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Times -Advocate, March 16, 1994
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Junior `D' playoffs
Centenaires have Lucan Irish on ropes
Sixth place team
a big surprise
By Fred Groves
T -A staff
LUCAN - The regular season
means absolutely nothing. Make it
to post -season and it's a whole new
game plan.
Just ask the Seaforth Centenaires.
Sunday afternoon at the Lucan
Arena, they won their seventh
straight playoff game, a big 7-1 de-
cision over the Irish.
Seaforth won all three games.
over the Irish last week which drew
them closer to winning their OHA
Junior Development League west
division semi-final series.
Last night the best -of -seven se-
ries switched to Seaforth where the
Cents had the Irish on the ropes and
were just one knock -out punch
away from heading to the division
finals.
Although the Irish played one of
their worse games of the year on
Sunday, Lucan coach Ken Need-
ham said a lot of credit has to go to
Seaforth coach Maurice Guy for
the way he has his team playing.
"Don't take anything away from
Seaforth. I told the guys (Irish) it's
the same 20 guys we played back
in October," said Needham.
A lot has changed for the Cente-
naires since the regular season end-
ed. They may have finished sixth in
the nine team loop with a 18-18-4
record and 17 points back of the
Irish, but they are turning into giant
killers.
Seaforth eliminted the Exeter
Hawks in four straight.
"I honestly don't think we should
have been sixth," said Seaforth for-
ward Chad Ramer, a Zurich Minor
The Lucan Irish bench was very quiet during Sunday's game.
The Wrath
of
Grapes
by Don Cherry
GORDIE HOWE ... MR. HOCKEY
It's eleven o'clock in L.A., and the coach of the HARTFORD
club of the W.H.A. is doing his job of checking on the players the
night before the game; he's warned everybody at practice that day
that he was going to check because the club was in a slump and
coaches do these little things to shake up the clubs. So he walks
along the hall, checks two rooms and finds everybody is in. He
looks at his list on the paper and he's coming to GORDIE
HOWE'S room. He looks down and he secs a light from under the
door. "Geez", he says to himself, "how can I check the room .of one
of the greatest hockey players of all time. MR. HOCKEY, I can't
walk in his room and say I'm glad you're in, just checking, no way
I'd embarrass him that way." The coach was HARRY NEALE, my
comrade on HOCKEY NIGHT IN CANADA.
The next morning Harry, who is one of those guys that get up
with the birds goes down in the lobby to get his paper, and who is
sitting there reading his paper, but MR. HOCKEY. He looks at
Harry and frowns. He says, "I thought you were checking the rooms
last night?" Harry says, "Well I saw the light under the door and I
knew you were in, so I didn't want to disturb you." Gordie answered
back, "Look Harry, if I'm going to be
part of this club I want to be treated
like everybody else.
reminds me of the time BOBBY
ORR came to me when I was coaching
the BRUINS and said (after I blistered
the club for their mistakes) "Don,
when your gooning the other guys,
heck, could you give me heck too?"
That's the way the great ones are, they
want to be part of the team. They don't
want special favours.
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Hockey Association product. "A lot
of games we lost were against
teams we shouldn't have lost to."
Friday night in Seaforth, the
hosts won a triple overtime 3-2 de-
cision.
"The triple overtime we beat
them sort of took the wind out of
their sails," said Ramer.
Sunday, the visitors went up 1-0
at the end of the first period and it
was tied when Lucan's Scott Rid-
dell came down the wing, burst
over the blueline and put an ice lev-
el shot just inside the post on Dana
Duskocy.
That was the only goal Lucan
would score as Seaforth led 4-1 af-
ter 20 minutes. Steve McInally,
who is also helping the Seaforth
midgets in their OMHA semi-final
series against Exeter, had three
goals. Paul McLlwain added two
with singles to, Chad Papple and
Andrew Scott.
Weak blueline: Without their
two top defensemen, Ed VanKer-
koerle and Jamie Hicks, the Irish
were very vulnerable back on de-
fence.
"It was awful," was about the
only words Needham could use to
describe the defence.
Bantam Corey Smith was called
up and he was by far Lucan's best
defender. Smith gave out many
good hits and showed a lot of hus-
tle getting back into the play.
Irish goalie Steve Watson who
has played well throughout the
playoffs, had little chance on most
of the goals as the Centenaries
came down on two -on -one and
sometimes even two -on -none situa-
tions.
"He mood on his head you can't
blame him for anything," said
Needham of his puckstopper.
After the game, tempers were
high in the hallway as former Lu -
can defenseman Todd Hayter ver-
bally and physically attacked refer-
ee Paul Petrie. The linesmen and
the Irish coaching staff had to break
things up.
Cents 3. Irish 2
Friday night in Seaforth, the Cen-
tenaries managed a 3-2 triple over-
time win. This game stretched into
the a.m. as it took over four hours
to play.
McInally had two goals, includ-
ing the winner for Seaforth with the
other from McLlwain. Steve Moore
and Greg DePrest answered for the
Irish.
The best chance the Irish had in
the overtime was when Moore went
in alone on Duskocy who made one
of his many big saves on the night.
In overtime, McLlwain was sent to
the penalty box for playing with a
broken stick but the Irish could not
capitalize on the powerplay oppor-
tunity.
