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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1996-11-13, Page 14This Week in Sports... Panthers compete in Conference titles - page 15 • Exeter Ladies ringette begin season - page 15 Exeter and Stephen claim "A" champ teams Exeter Bantams, Midgets and Stephen Township Novice teams win "A" division championships at the eigth annual Bill Batten Memorial Minor Hockey Tournament hosted by Exeter Minor Hockey NEHOkiAI LYE Jtp TIOPIItrtior BANTAM CHA NPION9 199$ The Exeter Bantams won the "A" championship at the Bill Batten Memorial Tournament on Sunday. Posing with the hardware, in random order, Ryan Sullivan, John Pryde, Jason Greni- er, Jared Bourne, Jeff Campbell, Tanner Ingram, Scott Keys, Steve Farquhar, Kian MacDou- gall, Tim Mayer, Rob DeVries, Mike Seip, Andrew Mayer, Chad Monteith, Ryan Ralph and Steve Rasenberg with coaching and support staff Terry Bourne, Bob Campbell, Allan Keys and Rick Ingram. ,;,7 A 'i . N a e The Exeter Midgets won the "A" championship at the Bill Batten Memorial Tournament on Sunday. Posing with the hardware, in random order, BJ Theophilopolous, John Miners, Brian Hayman, Scott Rasenberg, Dave Farquhar, Jason Grenler, Greg Geoffrey, Brian Par§ons, Chad Dalrymple, Jeff Campbell, Matt Szabo, Tyler Boume, Kian McDougall, Luke Sims, Cam Dougall and, Ryan Freiter with coaching and support staff Dave Dalrymple, Tim Moore, Bill Brock and Brent McDonald. , The Stephen Township Novice team won the "A" Championship at the Bill Batten Memorial Tournament on Sunday. Posing with the hardware, from front row left, Kent Nicholson, Justin Knee, Travis O'Neil, Jeff Baker, Leanne Cronyn, Cale Duenk. Second row, Blair McCann, Ja- son Thompson, Greg Thompson, Brent Windsor, Justin Bender. Back row, Martin Duenk, Coach Bev Thompson, Morely Thompson, Kevin Windsor. Chiefs survive kamikaze Canada Goose ELORA - The Exeter Juvenile Chiefs fh* rood trip to Elora brought more than a tittle excitenlebt before the game was underway. Just outside of Elora the players were shocked to hear a loud noise and a fitaCtion oft second later some of them were duckini luno of flying glass as both windshields of the bus they were riding in were shattered. Bus owner Bob Morrissey was equally startled but he managed to maintain control bringing the vehicle to a smooth stop. Immediate suspicions *ere someone had thrown a large rock at the bus, but closer examination re- vealed a large Canada Goose was the cause of the daLuckild y there was enough hockey tape to re- inforce what was left of the windshield and the Chiefs continued to Elora where they defeated their opponents 4-2. Malty dteltintyn scored twice for Exeter notching the first and last goals while teammates Ryan Sol- den and Matthew Glavin added one each. Ryan Beckett assisted on Soldan and Glavin's goal. The Chiefs are now 2-1-1 so far in regular season play. The goose was pronounced dead at the scene. Oa By ChrIV SkaIkos T -A Reporter EXETER - Exeter and Stephen Township boasted "A" division championship teams during the eighth annual Bill Batten Memorial Tournament over the weeken,' All three teams went ur e on their way to clinchint medal in the massive home k ment organized by the Exeter Mi- nor Hockey Association with action taking place simultaneously at three different arenas in Exeter, Hensall and Stephen Township. Parents and hockey fans were treated to a fast -paced and en- tertaining calibre of hockey as some of the best minor hockey teams in Ontario participated in the tournament pitting their skills against local players from Exeter and Stephen Township. Exeter's Midget and Bantam teams carried the torch for Exeter as both won their "A" champion- ship games in front of a home crowd on Sunday night. Exeter Bantams The Bantams started their run to the top with a hard fought 3- I vic- tory over Twin Centres in their opening game Friday night. The Bantams stomped all over Port Do- ver in the second game shutting out their opponents 7-0 setting the stage for the- championship game against New Hamburg on Sunday. Jeff Campbell led the Bantams to victory scoring three goals for Ex- eter, two of which came from his set-up man Scott Keys while Jared Bourne assisted on his third goal. Steve Rasenberg also scored with assists going to Ryan RaltAid Kian MacDougall to give } a 4-1 win. Backed up by a solid defensive line, Exeter goalie Ryan Sullivan played with confidence in net rob- bing New Hamburg of several good scoring opportunities. His much de- served shutout was ruined when New Hamburg scored on a two man powerplay with only 50 sec- onds left in the third period. Having lost only once during the regular season, the Bantams en- tered the tournament as a highly ranked team and played like a team destined to go the distance, how- ever, coach Terry Bourne said win- ning the "A" championship will in- spire them to play even better. "This is the first (victory) that meant anything...it's going to help bring the boys together," he said. Bourne credits the defensive ef- fort of all the players for the win saying the back checking effort of his forward lines worked well. "They're starting to see what good back checking and defensive play can do," he said adding they have won their last three league games 8-0, 8-0, and 7-6. Exeter Midgets Billed as the unuerdog and facing stiff competition against teams from "A" and "BB" centres, the Midgets overcame the odds to the surprise of many beating Waterloo 6-1 and Mitchell 5-2 to earn a berth in the finals against Lucan. Dave Farquhar notched five points scoring three goals and two assists to lead his team to a decisive 7-1 win over Lucan. He was as- sisted twice by teammate Greg Ge- offrey who also scored two goals along the way. Jeff Campbell and Tyler Bourne completed the scoring drive while Ryan Freiter and Jason Grenicr picked up assists. Exeter goalie BJ Theo- philopolous stood out between the pipes late in the second when Lu - can went on a two man powerplay. Swarming around the net Lucan peppered Theophilopolous with shots but the stand-up. goaltender closed the door and threw away the key denying Lucan a goal during their two man