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Times Advocate, 1991-02-27, Page 14Pap* 14 Times -Advocate, February 27, 1991 PQRTh Neil nets natural hat trick Stick sh, - Lucan defencemen Ed Vanketkoerle got his stick up high and knocked the mask off of Exeter's Derek Shackleton )n last Tuesday night's Junior 'D' game. Junior 'D' playoffs begin Although the Exeter Hawks played their final Western Ontario Jun- ior 'D' Hockey League regular season game last night, playoffs were determined on Monday. The Hawks finished second in the nine -team west division and will face the Seaforth Centenaires. Game One is Friday at 8:30 p.m. at the South Huron Recreation Centre. Meanwhile, Nle Lucan Irish, first in the standings, host the Mt. Brydges Bulldogs Wednesday at 8:15 p.m. Pacers head to provincials HURON PARK - The defending Ontario Women's V Hockey chirps will make an attempt to win the 'B' tide this year as they beat Sarnia on the weekend. Saturday against the Starfires, the Huron Park Pacers won 3-0 to ad- vance to the 'B' tournament to be held April 12-14 in Brampton. Follow- ing a scoreless first period, Thereat McGee scored with six seconds left in the second frame. While Tess Nethery recorded the shutout in the Paces' net; Yvonne Wells and McGee with her second of the night, added insurance goals in the third period. In regulation play; the Pacers lost a pair of games to the very tough London Devilettes. Friday in Huron Park, London won 3-0 while Sunday in 4.ondQ(Linda Gautier scored the lgrne Pacers goal in a 2-1 loss. I_-- Pacers.finI$ i1 second in the regular season standings with 20 pants while Ttendetr Mk first with 20 points. The league playoff tourna- ment is in Alvinston on Saturday as Huron Park meet the Devilettes at 7 p.m. and then the London Royals at 9 p.m. Exeter & Area Ringette Playoff far B Heal - Becker Mums Equip. S vs Gaderkft 1.3 Exeter raiz Kelly Re$ier (1), Shawna Rowe (1).elissa Hayter (1), Jodh Timone: (1), Theresa : Armlets:Kelly Regier (1). Shama Renese (1), Sash Hanikon (1), Meagan Ritz (1) Shannon Slhawood (1) Cheryl Lynn Wein pLyedootnanding in net for the locals ?teat playoff timer: Saturday, Much 2 - 300 in Hansell against St. Marys and Sunday, March 3 - 440 against Ooderici By Fred Groves EXETER - When you've got two good hockey teams, either one can win when they faceoff against each other. Last 'Tuesday night at the South Huron Recreation Centre, the vis- iting Lucan Irish edged the Exeter Hawks 5-3. Just how close are these two Western Ontario Junior 'D' Hock- ey League teams? They've played five times and prior to Tuesday's game, both had won twice. But in the final game of the ri- valry series, it was Darren Neil's hat trick that made the difference. He scored once in the second frame and added back-to-back tal- lies in the third fora natural hat trick (three goals in a row). It was the first three -goal night of the season for the veteran for- ward and he came very close to getting one last year again the Hawks. "I had one last year but they gave one goal to (Andy) Ross, said Neil. The win clinched fust place for the Irish and for Neil, it was a nice Q� way to cap off the seasoe. , "Anytime you lock up the sea- son and *et the winning goal, it's great," said Neil. Tuesday's game was one of the best either team had played all sea- son. There was no scoring in the defensive first period and no pen- alties. The best scoring chance of the opening period was when Ross at- tacked the neutral zone and blasted one at Exeter goalie Clint McCann. He made the save but it trickled be- hind him and hit the Lucan got on the I a less than two minutes into the middle frame when Jack Legg raced down the right side. A backhander by Greg Muir made it 2-0 before Exeter got one past Bob Szabo. Lucan defenceman Todd Hayter couldn't clear the front of the net and Jason Heywood was left alone. But Neil stole the puck and con- nected on a breakaway to give the visitors a two goal advantage. "I thought we played well," said Exeter coach John K.ernict "There were Om things that Lucan did that upset our flow." He noticed the Lucan defence - men get the puck to the forwards very quickly rather than hanging on to it. "We've been trying to get every- body to do that," said Lucan coach Ken Needham. "It sure makes the forwards job a lot easier." The Hawks headed into the sec- ond intermission down by just one goal when David Dalrymple let one go from 20 feet. Szabo thought he had it but it got past his glove. Both teams came out skating hard in the third period and when Exeter defenceman Larry Lewis started geeing physical it looked as though the Hawks might tie it up. "In the last two or three games, Larry has really picked it up," said Kernick of the veteran defence - man's efforts. Neil came from the side of the net and into the slot where he back- handed it past McCann to double the scare 4-2. 