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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1992-01-22, Page 12Page 12 Times -Advocate, January 22, 1992 Senior 'A' homey Despite eye Injury, Timmermans continues to play By Peed Groves EXETER - Dale Timtneneans loves the game of hockey. That's why, despite having just ten percent vision in his left eve, he's helping the Exeter Mohawks un -their-baule•-for-first plan in the Southern Counties Senior 'A' )lock - ey League. Sunday night, the five-year vete- ran defenceman aided the Mo- hawks to a 5-3 win over the visiting Dorchester Dolphins. The aur vaulted the locals into. fust ptaee, one point ahead of the Dunnville 1V[u�cats. Exeter was scheduled to tee u Dunnville on Saturday but bad road conditions postponed the trip . Timmermans missed se vet a1 weeks of hockey prior to Chri..ii ' ause-ora-battfioekeyinjtm•-mid ---while-awaiting -surgery,- he- seHai u- • ues to patrol the bluelinc. "I love the game. This is the high- est calibre I've played," said '1 un- mcrmans a former Exeter Junior Hawk. The Parkhill native has been to the doctor numerous times and said he is waiting tohave a new lens put in. "As soon as it clears up they can '_with a plastic his normal smile; Timmennans said that still won't mean 100 Ice neem sight. It's taken him some time to be able to play with limited vision. "It took me a while. Anything around the feet is hard to pick up." With Chet Couture still not avail- - ablesands-Kris vail--able-anth-Kris-Hedard---and k Soehner not available on Sunday, Timmermans saw a lot of ice time and was involved in a fight with Dorchester's Jean Marc Loisellc with 27 seconds left in the game. - 21-He's-playing-because--he-wants wuelt.ht cell,.' sai11 Exeter coach Dave' Revington on wh r Timmermans should be play g. t trick: Joe Scherer got his Southern ou im nior A -Hockey SIntallli `arttf Janetary 21 WL '1' P 16 4 0 32 15 4 0 31 11 11 0 23. 10 3 u 23 5 14 1 11 Meier Dunnville ngersoll Dorchester Aylmer Note•T aatded ons point tor overtime loss. fourth hat trick of the season and raised his league -leading goal total to 31 as the Mohawks won their 46tlrgame **the mason. _ _ Rookie Craig Oster helped set up three of Scherer's goals and scored his third shorthander of the season. Captain teff Shipley got his fifth goal. _._ Oster's•--goal--eame----at -die --6,43 -marls.of_the.thiriLfxawe_.when -.. fenceman Dave Wilson baltked it off the boards and Oster went all the -way down the rink to beat Ke- vin Cole one-on-one. Exeter trailed 2-1 at the end of -the fust period to the now 10-13 Dolphins. Revington was not im- pressed with his -team's efforts -early in the game. "We were really flat. We missed two games and we haven't had a practice in a while." The Mohawks not only had to -eaneel -the -t rip -to-Duruwiie-but•iast luesdays„game inAylmer was -also postponed. • • While the home team did have trouble starting offensively on' Sun - •y, goalie Rick Pikul was sharp as Exeter Mohawks scoring statistics PLAYER Joe Scherer Greg Snyder Craig Oster Dave Wilson Scott Pfaff - Richard Hawkins Dale Gibbon Greg Payne 7 5 12 17 Gord Brooks 10 2 12 8 Kris Bedard 1 10 11 14 Jeff Shipley 5 5 10 37 Mark Bannon 1 9 10 20 Barry Baynham 1 9 l0 53 Tun Shields 1 8 9 2 Andre Prevost 5 3 8 17 Ron Elliott 2 6 8 10 Wayne 1Jrbshott 4 4 8 49 Jeff Warren 0 8 8 8 Paul Barns 1 5 6 17 Jeff McLenaghan 3 3 6 2 Mark Soehner 1 2 3 - 12 Bill Glover 0 3 3 6 Marty Rutledge 1 0 1 2 1 0 1 2 O 1 '1 0 O --0 0 17 c A P PI114 31 22.53 17 15 31 46 8 12 31 42 49 2 13 15 18 5 9 14 19 4 9 13 29 6 6 12 10 Dorchester Dolphins Archie Dunbar couldn't score on this attempt as he was stopped by.Mo- KevinMcAner hawks' goalie Rick Pikul and defencemen Dave Wilson and Ron