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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1989-11-29, Page 17OMPARt 1Ht RAIL` North Middlesex & Lambton Midair collision - Both Brian Schuyler, left, of the Lucan. Irish and Jamie -Tomes, of the Exeter Hawks, - were sent flying after a heavy hit when those teams met at the Lucan Arena last Wednesday night. Both players are set to brace themselves as they are about to fall heavily to the ice after the hit. The Irish beat the Hawks 5-3. Injuries taking to -Il on Hawks sLUCAN - Injuries are crntinuing to decimate the Exeter Hawks' lineup. espite missing several players, the Hawks. put together their best offensive showing of the year, winning 9-2 in Tavistock Friday night against the Braves. Unfortunately, the win was sandwiched around a pair of defeats. Last Wednesday night the Hawks played well for two period, but lost 5-3 in Lucan against the first -place Irish and fell again at home to the Braves 5 -4, -Saturday. The Hawks have won only once in seven games at the South Huron Rec Centre this season. That win came three weeks earlier, also against the Braves winning. The Hawks did beat the Wellesley Apple- jacks 4-2 at the Hensall Arena October 8, when the SHRC was closed,for renovations. Exeter was missing several players due to inju- ries. Out of the lineup either all or part of last week were, Derck Shackleton, (broken hand and finger) Harlen Tinney, (separated shoulder) Jim Dickins, (ruptured spleen) AI Blommaert (sore shoulder), Joel Weston (broken finger) and Bob Hearn played sparingly with a sore shoulder. Brent Nairn has also played very little all year Due to the injuries, Hawks coach Jack Nairn was forced to play the games with only two regular lines and a third make -shift line with two defenceman playing forward. This left only four defencemen on the blue line. Saturday night, the Hawks held a 2-0 advantage early in the second period on Doug Clark's power- play goal from Jean-Paul Cousineau mid -way in the first and Jamie Tomes' goal 57 seconds into the sec- ond. But Tavistock scored five unanswered goals to take a 5-2 lead, with the final two coming in the third period. Exeter managed to get closer when Bryan Quinn scored from Hearn and JeSse Henderson at 12:53 of the third and Larry Lewis' goal two minutes later. Although they had several good chances to tic the game, they couldn't get the one they needed past Braves' goalie Dana Duskocy. The Hawks outshot the Braves 42-24 in the game but Nairn felt some should have been stopped. "We just let in too many bad goals. 1 think we were a bit overconfident after Friday night's win and they caught us. We just have to forget about it and go out there and stick together and get them next time," said Nairn Exeter 9 Tavistock 2 The Hawks led 3-1 heading to the third period Fri- day night but exploded for six third -period goals and the easy win, despite having only 14 players dressed for the game. Clark, Tomes and Blommaert each had a pair for the winners, while singles were scored by Scott Taylor, Cousineau and Gregg Blackler. Cousineau also led in the assist department with five, followed by Jeff Chipchase with three, two each to Lewis and Clark and singles to Dalrymple, Paul Manders and Blommaert. Todd Campbell turned aside 23 shots in goal for the Hawks. Last Wednesday night the league -leading Lucan Irish; beat a short-staffed Exeter Hawks' team 5-3 at the Lucan Arena. It was the second -straight time the Irish had beaten the Hawks and it was Lucan's 12th - straight game without a loss. The Hawks held a 2-1 advantage after the opening period. Lucan got on the board first, at 8:01 of the period when Rick Weishar shot eluded Hawk goalie Clint McCann. Jon McEachem drew the only assist. Exeter drew even at 16:57 when Doug Clark scared a power -play goal for the Hawks. Cousineau had the only assist on that play. Just under a minute later, the Hawks took the lead on Blackler's goal from Scott Taylor. It started that way until Darren Neil scored after being left alone in front of McCann at 13:31 of the middle period. Todd Hayter and Greg Deprest had the assists. Lucan then took the lead for good with exactly one minute left in the second, when Weishar got his second of the game, a power -play goal from Tim Hayter and Jamie Pearce. The Irish took a two -goal advantage and grabbed a 4-2 lead when they took control of the opening Continued on page 18 11M Guaranteed Investment Certificates Main 8t., Exeter MI1iAhlMku 235-1000 rkt�i Since 1873 Wednesday, November 29, 1989 Second Section Mohawks dispose of football - minded Dunnville Mudcats EXETER - Football seemed to be a more formidable opponent for the league -leading Exeter Mo- hawks than the second -place Dunn- ville Mudcats Sunday night at the South Huron Rec Centre as the Mo- hawks won 8-0 for their 11th win in a row to start the season. The reason for the lopsided score in the game was the fact Dunnville dressed only seven players, includ- ing their goalie. A good crowd came out, despite competing with the Grey Cup game on television, expecting an exciting game but were disappointed when it was learned Dunnville had noth- ing more than a skeleton crew. The Mudcats players that did bother to show up for the game came late and the contest was about one .hour behind getting started. "Most of our guys were