over one minute after Banbu- ry's penalty had expired, Paul Barnes took what looked like a harmless shot from the faceoff cir- cle but it fooled Campbell as it bounced into the net. Glen Marshall and Jon MacEachern picked up the assists. As it turned out, Barnes goal would be very impor nt, because with 1:21 left in the game, Tavis- tock's Charlie Lupton blistered a slapshot past Doug Haskett, in the Lucan net, to pull Tavistock to within a goal again and made it an interesung finish. Tavistock coach Reid Dundas pulled Campbell in the final minute in favor of an extra attacker but couldn't get the equalizer to force overtime. This was a much calmer game than most in the series. Lucan was assessed nine penalties, all minors, and Tavistock picked up 10 minors Banbury's major for slashing and a pair of 10 -minute misconducts for using abusive language with the of- ficials. - • Lucan 4 Tavistock 3 Tavistock led 3-2 after one period of play on goals by Eaton from Tim Yantzi and Mark Albrecht, Langford from Lupton and Mike Kohlmaier, and Yantzi from Norris and Campbell, but the Irish outshot the Braves 16-10 in the first but could only put a pair of pucks be- hind Tavistock goalie Campbell. Scoring for Lucan in the first per- iod were; Dean Doerr from Weishar, and Barnes from MacEachern and Bill Patten. The Irish kept up the steady play in the second period, firing 13 more shots at Campbell, clicking for an- other pair. Scoring in the second were; Joe Febrey unassisted, and Pearce finally put Lucan out in. front with 3:32 left in the second, from Febrey and Brad Muir. Lucan's Haskett shut the door on Tavistock in the final two periods, stopping 30 shots total to preserve the lead forcing the seventh game. Like most games in the series, this was another penalty -filled game. The Irish were assessed 20 minor penalties and a pair of 10= minute misconducts, while the home -town Braves chalked up 22 minors, two 10 -minute misconducts and one game misconduct. Lucan 6 Tavistock 2 The Irish jumped out to a 3-0 lcad after the first period but the Braves cut the lead to two goals at 4-2 after the second. Lucan struck twice in the final period while Tavistock was unable to beat Haskett. Brian Schuyler opened the scoring fur Lucan just 3:33 into the game, with Hirtzell picking up the only assist. Just 17 seconds later, Mar- shall scored an unassisted goal to • make it a 2-0 game. Febrey clicked, from Todd Hayter with just 32 sec- onds left in the first to give the Irish a 3-0 lead after one period. Tavistock came back with goal at 4:12 of the second, from Campbell and at 7:56 from Langford to cut the lead to 3-2, but Kevin Leitch's goal, from Muir and Hayter at 11:08 of the second, restored the two -goal lead. Lucan scored twice in the final period, MacEachern from Muir and Barnes and Barnes from Muir to round out the scoring. This game was not quite as penal- ty -filled as Friday's but it was close. The Irish were called for 14 minor penalties, five fighting majors, one 10 minute misconduct for inciting and four game misconducts for fighting, and one game misconduct for being third man in a fight. Referee Steve Baker handed out nine minors to the Braves, three fighting majors, one inciting mis- conduct and one for being third and fourth man in a fight. The Irish lost the coin flip to de- termine home -ice advantage but'will open the All -Ontario finals against Lambeth in London at Nichols Are- na at 7:30 p.m. The second game will also be at the Nichols Arena Saturday at 8 p.m., game three Sun- day back at Lucan Arena at 8:30 p.m. and game four will be Tuesday back at in Lucan at 8 p.m. The rest of the games will be de- termined at a later date. Lambeth has lost the ice in their arena and they may lose use of Nichols Arena soon and may be forced to play all future games, past game four, in Lucan because it may be the only ice still available. Irish celebrate - The Lucan Irish celebrate their 4-3 win over the Tavistock Braves at the Lucan Arena. The win advances the Irish to the provincials finals against the Lambeth Lancers starting Thursday night' at Nichols Arena in London. The Irish eliminated the Braves four -games -to -three in the best -of -seven Junior D North Division finals. They fought back from a 3-1 deficit in the series to take game five 6-2 last Tuesday night, game six 4-3 Friday night in Tavistock and game seven and the series by the same margin. Panthers come close in tournament By Michelle Ellison WEST LORNE - Outstanding goaltending and steady team play save South Huron District High School's Girl's Soccer team two victories and a chance at the cham- pionship in an Invitational tourna- ment