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Junior 'D' hockey
Hawks win home opener 10-3
By Fred Groves
T -A staff
MT. BRYDGES - With several
players attending a wedding, the
Exeter Hawks dropped a close 6-5
decision to the Mt. Brydges Bull-
dogs Saturday night.
After winning their home opener
on Friday, the Hawks now have a
2-1 record in the OHA Junior De-
velopment League west division.
At the South Huron Recreation
Centre, the visiting Flyers were no
match for the Hawks who skated to
a 10-3 win. The Flyers will try to
get a little revenge when they revis-
it Exeter on Friday at 8:30 p.m.
Against the Flyers, the Hawks
dominated early, taking a 2-0 lead
in the first period and stretched that
to 6-2 after 40 minutes.
"I was impressed tonight with the
way things went. It was close there
for a bit. They, worked hard in the
third period and it paid off," said
Hawks coach George Pratt.
With. Dave Dalrymple and Na-
than Blight both absent from the
game, and•Greg Dalrymple still in-
jured, the Hawks had just four de-
fensemen.
But winger Shane MacDonald
moved back and took a regular shift
on the point where he did not look
out of place.
"He filled in well on defence for
us. He's a good versatile hockey
player," said Pratt.
Leading the Hawks offence Fri-
day night was the talented line of
Shayne Robinson, Sean McCann
and Todd McCann. The trio ac-
counted for half of the team's 10
goals.
Robinson had a great night with
three goals and a pair of assists
while the McCann brothers each
hada goal and four set ups.
The big line did not score in the
first period and at times, there
looked like there might have been a
little frustration. To compensate,
Pratt made sure they got lots of ice
Dropping the puck to start the .2993.94 Exeter Hawks season Friday night was former Hawks'
coach Ron Bogart.Heguided the club to the championship in 1977 and the Hawks are shoot-
ingfortthe:title this year. Also takingpart in the ceremony was Hawks' president Tom McCann
who helped drop the puck between Exeter's Sean McCann, left; and Jason Wagner of the Al-
vinston Flyers.
time so they could get going.
"The biggest problem they had in
the early going, was they weren't
head -manning the puck. We just
told them to look for the head -man
guy and things will work out," -said
Pratt.
Rookie Mark Livermore who had
two goals, started the game's scor-
ing off of some nice work from
Brian Gardner along the boards and
early in the second frame, Liver-
more stayed with a loose puck to
beat Flyers' netminder Matt Dan -
brook.
"He played a year of Junior 'C'
with Wingham a couple of years
ago. He's an asset to the team and
he handles himself well," said Pratt
of Livermore.
Also scoring for the Hawks were
Scott Smale and Steve Farquhar.
Answering for the visitors were
Jeff Bloomfield, 'Rick Jackson and
Blair Maclnnis.
Bloomfield's goal, midway
through the, second period, bn*e a
scoreless streak of nearly '90 min-
utes by the Hawks and ride goal-
ie Chris Lyndon.
Bulldogs 6, Hawks 5
With five players out•nf the:liae-
up, the Hawks trailed 4-1strthestOd
of the fust period and 6-3 Eicrtwo
periods of play.
Scoring for the Hawks were Mac-
Donald, Jon Schiedel, Robinson,
Mark Lynn and Farquhar. The loss
broke the 'Hawks winning streak of
six games. For the Bulldogs, Lance
Maybrey, Kevin Meany, Mike De -
teary, Mike Szeleres, Brodie Wat-
son and Trevor Allman connected.
Exeter had bantam -aged Chad
.Gilftllan in the lineup who Pratt
says wiUliate with the Hawks
and willAse used when needed. The
winggchad a strong Junior 'D' train-
ing !tel?' -.--.
Hawks tlnppenings:...Mtistattt
coach Dan Mudge is sporting some
pretty Jolley ties which may be
have helped the Hawks win their
first two games...
Fairweather nets two as Irish top Pests 8-3
BELMONT - Down 3-1 at the end of the first period, the Lucan Irish re-
grouped and came back to beat the host Belmont Pests 8-3 Saturday night
to open their OHA Junior Development League west division schedule.