at the Grey Cup game and five others went to the Bills game in Buffalo," said Mudcats' manager Cliff Ull- • man. Ullman added he told the Mo- hawks long ago he was having trou- ble getting players for the game. LU ,�Q> CA4 w Cl) w N w N w cA w cl w f!) w c/) U1 N w N SAVE S`';,x�VE SAVE SAVE SAVE SAVE SAVE SAVE SAVE SAVE Don't Forget (Wednesday, November 29) _ 309 Main St., Exeter Open Thursday & Friday unti 9 p.m. mON Where Service Is always In Style ' Except Layaways SAVE SAVE SAVE SAVE SAVE SAVE SAVE SAVE SAVE SAVE SAVE Ln m t � � ' (1) m to m N m m N m (1) m m to m "I told them (the Mohawks), to try and get the game changed be- cause we weren't going to have enough players here and they didn't want to do that. I even had thoughts about going to the OHA to try and get it changed but I didn't want to overstep our league and try and. force the issue. "We had no intention of sending a full team because our guys knew long before this game was ever scheduled they were going to the Grey Cup. They have never sched- uled a game before on Grey Cup night and 1 hope they never do it again," said Ullman. To avoid a forfeit and impending suspension, Ullman said he was forced to come to play the game otherwise he would have stayed at home. Mohawk manager Bob Rowe said he tried to reschedule the game but every date the Mohawks had free, the Mudcats were busy and no mutually agreeable solution could be worked out. It was also hard for Mohawks coach Dave Revisgton to get inten- sity or motivation from his players because of Dunnville's situation and didn't want to roll the score up too high because they have to play the Mudcats in Dunnville Thursday night. They are expected to have a full compliment of players for their home game and the Mohawks will go to Dunnville with a full bench as well. "I had more players sit out to- night than they had dressed," said Revington. Dale Gibbon and Dave Rander- son each had a pair of goals for the Mohawks, while popping singles were; Ron Elliot,Jack Thornton, Jeff Shipley and Gord Brooks. Due to the poor Dunnville turn- out, the Mohawks will be allowing every person who paid to get into Sunday's game back this Sunday at no charge for Fan Appreciation Night when the Dorchester Dol- phins will be at the SHRC at 7:30 p.m. Hat night originally scheduled for Sunday will be pushed back one week to December 10, when Chatham will be at the SHRC. Mitchell ends Irish unbeaten streak MITCHELL - The Lucan Irish unbeaten streak came to an end af- ter 13 games when they were beat- en 3-2 in Mitchell by the Hawks, Friday night. But the Irish �'ounced back to start another streak Saturday night when they took care of the Seaforth Centenaires 7-4 at the Ilderton Are- na. Last Wednesday night the Irish made it 12 games without a loss with a 5-3 win over the Exeter Hawks at the Lucan Arena. The Irish were led by two goals each from Rick Weishar and Dar- ren Neil in the- victory over the Hawks. Todd Hayter was the other goal scorer. The Hawks held Lucan close for two periods but ran out of .gas in the third and Lucan cruised to the win. John McEachern, Andy Ross, Brian Schuyler, Tim Hayter, Todd Hayter, Jamie Pearce, and Greg De- prest all picked up assist in the game. In Mitchell, the Irish held a 2-1 advantage in the first period, but were held in check by the Hawks the rest of the game. Mitchell tied the game on Shayne Adair's unas- sisted goal at 2:25 of the third peri- od and won it at 8:59 when Jason Clark scored a power -play tally from Troy McMann and Trevor Harmer. Scott Merold scored unassisted in the first period for the Hawks. Scoring for the Irish were; Jeff Hirtzel from Scott Mackey and Schuyler and Deprest from Neil and Todd Hayter. The Hawks outshot the Irish 35- 31. Lucan 7 Seaforth 4 Lucan beat a short-staffed Sea - forth team Saturday night, scoring four times in the first period, twice in the second and added one in the third. Seaforth scored all four goals in the final period trying to mount a comeback, with Brad Carter and Ja- son Schoonderwerd each getting a pair. Hirtzel had the hot stick for the Irish firing four past Seaforth goal- ie Bill Tremeer. Mackey, Deprest and Glen Marshall each had one goal. Joe Febrey set up four Lucan goals, Schuyler had three assists, - Ed Van Kerkle had another two and one each went to Jack Legg, Weishar and Hirtzel. Lucan's record stands at 11-1-2, good for 24 points and a five -point lead over Mitchell. The next game for the Irish will be tonight, Wednesday, when the Tavistock Braves will be at the Lu - can Arena. Game time is 8:15 p.m. Friday night the Irish travel to Sea - forth for an 8:30 game against the Centenaires. Lee O'Rourke sets pair of Mustang track records LONDON - Dashwood's Lee O'Rourke broke two records while competing in the annual University, of Western Ontario intrasquad track and field meet Friday night at Lon- don's Thompson Arena. °Rourke, who was an all- Canadian last year while competing for the Mustangs, broke the meet and site record in the women's triple jump event. O'Rourke jumped 11.31 ,metres, breaking her old mark o 10.87, which she set in last year's meet, and the Thompson Arena record of 11.18 metres, set by Marg Gillen of Windsor, also fell. — The season opening meet for the Mustangs will be Saturday at Thompson Arena also. 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