advantage. Coaches Dave Dalrymple and Tim Moore said clinching the "A" championship would lift the team's spirits and woul' have a long last- ing affect after* As. "Winning a tournament like this is a good character builder. it gets the guys playing together as a team by giving them some experience funder pressure," said Dalrymple. With a 3-2-2 regular season record, the Exeter Midgets weren't given much of a chance to get past the first round against a strong team from Waterloo and many had them written off when they faced Mitchell in the second round on Saturday. Exeter had lost to Mitch - ;or to this encounter but elonged to Exeter as _ from behind to surprise Mu .,et, for a 5-2 win. Lucan was expected to give Ex- eter a tough battle in the finals but they drained themselves beating St Marys 1-0 in an intense overtime win the night before and looked flat against Exeter on Sunday. Roger Dougall, president of Ex- eter Minor Hockey, said the back- to-back championships in the ban- tam and midget levels proves Exet- er has a strong minor hockey pro- gram and will bolster Exeter's reputation among hockey circles. "It shows our Centre is strong and competitive in an area with tough bantam and midget teams," said Dougall. Stephen Township Novice The Stephen Township Novice team began their journey to the "A" finals by beating Exeter 8-1 in the opening round. Coach Bev Thompson said the game was a lot closer than the score depicted with four goals coming in the last live minutes of the third period. "We came out flying against Ex- eter, our top guns were really skat- ing well," said Thompson. Stephen had a much' tougher time with Forest edging them out 4-3 to earn a spot in the "A" cham- pionship where they defeated Del . Thompson said they anticipated a tough game against the Delhi Novice team since they had cap- tured an All -Ontario championship two years in a row. "We scouted their second game and picked out their best players. The boys keyed in on them and shut them down pretty good," said Thompson adding all 1.1 players put out an excellent effort with goalie Jeff Baker picking a perfect time to record his first shutout of the season. The top three point getters for Stephen were Jason Thompson who led his team with II points in the series. He was followed by Brent Windsor with seven points and Cale Duenk with five. Leanne Cronyn, Kent Nicholson, Greg Thompson J.T. Knee and Jus- tin Bender also contributed' points during the series. With a highly successful 14 -I -I record (including tournaments) so far this season, winning the novice championship has boosted the team's confidence and they are al- ready looking forward to the up- coming Silver Stick Tournament in Parkhill. "If we can beat three "CC" centre teams we can keep winning for the rest of the season," said Thompson. "B" champs In other tournament action, after losing their opening round to Ste- phen the Exeter Novice Team went on to win the "B" championship defeating Seaforth 4-2 and Alvins- ton 3-1. The Exeter Peewees also lost • their opening game 10-1 to Lamb- eth and were eliminated in the next round by St Marys 4-2. The Ste- phen Peewees won their opening game 6-1 against Parkhill ad- vancing to the next round of the "A" division but lost their second game to Glencoe 4-3. In the Atom division Exeter lost to Seaforth 7-I but beat North Lon- don 8-2 in the second round of th "B" side before being eliminate' by Arthur 3-2 in the semi-finals The Stephen Atoms also lost their opening game and were ousted in the next round by Arthur 5-3. Hosting a tournament of this size did not come without it's dif- ficulties. Scheduling 40 minor hockey teams in three different are- nas was a challenge to organizers who had to do some last minute shuffling when they encountered problems with the ice surface in Hensall on Saturday. As a result the Midgets and Bantam. vines had -to move to- Exeter while..the rest of the Novice, Atom and Pee- wee games went to Hensall. During last year's tournament a three hour power failure threatened to throw the tournament schedule into chaos when the lights in the South Huron Recreation Centre went out. Despite the delays caused in the schedule Dougall said the tourna- ment was a success and many of the visiting teams complimented their hosts for the hospitality they received indicating they would be back again next year. Dougall credited the parents who devoted their entire weekend to help run the tournament and the lo- cal sponsors who provided the fi- nancial backing to pull it off. "The kids really benefited from this tournament and if it wasn't for them it wouldn't have been pos- sible," he said. South Huron grad scores gold at CIAU field hockey championships in B.C. VICTORIA - A South Huron District High School graduate con- tributed a goal during the CIAU field hockey championships held in Victoria, British Columbia earlier this month. Brenyn Baynham, playing for the University of Toronto's field hockey team, scored a goal in the final game against Victoria to help her team to a 4-2 victory clinching a Ca- nadian University field hockey title for Toronto. "It felt really good," said Baynham about notching a goal in the gold medal game that put. her team up by one in the first half. "It (was scored) on a set play that has been working for us all year." The University of Toronto entered the national tourna- ment ranked second after go- ing undefeated &ring the regu- ltx season with a 16-0 record. They lost to York University in the Provincial Championships, hut redeemed themselves by beating then in the semi-finals in B.C. This is Baynham's second year playing for Toronto's varsity team and the physical education student plans to play again next year. She • credits Jim Workman, her high school field hockey coach, for her success with Toronto adding the experience she gained plkying for South Huron helped her earn a spot on the team. "i was lucky to have him (Workman) as a coach. When I started playing for Toronto I was able to elaborate on the skills he had al- ready taught me," said Baynham. During the five years Baynham attended South Huron she playoff on three OFSAA championship teams. Brenyn Baynham