The Irish will take that win into tonight's game when they host the Mt.
Brydges Bulldogs in Lucan's home opener which begins at 8:15 p.m.
Against the Pests. Lucan scored three times inthe middle period to make
it 4-3 before exploding for four goals in the.third.
"Most of the goals came from hard work," said Irish manager Ken Free-
man. 'The fast period we were slow and coming off a week off didn't
help."
.Lucan rookie Dan Candy opened the Irish scoring as he teamed with vet-
eran blueliner Ed VanKerkoerle and goalie Steve Watson. VanKerkoerle,
third on the team in scoring last season, had a big five point net as he
scored once and set up four others.
Rookie forward Shaun Fairweather had two goals with singles from cap-
tain Andy Ross, Dave Mancari, Steve Moore and Steve Matthews. Manca-
ri. a 15 -year-old defensemen added two assists and Sunday played for the
London Junior 'B' Nationals.
Lucky charms:...The Irish have decided to go with Stuart Ashton as
their second goalie...Lucan travels to Mitchell on Friday to take on the de-
fending champs and are in Parkhill to meet North Middlesex on Satur-
' day...
Balsdon to wear
a black belt
n Saturday, Jeff
Balsdon will go
through a process
that so many others
have gone before him. But for
the Exeter native, it will seem
like he is the only one.
At the Town Hall m Exeter,
he will be the guest of honour
at a special karate ceremony.
Balsdon is getting his black belt.
What is surprising about this event, is that Balsdon is only
19 which is somewhat young to be reaching such a high pla-
teau in karate.
Reaching this peak was not simply just a matter of going to
karate school a couple of times a week and going home and
practicing. No, it was much more and like any other major ac-
complishment it took a combination of physical and mental
preparedness.
When Balsdon receives his black belt on Saturday in front
of his peers, who now .will consider him an equal in the karate
world, he will be able to look towards a long future as a black
belt. The past has come with hard work.
Balsdon had to write a 2,000 word essay on the impact of
karate in today's society.
Recently I heard of a youngster, a lot younger than Balsdon
who used a karate kick, in a classroom against a fellow class-
mate. I don't know any further details and I don't really want
to.
Last year I heardnf a young man using a karate kick during
a hockey game. Hockey is dangerous enough but using karate
with skates on,7hat's scarey
So I wonder malty what Balsdon wrote about and what the
impact actually is.
When the wrote ;his essay, Balsdon used some references
Own Sense Richard Kim's took and it was Kim who joined
BUladon itatatunmer camp.
"I:hadto attend summer camp in Guelph with Sensei Rich-
.andKimand he's a ninth degree black belt," said Balsdon.
Mete camp, Balsdon had 11) go in front of a panel of black
taks, mostly fourth degree or higher and perform several dif-
taunt katas Kata is a series of movements by the student
Which is graded.
fie had to do three open hand katas and three weapons kata.
Thevweapons he worked with at the camp were the bo, the sai
and the tonfa. Balsdon admits he prefers the bo.
The South Huron District High School graduate has been a
karate student at Tyndall's Karate School since he was 12
years -old and in just seven short years, has reached the level
of black belt.
Probably about Thursday, Balsdon will begin to get nervous
about Saturday's ceremony but he seems to be prepared as he
has seen other black belt ceremonies.
"I have to pour saki forrthe black belts into small glasses,"
he explained.
There will also be other traditions which date back centuries
t`Uke drinking out of a bowl and pmstenting the Dew black belt
+ a belt and a sword.+►
It's a mad which only a select;faw.have gone before but one
in which Balsdon will soon travel.
Give the Toronto Blue Jays a little credit in picking up Paul
Molitor. The last time I looked he was near the 210 hit matte
during •the regular season and as far as post -season is con-
cerned he's leading the hit parade. In the first two games of
the series with Chicago, Molitor was .667 while sluggers
Rickey Henderson and Roberto Alomar hitless. With Molitor,
who looks like he is in a 'zone' all the time, I wonder if Toron-
to fans have forgot about Dave Winfield.