Elliott. Rick Pikul Dale Tinunermans he made 30 saves, most of them close range. In the third period he -came up big against Dolphins' Scott McDonald and Tim Doff. The only Dorchester players to score were Todd Camp- bell„Rob Tuffin end Scott Moser. "He held us in 'there until we got On track,” said Revington. With the playoffs not far off, the Mohawks will soon be bolstering their lineup. Revington said Cou- ture was not the only one expected out to last night's practice. "I expect him and Dave Render- sonioskate on -Tuesday." Randerson did not play at all last year and he can fill the net vAddlt Revington hopes will take -Mite pressure off of the other high std ens. "I think we/teed a little more Of- fence. He's shown some interest, Wo van usv his ahilily tie; ."_� Mohawks tuemertts:».Exetler travel to Petrotia on Friday end their next home game is Pebrtrar+ 1 against Walpple Island...Scherer leads the league in souring with 53 points...Tinges-Advocate three stars: 1. Craig Oster 2. Joe Scherer 3. Rick Pikul. Oster's goal was also -assisted-by Pikul savho-got-•itis-first - point. Taking care of business as usual was Mohawks' defenceman Dale Timmermans. OHA Development roundup Neil nets winner in Irish slim victor By Fred Groves LUCAN - The Lucan Irish may be sitting comfortable in second • place in the west division of the OHA Development League, but things aren't all roses in the Lahti of green and white. Sunday afternoon they squeaked out a 5-4 win over the last place hit. Brydges Bulldogs but the night before in Belmont lost 4-3 to the Pests. Although the Irish are 20-5-3 and Just three points back of. Mitchell (as of press time), there are a lcw 'problem areas which have to be ad- justed before the post -season. "We have to start doing every- thing better," said Irish coach Ken Needham. One of those areas is defence. Ed VanKerkoerkle and Kevin Leitch are anchoring a blueline corps that has three good but inexperienced rookies. Brad Bowers who played last year is not always available. "We're going out Monday look- ing for players. We have two cards to fill," said Needham. It was a tough week for Lucan as they also barely slipped pet the struggling Alvinston Flyers 5 -4 -on Wednesday. in Lucan. Against the Bulldogs, Darren Neil scored the winner on a nifty third per. 1 play s' -, by Jason Wilson. At the Irish blueluie, Wilson slapped the puck off the boards around the Mt. Brydges defence - man to a moving Neil who went all the way down and blasted a hard shot past Jason Dedor. "We have to use the boards. We haven't been doing it that much," Bulldogs net getting him to pass the said Neil of the goal. puck right onto the stick of Irish Neil's game winner was his sec- forward Steve Snider. and goal of the night and getting Snider gave it to Neil who was one past Detlor was not all that still in the zone and the locals went easy on Sunday. up by a goal. Greg Muir applied "I was just trying to shoot it . \some good forechecking and set up hard as 1 could," said Neil of the ';` doss in the second period to shot. di :.`r -1 Needham said Neil's goal wasX Mt. Bryd g...' goal, say - bit of a designed play. ing it did nob go but referee "We try and get it past the de- Brian Donaher • d ted it. Wednes- fence when he's pinching," said day night : st the Flyers. Do - Needham. naher was the ref and the {,fish put Visitors score fust: The Bull-, dogs got on the board first when Todd Baker scored past Bob Szabq but Paul O'Shea came out of no where to tie it up. -• Neil made it 2-1 at the end for the first period when he chased a Mt. Brydges defenceman behind the Robinson speNi w;n for -Hawks By Rae Lewis EXETER - A pair of goalS by right winger Shane Robinson just twenty-three seconds apart helped the