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Home My WebLink AboutTimes Advocate, 1993-03-31, Page 13ie • t Second sectior jurikr'' ' . Lay t ? L Earetar /iv ',bar ' Jdy•Pred ('troves TAstaff EXETER - The Lucan Irish are halfohe-way there. Friday nightin Exeter, at time South Huron Recreation Centre, the visiting Irish coasted to a 3-0 win over the Hawks. The victory gave the Irish a sweep in the -best-of-seven OHA ;Junior Development west division semi sand they will now face theiMitchell Hawks. s' Wrtve16:garrtes to win, now . LUCAN - With a regular season -record : of -33-5-2, it *would •be a:safe beotolay the_Lucan Irish have agood chance of winning the OHA west division title this year against the Mitchell:Hawks. •But two of those five loss- es -came at the hands of the Hawks, the team the Irish eliminated a year ago in seven -games to win the west title. Mitchell -.won 4-3 in Lu- :aen :back on •November 4, }:andagain 7-4 back on Janu- ary 31. During the regular season, the Hawks finished just: tierce points behind the ,Irish with a 32-7-1 record. Game One goes tonight in .Lueart:at:8:15 p.m. -and -the seriescarntinues. in : Mitchell A3 at 8:30 p.m. on Friday. Look :for , Miwheil.:goalie _ to nis. thethedivi= Sion .MVP. to •'getethe.:start. R while -Lucas, :in , their •rota- tion system will . go with •Brent Lewis. Lucan eliminated both. the Belmont Pests and the Exet- er Hawks in four • straight while Mitchell also won all 40 eight post -season .games thus far, sweeping Seaforth ':.and Mt. Brydges. Kory Dietz. -and Rob Bo - <s villc led Mitchell during the • le regular season with 62 and 57 points respectively while the insh have got 105 point man .Greg .DePrest ,and Steve Moore's 7 Lpaints. -we!•we'ae111y-loo'weight,".said Wean coach Ken Needham. "Mte'Irish swept btulethe'Belntent Pests tired the Exeter Hawks' in four straight but 'there is no doubt, Mitchell will be a -lot tougher. Dur- ing the regular season, thehrtsh lost only five games, two of those to 'Mitchell. 'Needham admitted after Friday's game+in -Exeter`, his team •vas atilt .scot yet thinking about -the next se- ''WWe tad to get ridxof this, any - 'thing could have happened. Mon- day •we'll loin getting ready, and well be ready, we have to be." Friday's game was -not one for the fans to enjoy as the Irish slowed'thc game down, backchecked and did not give the Hawks a chance to get going at all. The visitors scored•just 4:07 into -the .game when Jim Stanton and -Ja- son Wilson setup Jason Retdhead. It •was 2-O late in' the opening:fiame when . Shawn Kaczmarek teamed (with Jason McLeod and Greg De- Prest. The second and third periods moved very slowly as the Irish.de- cided to set a very controlled tem- po• "That was the plan for sure," said Needha»»m. "We just wanted to get a couple of goals and then dump it in." Lucan had the best goals against average during the regular season but ironically did not have a single shutout. Rookie goalie Eoin McI- nerney tuned away 21 shots, only facing three in the final period, to -record-his first junior shutout. "Wo'didn't talk about the shutout but -picking '.Up our mart, coming track and •hclpbig the defence and Eoin,"spm. •Theeljtly goal of the second peri- od cam at 5:23 when Steve Moore scored from DePrest. • Alice e, alreir,of Lucen veteran rdidtasentan sat,'=and like the rest of :the team, did'notoahew an excessive amount ofexeitement because they knew 'the `hard work tad just begun. "We're only half 'the way there. It's nice•ta-go four straight, it gives us a -little break," :said Ed Vtntll(er- koerle. "I .fignned itwould go five :games but everybody was pumped and no one gave up." The senior member .of the Irish, sixth year blueliner Kevin Leitch has his sights set on a provincial ti- tle and said, "1 think we can go all the way." He also agreed with Needham that the forwards were coming back to help in a big way. "We're playing as a team and 'Dorking together. Hopefully we'll pick up the pace against Mitchell," said Leitch. Irish 9, Hawks 4 Wednesday night in Lucan in Game Three, Scott Riddell had a big game as he netted four goals with two from VanKerkoerle and Moore sad The other by 'Kac7ma- 1L:DPrest had threeaasists land McLeod helped out on a:couple. `, Leeann captain -Andy -Ross euf- ared a separated 'shoulder andtte is "livened to be out for the rest of lie year. 't"We're+going to miss 'him but his JMtdership will still be in the room," silid"Needham. :iScrtrring for the Hawks were Der- ek 'Shackleton'with two, John Bell .and John O'Ohara. .