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THAMESFORD - Although be
was the smallest player on the ice
Saturday night, Scan McCann took
home a very big award.
The Exeter ' Hawks' centreman
Soc pd 2tce goals and set up two
ittaiiinit4ittce the West All -Stars to
a 10-7 win over the Fast All -Stars
in the OHA Junior Development
League annual all-star game.
McCann, along with Aivinston
Opts' Greg Garside was named
-*Most Valuable Player for the
st -team. The :Hawks' rookie
nails only Lucan's Greg DePrest in
the west division scoring race.
Listed in the all-star program at
5'6 and 150 pounds, McCann
proved you don't have to be big in
size to dominate in the Junior 'D'
league.
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please turn to
page 12
A product of the Exeter Minor
Hockey Association, McCann
Top Aylmer Hornets 6-3
scored one goal in the first period
to help dee wastside to a 2-1 lead at
the end of21) minutes.
The capacity crowd saw both
McCann and Garside net hat tricks
while North Middlesex Stars' Paul
Woodburn, DePrest, Lucan's Ed
VanKerkoerle and Seafonh's Jamie
Hislop score for the winners.
For the east, Jason VanDeCapelle
of Burford had three goals and was
named the co -MVP for that side
along with Wellesley's Shane Sea-
brook who had agoal. Also scoring
were Thamesieff Publicover
with two and'i'm Wise of Th lhi
Lucan's Brent Lewis started;
net for the wast team and alio
just'one goal. He was followed' by
-Mitchell's Dennis Scherbarth and
Lucan's Eoin McInerney.
Most all-star games tend to shy
away frim the physical type of con-
test but this one was an exception.
Exeter defensemen . Jamie Cornish
dished out several good hits in a
garne-which saw referee Paul Petrie
Whittle only ane minor penalty, -to
North Middlesex's Steve Vanden-
beck.
Busy schedule ahead of Molt�
By.+red Groves
IF_ A staff
'EPW'IER -late Exeter Mohawks
regula 'seasoais beginning to wind
down and the next week will be a
very busy one.
Coming off of a 6-3 win over the
visiting Aylmer Hornets Sunday
night, the Mohawks travel to
Strathroy tonight, host the Dunn-
ville Mudcats on Saturday and the
next night Creemore comes to the
South Huron Recreation Centre.
On Tuesday, Exeter hosts Strath-
roy.
Exeter coach ;have Revington
said Saturday's ::game with the
Mudcats is a big one.
"It gives you a good barometgrof
how you're doing because they'll be
thereat the end," he said.
With Sunday's win overate Hor-
nets, the Mohawks are now 12-4-1
in the Southwestern Senior 'A'
Hockey League, tied for second
with Aylmer with 25 points.
Exeter got on the board first
when Tim Shields went to the net
and waited for -a roti : Kingshou
pass where he one -timed it past Jim
Sidwell.
The Aylmer goalie was outstand-
ing all night, especially in the
opening 20 minutes when he
turned away 16 shots.
"He's a good goaltender. He
played a few years of Major 'A',"
said Revington.
Just 55 seconds into the second
period,. Todd Clark tied it for the
visitors when he put a shot up high
on Trevor Hunter. At 6:56, Kris
Bedard gave the Mohawks the lead
- when he came in from the point
and let one go.
Late in the period, Paul Barton
blasted an ice level shot past Sid -
well to make it 3-1. With 1:25 left
in the second, Hunter came up with
a huge pad save on Bill Appleford
which could have seen the Hornets
pull to within a goal.
"He seemed to have a good feel
tonight," said Revington of his roo-
kie netminder.
Also in the second, Ayimer's Rob
Coutts hit the post, the puck was
behind Hunter and he knew right
where it was and fell on it.
Exeter jumped into a big five
..goal Lead iatthe inialatiOn Snyd-
er scared on a dilletya4enaty.
Hunter alertly raced to the batch
while Dave Marsh had his arm up
and the Mohawks quickly put an-
other attacker on the ice.
