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Home My WebLink AboutTimes Advocate, 1994-02-09, Page 18Page 1 b Times -Advocate, February 9, 1994 Split Iasi week's games SPORTS_ Moore back on track, scores three for Irish over Belmont By Fred Groves T -A staff LUCAN - The Lucan Irish re- ceived some good news and some bad news last Wednesday night. Winger Steve Moore, second on the team in scoring last season, is quickly returning to his old self fol - Returning to the lineup after a long layoff, Lucan Irish forward Steve Moore, right; had three goals against Belmont last Wednesday night as the Irish won the OHA Junior Develop- ment League game. Mohawks end regular season with 7-5 Ioss DORCHESTER - Jacques Beaulieau scored two goals but it wasn't enough as the Exeter Mohawks lost a 7-5 decision to the host Dorchester Dolphins Friday night. The loss left the Mohawks in a continual fight for first place in the Southwestern Ontario Senior 'A' Hockey League with a final regular season record of 12-10- 2. Also scoring on Friday for Ex- eter were defenseman Jeff War- rens Kevin McArter and Robb Graham. The Mohawks had sev- en defenseman and seven for- wards dressed for the game. Exeter will now have to wait until the end of the week to see who they will play in the first round of the playoffs. 'he Wrath of Grapes by Don Cherry SHOOT OUTS, GOOD OR BAD? I remember when MARCEL AUBET said "we got to have overtime in the regular season", and the cry was 'no way! it's ridiculous!, we play long enough etc." MARCEL said it's coming. MARCEL and head of THE MIGHTY DUCKS, MICHAEL EISNER (I wonder if baseball would have put that name in Baseball?) are pushing for shootouts and the cry is, ever! It's like deciding a football game by throwing a football through a tire to decide a tic football game. It's rinky kink etc., hut folks with big money like DISNEY CORP. and with a guy like MARCEL AUBET pushing it, Iikc it or not, it's coming. You k1now what? 1 don't mind it at all. Number one, it's entertainment and folks we better start getting entertainment back in the game. I want you to picture this. L.A. vs PITTSBURGH are tied at 4-4, they have gone through their five minute overtime. Each team has picked up a point for the tie, so they have nothing to lose and now we have a shootout for the extra point. So L.A. coach BARRY MELROSE picks WAYNE GRETZKY to shoot for L.A. and EDDIE JOHNSON picks MARIO for PITTSBURGH. We have it set up that the teams can only pick one player with the reason that talented teams would have five good scorers while the poorer teams have at least one. So now we have MARIO circling at centre, he shoots first just t-,ecause the game is in L.A., and MARIO goes in and scores in the top corner. Now the pressure is on WAYNE. GRETZKY who dekes the goalie and slides it home. Now MARIO goes in and misses a low shot to the left. Now imagine the excitment in the building as WAYNE circles at centre ice. He can win the game. (I can hear the crowd now) WAYNE goes in, fakes to the left, comes hack on this backhand and lifts it to the to corner. The players and fans go wild. c%'y Wee440,A Wed. to Sat. Only! Cr" Buy any REPLICA 84909 fliP JERSEY and receive O(Limit on cap 820.00) Inc..miaow *alit Pen A cap of your choice! 14282 Main St. Exeter Tel./Fax 235.334 t lowing a month-and-a-half layoff. That's the good news. The bad news is rookie defense - man Colin Kowalchuk is out for the season due to a reoccurring thumb injury. In a huge 10-2 win over the visit- ing Belmont Pests on Wednesday in OHA Junior Development League action, Moore scored three goals and set up another as the Irish snapped out of a two -game losing slump. "My eye sight went, I must have caught a virus. I was out a month- and-a-half and missed eight or nine games," said Moore who just now is slowly beginning to have full vi- sion. He had no trouble seeing the puck and his third goal of the night came with just 23 seconds left in the game. Working himself back into shape has been tough. "My doctors wouldn't let me do anything physical to any extent." But in the last couple of weeks he's been getting stronger and will be a big bonus for the Irish come the playoffs at the end of the month. "He's getting better all the time. He's much better than he was. He'll be ready for the playoffs," said Lu - can coach Ken Needham. On the subject of the post -season, it's that time of the year where some players may not get to inter- ested in the games that are going on now. The same routine since Sep- tember and the fact that eight of the nine teams make the playoffs, does not spark a lot of interest this time of the year. However, Moore said he and his teammates don't seem to be quite ready for the second season. "It's tough because we're playing inconsistent and we want to get into a rhythm before the playoffs come." Prior to Wednesday's game, the Irish had lost hack -to -back road games - they were beaten by Exeter and then by Seaforth. Moore wasn't the only Lucan player to have four points against the Pests as Scott Riddell, also coming off the sick list, had two goals and as many assists. Greg Deprest had four set ups while Travis Stinchcombe, Dave Mancari. Rob Davis, Dwayne Price and