Exeter".kHawks to a 6-3 victory over the visiting Pt,- Stanley Lakers Friday night in Fixates. Last Tues- day's OHA Development league ....game Vorsus../AILDtflgosAg. oP-. celled due to poor weather concis lions. Robinson's pair was part of a tour -goal third period which helped the Hawks to erase a 3-2 &fitit giving them their 16th win of the year and fourth in five sorts. . With only eight games renaming in the regular season, it's .crunch time for the locals who arc .eying • hard -to stay in third place ahead of bots Lambeth- and a suging Pt. Stanley. • With -the signing deadline for player quickly .approaching the team had a couple of new faccs.in its lineup Friday. As. of now, coach John Kernick still- bas li"trec cards and plans on using two over the next corpse of weeks. "We might have a little different look come playoff time," confirmed Kernick. "We're still looking at a 'couple of players." Starting between the pipes for Exeter WM Steed Davis, a St. Mar' ys midget product who, until this 4 .• point, ' has been playing high school. "He hasn't played too much and was a little nervous. but he played a solid game,",said lick of Davis, who turned away 30 shots and as- sisted on the Hawks first goat. Kenrick also took a look at -John slaiariesindsappacauge_Wted_what he saw. The 19 -year-old centre - man, who has since signed on with the squad, is a student at the Uni•, versity of Western Ontario. He spent last year as a juvenile aurid was used sparingly by Pets -obit's junior '13' team. ' Euler 6, Pt. Stanley 3 "It was a pretty tight game," mid Kernick. "But three goals in under a minute was the turning point." pe>iek Shackleton opened the Scoring at 4:56 of the fust when he beat Pt. Stanley goaltender Ed Moore for a shorthanded goal. Ten minutes later, With Pt. Stan- ley again enjoying the manpower advantage Trevor Murray of the Lakers tied the game with his first of three on the night. Doug Clark snapped home a Mark Reid -pass to restore -the lead but Iwo rp& .foals by Murray in the. second saw the Hawks facing a deficit whcn.they came out for the third period:' ....- -Robinson--acaeed-. at_4:13 and again at 4:36 to put the locals up by enc, and Dan Ryan's goal at 5:06 gave the Hawks some much-needed breathing space. Scott Schiedel founded -@lett to scoring for Exeter. , Ray Cousineau ,....,Scou Schiedel Doug Clark Shane Robinson MarkReid Andrew Barton Dave Dalrymple Derek Shackleton 17 12 14 26 Paul Mandeis 30 9 17 26 Shawn • Chipchase 24 12 13 25 Al Blummaert 30 3 21 24 John Bell 31 • 5 19-.24 .Dart Ryan 16 10 -11 .21 Nick W ieckowski 30 4 14 18 Larry Lewis 30 4 :14 18 Steve Vendenberk 131 3 12 15 Jamie Cornish .•t28 14 14 Nathan Blight 26 1 6 Jason Heywood 7 1 4 John O'Hara ._. 1 !'arks &tics GP G A Pts. 31 25 22 47 28 12 24 36 29 21 14 35 28 18 14 32 30 9 23 32 29 1S, 15 30 30 9 20 27 in a protest about the way he called that. game. The Bulldogs made it 3-2 when a shot came off the glass behind Sza- bo and Pat Powers poked it mei the line. The third period •saw Ben Greig .fie. it up but Scott.Ridddell regained the Irish lead. With nine minutes left Roy Ireland connected but Neil got the winner. ' It was a chippy game with sever- al hits from behind but both teams seemed to keep their cool as • there were no major fights except when Ross went at it with.Greg Weston who had hit Jeremy Jemec from be- hind after the play. "You have to keep your cool. The more players on the bench the bet- ter," said Neil. Lucan's busy schedule continues tonight when they host the Port Stanley Lakers and Friday travel to Alvinston. . On, Saturday .in Belmont, Paul Woodburn, O'Shea and Bowers scored. Sticks were high in Sunday's Junior 'D' game in Luca' as Irish forward hied to avoid some high lumber.