Kaak not real disappointed
WINNIPEG - Despite losing the
amateur light heavyweight Canadi-
an championship on Saturday,
Shipka native Joe Kaak is not dis-
couraged.
"I wasn't disappointed, I fought a
good fight. It was real close," he
said.
Kaak went up against Calgary's
Dale Brown in the three round
bout. There was no knockouts in
the fight, and neither boxer re-
ceived a point - in ,the opening
round.
Brown won 4-3 in points in the
middle round, and in the third, the
judges award two points each.
"He didn't have much power be-
hind his punches, but he was quick
to cover up," said Kaak.
In comparison, Brown has had
200 fights, including 50 in intcma-
tional competition, and Kaak, in
just his third year as a boxer, has
had 35.
"I figure if I get a few more years
in, I should win."
Kaak said he was a little disap-
pointed after fording out plans were
being made before the fight, to
send Brown, who is ranked third in
the world, to an international tour-
nament in Sweden.
The next couple c,i weeks will be
a restful one for Kaak who plans on
going to a few tournaments.
"You ddn't often see that happen..
I said on the bench, I don't remem-
ber the last time we got one," said
Revington.
A Ron Goodhand backhander
and a long shot by Chet Couture
made it 6-1 for the hosts. Just 14
seconds after Couture's goal, Clark
got his second of the night and with
1:06 left John Osborne connected
for Aylmer.
Exeter's Joe Scherer who suffered
a bad cut under his eye last week
was wearing a visor but as'.Reving-
ton noted there wasn't any need to
worry about high sticks from the
Hornets.
"We never have a very physical
game with Aylmer. We always
have low penalty games. There's a
lot of mutual respect," said Reving-
ton.
Marsh took a tumble to the ice
when he was hit with a puck but he
stayed to finish the game.
Mohawk moments: ...Walpole Is-
land have suspended operations
which means any points against
that team are erased. Gord Brooks
had five goals against them so
those are taken away...T•A three
stars: 1. Aylmer's Jim Sidwell 2.
Exeter's Trevor Hunter 3. Exeter's
Dale Gibbons...Tickets are on sale
for the Mohawks Elimination Draw
which is Feb. 6...
Ellison remembers
wrestling prim
hen Doug Ellison
W
left South Huron
District High
School, he took with
him a piece of history.
From 1969, until 1981, Elli-
son was the Panthers wres-
tling coach.
Some twelve years later, I
asked him about the program
and some of his wrestlers.
He told me about Doug Geoffrey trying to make his weight
class all the time and of Gerrard Charrette who went on to
wrestle at the University of Western Ontario and eventually
coach at Parkside High School in St. Thomas.
"When I quit, there were four teams left in Huron -Perth.
When I started we had eight or ten. When I quit, wrestling
was over in Huron -Perth," said Ellison.
He said another reason for the demise of the program was
the eventual formation of wrestling clubs which, usually out
of the bigger communities like Samia, Kitchener and London,
would offer a 12 -month program.
"What happened when they carne in with the clubs, they
didn't tier the wrestlers. Some of my guys at the end were
wrestling guys who did it 12 -months a year."
He said no one wanted to go out in front of the student
body, and get tossed to the mat and be beaten in the first min-
ute. Ellison said he did not want to coach wrestling.alt year
long.
"I coached football and I coached wrestling. I liked football
because I liked the team aspect but I liked the wrestling be-
cause it was one guy against the other on the mat. If you lost
you couldn't go around and blame your teammates."
Losing programs at South Huron, or any other high school
in North America is not uncommon. Economics, lack of inter-
est and just not enough coaches to want to carry it on meant
the end of not only wrestling at the local high school, but
football and gymnastics as well.
Ellison explained that wrestling began to gain popularity in
the late ,50's but at the time there were only seven or eight
schools in the province with teams.
