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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1998-04-08, Page 14Page 14 Times -Advocate, April 8, 1998 s— This Week in Sports... • Exeter Minor Hockey honors its novice and atom best - page 15 Lucan bantams take it to the limit in OMIiA final series page 16 Call Sports Reporter Craig Bradford with your sports tips (519) 235-1331 • Fax (519) 235-0766 Jr. D Hawks sink feisty Lakers squad in seven. The Exeter Hawks are. Yeck Conference champions after beating. Port Stanley 4-1 on the road on Sunday afternoon By Craig Bradford T -A Reporter PORT STANLEY — The Exeter Jr. D Hawks arc headed to the all - Ontario finals' after outlasting the regular season champs, the Port Stanley Lakers, in a tough best of seven series that went thc distance. •Exeter.beat the Lakers 4-1 at Port Stanley on Sunday afternoon. The Lakers drew first blood by scoring at 9:43 of the first period. though Exeter's Dave Farquhar evened things at 8:17 with assists going to Bill Hodge and Ryan Chaniney. The Hawks played a splendid second period with solid play in both ends. Port threatened to take the lead when Jason Begley was awarded a penalty shot after Exeter goaltender Andy Glavin threw his stick along the ice at Begley when a faulty pad strap caused shim to fall down and lose his mask while go- ing out to challenge Bcglcy and cut down the angle.• Glavin made a pad save. oit Bc- gley's attempt to slip one through the five -hole. - - Exeter took the Icad it wouldn't relinquish at 13:33 of the second af- ter Scan McCann took advantage of a Lakers defensive error in the neu- tral zone, got behind the Lakers de- fender and slipped a pass to. a streaking Geoff Mayer who put one behind Port Stanley goaltcndcr Gianni Battel. Ben McCann. picked .up the second assist on the play. Jeff. Glavin scored Exeter's third goal at 6:10 of the second while the Hawks were shorthanded. Glavin found himself on a breakaway atter a Lakers defender was knocked down. near the centre redline.' Scan McCann put the game and series on ice at --13:32 of the third - when he converted a pass from Jeff Glavin for the fourth Exctcr goal. Jason Dunlap also assisted on the play. Hawks G.M./coach Dave Reving- ton said the Lakers are an "ex- treme!) skilled" team that counted on making the provincial final after a stellar regular season. "We kind of got in their way." Rev- ington mused. "i think we are a team that has prov- en to he pretty grit ty...tenacious." he said. "We were pretty much the un- derdog in each series and it -has • been pretty inspiring to watch them mature as hockey players." Revington said his . team .s suc cess in the playoffs has been be- cause of an entire team effort, add- ing different players have stepped up their games when it was needed: "There isn't a guy in the lineup that hasn't contributed on any giv- en night," he said. Reviugton gave special recogni- tion to Andy Glavin for his some: times spectacular play between the - pipes. "If we had to pick one guy;" he said, "Andy Glavin is the guy.evc- ryonc-else has rallied around." • Exeter meets the Wellesley, Ap- ple bad in the provincial finals which started at ,Wellesley yes- terday after press. Game two is to-,_ morrow. 8:30 p.m., at Exeter's South Huron Rec Centre, game three is' Saturday, 8:15 p.m., at Wellesley, and game tour is back in Exeter on March 14 at 8:30 p.m. • Though Revington said he knows next to nothing about Wellesley.' he ' ner at 8:58 of the second, a short - Said the team has the. same starting handed mar,kcr. Port closed.to with- goaltcndcr Exeter played against When the .Hawks won thc '95/96 all -Ontario title. • • Game six at Exeter Port •Stanley forced a game seven by edging Exeter 3-2 in overtime on Saturday night at the Rec Cen- tre. The Hawks scored .first while shorthanded at •9:22 of the first pe- riod when Dunlap went into the • .corner -alone in Port's end and wait - .ed for Chris McDonald to skate into the slot. McDonald quickly took the pass -and put a wrist. shot behind I3aucl. fort Stanley scored a fluke goal to tie it while on the powerplay at' 13:04 of the second. A Laker shot' from • mid -ice deflected high into the - air and floated its way over both a defender and Andy Glavin to bounce into the Exeter net. Dunlap scored an - unassisted breakaway goal at 8:02 of the second to give Exeter a 2- 1 Icad after the. Lakers coughed it up in the neutral cone. Port Stanley tied things up at 9:17 of the third after Bartel slashed Farquhar while he was streaking by.."Ilte Lakers scored while Far-. quhar skated to the Hawks bench•to recover. Tlic Lakers scored the winning goal at 7:32 of thc overtime frame despite a sterling pad save by Andy Glavin on a Pori Stanley break- away just seconds hefore. Game five at Port Manley. Special teams played a big role in Exeter's ' 4-3 win on Friday. Ben McCann. tied it up at 1-1 with 1:41 left in the first while Exeter was on the powerplay; Greg Goodwin. Erik Abayof notched the assists. The Hawks went up 2-1 on an even strength goal by Dan Taylor at 8:36 of the first, assists going to Jeff•Glover and Farquhar. Exeter made it 3-1 at 2:38 of the first while on• the powerplay. Jeff Campbell scored with- assists going to Abayof and Chamney. Campbell scored what proved to he the win - "There isn't a guy in the lineup that hasn't contributed onanygiven night." The Nabs notch all -Ontario title V for victory! Exeter AE Atom Nab player Corey Bilcke gives the 'victory' sign during the team's victory lap around South Huron Rec Centre during the first intermission of Saturday's Jr. D Hawks game. EXETER — The Exeter Atom AE Nabs arc the pride of their hometown by winning the Ontario Minor Hockey Association cham- pionship on Friday. The boys defeated Ennismore 5- . 