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Times Advocate, 1989-09-20, Page 14Page 14 Times -Advocate, September 20, 1989 Panther hockey dominates By Michelle Ellison EXETER - South Huron District High School's field hockey- Pan- thers opened their season with a bang last week when they won the Kitchener Selects school girls' Invi- tational on Saturday; while hosting their own Red and Black tourna- ment on Friday. Fifteen teams from Perth, Oxford, Elgin, Dufferin, Wellington and Waterloo counties gathered at SHDHS for the annual tournament In pool play, the Panthers easily defeated four other teams withbut allowing one goal. Jenny Wareham and Tonya Richt combined for the shutout. Goals by this year's captains, Marcie Ellison and Leanne Dietrich, supplied the Panthers with their first win over Stratford Central. Dietrich managed her second of the day against Centre Wellington Attempted block - Pat Donnelly (right) of the Exeter Centennial senior soccer club tries to stop a St. Thomas player during Sunday's game in Exeter. Exeter ended up winning the game by a score of 4-1 with three of their four goals in the second half. Centennials on winning side. EXETER - On Sunday, September 17, the Exeter Centennial senior soccer team played at home to St. Thomas in the second division' of the Western Ontario Soccer League. The visiting team failed to field a full squad, but we're able to hold back a lacklustre attack by the home wain in the first half: Forward George McEwen with excellent effort, started to work the attack and headed in a perfect cross from left winger Jerry Van De Walle into the opponent's net to put Exeter on the score- board. McEwen then took over as Exeter's goalie after Craig Winbow was injured during a collision while staking a great save. The St. Thomas squad, after having been awarded with a direct free kick outside of Exeter's 18 yard line were able to tic the game at one apiece. The teams were deadlocked 1-1 at the half time whistle. Play again started slow in the second half until Jerry Van De Walle put Exeter in the lead by scoring on a scramble in front of the net. Joe Martens, whose absence from the local team was missed in the first half of the season, scored after posi- tioning himself perfectly in front of the net. The last:tally for Exeter came with approximately 10 minutes left in game time. Dick Lord was able to race down a loose ball at the visitors 18 yard line,- fake around the defending goalie and direct the ball calrhly into an open net. • The game finished with a 4-1 win for Exeter. A good effort was shown by mid -fielder Ray Lewis, John Flanagan and forward Joe Kaak. Next action for the Centennials will be when they travel to Wallacctown on September 24 to play their last away game. The following week, October 1, Exet- er plays host to Chatham Express at 2 p.m. for their last scheduled game. to give SH a 1-09 victory. • Against Southwood, the girls took another easy 4-0 win. Becci Farquhar, Tina Campbell, Sue Anne Soldan and Ellison were goal scorers. St. John's-Kilarnock proved to be no competition for the overpower- ing Panther team as SH took a 5-0 victory to come out on top of pool play. In semi-final play, the Panthers met the champions of pool one, Strathroy. Following a scoreless 30 minute game, two 10 minute overtime periods were held. Jeannette Kaak came through for the Panthers during overtime put- ting one in the net, but with only 30 seconds left to play, a Strathroy player came back making it a 1-1 clash. In penalty strokes, Cindy Moore managed SH's only goal while Strathroy put two past SH to take the 3-2 victory. Saturday, the Panthers rebounded from their defeat to take the Kitch- ener Schoolgirl's tournament. In pool play, SH dominated with two wins and one tie. Tonya Riehl played superbly in net to aid in a 0-0 tie against Fast - wood Collegiate in the first game of the day. The girls proceeded to crush Galt Collegiate Institute 4-0 with Campbell leading the scoring with two goals and Dietrich and Farqu- har adding one each. In game three, a win was neces- sary to advance to the final game. Ellison scored the Panthers single and winning goal against Bluevale. After seeing last years all - Ontario champions, Forest Heights, eliminated from the tour- nament, SH met Grand River of Kitchener. Straight from the open- ing push back of an extremely competitive game, the Panthers rushed into the opponent's circle and Farquhar blasted the ball into the corner of the net. The play during the rest of the game went end to end but SH maintained their slight lead to win the championship. Coach, Jim Workman, feels his team, "made another strong start to the season andshould be champi- onship on tenders." As of press time the girls were travelling to Stratford to open league play in a double header against Stratford Central and Strat- ford Northwestern. Tomorrow, the team meets Mitchell and on the weekend they travel to Scarbo- 'rough. . itontrol'ling the play - SHDHS Panthers Lynn Workman and Leanne Dietrich as backup take t control of the play at the Red and Black tournament in Exeter. The girls lost the tournament in penalty strokes but were suc- cessful on the weekend when they travelled to Kitchener and won the School Girls Invitation- al. 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