Craig Brown also scored. More on the news about Kowal- chuk - although they lose his ser- vices, it has brought out some good efforts in other players. On Wednesday, veteran forward Derek Greenlee was moved back to the blueline. "Greenlee has played three out- standing games back there," said Needham. The Irish are awaiting Kowal- chuk's replacement, Jamie Hicks to put on the green -and -white. Hicks is finishing the high school season in London. According to Needham, a couple of other Junior 'D' teams, including the best of the west Pt. Stanley were after his servic-es. Seaforth 7. Lucan 5 Last Tuesday night in Seaforth, the host Centenaires beat the Irish 7-5 in a game which was tied 4-4 after 40 minutes. Big Mike Reid, a bantam a year ago who had three assists against Belmont, fired two goals in this game. Also scoring for Lucan were Hawks still may take over second place in division LUCAN After tonight the Lucan Irish will have but two regular season games remaining in their regular season schedule but second place in the OHA Junior Development League's west division is not locked up yet. .` Tonight in Lucan at 8:15 p.m., they take on the team that could pass them. in the standings, the Exeter Hawks. The Hawks come into to- night's fifth and final game against their Highway 4 rivals in third spot with 53 points com- pared to Lucan's`43. Good news for the Hawks` though, they have a couple of games in hand. So -if the Hawks were to win all of their final five games, in- cluding tonight's and the Irish drop all three, it would be Exet- er in front by a point. This season series is one of the better ones in the league as both teams have won twice. The last time they faced off, just on Free throw winners advance EXETER - The local Knights of Columbus (Exeter and Mt. Carmel) held a regional free throw competition at the South Huron District High School on Saturday with students from Mount Carmel, Stephen Central, McCurdy Public, Usborne Pub- lic, Exeter Public and Precious Blood schools taking part. The folllowing winners will head to the next round again to be held at the South Huron high school on Feb. 19. They will compete against other winners from Lucan, Strathroy, Parkhill, Watford and Deleware. Girls: Michelle Hakvoort, 8 - of -I5 ; - of -I5; Crystal Davies, 10 -of -15; Kerri Lynn Hartman, 7 -of -15; Mary Ann Grotentraast, 11 -of - 15; Jayne Ballantyne 9 -of -15. Boys: Vinny Loson, 8 -of -15; Brent Yearley, 11 -of -15; Jason Fach, 10 -of -15; Darryl Romphf, 12 -of -15; Jeff MacLean, 10 -of - 15. Exeter Hawks' Todd McCann was named the Player of the Month for January, and Friday night received the award from. RSD Sports Den's Ron Bogart who sponsors the award. Hawks tie Alvinston 6-6 Continued from page 17 used up there only time out. Taking a breather helped as they came hack. Alvinston d4cnseman Jason Wagner had an outstanding game as he scored two goals, one of those shorthanded, and set up three oth- ers. The game was sent into overtime when Oliver Isla centred a pass from behind the net to Shane Whiteside with 1:21 left in regula- tion play. Both teams scored in the over- time and with eight seconds left, Sean McCann nearly scored as he raced up the ice and had two trys to put it past Matt Danbrook. Although Exeter goalie Chris Lyndon did not have a lot of good quality shots come towards him, 1 late in regulation time he \vas called upon to make three big stops in a row. January 28, the host Hawks won 5-2. In the top ten scoring for the west division, recent stats, have Shayne Robinson of Exeter on top followed closely by Imamate Sean McCann and Lucatt's DePrest; Look for tonight's ,game 'to be fairly intense although the,, players may be getting a little tired especially the Irish who• played four games in six days last week Andy,,Ross, Jay Jackson and Mike Robb. Stuart Ashton started in goal but was replaced by Steve Watson. Ashton had to go back in after Wat- son was ejected for inciting. Mitchell 6. Lucan 1 To add a lot more bad news to the Irish, they travelled to Mitchell on Friday and were trounced by the division leading Hawks 6-1. Jere- my Jemec scored the lone Lucan goal in the third period. "It was by far the worse game we've ever played," said a very un- happy Lucan coach Ken Needham. He said goalie Stuart Ashton didn't play that bad but he had very little support in front of him. Needham added Mitchell sniper Kory Dietz was virtually untouched as he stood in front of the net and redirected shots at will. Lucan 5. Seaforth 4 Getting a little payback for a loss earlier in the week, the Irish beat the host Centenaires 5-4 on Sun- day. DePrest led the offence once again with two goals and a pair of assists while Price had a goal and two assists. Also scoring were Je- mec and Davis. aaaaaaaoaaaaaaaosuaaaaaauu 1 r ROWE 4 • Residential r • Commercial 1 • Industrial 4 • Natural Gas 1 • Submersible 1 and Jet Pump Installations FLEE r ESTIMATE'S 1 RR1 WOODHAM i 229-6284 OR I i Xi 235-0906 Owned & operated r by Dennis Rowe thaaaaaatatat aaaaaaataimmisaaaw L c ,! P M G. • Exeter Junior D Hawks " vs ter_ ``• Seaforth Centenaires Fri., Feb. 11 South Huron Rec Centre 8:30 p.m. C. .. 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