$teeter scored three powerplay goals in :this penalty filled game Which saw Bell.aiong with Lucan's Wilson:and Jeff Stanton ejected for fighting. • jExp ter goalie Brandon Rapp was surrounded by Lucan's Greg DePrest but -tae managed to cov- er up the puck during Friday's OHA Junior Development League• playoffgarne in Exeter. Looking on is Hawks' defenseman Nathan Blight. datsWerOverHolt poses before:skating at Sunday's carnival in,Zurich. Zurich `s Overholt passes Gold figum ZURICH - )t seems as though • the skating .tradition .in the village of Zurich is continuing in a big way. That was very evident by the Zu- rich and Area Figure Skating Club's annual ,carnival Sunday af- oernuon. In front of a capacity au- dience, the local .theaters performed 'A Top Artssidehe W.tttld'. UDC .of,the -featured:skaters was 16 year-old Jennifer Overholt who recently passed her Gold Figure in Strathroy. Like Zurich's Kathy Merrx'r, it appears as though Ow - holt is looking f, rd to a suc- eesstitl career. "I'm a qualified weliftiphisftttltt year I'm going to compaakdn-j n- ior."she said just after.) er first number at Sunday's carnival. She skates about five days per week but admitted that pier to her gold dance on WedrieedaY, she was un time ice every day. Just he- causc rite warm weather is here, that docs not Marl-Qriholt will he Irving a break. ' "I'm .going into some competr - ttons in time summer, they just get you warmed up for the big ones in November." Overholt's second solo skate was a powerful one in which ,she. dud several jumps including one right at the beginning which saw a large ovation from the supportive crowd. Illtasibum ilkeltmen eSpost/ like ride Gtotitallisellfare is hall • Vie. Mist week, the Central Huron Red - men front Clinton went on a very tong road trip to Dryden for the Ontario Federation 01 Schools Athletic Association hockey championships. Although they did not win, they did manage to get out of their own pool and they did beat the number one ranked team from North Bay. The Redmen were ranked ninth out of the 17 teams and put in a pool which included St. Joesph's Scollard Hall front North Bay. That's who the Redmen took on first and they beat them 5-4. "We hadn't expected to be ranked that high. We've never played at OFSAA before," said Redmen assistant coach Jeff Reabum from Hensall. Reabum said Scollard Hall failed to make it out of their pool but the Redmen did advance to the quarter -finals where they were sent home following a 3-1 loss to Aurora St. An- drews. "We knew if we played to our potential, we could play with most teams," said Reabum. Oohing to the provincial finals is quite tier" H bment to begin with -but nyouw Or id"tlaev'er-givetip, you -are -always dittapptstt red when you gln't reach up for the big Uphy. Central`lHumnhasstever been -a hotkey powerhouse, mind you they did west the Hut+on Perth conference a year ago ands; went Up to Thetis city but they had to go 'back to Clinton. Reaburntroted:the mored emotions of the team in Dryden. "Realistically they were happy to get out of their pool but 1 they were disappointed." The trip to Dryden for the Redmen did not begin at the Cen- tralia Aitpatt:lastiite$day but started after they won the Hu- on-Peeth'-t3tte. Going to London to play to the Western Ontario finals was -slot-as easy.as expected because the Redmen were the outsid- ers, sort of like David taldug on Goliath. 'But while the -Price Road Trojans were booking their flights to -the Ontario championships, it was themild Redmen who snatched the.glory and packed their own equipment. After that,'thetstttir'e town of Clinton seemed to rally around the Redmen who#tad not won the Western Ontario title since 1940. The 1,800 kilometre trip to Dryden would have taken over 20 hours to drive tut it was just a two -and -a -half hour flight which was -made possible through a successful fund-raising campaign. "We expected support, but we were overwhelmed how quickly it came in and the generosity," said Reabum: The spring of 1993 will go down in the Clinton history book .as. -the year that a:group of young men and their many .supporters not only made it to the quarter -finals but won the Ontario Minor Hockey Association midget 'CC' finals as well. anY.ef the lith Q yors'avlio Avant to Dryden helped out temintabildimillndheiaddietsMeausiterlfteati a the l"byers i u�t%,be .coDgratulated fo - winning, they, along with the coaching staff, should be com- mended for their ability to schedule games and practices around each other, it's not easy. f felines fiy Fred (: roves Fro the sidelines: Congratulations this week goes out to Shawn -Fairweather of Lucan who was named the MVP for the north team at the Shamrock midget all-star game in Lamb- eth on Sunday. 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