1 just put it towards the net, hop- in*,a said Neil who conceded it ought have been a little lucky. Derek Shackleton set up Cory Colhoun to narrow the gap but Neil let one go high from the slot with 51 seconds left to play. His third gml was on the powerplay as Shackleton was slapped with a five-minute hitting from behind penalty. Shackleton was slashed and shad- owed in the offensive zone and then took Greg DePrest into the boards heavily. After the game, Needham said the Hawks who will probably finish the regular season in second place, can't be taken too lightly. "They're a good hockey team, they'll be there (in the finals). If they would have beaten us here, they'd remember it in the playoffs." O'Shea scores three: While Neil fired three Tuesday, the next night in Belmont, rookie Paul O'Shea connected with three goals as the Irish beat the Pests 6-2. Leading 3-0 after 20 minutes, an- otha rookie, Jeremy Jemec had two goals with the other from Ke- vin Leitch. DePrest, Steve Mat- thews and Ross all had two assists each. Hawks beat Centenaires 5-4 Groves SEAFOR�� The Exeter Hawks learned Sunday afternoon they can't take the Seaforth Cente- naires too lightly. Exeter won the Western Ontario Junior 'D' hockey matchup 5-4 In five regular games this season, Exeter has won four times and lost a 6-5 overtime decision. "They're young and when they're into it they play over their heads. If you bury (outplay) them early you can beat them," said Ex- eter coach John Kernick. The Hawks scored less than three minutes into the game when Derek Shackleton connected. Lat- er Sunday he suited up for St. Marys Lincolns in their Junior 'B' playoff game against St. Thomas. Jason Carter tied it for the Centenaries before J.P. (�ousiu>eau put the Hawks back in front. An- drew Barton, who assisted on that goal, has been one of the Hawks most dangerous offensive weap- ons as of late. • Friday at home he had a hat trick against Mt. Brydges and is on a line with Cousineau and right- winggeerr Doug Clark. "WZ're starting to pull together as a team. We've played a lot of hockey lately," said Barton. Exeter finished its regular sea- son in Mitchell last night and in eight. days played five games. But it didn't seem to slow them down in the fast paced game against Sea - forth. After Cousineau's foal, Jason Schoonderwoerd, comung off the injured list, sent the learns into die dressing room tied at two. In the second period Exeter's Ja- son Heywoodlet go with a wrist - shot ilco a being knocked down and he scored past Dann Duskocy. p ry 24 - Exeter C.d6olt Inattraace Novice 9 re Stratford 1- Beale-; Trky Wibos ie oodboiLawrence (3), Steck* (2) AseMs Tiny M(2�MLen (1), Anne -Mark (1), Kim (I),•Letry.' Baynhon 1) • • February 23 - Exeter optimist Juntore 11 vs Forest 9 Gisler Jennifer MacNeil (6). Cheyenne Westlake (2), Cathie Wilson (2) Amide: Jennifer MacNeil 91), Cheyenne Westlake (3), Cathie Wilson (1) Janice Sanders (1), Michelle Bowerman (3), Cris Morph (3), Jodi Hamilton (2) Junior spikers to WOSSA STRATFORD - The South Hu- ron Panthers juniors gds volley- ball team gained a berth at the WOSSA tournament in Sarnia this weekend as they finished second at the Huron -Perth event. On Saturday in Stratford, the Panthers opened with a 15-9, 15-2 win over Listowel. South Huron then cameshort 15-13 and 15-1 to Stratford St Mike's. The third game of the round- robin format had the Panthers beat- ing Goderich Vikings 15-9 and 15- 7. In the finals the locals lost 15-10 and 15-10 to Stratford Central. It is the third consecutive year the weeder Panthers have advanced to WOSSA. South Huron have come a long way this season as they were in second last place back in Janu- ary. Molting Hawks beaten twice EXETER - It was a tough week for the Exeter Molting Hawks as they dropped a pair of oldtimas hockey games. They ywere edged 7-6 by Andy's Old Wrecks. In that game Randy Gillfillan had two goals with sin- gles from Bob , 'Brian Hodgins, Ken Bergmann and Er- nie Ahrens. Exeter fell 10-6 to Lambeth as Ahrens had a big game scoring four goals. Defencenan Larry Lewis then made it 4-2 as he raced in from the blueline and took a pass from Cory Calhoun. The game became rough as Mark Reid got a stomach full of Dusko- cssstick and Seaforth's Jason speared Al Blommaert be- hind the play. "Any team, the last part of the year they intimidate you, but we've done a good job of controlling our- selves." said Kernick of his team's discipline not to retaliate. A scramble in front of Exeter goalie Clint McCann led to the third Seaforth goal even though it appeared as though the net had been knocked off before Dave Wil- liams scored. In the third period the Hawks re- gained their two -goal advantage when Biammaert crossed it over to defensive partner David Dalrymple who shot and it was redirected by Cousineau for his second of the af- ternoon. Ted Sills blasted one past McCann's glove to round out the scorinip Seatorth pulled Duskocy Htat tho ants hung hung on. Although the Cents finished sev- enth in the standings and the Hawks were second, Barron noted at least one Seaforth strength. "'They've got a good defensive team but I think we can take them," he said. Batt Bulldogs: Friday night in Exeter, the Hawks had little trouble with the visiting ML Brydges Bull- dogs as they came out on top 6-2. Barton opened and closed the scor- ing for the Hawks and added one more for the hat trick. "My confidence is really built up." said Barton of his improved play - Heywood had a goal and an assist while Colhoun and David Dalrym- ple also scored. The following night in Mt. 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