2 on the road to sweep the series in three games. The tearliwas given the tradi- tional honor of touring the town Saturday afternoon on a fire truck with sirens blazing. The Nabs were given special recognition during Saturday's Ex- eter Jr. D Hawks Yeck Conference final series game at the Rec Cen- tre. Each player -was introduced while they skated onto the ice, then the entire team skated a vic- tory lap. Jordan Darling and Adam Johns scored two goals each in the final game with Scott Loosely notching the other marker. Brent Hackett got assists on three of the goals with other helpers going to Mi- chael Cooper, Luke Kerslake, Mark Scip, Chad Taylor and Loosely. Closing the door. Above photo: Exeter Hawks goalterlder Andy Glavin, left, stones Port Stanley forwardJason Begley on a. penalty shot during the second period of game seven of their Yeck Conference Jr. D final game at Port Stanley Arena Sunday afternoon. Exeter won 41 to ad- vance to the Jr. D all -Ontario championship series' versus Wellesley. ,Below left: Andy :Glavin gets a big hug from his brother Jeff after Jeff scored a ,shorthanded goal on Sunday. Below right Exeter's Chris McDonald does some celebrating after scoring a shorthanded goal during- the- first period of game six at South Huron Rec Centre on Saturday. Exeter lost in overtime 3- 2, Bottom: Exeter G.M./coach Dave Revington, right, talks with ernotional'Port Stanley captain Bob Hepburn during the goodwill handshake after Sunday's game. -- - in a goal by scoring on the pow- _ erplay at 7:37 of the second and at 6:19 of the third, but couldn't mus- ter the us-tcrthe tying goal. Game four at Eketer Exeter lost, 4-2 on March 31. Ex- eter was up 2-0 early in 'the second, but, the Lakers scored two goals only 32 seconds apart in the fourth minute of =the' period and scored two more in the third while keeping Exeter off the scoresheet. Goodwin and Campbell scored gxeter's goals with Abayof picking up two helpers and Ben McCann one. ' . Lasers bring OMHA title home Celebration time. The Lucan Novice Lasers swept Cayuga in their Ontario Minor Hockey As- sociation championship series three games to none capped off with a 5.4 win in Cayuga on Friday. Here the boys are seen on the fire truck on their tour of the village. LUCAN — The Lucan Novice Lasers hockey team capped a phenomenal season by besting Ca- yuga in their Ontario Minor Hockey Association championship series in three straight games. The Lasers won the clinching game three in Ca- yuga,5-4 on Friday. The Lasers took an early lead when Logan Cou- ture scored 43 seconds into the game with assists by Bailey VanPract and Lance Lefebvre. Nick Engel scored Lucan's second goal near thc end of the first period with Jeff Latta and Chad Li - ley assisting. Michael Noyes scored Lucan's last three goals for a natural hat -trick including the winner after Cayuga made a game of it by scoring two un- answered goals to tic things up 4-4. Other assists went to Couture. Liley and Dylan Pryce. The Cayuga Stars showed they were a class act by making an arch with their sticks which the La- ser players skated under when they left the ice as Western Novice D -DD all -Ontario champions. The Lasers ended the year with a 63-4-2 record which saw them win the Parkhill Regional Silver - stick, the International Silverstick, the OMHA title and the Brussels and New Hamburg tournaments. The team gave special mention to their 'number one fan' Theo Sentjens who attended all their home games. The Lasers were given the royal treatment when they returned home on Saturday afternoon with the traditional fire truck ride through the village. Shaping up. The Bluewater Tug of War club are preparing for a full season of competition in- cluding The World International Federation (TWIF) World Championships at Rochester, Minn., on Sept. 3-6. Pictured are, from left: Jen Taylor, Remco Brinke, Sue Tiernan, Ted Hoffman, Ju- lia Tiernan, Matthias Metzger and Dar►ene O'Rourke with new coach Jim Connolly in back. Oth- er scheduled competitons include provincial qualifiers like the Cambridge Highland Games (July 18). Closer to home pulls Include an unsanctioned one at Hensell air on June 13. The Bluewater pullers are participating in a walkathon fundraiser on April 18 that starts at Dash- wood (their home base) to Exeter to Hensall starting at 8 a.m.