Cents 3. Irish 3,
Last Wednesday night in the se-
ries opener in Lucan, it was 2-0 in
the first period for the visitors as
Scott bounced one off a Lucan de-
fenseman and McLlwain made it 2-
0.
Midway through the second
frame Riddell teamed with Jeremy
Jemec and Andy Ross. Steve Gei-
ger added an empty -nester for Sea -
forth.
Lucky charms:...Lucan had
three minor players in Wednesday's
lineup as Brent Mills, Jason Hodg-
son (who also played Sunday) and
Steve Dame were called
up...Former Irish Jason Wilson ex-
perienced some overtime of his
own on the weekend as he scored a
goal in the London Junior 'B' Na-
tionals triple overtime win over
Aylmer.
West division final stats
Player
Shayne Robinson, Exeter
Sean MGc4nn,,xetec
Greg I i;t,,-kacan x
Trevor Allman, M.B.
Rob Bovilte, Mitchell
Kory Dietz, Mitchell
Todd McCann, Exeter
Paul Hendriks, M.B.
Pau! McLiwain, Seaforth
Dwayne Price, Lucan
Player
Darcy Ballantyne, Mitchell
Elliott Faust, Mitchell
Dana Duskocy, Seaforth
Steve Watson, Lucan
Chris Lyndon, Exeter
Jeff Baldacchino, Lambeth
GP
39
4.'44;-38 .
a•: .J4.40
436
40
37
38
34
37
Goalie Average
GP
18,83
21.33
22.75
23.87
20.35
22.77
G • A
50 88
,37, X56
• 36, , 55
34 37
36 32
33 32
28 36
24 38
28 27
23 32
GA
47
56
61
81
77
86
Pts.
118
93
91
71
88
65
64
62
55
55
Avg.
2.50
2.63
2.88
3.39
2.78
3.78
Sports shorts
Exeter Tweens head
to regional finals
FOREST - Exeter Godbolt In-
surance won the Huron -Perth
Tween 'B' ringette championship
on Sunday and have now ad-
vanced to the Regional Tourna-
ment to be held March 25-27 in
Kitchener -Waterloo.
Goalie Cathie Chappel played
a strong game on Sunday in a 4-
3 win over host Forest.
Scoring for the winners were
Melanie Hayter with two goals
and an assist while Alicia Law-
rence and Sarah Hamilton also
connected.
Shelley Miller, Marcia -Lee De-
nomme, Melissa Timmcrmans,
Shelley Dalton, fourth figure;
Megan Gingerich, fiesta, swing;
Sarah Breen baby blues; Elyshia
Denomme, fifth figure; Sarah -
Rae Lovie, junior bronze freesk-
' ate; Crystal Russell, American;
Julie Semple, sixth figure; Kris-
ta Schilbe, senior silver freesk-
ate, argentine.
Congratulations to Krista for
completing all of her gold danc-
es.
Off to Italy
SHIPRA - Boxer Joe Kaak of
Shipka is on the move again and
this time it's to Italy where he
will represent Canada at the Ital-
ia International Boxing Tourna-
ment.
"I'm going fora week with the
Canadian team. There will be
about 12 boxers from Canada.
It's almost going to .be like a
world championships," said
Kaak who boxes in the light
heavyweight division.
At the tournament in Venice,
Italy once a boxer loses a fight,
he is eliminated.
Third place
TORONTO - Staying Togeth-
er, the 1993 Harness Horse of
the Year, finished third by four
lengths in his 1994 debut Satur-
day afternoon at Woodbine
Racetrack in Toronto.
Owned by Robert Hamather
of Hensel!, the five-year-old
pacing gelding started as a 3-10
favourite in the $25,000 free-
for-all event which was won by
Tough Hombre.
Skating results
ZURICH - The Zurich and
Area Figure Skating Club held a
test day last Tuesday and the fol-
lowing are the results of those
who passed:
Jaime Eckel and Julie Hearn,
dutch waltz, canasta, baby blues;
Correction
LUCAN - In last week's edi-
tion it was reported that Tha-
mesford had beaten the Lucan
novice. This was incorrect as
Lucan beat Thamesford 6-1. We
apologize for the error.
Seaforth Centenaires' leading scorer Paul McLlwain, left; had
a tough time getting away from Lucan's Derek Greenlee during
first period action in Sunday afternoon's OHA Junior Develop-
ment League playoff game. Both were given penalties on this
play. Seaforth won the game 7-1.
Steve Watson made a big first period save during Sunday af-
ternoon's
ftemoon's game against Seaforth.
Shuffleboard
Hensall
Pearl McKnight
Hazel McEwan
Lloyd Eagleson
Howard Johns
Alice Thiel
Dave Kyle
Jim Davis
Dave Woodward
Exeter
March 9
4 game winners
Lloyd Lovell
Grace Farquhar
Ann Northey
3 game winners
Doris Miller
Wm. Baechlcr
Steve 1Jrapchak
March 10
5 game winners
Wilma Davis
John Deweerd
011ie Essery
4 game winners
Grace Farquhar
Pearl McKnight
Lloyd Lovell
536
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451
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418
412
408
376
358
324
294
283
274
515
459
423
357
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