From the sidelines:—Big congratulations to Mikala Mac-
Dougall of Exeter. A past member of both the Exeter and Lu -
can Figure Skating Clubs, she was recently selected to the
University of Western Ontario skating team. MacDougall, 18,
is a first-year student at the school...
Field hockey
Panthers offence sputters, battle to tie with St. Marys
pr=
NOV. 4,5,6
21. MORE DAYS
4`41.o HOOK
H -P record
now 7-0-1
Ely Fred Groves
T -A staff'
EXETER - There was little doubt
what was on the mind of the
Marys Salukis when they came to
town last Tuesday.
Their main objective lvae to pre-
vent the defending girls high school
provincial cbampions from scoring.
Although the host South Huron
Panthers dominated the . entire
game, they could not score and as a
result, the Salukis and the Panthers
battled to a scoreless tic in Huron -
Perth Conference field hockey ac-
tion.
Earlier this year, the Panthers
travelled to Si Marys where they
easily won 7-0. Tuesday it looked
as though St. Marys came more
•
prepared to play.
"I think St. Marys came with the
intention we weren't going to beat
them one way or the other," said
South Huron co4ch Jim Workman
who hinted the Panthers might have
been a little disappointed with their
effort.
Most of the game was played
within the St. Marys 25 -yard, line
and while the hosts were definitely
on the offence, it was clear to sec
Matin Strang, left; of the Panthers tries to get to the tall against St. Marys during #fat Tues-
day's
uesday's game. Looking on is Carla Tay)or.
the Salukis were on the defence.
"They played a lot of our body I
thought. It's not a body contact
sport," said Workman.
Perhaps the easiest way to score a
goal in field hockey is through the
proper execution of the penalty cor-
ner. A penalty comer is awarded to
a team when the opposition com-
mits an infraction within their own
goal circle.
"If that's at the international level,
those arc goals. That should be one
shot out, stopped and then hit right
away," explained Workman.
"That's normally a goal."
South Huron had more than a
dawn penalty corners which Bre-
nyn Baynham took and managed to
get out to the front of the line .but
St. Marys never allowed a goal.
Baynham did p good job getting
the ball to the fust line of attack
and only a couple of times did it go
behind that group of girls. When it
alid, the Salukis couldn't pick it up
'qhs the Panthers were right on it and
kept it in the St. Marys zonc.
Penalty corners arc awarded
when there is a deliberate foul ei-
ther within the circle pr,the 25 -yard
line.
missed the open side of the net by a
few inches.
5t111 undefeated: With ire tie,
the Panthers ran their H -P record to
7-0-1 which they took into yester-
day's game in Exeter against Strat-
ford Central. South Huron con-
cludes the regular H -P schedule
when they travel to Mitchell on
Thursday.
Workman said the gatue against
St. Marys did, in the long run,
prove beneficial for the Panthers.
"We got a good workout which is
unusual. It was good for us."
Cara Gardner who plays the cen-
tre of the field for the Panthers had
a strong game on Tuesday and con-
trolled the bald very well.
"She's very fast and she's got a
good reach," said Workman.
Playoffs for Huron -Perth are
Tuesday, October 19 where the
Panthers hope to make it 11 Con-
ference titles in a row.
Tip of the week: Last week's tip.
should have read, to start ur re -start
.a game, a player from one team
pushes the ball back towards her
igwn goal to another member of her
Own team. The oppostion must be
kat least five yards from the player
When a penalty oggger is award- flushing the ball. Offside is when,
ed, the defending ttOrun can only ' the moment the ball a$ played a
goalie to the cock w
make it easy for the offensive team
10 score.
had probably the beat
have five players. incl 115 the --(Orson on the sa►nc team as the hit-
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abwki hex is offside in the opponents 25
yard arca. Exceptions to this ate
whcrrthcrc are at least two defend
gars uearp( it � C Qr:: when
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