But when his Panthers were battling on the mats, he said
nearly every school in the province had a team. Wrestling was
fairly inexpensive, once you bought the mats, and travelling
was minimal because your neighbouring schools had a team.
At one time there would be as many as 20 wrestlers on the
South Huron team, among those were Pete and Perry Sereda,
Bill Degroot, Mike Miller, Brian Pym and Morley Eagleson.
Ellison said in Pym's final year, there was a teachers' strike
which saw the Panthers win the Huron -Perth just before the
strike. Pym, a very good wrestler, never did make it to WOS-
SA because of the strike.
Wrestling is still a sport at the provincial level (OFSAA)
and any individual sport does not see the breaking up of
schools due to size. In track and field, badminton and wies-
tling there are no 'A', 'AA' and 'AAA'.
"It's one on one, it's not a case of 12 guys on a football team
where they can select from 3,000 kids in the school. The
;problem is there is that level of competition."
BIB-soifitaid_a lot -of wrestlersinibeamovineetook it very se-
riously and would train all year long and keep their weight
down so they would fit into their division.
"To be on it continually takes a high level of dedication and
the average kids out there doesn't want to practice or play all
year round."
--South Huron wrestlers were on the mats from November
' and the 10 -time Huron -Perth champs would usually finish in
March.
kietilnes1
by
Fred
G roves
From the sidelines:...Cecil Fielder may have led the Amer-
ican League in runs batted in but his new contract with the
Detroit Tigers is a little much...Interesting note, Wayne Gretz-
ky retums from a back injury and Mario Lemieux reinjures
his back and is out for a couple of weeks...On a hockey note,
anyone 50 year-old and over interested in playing a little pick-
up hockey can give Bill a call at 236-4627...
osialiarair
Face Lambeth
Generals set to defend OMHA title
EXETER - The RSD Generals
took the first step towards defend-
ing their Ontario Minor Hockey
Association midget 'CC' champi-
onship last night when they trav-
elled to Lambeth.
Last spring, the Generals beat
Clinton in a well attended High-
way 4 series to win the title. But
it was their series win against
Lambeth which seemed to give
the Gcae als the spark they need-
ed to go all the way.
While Exeter were in Lambeth
last night for the start of the
OMHA playoffs, the series con-
tinues tonight at the South Huron
Recreation Centre, in Exeter at 9
p.m.
Exeter has eight returning
players from last year's team in-
cluding captain Steve Farquhar
and Mark Brintnell, who along
with Gavin Snell from lase year's
bantam squad make up an out-
standing line.
The Generals corscluded their
Shamrock Luse regular MOW
schedule Wednesday in Exeter
with a 6-1 win over the Mt.
Brydges Cougars which lifted
their league record to 12-2-3.
Against the Cougars. the Gauer-.
als wok a quick 1-0 lead when
Mark Brintnell was on the receiv-
ing and of a nice pass from Farqu-
har.
In the second period, it took the
hosts just six seconds into a pow-
erplay to alike it 2-0 when.$ark
Glavin Pawed CO a tel>oMsd.+,per-
w w
ek Beckett and Ian Jean drew the
assists.
A Derek Campbell backhander
made it 3-0 as Matt Godboleaind
Greg Dalrymple had the assists.
Glavin g* his second goal of the
game when he stole the puck and .
went in, puuing the puck between
the Mt. Brydges' goalies legs.
Dalrymple made a long rushaf-
ter taking a pass from Beckett and
it was 5-0 at the end of two peri-
ods. Campbell got his second of
the game with help from Rob Ko-
bayashi and Trevor Taylor.
Dave Wilcox started in net for
the compots and did not allow a
S(.11.41,0n Kints came on half
vary ibroggh the contest and the
only tally he allowed was when
Marty Albert put one under the
crossbar.
Three stars: Der-
ek Csunpbell,
Mark Glavin and
Brian Gardner.
The. GOOlfeis concluded their regular season with a win over Mt. Bryagito on Wednesday.
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