held at West Elgin Secondary School in West Lorne on Saturday. During round-robin play in their pool, the Panthers took two victo- ries. The first over the tournament hosts, West Elgin, 1-0 and Beal Secondary School 2-"0. Kim Crawford was the Panthers scorer in the first game while Cindy Moore and Michelle Ellison brought the win against the Beal Raiders. The Panthers goalkeeper, Laurie Forrester, played two outstanding games to claim two shutouts. South Huron's only loss during pool play was 1-0 defeat against Lucas Secondary School of Lon- don. On the run - Anna Szabo, left, of the South Huron District High School Girl's soccer team tries to run with the ball past a player from Stratford St. Michael's, during their Huron -Perth soccer game last Tuesday at South Huron. The game ended in a 1-1 draw. Due to a tic after pool play, a round of•shootouts were held to de- cide playoff positions. The Pan- thers were up against West Elgin and came away with a 2-1 victory. Once again Forrester pulled through for the Panthers making four excellent saves. Scoring for the Panthers were Moore and Tina Campbell. In thc final championship game, the Panthers met St. Joseph's of St. Thomas, the champions of South Huron's tournament the weekend before. The girls pulled together well and played a tough, steady game just as they had all day. Unfortunately, one shot made it past Forrester and St. Joe's took the 1-0 victory. Coach, Terry O'Rourke, was pleased with his teams efforts. Huskies beaten in Newfoundland PORT -AUX -BASQUES - The Durham Huskies have lost their bid to become Hardy Cup champions after dropping three straight games it:CM host Port -Aux -Basques New- foundland tram. The Huskies, who' defeated the Exeter Mohawks in the opening round of the Hardy Cup, dropped Saturday's opener in the best -of - five Eastern_ aaada-tin1•A-:3. III-- overtime, novertime, got blown away 12-0 Saturday and dropped an 8-5 deci- sion Sunday. The Mohawks lost in the Eastern Canada final to Campbellville New Brunswick last year. Port -Aux Basques will now host the winners of the Western Canada Hardy Cup in a best -of -seven Cana- dian finals, starting this weekend. After beating the Mohawks, the Huskies beat the Moorctown Co- mets and Almont Centennials to advance to the Eastern Canada fi- nals. According to Mohawk coach and general manager Bob Rowe, this year there were supposed to be an Eastern Canada Hardy Cup champi- on and an Western Canada Hardy Cup champion to avoid all of the travelling, but that idea has not yet panned out and may happen in the near future. Panther boys open soccer season By Michelle Ellison EXETER -. South Huron District Heigh SchooI's Junior and Senior Boy's soccer teams opened their sea- sons last week in Huron -Perth league games. The Senior Panthers claimed two victories while the Junior Panthers lost their only game of the week. On Wednesday, both teams trav- elled to Seaforth' for their league openers. The Senior Panthers con- trolled play against the Golden hears and came' away with an easy 5-1 victory. Chris Haugh led the team, with two goals while Jamie Wulterkens, Henri DeBruyn and Dave O'Connor each added one. The Junior Boys played a tough, steady game giving Seaforth a good run. Brett Rideout was South Huron's lone goal scorer which tied the game at 1-1. Unfortunately, the Golden Bears got a lucky break, and took the victory on a goal scored with 10 seconds remaining in the game. On Thursday, the Senior Panthers played host to the St. Mary's Salu- kis for a league game. The Panthers dominated th game but it wasn't until late in game that. DeBruyn and Chain pagne Chansamone found the net O'Connor and Haugh played we_ for the Panthers, as did keeper De von Shamblaw who was "strongl motivated by past experience wit the St. Marys team." Coach George McEwan is look ing forward to a very "enjoyabl and successful season," R 1 'N'Or1 h '. t't `r4 y�.r e t ,v' fIYY`` Y rottchsd out - Scott Davidson, right, of the South Huron District High School Senior Boys soCcct team, stretches his leg to try and stop the progress of a player from St. Marys Salukis team during their soccer match at South Huron on Thursday. Panthers start league play with tie By Michelle Ellison EXETER - Last Tuesday, South Huron District High School's Girls Soccer team opened league play against St. Michael's of Stratford. 1 The Panthers played an impres- sive game already showing im- provement from past tournament play. During the first half of play, both teams controlled the ball quite well but thc half ended in a 0-0 draw. Early in the second half of play, the Panthers opened scoring on a shot Please turn to page 18